The Charlie Kirk Show - The Tariff Agenda: Make America Make Again

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00:01:41.000 We have a huge week in store and this is gonna be a very very intense News week and we are here for all of it.

00:01:49.000 It's called liberation day coming up on April 2nd That is later this week on Wednesday President Donald Trump has said that there is going to be a liberation in this country.

00:02:02.000 There will be tariffs put on Every country that has tariffs against us, there will be reciprocity and there will be tariffs across the board.

00:02:12.000 The Trump administration is planning its biggest round of tariffs yet this Wednesday.

00:02:16.000 Now, do not look at your stock portfolio.

00:02:19.000 Do not do that this week.

00:02:21.000 Make a promise to yourself.

00:02:23.000 Take the app off your phone.

00:02:25.000 Do not look at your stock portfolio.

00:02:27.000 Say, this week and maybe for a couple weeks, I am not going to look at it because it's going to get a little bit bumpy.

00:02:34.000 We're in for some turbulence.

00:02:36.000 Now, we already have tariffs on Canada and Mexico, but what we're getting now is a big wave of reciprocal tariffs.

00:02:44.000 These are tariffs that President Trump is imposing as retaliation for similar tariffs that have been imposed on American goods in other countries.

00:02:51.000 For example, India has a huge tariff on Harley Davidsons.

00:02:56.000 Just stuff like this.

00:02:58.000 Big screen TV tariffs in Japan.

00:03:01.000 If we are going to be tariffed, Then we will tariff back.

00:03:04.000 Last year, the U.S. trade deficit with the rest of the planet passed $1.2 trillion.

00:03:10.000 That's a record.

00:03:11.000 And there are no signs of things getting better unless we took dramatic action.

00:03:16.000 America has been becoming a country that produces nothing and only buys.

00:03:20.000 That ends in national bankruptcy.

00:03:24.000 We are seeing a geopolitical restructuring on our terms.

00:03:30.000 We have a choice.

00:03:31.000 We could ignore What is obviously the rebalancing of the international world order and continue to be a consumer economy.

00:03:38.000 If you are strictly a consumer economy, you are subservient and held hostage to the internationalist and globalist forces.

00:03:49.000 We are tired of being cheated and President Trump has talked about this issue for decades.

00:03:56.000 We have one shot and one shot only to fix this.

00:04:01.000 We have one opportunity.

00:04:03.000 While we are still the wealthiest nation in the world and the incumbent economic player, we have one chance to do this.

00:04:13.000 You see, post-World War II and the World War II-based order, America decided to become a consumer economy.

00:04:20.000 We don't really make much in this country anymore.

00:04:23.000 We make mobile apps, we build homes, and We have a banking sector that is robust and the best on the planet.

00:04:32.000 For now.

00:04:34.000 What else do we actually physically make?

00:04:36.000 Now, there are some small manufacturing companies that have still persisted.

00:04:41.000 But we signed a series of trade agreements.

00:04:45.000 The North Atlantic Free Trade Agreement, NAFTA.

00:04:49.000 We allowed China to go into WTO in the late 1990s.

00:04:53.000 We also have decided to Get rid of almost all tariffs over the last 30 to 40 years because we believed that free trade would make us richer.

00:05:03.000 Now, while free trade has allowed us to get more stuff, has it actually made us a richer country?

00:05:09.000 I had this debate with a strict libertarian on campus.

00:05:14.000 He called himself a libertarian economist.

00:05:17.000 And I said, the political question is not just whether or not we are getting economically wealthier, It's whether or not our communities are strong, our families are staying formed.

00:05:27.000 It's whether or not an average worker can afford to have his or her part of the American dream.

00:05:34.000 It's whether or not we have a vibrant and connected culture in our country.

00:05:42.000 We have lost 5 million manufacturing jobs in the last 20 years.

00:05:47.000 5 million.

00:05:50.000 And what we have learned is that when we lose those manufacturing jobs, when those factories are closed, there is a wage reduction for that worker by 11 to 22 percent.

00:06:03.000 This was a bipartisan study done by Congress.

00:06:06.000 So when a factory worker is no longer building a dishwasher, or a big screen TV, or a pickup truck, and they find a replacement job, there is a wage reduction of 11 to 22 percent.

00:06:21.000 Wages, since the World Trade Organization entrance of China into this compact, and since NAFTA was passed, wages for the bottom 10% have only rose 4% over the last 30 years.

00:06:35.000 We have closed 60,000 factories in the last 12 years.

00:06:42.000 60,000 factories.

00:06:46.000 We call them the muscular class on this country, and the muscular class has been completely and totally decimated.

00:06:54.000 Eliminated. In 1985, it took 30 weeks of work to support a family of four.

00:07:04.000 30 weeks of work.

00:07:07.000 To be able to have housing, healthcare, send your kids to school, get a car, and that means you could save money.

00:07:16.000 That means your wife did not have to go into the workforce. 0.98

00:07:21.000 She could if she wanted to, but if she wanted to be a stay-at-home mom, it was perfectly fine.

00:07:28.000 It made financial sense.

00:07:31.000 Now it takes 62 weeks of work for an average worker to be able to support a family of four.

00:07:40.000 62 weeks of work.

00:07:42.000 Which means that One of two things have to happen.

00:07:45.000 The family has to go into debt to just support a family of four, or the wife has to go into the workforce, which then means the kid has to go to daycare.

00:07:53.000 And if you have to do daycare, that's obviously necessary for a lot of people, but it's not ideal for many families.

00:08:01.000 Many moms would prefer to be with their kids when they're two, three, four, five, six, seven years old. 1.00

00:08:06.000 They would prefer to be stay-at-home moms during those formative years. 1.00

00:08:10.000 Free trade absolutism Has hurt our nuclear families.

00:08:15.000 It has weakened our communities.

00:08:17.000 So we have one shot to do this We have one shot and there is going to be a hardware renaissance the same way that we have seen a software renaissance Advanced robotics and advanced manufacturing is going to be the new economic growth curve Where are these tools of the future going to be built?

00:08:40.000 The hardware renaissance to build the rockets and the potential flying cars and the autonomous vehicles.

00:08:46.000 President Trump understands that there is this window.

00:08:50.000 There is this momentary window where we can finally rebalance and course-correct the mistakes of the last 40 or 50 years.

00:08:59.000 And you can only do that while you are still the incumbent economic player.

00:09:04.000 And as that window is starting to close, President Trump is trying to run right through it.

00:09:09.000 And that is what he means by Liberation Day.

00:09:14.000 Germany does not allow us to sell Ford vehicles in Germany without ridiculous tariffs.

00:09:21.000 So why is it that we should allow the importation of VWs and Mercedes-Benz and BMWs?

00:09:28.000 Japan is the same. 0.98

00:09:29.000 Why should we allow the importation of Toyota and Honda?

00:09:34.000 South Korea the same.

00:09:35.000 Why should we allow Hyundai to have themselves dump their products into the United States?

00:09:40.000 So what is about to ensue is, ladies and gentlemen, there is turbulence ahead.

00:09:44.000 There will be some bumps coming.

00:09:47.000 But on the other side of this bumps is a recalibration of how we finance our government and how our economy is structured.

00:09:55.000 Because if we do nothing and we continue to engage in the cheap money spigot brought to you by Unfettered free trade policies, we will have no manufacturing base.

00:10:11.000 We'll be nothing but a consumerist economy where we are just a colony that buys stuff.

00:10:17.000 No, a country is definitionally strong based on whether or not you make stuff in your nation.

00:10:28.000 And if you don't, you're no longer a country.

00:10:30.000 You're simply A colony that barters goods.

00:10:34.000 It is a geopolitical restructuring on our terms.

00:10:37.000 And President Trump has the political courage and mandate to make it happen.

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00:11:32.000 Okay, so Liberation Day is coming Wednesday.

00:11:36.000 I want to play this piece of tape here first from the head of the UAW, the United Auto Workers.

00:11:42.000 What he says is very important.

00:11:44.000 Tariffs and the threat of a tariff is a forcing function to allow companies to make them redomicile. 0.92

00:11:52.000 We want to onshore manufacturing.

00:11:55.000 We want to see a re-domiciling renaissance.

00:11:59.000 Play cut 82. I thought it was a little longer than that, but it's still very powerful.

00:12:12.000 And that's exactly right.

00:12:15.000 The president of the UAW understands that all of the parts associated with making a vehicle These companies might have to bite the bullet, and they might have to say no to their McKinsey consultants, and bring them back to America.

00:12:28.000 I want to do a one-two combo here.

00:12:30.000 This was played on Jesse Water's show, and I have to give the Jesse Water's production team a lot of credit.

00:12:36.000 This is a phenomenal pull.

00:12:37.000 This video has been memory hold.

00:12:40.000 This is a video before I was born in 1992 of a frontline report in Allentown, Johnstown, Pennsylvania.

00:12:49.000 Where they were talking about one of these 60,000 factories that were closed.

00:12:53.000 Listen to this frontline news report and then multiply this by 60,000.

00:13:00.000 We just handed China global superpower status. 0.91

00:13:05.000 What we did throughout all of this is we handed China global superpower status.

00:13:09.000 Here China, go become our greatest enemy. 1.00

00:13:12.000 Why? Because we want cheaper plastic and trinkets, and the Wall Street class wants to be able to go make an extra couple hundred million bucks. 1.00

00:13:19.000 The people like Mitt Romney and Bain Capital.

00:13:21.000 Playcut 123.

00:13:23.000 For ages, hot molten steel has been the lifeblood of Johnstown, vigorously pumping dollars and jobs through the city's veins.

00:13:31.000 But now, the pulse of the community is in cardiac arrest.

00:13:35.000 Bethlehem officials aren't making any more comments than what's contained in this press release.

00:13:40.000 They're sorry, But it's simply not cost-effective to run the mill any longer.

00:13:44.000 It does hurt, and there's a dramatic spin-off that's going to come from that.

00:13:48.000 And there's going to be a lot of problems that have to be solved.

00:13:51.000 In part, Bethlehem cites fierce foreign competition and the national economy for their demise.

00:13:57.000 For some Bethlehem employees, it's hard to look past the shocking news.

00:14:02.000 Don't rely on a corporation that don't want you, in a sense.

00:14:06.000 They don't care, you know?

00:14:08.000 You're only a number.

00:14:09.000 That reminds me of a scene out of the movie Wall Street, which is a phenomenal movie.

00:14:15.000 Anacotte Steel.

00:14:17.000 In fact, Ryan, we should cut up parts of that movie Wall Street.

00:14:20.000 As far as in drama form, it goes to show the moneyed Wall Street class that parachuted in and closed and de-industrialized our country.

00:14:29.000 The top 1% benefited massively from this because they got higher margins.

00:14:36.000 It used to be Where you were able to build an automobile, a computer, a skyscraper, an ocean liner, a fighter jet, entirely with parts manufactured in the United States.

00:14:45.000 The era where you could do that was the apex of American success and power.

00:14:50.000 Now, the country that can build all those things on its own is China.

00:14:55.000 Is it any surprise that they're now our number one rival and probably our enemy?

00:14:58.000 Is it any surprise it looks like they are winning?

00:15:01.000 When you make things, you learn how to design them.

00:15:03.000 When you stop making them, you forget.

00:15:06.000 The brain power, the design power, the skills, the ability to fix things, build things, poof!

00:15:10.000 All gone.

00:15:11.000 Vanished. And President Trump is now maximizing this opportunity we'll never get again.

00:15:18.000 Look, all of our stocks are gonna go down.

00:15:20.000 My stocks, your stocks, for a moment of time.

00:15:22.000 And then it will be a golden era ramp-up.

00:15:24.000 It is a short window.

00:15:27.000 And this is long-term, intergenerational thinking.

00:15:31.000 Finally, we are resisting the Momentary pleasure for long-term success.

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00:16:46.000 Joining us now is Senator Rick Scott from the great state of Florida.

00:16:50.000 Senator, I want to continue this conversation about President Trump's tariffs and Liberation Day.

00:16:55.000 It is time for us to re-industrialize the country.

00:16:58.000 You have a background that I think would be interesting.

00:17:00.000 You've done a lot of venture capital, you know, a lot of investments in things that have actually built stuff in this country.

00:17:06.000 Talk about the need that we invest in the backbone, in the muscular class of our country.

00:17:12.000 Number one, we want American jobs. 0.97

00:17:14.000 I built the largest hospital company in the world.

00:17:16.000 And then after that, I built a variety of manufacturing companies.

00:17:20.000 If you have a Corvette, I probably made your outer body.

00:17:22.000 If you have a John Deere tractor, I probably made your chain.

00:17:25.000 If you have a towable recreational vehicle, I probably made your chassis.

00:17:28.000 I built the biggest companies in those industries.

00:17:31.000 And we need more American jobs.

00:17:34.000 I was competing against China.

00:17:36.000 China subsidizes their companies.

00:17:39.000 They don't comply with any trade deals.

00:17:42.000 Their quality, in many cases, is horrible.

00:17:45.000 So if we want good-paying American jobs, we've got to protect American manufacturers.

00:17:51.000 So what Trump is trying to do with having fair, fair trade protection policies is saying, look, if you are going to protect American companies from being able to sell into your country, which China, as an example, does not let us compete fairly in their country.

00:18:09.000 If you're not going to be fair, then we're going to put tariffs on you because we're going to protect American jobs.

00:18:16.000 If we go to war, we're going to want to know that we can build things in our own country.

00:18:21.000 We want to buy our drugs built in our country.

00:18:23.000 We want to buy our military equipment built in our country.

00:18:25.000 We want to buy everything we can built in this country and protect American jobs.

00:18:29.000 So what he's doing?

00:18:30.000 He's doing exactly what he says he's going to do on the campaign trail.

00:18:33.000 He's protecting American jobs.

00:18:36.000 I want to play this piece of tape here.

00:18:38.000 This is cut 124.

00:18:40.000 This is Japanese executives now admitting and acknowledging they're planning U.S. expansion.

00:18:50.000 You see, that's the thing.

00:18:51.000 How do you avoid a tariff?

00:18:53.000 You avoid a tariff by just making your good here, by building a factory in Iowa or Kansas.

00:18:59.000 Mississippi, or in the great state of Florida.

00:19:02.000 Let's play Cut 124, please.

00:19:04.000 Based on your research, it sounds like President Trump's tariffs are one of the factors here.

00:19:09.000 Yeah, DeeDee.

00:19:09.000 They definitely play a part.

00:19:11.000 A new survey from a Japan-based news agency pulled executives at 144 major Japanese corporations, and around 30% said they were expanding their operations in the U.S. And another 20% said they were exploring options for expansion.

00:19:26.000 So, President Trump's 25% tariffs on imported cars and car parts, that is expected to start next week.

00:19:34.000 Tell us about the changes that we're actually already seeing with regards to foreign automakers making ahead of this.

00:19:41.000 Yeah, so according to a list released by the White House, which they got from reporting by Reuters, Honda will be producing its new Civic Hybrid in Indiana instead of Mexico.

00:19:51.000 Also, Hyundai Motor and Stellantis have announced their plans to set up shop here too.

00:19:56.000 Let's play Cut 121.

00:19:58.000 There were two conceits that our leadership class had when it came to globalization.

00:20:05.000 is assuming that we can separate the making of things from the design of things.

00:20:10.000 The idea of globalization was that rich countries would move further up the value chain while the poor countries made the simpler things.

00:20:18.000 You would open an iPhone box and it would say, designed in Cupertino, California.

00:20:23.000 Now the implication, of course, is that it would be manufactured in Shenzhen or somewhere else.

00:20:28.000 And yeah, some people might lose their jobs in manufacturing, but they could Separating the design and

00:20:58.000 the manufacturing is...

00:21:02.000 Two completely different things.

00:21:04.000 Senator, your reaction to both clips?

00:21:06.000 Well, the most important thing is we've got to figure out how do you build American jobs?

00:21:11.000 Here's how you do it.

00:21:12.000 I mean, I build companies all over the United States.

00:21:13.000 I did business probably in 40 states.

00:21:16.000 You make sure that, you know, you've got the best employees.

00:21:19.000 You make sure you don't have regulations that your competition doesn't have.

00:21:22.000 You make it easy to get a permit.

00:21:24.000 You don't have taxes and fees that your competition doesn't have.

00:21:27.000 And if you do, American ingenuity is always going to win.

00:21:30.000 But when other countries subsidize their industries, then we've got to do what Donald Trump is doing.

00:21:36.000 He's going to say, that's not fair.

00:21:38.000 Then we're going to do the same thing in ours.

00:21:40.000 And the way he's going to do it is through tariffs.

00:21:41.000 So I'm glad that the president is standing up for American jobs.

00:21:45.000 I'm excited.

00:21:46.000 I think these companies worldwide are going to come back to America.

00:21:50.000 We're going to see a renaissance of new jobs.

00:21:52.000 You already saw it, I think, in the February numbers.

00:21:54.000 Under the Biden administration, we've been losing about 9,000 manufacturing jobs a month.

00:21:58.000 His first month, February, we added 10,000 manufacturing jobs.

00:22:01.000 So I think that's going to continue.

00:22:03.000 So, Senator, how do we empower Congress to deregulate the ability to build factories and to have manufacturing here?

00:22:17.000 The biggest hurdle to manufacturing in America is not wages.

00:22:21.000 It's actually the regulatory hurdles and the cost of building.

00:22:25.000 Are there any ways that Congress or the Trump administration can lower those barriers?

00:22:30.000 Well, part of it is the agencies can do on their own.

00:22:34.000 There's regulations that have been put in place over the years.

00:22:36.000 They can eliminate those regulations.

00:22:38.000 They can make it easier to get a permit.

00:22:39.000 Right now, if you're dealing with the Corps of Engineers, it's like it's a black hole.

00:22:43.000 You don't even know how to get a permit.

00:22:45.000 It takes forever to get a permit.

00:22:47.000 So then the Congress can do some things.

00:22:49.000 Congress has passed legislation in the past that makes it harder to do business in the country.

00:22:53.000 We have to say, look, we're competing globally.

00:22:56.000 We've got to compete globally.

00:22:57.000 If we're going to compete globally, that means we can't have rules and regulations that don't make any sense.

00:23:02.000 Next, our state governments have to do the same thing, and our local governments have to do the same thing.

00:23:07.000 Some of it's local, some of it's state, some of it's federal.

00:23:09.000 Some can be done by the Trump administration on their own.

00:23:12.000 Some has to be done through Congress.

00:23:14.000 So it's got to be all hands on deck.

00:23:16.000 And what businesses have to do is they have to be very clear.

00:23:20.000 I tell people, I tell them all the time, tell me where your problem is.

00:23:24.000 If I have to call a governor, I'll call them.

00:23:26.000 If I have to call a mayor, I'll call them.

00:23:28.000 If I have to call a secretary that works for Trump, I'll call them.

00:23:31.000 Tell me what your problems are because I want more jobs in America.

00:23:34.000 I did the same thing when I was governor of Florida.

00:23:36.000 We added 1.7 million jobs in my eight years as governor, and the state had lost 800,000 jobs four years before I became governor.

00:23:45.000 So that's what we have to do.

00:23:46.000 We have to go solve companies' problems, and we'll get more great American-paying jobs.

00:23:50.000 And you can go buy American.

00:23:52.000 Stop buying anything made in China.

00:23:54.000 They want to destroy your way of life.

00:23:56.000 If Amazon doesn't tell you where it's made, don't buy it.

00:24:00.000 If you get online anywhere, they don't tell you where it's made.

00:24:02.000 Assume the worst.

00:24:03.000 Don't buy it.

00:24:06.000 Shifting gears here for a second, there is a fair amount of consternation around the special election in Florida.

00:24:13.000 I'm told that we are surging.

00:24:15.000 What's the latest that you've learned?

00:24:16.000 Well, look, the elections aren't over until tomorrow night when the elections close.

00:24:21.000 We've got two elections.

00:24:23.000 We've got Jimmy Patronus taking Matt Gaetz's seat, and we've got Randy Fiennes taking Mike Waltz's seat.

00:24:28.000 So we've got to get our vote out.

00:24:29.000 And these special elections are always scary because the turnout is so much lower.

00:24:33.000 In Randy Fiennes' case, his opponent raised over $10 million, because with ActBlue, they were all in.

00:24:38.000 So here's what I tell everybody.

00:24:40.000 Get out and vote.

00:24:41.000 If you're in Randy Fine's area, you've got to get out and vote.

00:24:45.000 If you're in Jimmy Petronis, go vote.

00:24:47.000 Don't take a chance.

00:24:48.000 Make sure, you know, we have a big win.

00:24:50.000 I think we're going to win, but it's all vote on vote.

00:24:53.000 It's turnout today and tomorrow.

00:24:54.000 And so, Senator, more broadly, why is it that we are struggling, at least on the surface, on special elections?

00:25:02.000 And how do we change the Republican Party's approach to some of these off-year and spring elections?

00:25:08.000 We just have to understand that every election, every election matters and we got to stay active.

00:25:15.000 So it's your, you know, you as a candidate has got to do their job.

00:25:18.000 Now, let me tell you, Donald Trump is doing his job.

00:25:20.000 He's done telephone town halls for both Jimmy Patronus and Randy Fine.

00:25:23.000 He's done tweets.

00:25:24.000 He's done everything he can.

00:25:25.000 He endorsed them.

00:25:27.000 He's doing everything he can to get the votes out.

00:25:28.000 I've endorsed them.

00:25:29.000 I've done telephone town halls.

00:25:31.000 I'm going to do everything I can to continue to help them get their, get the vote out.

00:25:34.000 But all of us have to, you know, we have to volunteer.

00:25:41.000 Senator, thank you for your leadership on all this.

00:25:57.000 Just really quickly, anything happening in front of the U.S. Senate this week that our audience should be aware of?

00:26:02.000 Reconciliation. I think our first vote on reconciliation is going to happen this week.

00:26:05.000 We've been working our tail off.

00:26:07.000 By the way, I saw President Trump Friday night down in Mar-a-Lago.

00:26:10.000 He is absolutely on board to figuring out how to balance this budget.

00:26:13.000 So what we've got to do is we've got to go back to pre-pandemic spending because we can't be running these $2 trillion deficits.

00:26:20.000 We've got to give the President the money he needs for the border, the money we need to make sure we plus up our military, and we've got to make sure we keep the Trump tax cuts in place so we keep this economy going.

00:26:29.000 I'm very optimistic all those things are going to happen.

00:26:32.000 Senator, thank you so much.

00:26:33.000 Really appreciate it.

00:26:34.000 Thank you.

00:26:35.000 See you, Charlie.

00:26:35.000 Have a good day.

00:26:36.000 Bye-bye. Thank you.

00:26:38.000 We see it all the time when I visit college campuses.

00:26:41.000 Young adults demonize the concept of free markets and think government is the solution to every problem.

00:26:47.000 How do we change this?

00:26:48.000 By teaching our kids the foundational principles to counter what they are taught in public school.

00:26:53.000 Parents want to teach their children about liberty, limited government, and free markets, but often wonder, where do I start?

00:26:59.000 That's where Tuttle Twins can help. 1.00

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00:27:24.000 Go to tuttletwins.com slash charlie today and purchase their 14-book children's series for your family.

00:27:30.000 They'll learn to think for themselves, to stand for liberty.

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00:27:40.000 I want to play more piece of tape here.

00:27:42.000 Here is how much money that could be raised through tariffs.

00:27:46.000 Now, mind you, this is only taking imports, then dividing the percentage that could come in as revenue.

00:27:55.000 I actually hope it's not this much because I want the manufacturing base to then onshore into the United States of America.

00:28:03.000 But just look at the enormity of money that we've been leaving on the table.

00:28:08.000 Playcutt 118.

00:28:09.000 The administration estimates the Trump tariffs will bring in $600 billion in the first year to the Treasury General Fund.

00:28:15.000 The president's extra 25% tariffs on autos alone expected to generate $100 billion on top of the reciprocal tariffs.

00:28:23.000 So those tariffs on just about all countries is meant to level the trade playing field.

00:28:27.000 The extra 25% tariffs on autos and others meant to protect seven industries.

00:28:32.000 The president has deemed critical.

00:28:34.000 You see those industries there, autos on the list, along with semiconductors, labor, steel, aluminum, and the others.

00:28:39.000 And when you look at the entire picture, the entire analysis, it's very clear that we hold the cards.

00:28:47.000 We still hold all the cards.

00:28:50.000 Now, that window's going to close.

00:28:52.000 If President Trump delays this even two years, China could surpass us. 0.95

00:28:57.000 This is the only window where we could do this.

00:29:00.000 And look, all the Wall Street types I have CNBC on, they're getting very jittery.

00:29:06.000 Ooh, the market might go down a little bit.

00:29:09.000 Look, I don't want to discount that.

00:29:10.000 That's people's 401ks.

00:29:11.000 It's their savings.

00:29:12.000 It will recover and will recover with gusto.

00:29:17.000 But Wall Street has become short-term thinkers.

00:29:22.000 What built the West?

00:29:25.000 Many things.

00:29:26.000 Christian values built the West.

00:29:28.000 A belief in the divine.

00:29:30.000 but also a Christian principle that is directly at odds with third world nations.

00:29:35.000 A Christian principle that is directly at odds with why people stay poor. 0.74

00:29:40.000 If you had to distill all the reasons why somebody stays poor, there's one major reason.

00:29:48.000 Instant gratification versus delayed gratification.

00:29:52.000 It's one of the main reasons why people stay poor, there are cycles of poverty, If you look at third world nations, they consume what they grow immediately. 1.00

00:30:03.000 They don't save for the future.

00:30:05.000 The West was largely built on a principle of delayed gratification.

00:30:10.000 I might suffer today, but my children will prosper.

00:30:13.000 I might struggle today, but my children will flourish.

00:30:17.000 I might have a tough day today, but my grandchildren will live in a free society.

00:30:21.000 And we have now assumed the instant gratification mindset.

00:30:26.000 The very same one that is at odds With our birthright.

00:30:30.000 China is our chief foe. 1.00

00:30:32.000 They think in terms of 50, 100, and 250 years.

00:30:36.000 In order for us to compete, we need to think longer than your three-month 401k Wall Street portfolio.

00:30:43.000 We need to have the intergenerational maturity to say, my goodness, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

00:30:50.000 And if we fail to do it, if we fail to rebalance, to reconfigure, to re-domicile, We will never be able to bring back that domestic industrial base.

00:31:02.000 We have to set right four decades of degradation.

00:31:08.000 Four decades of Wall Street going in and raping 60,000 factories.

00:31:17.000 Of the moneyed class parachuting in and telling union labor that worked at their hands, you're done.

00:31:24.000 It's closed.

00:31:25.000 It's going to Mainland China. 0.92

00:31:28.000 It's going to Wuhan.

00:31:28.000 It's going to Shaoxing.

00:31:29.000 It's going to...

00:31:31.000 Shanghai. We have to teach America to make things again. 0.75

00:31:39.000 We have to applaud the people who shower before work and after work.

00:31:44.000 And we've lost those 5 million jobs in the last 20 years.

00:31:47.000 We are on a precipice of a hardware renaissance.

00:31:52.000 Let me summarize by saying we have to make America make again.

00:31:56.000 Thanks so much for listening.

00:31:57.000 Everybody email us as always freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:32:00.000 Thanks so much for listening and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - April 01, 2025

The Tariff Agenda: Make America Make Again

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