Don Jr. joins the program all about the new administration, what it means to be loyal, and why we need to fight, fight, and fight into the new year. Don Jr. is a member of Turning Point USA and has been with us since the beginning of the movement. He is also a founding member of The Charlie Kirk Show, a company that specializes in gold and physical delivery of precious metals.
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00:02:32.000You know, jumped ship on January 7th, and, you know, Trump never had a chance on, you know, back in 15, zero chance of winning a primary, zero chance of beating Hillary Clinton.
00:02:43.000You know, he was definitely getting impeached twice.
00:02:48.000Watching all of these people write you off so many times, it's actually great motivation, but I think that's what's so much more effective about This administration, this cabinet, the people that are involved, we just know.
00:03:01.000You know, in 16, we didn't know anything.
00:04:17.000They started calling out sort of the, you know, more rhino-leaning members of the Republican Senate, and all of a sudden, everyone's back in line, and I call it ETP, Education Through Pain.
00:05:13.000And when people, well, this one's over, and if Hegseth would have rolled, they would have set their targets on the next one.
00:05:18.000It would have been a dynamic shift for the next four years.
00:05:21.000But watching, you know, not just us, but all of you, you know, get after it, get involved, call these people out, you know, whether it was physically, whether it was on social, whether it was on the media, you know, we turned a narrative around in like three or four days that, you know, the experts...
00:05:37.000We've all been hearing about experts for a while.
00:05:39.000You can't be an expert, by the way, if you haven't been right in about a decade.
00:05:58.000We said this, and Don and I were part of a few people that held the line for Pete Hegseth.
00:06:03.000And that's not over yet, but that was a very telling moment because if we would have just kind of surrendered, it could have derailed the entire Trump presidency.
00:06:13.000And I hope you guys understand that, that the whole direction of the Trump presidency was in suspension.
00:06:17.000I said, and Don echoed and vice versa, that if you are a Republican senator like Joni Ernst or one of these others, and you voted for Joe Biden's Department of Defense director, and you won't vote for Donald Trump's DOD director, we will primary you and remove you from office immediately.
00:06:39.000We're actually watching that play out again, I mean, with the CR. I mean, you took a bill that the Swamp would have gladly signed that had a lot of stuff that was bad, and, you know, in three hours, that thing was dead on arrival.
00:07:05.000With a level playing field, you know, on social, we're actually all able to then chime in.
00:07:10.000And, you know, in 24, 48 hours, we got a new bill that got rid of a lot of that pork and a lot of that waste and all of the things that everyone here voted against on November 5th.
00:07:20.000They have a comparison right now on Twitter is that the other one was 1,500.
00:07:23.000The new CR is like three pages long, which is the way it should be, by the way, is that if you're going to do a CR and you're going to do debt living increase, you don't need 900 different pages to get there.
00:07:32.000Don, what is it about this retiring Republican ideology from some of these senators where they feel as if it's okay to give Joe Biden what he wants but not Donald Trump?
00:08:18.000They don't show up in front of your house.
00:08:20.000You're not getting the hate mail editorial from the Washington Post.
00:08:25.000And so for a lot of these people, they get to DC, and they forget about the people who actually sent them there and what they actually represent.
00:09:09.000They no longer just have this blind faith You know, that the person who they heard speak two days before telling them everything they wanted to hear, checkpoint by checkpoint, is actually going to do it in D.C. because guys like us are actually out there calling them out.
00:09:23.000They see it and they're saying, wait a second.
00:09:24.000You know, we're putting up their numbers in D.C. and you get a couple thousand calls from your constituency, if you're a congressman or a lot more than that, if you're a senator.
00:09:31.000And all of a sudden they realize, like, hey, the jig is up.
00:09:37.000If you're going to face accountability, for me, when I get a hate piece from the Washington Post or the New York Times, I look at that as a win.
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00:11:02.000And before I go any further, Don deserves a lot of credit for pushing for J.D. Vance.
00:11:08.000And understand, the easy way out would have been a typical D.C. Republican.
00:11:13.000And Don, you pushed for J.D. Why did you push so hard for J.D.? I mean, I did a small little thing, but I mean, you went all in.
00:11:21.000If it was politics as a poker game, Don took all of his chips.
00:14:50.000He's there with his son, X, and it's really sort of funny.
00:14:53.000I got sort of a great compliment from him early on.
00:14:56.000In the first couple weeks of the transition, I was in a meeting, and I'm the guy that sort of takes some pretty aggressive stances and a room of people that's just a little bit more cautious than me.
00:15:05.000Like, seven times we're like, yes, exactly what we have to do.
00:15:08.000And it was just great to see people finally, again, willing to fight.
00:15:12.000A guy like that, you know, maybe one of the greatest minds ever, certainly of our generation, willing to take the time to help set these things up right, to be able to look into the inefficiencies.
00:15:21.000A guy that's, you know, done more in space than NASA, that had a 75-year head start.
00:15:27.000Like, I want that guy involved in looking at the rest of the apparatus of government.
00:15:40.000Well, so I have a friend, actually, a business partner, Omid Malik, a former Democrat, got sort of blindsided by a lot of the insanity of the left, woke up.
00:15:50.000I became a donor of ours in 2020, became a real good friend of mine, took a couple of conservative sort of parallel economies, companies, public with me, all these things we were fighting.
00:16:01.000And he was like, listen, as a former Democrat, I'm friends with some of these people, and you'd actually get along with them really well.
00:16:08.000There's a lot more that we share in common than, you know, we may not agree on everything, but a lot more.
00:16:12.000And he sort of started having me sort of back-channeling with Bobby when I saw what the Democrats sort of were trying to do, which was, like, ostracize him from their side, create a cruddle against Trump, try to split that vote.
00:17:36.000It's showing the American people the trillions of dollars we have wasted on nonsense, on garbage.
00:17:42.000Once they do that, once the American people have an understanding, it won't continue.
00:17:48.000But it's the stuff that happens behind closed doors that no one really understands, and they just assume it's being spent well, all of these things.
00:17:56.000And basically the same thing happened with Tulsi, who I think will also do a great job there.
00:18:01.000So it's great to have this sort of large tent.
00:18:07.000We've always talked about that for a while.
00:18:08.000We've welcomed so many, and we've seen that play out certainly in the electorate.
00:18:12.000But watching the Democrats basically eat their own for anyone who's not 100% in line with their insane talking points about three-year-olds should be able to get...
00:18:23.000Gender-affirming care without parental consent.
00:18:25.000It's like they'd lost their minds and they killed anyone who was reasonable who didn't just buy into the narrative.
00:18:32.000And when you look at the sort of the diverse parties that are involved now, the background, I mean, how many former Democrats that have just woken up that are now a part of this administration?
00:18:45.000I mean, this is actually a much more real representation of America than anything the Democrats have put up in maybe ever.
00:18:52.000So I want to open up to the audience in a second, Don, but I'm going to ask about just the questions I get a lot about your father, about how he operates, because it really is unlike anything you've ever seen.
00:19:05.000And I mean, from the stamina to the capacity to not just campaign, but just this life force.
00:19:12.000And I mean, you've seen it your entire life.
00:19:14.000I mean, one story that I could tell just from three days is We were hosting President Trump back to back in Georgia and then Vegas.
00:19:21.000I did a couple campus events in between, a couple red eyes, and I was like destroyed.
00:19:27.000And President Trump had like four campaign events a day, went from Georgia to obviously Palm Beach, to Palm Beach, to Arizona, Arizona, to Nevada, did two events in Nevada, then went and did Rogan's show, then sent to Michigan, came back to 3 a.m.
00:19:42.000He ended up spending 72 hours awake straight before the election.
00:20:44.000And the two days before the election, I watched him literally pull two all-nighters in a row, and I was there.
00:20:50.000And he was doing most of the speaking.
00:20:52.000This was actually—I'm the guy that, unlike most in politics, I don't just show up to be in the selfie in the background to be able to show people I was doing something.
00:21:35.000I'm going to go try to take a nap for two hours before I get back on TV. And 7 a.m., I'm seeing him on TV. And he's just going on through the day.
00:22:43.000Trust me, as one of the most subpoenaed human beings in the history of the world, I don't think there's too many people that have done more than 50 hours of congressional testimony than me.
00:22:58.000The four years of the hell that we went through, whether it's the lawfare, everything.
00:23:04.000The lawfare, the exile, the attempt of the swamp to push us out, the attempt of the Republican Party to push MAGA out.
00:23:23.000I think based on the stats that we saw, where it's just one year, I think everyone else agrees with that now, even the Democrats probably.
00:23:30.000They may not say it out loud, but I think everyone knows.
00:23:33.000I think the reality is, had we just stayed in office in 2020, you would have had the same guys that were there who didn't really belong, some of whom are fine, maybe two or three guys that were great, but not many.
00:23:47.000You would have had those same people that were the unelected bureaucrats.
00:23:51.000So they're gonna subvert the will of the people, they're gonna subvert the duly elected president of the United States, they'll kick the cannon down the road, they're gonna slow roll it.
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00:25:02.000We're starting from scratch with people who are the true loyalists, the people who get it.
00:25:07.000The concentric circles of politics are interesting, right?
00:25:10.000There's like loyal, there's competent, and there's a very small intersection where those things overlap.
00:25:33.000Now we know where that concentric circle is, and putting these people into those positions is so powerful.
00:25:40.000I think, again, you see the reaction from the swamp, both the Democrats and even some of the establishment Republicans, when they saw this going on, they're losing their minds because they understand this is the one true threat to their hegemony.
00:25:51.000I think in hindsight, they're looking back and be like, you know what?
00:28:14.000You'll say whatever you need to do to get elected.
00:28:15.000So what we have to do is make sure, again, we're not just focusing on that high-level, you know, Presidency, Senate seat, House seat.
00:28:23.000We've got to be going all the way down to dog catcher so that we can hold these states accountable and make sure that that happens at the state level where these things ultimately should happen.
00:28:31.000There's a component I'd love to be able to see something happen there, but I could also see the federal government really screwing up elections if they became federalized.
00:28:39.000Yeah, and from the election standpoint, here's something I think that the Department of Justice needs to do and should do, which is we need to investigate Act Blue, which is the funding mechanism of the Democrat Party.
00:28:49.000And that might not strike you as election fraud.
00:28:53.000However, I believe there is illegal foreign money that is being pumped into our election system and is currently corrupting the way that we're able to choose our leaders.
00:30:43.000The one concern about it is that basically what ends up happening is that the staffers end up being the sort of unelected bureaucracy, right?
00:30:53.000The reality is you don't become a congressman and in two weeks you understand how it works where you carry any clout.
00:30:58.000And that's not just because of tenure.
00:30:59.000That's just because you have to figure out how that game is played.
00:31:02.000People coming from the outside world, especially from our side where you have people that will take a chance from the outside world and go in from business.
00:31:08.000It's just a different game politically.
00:31:10.000So, you know, I'm for it generally when you have the dinosaurs that have been there.
00:31:13.000But you have to give people enough time to be able to get their sea legs off.
00:31:16.000Otherwise, you have some staffer that may or may not at all be with you that's sort of guiding and or manipulating the elected individual and creating a lot of headaches.
00:31:26.000So, you know, I love it on paper, but it's not quite as simple as we'd probably all like it to be in terms of terminology.
00:31:36.000I'm in favor of term limits, but California is actually an example of how it doesn't solve all your problems.
00:31:42.000California has some of the most robust term limits in the country for state representatives and state senators and governors, and look at what it's done.
00:31:48.000So, but I will say out of the 10 states that have term limits, 9 out of 10 are really well run.
00:31:53.000California could be called the exception to the rule.
00:31:56.000But if you think term limits will solve all of your problems, it won't.
00:31:59.000However, I do think it's necessary because having these multiple decade ruling class oligarchs like McConnell and Pelosi It's totally unhealthy and it's wrong.
00:32:09.000So therefore, let's think, maybe we need term limits both for Capitol Hill staffers and making sure that Capitol Hill staffers can't do the revolving door and then become lobbyists afterwards.
00:32:20.000Making sure that these people don't just get to go and cycle onto the boards of the companies that they've been overpaying and or not negotiating for.
00:32:45.000But we also have to get rid of this notion that just you get on these ranking committees and these important committees because you've been there longer.
00:32:52.000And maybe this is where the term limits come because you have people that actually understand banking in Congress, but they don't get to get on those committees because they haven't sat there for 37 years.
00:33:02.000So instead you end up with an inept moron that wouldn't know how a mortgage works making trillion-dollar decisions with no business doing so simply because they've been there longer but have no actual subject matter expertise.
00:33:14.000And that, to me, is one of the most scary things.
00:33:15.000Probably far more scary than just them being there for a long time.
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00:36:04.000I mean, I came to America just, one, to play my sport golf, two, to study, and three, just to be able to get a job into America.
00:36:12.000And I was wondering, because of what everything's going on right now and, like, a lot of the immigration borders, what's to come with visas?
00:36:34.000If you look at people from around the world that want to come into America, there's hundreds of thousands of people that are competent, that would bring value.
00:36:43.000But they're not going to be reliable Democrat voters because of that, right?
00:36:46.000So there's a reason why even under this administration, if you're an immigrant coming from Cuba or Venezuela and you end up on the shores of Florida, you don't get the same treatment as if you're coming across the southern border because what you're escaping is what the Democrats are trying to bring here.
00:37:01.000And so we're definitely pro-immigration.
00:37:04.000And again, someone who adds value and isn't just going to be a drain on society.
00:38:11.000So what I think we need to do, and this is why I love Doge, is that the more awareness, the better.
00:38:16.000So I think that the window on insider congressional stock trading is closing, partially because online you can track the stock deals of what these guys are doing.
00:38:36.000Honestly, we need to get to a place where the law is, if you're a member of Congress, you should live under the same ethics laws that White House staffers live under.
00:39:03.000Just say what the White House staffers do, members of Congress do.
00:39:06.000Blind trust, you cannot actively trade.
00:39:09.000Stocks that you yourself are doing business for.
00:39:11.000These guys are on these committees doing deals for electric vehicles and then getting out of those meetings, calling their stockbroker and say, go buy 3,000 shares of Tesla.
00:40:04.000I have no problem incentivizing someone to actually get something done, but they're definitely not going to do that, so I'm not too worried about it.
00:40:12.000Hi, I'm from the great purple state of Iowa.
00:40:16.000So, to form all my grievances into a single question, do I even have to ask it?
00:40:23.000How in the heck, and I just got a call on my way over here tonight, how in the heck Do we organize, because we are a purple state, to get rid of, we call her Joanie Wonder Bread Ernst, because she wears Wonder Bread bags on her feet.
00:42:14.000But if you weren't in the know and you didn't understand it, like Charlie and I were doing this every day, there are people that were like, oh my God, we're in serious trouble.
00:42:24.000I was even second-guessing, because I mean, remember, she had a really good track record up until that time of being accurate and honest.
00:42:30.000And they were more than happy to flaunt that when the poll came out, right?
00:42:32.000It was the media that then took it, this was the most accurate pollster in whatever, you know, for whatever it was.
00:42:37.000So, you know, they were trying to do whatever they could to get Kamala Harris those extra...
00:42:47.000To be that glaringly, flagrantly off, to be talking about it with other far-left-leaning governors beforehand, that's clear that this was a setup and designed and intended for one purpose and one purpose alone, and it was not to educate the public.
00:43:57.000You can't sell it without the Attorney General signing off, so you play that game.
00:44:02.000But for me, being able to do this, it was actually very freeing.
00:44:08.000Once I got out of New York, and it wasn't just that...
00:44:10.000It actually opened so many doors for me.
00:44:13.000It was incredibly cathartic, frankly, once we did get into politics, even in New York, because the sort of fake friends that sort of knew who I was for 10, 15 years prior to that, college, high school, whatever, that turned on you so quickly just because I became vocal, even if they understood what I was.
00:44:29.000Sweeping them off the table, not having to do that sort of annual obligatory lunch that you're like, I gotta do it because it's a friend from college.
00:44:36.000It just gave me a clean slate, and I'm just so happy for it now.
00:44:39.000And when I look at the opportunity for our country as a guy that has five young kids, nothing could be more important.
00:44:48.000So get involved, stay involved, be unafraid, and fight.