Trump's comments on abortion and the trans issue are getting people fired, and it's time to address it head on. President Trump is a pro-life guy. He appointed over 150 Pro-Life judges, including three Supreme Court justices, 43 U.S. courts of appeal judges, and 99 district court judges. He permitted states to defund Planned Parenthood of Title 10 funding, stopped tax dollars funding abortions overseas, defunded the pro-abortion UNFPA, required health insurance companies to disclose plans cover abortion, and required health care companies disclose of plans to cover abortion. He also was the first president to speak at the March for Life.
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00:01:24.000We have at least 200 to 300 emails or messages that I've received about Donald Trump's comments on Meet the Press regarding abortion and Donald Trump's comments with Megan Kelly about the trans issue.
00:01:37.000And so one of the reasons I didn't consider this to be top of mind is I know Donald Trump personally.
00:01:47.000In fact, he did so much pro-life stuff as president that stuff that sometimes gets intermixed with just kind of political cycle chatter doesn't overly interest me, to be perfectly honest.
00:02:05.000And so before I play this piece of tape and meet the press and give you my reaction, I also want to remind you I'm 100% pro-life.
00:02:12.000When I mean 100% pro-life, I mean I go to college campuses with people screaming at me saying, Charlie, what about exceptions for rape and incest?
00:02:20.000And I make the moral argument that a life is a life.
00:02:23.000So I'm 100% pro-life and I remain that way.
00:02:25.000And we cannot waver on the issue at all.
00:02:28.000I also understand that not every politician running for office is going to be as clear as I want them to be on the issue.
00:02:36.000And then I'm going to tell you what I think President Trump said in the tape that is really upsetting people because I'm getting a lot of messages from pastors and a lot of people that are really upset about it.
00:02:57.000So President Trump, as president, just as a reminder before we play the piece of tape, appointed over 150 pro-life judges, including three Supreme Court justices, 43 U.S. courts of appeal judges, and 99 district court judges.
00:03:12.000He permitted states to defund Planned Parenthood of Title 10 funding.
00:03:22.000He required health insurance companies to disclose of plans cover abortion, settlements and new rule regarding HHS mandate, new office for conscious protection to HHS, allowing states to defund Planned Parenthood of Medicaid funds and cut Planned Parenthood's tax funding and canceled a huge contract for taxpayer-funded experimentation with body parts of aborted babies in June.
00:03:43.000He was also the first president to speak at the March for Life.
00:03:48.000In fact, Roe versus Wade would never have been repealed if it wasn't for President Trump sending it back to the states.
00:03:57.000So let's play the piece of tape here that is getting people fired up.
00:04:01.000I think some people, not everyone, have a little bit of a memory issue, and they're forgetting that Donald Trump was the most successful pro-life president in American history.
00:04:15.000Now, I just want to remind you, there is a difference between disagreeing on objectives and values and then also disagreeing on tactics and strategy.
00:04:24.000Because I think people are conflating Donald Trump's value system with Donald Trump's tactics and his strategy.
00:06:11.000And that's the way the pro-life movement feels.
00:06:13.000But I'm here just trying to offer some context to a man who has not said, because words don't mean anything to me, but proven to be pro-life.
00:06:23.000That's why when I see interviews like this, I kind of say, look, show me the money, man.
00:06:34.000President Trump, I think, was more focused on trying to attack DeSantis in that particular dialogue than actually talking about the merits of the abortion issue.
00:06:51.000Now, we as pro-life activists need to constantly be on our toes because we've been let down so many times.
00:07:02.000Saying one thing about George W. Bush was a Republican who did not speak at the March for Life, and he was almost pro-choice.
00:07:09.000In fact, his wife was very, very pro-abortion, remains to be pro-abortion.
00:07:14.000And he talked this good game about Christian values, but when it came to that issue, he was like, oh, we don't want to talk about it.
00:09:12.000But what Trump is trying to say, though, is, is there any sort of deal that could be struck where you have one side saying you can abort a baby, basically kill a baby right there up into the moment of birth?
00:09:29.000When abortion has recently been on the ballot in Ohio, in Kentucky, and many other states, Kansas, the pro-abortion side, wins.
00:09:42.000And that doesn't mean it's not an important issue.
00:09:44.000For me, it's one of my top issues, and it remains that way.
00:09:49.000But excuse me when I don't get into the outrage cycle by certain commentators when a friend of mine, President Donald Trump, who did more for the unborn, is trying to strike a deal.
00:10:02.000He already proved he's been pro-life, extremely pro-life.
00:10:06.000There's another element to this, though, which is that the pro-life movement has a significant structural financial disadvantage when it comes to this issue.
00:10:18.000And right now we are seeing evidence after evidence, state after state, that this is not a winning political issue in 2024.
00:10:30.000I also wish that we had a culture of life at the border.
00:10:33.000We have a culture of death across the board.
00:10:36.000And that's under, you have to understand this is bigger than just the abortion issue.
00:10:39.000We do not have a cultural life for protecting 12-year-olds from chemical castration, a culture of life from kids getting sex trafficked across the border.
00:10:47.000And remember, Donald Trump, not you, is facing 500 years in federal prison.
00:10:56.000So the motivation for Donald Trump is if I don't win, I'm probably going to federal prison for the rest of my life.
00:11:02.000And he thinks, and there's some evidence to support his belief, that if you do not have some sort of position on the abortion issue in Wisconsin or Arizona or Georgia that can at least be considered to be somewhat middle-of-the-road prudent, you're going to lose.
00:11:21.000And I am curious for all of my very good pro-life friends out there, do you have any evidence that the pro-life issue is a winning issue?
00:11:31.000Wisconsin, the Supreme Court justice seat, was a 10-point race.
00:11:36.000Now you might say, well, Charlie, then why do you talk about the pro-life issue so much?
00:11:41.000I'm legitimately trying to change people's minds.
00:11:44.000I'm trying to make it so that abortion is a winning political issue.
00:11:46.000I'm trying to go into the depths of hell of Flagstaff, Arizona, get screamed at and hexed by Wiccans and witches, and I am afforded the opportunity to be morally clear on these issues all the time.
00:11:59.000That's why I could never run for political office.
00:12:02.000But I'm also looking at, boy, what is the consequences of not winning?
00:12:09.000You get zero of your pro-life choices.
00:12:28.000Big ones, the most of any president in the modern era.
00:12:31.000And I think it's equally as important to remember that there are some people in his ear that are saying you've got to become more pro-choice.
00:12:44.000I think this is a healthy dialogue, though.
00:12:47.000I think some of you that are pro-life that are speaking out, if I was in your shoes and I didn't know the president personally and you hadn't been through this for seven years, I would actually have the same reaction.
00:13:03.000What I'm just trying to do is add a little bit of context in this, is that you're used to being abandoned on this issue.
00:13:12.000The fact that there is suspicion amongst the rank and file of the Christian conservative grassroots, that actually gives me some promise.
00:13:21.000It shows me that you are not robotic Democrats.
00:13:26.000It shows me that you want to see the clarity, that this is a very big issue, and it's a big issue for me.
00:13:53.000Now, I wouldn't be as aggressive as Mike Cernovich here because I do see it on both sides.
00:13:56.000I see it from both places, especially if you are a pastor or if you are an author or if you are a commentator and your whole thing is about moral clarity.
00:14:27.000It's a balance to remind President Trump that his base is pro-life, because I think he could have answered the meet the press question a lot better.
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00:18:26.000No, in fact, my principles I care about so much that I know that if we do not have political power, our principles are nothing more than a bunch of op-eds and books that people don't read.
00:18:38.000Putting principles into power is where politics comes in.
00:18:44.000So you have principles and then you have power, but the segue between principles and power is politics, which can be very messy.
00:19:02.000If you do not win, then your principles are nothing more than bumper stickers and tweets that you can rest on your laurels until the FBI comes and raids your home or until they start transing your kids.
00:19:18.000Our principles are abstractions without political power.
00:19:23.000There are two different types of roles: people that are running for political office and people that are in the public commentary space.
00:19:33.000If I, Charlie Kirk, was wavering on the abortion issue, then I would be completely warranted to receive all the negative emails, but I'm not.
00:19:44.000Instead, I'm merely offering context for President Trump, who has dedicated his life to beating the bad guys.
00:19:55.000The life's work of Donald Trump, especially politically, is to beat the Marxists, beat the open border crowd, even beat the pro-abortion folks.
00:20:07.000What is hilarious to me is, do you know who really hates Donald Trump?
00:20:12.000The pro-abortion lobby, because he was responsible for reversing Roe versus Wade.
00:20:17.000Not everybody, but some of you that have messaged me some very nasty emails about Donald Trump.
00:20:25.000I wish there was a little bit more gratitude, a little bit more understanding that this guy delivered the goods.
00:20:34.000You should have saw Washington, D.C. when Roe got overturned.
00:20:37.000It was the demons came out of the fourth circle of hell.
00:21:18.000So I actually think that if you were to get upset about something, Trump on the trans one is probably something more worthy of getting upset.
00:21:27.000And I actually, I didn't get upset because I know what he believes on it.
00:21:30.000And I think people are playing way too much into the pause because you actually read the transcript.
00:22:20.000Trump said he will sign an executive order banning trans surgeries for kids.
00:22:26.000Donald Trump also said that he doesn't think men can give birth.
00:22:29.000That is heretical to the trans alphabet mafia.
00:22:33.000But here is what I've been saying privately to the Trump team, and what I will say to the president, of whom I support 100%, is it's not 2018 anymore.
00:22:45.000This is my only piece of feedback, even more than the abortion thing.
00:22:49.000The country is actually in the favor of, let's just say, traditional biological reality, far more than it probably was even in 2018.
00:23:02.000Dylan Mulvaney, trans surgeries for kids, trans strippers at the White House, all this crap that we've seen in our country.
00:23:10.000The trans issue is a losing issue for the Democrats.
00:23:16.000So my advice to the Trump team is that if there was actually an issue to lean even more into, because remember, politics is the art of the possible.
00:23:26.000You have principles and you have power and politics bridges those two.
00:23:37.000A man cannot become a woman and a woman cannot become a man.
00:23:41.000And if you go after our kids, we're going to put you in prison.
00:23:46.000We're going to remove pornography from our schools and this trans nonsensical propaganda.
00:23:51.000Trans strippers will not be invited to the White House, and we will not display gay pride flags next to the American flag outflanking them.
00:24:01.000We're not going to have gay pride flags and trans flags on our embassies.
00:24:05.000And by the way, let me just remind you, before everyone gets all up in arms, President Trump said that trans people that are suffering from mental delusion, which I repeat myself because all trans people are, are not able to serve in the U.S. military.
00:24:33.000I would improve a couple things, get a little bit more precise there.
00:24:38.000But also, and I said this when it happened, that when you're going into an interview with Megan Kelly, there should have been a little bit better preparation on Trump's team because this is Megan's number one issue, where she is the least metropolitan New York-ish that you would imagine.
00:24:56.000If you just do even like a five-minute overview of an opo, not oppo, but like a prep file for a Megan Kelly interview, of which I'm going on Megan's show next week, where Megan is like 10 out of 10 and a cultural American hero, in my opinion, in the last couple of years, has been her courage on the trans issue.
00:25:47.000Bless you, Charlie, and praise God for what Trump has done to save lives.
00:25:51.000Charlie, I would rather have a pro-life president that I agree with 95% of the time than Joe Biden who's actually killing children.
00:25:58.000Okay, well, that's rather reasonable, actually.
00:26:01.000And look, if you're looking for long intellectual, let's just say, clarity on the trans issue, that's what the Matt Welsh program and the Charlie Kirk show is.
00:26:17.000I have a great deal of flex in the joints when a baller politician, aka someone who's amazing, might not give the most precise answer, but he's going to sign the right stuff and do the right stuff and has done the right stuff.
00:26:36.000So it's just, I think that there's some, and President Trump has actually done this to himself because he has turned politics into entertainment, understandably.
00:26:45.000But I think that we are conflating our pundits, our talk shows, and our speakers with the guy that is going to govern.
00:27:13.000And if I didn't know Trump personally, if I hadn't been through so many cycles of this up and down the roller coaster over the last seven years, I could see some of the anger or some of the upsettedness on this.
00:27:25.000I just happen to be in a different place in the sense of been around him, know what animates him, I've seen this.
00:30:58.000You think that the world is falling apart.
00:31:00.000It is every possible alarm response in your body is trying to get out of this water as quickly as possible.
00:31:10.000In fact, if you do it, your diaphragm can actually kind of spazz out if you're not used to it.
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00:31:30.000If you're in 40 to 50 degrees, you're in the ballgame.
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00:31:55.000Something really bad could happen to you.
00:31:57.000If you're bench pressing and all of a sudden you feel like your muscles are going up, but the cold tub is that the feeling is not necessarily directly correlated with the threat to your body, especially after you get somewhat initiated.
00:32:09.000So therefore, it's totally the story that you are telling yourself when you are in the cold.
00:32:14.000You're in the cold shower, you're in the cold tub or whatever.
00:32:17.000Cold showers are even easier because anyone can do a cold shower.
00:32:53.000I also love it because the amount of time it takes, you know, some of these interventions, sauna is not, you know, it's very time consuming.
00:33:29.000In fact, instead of just giving so many kids antidepressants, benzodiazepines, and Xanax, maybe we should say, hey, try some cold exposure.