The Charlie Kirk Show - December 22, 2024


"You Can't Make 80 Million People Disappear": My Opening Speech at AmericaFest 2024


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Learn English with Charlie Kirk. Charlie is the President of Turning Point USA, a powerful conservative youth organization that helped elect Donald Trump President in 2016 and is now running the White House with the support of the President and the Vice President, Mike Pence.

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00:00:14.000 Charlie, what you've done is incredible here.
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00:00:17.000 I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
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00:00:24.000 I want to thank Charlie.
00:00:25.000 He's an incredible guy.
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00:01:12.000 Welcome to America Fest, everybody.
00:01:14.000 Thank you, Charlie.
00:01:25.000 Thank you, everybody.
00:01:32.000 The real thank you is the Turning Point team that worked their tail off this last year.
00:01:36.000 That's who you should be applauding.
00:01:39.000 By the way, I like this touch.
00:01:41.000 Look at all these students that we have at Turning Point.
00:01:43.000 Look at this.
00:01:45.000 I like that.
00:01:50.000 They helped win the election, everybody.
00:01:52.000 Young people moved by 30 points this election cycle.
00:01:55.000 I'll tell you what.
00:01:58.000 The kids are all right.
00:02:00.000 Welcome, everybody.
00:02:01.000 It feels good to win back our country.
00:02:09.000 I'll tell you, this has been a difficult and challenging year in so many different ways.
00:02:15.000 And we have to think back to where we were, as the video said, in January of 2021. January 7th of 2021. They said the MAGA movement was dead.
00:02:27.000 They said that Donald Trump will never have a political future.
00:02:31.000 Joe Biden was coming in and putting people in prison for going into the Capitol Rotunda and praying.
00:02:38.000 Joe Biden was mandating the vaccine, keeping the border completely and totally wide open.
00:02:44.000 We were seeing our country disappear and vanish from us.
00:02:48.000 But here's where you come in.
00:02:49.000 for every single one of you in this audience that never wavered, that always had the president's back, that continued to support him.
00:02:58.000 You guys are the beginning portion of the greatest political comeback in American history.
00:03:06.000 Look at what we are up against.
00:03:14.000 Because it defies any sort of human reason.
00:03:18.000 From the lawfare, they tried to put Donald Trump in prison for 700 years.
00:03:23.000 Every major tech company banned Donald Trump from their platform.
00:03:27.000 Donald Trump was banned from Facebook.
00:03:30.000 He was banned from Google.
00:03:32.000 He was banned from Pinterest because he's like a big Pinterest guy.
00:03:36.000 He was banned from Spotify.
00:03:39.000 He couldn't even listen to Phantom of the Opera.
00:03:42.000 They did everything they could to make him disappear, but there was a problem.
00:03:46.000 is that you could put Donald Trump in exile at Mar-a-Lago, but you can't make 75, 80 million people disappear.
00:03:56.000 Is that they can make him as if, "Okay, we're gonna try to solve this problem, but what are you gonna do with the people of this country?" And that's where all of you that continue to do the work, you entered.
00:04:12.000 We entered front stage, and it was difficult.
00:04:16.000 We were told that this was never going to happen, that the Democrat Party was immovable.
00:04:22.000 For all of you on campuses that continue to fight for conservative causes that were graded differently, kicked out of class, that were smeared, that were slandered, it was as if there was no immediate hope.
00:04:34.000 But you guys had faith And faith not just that we could take back our country, and if we are honest with ourselves, we cannot take credit for what happened on November 5th.
00:04:46.000 The person, or more importantly, who deserves credit, is God Almighty for saving this country and giving us four years of Donald Trump.
00:04:59.000 We didn't earn it.
00:05:14.000 We worked out of obedience, but we were inches away from a civil war.
00:05:21.000 And Donald Trump just so happened to turn his head at a specific time to look at a PowerPoint.
00:05:26.000 I mean, I've been to a lot of MAGA rallies.
00:05:28.000 How many MAGA rallies does he do a PowerPoint presentation?
00:05:33.000 And he just happened to turn his head at that specific moment, and that bullet whizzed by and grazed his ear.
00:05:39.000 And by the grace of God that we did not earn and we did not deserve, his life was spared on July 13th in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:05:50.000 He had every reason to play it safe after that.
00:05:53.000 He had every reason to just kind of take it easy.
00:05:55.000 He had every reason not to continue to campaign, to say that, I'm just going to kind of hope for the best.
00:06:02.000 He did more events.
00:06:03.000 He said, I'm going to go do outdoor events.
00:06:04.000 Forget it.
00:06:05.000 We're not going to let the bad guys win.
00:06:07.000 And you could tell who a person is in a moment of crisis.
00:06:11.000 You see, our leaders talk a big game, but anytime they actually feel the pressure, they fold.
00:06:17.000 And we saw who Donald Trump actually is in that moment.
00:06:21.000 When he fell to the floor and he rose, he spoke to all of us at a fundamental level, at a level that we can't even put into words.
00:06:27.000 When he ascended, he said, fight, fight, fight.
00:06:31.000 It was an anthem.
00:06:32.000 It was a clarion call for all of us.
00:06:35.000 That regardless of what you are up against, this is a guy who did not need to be doing this.
00:06:40.000 You know that Donald Trump could have cut a deal.
00:06:43.000 Donald Trump could have cut a deal.
00:06:44.000 The final warning shot was when they raided Mar-a-Lago in August of 2022. That was the warning shot.
00:06:52.000 Like, hey, you better not do this thing.
00:06:54.000 Run for the presidency.
00:06:55.000 Cut a deal.
00:06:56.000 Golf for the rest of your life.
00:06:57.000 Or else we're going to put you in federal prison. 0.83
00:06:59.000 And Donald Trump had a choice.
00:07:02.000 Do I do the easy thing or the right thing?
00:07:05.000 And if there is one thing that you teach your child, it's you must do the right thing, even if it is the challenging thing.
00:07:14.000 He knew what he was signing up for.
00:07:17.000 To be indicted by Fannie Willis, by Alvin Bragg.
00:07:20.000 The show trial in New York.
00:07:23.000 700 years in federal prison.
00:07:25.000 He could have just cut a deal.
00:07:26.000 Guys, I'm not running for the presidency.
00:07:27.000 Keep me out of jail.
00:07:29.000 And every single gutless wonder politician of the last 40 years would have cut that deal.
00:07:36.000 They tried to take his business empire from him.
00:07:39.000 They did everything they could to cut him off.
00:07:41.000 But there's something that drives this man that is different.
00:07:45.000 And it's why all of you are here.
00:07:48.000 It is a love of the beautiful things.
00:07:50.000 It's a love of our home.
00:07:53.000 A place that we inherited that we were sick and tired of seeing abused.
00:07:57.000 To see our border wide open.
00:07:59.000 To see our kids trans in classrooms.
00:08:01.000 To see our beloved homeland become a dumping ground for the third world. 1.00
00:08:07.000 To see our taxpayer dollars being sent to Ukraine while our southern border remains wide open.
00:08:13.000 Donald Trump loved his nation so much so that he put all of his business empire on the line so that he would go and take a bullet for you to save America for your kids and grandkids.
00:08:27.000 And more than that, I want you to understand the cultural reversal that we all lived through.
00:08:36.000 Because it was repeated.
00:08:38.000 Now, I'm going to ask somebody, can somebody throw me your MAGA hat here for a sec?
00:08:40.000 Who wants the hat?
00:08:41.000 There we go.
00:08:41.000 Okay, I've got 90 volunteers.
00:08:43.000 Thank you, guys.
00:08:44.000 Look at this.
00:08:46.000 Who remembers back in 2016?
00:08:50.000 If you wore this hat on the streets of New York, it was open hunting season.
00:08:56.000 If you wore this in 2021, they would come after you.
00:09:00.000 And yet, I saw something fundamentally It's fundamentally different and something change.
00:09:05.000 And it goes to show that the good guys can win if we push hard enough.
00:09:09.000 It goes to show that we can turn the symbols where they are trying to ostracize us into symbols of victory.
00:09:18.000 When I went to college campuses this last cycle, we ordered a couple hundred MAGA hats.
00:09:23.000 All of a sudden, all the kids wanted them.
00:09:25.000 We sort of passed them out.
00:09:26.000 I said, okay, we'll do a couple thousand.
00:09:28.000 I go to the University of Georgia.
00:09:29.000 I'm handing out 5,000 of these things.
00:09:34.000 This MAGA hat that all of you guys own went from a symbol of those people are terrible Nazis to the coolest, most desirable thing that one can wear in American politics.
00:09:54.000 And that didn't happen overnight.
00:09:56.000 Whose MAGA hat is this?
00:09:57.000 There you go.
00:09:59.000 That happened because we refused to accept the names they would call us.
00:10:04.000 And we kept on wearing the hat.
00:10:07.000 We refused like, okay, you're going to call me a racist.
00:10:09.000 I don't care.
00:10:10.000 What else do you have?
00:10:11.000 I'm going to keep wearing the hat.
00:10:13.000 It became a symbol of strength.
00:10:14.000 It became a symbol of resolve.
00:10:17.000 It became a symbol of grit.
00:10:18.000 It became a symbol of American masculinity coming back into our culture.
00:10:28.000 It became a symbol that American greatness is what we demand, that we deserve.
00:10:33.000 That we're not going to apologize for being the greatest nation ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:10:38.000 That we are going to have a mass deportation effort, and that we're going to take back our nation.
00:10:48.000 That hat then represented something even more.
00:10:52.000 President Trump, the greatest dealmaker that politics has ever seen, He brokered quite a deal over the summer.
00:10:59.000 He said, OK, Democrats, you guys get Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger.
00:11:06.000 We get Bobby Kennedy and Tulsi Gabbard.
00:11:11.000 Let's make a deal.
00:11:16.000 And that hat all of a sudden represented not just common sense, but it represented people of all sorts of different political stripes and backgrounds That we're coming together with their sphere of focus and influence.
00:11:29.000 Maybe you are a parents' right advocate.
00:11:31.000 Maybe you are here as a Second Amendment enthusiast.
00:11:34.000 Maybe you are a school board member.
00:11:35.000 Maybe you are a pastor.
00:11:37.000 Maybe you are a make America healthy again advocate.
00:11:43.000 Whatever focus group that you have, as long as we can agree on the big stuff.
00:11:48.000 The country's collapsing.
00:11:50.000 Things are amiss.
00:11:52.000 We need to combine forces and defeat the incumbent regime.
00:11:56.000 Welcome aboard.
00:11:57.000 We are going to make America great again.
00:11:59.000 And what we witnessed on November the 5th being this great comeback story Was also the result of the hard work that all of you guys did in the grassroots.
00:12:19.000 For those of you that chased ballots.
00:12:21.000 For those of you that registered voters.
00:12:23.000 For those of you that gave powerful sermons on the Sundays before the election.
00:12:27.000 For those of you that showed up at Republican meetings at 7am to make sure that everyone had the yard signs that they need.
00:12:35.000 This is your victory.
00:12:37.000 You see, it is easy just to say that it's just one candidate versus another.
00:12:41.000 What it really is, is one army of activists versus another army of activists.
00:12:47.000 We were outspent, but we outworked them this election cycle.
00:12:47.000 And guess what?
00:12:54.000 Because we wanted it more.
00:12:57.000 Kamala Harris had a billion dollars, and hey, by the way, where did that billion dollars go? 0.92
00:13:03.000 She sent it to China.
00:13:07.000 She sent it to Zelensky.
00:13:09.000 He's got enough money.
00:13:13.000 A billion dollars to do what?
00:13:17.000 And yet we were outspent.
00:13:19.000 We know it.
00:13:20.000 We knew that we were up against the most powerful, well-funded machine in American political history.
00:13:26.000 And it was a machine versus a movement.
00:13:30.000 And the movement were people, many of us in this room, Yeah, that we're not an oligarch, not a billionaire, but you could knock on a thousand doors.
00:13:39.000 You could chase a hundred ballots.
00:13:41.000 In this state of Arizona, which I, as you know, care deeply and passionately about, we made a promise.
00:13:50.000 We said we are going to invest the greatest ground force Arizona has ever seen.
00:13:55.000 We hired well over a thousand full-time people here on the ground in Arizona at Turning Point Action.
00:14:00.000 And I can say now, Arizona was the best performing swing state of the 2024 election.
00:14:09.000 We chased over 200,000 low-propensity ballots here in the state of Arizona.
00:14:15.000 And in fact, when I was, you know, Mr. President, can we have you at this event?
00:14:19.000 Can we, you know, try to get you?
00:14:20.000 And he said, Charlie, I will only come under one circumstance.
00:14:24.000 It is called a tribute to Arizona to honor the great people of Arizona that gave me my greatest victory ever in Arizona and brought State 48 back to greatness.
00:14:37.000 And that happened because of the hard work and the grit, the resolve of all of you in this room.
00:14:42.000 And it goes to show that things can change.
00:14:45.000 It goes to show that we can improve this country, that we don't have to accept the premise.
00:14:50.000 But then it brings us to today's time, because we must simultaneously look at the past, what we've been through, the present, which is celebration and giving glory to God for what was given, but also the future.
00:15:03.000 Because if we let our guard down and act as if that everything is fine, the transformation of the Republican Party is not yet complete.
00:15:13.000 You see, for those of you that follow me on social media, you know that I've been very outspoken the last week saying the following.
00:15:20.000 Very simple.
00:15:21.000 It's not radical.
00:15:22.000 I think it's reasonable.
00:15:22.000 It's not revolutionary.
00:15:23.000 Which is this.
00:15:24.000 If you are a Republican from a deep red state, and you voted for Joe Biden's nominees, and you're giving Donald Trump a hard time about his nominees, we will primary you and remove you from office immediately.
00:15:41.000 And for all of those red state senators out there, let this be a warning to you.
00:15:52.000 That the 20,000 people here at AmericaFest, and the 1 million people here that are watching online, and the millions of people that will see these clips, we are not going to take a Republican Party that gets in the way of the will of the people.
00:16:08.000 We want a Republican Party That fights to win.
00:16:13.000 And for every U.S. senator out there, you must confirm Pete Hegseth, Tulsi Gabbard, Kash Patel, Bobby Kennedy, Pam Bondi, and Trump's entire cabinet, or you, will face a primary challenger immediately.
00:16:28.000 Because we want a Republican Party that is as conservative as its voters.
00:16:40.000 Cheers.
00:16:41.000 We want a Republican Party that is responsive to all of you.
00:16:44.000 We want a Republican Party that actually listens to what you want.
00:16:48.000 Not a Republican Party that goes to D.C. and becomes something completely and totally different.
00:16:53.000 And look at the power that you have.
00:16:55.000 In just the last 24 hours, we did something that we never would have been able to do before.
00:17:00.000 They were trying to do this ridiculous, sick and twisted and concocted, 1,500-page Democrat boondoggle giveaway, continuing resolution.
00:17:13.000 Under old circumstances, that thing just would have passed.
00:17:18.000 But there's new voices.
00:17:22.000 And we took to social media.
00:17:24.000 Elon Musk took to social media.
00:17:26.000 Many of you took to social media.
00:17:28.000 And the president took the lead and said, no, we're not going to give Congress a 74% pay raise while Americans are being crushed by inflation.
00:17:36.000 We're not going to send more money to Ukraine.
00:17:39.000 We're not going to have this boondoggle of bio labs being spent overseas.
00:17:44.000 We're not going to have immunity for January 6th committee.
00:17:47.000 And what you did, and I want to show the power that you have, is that you, everybody in this room and everyone watching online, you defeated the Washington insiders in hours, everybody.
00:17:58.000 And that CR is dead.
00:18:00.000 It is dead.
00:18:01.000 And you did that.
00:18:05.000 And it is going to be a relentless fight.
00:18:09.000 Now, the new CR that they have went from 1,500 pages to now it's like four or five pages.
00:18:15.000 And President Trump is going to get what he's asked for, which is a clean slate, a debt ceiling increase, so that we can actually get the biggest, baddest, and best border bill in the history of our country as the first piece of legislation for President Donald Trump.
00:18:30.000 The top priority.
00:18:34.000 But it is only going to improve if we stay engaged in the grassroots.
00:18:40.000 If we continue to knock on doors, take over local precinct committees, to start Turning Point USA High School and college chapters, and I just got to brag on our high school chapters.
00:18:51.000 I said this briefly in the video, everybody, but young men are the most conservative they have been in over 50 years.
00:19:02.000 50 years.
00:19:05.000 Think about that.
00:19:06.000 Now, A reporter asked me, they said, Charlie, can you try to explain this phenomenon?
00:19:12.000 I said, yeah, it's very simple.
00:19:14.000 Young men want to be part of a political movement that doesn't hate them.
00:19:20.000 In fact, let me go a step further, that thinks they're essential to a future of a country.
00:19:27.000 That we need strong men and strong women.
00:19:31.000 That we're sick and tired of hearing about toxic masculinity when we are drowning in toxic femininity.
00:19:41.000 When we become a feelings-based culture.
00:19:45.000 You can't say that.
00:19:46.000 You can't do that.
00:19:47.000 You're going to offend somebody.
00:19:49.000 And who is the most overtly masculine political figure of the last hundred years?
00:19:56.000 No, it's not Tim Walz.
00:19:57.000 Stop it, okay?
00:19:58.000 That's not true.
00:20:03.000 No.
00:20:06.000 Of course, it's the man who would never apologize for America, that stands proudly for our tradition and our history, that doesn't care about what sensibilities he offends, that calls Justin Trudeau governor, the guy that just said...
00:20:22.000 And in many ways, this was an election that was more about culture than it was about politics.
00:20:29.000 That it was about who are we as a people?
00:20:33.000 What are we doing to the next generation?
00:20:35.000 To say that you have to be taught diversity, equity, inclusion, and critical race theory.
00:20:39.000 That you have to be under this transgenderism nonsense. 1.00
00:20:42.000 As a side note, by the way, as one of the first things that I hope this new administration does, we need to end the medical mutilation of our children called gender-affirming care in this country immediately. 0.83
00:20:55.000 And also say, no men in women's sports ever. . no men in women's sports ever. . 1.00
00:21:19.000 But understand, that was a controversial thing to say three or four years ago.
00:21:23.000 It took a little bit of a I don't care energy, a little bit of a masculine chip on the shoulder to say, no, actually, you're not going to have some dude in my locker room change with my daughter. 0.93
00:21:34.000 And I'm not going to allow that to happen.
00:21:37.000 You see, they wanted us to be quiet and afraid and silent and subservient.
00:21:41.000 They wanted us to cower into our corner.
00:21:44.000 But the conservative movement has changed fundamentally.
00:21:47.000 I hope you guys understand this.
00:21:48.000 And we can't lose it.
00:21:49.000 We must lean into it.
00:21:50.000 We call the shots.
00:21:51.000 Not the media.
00:21:53.000 Not the oligarchs.
00:21:54.000 Not Washington, D.C. And our asks are so simple.
00:21:57.000 The media likes to say, oh, there's radical, there's revolutionary.
00:21:59.000 Here's our ask.
00:22:00.000 We want a border.
00:22:01.000 We want our kids to learn reading, writing, arithmetic, and not graphic pornography at the age of 11. We want our founding documents to matter much more than federal registry and bureaucracies.
00:22:13.000 We believe the Constitution is the law of the land.
00:22:15.000 We believe in three branches, not four.
00:22:18.000 We also believe, I know this is so radical for them to understand, that when you appropriate money, American citizens are first, not Ukrainians. 0.60
00:22:27.000 Wow!
00:22:27.000 Like, what a concept!
00:22:31.000 And you add all of that together, they are the radicals, and they have been the radicals for quite some time.
00:22:38.000 And the final point I'll make is this, is the remarkable power and potency of the truth-tellers in this room.
00:22:48.000 You see, we have grown up in a time where we say, the media's the worst, the media's this, and in fact, President Trump said that at his first ever MAGA rally.
00:22:56.000 Do you know where his first ever MAGA rally was?
00:22:57.000 In this building.
00:22:59.000 This building was the first ever MAGA rally.
00:23:01.000 Did you know that?
00:23:03.000 And the only feedback I have for President Trump is he says the media is this, the media is that.
00:23:09.000 Guys, we are the media now.
00:23:11.000 Not them.
00:23:12.000 Not them.
00:23:13.000 Their power is fading and waning.
00:23:16.000 No one reads their stuff.
00:23:17.000 Their subscriptions are going down.
00:23:20.000 Like, CNN has less views than Hallmark movie reruns, which, again, it's Christmas, so a lot of people watch Hallmark during Christmas.
00:23:28.000 Anyway, separate issue.
00:23:30.000 Or is it Lifetime?
00:23:31.000 I don't know.
00:23:31.000 Whatever.
00:23:31.000 I get them both confused.
00:23:33.000 And they are increasingly irrelevant.
00:23:35.000 And what is relevant is the democratization and the decentralization.
00:23:40.000 And I said it when it happened.
00:23:41.000 When Elon Musk bought Twitter, I believe it was the most important singular purchase since the Louisiana Purchase for this country.
00:23:50.000 I truly believe that.
00:23:54.000 And look at the cause set in motion that happened since Elon Musk bought Twitter.
00:23:59.000 It gave us the ability to speak our mind.
00:24:01.000 Think about all the things that would have just happened without our ability to challenge it.
00:24:05.000 We were able to call out the BS on the southern border.
00:24:08.000 We were able to talk about the transing of our kids.
00:24:11.000 We were able to talk about what they're actually teaching in our schools.
00:24:13.000 We were able to actually talk about like, hey, Kamala Harris can't speak in sentences. 1.00
00:24:21.000 Let's watch this clip.
00:24:23.000 It's just simple, basic things.
00:24:24.000 And we joke around.
00:24:25.000 I do not think that we would have been able to expose the American people to how Joe Biden was brain damaged if it wasn't for Twitter or X, because the media wasn't doing their job.
00:24:34.000 By the way, the media should all immediately lose their government-issued licenses day one for the malpractice they did for covering for Joe Biden's senility.
00:24:49.000 We are in the driver's seat.
00:24:51.000 And that comes with a lot of obligation.
00:24:54.000 We are the cultural force.
00:24:56.000 We are ascendant.
00:24:57.000 The bad guys are scattered, confused and afraid, and they will be back.
00:25:02.000 And the posture should not be one that, oh, we won and that we're the greatest and that we're indestructible.
00:25:07.000 No, it's the opposite.
00:25:08.000 It should be one of humility, that we are actually in charge.
00:25:13.000 And we didn't earn it, but we have an obligation to deliver.
00:25:16.000 That we have an opportunity that we may never happen again.
00:25:20.000 It is a once in many lifetimes opportunity to fill the government with changemakers. 1.00
00:25:25.000 I believe the four years of exile is the ultimate Romans 12 verse.
00:25:31.000 That God will use all things, all things, For good for those who love Him.
00:25:36.000 When we got displaced from power in 2020, how many of you guys said, boy, 2020, this is the worst thing to happen.
00:25:46.000 We lost our country.
00:25:48.000 We were trying to see what was the takeaway here.
00:25:51.000 It felt as if it was so unjust, which it was, and it was so much lying and so much manipulation.
00:25:55.000 But God knew what He was doing.
00:25:57.000 What He was doing is He was putting our movement in a temporary state of exile where we could become stronger, we could become better, where we could separate the frauds from the real people.
00:26:08.000 We could see who people really were.
00:26:10.000 Where we could expand our ranks.
00:26:12.000 We had to desire it more when our back was against the wall.
00:26:15.000 If we would have won in 2020, the second term, I don't know if it would have been that great.
00:26:19.000 It would have just kind of been a little bit of COVID. Okay, that's fine.
00:26:23.000 And the second term is almost never as good as the first.
00:26:25.000 And now we almost get two first terms.
00:26:27.000 And the second one, we have a team that is ready to change the world and bring America back to greatness.
00:26:37.000 I will close with this.
00:26:38.000 Soak in this conference, everybody.
00:26:40.000 This is the first major Turning Point conference where we can just celebrate what has been done.
00:26:45.000 But also...
00:26:46.000 We've got to keep our eyes on these students.
00:26:49.000 They're going to go nuts these next couple days.
00:26:51.000 I tell you.
00:26:53.000 But also...
00:26:55.000 Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter.
00:26:57.000 Go start a Turning Point USA high school chapter.
00:26:59.000 Go start a Turning Point USA 5C school.
00:27:02.000 Go find out how your church can get involved.
00:27:04.000 Sign up and become an activist.
00:27:06.000 AmericaFest is the starting point for us to take America to greater heights in 2025. Remember how lost we felt a year ago.
00:27:16.000 Remember how directionalist we felt.
00:27:18.000 And instead of saying, we've won everything, I could take it easy and said, is that God gave us a reprieve so that we can reload, that we can lean in, and that we can make the conservative movement stronger than ever before.
00:27:33.000 And that's the resources you're going to see in the exhibit hall.
00:27:35.000 There will be people here that could change your life, future jobs, future friends, maybe future spouses, you never know.
00:27:41.000 You hear that a lot.
00:27:43.000 But have that posture of activism and action.
00:27:46.000 We have a slate of speakers that is the greatest in the entire country.
00:27:50.000 I mean, it's just unbelievable what we have here.
00:27:52.000 It's going to be four days of energy and enthusiasm.
00:27:55.000 And you guys help make it possible.
00:27:58.000 This is the greatest country ever to exist in the history of the world.
00:28:00.000 And I can say, wow.
00:28:02.000 There was a debate.
00:28:03.000 Is God done with this country?
00:28:05.000 And now I can say confidently, no.
00:28:07.000 God is not done with America.
00:28:09.000 And our best days are ahead.
00:28:11.000 God bless you guys.
00:28:12.000 Thank you so much.
00:28:14.000 Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
00:28:15.000 Email us, as always, freedom at charliekirk.com.