The Charlie Kirk Show - January 21, 2025


Watching the Golden Age Begin — My Reaction From the Capitol Rotunda


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00:01:11.000 Wow, everybody.
00:01:13.000 Wow.
00:01:14.000 Just got back from the Capitol Rotunda.
00:01:17.000 One of the greatest honors of my life was to sit in that rotunda with my amazing wife, Erica, and witness not just history.
00:01:26.000 Of course it was that.
00:01:28.000 But something that I poured every fiber of my being into.
00:01:32.000 My heart, my soul, prayers, energy.
00:01:35.000 As those of you know, this has been a relentless mission for us at Turning Point Action and myself for quite some time.
00:01:43.000 Can we take back our country?
00:01:46.000 Is the form of government that we have still alive?
00:01:49.000 That was the question.
00:01:50.000 We believed yes, and we bet it all on that proposition.
00:01:55.000 We went all in on the idea that our form of government, which is that the people are in charge, not the plutocrats, not the unelected administrative state, still reigns supreme.
00:02:07.000 So we went all in on that idea.
00:02:10.000 And the whole world was against us.
00:02:13.000 The FBI, the major institutions, every possible power center on the planet did not want Donald Trump to become president again.
00:02:24.000 They tried to throw him in jail for 700 years.
00:02:29.000 Massive lawfare operation.
00:02:31.000 Unprecedented.
00:02:32.000 And President Trump decided not to give up, and we had his back at every corner and every turn.
00:02:37.000 From mobilizing young people on campuses, from doing...
00:02:41.000 Campus stops to billions and billions of views on TikTok and Instagram and other social media.
00:02:47.000 So going through our own trials and the difficulty that we had at Turning Point, from the January 6th committee to the lawfare against us.
00:02:54.000 And so being there was beyond words.
00:02:57.000 And of course the ceremony got moved inside the Capitol to the Capitol Rotunda because of the cold weather.
00:03:05.000 And by the way, let me say, if you even walk for 20 seconds outside here in D.C., You will say, Trump was right.
00:03:11.000 Trump was right. 0.50
00:03:12.000 You might be listening to this podcast in North Dakota or Minnesota.
00:03:15.000 Oh, that cold is nothing.
00:03:16.000 I'm telling you, these people, there would have been an 85-year-old that would have come in from South Carolina and would have waited all night to hear Donald Trump speak on the National Mall and would have died.
00:03:26.000 I'm telling you, Donald Trump saved lives by putting his inauguration indoors.
00:03:32.000 It is frigid.
00:03:33.000 The wind chill, it is no joke.
00:03:35.000 No exaggeration.
00:03:37.000 So it was the right move.
00:03:38.000 And in the rotunda, I thought the visual was phenomenal.
00:03:40.000 The aesthetic was classy.
00:03:43.000 And President Donald Trump gave what I believe was the greatest inaugural address in history.
00:03:47.000 Now, hilariously, I was seated right in front of Eric Swalwell.
00:03:51.000 I'll tell you about that in a second, which was something else.
00:03:54.000 And it was just honored to be able to make the cut, honestly, and be able to get a ticket.
00:03:57.000 It was obviously the hottest ticket in town.
00:03:59.000 Not just the hottest ticket on the planet to get in, but there were like 10,000 people who were planning to get good tickets that...
00:04:05.000 Got no tickets.
00:04:06.000 So we were honored to be in the room, and the president has always been there for us, and we're always there for him.
00:04:11.000 The president laid out what I believe was the greatest inaugural address in history.
00:04:16.000 It was bold.
00:04:17.000 It was visionary.
00:04:18.000 It was inspiring.
00:04:20.000 Listen here as President Trump says that he will put America first.
00:04:23.000 Listen.
00:04:24.000 During every single day of the Trump administration, I will very simply put America first.
00:04:32.000 Our sovereignty will be reclaimed.
00:04:44.000 Our safety will be restored.
00:04:46.000 The scales of justice will be rebalanced.
00:04:51.000 The vicious, violent, and unfair weaponization of the Justice Department and our government will end.
00:05:02.000 Fundamentally, a nation is defined by its people.
00:05:05.000 It is not its topography.
00:05:07.000 It's not its terrain.
00:05:08.000 It is not the climate.
00:05:10.000 It is.
00:05:12.000 It's people.
00:05:13.000 And when you have a relentless stream of people that do not share your values, you are being invaded and you have foreigners that are occupying the United States of America. 1.00
00:05:23.000 Donald Trump says clearly, we are no longer going to be an occupied land.
00:05:27.000 Our sovereignty will be restored.
00:05:28.000 He will mobilize the military to the southern border.
00:05:31.000 Listen.
00:05:33.000 First, I will declare a national emergency at our southern border.
00:05:39.000 All illegal entry will immediately be halted, and we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.
00:05:52.000 Now, let me just pause.
00:05:55.000 This is an extraordinary, shocking inaugural address, saying I'm going to fulfill every major campaign promise that I made.
00:06:04.000 I'm not going to sue for peace.
00:06:06.000 I'm not going to bend the knee.
00:06:08.000 You guys already tried to kill me.
00:06:10.000 I'm going to do everything that I said I'm going to do.
00:06:13.000 You're going to get a border back.
00:06:14.000 Inflation is going to go down.
00:06:15.000 We're going to have peace in the Middle East.
00:06:17.000 President Trump laid out a bold and exciting vision to deliver on all of that.
00:06:23.000 President Trump also mentioned that we're going to go to Mars.
00:06:26.000 Listen.
00:06:27.000 And we will pursue our manifest destiny into the stars, launching American astronauts to plant the stars and stripes on the planet Mars.
00:06:37.000 What President Trump is doing is he is reinvigorating the spirit of the American people.
00:06:42.000 And just being there firsthand, there were two groups of people crying.
00:06:46.000 The first group, I actually saw tears from some Democrat staffers because they knew that their power is gone.
00:06:55.000 And I don't know when they're going to get power back.
00:06:56.000 If we do our job and we execute and we build this movement four years from now, God willing, we will be there at the inauguration of J.D. Vance.
00:07:05.000 We'll see.
00:07:05.000 We'll be hopefully there at the inauguration of then-president-elect Vance.
00:07:09.000 We'll see.
00:07:11.000 So there was tears from Democrat staffers.
00:07:13.000 The other types of tears that were there was tears of gratitude and joy from patriots.
00:07:20.000 From people that love the country and people that were just taken aback that we get another chance at our republic.
00:07:29.000 And I'll be honest, I'm included in that group.
00:07:32.000 We do not deserve this.
00:07:33.000 this.
00:07:33.000 I believe this is a intervention from the divine that has come down to give us another chance to be able to fight, to be able to grow, to be able to deepen our relationships.
00:07:44.000 And we certainly do not deserve this.
00:07:47.000 That is what grace is all about.
00:07:48.000 Grace is getting something that you do not deserve.
00:07:53.000 You fundamentally do not deserve.
00:07:55.000 That you receive something you did not earn that you do not deserve.
00:08:00.000 President Trump...
00:08:02.000 Showed the immediate, bold action, the decisive action, the across-the-board action.
00:08:09.000 In fact, President Trump declaring the southern border as a national emergency and that he will mobilize the military.
00:08:16.000 In addition to that, we already have troops on the southern border that are being mobilized, and it is now illegal to enter the United States.
00:08:23.000 What a concept.
00:08:24.000 Something that Joe Biden would never, ever consider.
00:08:28.000 Joe Biden would never...
00:08:30.000 Mobilize the military to actually defend the homeland against a foreign invader.
00:08:34.000 Well, it is happening now.
00:08:36.000 President Trump has mobilized the U.S. military to defend this great homeland of ours.
00:08:44.000 And how prepared the team was.
00:08:46.000 Stephen Miller and the whole staff prepared for this entire operation.
00:08:51.000 Ready to go.
00:08:53.000 Executive orders.
00:08:54.000 Executive actions.
00:08:55.000 Knowing that this is not going to be easy.
00:08:57.000 Laying everything in front.
00:08:59.000 And playing to win.
00:09:01.000 That kind of rapid, aggressive action is exactly what the American people voted for.
00:09:07.000 And I gotta be honest, just as a spectator, it's the first time I actually saw in person Barack Obama, first time in person I ever saw Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton.
00:09:15.000 Donald Trump is basically pointing out every single one of them to their faces, decline is a choice.
00:09:21.000 Decline is a choice.
00:09:22.000 And I want everyone to apply this to your personal life.
00:09:25.000 Decline is a choice.
00:09:27.000 If your life is not going well, there are series of choices that you are making that largely might contribute.
00:09:34.000 Of course there's external factors, but what do you do with those external factors?
00:09:38.000 And basically, of course we're being invaded because we are allowing ourselves to be invaded, and President Trump says no more.
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00:10:32.000 Again, this is what's so amazing— If the Democrat Party loved America, Donald Trump's speech just would have been, oh, here's our differences of opinion.
00:10:53.000 No, I can fix this on day one.
00:10:56.000 That shows that Joe Biden decided to not fix it on his last day.
00:11:01.000 Also, the CBP1 border app, that was the Expedia.com that allowed millions of illegals to come into the United States, gone, deleted.
00:11:09.000 Deportations are already underway.
00:11:11.000 Mark Milley's portrait from the Department of Defense, gone.
00:11:15.000 President Trump's staff already getting into the White House, setting up shop, and getting ready to roll.
00:11:22.000 And this kind of dramatic action...
00:11:27.000 It's exactly what the country needs in this time of crisis.
00:11:30.000 And we're going to be in a time of crisis no more.
00:11:33.000 We are turning away from the dark days, the dark night of the soul, to the American Renaissance and a bold new golden era.
00:11:42.000 And we are choosing that kind of ambitious success.
00:11:45.000 Here's President Trump talking about how the golden era is here.
00:11:49.000 Listen.
00:11:50.000 The golden age of America begins right now.
00:11:53.000 From this day forward, our country will flourish.
00:11:56.000 And be respected again all over the world.
00:11:59.000 We will be the envy of every nation and we will not allow ourselves to be taken advantage of any longer.
00:12:07.000 During every single day of the Trump administration, I will very simply put America first.
00:12:16.000 Now understand, not only was he giving that speech in front of Biden and Obama, but the entire D.C. cabal.
00:12:22.000 Eric Swalwell was sitting right behind me.
00:12:24.000 By the way, Democrats, some of those Democrat lawmakers are bad people.
00:12:29.000 Donald Trump would say, God save my life from a bullet.
00:12:31.000 Everybody stands up except Eric Swalwell and Brad Schneider and all the Democrats.
00:12:35.000 They would not even stand up and applaud the fact that Donald Trump is alive.
00:12:39.000 I'm not going to go as far to say that they want Donald Trump dead, but it's an inference that maybe they do.
00:12:46.000 What Joe Biden did, and I have to mention this, and I'm sorry, guys, in this broadcast, as I just literally got back from the Capitol, I'm doing this broadcast to give you this urgent alert, this amazing breaking news alert.
00:12:56.000 I hate to spend our valuable time on this, but what Joe Biden did on his last couple of hours of being president is one of the most mystifying, one of the most grotesque, one of the most disgusting.
00:13:12.000 Things we've ever seen.
00:13:13.000 Joe Biden issued preemptive pardons.
00:13:15.000 We have not seen this kind of preemptive pardons since Jimmy Carter with Draft Dodgers in the Vietnam War or Gerald Ford preemptively pardoning Richard Nixon.
00:13:24.000 Usually don't do preemptive pardons.
00:13:26.000 Joe Biden preemptively pardoned Anthony Fauci, every member of the January 6th committee, including Eric Swallow, who's sitting behind me, and I was so tempted.
00:13:34.000 For the record, for the record, I took the high road today.
00:13:37.000 I want everyone to write.
00:13:39.000 I was so tempted.
00:13:41.000 While we were milling around to go up and get Eric Swalwell on camera and be like, so are you going to accept the pardon?
00:13:47.000 Did you do anything wrong?
00:13:48.000 I was so tempted to put him on camera.
00:13:53.000 Liz Cheney, Eric Swalwell, Thompson from Missouri, Adam Kinzinger, they all get pardons.
00:13:58.000 I thought they did nothing wrong.
00:14:00.000 So that was the news and Mark Milley, that was the news in the morning.
00:14:04.000 Then, the news right as Joe Biden was taking the stage to surrender the presidency.
00:14:10.000 Hand over the presidency.
00:14:12.000 Was Joe Biden pardoned his entire family dating back to 2014?
00:14:16.000 We were told that there was nothing there, no issues, nothing to be worried about.
00:14:21.000 He then preemptively pardons his entire family going all the way back to 2014. Going all the way back.
00:14:33.000 Get lost is all I have to say.
00:14:35.000 He's the worst president in American history.
00:14:37.000 He leaves in a disgrace in a way that no president ever has.
00:14:40.000 They were telling us forever, there's nothing here, there's nothing here, there's nothing here.
00:14:44.000 And then on the way out, Joe Biden goes nuts starting to issue executive orders all the way across the board.
00:14:51.000 I have to mention, everybody, it's just, it's so grotesque.
00:14:55.000 It is such a middle finger to our traditions.
00:15:00.000 And honestly, that makes this day taste even sweeter.
00:15:03.000 Because that's who they really are.
00:15:04.000 That is what we just defeated.
00:15:06.000 That is what all of you who chased ballots and registered voters, all of you that supported your local Turning Point USA chapters, all of you that organized groups, you helped make this happen.
00:15:19.000 To get rid of this sick and diseased, cancerous rot, this bacterial infection that has been eating the nation from within.
00:15:30.000 It is gone.
00:15:31.000 But there's a lot of work yet to be done, and we are operating at a rapid pace.
00:15:35.000 As I am doing this right now, this update, there are more executive orders to come.
00:15:40.000 President Trump has a lot more executive orders to come on January 6th pardons, on tech issues, on a lot more stuff.
00:15:48.000 Drill baby drill. 1.00
00:15:49.000 I mean, we're trying to keep up with all the news here in real time.
00:15:52.000 It's almost hard to believe.
00:15:54.000 But I just wanted to give this update for all of you, and I was in the room because of all of you.
00:15:59.000 I hope I represented you all.
00:16:00.000 I was so tempted to say something to swallow.
00:16:02.000 But anyway, that's a separate issue.
00:16:04.000 And thank you guys for believing in us and believing in President Trump.
00:16:09.000 I believe God spared his life for a mission because God is not done with the United States of America.
00:16:14.000 God is not done with this beautiful land, this sweet land of liberty.
00:16:18.000 And also, as I'm looking at some of the footage, as it's continuing, I cannot put into the words the delight and the...
00:16:26.000 Joy I have to see my friend, the guy that I endorsed to run for the U.S. Senate very early back in 2021. I was one of the first people to endorse him.
00:16:34.000 People said, you have no idea what you're talking about.
00:16:35.000 J.D. Vance.
00:16:36.000 I was one of the first endorsements to not just become a U.S. Senator, but now he is Vice President of the United States.
00:16:45.000 Very, very difficult to even put that into words.
00:16:48.000 It is beyond, actually, comprehension.
00:16:52.000 It is a new dawn.
00:16:54.000 It is a great new hope.
00:16:56.000 For the United States of America.
00:16:58.000 We are so thankful for all of you.
00:17:01.000 We are ready to get to work at Turning Point Action and at Turning Point USA. We know that our best days are ahead and we're going to work to scale.
00:17:11.000 We're going to work to multiply.
00:17:13.000 We are going to work to grow our operations more so than we ever have before and to try to help the president any way we can on the outside.
00:17:22.000 But now you could take a deep sigh of relief and say a prayer to God.
00:17:26.000 Thank you.
00:17:27.000 And with that, I want to play Franklin Graham's prayer in its entirety as we close out this broadcast.
00:17:34.000 Because it was as good as it gets.
00:17:37.000 Franklin Graham, there were some good prayers.
00:17:39.000 Lorenzo's prayer was very good.
00:17:41.000 But I've got to tell you, Franklin Graham, he just crushed it.
00:17:44.000 I want you to listen to this and I want you to join him as we end and conclude this podcast.
00:17:50.000 We're going to be going live all week with exclusive updates, exclusive guests, detailing all the executive orders, reading the reaction from the left.
00:17:57.000 But Franklin Graham talked about it in his prayer form.
00:18:02.000 Listen to this.
00:18:03.000 Mr. President, the last four years, there are times I'm sure you thought it was pretty dark.
00:18:11.000 But look what God has done.
00:18:14.000 We praise him and give him glory.
00:18:16.000 Let us pray.
00:18:27.000 And Our Father and our God, Thou hast said, Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.
00:18:36.000 As the prophet Daniel prayed, Blessed be the name of God forever and ever, for wisdom and might are His.
00:18:44.000 He changes the times and the seasons.
00:18:47.000 He removes kings.
00:18:49.000 He raises up kings.
00:18:51.000 He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding.
00:18:56.000 Our Father, today, as President Donald J. Trump takes the oath of office once again, we come to say thank you, O Lord our God.
00:19:07.000 Father, when Donald Trump's enemies thought he was down and out, you and you alone saved his life and raised him up with strength and power by your mighty hand.
00:19:21.000 We pray for President Trump.
00:19:23.000 That you'll watch over, protect, guide, direct him.
00:19:26.000 Give him your wisdom from your throne on high.
00:19:32.000 We ask that you would bless him and that our nation would be blessed through him.
00:19:37.000 We also ask that you would bless and protect Melania as First Lady.
00:19:42.000 We thank you for the beauty, the warmth, and grace that she shows not only to this nation, but to the whole world.
00:19:52.000 We thank you for Vice President-elect J.D. Vance and his wife Usha and their young family.
00:19:59.000 May he be a strength to President Trump to stand beside him, to hold up his arms like Aaron held up the arms of Moses in the midst of battle.
00:20:08.000 The prophet Samuel reminded the people, it was you that brought them up from the land of Egypt.
00:20:14.000 And he said, now stand still that I may reason with you before the Lord.
00:20:20.000 So, Father, we take this moment to stand still, to remember the great things that you have done for this nation.
00:20:27.000 Thank you for the protection, the bounty, the freedoms that we so enjoy.
00:20:34.000 We remember to keep our eyes fixed on you, and may our hearts be inclined to your voice.
00:20:42.000 We know that America can never be great again if we turn our backs on you.
00:20:47.000 We ask for your help.
00:20:49.000 And we pray all of this in the name of the King of Kings, the Lord of Lords, your Son, my Savior, and our Redeemer, Jesus Christ.
00:20:58.000 Amen.
00:20:59.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:21:01.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.