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?
00:00:42.000He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
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00:02:10.000They also use the brand, which is more... they make it seem as if the rank-and-file are behind.
00:02:15.000Well, 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.
00:02:20.000Meanwhile, 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.
00:02:31.000I'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.
00:02:39.000So, Don, we're here in Detroit, obviously.
00:03:33.000A turning point event is a good place to start.
00:03:35.000It's a good place to start, definitely a great place to start.
00:03:37.000So Don, being in Detroit, show of force, we have nearly 10,000 people here, it's just an incredible thing.
00:03:43.000This campaign feels much closer to 2016 in the way where the world is against us, people don't believe that we can win.
00:03:52.000And we're kind of going all out, going to the places we aren't welcome.
00:03:55.000Can 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.
00:04:28.000They'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.
00:05:30.000And 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?
00:05:39.000I was like, I'll take the beating before I give them the win.
00:05:43.000And 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.
00:05:51.000So for me, it was like shooting fish in a barrel.
00:05:54.000And 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.
00:06:01.000But 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.
00:06:13.000There, 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.
00:06:22.000I 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.
00:06:37.000I mean, this was, you know, as New York as it gets.
00:06:41.000So, you know, this wasn't just like, you know, rural towns that had been forgotten.
00:06:44.000This is the middle of New York City being like, hey man, you guys got to fix this.
00:06:47.000You know, Kim and I were walking through an airport, you know, a couple weeks ago and,
00:06:52.000you know, some flight attendants literally screaming across the airport, you guys got
00:07:19.000It'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.
00:07:37.000So, 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.
00:08:24.000And we ended up winning, and it was this crazy thing, and we shocked the world.
00:08:28.000So Michigan has always played a really important role.
00:08:30.000Don, can you just give us a little bit of a window into how you and the family are processing all of this?
00:08:36.000It 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.
00:08:43.000It'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.
00:08:53.000Despite the ridicule, the smear, and the slander, how are you guys doing?
00:09:15.000That's worse than Al Capone, but it's gotten so ridiculous that you actually get numb to it, right?
00:09:20.000So for me, a lot of that really started in 17, with me, with Russia, Russia, Russia, right?
00:09:29.000You 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.
00:09:35.000You know, once that becomes, like, normal, then it doesn't matter.
00:10:15.000thinking about you know my kids and their kids after them because we got to
00:10:18.000leave them a country they recognize and right now on the track we're going that
00:10:23.000that will not exist and I think we see that because it's not like oh they're
00:10:27.000just doing this to Trump look at the disparate treatment you know J sixers
00:10:30.000versus the people that burned down you know various cities around the world
00:10:34.000during 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.
00:10:49.000And 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.
00:11:00.000This election feels bigger than just Trump.
00:11:02.000It 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.
00:11:17.000You've now been doing this, like the professional political thing, since 2017.
00:11:21.000You didn't ask for it, but you do kind of like it.
00:13:00.000It doesn't mean there's not patriotic guys that are door kickers, but guess what?
00:13:04.000After 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.
00:13:17.000They'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.
00:13:33.000So, 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.
00:13:41.000So I'm actually not out there fighting to preserve I totally agree.
00:13:45.000of that. Frankly, most of it needs to get burned down. I'm fighting to create what I
00:13:50.000thought actually existed and perhaps what we all actually wanted to believe was going
00:13:55.000on in our country that clearly isn't right now and hasn't been for too long.
00:13:58.000I totally agree. The people are far more impressive than they get credit for.
00:14:32.000Linemen, you know, guys that have to do, like, actual work, not just sit there, type the same thing that everyone else is typing.
00:14:37.000I mean, those guys were so quickly replaced.
00:14:39.000Some of those, you know, white-collar, like, elitists, but, you know, they're not all that elite in the end.
00:14:45.000You know, they've been replaced so quickly, their heads are spinning.
00:14:48.000So 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.
00:15:00.000There'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.
00:15:10.000Their side believes that the people are stupid, and the experts are really impressive.
00:15:15.000I think that actually is one of the stories of the 24 election.
00:17:36.000And 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.
00:17:51.000It's an easy existence if you're a weak Republican in D.C.
00:17:54.000You 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?
00:18:02.000You can even vote with the Republicans like 80-85% of the time in D.C.
00:18:06.000As 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.
00:18:23.000They 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.
00:18:33.000But again, because we're actually making inroads, because people are becoming unafraid.
00:18:41.000Even 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.
00:18:52.000The fear of cancellation just isn't that much anymore.
00:19:00.000The stuff that they were pushing, and they truly believe, is like, you know, a big thing.
00:19:04.000You 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.
00:19:16.000Even 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.
00:19:29.000You know, they're like, they're suicidal because they agreed with me on something.
00:19:33.000But, 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.
00:19:44.000And 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.
00:19:51.000There'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.
00:20:41.000I 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.
00:20:51.000They should have chose Whitmer for VP.
00:20:53.000Yeah, 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.
00:21:07.000I'm like, I swear, I think Kamala Harris is, I think her speechwriter is like Closet Maga.
00:21:12.000No, 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.
00:21:21.000I 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.
00:21:30.000But she just has no political instinct.
00:21:33.000She doesn't know how to read the room.
00:21:37.000One of the worst communicators you've ever seen, so it's interesting.
00:21:40.000I'd rather run against her than Joe Biden, even, and he can't find his way off this stage.
00:21:45.000It'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.
00:21:56.000But then we're reminded that the apparatus that Democrats have is formidable.
00:22:01.000And we are not running against Biden, we're running up against a Democrat apparatus.
00:22:14.000I 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.
00:22:35.000Like, that's not how statistics works, folks.
00:22:38.000It'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.
00:22:46.000So you still, you have to overwhelm a system.
00:22:48.000I used to, there would have been a time where I would have said, you know, the Democrats, you know, They have some shame.
00:22:54.000They can only roll his gurney over the finish line with so much extra help.
00:22:59.000Honestly, 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.
00:23:28.000Joe Biden's been a useful idiot for them.
00:23:31.000I 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.
00:23:38.000He understood what that would do to his popularity with the American people.
00:23:41.000So they're more than happy to let this sort of empty suit sign everything.
00:23:54.000And then what's the call to action for everyone listening?
00:23:56.000Listen, the call to action is everyone just has to get involved, right?
00:23:59.000But find the right people to get involved in the right things, right?
00:24:01.000You 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?
00:24:11.000I know Eric showed up legally as a poll watcher with a secret service detail at the time.
00:24:17.000And they were like, yeah, you're not coming in.
00:24:19.000Four guys with machine guns, and they're like, yeah, you're not coming in.
00:24:36.000The left has infiltrated every institution because they're just, hey, we'll stick.
00:24:41.000You 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.
00:24:48.000We 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.
00:24:54.000Don, talk about your books, talk about your Rumble show, how people can support it.
00:24:59.000Check 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.
00:25:09.000I 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.
00:25:23.000No, 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.
00:25:30.000They'll make it impossible for you, but there are people that are out there actually actively fighting with you.
00:25:34.000I 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.
00:25:45.000It'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.
00:25:52.000uh... whether it's with direct donations to radical leftist causes whether it's
00:25:55.000you supplying uh... you know the the two hundred fifty thousand dollars a
00:25:59.000month that their lobbyists are getting in washington dc
00:26:02.000to fight for their monopolizing business while destroying small business
00:26:06.000you know we we just have to think about these things and we just can't always