The Charlie Kirk Show - The President Wants Peace — Why Doesn't Everyone Else?

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00:01:22.000 Right now, I want to talk about President Trump's sit-down interview.

00:01:26.000 With Maria Bartiromo.

00:01:28.000 President Trump sat down with Maria Bartiromo and was talking about a wide range of topics.

00:01:38.000 President Trump talked about Zelensky dismantling the Department of Education, the need to rebalance the world towards an America-first posture.

00:01:51.000 Let's start with this, and this is very important because there's a lot of controversy around about What's going on with Ukraine?

00:01:58.000 The president wants peace.

00:02:00.000 It's very simple.

00:02:00.000 It's a very simple A-B test.

00:02:02.000 Do you want an end to the conflict, or do you want the conflict to continue?

00:02:07.000 War is the ugliest thing that human beings do.

00:02:11.000 It is the nastiest thing.

00:02:14.000 If you must engage in war, you should do it for very good reasons, with clear victory in sight. 0.96

00:02:22.000 What does success look like?

00:02:25.000 We have been asking this question since the very beginning.

00:02:29.000 What does success look like?

00:02:33.000 President Trump has been asking this question and saying, why are we spending hundreds of billions of dollars to Ukraine?

00:02:39.000 Why are we sending $150, $200 billion to Ukraine?

00:02:45.000 What are we getting out of this?

00:02:47.000 You see, it's also very revealing of a retired, Foreign policy perspective.

00:02:56.000 It is very revealing of an old vestige of the past where people believe that the Soviet Union and Russia are still the greatest threat to America.

00:03:08.000 Do you remember Barack Obama?

00:03:09.000 This is a great clip to get.

00:03:10.000 Barack Obama back in the debate with Willard Mitt Romney.

00:03:15.000 Mitt Romney got the memo from the neocons because Mitt Romney is a neoconservative.

00:03:21.000 But back in the 2012 debate, Mitt Romney said, Mr. Obama, Russia is gaining strength and Russia is gaining power.

00:03:29.000 And it was Obama that had the one-liner against Mitt Romney.

00:03:37.000 The Cold War called and they want their foreign policy back.

00:03:43.000 The Cold War called and they say that you're completely out of date.

00:03:48.000 You see, the perspective...

00:03:52.000 Of D.C. has shifted over the last 10 years when it comes to Russia, largely because of President Trump.

00:04:00.000 President Trump, coming onto the scene, they blamed, wrongly of course, they blamed Russia for the rise of Donald Trump.

00:04:12.000 Ooh, Vladimir Putin and Trump have so much in common.

00:04:15.000 And they helped propagandize the American body politic to believe That Russia was our greatest enemy because hating Trump also, therefore, you must hate Putin.

00:04:28.000 Hate Trump, hate Putin.

00:04:30.000 Hate Trump, hate Putin.

00:04:32.000 And we don't like Putin on this program, but they're two completely different types of figures.

00:04:37.000 This is President Trump speaking to Maria Bartiromo, play cut 24. He took money out of this country under Biden.

00:04:47.000 Like candy from a baby.

00:04:48.000 I just don't think he's grateful.

00:04:50.000 We gave him, in my opinion, $350 billion.

00:04:54.000 Europe is in for $100 billion.

00:04:56.000 There's a bravery because somebody has to use the weapons.

00:04:58.000 But without those weapons, don't forget, I was the one that gave him the javelins that was able to knock down all the ties.

00:05:04.000 Look, if I were president, that would have never happened.

00:05:07.000 You wouldn't have had Russia going into Ukraine.

00:05:10.000 President Trump is trying to balance both sides here.

00:05:16.000 President Trump understands that in order to get the Russians to the table, he must also have the Ukrainians internalize that they're not going to get Crimea back.

00:05:31.000 That they might have to concede some land on the eastern parts of Ukraine.

00:05:37.000 This is Barack Obama talking about Russia back in 2012. D.C. has completely pivoted its foreign policy perspective over the last decade.

00:05:53.000 Play cut 29. Governor Romney, I'm glad that you recognize that al-Qaeda is a threat because a few months ago when you were asked what's the biggest geopolitical threat facing America, you said Russia.

00:06:03.000 Not al-Qaeda, you said Russia.

00:06:05.000 And the 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War has been over for 20 years.

00:06:13.000 I hate to say it, but Barack Obama's right.

00:06:17.000 Barack Obama was correct saying that this fixation and this fascination with Russia is antiquated.

00:06:26.000 But you see, one of the major problems is the composition of so many of the lawmakers in Washington, D.C. are fascinated with continuing this fight against Russia.

00:06:37.000 Again, Russia's not a good country.

00:06:38.000 It's not a free society.

00:06:39.000 I'm not envious of Russia.

00:06:41.000 Russia is not a country that should ever be modeled or mirrored.

00:06:45.000 It's not a good country.

00:06:48.000 But it should not, under any circumstances, in this current setting, be the greatest enemy of the United States of America.

00:06:58.000 That should be the Chinese Communist Party.

00:07:00.000 President Trump continued with Maria Bartiromo.

00:07:04.000 And dove into the details.

00:07:05.000 We don't have this piece of tape, but basically President Trump said, we're going to bring all the parties to the table and we're going to broker a settlement.

00:07:13.000 We're going to broker a ceasefire, a secession in forces.

00:07:18.000 We ask the question often on this program, Coy Bono, who benefits?

00:07:22.000 It is the most operative question when you come across circumstances like this.

00:07:27.000 To who benefits?

00:07:29.000 And you have to ask the very simple question.

00:07:32.000 Who benefits from peace?

00:07:33.000 And who benefits from war?

00:07:37.000 Well, who benefits from peace?

00:07:39.000 Well, the people of Ukraine benefit from peace.

00:07:42.000 The people of America benefit from peace.

00:07:45.000 Humanity benefits from peace.

00:07:48.000 But then who benefits from war?

00:07:50.000 The military-industrial complex.

00:07:53.000 Oligarchs of the ruling class of Ukraine.

00:07:59.000 And you have to just say, what is best for our own country?

00:08:04.000 We're going to see a lot of yammering about Ukraine in this next week.

00:08:08.000 But we need to have the prudence and the foreign policy maturity to be willing to say, what is best for America?

00:08:19.000 And what is best for America is a peace deal. 0.61

00:08:22.000 A peace deal that will ensure that the war is over.

00:08:27.000 That Putin will not further invade or further march his forces.

00:08:31.000 And maybe we should reopen diplomatic channels with the Russian Federation.

00:08:37.000 It's tempting to just say, well, Russia is a great enemy of the United States.

00:08:41.000 We've made them an enemy.

00:08:43.000 Instead, we should try to drive a wedge between Russian and Chinese Communist Party marriage, the marriage that's happening on the world stage. 0.96

00:08:51.000 That is a threat to the United States of America.

00:08:53.000 That is bad for the United States of America.

00:08:55.000 The Chinese Communist Party is an enemy of the United States, the greatest enemy. 0.50

00:09:01.000 The Russian-Ukrainian War.

00:09:05.000 Largely unnecessary.

00:09:07.000 There was a peace deal on the table.

00:09:12.000 Russia became our enemy because it was an ideological foe. 0.77

00:09:17.000 That regime fell, and there is no reason to keep them our enemy.

00:09:22.000 When the Soviet Union collapsed, It took a lot of very contortionist arguments to keep Russia as an enemy of the United States.

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00:10:29.000 Visit patriotmobile.com or call 972-PATRIOT. Joining us now is Senator Rick Scott from the great state of Florida.

00:10:39.000 The senator and I were actually in the same building.

00:10:41.000 I went to go find Senator Scott.

00:10:43.000 I couldn't find him.

00:10:44.000 I searched the entire building yesterday, but here we are connected now.

00:10:47.000 They didn't tell you where I was.

00:10:49.000 That's frustrating.

00:10:51.000 And, you know, Tom Emmer was there last night also.

00:10:55.000 And I think Byron Donalds was there.

00:10:57.000 So it's all good.

00:11:00.000 So, hey, think about it.

00:11:01.000 Do you realize we have the White House?

00:11:03.000 It's the center of the Naples political universe.

00:11:05.000 Yeah.

00:11:06.000 Please continue, Senator.

00:11:07.000 You know, we have the House, the White House, and the Senate.

00:11:09.000 Maybe we have an opportunity to get something done here.

00:11:12.000 Maybe.

00:11:13.000 So I want you to kind of dive deeper into that.

00:11:17.000 What exactly is going on with Doge and what we would call the unfair treatment of Elon Musk?

00:11:26.000 Bring us into the room.

00:11:28.000 So I brought in Elon to the Wednesday lunch of Republican citizens last week.

00:11:33.000 And what Elon is doing is actually what I did when I first became governor.

00:11:37.000 I mean, what he's doing is he's saying, okay, so let's go through line by line through the budget and let's get rid of the stupidity, the waste, employees that we don't need.

00:11:48.000 I mean, why are we paying for non-essential employees?

00:11:51.000 And so what he's doing is he's giving the Trump administration, through the agency heads, really good information.

00:11:58.000 And they act on it.

00:12:00.000 So he gives it to Sean Duffy, or he gives it to Christy Noem, or he gives it to Marco Rubio, and they make a decision of what they should do.

00:12:08.000 But think about somebody.

00:12:10.000 He what?

00:12:11.000 He wrote $600,000 to study the menstrual cycle of transgender men.

00:12:18.000 $300 million to build a cement manufacturing, give them money in Gaza.

00:12:24.000 I mean, $800,000 for gardening in El Salvador.

00:12:29.000 I mean, just stupidity.

00:12:31.000 So I think he's doing a great job.

00:12:34.000 So there was a stat that I believe you shared with Jake Tapper that I want to repeat here.

00:12:39.000 In fact, let's play cut 31. It's a phenomenal point you made here, Senator.

00:12:43.000 I hope everyone in our audience commits this to memory.

00:12:47.000 Play cut 31. We've had a 2% increase in population in five years and a 53% increase in spending.

00:12:52.000 We will not get interest rates down.

00:12:54.000 We will not get inflation under control until we balance the budget.

00:12:57.000 That's what we have to do.

00:12:58.000 And Elon Musk is part of the process of balancing the budget.

00:13:01.000 Can you repeat that for our audience?

00:13:03.000 That is a profound point.

00:13:05.000 So, Charlie, in the last five years, we've had a 2% increase in the U.S. population.

00:13:10.000 We've increased spending by 53%.

00:13:13.000 We've gone from pre-pandemic, pre-COVID, To today, we've increased the federal deficit annually, federal spending, by $2 trillion.

00:13:23.000 $2 trillion year after year after year.

00:13:27.000 And guess what?

00:13:27.000 That's where we're running in deficits, $2 trillion.

00:13:30.000 So we can balance this budget.

00:13:33.000 Now, we're not going to get inflation under control.

00:13:37.000 We're not going to get interest rates down, right, if we don't balance the budget.

00:13:42.000 Everybody wants to say, oh, Trump's going to cause inflation to go up with tariffs.

00:13:45.000 No.

00:13:46.000 Inflation is caused by government spending in excess of what they take in.

00:13:53.000 It looks like we'll collect about $5.5 trillion this year.

00:13:56.000 You know what you do in your personal life, Charlie?

00:13:58.000 You probably say, I'm not going to spend more than I take in.

00:14:02.000 And you look at every credit card and you say, I'm not going to do that again, or maybe that's improper.

00:14:07.000 But what we've watched with what Elon's done is there's a whole bunch of stuff on autopilot that makes no sense at all.

00:14:15.000 And so, I mean, thank God what he's doing.

00:14:18.000 He thinks he can—his goal is $4 billion a day of savings.

00:14:23.000 He thinks he can get to a trillion dollars by the end of September.

00:14:26.000 So if we can watch our spending, find all this waste and abuse, we have a real shot.

00:14:32.000 And President Trump is committed to balance the budget, which helps the poorest families in this country the most because inflation will go away.

00:14:38.000 That's the thing that hurts.

00:14:40.000 I mean, I grew up in a poor family.

00:14:41.000 I watched my mom struggle with inflation.

00:14:43.000 It's the biggest thing.

00:14:44.000 Get grocery prices back down, gas prices back down, you know, everything.

00:14:49.000 We got to get it back down to something that people can afford.

00:14:53.000 And bring back American jobs. 0.91

00:14:55.000 I don't know if you saw, Charlie, that we've been losing manufacturing jobs month after month after month.

00:15:01.000 The first month of the Trump administration, we added 10,000 manufacturing jobs.

00:15:05.000 That's a big deal.

00:15:06.000 Those are good, way better paying jobs than most jobs.

00:15:09.000 Absolutely.

00:15:10.000 And we're finally re-domiciling American manufacturing back to the country.

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00:16:20.000 Senator, is there an appetite amongst the rank and file of Senate Republicans to cut spending?

00:16:26.000 You know, the way I think about it, Charlie, if they don't do it now, they're going to have to do it.

00:16:32.000 Because inflation is not going to get under control unless we, you know, balance the budget.

00:16:37.000 So what I tell people is, look, we should do it now, but we're going to have to do it.

00:16:42.000 And if we don't figure this out, you know, we're not going to win elections.

00:16:46.000 Because if you go back to the election, and I went through it just like Trump did last year, what do people want?

00:16:52.000 They want a secure border.

00:16:54.000 They want inflation under control.

00:16:56.000 They want transparency.

00:16:57.000 They want accountability and common sense, right?

00:17:00.000 So we have to balance this budget.

00:17:02.000 So I'm hoping that we're going to get it done.

00:17:06.000 Here's the process.

00:17:08.000 Number one, what Elon Musk is doing.

00:17:11.000 Number two, we're working through reconciliation.

00:17:15.000 But the House has a path and we have a path in the Senate.

00:17:17.000 We're going to figure out how to come together.

00:17:19.000 We've got to agree what the top-line budget will be for next year.

00:17:23.000 If we can get that close to $5.5 trillion with the growth in the economy, which I think that's what Trump is going to do, then I think we can get to a balanced budget very quickly.

00:17:33.000 So I think we're all coming together.

00:17:35.000 And then the other thing is, as Elon Musk finds things, as the Trump administration finds things, they can ask for rescission, which only takes 51 votes in the Senate and 218 votes in the House, to take existing spending.

00:17:52.000 I certainly hope so, because the reckless growth of the state over the last couple of years, a 53% increase in the size and scope spending of government and a 2% increase in the population.

00:18:11.000 Is that really Biden's legacy?

00:18:13.000 Biden's legacy, in many ways, was a disaster across the board, this included.

00:18:18.000 You look at, he left us a growth of the Leviathan, the greatest we've never seen in our country's history.

00:18:25.000 Senator?

00:18:27.000 Let me think, Charlie, we can balance the budget if we just get rid of all the Biden spending.

00:18:33.000 First off, let's go through the numbers.

00:18:34.000 He increased his spending by over $2 trillion.

00:18:37.000 On top of that, just the cost of the regulatory state that he created is $1.9 trillion.

00:18:45.000 Now, put that in perspective.

00:18:46.000 We only have a $28 trillion economy, right?

00:18:50.000 And he added, what, $8 trillion to the debt, something like that.

00:18:54.000 And if you go look at the real numbers, we've been losing full-time jobs during the Biden administration.

00:19:00.000 We've only been adding part-time jobs.

00:19:02.000 And all the new jobs were going to people not born in this country.

00:19:06.000 That's all changing.

00:19:08.000 Now, Trump's got his work cut out for him, but just in the first month, more people born in this country got jobs.

00:19:15.000 10,000 manufacturing jobs.

00:19:17.000 We were losing 9,000 a month.

00:19:19.000 So I'm up, and I think he's going to be able to get gas prices down by allowing the energy industry to produce American energy.

00:19:29.000 So, I don't know.

00:19:31.000 This is exciting.

00:19:32.000 I've been in the Senate for six years.

00:19:34.000 We had no ability to get things done.

00:19:36.000 This is now the time.

00:19:38.000 This is our chance.

00:19:39.000 And if we don't get it done, people should be very disappointed in us.

00:19:42.000 This is the moment, Senator.

00:19:44.000 I mean, you guys have a mandate.

00:19:45.000 You have the numbers.

00:19:47.000 There's no more excuses.

00:19:48.000 Where do you stand on the president calling for a CR to create the space for the reconciliation bill?

00:19:55.000 I'll be honest.

00:19:56.000 I'm tired of doing one CR after the other.

00:19:59.000 But I guess it's a necessity.

00:20:02.000 Convince me, Senator.

00:20:04.000 Well, we can't—first off, number one, there's no value of shutting down government, right?

00:20:08.000 And so I don't like CRs.

00:20:11.000 I haven't supported CRs.

00:20:13.000 But I believe I was with Tom Emmer last night, and he believes the House is going to pass what they have on the table, right?

00:20:21.000 And so— We need a dissent.

00:20:22.000 We need to come together.

00:20:23.000 We need to work together to get this accomplished.

00:20:25.000 Maybe, I don't know if there's going to have to be any changes or anything, but we can't allow government to shut down.

00:20:30.000 You know, we have Democrats like Andy Kim and Cory Booker who want to shut down government.

00:20:33.000 That's not good for the American public.

00:20:35.000 And guess what?

00:20:35.000 We'd sell these people a third of workers to go home, and then they still get paid.

00:20:39.000 This is stupidity.

00:20:41.000 I mean, it makes no sense.

00:20:42.000 So what we've got to do is we've got to make sure government doesn't get shut down.

00:20:46.000 We've got to work on the reconciliation to get the border secure.

00:20:51.000 Plus up the military to the extent we need it.

00:20:55.000 Extend the Trump tax cuts.

00:20:57.000 Do these things.

00:20:58.000 So if we do all these things, then I think we're going to have, I don't know how long it's going to take us, but we're going to have a robust American economy again, just what it was like when Trump left.

00:21:08.000 Senator, thank you for your time today.

00:21:11.000 Deeply appreciate it.

00:21:12.000 We'll be watching very closely on what the Senate does.

00:21:15.000 Our audience right now, they are growing impatient.

00:21:20.000 Because we need to start to see legislative wins, spending cuts, tax cuts, and real reform coming from Congress.

00:21:27.000 There's only so much the president can do.

00:21:28.000 There's only so much that President Trump can do with signing executive orders.

00:21:32.000 It's time for Congress to act.

00:21:34.000 Thank you, Senator.

00:21:35.000 I agree.

00:21:36.000 Yep, I agree with you, Charlie.

00:21:37.000 Thank you, Senator.

00:21:38.000 Email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:21:41.000 Also in President Trump's sit-down interview with Maria Bartiromo, you talked about one of my favorite topics.

00:21:48.000 And if President Trump is even half successful in getting this done, it will be one of his greatest accomplishments.

00:21:56.000 There never should have been a federal, centralized, Washington, D.C.-based Department of Education.

00:22:06.000 Never should have been.

00:22:08.000 There never should have been a Department of Education that is a Politburo controlling what your kids learn.

00:22:18.000 Interfering with what education should be.

00:22:20.000 Education, properly understood, is the pursuit of good, true, and beautiful.

00:22:26.000 Teachers should be gardeners allowing kids to grow into what they actually are, not carpenters trying to cut them into something that the administrative state wants. 0.85

00:22:37.000 The Prussian German model of education has failed this country.

00:22:42.000 You see, the German model of education is hyper-centralized.

00:22:46.000 Technocratic.

00:22:46.000 We're going to give you nothing but skills.

00:22:48.000 You see, our founding fathers were educated classically.

00:22:52.000 Our founding fathers were educated with local communities studying the ancient texts.

00:22:59.000 Our founders understood their Aristotle, Socrates, Plato, Montesquieu.

00:23:06.000 Our founding fathers understood the great thinkers that eventually built Western civilization.

00:23:14.000 Education definitionally must be bottom-up, not top-down.

00:23:20.000 Many of our founding fathers were even sent abroad to learn at then the greatest universities on the planet.

00:23:25.000 But education then was not what it is today.

00:23:28.000 It was about the Socratic exploration towards truth.

00:23:34.000 Every founding father was classically Christian-educated.

00:23:37.000 And boy, did they know their Bible.

00:23:39.000 They knew the roots.

00:23:41.000 They knew the Torah.

00:23:42.000 They knew the story of the Exodus.

00:23:43.000 They knew Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

00:23:45.000 They knew Romans, and they knew 1 and 2 Corinthians.

00:23:49.000 We can celebrate America, but if we don't understand that how we educated our founding fathers is one of the reasons why we have such a great country, then we're failing.

00:24:01.000 One of the main reasons we like partnering with Hillsdale College.

00:24:04.000 The current top-down model has bloated budgets.

00:24:08.000 Too many bureaucrats.

00:24:10.000 Dr. Larry Arnn from Hillsdale came on our show and gave us a breathtaking number.

00:24:14.000 There are about 11 million people that work in education in this country.

00:24:19.000 About 7.5 million of the 11 million are not even teachers.

00:24:23.000 They're paper pushers, administrative bureaucrats. 0.93

00:24:26.000 They are the bloat.

00:24:28.000 This is President Trump continuing, calling for the dismantling, the destruction, and the end of the pernicious.

00:24:37.000 Department of Education, play cut 25. Can you tell us anything about the education department that you're going to dismantle?

00:24:44.000 We want to bring the schools back to the states because we have the worst, literally, we have the worst education department and education in the world.

00:24:54.000 We're ranked at the bottom of the list, and yet we're number one when it comes to cost per pupil.

00:24:59.000 We want to not only have school choice, which is important, but we want to bring it back to the states so the states can run the schools and they will be every bit as good as the top educational departments anywhere in the world.

00:25:13.000 This means more money for states.

00:25:14.000 But just look at this empirically.

00:25:16.000 The more we have gotten away from a parent-based, family-based, citizen-based, student-based learning model, the more that our standards have decreased.

00:25:27.000 The standards of American education...

00:25:30.000 Our lackluster.

00:25:32.000 We are like 27th in the industrialized world.

00:25:36.000 There is a, it's a true story.

00:25:39.000 Can you guys resend that story that I thought was a parody?

00:25:42.000 There's a young woman who got honors from her high school.

00:25:49.000 I think I'm getting this right.

00:25:50.000 She was part of the honor society and she could not read or write, so she's suing her school.

00:25:57.000 It's a real story.

00:26:00.000 She's suing her school because they gave her honors, but she cannot read or write.

00:26:08.000 This is it.

00:26:08.000 She graduated high school with honors.

00:26:11.000 It's a true story.

00:26:12.000 CNN.com.

00:26:13.000 She graduated high school with honors, but she can't read or write.

00:26:18.000 Now she's suing. 1.00

00:26:20.000 That is the Department of Education.

00:26:22.000 She cannot read or write, but she's an honors student.

00:26:26.000 The product of...

00:26:28.000 The Department of Education, what we are getting out is not just the lowering of standards, but it is the downfall of our great nation.

00:26:38.000 It's a CNN story.

00:26:40.000 Alicia Ortiz is 19 years old, freshman at the University of Connecticut, and she can't read or write.

00:26:45.000 She was accepted into the University of Connecticut without being able to read or write.

00:26:52.000 Private student loan debt in the United States totals about $300 billion.

00:26:56.000 About $45 billion of that is labeled as distressed.

00:26:59.000 Go to whyrefi.com.

00:27:00.000 It may not be available in all states.

00:27:02.000 You can finally take control of your student loan situation with a plan that works for your monthly budget.

00:27:07.000 If your private student loan debt is keeping you up at night and ruining your life, it doesn't have to.

00:27:11.000 Just call YReFi.

00:27:13.000 YReFi offers a three-minute rate check without any credit impact.

00:27:17.000 Bad credit is absolutely accepted.

00:27:19.000 You can even skip a payment every six months up to 12 times without penalty.

00:27:24.000 You don't have to ignore that mountain of student loan debt statements anymore.

00:27:28.000 Again, it may not be available in all states.

00:27:29.000 Go to YReFi.com.

00:27:30.000 That is Y-R-E-F-Y.com.

00:27:33.000 Log on to YReFi.com.

00:27:34.000 YReFi does not care what your credit score is.

00:27:36.000 Go to YReFi.com.

00:27:37.000 Just another little addendum on the education problem in this country.

00:27:50.000 The more that we centralize anything that should be personal, the quality will decrease.

00:27:57.000 The federal government has no role in the education of our children.

00:28:03.000 And if you believe it does, Then you are a statist.

00:28:09.000 This is a young man who's in college.

00:28:11.000 Let's play this here from our campus tour.

00:28:13.000 This is a young man, as long as there's no swear words in this.

00:28:16.000 This is your average college student.

00:28:19.000 I believe, let me see here, what shirt am I wearing?

00:28:22.000 The University of Florida.

00:28:24.000 And I'm not here to knock on University of Florida, but some people in this audience think it's a good school.

00:28:30.000 Not only is this guy not very wise or smart, The more important clip is the professor who doesn't even know very basic information about Winston Churchill, even though he was a World War I professor.

00:28:43.000 Let's play cut 36. So my real thing is, how is Doge not a pyramid scheme when it's essentially being a department that is being hiring federal workers to take money away from other federal workers, which is thus creating a strain on the Social Security?

00:29:00.000 You do know the workers for Doge are working for free, right?

00:29:03.000 No, they're not.

00:29:05.000 Yeah, they are.

00:29:06.000 They're all volunteers.

00:29:08.000 And do you know about the Doge Dividend?

00:29:12.000 Yeah.

00:29:13.000 You can tell the crowd, though.

00:29:14.000 Tell me about the Doge Dividend.

00:29:17.000 I'm waiting for you to finish your part, sir.

00:29:20.000 So, for example, when...

00:29:23.000 When we say $40 million on improving the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants, $520 million on ESG consulting, $47 million on learning outcomes in Asia, President Trump's plan is to send every single person in this audience a $5,000 check.

00:29:41.000 Get the money back in your pocket.

00:29:42.000 Yeah, that's a bunch of hoopla.

00:29:45.000 Well, that's the plan.

00:29:46.000 We'll see.

00:29:46.000 You see, the money is actually not a pyramid scheme.

00:29:49.000 It's the largest and most ambitious taxpayer refund.

00:29:54.000 That is your average college student.

00:29:57.000 Also, in other news, here in Washington, D.C., the Imperial Capital, Black Lives Matter Plaza is no more.

00:30:05.000 It is being removed.

00:30:06.000 D.C. to begin reconstructing.

00:30:09.000 The Black Lives Matter Plaza.

00:30:11.000 Crews from the District of the Department of Transportation have begun working on what is currently the BLM Plaza in Washington, D.C. It is gone.

00:30:19.000 In fact, I might go by.

00:30:20.000 It's just a couple blocks from here.

00:30:22.000 I might go by and do a video.

00:30:24.000 A little commemoration for the end of an era.

00:30:28.000 The end of the awokening of the country.

00:30:31.000 Might go by and kind of say hello.

00:30:34.000 It's a two...

00:30:35.000 Block-long mural.

00:30:37.000 In fact, there's a bunch of media there.

00:30:38.000 I bet they're going to go try and ask me questions.

00:30:39.000 What are you, a racist?

00:30:41.000 No, I actually don't think that we should have an entire two-block-long mural, which, by the way, was painted at the height of Floydapalooza just a virtue signal outside of the White House.

00:30:51.000 Get rid of it.

00:30:52.000 Right next to the White House.

00:30:53.000 Get rid of it.

00:30:54.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:30:55.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:30:58.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - March 10, 2025

The President Wants Peace — Why Doesn't Everyone Else?

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