Learn English with Charlie Kirk. President Donald Trump delivers a speech at the Hillsdale Leadership Seminar. President Trump speaks at a national leadership seminar in Hillsdale, and then visits the campus for a campus tour.
00:00:43.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
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00:01:42.000But I'm on pace to complete every single Hillsdale online course, so I think I'm making up for it.
00:01:48.000And I visit college campuses, so you don't have to, and I can tell you that if every kid who's currently in college Took the Hillsdale online courses.
00:02:00.000Instead of going to that four-year college, America would be in a much better place.
00:03:06.000I ask a Hillsdale college student, why are you here?
00:03:09.000They say, well, I'm here to learn how to be a good citizen.
00:03:12.000I'm here to learn what it means to be a good person, to grow in character and faith and duty.
00:03:18.000And I ask an average college student, At Arizona State University, Harvard of the West, down the street here.
00:03:25.000And let's just be honest, it pales in comparison to Hillsdale.
00:03:29.000For many reasons, let's just be honest.
00:03:32.000And I asked them, I said, what are you reading?
00:03:34.000And they could maybe recite one or two books.
00:03:36.000At Hillsdale College, they know the texts intimately.
00:03:40.000And it's not a mistake, because it all starts from Dr. Larry Arnn.
00:03:45.000Hillsdale was a good college when Dr. Arnn took over.
00:03:48.000Now it is the best college in America after what Dr. Arn has done over the last couple of decades.
00:03:54.000And it has turned into a cultural powerhouse because, as you well know, Hillsdale, there's a waiting line to get in.
00:04:03.000The standards keep on getting higher and harder to get in.
00:04:06.000But the millions of people like myself that are taking these online courses is dramatically improving our chances of restoring a free society.
00:04:15.000The Constitution 101 course, that alone should be taught mandatorily to every police officer, firefighter, marine person in the military that has to take an oath for the Constitution.
00:04:27.000They should learn what they're taking an oath towards, and no better course does that than the Hillsdale Constitution 101 course.
00:04:34.000And the impact is beyond just what is happening in Michigan.
00:04:54.000And I'm going to build out that argument in a second because the philosophical basis of this new administration is largely an outgrowth from the hard work that Hillsdale has been doing over the last couple decades.
00:05:30.000The new totalitarian novels is terrific.
00:05:33.000By the way, I highly recommend for any of you that have kids or grandkids to tell them that if they want special privileges to go on a trip or if they want...
00:05:51.000I'll say, however, we will give you Constitution Day off if you take the Hillsdale online course on Constitution 101. So that is now practice at Turning Point USA. But I'll tell you this, that as you take these courses, you realize how little our own elected leaders know How little the people that go on TV and start yammering about,
00:06:17.000you know, we're all about freedom and liberty, and they can't tell you anything about the structure or the form of the U.S. Constitution or what we're fighting for.
00:06:25.000And I think we're finding our way back as a country.
00:06:28.000I think that we are finding our way back to foundational roots.
00:06:33.000And part of that, by the way, is being driven by one of the most unusual forces, which is that this is a bottom-up, youth-led political movement.
00:06:41.000That if you look at every single demographic in the 2024 election, the one that moved most dramatically and surprisingly were voters under the age of 30. These are people that traditionally would be card-carrying members of the American left.
00:06:58.000Now, Donald Trump did not win the youth vote in every single state.
00:07:02.000And I will tell you one state he won the youth vote, and I give Dr. Arnn all the credit.
00:07:05.000He did win the youth vote in Michigan.
00:07:08.000Donald Trump won the youth vote in Michigan.
00:07:11.000But all kidding aside, this movement of young people is largely driven by them being raised in the excess of what we call wokeism, the kind of political correctness, the totalitarian impulses of political correctness, and a resurgence, some of what the work we've done at Turning Point.
00:07:32.000But talking to the next generation about what kind of country do you actually want to live in?
00:07:37.000Do you want to be able to own a home, get married, and have kids?
00:07:40.000Or do you want to just stare at a screen all day long and be an indentured Russian serf and never own anything for the rest of your life?
00:07:47.000And President Trump, to his great credit, ran an asymmetrical political operation that defied every single norm and custom of the political consultant elite over the last 30 years.
00:07:58.000He did podcasting instead of 60-minute interviews.
00:08:01.000He went and did TikTok videos instead of New York Times editorial sit-down meeting.
00:08:06.000He said, no one reads the New York Times, but people do watch TikTok videos.
00:08:10.000In an amazing way, President Donald Trump performed the best that a Republican president has performed with younger voters in over 50 years.
00:08:19.000And this is a bottom-up resurgence where now, of every demographic, they say do approve or disapprove of Donald Trump.
00:08:26.000Baby boomers, no offense, they're not really crazy about what's happening in D.C. Do you know who is the most supportive of what's happening right now in Washington, D.C.? Voters under 30. It makes perfect sense, by the way.
00:08:38.000It's because they think the entire system, top to bottom, is wretched to the core and is a tumor that must be removed and we must start from the beginning because it's not working for them.
00:08:49.000Because they can't afford homes, and they're seeing themselves involve the most suicidal, depressed, anxious, and alcohol-addicted generation in history, and they want the same American dream that their parents and grandparents had.
00:09:00.000And so we saw this in this last election.
00:09:28.000But all of that has now led to the ultimate question, which, of course, we all see what President Trump has done in just the last couple of weeks.
00:09:36.000President Trump is doing so much, the Democrats can't remember why they're mad at him.
00:11:21.000Who's now HHS Secretary, Kash Patel, who's about to be FBI Director, Tulsi Gabbard.
00:11:26.000My favorite executive order, by the way, is President Trump putting an end to the gender transitions called chemical castration for our kids, preventing the medical butchery that has been happening.
00:11:39.000All the incredible pardons of pro-life warriors, the recommission of the 1776 commission that Dr. Arne chaired last time, ending the wars, and how amazing is his team?
00:11:50.000From Marco Rubio today in Saudi Arabia, J.D. Vance in Munich, that was a 10 out of 10 speech.
00:11:57.000We got Pete Hegseth doing PT with the Marines at 5 a.m., where we had that...
00:12:02.000We've got slob Mark Milley who couldn't even walk up a flight of stairs or Lloyd Austin that would get out of breath just for standing out of his chair.
00:12:09.000We've got Pete Hegseth who's literally running miles with Marines and Navy SEALs before the sun gets up in Poland.
00:12:16.000A new administration is here, and all of this is worthy of celebration, but it does not get down to the core of the matter.
00:12:22.000It does not get down to what is the big and the looming fight.
00:12:26.000And I'm only able to articulate this because of Hillsdale College.
00:12:30.000Because most people on TV are missing what's really going on.
00:12:34.000They're missing what is going to be the republic-determining element of this entire thing.
00:12:41.000And it comes down to three major questions, big questions, that are being debated in the media, but they're not getting down to the meat of the matter.
00:12:52.000The first of which is so simple, and you can ask my daughter, who's two and a half years old, and she knows the answer to this question.
00:12:58.000How many branches of government are there?
00:13:12.000Are there three branches of the government?
00:13:15.000What Dr. Arndt has been saying for longer than I have been alive and has been trying to get the American public to realize and recognize that there has been an invisible, unelected, Unknown branch of government that has been operating unconstitutionally post-Woodrow Wilson, and no one has had the moral clarity, the mandate, or the gusto to even mention it, let alone challenge it, let alone deconstruct it.
00:13:44.000And we can call that the administrative state, we can call that the shadow government, the deep state.
00:13:49.000All of those are correct answers, by the way.
00:13:51.000But understand the profundity of President Donald Trump saying, Okay, JFK started USAID by an executive order.
00:14:00.000I can end USAID by an executive order.
00:14:03.000You serve at the pleasure of the president.
00:14:05.000And then they say, well, no, you can't do that.
00:14:50.000Now, the president could be as provocative, he'd get impeached if he does this, but it would be perfectly constitutional if he asked the FBI director to look at every pending case the FBI is looking into.
00:15:01.000If he looked at everything the DOJ is doing, it's perfectly constitutional.
00:15:04.000The DOJ does not operate on a special island.
00:15:07.000I must have missed that in the Hillsdale online course, Federalist Papers course, where Alexander Hamilton was going on talking about, well, the attorney general is kind of its own, president.
00:15:15.000And the FBI kind of does its own thing.
00:15:20.000He knows this philosophically, but he knows it personally.
00:15:23.000Because that fourth branch of government destroyed his first term, was the reason he did not get re-elected in 2020, and is the reason why he faced 700 years in federal prison.
00:15:37.000President Donald Trump is counterattacking the fourth branch of government that tried to stop him over the last decade.
00:15:43.000This is the fourth branch that waged war on the sovereign.
00:17:06.000Because our leaders have prolonged the inevitable for decades.
00:17:11.000George W. Bush did not have the moral clarity or the gusto to pick this fight.
00:17:17.000In fact, he grew the Leviathan and grew the administrative state.
00:17:21.000We have new agencies because of Republican presidents.
00:17:24.000So this has been a fight that has been delayed for far too long, and this is where it is all heading.
00:17:28.000And so when it comes down to who is the sovereign, it comes down to, well, we, the American people, elected a president to be able to do the job.
00:18:47.000I think that when the history books are written, he's going to go down as one of the most interesting, consequential, business titan political figures ever to exist.
00:18:58.000So here's a guy who has more money than you could ever imagine.
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00:21:50.000It's a gravitational pull in the wrong direction.
00:21:54.000And so it is a cultural sea change, top to bottom, that we are experiencing.
00:21:58.000And they're going to fight with everything they possibly can.
00:22:01.000If you think they fought hard to prevent President Trump from re-obtaining office, this is way worse than they actually thought this was going to go.
00:22:11.000They thought it would be like mass deportations.
00:22:13.000Notice that no one's talking about that anymore.
00:22:25.000By the way, it's a brilliant strategy by President Trump, might I add, because everyone's talking more about Elon than President Trump, and President Trump's able to kind of not be attacked for the first time in a decade.
00:22:43.000And so, but the reason they're fighting so hard on Doge and on what we are experiencing is We actually have a chance to do the thing that people thought that could never get done.
00:22:57.000Which is, we actually have a chance to reorient the ship back to the founders' intent.
00:23:03.000To restore the three branches of government.
00:23:06.000To articulate what Article 2 actually is.
00:23:09.000And I think we have a shot at doing it.
00:23:11.000Article 1 is the hardest because Congress is a disaster.
00:23:14.000But I think the Supreme Court is actually willing to hear this out for the first time in a generation.
00:23:18.000I think the Supreme Court is now willing to hear the arguments.
00:23:21.000What do you mean you're an independent agency?
00:23:25.000You serve under Article II. And we've seen with some decisions, the Chevron deference decision, the EPA decision, the courts are signaling that they're ready for these monumental type cases.
00:23:36.000And what that means, everybody, is that the administrative state leviathan, this regime that has been swallowing our freedom and liberty post-Woodrow Wilson, for the first time, we can reverse it.
00:23:53.000But it's not just going to happen because of one election.
00:23:56.000It will only happen with a free citizenry demanding it out of your leaders with vocal support on a daily basis.
00:24:03.000Educating the masses of what's really going on.
00:24:05.000And I believe we have a shot at doing it because we're able to communicate to millions of people in a moment's notice without having to go through the Washington Post.
00:24:50.000And that's the true revolution that's occurring, is that we are taking the bold and courageous move that is going to put a lot of people's lives and fortunes and sacred honors at risk to say, subject no more, citizen.
00:25:05.000Because we have lived as subjects for the last couple of years.
00:25:09.000Whether we realize that or not, we have not been citizens, which is co-rulers or co-authorities of our own nation.
00:25:16.000And that's where the Trump thing gets way bigger than Trump.
00:25:19.000And honestly, God bless this guy for being the man in the arena that Teddy Roosevelt, as we talked about, having the courage and the stamina.
00:25:26.000God bless him for not taking the deal where they said, you know, don't run for president and just being kingmaker and doubling down, getting shot, his whole business empire nearly taken from him, and now getting into what is the most high-stakes fight constitutionally, morally, and civilizationally.
00:25:51.000As Dr. Arna said, it is the last best hope.
00:25:53.000And it's only us if we can actually win the domestic war first.
00:25:57.000If we can restrain this beast that has been slowly taking over every one of our ways of life over the last couple decades and especially the last 100 years.
00:26:10.000And then I want to talk about one other thing about this, and then we can do, I think they said questions at some point, I don't know the format, is this, which is that I'm a big believer in God's providence over our nation.
00:26:21.000I believe that God had his hand on Donald Trump, and I believe that God had his hand on this country.
00:26:26.000And I believe that, as the founders did, that there is a providential element to all of this.
00:26:35.000I remember after Donald Trump was displaced from office in the 2020 election, we were all like, is the country over?
00:26:43.000And we believed through faith, as it says in Romans 8.28, that God will use all things for good for those who love him, that maybe there is a plan here that we don't understand.
00:26:56.000And I know a lot of you know this, and a few people say it publicly, but I think it's worthy of a teaching to our kids, especially because we thought it was the worst thing.
00:27:04.000But now we look back and we say, honestly, exile might have been really good for us.
00:27:08.000Those four years off might have actually been grace, not judgment.
00:27:15.000Like those four years where we weren't in control of everything actually made us stronger and tougher, made us have more resolve, made us find out what we're really made out of, made us shrink our ranks away from the people that were summer soldiers, that were sunshine patriots.
00:27:34.000We told those people, go away, we'll call you back when everything's fixed.
00:27:38.000I think President Trump in exile, when he faced the entire power of the federal government, became a stronger person.
00:27:46.000And not just him, but his senior staff that was around him.
00:27:50.000From Stephen Miller to Susie Wiles, this whole team.
00:27:54.000They were around the table in Bedminster, New Jersey.
00:27:58.000I was not there, but I know about it very intimately.
00:28:00.000When President Donald Trump was joking and playing Phantom of the Opera, drinking Diet Coke, when all of a sudden his phone rang and they said, you're indicted.
00:28:10.000And in that moment, I mean, it's never happened before in American history.
00:28:13.000And then this avalanche of indictments came after that.
00:28:16.000And Jack Smith launched, you know, the lunatic thing.
00:28:58.000Is the pent up of an entire community of people, about a couple dozen people, that saw their boss get shot.
00:29:07.000That saw the president and our entire country, in my personal opinion, literally come millimeters away from the country disintegrating into chaos, oblivion, and discord, or what, I hate to say civil war, but I think we all know that it might have gone to that.
00:29:18.000And it makes us really consider, as the history books are written, that, boy, the Democrats should have let us win in 2020. That them doing what they did in the 2020 election, Zucker boxes, mail-in ballots, might go down as one of the dumbest things the Democrat Party has ever done.
00:29:40.000Because what they have to reap right now is a completely different conservative movement.
00:30:02.000We're going to go back to restore this beautiful country that we love.
00:30:06.000And that's where all of this comes together.
00:30:08.000And I believe you guys have an obligation to continue to support Hillsdale College, to fight for a free society, because that's really where this is all going to be connected.
00:30:15.000My role these next couple years, I'm not going in government.
00:30:22.000I'm going to keep on doing the grassroots movement with young people.
00:30:24.000Most importantly, I'm going to keep on trying to keep people informed of what's happening here so this thrust, this moment does not get lost, because this is a once-in-many-lifetimes opportunity, a moment to reclaim what has been given to us that we did not earn, that we do not deserve, to get us back on the path of the divine providence that we do not deserve, to get us back on the path of the divine providence that the founders talked about in our And it's only possible, in my opinion, thanks to Hillsdale College and all the work that you guys do here.
00:30:52.000Thank you, and let's do questions if time will last.
00:31:33.000I'd like to add the idea that these state universities are also part of that bureaucratic state, and I'd like to ask for your help with ASU. You've already done a great job.
00:31:43.000By coming out and talking to our students, I think you changed the election, but there's a lot more work to do.
00:32:17.000So now it's going to come down to an enforcement question where President Trump signed an executive order saying no taxpayer money is going to go to any school that teaches critical race theory, DEI, transgender ideology, which obviously ASU does, right?
00:32:30.000They have entire departments dedicated to this.
00:32:32.000And so it's now going to come into the enforcement of a couple test cases saying, no, you're not going to get federal money, Pell Grant money, research money, any subsidized student loans for that.
00:32:43.000That's only going to solve it partially.
00:32:45.000And this is why free citizenry is so important, is we need to ask the question of these bloated state institutions, their financial model is actually completely corrupted if you take out subsidized student loans and the over-certification of what education has actually become.
00:33:02.000That's why Hillsdale is so important, is that Hillsdale...
00:33:06.000Hillsdale refuses to scale to just be an ASU, 100,000 kids on campus, because then you lose what college actually is, which means partnership.
00:33:13.000I can answer that question now, Dr. Ren, for the record.
00:33:19.000And so, in my opinion, Phase 2 and 3 needs to be an all-out campaign, understanding that these colleges have become massive, bloated bureaucracies in their own states, but also, even more importantly, They're training factories for the administrative state.
00:33:36.000And two, they are petri dishes for all the worst ideas that then metastasize into corporate America, law enforcement, military, so on and so forth.
00:33:47.000And the other point I'll make is, you go to Hillsdale College, do you notice how aesthetically beautiful it is?
00:35:03.000I have a sophomore at Hillsdale, and before I get to my question, I just have to tell you that we've been Turning Point supporters long before we were Hillsdale supporters.
00:35:16.000About six or seven years ago, we saw you at University of Washington.
00:37:12.000And also, we've been trying to get Greenland for well over 100 years, actually 150 years, and I can tell you, having visited Greenland with Don Jr., it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been in more ways than one.
00:37:25.000I will just kind of caution, and if you like imperialistic, let me say this, is that President Trump is a dealmaker, he's a negotiator, and you ask for the moon, and if you get Greenland in return, maybe the next...
00:37:42.000National Leadership Seminar can be in Nook.
00:37:52.000I'm another supporter from the slave state of Washington.
00:37:57.000So what do you think the chances are that Trump will revoke the other earth-shaking executive order from JFK? The one that allowed government employees to unionize?
00:38:13.000I actually don't have insight into that.
00:38:16.000But let me first give Trump credit for revoking a separate executive order that I did not mention, which was verboten and untouchable.
00:38:24.000My friend Jeremy Carl, who's written the best book on anti-white racism.
00:38:39.000That took so much courage to do and no one's talking about it because he's doing so much other stuff.
00:38:43.000Understand that the affirmative action regime was never passed by Congress.
00:38:48.000It It was done by executive order saying that we're only going to hire in...
00:38:52.000Federal hiring practices based on skin color, not merit, because of executive order.
00:38:56.000I can't speak on the unionization one.
00:38:59.000I'd have to look more into that, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's being contemplated.
00:39:02.000But if a president does it, a president can undo it, as you can see by USAID. That was done by executive order by JFK. Why can't you just fold it into the State Department?
00:39:12.000I think we have time for one or two more.
00:39:15.000Charlie, I'm ready to run through a brick wall after the speech here.
00:39:20.000Real quick, we're in Arizona, home to Intel, Microchip, some of the big tech companies.
00:39:26.000What's your thought, if any, on unshoring manufacturing?
00:39:30.000What are some of the pain we're going to have to go through to bring some of this back?
00:39:38.000I think that President Trump has alluded to this, and I think that the current economic nonsense that has been handed to us by the previous, let's just say, easy, cheap money regime...
00:39:48.000Is that there might have to be a moment to take some cough syrup, metaphorically, economically, before we can get to some wellness.
00:39:54.000I mean, our economist friend doesn't think a soft landing is possible.
00:39:58.000Let you guys debate that amongst yourselves.
00:40:01.000However, I will say this, that President Trump using tariffs is getting a very, very bad rap in some financial circles or markets.
00:40:08.000But it's a forcing function to redomicile labor and industry back to this country.
00:40:12.000And in order to actually have a country, you have to make things, not just be, I'll give you just one example.
00:40:25.000We don't make vitamin C in this country anymore.
00:40:28.000We don't make our necessary pharmaceuticals in this country anymore.
00:40:31.000You cease to be an independent, autonomous, sovereign country if you're dependent.
00:40:36.000On a nation 5,000 miles away to be able to get basic goods and necessities.
00:40:40.000So how much pain there will be, I don't know.
00:40:43.000However, I will say there are a lot of major companies that are already talking about redomiciling the production of their assets or their goods into the interior of the United States, which is then how you circumvent the tariff is if you make it in the United States.
00:41:28.000Look, there's a new generation that's rising in D.C. And if that concerns you, I want to give you some comfort.
00:41:34.000This next generation is the type of person that has the character of a Hillsdale College-type student.
00:41:40.000I want you to look at the type of person I'm talking about.
00:41:43.000You have a press secretary that's 27 years old named Caroline Leavitt, who's taken on the press every single day in an elegant and amazing way.
00:41:51.000You've got Stephen Miller, who's in his young 30s running all the domestic policy.
00:41:55.000And running the entire immigration department of the entire federal government.
00:42:12.000He just turned 40. And so this next generation of conservatives is operating with urgency and is taking over D.C. for the better.
00:42:21.000The old guard is going to do everything they possibly can.
00:42:24.000I mean, Mitch McConnell, I'll let you guys fill in the blanks.
00:42:27.000I think it's very disappointing for this reason.
00:42:29.000I have much stronger opinions on Mitch McConnell than what I'm about to say, but I'll give you one that is very agreeable.
00:42:37.000It's very disappointing that Mitch McConnell for years would go around and preach to all of his Senate Republican colleagues, we must stick together.