The Charlie Kirk Show - RNC REACTIONS DAY 1

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00:01:30.000 Okay, everybody, we are here live in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

00:01:32.000 It is, uh, it's a little bit of a miracle I was able to make it.

00:01:34.000 It's storming outside.

00:01:35.000 I spoke, I was literally rows from where Donald Trump entered.

00:01:39.000 The whole thing was crazy.

00:01:40.000 But we're here live!

00:01:41.000 And, uh, did you guys, were you in the arena when Donald Trump entered?

00:01:45.000 Uh, no.

00:01:45.000 You know what I'm talking about?

00:01:46.000 So, we were, we were... You guys might have missed it.

00:01:49.000 It was unbelievable.

00:01:50.000 We were back here watching.

00:01:52.000 We were back here.

00:01:53.000 So, for folks at home, um, we're in a slightly... There's all these different configurations.

00:01:56.000 Yeah, there's these different configurations.

00:01:57.000 So, where we are is just adjacent to where Donald Trump walked in.

00:02:02.000 But my brother was there.

00:02:03.000 He called me afterwards.

00:02:04.000 You felt the building shake.

00:02:05.000 I actually thought that there was, like, a subway going on underneath or something because the ground started shaking.

00:02:12.000 And then Tyler was like, no, there's no subway here.

00:02:14.000 That's just... Yeah, so let me tell you, it wasn't planned, and so I was backstage trying to prepare for my speech, which is very hard for me because I don't like doing teleprompters.

00:02:22.000 Blake, you were very helpful with the speech.

00:02:24.000 Thank you.

00:02:24.000 Thank you very much.

00:02:25.000 And you worked through the July 4th weekend, and we got some good turning point action stuff in there, but I hate reading teleprompters.

00:02:31.000 And, but it's kind of the way it has to be.

00:02:32.000 It's made for TV, you know, and so I was like, I don't want to over-prepare.

00:02:36.000 I don't want to under-prepare.

00:02:37.000 I think, you know, we hit it just right.

00:02:39.000 But all of a sudden, they're like, you can't be here.

00:02:40.000 We have to sweep this whole area.

00:02:42.000 I mean, Secret Service is probably now, like, going 12 out of 10 protection.

00:02:45.000 Would you say that's fair, Jack?

00:02:46.000 It's a little bit of an over-correction?

00:02:47.000 So, this morning, by the way, it was even worse.

00:02:50.000 This morning, they were like, if you had, you know, a scratch on your badge, they were like, redo it.

00:02:58.000 Go around.

00:02:59.000 I mean, after everything that happened this weekend, I think Secret Service knows one screw up, one mistake during this week.

00:03:06.000 Yes.

00:03:06.000 And by the way, they know he's going to be their president in just a couple of months here, too.

00:03:11.000 Yeah, so anyway, it was really hard to see things.

00:03:15.000 You guys probably all saw it.

00:03:16.000 It was one of the most powerful convention moments.

00:03:17.000 I got the whole thing, like literally I was like 10 feet away, where President Trump enters with the bandage.

00:03:22.000 You didn't film it, did you?

00:03:22.000 No, I didn't.

00:03:23.000 I filmed the whole thing.

00:03:23.000 You filmed from backstage?

00:03:24.000 No, I filmed it, like, literally from, like, behind the seat.

00:03:26.000 Okay, so you're, like, right there.

00:03:27.000 Yeah, I just got caught, because I was literally the speaker right before he entered.

00:03:30.000 It was me, and then, like, some everyday American.

00:03:32.000 You gotta get that.

00:03:33.000 Oh, yeah, I posted, we already posted that on TikTok.

00:03:35.000 Okay, good.

00:03:35.000 And so, over there, like, the President walks in, um, and Lee Greenwood's talking.

00:03:40.000 They just cut Lee Greenwood off.

00:03:40.000 Did you see that?

00:03:41.000 They cut him off.

00:03:42.000 Yeah, I saw that, yeah.

00:03:42.000 And they just, like, you said, President Trump's coming in, and the place was, I mean, beyond electric.

00:03:47.000 I mean, I was tearing up.

00:03:48.000 I mean, when you see that bandage, you're, like, you're two inches from that man being in a morgue.

00:03:55.000 And you, I mean, it's just like, it comes to life.

00:03:57.000 And next to him is Byron Donalds, Tucker.

00:03:59.000 JD Vance is the VP, which we're going to celebrate.

00:04:01.000 Did you hear about that?

00:04:02.000 That JD is actually going to be the VP?

00:04:04.000 We've had a, we've had a, we've had a long day.

00:04:07.000 So, uh, yeah, I, I got caught, caught in the, the, the, the news cycle.

00:04:11.000 We should, we should actually tell people who have only been watching this, some of the news that broke today.

00:04:15.000 Uh, so we have the news during the RNC speeches, it came out that, uh, Elon Musk is going to be donating an estimated $45 million dollars.

00:04:25.000 Alright, so here's a question.

00:04:27.000 Does November count?

00:04:28.000 Does November count?

00:04:29.000 Is that a month?

00:04:30.000 We're gonna make it count.

00:04:31.000 It's prorated.

00:04:32.000 Yeah, it's prorated.

00:04:34.000 It's a full month.

00:04:35.000 It's a full month.

00:04:36.000 It's a calendar month.

00:04:37.000 Every calendar month has a day since his announcement.

00:04:40.000 You know how they push recurring donations now and it's $45 a month?

00:04:43.000 Ethan was like, I'll do that, but then, you know, I don't know, maybe his finger slipped.

00:04:47.000 No, it was, it was, but he's doing it intentionally because he's the 45th president.

00:04:50.000 He's big into numerology.

00:04:52.000 It's like when you're like, uh, subscription for the, that's what he should be doing.

00:04:56.000 Netflix comes out, comes out the first day.

00:04:58.000 More important that if the race is tight in October, which it very well might be because a president of politics tightened, Elon could be like, I'm doing 250.

00:05:06.000 Like, I mean, point.

00:05:07.000 Yes.

00:05:08.000 Just so you understand, I was just kind of flipping through the day when it was, you know, Elon was coming out.

00:05:12.000 In one day, his net worth went up six and a half billion dollars on Tesla's earnings report.

00:05:17.000 One day.

00:05:18.000 Just on the day of Friday.

00:05:20.000 It's the drop of the bucket.

00:05:21.000 I mean, it's not, you won't even notice it, right?

00:05:23.000 Um, and this is really important, everybody, because how long, Blake,

00:05:25.000 have we been complaining?

00:05:27.000 Where are the elites, the elites of this top-down revolution?

00:05:30.000 It really is.

00:05:31.000 What's totally different about this race is in 2016, there were a 1.00

00:05:35.000 few people who supported Trump.

00:05:36.000 Very few of them did it openly.

00:05:39.000 Peter Thiel did speak at the RNC, but he was like unannounced in Silicon Valley.

00:05:43.000 And then for the four years that followed, very few elites would really just step up and say, I like what Trump says.

00:05:50.000 I like what Trump wants to do for the country.

00:05:52.000 But in the last really just, not even four years, it's like the last year and a half, you've seen this seismic shift where way more people in Silicon Valley are coming out and saying publicly, I support Trump.

00:06:04.000 You and I both have sometimes had conversations with people in that world, and they'll say, in private spheres too, at parties, people will just say, oh yeah, I'm voting Trump this year.

00:06:11.000 Totally different.

00:06:12.000 And now we're seeing that money line up to back him.

00:06:15.000 Yeah, and Elon was supporting Trump behind the scenes.

00:06:16.000 It's kind of like getting there, but something, Jack, I want your opinion on this, something set off in Elon's mind as soon as he saw Donald Trump get shot.

00:06:26.000 It was like complete no rules.

00:06:28.000 I do know a little bit about this, and I'll just say, In the same vein, I've heard from talking to people in that world.

00:06:35.000 I've only spoken to Elon ever once, and it was in a public setting.

00:06:39.000 I've never met him, I've never spent time with him, but I've been told that assassination plots, kidnapping for his many children, security is something that he just takes paramount.

00:06:52.000 This was like, for example, the whole thing with his private jet, I'll give you that example.

00:06:56.000 When he banned the cops from tracking and doxing his private jet, people thought

00:07:00.000 that he was being flippant or that he was being, you know, like, acting like a diva or something.

00:07:06.000 People were saying, no, no, no.

00:07:07.000 Like, he was actually concerned for the safety, not just of himself, but of everyone he was with

00:07:13.000 that could potentially be put at threat by that.

00:07:15.000 And so I always knew that that was something that he thought about a lot.

00:07:20.000 And I'll put it this way, I was surprised but not shocked when Elon pointed out

00:07:25.000 that in the wake of that, that I think he said something in the last six months, that he had had two attempts

00:07:32.000 on his life that his security actually seemed cruel.

00:07:36.000 Yeah.

00:07:37.000 And again, Elon, to his great credit, is now forking money over.

00:07:40.000 All right, everybody, the RNC has concluded for the day.

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00:07:54.000 Guys, I just have to press pause here.

00:07:56.000 What day of the week is it?

00:07:57.000 That's my point.

00:07:58.000 Guys, 48 hours-ish ago, Donald Trump was exiting a hospital.

00:08:00.000 I have no idea.

00:08:02.000 This last two weeks, like, I have everything blended together.

00:08:05.000 That's what, that's my point.

00:08:06.000 Guys, 48 hours-ish ago, Donald Trump was exiting a hospital.

00:08:10.000 That says like two months ago.

00:08:11.000 I want you to think it's everything we've lived through since Saturday.

00:08:15.000 That was Saturday afternoon, I remember.

00:08:17.000 Was I the first person to text you about that?

00:08:19.000 I was pretty quick on the draw because I have a funny story about this.

00:08:23.000 Wait, but it was Saturday as it was Shabbat.

00:08:26.000 As I broke Shabbat halfway through the morning.

00:08:29.000 Because someone contacted Erica saying, um, do you want Jay to be vice president?

00:08:35.000 And so I said, do I really need to break Shabbat? 0.77

00:08:38.000 They said, we need you to turn your phone on.

00:08:40.000 And so that's a big deal for me, to break Shabbat, right? 0.63

00:08:43.000 Yes.

00:08:43.000 And so I sent some input.

00:08:47.000 All right.

00:08:47.000 And so then anyway, I had my phone open for the rest of the day, and Erika, could you not, was like, she said, I think God wants you to have your phone on today.

00:08:53.000 I was like, she really said that?

00:08:55.000 I said that.

00:08:55.000 I had the text.

00:08:57.000 So I got the call, and the first thing I started doing was looking for Erika's number, because I didn't know that.

00:09:03.000 Yeah, I had that.

00:09:05.000 And I'm like, wait a minute, I probably called Charlie and he picked up, and I didn't think he was going to pick up.

00:09:09.000 And then it was like two seconds.

00:09:12.000 And he was like, Charlie, I already know.

00:09:15.000 So, for people who don't know, Charlie is usually completely incommunicado, completely dark on Saturdays, and it just so happens because there was this other thing going on that you happen to be on your phone on this Saturday when you're never on your phone on Saturdays.

00:09:32.000 And so, I go to the gym, all of a sudden I see this, and you know what's amazing?

00:09:36.000 Two-year-olds have amazing instincts.

00:09:37.000 Yes.

00:09:37.000 I had my two-year-old, all of a sudden she was like clinging on to me.

00:09:41.000 Like she could feel the energy in the room as soon as I was like, something's wrong.

00:09:45.000 She was like, you know that sensation with a two-year-old?

00:09:48.000 And she was like, like daddy's not, you know, necessarily confident what's happening.

00:09:53.000 I was literally had to like claw her off and give her to Erica as I kept walking.

00:09:57.000 I kept walking across the gym closer and closer.

00:09:59.000 I was like, holy crow, he's shot.

00:10:02.000 Yeah.

00:10:02.000 And I mean, at that moment, I felt as if I was watching Kennedy, Malcolm X, MLK.

00:10:07.000 Because understand, like, yeah, Trump was defiant and everything.

00:10:10.000 He's still a wound that he didn't realize, right?

00:10:12.000 Yeah, so... Adrenaline, right?

00:10:15.000 Okay, so, yeah, we talked about this.

00:10:16.000 By the way, you know, I'm not gonna, like, pat ourselves on the back, but I know there were a lot of stories that came out and a lot of fog of war in the midst of that.

00:10:25.000 So, I think we were what?

00:10:27.000 We came to the live stream within, what, 45 minutes of us all getting in.

00:10:31.000 And by the way, shout out to all the folks at the Turning Point, at the Turning Point, at the Carly Kirk Show, and the TNT at Unbelievable, that put that together.

00:10:38.000 You guys get free in and out within minutes.

00:10:40.000 You know, came in on a Saturday like that.

00:10:43.000 A single person complained, everybody knew what we had to do, and I really think that we did a good job of keeping things grounded, but also understanding of the potential for future threats.

00:10:57.000 Thank God it didn't happen, but as we've learned more and more, a lot of the things that we brought up seem to have have worn out.

00:11:04.000 So anyway that was Saturday and I think it was 6 16 p.m or so?

00:11:10.000 Are you guys like when you go to sleep think about this like relentlessly?

00:11:14.000 I like weird that now the last... Tyler are you with me?

00:11:17.000 That when I'm like closing my eyes I think about Donald Trump's brains getting blown out? 0.85

00:11:20.000 Non-stop. 0.95

00:11:20.000 Like I know that sounds really graphic. 0.95

00:11:21.000 I thought about that before that though because I was really worried because... No I was I've been super worried about this.

00:11:26.000 No it's been because we've talked about many times.

00:11:29.000 Talking about openly.

00:11:30.000 This is the only thing that they've got.

00:11:32.000 So so for me it's it's it's interesting because actually um and I'll so when I first got the call I was in a so I was out we're at the swim club and not far from where we live but it's sort of like a low cell you know low signal area which I kind of like because you're you And you can just have fun.

00:11:51.000 You don't feel as obligated to be on your phone.

00:11:53.000 You're like, oh, there's no connection.

00:11:54.000 So I'm just gonna go run around.

00:11:56.000 We're playing pickleball, actually.

00:11:57.000 We're playing pickleball.

00:11:58.000 And I get the call and at one point, people weren't sure if he was shot in the ear

00:12:04.000 or shot in the neck.

00:12:05.000 And for a second, I could feel that emotion just sliding up that everything about,

00:12:11.000 is the ground about to fall out completely?

00:12:14.000 And then, but I'll just say that it's, you just kind of do that sort of, I know it's cliche, but you do that military thing where it's like, okay, you just put that on the shelf and you just get to work.

00:12:23.000 And so you have to get to work.

00:12:24.000 So then today, history took Sunday off, I think.

00:12:29.000 So.

00:12:29.000 Had to hit pause.

00:12:30.000 Today, the cases were dropped against Donald Trump.

00:12:33.000 Out of, out of the blue.

00:12:34.000 I don't think anyone expected that.

00:12:35.000 he reenters a convention with literally like missing part of his ear. I mean, Elon Musk

00:12:41.000 pledges that he's going to give $250 million ish, two to $250 million ish, quarter of a

00:12:47.000 billion dollars, quarter of a billion dollars, one of the largest political donations ever.

00:12:51.000 And I'm actually I'm missing there. There's other news that I'm missing. There was the

00:12:55.000 whole vice president thing.

00:12:57.000 The vice president was chosen, Charlie.

00:13:00.000 We're not talking about how- We didn't know who it was gonna be!

00:13:05.000 We're not sure Trump knew who it was gonna be!

00:13:07.000 We were talking about this- We're not, Charlie.

00:13:09.000 We're gonna tell these stories now that it's done?

00:13:11.000 Yes.

00:13:11.000 We're not talking about how- Do it.

00:13:14.000 Do it.

00:13:15.000 Should Charlie tell the stories?

00:13:16.000 Do it.

00:13:16.000 I can tell you this.

00:13:18.000 Within 15 minutes before Donald Trump's Truth Social post, J.D.

00:13:24.000 Vance did not know he was going to be the VP.

00:13:26.000 Suspicion.

00:13:27.000 Not a single senior staff to their credit leaked.

00:13:30.000 And they were like, hey, D.J.T.' 's going to call you.

00:13:32.000 That's all they said.

00:13:33.000 By the way, he was calling Rubio and Burgum, too.

00:13:36.000 And J.D.' 's like, well, I think I have good vibes.

00:13:38.000 And then New York Times reporters were texting me saying, hey, Mikey Haley and Junkin all of a sudden being considered like crazy stuff.

00:13:45.000 And I have big disagreements with Senator Lindsey Graham.

00:13:50.000 He was the one that was on the plane yesterday with Donald Trump heavily lobbying against JD Vance.

00:13:59.000 The announcement would have happened before then, if it wasn't for that, number one, but there was this very interesting, I'm not going to name all the names because some of these people are friends and I have to work with them for the next 10 years until, but I'll give you the general mold.

00:14:13.000 If you were a Team JD, you were under the age of 50, you were very interested in the ideological part of politics.

00:14:24.000 And you also were sick of endless and foreign wars, neoconservative neoliberalism, and or you don't necessarily have a political background.

00:14:34.000 You come from business, finance, and just the way things are operating don't make sense.

00:14:38.000 If you are on the team of the others, There was this conglomeration of people that were a little bit older, people that were part of the kind of permanent Washington, and they just floated from one non-J.D.

00:14:53.000 choice to the other.

00:14:54.000 Is that a fair summary, Blake, would you say?

00:14:56.000 Yeah, definitely saw that the business world really liked J.D.

00:15:01.000 They liked the energy that he brings to the Senate.

00:15:04.000 The tech world loves him.

00:15:06.000 Uh, yeah, I guess I should say that a lot of the classical business world that you think of, like, pro-business military-industrial world.

00:15:13.000 Like the Chamber of Commerce.

00:15:14.000 Yeah, the Chamber of Commerce guys, no.

00:15:16.000 Um, you know what's really interesting about that?

00:15:18.000 Is the JD now Elon Fusion intersection.

00:15:23.000 Oh yeah.

00:15:25.000 So, I'm not at liberty to tell that story.

00:15:28.000 It's just, that's the story that will be told.

00:15:30.000 I think that will go in part of the... That'll be a massive chapter, I think, in the W, right?

00:15:37.000 So that's gonna be really interesting.

00:15:38.000 And so... I'll put it this way, though.

00:15:41.000 I think from the outside, that people looking at the JD and the Elon thing kind of happening In conjunction, and yet you can't say that the assassination attempt played no role, but it just kind of changed the pallor of everything.

00:15:57.000 I mean, imagine, imagine if Trump died.

00:15:59.000 What would this, this week, Tyler, the only, the only, and I, I actually know what I would have tweeted.

00:16:05.000 And I, after condolences, all the, you know, I would be like tragic, like for the political tweet, it would have been, it's a condemnation and a discussion.

00:16:12.000 Same here.

00:16:13.000 It's the only, right, Jackie?

00:16:14.000 It's the only way.

00:16:16.000 You realize it would have been like freaking World War 4 here.

00:16:19.000 Like right now, this would be burning.

00:16:22.000 No, I'm not kidding you.

00:16:24.000 This high school gym that we're in would be on fire right now.

00:16:30.000 Made it to whatever the next...

00:16:32.000 No, today would have been literally civil war in that room.

00:16:36.000 It would have been like literally pitchforks.

00:16:38.000 You would have had people claiming Trump, like they knew Trump's VP choice.

00:16:42.000 This is correct.

00:16:43.000 So then Burgum would have said, I got the nod, but it wasn't official.

00:16:46.000 It would be as close to Game of Thrones.

00:16:48.000 I was the successor, but he didn't name me.

00:16:53.000 Commodus is actually interesting.

00:16:55.000 I was just going to say that.

00:16:55.000 Yes.

00:16:57.000 Trump told me, So really quick everybody, I want to show cut 75 here. 0.53

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00:17:33.000 And so let's now talk about what we saw at the actual convention.

00:17:37.000 I thought it was beautifully scripted.

00:17:38.000 I thought it was well written.

00:17:40.000 Um, Amber Rose backstage has a very mixed history.

00:17:44.000 You guys gonna be TikTok-ing together soon?

00:17:46.000 I don't think so.

00:17:46.000 Uh, by the way, she said she was a big fan.

00:17:49.000 And she has, you know, a very colorful past.

00:17:53.000 We all believe in new eras and new day.

00:17:55.000 I thought it was terrific.

00:17:56.000 I don't know if you guys caught it.

00:17:57.000 I thought it was a 10 out of 10 speech.

00:17:59.000 We could see it, we couldn't hear it.

00:18:01.000 She has a tattoo on her forehead.

00:18:03.000 I don't know what to make of that.

00:18:06.000 It's against the Greer Pledge, right? 0.84

00:18:07.000 She's like a walking, violating Greer. 0.93

00:18:10.000 There are several violations of the Greer Pledge.

00:18:12.000 However, I would say this.

00:18:15.000 Delivery what she said I was on the left and I believe the lies of Donald Trump, then I did my own research

00:18:20.000 It's a MAGA supporter. I said you're a racist now and it nearly destroyed my family 0.83

00:18:25.000 Powerful the way she delivered it and I thought it was perfect. There's a lot of that vibe going around if you 0.96

00:18:31.000 follow that viral There was that viral post. Oh that person so many people

00:18:36.000 that up check. I want you to read without the swear words Yeah, that have been yeah, I think I think I will that

00:18:42.000 It's just been lack of a better term. That's the vibe right now. Is that there are a lot of people saying you know

00:18:47.000 What why did I you know, why did I believe the media and why didn't I just look into it for myself an interesting

00:18:54.000 take?

00:18:54.000 I've heard from several people is if you're Okay.

00:18:58.000 Certainly this is not all of them, but a lot of women, you know, middle-aged women who found Trump really off-putting, they actually have really liked his response to, like, the assassination attempt.

00:19:07.000 How could you not like it?

00:19:08.000 It's one of the most magnanimous... Holding firm under fire is such an appealing characteristic in any potential leader.

00:19:14.000 Well, I mean, just so we're clear, I mean, he simultaneously, in one moment, one five-second interval, like, increased his numbers with men.

00:19:24.000 And I hate to be, like, a little bit like tribalistic but if you're an American man after you

00:19:29.000 saw that and you vote for Joe Biden you have to turn in your man card. I'm sorry like you're

00:19:33.000 not a man anymore. I'm sorry like you're something else you're not a man um right Tyler am I

00:19:37.000 wrong by saying that? It's really simple we just talked we talked about this earlier this is

00:19:42.000 now Trump-Vance versus Kamala because there is no Joe Biden this isn't Trump versus Biden

00:19:46.000 yeah that's right this is Trump-Vance versus and it's not even it's Kamala.

00:19:51.000 So you're, you're not anymore.

00:19:55.000 If you're, I love that.

00:19:56.000 If you're not voting for Trump, cause you're voting for Kamala.

00:19:59.000 Again, if you're like anyone has testosterone in your body and you see a human being get shot, literally shot, not just shot at shot. 0.57

00:20:06.000 Okay. 0.95

00:20:07.000 Your gets nearly blown off.

00:20:09.000 And you know, and he comes up there and he's just like defiantly pushing back his secret service agents to fight.

00:20:15.000 I just, it's hard to even capture that energy.

00:20:19.000 So I had Nick Adams on the show today, on Univet.

00:20:22.000 Mr. Alpha Male.

00:20:24.000 Alpha Male.

00:20:24.000 By the way, fastest guest approval I've ever done.

00:20:27.000 So, Producer Fah sent over, hey Jack, do you want this guy?

00:20:30.000 Yes.

00:20:30.000 Yes, we want him on.

00:20:32.000 Jack, he's the greatest Alpha Male.

00:20:34.000 The greatest Alpha Male on this man's courage under pressure.

00:20:38.000 And so he put him on, and he said, Jack, to an alpha male, it's instinctual.

00:20:44.000 And I said, you know something?

00:20:45.000 You're actually right about that.

00:20:47.000 For Donald Trump, that response was instinctual.

00:20:50.000 That was obviously not something that he had thought about.

00:20:53.000 He had no clue that that was coming.

00:20:55.000 He had no clue whether or not he was shot or injured in other areas.

00:21:00.000 He talked about the Secret Service tackling him, so he was in immense pain, potentially, at that point.

00:21:09.000 There's a line in Sun Tzu where Sun Tzu says, bring a man to the brink of death.

00:21:15.000 That is the moment when you truly meet that man.

00:21:17.000 And think about, there's always this sort of lie that would be told about Trump.

00:21:21.000 A Civil War movie.

00:21:23.000 There's a lot of fantasies where people would imagine like Donald Trump begging for his life.

00:21:27.000 This is the end of the Civil War movie. 1.00

00:21:28.000 They're sick and perverted left wing like porn. 1.00

00:21:30.000 It's literally the end of the Civil War movie right now. 1.00

00:21:33.000 The president, who is depicted as Donald Trump throughout the film, Crying at the bottom of the Resolute Desk as, you know, the team comes in and like begging them not to kill him.

00:21:45.000 That's their view of Trump. 0.97

00:21:47.000 Yeah, they all, like, they had this fantasy of Trump as this fake, this coward who's just exploiting everyone, and he really did blow it up. 0.97

00:21:55.000 It's not as simple as Donald Trump survived the inauguration. 0.95

00:21:59.000 It's that Donald Trump was put through a real-life test of character.

00:22:03.000 I totally agree.

00:22:04.000 That almost no one ever actually goes through.

00:22:04.000 In ten seconds.

00:22:06.000 This was Maggie Haberman's whole book, by the way.

00:22:08.000 Conman, The Showman.

00:22:10.000 Again, I watched MSNBC's Steve, the great Steve Bannon, who's still in federal prison.

00:22:13.000 Hey, Joe Biden, you want to unite the country?

00:22:14.000 Give a pardon right now to Steve Bannon, get him out of prison.

00:22:16.000 and you go up in the polls, but I'm not kidding.

00:22:19.000 How are we gonna have unity?

00:22:20.000 If Joe Biden issued a commutation for Steve Bannon right now,

00:22:24.000 and Peter Navarro's getting out of prison, I think, tomorrow and coming through here,

00:22:27.000 but he's not gonna do it.

00:22:28.000 Wednesday.

00:22:29.000 And by the way, again, if Joe Biden wants to score political points,

00:22:31.000 why hasn't he fired the Secret Service director?

00:22:32.000 I mean, just fire one bureaucrat. 0.99

00:22:33.000 Just fire a single one.

00:22:34.000 Which, by the way, that was one of Trump's best lines, and I think actually direct hits on him.

00:22:40.000 And Trump didn't hit Biden really hard during the debate, but one of his best hits on him was,

00:22:45.000 You didn't fire anyone after you.

00:22:48.000 Zero.

00:22:49.000 And that was just something that it became instantly relatable, I think, to kind of everyone in the country, especially this business community that we're talking about.

00:22:49.000 Zero.

00:22:58.000 How do you not fire anyone after a massive failure like that?

00:23:00.000 I totally agree.

00:23:01.000 And so, I'll just kind of go back to, I want to complete the thought.

00:23:05.000 If you are a man and you vote for Joe Biden, you're something else.

00:23:07.000 You're not a man.

00:23:08.000 You're not a man.

00:23:08.000 I'm sorry.

00:23:09.000 I can now confidently say that.

00:23:10.000 Now, if you vote for RFK, Okay, like you shouldn't, but at least there's something there.

00:23:14.000 Well, if you want to talk RFK.

00:23:16.000 Well, there's RFK news today, too.

00:23:18.000 RFK might endorse Trump.

00:23:20.000 And like, that would be, I'm telling you, it could happen.

00:23:23.000 Wait, Charlie, does that mean Tyler ends up being right over our longboard?

00:23:27.000 I'm sorry to be right in an RFK debate.

00:23:30.000 I think we need him in the race.

00:23:31.000 They're ballot chasing.

00:23:32.000 Yes.

00:23:32.000 From a tactical standpoint.

00:23:33.000 From a tactical standpoint, we need him in the race.

00:23:35.000 So let me just put thought, but Donald Trump also simultaneously boosted his numbers with women.

00:23:41.000 Because women are so sick of the hyper-feminization of American men.

00:23:45.000 Okay, read the tweet without the swear words.

00:23:47.000 This is incredible.

00:23:47.000 Yeah, I will.

00:23:49.000 And become a member.

00:23:49.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com.

00:23:51.000 This is from, even the name, Stephanie Tyler.

00:23:55.000 Have you looked at her Twitter post, by the way?

00:23:57.000 It's all of her wearing this weird lingerie and naked pictures.

00:24:00.000 Yeah, we're not going to do that.

00:24:01.000 It's very weird.

00:24:03.000 Graduated in 2012, so this is her post a few days after.

00:24:08.000 50 million views at this point.

00:24:10.000 Graduated in 2012 with a degree in women's studies.

00:24:13.000 Pried in 2016 when Trump got elected.

00:24:16.000 Lost touch with the Dems somewhere around me too.

00:24:19.000 Discovered entrepreneurship.

00:24:20.000 Updated my voter registration in 2018 but didn't tell anyone.

00:24:25.000 Told myself I was a single issue voting centrist.

00:24:30.000 The last 6-12 months I believed I was going to abstain from voting in the upcoming election because the options were equally terrible. 0.98

00:24:37.000 But watching Trump survive an assassination attempt and act like a total effing savage just shifted me from some strange patriotic gear Into, excuse me, just shifted me into some strange patriotic gear that my fancy feminism, white men, bad, infected brain never showed me. 0.96

00:24:57.000 Like, the dude took a bullet and stood up with blood dripping down his face and rallied at an effing crowd while fist pumping, yelling, fight! 0.98

00:25:06.000 Sorry, but I'm voting for that.

00:25:08.000 And saying it out loud feels so freeing. 0.97

00:25:11.000 2012 Stephanie would be upset, but that's okay because 2012 Stephanie didn't know crap.

00:25:17.000 That right there, honestly, is Nature is Undefeated.

00:25:20.000 I was about to say, there's a lot... She makes a comment, I think, right under it, she says, I also minored in biology.

00:25:26.000 So she kind of is referencing what you're saying right now.

00:25:30.000 It's literally Nature is Undefeated.

00:25:33.000 Did you see the Sticker Mule post?

00:25:35.000 The what?

00:25:36.000 So Sticker Mule, it's a big company.

00:25:38.000 You go online, you buy random stickers online.

00:25:42.000 Yeah, I've seen it.

00:25:44.000 So the Sticker Mule posted this today.

00:25:47.000 You ready for it?

00:25:48.000 Donald Trump was shot.

00:25:48.000 I'm ready.

00:25:50.000 I don't care what your political views are, but hate for Trump and supporters has gone way too far.

00:25:55.000 People are terrified to admit they support Trump.

00:25:57.000 Wow.

00:25:57.000 I've been scared myself.

00:25:59.000 Americans shouldn't live in fear.

00:26:00.000 I support Trump.

00:26:01.000 Many a sticker mule also do.

00:26:04.000 Many a sticker mule also support Biden.

00:26:06.000 The political hate needs to stop.

00:26:07.000 Today a bullet almost killed Donald Trump.

00:26:09.000 He's got five kids.

00:26:10.000 One's still a teenager.

00:26:12.000 No one should have to die and sacrifice the happiness of their family to run for office.

00:26:15.000 If Donald Trump can risk that, the rest of us can do, at least do, is vocalize our support and end the helpless hate.

00:26:23.000 The more people realize that kind-hearted, compassionate people support Trump, the sooner the hate will end.

00:26:27.000 I'm speaking out today and I hope more will do so in the future to stop this insane political hate.

00:26:31.000 Awesome people all over the world love Trump.

00:26:34.000 Don't limit your friendships and diminish your happiness by indulging in political hate.

00:26:37.000 Vocalize your support.

00:26:39.000 Stop the hate.

00:26:40.000 So today was also a foreshadow into what we're going to see out of Biden.

00:26:44.000 You're going to see Biden unhinged.

00:26:45.000 The Democrat Party is abandoning him.

00:26:47.000 They're already hedging their ballots down ballot.

00:26:49.000 We called this last week in the chat and publicly.

00:26:52.000 Blake was in the specifics.

00:26:54.000 Is that fair?

00:26:54.000 I was in the abstract.

00:26:55.000 I think so.

00:26:56.000 Blake was, I said, I think they're going to go crazy and it's going to be based Biden.

00:26:56.000 I brought up the abstract.

00:27:00.000 Today, Joe Biden, by executive order, Said that we're pausing all rents increases by 5%.

00:27:05.000 Is this constitutional, by the way?

00:27:08.000 I think his plan, it actually is a plan that Congress would have to pass.

00:27:12.000 Did he do an executive order?

00:27:13.000 I think he just signed an executive order.

00:27:14.000 I'll have to double check it.

00:27:15.000 We've all been busy today.

00:27:16.000 So through executive order, no.

00:27:17.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:27:18.000 So we've been talking about Biden has some sort of, he has weird based energy because the media are trying to get rid of him and the Democrat elites are trying to get rid of him.

00:27:27.000 So he's doing these rallies where he's attacking the Democrat party elites.

00:27:30.000 We're, by the way, like they're, they're like very much trying to like ape the Trump rallies, but they're sort of faking the size of it because every time you find a video that's actually from the crowd as opposed to the mainstream media that shows the crowd size, it's kind of the opposite.

00:27:44.000 It's always small.

00:27:45.000 It's like the opposite of the Trump rallies.

00:27:47.000 Yeah.

00:27:47.000 Yes.

00:27:48.000 What could Biden do?

00:27:49.000 And our thought was, as we discussed, he has to go full populist, say, I'm running against the elites who are trying to take the nomination from me.

00:27:57.000 He's going to be Dementia Bernie Sanders.

00:27:58.000 Yeah, Dementia Bernie Sanders.

00:27:59.000 By the way, that's why Bernie and AOC are his most fierce supporters right now.

00:28:03.000 And sorry to interrupt you, but Bernie and AOC are the ones giving him advice to do this.

00:28:06.000 Yes, exactly.

00:28:07.000 And so he said, I think, Whether it was an EO or not, what he wants to do is basically, you can never raise rent more than 5% in a year, no matter, you know, even if, for example, if our inflation rate is 8 or 10% because I'm Joe Biden.

00:28:21.000 And so he wants to do that.

00:28:23.000 I bet we'll see him talk about, like, he was bragging with Lester Holt today about steamrolling the Supreme Court to try to forgive more student loans.

00:28:30.000 So I wouldn't be surprised if we heard a promise for total student loan abolition.

00:28:34.000 So he's now Bernie Biden.

00:28:35.000 Yeah.

00:28:37.000 He's Bernie Biden now.

00:28:38.000 We should just start calling him Bernie Biden.

00:28:40.000 By the way, anecdotally, so we had dinner a little bit earlier here at a place kind of off-site, and I was like, hey, we're in Wisconsin.

00:28:47.000 We're in a swing state.

00:28:49.000 And so we did the whole, you know, it was digital tip, so I couldn't take a picture of it.

00:28:54.000 But I told the waitress afterwards, I said, you know, They're saying if Trump gets elected, he's gonna do no tax on tips.

00:29:00.000 And her jaw dropped.

00:29:02.000 Her jaw actually dropped for a second.

00:29:04.000 Wait, he can do that?

00:29:05.000 And I said, he's pledging to drop that tax.

00:29:08.000 He's gonna fight to drop that.

00:29:09.000 And she had never heard this.

00:29:10.000 She's here at the RNC.

00:29:12.000 Well, he could do by executive order.

00:29:14.000 He could tell the IRS to stop enforcing.

00:29:16.000 He could do that.

00:29:16.000 That's true.

00:29:17.000 He can lax enforcement, which is why it's a fulfillable promise.

00:29:21.000 Because I had a waiter say he's not going to do that.

00:29:23.000 I said, wait a second, you look at Joe Biden's press release a year and a half ago.

00:29:27.000 He said, he didn't say waiters and waitresses, he said, we're coming after the cash driven industries who are tax cheats. 0.87

00:29:34.000 So he's literally instructed the IRS by his own mandate, the executive branch, so Trump can say, honestly, turn a blind eye to it.

00:29:42.000 That's what he could say.

00:29:43.000 Wait, so Charlie, you see what's going to happen here?

00:29:44.000 Just like I don't care.

00:29:45.000 Just eliminate, just shake the IRS.

00:29:46.000 We all know.

00:29:47.000 Yeah, there's- And by the way, it's not just this too, and there's been

00:29:50.000 discussion about also the taxation on the Venmo transfers and everything else that everyone's

00:29:55.000 talking about.

00:29:56.000 Crypto.

00:29:57.000 Wait, so Charlie, you see what's going to happen here is that you're going, like there's

00:30:00.000 going to be like a populism arms race.

00:30:02.000 So there's going to be a populism arms race- 100%.

00:30:05.000 On both sides.

00:30:06.000 And so, so Trump, no tax on tips.

00:30:08.000 Biden, you know, no cap.

00:30:10.000 I'm afraid it's going to be a Pyrrhic victory, though.

00:30:12.000 Yeah, this could end up badly.

00:30:14.000 A Pyrrhic victory, for those who don't know, is where you have such a terrible cost to yourself, it's actually not a victory.

00:30:20.000 But you win the battle at a great cost to yourself.

00:30:21.000 Yeah, it's like every soldier died and you're like, I won.

00:30:24.000 So at some point Trump's going to be promising like every populist thing imaginable.

00:30:28.000 They're gonna be outdoing one another, right?

00:30:29.000 And it's like, okay, we love populism, but it has to be within the framework of conservatism and constitutionalism, right?

00:30:34.000 But you know, J.D.' 's actually good about that.

00:30:36.000 He's the best.

00:30:37.000 By the way, let's talk more about J.D.!

00:30:39.000 J.D.' 's the vice president!

00:30:41.000 This is actually something where J.D.

00:30:42.000 comes in handy because, you know, J.D.

00:30:45.000 is a guy where Trump will have this idea, which he just intuits these things, and then J.D.

00:30:51.000 will We'll then be able to come in and implement Trumpism in the way that we've seen other administrations not be able to properly do.

00:30:59.000 Great segue.

00:31:00.000 I want to play some tape here.

00:31:01.000 This is J.D.

00:31:01.000 Vance's exclusive interview with Hannity.

00:31:03.000 That's why my speech wasn't aired on Fox.

00:31:07.000 But let's play Cut 87 if we can.

00:31:10.000 J.D.

00:31:10.000 Vance, God willing, the next Vice President of the United States.

00:31:13.000 Check out Cut 87, please.

00:31:15.000 Well, Sean, the answer is yes.

00:31:16.000 And I have to say, you have to have some humility about this.

00:31:18.000 It's the biggest job in the world.

00:31:19.000 Americans are watching you tonight. Are you ready at a moment's notice to step

00:31:26.000 into that role and what do you believe most qualifies you for that?

00:31:29.000 Well Sean the answer is yes and I have to say you have to have some humility about this.

00:31:32.000 It's the biggest job in the world but I served my country successfully, the United States

00:31:36.000 Marine Corps. I had a successful business career and I have the vision and the

00:31:41.000 agenda aligned with President Trump to make the American worker better off, to

00:31:45.000 bring peace to the world and to actually advance an agenda that's good for

00:31:49.000 American citizens.

00:31:51.000 I think the experience that maybe most Americans would care about It's not that I spent two years in the Senate, and I think I've had a very successful two years in the Senate.

00:31:58.000 It's that I came from nothing, became a United States Marine, and succeeded in business.

00:32:02.000 That's the experience that I think gives you a fresh perspective.

00:32:06.000 You combine that with the ability to get things done, and that's what you need to do.

00:32:10.000 So, I mean, Jack, you were making an astute point.

00:32:12.000 What was that?

00:32:12.000 So, the only point of today, and I've been doing shows since War Room this morning, that I actually went into the Pfizer forum was to watch JD get his nomination.

00:32:28.000 Now, he didn't speak at the nomination, but he appeared on the floor, and I think this was just maybe Maybe minutes after actually receiving word.

00:32:38.000 And Charlie, you were just saying before that he did not know.

00:32:40.000 I've screenshotted my text history, because I think it's actually going to be really important for future generations.

00:32:45.000 Historical.

00:32:46.000 I said, at 1.23, I said, I bet you get a call in the next 20 or 30.

00:32:52.000 I said, it's happening quick.

00:32:54.000 Be ready for the cameras.

00:32:55.000 And then, at 2.16, thanks for everything, dude.

00:33:01.000 And 2-16, that's 12 minutes after Trump's truth post.

00:33:08.000 Correct.

00:33:09.000 Which means whatever call they had was not long.

00:33:11.000 By the way, I was right on my timing.

00:33:13.000 I saw things coming into gear and I was like, be ready.

00:33:19.000 And then, yeah, it's just...

00:33:21.000 So anyway...

00:33:22.000 Again, I'm still trying to process this.

00:33:23.000 Do you think Trump is...

00:33:24.000 I'm processing all this because I'm like an insider outsider.

00:33:26.000 Do you think Trump has made a final decision at noon today?

00:33:29.000 No.

00:33:29.000 Well, yes.

00:33:29.000 I think, look, here's my speculation.

00:33:31.000 So there's also the RNC paperwork.

00:33:34.000 Well, that was the forcing function.

00:33:35.000 That was the forcing function.

00:33:36.000 But I think that President Trump, first and foremost, he was obsessed with the idea of the most eyeballs on a convention where it's like The Apprentice.

00:33:46.000 So he had that as an idea, because every time I spoke to him about this, that was his idea.

00:33:49.000 Number two, he was legitimately trying to not make a Pence mistake.

00:33:55.000 Yeah.

00:33:55.000 And because of that, he wanted to exhaustively hear from everybody multiple times, every argument, until he could repeat them back.

00:34:03.000 Okay?

00:34:04.000 And so, everybody was weighing in, and calling, and from different camps, and I'm just speculating here, but I think the president started to see similarity between the type of people that were advocating for JD, And type of people that we're not advocating for J.D.

00:34:23.000 and don't take your credit.

00:34:25.000 OK, no, no, no, no.

00:34:26.000 I'm not going to.

00:34:28.000 But to your credit, this someone else on the RNC brought this point to me tonight.

00:34:32.000 So we're hanging out in the lounge outside and they came up to me on this topic and they said, It is so good and refreshing that the president spent the time going through all that, hearing from those voices, lining them up in columns.

00:34:49.000 And so he started to hear all the chatter and he started to say, wait a second, the people who don't like JD have waffled on me on the past, supported my opponents.

00:35:01.000 Got in and out.

00:35:02.000 Are really pro-Ukraine in like a very strange, like, hyper-sexual way.

00:35:07.000 And not just pro-Ukraine, but pro, like, war.

00:35:09.000 No, like yeah, yeah, I know but like you can just fill in the gaps of who that might be yeah, and So over sexual and again, I just the president did conducted the most thorough vice presidential search I think in history Charlie what you're saying is that Trump did the vetting himself?

00:35:28.000 Well the camp here's what I know the campaign team did all of the backgrounding dossiers like the official vetting Yes, so is there a divorce we don't know about?

00:35:36.000 Is there a scandal, right?

00:35:38.000 So as soon as all those people went through that vetting, he was given basically a binder on each.

00:35:46.000 Here's all the negative stuff they've ever said about you, just so you know, right?

00:35:49.000 And so then from that point forward, it was like, this is your decision.

00:35:54.000 The campaign handled it beautifully.

00:35:56.000 There was, like, no manipulation.

00:35:57.000 There was no steering.

00:35:58.000 They were like, this is your decision.

00:36:00.000 And, again, he was hearing from a wide range of voices on this.

00:36:04.000 And, again, the list that emerged and why JD was selected was loyalty, but I never got the... People are saying it's heir apparent.

00:36:14.000 I think that's playing into it.

00:36:16.000 I don't actually think that's correct.

00:36:18.000 I believe that President Trump enjoyed spending time with J.D.

00:36:21.000 the most, out of all the finalists.

00:36:22.000 Really?

00:36:23.000 J.D.' 's an enjoyable person to be around.

00:36:24.000 I think that President Trump felt warm, as if this is someone who gets him, someone who has high energy, someone who's high achieving, someone that is very high IQ, that understands the MAGA base, plus it checks all the boxes of that region of the world, and I think it was as simple as, I want to hang out with him more.

00:36:42.000 Again, there were other elements at play.

00:36:47.000 I've heard, I'm not gonna name names, but I've heard that he made some comments about other individuals who were in the running that were hanging out with him a lot lately.

00:36:58.000 Don't say any names.

00:37:00.000 I know what you're saying.

00:37:01.000 Wasn't, you know, as interested in all of it.

00:37:05.000 And so the thing I just wanted to say about J.D.

00:37:11.000 So the two things.

00:37:12.000 Number one, I think the East Palestine trip was seminal and the way J.D. put that together

00:37:17.000 because that was a very special moment for Trump.

00:37:20.000 I think it was a turning point for his campaign.

00:37:22.000 I think it was.

00:37:23.000 There was a lot of discussion of that in the press today about how important that was to

00:37:26.000 his campaign.

00:37:27.000 It was monumental.

00:37:28.000 Because Trump before that was just J6. 0.55

00:37:29.000 It was all J6.

00:37:30.000 It was J6, J6, J6.

00:37:32.000 He had announced already.

00:37:33.000 No, J.D. had endorsed, which also plays a role.

00:37:36.000 When was East Palestine?

00:37:37.000 I think it was like February of 23.

00:37:40.000 But remember, he went to the McDonald's afterwards.

00:37:43.000 Right, but that was the first one.

00:37:45.000 That was the first one of the campaign where he did any of those things, and J.D.

00:37:50.000 was seminal in setting it up.

00:37:52.000 Now, he didn't set up early.

00:37:53.000 It was early before everybody was, but... Understand, J.D.

00:37:56.000 was only a senator for a couple months at that point.

00:37:59.000 A couple weeks.

00:38:00.000 A couple weeks, yeah.

00:38:01.000 But then Donald Trump watches a lot of TV, and he noticed something in J.D.

00:38:05.000 that he hadn't noticed in other endorsed candidates, which is here's how it usually works.

00:38:09.000 They grow close to Trump when they're in cycle, they get the endorsement, and then they kind of just do their own thing, and it kind of becomes Chamber of Commerce talking points, and there's distance.

00:38:18.000 He was like, wait, J.D.' 's still like defending me.

00:38:22.000 Yeah.

00:38:22.000 And and he was the first senator, I think, to endorse Trump, like one of the first.

00:38:25.000 He did.

00:38:26.000 He put in an op ed in The Wall Street Journal.

00:38:29.000 And it wasn't just like he tweeted it out.

00:38:31.000 He had a whole, you know, full summary of why he was doing it.

00:38:35.000 It was and it was all based on MAGA values.

00:38:36.000 It was not this warmed over Chamber of Commerce or like neocon world, you know, talking points about blah, blah, blah.

00:38:44.000 No, it was really full throated MAGA.

00:38:46.000 And just please talk.

00:38:47.000 I was just going to say this point, too, that this is more the insider baseball stuff, but JD surrounded himself with really good people.

00:38:55.000 So I want to make this... Staffed really well. 0.98

00:38:57.000 I'm going to tell you this right now, that most people that surround even our best people suck.

00:39:03.000 And JD, on the other hand, is surrounded by incredible, incredibly loyal people, not just to JD, but to the movement in general.

00:39:12.000 And I can tell you, like, when things have...

00:39:15.000 Gone really well for Turning Point and things like that.

00:39:17.000 One of the first people to reach out has been JD and his team.

00:39:20.000 They reached out and said, great job with this, or awesome job.

00:39:24.000 That doesn't happen anywhere else.

00:39:26.000 And people listening at home need to understand this.

00:39:28.000 He is an incredible person, but surrounded by incredible people.

00:39:31.000 It was his 10th wedding anniversary.

00:39:33.000 We had the People's Convention in Detroit.

00:39:36.000 And I was like, dude, I want you to be VP.

00:39:39.000 I was public at that point.

00:39:40.000 I was like, we're doing a straw poll.

00:39:41.000 I think you'll do well if you show up.

00:39:44.000 Like, this is the hilarious thing.

00:39:45.000 I was like, hey Lauren, JD's coming.

00:39:46.000 I had to fly home because of a baby issue.

00:39:48.000 I was like a three-week-old.

00:39:49.000 All that great stuff.

00:39:50.000 It's like, hey Lauren, so he's coming.

00:39:51.000 She's like, yeah, he's driving himself from Columbus.

00:39:56.000 And I'm like, what?

00:39:57.000 What?

00:39:59.000 Again, I'm kind of used to, like, I'm charging a plane.

00:40:02.000 He jumped in a minivan and he just came up.

00:40:03.000 I kid you not, J.D.

00:40:04.000 Vance, literally on a Sunday morning, woke up at, like, 6 a.m., got, like, a big thing of coffee, and drove up himself from Columbus, Ohio, to Detroit, Michigan, spoke at our event, did all the media, shook all the hands, got back in his car, and drove back to Columbus, Ohio.

00:40:19.000 That's J.D.

00:40:20.000 Vance.

00:40:20.000 That's, like, three hours each way.

00:40:21.000 Charlie, let me add more context on that, because I was there.

00:40:24.000 No, you weren't there, because you had to leave.

00:40:27.000 I saw him.

00:40:28.000 I saw him next to me.

00:40:29.000 I remember him being by himself.

00:40:31.000 Yeah.

00:40:31.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:40:33.000 Yeah, we're just chatting, hanging out.

00:40:34.000 Boxing by himself. Big hugs. Hey, so good to see you.

00:40:38.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.

00:40:39.000 Chat, chat, chat, chat, chat, chat.

00:40:40.000 Yeah, we're just chatting, hanging out.

00:40:41.000 I had more people there than JDV.

00:40:46.000 Vance did.

00:40:47.000 Like, my family was there.

00:40:48.000 He walked in.

00:40:49.000 It's not even that he drove himself up.

00:40:51.000 Normally, he's like, oh, I drove myself up.

00:40:53.000 Like, a staffer will drive up with him, or drive him.

00:40:55.000 Or anybody.

00:40:55.000 I mean, you're a U.S.

00:40:56.000 Senator, man.

00:40:56.000 He showed, he just rolled his... You're a staff of 15 people.

00:40:59.000 Because you know what?

00:41:00.000 I had just come off stage when he went on to speak, and it actually didn't occur to me.

00:41:04.000 I thought the staff was, you know, like, in the wings or something.

00:41:06.000 Because we were just in that little, like, area.

00:41:10.000 Oh my gosh.

00:41:11.000 And he walks in.

00:41:13.000 It doesn't even make any sense.

00:41:14.000 He gives our stuff.

00:41:15.000 He knows our people.

00:41:16.000 He talks, he stopped.

00:41:18.000 He is the number one most, like, liked human being in turning point events.

00:41:23.000 Like, not even close.

00:41:25.000 Meaning as far as, like, easy to work with.

00:41:27.000 When I was, like, pushing for JD, Lorne was like, please, like, make it JD.

00:41:30.000 Please make it JD.

00:41:30.000 He's a wonderful human being.

00:41:33.000 Remember when we did the JD rally in Ohio?

00:41:35.000 Yes!

00:41:36.000 And again, his team was awesome.

00:41:38.000 It was crazy.

00:41:39.000 It was absolutely crazy.

00:41:41.000 Got together before the election.

00:41:43.000 He, I mean, I'm not, I cannot impress upon the audience this enough.

00:41:48.000 The vice president, the vice presidential candidate we have right now is one of the greatest human beings I've ever seen in politics.

00:41:55.000 The best vice presidential candidate we've ever had in my lifetime, bar none.

00:41:59.000 I'm trying to think, like maybe, who's even better in like the last hundred years?

00:42:04.000 Ever.

00:42:05.000 Blake's gonna say Nixon.

00:42:07.000 Teddy Roosevelt.

00:42:08.000 I have my Nixon now signed over.

00:42:11.000 You're right.

00:42:12.000 You know we're a block away from where Teddy Roosevelt was shot.

00:42:17.000 The thing I do want to say about J.D.

00:42:18.000 though is that I saw today was I remember people were asking me when he walked out on the Floor, whether or not he was going to speak in, and I believe he's slated to speak on Wednesday night, and I remember I was looking at him, and from my vantage point, you know, I wasn't nearby, but I could see him enough to see his face, and I was looking and I could see, I was like, I don't think he can speak right now.

00:42:44.000 Because you could see he had this look on his face with just tears in his eyes, and just that choked up, you know, smiles and being polite, he was with the Ohio delegation, but I mean, you could tell that in his head, he was thinking about...

00:43:00.000 It seemed to me, just reading his face, he looked like he was thinking, how did I get here?

00:43:05.000 How did I get here?

00:43:06.000 And he's been public about his story, he's been public about his very not-easy childhood, and all of a sudden to see that... His book came out eight years ago.

00:43:15.000 He's not somebody... It wasn't about him.

00:43:17.000 I could tell it wasn't about him.

00:43:19.000 Here at the RNC, thankfully we're getting rid of this old guard. 0.97

00:43:21.000 The schemers and the plotters and the planners are abundant here, the cockroaches.

00:43:25.000 Where it's all about an angle because I want to be dog catcher, then I'm county commissioner, and then I'm state rep, and then I'm congressman, and then I'm chair of this, and then a senator, and then one day I could become president in my own crazy drama in my own mind.

00:43:37.000 J.D.

00:43:37.000 Vance ran as the Senate.

00:43:38.000 He was pulling at like 2% for like forever.

00:43:40.000 We endorsed him right out of the gate.

00:43:42.000 We endorsed him as he came to our office.

00:43:44.000 We told the story today.

00:43:45.000 He came to our office, and this is what happened.

00:43:48.000 This is literally what happened.

00:43:49.000 He came to our office, spent basically two days at our office.

00:43:52.000 Just hanging out.

00:43:52.000 Hanging out.

00:43:53.000 Like, tell me about how you guys do stuff.

00:43:56.000 And, like, literally we were telling him... Super curious.

00:43:58.000 Super curious.

00:43:59.000 He would ask us questions like, what would Turning Point do in this situation?

00:44:03.000 Or like, what is... What do you guys think about, like, literally just normal conversation?

00:44:08.000 And I was really impressed because he's, I mean, he's like my age, right?

00:44:11.000 So he's like...

00:44:13.000 He's like my age, so it's like talking to... We're all the same age.

00:44:19.000 So it's like talking to your friend, and he left, and Charlie and I sat down, and we were talking about this, and we're like, I think we have to endorse him.

00:44:28.000 Because we had just started thinking about endorsements.

00:44:31.000 The amount of enemies I created from that endorsement.

00:44:35.000 I mean, right, Tyler?

00:44:35.000 Well, this is what happened.

00:44:37.000 So this is the story.

00:44:38.000 So we're like, I think we have to endorse this.

00:44:39.000 So I'm like, okay, we'll put together a graphic because we hadn't really started endorsing anyone at Turning Point Action at all.

00:44:44.000 And so I told our team that was really small at the time because we hadn't grown.

00:44:47.000 This was before, like anything, we had started building a team.

00:44:51.000 And I said, put together an endorsement graphic.

00:44:53.000 And the team put together an endorsement graphic and tweeted it out immediately.

00:44:57.000 On accident.

00:44:58.000 Oh, and then so like a thousand so like on accident not that we didn't want to endorse them

00:45:03.000 We want to endorse them, but we weren't like ready to press the we weren't the buttons

00:45:06.000 We were gonna usually there's like cuz I was gonna check in Dell

00:45:09.000 I was gonna call the candidates as well as our policy and let them know we're not endorsing you you know

00:45:14.000 And like all our Ohio contacts and just like let everybody know.

00:45:17.000 Donors.

00:45:17.000 And call donors and stuff like that.

00:45:19.000 I lost so many donors over that JD endorsement.

00:45:21.000 It was immediate.

00:45:22.000 And so Charlie calls me.

00:45:23.000 He's like, I just got like 50 phone calls from donors.

00:45:26.000 What is going on?

00:45:27.000 Like what is going on?

00:45:28.000 I was like, of course we want to do this, but you have to let me run drafts on them.

00:45:31.000 And I was like, Charlie, it was a total accident, but like we just should just live with it at this point.

00:45:36.000 And we did.

00:45:37.000 And we stuck with it.

00:45:38.000 And we were like the first endorsement out of the gate.

00:45:40.000 We were like one of the first ones they got.

00:45:42.000 When he was at like one or two percent.

00:45:43.000 And then I went, while Erika was seven months pregnant, I campaigned with JD for half of a week with him in the primary.

00:45:52.000 Because I was like, JD, I'm going to have no help in the general, right?

00:45:54.000 I want to see you become a senator more than anything else.

00:45:56.000 Because I literally said, I was like, this guy is the future of the party.

00:46:00.000 We were all in.

00:46:01.000 In the 2022 midterms.

00:46:02.000 We had to be, because everyone got so angry about it.

00:46:04.000 On the night of one of the worst nights ever, the 2022 midterms, when it was just like, that was the only consolation prize.

00:46:10.000 We were like, J.D.' 's a senator!

00:46:11.000 Woo! 1.00

00:46:12.000 Sucks. 0.99

00:46:13.000 Right? 0.98

00:46:13.000 And we were like, at least we got this done. 0.98

00:46:15.000 And, because I saw in him what we've been lacking, is like, he understands the MAGA agenda.

00:46:20.000 He is one of you.

00:46:21.000 He's from that part of the world that has been forgotten and looked over.

00:46:24.000 He broke through.

00:46:26.000 You don't get enough credit though, Charlie, because... Like, you could have got really...

00:46:31.000 We could have waited.

00:46:32.000 We could have not done anything.

00:46:34.000 And I just still remember sitting there, and it was one of those moments, there's like God moments, clearly, where we're at, where you were like, we just have to endorse him.

00:46:45.000 And then, again, you don't get enough credit for this, but you were one of the first people to go do stuff with him, right?

00:46:53.000 But that led, these kind of things lead to other endorsements and things like that, and it helps build You live in activism.

00:47:02.000 That's what we do at Turning Point Action.

00:47:03.000 It's activism, right?

00:47:05.000 So building that activist space behind a person and voices that matter.

00:47:08.000 I mean, look, we're here today now with a...

00:47:12.000 An incredible, the best ever VP candidate that we possibly could have.

00:47:15.000 And again, let's just be like, Blake, I want to get this direct question to you because Trump was being pressured.

00:47:22.000 Again, let's talk about stereotype, stereotypical, like what people think Trump is, what Trump actually is.

00:47:26.000 People think Trump is very manipulatable, that Trump will just cow to like a small collection of certain people on TV and or donors interests.

00:47:34.000 This shows that's actually not true.

00:47:36.000 Donald Trump really kind of gave the finger to a lot of people by doing this.

00:47:41.000 Like, a lot of people.

00:47:42.000 Yeah, a ton.

00:47:43.000 And the pressure went up and up and up and up the whole time.

00:47:46.000 And they're all thinking, OK, we can get our hooks in him over this or that.

00:47:49.000 And I think it really is a testament to his instincts, as you said.

00:47:53.000 And his courage.

00:47:55.000 His courage.

00:47:55.000 Well, we saw that on Saturday.

00:47:57.000 Can I ask a question?

00:47:58.000 I want to have Blake finish.

00:47:59.000 But I think he really has those just Those very powerful raw instincts, and those guided him the whole way on this, where he's thinking, as you said, what will it look like at the convention?

00:48:13.000 What will it look like for our ticket?

00:48:15.000 What does it look like for our movement?

00:48:16.000 And what do the people pushing him look like versus what do the people who are against him look like?

00:48:21.000 And I don't just mean physically, but also what are they saying?

00:48:24.000 What have they done?

00:48:25.000 What has been their...

00:48:27.000 What has been their standing in the entire movement since I've started running?

00:48:30.000 And I think all of that is working in his head as he's approaching this decision.

00:48:34.000 In closing here guys, because I want to get some food.

00:48:37.000 I'm sure you guys do too, right?

00:48:38.000 I gave a whole speech and everything.

00:48:40.000 Are you allowed to eat cheese curds?

00:48:41.000 Are you still allowed to eat cheese curds or anything here?

00:48:44.000 You know what's funny?

00:48:45.000 Is that... No, no, no, no, no, no.

00:48:47.000 What do you want?

00:48:48.000 What do you want right now?

00:48:48.000 Are you on something?

00:48:50.000 I'm a crazy diet as it is, but as soon as I got announced as speaker of the convention, I'm very big into limiting things that make you feel good, like focused, like I've got a good speech.

00:48:59.000 You know when you have a big speech that you have to like, it gives you something.

00:49:02.000 So tonight, I'm gonna have wings.

00:49:04.000 What kind of wings?

00:49:06.000 What type of wings?

00:49:06.000 Buffalo wings with ranch.

00:49:08.000 That's like an ultimate violation of Charlie's diet.

00:49:11.000 This is almost like a hometown thing for you.

00:49:13.000 You should get cheese curds.

00:49:15.000 How far are we?

00:49:17.000 I am 50 minutes from where I grew up. 0.99

00:49:19.000 And even less if it wasn't for all the Secret Service crap. 0.95

00:49:21.000 Like I'm literally 35 miles from where I grew up. 0.88

00:49:24.000 So this is like my people here.

00:49:26.000 This is like Charlie's hometown almost.

00:49:28.000 Anyway, my big indulgence, I've been visualizing it.

00:49:33.000 Wings with ranch.

00:49:34.000 They sing about the wings the whole time.

00:49:35.000 You know, the mind is amazing when you give it incentive.

00:49:37.000 It's better with blue cheese, by the way.

00:49:39.000 Alright, so we'll all get some wings together.

00:49:42.000 No, I'm ranch.

00:49:42.000 I'm ranch.

00:49:43.000 I'm all ranch.

00:49:43.000 Alright, I want to remind everybody, let's put the picture one up, the members deal here.

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00:49:58.000 You gotta get that shirt.

00:50:00.000 It's literally, it's a limited edition.

00:50:02.000 It's the limited edition.

00:50:03.000 It's the limited edition Never Surrender shirt.

00:50:04.000 I mean, that's as good as it gets.

00:50:05.000 Charlie Kirk shirt.

00:50:06.000 Never surrender and never for sale again.

00:50:10.000 There's one thing... Never surrogate.

00:50:12.000 Guys, imagine if JD was on that stage with him on Saturday.

00:50:14.000 Don't say that.

00:50:15.000 No, no, I mean, this is divine promise.

00:50:18.000 I know, but yes.

00:50:20.000 There is one thing that I would like to get across before we say that, and we've all kind of talked around it, and I'll put it to Charlie, because Charlie, you, you know, blah, blah, blah, had the vision for Turning Point, etc., etc., but seriously, This is a moment where Trump came in and, Blake, as you say,

00:50:37.000 this is a risk.

00:50:39.000 This is a gamble.

00:50:40.000 But he's in a moment where the odds are kind of in his favor.

00:50:44.000 And as a true entrepreneur knows, that you bet big when you're in a moment like that.

00:50:52.000 He's betting on the future with this, because it's a generational pick.

00:50:58.000 Totally right.

00:50:58.000 I will say, though, that even if Trump was behind in the polls, J.D.

00:51:01.000 makes the most sense politically.

00:51:03.000 I don't think Rubio wins you that many votes.

00:51:05.000 I don't necessarily mean polls.

00:51:06.000 I just want to be clear, because the way that Fox was talking about it today drove me nuts.

00:51:11.000 I was throwing stuff at the TV.

00:51:12.000 I didn't actually see much of it.

00:51:14.000 A lot of sour grapes.

00:51:14.000 Well, it goes back to what you talked about earlier.

00:51:16.000 Karl Rove.

00:51:17.000 Which is what we talked about.

00:51:18.000 If you want a man to vote, J.D. 0.99

00:51:21.000 is your guy.

00:51:23.000 Yeah, exactly.

00:51:24.000 Wait a second.

00:51:24.000 Also, you want to win Pennsylvania, Michigan, Wisconsin.

00:51:26.000 That's it.

00:51:26.000 The whole race is over.

00:51:28.000 Nominate someone from that region of the world. 0.73

00:51:30.000 And they literally said, well, this is a mark of a very overconfident candidate.

00:51:33.000 Wait, hold on a second.

00:51:35.000 And finally, you know what the data is screaming at us?

00:51:39.000 Please put someone on the ticket under the age of 50. 0.72

00:51:41.000 Please.

00:51:42.000 And now we have it!

00:51:43.000 Totally.

00:51:43.000 Like, so, they have literally... Two JG Vances are still younger than Joe Biden.

00:51:48.000 Oh, that's a great tweet.

00:51:50.000 That's a great tweet.

00:51:51.000 No, J.B.

00:51:52.000 Vance... Oh, that's great.

00:51:53.000 It's true.

00:51:53.000 Yeah.

00:51:54.000 J.B.

00:51:54.000 Vance... Daisy, tweet that.

00:51:57.000 I love that.

00:51:59.000 Oh my gosh.

00:51:59.000 But J.D.

00:52:00.000 Vance is our Obama- He has lived two lifetimes.

00:52:04.000 Our Obama-esque candidate.

00:52:05.000 And here's the reason why, and this is what Obama- No, he is our Obama.

00:52:09.000 J.D.

00:52:09.000 Vance is our Obama.

00:52:11.000 I don't want to get clipped.

00:52:12.000 Yes, exactly.

00:52:13.000 I don't want to get clipped.

00:52:14.000 No, we're getting clipped on that one.

00:52:16.000 Definitely.

00:52:16.000 Because we said this on ThoughtGrid before, I said that.

00:52:18.000 But J.D.

00:52:20.000 Vance is doing what for us, what Obama did for them, in that Obama campaigned to a base of voters that had never been campaigned to before, and expanded their pool.

00:52:33.000 Just so we are clear, and I'm going to say this publicly and privately, if we are to win the presidency, and if J.D.

00:52:38.000 wants to run in the future, his immediate goal needs to be in voter registration, 501c4 build-out, of making the coalition permanent.

00:52:48.000 Not just Trump.

00:52:49.000 This goes back to the Elon money, though.

00:52:51.000 What you just talked about.

00:52:52.000 If we do it right.

00:52:54.000 If we do it right, J.D.

00:52:55.000 Vance could, because he's such a strategic, smart thinker, say, you have an opportunity, because of the Teamsters thing, muscular class, low-prop voters, to do what the Dems did with Obama, where they all of a sudden found 15% of new Americans that they've held onto pretty well, honestly.

00:53:10.000 And then Trump resurrected that.

00:53:11.000 Well, they've also been increasing that number of new Americans as a way to...

00:53:17.000 We need our own amalgamated bank, and we need our own...

00:53:20.000 We just coupled everything.

00:53:22.000 But that's the smart that JD will give us that everybody else wouldn't have.

00:53:28.000 That's being the movement, by the way.

00:53:29.000 I cannot impress upon the audience enough.

00:53:31.000 You have a good, smart person.

00:53:33.000 That is one of the hardest combinations of things to find. 0.99

00:53:37.000 Because you can have a good person who's really dumb. 0.99

00:53:39.000 We know a lot of those people. 0.99

00:53:41.000 And that's fine.

00:53:42.000 Because smart does not equal good.

00:53:43.000 And then there's a lot of evil, smart people.

00:53:46.000 The Republican Party has a lot of evil, smart people.

00:53:49.000 Can I just comment on how many creatures are walking around this thing that They have tentacles, and claws, and too many legs. 0.99

00:53:57.000 We have all week, and all of a sudden I'm like, I hate you.

00:54:02.000 And I've been like, really behaved.

00:54:04.000 But, I've run into these people.

00:54:07.000 It's sort of like the difference between the Wings and Jonah Goldberg.

00:54:09.000 Jonah Goldberg called me an anti-Semite on CNN tonight.

00:54:16.000 Unbelievable.

00:54:17.000 Of all the things to call Charlie Kirk, pro-Israel.

00:54:20.000 There's plenty of things to call Charlie Kirk.

00:54:22.000 I call Charlie Kirk half of them.

00:54:24.000 I am too pro-Israel.

00:54:26.000 He is literally one of like five people who have been harassed in public for being too pro-Israel.

00:54:32.000 And CNN did a five minute thing about how I'm anti-Semite.

00:54:36.000 Yeah, yeah.

00:54:36.000 Even including Jones, probably.

00:54:38.000 Buffalo Wings and Jonah Goldberg are my two... If I see Jonah Goldberg, I'm going to confront him.

00:54:42.000 It's sort of like, compare this... I was thinking about this earlier today, and I was just like, what is so...

00:54:50.000 I'm having a great time, it's a great convention, etc.

00:54:52.000 But there's something that just felt a little bit off in the back of my head, like, as I'm walking around and I realize what it is.

00:54:57.000 It's like, this isn't a turning point event.

00:55:00.000 And, you know, turning point events... That's very nice of you.

00:55:03.000 No, no, no.

00:55:04.000 It's like, there's a vibe, it's vibrant, it's looking to the future, and it's like all of the things that You know, that people are trying to say here, but Turning Point just does it.

00:55:17.000 It just is the future, as opposed to being like, we're the future.

00:55:20.000 But I do have to say though, Charlie, your choice of the all-seeing eye and the giant pyramid behind you on stage was just, was absolutely masterful.

00:55:30.000 You want more text messages?

00:55:31.000 This is a good one.

00:55:36.000 Sorry, because we were here just blowing you up, man.

00:55:38.000 We were like, Charlie is going full Illuminati!

00:55:41.000 No, no, no, no.

00:55:43.000 This is so good.

00:55:43.000 You can't do this.

00:55:45.000 Bro, WTF. 0.99

00:55:46.000 Is this the Illuminati that took this over? 1.00

00:55:49.000 Yes!

00:55:49.000 Period imagery.

00:55:50.000 Might consider tweaking.

00:55:52.000 Now if this means we'll all be able to join, then I'll reconsider what I just said.

00:55:55.000 But WTF.

00:55:56.000 And literally I sent a picture of Marjorie Taylor Greene coming out of the pyramid.

00:56:00.000 Ladies and gentlemen, there was a fight between the Freemasons and the Illuminati.

00:56:04.000 It's, I mean, I was like, okay, come on, like what? So was my face literally coming out of it?

00:56:08.000 Yeah, no, no, no, no. You were, you were like the base of the pyramid. What is Twitter saying? Is Twitter commenting

00:56:13.000 on it?

00:56:13.000 Um, Charlie, it's, it's, it's not great. It's the imagery.

00:56:16.000 The speech was fine. I tried to tell people...

00:56:19.000 Anyway, I thought the speech delivery was... I, I, what I could control... Hey guys, this is great. This is great. I

00:56:24.000 have the receipts!

00:56:25.000 I have the receipts!

00:56:26.000 It's like, hey guys, how about, I don't know, Old Glory!

00:56:29.000 The red, white, and blue!

00:56:31.000 The Star Spangled Banner!

00:56:33.000 I want to say, all kidding aside, I'm very touched to the convention that they had me in a primetime slot.

00:56:39.000 They didn't have to do that.

00:56:40.000 They gave me...

00:56:41.000 Like a lot of time, more than most people.

00:56:42.000 So that was very touching.

00:56:43.000 I was on the floor.

00:56:44.000 Good energy?

00:56:46.000 You got the most applause out of just about anybody.

00:56:49.000 So I think it was you and the governor from Virginia.

00:56:53.000 Yunkin? 0.89

00:56:54.000 Yunkin did great.

00:56:55.000 Byron got some too.

00:56:56.000 Byron did well.

00:56:57.000 Yeah, but Byron did the slow walkout.

00:56:59.000 He does the Byron thing where he goes, you know.

00:57:01.000 Oh, that was very slow.

00:57:02.000 It builds the applause line.

00:57:04.000 Alright, you can't do that like Byron.

00:57:07.000 I'm hungry.

00:57:08.000 Members.CharlieKirk.com.

00:57:09.000 Check it out.

00:57:10.000 Check out Unhumans.

00:57:11.000 Jack, your book's doing amazing.

00:57:12.000 Unhumans is doing great, racing up the charts.

00:57:16.000 By the way, something that I, for my own personal reasons, up until today didn't actually want to make a huge deal out of, but one of the blurbs that we got on the back is actually J.D.

00:57:27.000 Vance.

00:57:27.000 Wow, that's a big deal.

00:57:28.000 And one of the things that, and I, you know, I kind of knew this was in the works, and you know, there were a few names that I was thinking about.

00:57:35.000 You know, when you're getting blurbs on a book, you Reach out to a few folks that you know, and I was like, I don't want to, you know, use like a personal relationship or something to, you know, ask for that.

00:57:44.000 But some of the guys said, no, but he really speaks to this stuff.

00:57:47.000 And I said, well, there's no way that he would do it because, you know, he's under consideration.

00:57:50.000 We reached out, they said yes right away.

00:57:52.000 That is Illuminati stuff, though.

00:57:55.000 Yeah, I had to perform this ritual.

00:57:59.000 There were a lot of trees.

00:58:01.000 It's so cool.

00:58:02.000 That's cool, Jack.

00:58:02.000 God bless you guys.

00:58:03.000 Very, very thankful to the RNC that is hosting us so well and having me speak for as long in the primetime slot that they did.

00:58:10.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com, members.charliekirk.com if you guys want to get a copy of that shirt.

00:58:15.000 We will see you tomorrow, as always, at 12 Eastern.

00:58:18.000 Thank you, Parker and the Rav team, for going without food.

00:58:21.000 You have one more week left.

00:58:22.000 And thank you to our Phoenix studio.

00:58:24.000 And by the way, if you guys go to members.charliekirk.com, it's a way to help the frontliners that are doing all this tech work.

00:58:30.000 They do so much here.

00:58:31.000 We got Chords, we got Terrell, we got... he's gonna run all over the place.

00:58:34.000 It's crazy.

00:58:35.000 So if you guys are like, wow!

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