The Charlie Kirk Show - September 22, 2020


How Trump Changed the Next 100 Years with Lou Dobbs


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Lou Dobbs joins Charlie Kirk on the Charlie Kirk Show to discuss his new book, Trump Century, and why he thinks Donald Trump is the most important president of our lifetime. The Trump Century is available for pre-order now.

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00:00:47.000 Lou Dobbs is here, everybody.
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00:01:24.000 Hey, everybody.
00:01:25.000 Welcome to this very special episode of the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:28.000 I am honored to be joined today by Lou Dobbs, who, of course, hosts Lou Dobbs tonight and is the author of The Trump Century, which can be found at lewdobbshop.com.
00:01:40.000 I encourage everyone to go get your copy right now.
00:01:42.000 Lou, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:44.000 Great to be with you, Charlie.
00:01:46.000 Good to see you.
00:01:47.000 Thank you.
00:01:47.000 So, what I love about this book is it frames the election of Donald Trump and his administration in multi-generational terms.
00:01:54.000 You know, being 26 years old and traveling the country and supporting this president, I like how you talk about how this has really changed the course of future presidents and our country.
00:02:04.000 You talk about what the president has done to hold China accountable, which no other leader had done before him, ending the endless wars, and also you have a very sharp critique of the Chamber of Commerce.
00:02:16.000 I want to get into all of that.
00:02:17.000 But first, can you just talk about why you wrote this book and also the historical significance of the Trump presidency?
00:02:25.000 Well, first, I wrote the book because I believe this president is both the most important, consequential president of our lifetime.
00:02:37.000 In fact, I think he's arguably the greatest president in the country's history.
00:02:42.000 Only Abraham Lincoln, in my opinion, has a claim to the same mantle as he has achieved in his first term in office.
00:02:51.000 FDR, certainly over three terms, has his place in the pantheon of great presidents and Teddy Roosevelt and the list goes on.
00:03:02.000 But this president stands tallest among them, I believe, because of what he's managed to accomplish that is so important, critically important to the country achieving its destiny.
00:03:15.000 And secondly, reversing the decline of this great nation under three previous presidents, from Bill Clinton to George W. Bush to Barack Obama.
00:03:28.000 We couldn't have asked for much more toxic combination of mediocrity and leadership than those three men all bound together in our nation's history.
00:03:40.000 So that's first the reason that I did it.
00:03:43.000 The second is because he's overcome so many challenges as he tried to move this nation forward.
00:03:52.000 It's to me remarkable how little credit, even among some of his supporters, that this president gets, because he is without question a man who has, in black and white, in empirical physical terms,
00:04:06.000 altered the course of the nation, whether it is a balance, mutual, reciprocal trade with our trading partners around the world, whether it is addressing the issue of NATO and making everyone understand it is time for shared burdens and obligations to be met and to change actually the mission of NATO,
00:04:30.000 which every political wag writing in the popular left-wing media scoffed at, you recall, when he said NATO has to, well, let's say, correct its attitude and its direction.
00:04:46.000 The list goes on.
00:04:47.000 He is an immense national treasure.
00:04:52.000 He has done so much that is unappreciated and will do so much more that is critical to this nation and its people achieving both our destiny and our potential.
00:05:03.000 One of my favorite parts of your program and of this book is how you are talking about how corporations in our country are no longer necessarily on the side of our country.
00:05:15.000 This is something that a lot of conservatives have a difficult time talking about.
00:05:20.000 You have really educated me a lot on this topic because growing up in the conservative movement in 2012, 2013, 2014, we were led to believe that corporations are always on team right.
00:05:33.000 I'll never forget a show you did in July, just about two or three months ago, where you had the list of all the corporations that were funding BLM.
00:05:41.000 And then you talked about how this is nothing new, that these corporations have no allegiance whatsoever.
00:05:47.000 Now, while there might be some good companies out there, you make the argument that the Chamber of Commerce, the supposed representative of these companies, has not been representing Middle America for quite some time.
00:05:58.000 Can you talk about the Chamber, who they are, and also just Tom Donahue and how they've taken a direction that none of us would have necessarily anticipated?
00:06:07.000 Surely, the Chamber of Commerce is the largest lobbying organization in this country, spending a billion and a half dollars on just illegal immigration over the course of the past almost 20 years.
00:06:23.000 Think of that, a billion and a half dollars.
00:06:26.000 That isn't exactly a slush fund.
00:06:29.000 That is the intent of corporate America and particularly 135 U.S. multinationals to assure that our borders are kept wide open, irrespective of what crosses that border.
00:06:44.000 And when I say that border, I'm referring, of course, to the southern border.
00:06:49.000 And I remind people that Mexico is the primary source of all of the methamphetamines, marijuana, cocaine, and heroin that enter the United States.
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00:07:12.000 They are collateral damage.
00:07:14.000 And by the way, those numbers are an understatement.
00:07:17.000 The Chamber of Commerce has insisted on president after president and president after president that they simply do what they're told, make certain that we harmonize our borders, our trading values, and listen to them give visas to all of the cheap labor in foreign markets so that they will come here and compete with the American worker,
00:07:45.000 whether middle class or a worker aspiring to the middle class.
00:07:49.000 The result was 20 years of stagnant wages for our middle class.
00:07:54.000 That is a national disgrace.
00:07:57.000 The Chamber of Commerce is a national disgrace.
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00:09:30.000 And they are now endorsing Democrats, this election cycle.
00:09:34.000 And I actually think that's an interesting point: that if the activist media was really interested in telling the American people the landscape of how things are changing, it's the Democrats that are now the party of crony corporate interests.
00:09:47.000 And the Republican Party is now basically rejecting the endorsement of the chamber and saying, we don't want this because they, as you said, they want limitless H-1B visas.
00:09:58.000 They want unlimited amounts of lower wage workers from India and China, which disenfranchise American workers.
00:10:05.000 And so you're starting to see a lot of conservatives, and you've been the leading voice on this, Lou, say maybe not all of these mega corporations want what's best for our country.
00:10:15.000 And I've been led to believe that some of these corporations have no loyalty.
00:10:19.000 They have no patriotic, just underlying ethos at all.
00:10:22.000 It's wherever they can maximize their alleged shareholder value, that's where they're going to go.
00:10:28.000 And I'm not against that philosophically, but you talk about how this president has changed that, how this president was the first president to disrupt that kind of bipartisan transnational corporation power structure in our country.
00:10:42.000 Well, he has certainly met it head on.
00:10:45.000 And that required great courage as well as vision because no other politician of either party was taking on that issue.
00:10:55.000 He did.
00:10:56.000 He has, and he will continue to do so.
00:11:00.000 And when you talk about the borderless corporation, it is also, in point of fact, a corporation without country.
00:11:13.000 And that is a disgrace in of itself.
00:11:17.000 When we watch a corporation fund an operation in China, for example, BlackRock just got a deal to open up a mutual fund in China.
00:11:28.000 It'll be a $13 trillion market. 0.60
00:11:31.000 This, as the president of the United States, is nose to nose with President Xi Jinping to hold him accountable for the deaths of 200,000 Americans as a result of the China virus that Xi Jinping unleashed on this country, knowing it was deadly, knowing that it was transmittable, human to human, and that people would die here without a warning to a single government around the world. 0.86
00:12:00.000 There is much for corporate America to answer for and supporting Black Lives Matter, a Marxist organization. 0.56
00:12:07.000 And now corporations have to turn to good old Tom Donahue, the cardinal of corporate America, to go to Capitol Hill to convince all of the senators like Dick Durbin and Mike Lee that, yes, you're right to stand with the Chamber of Commerce and ask for more cheap labor to come in to compete with the American middle class so that you can tear down what Donald Trump has accomplished. 0.78
00:12:34.000 Donald Trump has restored the American dream and has re-energized the middle class, small business, entrepreneurs.
00:12:43.000 And there's a reason that we're looking at over 3% growth in this economy until the China virus hit.
00:12:50.000 And that's because this president understands economics.
00:12:54.000 He understands politics, although he may not be a politician.
00:12:59.000 And he has held, in my opinion, the correct view on these issues for 30 years.
00:13:06.000 And to now see him stand and lead the nation.
00:13:10.000 He's not credited for being a great leader.
00:13:12.000 He is the greatest leader the country has seen since, without question, Abraham Lincoln.
00:13:18.000 He is not credited with his intellect.
00:13:22.000 Instead, supporters and opponents alike like to talk about Donald Trump's instincts.
00:13:28.000 You know, Charlie, he has great instincts.
00:13:30.000 He has a good gut.
00:13:32.000 The hell.
00:13:33.000 He has all of that.
00:13:35.000 But first and foremost, he's got a great mind and he makes great decisions and great choices.
00:13:41.000 And he is a great, great leader.
00:13:44.000 And he asks great questions and he's always learning.
00:13:47.000 This is something the media gets so wrong about him, is that he considers every person he talks to, from whether it could be a private in the United States military to even a Secret Service agent to even myself, a subject matter expert in something that he can learn from.
00:14:02.000 And he walked job sites for 30 years, and that's why he understands blue-collar workers better than the chamber ever will or people that say they represent those people.
00:14:12.000 And so, Lou, I also want to get into something that I thought was very interesting.
00:14:16.000 You talk about inflation in this book and how it actually never came, but how the president encouraged the Federal Reserve to expand the money supply, and you applaud him for that.
00:14:27.000 Can you dig into it?
00:14:27.000 It's a little bit wonkier of a topic, but I was really fascinated by this because it is true based on the metrics we have available, the president pushing the Federal Reserve to lower interest rates actually did not have the inflation effect that a lot of the experts said it would.
00:14:46.000 Well, experts, when you say experts, you're referring to economic experts.
00:14:51.000 I'm putting it in air quotes.
00:14:52.000 That's right.
00:14:54.000 And those economists are seldom expert in their reasoning or forecasts.
00:15:01.000 They do their best.
00:15:02.000 We're all human, but they have a wide margin of propensity for mistakes, to put it in econometric-like terms.
00:15:12.000 It is, to me, one of the most amusing things to watch the left wing go bananas in the national media because Charlie, they, oh, you can't argue with a chairman of the Federal Reserve.
00:15:23.000 He's an independent force unto himself.
00:15:26.000 Well, he sure as hell was because he raised interest rates four times in the absence of inflation with a stable price and market that didn't require an increase in interest rates.
00:15:44.000 What froth was there to subdue?
00:15:49.000 Did Jerome Powell really want to shut down 3% growth?
00:15:55.000 Did he really want to shut down the lowest unemployment rate for minorities in this country's history?
00:16:02.000 Because that was the effect of where he was headed with these rate increases.
00:16:07.000 And this president didn't persuade.
00:16:09.000 He didn't even try to.
00:16:11.000 He went straight at Jerome Powell and the Federal Reserve and the wonks on Wall Street who were paid for by their client base, i.e. corporate America, and he kicked them in the butt and told them what's what and to get their heads on straight. 0.99
00:16:27.000 And you know what? 0.99
00:16:28.000 He was right.
00:16:30.000 And there isn't a single issue as between corporate America, Wall Street, and the president of the United States when they have been right and he has been wrong, whether it's tariffs or whether it is on tax cuts, whether it is China, whether it's balanced trade, whether it's reciprocity itself in national, international relations.
00:16:56.000 It's remarkable how right he has been on all of these issues.
00:17:00.000 And even Jerome Powell has to tip his hat and say, Mr. President, he didn't do it this way, but I wish he would.
00:17:09.000 You're right and I was wrong.
00:17:11.000 And I was even really arrogant to suggest that you shouldn't be holding me to a higher standard like great public service.
00:17:22.000 Well, and it's such double standard because Obama would call out the Federal Reserve all the time and so would Bill Clinton.
00:17:28.000 The struggle between the executive branch and the Fed, it's nothing new.
00:17:32.000 Just when Donald Trump does it, they consider it to be completely impossible.
00:17:37.000 You want to make a comment on that, Lou?
00:17:39.000 Well, no, no, I was just thinking, unlike those others, this president had the lowest unemployment rate in history for minorities, as I say, had achieved what Obama said could only be achieved with a magic wand.
00:17:55.000 I mean, this is the president who's walking around pretentiously suggesting that Donald Trump doesn't follow science like he does and thinks deeply about things like climate change.
00:18:09.000 This president knew full well what the trade-offs were and what the cause and effect relationships were in the global economy and global societies.
00:18:19.000 I don't believe Barack Obama or George W. Bush would even want to think in shallow terms about those issues.
00:18:29.000 This president has it exactly right.
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00:19:27.000 You also talk in the book lou about the endless wars.
00:19:30.000 This is something I was very pleased to see you touch on.
00:19:32.000 I completely agree.
00:19:34.000 Uh, it's my generation that has known almost nothing but war overseas.
00:19:38.000 One of my earliest childhood memories was 9-11 and since then we've had these misadventures in Afghanistan and in Iraq, where we have spent trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives where the objective is not always clearly defined.
00:19:50.000 You praise the president for trying to end these endless wars and ask the question, why don't we build roads and bridges here instead of in the Kandahar valley or in Iraq?
00:20:00.000 Can you talk about the geopolitical significance of trying to end these quagmires overseas and trying to think in an American first type way in foreign policy?
00:20:11.000 Well and, but you said America first, because it is often attached only to foreign policy.
00:20:17.000 It is also critically important in domestic policy and this president uh preserves that value in all of his considerations uh about whatever decision he must take.
00:20:29.000 Uh on on both domestic and foreign policy.
00:20:32.000 On America first, the idea of leaving our troops and I love this expression that you will hear from some generals over the years, or at least that I have that we have 30 000 troops along the Dmz posted in South Korea as a tripwire.
00:20:50.000 Now, that's a wonderful expression, isn't it?
00:20:52.000 If uh Kim Jong-un, or whomever is leading North Korea, decides to cross that uh frontier, we have 26 000 right now troops there uh, and they will be a tripwire to let us know that they've come.
00:21:08.000 We have them under constant surveillance from uh imaging uh, you know uh satellites.
00:21:16.000 It's ridiculous, it's a preposterous uh reason, and others suggest that they're forward stationed so that they can react. 0.79
00:21:25.000 There is, there is not a chance in hell that those troops would be anything other than savage by the North Koreans if they were to carry out a a, a straightforward frontal attack. 0.89
00:21:38.000 It is just the uh, the reality of it. 0.92
00:21:38.000 It's just. 0.92
00:21:41.000 It's an ugly reality, and our troops shouldn't be there uh.
00:21:46.000 Why have we got?
00:21:47.000 Why do we have so many troops in Germany, some of which are moving to Poland now, i'm delighted to say, because the president has chosen to do that and they're coming home and leaving Afghanistan? 1.00
00:21:59.000 The idiots who wrote the the, the doctrine, called the long War. 0.99
00:22:06.000 That's not a doctrine, a military doctrine for the United States. 1.00
00:22:10.000 Our doctrine should be short wars, and if there is a short war, as the president said the other day talking about Iran, whatever injury you do to us, we will respond with a thousand times greater force against you. 0.98
00:22:25.000 That should be the doctrine of the United States, bring our troops home.
00:22:30.000 That's what the president is doing.
00:22:32.000 He is the only president to do so.
00:22:35.000 And it is remarkable to watch the military-industrial complex, as Eisenhower warned us to warn us of a military-industrial complex will find a place to go to war no matter how peaceful it appears to our lying eyes.
00:22:54.000 And it just, it's incredible because now the Democrats, who used to be the anti-war party back in 2004 with John Kerry, they're upset that Donald Trump is ending these endless wars.
00:23:04.000 They seem infuriated that President Trump is negotiating peace between Israel and the UAE.
00:23:10.000 And this entire kind of endless war lobby has dominated the Republican and Democrat foreign policy establishment where President Trump, unafraid to act with decisive action against Solomoni or Baghdad.
00:23:23.000 He doesn't want American troops or trillions of dollars being spent endlessly where there is no objective in sight.
00:23:30.000 And it's a lot of young people that are fighting these wars that have had PTSD, military suicide, and all the other associated costs of this kind of endless conflict.
00:23:41.000 Liu, you also talk about China in this book. 0.59
00:23:44.000 You make the argument that this might be the greatest out of all of the accomplishments, this might be the most important, which is rebalancing the conversation and the landscape against China. 0.80
00:23:56.000 We have now seen the malevolence of the Chinese Communist Party. 0.94
00:23:59.000 We've seen the China virus. 0.99
00:24:01.000 We've seen what they've done to our industrial base. 0.98
00:24:04.000 For some of the, to play devil's advocate, some people say, well, Charlie, we can't get into a trade war or a Cold War with China. 0.54
00:24:11.000 You had Mike Pompeo on your show, I think, last week, and you really pressed him.
00:24:15.000 You really did. 0.76
00:24:16.000 And it was awesome television because are we in a Cold War with China?
00:24:21.000 It seems like they're expanding their capabilities, building their navy. 0.59
00:24:24.000 They don't seem like they want peace.
00:24:27.000 They don't seem like it because they're not about peace in any way. 0.91
00:24:32.000 The great characteristic of China over the course of since 1949 has been their capacity for deception and their capacity to use force. 0.91
00:24:44.000 And they have survived so much. 0.98
00:24:46.000 They are a tough and smart people.
00:24:50.000 And they understand at this point that if they are to dominate, we have to be dislocated, removed, and defeated.
00:25:00.000 And they were well on their way to that until President Trump was elected because he recognized that they were expanding the South China Sea and it had to be forestalled.
00:25:10.000 He recognized the expansionary policies of Xi Jinping.
00:25:15.000 And even though the two, it appeared, had reached an agreement on the direction of both countries that could be one of coexistence, President Xi made it very clear that he, when he decided to let that virus leave China without warning the world and had every opportunity weeks later to warn the world and chose not to,
00:25:44.000 that is ethically murder. 0.89
00:25:47.000 And it is also revelatory, I would hope, for everyone who thought, you know, the communist Chinese, they're just merchants and waiting capitalists to be developed.
00:25:58.000 They can be a market-based, free enterprise people.
00:26:02.000 Well, they're not.
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00:26:05.000 And they've made it clear.
00:26:06.000 They're communist.
00:26:07.000 They're authoritarian.
00:26:09.000 And there is no conscience when it comes to the decisions they make in their national interest.
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00:27:33.000 And what's been stunning, Lou, is to see how the corporate executives, the athletic executives, Hollywood, how entrenched they really are in the Chinese Communist Party.
00:27:43.000 And this virus and the lack of reaction to it has been stunning, not to mention the 1 million ethnic Muslims in concentration camps, as you mentioned, the islands in the South China Sea, the deindustrialization, the Confucius Institutes on well over 70 college campuses across the country that we're trying to get closed. 0.66
00:28:03.000 Yeah, please comment on that.
00:28:06.000 No, and high school institutes as well.
00:28:10.000 They are attacking K through 12 as well as higher education.
00:28:14.000 And when I say they're attacking, I mean those are foreign postings of surveillance and espionage operations of a foreign power, namely the People's Republic of China.
00:28:28.000 And look at what we're now seeing unfold.
00:28:31.000 Finally, we're seeing the number of Chinese nationals who are being sanctioned, who are being charged for spying, for taking, you know, I find it stunning to think about this.
00:28:48.000 Professors at Harvard University, which is my alma mater, taking money from the NIH or for any number of federal funding sources and at the same time taking millions from the Communist Party of China and not reporting that money and clearly working to recruit and to deliver technology and intellectual property to them. 0.86
00:29:14.000 And this on a scale each year that amounts to a half a trillion dollars that is being torn away from this country and building China.
00:29:24.000 The fact of the matter is, Charlie, we've built China. 0.55
00:29:27.000 We've built modern China in this country. 0.55
00:29:30.000 And corporate America has a lot to answer for because instead of sending those plants and that production to our neighbors to the South and Central and South America, building those plants there, we built it in a communist nation, if you can imagine that, which now threatens us militarily, economically, geopolitically. 0.64
00:29:54.000 These are mad men who made those decisions for decades to build and to unleash communist China. 0.75
00:30:06.000 So, Sulu, in a couple minutes we have remaining here, I want to get your take on the election.
00:30:10.000 This should be a Trump landslide if all things were equal, but we're not in equal times.
00:30:14.000 We have the activist media that mistreats the president.
00:30:18.000 Ballot fraud, I believe, is a very real threat.
00:30:21.000 We have social media tyranny where it seems Google and the social media giants are going to do whatever it takes to try to prevent fair access to information. 0.52
00:30:30.000 What is your analysis of this race?
00:30:32.000 What does the president have to do to achieve victory?
00:30:36.000 How do you see things trending?
00:30:39.000 The trend right now is magnificent.
00:30:42.000 We're seeing this president closing on every battleground state without exception, and in some cases now moving into the lead important and important battleground states, including, by the way, Florida, which the most recent polling shows him moving ahead of Biden.
00:31:00.000 I don't think there's any way in the world the American people would be dumb enough to put Joe Biden in the White House, even if they don't appreciate what this president has done.
00:31:12.000 They don't understand President Trump. 0.96
00:31:14.000 If they're such buttercups and daffodils that their feelings are hurt when they read one of his, well, tough-hewn tweets that somehow unsettles them.
00:31:26.000 Even then, how could you possibly take and put a man who has lived and has campaigned so far from his basement in Delaware against a man like Trump, who has been in, what, 30 states in the last two months?
00:31:44.000 He is a dynamo.
00:31:46.000 He has more energy, more intelligence, more talent.
00:31:50.000 And yes, I'll even say he's got great instincts too, than anyone we've had in that White House in living memory.
00:31:58.000 And it's that straightforward.
00:32:00.000 Look at what he's done.
00:32:02.000 He restored the economy.
00:32:04.000 He restored American pride and confidence and optimism about their future.
00:32:09.000 And yes, he restored our ideals of, well, American exceptionalism.
00:32:14.000 You know why?
00:32:15.000 Because we are an exceptional people.
00:32:18.000 I will put up the inventions and the intellectual heritage of this country against any other for all time.
00:32:27.000 And we've only been around, you know, a little over 200 years.
00:32:31.000 We're not doing badly, and we'll do even better in the next 100, I'm sure.
00:32:37.000 Yeah, the airplane going to the moon, being able to have open heart, open brain surgery, pretty amazing accomplishments for a country that's only been around a short period of time, not to mention winning two world wars and creating the greatest political document ever, the United States Constitution.
00:32:51.000 Thought on that, Lou?
00:32:53.000 Well, just one thought.
00:32:54.000 I was just thinking Obama was, you know, he impressed a lot of people, particularly on the left, when he was nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize after only 11 days in office, having done nothing.
00:33:05.000 This president, having done great things and for two achievements of extraordinary historic importance, receiving Nobel Peace Prize nominations in one week for two separate successes.
00:33:20.000 I think the contrast is pretty revelatory.
00:33:25.000 I agree completely.
00:33:27.000 The website to buy Lou's book, everyone go get a copy, LewDobbsShop.com.
00:33:32.000 Lou, any closing thoughts on the book or the election or anything that we weren't able to cover?
00:33:38.000 Well, yeah, and Amazon works too.
00:33:41.000 Amazon.com.
00:33:42.000 You got it.
00:33:43.000 And two, I would just say, you know, Trump 2020.
00:33:47.000 That sounds like the right time and the right man.
00:33:51.000 Well, Lou, thank you so much.
00:33:51.000 I love it.
00:33:52.000 We love watching your program.
00:33:54.000 We really appreciate your insights.
00:33:55.000 And thank you so much for joining our program.
00:33:58.000 Great to be with you, Charlie.
00:33:59.000 All the very best.
00:34:04.000 What a great conversation that was with the great Lou Dobbs.
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