We need to play offense on social issues, according to a recent analysis, one of the issues that was the most decisive for President Trump on the 2016 election, and that is the transgender issue. The American Principles Project President, Terry Schilling, joins me to talk about why we should play offense and why we need to stop playing defense on the trans issue and start playing offense. Charlie and I talk about how important it was for the Trump campaign to have two ads that took the issue to the next level and won over the American people on the issue of transgender rights and gender identity. I hope you enjoy this episode, and remember, it's the economy, stupid, not the economy. It's the family, stupid! It's not the family that s the problem, it s the family stupid. And that's why we've been hearing this for so long, "It's the Economy, Stupid." - Charlie Kirk The Charlie Kirk Show is the official gold sponsor of The CharlieKirk Show, a company that specializes in gold IRAs and physical delivery of precious metals. Learn how you can protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegoldinvestments.com. That's where I buy all of my gold. That is Noble Gold Investments and I'm where I get my gold! Go to noblegold.investments@noblegold.com and I'll tell you what I'm looking for! Go to NobleGoldInvestments.co/TheCharlieKirkShow/NobleGold.co and get 20% off the purchase of a piece of gold? That's the best gold you can get you get anywhere else in the world! That's what you can t get your gold that's your gold? Go to buy it at Noble Gold? That s NobleGold Investments? That s where I bought all of your gold at NobleGoldinvestments? Charlie, I'm watching you, I buy it, I'll give you the gold you need to help protect your gold in the market, I know what you're going to get, you'll get a better chance of a better day in the future, right here, and you're gonna get it, right in the next episode of the next day, right there, right at the Noble Gold Investor's Gold Investor? . You'll get 10% off your gold brokerage account, you get 5% off of the show, and I can't tell me what you'll be getting?
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00:01:12.000We need to recognize that when we played offense on social issues, according to an analysis, one of the issues that was the most decisive for President Trump, can we get the advertisement please?
00:01:26.000There was A and B, and Susie Wiles and James Blair and the whole team, they deserve such credit because this was such a good ad and they trust their instinct, was Trump, Kamala Harris is for they, them, Donald Trump is for you.
00:01:39.000There were two ads and they were terrific.
00:01:42.000Here to discuss how we need to play offense on the trans issue and how it actually won us favor with the American people.
00:01:48.000Terry Schilling, president of the American Principles Project.
00:01:52.000Terry, without, and I have to give credit, without Matt Walsh, I think Matt Walsh is the Moses of the reality movement when it comes to the trans jihadis.
00:02:05.000Because we were in the wilderness thinking that this was going to go the way of the whole gay marriage thing.
00:02:11.000That it was just, it was an inevitability.
00:02:31.000And Republicans followed suit and they refused to talk about any of these issues until Donald Trump comes along.
00:02:40.000Charlie, Matt Walsh has been so instrumental in this movement.
00:02:43.000I've been meeting with legislators and politicians for some time, showing them the polling, all the nerd stuff for how this stuff moves the electorate.
00:02:51.000But Matt Walsh added so many brilliant arguments.
00:03:10.000Donald Trump won the popular vote for the first time since 2004, the other election where cultural issues were at the front and center of the American people's minds going into the polling booth.
00:03:22.000So if this doesn't show people that these issues are winners when Democrats go crazy and start teaching kids that Men can have babies and that your daughter now has to compete against a 6'4", 250-pound man in her volleyball league.
00:03:37.000I think these issues are going to be around for quite some time.
00:03:43.000By the way, the reason that Charlemagne, who's a very popular morning drive-time guy in New York, the Breakfast Club, very popular guy, the reason that he's in this ad is because he saw the original ad during NFL football.
00:04:29.000The team at the Trump campaign, they trusted their gut because, as you know, Terry, the D.C. consultants, they only want you to talk about high stock markets, which is fine.
00:04:39.000It was illegal immigration, plus trans, plus the pronoun speech police, and the follow-up of the incorporates the black people don't necessarily need to vote for either side or vote for blue with a popular radio host.
00:04:55.000We were so attacked, Terry Schilling, for going into culture war issues.
00:04:59.000However, is it possible the culture war won Donald Trump the White House?
00:05:23.000It was the culture that won this election for Donald Trump.
00:05:25.000But Charlie, the thing is, Donald Trump gets the credit.
00:05:29.000He is the first presidential candidate since 2004 to put the family, to put the Democrats' extremism on cultural issues at the forefront of this campaign.
00:05:40.000Charlie, you and I have been talking about this stuff for so long and no one else would champion it.
00:05:48.000He's a maniac, but he's a total genius, and I love him.
00:05:52.000The family movement, here's what we're going to be doing, Charlie, is APP, and we need the entire family movement on board to be his bulldogs.
00:06:00.000We need to rip apart, rip to shreds anyone on the inside that's trying to stop this agenda or to criticize him.
00:06:07.000We need to be bulldogs for President Trump and bulldogs for his pro-family agenda, which is incredibly robust.
00:06:12.000Yes, and so, again, nature is so healing in some ways because people are getting back to first principles of how we do not want all of this extreme nonsense.
00:06:25.000Terry, Kamala Harris, who now is going to be going down as a loser like Hillary Clinton, they thought they could tap dance around from these social issues.
00:06:36.000How does this apply for future elections?
00:06:39.000Well, here's what's interesting, Charlie, is that you're seeing some Democrats try to move the needle.
00:06:45.000They are saying things like, we need to moderate on these positions.
00:06:49.000We need to change our policy priorities here.
00:06:54.000We have to hold their feet to the fire.
00:06:57.000And you're starting to see the Democratic base, the crazy transgender activists and their lobbyists, they are now trying to hold these guys and hold them accountable and kick them out of the party.
00:07:07.000We need to ratchet up this division within the Democratic Party until they become sane on it, until they stop trying to push sex issues on kids.
00:07:16.000We need to maximize the political opportunity here because the American people are obviously behind us on all of these trans issues.
00:07:24.000Yeah, so what is now your hope, Terry, for this incoming Trump administration to deliver victories for the pro-family agenda?
00:07:33.000Well, President Trump has been good on all of these pro-family issues since he got elected in 2016.
00:07:39.000He's made three very specific policy priorities that he put into the RNC platform.
00:07:45.000Saving girls sports, getting rid of men all across the country, banning taxpayer funding of sex change procedures for minors.
00:07:52.000He can do all of these through executive orders.
00:07:54.000And the third is defunding these woke DEI and transgender programming in schools.
00:08:01.000We are going to be supporting him every single day, defending him in the press, defending him in the public to make sure that this gets done.
00:08:08.000We just have to help him shepherd this through and defend him from all the nasty attacks he's going to get.
00:08:14.000I completely and totally agree with all of that.
00:08:16.000So in closing, Terry, name some names of some all-stars you want to see in the White House.
00:08:22.000Just throw them out there for the audience.
00:09:03.000Listen, I would really love, and this is a little bit premature because I think she's on board with it, but I would really love to see Tiffany Justice as the Secretary of Education.
00:09:12.000I think she would do a phenomenal job.
00:09:14.000She's got the pulse of all the moms across the country.
00:09:18.000I think she'd be really good at Department of Education.
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00:09:33.000But Charlie, thank you, because you guys really killed it this year, and we definitely wouldn't have won without all the work that you guys had at Turning Point.
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00:13:49.000He was on the staff of Jeff Sessions, where he was a guy who was sounding the alarm about immigration and the specific flaws in immigration policy from the very start of the Trump campaign.
00:14:01.000So, so much of what we think of As the Trump agenda on immigration, what we need to fix, what we need to change, a lot of that is stuff that he helped outline nearly a decade ago.
00:14:12.000And he's been around ever since then, always pushing the same thing.
00:14:16.000There's always been people trying to box him out, sabotage him.
00:14:29.000He started getting involved in, okay, how do we undercut the DEI menace?
00:14:33.000How do we help promote free speech in the private sector?
00:14:37.000So now we have Miller where he's still good on immigration, but he's going to be good on so many of those other political questions that have become so important to our movement over the past five years.
00:14:49.000Okay, so let's get to one of these pieces of tape here.
00:15:09.000You have a Venezuelan gang that is taking over entire apartment buildings in Aurora, Colorado.
00:15:15.000And that's responsible, by the way, for some of the most heinous crimes that have happened all over the United States.
00:15:21.000I mean, look, this is as good as it gets.
00:15:22.000You could not have selected somebody who understands what Trump voters voted for and then has the intellect, the capacity, the wherewithal, the ability, the stamina.
00:15:35.000I mean, this is as good as it gets everybody.
00:23:08.000And what does this mean for the Republican establishment that was quietly cheering for Kamala because they knew that the Trump movement would now be permanently into the Republican infrastructure?
00:23:26.000What does it mean for the Republican establishment?
00:23:29.000Well, I think we've seen it with John Cornyn, John Thune, who are both very much establishment guys, coming out and saying, hey, I'm going to support the president.
00:23:38.000We're going to work, you know, five-day work weeks instead of three-day work weeks to get this agenda through.
00:23:45.000I think they understand what's going on.
00:23:47.000And I think Donald Trump needs to be prepared to go full Les Grossman from Tropic Thunder on any Republican who refuses to get on board.
00:23:59.000We're not going to tolerate the nonsense anymore, Charlie.
00:24:12.000My gosh, I'm just waiting for Rick Grinnell to get secretary of state, man.
00:24:16.000Watch the heads explode as we put in a pro-American, brilliant diplomat to actually advocate for American interests overseas instead of the interests of a bunch of foreigners.
00:24:33.000So, Kurt, let's now go another level deeper, and I think this is very important.
00:24:39.000What are the potential pitfalls of lessons we need to learn from 16 or 17 in transition that we can't repeat, that are not cliche, that are things that we need to consider as we're getting closer to high noon on January the 20th?
00:24:54.000Charlie, the most important thing for the president to know is not to allow artificial norms, and let's get out the air quotes, that apply only to conservatives to limit his ability to act.
00:25:10.000He has been invested with a moral mandate and with formal power under the Constitution.
00:25:42.000He needs to do what he said he's going to do.
00:25:45.000And to do that requires a team of people who are on board and loyal.
00:25:50.000And he's already getting that, and that's great.
00:25:53.000But he also needs to apply a whip and a chair to the federal bureaucracy.
00:25:57.000The federal bureaucracy is not a fourth branch of government, Charlie.
00:26:00.000It is to make the will of the chief executive elected by the American people, by a majority of the national popular vote, which doesn't actually exist, but we'll cite it just for fun, to bring that to fruition.
00:26:42.000So closing thoughts here, Kurt, with one minute remaining.
00:26:46.000The Democrat Party, where do they go from here?
00:26:49.000What is your guess and your estimate of where the Democrats try to navigate from here?
00:26:54.000A smart, objective party would sit down and figure out what they did wrong.
00:26:58.000The problem, Charlie, and you and I have talked about this before, is that the kind of woke, cultural, Marxism, leftist nonsense they have is what fills them up where normal people fill it up with faith, family, and the flag.
00:28:27.000The threat is even greater now that we have President Trump in.
00:28:31.000Not because he's not going to try and protect America, but because enemies around the world realize he's a threat and they want to take him down.
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00:30:03.000I believe we still have Blake with us.
00:30:04.000I want to play some more pieces of tape here, though, that I think are critically important.
00:31:54.000When you say color, you mean, like, black, brown, everything.
00:31:58.000Well, I think that, you know, people have different issues that they care about, and I think that there's nobody out there that's a single-issue voter.
00:32:17.000And look, his shock and his bewilderment is important.
00:32:22.000However, it's very important to note that Charlemagne is saying, oh yes, we're focusing on housing, grocery prices, things that actually matter.
00:32:54.000Republicans who would basically accept all these Democrat premises, which is that it was racist to disagree with the Democrats on things, and the only reason that people weren't voting Republican is that Republicans were too racist, basically.
00:33:09.000This was kind of the Paul Ryan assumption.
00:33:11.000So they would go around basically just giving lectures to voters of color, saying, like, oh, you know, I'm not actually racist.
00:33:38.000And it turns out this is a winning political message.
00:33:41.000He doesn't concede all of this presumptive ground to the left.
00:33:46.000He doesn't presume that the left is, like, morally superior to him, which was a very common problem for Republicans 15 years ago.
00:33:55.000And once you stop conceding that ground, you can actually win people straight up.
00:33:59.000And it also helped that the left just completely went off the deep end.
00:34:03.000It got hijacked by a relatively small part of the party that just was very profoundly insane on all of these social questions.
00:34:11.000And again, if you had this old Mitt Romney-esque thing, your attitude would be, well, you know, they're morally in the right direction and we'll catch up eventually.
00:34:20.000And instead, you had someone who would just counterpunch and say, yeah, the left is actually super insane.