Trump's State of the Union was a barn burner of a speech. It was the longest SOTU address in U.S. history, beating the previous record of one hour and 48 minutes set by Bill Clinton in 1995.
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00:01:09.000All right, welcome to the Charlie Kirk Show.
00:01:11.000I'm still in D.C. after an amazing State of the Union speech last night.
00:02:21.000But President Trump really thinks about how to take it to the next level.
00:02:25.000So the way he has the U.S. Olympic. Hockey team walk in in the early part of his speech as part of the tired of winning line.
00:02:33.000And then, of course, the shout out to Charlie with Erica there, which I'm sure we'll play that clip again in a moment.
00:02:39.000And then, not one, but two Congressional Medals of Honor awarded during the ceremony.
00:02:44.000It really was a strong mix of what we expect from the State of the Union, which is he's shouting out his accomplishments over the past year and laying out what he thinks should be done in the next.
00:02:58.000The more pure Americana that a lot of Americans appreciate of celebrating the country, celebrating the country's heroes.
00:03:04.000And it was a consistently good visual throughout.
00:03:09.000And I guess has to be said, we'll get the good midterm visual where he says, let's stand for American citizens.
00:03:15.000And you have a bunch of people not standing.
00:03:18.000I think it really was showcasing his talent.
00:03:22.000The guy who's been on TV as much as he has, it showed that side of his talent set very well.
00:04:35.000With people watching the speech from their pre-speech expectations to what they saw in the speech itself.
00:04:41.000That, I think, is one of the best, you know, sort of data points that we can take from this, Blake.
00:04:47.000But, I mean, listen, he focused on a turnaround for the ages, quote unquote, and declared the golden age of America after one year in office.
00:04:55.000He emphasized economic revival, border security, crime reduction, and global strength, which he used to repeatedly criticize Democrats for past failures.
00:05:05.000And obstruction, their current obstruction.
00:06:03.000In Charlie's memory, we must all come together to reaffirm that America is one nation under God, and we must totally reject political violence of any kind.
00:06:15.000So, Andrew, I was wondering we couldn't always see what the crowd was doing.
00:06:20.000It looked like they did pan out to it, and it looked like almost everyone was standing.
00:06:24.000And the ones who weren't, I was looking, it looked like it might be old veterans who can't stand easily.
00:06:28.000Since you were in the chamber, were you able to see did the whole chamber consistently stand, or if not, who was staying seated?
00:07:44.000It's, you know, where God needs a nation for a miracle, He knows who to call.
00:07:48.000I mean, these kind of moments were hugely inspiring and they presented this positive vision of the future.
00:07:54.000But the moments that I will never forget was when Trump asked, Hey, stand up if you think America should fight for American citizens first.
00:09:34.000That kind of pierce the noise and get to the normal American voters.
00:09:38.000Andrew, we actually have a pretty funny clip where because he made fun of Nancy Pelosi and she was asked about it afterwards and seemed very caught off guard because at least one Democrat applauded for it.
00:09:50.000I think that would be a pretty fun one to play.
00:10:48.000This is why I love these ideas like banning stock trading.
00:10:51.000Like, you could argue there are problems.
00:10:54.000I would argue that it's central, though, because it's corruption in our judicial or our legislative process, right?
00:11:00.000And you're getting bought and paid for shills in Congress as opposed to people willing to do the right thing for the people.
00:11:04.000But here's the thing the people understand these messages, it pierces it, it breaks containment.
00:11:11.000And the fact that CNN is even forced to do that, That segment and have a little moment of honest journalism, and you get Elizabeth Warren getting on board with it.
00:11:21.000These are big wins that you can put on the board and you could go and ride them into the midterm.
00:11:27.000It's, I think that would be a strong platform.
00:11:30.000Just as you say, you see those headline items, and it's not necessarily the stuff we consider the biggest accomplishments.
00:11:39.000As their presentation said, securing the border was great, actually of existential importance for the United States, but annoyingly, it's not something where you just stamp this guy secured the border.
00:12:13.000And so when you see people that are blocking something as common sense as banning congressional stock trading, you have a villain, and then you can.
00:12:25.000So here's, I think, the there were so many good moments the Congressional Medal of Honor, the little girl that was injured and is learning to walk again after being hit by an illegal with a commercial driver's license.
00:13:56.000In that moment, by the way, I will just say in the gallery, Blake, I couldn't actually hear what he was saying for part of it because the acoustics were such that he was still talking and people were already making noise.
00:14:08.000But all hell broke loose on the floor.
00:14:10.000I mean, you had shouting left and right.
00:14:12.000And the fact that President Trump, from an optic standpoint, overpowered that noise and just kept hitting them and came back with all that energy, that dynamism, he came back and said, You should be ashamed of yourself.
00:14:36.000A lot of people were saying, Could you cut an ad based on that?
00:14:39.000I don't know that I've ever actually seen an ad that used the State of the Union.
00:14:43.000It would be interesting to see, but it certainly, for us, is the perfect symbol of how it is.
00:14:49.000That you go back to that 1990, I think it was 96 or 97 State of the Union, Bill Clinton boasting about his efforts to deport illegal immigrants.
00:14:58.00030 years later, you have Democrats just, they are the party of illegal immigrants.
00:15:03.000That is what defines them, arguably more than anything besides transgender surgeries, I guess.
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00:17:11.000It didn't talk about America's political divides.
00:17:14.000It actually celebrated, obviously, the United States hockey team and them coming in with the gold medals.
00:17:19.000That was probably the best moment I've seen in a State of the Union overall.
00:17:23.000Definitely the best one I've been a part of.
00:17:25.000In six years, but honoring our World War II veteran, 100 years old, honoring the National Guardsman who was on patrol here in DC, whose praying mother, basically through the grace of God, he is still with us today, him being honored, honoring the helicopter pilot in the mission to bring Maduro to justice here in the United States.
00:17:50.000Of course, the president talked about policy.
00:17:52.000He got into domestic policy and how he's bringing back the American economy, how no tax on tips, no tax on overtime.
00:17:59.000The largest tax cut for Social Security recipients in American history, how that's helping people keep more money in their pocket.
00:18:06.000The president wants to take on housing.
00:18:08.000He wants to get Blackstone and these institutional investors out of buying homes and taking them out from underneath the feet of the American people.
00:18:15.000He wants to make sure that we're driving down energy prices, driving down food prices, and then, of course, deporting criminal illegal aliens and helping from the leadership perspective of the president of the United States, helping to end conflicts around the globe.
00:18:30.000And the only thing that was damning is that the Democrats couldn't even get out of their own way to acknowledge the fact that every elected official in America, whether you're on Capitol Hill or local government or state government, we all have a responsibility, first and foremost, to the American people and to the United States of America.
00:18:49.000That truly is what America First means.
00:19:17.000Like, if you can't even acknowledge that, you don't deserve political power because your worldview is so warped, we can't trust you with that authority.
00:19:27.000And, you know, I do believe Charlie said this last year during the joint address that, you know, there's a spiritual sickness that has taken over the Democrat Party.
00:19:35.000And I just, I was on full display last night and being in that gallery and hearing the shouts and the jeers from some of the, you know, by the way, Nancy Pelosi's a liar.
00:19:47.000She's saying you could barely hear it, barely, like, you know, hear it in the room.
00:20:10.000What did you think about that moment when the president was asking Democrats to stand up for American citizens during that part of the speech when he was talking about immigration and immigration enforcement efforts?
00:20:21.000There's thinly veiled racist language, anti immigrant language in what he was asking, and that was uncomfortable.
00:21:03.000And this is like I'm telling you, man, the Democrats have lost it because they would rather continue to drive these wedges using race, which, by the way, the American people are sick of it.
00:21:24.000So if that's the take that she's going to have, it demonstrates further why the American people cannot trust Democrats with the reins of power here in Washington or, quite frankly, in any state in the country.
00:22:28.000Acknowledging his service to this nation is what we should do.
00:22:33.000Quite frankly, I'm surprised it's not happened at a State of the Union before.
00:22:36.000It probably should have because it's on display for the entire nation and the entire world to see.
00:22:42.000That when you sacrifice for this country, you are acknowledged by the highest ranking official in our government, which is the President of the United States.
00:22:50.000And so, if they take it as some sort of award show because they're trying to diminish Donald Trump, they're not diminishing him, they diminish themselves.
00:22:57.000Because when the American people see that clip and they're going to see it over and over again in social media, normal people in the country are going to say, you know what?
00:23:07.000Thank you, Donald Trump, for acknowledging American greatness, acknowledging that veteran of our armed forces.
00:23:15.000Somebody who truly laid it on the line to protect America and to help make America the great country that it is.
00:23:25.000You know, one of the things about this moment last night is I feel like it's going to give us massive, massive momentum going into the midterms, going into 2026.
00:23:35.000You are running for governor of the great state of Florida.
00:23:37.000This is a recent poll, shows you at 31%.
00:24:06.000It also is about partnering with the president as Florida's next governor to make sure that we're doing everything we can to build the housing we need in this country for young Americans.
00:24:18.000Who are in college right now trying to figure out a way to get married, have kids, and build their American dream in Florida.
00:24:24.000And also, how we help seniors on fixed incomes be able to live week by week, month by month.
00:24:29.000That's where no tax on Social Security really comes in.
00:24:32.000And so, I think the president did the absolute right thing last night.
00:24:35.000Talked about the rebuilding that did have to occur from Joe Biden and Kamala Harris because the economy was atrocious and security in the nation was atrocious, and how he's working every single day to rebuild that.
00:24:47.000And I also thought it was a A speech of true hope of what America is truly capable of, the golden age being upon us.
00:24:54.000And I will tell you, down in Florida, the golden age has been with us for quite some time.
00:25:00.000We have new reports saying that we expect the economy to grow, to be the 14th largest economy in the world in Florida.
00:25:07.000That's great credit to President Trump, great credit to Governor DeSantis.
00:25:13.000And so we're going to just keep that ball going and growing.
00:25:16.000And I think the president, what he did last night, is going to help Republicans across the board when it comes to the elections this November.
00:25:22.000You know, a lot of people move to Florida, especially during COVID.
00:25:26.000You are in the state from an affordability standpoint, almost a victim of your own success because you know, you got a lot of people moving in, it drives up home prices, things like that.
00:25:34.000What this affordability message, what are you going to do in Florida specifically if you're elected governor?
00:25:40.000Well, number one, we're going to address uh, the what it how long it takes to build housing in our state.
00:25:46.000Um, National Association of Home Builders says that 30 percent of the cost to build a home is government permitting.
00:25:52.000We're going to shrink that timeline down.
00:25:55.000We're going to get government out of the way of contractors building homes.
00:25:58.000If you can get that price down of what it is to deliver a home, you can get the price down for a young family trying to buy that home.
00:26:05.000Number two, I hope the governor is successful with the legislature to eliminate homestead property taxes in our state.
00:26:13.000One of the big things that we're also going to have to tackle is portability of homestead exemption credits.
00:26:19.000If we get rid of it, great, there's no harm, no foul.
00:26:21.000But we have seniors in our state who bought a home a long time ago, their property tax bill is actually quite low.
00:26:27.000And if they sell that home to downsize, their property tax bill is going to shoot through the roof, even though they're getting a smaller unit.
00:26:35.000So, Florida is going to need to address that.
00:26:36.000Hopefully, the legislature gets that done.
00:26:39.000But number three, it's about government efficiencies.
00:26:41.000And number four, it's about making sure that our young kids in the K 12 system, college system, university system, that every kid in Florida is on a pathway to economic success.
00:26:51.000We want them to be able to graduate, put food on the table, and build their families in the great state of Florida.
00:29:11.000I'm definitely glad it was a part of the speech.
00:29:14.000I think that went very viral in our circles, of course, for basically a month.
00:29:19.000The biggest story was the Somali fraud scandal.
00:29:23.000It broke containment, it became a subject of comedians and so on.
00:29:27.000And I think it's something to drive home.
00:29:29.000You really want to identify it, really, it gives life to the stuff about illegal immigration, legal immigration for that matter, about the sense that Democrats are on the side of non citizens and against citizens, is that they will.
00:29:43.000Defend and support and enable all these fraud things.
00:29:47.000And I think putting the vice president in charge of it is a good way to keep that around.
00:29:52.000If you're regularly announcing new findings, new indictments, if there's new ways to just keep that in the bloodstream over the year to come, that's it can entrench it in the popular mind as a big deal.
00:30:06.000And there's hopefully a lot to go for there.
00:30:09.000Obviously, Minnesota, we've seen it happen over and over again.
00:30:12.000But you look around in California, they have.
00:30:16.000Medicaid fraud that's so obviously concentrated in certain places, you know, you have 52 hospices in a few block radius.
00:30:47.000You can go to one state after another.
00:30:49.000And I think if they're serious about this, if they put real prosecutors and investigators on this beat and subpoena the documents and show what they're finding, they'll rapidly produce stories that can be very good for our movement.
00:31:03.000Yeah, and I think putting JD Vance in charge is a really good move.
00:31:09.000If JD Vance wants to be the GOP nominee for president in 2028, again, I don't mean to get ahead of ourselves here, but you got to believe he's incentivized.
00:31:19.000He's going to want to have real wins, real actionable wins on this front because it is such a galling problem in our culture and our society when American taxpayers are struggling with affordability, yet at the same time, you have foreigners that have moved here ripping off their taxpayers.
00:31:38.000And I love the way that we sometimes put it on this show.
00:31:41.000I think it's important where you actually say, hey, how many American taxpayers have to pay taxes for a lifetime to make up for $19 billion of Somali fraud?
00:31:51.000They're ripping out huge chunks of taxpayer base with all of this fraud.
00:31:56.000And then you expand that circle to California, Washington, Oregon, Maine, like you said, Ohio.
00:32:02.000This is a rampant, widespread abuse of the American taxpayers that has to be rectified.
00:32:07.000And I think JD Vance is the right guy to do it.
00:32:37.000How many fraudulent daycare centers have been set up where that money should go to American citizens?
00:32:43.000to help their kids get into childcare.
00:32:45.000Instead, it's being stolen from them by illegal aliens in our country.
00:32:49.000The Department of Justice is going to be investigating and where possible, throwing fraudsters in prison.
00:32:54.000We're going to be looking at income tax records.
00:32:56.000We're going to be trying to understand how it is that the American people have been defrauded.
00:33:01.000And the president and I talked about this a couple of months ago and said, what if we just did everything that we could to stop the fraud that's being committed against the American taxpayer?
00:33:49.000Find a lot of it's going to be tough to indict and prosecute.
00:33:52.000You're not going to solve fraud overnight, but you can get a very strong symbolic win if you can even find a really egregious offender and make them really famous.
00:34:02.000You drive the problem home, and that can turn into political and policy wins, even if you're not solving everything.
00:34:08.000You find you can make an example of a few really bad offenders.
00:34:13.000And you know, a lot of times you'll hear these critiques on social media where they say, We got to do more than a speech, or you got to do more than just a documentary or something like that.
00:34:40.000You have to win the PR war, the air war, sometimes first in order to win the ground war.
00:34:44.000So I just want people to be encouraged that sometimes when you think, oh, it's all noise, it's all theater, no, these things play in tandem sometimes necessarily.
00:34:55.000Because you need to get the moral backing of the American people behind it.
00:34:58.000Like, I was going to ask you about Iran because.
00:35:01.000JD Vance talked about it, but we're going to have to wait for hour two.
00:35:05.000So hopefully we get some time in hour two to talk about Iran, because that was something you and I were both looking for.
00:35:10.000Well, someone asked Is JD being given an impossible task?
00:35:13.000A big difference between this and what happened with Kamala on the border, for example, is we actually do want to stop fraud, whereas Democrats never wanted to solve the border, and they still gave it to Kamala.