I flew in the middle of the night with Donald Trump Jr. on Trump Force One to Greenland. What I saw, what I learned, and why Greenland matters for America, here exclusively on The Charlie Kirk Show.
00:00:02.000That's right, I flew in the middle of the night with Donald Trump Jr. on Trump Force One to Nook, Greenland.
00:00:07.000What I saw, what I learned, and why Greenland matters for America, here exclusively on The Charlie Kirk Show.
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00:03:07.000And by the way, we are greeted by hundreds of people.
00:03:10.000Hundreds of people that are just curious.
00:03:13.000We then go to the top of a very sacred site in Greenland, the place where the first missionary actually ever came to Greenland from Europe in 1745. Yeah, that's it right there.
00:04:08.000There's one of the people right there with the MAGA hat who was working at the airport and greeted us with a MAGA hat on right as the Trump Force One was coming in.
00:05:31.000Number two, talking to the locals and getting to know them, they can't stand their current Danish masters.
00:05:40.000They believe that Denmark, who is currently controlling of Greenland and of Nook, which is the largest city in Greenland, they are being mistreated.
00:05:57.000They say that when they go to Copenhagen, which of course is the capital of Denmark, they are told by local Danes, go back to your home of Nook.
00:06:38.000Now, you might be asking, but what is the reason that everyone is talking about Greenland?
00:06:43.000Greenland is not just a fun issue to debate.
00:06:47.000There are very serious geopolitical reasons as to why the United States of America should assume control or purchase or whatever process the president ends up doing back control of Greenland.
00:07:02.000Number one, Greenland is the northernmost land in the Western Hemisphere.
00:07:10.000The shortest route from America to Russia is actually across the North Pole.
00:07:15.000That's why we have actually a military base in northern Greenland, Thule Space Force Base, whose purpose is to monitor potential and possible missile launches.
00:07:27.000Greenland is the world's largest island.
00:07:30.000There are tons of resources buried under its ice cap.
00:07:33.000We actually don't even know how wealthy As a side note, a young boy comes up.
00:09:13.000You're trying to tell me the Danish military is going to be able to fend off the Chinese Communist Party?
00:09:20.000Greenland is so strategic, this is the third and final point, that during World War II, the United States occupied it just to keep Germans from seizing it.
00:09:30.000After the war, we briefly proposed buying it back, but instead we gave it back.
00:10:02.000The fishing, the wildlife, the hunting, the natural experience.
00:10:07.000It is a perfect fit to the United States.
00:10:10.000And people say, oh, you know, Charlie, America shouldn't expand.
00:10:14.000Well, Alaska's part of the United States.
00:10:16.000We purchased Alaska, and that was a good purchase for America.
00:10:21.000Greenland, for the 21st century, would not just be good, it is essential.
00:10:26.000It is integral, strategic location, defense against threats, access to key resources, preventing China's expansion, and economic and military advantage.
00:10:38.000It was an honor to be able to see Greenland firsthand and right up close.
00:10:46.000And I think the table is set for President Trump to make the art of the deal happen, the art of the possible.
00:10:55.000And we might welcome Greenland as part of our American family.
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00:12:25.000To the French, Greenland is a small population of people that want to be great, that want their country back, that want to come to greatness.
00:12:35.000And they were so complimentary of America.
00:12:38.000They said, Americans, Americans are the nicest.
00:13:09.000Really, how are you going to power all of your AI data centers?
00:13:13.000So basically, let's keep Greenland in the third world while they are sitting on liquid gold, and a lot of liquid gold.
00:13:23.000By the way, you could structure a deal very similar to Alaska, where there is a trust, basically a universal basic income, where the people of Greenland could all get royalties off of the extracted oil, natural gas, and minerals.
00:13:38.000It works in Alaska, and it could work in Greenland.
00:13:41.000They have 50,000 people in Greenland, and they could all be partners in this deal.
00:13:46.000And how about lithium or nickel, the key ingredients of technology?
00:13:53.000This stuff does not just come ex nihilo and fall from the skies and the heavens.
00:13:57.000What do you think your semiconductors are made of?
00:13:59.000What do you think your phones are made of?
00:14:01.000These environmentalists, they never want us to dig or search or exploit.
00:14:05.000At the same time, they want to have an AI data center so you could go make an image of a cat dancing to YMCA. Well, what do you think actually powers the ability for you to be able to do that?
00:14:17.000Rare Earth, by the way, is a huge component.
00:14:20.000Do you know that the Chinese Communist Party controls 80% of all of the planet's rare earth minerals?
00:14:26.000So here you have Greenland with wonderful people, strategically located, liquid gold, nickel, lithium, rare earth minerals.
00:14:42.000And by the way, if the Democrats all of a sudden say, oh, I don't know, you guys let 10,000 people a day into this country illegally.
00:14:50.000I think 56,000 people in a separate territory is perfectly legitimate if we're going to get liquid gold, natural resources, strategic placement.
00:15:05.000I mean, it's nothing but benefits, but there is this other component.
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00:18:11.000Joining us now is Senator Ron Johnson from the great state.
00:18:16.000Senator, thank you so much for joining the program.
00:18:32.000I personally think it'd be easier to get the border funding passed because I think the tax bill...
00:18:40.000Settling on, I think, the major sticking point is going to be what spending level are we going to agree to within the conference?
00:18:46.000We've got big spenders in our conference as well.
00:18:48.000I don't think anybody voted for President Trump to maintain Biden's spending levels, and I want to talk a little bit about that.
00:18:54.000But I think the easiest thing to do would be two packages, quite honestly, so we can get that border funding right away.
00:19:01.000Before the news media starts talking about what it looks like to deport somebody, could have a few individuals waver on their support for that.
00:19:09.000So I'd rather get the border funding done and then take our time.
00:19:15.000Part of the tax thing, I'd really like to simplify and rationalize their tax code.
00:19:19.000Primary goals prevent a massive automatic tax increase from occurring in 2026. I mean, that ought to be incentive enough.
00:19:26.000But as long as we're doing that, if we can simplify a rationalized tax code, that'd be a good thing.
00:19:30.000But we must agree on dramatically lower spending levels than what we're spending right now.
00:19:35.000This is absurd that we haven't returned to some pre-pandemic baseline.
00:19:41.000In 2019, Charlie, we spent $4.4 trillion.
00:19:46.000Then we have the spending spree during 2020, that was $6.6 trillion.
00:19:50.000Last five years, we've averaged $6.5 trillion.
00:19:53.000We've never returned to pre-pandemic level baseline, which is absurd.
00:20:00.000Yeah, so what is the appetite right now in the U.S. Senate to cut spending?
00:20:04.000Is there anybody in the Democrat Party that's interested in this because we're borrowing a trillion dollars every hundred days?
00:20:09.000No, and my concern is we're not going to have enough Republicans that are willing to do it either.
00:20:14.000Again, it's so easy to just say, oh, well, that's what we spent last year, and boy, if we don't spend at least that amount, we're going to be accused of starving women and children.
00:20:25.000I'm trying to actually tell the American public, these are the numbers, because I think we have a general sense that the federal government is totally out of control, but nobody knows specifically.
00:21:06.000I've come up with a couple different options.
00:21:09.000For example, if you go back to 1998, that's the last year we had, the first year we had a surplus since 1969. This was Bill Clinton's spending.
00:21:17.000And you take Social Security and Medicare off the table, you just plug those in at Biden's 2025 numbers and interest, but inflate all of Bill Clinton's spending to account for population growth and inflation, we'd be spending $5.5 trillion, and we have a balanced budget.
00:21:35.000So does anybody argue that Bill Clinton didn't spend enough money on all this other crap?
00:21:39.000If you go back to Obama's 2014, did the same thing, that'd be $6.2 trillion.
00:21:45.000Even if you use 2019 and inflate it, again, based on population and inflation, you'd be at about $6.5 trillion, which is $800 billion less than what Biden says he's going to spend right now.
00:21:58.000So why would we lock into Biden numbers?
00:22:00.000And be arguing over saving $100 billion or so.
00:22:12.000If you were to say just some of the, and I know you've detailed some of this, but where can we find some agreement in the Republican Conference of where to cut?
00:22:20.000Is there any appetite to cut some of the Pentagon budget?
00:23:50.000Who wants to defend to allow them to remain in our nation after that?
00:23:54.000And now, if you're here illegally and you're committing crimes and those things, I don't know why anybody thinks that it's controversial that they all need to go.
00:24:04.000Do you think that this was one of, if not the biggest issue for this election?
00:24:09.000Well, I think if we can't, you know, there's 47 of us in the Senate, and if we can't pull up with seven votes, if we can't get at least seven out of 47, if we can't, then that's the reason why we lost.
00:24:27.000Senator, what is going on with Mr. Fetterman?
00:24:29.000Well, first of all, he comes from a swing state like I do, and he realizes that, you know, obviously they lost the Senate seat in Pennsylvania.
00:24:38.000He'll be up for re-election eventually.
00:24:41.000I think, again, he's smart enough to realize that that was a big issue in this election.
00:24:46.000And by the way, who could oppose, literally, what rational individual can oppose deporting criminals?
00:24:53.000Well, Democrat Party, in total, they did oppose that because they wanted an open border.
00:24:58.000They elect George Soros prosecutors, but a lot of those prosecutors lost as well.
00:25:03.000So, you know, Fetterman, in a swing state, sees when the tide...
00:25:07.000And he's a smart enough politician to at least not buck these major trends where, again, you can't defend opposing a bill that's going to deport criminals.
00:25:16.000So it's hard to tell whether or not it's authentic.
00:25:19.000Do you think that there will be more Democrats that potentially might signal similarly and John Ossoff or others?
00:25:56.000Let's play cut 95, Senator Fetterman, of whether or not he might support some of Trump's nominees.
00:26:01.000Play cut 95. But I want to sit down and have a conversation, and I'm really glad that I've done that.
00:26:07.000And some of these nominees, I'm going to vote for already.
00:26:11.000In fact, you know, whether it's our colleague Rubio, Representative Stefanik, or even Sean Duffy, you know, I expect to vote for him as well, too.
00:26:20.000And Brooke Rollins for agriculture, again.
00:26:23.000So there's a lot of them I can say right now here on Fox.
00:26:53.000I'm not putting you on the spot for that, but I'm saying there should be some yielding to an incoming administration, correct?
00:27:00.000Well, that pretty much used to be the tradition of the Senate is, okay, elections matter.
00:27:04.000A president should decide who wants to serve in their cabinet.
00:27:08.000And as long as there's nothing disqualifying, you go ahead and confirm that nominee.
00:27:12.000For one thing, you want to work with those department heads.
00:27:15.000So you don't want to start off a relationship and say, I'm going to vote against you.
00:27:19.000So again, the bias always was, if it's a qualified individual, elections matter.
00:27:24.000You'd go ahead and vote for confirmation and try and work with that department head for the benefit of our constituents and for the benefit of America.
00:27:31.000I stopped doing that with the Biden administration because the nominees were just wacko, radical leftists.
00:27:37.000And in the end, you say, I can't support that at all.
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00:30:31.000I did not get a chance to comment on it.
00:30:32.000For those of you that missed the program yesterday or do not quite know the news, Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping policy changes, saying they're getting rid of their fact-checking department, that this election was about more speech, not less speech, that they're changing their content moderation team to go from California to Texas.
00:31:00.000I found him to be very sincere when I sat down with him.
00:31:03.000But it's going to be a growing relationship over these years.
00:31:07.000that i appreciate basically mark and the facebook team joel kaplan and everybody who joel i do know very well to stand up to the government to stand up to these regimes and say no we are going to protect freedom of speech we're going to protect freedom of discourse let's play some pieces of tape here this is cut 51 hey everyone I want to talk about something important today, because it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram.
00:31:35.000There's been widespread debate about potential harms from online content.
00:31:40.000Governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more.
00:31:51.000These are things that we take very seriously and I want to make sure that we handle responsibly.
00:31:56.000So we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content.
00:31:59.000But the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes.
00:32:03.000And we've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship.
00:32:07.000So we're going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms.
00:32:16.000We got to give Elon so much credit here.
00:32:19.000He took the risk and stood up for freedom of speech.
00:32:21.000And this is a movement now three years later.
00:32:24.000We are going to have the most open internet that we've had in a decade.
00:32:27.000And the trend was a more controlled, a censored and censored internet.
00:32:32.000We were going towards totalitarianism online.
00:32:38.000And because of his purchase of Twitter, President Trump was then able to win a triumphant landslide victory.
00:32:44.000And here we are, fast forward three years later, where you have Facebook sounding like Elon Musk.
00:32:50.000And in fact, Mark Zuckerberg went as far to say in his comments, X has it right, we want to follow more of the model of X. They are ready to show that this is not just talk, but this is action.
00:33:30.000Daisy and the team did a great job running Instagram, but TikTok was as hot as a pistol.
00:33:34.000I mean, TikTok was billions and billions and billions of views.
00:33:37.000One of the reasons why is Facebook made a decision that they were going to dampen down all political content this year.
00:33:45.000That it wasn't going to be as easy for political content to go viral on Facebook.
00:33:48.000Mark Zuckerberg made his announcement, so sorry, never mind, we're going to go back.
00:33:52.000And that's a good thing that you're going back.
00:33:54.000These should not be political actors, and there does need to be some proof that the atonement for the $400 million given to Joe Biden to get him elected in 2020, you've got to get over that.
00:34:07.000But I can say this is phenomenal development.
00:34:38.000He's doing things allegedly that we agree with.
00:34:41.000He wants to fight regime censorship around the world that I applaud.
00:34:46.000And as somebody who has 4 million followers on Instagram and a couple million followers on Facebook, I can tell you that a free and open Facebook and meta is very, very good for the cause of America First and Liberty and the cause that we care about on this program.
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