The Charlie Kirk Show - Ten Years Since The Escalator ft. Eric Trump

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

00:00:04.000 The Charlie Kirk Show, 10 years.

00:00:05.000 It has been 10 years since President Trump went down that golden escalator.

00:00:10.000 We talk about that, and then we have Eric Trump and Rick Scott to react.

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00:00:32.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:30.000 We had an incredible Young Women's Leadership Summit this weekend.

00:01:33.000 We are going to be recapping that throughout the show.

00:01:36.000 2,500 conservative young women from across the country.

00:01:40.000 The largest ever in the history of Turning Point USA.

00:01:45.000 We've been doing this for 10 years.

00:01:47.000 10 years.

00:01:48.000 That's funny.

00:01:50.000 10 years.

00:01:51.000 I remember where I was.

00:01:53.000 Where were you?

00:01:54.000 Where were you 10 years ago today?

00:01:58.000 It's funny, we were actually hosting our Young Women's Leadership Summit while this was all going on.

00:02:03.000 And by the way, we are going to go to all of the news.

00:02:05.000 We're going to go to Trump on immigration.

00:02:07.000 We're going to go on Israel-Iran. 0.92

00:02:09.000 We are going to go to G7.

00:02:11.000 We're going to go to geopolitics.

00:02:12.000 There is so much news to cover.

00:02:14.000 But before we do, we need to take a step back and realize how far we have come and how what happened 10 years ago today is dictating and is determinative to all the news that we are watching.

00:02:26.000 Where were you 10 years ago today?

00:02:28.000 I remember where I was.

00:02:29.000 I was trying to raise money for Turning Point USA.

00:02:32.000 I was driving around an old beat-up Volkswagen in the Chicago suburbs.

00:02:37.000 And all of a sudden, I remember I was listening to the radio.

00:02:40.000 AM 560 The Answer, might I add, which amazingly we are broadcasting live on now today, 10 years later.

00:02:46.000 What an amazing full-circle moment.

00:02:48.000 I was listening on AM560 The Answer, which now we are live on right now, and I remember hearing business.

00:02:59.000 Everyone took it live.

00:03:00.000 Donald Trump is running for the presidency.

00:03:03.000 Donald Trump is running to take back America.

00:03:07.000 We all remember Donald Trump coming down the golden escalator.

00:03:12.000 And to be honest, I wasn't sure what to think.

00:03:15.000 Was this a joke?

00:03:16.000 Was this a parody?

00:03:17.000 Was this a marketing ploy?

00:03:19.000 Was this an actual political campaign?

00:03:21.000 You see, we knew enough about Donald Trump.

00:03:24.000 But what Donald Trump decided to do when he went down the elevator, then down the escalator, is he basically put his entire life on full-time colonoscopy.

00:03:37.000 When he went down the escalator, America changed profoundly.

00:03:42.000 It was a decade ago.

00:03:44.000 A decade ago, when Donald Trump entered the world stage, And he announced he was running for president of the United States.

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00:03:55.000 Ladies and gentlemen, I am officially running for president of the United States.

00:04:05.000 And we are going to make our country great again.

00:04:10.000 I'll bring back our jobs from China, from Mexico, from Japan, from so many places.

00:04:17.000 I'll bring back our jobs and I'll bring back our money.

00:04:20.000 First of all, can I just remark, he has aged very well over 10 years.

00:04:26.000 He's been shot.

00:04:27.000 He's run for the presidency three times and hard campaigns three times.

00:04:34.000 He's done thousands of interviews.

00:04:37.000 He's been all around the planet.

00:04:39.000 He's done state visits in Asia and the Middle East, back and forth and back and forth.

00:04:45.000 I mean, this guy looks great.

00:04:47.000 He just celebrated his 79th birthday on Saturday.

00:04:52.000 And you look at that announcement video, he is one of the few people in politics that quite honestly doesn't age into a decrepit old ball after being around for four years.

00:05:03.000 And there's something real special there about President Donald Trump.

00:05:07.000 The journey that he started on that day 10 years ago today was the birth of many things.

00:05:14.000 And also the death of many things.

00:05:16.000 It was the death of the Republican consultant class driving our politics.

00:05:23.000 It was the death of political norms as we know it.

00:05:27.000 He replaced the kind of idea of scripted platitudes with raw, unapologetic populism.

00:05:34.000 It was also the birth of the new right.

00:05:38.000 Now at times we took some detours.

00:05:40.000 There were some speed bumps.

00:05:42.000 There was some ups and there were some downs.

00:05:44.000 But make no mistake, what President Trump said back 10 years ago, you would not know that if what President Trump was announcing for the presidency or if he was just giving another campaign rally today.

00:05:55.000 Listen to this.

00:05:56.000 It's indistinguishable.

00:05:59.000 The consistency politically is remarkable.

00:06:04.000 Usually when people enter politics, they get new beliefs or they'll change and all this.

00:06:10.000 President Donald Trump has been remarkably consistent.

00:06:13.000 Just moments ago, President Donald Trump was with Carney, the new prime minister of Canada, the G7 summit.

00:06:19.000 And he says, you know, I'm a tariff guy.

00:06:20.000 I've long been a tariff guy.

00:06:21.000 It's time that we're no longer the dumping ground.

00:06:24.000 Oh, really?

00:06:24.000 I wonder when he first said this.

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00:06:27.000 Our country is in serious trouble.

00:06:30.000 We don't have victories anymore.

00:06:34.000 We used to have victories, but we don't have them.

00:06:37.000 When was the last time?

00:06:39.000 Anybody saw us beating, let's say, China in a trade deal?

00:06:45.000 When do we beat Mexico at the border?

00:06:48.000 They're laughing at us, at our stupidity.

00:06:51.000 And now they're beating us economically.

00:06:53.000 They are not our friend, believe me.

00:06:56.000 But they're killing us economically.

00:06:59.000 The U.S. has become a dumping ground for everybody else's problems.

00:07:08.000 And now, ten years later, the border is completely and totally secure.

00:07:13.000 And he's not alone.

00:07:15.000 He has remade the entire Republican Party.

00:07:18.000 He revived a dead and dying GOP that was spending its time and resources with post-mortems from losing repeatedly and whose best ideas were to embrace amnesty and Democrat-like policies.

00:07:30.000 We were one president away.

00:07:33.000 We were one president away.

00:07:35.000 If Hillary Clinton would have won, We would have become the U.S. equivalent of the Tories. 1.00

00:07:40.000 We would have stand for big immigration, mass immigration, pro-choice, abortion. 0.95

00:07:45.000 Remember, the consultant class and the ruling class, they wanted Jeb Bush to be president.

00:07:50.000 It was supposed to be Jeb Bush versus Hillary Clinton.

00:07:54.000 Wow, what a dramatic choice that is.

00:07:57.000 They'll agree on everything, but they'll disagree on school choice and tax cuts.

00:08:01.000 What a decision for America.

00:08:03.000 Donald Trump rejected that paradigm and he created a completely new one.

00:08:08.000 The era of mass migration is over.

00:08:11.000 The era of mass invasion is over.

00:08:16.000 President Trump was the first Republican candidate to criticize the entrenched bureaucracy.

00:08:25.000 Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service, otherwise known as the Deep State.

00:08:30.000 And look at all the different chapters we've been through, from 10 years ago going down that golden escalator, to the shock victory versus Hillary Clinton, to Russiagate, to James Comey, to him being spied on, to the 2020 election, to COVID, to exile, Donald Trump plots his comeback, to the indictments facing 700 years in federal prison.

00:08:54.000 To picking J.D. Vance as vice president, to getting shot in the ear, nearly dying, almost getting shot again, defeating Kamala Harris after they switched the candidate in a popular vote victory and an electoral vote landslide.

00:09:08.000 To now, it leads all the way back to today.

00:09:11.000 And you look, it is without a doubt, for all of you that have always had President Trump's back these last 10 years, for all of you that have never wavered, for all of you that have stood firm, for all of you that have continued to donate and pray and knock on doors and get friends out, you are part of, without a doubt, the most breathtaking political journey in American history.

00:09:30.000 Nothing comes close.

00:09:32.000 Nothing.

00:09:32.000 From a businessman that people watched on TV.

00:09:36.000 From you're fired on The Apprentice, to Trump Wine, to Trump University, to all the different labeling, whether they're controversial or mainline or mainstream, it doesn't matter.

00:09:48.000 From Trump Airlines, to him trying to start his own football program, football league, to the art of the deal, to him going on Oprah.

00:09:57.000 We thought we knew Donald Trump, and he remade the American body politic, and dare I say he's being used as a vessel to save Western civilization.

00:10:06.000 From being loved by liberals to hated by liberals.

00:10:09.000 But ten years later, we can say he did not just run, he rewrote the rules.

00:10:16.000 And you played a major role.

00:10:19.000 You kept this movement alive.

00:10:21.000 You have been the bulwark.

00:10:23.000 You have been the steadfast vanguard.

00:10:26.000 And a decade later, we are in charge of this country.

00:10:31.000 It's an unbelievable, it's hard to even put into words what we have lived through.

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00:11:43.000 So 10 years ago, Donald Trump went down the golden escala.

00:11:47.000 By the way, we're getting the most beautiful emails.

00:11:48.000 The emails we're getting from people.

00:11:49.000 So funny, everyone remembers where they were.

00:11:53.000 People remember where they were when Donald Trump got shot.

00:12:00.000 Think about how remarkable this is.

00:12:02.000 How rare is it that you remember where you were when someone announces for the presidency?

00:12:06.000 Where were you when John McCain announced for the presidency?

00:12:10.000 I don't think a lot of people in this audience would know.

00:12:12.000 Maybe a couple.

00:12:13.000 Where were you when Ted Cruz announced for the presidency?

00:12:18.000 I don't know.

00:12:19.000 Nothing against them.

00:12:20.000 It's just so different.

00:12:21.000 It's so distinct.

00:12:22.000 It's so remarkable.

00:12:23.000 And President Trump remade the American calculus and the Republican approach on foreign policy.

00:12:29.000 And that is a good segue to, of course, what is happening right now in the news between Israel and Iran.

00:12:35.000 This was the shot heard around the world.

00:12:39.000 You see, Donald Trump, you're allowed to kind of talk about Mexico and the cartels.

00:12:43.000 People said, oh, he's a racist.

00:12:44.000 But no, no, no.

00:12:45.000 What got people so upset, what made Donald Trump the recipient of theory, of anger was when Donald Trump dared to openly criticize the war in Iraq.

00:13:01.000 When Donald Trump dared to say that the Iraq war was a major mistake.

00:13:07.000 Donald Trump took out a sword and stabbed neoconservative in the face and said, this is no longer going to be the ethos of this Republican Party.

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00:13:23.000 We spent two trillion dollars in Iraq.

00:13:28.000 Two trillion.

00:13:30.000 We lost thousands of lives.

00:13:33.000 Thousands in Iraq.

00:13:35.000 We have wounded soldiers who I love.

00:13:38.000 I love.

00:13:39.000 They're great.

00:13:41.000 All over the place.

00:13:43.000 Thousands and thousands of wounded soldiers.

00:13:46.000 And we have nothing.

00:13:49.000 We can't even go there.

00:13:51.000 We have nothing.

00:13:52.000 Now, Donald Trump was right.

00:13:55.000 But we must also simultaneously understand Donald Trump is not an isolationist.

00:14:00.000 Donald Trump's America first, but not America only.

00:14:03.000 His idea of foreign involvement is short, precise, violent, aggressive, targeted action.

00:14:11.000 Not clumsy quagmires of bringing in tanks and nation building and we're going to win over the...

00:14:23.000 That is a major mistake.

00:14:25.000 Donald Trump, his perspective when it comes to foreign policy is not about winning and turning over the hearts of minds of the people of Iraq and making them into Westerners.

00:14:38.000 It's about we're going to use force if necessary.

00:14:41.000 We're going to knock you out and then we're going to get out.

00:14:44.000 You have to be philosophically consistent.

00:14:47.000 As I was re-watching Donald Trump's announcement address 10 years ago today, this is not one that you are going to see very often on TV.

00:14:55.000 Donald Trump for a decade has been very worried about Iran getting a nuclear weapon.

00:15:02.000 So he simultaneously is worried about a permanent Middle East quagmire, but a lesser reported and lesser remembered part of his historic announcement.

00:15:15.000 Was ranting about Iran.

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00:15:19.000 They took the oil that when we left Iraq, I said we should have taken. 0.98

00:15:24.000 So now ISIS has the oil.

00:15:29.000 And what they don't have, Iran has. 0.99

00:15:32.000 And in 19, and I will tell you this, and I said it very strongly, years ago, I said, But I said, don't hit Iraq, because you're going to totally destabilize the Middle East. 0.99

00:15:54.000 Iran is going to take over the Middle East. 1.00

00:15:57.000 Iran and somebody else will get the oil.

00:16:00.000 And it turned out that Iran is now taking over Iraq.

00:16:04.000 He was very worried about Iranian expansion throughout the Middle East, and he was right about all of that. 1.00

00:16:10.000 You see, where we are today, by the way, just to be clear, Donald Trump got rid of ISIS.

00:16:15.000 He unshackled the military.

00:16:16.000 ISIS has destroyed something he does not get credit for.

00:16:19.000 He was solving the problems of neoconservatives' past.

00:16:22.000 He was remedying the problems of George W. Bush.

00:16:26.000 And that's a very important philosophical baseline for what we're now seeing between Israel and Iran, and we're going to go into all of it.

00:16:33.000 We're going to go through the best possible outcomes and the worst possible outcomes and maybe some of the outcomes right in the middle.

00:16:42.000 Between regime change, is that a good thing?

00:16:45.000 Should we celebrate that?

00:16:47.000 Should we cheer for that?

00:16:48.000 Between full-out victory for Israel, what does that even mean?

00:16:52.000 What is the goal here?

00:16:53.000 We're going to examine that all throughout the next couple of hours.

00:16:57.000 But the baseline for all of that we must never forget is the way we are even viewing These issues, the way that we are asking questions, the way that we are processing this information is fundamentally different because a billionaire decided to go down an escalator and change politics for good.

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00:18:18.000 Joining us now is Eric Trump, great friend and head of the Trump Organization.

00:18:23.000 Eric, great to see you, my friend.

00:18:25.000 I know you have a major announcement about Trump Mobile, but first, I want you to recollect, it's been a decade, my friend, what a 10 years it has been.

00:18:34.000 Hey, Charlie, listen, you sit in the same seat as I do in many regards, and sometimes you need to pitch yourself, right?

00:18:39.000 10 years ago, to this day, he went down that escalator.

00:18:42.000 I've stood on the stage with him every single day since then.

00:18:44.000 There's probably been no bigger defender of his, more loyal surrogate than I was during that period of time.

00:18:49.000 I think I was on TV about...

00:18:54.000 Learned a lot about life.

00:18:55.000 Learned a lot about myself.

00:18:56.000 Certainly learned a lot about this country and the politics of this country.

00:19:01.000 But man, what a journey that was.

00:19:03.000 They tried to impeach him.

00:19:05.000 They tried to kill him.

00:19:06.000 They raided his homes.

00:19:07.000 They weaponized every DA and AG against our family.

00:19:10.000 They made up the Russia hoax. 0.95

00:19:14.000 They went after his Supreme Court justices.

00:19:16.000 They went after virtually every single one of the friends, campaign managers, anybody who entered his orbit.

00:19:23.000 You took a lot of hits throughout that whole process because you were one of them.

00:19:27.000 I mean, I can't tell you.

00:19:28.000 I became the most subpoenaed person probably in American history based on the fact that they couldn't get to my father through the executive branch, so they just absolutely came after us, our companies, our wealth, our employees.

00:19:40.000 They wanted to throw him in jail.

00:19:41.000 They wanted to throw away the keys.

00:19:43.000 And despite that, we won two elections and arguably a third.

00:19:46.000 I think we won three elections.

00:19:48.000 But you can definitively say we won two based on the fact that he sat behind the resolute desk twice.

00:19:57.000 But what a journey it's been, Charlie.

00:19:59.000 And all of that happened in a 10-year period of time and obviously so much more.

00:20:02.000 So I pinch myself every day.

00:20:04.000 Honored to be part of the fight.

00:20:05.000 Loved the man to death.

00:20:06.000 And hard to believe it's exactly 10 years after that day.

00:20:09.000 What did your father say when he gathered all of you together before the announcement?

00:20:16.000 I'm guessing there was a meeting up in his office at Trump Tower with all of you.

00:20:21.000 What was that conversation like?

00:20:23.000 A conversation I'll never forget.

00:20:25.000 I get a phone call.

00:20:26.000 Honey, bring all the kids up to my office. 0.98

00:20:28.000 And I bring Don, Ivanka.

00:20:31.000 I call my wife.

00:20:32.000 I call Melania.

00:20:33.000 And he goes, kids, I'm going to do this.

00:20:35.000 And then he said, let's do this.

00:20:36.000 That was his exact words.

00:20:37.000 Kids, I'm going to do this.

00:20:38.000 Let's do this.

00:20:39.000 I mean, Charlie, everything we had ever done, we had done as family.

00:20:41.000 You know that, right?

00:20:42.000 Whether it's real estate stuff or, you know, The Apprentice, we had always fought together.

00:20:45.000 We had always won together.

00:20:47.000 You know, we always did as a family unit.

00:20:48.000 And all of a sudden, we were entering a space.

00:20:50.000 We didn't know what the hell we were doing.

00:20:51.000 I didn't know what a delegate was.

00:20:52.000 I didn't know what a caucus was in Iowa.

00:20:55.000 Listen, I was a master at concrete and building.

00:20:59.000 I didn't know a damn thing about, you know, the American political system, at least, you know, kind of the intricacies of running for.

00:21:06.000 I remember going to Iowa, and I'm standing on tables in the middle of pizza ranches and other places, giving stump speech, and it was so awkward when you first got into it.

00:21:16.000 My mom would kill me for having my shoes on a table, and yet I'm sitting here doing a stump speech to a bunch of people at lunchtime who probably didn't even want to hear a stump speech, because that's just what you did in the state of Iowa.

00:21:26.000 There were times where it was uncomfortable.

00:21:28.000 There were times where it was fun.

00:21:29.000 I think we grew so much as humans.

00:21:31.000 But man, has he changed the country in so many great ways.

00:21:33.000 He taught Republicans how to fight again.

00:21:36.000 He taught people that you could be unapologetic, that you could focus on your core beliefs, and they could actually bring you to kind of the promised land, get you a victory.

00:21:44.000 He was the greatest rhino hunter in the history of politics in that he knocked out every, I won't use a word on TV, just to try and be a little bit respectful, but every Mitt Romney, every Sass, all these guys who were the worst of the worst.

00:21:58.000 He created a Republican Party that wanted to fight for core principles that they actually agreed upon.

00:22:04.000 They weren't just kind of rollover stiffs that were unrelatable to the entire country.

00:22:08.000 And man, am I proud of the guy.

00:22:10.000 And he did that all through adversity and nearly being killed twice.

00:22:15.000 And he's a remarkable human being.

00:22:18.000 You take 10,000 billionaires in his same spot, not a single person could have lasted that fight.

00:22:23.000 Not a single person would have weathered that storm.

00:22:27.000 And he keeps on fighting every single day when what everybody else would have done would have been just revert to comfort, revert to Mar-a-Lago, revert to the beautiful plains, revert to playing golf and hanging out with the grandkids every single day.

00:22:38.000 I mean, he has blood flowing down his face, and he stands up fight by fight, and he doesn't stop.

00:22:43.000 And he's a remarkable person.

00:22:45.000 I'm not sure if they'll ever create another one of him.

00:22:47.000 And so, Eric...

00:22:51.000 I know you've got to dash in a second here.

00:22:52.000 I just have one quick follow-up question and point first.

00:22:55.000 We're also proud of you and Don and the entire family.

00:22:58.000 You have stood by your father at every single turn, every difficulty.

00:23:03.000 We see so often, unfortunately, kids that turn their back on their parents.

00:23:08.000 And you guys leaned in.

00:23:10.000 And I just want to say it is a testament to your character after all you've been through.

00:23:14.000 It hasn't been easy.

00:23:15.000 And also a testament to your father for raising thousands And how tight-knit your family is has really been something to witness.

00:23:24.000 So, Eric, tell us.

00:23:25.000 Charlie, just to say that, I mean, believe me, part of the big political ecosystem was to break us.

00:23:29.000 That's what they do.

00:23:30.000 And the number one rule of politics is do not get your family.

00:23:34.000 Keep your family the hell out of politics.

00:23:35.000 That's the number one rule.

00:23:36.000 They try and break you.

00:23:38.000 They couldn't break me.

00:23:39.000 As many days as I sat in those courtrooms with my father and as many uncomfortable depositions and subpoenas as I got, they couldn't break me and they didn't break Don and they didn't break anybody else in the family.

00:23:49.000 He did a great job raising us, there's no question about it.

00:23:51.000 So, what is your announcement here today?

00:23:53.000 Eric, tell us about it.

00:23:54.000 You guys have a million different projects going on.

00:23:56.000 What do you want to share with our audience today?

00:23:59.000 Yeah, with Trump Mobile, which we're incredibly excited about.

00:24:01.000 And Charlie, you know this better than anybody.

00:24:03.000 This all started kind of, you know, Trump Organization's foray into kind of the digital world started when X banned my father.

00:24:11.000 They turned down the dials on you, and they turned down the dials on Don.

00:24:13.000 They turned down the dials on me, and they deplatformed all of us.

00:24:16.000 And guess what?

00:24:16.000 We had to create Truth Social.

00:24:18.000 Then all of a sudden, you know, months later, we had the weaponization of the big banks.

00:24:21.000 And guess what?

00:24:22.000 They started writing me letters in the middle of the night saying we're We're closing the accounts of Trump Tower and 40 Wall Street and all your buildings all around the world.

00:24:30.000 We're closing the accounts, and we don't give a damn because you wear that red hat that says Make America Great Again.

00:24:33.000 And so we started World Liberty Financial, which is kind of our way to fight back against the big banks and kind of remove the power from the big banks, no different than Truth did with Freedom of Speech.

00:24:43.000 And today we're launching Trump Mobile, and this is phones that will be made in the United States.

00:24:48.000 These are phones that have customer service in the United States, all based out of St. Louis.

00:24:53.000 These are phones made by Americans, for Americans, you know, with international calling.

00:24:59.000 Over 100 countries around the world, totally free, unlimited text, you know, $47 a month.

00:25:05.000 We are going to go in, no different than we did in the crypto world, no different than, obviously, we did, you know, in the social media world.

00:25:12.000 We are going to go in.

00:25:13.000 We're going to disrupt.

00:25:15.000 You know, the mobile world.

00:25:16.000 We're going to do it better.

00:25:17.000 We're going to do it faster.

00:25:19.000 We're going to do it cheaper.

00:25:20.000 We're going to have better products.

00:25:21.000 We're going to have better security.

00:25:22.000 We're going to have better visibility.

00:25:24.000 And I've never been more proud.

00:25:25.000 It's going to be an awesome venture.

00:25:27.000 And, you know, our foray into the digital space has been incredible.

00:25:30.000 And this is really going to shake up kind of the digital asset world, the cell carrier world.

00:25:39.000 And Don and I cannot be more excited about it.

00:25:41.000 How can people learn more?

00:25:43.000 And what is the call to action there, Eric?

00:25:45.000 Yeah, well, go sign up.

00:25:46.000 TrumpMobile.com.

00:25:48.000 In about five minutes, you can go in, sign up, get an eSIM card and be on Trump Mobile.

00:25:54.000 And then, obviously, the Made in America phones are coming out later on this year.

00:25:58.000 They're going to be, again, produced here in America.

00:26:00.000 And if you speak to a representative, you're going to be speaking to somebody based out of St. Louis, Missouri.

00:26:06.000 Again, you're going to be speaking to America.

00:26:07.000 This isn't going to Bangladesh.

00:26:08.000 This isn't somebody who's going to Take your customer info and sell it to somebody else, as we saw last week in that massive hack.

00:26:15.000 Again, this is made for Americans by Americans, by a very patriotic family who cares tremendously.

00:26:21.000 And again, we're really excited about Trump Mobile.

00:26:23.000 I think we're really going to shake up the space.

00:26:25.000 Eric, I know you've got a dash.

00:26:26.000 I want to just play one final clip here, and I'm going to ask you, how are you going to tell your kids about this journey?

00:26:31.000 First, 277.

00:26:33.000 Now to the race for the White House, and after decades of very publicly flirting with the idea, billionaire Donald Trump says he really is running for president this time around.

00:26:43.000 His announcement was vintage Trump talking up his vast wealth and combining his first campaign speech with his first campaign controversy when he said this.

00:26:52.000 When Mexico sends its people, they're not sending their best.

00:26:57.000 They're sending people that have lots of problems.

00:27:01.000 And they're bringing those problems with us.

00:27:04.000 They're bringing drugs.

00:27:06.000 They're bringing crime.

00:27:08.000 They're rapists.

00:27:09.000 And some, I assume, are good people.

00:27:12.000 But I speak to border guards, and they tell us what we're getting.

00:27:16.000 Forty seconds, Eric.

00:27:18.000 How are you going to tell the story to your kids?

00:27:20.000 Well, Charlie, I'm going to say that everything my father said was right.

00:27:23.000 He was right.

00:27:24.000 Trump was right about everything.

00:27:25.000 They were sending rapists. 0.95

00:27:27.000 They were sending murderers.

00:27:28.000 They were sending drugs.

00:27:30.000 And I just want you to look at L.A. right now as they burn cop cars, and so many people are holding Mexican flags and walking around those, and by the way, many other nationalities, and walking around those cars as they're on fire.

00:27:42.000 And so, you know, that's exactly right.

00:27:45.000 My father was willing to say what everybody was thinking, but everybody was too afraid to say.

00:27:49.000 And from that moment, from that speech, his polls spiked.

00:27:52.000 And then he would come out and be slightly controversial again, but exactly what people were thinking, and his polls would spike again.

00:27:58.000 And honestly, it's that kind of un-PC, unscripted toughness that you see right there, which is what won my father the presidency in 2016, and certainly what won him the presidency again in 2024.

00:28:10.000 And you just needed a person who had the courage and the backbone to say it, and that's Donald Trump.

00:28:16.000 Eric, thank you so much.

00:28:17.000 God bless you, my friend.

00:28:17.000 Good to see you.

00:28:18.000 Thank you.

00:28:19.000 God bless you as well, my friend.

00:28:22.000 So you've heard me talk about Patriot Mobile for a while now.

00:28:25.000 You probably already know that for years, they've stood in the gap for every American that believes that freedom is worth fighting for.

00:28:30.000 They are the real deal.

00:28:31.000 So if you switch to Patriot Mobile, look, it's very simple.

00:28:33.000 It's a binary choice.

00:28:34.000 Either you are giving your money via your mobile bill to a woke company or a patriotic one.

00:28:39.000 You're probably giving it to a woke one.

00:28:41.000 But you might say, oh, Charlie, they have worse coverage.

00:28:43.000 Eh, it's actually better.

00:28:45.000 Patriot Mobile is one of the few cell phone providers that operates on all three major networks.

00:28:48.000 If you're listening to this podcast right now on a phone, Why don't you have Patriot Mobile?

00:28:52.000 The fact is, cell phone service in the country today, you can get exceptional or even better service with Patriot Mobile.

00:28:57.000 That's why they offer a coverage guarantee that others can't.

00:29:00.000 Or maybe you haven't joined because you think switching is painful.

00:29:03.000 I'm here to tell you it's not.

00:29:04.000 In fact, it's very easy.

00:29:05.000 No need to spend hours in a retail store waiting your turn.

00:29:07.000 Simply call Patriot Mobile's 100% U.S.-based service team from the comfort of your own home or office, and they'll have it activated in a minute.

00:29:13.000 Still locked into a contract, not a problem.

00:29:15.000 Patriot Mobile's contract buyout program covers up to $500 per device.

00:29:19.000 Keep your same number, keep your phone, or treat yourself to an upgrade.

00:29:22.000 Okay, back to my point.

00:29:22.000 What are you waiting for?

00:29:23.000 It's time to join Patriot Mobile.

00:29:25.000 Patriot Mobile funds Turning Point USA.

00:29:27.000 They donate to us, support faith, family, and freedom with every call and text you make.

00:29:30.000 Don't wait.

00:29:31.000 Do it today.

00:29:31.000 Go to PatriotMobile.com slash Charlie or call 972-PATRIOT.

00:29:34.000 Use promo code Charlie and get a free month of service.

00:29:38.000 Joining us now is Senator Rick Scott.

00:29:41.000 Senator, welcome to the program.

00:29:43.000 Senator, first, your thoughts on the breaking news, Israel, Iran.

00:29:46.000 Israel is back into bomb shelters right now as Iran is pledging a massive and overwhelming response.

00:29:52.000 Senator, your thoughts?

00:29:53.000 Boy, Charlie, I talked to you last week, and I don't think any of us anticipated what would happen this last week.

00:29:58.000 First off, hopefully the positive out of this is going to be that Iran will not have a nuclear weapon. 0.76

00:30:06.000 I mean, it's good for America.

00:30:07.000 It's good for Israel. 0.96

00:30:08.000 They want to use a nuclear weapon to destroy Israel and destroy America. 0.78

00:30:13.000 So hopefully that's what will happen out of this.

00:30:16.000 My heart goes out.

00:30:17.000 Everybody has any loss of life.

00:30:19.000 You don't want to have loss of life anywhere.

00:30:22.000 But Israel can't. 0.90

00:30:24.000 Israel's got to, I mean, basically, this is an existential threat to the survival of Israel. 0.70

00:30:29.000 So they don't, they don't really have much of a choice.

00:30:31.000 So I hope everybody's safe.

00:30:32.000 I know there's a lot of Americans in Israel right now.

00:30:34.000 I've talked to quite a few of my friends over there.

00:30:36.000 So everybody's safe.

00:30:40.000 So, Senator, the question that a lot of our audience has still here more domestically is, and this all kind of intersects with the Big Beautiful Bill, which is because we're getting our own golden dome in the Big Beautiful Bill.

00:30:57.000 Think about it.

00:30:57.000 If our enemies decided to send a ballistic missile to America today, what would happen?

00:31:03.000 I mean, you're a military guy.

00:31:04.000 So let's just say right now, if the Chinese Communist Party, God forbid, sent a ballistic missile to America right now today, who would intercept it?

00:31:15.000 Do we have the technology to do that right now?

00:31:18.000 We have the technology to intercept it, but we've got to improve our technology.

00:31:24.000 I mean, as you know, Communist China.

00:31:27.000 Which don't buy any products, any services from communist China.

00:31:31.000 They want to destroy our way of life.

00:31:33.000 So we've got to build it up.

00:31:36.000 We've got to put a lot more effort into it.

00:31:38.000 It's going to take money.

00:31:38.000 It's going to take a lot of resources.

00:31:40.000 It's going to take a lot of thought.

00:31:42.000 We're a much larger country.

00:31:44.000 We've got to cover a lot more land that Israel has to.

00:31:47.000 I've gotten tours of the Golden Dome in Israel.

00:31:50.000 It's remarkable what they're able to do.

00:31:51.000 We can do that here.

00:31:53.000 It's going to take a lot more money to do it here.

00:31:56.000 Just right now as we are live on air, this is why it all connects together, a ballistic missile launch detected from Iran as we're here live on air.

00:32:05.000 So it's just kind of very chilling to think that, God forbid this happens, but it might, that someone who's alive right now might not be alive in about six minutes.

00:32:17.000 No, it's scary.

00:32:18.000 And, you know, I've been to Israel quite a bit.

00:32:20.000 And so, you know, they you have like I was in the firehouse, which got demolished because of what happened with Hamas. 0.97

00:32:27.000 But people killed there.

00:32:28.000 But they people had 15 seconds to get into these bomb shelters.

00:32:31.000 A little bit more time if you're in Tel Aviv.

00:32:34.000 So the nice thing is Israel is prepared. 0.97

00:32:36.000 Israel's got a great military.

00:32:37.000 They've got a great leader.

00:32:39.000 So this is Israel is going to succeed at destroying Iran's ability to have a nuclear weapon. 0.66

00:32:46.000 So that's exactly what they ought to be doing for their own safety.

00:32:50.000 And Israel has the prerogative and the agency to do that. 0.89

00:32:54.000 So let me ask you, Senator, kind of shifting gears back to the Big Beautiful Bill, because I think the Golden Dome is a big wake-up call.

00:33:00.000 Your push right now is to, quote, deliver on a better Big Beautiful Bill for Trump.

00:33:05.000 The Big Beautiful Bill was getting a lot of attention about two weeks ago.

00:33:08.000 Now it's been on the back burner.

00:33:11.000 What is the update here?

00:33:12.000 What are you fighting on and for?

00:33:15.000 Please give us an update.

00:33:16.000 We've got to get this bill passed.

00:33:18.000 There's a lot of things we have to do to keep the economy going.

00:33:21.000 We've got to make the Trump tax cuts permanent.

00:33:23.000 We've got to make sure we give the Trump administration the money to basically secure the border.

00:33:28.000 And number three, we've got to make sure that our military splits up.

00:33:32.000 We know that China wants to destroy our way of life. 1.00

00:33:34.000 So we have to do that.

00:33:35.000 And by the way, what you said about Donald Trump, about what he talked about when he first came down the escalator, is exactly how we ought to think about this.

00:33:43.000 We don't want to get into these forever wars.

00:33:45.000 And we want to have such a strong military, nobody wants to play with us.

00:33:49.000 Now, on top of that, we all have to understand, we have $37 trillion worth of debt.

00:33:54.000 $37 trillion worth of debt.

00:33:56.000 If we don't have a significant change, we're going to add at least $20 trillion of debt in the next 10 years.

00:34:03.000 Now, what that impact of that is, interest rates will not come down, they're going to go up.

00:34:08.000 Inflation will not stay down, it's going to go up.

00:34:10.000 So we've got to find ways to save money.

00:34:13.000 We've had a 53% increase in spending during the Biden administration.

00:34:18.000 The House bill cut some, but it cut less than 2%.

00:34:21.000 So there's things to do.

00:34:22.000 We should completely repeal the Green New Deal.

00:34:26.000 Completely.

00:34:27.000 That's a lot of money.

00:34:29.000 We've got to quit letting blue state governors take federal Medicaid dollars and give illegals free health care. 1.00

00:34:38.000 Right?

00:34:39.000 That's just, it's wrong.

00:34:40.000 I mean, Medicaid is supposed to be a match program between the state and the federal government.

00:34:44.000 It's become a federal program, and these blue state governors have taken advantage of it.

00:34:49.000 Just as an example, how it impacts Florida.

00:34:51.000 New York, which we have 4 million more people live in Florida than New York, they get $20 billion more for their Medicaid program than us.

00:34:58.000 California, which is about 65% bigger than Florida, if you include all the illegals there, they get I mean, we pay our taxes. 1.00

00:35:11.000 Why?

00:35:11.000 That shouldn't be the case.

00:35:13.000 So these are things we can fix, we should fix, we must fix.

00:35:16.000 And we've got to figure out how to get more savings to get close and hopefully to a balanced budget within a very short period of time to get interest rates down and get inflation under control.

00:35:26.000 So, Senator, what then is the barrier to getting this done and what is the process?

00:35:32.000 To get senators aligned and agreed with that.

00:35:35.000 And are you saying that the original draft did not remove all of the Biden Green New Deal components?

00:35:41.000 No, the House bill didn't.

00:35:43.000 But we're working on it in the Senate.

00:35:46.000 We're going to pass a separate bill, which will go back to the House.

00:35:49.000 We can completely get rid of the Green New Deal. 0.99

00:35:51.000 That's all doable.

00:35:52.000 None of us voted for it.

00:35:54.000 None of us.

00:35:55.000 Not one Republican voted for it.

00:35:56.000 It's a completely Democrat project.

00:35:58.000 We ought to get rid of it completely.

00:36:00.000 Get rid of it completely.

00:36:01.000 Stop.

00:36:02.000 That's number one.

00:36:03.000 Number two, we've got to fix the Medicaid program to cover the people that should be covered. 0.78

00:36:10.000 Poor kids, like my little brother, when I was growing up before Medicaid, couldn't get health care when he had a significant disease in his hip.

00:36:16.000 I remember my mom's face when she heard about it, found out about it, and then couldn't get a doc.

00:36:22.000 That's going on today.

00:36:23.000 But the Democratic governors, they're spending money on people that don't want to work.

00:36:27.000 They're spending money on illegals in this country. 0.96

00:36:32.000 So on top of that, we got to take care of the people that have a chronic illness.

00:36:36.000 OK, so what's happened, though, is that blue state governors have taken the Medicaid dollars and spent on other things like health care for illegals, free health care for people that don't want to work.

00:36:46.000 That is wrong.

00:36:48.000 So, Senator, there were some reports this weekend that Senator Lindsey Graham said that no tax on tips and no tax on overtime might not make the final draft.

00:36:58.000 I find that to be outrageous.

00:37:00.000 What are you doing to make sure that those campaign promises and middle class and working class tax cuts remain?

00:37:07.000 Charlie, everything I've seen, it's in the bill.

00:37:10.000 Good.

00:37:10.000 I'm glad to hear that.

00:37:11.000 Thank you.

00:37:12.000 No, Charlie, I'd be shocked if it wasn't in the bill.

00:37:16.000 Both of those are in the bill.

00:37:19.000 We haven't seen the final text.

00:37:20.000 We'll get hopefully the final text tonight out of the Finance Committee.

00:37:24.000 But everything I've been told, both of those are in the bill.

00:37:27.000 Well, I'm glad to hear that because The working class, they need some sort of victory out of this legislative victory. 0.91

00:37:34.000 They need this legislative process.

00:37:38.000 We've got to go back through and look at all this spending.

00:37:42.000 We've got to stop just running $2 trillion deficits.

00:37:47.000 I mean, $37 trillion going to $57 trillion?

00:37:51.000 I mean, we just can't do that.

00:37:52.000 It's not fair to the American public.

00:37:54.000 Trump wants to balance the budget.

00:37:55.000 Let's help him.

00:37:56.000 And so in closing here then, Senator, timeline, you're going to get the final draft tonight.

00:38:01.000 And what about Ron John and Rand Paul's critiques?

00:38:05.000 How are they incorporating into the final draft here?

00:38:07.000 So there's a variety of us that are working to try to make it better.

00:38:13.000 So I think we'll get most of the final text tonight.

00:38:17.000 And I think the goal is pass it, not this week, the week after that, out of the Senate.

00:38:27.000 I'm an optimist.

00:38:29.000 I'm going to work hard to get President Trump's agenda done.

00:38:32.000 And I know part of it is we've got to stop this.

00:38:35.000 Billions and billions and billions of wasteful dollars.

00:38:37.000 Without a doubt.

00:38:38.000 Well, Senator, thank you for your leadership on this.

00:38:41.000 And we hope that we can get a final, solid bill that will deliver a resounding victory for the American people.

00:38:50.000 And finally, Senator, can you guarantee to the audience that you will fight for and that all of the border funding will remain?

00:38:57.000 Oh, yeah, I'm going to fight for it.

00:39:00.000 But the border, the border funding we had, we had, we had two big conversations about that last week.

00:39:06.000 So I think all the border funding will be there.

00:39:07.000 There was an issue that we hadn't seen the detail that some people questioned.

00:39:12.000 But I think we're seeing that now.

00:39:14.000 So although I don't think there's any question, all the border funding will be in there.

00:39:17.000 I think I think the real conversation is really about are we going to make this You know, are we going to stop a lot of the wasteful spending?

00:39:25.000 That's what the real fight is now.

00:39:27.000 I understand that.

00:39:28.000 Senator, keep fighting.

00:39:29.000 Thank you so much.

00:39:30.000 All right.

00:39:31.000 See you, Charlie.

00:39:31.000 Have a good day.

00:39:31.000 Bye-bye.

00:39:32.000 Thank you, too.

00:39:32.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:39:33.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:39:36.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - June 17, 2025

Ten Years Since The Escalator ft. Eric Trump

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