The Charlie Kirk Show - August 16, 2025


My LIVE Reaction to the Trump-Putin Summit


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Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin met on the tarmac of an Alaska Air Force Base. The optics were perfect, the timing was perfect, and the whole thing was perfectly choreographed. It was a show of power and strength that showed how strong the United States military is.

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00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio.
00:00:04.000 Here are my instant thoughts, everybody, on the Trump-Putin meeting straight from Anchorage.
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00:00:46.000 Okay, everyone, it is late on a Friday night, and it is a historic day.
00:00:49.000 President Donald Trump woke up at 5 a.m., boarded Air Force One, and flew across the continent all the way to Alaska.
00:00:58.000 Why did he do this?
00:00:59.000 Went to Alaska to go meet with Vladimir Putin.
00:01:02.000 Vladimir Putin actually flew longer.
00:01:04.000 Why did Vladimir Putin fly all the way from Moscow to Anchorage?
00:01:08.000 That is one of the buried components of this that I want to explore, which is Putin did not have to do this.
00:01:14.000 He's on the verge of an ugly victory that he flew all the way across his continent to meet with Donald Trump.
00:01:20.000 Donald Trump, by the way, he was going to fly six hours there, do the meeting and fly six hours back.
00:01:25.000 The guy's a total machine.
00:01:26.000 So just a little bit of a setup here.
00:01:27.000 This was done at an Air Force base in Anchorage, Alaska, right outside Anchorage, Alaska.
00:01:32.000 They decided not to do it at a resort or a hotel where sometimes these meetings happen, but instead on a U.S. Air Force base.
00:01:39.000 And I think we now know why President Trump decided in that.
00:01:42.000 It wasn't necessarily because of security.
00:01:45.000 I mean, they could have figured out security, but President Donald Trump, he wanted his opening salvo to be a show of force.
00:01:52.000 You see, Vladimir Putin is a lot of things, but he is a brute force actor.
00:01:56.000 What he understands most fundamentally, more than anything else, is force and the administration of force.
00:02:02.000 And Vladimir Putin coming down the tarmac there, shaking hands with President Donald Trump.
00:02:10.000 Oh boy.
00:02:11.000 As you can see here, President Donald Trump on the tarmac, he timed something perfectly.
00:02:17.000 And now we know why he selected and chose the Air Force base.
00:02:21.000 He selected the Air Force base because he wanted to remind Vladimir Putin that we had the finest Air Force on the planet.
00:02:28.000 Play cut 245.
00:02:30.000 Play cut 245.
00:02:52.000 By the way, if you're on podcast and you don't see the optics of this, the optics is a B-2 stealth bomber flanked by F-35s flying right over Vladimir Putin's head.
00:03:00.000 And Donald Trump kind of collapsed as soon as they come because he knew it was perfect.
00:03:03.000 And Putin knew what was happening in real time.
00:03:05.000 He was just completely intimidated.
00:03:06.000 And do you notice the other optics here?
00:03:08.000 Donald Trump decided to line up the military aircraft around the original shot.
00:03:14.000 This was not a mistake.
00:03:15.000 This was by design.
00:03:17.000 You see, the optics were all Donald Trump's own particular choreographing.
00:03:21.000 He wanted Vladimir Putin to enter in a way flanked by the full strength of the U.S. military.
00:03:28.000 This is something the media is completely missing.
00:03:30.000 Usually in these summits, they'll have the first meeting, not on the tarmac.
00:03:33.000 Do you know President Trump broke traditional protocol here?
00:03:35.000 Traditional protocol when it comes to diplomatic meetings like this.
00:03:38.000 They have a whole binder, by the way, in the White House called Diplomatic Protocol.
00:03:42.000 It's literally 1,500 pages long.
00:03:44.000 I've seen it before.
00:03:45.000 It's exhausting.
00:03:46.000 You look at this and the hairs are the flags of the bee.
00:03:48.000 And so they went up to the president, I'm sure, speculation, of course, and they said, hey, you know, you got to do this.
00:03:54.000 He said, I'm going to meet him on the tarmac.
00:03:56.000 Forget that.
00:03:57.000 And that was a power move with the stealth bombers right overhead.
00:04:00.000 That set the framing of the entire conversation.
00:04:03.000 What does that show more than anything else?
00:04:06.000 That shows that President Donald Trump, the intent of this entire meeting, was framed around U.S. military might.
00:04:16.000 The framing towards diplomacy was the might of the United States military.
00:04:22.000 And that is critically important because a lot, and we'll get to some of this tape.
00:04:26.000 A lot of the media says, oh, Donald Trump's surrendering to Putin.
00:04:28.000 No, the first thing he was doing was showing how strong we were with an impressive, perfectly timed, perfectly choreographed flyover.
00:04:35.000 And that is not easy to do.
00:04:36.000 They had to hit it within like the 10 second mark, and they hit it perfectly.
00:04:41.000 So then they disappeared.
00:04:42.000 They vanished.
00:04:43.000 Who was in the room?
00:04:44.000 It was Vladimir Putin and Sergei Lavrov and one other guy who I don't know and an interpreter.
00:04:49.000 On our side, it was Steve Witkoff, Marco Rubio, and President Trump and an interpreter.
00:04:54.000 We knew within the first hour that this was good.
00:04:56.000 We knew within the first five minutes it was good because President Trump said if it wasn't good, I was just going to call it off.
00:05:00.000 I was just going to say this was a complete waste of time.
00:05:02.000 But I want to dwell on something before we play as part of the post-press conference remarks because we learned more as we went on.
00:05:09.000 Why did Vladimir Putin do this?
00:05:11.000 Vladimir Putin did this because he does not want to see breadlines in Moscow.
00:05:16.000 Vladimir Putin did this because Donald Trump is engaging what is called, and it's an actual clinical term.
00:05:22.000 It's not a pejorative or an insult to President Donald Trump.
00:05:25.000 It's called the madman theory of diplomacy.
00:05:28.000 It's a school of thought, which is you do not know which way he's going.
00:05:31.000 Is he going right?
00:05:31.000 Is he going left or north or south?
00:05:32.000 He's going up or is he going down?
00:05:34.000 He is keeping people guessing.
00:05:36.000 And Vladimir Putin has no idea what Trump is going to do next.
00:05:38.000 He's going to bomb, is he going to arm?
00:05:40.000 He's going to go.
00:05:40.000 He's going to retreat.
00:05:42.000 So Putin flies all the way across Russia in what can only be described as kind of a beta move by Vladimir Putin.
00:05:48.000 He flies to the United States of America, to a U.S. Air Force base.
00:05:52.000 He has B-2 bombers fly overhead, flanked by F-35s, to go meet with a foreign president in a war that is not currently an enemy combatant of, technically, even though we're supplying weaponry.
00:06:03.000 Because Vladimir Putin knows that Trump holds the Trump card.
00:06:03.000 Why?
00:06:07.000 He holds the Trump card, which could be deathly U.S. sanctions on the Russian Federation that could potentially break the back of it.
00:06:16.000 Now, why does this also matter?
00:06:17.000 Donald Trump holds another Trump card that no one is talking about.
00:06:20.000 And Biden did not play this card, the price of oil.
00:06:25.000 You see, Biden wanted high, high oil.
00:06:28.000 Why would Biden want high oil?
00:06:30.000 He wanted to divest America away from fossil fuels towards an environmental future.
00:06:34.000 So we had $60, $70, $80 gas all throughout Joe Biden's entire presidency.
00:06:39.000 And so what a Trump, Trump wants low oil.
00:06:41.000 Trump wants $30 or $40 gas.
00:06:43.000 He wants you to pay less at the pump.
00:06:45.000 So Putin, what Putin fears most is that Donald Trump could release the strategic petroleum reserve in America and bring oil down to 30 bucks a barrel.
00:06:53.000 Oil goes down to $30 a barrel, and all of a sudden you're not allowed to buy oil if you're India.
00:06:58.000 Forget javelin missiles.
00:07:00.000 That is Russia sitting on an island. 0.93
00:07:02.000 And Donald Trump, and Vladimir Putin knows that Donald Trump means business because low oil is a core campaign promise of the MAGA agenda.
00:07:10.000 So low oil, low oil not paying a lot at the pump is directly tied into why Vladimir Putin flew all the way across the entire Asian continent to go to Alaska in a beta move.
00:07:21.000 In fact, this is the Committee to Unleash Prosperity.
00:07:24.000 The cost of Biden's war on oil and gas, nearly $100 billion a year in lost output.
00:07:29.000 So Vladimir Putin, he fears more deaths on the battlefield, sort of.
00:07:33.000 Seems to really not care about human life very much.
00:07:36.000 But he definitely is afraid of Donald Trump bringing down the price of oil.
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00:08:46.000 Okay, so now all of a sudden they disappeared and they come out.
00:08:48.000 And we said, what are we going to learn?
00:08:50.000 What is going to happen here?
00:08:52.000 This is a longer piece of tape here.
00:08:53.000 This is Vladimir Putin confirming that Ukraine war was Biden's war.
00:08:57.000 Now, this, of course, is technically true.
00:09:00.000 We've got to be careful with this piece of tape.
00:09:01.000 Vladimir Putin is probably just saying this to try to win points with Donald Trump.
00:09:06.000 Because Trump holds the cards.
00:09:06.000 Why?
00:09:08.000 So, mind you, Putin is intimidated.
00:09:10.000 He gets flown over by B-2 bombers.
00:09:12.000 Trump is like at any time.
00:09:13.000 And who else was in the delegation?
00:09:15.000 Not in the meeting, but who else was in the delegation?
00:09:18.000 Scott Bessett and Howard Lutnick, Department of Treasury and Commerce.
00:09:22.000 Why would the head of the Department of Treasury and Commerce fly all the way to Alaska?
00:09:27.000 Because that was Trump not so subtly telling, hey, I'll hit you from the sky, I'll hit you in the tariffs, I'll hit you in the marketplaces, I will weaken you and bring you to the knees.
00:09:37.000 I hold the cards.
00:09:38.000 Let's hear, this is Vladimir Putin saying, dangling both a carrot and a stick simultaneously.
00:09:44.000 Let's play Cut 246, please.
00:09:46.000 I'd like to remind you that in 2022, during the last contact with the previous administration, I tried to convince my previous American colleague that the situation should not be brought to the point of no return when it would come to hostilities.
00:10:08.000 And I said it quite directly back then.
00:10:10.000 That is a big mistake.
00:10:13.000 Today, when President Trump is saying that if he was the president back then, there will be no war and I'm quite sure that it would indeed be so. 0.75
00:10:22.000 I can confirm that.
00:10:24.000 I think that overall, me and President Trump have built a very good, business-like, and trustworthy contact.
00:10:35.000 And I have every reason to believe that moving down this path, we can come and the sooner the better to the end of the conflict in Ukraine.
00:10:44.000 Thank you.
00:10:45.000 President Donald Trump has really ramped up the sticks, not just the carrots going in.
00:10:49.000 Picking a fight with India, that is major. 1.00
00:10:51.000 It was a lesser-covered thing we didn't even talk about on the show very much.
00:10:54.000 President Trump said, India, if you keep on buying Russian oil, we're done.
00:10:57.000 That was such a smart prerequisite going into the meeting.
00:11:01.000 Now, mind you, a lot of these meetings is a lot of guesswork.
00:11:03.000 But before we go even deeper, and the media is calling it a failure and all this, you know, guys, sometimes this takes multiple meetings.
00:11:10.000 Sometimes you've got to get in the room multiple times.
00:11:12.000 And the fact that this did not blow up, it is a success.
00:11:15.000 Just the fact that Putin flew across Asia to come to Alaska.
00:11:19.000 He did not have to do that.
00:11:21.000 This meeting was not in Belarus.
00:11:22.000 Typically, this would be like, oh, you got to fly to Minsk, or, oh, you've got to fly to Lithuania.
00:11:27.000 You got to fly to Hungary or some Eastern European country or fly to Abu Dhabi.
00:11:30.000 We'll meet in the middle.
00:11:31.000 No.
00:11:32.000 You met on the turf of the United States of America.
00:11:35.000 He entered American airspace for the first time in multiple years.
00:11:38.000 I want you to listen to all of Donald Trump's comments here, as they were given in the press conference.
00:11:44.000 It's about three and a half minutes long.
00:11:44.000 This is unedited.
00:11:46.000 This is President Donald Trump's entire remarks, Play Cut 248.
00:11:50.000 Well, thank you very much, Mr. President.
00:11:52.000 That was very profound.
00:11:54.000 And I will say that I believe we had a very productive meeting.
00:11:58.000 There were many, many points that we agreed on.
00:12:01.000 Most of them, I would say, a couple of big ones that we haven't quite gotten there, but we've made some headway.
00:12:09.000 So there's no deal until there's a deal.
00:12:12.000 I will call up NATO in a little while.
00:12:15.000 I will call up the various people that I think are appropriate.
00:12:20.000 And I'll, of course, call up President Zelensky and tell him about today's meeting.
00:12:23.000 It's ultimately up to them.
00:12:26.000 They're going to have to agree with what Marco and Steve and some of the great people from the Trump administration who've come here, Scott and John Radcliffe, thank you very much.
00:12:39.000 But we have some of our really great leaders.
00:12:42.000 They've been doing a phenomenal job.
00:12:44.000 We also have some tremendous Russian business representatives here.
00:12:49.000 And I think, you know, everybody wants to deal with us.
00:12:52.000 We've become the hottest country anywhere in the world in a very short period of time.
00:12:56.000 And we look forward to that.
00:12:58.000 We look forward to dealing.
00:12:59.000 We're going to try and get this over with.
00:13:02.000 We really have made some great progress today.
00:13:06.000 I've always had a fantastic relationship with President Putin, with Vladimir.
00:13:12.000 We had many, many tough meetings, good meetings.
00:13:18.000 We were interfered with by the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax that made it a little bit tougher to deal with, but he understood it.
00:13:26.000 I think he's probably seen things like that during the course of his Career.
00:13:31.000 He's seen it all, but we had to put up with the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax.
00:13:36.000 He knew it was a hoax, and I knew it was a hoax, but what was done was very criminal.
00:13:40.000 But it made it harder for us to deal as a country in terms of the business and all of the things that we'd like to have dealt with.
00:13:46.000 But we'll have a good chance when this is over.
00:13:50.000 So, just to put it very quickly, I'm going to start making a few phone calls and tell them what happened.
00:13:56.000 But we had an extremely productive meeting, and many points were agreed to.
00:14:02.000 There are just a very few that are left.
00:14:05.000 Some are not that significant.
00:14:07.000 One is probably the most significant.
00:14:10.000 But we have a very good chance of getting there.
00:14:12.000 We didn't get there, but we have a very good chance of getting there.
00:14:15.000 I would like to thank President Putin and his entire team, whose faces, who I know in many cases, otherwise, other than that, whose faces I get to see all the time in the newspapers.
00:14:27.000 You're almost as famous as the boss, but especially this one right over here.
00:14:34.000 But we had some good meetings over the years, right?
00:14:36.000 Good, productive meetings over the years, and we hope to have that in the future.
00:14:40.000 But let's do the most productive one right now.
00:14:42.000 We're going to stop really five, six, seven thousand, thousands of people a week from being killed.
00:14:48.000 And President Putin wants to see that as much as I do.
00:14:51.000 So again, Mr. President, I'd like to thank you very much.
00:14:55.000 And we'll speak to you very soon and probably see you again very soon.
00:14:59.000 Thank you very much, Vladimir.
00:15:01.000 Next time in Moscow.
00:15:04.000 Oh, that's an interesting one.
00:15:05.000 I don't know.
00:15:06.000 I'll get a little heat on that one, but I could see it possibly happening.
00:15:10.000 Thank you very much, Vladimir.
00:15:12.000 And thank you all.
00:15:12.000 Thank you.
00:15:13.000 Thank you.
00:15:14.000 Thank you so much.
00:15:18.000 Now, there's a couple takeaways there.
00:15:19.000 Number one, do you notice they didn't take any questions?
00:15:21.000 That's important because they wanted to maintain the narrative.
00:15:24.000 This is high-stakes diplomacy, and honestly, they're not there yet, but they're making progress.
00:15:29.000 So why take questions that could potentially jeopardize the very important framing of this?
00:15:34.000 But I want to also dive deep into something.
00:15:36.000 So people said, oh, there's Donald Trump talking about the Russia hoax again.
00:15:39.000 No.
00:15:40.000 Understand, our entire foreign policy was polluted and corrupted by the fake Russia-Russia hoax.
00:15:46.000 This war likely would not have happened if it was not for the fake Russia-Russia-Russia hoax.
00:15:51.000 And also, the fact that President Donald Trump was spied on, lied about, and then was impeached all around the Russia-Russia-Russia hoax, it all kind of comes full circle.
00:16:01.000 Comes full circle where he's now standing with Vladimir Putin.
00:16:04.000 Now, understand the second component of this, which is that I'll see you in Moscow.
00:16:08.000 What was President Trump's instinct there?
00:16:11.000 Oh, I'll get a lot of heat with that, but that might sound like a good idea.
00:16:14.000 And honestly, it is a good idea.
00:16:16.000 You should go to Moscow.
00:16:17.000 In fact, if I'm not mistaken, I believe Ronald Reagan actually visited Russia.
00:16:22.000 I could be mistaken.
00:16:23.000 In my memory, I'm thinking of a picture of, it might have been Nixon.
00:16:27.000 Anyways, the point is that why would we be afraid of an American president going to Moscow?
00:16:33.000 Now, Putin came to us, and by the way, it could be a little bit of a carrot.
00:16:36.000 Hey, you end this war, Vladimir?
00:16:38.000 Yeah, Reagan did go to Moscow.
00:16:39.000 I was right.
00:16:40.000 We can put that picture up there.
00:16:41.000 Yeah, Reagan went to Moscow during the height of the Cold War, by the way.
00:16:44.000 So think about it.
00:16:45.000 Fine, Vlad, I'll go to Moscow once the war ends, and I'll lift some of these sanctions, and you won't have as many breadlines worrying about in your rural districts.
00:16:52.000 Because that would be a big power move for Putin, but don't just throw it.
00:16:55.000 Yeah, that's it right there.
00:16:56.000 I think it's Gorbachev and Reagan right in front of the Kremlin.
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00:17:58.000 The deeper component of all this, though, is that both parties did not have to be doing this.
00:18:05.000 They did not have to be doing this.
00:18:06.000 But the media did not like this.
00:18:07.000 Of course not.
00:18:08.000 Let's play a piece of tape here.
00:18:10.000 This is from Jake Tapper, not have a very good day.
00:18:14.000 Where's Jake and Caitlin Collins play cut 252?
00:18:17.000 And I'm wondering if you think Donald Trump leaves this high-stakes summit where nothing was achieved, angry, and likely to end to bring in more sanctions.
00:18:35.000 You know, Jake, the president didn't seem angry when he came out here.
00:18:39.000 They were going into this summit.
00:18:40.000 AIDS were setting expectations low in recent days because they were fearful that they were not actually going to reach a ceasefire while on the ground here in Anchorage.
00:18:48.000 And so obviously, though, the president himself made clear what he wanted, and it was that ceasefire.
00:18:52.000 He did not get that ceasefire.
00:18:54.000 Okay, Dylan Mulvaney is completely misleading the audience here.
00:18:57.000 So listen, and Jake Tapper says, oh, my goodness, nothing's achieved.
00:19:01.000 That sounds like something of someone who's never run a business.
00:19:04.000 By the way, how does Caitlin Collins know any of that?
00:19:07.000 There was no information released.
00:19:08.000 Were you in the room?
00:19:09.000 Did you bug the room?
00:19:10.000 That is a complete misleading of the narrative.
00:19:12.000 You know why?
00:19:13.000 They're mad that this meeting happened in the first place.
00:19:16.000 So anything that they say should be completely and totally discredited.
00:19:21.000 Here's John Bolton, who, of course, is never missing an opportunity to try to heat up tensions towards another thermonuclear conflict.
00:19:28.000 Play Cut 253.
00:19:30.000 Putin achieved most of what he wanted.
00:19:33.000 Trump achieved very little.
00:19:34.000 And I will say one other thing.
00:19:36.000 I thought Trump looked very tired up there.
00:19:39.000 I mean, very tired.
00:19:40.000 Not disappointed, tired.
00:19:43.000 And we'll have to reflect on what that means.
00:19:46.000 Okay, first of all, Trump did not look tired.
00:19:47.000 Second of all, he just flew six hours across the American continent to go meet with Vladimir Putin, and then he has to go fly six hours back.
00:19:53.000 So how about let's just sit one out of Donald Trump looked really tired.
00:19:56.000 Donald Trump always said this meeting would lead to a more important meeting.
00:20:00.000 This was a sequencing meeting.
00:20:05.000 And yeah, I mean, Caitlin Collins, she should go be an umpire for Major League Baseball because she just called a strike when it was a ball. 1.00
00:20:13.000 Listen, the other component of this, I want to play a little bit of the Sean Hannity interview, is that President Donald Trump is calling the shots.
00:20:21.000 President Donald Trump is framing this in a way that would be good for America.
00:20:25.000 And Sean Hannity made this point.
00:20:27.000 I want to play this here.
00:20:28.000 We do not have to be involved in this.
00:20:31.000 This is a war where 7,000 people are unnecessarily dying every single week.
00:20:35.000 Every single week, 7,000 people are dying.
00:20:38.000 Let's play cut 257.
00:20:42.000 In your press conference, you talked about a lot of things that you agreed on, and maybe one big issue you don't agree on.
00:20:49.000 Are you prepared to go public with that?
00:20:51.000 No, I'd rather not.
00:20:53.000 I guess somebody's going to go public with it.
00:20:55.000 They'll figure it out.
00:20:56.000 But no, I don't want to do that.
00:20:57.000 I want to see if we can get it done.
00:20:58.000 You know, still, it's not a done deal at all.
00:21:01.000 And Ukraine has to agree. 0.86
00:21:04.000 I mean, you know, President Zelensky has to agree.
00:21:07.000 But it's a terrible war where he's losing a lot, and both of them are.
00:21:12.000 And hopefully it can get completed.
00:21:15.000 That'll be a great achievement for them.
00:21:17.000 Forget about me, for them.
00:21:20.000 And you'll save 7,000 lives a week.
00:21:23.000 That's a lot.
00:21:24.000 Did you ever hear Joe Biden talk about just the human cost of this?
00:21:28.000 364,000 people approximately dying a year in this.
00:21:32.000 So they all attack Donald Trump's moral character.
00:21:34.000 I never heard Kamal Harris or Joe Biden say there's an unnecessary amount of killing fields happening in Ukraine and Russia because they're all just cannon fodder to them.
00:21:42.000 To the industrial war project, it's all just cannon fodder for whatever aim or ambition that the great American empire wants to push.
00:21:50.000 This is President Donald Trump saying that number one is to save lives.
00:21:53.000 And you can call Donald Trump a lot of different names and attack, oh, he's not moral.
00:21:57.000 I'm sorry.
00:21:57.000 This is the most moral thing that someone can do.
00:21:59.000 Blessed are the peacemakers.
00:22:01.000 That is bigger than you.
00:22:02.000 To go out of your way, to go stake your reputation, too.
00:22:05.000 There's a lot of risk involved.
00:22:07.000 This thing could have been a disaster, and it wasn't.
00:22:08.000 It was a success.
00:22:09.000 This thing could have been catastrophic.
00:22:12.000 That kind of a risk, to put it all on the line for what?
00:22:16.000 What is the upside?
00:22:17.000 Just to save lives.
00:22:18.000 And I hope Donald Trump gets remembered in the history books for a lot of things, but he has a good heart.
00:22:24.000 He looks at these pictures of the killing field.
00:22:25.000 He says, what can I do to fix it?
00:22:28.000 Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, They accelerated the war.
00:22:31.000 They had an opportunity to end the war in Istanbul, and they decided not to do it.
00:22:35.000 You had Tony Blinken, you had Boris Johnson go in there, led by the Central Intelligence Agency and the U.S. State Department, and they blew up a ceasefire that would have happened 10 days into the war.
00:22:46.000 And now probably 600,000 people are dead and millions of people are displaced.
00:22:50.000 So what does Donald Trump have to benefit from this?
00:22:54.000 Only thing that Donald Trump has a reward is that he can say, you know what?
00:22:58.000 There's a young man that can now start a family right now in Russia because of what I did.
00:23:03.000 And that matters because that person is made in the image of God.
00:23:05.000 You know what?
00:23:05.000 There's a young man in Ukraine that can start a family and they shouldn't just be killing themselves over a mile here or a mile there.
00:23:12.000 Play cut 258.
00:23:14.000 And you're willing to expend political capital.
00:23:16.000 All of the conflicts that I mentioned, including this one, this does not impact the United States as much as it does our allies in Europe, the Middle East, when we get involved in the Middle East.
00:23:31.000 But you're doing it anyway.
00:23:33.000 Now, why?
00:23:34.000 Is it to save lives?
00:23:35.000 Do you want to save a world?
00:23:37.000 Number one, to save lives in all cases, because wars are wars.
00:23:40.000 And number two is everything else.
00:23:42.000 Wars are very bad.
00:23:44.000 And if you can avoid them, and I seem to have an ability to end them.
00:23:48.000 I seem to have an ability to end them.
00:23:49.000 And he's exactly right.
00:23:51.000 Let me say this in summary.
00:23:52.000 The takeaways, honestly, we're still trying to find out the specifics.
00:23:56.000 However, the big takeaway is that President Donald Trump cares about the humanity of the people of Russia and Ukraine.
00:24:01.000 He cares about American strength.
00:24:02.000 He's not an isolationist, and you saw his broad display.
00:24:06.000 President Trump does not have me doing this.
00:24:08.000 He could happily just keep on sending missiles and let people killing themselves, but he does not view the world that way.
00:24:12.000 And honestly, we as Americans should not view other human beings that way.
00:24:16.000 Trump said going in, if he came out with Putin by his side and talking to the press, that would be progress and a win.
00:24:24.000 We're going to keep our eyes very close on this, everybody.
00:24:26.000 There's a lot more takeaways and a lot more that we're going to talk about it.
00:24:30.000 But Vladimir Putin flew across Asia because Donald Trump commanded force, force towards peace, force and power towards an inevitable conclusion.
00:24:40.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:24:41.000 Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.
00:24:44.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.