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00:02:52.000 Yesterday, President Donald Trump made his first public appearance since leaving the White House.

00:03:00.000 The silence was deafening over the last couple of weeks.

00:03:08.000 Former President Trump decided to go completely off the grid.

00:03:14.000 And he allowed Joe Biden to have a month.

00:03:17.000 Now, what I find to be very interesting is Donald Trump afforded Joe Biden more of a political honeymoon than the media or the Democrats did.

00:03:29.000 Remember, the media and the Democrats never gave Donald Trump any chance whatsoever to govern.

00:03:36.000 Donald Trump did not do any public appearances, any rallies, or any interviews for one month.

00:03:43.000 That is the correct thing to do.

00:03:44.000 Generally, you allow a new president to at least get their agenda set, get their cabinet in place, make some consequential decisions, and you could start to critique them.

00:03:53.000 Donald Trump did that.

00:03:56.000 What did the Democrats do?

00:03:57.000 The day after Donald Trump was sworn into office, there was the famous Madonna march where Madonna, alongside a couple hundred thousand of her angry friends wearing certain hats, she said, I want to blow up the White House.

00:04:14.000 A couple days after Donald Trump took office, Peter Strzok marched right into the office and entrapped Lieutenant General Michael Flynn.

00:04:25.000 And he still has not been held criminally accountable for it, and I don't think he ever will be.

00:04:30.000 There was resignations from K.T. McFarland.

00:04:33.000 There was massive chaos, but it was orchestrated and designed chaos.

00:04:39.000 So Donald Trump, remaining kind of in a de-emphasized role in the last five weeks, created a pent-up demand.

00:04:54.000 Donald Trump knew what he was doing by not commenting, by not making any public appearances.

00:05:00.000 His base and even just the curious people in the middle wanted to hear from him.

00:05:12.000 And so, remember, 19 minutes after the inauguration of Donald Trump, the Washington Post published, we are on a mission to impeach Donald Trump.

00:05:22.000 It begins.

00:05:24.000 So President Trump resumed the public stage yesterday.

00:05:28.000 I believe that if Donald Trump would have given a speech similar to the one he did yesterday from July onward, he would have done better with some of the swing voters and moderate voters in some of these certain states.

00:05:43.000 I'm not saying he would have necessarily have won because of the ballot process, how we count ballots, the shenanigans around how we actually do our elections, but I think he would have done a lot better.

00:05:58.000 It was very interesting to see, and we'll play some of this tape, how focused Donald Trump was in making the case against Joe Biden from a policy perspective.

00:06:11.000 Now, Donald Trump had plenty of kind of funny side comments on Joe Biden's mental faculties, but it was not.

00:06:23.000 I don't think it was overdone.

00:06:25.000 Instead, the ethos of the speech, and you could tell by how the New York Times has covered it, you know how the New York Times has covered Donald Trump's speech?

00:06:34.000 They're not.

00:06:35.000 Instead, it's Myanmar on the front page of the New York Times, which again, I hate to brag, but this program has been ahead of the Burma-Myanmar struggle of any other program.

00:06:47.000 They do have one picture of Trump.

00:06:50.000 Of course, the picture that the New York Times chooses of Trump is one of him looking in the mirror.

00:06:57.000 How the New York Times was given backstage access to get a picture of this, whomever let the New York Times backstage for this should be fired.

00:07:10.000 Donald Trump gave almost a surgical speech.

00:07:13.000 It was precise, had a purpose.

00:07:15.000 It wasn't meandering.

00:07:18.000 A common complaint that I got about Donald Trump during the election was that Donald Trump was always kind of going off in one direction and there wasn't always a theme.

00:07:28.000 My goodness, was there a theme yesterday?

00:07:31.000 Let's go to cut number six.

00:07:33.000 This is a good one to start with, where he says, the task of our party is to stand up to this destructive agenda with confidence and resolve.

00:07:40.000 What an optimistic message.

00:07:42.000 Cut six.

00:07:44.000 The task for our movement and our party is to stand up to this destructive agenda with confidence and with resolve.

00:07:52.000 The future of the Republican Party is as a party that defends the social, economic, and cultural interests and values of working American families of every race, color, and creed.

00:08:04.000 That's why the party is growing so rapidly and is becoming a different party.

00:08:10.000 And it's becoming a party of love.

00:08:12.000 You have to see outside the streets.

00:08:14.000 I mean, there's such love.

00:08:17.000 The speech was energetic and forward-looking, factual and optimistic.

00:08:26.000 I wasn't really sure what to expect.

00:08:28.000 I did have a little bit of a preview with my meeting with him last week at Mar-a-Lago.

00:08:35.000 We talked about this, and my advice, and he completely agreed, was stay focused on Joe Biden's failures and how we can have solutions and better days ahead.

00:08:46.000 There were many Trump rallies that I know turned people off back in the election cycle.

00:08:53.000 Running a program on over 150 radio stations with the podcast listeners we have and the YouTube audience we have, we would receive hundreds, if not thousands of emails a week of people saying, Charlie, I want to vote for Trump, but why did he go on for 45 minutes at this rally in Ohio about this side topic?

00:09:15.000 And putting that aside, yesterday there was none of that.

00:09:21.000 You could tell by almost the media's lack of covering the speech.

00:09:25.000 Have you noticed how little the media has covered the substance of the speech?

00:09:29.000 President Trump gave a detailed response to everything that Joe Biden has done.

00:09:38.000 A very popular position is to open up our schools now.

00:09:45.000 Play cut five.

00:09:47.000 So on behalf of the moms, dads, and children of America, I call on Joe Biden to get the schools open and get them open now.

00:09:55.000 It would be a great thing to do.

00:10:01.000 Schools are still closed.

00:10:03.000 Donald Trump did everything he possibly could to reopen schools.

00:10:07.000 And anyone that supports continued school closures is more worried or interested in a culture of safetyism or protecting public sector teacher unions.

00:10:18.000 Later in this program, we will get to Ron DeSantis and his phenomenal interview with the great one Mark Levin, which is terrific. 0.76

00:10:28.000 And how Florida has become a model of success for the rest of the country, where these other governors who are either too weak or too foolish to realize or recognize actually how to properly govern their state.

00:10:48.000 The other takeaway, which I thought was very significant, was when Donald Trump said, quote, I am not starting a new party. 0.80

00:10:58.000 That's very important.

00:11:00.000 The activist media kept pumping this narrative over the last few weeks.

00:11:07.000 The activist media said, third party is coming.

00:11:09.000 Remember, we did a whole segment on this, about how the media almost wants there to be a third party.

00:11:14.000 Donald Trump quelled all of those fears and ended that discussion.

00:11:20.000 He led with it.

00:11:21.000 And by the way, I have not seen almost any media coverage of that statement.

00:11:27.000 So Donald Trump said yesterday, I'm the leader of the party.

00:11:31.000 I may run again.

00:11:32.000 I might not run again.

00:11:34.000 But here's what our party is going to stand for.

00:11:40.000 Look, big tech has come after conservatives like we've never seen before.

00:11:45.000 My entire CPAC speech, which many of you were very kind In praising, so thank you for that, was all about big tech.

00:11:55.000 Now, look, every device, whether you're on your phone, laptop, or television, has a unique string of numbers called an IP address.

00:12:02.000 When you search for stuff online, watch videos, or even click a link, big tech companies can use that IP address to track all your activity and tie it back to you.

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00:13:03.000 Let's get to some more sound here.

00:13:05.000 Let's go to cut one, where President Trump says, We will take back the House, we'll take back the Senate.

00:13:10.000 A Republican president will take back the White House cut one.

00:13:13.000 We've had tremendous victories, don't ever forget it.

00:13:17.000 With your help, we will take back the House, we will win the Senate, and then a Republican president will make a triumphant return to the White House.

00:13:30.000 And I wonder who that will be.

00:13:35.000 I wonder who that will be talking about taking back the House, taking back the Senate.

00:13:41.000 And as I mentioned in the previous segment, President Donald Trump made the argument to open up our schools.

00:13:50.000 Now, for all intents and purposes, this felt like a state of the union speech.

00:13:54.000 This felt like a speech that was being given summarizing the current state of the country, but just from a perspective of here's everything that was going well and is no longer going well.

00:14:11.000 Now, a story I just can't resist, which is a little bit tangential to the return of Donald Trump, is this Berkeley teacher union story?

00:14:26.000 It's just too perfect.

00:14:28.000 And it goes directly to the school opening issue.

00:14:32.000 And if your schools are not open, if your children are still forced to open up a laptop every single day, and if you don't even know the names of your school board members by now, you're getting played.

00:14:46.000 That's all I can say.

00:14:49.000 Now is time to really raise a ruckus.

00:14:54.000 And I'll be very honest, I have been very disappointed by the lack of activism by parents across the country.

00:15:03.000 Berkeley teacher union head says all schools should be closed, Berkeley, California, saying it's unsafe to send kids to school.

00:15:13.000 At the same time, it has now been revealed that he has been dropping off his son at an in-person private school.

00:15:23.000 So the head of the Berkeley teacher union says, shut down the schools, not safe, but it's safe enough for my kid.

00:15:31.000 And there's a deeper point to all of this.

00:15:34.000 And we've talked about this at great length.

00:15:37.000 Every single position that a conservative advocates, we also live.

00:15:46.000 Every single position that a Democrat advocates is inconsistent with how they want to live.

00:15:53.000 For example, I'm okay with building walls around people's homes.

00:15:59.000 I'm also okay with building a southern border wall.

00:16:02.000 I'm okay with people owning firearms.

00:16:05.000 In fact, I'm okay being protected by firearms.

00:16:08.000 I'm okay with school choice and sending children to different schools.

00:16:13.000 Whereas Democrats say, we want to shut down the schools because it's unsafe.

00:16:20.000 And his name is Matt Meyer.

00:16:23.000 Matt Meyer says it's unsafe, but by the way, it's safe enough for my child, so I'm going to send him to preschool.

00:16:29.000 I guarantee you, I'll make a prediction right now.

00:16:31.000 You want to hear this, Producer Connor?

00:16:33.000 That Matt Meyer's excuse is going to be that the private school has more resources than the public school.

00:16:38.000 Guarantee it's going to be a funding excuse.

00:16:40.000 I guarantee it.

00:16:43.000 Democrats say they don't like walls, but they're happy to build one around the U.S. Capitol.

00:16:47.000 Democrats say that they think climate change is an existential threat, but they're happy to go around the North American continent on private jets. 0.88

00:16:58.000 Since the Democrats' worldview and the left's worldview is inconsistent with human nature, in fact, it's completely at war with human nature, they will always be isolated and singled out as hypocrites.

00:17:16.000 Same with Gavin Newsom. 0.73

00:17:17.000 Gavin Newsom says, keep the restaurants closed.

00:17:19.000 Meanwhile, I'm going to go dine at French Laundry.

00:17:22.000 Ron DeSantis says, open the schools, open the restaurants.

00:17:28.000 And then he goes and has a beer at the Super Bowl.

00:17:31.000 And no one attacks him because he is then living the worldview that he's implementing in the state of Florida.

00:17:38.000 So this guy, Matt Mayer, was caught on camera saying that we must keep public schools closed, but my child can have private in-school instruction.

00:17:51.000 Typical for the Democrats.

00:17:53.000 They want to have rules that they live under, but that you don't have to live under.

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00:19:41.000 The media was hoping and waiting that Donald Trump would focus almost all of his time on the Republican Civil War, because, of course, a Republican Civil War helps the New York Times, it helps the Washington Post, it helps the Democrat Party assume a power grab over the rest of the country.

00:20:03.000 I think that Donald Trump played it perfectly.

00:20:05.000 He did not overly focus on the Republican Civil War, but he was unafraid to name names.

00:20:17.000 Look, Senator Rick Scott, who I have some respect for, we've had him on the program before, talks a really good game when it comes to China, said that the Republican Civil War is over.

00:20:30.000 And I thought to myself, has it even really ever, has it started?

00:20:36.000 He says, I'm calling the Republican Civil War to be over.

00:20:39.000 And essentially, what Rick Scott is saying is that it's okay for fake Republicans and fake conservatives like Liz Cheney to do the ultimate vote of impeachment with no recourse and no cross-examination.

00:21:03.000 And people say it's time for Republicans to be unified.

00:21:08.000 If we were a year from today, I would agree with that.

00:21:12.000 But there are some very serious differences that we have to work out amongst other Republicans.

00:21:18.000 And we've talked about this before.

00:21:20.000 Are we going to be a party that wants to invade half of the sovereign countries on the planet?

00:21:29.000 This is the position of Liz Cheney. 0.98

00:21:32.000 She's never found a war that she doesn't want to support, and it's for obvious reasons.

00:21:36.000 Her family and her father are heavily incentivized by the war machine, War Inc., the military-industrial complex, to send our loved ones, our missiles, and our resources abroad. 0.86

00:21:50.000 This is why we got into the reckless and immoral war in Iraq.

00:21:55.000 This is why Liz Cheney does not want the war in Afghanistan to end.

00:21:58.000 Liz Cheney is a spokesperson of 5% of the Republican Party that enjoys perpetual, endless foreign conflict.

00:22:09.000 I'm not even going to get into Liz Cheney's impeachment vote.

00:22:12.000 I'm not even going to get into Liz Cheney calling Donald Trump the worst president in American history.

00:22:18.000 I'm just going to stay strictly focused on the agenda that Liz Cheney represents.

00:22:23.000 The agenda that Liz Cheney represents is a pro-corporate agenda.

00:22:28.000 And as we have gone through in great detail on this program, is that being a conservative must mean something different than being a corporatist?

00:22:39.000 The people that represent the largest and most powerful companies in our country, they have no concern about the future of America.

00:22:47.000 America is nothing more than a colony for them.

00:22:50.000 It's nothing more than a temporary holding place for them to maximize their profits and move on.

00:22:56.000 America is our home.

00:23:00.000 It's not just another place for massive transnational companies to sell us piles of plastic we don't need, textiles we're not going to wear, and get us addicted to smartphone applications that make us less human.

00:23:20.000 But Liz Cheney's okay with that.

00:23:22.000 Liz Cheney, representing a beautiful, wonderful state of Wyoming, which, by the way, is one of my favorite states in the country with some of the greatest people on the planet.

00:23:31.000 She has decided not to represent Wyoming.

00:23:34.000 She has decided to represent Halliburton.

00:23:38.000 She has decided to represent Raytheon.

00:23:41.000 And by the way, Halliburton and Raytheon, if they were actually put in their proper place, probably do the best job of making weapons in the world.

00:23:51.000 The problem with private defense contractors is their entire profit model to deliver shareholder returns is foreign wars.

00:24:05.000 Endless foreign wars do not make our country safer.

00:24:09.000 Now, I am not a dove by any means.

00:24:12.000 I don't think we should be afraid to show the strength of the United States military like we did against Qassam Soleimani.

00:24:20.000 I think that when the military acts, it must be done with precision, must be done with a specific goal in mind, and do what the military does best, which is kill people and break stuff.

00:24:31.000 That's what our military is the best at. 0.74

00:24:34.000 Our military is not the best at democratizing a third world country or trying to liberate Afghanistan to embrace Western values, building schools and bridges.

00:24:46.000 That is not the mission statement of the United States military.

00:24:50.000 It's not. 0.92

00:24:51.000 But for Liz Cheney, because she really doesn't believe in anything, she's just kind of a, she's kind of a NASCAR driver. 0.90

00:25:00.000 She just kind of just wears a bunch of corporate sponsors and drives in circles.

00:25:04.000 That's kind of Liz Cheney. 0.98

00:25:05.000 And again, she's a nice enough person.

00:25:07.000 I've met her before.

00:25:09.000 But that's her role in life.

00:25:10.000 I think she defines success as fulfilling promises for the most amount of corporate donors as possible.

00:25:17.000 Where Ted Cruz or Rand Paul or Donald Trump or Josh Hawley, they define success as saving the civilization of the country.

00:25:26.000 Big difference. 0.97

00:25:27.000 That's not to say that Liz Cheney's voting record is all bad. 1.00

00:25:31.000 She's not a complete and total fool. 1.00

00:25:33.000 She knows she has to at least throw a little bit of red meat to the conservative base. 0.97

00:25:40.000 But Donald Trump read off the names of the Republicans.

00:25:43.000 And I will say this.

00:25:45.000 I will compliment Donald Trump for having restraint.

00:25:50.000 He just read off the names with a couple adjectives here and there.

00:25:54.000 This was Donald Trump at his most disciplined.

00:25:59.000 Let's play cut three.

00:26:01.000 Adam Kinzinger is another guy who is bought by the war machine, the defense industrial complex or the War Incorporated.

00:26:12.000 Just how BLM incorporated their profit model is to keep us divided by race, gender, and class.

00:26:19.000 The war incorporated model is to keep us perpetually occupying countries that don't pose any sort of threat to our country.

00:26:27.000 Play cut three.

00:26:28.000 The Democrats don't have grandstanders like Mitt Romney, Lil Ben Sasse, Richard Burr, Bill Cassidy, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Pat Toomey.

00:26:44.000 And in the House, Tom Rice, South Carolina, Adam Kinzinger, Dan Newhouse, Anthony Gonzalez, that's another beauty.

00:26:58.000 Fred Upton, Jamie Herrera Butler, Peter Meyer, John Catko, David Valladale, and of course the warmonger, a person that loves seeing our troops fighting, Liz Cheney.

00:27:14.000 How about that? 0.97

00:27:18.000 So hopefully they'll get rid of her with the next election. 1.00

00:27:23.000 Get rid of them all.

00:27:25.000 Say whatever you will about Donald Trump.

00:27:28.000 In my opinion, one of the greatest things he will ever have brought to American politics is challenging the neoconservatives in the Republican Party.

00:27:37.000 They were just an untouched class in the Republican Party, the perpetual war machine.

00:27:42.000 I just get great joy whenever the Cheney family gets called out.

00:27:45.000 They have done such unbelievable damage to our country.

00:27:49.000 For the people of Wyoming, please consolidate around one candidate who's not like Roy Moore, just someone that's normal, and we will do everything we possibly can to help you.

00:28:01.000 I really mean that.

00:28:02.000 And I think Donald Trump will fly his beautiful big plane to Gillette, to Casper, to Teton County.

00:28:10.000 And if any of you are watching from Wyoming, please email us freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:28:14.000 And by the way, as you could tell, my critique of Liz Cheney, I'm not going to raise my voice.

00:28:18.000 I'm not going to call her names.

00:28:20.000 We have to be factual in how we do this.

00:28:22.000 You see, people like Liz Cheney, people like Adam Kinzinger, they get their moral high ground when they go on CNN when we don't remain within a framework of being factual and evidence-based.

00:28:34.000 If I called Liz Cheney all these different names or Adam Kinzinger, they'll say, oh, look how terrible they are because they used all these pejoratives.

00:28:40.000 No, I'm going to be very clear, Adam Kinzinger and Liz Cheney.

00:28:44.000 You hate Donald Trump because he threatened Raytheon Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin's ability to get unquestioned contracts to purchase a bunch of missiles that we don't need while our infrastructure is crumbling, while 78% of our black children are being born without fathers.

00:29:13.000 52% of all marriages end in divorce.

00:29:16.000 53% of recent college graduates live at home with their parents.

00:29:20.000 The average student loan debt borrower owes $32,000 per borrower.

00:29:26.000 And we're more worried about whether or not we can democratize the Kandahar Valley in Afghanistan.

00:29:33.000 When Donald Trump talks about America first, that's what he means.

00:29:41.000 President Trump also talked about in this cut here, cut 19, that warmonger Liz Cheney has the wrong ideas for conservatism.

00:29:56.000 Again, this was not an over emphasis of his speech.

00:30:01.000 It was not a primary focus, but he put it in there for a reason.

00:30:05.000 And I'm glad he did.

00:30:08.000 Because if Donald Trump decided to do the George W. Bush thing, which I think is a complete waste of time, George W. Bush, who ends up painting pastels, what a waste of time.

00:30:17.000 You're a former president.

00:30:18.000 Do something useful.

00:30:19.000 George W. Bush painting watercolors.

00:30:22.000 Anyway, the sooner we move past the Bush and Cheney dynasties in our country, the sooner we'll be able to get to real leaders.

00:30:30.000 And Donald Trump is temporarily filling that void.

00:30:32.000 Now, you've got to respect the perseverance.

00:30:35.000 I know a lot of people that listen to this program don't care for Trump, and I try to do everything I can as factually and evidence-based as I can, but you got to at least have respect for the fact he never gives up.

00:30:44.000 I think that is a very admirable quality in a human being.

00:30:48.000 Okay, cut 19.

00:30:50.000 And of course, the warmonger, a person that loves seeing our troops fighting, Liz Cheney.

00:30:58.000 How about that? 0.62

00:31:03.000 The good news is in her state, she's been censured, and in her state, her poll numbers have dropped faster than any human being I've ever seen. 0.98

00:31:13.000 So hopefully they'll get rid of her with the next election.

00:31:18.000 Get rid of them all.

00:31:20.000 That was so restrained for him.

00:31:23.000 It was.

00:31:25.000 What he's really saying is get rid of the entrenched corporate Republicans.

00:31:29.000 We need to get to a party that is creative, optimistic, solution-oriented, not bought and paid for by the most corrupt companies in our country.

00:31:37.000 I got a great note from a friend of mine listening in Chicago, AM560, The Answer.

00:31:45.000 He says, Listening to you and Trump talk about ending the endless wars, I feel like I'm listening to Bobby Kennedy's 1968 campaign.

00:31:52.000 I just hope things end up better for me than Bobby Kennedy.

00:31:56.000 However, the point is, he says, throw in free speech and we can really appeal to classical liberals.

00:32:01.000 I think there's a lot of truth to that, which again, as we start to challenge some of the dominant political beliefs of team right and team left, I think we're going to find out that some Bernie Sanders liberals, albeit they might want a heavy hand of government domestically, they will agree about challenging big tech and ending these endless wars.

00:32:27.000 I think some of them also want to be free speech, free speech advocates.

00:32:30.000 I think that trying to convince people to be free speech absolutists is something that we really need to do a better job of from just a moral standpoint and then maybe secondarily a utilitarian standpoint.

00:32:45.000 Let's get to some more sound here.

00:32:48.000 Another winning issue.

00:32:49.000 I love this.

00:32:51.000 I wish that President Trump would have talked more about this in the campaign, to be perfectly honest with you.

00:32:56.000 This is the type of culture stuff that wins over people in the middle.

00:33:00.000 I'm a believer, I'm an optimist, that reason will win.

00:33:04.000 Reason is a gift from God.

00:33:06.000 I really believe that.

00:33:08.000 Reason is what separates us from the beasts of the wild.

00:33:12.000 It's what makes us human beings.

00:33:15.000 And a reasonable way to approach life, especially life when it comes to schooling, is to keep women and their sports and their locker rooms separate from men.

00:33:30.000 This is not a controversial position. 0.50

00:33:32.000 This is a reasonable position and a moral position.

00:33:34.000 Play cut 24.

00:33:36.000 Joe Biden and the Democrats are even pushing policies that would destroy women's sports.

00:33:46.000 A lot of new records are being broken in women's sports. 0.99

00:33:50.000 Hate to say that, ladies, but got a lot of new records. 1.00

00:33:53.000 They're being shattered.

00:33:55.000 Young girls and women are incensed that they are now being forced to compete against those who are biological males.

00:34:04.000 It's not good for women.

00:34:06.000 It's not good for women's sports, which worked so long and so hard to get to where they are. 1.00

00:34:11.000 This is a winning issue. 0.99

00:34:14.000 And again, I said this earlier in the program.

00:34:18.000 The lack of backlash from parents across the country has been disappointing for me to see.

00:34:26.000 There's still time.

00:34:28.000 In fact, there's an urgent need for it.

00:34:31.000 There is an urgent need for parents across the country, whether you're listening to this on AM 960 in Phoenix, AM 560 in Chicago, AM 870 in New York.

00:34:41.000 See, I'm getting the call signs better.

00:34:44.000 All these numbers.

00:34:45.000 You have to get to know all of your school board members and email them, contact them.

00:34:52.000 Am I allowed to say what Maxine Waters said?

00:34:55.000 Get in their face.

00:34:56.000 Is that okay? 0.99

00:34:58.000 I'll metaphorically get in their face, okay?

00:35:01.000 Well, they might not like that because of the mask.

00:35:03.000 FaceTime them, okay?

00:35:05.000 Is that fair to say?

00:35:07.000 Get in their email box.

00:35:09.000 That's right. 1.00

00:35:13.000 The issue of women's sports is a winning issue.

00:35:19.000 It is a 90-10 issue. 0.99

00:35:21.000 Do you see all these records being broken by biological men? 0.59

00:35:26.000 Men that are suffering from gender dysphoria, men that need very serious help and they start calling themselves women? 0.54

00:35:33.000 They should not be given rewards for their gender dysphoria.

00:35:37.000 They should be given compassion and treatment for that.

00:35:42.000 But all of a sudden they're competing in women's sports, and all of the young women who have XX chromosomes are now being forced to compete against someone who has more testosterone, more muscle mass. 1.00

00:35:58.000 And the feminists are mostly silent. 0.68

00:36:01.000 The Democrats are mostly complicit. 1.00

00:36:04.000 This is what the Equality Act talked about. 0.82

00:36:07.000 And I truly believe that reason will win.

00:36:11.000 The only way reason will win, though, is if you're able to speak.

00:36:15.000 If no one's allowed to talk, then whoever controls the most power sources will win, which is what the left desires.

00:36:27.000 Email us your questions.

00:36:28.000 As always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:36:30.000 If you want to get involved with Turning Point USA, go to tpusa.com and support us at charliekirk.com/slash support.

00:36:38.000 God bless you guys.

00:36:39.000 Speak to you soon.

The Charlie Kirk Show - March 02, 2021

How Trump Triumphed in Orlando

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