What is an American? What does it mean to be one? Is it a people thing, a creed, a philosophy, a worldview, or something else? What is it that makes someone an American, and what does it take to become one?
00:00:53.000His spirit, his love of this country, he's done an amazing job, building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
00:01:01.000We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country.
00:02:38.000Right now, all American has been reduced to is just paperwork.
00:02:43.000If you have your documents, you're an American.
00:02:45.000I'm sorry, that makes no sense whatsoever.
00:02:48.000By the way, not even paperwork if you count all the illegals, but at least the American rights argument is, well, if you have your paperwork, then you're an American.
00:03:58.000That is Omar Fafta who is basically going to be the next mayor of Minneapolis.
00:04:23.000People say, oh, it's just a small number.
00:04:25.000No, he's going to be a mayor of one of America's largest and one of most important cities.
00:04:30.000I want you to email me, freedom at charliekirk.com, what is an American?
00:04:36.000And if you have not thought about it, that's okay, but that shows how we've kind of been a prisoner in the American right of not asking the most important question.
00:04:46.000People say, well, an American is just someone who comes here legally.
00:05:45.000So you got to figure it out everyone says well we just need immigrants to come legally we just need immigrants to come legally that's not true omar fatah came here true came here legally elon omar came here legally rashida talib her parents came here legally zoharan mom dani came here legally here's another piece of tape now this you might think i want you to guess actually i'm going to play this piece of tape where is this is it mogadishu Is it Brussels?
00:06:18.000Guess the state here live on the Charlie Kirk show.
00:06:22.000And I'm not allowed to say that this guy's not an American.
00:06:24.000I'm sorry.ry he's not an american playcut 393 that is in anybody oh hio how'd that danny your state's doing great that is an ohio victory party
00:06:54.000for islami muhammad now when we think of what it means to be an american is someone by the name of islami muhammad yeah Yeah, I don't think so.
00:07:04.000Producer Andrew's take is this, and I think he gets it mostly right, but I'm not quite there yet.
00:07:09.000I think it needs, I think the idea of the thumos, like going all in, the spirit investing into the nation, meaning that you have committed your innermost being into the nation.
00:07:20.000I think there's something there that I, that from classical work, I talked about with this Dr. Orr.
00:07:28.000An American is first and foremost someone born in America who speaks English, who was raised here, who is steeped in Anglo traditions of common law, blind justice, equal rights, and believes in or at least has reverence for Christian traditions that have undergird our law and customs.
00:07:39.000An American is also someone who we allow to move here, who works without criminality nor harbors animosity for this country, and who, after time of painstaking pursuit, gains the incredible rights, freedoms, privileges of our citizenship.
00:07:51.000The former should be given extreme deference, and the latter should be given away with supreme caution and sparingly far less than is currently allowed.
00:08:22.000If you don't understand the language, you cannot understand our values.
00:08:24.000Step one, make English the official language of the United States.
00:08:27.000President Trump deserves credit for this.
00:08:30.000The defining issue of the year of our Lord 2025 going into 2026 and 2027 on the American right is one that we are totally unprepared for, which is what is an American?
00:08:41.000And most people look at me and they say, an American is just someone that has a U.S. passport.
00:11:07.000Aristotle simply used thumos to mean passion.
00:11:10.000So the best way I could think about it in classical terms, again, this is going to be worthy of introspection, prayer, reflection, discussion, dialogue, is once we can contemplate the thumos, the thumos must, There's something there worth exploration, worth dialogue.
00:11:32.000Even Francis Fukuyama used Thumos in the end of history, the last of man.
00:12:20.000And again, I will repeat, if being an American is only a passport, if being an American is only paperwork, then we're cooked.
00:12:28.000Teddy Roosevelt said, quote, in the first place, we should insist that if an immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed or birthplace or origin.
00:12:42.000But this is predicated upon the person becoming in every fashion American and nothing but an American.
00:13:42.000Have you taken the time to study and understand the Constitution so you know for yourself what is and what isn't constitutional?
00:13:49.000That's why I'm so excited that Hillsdale College is offering a brand new free online course called The Federalist.
00:13:55.000The Federalist papers were written primarily by Alexander Hamilton and James Madison.
00:13:59.000Together they explain how the U.S. Constitution established a government strong enough to secure the rights of citizens and safe enough to wield that power.
00:14:09.000And today it's our responsibility to pay attention, to be vigilant, and you might say, in order to preserve and protect Republican self-government.
00:14:17.000Hillsdale's online course on the Federalist includes ten lectures, each about 30 minutes long.
00:14:23.000You could take the course at your own pace.
00:14:49.000He's spending so much of his time and his political capital to now end his seventh war.
00:14:54.000By the way, if he did nothing, if he just did two things and just went golfing the last four years, if he just ends wars and deports illegal criminal invaders, that's legendary stuff.
00:15:47.000What President Donald Trump was doing was he was setting the world stage up for an expectation that he was willing to use the threat and the power of a tariff.
00:16:37.000And people were running all over the place.
00:16:39.000And understandably, again, it's not a a criticism toward Speaker Johnson because he was getting calls and calls and calls from business leaders.
00:16:59.000President Donald Trump set a groundwork for a new mental model, for a new working relationship with the planet.
00:17:07.000You see, the prior working relationship is America had only certain tools at our disposal to be able to effectuate change and to be able to broker peace.
00:17:15.000The tools at our disposal were diplomatic.
00:17:45.000If you want to get down to the heart of it, the fact that the United States is still the world reserve currency status, the fact that we are now reemerging as a superpower with hegemonic Western Hemisphere dominance.
00:17:56.000President Donald Trump, then he said to the entire world, even though the market went down, I'm willing to basically ruin your entire economy if you don't play ball.
00:18:07.000Donald Trump changed the incentives of war.
00:18:10.000Donald Trump changed the incentives of not playing along.
00:18:25.000why Europe comes in very respectfully oh yes we love mr Trump he's wonderful he's so good please don't tell of me mr Trump they're smiling I mean you have a Macron here he is mr Trump You got the Europeans.
00:18:43.000Whatever President Trump does, he points, they go.
00:18:45.000A completely different working relationship than Trump 1.0.
00:18:51.000There's a lot of parts to it, but largely because they've resigned to kind of his.
00:19:20.000One of the reasons why they are allowing Trump to lead is they are so afraid that President Donald Trump could just drop the sword of Damocles.
00:19:29.000Oh, nice auto industry you got there, Germany.
00:19:32.000Be ashamed if something happened to it.
00:19:41.000And they're all looking at the Ukrainian war map.
00:19:43.000So the context of how President Trump is able to get these European elitists, the chaperones of Zelensky, even into the table and willing to negotiate, the context working relationship all started when President Trump thanked the markets, even though they're back to higher levels.
00:20:02.000It's hard to believe it was even possible, but the Democrat-run states are now more pro-abortion than ever and will only get worse unless you join me standing for life.
00:20:12.000This is Charlie Kirk and we're saving babies right now with preborn.
00:22:03.000It's okay to have a military, and it's okay to have a border.
00:22:06.000And so the United States, all of a sudden, hey, dad's home, unlike Joe Biden, which was just allowing all the maniacs for four years run the entire operation.
00:22:16.000Europe has been searching for this leader for the last couple of years.
00:22:21.000And they deep down want the United States to be the superpower because they have far more in alignment of values and worldview than the Chinese Communist Party.
00:22:29.000Now, We risk playing our hand too heavy.
00:22:32.000If you antagonize the European leaders too much, but I think President Donald Trump has done the harsh tariff lesson with a little bit of a charm offensive as well.
00:23:29.000President Zelensky, are you prepared to keep sending Ukrainian troops to their deaths for another couple years, or are you going to agree to redraw a map?
00:24:04.000And look at the balancing act that President Trump has had to do here.
00:24:07.000So the Liberation Day set the table for why Europe has come to the table.
00:24:14.000Now, what set the table for why Vladimir Putin flew across Asia to Alaska?
00:24:21.000Well, that can be best explained in the hills of Iran.
00:24:25.000The fact that President Donald Trump was able to show the American Air Force might fly all the way out and take out the Iranian nuclear facilities, that he was able to thread that needle, he was able to put on a master class.
00:24:38.000You see, Vladimir Putin said, oh, got it.
00:25:57.000This is really our common interest, stop the killing.
00:26:00.000And indeed, it's very good to hear that we're working on the security guarantees, Article 5 lies security guarantees, so important.
00:26:08.000But I want to thank you also that you mentioned the thousands of Ukrainian children that have been abducted.
00:26:15.000And as a mother and grandmother, every single child has to go back to its family.
00:26:21.000This should be one of our main priorities also in these negotiations to make sure that the children come back to Ukraine, to their families.
00:26:29.000Honestly, the most impressive part about Ursula, I was just looking this up, she has seven kids.
00:29:04.000Hopefully that will allow us to get to a trilateral meeting.
00:29:09.000Here is Susan Rice, who was Obama's national security advisor, reacting to President Trump's masterclass of bringing both parties to the table.
00:29:22.000being able to satisfy the Europeans very positively, keeping Putin and his entire camp warm enough to bring him to a third meeting.
00:29:30.000Here's Susan Rice, play cut 362, total fraud.
00:29:37.000It's been clearly and repeatedly established that Russia interfered in the 2016 election by disinformation campaigns, by social media efforts, by all sorts of means short of manipulating the actual vote.
00:30:00.000We now know that the quote-unquote Russian interference was just to sow discord and disunity and not to favor a certain canon.
00:30:09.000In fact, we have overwhelming evidence that Russia resisted helping Donald Trump despite very, very negative stories about Hillary Clinton that they could have dropped.
00:30:19.000Honestly, I thought that clip was from 2018.
00:30:22.000I thought that was from the Helsinki Summit.
00:30:51.000Instead of doing the things that would strengthen the Ukrainian, Western, NATO, U.S. partnership on their side of the table against Putin, he is rolling out the red carpet, doing military flyovers, giving him a ride in the presidential limousine, and getting none of what he went to Alaska to get.
00:32:32.000What kind of assurances do you feel like you have that going forward and past this Trump administration, it won't be American boots on the ground defending that border?
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00:35:25.000My powers or ability to do things are quite different in the government than they are in business.
00:35:30.000But in this government, I am I'm highly confident we will make massive changes in these four years and I'm proud and honored to be here to do it because it matters.
00:35:39.000We have needlessly victimized Americans with expensive energy and pushed industries overseas.
00:36:36.000So the previous Department of Energy, as you heard.
00:36:39.000for those four years, and you didn't hear much for them, they were kind of behind the scenes, but they were part of this all of government battle against climate change as they would describe it.
00:36:48.000So all of the money, all the focus, all the effort was on wind, solar, batteries and electric vehicles.
00:36:56.000Collectively, wind, solar and batteries are three percent of United States energy, hundreds of billions of dollars.
00:37:05.000And everywhere they've achieved meaningful penetration, you get more expensive electricity prices.
00:37:10.000So just a train wreck that was not going to change the energy system of the United States.
00:37:16.000They actively stood in front of natural gas, our fastest growing source of energy and our fastest growing export.
00:37:23.000You heard about the LNG pause, and I don't know if I have time to go into that, but they actually made a whole report before the pause that showed economically it was positive for the United States, and it was going to slightly lower greenhouse gas emissions, more LNG exports.
00:37:38.000And they hated that answer so much that they buried the report, never spoke about it, although when I got in, we found it.
00:37:45.000A much longer report than they ultimately released later.
00:37:48.000But just so again, they were against energy, the energy that powered our world.
00:37:55.000And they thought all of the nonsense they were doing was somehow going to stop climate change and make the world safer.
00:38:02.000Just again, also completely contrary to the facts and the data.
00:38:46.000And scientists, like we learned during COVID, we learned during the lockdowns, learned during the vaccines, can say a lot of different things with the data.
00:38:53.000Now, again, global warming does not have consensus like the second law of thermodynamics.
00:38:59.000Global warming does not have consensus like an object at rest will stay at rest.
00:39:04.000Your reaction, mister Secretary, and how you think about this because they again, let me read this New York Times articlele, The Consensus on Global Warming.
00:39:18.000Yeah, I always give the contrast between the science, which is what the left likes, which is the opposite of science.
00:39:24.000Science is a process of challenge and engagement and debate and wrestling with data, and if the data doesn't agree with your model, your model is wrong.
00:39:32.000Where the science is this top down authority driven thing used with COVID, to me was the climate movement and fast forward, the science told you what to do.
00:39:43.000But as you said, Charlie, look at those critics.
00:39:46.000They criticize the authors, five skeptiptical of what they presented.
00:39:51.000These are five highly distinguished scientists.
00:39:54.000One of them was Under Secretary for Science in the Obama administration, Provost at Caltech, PhD from MIT.
00:40:01.000All of those scientists were accomplished scientists that are also tired of this censorship of the science, censoring real science and real process of engagement.
00:40:11.000But even on my CNN interview a couple of weeks ago, I went on to talk about the Climate Report.
00:40:16.000There were zero questions about climate change, zero.
00:40:19.000They want to impugn the writers or impugn the way we reference people.
00:40:30.000It's a slow moving phenomenon, not even remotely close to the world's biggest problem, but it's used by the left to justify big government and top-down control of everything.
00:40:46.000And I'm excited to have that debate over four years.
00:40:49.000We're going to end a lot of children's nightmares.
00:40:51.000We're going to end a lot of people trying to be pushed around and bullied by people that don't know what they're talking about.
00:40:56.000Like I've spent twenty years studying climate science as physical data, and the people who were passionate about it never want to debate me because they don't know anything about it.
00:41:04.000But we're going to have that debate, whether they want it or not.
00:42:04.000And you mentioned the United Kingdom and Germany, two countries that went down the policy pathway the Biden administration wanted to go down.
00:42:11.000They tripled their electricity prices.
00:42:13.000They pushed all their industry out of their countries.
00:42:15.000And yet the Biden administration wanted to do that.
00:43:14.000California decided to have expensive electricity and push their industry out and impoverish their people, as did New England and New York and now New Jersey.