The Charlie Kirk Show - Rating Trump's 100 Days ft. Mark Halperin

00:00:00.000 Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here, live from the Bitcoin.com studio.

00:00:03.000 What is happening with the first 100 days Mark Halpern unpacks, and then a very fun story about how the left, who tried to oppose Turning Point USA, is in complete implosion because of their woke worldview.

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00:00:27.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:25.000 Joining us now is one of my favorite guests because he tells it like it is.

00:01:29.000 That is Mark Halperin, editor-in-chief of Two Way, which I loved joining, by the way.

00:01:34.000 Got great response.

00:01:35.000 And host of the new program on YouTube and podcast networks called NextUp.

00:01:40.000 on Megan Kelly's network.

00:01:42.000 It's Mark Halperin.

00:01:43.000 Mark, welcome to the program.

00:01:45.000 Mark, you're beating me in the podcast charts, so I'm looking at it right there.

00:01:48.000 It's a great surge, and so I hope you stay there because it's well-earned and deserved because you've had the best scoops of the last year.

00:01:55.000 And I also got to tell you, I got more response being on Two Way than even being on some cable TV shows.

00:02:00.000 So you have a great viewership.

00:02:03.000 Well, first of all, three things quick.

00:02:05.000 Appreciate always being on.

00:02:06.000 Second one jokey, one serious.

00:02:08.000 I heard from a lot of your friends who watched our conversation, and thank you for coming on Two Way, who thought that I got you a little deer in the headlights, and they were like...

00:02:15.000 Charlie's usually unflappable.

00:02:17.000 Nothing stumps him.

00:02:18.000 So I heard from a lot of your friends, too.

00:02:20.000 And again, really enjoyed having you on.

00:02:21.000 Hope you'll come back.

00:02:22.000 Serious thing is the passage of your friend, mentor, David Horowitz, who I had the pleasure of meeting and honor of meeting a couple times.

00:02:30.000 But I just want to tell you how sorry I am because I read what you wrote, very touched by it.

00:02:34.000 And he touched so many people's lives.

00:02:36.000 And it really, you and I don't consider ourselves historic figures because it's not the way we think about ourselves.

00:02:41.000 But we've both had the pleasure of knowing and honor of knowing historic figures.

00:02:45.000 I'm really grateful for history that you got to meet such an extraordinary person.

00:02:50.000 Thank you.

00:02:51.000 And we're going to be honoring him throughout the show today.

00:02:54.000 And I'll just say one quick thing.

00:02:56.000 So many guys that run these organizations are territorial.

00:02:59.000 Don't come here.

00:03:00.000 I'll steal my donors or whatever.

00:03:02.000 He actively wanted me to come to his events.

00:03:04.000 And it helped grow Turning Point USA.

00:03:06.000 He is on the short list of people that believed in me when he had nothing to gain except trying to just...

00:03:12.000 Say, hey, who's this guy?

00:03:13.000 Maybe he can end up doing something meaningful.

00:03:14.000 And so, a phenomenal, decent, and good man.

00:03:18.000 So, Mark, I want to dive...

00:03:19.000 Yeah, please.

00:03:20.000 I was just real quick.

00:03:21.000 An incredible mind.

00:03:23.000 I mean, really one of the smartest creative thinkers I ever met.

00:03:26.000 And again, just really so happy for you that you got to spend time with someone who, historically, you're a great thinker and really inspirational to so many.

00:03:35.000 Absolutely.

00:03:36.000 And prolific writer.

00:03:37.000 I mean, he would call me for a book endorsement like every nine months.

00:03:41.000 I'm like, David, come on, man.

00:03:42.000 It's unbelievable.

00:03:44.000 So, Mark, we're 100 days in, and the front page of the New York Times.

00:03:49.000 I got to imagine, actually, that President Trump actually probably liked the front page of the New York Times.

00:03:53.000 I don't know if you saw it or not, but they said there's never been 100 days like this and had every possible category.

00:03:59.000 Depending on who you ask, it's either the most tragic and the most terrible 100 days or the most exhilarating or uplifting.

00:04:06.000 How are you thinking of uncovering these 100 days?

00:04:09.000 Well...

00:04:10.000 It's not just knuckleheads who say it's horrible or the best ever.

00:04:14.000 It's really smart people.

00:04:15.000 And one of the privileges I have is I get to talk to really smart people who have both views that this is incredible and this is disastrous.

00:04:24.000 I, you know, Susie Wiles, his chief of staff, who you know, did an interview with the New York Post around 100 days.

00:04:30.000 And she said on the border, she gives the president an A or A plus.

00:04:34.000 I can't remember which she said, but she suggested for a lot of other things incomplete.

00:04:38.000 And I think that's really the only right grade to give him.

00:04:41.000 100 days is an artificial construct.

00:04:43.000 Every president and every presidential advisor I've ever covered has sort of complained about it and said, you know, Roosevelt was governing during historic times and you could do a lot in that period.

00:04:53.000 I think on the big projects, China, Ukraine, inflation, the economy overall, reconciliation, the big budget bill, and of course on tariffs, it's just too soon to say.

00:05:05.000 But even his critics, I think, have read a lot of the coverage, including the New York Times, say most of what he's done, he promised to do as a candidate.

00:05:13.000 Most of what he's trying to do are not some projects that he's invented, but that he ran on.

00:05:18.000 And they may not work out.

00:05:20.000 Tariffs is one that makes a lot of people you and I both know a little uncomfortable and nervous.

00:05:23.000 But he's doing what he said he would do.

00:05:26.000 And that's, I think, again, what presidents should do.

00:05:29.000 They shouldn't get elected and then invent some whole new agenda.

00:05:32.000 As we examine the last 100 days, what can we gather that is predictive for the next 100?

00:05:39.000 The Trump White House seems no signs of slowing down.

00:05:42.000 Momentum is only increasing.

00:05:45.000 And are there any places where you think, based on your reporting, where there might be a little recalibration, where they might have went a little too hot and they might dial it back a little

00:05:56.000 I'm talking to people around the White House and in the White House.

00:05:59.000 I divide everything into two buckets.

00:06:02.000 There's the tariffs and there's everything else.

00:06:05.000 And everything else is a big bucket, right?

00:06:07.000 It's got Ukraine and China and non-tariff China and everything else.

00:06:11.000 But the tariffs is such a big deal because I talk to serious people every day, and I know you do too, who think this is the greatest own goal in the history of politics or sports, that he is destroying the world economy, not because of some virus in a wet market or a lab in China.

00:06:30.000 But through an act of purposeful presidential conduct.

00:06:33.000 So that's the place where you've already seen recalibration, right?

00:06:37.000 Some of the tariffs that were put on have come off.

00:06:38.000 Some of the strategy has changed.

00:06:40.000 Some of the stated goals have changed.

00:06:42.000 But I think it's not an exaggeration to say in the next 100 days, the second 100 days, how he handles the world when he's unleashed through the tariffs is going to be determinative, not just about the tariff policy or his economic record,

00:06:57.000 but I think of his entire presidency.

00:06:59.000 Then there's everything else.

00:07:01.000 Some recalibration regarding Putin, but I think that's more tactical than strategic.

00:07:05.000 I think most of what we're seeing in the other bucket is not shown a lot of change the course or regret on the margins on immigration, on the margins on some of the economic policies.

00:07:17.000 But for the most part, I think you're going to see more of the same, except in that first bucket, where, again, he has bet everything on a theory of how to make this work.

00:07:26.000 And I think the challenges, particularly as they relate to China, Are extraordinary.

00:07:30.000 I read the other day, I don't know if it's true, but it's too good not to repeat.

00:07:33.000 One in every three things that's made in the world now is made in China. 0.92

00:07:38.000 One in every three.

00:07:39.000 And I'm sure it's close to true.

00:07:41.000 So how he confronts China, not just economically, but militarily, strategically, diplomatically, this is as big a play as I've seen any president I've covered done.

00:07:51.000 People talk about George Bush trying to change the social security system or Barack Obama passing health care.

00:07:57.000 Those are big, big changes.

00:07:58.000 Big changes.

00:07:59.000 One case successful, one unsuccessful in terms of passing a bill.

00:08:03.000 But this is reshaping the world economy with a few strokes of a few pens.

00:08:09.000 So one thing that you mentioned, which is the Russia-Ukraine situation, which I'm incredibly interested in, and I hear things I can't say publicly.

00:08:18.000 You could respect that.

00:08:19.000 But I'll just ask this question, which is, has this taken them by surprise that this is harder to settle than they might have imagined?

00:08:26.000 And what does the world look like, in your opinion, if Putin says, yeah, actually, I think I'm winning the war.

00:08:33.000 Thanks.

00:08:33.000 I'm just going to keep on marching.

00:08:35.000 Well, great questions, and I'm super interested in it, too.

00:08:38.000 It's an interesting story, but it's also important.

00:08:41.000 And just as with the terrorists, very easy to say the fate of the world hangs in the balance.

00:08:46.000 Look, I think that President Trump doesn't have much confidence in either Putin or Zelensky that they really want to deal.

00:08:56.000 And his public comments reflect that.

00:08:58.000 Some days he thinks, yeah, we'll get a deal.

00:09:00.000 And other days he's very bearish on a deal.

00:09:03.000 You know, my joke for a while has been, and it's a grim joke, that Zelensky will make a deal except under two circumstances.

00:09:08.000 When the war is going well for him, because he doesn't want to make a deal when he's on the march, or when the war is going poorly for him, because he's on his back foot and he knows the terms wouldn't be good.

00:09:17.000 And of course, those are the only two possibilities.

00:09:19.000 So Zelensky is a barrier to peace as well. 1.00

00:09:22.000 He's not a dictator.

00:09:23.000 He didn't start the war.

00:09:24.000 The way Putin did.

00:09:26.000 But he is a barrier to a deal because there's no forcing mechanism.

00:09:30.000 He's always looking for something better.

00:09:32.000 I think what the deal could be and what each side will have to give up has been clear to everyone I know in the region for a long time, right?

00:09:43.000 Putin gets to keep some land.

00:09:45.000 Zelensky gets to keep most of his country. 0.97

00:09:48.000 He gets some economic security, some military security, but not membership in NATO, for instance.

00:09:54.000 It's pretty clear what it is.

00:09:56.000 But Putin in the last few days and his government have made noises that suggest he doesn't want a deal.

00:10:02.000 And the old negotiating phrase, nothing's decided until everything's decided.

00:10:07.000 Many things will stay undecided, and therefore there'll be no deal.

00:10:11.000 I don't know what's going to happen.

00:10:13.000 And your question, you hear lots of people in the establishment in both parties say, well, if Putin wants away, we go back to arming Ukraine and try to help them win the war.

00:10:22.000 I just don't think there's an appetite for that.

00:10:24.000 Well, that's where you're right.

00:10:25.000 That's exactly right, Mark.

00:10:27.000 And that's where I think a lot of the coverage is missing it, which is like, wait a second.

00:10:32.000 And I think Putin is smart enough to say, wait a second, there's not an appetite to keep arming my adversary.

00:10:39.000 So what exactly is it?

00:10:41.000 I'll wait it out.

00:10:42.000 Yeah, I'm going to wait it out.

00:10:43.000 It's the Russian way anyway.

00:10:44.000 And so that is the issue.

00:10:46.000 There really right now is no strong incentive for Russia to make a deal.

00:10:52.000 Other than President Trump and his team saying, look, do you guys want to enter the second world or do you want to be part of a little bit of an ever-growing, softening Western relationship where I don't know Russian politics that well.

00:11:09.000 Is that interesting to Putin?

00:11:10.000 Is that interesting to try to say, hey, you don't have to be isolated and embargoed all the time?

00:11:16.000 A little bit, but not enough to make him give up Crimea or give to a deal on unfavorable terms.

00:11:23.000 Yeah, and so, again, I'm far from a geopolitical expert on this stuff.

00:11:28.000 I'm trying to understand also the domestic politics are actually what's driving the potential consequence of this.

00:11:36.000 And the consensus of some of the senators I talked to said, oh, you know, we'll just arm another $100 billion.

00:11:41.000 I don't think you quite understand.

00:11:43.000 You're not reading the room, right?

00:11:46.000 The temperature here does not want that.

00:11:48.000 But please, Mark, plug your new podcast so our audience can know that so that you can keep beating us in the charts.

00:11:54.000 Just search NextUpHalpern.

00:11:58.000 You can listen to it on all the podcast platforms.

00:12:00.000 It's also on YouTube.

00:12:01.000 It's part of the Macon County Network.

00:12:02.000 I had Ted Cruz on my first episode that dropped yesterday.

00:12:05.000 Tomorrow, Charlie's close personal friend, Gavin Newsom, will be my guest.

00:12:09.000 Oh, wow.

00:12:10.000 That's going to be...

00:12:11.000 I will listen to that.

00:12:14.000 That'll be very good.

00:12:15.000 You see, you get all the good guests.

00:12:16.000 I have to really fight and scrap, you know.

00:12:19.000 Yeah, I got to get you on.

00:12:21.000 But, you know, I can be able to get a better guest because I'm higher than you on the charts.

00:12:24.000 Well, there you go.

00:12:25.000 That is true.

00:12:25.000 Mark, great work.

00:12:26.000 Thanks so much.

00:12:27.000 Thanks for the time.

00:12:27.000 Appreciate it.

00:12:29.000 Thanks, Charlie.

00:12:29.000 Good to see you.

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00:13:34.000 Okay, this is going to be a really fun story to cover, but it's going to require a little bit of explanation and a little bit of wind-up.

00:13:40.000 Because not everybody in this audience is on TikTok.

00:13:44.000 So first, I want to welcome our guest.

00:13:45.000 He goes by the term The Older Millennial.

00:13:48.000 He has a wonderful TikTok that I've enjoyed.

00:13:50.000 It's great to have him on the program.

00:13:51.000 At The New Older Millennial, is that right?

00:13:56.000 At The New Older Millennial.

00:13:57.000 It must be a new account after he got banned or something.

00:13:59.000 Is that right?

00:14:00.000 I'm guessing.

00:14:01.000 Yes, that's correct.

00:14:02.000 The New Older Millennial, account number 65. Okay, well, you and I should chat.

00:14:07.000 About that offline.

00:14:09.000 So we're going to now set the table here.

00:14:11.000 So at Turning Point USA, we have these incredibly successful campus tours.

00:14:16.000 Our audience is well aware of that.

00:14:18.000 We're drawing thousands of people to them.

00:14:20.000 The video interactions literally are seen billions and billions of times on social media.

00:14:25.000 So enter...

00:14:26.000 The left, they see the impact that we're having, and a group of, let's just say trolls, to put it nicely, a circus act that mostly exists on TikTok, but a little bit on Instagram, they get very jealous that we're having this success at Turning Point USA.

00:14:41.000 So they decide to launch their own counter to literally follow me around the country and stalk me as a way to try to troll and disrupt the event.

00:14:49.000 They call themselves the Un-F-America Tour.

00:14:52.000 It is run by two young trolls by the name of Dean and Parker.

00:14:56.000 If you don't know who they are, you are living a much greater life than I am because they're rather unenjoyable people.

00:15:04.000 And so I debated them both on Jubilee.

00:15:07.000 Anyway, so...

00:15:09.000 They show up to Texas A&M.

00:15:10.000 They get really upset because I didn't immediately call them up on stage even though I invited them.

00:15:15.000 I debated some of their other internet trolls.

00:15:18.000 Completely went viral. 0.96

00:15:19.000 Made them look terrible and bad.

00:15:20.000 But here's the fun story.

00:15:22.000 Why is this worthy of our time?

00:15:24.000 Well, because their entire operation is now collapsed.

00:15:28.000 Look how big of a crowd they drew in contrast to ours.

00:15:31.000 And it's collapsed because of wokeism and DEI.

00:15:35.000 And this is what's so important, everybody.

00:15:37.000 So they put together kind of this pseudo-super PAC that is now basically dissolved.

00:15:43.000 They're all infighting.

00:15:44.000 Why?

00:15:45.000 Well, because their organizer was racist using microaggressions.

00:15:51.000 Mr. Older Millennial, fill in the gaps here and talk as if people in the audience have no idea of the baseline facts here, and let's walk through this.

00:15:59.000 So you had it right, right off the bat, is that they basically just decided they were going to follow you around.

00:16:05.000 And basically try to ape off your success.

00:16:08.000 And the entire event was just poorly planned from the beginning because, one, they didn't reserve anything.

00:16:14.000 They didn't set it up.

00:16:16.000 And they brought 52 creators for a four-hour talk just wasting money like that.

00:16:22.000 But they showed up, and obviously they got very upset that they didn't get to move to the front of the line.

00:16:28.000 They were reminded very quickly of their...

00:16:31.000 Lack of importance to most people in the world.

00:16:33.000 And they went and set up on the far side of campus where, funnily enough, the sprinklers went off and they had to pay to get them shut off, which is beyond hilarious.

00:16:43.000 And they had their little event.

00:16:45.000 And what happened is, before the event happened, there had been some accusations of microaggressions against the creators of color.

00:16:57.000 And so whether it was the minority creators said that they were microaggressed because they weren't given extra security, which is what they felt they needed when they went to Texas, and they weren't given enough say, there was no minorities as headliners, and that's what they accused.

00:17:15.000 They accused her deeply of racism.

00:17:17.000 The bigger creators, Dean and Parker, they just ignored that it was happening so they could have their event, and it's currently...

00:17:25.000 All coming crashing down around them.

00:17:27.000 And add to that the fact they managed to spend their entire $115,000 on a single event.

00:17:32.000 So the entire thing is falling apart for them.

00:17:35.000 And I hope everyone understands.

00:17:36.000 So this was supposed to be the big DNC's counter to Turning Point USA.

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00:17:42.000 We are drawing huge crowds.

00:17:43.000 We're moving young people substantially. 0.81

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00:18:57.000 What is collapsing them?

00:18:59.000 Because I get asked the question all the time, well, Charlie, what is DEI in practice?

00:19:02.000 Everybody, their organization is now collapsing because some organizer by the name of Z, a Bernie Sanders former staffer, microaggressed the black women. 0.97

00:19:13.000 By saying what?

00:19:14.000 She said, well, this was really disorganized and you people have to do better.

00:19:20.000 I kid you not, they are now in a civil war that is in front of millions of people.

00:19:26.000 Because they can't run a simple operation.

00:19:28.000 They are a victim of their own ideology.

00:19:30.000 And is this not a great example of how wokeism can never build anything?

00:19:35.000 About how when you live under DEI, you immediately collapse.

00:19:40.000 And these people's feed, literally on TikTok, which is being seen by millions of people, is legit.

00:19:46.000 Only on F America infighting.

00:19:48.000 A complete implosion for one week.

00:19:50.000 I thought that, to my credit, I said to the team, I said, guys, this is not going to last because wokeism cannot run anything.

00:19:55.000 You cannot run a church.

00:19:56.000 You cannot run a company.

00:19:58.000 This principle, you cannot run anything.

00:20:00.000 And my team is in the chat saying that we called it.

00:20:04.000 And their influencer page has been taken down.

00:20:06.000 Is this not a great example of a bunch of left-wing young influencers trying to win young people, talking about how great woke is, and then woke destroys their own operation?

00:20:16.000 Well, that's the beauty of it, is that you have...

00:20:19.000 I mean, I made a TikTok about it where I said that if you get together so many people that are focused on being victims, that that is the basis of their content, and you get them all together, they're going to have a victim Olympics.

00:20:31.000 They're going to see who can be the biggest victim.

00:20:33.000 And turns out, they're really good at it.

00:20:38.000 They are experts in it.

00:20:40.000 So now...

00:20:41.000 I want to play this piece of tape here.

00:20:43.000 So if you don't know Parker, again, congratulations.

00:20:45.000 You're about to meet him.

00:20:46.000 This guy interrupts you every three seconds.

00:20:47.000 He has such a sense of entitlement.

00:20:50.000 However, I have finally found a way to get Parker to not interrupt you. 0.99

00:20:54.000 Have a crazy black woman talk about microaggressions for a minute straight, and that shuts up Parker. 1.00

00:21:01.000 Look at this beta guy who's the leader of the insurgency. 1.00

00:21:05.000 Sit down and shut up because a black woman is talking. 1.00

00:21:09.000 Mind you, he interrupts you all the time as if he's, you know, on lithium or something. 1.00

00:21:13.000 Playcut 372.

00:21:15.000 Z came in alive full of a bunch of black women, and the first thing she did when she came on there was to say, I know you guys aren't educated on, like, clearly they're speaking about politics. 0.99

00:21:28.000 They know what they're talking about.

00:21:30.000 So what makes you feel like they don't, like, for you to say they aren't educated, one, that was the phrase microaggression.

00:21:37.000 Two, She was very hard on seeing you people.

00:21:41.000 And whenever somebody says you people, it's just, you just know where it's coming from.

00:21:48.000 Like, you just know as if, like, they were being aggressive.

00:21:51.000 And then she started bringing up BIPOC people that were part of the tour.

00:21:56.000 And then she said behind the scenes.

00:21:58.000 Like, they're not the face of the tour.

00:22:01.000 They're just working behind the scenes like some workmen.

00:22:05.000 What did we just listen to?

00:22:07.000 I mean, this is the Democrat Party.

00:22:09.000 This is Parker being silent, getting dressed down in front of thousands of people saying, these are microaggressions and we win the oppression Olympics.

00:22:18.000 And the worst part is, it's wild because I'm used to seeing them take what we say out of context.

00:22:24.000 I'm used to seeing them take what you say out of context.

00:22:27.000 And it's fun to watch them do it to each other because what she just said, Z said.

00:22:32.000 Z didn't say.

00:22:33.000 Like, I will never defend that woman. 0.98

00:22:35.000 I hope her entire pact fails.

00:22:37.000 I hope their entire movement fails.

00:22:38.000 But she didn't say that.

00:22:40.000 What she did was she came on and told them, hey, many of you may not be experienced in organizing.

00:22:45.000 And that's all she said.

00:22:47.000 And this is honestly the first time I've ever seen the you people thing actually enforced in, like, real life of somebody hearing you people and being...

00:22:56.000 I guess microaggressed. 0.88

00:22:58.000 I don't know how many microaggressions it takes to equal an actual aggression.

00:23:01.000 But it is fun to watch.

00:23:03.000 They're taking their own people out of context and doing it in a public forum, which is beyond insanity for their movement.

00:23:10.000 And now, Dean and Parker, they have to issue these apologies.

00:23:14.000 Talk about the apology tour.

00:23:15.000 Talk about how now they have to grovel to their audiences saying...

00:23:19.000 Well, I just want to say I'm sorry because I knew that she was racist.

00:23:22.000 She wasn't racist, for the record.

00:23:24.000 There's nothing she did that was racist.

00:23:27.000 Like, she literally was just like, okay, you guys aren't that, you know, experienced in organizing.

00:23:30.000 And these left-wing content influencers are now creating this mob.

00:23:34.000 This is the woke mob that we stopped in November.

00:23:37.000 Everybody, Donald Trump stopped this, this, like, herd of narcissists from taking over the United States government.

00:23:44.000 I want to play this right now.

00:23:45.000 Also, they're questioning where is the money going?

00:23:48.000 Playcut 381.

00:23:49.000 So you're telling me that the $100,000 that was actually raised by our communities is all gone and you used it on the event at Texas A&M.

00:24:02.000 Over $100,000.

00:24:06.000 She was like, "Yep."

00:24:08.000 At that point, I was completely done.

00:24:12.000 But some smart Black women jumped in. 1.00

00:24:18.000 Erica jumped in and said, hey, Z, we need receipts. 1.00

00:24:24.000 Now, we have one minute remaining.

00:24:25.000 Just to be clear, that was the entire operating budget of Turning Point USA for the first year, $100,000.

00:24:31.000 Where did all this money go?

00:24:33.000 They have $100,000 for a campus stop for some makeshift operation with not even a microphone that works and sprinklers that are on them?

00:24:41.000 What's going on here?

00:24:42.000 Well, the wildest part is, you look at it, they flew in 52 creators from all over the country.

00:24:46.000 They rented each of them a car.

00:24:48.000 They didn't provide transportation.

00:24:49.000 They just rented them cars.

00:24:50.000 They put them up in hotel rooms for extended periods of time, even though they were only there to talk for four hours.

00:24:57.000 What I can hope is that this is emblematic of Democrat organizing.

00:25:01.000 Yes, it is.

00:25:01.000 Because, I mean, this is why Kamala Harris had $2 billion and somehow managed to outspend that.

00:25:07.000 Great point.

00:25:09.000 There is this kind of...

00:25:11.000 Oh, we're losing young people because of Charlie, and they're obsessed with me.

00:25:15.000 Is that fair to say?

00:25:17.000 It is a pathological obsession, of which, fine, get in line.

00:25:22.000 You are living rent-free in their heads, and it's very obvious.

00:25:27.000 They do not care about stopping Donald Trump, J.D. Vance, or Elon Musk.

00:25:32.000 Their life is about stopping Charlie Kirk.

00:25:34.000 Literally, it's on their website.

00:25:35.000 Taking the fight to Charlie Kirk.

00:25:37.000 Not taking the fight to Donald Trump.

00:25:38.000 Taking the fight to me.

00:25:39.000 Fine.

00:25:40.000 Okay.

00:25:43.000 What does a mechanic and auto shop owner in Georgia, a taco restaurant operator in Arizona, and a life-saving medical innovator in Tennessee have in common?

00:25:51.000 They're all small business owners, and they're all thriving on TikTok.

00:25:55.000 Across the U.S., over 7.5 million businesses, from family-owned shops to entrepreneurs, are using TikTok to compete and grow.

00:26:02.000 We use TikTok all the time on The Charlie Kirk Show.

00:26:05.000 In fact, 74% of businesses on TikTok say TikTok has allowed them to scale their operations, increasing sales, and expanding to new locations.

00:26:13.000 And that growth means jobs.

00:26:14.000 Today, there's over 7.5 million U.S. businesses on TikTok employing more than 28 million people.

00:26:19.000 And that number keeps growing.

00:26:21.000 small businesses thrive on TikTok.

00:26:22.000 Learn more about TikTok's contribution to the U.S. economy at TikTokEconomicImpact.com.

00:26:30.000 I got to ask you, older millennial, you have a lot of success on TikTok.

00:26:35.000 The liberals are increasingly not as viral on TikTok or dominant as they used to be.

00:26:40.000 Can you comment on that?

00:26:42.000 Well, I honestly think, like, right now we're seeing the fact that TikTok does push liberals.

00:26:47.000 It's coming back to bite them right now because we're watching their...

00:26:50.000 What is equivalent to, you know, a divorce proceeding or a couple's counseling on TikTok between them.

00:26:56.000 But, yeah, I mean, the benefit of the conservative community is that everybody knows that what we're talking about is what we actually want to talk about.

00:27:04.000 When it comes to liberals, we have so much evidence of them being paid and being told what to say, but they know that when they talk to us, they know it's genuine because we couldn't get a dime out of the RNC if we tried.

00:27:15.000 So, you know, they know they're getting the genuine thing from us.

00:27:21.000 We're only allowed to grow so far before we get taken down.

00:27:24.000 And that's why I'm super excited about the possibility of somebody new owning TikTok.

00:27:29.000 Like Reid's proposal makes me very excited for the future.

00:27:32.000 Yeah, we need to get that sorted out for sure.

00:27:35.000 Why do you think young people are gravitating to the right so much and are becoming more and more conservative?

00:27:42.000 Well, there's that old adage that says, you know, if you're not a liberal in your 20s, you don't have a heart.

00:27:46.000 But if you're not a conservative in your 30s, you don't have a brain.

00:27:49.000 The thing is that now, reality is coming to these people a lot sooner.

00:27:54.000 So, reality is hitting people a lot younger, so they need to recognize the reality of the world.

00:28:00.000 And liberal ideology doesn't do that.

00:28:03.000 It acts like everything's going to be okay, and you can make everything good with flowery terms.

00:28:08.000 We're conservatives.

00:28:09.000 We recognize, oh, it's going to take work.

00:28:12.000 And I think a lot of people are coming to that decision sooner than they have in the past.

00:28:17.000 What do you see in your audience as to why young men especially are gravitating towards the conservative movement and how Democrats are going to try to adapt or going to try to catch up?

00:28:30.000 Well, the other side says we're evil.

00:28:32.000 I mean, young men are being told that they're evil, that being masculine is bad, that being assertive is bad, and that they're just bad people by dint of being a white young male.

00:28:44.000 And when you get enough hatred from the other side, you're going to walk away from it.

00:28:47.000 And there's really nothing that the left can do to recover it because they don't have...

00:28:52.000 Uh, examples of masculinity.

00:28:54.000 They don't have anything that a man can aspire to on their side.

00:28:57.000 They have examples of young, whiny people who...

00:29:00.000 Hold on.

00:29:00.000 They can aspire to this.

00:29:01.000 I gotta interrupt you.

00:29:02.000 This is the type of man that they can aspire to.

00:29:04.000 Playcut 384.

00:29:05.000 Uh-oh.

00:29:05.000 So, my first order of business is apologizing to the individuals that are watching this stream, that are a member of the BIPOC community, for not speaking out about this sooner.

00:29:16.000 But I think one really big mistake I've made, one really bad thing I've done...

00:29:21.000 Something I need to hold myself accountable for was not calling this out before we went boots on the ground in Texas.

00:29:29.000 My internal justification was that, well, I have fans across the country that have already bought their plane tickets to go to Texas, and they're going to be there, and I want to make sure that I'm there for them.

00:29:44.000 And in retrospect, I recognize that I did not handle the situation correctly, Final thoughts, one minute remaining.

00:29:56.000 That is their alpha male apologizing for racism that doesn't even exist.

00:30:01.000 That's what they're delivering to the American people.

00:30:03.000 No, and that's the sad part, is that is the example of what a liberal man looks like these days.

00:30:09.000 And the sad thing is that if that's what you're aspiring to be, you're not going to inspire anyone.

00:30:18.000 And that is well said.

00:30:19.000 Thank you so much, my friend.

00:30:21.000 Talk to you soon.

00:30:21.000 Hope to see you at one of our events upcoming.

00:30:23.000 Thank you.

00:30:24.000 Absolutely.

00:30:24.000 I'll be there.

00:30:25.000 Email us freedom at charliekirk.com and subscribe to our podcast.

00:30:29.000 They have that.

00:30:30.000 We have Joe Rogan.

00:30:32.000 We have Dana White.

00:30:34.000 We have Theo Vaughn.

00:30:35.000 I mean, just a little bit different than the left-wing influencer.

00:30:41.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:30:42.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:30:44.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - May 01, 2025

Rating Trump's 100 Days ft. Mark Halperin

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