The Charlie Kirk Show - You Can't Lie to People Forever ft. Donald Trump Jr.

Donald Trump Jr. speaks at the People s Convention in Detroit, Michigan. Trump Jr is a presidential candidate running for the 2020 election. He has been a long time member of the United Auto Workers Union (UAW) and has been in touch with the rank and file of the union for years. He is also the father of five children, including a son, a daughter, a son-in-law, and a stepson. He is a dedicated family man and has a great relationship with his wife, Tammy, and his daughter, Maureen. He and his wife have been married for over 30 years and have been through hell and high water. He s a loving father, husband, and husband to Maureen, and they have a great son, Thomas, who was born in 2006. He also has a daughter and a son named Charlie, who is a great friend of mine and a great supporter of Turning Point USA, a youth organization I have been involved with for many years. Thank you, Don, for making time to make it here in Detroit and for making the trip to the People's Convention in support of the Turning Point Action Action Campaign. I hope you enjoy this conversation and tweet me what you think! Tweet me to let me know what you thought of it! Timestamps: 4:00 - What do you think of the speech? 5:30 - What's your favorite thing about Charlie Kirk? 6:20 - What is your favorite part of Charlie Kirk's dad's background? 7:40 - What are you looking forward to in 2020? 8:15 - What s your biggest pet peeves? 9:00 11:00- What are your biggest political pet peeve? 14:30- What is the worst thing you ve ever seen in a politician? 15:40- How do you feel about the UAW? 16:10 - How would you vote for a president? 17:10- What would you like to see me vote for in the next election? 18:20- Who are you most likely to win the next presidential candidate? 19:10 21:30 22:00 -- What s the most important thing you re going to vote for me in 2020 23:40 -- How do I m going to win in 2020 or do you want to be the next president in 2020 ? 26:30 -- Who s going to be my next president?

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00:00:28.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.

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00:01:27.000 Don, welcome to Michigan.

00:01:28.000 So Don, I gotta tell you, we have some great folks here.

00:01:30.000 We were just talking to a UAW worker here, a linesman, who says that Trump is going to, you said 50 to 1?

00:01:39.000 Is that what you said?

00:01:40.000 I mean, you said he's going to win the UAW vote, yeah?

00:01:43.000 Okay, so do you ever get leadership at the UAW to stop spending your very hard-earned dues money to fund BS?

00:01:53.000 Because that's the problem.

00:01:54.000 I mean, I think the workers have been with us for a long time, but you're literally funding your own demise, allowing them to continue.

00:02:01.000 Really quick, yeah.

00:02:03.000 It's a separate fund.

00:02:03.000 But you have to contribute to it, so it's still your money.

00:02:06.000 Oh, it's voluntarily is what you're saying.

00:02:07.000 Got it.

00:02:08.000 Okay.

00:02:08.000 Good for you.

00:02:09.000 Oh, that's good.

00:02:10.000 They also use the brand, which is more... they make it seem as if the rank-and-file are behind.

00:02:15.000 Well, I saw it a couple months ago, and I know my father was in here, and they met with the leaders, and then Biden meets, and they're saying, you know, they're gonna support.

00:02:20.000 Meanwhile, they're supporting, like, an electric vehicle mandate that is, like, 100% dependent on China because there's no batteries without China's rare-earth minerals and everything like that.

00:02:31.000 I'm watching us do that, and it doesn't make any sense to me, but I guess it's a temporary fix that will destroy the automotive sector in America for probably ever.

00:02:39.000 So, Don, we're here in Detroit, obviously.

00:02:41.000 We're doing our big event.

00:02:42.000 Thank you for making time, by the way.

00:02:43.000 Congratulations.

00:02:44.000 Is this the first time I'm seeing you face-to-face since the baby?

00:02:46.000 That's right.

00:02:47.000 Two under two?

00:02:47.000 Two under two.

00:02:48.000 When you had your five, I'm sure you were two under two at some point?

00:02:50.000 I had... I have... Three under three?

00:02:52.000 I have five under seven at one point in time.

00:02:55.000 So... Yeah, I know how that happens now, so...

00:02:59.000 I got a new hobby that's much less vicious than more kids.

00:03:03.000 I got into politics.

00:03:04.000 You had five under seven.

00:03:05.000 That's unbelievable.

00:03:06.000 It's nice compared to Thomas.

00:03:07.000 That's no twins.

00:03:08.000 No twins.

00:03:08.000 We have Irish twins, but no twins.

00:03:10.000 Wow, how close together were the Irish twins?

00:03:12.000 Both born in October a year apart, so... Wow.

00:03:15.000 Yeah.

00:03:16.000 Holy... Two Octobers a year apart, so that was a lot.

00:03:18.000 That is a lot.

00:03:19.000 So... I actually have two of them in the room, so... Yeah.

00:03:23.000 Hello, everyone.

00:03:24.000 They're hiding, I think.

00:03:25.000 They're probably on their phones, not listening to me, because Dad doesn't know anything.

00:03:29.000 But they did want to be here, so that's a start.

00:03:31.000 That's awesome, that's great.

00:03:32.000 Yeah.

00:03:33.000 A turning point event is a good place to start.

00:03:35.000 It's a good place to start, definitely a great place to start.

00:03:37.000 So Don, being in Detroit, show of force, we have nearly 10,000 people here, it's just an incredible thing.

00:03:43.000 This campaign feels much closer to 2016 in the way where the world is against us, people don't believe that we can win.

00:03:52.000 And we're kind of going all out, going to the places we aren't welcome.

00:03:55.000 Can you also just remind the audience, you and I, you especially, but I was kind of shadowing you, Michigan played a very important role in the 2016 story as well.

00:04:02.000 Yeah, we were at Michigan State.

00:04:04.000 We were at Michigan State and Michigan State was hilarious.

00:04:07.000 You're not supposed to be there.

00:04:09.000 You can't do this.

00:04:10.000 We did some great Muslim-based events in downtown Detroit.

00:04:15.000 We spoke at Michigan State.

00:04:16.000 Obviously, it was a blue state at a college campus.

00:04:21.000 You were a baby at the time.

00:04:22.000 I was 22, 23.

00:04:27.000 Yeah, right.

00:04:28.000 They'd introduced me to Charlie a couple months before, and I'm, you know, you gotta meet this guy, he knows everything about politics, yadda yadda yadda.

00:04:35.000 I was like, how old is he?

00:04:35.000 He's like, at the time, like 21.

00:04:36.000 That's right.

00:04:37.000 I was like, guys, we already know nothing.

00:04:40.000 We don't need more people to know nothing.

00:04:42.000 I need people who know something.

00:04:43.000 Just give me something.

00:04:44.000 They convinced me to sit down with Charlie, a couple good friends of ours who were on this trip, consequently.

00:04:49.000 I was like oh this guy's great and all of a sudden I mean we started traveling together, and we spent the you

00:04:54.000 know the next eight nine months of the campaign basically attached at the hip, but we went to Michigan

00:04:58.000 State and You know of course the University we sold it out plus and

00:05:03.000 of course they made it much more easily available For people who didn't like us than the people who actually

00:05:08.000 like a mess and we get in there And the guy that was awesome actually was like one of the

00:05:12.000 head of like the Michigan State police was there And he basically goes like there's so many people like here

00:05:18.000 again like we can't keep you safe He literally said he's like so you do what you need to do,

00:05:23.000 but like we're gonna try But like, we cannot guarantee your safety at this venue right now.

00:05:28.000 It was getting that out of hand. 0.99

00:05:30.000 And I basically went with, I don't know, I guess it's probably a Trump-esque quality, which is like, I'd rather get my ass kicked than give them the win, right? 0.99

00:05:39.000 I was like, I'll take the beating before I give them the win. 0.99

00:05:43.000 And we went up there and, you know, like what usually happens and like what Charlie does so well, literally the dumbest of their dumb were the ones that were engaging with us. 0.99

00:05:51.000 So for me, it was like shooting fish in a barrel. 0.99

00:05:53.000 I'm just mocking them.

00:05:54.000 And then all the frat boys got involved and just drowned them out and pushed them out of the room and we took over and we had this incredible event.

00:06:01.000 But no, I mean, you know, when I compare and contrast 16 to this, Honestly, the reality is, you know, we're five and change months out, and the enthusiasm I see on the ground now is so much more palpable than even then.

00:06:13.000 There, there were groups that were like, okay, that forgotten man and woman, some of, you know, the union guys that were just left behind by leadership for a long time.

00:06:21.000 You felt it there.

00:06:22.000 I mean, I was walking, you know, was it ten days ago, in New York, going to my father's trial, and like, Every demographic, I mean, I had guys driving garbage trucks that would pull over to give me a high five to be like, you guys better win.

00:06:37.000 I mean, this was, you know, as New York as it gets.

00:06:41.000 So, you know, this wasn't just like, you know, rural towns that had been forgotten.

00:06:44.000 This is the middle of New York City being like, hey man, you guys got to fix this.

00:06:47.000 You know, Kim and I were walking through an airport, you know, a couple weeks ago and,

00:06:52.000 you know, some flight attendants literally screaming across the airport, you guys got

00:06:56.000 to win 2024, you know.

00:06:58.000 And again, coming from demographics that historically, even if they were supportive, would not have

00:07:04.000 voiced it out loud.

00:07:05.000 They maybe come up to me, maybe slip me a note on a plane.

00:07:09.000 They're literally screaming it at security at a big airport.

00:07:11.000 And I was like, you know, and I always go pretty subtle, I'll try to go casual, throwing

00:07:15.000 a hat and there was no getting away from it.

00:07:17.000 But that's the difference.

00:07:19.000 It's a much broader base now, because the reality is, you're not going to lie to people in perpetuity, you know, tell them that everything they see each and every day, whether it's in the grocery store or, you know, in world events, That they're better off in any way, shape, or form because they see it with their own eyes.

00:07:37.000 So, and Don, we're ultimately successful in Michigan, and I remember we were on the plane, the last event that we did before the New Hampshire and then before the Midnight Rally in Michigan was back in 2016, I think, in Macomb County, not far from here.

00:07:51.000 Are we in Wayne right now or Macomb?

00:07:54.000 We're in Wayne, so Macomb is right nearby, right?

00:07:57.000 Yeah, that's right.

00:07:58.000 So, there's a lot of UAW autoworkers, I think, that live in Macon.

00:08:01.000 I remember, it was at some Polish cultural center or something, and we were anticipating like 200 people, and like 2,000 people showed up.

00:08:10.000 I think it was a Ukrainian cultural center.

00:08:12.000 I'm sorry.

00:08:15.000 Guess what?

00:08:15.000 We could have stopped that from happening, too.

00:08:17.000 And we would have, and that's a real sad thing.

00:08:18.000 And we will again.

00:08:19.000 We will stop the killing.

00:08:20.000 Unfortunately, a couple hundred thousand people had to die because of the incompetence that's out there first.

00:08:23.000 That's so true.

00:08:24.000 And we ended up winning, and it was this crazy thing, and we shocked the world.

00:08:28.000 So Michigan has always played a really important role.

00:08:30.000 Don, can you just give us a little bit of a window into how you and the family are processing all of this?

00:08:36.000 It seems as if the more that is thrown at your family, the more you guys double down and triple down, and your father in particular.

00:08:43.000 It's unlike any figure in American history, probably since Lincoln, who has been able to withstand the weight of a nation and keep on persevering for something that is greater than him.

00:08:53.000 Despite the ridicule, the smear, and the slander, how are you guys doing?

00:08:56.000 Fine.

00:08:58.000 Honestly, like, I'd love to... Fine.

00:09:05.000 No, I get it.

00:09:07.000 I hear it a lot.

00:09:07.000 That was a pretty dramatic line.

00:09:09.000 Yeah, but the reality is, for us, it's become like, it's Tuesday.

00:09:14.000 Ah, 34 counts! 0.83

00:09:15.000 That's worse than Al Capone, but it's gotten so ridiculous that you actually get numb to it, right?

00:09:20.000 So for me, a lot of that really started in 17, with me, with Russia, Russia, Russia, right?

00:09:29.000 You get attacked, you have all the people, the head of the Intelligence Committee, they want to try me for treason, a crime punishable by death.

00:09:35.000 You know, once that becomes, like, normal, then it doesn't matter.

00:09:42.000 You just fight.

00:09:42.000 So we're blessed.

00:09:45.000 I guess we don't have that... I have an underdeveloped sense of self-preservation.

00:09:50.000 Maybe that's the best way to put it.

00:09:53.000 We just fight.

00:09:54.000 We don't have a choice.

00:09:56.000 We don't have a choice, not just for ourselves.

00:09:58.000 We could have easily stopped any of this by, A, not getting into the ring in the first place, or stopped after 2020.

00:10:04.000 But the reality, there's just far too much at stake to stop now.

00:10:08.000 It doesn't matter.

00:10:09.000 It's not about what they fine us for or what they do to us.

00:10:12.000 It's such a bigger picture.

00:10:13.000 I'm not thinking about myself.

00:10:15.000 thinking about you know my kids and their kids after them because we got to

00:10:18.000 leave them a country they recognize and right now on the track we're going that

00:10:23.000 that will not exist and I think we see that because it's not like oh they're

00:10:27.000 just doing this to Trump look at the disparate treatment you know J sixers 1.00

00:10:30.000 versus the people that burned down you know various cities around the world

00:10:34.000 during what I was told was the 2020 summer of love riots You know, it's always interesting when they say Summer of Love riots, and I was like, I don't know how those two really work together, but I guess the left doesn't have much of a sense of irony or hypocrisy.

00:10:49.000 And so, you know, yeah, I mean, I guess it's probably not the greatest thing in terms of mentality, but I think if you didn't have that sort of mentality right now, you wouldn't, it'd be a lot harder to function.

00:11:00.000 This election feels bigger than just Trump.

00:11:02.000 It feels like the entire country's on the ballot, and the civilization is on the ballot, and we've been talking about how we need to turn everyone into force multipliers, and everyone needs to go do their part, register voters, get the word out, not just vote and get back to your job, and we're seeing that really play out.

00:11:17.000 You've now been doing this, like the professional political thing, since 2017.

00:11:21.000 You didn't ask for it, but you do kind of like it.

00:11:23.000 Yeah, I like the fight.

00:11:24.000 Yeah, you like the fight.

00:11:24.000 And you're in the right business for that.

00:11:27.000 I wish we had more Republicans that actually like to fight.

00:11:29.000 That's perhaps our biggest weakness.

00:11:31.000 You got Trump, you got you, you got me, two or three other people, and then you got a bunch of feckless weaklings.

00:11:39.000 So that's the problem.

00:11:40.000 I mean, if we played the same game the Democrats did, we'd be winning every day.

00:11:43.000 But until we get there, we'll keep not winning.

00:11:47.000 That's totally true.

00:11:47.000 And remember what they put Don through, from the Mueller investigation to all that nonsense.

00:11:52.000 They did everything they could to try to destroy the family and to try to create separation.

00:11:56.000 So Don, you've been doing this professional thing for like seven years.

00:11:59.000 What are the, looking back, what have you learned about the country?

00:12:01.000 What have you learned about yourself?

00:12:04.000 How have you grown throughout all this?

00:12:05.000 I've never heard you, I've heard you talk about this in pieces, but it's been this incredible experience.

00:12:09.000 Have you been to, like, you've traveled, like, every day for seven years?

00:12:11.000 You've seen every part of the country?

00:12:13.000 I think I've been home two days of the last 30.

00:12:15.000 You know, but no, for me, you know, hey, I guess it became a selfless thing.

00:12:21.000 I mean, I promise you it was a lot easier to be a real estate developer from New York City than this.

00:12:27.000 But, you know, again, I think, you know, what I've learned about the country is, you know, it's unfortunately bad.

00:12:31.000 I've learned how great the people are.

00:12:34.000 I've learned also how much more broken Our system.

00:12:38.000 I mean, it's so much worse than you can even imagine.

00:12:41.000 And that's the problem.

00:12:43.000 You know, I was brought up sort of as a patriot.

00:12:45.000 I love my country.

00:12:46.000 And I mean, even when they started going after me, I would sit there and be like, well, no, no, no.

00:12:50.000 I mean, the FBI.

00:12:51.000 I mean, they said something.

00:12:52.000 There has to be something to it.

00:12:54.000 You know, the CIA was like, these are patriotic Americans.

00:12:57.000 It's all nonsense. 0.74

00:12:59.000 Okay, it's all nonsense.

00:13:00.000 It doesn't mean there's not patriotic guys that are door kickers, but guess what?

00:13:04.000 After seven, eight years of these abuses, whether it's FISA, whether it's knocking down the doors of an Amish farmer for selling unpasteurized milk, eventually you stop giving them a pass for their silence.

00:13:16.000 I get it.

00:13:17.000 They're working for other guys that are corrupted and broken and all this stuff, but You know, eventually you've got to do what we did and step up and, like, have some, you know... I'll say guts, because my kids are in the room, and if I say the better word for it, I'll get, you know, I'll be... Yes.

00:13:32.000 Yes.

00:13:33.000 So, you know, I guess that was the disappointing part, is because all of the things that I brought up thinking were accurate were actually a big lie.

00:13:41.000 So I'm actually not out there fighting to preserve I totally agree.

00:13:45.000 of that. Frankly, most of it needs to get burned down. I'm fighting to create what I

00:13:50.000 thought actually existed and perhaps what we all actually wanted to believe was going

00:13:55.000 on in our country that clearly isn't right now and hasn't been for too long.

00:13:58.000 I totally agree. The people are far more impressive than they get credit for.

00:14:01.000 Oh, by the way, I saw that.

00:14:03.000 I mean, and I was a guy, you know, I was brought up on Fifth Avenue in New York.

00:14:07.000 My father's a billionaire.

00:14:08.000 But all my friends were sort of, you know, I'm into the outdoor stuff and competitive shooting and hunting and fishing.

00:14:12.000 So, you know, my weekends were always with, like, real Americans. 0.76

00:14:16.000 And so, you know, it always drove me crazy watching the elite.

00:14:19.000 They just don't understand. 1.00

00:14:20.000 I'm like, no, you morons. 1.00

00:14:22.000 Like, you don't understand anything. 1.00

00:14:23.000 And it's really great watching, you know, so many of those blue collar liberal haters now be replaced by A.I.

00:14:28.000 But you know who they're not replacing?

00:14:30.000 Like, farmers.

00:14:32.000 Linemen, you know, guys that have to do, like, actual work, not just sit there, type the same thing that everyone else is typing.

00:14:37.000 I mean, those guys were so quickly replaced.

00:14:39.000 Some of those, you know, white-collar, like, elitists, but, you know, they're not all that elite in the end.

00:14:45.000 You know, they've been replaced so quickly, their heads are spinning. 0.92

00:14:48.000 So the guys that started the whole learn-to-code trend, you know, sort of making fun of guys that were, you know, working on pipelines that got laid off because of these stupid policies, like, looks like they're the ones that may have to actually learn to do something productive. 0.63

00:15:00.000 There's a real profound truth here, everybody, where our side believes that the wisdom of the people is impressive, and the experts are rather lackluster. 0.97

00:15:10.000 Their side believes that the people are stupid, and the experts are really impressive. 0.95

00:15:15.000 I think that actually is one of the stories of the 24 election. 0.99

00:15:18.000 In D.C.?

00:15:19.000 I mean, I think it's the story of Trump.

00:15:21.000 You realize just how bad all these people were.

00:15:23.000 I mean, remember, like, Trump's doing it all wrong in North Korea.

00:15:27.000 Well, why?

00:15:28.000 Well, because I've been leading the delegation on North Korea for 40 years, and I think it's wrong.

00:15:35.000 It's like, well, in that 40 years, what did you accomplish?

00:15:39.000 Well, nothing, but we're doing it.

00:15:42.000 If you fail at something for 40 years, you sort of should lose your expert status, but that's not how it works in DC, right?

00:15:48.000 It was the same thing.

00:15:49.000 I can't believe Trump would move the embassy to Jerusalem.

00:15:54.000 Well, every candidate promised it for years.

00:15:57.000 It was going to be the start of World War III and mass genocide. 0.74

00:16:00.000 You know, three people threw rocks and it was over.

00:16:05.000 They're not experts.

00:16:06.000 They don't know anything.

00:16:08.000 They don't know anything.

00:16:09.000 The same people that said he was doing it all wrong were the same people trying to get peace deals done in the Middle East for 50 years.

00:16:13.000 They've got exactly zero done.

00:16:15.000 That was the holy grail of geopolitical politics.

00:16:18.000 Trump gets five done in a matter of a few months.

00:16:21.000 you know, but hey, those guys are still the experts, they're still accomplishing nothing,

00:16:24.000 they're still getting paid a lot of money, they still control, you know, the media,

00:16:28.000 and they think just because they hear someone say something on CNN that that must actually be accurate

00:16:32.000 as opposed to just nonsense, and that's perhaps, perhaps our greatest accomplishment is exposing that.

00:16:39.000 You know, exposing that where people listen to the news, and even those who aren't that into the process

00:16:44.000 or aren't that passionate about it, they're just, you know, they're busy

00:16:47.000 trying to feed their family, which has gotten a lot harder over the last four years.

00:16:51.000 You know, and even they, like, it doesn't have that influence over them,

00:16:54.000 and again, if I had, let's call it, you know, the trillion dollar institution that is big tech,

00:17:01.000 Another trillion dollar institution that is the mainstream media.

00:17:04.000 If I had them as my marketing department, which the left does, like, I'd be winning elections like 99.999 to .001.

00:17:11.000 You know, the fact that these things are even close, given the start that they have.

00:17:17.000 You know, if the Republicans had that kind of artificial boosting from anyone, the Democrats would sue them.

00:17:24.000 They'd say it's an in-kind contribution.

00:17:26.000 It'd be campaign finance violations.

00:17:28.000 Instead, they'd want to throw my father in jail for hundreds of years for these things.

00:17:34.000 It's lunacy.

00:17:35.000 But, you know, that's the game.

00:17:36.000 And again, once we learn how to fight the same way that they do, or even just start doing it, They'll stop really quickly, but as long as we're playing t-ball while they're playing hardball, there's no chance of anything changing.

00:17:45.000 Why do you think that is?

00:17:46.000 And have you spent a lot of time around some of these people?

00:17:49.000 Oh, it's easy, yeah.

00:17:51.000 It's an easy existence if you're a weak Republican in D.C.

00:17:54.000 You can be a Republican and talk to a nice small group of seven or eight people in your at-home constituency, and you tell them what you want, and guess what?

00:18:02.000 You can even vote with the Republicans like 80-85% of the time in D.C.

00:18:06.000 As long as you flip, and you're a reliable flip, when it actually matters, for something that we actually care about, for something your constituents probably actually sent you there to defend, you know, and not bastardize or fold on, like, they'll leave you alone.

00:18:23.000 They won't picket your house, and they won't do the obligatory Washington Post hit piece, although the Washington Post cut half their employees because their circulation has gone down by 50% in the last four years.

00:18:33.000 But again, because we're actually making inroads, because people are becoming unafraid.

00:18:37.000 I mean, there's words that we hear.

00:18:41.000 Even in common sort of language, common vernacular on a daily basis that three years ago would have gotten you canceled, but anyone who's as old as me probably used them about every other word, you know, coming out in their high school, but then it became cancelable.

00:18:52.000 The fear of cancellation just isn't that much anymore.

00:18:55.000 You know, they jumped the shark.

00:18:56.000 They overplayed their hands so badly.

00:18:58.000 It got so insane.

00:19:00.000 The stuff that they were pushing, and they truly believe, is like, you know, a big thing. 0.96

00:19:04.000 You know, of course trans women should play sports against, like, It's just not real, but the lunatics in charge in their own little world actually think it, but it's not so.

00:19:16.000 Even people on the left are like, you know, I'll put it out on Twitter, and I've been vocal about that one for seven years, and even when it was like Twitter 1.0 and it was like 95 to 5, people are like, oh, I hate Don Jr. 0.54

00:19:27.000 so much, but he's right.

00:19:29.000 You know, they're like, they're suicidal because they agreed with me on something.

00:19:33.000 But, you know, so, we're so used to sort of getting manipulated that the narrative is real as opposed to the narrative is just the narrative, and if you're strong enough to actually stand up and, like, voice your opinion, you can show people that it's not so.

00:19:44.000 And the more people that do that, and a lot more have started, the quicker you end a lot of that nonsense, because they'll realize that it isn't popular.

00:19:51.000 There's a lot more people that share, you know, probably our beliefs, certainly the things we're thinking, even if they won't articulate them out loud.

00:19:58.000 We just got to make it...

00:20:00.000 So, let me ask you a couple questions and some from the audience.

00:20:07.000 It may take one or two from the audience.

00:20:09.000 Okay, we have five minutes, so we'll do actually quicker here.

00:20:11.000 Do you think Joe Biden is going to be the candidate?

00:20:14.000 You know, it's a hard one because it's like, I don't think there's anything the Democrats won't do to win.

00:20:21.000 Let's just be clear.

00:20:22.000 But, you know, I think he understands there's enough legal stuff sort of out there.

00:20:25.000 He's not just going to walk away, right?

00:20:28.000 He's got to be there to write the pardons and all these kinds of things that they're going to need.

00:20:32.000 It's not that simple.

00:20:33.000 Then you have the problem of, well, if you do get rid of Joe Biden, how do the Democrats, like, Skip over Kamala Harris.

00:20:40.000 No, that's their biggest problem.

00:20:41.000 I mean, they created this person who literally did not, I don't think she got 1% of the Democrat primary, and yet she was the natural pick, you know, for VP, obviously, I guess.

00:20:51.000 They should have chose Whitmer for VP.

00:20:53.000 Yeah, well, that's who they probably want to put in there, but like, how do they do their, like, Democrat mental gymnastics and bypass Kamala Harris, who like, every time you hear her speak, it's a word salad, like, we have to preserve democracy, for democracy is the democracy of democracy. 0.58

00:21:07.000 I'm like, I swear, I think Kamala Harris is, I think her speechwriter is like Closet Maga. 1.00

00:21:12.000 No, because you hear what she says, and I'm like, man, if I was writing her speech, that's what I would write to make her look like a moron. 0.95

00:21:21.000 I want to send them a fruit basket or something like that, because I'm like, please, keep doing what you're doing, because it's spectacular. 0.98

00:21:30.000 But she just has no political instinct. 0.99

00:21:33.000 She doesn't know how to read the room.

00:21:37.000 One of the worst communicators you've ever seen, so it's interesting.

00:21:40.000 I'd rather run against her than Joe Biden, even, and he can't find his way off this stage.

00:21:45.000 It's a tough question because it's hard for us to even grasp how this is competitive when it is Trump who is one of a president versus Biden who can't speak and he's deeply unpopular.

00:21:56.000 But then we're reminded that the apparatus that Democrats have is formidable.

00:22:01.000 And we are not running against Biden, we're running up against a Democrat apparatus.

00:22:05.000 A machine.

00:22:05.000 I don't like that word.

00:22:06.000 Two or three people that don't even have to be coordinating can do a lot of stuff in Philadelphia.

00:22:11.000 And change thousands of votes.

00:22:13.000 And that's what it comes down to.

00:22:14.000 I don't think anyone with an IQ above about 3 actually thinks that Joe Biden lost 18 of 19 bellwethers, but magically destroyed even Barack Obama in Detroit, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Milwaukee, and nowhere else.

00:22:34.000 But nowhere else.

00:22:35.000 Like, that's not how statistics works, folks.

00:22:38.000 It's just, it's like, if you put a mathematician who wasn't biased and was talking about it honestly, they'd be like, it's literally an impossibility.

00:22:45.000 So you're still up against that.

00:22:46.000 So you still, you have to overwhelm a system.

00:22:48.000 I used to, there would have been a time where I would have said, you know, the Democrats, you know, They have some shame.

00:22:54.000 They can only roll his gurney over the finish line with so much extra help.

00:22:59.000 Honestly, if on election day Joe Biden got 475 million votes, let's call it 125 million, more than exists in America, they'd be like, it's the most fair and free election in the history of the world.

00:23:12.000 They'll tell you that.

00:23:13.000 They won't back it up, but it won't matter.

00:23:15.000 Tech will do its part.

00:23:16.000 They'll cancel anyone who says, No, how can there be more votes than people in the country?

00:23:21.000 It doesn't matter.

00:23:22.000 So, you know, the thing I'm concerned about is that there is no level of shame for these people right now.

00:23:28.000 And they don't care. 1.00

00:23:28.000 Joe Biden's been a useful idiot for them. 1.00

00:23:31.000 I mean, he's signing stuff that Barack Obama would have loved to have signed but wouldn't have dared because he actually was concerned about preserving his legacy. 1.00

00:23:38.000 He understood what that would do to his popularity with the American people.

00:23:41.000 So they're more than happy to let this sort of empty suit sign everything.

00:23:44.000 And he doesn't know.

00:23:45.000 He won't remember.

00:23:46.000 You know, which is, you know, sad.

00:23:48.000 So in closing here, Don, how are you going to be spending your time now to November?

00:23:52.000 What areas are you focusing on?

00:23:54.000 And then what's the call to action for everyone listening?

00:23:56.000 Listen, the call to action is everyone just has to get involved, right?

00:23:59.000 But find the right people to get involved in the right things, right?

00:24:01.000 You have some great volunteers who have been out there for decades, but you know, your 95-year-old grandmother may be Supermaga, but she may not be the person to be a poll watcher in Philadelphia, right? 0.55

00:24:11.000 I know Eric showed up legally as a poll watcher with a secret service detail at the time.

00:24:17.000 And they were like, yeah, you're not coming in.

00:24:19.000 Four guys with machine guns, and they're like, yeah, you're not coming in.

00:24:21.000 It didn't matter.

00:24:22.000 So you need people who can fight tough and smart.

00:24:25.000 And everyone just has to get involved.

00:24:26.000 They have to understand what's at stake.

00:24:27.000 They have to actually start running for office.

00:24:30.000 You can't start saying, we're above these things.

00:24:32.000 Run for your school board.

00:24:33.000 Run for city council.

00:24:36.000 The left has infiltrated every institution because they're just, hey, we'll stick.

00:24:41.000 You know, some purple-haired freak, you know, on a school board who doesn't intend to have any kids, but man, they're intent on indoctrinating yours. 0.96

00:24:48.000 We can't cede any of those grounds, so I think we just all have to, we all have to get involved and we all have to fight in the most effective way we possibly can.

00:24:54.000 Don, talk about your books, talk about your Rumble show, how people can support it.

00:24:59.000 Check me out, yeah, I'm on Rumble a couple times a week, just my Triggered podcast, it's on there, the usual, all the places on social media, and that's the other thing, I mean, we just have to get out there organically.

00:25:09.000 I think now, we're actually at an interesting spot, you know, whether it's economically, the stuff going on with Public Square, or with Rumble, and with True Social, I mean, there are people actively doing what the left said, which is like, hey, if you don't like what you're getting here, build your own.

00:25:23.000 No, they'll throw up every roadblock, they'll try to cancel you along the way, they'll cut off payment like they did for, like, my MXM News app and stuff like that.

00:25:30.000 They'll make it impossible for you, but there are people that are out there actually actively fighting with you.

00:25:34.000 I mean, your guys' support, whether it's Charlie, whether it's myself, whether it's, you know, there's a slew of us, you know, actively supporting that rather than just going, ah, well, you know, we'll go on Amazon and click the easy button.

00:25:45.000 It's like, well, that money that you've worked hard for, you know, a big portion of that's going to be weaponized against everything you believe powerfully.

00:25:52.000 uh... whether it's with direct donations to radical leftist causes whether it's

00:25:55.000 you supplying uh... you know the the two hundred fifty thousand dollars a

00:25:59.000 month that their lobbyists are getting in washington dc

00:26:02.000 to fight for their monopolizing business while destroying small business

00:26:06.000 you know we we just have to think about these things and we just can't always

00:26:09.000 take Uh, the easy way.

00:26:11.000 I get, listen, I get it.

00:26:12.000 We're living in an instant gratification society and world right now, but I think everyone has to take part in this fight.

00:26:17.000 They have to start figuring those things out.

00:26:19.000 Uh, you start pulling away some of that money.

00:26:21.000 You start pulling away some of those views.

00:26:22.000 You start, you know, we can actually do a lot of damage, but we have to all be doing it.

00:26:26.000 It can't be one or two people talking about it.

00:26:28.000 You saw, they canceled the President of the United States, the most powerful man in the world, when it was my father.

00:26:33.000 If they can do that to him, they can do it to anyone.

00:26:34.000 If they can't do it, if we're all banded together and we're fighting one battle.

00:26:38.000 Don Jr., everybody.

00:26:39.000 Thank you, guys.

00:26:41.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.

00:26:42.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.

00:26:45.000 Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

The Charlie Kirk Show - July 21, 2024

You Can't Lie to People Forever ft. Donald Trump Jr.

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