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00:00:00.000 Today on The Charlie Kirk Show, remarkable, massive, and dramatic action by President Trump.

00:00:05.000 We are getting back.

00:00:07.000 The federal bureaucracy.

00:00:09.000 Affirmative action, gone.

00:00:10.000 We have Senator Mark Wayne Mullen to discuss, but I go through the latest accomplishments on just recapping day two.

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00:01:26.000 What a beautiful day it is.

00:01:28.000 Wednesday, January 22nd.

00:01:30.000 Honored to be with you guys as always.

00:01:33.000 It is a rapid news day, as you would expect, as the golden era is unfolding in front of us.

00:01:39.000 Between the end of our broadcast yesterday and the beginning of this broadcast, President Trump has been rapidly at work.

00:01:47.000 Yesterday, President Trump did some remarkable things, and we're going to spend some time on two of them, but let's just kind of go through the list.

00:01:53.000 President Trump prohibited all use of racial discrimination, or DEI, at federal contractors and universities receiving taxpayer dollars.

00:02:00.000 President Trump ordered federal buildings worldwide to stop flying the pride flag, which the left had turned into a de facto second national flag around the world.

00:02:09.000 President Donald Trump launched the Stargate Project yesterday.

00:02:13.000 A collaboration with Silicon Valley aimed at cementing America as the global leader in emerging AI. President Trump unleashed ICE with full authority to target the criminals Joe Biden allowed to roam freely around this country who were raping and killing.

00:02:29.000 President Trump granted a full and complete pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who was wrongfully given a life sentence by overzealous federal prosecutors, one that I care deeply about.

00:02:39.000 Andrew would tell you, I've been fighting for Ross for years, and I hope to have Ross on the show, by the way, soon, which would be amazing, right?

00:02:48.000 Ross has been writing me letters.

00:02:49.000 I have a collection of these letters that Ross would write me from prison, and got to know his mom very well.

00:02:55.000 Ross Ulbricht.

00:02:57.000 Was so, treated so unfairly, President Trump gave him a complete and unconditional and full pardon.

00:03:04.000 So we will cover the Ross Ulbricht news in some time.

00:03:07.000 I gotta tell you, for me, that was one of my greatest failures of the first administration.

00:03:11.000 I pushed so hard to get Ross out of prison at the end of the first administration, and we got it done this time.

00:03:18.000 So praise God.

00:03:19.000 But let's spend our time on the earth-moving stuff.

00:03:23.000 Now, the fact that President Trump went shock and awe on January 6th on the first day, it moved the Overton window so much that the media is not even emphasizing the policy changes that President Trump is making around the sacred cows, the untouchable third rails that are key components of left-wing governance.

00:03:45.000 As you know on this program, we argue that during the civil rights era, there was a new constitution that was brought in.

00:03:52.000 The new constitution was the Civil Rights Act.

00:03:54.000 The new constitution was this super governmental new founding that thou shall not be racist.

00:04:01.000 And of course on this program, we believe that racism is terrible from the pit of hell and has no place in decent and advanced society.

00:04:10.000 We also believe that...

00:04:12.000 This movement of anti-racism is bigoted at its core.

00:04:16.000 The movement of anti-racism actually goes against the core colorblind promise of the United States of America.

00:04:23.000 In the 1960s and 70s, we started to bring in several changes to federal laws.

00:04:29.000 And believe it or not, one of which was done by executive order.

00:04:33.000 Did you know that Lyndon Baines Johnson signed Executive Order 11246?

00:04:42.000 Lyndon Baines Johnson signed Executive Order 11246, which mandated affirmative action rather than merit-based hiring in federal employment and contracting.

00:04:54.000 Because of this, affirmative action order, affirmative action has been the pseudo law of the land in America since Lyndon Baines Johnson was president.

00:05:05.000 This was not passed by an act of Congress.

00:05:08.000 This was not drawn up in committee hearings.

00:05:11.000 This was not something where the American people got behind it like the Civil Rights Act.

00:05:17.000 No, this is something completely and fundamentally different.

00:05:19.000 This was done by an act of the president.

00:05:23.000 This was an executive order.

00:05:27.000 Stroke of a pen.

00:05:28.000 Now, mind you, do you know that Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, and George W. Bush...

00:05:36.000 The three Republican presidents refused to touch this.

00:05:39.000 In fact, they wouldn't even take meetings on this topic.

00:05:41.000 It was way too radical.

00:05:44.000 The affirmative action order required white people to be discriminated against in the federal government.

00:05:50.000 This is probably the most aggressive and bold executive order ever issued by Trump in either of his terms.

00:05:57.000 In political terms, it may be the bravest move by a U.S. president in half a century or more.

00:06:04.000 When President Trump announced late last night was the repeal of Executive Order 1126. I just gotta be honest, this is one of the most remarkable things President Trump has ever done.

00:06:15.000 11246 supposedly just tells federal contractors not to discriminate.

00:06:19.000 But for more than 50 years, this order has been interpreted by the government and by the courts as requiring discrimination.

00:06:27.000 You must discriminate against white people. 0.95

00:06:30.000 You have to discriminate based on race. 0.89

00:06:33.000 To get federal dollars.

00:06:34.000 This has become a total invasion of every principle that made America great.

00:06:40.000 It's a total invasion of the text and the promise and the structure of the Constitution.

00:06:46.000 Executive Order 11246 by LBJ was meant to supersede the U.S. Constitution.

00:06:52.000 And to be very clear, we want a country based on merit, not race.

00:06:57.000 That is it.

00:06:57.000 We want things that matter to be prioritized.

00:07:01.000 More so than things that do not matter.

00:07:03.000 How you act.

00:07:05.000 How you present yourself.

00:07:07.000 How hard you work.

00:07:08.000 That is what the society should be built upon.

00:07:11.000 Your character.

00:07:14.000 President Donald Trump is doing these day one and two offensiveists.

00:07:18.000 He is overwhelming the opposition.

00:07:21.000 And by the way, if you check out my book, Right Wing Revolution, it described a strategy a lot like this.

00:07:26.000 Maybe some people took some inspiration from it.

00:07:29.000 Who knows?

00:07:30.000 But we want all people to succeed.

00:07:32.000 Now, Andrew would tell you, remember yesterday, Andrew, I was walking around being like, there's more coming.

00:07:36.000 There's more coming.

00:07:38.000 This affirmative action executive order is one of the greatest accomplishments by a Republican president in 50 years.

00:07:46.000 It didn't take a big piece of legislation.

00:07:48.000 It didn't take no child left behind.

00:07:51.000 It didn't take, oh, you know, a mission accomplished aircraft carrier.

00:07:55.000 It didn't take the invasion of Iraq.

00:07:57.000 It didn't take the...

00:07:58.000 Forming of the Department of Homeland Security, President Donald Trump signing this executive order, making merit the law of the land and the custom in this country, clarifies that discrimination is illegal and orders contractors and grant recipients to not practice racial discrimination.

00:08:18.000 So, just to be clear, that means every college across the country can no longer do affirmative action.

00:08:25.000 That means Northup Grumman, Boeing, Lockheed Martin.

00:08:30.000 Google.

00:08:31.000 If you receive money from the federal government and you do affirmative action, you violate this order and you guys can be sued.

00:08:39.000 Every single business that does business with the federal government, you have to get rid of affirmative action. 0.99

00:08:44.000 Do you hear that sort of chaos right now?

00:08:47.000 Do you know what's going on right now as I'm doing this broadcast?

00:08:50.000 There are very heated HR and senior legal meetings happening.

00:08:56.000 And every major federal contractor of general counsels that are trying to figure out how to comply with this executive order.

00:09:02.000 By the way, this should not be shocking. 0.98

00:09:04.000 George W. Bush never did this because he was a coward. 0.67

00:09:06.000 Ronald Reagan didn't do this because he didn't want to be called a racist.

00:09:08.000 By the way, everyone says, oh, Ronald Reagan was this great president.

00:09:11.000 He was a fine president.

00:09:12.000 He should be remembered as such.

00:09:13.000 But he did not even have the courage to do what President Donald Trump just did.

00:09:17.000 And we got it out on day two.

00:09:19.000 We have 1,400 days to get this into enforcement through the DOJ, the Civil Rights Division, the Department of Justice, through the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Education.

00:09:30.000 I mean, this is massive.

00:09:32.000 Even people that have been huge skeptics of President Trump are saying this is one of the most significant milestones and accomplishments of a generation.

00:09:41.000 This is the shock and awe strategy, and we are now on day three.

00:09:44.000 We have affirmative action out of the federal government, anybody that is attached to the federal government.

00:09:48.000 Let me be very clear.

00:09:49.000 It's all about merit.

00:09:50.000 If you are good enough to do the job, you will be hired.

00:09:54.000 We want a merit-based society, not a race-based society.

00:09:59.000 Can you do the job?

00:10:01.000 Don't care about the color of your skin. 0.76

00:10:02.000 I care about the content of your character.

00:10:04.000 That promise is being fulfilled.

00:10:07.000 And President Donald Trump, with more courage than any Republican president in 50 years.

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00:11:16.000 Joining us now is the great senator from the state of Oklahoma, who's been terrific and was excellent in the committee hearing for Pete Hegseth, Senator Mark Wayne Mullen.

00:11:25.000 Senator, welcome to the program.

00:11:27.000 Feels like a new day in America, doesn't it?

00:11:29.000 It does.

00:11:30.000 I've been going to these liberal medias because we kind of have to to get our message out there, right?

00:11:34.000 And I was on CNN, and they asked me what the day felt like.

00:11:38.000 And I said, man, sunrise was beautiful.

00:11:40.000 The air in my lungs tasted better, and my protein shake was awesome.

00:11:44.000 It just seems like there's a tremendous amount of hope and optimism and excitement for this golden age we're going in.

00:11:50.000 And I tell you, it sure feels a heck of a lot better than it did four years ago.

00:11:55.000 No kidding.

00:11:56.000 And so, Senator, it looks as if the executive orders across the board are bold and dramatic.

00:12:02.000 Let's go to one that is not getting as much attention, but a national emergency around energy.

00:12:07.000 And that is something that I know impacts your state of Oklahoma.

00:12:10.000 What will that mean for approvals, environmental impact statements, exploration of oil and natural gas?

00:12:17.000 What will that mean for the great folks in the state of Oklahoma?

00:12:19.000 Well, it's not just Oklahoma.

00:12:21.000 It's North Dakota.

00:12:22.000 It's Texas.

00:12:24.000 It's Pennsylvania.

00:12:25.000 It's all of our energy states, including California.

00:12:28.000 People forget California is actually an energy state.

00:12:30.000 When we declare it a national emergency, what it does is it puts that permit reform that we've been trying to pass in Congress for a long time, it puts it in hyperspeed where we don't have to add the permit reforms, where we just simply can bypass a lot of the stuff that is happening with pipelines.

00:12:46.000 People really don't think about pipelines being...

00:12:49.000 About energy, but it's one of the biggest choke points that the Biden administration put in place.

00:12:54.000 One thing they did when they immediately went in is they declassified a lot of the pipelines.

00:13:00.000 Instead of allowing them to run at 100% capacity, they put them at 20% on new ones.

00:13:05.000 They dropped some to 50% capacity, so they changed the permitting process.

00:13:09.000 It brings that back to full capacity and allows us to move the product faster.

00:13:15.000 As you know, Charlie, that brings down the cost of energy when you're able to get the product to the system faster without competing on the same level.

00:13:24.000 At the same time, it starts opening up public lands and where the Biden administration basically eliminated the ability to get permits on public land.

00:13:36.000 It opens up Alaska again, which Alaska is a huge economic engine that the Biden administration just collapsed and killed.

00:13:43.000 and then it opens up an offshore drilling to where...

00:13:46.000 as the president...

00:13:47.000 And keep in mind, the executive order to make it a national security issue was a way to go around the executive order that the outgoing Biden administration put in place that basically took all of our waters up to international and said there was a moratorium on offshore drilling.

00:14:04.000 And the president, very smart, and I'm sure he had great people around him that was advising him on this too, said, By declaring it a national emergency, it takes it off the table and we can drill again until we get to energy independence.

00:14:18.000 And when we become the exporter, it puts us in a much stronger position.

00:14:24.000 What a lot of people don't realize too is we're still importing petroleum products.

00:14:29.000 From Russia.

00:14:30.000 So we're still funding the war in Ukraine that we're funding Ukraine to fight against, and then we're funding Russia.

00:14:36.000 So this takes that actually off the plate, too.

00:14:39.000 It's a major victory and win.

00:14:42.000 And the president wants to become not just the energy superpower of the planet, which we are in pace, but also for artificial intelligence, which if we want to have artificial intelligence dominance, we need to be energy independent and dominant.

00:14:56.000 Correct, Senator?

00:14:57.000 Yeah, we do.

00:14:58.000 And we needed to use it more strategically, too.

00:15:01.000 A lot of people think Saudi Arabia is being the oil capital of the world.

00:15:04.000 The United States is the oil capital of the world.

00:15:06.000 We have more reserves from oil, natural gas, and rare earth minerals underneath our feet.

00:15:13.000 But because of the environmental movement, it has put us at a huge disadvantage.

00:15:16.000 But one thing that we don't talk about, Charlie, is what Saudi Arabia, UAE... Cutter, these other countries do by setting up a sovereign wealth fund for their country by the reserves that they have.

00:15:29.000 Let's think if we re-look at the way that we do public land permitting.

00:15:33.000 Instead of just simply giving the permitting to the oil and gas companies, and we have a one-time fee where they get the permit, we sell it, and then they go on.

00:15:42.000 What if we actually entered a partnership like you do with private land, like I do on my own private land.

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00:15:52.000 What if we did that with the United States on the public lands and then we started applying that 100% to our national debt and we start using the natural resources we have to pay off our national debt because you know Congress is never going to be trusted with actually being able to do our budget because we're going to be playing these games.

00:16:11.000 We're going to have a 10-year balanced budget, which we've been doing 10-year balanced budgets forever and we still haven't balanced it.

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00:17:31.000 Senator, right now we have this amazing trajectory when it comes to immigration.

00:17:37.000 Let's play Cut 106. Tom Homan confirming the worst people in America that are here illegally are being deported.

00:17:44.000 Play Cut 106. What would...

00:17:46.000 What does a person have to do to get a visit from ICE? Be in the country illegally, first of all. 0.98

00:17:53.000 I mean, there's nothing in the immigration law that says you've got to be convicted of a serious crime to be removed under the INA. So if you're in the country illegally, ICE can visit you.

00:18:01.000 But right now, as we said repeatedly, and the President Trump's been clear, we're concentrating on the worst.

00:18:07.000 First, the public safety threats, the national security threats.

00:18:11.000 And just yesterday, in the last 24 hours, ISIS arrested over 308 serious criminals.

00:18:17.000 Some of them were murderers. 0.59

00:18:18.000 Some of them were rapists. 1.00

00:18:19.000 Some of them raped a child. 1.00

00:18:21.000 Some of them were sexual assault of a child. 0.98

00:18:23.000 So ISIS is doing their job, and they're prioritizing, just as the president said they would.

00:18:27.000 So ISIS is performing excellent right now out in the field.

00:18:30.000 And they're going to continue every day.

00:18:32.000 Senator, your reaction to the rapid pace at which this administration is moving when it comes to the invasion?

00:18:38.000 Now, here's the craziest thing, Charlie.

00:18:41.000 Keep in mind, these individuals, ICE, knew where they were at, and they were openly still walking on our street underneath the Biden administration.

00:18:49.000 The Biden administration refused to pick them up.

00:18:52.000 On day one, President Trump went and rounded up more serious criminals and murderers.

00:19:02.000 The Biden administration did in four years.

00:19:05.000 Keep in mind, these individuals were out on the streets and ICE knew exactly where they're at.

00:19:10.000 That's why they were able to do it on day one.

00:19:11.000 What they're also not telling there is they also went into the prisons.

00:19:16.000 And ICE arrested and started the deportation of an additional 300 murderers and rapists that was in our prison systems that, once again, the Biden administration knew they were there and they chose to leave them inside the United States.

00:19:31.000 It really blows your mind to think that the administration, that the outgoing president of the United States underneath Biden refused to enforce the rule of law.

00:19:41.000 I heard from several border agents that I've become friends with of my trips to the border that all came back and they said the same thing I said earlier today.

00:19:50.000 It's a new day in America when they're actually able to do their job.

00:19:56.000 And the morale increased by a thousand percent yesterday with our border patrol just because we have a new sheriff in the White House.

00:20:03.000 OK, so, Senator, here in closing.

00:20:06.000 It looks as if things are trending towards one big, beautiful bill.

00:20:09.000 I'm actually more on, I think, your side on the Senate side that two reconciliation bills, I think, would have been the better way of approaching it.

00:20:16.000 If it's going to be one big, beautiful bill, what is your wisdom on how we're able to get the biggest possible legislative victory for one big, beautiful bill?

00:20:25.000 Well, the president has made it very clear he wants one big, beautiful bill, which allows us to negotiate more.

00:20:31.000 Now, the House is real good about bogging down on big bills.

00:20:35.000 But when you start looking at the different facets that we've got to deal with in the House, and I'll use Chip Roy, for example, in Texas.

00:20:42.000 Chip, you know, very important to have border control and very important to have energy.

00:20:49.000 But at the same time, he's going to do something that's very difficult.

00:20:52.000 He's wanting to offset SALT increase for states like New York by raising corporate taxes, which that's a nonstarter for the president, a nonstarter for me, but it's about negotiating.

00:21:04.000 And so if we were to do one big bill, it allows us to negotiate a little bit more by having more pieces in there and it's got something for everybody.

00:21:12.000 But I don't believe the House is going to be able to do it, so we're actually doing a contingency plan in the Senate to say if they can't do that, then we will start the two bills.

00:21:24.000 And the reason why we have to do two bills in the Senate is because we can't do taxes. 0.59

00:21:29.000 Taxes has to originate in the House chamber, not in the Senate.

00:21:33.000 So we would have to do border, do energy, and do national security in the Senate.

00:21:40.000 We can originate that.

00:21:41.000 But then the second half of that bill, we'd still have to wait on the House because it has taxes in it. 1.00

00:21:46.000 Senator, thank you for the time this morning.

00:21:48.000 Excellent work as always.

00:21:49.000 America is back.

00:21:50.000 And thank you.

00:21:51.000 Keep fighting hard.

00:21:52.000 And Charlie, I got to say something.

00:21:53.000 I'm cool because my kids love you, and just for the fact that you and I become friends, now all of a sudden I'm a cool dad.

00:22:00.000 So thank you for giving me that opportunity.

00:22:02.000 I think that's hilarious.

00:22:03.000 I wish I could have said hello at our ball, and that means a lot, Senator.

00:22:06.000 Thanks so much.

00:22:06.000 All right.

00:22:07.000 See you, brother.

00:22:08.000 All right, everybody.

00:22:08.000 This is rapid action right now.

00:22:10.000 The incoming right now is hard to almost even keep up with.

00:22:13.000 We got affirmative action that is gone.

00:22:16.000 That is such an immense victory.

00:22:21.000 It has been this untouchable third rail.

00:22:25.000 Why?

00:22:26.000 Why?

00:22:27.000 Because no one wanted to be called a racist.

00:22:30.000 That's why.

00:22:32.000 The failed cultural revolution of 2020 and 2021, where we were able to hold back just enough, revealed to the nation, the disgusting lower impulses of the post-modernist, post-structuralist, left-wing I don't know

00:23:04.000 if the vast majority of Americans agree what President Trump is doing with January 6th.

00:23:11.000 I do, but I don't think that's necessarily in the vast majority of Americans.

00:23:16.000 However...

00:23:17.000 This is what's so interesting.

00:23:19.000 Poll after poll, referendum after referendum, vote after vote shows that Americans detest affirmative action.

00:23:28.000 That Americans think that affirmative action is the wrong way of hiring.

00:23:33.000 Even in California.

00:23:35.000 And we saw this with the Bakke case where we struck down affirmative action at the Supreme Court.

00:23:40.000 And yet Republican presidents have been so terrified, terrified of touching this.

00:23:47.000 The American people overwhelmingly in poll after poll have said they do not want race-based hiring in any sort of institution.

00:23:55.000 California in 2020 voted for Joe Biden by 30 points while simultaneously decisively rejecting affirmative action.

00:24:05.000 And the media, they're just focusing on Enrique Tarrio, who is treated terribly, by the way.

00:24:11.000 They're just focusing on Enrique Tarrio and that whole thing.

00:24:13.000 When in reality...

00:24:15.000 The structural changes that are happening are phenomenal.

00:24:19.000 President Donald Trump parlayed this executive order spirit into a separate and equally potent executive order, as I mentioned with the FAA. We want the best pilots and the best air traffic control.

00:24:33.000 We don't care about the color of somebody's skin when they're flying the plane.

00:24:37.000 We just want to make sure that they are there based on merit and competency, not...

00:24:43.000 On melanin content.

00:24:45.000 And you just think about what Joe Biden and what Barack Obama and what all of these people have had to do to bring us to this moment where President Donald Trump is just bringing back to a center, common sense, no nonsense, I don't care what names you're going to call me, policy portfolio.

00:25:09.000 George W. Bush would never do this.

00:25:11.000 He was terrified of trying to touch affirmative action.

00:25:13.000 In fact, he might have liked it.

00:25:15.000 We are going after the center of the life force of the illegitimate modern Democrat Party.

00:25:21.000 The modern Democrat Party thrives on multiple falsehoods, and we are smashing them one after the other.

00:25:28.000 The world is going to end because of climate change.

00:25:30.000 That's one of them.

00:25:32.000 Another one.

00:25:33.000 Trust the science.

00:25:37.000 We're smashing that one.

00:25:38.000 The other one.

00:25:39.000 That love is love and trans people are who they say they are.

00:25:43.000 Oh, the trans thing is over in this country. 1.00

00:25:46.000 That thing.

00:25:46.000 You want to talk about a reversal of a cultural revolution?

00:25:49.000 We went from having to accept the whole trans zealotry in every major institution to the trans mafia, the purple-haired jihadis being run out in decent society. 0.98

00:26:01.000 No, you're not going to be able to serve in the U.S. military if you're Jeff and you think you're Jill. 0.95

00:26:06.000 No, you're not going to be able to go after our kids and gender mutilate. 1.00

00:26:09.000 By the way, stay tuned on the child mutilation stuff.

00:26:11.000 There's stuff coming.

00:26:12.000 As President Trump promised in the campaign.

00:26:16.000 And thirdly, we are taking back terrain on core issues the Democrats thought they were going to control.

00:26:22.000 Wide open borders.

00:26:25.000 The President thought...

00:26:27.000 President Biden and the Democrat Party thought that they were going to have an open border regime for a generation.

00:26:33.000 They thought...

00:26:34.000 That they were going to be able to have limitless amounts of foreigners.

00:26:38.000 That is over.

00:26:39.000 It is done.

00:26:39.000 The invasion is finished.

00:26:41.000 And the deportation efforts are underway.

00:26:46.000 What is the Democrat Party going to look like?

00:26:48.000 They have a very serious problem here.

00:26:50.000 The Democrat Party has a very serious problem looming because they have built their constituency on race obsession.

00:26:56.000 And the country is race exhausted.

00:26:59.000 So when you have a political party that is race obsessed and the nation...

00:27:03.000 Is exhausted with your core issue, you're building yourself into a minority political party.

00:27:09.000 And as the Democrats are so obsessed with, well, we have to make sure that BIPOC people have representation or Latinx people have representation.

00:27:18.000 Gotta make sure that you have the trans and the LGBTQIA2+. And meanwhile, President Trump is actually mirroring the will of the American people that say, no, why don't we even have this affirmative action guideline?

00:27:32.000 Around in the first place.

00:27:34.000 And the affirmative action guideline was almost this untouchable, wholly inherited tradition that all it took is a signature.

00:27:48.000 That's it.

00:27:49.000 No lawsuits, no Supreme Court decisions, no major pieces of legislation.

00:27:54.000 It didn't take, you know, whipping votes on Congress.

00:27:57.000 It took an act of the will.

00:27:59.000 And that is what we are seeing, and it is being demonstrated.

00:28:02.000 It is one of my core life philosophies.

00:28:05.000 What you focus on is what you get.

00:28:07.000 And most of life is, are you willing to actually go and do it?

00:28:10.000 And we have not wanted, we have had a managed decline in the 1990s and early 2000s, and up until this point.

00:28:16.000 It's been a slow motion managed decline.

00:28:18.000 We would rather lose the country than be called a racist.

00:28:22.000 And imagine, Democrats are going to be arguing against this.

00:28:25.000 The Republican Party was in fear of this.

00:28:27.000 When all it means is that they get to go on TV, on news stations that nobody watches, to go be quoted in newspapers that nobody reads, to go say that the Republicans are racist.

00:28:38.000 Yawn, exhausted, tired, whatever.

00:28:40.000 And we get to say, we just banned racial discrimination in government.

00:28:45.000 I sent out one tweet yesterday that already has millions and millions of views on this topic.

00:28:49.000 More than what Jamie Raskin can go cattle wall with Jen Psaki on MSNBC. Go ahead, go complain to your 15 viewers.

00:28:56.000 How are they even going to get their message out? 0.62

00:28:58.000 They're scolds, they're whiners, and what are they going to complain? 0.98

00:29:01.000 Oh, I really wish white people could be discriminated against more in the government. 1.00

00:29:05.000 No, no one wants that anymore.

00:29:06.000 We are getting back to the center of the promise of the Founding Fathers.

00:29:11.000 We're getting back to the core ethos of why this is the greatest nation in the history of the world, and it's not the greatest nation because of race politics.

00:29:16.000 It's not the greatest nation because of DEI, critical race theory-inspired policy measures.

00:29:22.000 It's because of merit.

00:29:23.000 It's because of...

00:29:25.000 This idea that you can succeed regardless of where you're from and who you are.

00:29:29.000 And that is a beautiful thing and President Trump is bringing it back.

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00:30:36.000 Okay, joining us now is Monica Page, TPUSA White House correspondent. 0.70

00:30:40.000 That's right.

00:30:41.000 Turning Point USA has a White House correspondent.

00:30:43.000 It's a whole new era at the White House.

00:30:46.000 And Monica, congratulations.

00:30:48.000 Your ability to do hits.

00:30:49.000 Look at that.

00:30:50.000 Look how beautiful that is.

00:30:51.000 I might have to use that pass every once in a while.

00:30:53.000 Yeah, there you go.

00:30:55.000 Yep, this is a beautiful view.

00:30:56.000 Every single day we're here.

00:30:57.000 I'm going to be there.

00:30:59.000 Very soon.

00:31:00.000 Let's just put it that way.

00:31:01.000 So, Monica, is this new?

00:31:03.000 Did the Biden administration want you on campus as well?

00:31:07.000 Oh, that's interesting.

00:31:08.000 So previously, I was at What America News doing the White House, and I did cover the Biden White House.

00:31:14.000 What a stark difference it's been in less than 48 hours here at the White House.

00:31:18.000 I was just in the press briefing room.

00:31:20.000 I have never seen it that busy with videographers, reporters.

00:31:23.000 Everybody's back to work.

00:31:24.000 I mean, it's been very quiet at this White House for the past few months.

00:31:27.000 But the nation's back.

00:31:28.000 We're back to work.

00:31:30.000 And there's a lot of exciting things coming out of the White House.

00:31:33.000 I mean, less than 48 hours in.

00:31:35.000 So, yeah, what is the reaction from the press corps?

00:31:39.000 They can't even keep up with the pace right now from the president.

00:31:42.000 What are you hearing from the American press at the kind of rapid pace of things unfolding right now?

00:31:47.000 Well, Charlie, I will say the media that has been accepted to report on President Trump, the best way to describe it is murderers row.

00:31:56.000 I mean, you've got some really interesting and not so friendly reporters here at the White House who have previously not been very favorable to President Trump.

00:32:04.000 They have never given him any sort of fair or honest reporting.

00:32:08.000 So it's going to be interesting to see the kind of dynamic once the press briefings start.

00:32:12.000 But it's been very busy.

00:32:14.000 I mean, I just was in the lower press offices just yesterday introducing myself, handing out my business card to the very friendly lower press that's there now in the Trump administration.

00:32:22.000 And they're excited.

00:32:23.000 You know, they're still scrambling, setting everything up, which was really cool.

00:32:27.000 I spoke with Caroline Levitt yesterday, the press secretary, of course, and she is very excited to make some new announcements.

00:32:33.000 I'm not going to announce anything yet.

00:32:35.000 yet.

00:32:35.000 I'm going to let her speak for herself.

00:32:36.000 But there's a lot of exciting things coming our way here, especially at Turning Point.

00:32:41.000 So definitely stay tuned, Charlie.

00:32:43.000 But it's been very busy the last 48 hours, and there's still much more to come, as you can expect.

00:32:48.000 We are seeing that kind of pace.

00:32:50.000 Are you going to be able to be in the press briefing rooms when Caroline Levitt does ask those questions?

00:32:54.000 Oh, yeah.

00:32:55.000 I'll be able to ask questions.

00:32:56.000 She knows me on a first-name basis.

00:32:58.000 We do talk.

00:32:59.000 So I'll be able to ask questions on behalf of Turning Point.

00:33:02.000 And I do encourage our listeners and viewers here to send me some of your questions because I don't represent the mainstream media.

00:33:08.000 I represent the American people.

00:33:10.000 You know, I represent you, Charlie.

00:33:11.000 So definitely feel free to send over any questions, anything that you'd like to know coming out of this administration.

00:33:16.000 I'm more than happy to serve the American people and just ask them.

00:33:19.000 Questions that people want to know the answers to.

00:33:22.000 You know, we're not asking, you know, what's Joe Biden's favorite ice cream flavor?

00:33:25.000 We're asking about the economy.

00:33:26.000 We're asking about how to keep Americans safe.

00:33:28.000 We're asking the real questions that affect everyday Americans.

00:33:31.000 And I'm really excited to get real answers as well.

00:33:35.000 I know we were just talking about affirmative action.

00:33:37.000 We were just talking about DEI hires.

00:33:40.000 Just selecting the person that's right for the job.

00:33:42.000 We've had a press secretary who really couldn't answer any questions.

00:33:47.000 You know, she would always say, you know, oh, you know, I just don't have anything.

00:33:50.000 I just don't have anything.

00:33:51.000 And it was really frustrating for not only the American people, but it's, yeah, or we'll circle back.

00:33:57.000 I mean, it's frustrating for reporters, too, because they're trying to do the story.

00:34:00.000 They don't have any answers.

00:34:01.000 I try to ask questions.

00:34:03.000 I actually introduced myself to Corrine Jean-Pierre at one point.

00:34:06.000 I took a photo with her right outside the Oval Office here on the...

00:34:09.000 Pebble Beach here.

00:34:10.000 And she still didn't want to call on me.

00:34:14.000 Every email that I've sent, Charlie, every time I've raised my hand, all my emails go either unanswered or they're forwarded over to somebody else that eventually get deleted.

00:34:23.000 So I'm excited to actually raise my hand and get called on and just ask questions and just do my basic everyday responsibilities in this role.

00:34:31.000 So there's a lot to look forward to.

00:34:33.000 And everyone here is very enthusiastic, whether they're on the same Trump side or not.

00:34:38.000 Congratulations, Monica.

00:34:40.000 Looking forward to seeing you on campus later today.

00:34:43.000 And my only ask is when they call on you in front of all of them, say, Monica Page here with Turning Point USA Frontlines.

00:34:49.000 Caroline, what?

00:34:52.000 Monica, great work. 1.00

00:34:53.000 Thanks, Charlie.

00:34:53.000 Appreciate it.

00:34:54.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:34:55.000 Email us, as always, at freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:34:57.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - January 22, 2025

The Bravest President of All Time

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