The Charlie Kirk Show - My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance

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00:00:03.000 My conversation with Vice President J.D. Vance.

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00:01:30.000 Okay, joining us now is the Vice President of the United States of America, Mr. J.D. Vance.

00:01:36.000 Mr. Vice President, great to have you in the program.

00:01:37.000 Boy, it feels good to say that.

00:01:40.000 How are you doing, my friend?

00:01:41.000 And great to have you in the program.

00:01:43.000 Thanks, Charlie.

00:01:43.000 It's good to be with you.

00:01:44.000 And yeah, man, it's kind of crazy.

00:01:47.000 It feels in some ways like we've done more in 100 days than other administrations do over 100 years.

00:01:53.000 But it feels good.

00:01:55.000 And, you know, obviously we're going to keep up the momentum as much as we can.

00:01:59.000 But it's a big milestone, and I'm happy to celebrate it with my dear friend Charlie Kirk.

00:02:03.000 Well, thank you.

00:02:04.000 And let's dive into that.

00:02:05.000 So just first, how has it been as far as operating at Trump speed and Trump pace?

00:02:13.000 And the victories are enormous, and it's easy to forget some of them because there are so many executive orders, so many problems that are now fixed.

00:02:25.000 What has surprised you?

00:02:26.000 What has met your expectations?

00:02:28.000 What has now exceeded your expectations, both from working closely with the president and also the portfolio of issues that you and the entire administration have decided to tackle?

00:02:39.000 Yeah, well, obviously the president is working at a very fast pace.

00:02:43.000 You know, he goes to bed late.

00:02:45.000 He wakes up early.

00:02:46.000 He's constantly asking us, how can we do more?

00:02:49.000 How can we take?

00:02:50.000 You know, give an objective and accomplish it faster.

00:02:53.000 And so I think it's actually liberating in a lot of ways because you know that whatever you do, so long as it is consistent with the president's objective, he's going to empower you to do it.

00:03:02.000 He's going to encourage you to do it.

00:03:03.000 And if you're not doing it, he's going to ask, why the hell haven't you got it done?

00:03:07.000 And I think that's a very easy way to go about the job of vice president because, you know, I feel like I have pretty broad latitude, right, to accomplish the things that the president wants us to accomplish.

00:03:16.000 And so I really enjoyed the job.

00:03:18.000 Obviously, I've only been in it 100 days, but I really enjoyed it.

00:03:21.000 I think we've gotten a lot done.

00:03:23.000 And I think in particular, there are so many issues where the press said you need a new piece of legislation, you need a grand bipartisan compromise, where actually just having a different president changing the law enforcement apparatus of the country has accomplished so much.

00:03:38.000 I think, obviously, the biggest example of that is at the border.

00:03:41.000 I think at this point we are down 99% or close to border crossings since the president took office.

00:03:48.000 You have this sense of almost, you know, when I visited the border about a month ago, there was a sense of almost boredom among the Border Patrol agents because there were so many people coming across just a few short months ago that they were like, wait, where did everybody go?

00:04:03.000 And it turns out if you just send the signal that we're going to do border enforcement, you tell people not to come, most of them don't come.

00:04:10.000 And so those who do are easier to process, easier to send back home.

00:04:14.000 So I think that's where we've seen the most immediate success.

00:04:17.000 I think some issues, obviously, trade, bring back manufacturing, some of the things that we're working on when it comes to foreign policy.

00:04:25.000 These things take a little bit longer to bake.

00:04:27.000 But I think the border has been, in some ways, the most rewarding because you see the results so quickly.

00:04:32.000 Yeah, and the accomplishments are enormous and growing.

00:04:36.000 What would you say?

00:04:38.000 is the biggest victory that hasn't received as much press attention.

00:04:42.000 The border in right-wing circles and conservative media has been mentioned and I think needs to be mentioned every single day.

00:04:49.000 Every single day, we need to talk about how we actually have a border.

00:04:52.000 There has only been nine people that were released into the interior of the United States.

00:04:56.000 That is a 99.99% reduction.

00:04:59.000 It is one of the greatest, most significant public policy accomplishments and victories without a piece of legislation in American history.

00:05:09.000 Brett Stevens went on Bill Maher's show and said, this is one of the worst 100 days, this is the worst 100 days ever in American history.

00:05:14.000 And someone should look that guy in the eyes and say, unlike the wars that you wanted to start, Brett Stevens, for years, we actually have a border thanks to President Trump.

00:05:22.000 What would you say is the greatest victory, though, Mr. Vice President, that hasn't received much attention, something you've been working on?

00:05:28.000 Yeah, I mean, look, I can point to a few things, but just on the border, you're right.

00:05:35.000 Obviously, the border has gotten the most attention.

00:05:38.000 I think it's the place where you can see the clearest direction and connection between the president's policy and the reduction of border crossings.

00:05:46.000 To your point, I think it's a radical improvement in a very short amount of time without a single piece of legislation.

00:05:52.000 We had a border invasion, and now we don't.

00:05:54.000 And the only thing that changed was Donald Trump's leadership.

00:05:57.000 That is a very good thing.

00:05:58.000 But there are all these subtle ways in which border enforcement, Charlie, it doesn't gather the same headlines.

00:06:04.000 It doesn't gather the same focus as the top-line reduction of border crossing.

00:06:10.000 But, Charlie, you just have cartels who are not engaging.

00:06:14.000 In the same level of activity, you have people who would have crossed, would have been processed and released into the country who just aren't even trying to make the trek.

00:06:22.000 That means there are probably thousands of children who otherwise would have been trafficked across the southern border who haven't been.

00:06:28.000 So, yeah, it does gather the most headlines, but there are so many parts of a successful border policy that don't gather headlines at all that I think are worth focusing on.

00:06:37.000 And Charlie, I mean, if I point to another issue, it would have to be foreign policy because, as you know, this is sort of one of these issues where I think The president is so right.

00:06:45.000 His critics are so wrong.

00:06:49.000 Yeah, have the Russians and Ukrainians stopped fighting?

00:06:54.000 No.

00:06:55.000 But have we made more progress in three months than we made in the previous three years?

00:06:59.000 Absolutely.

00:07:00.000 And you have even the Ukrainians, the Europeans, the Russians all sort of simultaneously admitting, sometimes begrudgingly, that Donald Trump's diplomacy has advanced the ball there more.

00:07:11.000 In a few months than the previous few years, that's a big, big accomplishment.

00:07:15.000 The final thing I'd say, Charlie, is while the trade policy is maybe where we get the most criticism from the far-left press, I actually think that what President Trump has done has fundamentally reset things.

00:07:30.000 Whether you're an American business, and I talk to a lot of CEOs, whether you're a foreign investor, whether you're somebody who just works and lives in the economy, which is, of course, most of our citizens, I think that people recognize we're not going back.

00:07:43.000 Like, we're not going to go back to the same old ways of shipping American jobs overseas, of relying on hostile powers to make the things that we need.

00:07:51.000 And there's a lot still to do there, and there's a lot to accomplish.

00:07:55.000 Obviously, as the President has said, we're negotiating a lot of these trade deals.

00:07:59.000 But man, there's just this sense among the business community that this is a new era in American economic and investment, American economic activity.

00:08:08.000 I think that doesn't get the headlines.

00:08:11.000 But that may be the enduring change from the second Trump administration is people recognize we're not going back.

00:08:18.000 This rebalancing of global trade is here to stay.

00:08:20.000 And that's all because of Donald Trump's leadership.

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00:09:25.000 I want to now emphasize one point about I want you to talk about that,

00:09:46.000 but also connect it to a broader macro point that we expected.

00:09:51.000 When I was in some transition meetings, there was an expectation that there would be outrageous nationwide injunctions, that there would be judges trying to step in and stop.

00:10:02.000 the agenda that people voted for.

00:10:04.000 But it has gone to levels that none of us could have expected, that the unelected judiciary is basically, they're endeavoring on an all-out assault against

00:10:13.000 Well, so I might push back slightly on that,

00:10:29.000 Charlie, because...

00:10:31.000 I think if anybody was aware of what the judicial system is capable of, these unelected bureaucrats, it was Donald J. Trump.

00:10:39.000 And I think coming into this, he very much had a general on the battlefield mindset where he said, they're going to try to stop us from doing everything and we have to be prepared.

00:10:48.000 And I understand, you know, there are folks in the base, Charlie, who are frustrated with the pace of deportations.

00:10:54.000 I get it.

00:10:54.000 I'm frustrated, too.

00:10:55.000 I know the president is frustrated, too.

00:10:57.000 He has said so publicly.

00:10:59.000 But that's because we're running against this wall of the unelected bureaucracy.

00:11:03.000 But the only way through it, Charlie, is to actually run through it and to fight this stuff out legally, to take this stuff to the Supreme Court where appropriate, to find alternative legal methods when one district court judge stops us.

00:11:16.000 You go on to the next thing and you try to ensure that you can accomplish the law and accomplish the will of the people.

00:11:22.000 And that's just what we're doing.

00:11:23.000 And, you know, yeah, 100 days is a big milestone, Charlie.

00:11:26.000 But think about this.

00:11:27.000 We're not even a third of the way done through the first year of the Trump administration.

00:11:33.000 And I think that what we're really doing is fixing 40 years of accumulated bogus bureaucratic BS.

00:11:41.000 We're fixing 40 years of judges thinking they rule the country instead of the American people.

00:11:46.000 We're fixing 40 years of judges telling the president what to do instead of the American people telling the president what to do.

00:11:54.000 And that's not going to happen overnight, but I think it had to happen.

00:11:58.000 And thankfully, we're actually getting it done.

00:12:01.000 And, you know, you talk about the Dugan case.

00:12:04.000 I mean, this was a judge.

00:12:06.000 Who was engaged in explicit obstruction of justice.

00:12:10.000 We had people who had valid deportation orders and this judge was trying to prevent us from doing the job the American people elected us to do.

00:12:19.000 As you heard Democrats say so often, no one is above the law, and that includes judges who are obstructing justice.

00:12:25.000 And there's going to be a lot of justice for people who violated the law, Charlie.

00:12:30.000 That's what you have to do.

00:12:31.000 The American principle of justice is not, you know, because you're a Democrat, you don't actually face...

00:12:38.000 The justice of the judicial system.

00:12:40.000 The American system of justice is that rich or poor, Republican or Democrat, if you broke the law, you go through the judicial system.

00:12:49.000 And we're committed to bringing that basic principle back to life in the United States of America.

00:12:54.000 And I think there's a side benefit to it, Charlie.

00:12:56.000 This is not why you do these things, of course.

00:12:58.000 But if Democrats know that they are going to be penalized for violating the law, maybe they'll stop violating the law.

00:13:06.000 And maybe they'll stop using the Justice Department as a weapon system against their political opponents.

00:13:11.000 We want to bring back common sense to this country, but there's no way to do it if Democrats think they can throw their opponents in jail.

00:13:18.000 They're now finding out that if they violate the law, they're going to face the consequences, and that is a very important principle to bring back to this country.

00:13:27.000 Final point I want to discuss with you, Mr. Vice President, is something that obviously you and I care about.

00:13:32.000 You mentioned it previously, which is ending the Russian-Ukrainian war.

00:13:36.000 President Trump was sitting next to Zelensky in an epic picture in Italy at the Pope's funeral.

00:13:45.000 This was their first meeting since your Oval Office meeting, where you were also in there.

00:13:49.000 Talk what you know about this that you could.

00:13:53.000 What is the United States' perspective on this seemingly impossible...

00:14:04.000 struggle and war that President Trump is leaning in literally with Zelensky to try to get finished.

00:14:12.000 Yeah, Charlie, so I obviously don't want to prejudge the negotiations because they're very much, you know, in full swing.

00:14:18.000 I actually had a conversation just this morning about this particular issue.

00:14:23.000 Here's the way that I put it, Charlie, is, you know, one.

00:14:27.000 If I could bring people on the inside, I think what they'd see is that sometimes you're incredibly frustrated with Ukrainians.

00:14:33.000 Sometimes you're incredibly frustrated with the Russians.

00:14:36.000 You know, that is the nature of the negotiation is you're going back and forth.

00:14:40.000 And sometimes you just want to throw your hands up.

00:14:42.000 But that's what President Trump doesn't let us do. 0.97

00:14:44.000 He doesn't let us just throw our hands up and say, you know what, this is ridiculous.

00:14:48.000 He forces us to continually go back to the table, continually try to find a solution, bring the sides together.

00:14:54.000 And that really is sort of where this thing is right now.

00:14:58.000 You have the Russians who have one peace settlement they'd like.

00:15:02.000 You'd have the Ukrainians, they have a different peace settlement.

00:15:05.000 The biggest breakthrough is that we've got both of them talking about what they would need in order to stop fighting.

00:15:12.000 But what one side needs is different from what the other side needs.

00:15:16.000 And it's the job of diplomacy to try to bring those two sides together.

00:15:20.000 I can't say with 100% certainty, Charlie, we're going to be able to do it.

00:15:23.000 But I do think that we're trying very hard, and I feel more optimistic about it today than I did two weeks ago, and I felt more optimistic two weeks ago than I did two months ago.

00:15:32.000 So we're making progress.

00:15:34.000 Things are moving along.

00:15:35.000 We're just going to have to keep on.

00:15:37.000 Sometimes you apply pressure.

00:15:39.000 Sometimes you're a little bit more friendly.

00:15:41.000 Sometimes you offer rewards.

00:15:43.000 Sometimes you offer punishments.

00:15:45.000 It's a nitty-gritty, dirty job, but it's the job the American people elected the Trump administration to do.

00:15:52.000 If this doesn't stop, Charlie, one final point on this.

00:15:55.000 If this doesn't stop, the Ukrainians aren't winning the war. 0.94

00:15:58.000 I think there's this weird idea among the mainstream media that if this thing goes on for just another few years, the Russians will collapse, the Ukrainians will take their territory back, and everything will go back to the way that it was before the war.

00:16:12.000 That is not the reality that we live in.

00:16:14.000 If this thing goes on for another few years, we could have, you know, societies collapsing.

00:16:20.000 The demographics of both of these countries are a nightmare. 0.74

00:16:23.000 You could have millions of more people killed if this thing goes on for another few years, and it can risk escalating into a nuclear war.

00:16:30.000 It has to stop.

00:16:31.000 It is the policy of this administration that it stops, and I guarantee you the president is having all of his people, including me, work very hard for that end goal.

00:16:39.000 Out of all the things that you guys are working on on a day-to-day basis, this might be one of the highest of moral significance, that and the southern border.

00:16:47.000 And you are the southern borders already secured, but brokering peace and making sure we don't get into a thermonuclear war, making sure that another Ukrainian generation is uneliminated is incredibly important. 1.00

00:16:59.000 Mr. Vice President, congratulations on 100 amazing days.

00:17:02.000 May this be a prelude for more accomplishments to come.

00:17:06.000 We have your back.

00:17:07.000 Thank you so much.

00:17:08.000 Sounds good, Charlie.

00:17:09.000 Thanks, man.

00:17:10.000 You bet.

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00:18:05.000 Can you believe it's been 99 days?

00:18:07.000 It's been 99 days since I was in the Capitol Rotunda and I heard President Donald Trump say, so help me God.

00:18:15.000 That moment we knew that a new era in America was upon us.

00:18:20.000 A golden era.

00:18:22.000 President Trump has been moving at rapid pace towards national restoration.

00:18:30.000 This has been Without a doubt, the most exciting first 99 days in an administration's history.

00:18:36.000 The executive orders, one after the other, boom, no men and female sports. 0.99

00:18:41.000 Disparate impact, DEI, critical race theory, gone.

00:18:45.000 Drill baby drill. 1.00

00:18:47.000 Inflation, executive orders against inflation.

00:18:51.000 The executive orders were almost overwhelming the first couple of days.

00:18:55.000 Not to mention the pardons of the wrongly convicted January 6th individuals.

00:19:01.000 The pardons of the pro-life warriors.

00:19:03.000 The first week, you could fit almost an entire presidency into the first week of President Donald Trump.

00:19:09.000 And out of all the accomplishments that President Donald Trump is able to celebrate after 100 days, the greatest of which, the public policy accomplishment that gets no credit from the media, that does not even get a noticing from the media,

00:19:25.000 is what's happened on the southern border.

00:19:29.000 From having 10,000 to 15,000 people a day, let me say that again, 10,000 to 15,000 people a day going across the southern border, to nine in the entire spring.

00:19:43.000 A 99.99% reduction.

00:19:46.000 The border is completely empty.

00:19:48.000 Nobody wants to make the long trek from Nicaragua up just to be deported back to your country of origin.

00:19:54.000 We are no longer allowing it.

00:19:56.000 Hey, welcome to America.

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00:19:59.000 To what city would you like to go to?

00:20:01.000 Would you like to go to Birmingham?

00:20:02.000 Would you like to go to Detroit?

00:20:03.000 Would you like to go to Chicago?

00:20:05.000 President Trump sealing the southern border, if that's all he does in his presidency, buys us so much time to be able to deport people here on the interior, to be able to stop what the Democrats were attempting, which was the great replacement reality.

00:20:22.000 Rebalancing the diminishing sovereignty of our great country.

00:20:27.000 We are a nation-state again.

00:20:29.000 We are no longer an open, porous border colony.

00:20:36.000 The executive orders are almost too numerous to count.

00:20:39.000 And I want to go through some of them because it's easy to forget them.

00:20:43.000 Getting rid of all the DEI initiatives.

00:20:45.000 Designating English as the official language of the United States.

00:20:48.000 We got out of the Paris Climate Accord, the World Health Organization.

00:20:51.000 Of course, tariffs on China and the tariff situation is ever developing.

00:20:56.000 The establishment of Doge going after hundreds of billions of dollars away from our federal government.

00:21:02.000 The expansion of Gitmo to have over 30,000 high-priority illegals to be in Gitmo.

00:21:09.000 Designating the drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.

00:21:13.000 Executive orders signed to get rid of the Department of Education and to send education back to the states.

00:21:20.000 Defunding of...

00:21:21.000 NPR and public radio.

00:21:24.000 Reduction from the federal workforce.

00:21:27.000 Tens of thousands of people being reduced from the federal workforce.

00:21:30.000 The revocation of over 100 Biden-era executive orders.

00:21:36.000 And that is just barely touching the surface.

00:21:41.000 He is the people's president, and he was elected to do a job.

00:21:45.000 But not everybody in the media agrees.

00:21:47.000 Some people in the media, including Brett Stevens, Are doing everything they possibly can to try to live under this cope that, well, Trump voters are regretting their vote.

00:21:55.000 Not from the people I talk to and not according to the polls.

00:21:57.000 Only 2% of Trump voters say they regret their vote, which is right within the margin of error.

00:22:01.000 When I go to these college campuses, our crowds are growing.

00:22:04.000 They are multiplying.

00:22:05.000 We are seeing the fervor and the energy and the spirit go up, not down.

00:22:11.000 Young men are actually more Trump supportive today than they were during the election.

00:22:16.000 And of course...

00:22:17.000 The bad guys are trying to enjoin us in court at every turn.

00:22:21.000 Whether it be the end of birthright citizenship, which we absolutely should end. 1.00

00:22:26.000 Ending of the weaponization of the Department of Justice against American parents, traditional Catholics, and conservatives.

00:22:32.000 So many prior Republicans gave up without a fight, without an effort.

00:22:36.000 Usually the first hundred days of a second term is, just check the box, do some ceremonial stuff.

00:22:41.000 This is a full-throated explosion onto the scene.

00:22:46.000 The most energy, the most ferocity of an incoming administration with so much momentum, and it is not slowing down.

00:22:55.000 But what does the opposition have to say?

00:22:57.000 Play cut 204.

00:22:59.000 Yeah, I mean, I think that my summary of the first 100 days is that the bad news is it's the worst first 100 days in U.S. presidential history.

00:23:07.000 I can't think of a presidency that had it worse.

00:23:11.000 But the good news, I think, for the country is it's the worst.

00:23:15.000 First 100 days in U.S. presidential history.

00:23:19.000 Precisely the reason that you suggest, Bill, which is that a lot of the country that voted for President Trump because they didn't like the course of the country under his predecessor, because they were mad, because they thought stuff needed to be broken up and disrupted,

00:23:37.000 are waking up to the reality of just how much worse it can get.

00:23:41.000 First of all...

00:23:42.000 Brett Stevens is supposedly a smart guy for the New York Times.

00:23:47.000 And nobody challenged him.

00:23:48.000 Wait, hold on.

00:23:48.000 Let's take your first premise.

00:23:50.000 You're trying to tell me that President Donald Trump's last 100 days is worse than George W. Bush overseeing the Iraq War.

00:24:00.000 It's worse than Barack Obama and the financial crisis of 2008-2009 when unemployment was 11-12%.

00:24:06.000 The stock market was down 25%.

00:24:11.000 You're trying to tell me it's worse than Joe Biden during the midst of lockdowns, COVID, mass mandates, and vaccine mandates.

00:24:19.000 Not only is it not the worst that I could think of in American history, it's not even the worst of the last three presidents that are not named Donald Trump.

00:24:29.000 When George W. Bush was overseeing a debacle of a war in Iraq and a debacle of a boondoggle in Afghanistan.

00:24:37.000 Borrowing tons of money that we do not have.

00:24:39.000 Lying to the American people. 0.74

00:24:41.000 Displacing millions of people of their lives.

00:24:44.000 Obama, in the midst of the worst economic catastrophe that we have seen.

00:24:50.000 And they say Donald Trump is the worst 100 days.

00:24:53.000 Someone should look Brett Stevens in the eye.

00:24:55.000 That smug, neoconservative globalist Brett Stevens.

00:24:59.000 And say, do you even care that we have a border again?

00:25:02.000 Or are you more worried about...

00:25:05.000 Invading Iraq, which honestly, Brett Stevens is the type.

00:25:08.000 He's the type of slippery creature that cares far more about invading foreign lands than securing our own.

00:25:15.000 But secondly, he says, well, Trump voters are waking up.

00:25:18.000 They are waking up in one regard, Brett Stevens.

00:25:20.000 They're waking up to how much we've actually achieved and accomplished.

00:25:26.000 Border secured?

00:25:27.000 We want more of that.

00:25:28.000 Price of eggs down?

00:25:29.000 We want more of that.

00:25:31.000 Oil down?

00:25:32.000 We want more of that.

00:25:34.000 Manufacturing jobs coming back to America?

00:25:36.000 We want more of that.

00:25:38.000 Rapists being taken out of our country?

00:25:40.000 We want more of that.

00:25:41.000 Trendy Aragua being extinguished?

00:25:43.000 We want more of that.

00:25:44.000 MS-13 disappearing?

00:25:46.000 We want more of that.

00:25:47.000 But the media cannot bring themselves to the conclusion that President Trump's first 100 days, whether it be disrupting the CDC, putting Bobby Kennedy in, putting Kristi Noem in, putting Cash Patel in, putting Dan Bongino in, it is such a threat to their worldview.

00:26:03.000 And their new talking point is how many Trump voters regret their vote?

00:26:08.000 There is no basis for this in the data or in the ground.

00:26:11.000 And by the way, it's completely irrelevant.

00:26:14.000 It's irrelevant because we're 100 days into a presidency that's already achieving landmark victories. 0.98

00:26:21.000 And Bret Stephens should just be shamed for such an idiotic statement saying that, oh, this is the worst 100 days in American history that I can think of. 0.92

00:26:32.000 And now we are in a place where we can look back and we can say we have a president that is fulfilling the mandate with personnel, with policy, with executive orders, and it's just getting started, everybody. 0.98

00:26:46.000 That is the first 100 days of what's going to be a long and phenomenal presidency where we will achieve American greatness, fix the problems of Joe Biden, and we are just getting started.

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00:27:59.000 Let's go to this piece of tape here.

00:28:04.000 First, Rachel Naddow.

00:28:07.000 She says the first 100 days were in the middle of an attempted authoritarian overspending.

00:28:10.000 overthrow of American democracy.

00:28:12.000 Really, how is that, Rachel?

00:28:14.000 I'd love the chance to dialogue with her.

00:28:16.000 I would love that.

00:28:17.000 Didn't he win an election?

00:28:18.000 So how do you overthrow democracy if you actually won an election?

00:28:23.000 Playcut 168.

00:28:24.000 I do think we're in the middle of an attempted authoritarian overthrow of American democracy.

00:28:29.000 I mean, I think everybody who predicted that was right, but I don't think he's any better at it.

00:28:33.000 What do they mean by democracy?

00:28:34.000 When they say our democracy, our democracy, our democracy, they mean our oligarchy.

00:28:40.000 They do not believe the will of the people should dictate or determine public policy decisions.

00:28:47.000 They do not believe.

00:28:48.000 That people should be able to show up at a voting booth and fill out ballots and be able to get what they want.

00:28:53.000 They believe that a philosopher king or a philosopher queen class should be permanently entrenched to really kind of...

00:29:03.000 Check and balance and call the shots.

00:29:05.000 They believe the smug class, the we are smarter than you class, should be distilled in the unelected bureaucracy and the unelected judiciary.

00:29:15.000 Those two pieces work in tandem against the American people.

00:29:19.000 They work against the sovereign.

00:29:22.000 They work against the everyday person that showed up to vote for Donald Trump.

00:29:28.000 The border is completely secured.

00:29:30.000 That is one element where thankfully we went through the courts in the first term that we were able to say, you know what, we now know how to close the southern border.

00:29:38.000 President Trump deserves the highest possible recognition and achievement prize for closing the southern border from the invasion that was occurring.

00:29:50.000 Play cut 150.

00:29:51.000 Look, I think we've been very successful, and we got the most secure border in the history of this nation, and President Trump was able to accomplish that in seven weeks.

00:30:00.000 That's something that Joe Biden didn't and wouldn't do in four years.

00:30:03.000 In fact, it was an intentional decision of Joe Biden to keep the border wide open.

00:30:09.000 This idea of our democracy under attack, understand what is really happening here, is the ruling by experts.

00:30:20.000 Significantly has their power compromised.

00:30:24.000 Plato once dreamed of a society ruled by philosopher kings.

00:30:28.000 He believed that they would be wise and virtuous leaders who would govern not for their own personal ambition, but for the good of the people.

00:30:38.000 When they say our democracy, that noble vision has been twisted beyond any recognition.

00:30:46.000 We are not ruled by philosopher kings, and we're not ruled by the people, but instead by an expert class of unelected bureaucrats, credentialed elites, and self-anointed authorities on issues that matter.

00:31:00.000 Their rule is not based on virtue or on truth, but on the arrogant presumption that technical knowledge alone entitles them to power.

00:31:13.000 The technocrats and entitled elites that have entrenched themselves into what we call the deep state, the unelected bureaucracy, and the unelected judiciary.

00:31:22.000 And the buried lead of the first 100 days is that Donald Trump has done everything the people wanted, and these other institutions are doing everything to thwart the will of the American people.

00:31:34.000 At every single corner and every turn.

00:31:38.000 The American people want more deportations?

00:31:40.000 Too bad.

00:31:41.000 The judges say no.

00:31:43.000 The American people want no more DEI?

00:31:45.000 Too bad the judges say no.

00:31:47.000 Every day the American people demand certain accomplishments and victories.

00:31:54.000 And they ask the question, what kind of structure of government is this?

00:31:57.000 What structure of government allows an unelected bureaucracy to get in the way of we the people? 0.92

00:32:07.000 And so where is democracy actually getting threatened?

00:32:11.000 By unelected federal court judges with nationwide injunctions.

00:32:16.000 Not just doing localized injunctions, but nationwide injunctions.

00:32:21.000 Where is the will of the people actually getting thwarted?

00:32:23.000 By every single day there are people in the Department of Education, Department of Interior, Department of Commerce, and the CIA, and the FBI trying to undercut all of our people.

00:32:32.000 Every day there are people that go to work and they think to themselves, how do I make...

00:32:36.000 This cabinet secretary's life harder.

00:32:38.000 How do I make their life hell?

00:32:40.000 How do I undercut them?

00:32:42.000 How do I undermine them?

00:32:43.000 Not serve the country, but how do I make sure that what the people want does not actually become a reality?

00:32:51.000 You beg the question, what system of government do we have actually?

00:32:54.000 The American people are cheering for an American renaissance.

00:32:58.000 And the deep state and the unelected judiciary are trying to stop it.

00:33:01.000 And that's the story of the last 100 days.

00:33:02.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:33:04.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

The Charlie Kirk Show - April 28, 2025

My Conversation with Vice President JD Vance

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