The O'Reilly Update, May 16, 2026
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🗓️ 16 May 2026
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| 0:00.0 | Some follow the noise. Bloomberg follows the money, whether it's the funds fueling AI or |
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| 0:25.5 | Bill O'Reilly here. You are listening to the weekend edition of the O'Reilly update. |
| 0:28.3 | Coming up next, the news with Mike Slater. |
| 0:31.8 | Thanks, Bill. Here's what's happening this week in America. |
| 0:37.8 | Toast to China, Cuba out of oil, the Road Act, and helping change a flat. |
| 0:40.9 | It's all coming up, then Bill's going to be here with your message of the day. |
| 0:46.0 | But first, President Trump and the Chinese President Xi Jinping toasted their relations in a very uncomfortable show of love between Xi and Trump in the past two days. |
| 0:52.4 | The President of China greeted our president outside the Great Hall of the People |
| 0:56.8 | before the two men walked together past Chinese soldiers and rows of perfectly coordinated cheering children |
| 1:04.6 | as the Star-Spangled banner played on Chinese soil and a 21-gun salute across Tiananmen Square. The talks lasted more |
| 1:13.8 | than two hours. Apparently the talks covered fentanyl, securing market access for American |
| 1:18.7 | companies in China and increasing Chinese investment in American industries and purchasing |
| 1:22.6 | U.S. agricultural products. For instance, China granted permission for hundreds of American slaughterhouse |
| 1:28.2 | is to resume beef shipments to China. Also, the president said, one thing he agreed to is to order |
| 1:34.1 | 200 jets. That's a lot. Boeing wanted 150. He got 200. China's state media did not say that |
| 1:41.2 | the Strait of Hormuz was discussed, but that the Middle East was. |
| 1:50.1 | Cuba's energy minister said the country's diesel and fuel oil stocks are completely dry because of the American oil embargo since January. Quote, we have absolutely no diesel, he said, |
| 1:55.7 | on the state-run television. He said a loan delivery of 730,000 barrels of oil from Russia in March had run out, |
| 2:02.6 | and the national grid is now completely dependent on Cuba's own sources of energy. In Havana, |
| 2:08.3 | the blackouts are now 20 to 22 hours a day. He said this is because the genocidal blockade |
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