Bill O’Reilly recounts the time he was summoned by President Trump

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Bill O’Reilly joined NewsNation to talk about President-elect Donald Trump and the time he received a “summons” to visit Mar-a-Lago.

During a segment with Leland Vittert, O’Reilly discussed his recent column where he detailed his “summons” to Mar-a-Lago and attending a “literal Cabinet meeting.”

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“I was on vacation out in California with my son, and I got a summons to go to Mar-a-Lago to see the president,” O’Reilly set the stage. “I have met nine presidents, Leland, this is my 50th anniversary of being in journalism, January 2025, and when the president says, hey, come on over, you go on over. So instead of flying LA to New York back, I flew to LA to Miami. And you don’t really want to go to Miami Airport unless you have to — hopped in a car and drove up to Mar-a-Lago. Now, when I got there, I had no idea why I had been asked to come. Now, I’ve known Donald Trump 35 years, I think I amuse him at times. Kind of like you. You know, once in a while I amuse you.”

“And I knew I was going to get dinner, I’m not going to drive all the way up there. So he’s a very nice stuff ushers me into a cabinet meeting, a literal cabinet meeting. I have a chair. To my left was Stephen Miller and Peter Navarro to my right was Howard Lutnick. Then there were three other guys I did not know. I arrived in the middle of the tariff of discussion, and for the first 10 minutes, or so I kind of listened about what was going on,” he continued. “I could tell you with certainty that eight years ago, Donald Trump really didn’t know what he was looking at as President of the United States and he leaned on people for advice and to tell him what the structure was. That’s gone.”

“He knows exactly, what the job is and he knows exactly what he wants to do to fulfill his campaign promises one example: the tariffs. The tariffs are designed to get more American companies to make their stuff in the USA. That’s what they’re designed to do,” the independent journalist explained. “Particularly Apple in China, Apple, is a huge part of revitalizing the US economy, as it makes most of its products in China. Trump wants it back here. He also wants a fair deal from Europe and he is a very tough negotiator. So that’s what I walked in on and the conversation for the next 40 minutes spanned the globe.”