The Charlie Kirk Show - October 15, 2026


Has President Trump Kept His Promises?

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00:01:17.000 Welcome back, everybody.
00:01:19.000 It is October 15th, 2026.
00:01:24.000 Man, there's so much going on.
00:01:26.000 You got Jack Smith getting the names.
00:01:29.000 Anybody who bought a MAGA hat, there's SpaceX news over in Ukraine.
00:01:34.000 All of this is important.
00:01:35.000 President Trump is barnstorming the country.
00:01:37.000 We're here.
00:01:38.000 However, in Phoenix, Arizona, at the Y Refi Studios.
00:01:41.000 How are we doing, Blake?
00:01:42.000 Oh, we're doing lovely.
00:01:42.000 I'm so glad to be back in studio.
00:01:44.000 Yeah, you finally got your mic.
00:01:45.000 You're finally back with your microphone.
00:01:46.000 I am.
00:01:47.000 I've been reunited.
00:01:48.000 But here's this morning we are going to do something a little different today.
00:01:53.000 I think it's really important.
00:01:55.000 We are going to audit President Trump's top 20 promises on the campaign in 2024.
00:02:02.000 His promises, which stated, if enacted, would make America great again.
00:02:08.000 And we are going to have an honest conversation.
00:02:10.000 There's going to be no puff, no hopium, no copium.
00:02:13.000 We are going to go through all 20 of them.
00:02:15.000 We got to print it out right here.
00:02:16.000 Yep.
00:02:16.000 Okay.
00:02:17.000 From the direct website itself, President Trump campaigned on these things.
00:02:22.000 And we're going to go one by one and ask Did President Trump keep his promises?
00:02:27.000 Promises made, promises kept.
00:02:28.000 You remember hearing that in Trump 1.0?
00:02:30.000 We heard it all the time.
00:02:31.000 We heard it on the campaign trail.
00:02:33.000 Can we say that honestly in Trump 2.0?
00:02:36.000 And we're doing this because a thing we've heard, because there's a lot of people who are very angry, people who are dooming, people who are complaining a lot, and they love to claim President Trump.
00:02:46.000 Abandoned his promises that he is not delivered.
00:02:50.000 And they say, oh, he promised, for example, to do all the upscene stuff.
00:02:56.000 And that was actually what he campaigned on.
00:02:58.000 And he's not keeping his promises.
00:03:00.000 And this is prompted.
00:03:01.000 This is a producer of one of the friends of a show here, John Doyle.
00:03:04.000 Yeah, John Doyle posted this.
00:03:07.000 He's also Blake, of course. 0.96
00:03:08.000 So he's a great testament to the order of Blakes.
00:03:11.000 His name's Blake Cressus. 0.99
00:03:12.000 And he wrote, The retard right gets real quiet when you show them President Trump's. 0.96
00:03:18.000 Actual campaign promises, not the ones they made up in their head. 0.95
00:03:22.000 And he says, and they realize only like three of them haven't come to fruition.
00:03:25.000 So we thought, wait, we should actually, we should test that.
00:03:28.000 We should look up that list.
00:03:30.000 And so this is not just someone compiling promises.
00:03:33.000 You'll see that sometimes.
00:03:35.000 Democrats do this a lot.
00:03:36.000 They'll just, oh, collect, oh, 50 different promises they made in different speeches.
00:03:41.000 President Trump's a different breed because very few candidates really do this.
00:03:45.000 Where he just said on his website, Trump Vance branding.
00:03:49.000 If you look at that image we have up there, you can see the Trump Vance official campaign image right there on the top left.
00:03:55.000 This was on his website.
00:03:56.000 This is the 20 things he was promising to do if elected.
00:04:01.000 It's still on Whitehouse.gov.
00:04:02.000 They have an archived link to show that they are not making this up.
00:04:05.000 It's very Trumpian.
00:04:06.000 He did this with these Supreme Court justices.
00:04:08.000 Here's the list of people he would choose, et cetera, et cetera.
00:04:11.000 So it gives us sort of a line in the sand, something to base his performance against.
00:04:16.000 He got elected on these promises, after all.
00:04:18.000 So let's start right away.
00:04:20.000 All right.
00:04:20.000 By the way, I do want to just say why this is important.
00:04:23.000 And then we're going to get into number one, which is seal the border.
00:04:26.000 You're going to probably see a little bit of an inverted map from other years.
00:04:30.000 Blue states that are living under oppressive Democrat regimes.
00:04:36.000 They're still very open to change because they're living under the malaise, the high crime, all of that's the regulation, the burdensome economic policies.
00:04:45.000 And so they might still go a little bit more right this cycle, but it's red states that voted for Trump that we're sometimes most worried about Nebraska, Iowa, Ohio, Texas.
00:04:55.000 So this is why it's so important because those are the voters that are saying, hey, I feel maybe betrayed, I feel disappointed.
00:05:01.000 All right.
00:05:01.000 So, number one promise seal the border.
00:05:05.000 And stop the migrant invasion. 1.00
00:05:08.000 We have some great graphs on this. 1.00
00:05:10.000 Put up 136.
00:05:11.000 Yeah, it's up there already.
00:05:12.000 That's great.
00:05:13.000 That is monthly southwestern border encounters in thousands.
00:05:17.000 The highest month for Joe Biden, this is just southwestern border encounters.
00:05:22.000 In late, it looks like late 2023, Joe Biden had 300,000 people encountered at the southern border.
00:05:32.000 In your average month, he's routinely hitting.
00:05:35.000 200,000 almost every month is over 150,000.
00:05:38.000 And that's encounters.
00:05:39.000 So that's not counting people who just run across the border and aren't caught.
00:05:44.000 It's not counting the extreme ease.
00:05:46.000 They basically stopped, for example, visa enforcement.
00:05:49.000 So you could just come here on a tourism visa, on a student visa, on a temporary work visa, blow it off and stay.
00:05:55.000 That was the Biden administration.
00:05:57.000 By the way, you will see at that peak, they realized they had a PR problem.
00:06:00.000 So that's when you get the CBP1 app where they basically say, hey, we'll give you a plane ticket.
00:06:05.000 And we'll fly you in.
00:06:06.000 We made an app to fly people into the country illegally. 0.93
00:06:08.000 We did a lot of bad PR at the border. 0.99
00:06:10.000 Well, guess what?
00:06:10.000 Look at that red, those red bars right there on the right.
00:06:14.000 That's Trump 2.0.
00:06:16.000 Instantly.
00:06:17.000 Instantly.
00:06:17.000 They told you for years that this was a problem.
00:06:20.000 It was super hard to solve.
00:06:21.000 You needed tons of money.
00:06:22.000 You needed tons of institutional reform.
00:06:24.000 No, you just needed someone who actually wanted to stop it.
00:06:27.000 And it was like turning off a light switch. 1.00
00:06:29.000 Oh, we don't need to let people illegally into America. 0.98
00:06:32.000 And what that chart doesn't show also is it doesn't show you that they revised that CBP1 app into an arrange your deportation app.
00:06:39.000 Yeah.
00:06:39.000 You get a stipend and a free ticket home as opposed to a free ticket here.
00:06:43.000 Totally reversed it.
00:06:44.000 Absolutely zero doubt.
00:06:46.000 Promise One has been kept.
00:06:47.000 But just for further measure, we've done it on the visa side as well.
00:06:51.000 139, visas down by half, and legal immigration cut more than illegal immigration.
00:06:58.000 And this is, again, thanks to our friends over at Cato who are no friends of this administration.
00:07:03.000 They make this to complain about Trump.
00:07:05.000 Yep.
00:07:05.000 Look at that.
00:07:06.000 Student visas way down, H 1Bs way down.
00:07:11.000 And if you can't see the numbers, it's like students going from $220,000 a year to $40,000.
00:07:17.000 You've got refugee visas basically going down almost to zero from they were letting in $60,000 of those per year.
00:07:25.000 They're letting, I guess, actually, this is a combined total.
00:07:27.000 Combined total of like $220,000 a month, I guess, actually.
00:07:30.000 And they got that all the way down to about $40,000.
00:07:34.000 I want you guys to understand how difficult it is to limit legal immigration.
00:07:38.000 Many of these things are established by bills, laws, passed by Congress, right?
00:07:43.000 So.
00:07:43.000 Under Democrat administrations, you're going to be letting in 1.2 million people, the size of Montana every year, the size of Arkansas every three years.
00:07:51.000 The population just keeps growing and growing and flooding and flooding with foreigners. 0.92
00:07:55.000 To do this, you have to work the system expertly. 1.00
00:07:58.000 You have to find loopholes.
00:08:00.000 You have to cut off loopholes.
00:08:01.000 You have to basically limit things using other powers, finding other means by which you can limit legal immigration.
00:08:07.000 So, to see that number drop all the way down in all of those different categories is truly, truly something to behold.
00:08:15.000 And it is transformative.
00:08:16.000 Repurpose so many things as well.
00:08:18.000 Because, for example, refugee left often saw this oh, let's get our designated groups.
00:08:24.000 Let's like parachute a ton of Somalis into Minneapolis, into Fargo, into wherever.
00:08:30.000 And they started letting in Afrikaners from South Africa. 0.98
00:08:32.000 And every single left in group has lost its mind. 0.95
00:08:34.000 Why? 1.00
00:08:35.000 Because Afrikaners are white. 1.00
00:08:36.000 That is explicitly the reason. 1.00
00:08:37.000 They lose their minds because someone led into the country as a refugee had white skin. 1.00
00:08:43.000 Very, very clear point.
00:08:44.000 And they'll integrate well.
00:08:45.000 They integrate well and have skills.
00:08:46.000 They hate people that are compatible with our culture.
00:08:49.000 That's what it is.
00:08:50.000 Oh, we're off to a great start here.
00:08:51.000 Sot number two.
00:08:52.000 Well, actually, point number two carry out the largest deportation operation in America.
00:08:57.000 Okay, this is coming from their website.
00:09:00.000 These are his promises.
00:09:01.000 Look at that 138.
00:09:03.000 Obviously, they had to revamp this whole thing.
00:09:07.000 They had to go past the one big beautiful bill to get this funded.
00:09:10.000 They had to hire ICE agents.
00:09:12.000 They had to hire CBP.
00:09:14.000 They had to do all of this stuff.
00:09:16.000 And look at that number ramp up.
00:09:18.000 And you see it go down just briefly.
00:09:19.000 That was when Mullen was confirmed as DHS secretary after Christy Nome was, she resigned.
00:09:25.000 They were retooling their strategy.
00:09:26.000 They were retooling it.
00:09:27.000 He came back and he said, I want to cooperate with local jails and prisons.
00:09:31.000 And look at that number shoot right back up.
00:09:33.000 We're over 50,000 the last three months on average.
00:09:37.000 A month.
00:09:37.000 These are interior arrests.
00:09:40.000 Okay, so if you are keeping score at home, the first two promises seal the border and carry out the largest deportation operation in American history, those are two for two.
00:09:49.000 There's no doubt he is two for two right here.
00:09:52.000 And let's just address a lot of people on the dissident right, the online base, which I often been a part of, if I'm being completely honest with the audience here.
00:10:02.000 They want more.
00:10:03.000 They want more deportations, but go ahead and throw that up again.
00:10:05.000 138.
00:10:06.000 138.
00:10:08.000 This shows that the efforts continue.
00:10:11.000 They're increasing.
00:10:12.000 And all the hate that Secretary Mullen took when he was revamping, he was getting.
00:10:17.000 Listen, it's hard to come into a new job like that.
00:10:19.000 It's a big job.
00:10:19.000 DHS is huge.
00:10:20.000 He also had to oversee, by the way, the World Cup and things like this.
00:10:24.000 So getting those numbers up is huge.
00:10:28.000 And they're going to keep ramping up.
00:10:30.000 It is the largest in history.
00:10:31.000 If you look at historical numbers, right?
00:10:34.000 The.
00:10:36.000 You know, it was basically.
00:10:38.000 In the 50s under Eisenhower, I think they did about 1 to 1.3 million.
00:10:42.000 It's a whole different era.
00:10:43.000 Totally different era.
00:10:44.000 That's by far the largest deportation operation.
00:10:47.000 And that's arrests.
00:10:48.000 So there are people who are voluntarily deporting themselves.
00:10:51.000 There are people who are self.
00:10:52.000 It's way easier to self deport yourself.
00:10:54.000 We have net migration. 1.00
00:10:54.000 Massive. 1.00
00:10:55.000 We have net negative migration.
00:10:57.000 Massive win.
00:10:58.000 Massive win.
00:10:59.000 And they're continuing to accelerate it.
00:11:00.000 It is great stuff.
00:11:01.000 All right.
00:11:01.000 Let's move on to number three.
00:11:03.000 This one's harder.
00:11:03.000 End inflation and make America affordable again.
00:11:07.000 Number three.
00:11:08.000 We know what everyone said.
00:11:09.000 Big headline items.
00:11:11.000 Gasoline prices.
00:11:12.000 Are high, let's be frank.
00:11:13.000 Yeah.
00:11:13.000 And CPI is, which is sort of the main, I guess, metric you'll look at.
00:11:19.000 It did ramp up slightly yesterday.
00:11:21.000 Those are the new numbers, largely driven by the Iran war and the energy crisis that has ensued.
00:11:28.000 But if you look at that, Joe Biden had this big, huge spike of inflation, and then it came down, right?
00:11:35.000 It did come down, but that was self induced inflation.
00:11:40.000 Let's just go back.
00:11:40.000 Larry Summers actually wrote an op ed, who was Obama's economic guy, and said, hey, Don't pass all these stimulus.
00:11:46.000 You don't need it.
00:11:47.000 You're going to overheat the economy.
00:11:48.000 They didn't listen to him.
00:11:50.000 Keeps going up.
00:11:50.000 We ramped all the way up there and then it came down.
00:11:53.000 And you notice that spike a little bit here.
00:11:56.000 Now, I agree with our friend Citizen Kane over at Citizen Free Press, who says this is a temporary transitory inflation little spike right there.
00:12:05.000 That is the Iran war right at the right side of that graph.
00:12:08.000 Okay.
00:12:09.000 Here's the good news it does appear that these will be coming down.
00:12:13.000 Now, why do I say that?
00:12:14.000 That's not hopium or copium.
00:12:16.000 I could be wrong, but why do I think it's coming down?
00:12:18.000 Because oil flows, energy flows out of the Middle East are back at or exceeding pre war levels.
00:12:24.000 Now, that just happened within the last couple of weeks.
00:12:27.000 Those tankers are still making their way to port.
00:12:29.000 They still have to get refined.
00:12:31.000 So that is going to take a little bit of time to put downward pressure on those energy prices.
00:12:35.000 But we'll be frank.
00:12:37.000 It is still, you can see it on the chart.
00:12:38.000 It has gone up.
00:12:39.000 So we'll have to say at least that's a middling promise, I would say.
00:12:42.000 Let's be frank.
00:12:43.000 But here's the truth.
00:12:44.000 Before the Iran war, inflation was at about 2.7, 2.8, which is slightly above Trump's 1.0 average of 1.9% inflation.
00:12:54.000 But it's still very well within the ideal three point range that economists usually set.
00:13:00.000 So we're going to give him.
00:13:03.000 I would just say we have to wait and see on that one.
00:13:05.000 I would say no.
00:13:06.000 He has not achieved affordability.
00:13:08.000 Affordability remains the number one issue.
00:13:10.000 But it's not, he also hasn't achieved the Biden bubble.
00:13:12.000 So let's keep that in mind.
00:13:13.000 So with a war that has gotten a huge amount of negative press, it's less than one half of Biden's investment.
00:13:19.000 We'll give him half a point.
00:13:20.000 We'll give him half a point.
00:13:21.000 Here's what we'll say I do believe that there is relief in the future, but not right now.
00:13:26.000 So we're going into midterms.
00:13:27.000 I'll give him half a point.
00:13:28.000 That's what I'll say.
00:13:29.000 All righty.
00:13:29.000 But then we move into number four make America the dominant energy producer in the world by far, which is quite relevant to the gas prices point.
00:13:36.000 So, this is obviously, we've pointed out Democrats can't talk to you about gas prices because they hate gasoline.
00:13:44.000 They hate drilling for oil.
00:13:45.000 They hate refining it.
00:13:47.000 They hate selling it.
00:13:48.000 They hate you burning it in your cars.
00:13:50.000 President Trump knows one of America's chief assets is the huge amount of energy in our country.
00:13:55.000 And so, as of 2025, the largest producer of oil in the world is not Saudi Arabia.
00:14:01.000 It is not Russia.
00:14:02.000 It is not Venezuela.
00:14:02.000 It's not Canada.
00:14:03.000 It is the United States of America, the top producer of liquid natural gas in the world.
00:14:08.000 Is the United States.
00:14:09.000 And the most important one, the top exporter of energy in the world is the United States of America now.
00:14:16.000 Not only that, but we have heavy mastery of Venezuela, another major energy exporter in the world.
00:14:22.000 You look at that headline US sets new LNG export records in banner year marked by new capacity.
00:14:28.000 We've had Energy Secretary Chris Wright on this show a number of times.
00:14:32.000 I think he is absolutely brilliant at his job.
00:14:35.000 He's doing a great, great service to the country and obviously bringing a tremendous amount of new wealth into the country just On oil exports alone.
00:14:43.000 Okay.
00:14:44.000 So look at this.
00:14:44.000 Oil and gas drilling permit surged 55% under Trump.
00:14:48.000 The rise in Bureau of Land Management approvals reflects the administration's push to increase domestic fossil fuel production.
00:14:55.000 Next headline Trump's massive oil, gas, mineral exploration set to begin in Greenland.
00:15:00.000 Now, Greenland is, they disagree with this.
00:15:04.000 I have a feeling President Trump's probably going to get, let's just say, 60% of what he asked for here.
00:15:09.000 So I would give that a pass.
00:15:10.000 Trump administration updates U.S. reaches.
00:15:14.000 Deal for control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuela's oil reserve.
00:15:19.000 All of this, I'm going to give him an absolute one for one on this.
00:15:23.000 Not a half point.
00:15:24.000 Yeah, 100%.
00:15:25.000 That's a full point.
00:15:26.000 Huge one.
00:15:26.000 All right, number five.
00:15:27.000 Yes.
00:15:28.000 Stop outsourcing and turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower.
00:15:33.000 So, this is a huge one that he's made.
00:15:35.000 It's been a priority in both of his administrations.
00:15:37.000 That's what's driving his tariff policy.
00:15:39.000 He wants to send the message you have to bring manufacturing back to America.
00:15:43.000 Now, That is a very long term process.
00:15:45.000 You are not going to be a China level superpower overnight, but there's a lot of promising signs of us getting that done.
00:15:54.000 So, you can see that chart there.
00:15:56.000 Factory construction, that is jobs in basically the construction of non residential specialty trade construction.
00:16:04.000 So, it's basically workers building factories, plants.
00:16:07.000 Let's be frank, data centers, we know those are controversial, but they're building those in the United States.
00:16:12.000 Yeah, but look at that.
00:16:13.000 It continues to ramp up as the admin continues.
00:16:17.000 Okay.
00:16:17.000 So, there has been something you hear Trump talk about these numbers of $18 trillion in investment and all this stuff.
00:16:23.000 Well, some of that is pledges, it has a material.
00:16:25.000 Materialized yet, but we know that there's been over $1.6 trillion of manufacturing investment already done.
00:16:32.000 And look at those factory construction jobs sore.
00:16:37.000 And some of the stuff that we're most concerned about for manufacturing in America is stuff like the technologies we need for our military, the technologies we need for our tech sector, that high end stuff that basically determines whether America is a competitive superpower or an also ran.
00:16:53.000 Well, we've got, for example, Elon Musk, he's building the Terafab chip factory.
00:16:58.000 In Austin, Texas.
00:17:00.000 The cost of that might be up to $120 billion.
00:17:03.000 Yeah.
00:17:04.000 Gigantic investment.
00:17:05.000 These are the chips that power your phones, your cars, everything.
00:17:09.000 These are the most advanced chips in the world.
00:17:11.000 They're overwhelmingly made right now in Korea, Japan, Taiwan.
00:17:15.000 We have to import them. 0.99
00:17:17.000 Makes us hugely vulnerable to China because all of those nations are menaced by China. 1.00
00:17:20.000 We should build those in the United States. 1.00
00:17:22.000 We're also building them right here in Phoenix.
00:17:24.000 We have that TSMC plant.
00:17:26.000 They have announced a $100 billion expansion of their investment.
00:17:30.000 I just actually flew over this.
00:17:31.000 Plant the other day.
00:17:32.000 It's gigantic.
00:17:33.000 It's huge.
00:17:34.000 And guess what?
00:17:35.000 They're building a whole other one.
00:17:36.000 The first one is enormous.
00:17:38.000 And now they're doubling down on that, which is amazing.
00:17:40.000 Look at 153.
00:17:42.000 US is building again, thanks to President Trump's re industrialization agenda.
00:17:46.000 Real GDP.
00:17:47.000 This is a function of real GDP when it comes to re industrialization.
00:17:51.000 See that?
00:17:53.000 It's almost like who you have in the Oval Office really does matter.
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00:18:58.000 Look at Blake is pulling out his best Carl Rove.
00:19:00.000 Yeah, we're making the chart to see how good we're doing on the tally.
00:19:04.000 We're at, I'd say, a hard four out of five right now.
00:19:07.000 We could debate the inflation one, but.
00:19:08.000 Four out of five, just absolute home runs on the promise list.
00:19:11.000 But we've got a lot to get through.
00:19:12.000 There's 20 of these.
00:19:13.000 Yeah.
00:19:13.000 Let's dive right into number six, which is a quick one large tax cuts for workers and no tax on tips.
00:19:19.000 Yep.
00:19:19.000 No tax on tips.
00:19:19.000 Yep.
00:19:19.000 No tax on tips.
00:19:20.000 Locked in the 2017 tax cuts the Democrats hated.
00:19:24.000 So we give him credit for that.
00:19:25.000 And no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, which is really like a write off.
00:19:32.000 They had to do with that because of the reconciliation package.
00:19:34.000 But it counts.
00:19:35.000 Massive, massive tax cuts across the board, people reporting way bigger returns on their taxes.
00:19:40.000 Okay.
00:19:41.000 So we give him a point for that.
00:19:42.000 Bam.
00:19:43.000 Number seven, defend our Constitution, our Bill of Rights, and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the right to keep and bear arms.
00:19:52.000 Again, yes, he has done that.
00:19:54.000 You know, if you want to go into details, I would say this is absolutely been.
00:19:59.000 That's such a thing of just not being a Democrat.
00:20:01.000 So we actually have constitutional carry across the United States.
00:20:05.000 They're not trying to blow that up.
00:20:06.000 They're not trying to engineer weird Obama ways to curtail gun rights.
00:20:10.000 They're not coming up with weird FBI investigations of Latin mass because they think they're extremists.
00:20:16.000 Like that stuff swept away.
00:20:18.000 We're focusing on getting the actual bad guys.
00:20:20.000 I think that's a very quick yes.
00:20:22.000 We're looking.
00:20:23.000 I mean, we go to 166.
00:20:24.000 Trump signs order to end government censorship of social media.
00:20:29.000 The 167 Trump announces task force to eradicate and end anti Christian bias.
00:20:37.000 Gun rights, Justice Department won't enforce registration rules on silencers and certain guns after court ruling.
00:20:43.000 Yep.
00:20:44.000 I mean, on and on it goes.
00:20:46.000 Gun rights are the social media censorship is a huge one.
00:20:48.000 Just you weren't able to speak freely five years ago.
00:20:51.000 They were censoring us on Twitter, censoring us on YouTube, Instagram.
00:20:56.000 So much better now, and so much of that is fear of the Trump administration putting its thumb on the scale against these companies.
00:21:03.000 And by the way, this FACE Act thing, this is where, you know, if you go pray outside of an abortion clinic, they're going to throw you in prison.
00:21:11.000 Stop that.
00:21:11.000 Not anymore.
00:21:12.000 They stopped doing that.
00:21:14.000 They dropped three cases.
00:21:16.000 Well, we'll get to that actually in a few more.
00:21:18.000 Yeah.
00:21:18.000 Okay.
00:21:19.000 All right.
00:21:19.000 We've got a tough one here.
00:21:20.000 Number eight prevent World War III, restore peace in Europe and in the Middle East, and build a great Iron Dome missile defense shield over the entire country. 1.00
00:21:29.000 All made in America. 0.98
00:21:30.000 Okay, all right. 0.98
00:21:31.000 Golden Dawn is happening.
00:21:32.000 We know this is a tough one.
00:21:32.000 Golden Dawn is happening, but let's be frank.
00:21:35.000 He does say prevent World War III.
00:21:37.000 Now, what I will note is that is different from what a lot of people prefer to say, where he said, like, no war with Iran, no conflicts.
00:21:45.000 Let's be frank, we were hoping for that.
00:21:47.000 We were hoping for that.
00:21:48.000 But he is not actually saying, just categorically, I will not launch strikes on anyone.
00:21:53.000 He's clearly saying there's already conflict in the Middle East.
00:21:56.000 He's fought very hard to get a ceasefire in Gaza.
00:21:59.000 He fought.
00:22:00.000 Quite hard.
00:22:00.000 He met with Putin to try to get peace in Europe in the Ukraine war.
00:22:05.000 I think it's very much a case in Ukraine, for example, that President Trump, even though it's not a war he probably would have started, he did not want to inherit it and be the guy who caused Ukraine to lose and allowed Putin to win and defeat the team we want.
00:22:18.000 As you said, it's a very intractable problem.
00:22:21.000 I mean, these guys hate each other.
00:22:22.000 These countries hate each other.
00:22:23.000 Putin doesn't want to lose.
00:22:24.000 So he just keeps throwing men at the front lines.
00:22:27.000 It's a really tough one to fix.
00:22:28.000 But we can't give him credit for restoring peace in Europe.
00:22:31.000 We can give him credit.
00:22:33.000 Credit for restoring peace in the Middle East, the Gaza war. 0.77
00:22:35.000 Well, but then.
00:22:36.000 I mean, it's touch and go.
00:22:38.000 I mean, they say there's still like 1,800 people that have died post ceasefire, but it's way better than the 60 or 70,000.
00:22:45.000 Exactly.
00:22:45.000 I mean, it's way better than a lot of people wanted.
00:22:47.000 A lot of people were trying to push him.
00:22:49.000 I think they thought once he started striking Iran, they could get him to send 50,000 troops into Iran and invade Tehran, and then we'd be talking many hundreds, thousands of U.S. troops dead.
00:22:59.000 He didn't do that.
00:22:59.000 He didn't fall for it.
00:23:00.000 And I'm grateful for that.
00:23:01.000 He never runs.
00:23:02.000 But I don't think we can give him a point for that.
00:23:03.000 I don't think we can give him a point for that.
00:23:05.000 Sorry.
00:23:05.000 Sorry, number eight, no point.
00:23:07.000 No promise kept.
00:23:09.000 Number nine, end the weaponization of government against the American people.
00:23:13.000 That's the FACE Act.
00:23:14.000 Yeah, that would be the FACE Act.
00:23:15.000 He stopped the new prosecutions.
00:23:17.000 He actually gave pardons to a lot of the people who got insane sentences for that.
00:23:21.000 173, Trump pardons nearly all charged with January 6th U.S. Capitol riot.
00:23:26.000 They like to call that the insurrection, but then they don't ever like to talk about their summer of love and the BLM.
00:23:32.000 By the way, how many of these crazed lunatics went and.
00:23:37.000 Straight into these capitals at the state houses.
00:23:39.000 Don't even worry about that.
00:23:41.000 But those aren't insurrections.
00:23:42.000 Anyways, the point is, I think this is.
00:23:44.000 You write it or wrong.
00:23:45.000 And a new one just came out.
00:23:47.000 They went absolutely bonkers over J6.
00:23:50.000 It was the largest investigation ever.
00:23:51.000 They were fanatical about raids on people who are clearly no threat.
00:23:56.000 They were trying to get them in jail for years on end.
00:23:58.000 President Trump said, Nope, we're closing the book on this.
00:24:01.000 Pardon.
00:24:02.000 Just ended it.
00:24:03.000 Look at this.
00:24:03.000 It was a total psychosis.
00:24:04.000 174.
00:24:05.000 Major banks closed accounts of MAGA, pro life, and other conservative groups disfavored by Biden admin.
00:24:10.000 Bombshell report.
00:24:11.000 That's a good one.
00:24:12.000 Yep.
00:24:13.000 And we're exposing that now, righting those wrongs.
00:24:16.000 And this was the SPLC was feeding into this.
00:24:18.000 All these groups were telling them whose accounts to close.
00:24:21.000 That's no longer happening.
00:24:23.000 I mean, this stuff that we were living on is just so draconian.
00:24:26.000 We got to keep humming along, though, man.
00:24:27.000 There's so many of you.
00:24:28.000 Give him a point there.
00:24:28.000 Yep.
00:24:29.000 Stop the migrant crime epidemic, demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders. 0.97
00:24:35.000 All right. 1.00
00:24:35.000 Gigantic wins here. 1.00
00:24:36.000 Yeah.
00:24:37.000 New U.S. military led group aided Mexico's hunt for El Mancho, cartel boss.
00:24:42.000 There you go.
00:24:42.000 U.S. immigration raids target illegal immigrants in Aurora, Colorado.
00:24:46.000 Lots of updates there recently, too.
00:24:48.000 U.S. military kills 11 people and strike alleged drug boat from Venezuela.
00:24:51.000 They got the drug boats.
00:24:52.000 By the way, Fentanyl is dropping like a rock.
00:24:54.000 50% drop in fentanyl cross treatment.
00:24:56.000 50% drop in overdose deaths.
00:24:57.000 Do you have any idea how many American lives have been saved by that?
00:25:00.000 Let's throw up this one, though.
00:25:01.000 Let's throw up 179.
00:25:02.000 2025 was the biggest drop in violent crime in the United States in 90 years.
00:25:07.000 That fall, preliminary numbers suggested it continued in 26.
00:25:10.000 Yes, it's continued.
00:25:11.000 So literally, literally, America has the lowest homicide rate right now that it has had in your lifetime, categorically.
00:25:20.000 Lower than the 1950s, lower than the early 2000s, lower than the Obama years.
00:25:25.000 The lowest.
00:25:26.000 It is the lowest that it has been measured at.
00:25:29.000 Massive drop.
00:25:31.000 I think a lot of it is psychological.
00:25:34.000 That crime went up everywhere during Floyd-Depoosa, not even just in the places where riots happened.
00:25:38.000 It went up everywhere.
00:25:39.000 There's clearly a psychological component to these things.
00:25:42.000 And President Trump brought a change in psychology that crime is something you fight and punish.
00:25:47.000 I love it.
00:25:47.000 We give him a point there.
00:25:49.000 What are we at?
00:25:49.000 What's our points?
00:25:50.000 What are we at?
00:25:51.000 Oh, we're at 8 out of 10.
00:25:53.000 8 out of 10.
00:25:55.000 Let's go to.
00:25:56.000 11 rebuild our cities, including Washington, D.C., making them safe, clean, and beautiful again.
00:26:00.000 Those two kind of play off each other.
00:26:02.000 But look at this D.C. went three weeks in 2026 without a homicide as violent crime drops.
00:26:07.000 This is the real thing the psychological thing.
00:26:09.000 He sent the National Guard into D.C., I think they're still there.
00:26:12.000 And are they really making a ton of arrests?
00:26:14.000 No, actually, like most of the time, they're just kind of standing around.
00:26:17.000 And yet, the psychological effect is huge.
00:26:20.000 It changed how people behave, it gave a little more leeway for the police to go to the real dangerous parts of D.C. and force laws.
00:26:28.000 And you know, it's a bam, you know, it's a hundreds of people are alive because of this.
00:26:31.000 If I was, so I'm just imagining myself on the set of News Nation again, and they would be like, Well, how about that reflecting pool?
00:26:36.000 Okay, you get mad at a reflecting pool that had, you know, uh, that at least they tried, Biden didn't even try to fix it.
00:26:43.000 It was, it was just gross and disgusting.
00:26:45.000 And they've cleaned up so many other things.
00:26:47.000 But listen, if you're going to quibble over a reflecting pool and not deal with the fact that crime is at a 90 year low, go pound sand.
00:26:53.000 I think a funny part, also, by the way, is another city that's improved a lot.
00:26:56.000 Did you know San Francisco?
00:26:58.000 And I think this has improved a lot.
00:27:00.000 Yeah, a lot of these cities, they.
00:27:02.000 Just, we have an administration that won't say you're racist and evil for cleaning up homeless camps, promising to have a migrant crime epidemic. 0.60
00:27:10.000 And guess what? 0.74
00:27:10.000 They went into these cities with ice, cleaned out a lot of the bad hombres, and boom, crime went down instantly. 0.74
00:27:16.000 We give them a point on that.
00:27:17.000 100%.
00:27:17.000 And rebuild the cities.
00:27:18.000 Okay.
00:27:18.000 All right.
00:27:19.000 And then strengthen and modernize our military, making it without question the strongest and most powerful in the world.
00:27:24.000 That is number 12.
00:27:25.000 One of those manufacturing things we didn't get to was the Anderill.
00:27:28.000 Anderill, multi billion dollar investment into.
00:27:31.000 Throw it up, Danny.
00:27:31.000 Throw that one.
00:27:32.000 A multi billion dollar investment into shipbuilding in the United States.
00:27:35.000 Which is a big pet peeve of places.
00:27:36.000 Massive one.
00:27:36.000 We used to be the big shipbuilder.
00:27:38.000 We used to be able to build a ship in a day.
00:27:40.000 We built ships faster than the Germans could sink them in World War II. 0.65
00:27:43.000 There it is.
00:27:43.000 We've totally lost a lot of that over time due to deindustrialization.
00:27:48.000 We need to be able to make subs, make carriers, and make warships.
00:27:52.000 These are going to be the apex predator submarines in the oceans.
00:27:57.000 And that Andoril's, I mean, this, if you could, I just recommend somebody go watch, if you're out there in the audience, go watch the hype videos for these things.
00:28:05.000 It gave me, I literally put it in our group chat there.
00:28:07.000 And on top of that, Andoril also, they're a major drone company.
00:28:10.000 This administration has really leaned into that the future is going to have, it's going to be a lot of unmanned drones.
00:28:16.000 It's going to be lots of, Artificial intelligence.
00:28:19.000 They're very forward about we need to get into the most advanced technology or we are going to lose an edge to China.
00:28:25.000 They're not afraid of that.
00:28:27.000 And I think that's something very admirable.
00:28:29.000 Look at the strongest military in the world.
00:28:31.000 Look at our recruiting numbers.
00:28:32.000 Recruiting numbers?
00:28:33.000 Recruiting numbers are through the roof. 1.00
00:28:35.000 No trannies. 1.00
00:28:36.000 I mean, we are back, baby. 1.00
00:28:37.000 And higher numbers means you don't need to cut standards and let in a bunch of fat people and dumb people.
00:28:43.000 You just get better people.
00:28:45.000 All right.
00:28:45.000 Keep the US dollar the world's reserve currency.
00:28:48.000 This is just a brand new headline.
00:28:50.000 183 Trump repeats tariff threats to dissuade BRICS nations from replacing the dollar. 0.92
00:28:55.000 I love that.
00:28:57.000 So he is fighting like crazy on this front.
00:29:00.000 Joe Biden just let it all happen.
00:29:02.000 I can't give him a full point, in my opinion, for this one.
00:29:04.000 I would give him a 0.5.
00:29:07.000 0.5.
00:29:09.000 Because he is actually fighting on this front.
00:29:11.000 He's using leverage, but there's still a lot of pressure on the dollar because we spend too much.
00:29:15.000 Yeah, we do.
00:29:16.000 But it's still 58% of foreign reserve currency.
00:29:19.000 It is still the reserve currency.
00:29:20.000 What's our number at?
00:29:21.000 Well, we're basically at, we have two full no's, I would say, and then a half on the U.S. dollar.
00:29:26.000 We're at 10.5 out of 13.
00:29:29.000 10.5 out of 13.
00:29:30.000 Not bad.
00:29:31.000 All right, so number 14, fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts, including no changes to the retirement age.
00:29:38.000 Promise kept.
00:29:38.000 Didn't happen, but let's throw out, let's shout out TrumpRx, cut prices on some.
00:29:43.000 First time prescription drug prices have fallen in your lifetimes.
00:29:46.000 Yeah.
00:29:47.000 So they're down, I think, over all 6%, but some categories are falling.
00:29:50.000 One of the big ones on that was Ozempic, by the way.
00:29:51.000 America's obesity rate is down about 10%.
00:29:55.000 So he didn't even keep that.
00:29:56.000 Not even a promise he's made.
00:29:57.000 Trump is fixing obesity.
00:30:00.000 Sort of.
00:30:01.000 Thank you, Ozempic.
00:30:02.000 The fat shot.
00:30:03.000 Okay.
00:30:04.000 15.
00:30:04.000 Cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly and burdensome regulations.
00:30:08.000 Yep.
00:30:09.000 Trump revokes Biden's 50% EV target, freezes unspent charging funds.
00:30:14.000 So yeah, he's doing that.
00:30:16.000 184.
00:30:17.000 Trump signs measures blocking California's ban on new sales of gas powered cars.
00:30:20.000 Okay.
00:30:21.000 Promise made, promise kept.
00:30:23.000 Cut federal funding for Any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children.
00:30:31.000 This is number 16.
00:30:31.000 That was like a day one executive order, I think.
00:30:34.000 That's one that Charlie really wanted.
00:30:35.000 Yeah.
00:30:35.000 So 187 Trump administration gives schools a deadline to end DEI programs to risk losing federal money.
00:30:41.000 Now, I would give this a work in progress on some of these because they have changed their name.
00:30:45.000 So they drop DEI as the name and then they call it like Hope and Opportunity or whatever.
00:30:49.000 And so this is an ongoing discussion.
00:30:51.000 But we know Harmeet Dillon.
00:30:52.000 She's actually like looking into this.
00:30:53.000 Like this is like a cockroach infestation.
00:30:57.000 In its whack-a-mole.
00:30:58.000 It's like, you've really got to dig it out.
00:31:00.000 Like, they are fighting tooth and nail, but they've also, I mean, they sued Columbia and they got a settlement out of them for their anti-white discrimination.
00:31:08.000 I think they sued Brown.
00:31:10.000 They went after a lot of them.
00:31:10.000 They froze funding for Cornell Northwestern University in the latest crackdown.
00:31:16.000 You know, headline after headline. 1.00
00:31:18.000 You know, PZ wins.
00:31:19.000 NBC.
00:31:20.000 Yeah, exactly.
00:31:21.000 So, okay.
00:31:21.000 They repealed the affirmative action.
00:31:23.000 I give them a point, though, because they're actually on it and Harmite's on it. 0.90
00:31:27.000 They're delivering on it.
00:31:28.000 They're delivering.
00:31:28.000 Yeah.
00:31:29.000 Number 17, keep men out of women's sports. 1.00
00:31:31.000 Nice and simple.
00:31:32.000 Well, he signed an executive order really, really quickly.
00:31:35.000 191.
00:31:36.000 Trump signs executive order banning trans women from women's sports.
00:31:41.000 This was a pretty widespread effort that is ongoing.
00:31:46.000 And obviously, states control some of this.
00:31:48.000 So you can't just, you know, use it.
00:31:50.000 What he has done that the Biden administration fought against is he's certainly made it so every red state that wants to ban this has been able to.
00:31:57.000 And we're fighting to make that the case in blue states as well.
00:32:00.000 But red states, your sports are safe.
00:32:02.000 Yeah.
00:32:02.000 And this is, I think some people get frustrated because blue states still have some authority over their own governments.
00:32:09.000 And that's our system.
00:32:10.000 So you have to sort of say, hey, did he do what he could do?
00:32:12.000 Yes.
00:32:13.000 Okay.
00:32:13.000 I say promise made, promise kept.
00:32:16.000 Number 18, deport pro Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again.
00:32:21.000 Remember, this was a huge issue during the campaign, and the U.S. has revoked hundreds of visas over links to pro Palestinian protests, says Rubio.
00:32:29.000 By the way, we go back to that other graph on the first promise stop the invasion.
00:32:35.000 And if you look at that one graph, it shows student visas have fallen off like a rock.
00:32:39.000 Not that one, it's the, I forget what number it was, but student visas have fallen like a rock.
00:32:45.000 And by the way, this is great.
00:32:47.000 You want to know why this is also great?
00:32:49.000 Because a lot of these universities are terrible.
00:32:52.000 They're sub tier.
00:32:53.000 They're like mid, right? 0.97
00:32:55.000 Or they're the bottom tier and they're still propped up by foreign visa holders, these students that are paying full freight. 0.52
00:33:01.000 You drop those, those universities and colleges are either going to get better and innovate and come up with something new or they're going to go broke. 0.92
00:33:09.000 And that's okay.
00:33:10.000 All right.
00:33:10.000 Yeah.
00:33:11.000 We've had trouble. 1.00
00:33:11.000 We want to get rid of the Mahmood Khalil guy, the guy who's been like a student at Columbia for like 17 years. 1.00
00:33:17.000 He was leading all those projects. 0.99
00:33:18.000 Obviously, some sort of Intel asset, it seems, as well.
00:33:21.000 They've struggled.
00:33:21.000 So, We've had court obstacles to this, but they've been 100% saying if you're an insane anti American radical, you don't belong here.
00:33:28.000 Oh, we should remember on the Charlie anniversary, they were asking, like, if you see people celebrating Charlie's murder, let us know.
00:33:34.000 Yep.
00:33:34.000 And we were passing those names up.
00:33:36.000 I know they were actually monitoring that.
00:33:38.000 I think one of my favorites was I heard, I think one of our allied countries was even like sending people in their country that were like celebrating this so we would be aware of it.
00:33:47.000 Yeah.
00:33:48.000 So, number 19.
00:33:49.000 So I give them a point on that.
00:33:50.000 What are we at now?
00:33:51.000 We are at like.
00:33:54.000 I don't know.
00:33:55.000 We're on number 19, and two have been negative, and we have a half.
00:33:58.000 So we're at 16 and a half points.
00:34:01.000 Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots, and proof of citizenship.
00:34:06.000 Nope.
00:34:06.000 Sadly, nope.
00:34:07.000 That's on our Republican Congress.
00:34:09.000 But Trump pushed like hell for it.
00:34:11.000 I mean, how many times did he do that?
00:34:11.000 This is not a promise broken by Trump.
00:34:13.000 This is a promise failed to keep by your glorious Republicans in the U.S. Senate.
00:34:16.000 Yep.
00:34:18.000 They didn't want to abolish the filibuster to get this done.
00:34:20.000 They didn't want to take Mike Lee up on it.
00:34:21.000 They fought Mike Lee tooth and nail.
00:34:23.000 We tried, but we can't claim that it happened because you need Congress to do it.
00:34:28.000 So sadly.
00:34:29.000 We can't claim number 19.
00:34:30.000 Although the USPS, I think, is still going, it's still being fought in the courts where they're trying to look at voter rolls and cross reference those against different countries.
00:34:38.000 President Trump is doing everything he can do, but.
00:34:41.000 Yeah.
00:34:41.000 So I give him credit for it.
00:34:43.000 It's not like he hasn't tried like heck.
00:34:45.000 He's been on it like nobody else.
00:34:47.000 It just hasn't happened.
00:34:48.000 Number 20, unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success.
00:34:52.000 Well, I will tell you, we are not united, but we have been brought in many ways to record levels of success and many, many good progress.
00:35:00.000 Points of happening. 1.00
00:35:01.000 And I will just say number one, seal the border and stop the migrant invasion. 0.97
00:35:06.000 And number two, carry out the largest deportation operation in America. 0.96
00:35:10.000 Those two alone have united a lot of us.
00:35:13.000 The fact that this is actually happening.
00:35:15.000 And let's go back to the original tweet from that producer Blake over at John Doe Show, where he says, you know, they get real, people, the critics get real quiet if you look at the list and you realize that he says only like three of them haven't come to fruition.
00:35:27.000 And so, like, let's look at this.
00:35:29.000 So we've got.
00:35:30.000 One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14.
00:35:36.000 15 are just categorically, in my opinion, yes, they got it done.
00:35:40.000 We've got the US dollar is like it's still the reserve currency and it's like influx.
00:35:44.000 I would say he kept it the reserve currency.
00:35:46.000 I would actually say I would give him a point on that because there has been way less news on that and way less downward pressure.
00:35:53.000 Yeah.
00:35:54.000 And so that's 16.
00:35:55.000 And then number 20, that's like a vibes thing.
00:35:57.000 It's not even really an explicit promise.
00:35:59.000 It's basically just saying we're going to win and make America great again.
00:36:02.000 But his approval rating is in the toilet right now, sadly.
00:36:05.000 So I'm not going to get that.
00:36:06.000 Okay, that's fair.
00:36:07.000 And then, so of those, we have basically inflation.
00:36:11.000 We were frank about that.
00:36:12.000 Gas price is not good.
00:36:13.000 War in Iran has had upward pressure on prices.
00:36:16.000 Restore peace. 0.96
00:36:17.000 We weren't able to do that.
00:36:18.000 He tried very hard with Ukraine, for example, but it didn't happen.
00:36:21.000 And then secure elections.
00:36:23.000 Republicans dropped the ball on that.
00:36:24.000 Well, let's play Saddle Levin.
00:36:26.000 I always do what I say.
00:36:28.000 If you look back, promises made, promises kept, right?
00:36:33.000 Other wins.
00:36:34.000 And I would say, listen, he is a man of his word in that way. 0.83
00:36:39.000 He fought like hell to end Russia, Ukraine.
00:36:41.000 Remember, he met with Putin up in Alaska.
00:36:46.000 Ongoing peace efforts everywhere.
00:36:48.000 And, you know, fought like hell on securing the election.
00:36:52.000 So I give him a lot of credit on all those things.
00:36:54.000 But basically, 16 out of 20.
00:36:56.000 16 out of 20.
00:36:58.000 No one, I'd say no politician actually is so emphatic about keeping their promises explicitly like Donald Trump is.
00:37:05.000 Other wins, just really quick.
00:37:06.000 70 million Trump accounts have been started, funded by Dell and other philanthropists.
00:37:11.000 U.S. federal workforce drops to the lowest level in 60 years.
00:37:14.000 U.S. aid cut.
00:37:16.000 Uh, all these are dismantled completely.
00:37:18.000 Snap has been declining like massive and massive, massive numbers.
00:37:23.000 So, there are a number of different wins.
00:37:27.000 We have to just be honest not copium or hopium.
00:37:29.000 Trump has kept his promises, and to the ones he hasn't, he's fought like hell for.
00:37:34.000 And I got to give him credit for that, too.
00:37:36.000 A lot of people would just give up trying.
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00:38:47.000 The emails are flooding in.
00:38:49.000 Thank you, they really liked it.
00:38:51.000 Someone said we should uh print out that list and distribute it.
00:38:54.000 I don't know, I think that.
00:38:56.000 Yeah, actually, you know, it'd be funny if you just took, we had basically 17 out of 20 or so on the list.
00:39:01.000 And then if you just took the three, you could just take three of the huge wins that were not actually promised.
00:39:06.000 Trump accounts weren't even a promise, but bam.
00:39:08.000 Yeah, it was an amazing thing.
00:39:09.000 So here's the thing send us your emails.
00:39:11.000 They're already flooding in, but, you know, did we miss anything?
00:39:14.000 Did you disagree with any of our verdicts?
00:39:16.000 We gave him 17 out of 20.
00:39:18.000 And mind you, some of the ones that he didn't get are big, like the Middle East peace, the affordability.
00:39:23.000 Those are basically two drivers of this election in many ways.
00:39:27.000 But.
00:39:28.000 Then the next question becomes Could the Democrats do any better?
00:39:31.000 It was interesting.
00:39:32.000 Steve Cortez came out with a poll.
00:39:34.000 He polled Arizona.
00:39:35.000 And he admits, he said, hey, the Hispanics specifically, the affordability thing, that's a huge driver.
00:39:42.000 But then when asked, would Democrats do it any better?
00:39:45.000 Would Kamala Harris have been better? 1.00
00:39:46.000 She gets even worse. 1.00
00:39:49.000 Are blue states more affordable than red ones?
00:39:51.000 You tell us.
00:39:51.000 Yeah.
00:39:52.000 So even if we gave him not a point on something, if we didn't give him a point, you still got to ask yourself, would we be in a better place without it?
00:40:02.000 Right.
00:40:03.000 So I think there's a lot there.
00:40:04.000 We have one team member, by the way, I'm not going to name.
00:40:08.000 But I went out there and said to me, that was really helpful.
00:40:11.000 That actually helped me not be frustrated with some of the stuff, right?
00:40:15.000 And it's interesting.
00:40:15.000 It's tremendous.
00:40:16.000 We have young people on our team and they are reflective of young people all across the country.
00:40:20.000 So many people want to demoralize you and they'll demoralize you by basically telling you lies.
00:40:25.000 Yep.
00:40:25.000 And it's so useful to just be able to say, this is what the Trump campaign promised you in 2024.
00:40:31.000 This is how it turned out.
00:40:33.000 And there was no hopium there.
00:40:35.000 We just went straight through it.
00:40:37.000 And when he didn't deserve a point, we didn't give him one, okay?
00:40:40.000 Speaking of young people, I'm very excited about this.
00:40:42.000 We have Jules Devine, and I might be mispronouncing that, Jules.
00:40:46.000 I apologize.
00:40:48.000 I know Jules.
00:40:49.000 And then Preston Parsons.
00:40:51.000 Jules is from Colorado State.
00:40:52.000 He's the university president there of our chapter there.
00:40:54.000 And Preston is our Texas Tech president.
00:40:57.000 And this all happened in top secret, which is pretty funny.
00:41:00.000 Yeah.
00:41:01.000 People out there are like, why are these two young, strapping young lads on our show today?
00:41:06.000 Well, because we just did our first men's summit.
00:41:09.000 Ever and these two gentlemen were there, and nobody has probably heard about this except for the fact that Erica announced it at CLS that we were going to be doing it because men like secret things.
00:41:18.000 Yeah, we didn't want to, we didn't want to like blast these guys out all over social media and do the normal thing.
00:41:23.000 We wanted them to have time to be like alone and actually be able to express themselves.
00:41:28.000 And we were secretive, there was no speaker drop, there was no, it was basically sign up, we'll do something cool.
00:41:36.000 Yep, and I don't even know what they did actually.
00:41:39.000 All right, Jules and Preston, welcome to the show.
00:41:41.000 It's good to see you guys.
00:41:43.000 Why don't, because nobody knows what the heck happened at this thing because it was all secretive, not in like a weird way, but just like we wanted to give you guys some space to just have a good time.
00:41:52.000 Tell us what happened at the first ever men's summit for Turning Point USA.
00:41:58.000 Yeah, thank you guys for having us on the show.
00:42:01.000 For most of the part, other than waiting for the buses at the airport for a while and be able to see a good LA protest like we all dream of doing, it was really good to just be able to bond with a ton of other guys that are in Turning Point.
00:42:13.000 I know we did a lot of sports, I know there was axe throwing, paintball, football.
00:42:16.000 And just really be able to connect with the speakers.
00:42:18.000 One of my favorite things was being able to connect.
00:42:21.000 All the speakers stayed for a whole day.
00:42:22.000 So we were able to have conversations with them.
00:42:24.000 I know Brandon Tatum, he debated students for about four hours on theology.
00:42:29.000 And I know Mark Rover talked to a ton of students about how to get girls and stuff.
00:42:33.000 So it was really cool just to connect with speakers, just one on one, instead of just hearing them speak to us.
00:42:37.000 We actually got to have personalized conversations with them.
00:42:39.000 Of course, while bonding as brothers, if that even means staying up till two in the morning, playing Gaga Ball or eating s'mores or something.
00:42:46.000 Oh, that's awesome.
00:42:47.000 Preston, I got to dive in, Jules, by the way, on the how to get girls thing you just dropped.
00:42:52.000 But okay, Preston, your turn.
00:42:55.000 Hey, guys, thanks for having us on.
00:42:56.000 It's always good to visit with you.
00:42:58.000 It was an incredible experience. 0.72
00:42:59.000 You know, this country was built on the backs of 20 to 30 year old young patriotic men, and to be around dozens of them up in the mountains in California, excluded and getting to crack jokes at the soy boys down in the valley who are completely jealous of our masculinity and the things that we love to do, sitting around a campfire, playing paintball, playing two touch football. 0.87
00:43:20.000 And that was something that I know me and Jules talked about, we reflected on. 0.84
00:43:23.000 And Brandon Tatum brought it up as well.
00:43:26.000 Charlie would have loved to be there with us up in the mountains, playing football, tossing the rock, all that good stuff.
00:43:32.000 It was an incredible event.
00:43:33.000 So many good speakers, getting to connect with them one on one.
00:43:36.000 My personal favorite was Dante Ramirez.
00:43:38.000 He came and taught us a brisket masterclass.
00:43:40.000 And other than when Toby Keith's courtesy of the red, white, and blue came on, I don't think we cheered louder than when we found the secrets to becoming real pit masters.
00:43:49.000 So it was an incredible event getting to be up in the mountains.
00:43:53.000 What an awesome experience.
00:43:54.000 Nobody puts on events like TPUSA.
00:43:56.000 Oh, that's awesome.
00:43:57.000 You know, this reminds me of kind of like Nick Friedas' book.
00:44:00.000 Like his, it was like a guide.
00:44:03.000 For masculinity, oh, yeah, yeah.
00:44:05.000 Wasn't he like the guy to kick down a door?
00:44:07.000 Yeah, he teaches men how to kick down doors, like if you ever need.
00:44:11.000 So it's like actual.
00:44:12.000 So it's a mix. 0.81
00:44:12.000 We should have that at a men's summit. 0.81
00:44:13.000 We should have him teach how to kick down a door.
00:44:16.000 So it sounds like it was a mix of very practical things, like how to grill, but also you got to kind of have deeper questions and ask, what does it mean to be a man?
00:44:26.000 What does it mean to grow up?
00:44:28.000 What happens after college?
00:44:30.000 What's the next steps? 1.00
00:44:31.000 How to get a woman?
00:44:32.000 So, Jules, we have to get into this because I, you know, I want to make sure. 0.98
00:44:35.000 You know, Daily Beast doesn't run with this or something.
00:44:38.000 What was that conversation like?
00:44:40.000 Well, so I talked to Mark just personally for two hours without anyone else around and not how to get a good woman.
00:44:46.000 I have a girlfriend, but just picking his mind about like how to handle being an influencer and how to go into the space.
00:44:54.000 But for many of the men there, I think about 25% of them were in relationships.
00:44:57.000 And he did talk about a lot about relationship advice, mistakes that he used to make in his past when maybe procrastinating a conversation with his girlfriend or anything and didn't really touch on.
00:45:08.000 How to get a woman, but I know afterwards I heard some conversations about some guys asking what I can do to better myself to make myself more attractive so a woman will come to me, or so when I ask a woman out, they will actually say yes instead of just turning me down or just giving me the same old answer.
00:45:21.000 Oh, I just liked you as a friend.
00:45:23.000 Yeah, well, it's funny.
00:45:25.000 I think that's okay.
00:45:26.000 If I was a hater, I would potentially be tempted to mock this particular thing, but it's so important because I've met so many turning point students, and the dating scene is just crazy hard, right?
00:45:37.000 If you go and ask a girl out and she says no, she doesn't like you.
00:45:41.000 You're liable to find that on social media in about 15 minutes.
00:45:44.000 And then you get like shamed by the wider community.
00:45:48.000 And it's a huge, huge problem.
00:45:49.000 And then so men either aren't asking women out and then women complain, hey, none of the men have any spunk anymore.
00:45:57.000 They got no courage to come ask me out.
00:45:59.000 So the dynamic is fraught. 0.60
00:46:02.000 And actually, it requires older men to come alongside younger men and say, here's what you could do basic things to exactly encourage the right type of interactions with the opposite sex. 0.59
00:46:14.000 I mean, Preston, that's a big issue, right? 0.87
00:46:17.000 I've heard this repeatedly from young men.
00:46:19.000 This is a huge issue, and you guys know this better than I do.
00:46:22.000 No subgroup in American culture is more victimized than young men. 1.00
00:46:27.000 The soy boys down in the valley, whenever they encounter any sort of problem, we're blamed for it. 0.97
00:46:32.000 Somehow, every single issue falls on young men, specifically young Christian men.
00:46:37.000 So, getting to go to this event and get poured into by these mentors, by these great men, Helps us build upon what it is to be a good man.
00:46:48.000 One of the best messages that we got was from Dennis Prager.
00:46:51.000 Of course, Dennis sadly is dealing with some health problems right now, so he couldn't join us in person, but he did join us via video call and he gave us a full spiel about what it is to be a man, what it is to be a man and live a Christian lifestyle.
00:47:04.000 And that was one of the best things that we got from this summit to be poured into and build this network, this brotherhood across the entire country to know that we are not alone in this fight and that we're not the only ones dealing with these issues.
00:47:16.000 Like you said, the dating scene is.
00:47:19.000 Yes.
00:47:19.000 Yeah, there were hundreds.
00:47:21.000 I've seen some of the pictures.
00:47:22.000 We don't publicize it, but I saw it was hundreds of you guys.
00:47:24.000 I mean, it was a big crew up at this kind of like camp retreat site in the mountains outside of Los Angeles.
00:47:32.000 It was just, it looked tremendous.
00:47:35.000 And I could tell you guys were bonding.
00:47:38.000 And that's what happens at these kind of.
00:47:40.000 And to hear about the fact that you had hours and hours of conversation time, like we actually made space for just hanging out and communicating.
00:47:50.000 And that's when you actually.
00:47:52.000 And I had the same experience when I took my kids camping a couple weeks back.
00:47:55.000 It's not that people don't want to do these kinds of things, it's bad.
00:47:59.000 Making the time and dedicating the time to it is the real challenge.
00:48:02.000 And so we put it on the calendar.
00:48:04.000 That's the first struggle.
00:48:05.000 Put it on the calendar, dedicate the time, and then magic happens.
00:48:10.000 Gentlemen, did you get any good sleep at this thing?
00:48:11.000 That's always a question that's really interesting.
00:48:13.000 I mean, because you guys are staying up way too.
00:48:15.000 Yeah, it's okay.
00:48:17.000 Were you in tents or cabins?
00:48:18.000 No, these are cabins.
00:48:20.000 We were in cabins, but the pillows had like two feathers in them at most.
00:48:24.000 You laid your head down and you just went.
00:48:27.000 So the backstory on the men's retreat is Charlie wanted to have this like.
00:48:33.000 Deprive him of sleep, deprive him of calories.
00:48:36.000 So that's perfectly fitting with Charlie's vision of this.
00:48:39.000 And it was something Charlie always wanted to do.
00:48:41.000 It was just, we always had a billion things going on.
00:48:43.000 And Erica just made up her mind. 1.00
00:48:45.000 She said, We've got to make sure the men. 0.98
00:48:46.000 I mean, I think Erica, she's a woman, obviously. 0.98
00:48:48.000 She knows the men need a little extra tension. 0.98
00:48:51.000 So that was always key.
00:48:52.000 And we had the women's summit.
00:48:54.000 And I remember when she announced it at CLS, the crowd just went wild.
00:48:58.000 The dudes were standing up.
00:48:59.000 The women were sitting down. 0.96
00:49:00.000 They're like, I don't get it.
00:49:01.000 And the dudes are all standing up, clapping, this elongated cheer.
00:49:05.000 So we have axe throwing.
00:49:07.000 Paintball, we had football, grilling, game, I guess would be, you know, do you have game?
00:49:15.000 Do you not have game?
00:49:15.000 How do you get game?
00:49:17.000 So these are some of the topics, but talk about the time amongst the dudes.
00:49:21.000 And there were people from all over the country, right?
00:49:23.000 I mean, this was, I mean, you were meeting guys from all over the country, probably building friendships for the future.
00:49:30.000 Tell us any of those kind of stories, just meet new people.
00:49:33.000 How important is that?
00:49:34.000 It's so important.
00:49:35.000 It's crucial to have that network, that brotherhood that spans across the entire country.
00:49:39.000 And to know that you're not alone in this fight.
00:49:41.000 I mean, I was interacting with students from Montana, Oregon, students at Ole Miss, Middle Tennessee, students from all walks of life, New York even.
00:49:50.000 So, getting to come together.
00:49:52.000 And one of the craziest things that happened at this men's summit were the spontaneous Bible studies, where the spontaneous prayer circles, guys getting together, pouring into each other from all different walks of life and finding some commonality, whether that's in our Christian faith, whether that's in our conservative values, and whether that's our personal backgrounds and things that have nothing to do.
00:50:12.000 With our politics or what we do with our turning point chapters.
00:50:16.000 So, getting to interact with the guys was by far the best part of the entire summit because we have to have that network to know that we aren't alone in this fight.
00:50:25.000 Let's go ahead.
00:50:26.000 I brought it up, the team pulled it.
00:50:27.000 Very, very cool.
00:50:28.000 This is when Erica announced the men's conference at CLS, SOT 20.
00:50:33.000 And so, this next program has been something that I am making sure.
00:50:43.000 Honors my husband and provides all of you a way to be well equipped to be that man in your own community and your sphere of influence.
00:50:55.000 So I'm proud to announce that this fall and this summer we will be having our Men's Leadership Summit.
00:51:09.000 And by the way, the applause just continued on.
00:51:13.000 For like a long time.
00:51:15.000 It surprised me, Jules, because I didn't realize just how much hunger and need that the young men felt in this way.
00:51:23.000 Probably a little jealous that there was a women's leadership summit and they wanted one for themselves.
00:51:27.000 But explain that.
00:51:30.000 Why is there this felt need that men need attention in particular?
00:51:35.000 Yeah, well, men thrive on brotherhood and bonding.
00:51:38.000 I forget which Bible verse exactly it is, but it says, Iron sharpens iron as one man sharpens another.
00:51:42.000 And when you're able to connect with other men that are trying to lead chapters and Lead a movement on their campus when they're an outcast.
00:51:49.000 You need to have brothers that are gonna fight right with you and hold you accountable to anything that you're doing in life.
00:51:55.000 I mean, I'm in probably six different group chats with so many different guys in the group chats, and we're holding each other accountable.
00:52:01.000 We're bouncing ideas off each other.
00:52:02.000 And I know when I start talking to them, they start picking my mind pretty fast.
00:52:06.000 Once they figured out I was doing pick up the mics for you guys, they pretty much instantly start talking, picking my mind.
00:52:12.000 How did you get to this?
00:52:13.000 How's your chapter doing?
00:52:14.000 Oh, what things are you putting in your chapter?
00:52:15.000 And it's a great way to bounce ideas off of to make turning point chapters better when you're able to.
00:52:20.000 Communicate with other men and actually sharpen each other's mind, tell them what's working for you, tell them what's working for others, and obviously having debates among Turning Point.
00:52:29.000 I mean, we're not an echo chamber, there's a lot of things that we disagreed on.
00:52:32.000 And that was one of the fun parts about Brandon Tatum he had a lot of theology that so many people disagreed on that he debated people for about four hours long.
00:52:40.000 And even throughout different conversations, it was constantly either debates or conversations about one topic or the other topic, which really just set up who is right, who is wrong.
00:52:51.000 Or, what's the middle ground that we can find and we can just agree on that we're still in the same mission, same fight, even though we might have small disagreements?
00:52:57.000 That's really cool.
00:52:58.000 I think that's more important than people probably realize.
00:53:00.000 That when you realize the boundary lines of certain debates, then you kind of know all the different aspects of it.
00:53:06.000 You're getting better for those tabling events on campus and really just feeling secure in your own convictions, too.
00:53:12.000 All right, gentlemen.
00:53:14.000 So, the verdict would you recommend other young men go on this journey?
00:53:20.000 Because we're going to keep doing these things.
00:53:22.000 Would you recommend it?
00:53:23.000 Did you vouch for it?
00:53:24.000 I don't know the answer.
00:53:26.000 Preston, you first.
00:53:27.000 No doubt.
00:53:27.000 110%.
00:53:29.000 And this goes for any turning point conference, but especially for the young men who may be listening to this or will see the clips after, you have to attend the men's summit.
00:53:38.000 Me and Jules, of course, were very fortunate.
00:53:39.000 They were extremely selective about who they led into this because they wanted to keep it secret.
00:53:44.000 But great group of guys, great speakers, great event, great venue.
00:53:48.000 No doubt, if you get the opportunity to come to the men's summit, you have to.
00:53:52.000 Jules, five seconds.
00:53:53.000 I agree.
00:53:54.000 If you can get to the Men's Summit, do it right away.
00:53:57.000 Apply and do it.
00:53:58.000 Go there.
00:53:59.000 Awesome.
00:53:59.000 Jules Preston, thank you guys.
00:54:01.000 God bless you.
00:54:01.000 Thanks so much.
00:54:02.000 See you soon.
00:54:03.000 God bless you.
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00:55:25.000 I can't stand the teachers' unions.
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00:55:41.000 And we want more and more people to understand this.
00:55:44.000 Because, and it was part of the big beautiful bill.
00:55:46.000 You don't have to live in Arizona for this to work.
00:55:48.000 So, Norton, explain everything, the backstory here.
00:55:52.000 And it just started in October this year.
00:55:54.000 So, we're just living in the very first opportunity here.
00:55:58.000 Andrew Blake, thanks so much for having me on your show once again.
00:56:00.000 I'm a huge fan of yours and everything you stand for, the principles of Charlie Kirk and your show.
00:56:06.000 Thank God for you and making sure we advance freedom in America.
00:56:09.000 And thank God we're advancing education freedom in America.
00:56:13.000 I'm actually in one of our partner schools.
00:56:15.000 Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado.
00:56:17.000 This is our beautiful podcast studio.
00:56:20.000 And ironically, the founder of this school was also a founder of ACE scholarships 26 years ago, the great Ed McVaney.
00:56:27.000 And I loved Ed McVaney because he talked so often about Milton Friedman, who was one of his heroes.
00:56:33.000 He loved him because he believed in free markets and capitalism.
00:56:37.000 And in particular, Milton Friedman loved education reform and school choice because he knew something, and that is when you empower parents, And you let them choose the education environment that's right for their child, great things happen.
00:56:51.000 And 26 years ago, when we launched our program, we knew that by providing scholarships to lower income parents, we were giving them finally a choice to put their kid in the school they wanted.
00:57:00.000 And we've seen the most remarkable results in 26 years.
00:57:04.000 99% of our kids graduate, they go to college, the trades, the military, but more importantly, they're flourishing.
00:57:12.000 They love America, and they're good kids who are smiling, they're optimistic.
00:57:17.000 And they're prepared to succeed in life.
00:57:19.000 And that's really what we set to do at ACE Scholarships.
00:57:22.000 And so, to your point about this remarkable opportunity we have in our country, last year in the big, beautiful bill, President Trump signed the Education Freedom Tax Credit.
00:57:32.000 It is going to transform education in America beginning in 2027 because it enables every American taxpayer to give a federal tax credit donation to qualify programs like ACE Scholarships.
00:57:45.000 It is incredible, and we are so excited.
00:57:47.000 Yeah, so this is, there's a lot here because I think.
00:57:51.000 I think there's part of it is just complicated for people to understand how it works and how ACE can make it all possible.
00:57:58.000 But according to your website, it says beginning October 2026, taxpayers can commit to claim their federal tax credit for the 2027 year.
00:58:07.000 ACE Scholarships brings more than 25 years of proven experience to help turn EFTC, which is the Educate and Freedom Tax Credit, helps turn that EFTC contributions into life changing impacts for students.
00:58:22.000 So, You can get up to $1,700 in federal tax credits per taxpayer or $3,400 for married couples filing jointly.
00:58:30.000 So, for listening out there, maybe you're a grandparent and you don't have any kids in school, but you got grandkids in school and they're going to Christian school or they're going to a classical school.
00:58:42.000 How can they take advantage of this and how are you guys connecting to us?
00:58:45.000 Because that's the part.
00:58:46.000 People don't know how to do this, but that's why I wanted you on, Norton, because you guys are making this really obvious and easy for people.
00:58:52.000 Well, the first thing that's important for People know is a tax credit is different than a tax deduction.
00:58:57.000 A deduction is a normal contribution you make, and of course, when you file your taxes, you receive a deduction.
00:59:03.000 A credit is so much better.
00:59:05.000 It is a redirection of your taxes, which you would have sent to Uncle Sam in Washington.
00:59:10.000 You now have the ability to send up to $3,400 to a program like ACE to support students who go to private school, homeschool, and even students who need additional support in public schools.
00:59:22.000 So it's a remarkable program.
00:59:24.000 And what we're doing at ACE Scholarships is we're gearing up for this program.
00:59:27.000 As you mentioned, you can go to our website right now and you can commit your $3,400.
00:59:33.000 And in January, we'll reach out to you.
00:59:35.000 And you make that contribution, and with the money we're raising, we truly have the ability to transform education in all 50 states in America.
00:59:44.000 We believe that we can raise billions of dollars, and with the billions of dollars we're raising, that means that we can serve potentially millions of children in our country.
00:59:53.000 That means kids right now who are being left behind.
00:59:55.000 You know, we have a crisis in our country.
00:59:57.000 Our kids can't read, they can't write.
00:59:59.000 America ranks anywhere from 15th to 35th in education.
01:00:03.000 We're letting our kids down on the American dream because they're not being educated.
01:00:07.000 This tax credit.
01:00:08.000 Will fundamentally change education in America, and we celebrate that.
01:00:13.000 So, we encourage every person right now to go to our website and learn more about this program and commit your dollars because it's the biggest no brainer of all time as you redirect your taxes to help kids go to great schools.
01:00:26.000 So, this is amazing.
01:00:28.000 So, if I, me and my wife, if we go to this website right now, educationfreedom.org, you will help me basically put $3,400 in because we're a married couple filing jointly.
01:00:40.000 So, I get to put $3,400 in, even if I don't have anybody that I know that needs it, you'll make sure somebody gets it that needs it, right?
01:00:47.000 And then I then pay $3,400 less in my taxes.
01:00:52.000 That's exactly right.
01:00:53.000 I'm not losing any money by sending it to you.
01:00:55.000 I'm just making sure that you give it to somebody that needs it.
01:01:00.000 It sounds like something my dad would love.
01:01:02.000 He will give money to basically anything if it means the government is not doing anything.
01:01:05.000 I'm not kidding.
01:01:06.000 I love this.
01:01:08.000 So you get $3,400, you pay $3,400 less in taxes.
01:01:12.000 And I know that you, because I know you, Norton, personally, you're a good man, you're a good Christian man, and you care about kids, you care about students, and you're going to make sure that people can then get that money and get a scholarship to go to a Christian school or classical education school.
01:01:28.000 Get them out of the public school system.
01:01:30.000 It's as simple as that.
01:01:31.000 And the law only allows us to have 10% toward overhead.
01:01:35.000 So 90% plus of your money will go toward helping kids go to great schools.
01:01:39.000 I also, too, want to give a shout out to Turning Point Education because that was a major initiative for Charlie Kirk.
01:01:45.000 Under the leadership of Hutz Hertzberg right now, you are growing the schools in America and you're also supporting other private schools in America that are classically educated.
01:01:54.000 So, a lot of the money that you're giving will go to schools like Turning Point Education.
01:01:59.000 It's going to go to classical Christian schools, it's going to go to private schools in America and even homeschool families right now that are desperate to educate their kids.
01:02:07.000 They just can't afford it.
01:02:09.000 That's where we come in.
01:02:10.000 The money you give supports kids, you're improving education, and you're making America a better place.
01:02:15.000 So, you've delivered over 121,000 scholarships.
01:02:19.000 Over 26 years at ACE.
01:02:21.000 And I can only imagine you're about to explode even more because of this new tax credit through the big, beautiful bill.
01:02:30.000 Guys, I'll just lay out the stakes.
01:02:33.000 The federal government and the left, they want you to send your kids to public schools where they can indoctrinate them.
01:02:38.000 It's as simple as that.
01:02:39.000 And guess what?
01:02:39.000 Those teachers then have to pay dues into teachers' unions that work as Democrat super PACs for people like Bernie Sanders and Gavin Newsom and all these crazies.
01:02:46.000 Okay?
01:02:47.000 This is a racket.
01:02:49.000 We talk about.
01:02:50.000 Fix everything switches. 1.00
01:02:51.000 That'd be immigration. 1.00
01:02:52.000 These are mine, not yours, Norton. 1.00
01:02:54.000 But immigration, feminism, and I'm telling you, education, public school education.
01:02:59.000 These are three things that the left has controlled, and we have to seize power back if we want to save the future of the country.
01:03:06.000 The big, beautiful bill and people like Norton here at ACE are critically important junctures in this road, spokes in that wheel, because ACE is making it possible for you to just send your money instead of sending it to Uncle Sam.
01:03:18.000 You don't have to send it there.
01:03:19.000 It gets to empower kids wherever they are.
01:03:22.000 And you're working in inner cities, right, Norton?
01:03:24.000 You're working in rural, you're working in suburban, you're everywhere.
01:03:28.000 It doesn't matter the color, race, creed of these kids.
01:03:30.000 You're going to make sure that they get.
01:03:32.000 The opportunities to get out of the public school indoctrination mill.
01:03:35.000 Am I saying it right?
01:03:37.000 You nailed it.
01:03:37.000 We believe that all boats will rise when you let parents choose the school that's right for them.
01:03:42.000 And the fact is, right now we have a two tier system we have the haves and the have nots.
01:03:45.000 We have those with the resources to put their kids in great schools.
01:03:49.000 They would never compromise their child's education.
01:03:51.000 But for those who can't afford it, often they're stuck in a zip code and they're not provided the education they deserve.
01:03:57.000 And we believe that every American child should be educated and that they should live out their God given talents.
01:04:03.000 And that really does begin with the education.
01:04:06.000 But we also know that parents in our country are incredibly frustrated.
01:04:09.000 We learned this during COVID.
01:04:10.000 We saw that parents, when their kids were being shut out of school and they were shut down, they lost so much academically over a couple years and they've never been able to recover.
01:04:19.000 And that's where we come in, making sure that parents can put their kids in the school that's right for them.
01:04:25.000 That's the American way.
01:04:26.000 And that's what we set to do at ACE scholarships.
01:04:28.000 Norton, I just have a technical question.
01:04:30.000 So if I donate $3,400, can I then direct it to the child I want?
01:04:37.000 Or can I also put it into like a general fund and I'll let Ace do what you do kind of thing?
01:04:42.000 Can I do it both ways?
01:04:43.000 You can't direct it to a child, but you can direct it to a school, an institution, and we'll make sure that we send the money where you want to go.
01:04:50.000 Great.
01:04:50.000 The law also has a provision the money must be directed to a state that you reside in, and then you can also direct it to a school, which we're happy to do for any donor who commits.
01:04:59.000 So, yeah, that's fantastic.
01:05:01.000 I mean, Charlie loved you, Norton.
01:05:05.000 He loved this program.
01:05:08.000 You do work with Turning Point, but you're not like a sponsor of the show.
01:05:11.000 I'm not bringing you on because we're getting paid to do this.
01:05:15.000 I'm doing this because it's so critically important that we change the way we do education in this country and more and more families get to take advantage of something that was hugely undervalued in this big, beautiful bill.
01:05:27.000 I mean, we talk about no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and all this stuff.
01:05:31.000 Get school freedom of choice.
01:05:33.000 This is huge, huge.
01:05:35.000 Norton, one more time on the URL where people can go.
01:05:38.000 Educationfreedom.org.
01:05:39.000 Thank you so much for your support.
01:05:40.000 I love Charlie.
01:05:41.000 He was a huge supporter.
01:05:43.000 And I appreciate everything you're doing to grow this program because America needs it.
01:05:47.000 It will transform our country.
01:05:49.000 It will.
01:05:50.000 It will transform it.
01:05:51.000 Freedom of choice when it comes to schooling is so critically important.
01:05:54.000 Thank you.
01:05:55.000 Thank you.
01:05:55.000 Thank you.
01:05:56.000 Norton Rainey, CEO of Ace Scholarships.
01:06:00.000 Okay, so we did our whole list.
01:06:02.000 Trump got a 17 out of 20 on promises made, promises kept.
01:06:05.000 Which we wanted to do that because, again, it really helps to remind people this is what Trump was campaigning on.
01:06:11.000 This is not.
01:06:12.000 What surrogates were saying, not what other people were projecting onto him.
01:06:17.000 This is what President Trump ran saying he would do.
01:06:20.000 This came up at News Nation because they were like, Stephen A. Smith looked at me and he was like, Well, Trump ran on Epstein.
01:06:27.000 And I was like, Listen, I want Epstein stuff released just as much as the next guy.
01:06:31.000 And by the way, I also want prosecutions as much as the next guy.
01:06:35.000 If you hurt a little girl, I want you in prison forever.
01:06:39.000 I would support capital punishment.
01:06:41.000 I want all that stuff.
01:06:42.000 The truth, though, is he was asked about it twice on the campaign trail, and he said I'd be inclined to.
01:06:47.000 And by the way, and I called this out, I was sitting next to a Democrat congresswoman who was like wearing a survivor bracelet and all this stuff.
01:06:53.000 I was like, Yeah, did you talk about it at all during, you know, Biden's years?
01:06:56.000 No.
01:06:57.000 Okay, so it's just a political football for these people.
01:07:00.000 And they lie endlessly.
01:07:01.000 They say, they love to imply that Trump does this because he's in the Epstein files.
01:07:05.000 I mean, you go online, people will just say Trump is a confirmed pedophile.
01:07:08.000 Well, no.
01:07:09.000 There's no evidence of that.
01:07:10.000 Listen, do I love the way it was handled?
01:07:12.000 No.
01:07:13.000 I'm honest about it.
01:07:14.000 But at the same time, it's also dishonest to say that this was one of his 20 promises or that he stumped on it in the campaign trail.
01:07:20.000 No, he was asked twice about it.
01:07:22.000 He ran on these 20 things.
01:07:23.000 He's been asked about it.
01:07:24.000 He ran on these 20 things, and he's done a stupendous job.
01:07:29.000 Yes.
01:07:29.000 Deliberating on them, and even where he hasn't, you can see the attempt, like on reforming elections.
01:07:34.000 And to save America.
01:07:34.000 He needs Congress, and Congress let him down, as an example.
01:07:37.000 Yeah, well, and he also.
01:07:38.000 Or Putin let him down.
01:07:39.000 Exactly.
01:07:40.000 Putin let him down, Congress let him down.
01:07:42.000 Anyways, so we want to read some of your emails.
01:07:44.000 Jan says, great list.
01:07:46.000 The administration should be compiling this for a comm strategy.
01:07:48.000 It's great that you have done it, but they should be doing it.
01:07:51.000 Fair enough.
01:07:52.000 I wouldn't object.
01:07:52.000 You guys should.
01:07:53.000 The administration absolutely should.
01:07:55.000 We're going to cut this up for social media.
01:07:56.000 100%.
01:07:56.000 So we're going to get it out in the end.
01:07:57.000 We got another one.
01:07:59.000 The name was cut off.
01:08:00.000 From it, but they said, great job on the presentation of promises made and kept.
01:08:04.000 You guys nailed it.
01:08:06.000 I hope it is available on your web to recapture.
01:08:08.000 Yeah, we're going to put it on all the social medias to really drive that point home.
01:08:14.000 Another one says, can Blake or someone get what Trump has accomplished into a graphic so we can share before the election?
01:08:20.000 Again, I think a lot of people are seeing this is a really good way to just efficiently present the wins that President Trump promised and immediately delivered on.
01:08:30.000 There were a few skeptical ones, so I want to respond to a bit.
01:08:33.000 Michelle says, I love Trump and I believe he's achieved a lot of important things, but he has fallen short.
01:08:41.000 He has let Maha down on several fronts.
01:08:43.000 They claim that he didn't restrict Roundup.
01:08:47.000 They're complaining about vaccines.
01:08:48.000 I would say a few things.
01:08:49.000 First of all, it's not a core part of his promises, but he actually did deliver a lot of ways.
01:08:55.000 He faced a ton of opposition to making RFK Jr. HHS secretary, and he pushed through.
01:09:01.000 He said, That was a promise that I made.
01:09:03.000 People said, You should just break that promise.
01:09:05.000 Who cares?
01:09:06.000 And no, he kept that promise that he was going to put RFK into his cabinet.
01:09:11.000 As an example, the recommended vaccine schedule from the federal government was revised.
01:09:16.000 This email says that the pediatric academy still has their old list, but we don't control the pediatric academy.
01:09:23.000 We do control the CDC.
01:09:25.000 And they've modified that.
01:09:26.000 And he's modified the dyes that are going into foods.
01:09:30.000 So there are real wins on that.
01:09:32.000 If you talk to Alex Clark on our team, she's frustrated about some of the glyphosate stuff.
01:09:36.000 She's frustrated about.
01:09:38.000 We just talked about ranchers bringing in foreign beef and things like that to bring prices down a little bit.
01:09:45.000 Listen, it's not a direct line from here to there.
01:09:48.000 Directionally, we are very much on the right track.
01:09:51.000 And the vaccine schedule has been revised, things we could control.
01:09:54.000 But there is a ton of institutionalized power that's blocking a lot of this stuff.
01:09:59.000 There's court cases, legal cases.
01:10:01.000 And so, directionally, and RFK will say this Am I 100% happy with everything?
01:10:05.000 No, but he's directionally happy and he understands that this thing can be phased in.
01:10:08.000 I don't want to sound like I'm dismissive of it.
01:10:10.000 So I'll pick an issue that's very near and dear to.
01:10:12.000 Maya and Andrew's heart, like the pro life issue.
01:10:13.000 We know President Trump is not as pro life as us.
01:10:16.000 In that list of 20, he's not making any big promises about abortion.
01:10:20.000 But are we getting wins on that?
01:10:22.000 Like, you know, pardoning the pro life protesters, just not doing lawfare against them?
01:10:28.000 Is he being friendly towards the pro life movement?
01:10:31.000 Absolutely.
01:10:31.000 Are we getting wins we wouldn't get otherwise?
01:10:34.000 100%.
01:10:35.000 And I think that's how you should look at it with Maha.
01:10:36.000 It's not on that list of core promises that Trump made a central part of his plank, but he welcomed Maha into his coalition.
01:10:43.000 He said, You will get wins with me.
01:10:45.000 And you have gotten wins with him.
01:10:46.000 You've gotten wins that would have never in a million years happened in a Kamala administration.
01:10:51.000 And I think that's the healthiest way to look at that.
01:10:53.000 Yep.
01:10:54.000 Any other emails that you want to highlight here?
01:10:56.000 It's okay if not.
01:10:57.000 Someone says they're upset that he hasn't put Obama, Hillary, and all the other traitors in jail.
01:11:02.000 They're disappointed.
01:11:04.000 You got to understand.
01:11:04.000 Trump knows that when he's out of office, assuming he lives many years afterwards, they're going to come after him and try and throw him in prison.
01:11:12.000 So you got to understand that from his perspective, it would be probably unwise on some level.
01:11:19.000 But listen, Fauci needs to be in prison.
01:11:21.000 That's for darn.
01:11:21.000 That'd be great.
01:11:22.000 Yeah, that would be good.
01:11:24.000 He should rot in prison.
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