Did we just win? Did we just actually win and put the left in their scolding, gross, no fun regime? Or is this a temporary win and we need to be on the lookout? We talk about that and much more with Josh Hammer, senior editor-at-large of Newsweek, and we talk about the Cold Civil War.
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00:02:56.000Our enemies, our opponents, the lefties, the NPCs on the left, they're having a hard time keeping up and keeping track of everything to be outraged by.
00:03:08.000And, you know, candidly, so are we and so are probably all of you out in that audience.
00:03:13.000I think it's safe to say this is basically the first time the American people have ever seen the executive branch and the leaders of this country run the government almost like a tech startup.
00:03:25.000You know, they move fast and break things on purpose because what has been built and constructed at the federal level especially are things worth breaking.
00:03:37.000Now, if you check the headlines, It seems like the regime is most upset right now about all the freezes.
00:04:14.000And by the way, there's going to be the first Caroline Levitt-led press briefing today at the White House, which is another very exciting thing.
00:04:39.000We've got CNN headline, all federal grants and loan disbursement paused by White House.
00:04:46.000Now this one seems to have them very much in a tizzy.
00:04:51.000So reading from CNN, which is regime controlled media, it says the White House budget office has ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans according to an internal memorandum sent Monday, potentially impacting trillions.
00:05:05.000Yes, trillions with a T. So we don't even have Russ vote in yet at OMB, and the acting OMB director is already putting out this memoranda.
00:05:32.000The memo specifies that the pause will not affect Social Security or Medicare benefits and does not include assistance provided directly to individuals.
00:05:49.000It's a temporary review, and it will provide the administration time to review agency programs and determine the best uses of the funding for those programs consistent with the law and the president's priorities.
00:06:02.000So, the other thing that we have to look into is that this memoranda also says that it is in line with the executive orders last week.
00:06:09.000What were the executive orders about last week?
00:06:12.000This will be implicating DEI, woke gender ideology, and the Green New Deal, and foreign aid and non-governmental organizations.
00:06:52.000So what they do is they charge maybe 20%, 30%, 40% profit to the government.
00:06:59.000To resettle refugees from places like Afghanistan and the Middle East, which Joe Biden put a prioritization on, to bring them here into your community, into your homes and your parks, and these NGOs get paid to do it.
00:07:17.000So we're putting a pause on all of these things so that they can be reviewed and the president's priorities can be ensured that they're taking place.
00:07:28.000Now, the other big news story is that Kristi Noem was photographed in New York City doing raids on gang members.
00:07:35.000They got a kingpin of Trende Aragua up in New York City.
00:07:55.000It's great to see institutional prioritization at the top level of our government, including Kristi Noem, getting into the field showing that we mean business.
00:10:36.000So, we're not going to be cowed by tears anymore.
00:10:41.000Hollywood celebrities, AOC, crying on the border as we make our cities safer.
00:10:48.000As we make our communities safer, as we remove actual murderers and rapists from the communities of this country, we are not going to be cowed by crying celebrities anymore.
00:10:59.000Where were your tears for Lake and Riley?
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00:13:34.000A buzz in the air, Andrew, and I can expect this thing also to be filled with a ton of questions.
00:13:41.000As you would imagine, a lot of the media here, they want to kind of be able to scrutinize a lot what President Trump has done this first, I guess, two weeks of his administration.
00:13:50.000But I will say this, though, a little of an addition that I've not seen in there before.
00:13:54.000They do have these two video screens on either side of where Levitt will be standing.
00:13:59.000Perhaps I'll use that as kind of a slideshow or maybe something to be able to play some video to back up some of the statements and kind of recap what has happened the last day 10 or whatever day we're on at this point.
00:14:14.000But that's kind of some additional changes that I've noticed inside.
00:14:17.000But as soon as we're done here, we're going to move inside and be in ready position for this press conference schedule to start at 1 o'clock.
00:14:24.000So Brian, a lot has been made about the seating arrangement that we can expect, right?
00:14:59.000I think it is business as usual as far as seating goes for this particular press conference.
00:15:05.000Now, as we move forward, I don't know what that would look like.
00:15:09.000I could imagine after this first initial conference that the seating charts, the seating arrangement, the assignments will be scrambled up a little different, putting a little bit more of maybe your conservative-based media towards the front, or maybe I should say the ones that are fair and unbalanced, right, up in front.
00:15:29.000But to your point, I have not heard any changes for this one, but I can expect that is going to be revised.
00:15:39.000We're moving forward because this is very much a different administration, as we know.
00:15:44.000I mean, it seems like forever that the previous press secretary really protected Joe Biden from any type of official scrutiny of anything that he did.
00:15:54.000And, of course, they will use this pulpit today, if you will, to absolutely unleash on President Trump a lot of things like immigration, Andrew.
00:16:02.000It's been highly criticized across most of the mainstream media.
00:16:08.000I would expect a fair amount of questions on that subject today, but I do expect some other documentation.
00:16:16.000I mean, using these video screens, Andrew, is a great idea because instead of turning to the...
00:16:23.000To the book, the binder, I guess, that would have all these answers.
00:16:29.000Why not show just a PowerPoint presentation, if you will, about what this last few days have been in terms of the accomplishments, the executive orders, some of the changes that have happened within our government, within our military, these Senate confirmation hearings.
00:16:46.000All the stuff can be displayed on these monitors, and I think it gives a great visual to this whole press.
00:17:10.000Give me a sense of how the resistance media, as I like to call them, the tone, the vibe shift, all these things we're hearing, what are they feeling like these days?
00:17:19.000Well, I think they sense there is some additional faces in this room that they have not seen before.
00:17:26.000I can probably give you a better answer after this press conference of how perhaps we may be treated a little differently.
00:17:33.000I have been warned that, you know, you've got some people that are going to try to make it tough, but I have not experienced that as of yet, Andrew.
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00:18:52.000I want to welcome Josh Hammer onto the show next.
00:18:55.000He's a senior editor-at-large at Newsweek, host of The Josh Hammer Show.
00:18:59.000Josh, welcome to The Charlie Kirk Show.
00:19:48.000Andrew, let me first say that the fact that the enemy is slayed, at least for the time being, I agree, does not necessarily mean that it will not one day, God forbid, possibly rise like a phoenix from the ashes to create more chaos and mayhem and to sow the seeds of discourse here in America. possibly rise like a phoenix from the ashes to create So while I am definitely celebrating.
00:20:08.000I agree that we should not rest on our laurels.
00:20:11.000It is definitely time to keep the momentum going.
00:20:13.000But the reason that I picked this very fun title, I'm glad you agree with me, I thought it was a very fun title as well, is that what we've seen thus far in the opening week or so of this second Donald Trump administration...
00:20:26.000It is the most transformative cultural paradigm shifting moment that I think we've seen probably in our lifetimes.
00:20:34.000And basically in the column, Andrew, I take a step back.
00:20:40.000He declared war on America and instituted our modern American civil war, our cold civil, roiling cold civil war.
00:20:47.000This happened because Barack Obama basically said that he was doing it.
00:20:50.000He famously said in February 2008, That he sought to fundamentally transform America, and one does not seek to fundamentally transform that which he loves or seeks to conserve.
00:20:59.000And we saw this time and time again throughout the Obama presidency, whether it came to Obamacare, the largest entitlement since Lyndon Johnson's Great Society, when it came to the issue of beating up on cops, of exacerbating racial relations, of having Eric Holder, his attorney general, use so-called disparate impact theory.
00:21:16.000That was kind of the predecessor to Ibram X. Kennedy and anti-racism, whether it was all the foreign policy nonsense.
00:21:22.000Barack Obama tried time and time again to declare war on the half America that he infamously called bitter clingers that Hillary Clinton in 2016 referred to as deplorables.
00:21:32.000And that civil war was stopped for four years by the Donald Trump administration, or at least three and a half years or so, until George Floyd met Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
00:21:42.000And we all saw what happened from there, the riots of the summer of 2020 in there.
00:21:48.000The past four years prior to Donald Trump getting back in the Oval Office, the Joe Biden presidency, this is peak woke, Andrew, peak woke.
00:21:54.000He literally chose a vice president of the United States, Kamala Harris, because she was a quote-unquote woman of color.
00:21:59.000He literally chose his one justice on the United States Supreme Court, Katanji Brown Jackson, because she is a quote-unquote woman of color.
00:22:07.000As folks like Chris Rufo have reported, they weaponized all of the various instrumentalities of the American administrative state and executive branch to implement so-called DEI, to overtly discriminate against white people, against Christians, Jews, Asians, in favor of blacks, Hispanics, and so forth there.
00:22:22.000And just basically everything that we saw over the past four years, this was the moment that woke reached, I think, its apotheosis.
00:22:32.000It's been slated because Donald Trump, Andrew, adopted a mentality, to go back to the Morning in America line that I was saying a few minutes ago, he adopted an old Reaganite mantra.
00:22:41.000And what Ronald Reagan famously said when he was asked for his approach to the Cold War, and he came into power in 1980, coming off the 1970s, you had differing opinions in the 1970s, there was Henry Kissinger in detente, there was kind of the Cold War hawks back then.
00:22:55.000Ronald Reagan famously said that his approach to the Cold War, we win.
00:23:00.000People said that he was crazy, that he was a cowboy, he was a warmonger.
00:23:03.000But that mentality, Andrew, helped win the Cold War.
00:23:06.000I think Donald Trump has taken that exact same mentality to his second term in office.
00:23:10.000And I'm not entirely sure what the exact moment was.
00:23:13.000That galvanized him to adopt this Reaganite mantra?
00:23:16.000I suspect it was probably around the time that Joe Biden, Merrick Garland, and so-called special counsel Jack Smith started to incarcerate him, to prosecute him, try to throw him in jail, bankrupt him, ruin him of all his possessions, basically deprive him of his liberty and his livelihood.
00:23:28.000Maybe it was around the time that Thomas Matthew Crooks in Butler, Pennsylvania, came within millimeters of assassinating him before a global television audience.
00:23:34.000But at some point, at some point, Donald Trump had kind of his Clarence Thomas 1991 Anita Hill moment, where he looked at all this radicalization around.
00:23:58.000I mean, the DEI executive order alone, just focusing on that one executive order, and there's been so many amazing ones, it's hard to know even where to start.
00:24:06.000There's been the gender ideology, birthright citizenship.
00:24:08.000It's amazing stuff coming out of this White House.
00:24:10.000But just the DEI executive order, it doesn't just get rid of DEI. This is the kind of stuff that wins culture wars overnight.
00:24:39.000I understand, like, you know, constant vigilance, and let's keep our foot on the gas pedal and keep on plowing full speed ahead.
00:24:47.000But for now, for now, what we have seen is the stuff of legends, frankly.
00:24:51.000It kind of reminds me, as I said in the column, I remember when I was a kid learning about how the English took over what was then called New Amsterdam, and then they renamed it New York City from Peter Stuyvesant to the Dutch.
00:25:02.000In the 1600s, they famously took it over without firing a single shot because it was just a pure, unmitigated demonstration of force.
00:25:10.000And the enemy yielded at that demonstration of force.
00:25:13.000That's very much how I view what happened over this past week.
00:25:15.000I think that was extraordinarily well said, Josh.
00:25:19.000And I want to believe that all of this is going to happen without a single shot.
00:25:25.000And there's a lot of reason to believe that...
00:25:29.000We have now become the dominant force in culture, and not just politically, which obviously we control the three branches of the government, but culturally.
00:25:38.000Philosophically, ideologically, you can feel the momentum behind more of a traditional Americana, this triumphant Americana, this manifest destiny, whether it be Greenland or Panama or Canada, or just retaking the border.
00:25:52.000Pete Hegg said, saying, yeah, we're going to get operational control of our southern border.
00:26:34.000President in the history of the country that has a higher approval rating at the start of his second term than he ever did in his first term.
00:26:41.000A majority of all Americans support deportation of all, not some, not the worst first, which obviously Tom Homan, budget constraints, manpower constraint is starting with the worst first, but a majority, a clear majority across like five different polls say that Americans support deporting.
00:28:08.000And what's so fascinating is that MAGA, America First, just being on the right of center right now in America, more generally speaking, this is cool.
00:28:18.000I mean, this is kind of the anti-establishment mentality, the same way that Barack Obama was considered irreverent.
00:28:23.000And back in the 1960s, all the quote-unquote self-professed cool kids were burning down college canvases, the Vietnam War, all that stuff.
00:28:32.000I mean, this is kind of the middle finger to the establishment.
00:28:34.000The Democratic Party is a rotting carcass.
00:28:36.000It is filled with octogenarians, septuagenarians, people who are literally two to three decades past their prime.
00:28:42.000Joe Biden is obviously a perfect encapsulation of that there.
00:28:45.000And the Republican Party is filled with young, up-and-coming people who have an inherent love of their country there.
00:28:50.000And that's being reflected in the popular culture.
00:28:52.000Look at all the people in these NFL playoffs and the college football playoffs who are doing the Trump dance in the end zone after getting a touchdown.
00:28:58.000Carrie Underwood going acapella at the inaugural address there.
00:30:42.000The conversation that we were having with Josh, we're going to bring him back when we have Radio Rejoin in just a second.
00:30:48.000There is so much positive momentum happening right now, and it is impossible to separate the movement that Trump has sparked, the ascendancy of it, Without also including this entirely new generation of young guns like Charlie Kirk, like James Blair, like Sergio Gore, like J.D. Vance, Stephen Miller.
00:31:12.000There's so many within this administration that are staffing it from top to bottom.
00:31:17.000Obviously, Charlie's not staffing it, but he's, you know, within the larger movement on this show and this audience.
00:31:23.000The amount of transformational change that is possible with this new, young, vibrant core of leadership that is assuming control, both from a media standpoint and an actual power standpoint, the reins of actual power, it's impossible to fully comprehend or appreciate at this juncture.
00:31:45.000History will write about these leaders and they will transform America back to the founders' intent.
00:31:51.000Not to create some corrupt, muddled Frankenstein that the founders wouldn't even recognize, but they will restore the Americanism, the dynamism of our people in the truest sense of the word.
00:32:06.000These are extraordinary days that we live in.
00:32:09.000Josh, I wanna throw this image up This is from the New York Magazine.
00:32:14.000It's kind of personal for me, actually.
00:32:16.000Throw up 94. Image 94. The Cruel Kids Table is the way the headline reads.
00:32:22.000This is a cover piece for New York Magazine by Brock Collier, who is a trans journalist from the New York Magazine.
00:32:31.000I know this because Brock also applied for press credentials at the Turning Point Ball, our inaugural eve ball, and was there on the red carpet.
00:32:42.000There's pictures of our ball in this story.
00:32:45.000But, you know, the pushback is hilarious about this piece, but I think it's an interesting...
00:32:49.000Even the journalist in this piece, Josh, admits that we're winning, that we are culturally ascendant, that we are now dominating...
00:32:58.000Realms of culture that would have been hard to fathom just a few years ago.
00:33:03.000And I believe that they've cropped this picture to make it look more racist, like it's only white kids or something.
00:33:10.000There's a whole bunch of that going on here.
00:33:13.000But it's like, Josh, take this picture as just one instance.
00:33:16.000It's a bunch of young, successful, happy kids drinking a...
00:33:22.000You know, I guess if that's, like, cruel, celebrating the dawn of a new administration, a new America, you know, I guess, you know, cry harder, Libs, is my, you know, instant reaction.
00:33:36.000Well, first of all, Andrew, I'm pretty sure they did do exactly that which you said they did, which is that they cropped out this photo, they edited it, they photoshopped it to make it look just more monolithically white than it is there.
00:33:48.000But, you know, I think a normal American looks at this photo, whether it's been photoshopped or cropped or edited or not, and says, oh, wow, these are a bunch of, like, pretty...
00:33:58.000Good-looking young people having a great time.
00:34:08.000And I think what kind of the broader point is getting at here, this is a point that I've made actually for a few years now.
00:34:15.000I think this is part of the left's war on fun.
00:34:18.000I actually literally call it the war on fun.
00:34:20.000You know, whether it's trying to call you a scold for driving in a gas-guzzling pickup truck or an SUV, whether they're calling you a bad person for wanting to have numerous kids, you know, that whole be fruitful and multiply thing right there from the book of Genesis.
00:34:33.000God forbid you actually take God at his word and have three, four, five, you know, God knows how many children who are going to consume oxygen and spit out carbon dioxide.
00:34:47.000God forbid you actually teach your children about religion, about the Bible, about the things that actually built this country, about the founding fathers, about the Constitutional Convention.
00:34:56.000You can't have any of that either there.
00:34:57.000I mean, the left has become just these pearl-clutching bunch of overtly faux-moralistic prima donnas.
00:35:04.000That's basically what they become there.
00:35:10.000That obviously gets back to kind of the roots of socialism and Marxism is this whole idea of envy and class envy and individual envy.
00:35:16.000That's definitely part of this as well there.
00:35:18.000But they're just fundamentally just a bunch of just ragtag.
00:35:22.000And frankly, Andrew, if I'm just being very blunt for a second here, you know, I was looking at this rally on the eve of the inauguration, the left-wing rally there with kind of those pink hats, whatever, the women's march stuff there on the National Mall.
00:35:34.000I mean, I'm probably going to get in trouble for saying that there, but, like, these are just typically, obviously, they're exceptions, but a bunch of, like, very ugly people, honestly.
00:35:41.000Josh, I mean, think about it, you know, and I think Matt Walsh made this point on Twitter.
00:35:45.000We like Matt a lot, and he had a great role to play in, you know, just his film and so many other things.
00:35:53.000But what reads his left wing now, besides, like, a bunch of purple-haired, you know, nose-piercing, you know, Many obese or at least overweight young people screaming about some injustice that they've invented in a college laboratory.
00:36:10.000I mean, literally, if young kids having fun, if young kids, you know, wearing a flannel in the country, you know, listening to country music, whatever, I mean, we are the fun movement.
00:36:22.000And it's a very fascinating point, Josh, and I'll throw it back to you for 30 seconds to react.
00:36:27.000You know, It seemed like in 2008, this cultural ascendancy of the left promised all of these things, but failed to deliver.
00:36:33.000Instead, it delivered this dystopian, puritanical scolding from the left about these invented injustices.
00:36:43.000And this movement, I believe, can actually deliver on the promise of lifting everybody and having fun.
00:36:52.000Well, you're totally right to take it back to 2008. I mean, that's where I started my cold civil wars over op-ed, too, because it does go back to Barack Obama and his 2008 campaign.
00:37:01.000Andrew, if the left is going to have any chance of recovering, and thank God it's not my problem.
00:37:06.000But if the left is going to have any chance of recovering here, Andrew, they have to disavow the entirety of the Barack Obama legacy and his post-presidential legacy.
00:37:14.000They need to go back to the old Democratic Party of Bill Clinton and his predecessors who, whatever their flaws were, they were focused on bread and butter issues.