On today's episode of the Glenn Beck Program, host Glenn Beck is joined by Charlie Kirk and Carol Roth to discuss the exciting news about what's coming in the economy. Plus, Trump announces his 10-step plan to dismantle the Deep State.
00:18:51.680Now, on the human level, one of the guys who I don't think has gotten enough credit yet but will get all the credit he deserves is Charlie Kirk.
00:19:02.340Charlie started something called Turning Point USA.
00:20:13.000It was worse than 2016, calling us Nazis and fascists and saying that Donald Trump was going to put people in camps and all that.
00:20:22.260And the American people weighed their options despite Kamala Harris outspending Trump three or four times to one and making the right choice.
00:20:28.920But look, I just – we played a small role, and we did it in two ways.
00:20:32.640We said on this election, we want to try to lose by less with younger voters, and then we are going to create the most sophisticated, low-propensity, get-out-the-vote turnout machine in modern political history for the right.
00:20:48.540First, on the get-out-the-vote, which is that we believed that there were millions of people that were Trump supporters that were not Trump voters.
00:20:57.700The people that would say, yay, Trump, and they would be with them, but they weren't putting a ballot in a box.
00:22:58.120By St. Patrick's Day, we'll find out who won the Senate race.
00:23:01.060But Carrie Lake is down 44,000 votes here in Arizona.
00:23:05.100And she might fall 10,000 votes short or win by 10,000 votes.
00:23:09.400But thanks to our effort and the team, we closed an eight-point polling gap for Carrie Lake.
00:23:16.340And so, look, basically what we did is we took this movement that Donald Trump created, that Donald Trump led, and we added machinery to the movement.
00:23:24.440And we were able to successfully turn Trump supporters into Trump voters.
00:23:28.880You know, Charlie, I've been obviously looking at this forever, and we've never had a GOP that could get out of its own way.
00:23:40.080We've never had one that was competent.
00:23:42.680We never had a plan other than, hey, we're just better.
00:23:46.340And we lost it every time because we were either stupid or we just couldn't get out of our own way and get people to the polls.
00:23:55.660This time around, I felt real confidence that the GOP had these issues covered at the polling places, that it was going to be secure, that if it wasn't, they had the attorneys and they had everybody else out there, just like the Democrats do.
00:24:12.940And we were going to catch the bad guys if the bad guys showed up.
00:24:17.520So I had that confidence, and I also had confidence because of what you were doing, that we were going after the low-propensity voter.
00:24:29.240You know, I've said for years, hey, somebody should get a bus like they do and put people on a bus and take them to the polls.
00:24:47.140And let me say one thing, which is that, again, our theory of the case was that, okay, the RNC was going to limit some of the shenanigans, which, by the way, we didn't completely eliminate.
00:24:55.900Without that, we would have Senator Mike Rogers and Senator Hovde in Wisconsin.
00:24:59.820But one of the ways you offset the shenanigans and the tomfoolery is you outnumber them.
00:25:04.980And so you have so many ballots in the volume of the system that their midnight drops in Milwaukee are just not going to be sufficient.
00:25:12.080And it turns out that that was a correct way of looking at it.
00:25:15.520And I want to say one other thing, though, is that this was very, very difficult work.
00:25:19.940And our team deserves enormous credit, not just the full-time staff.
00:25:26.200We did a thing called Commit 100, where we said, hey, if you're across the country and you're tired of just listening to talk radio and watching TV and seeing your country fall apart, if you will be able to fly yourself to Arizona, we'll put you up in a hotel room for a week or two.
00:25:40.900And we will give you the mobile technology to go chase ballots.
00:25:44.920We had over 2,000 people from across the country that were working neighborhoods in Arizona to go chase ballots.
00:25:52.1802,000 volunteers from across the country on top of, in Arizona, are 600 full-time people on the ground.
00:26:01.540And Arizona, again, it's my passion, is the best performing of the seven battleground states, and we're still counting votes.
00:26:07.620It's the greatest swing of any battleground state from 2020, and it should give your audience a lot of renewed confidence, is that we are catching up to how the left has gamified our elections.
00:26:19.400Who can get the most amount of pieces of paper in the box?
00:26:21.780And we were still dealing in an antiquated mindset where we believe that elections were just about worldview and values and issues back in, like, 2004.
00:26:32.900The left, they changed all the rules, and they made them permanent during COVID.
00:26:36.220And between 2022, especially in 2024, we learned the rules, we caught up, and then we beat them at their own game.
00:26:44.640And that is what is so promising and encouraging, that we are able to add this machinery to a once-in-a-generation movement.
00:26:53.360And I will add one other thing, is that some people are saying that it was a landslide.
00:28:34.080And in addition, Donald Trump was able to sit for three hours with no notes and go deep on the issues and have a total command of the subjects.
00:28:45.440And people, here is the new standard, though, and the Democrats have to know this.
00:28:49.500You will never win another presidential election if you nominate a candidate who is unable to do long-form podcasting.
00:28:59.240And if you do not have a candidate that can go deep and that can think on their feet and have memory recall and be personal and charming and affable, the American people reject that.
00:29:09.520Long gone are the days of seven-minute, 60-minute interviews, right?
00:29:13.080Or, you know, 10-minute meet the press where you have five questions and they're prepared and that's it.
00:29:19.240Now you have to earn the vote because people are going to listen to you for three hours and see your tone and your inflection and whether you mean it.
00:32:05.520If you have any suggestions, I'd love to hear it.
00:32:07.800One of the things I know he's going to do is probably give a great gift to anybody who has Bitcoin
00:32:20.060or anybody who's in the Bitcoin industry because he has said he is against the Fed coin and he in his administration will stop that from ever becoming a reality.
00:32:58.920We promised people that we would get together and have something good to talk about at some point in time.
00:33:04.520So we've manifested this discussion and we have optimism.
00:33:09.020And I think that's actually my most exciting point is the optimism.
00:33:13.540It could be four and a half years since we've had real optimism in this country from the time of the COVID mess through the Biden-Harris administration.
00:33:23.600And sentiment is such a self-fulfilling prophecy, particularly for the economy, but in all aspects of life.
00:33:31.320So the fact that we have this huge sense of relief is lifted off our shoulders, not to say that there's an easy road ahead,
00:33:37.660but just to have the optimism that, yes, we can go out and do this.
00:33:42.200It's such a blessed, blessed day and week.
00:34:25.220I think what they didn't have baked in is what a resounding mandate that he would have.
00:34:30.160The fact that he would have the Senate, the fact that he'd win the popular vote.
00:34:34.460You know, obviously we're still waiting, but hopefully the House.
00:34:36.620The fact that this was the country saying, we want this mandate.
00:34:40.940And CNBC said this morning that we are on track for the best week in the stock market in a year.
00:34:48.520And what is most exciting about what's happened in the market is that it has been a very broad raise.
00:34:54.940You know, we've been through a time over the past several years where just a handful of tech companies –
00:35:00.140Yeah, they're the ones who have been lifting the markets.
00:35:01.880The Russell 2000, which is the smaller cap publicly traded companies, they were up 5% the day after the election.
00:35:11.3405% in one day, which means small companies and medium-sized companies think that they're going to get access to capital and have the optimism to grow their business.
00:35:20.940And we know we need that broad-based growth, not just a handful of companies.
00:35:25.160So that was really one of my big takeaways.
00:35:27.380I mean, if I were somebody that wanted to start my own business, I would be planning on it right now.
00:35:33.880I mean, I think America has a chance to have another golden era here.
00:35:43.000And, you know, maybe they put a stop to it in four years.
00:35:46.160But if it is – if he can turn this thing around quickly and actually make the kinds of moves that he's talking about,
00:35:55.680massive fundamental change in just the garbage of the bureaucracy, that could affect us for a very long time.
00:36:07.120And you could also see, with that kind of success, 12 years, not just him, but then two terms of J.D. Vance.
00:36:17.620And I think for small businesses in particular, the people who are looking to start them or grow an existing business,
00:36:23.800there were three key areas that the Biden-Harris administration really tamped down on that sort of optimism from the backbone of the economy.
00:36:32.500The first one being the ability to work flexibly.
00:36:37.000You know, the Trump administration had put this very pro-independent contractor, pro-gig work framework in place,
00:36:43.700and they reversed that in its entirety.
00:36:46.180So the fact that that goes away is huge.
00:36:48.780From a regulatory standpoint, $1.7 trillion in regulatory burden is the estimate of the Biden-Harris administration on small business alone.
00:36:58.640Small businesses don't have time for this, and they don't have the staff or the money for this.
00:37:03.340So the fact that we know we're going to get more of that regulation cleaned out is absolutely huge.
00:37:12.400You know, the tax cuts and job backs is set to expire next year in large part.
00:37:16.260And the fact that, you know, we know that Trump is going to be, you know, more open to, you know, extending some of those cuts and maybe even further cutting and hopefully helping small businesses have that certainty.
00:37:29.680Because you can, again, can't make those investments if you're not sure what's going to happen.
00:37:33.960Plus, we know we're not going to get the crazy capital gains taxes and the wealth taxes and all those other things that are proposed.
00:37:39.320So this is really a three-legged stool that will help to unleash growth.
00:37:44.480And it is, you know, it is such, such a blessing.
00:37:48.340So let's go over some of the things that he has to do.
00:37:51.580He's obviously going to fix the border and, you know, deport people.
00:37:57.820This is the largest deportation in U.S. history.
00:38:01.040Well, I never, I didn't even know that the largest deportation happened under Bill Clinton with 11 million people deported from our country.
00:38:34.200Yeah, I mean, we've had a mass invasion.
00:38:37.420And while, you know, something like mass deportations may sound like just a security or a social policy, it's obviously very much an economic policy.
00:38:46.160The estimate from FAIR just in 2023 alone, so forget about this year, was $150 billion that was spent on these illegals.
00:38:56.180And that doesn't include things like what it does to the demoralization of communities, what it does to keep wages suppressed and people on the sidelines.
00:39:05.920Back in 2022, the estimate for the number of illegals in the workforce was 8.3 million.
00:39:14.000You could imagine that that's up at least 50%, if not more.
00:39:18.320So those are jobs that are having artificially suppressed wages and being taken away and demoralizing, you know, working age individuals, particularly men, from getting into the workforce.
00:39:29.200So this is a huge financial issue for us.
00:39:33.020And whatever the cost is to get them out of the country will be worth it because the return on investment for doing that in all facets will far exceed it.
00:39:43.380It absolutely has to be the first thing that he does.
00:39:46.360We know that he's also going to, one of the first things he's going to do on the first day is restore our energy policy.
00:39:53.920Drill, baby, drill, and open up all of that stuff again, thank God.
00:39:57.640And the ESG, I just got a note from somebody who said, one investment bank is advising ESG fund managers to keep their lawyers very close.
00:40:12.820Antitrust risk remains high for asset managers in ESG.
00:40:16.540There haven't been any cases yet, thus there's no legal precedent.
00:40:19.220Further, legal risks regarding fiduciary duty will stay relevant as states enforce antitrust ESG laws.
00:40:25.840ESG, do you see the stake going through its heart?
00:40:53.720We're going to have to continue to be on it.
00:40:55.600But I absolutely think that there is going to be – there's already a huge push to get away from it, in part because everybody is seeing all these promises.
00:41:04.000Oh, ESG is going to do all these wonderful things for investments.
00:41:06.880That hasn't materialized and it really has been this greenwashing.
00:41:10.880So I feel like it's already on that trend and this could be the final nail in the vampire's coffin until he rises again.
00:41:17.980So the COP25 is coming up and the last time that he attended or the first time he – I don't even know if he attended.
00:41:28.660He might have just sent a note, we're out, of the Paris Accords and everything else.
00:41:33.820That too is going to shake the global community and really put – I mean, it could take it down.
00:41:43.920If he is really strong on this World Economic Forum garbage that has been shoveled, if he's really strong on that, he could put the stake in its heart.
00:41:56.680You get the right Government Efficiency Commission and we should be out of everything.
00:43:06.880But if your goal is to rebuild America and to rebuild our manufacturing and bring money back onto shore and jobs back onto shore, if you cut, like he was talking about, no income tax.
00:43:20.700If you cut the income tax and reimpose stiff tariffs, what happens?
00:43:27.880So I hate to be the bearer of bad tidings in math here, but the math doesn't really work out because you have to remember 70 percent of our economy is service based.
00:43:38.920And even if you boost up manufacturing on a big level, the amount that it would take to replace what we have in terms of an income tax, it just today is not mathematically possible.
00:43:51.120We also have this scenario where we're trying to make sure that the GDP increases and that our revenue stays pretty stable at the same time that we're trying to get rid of the additional spending.
00:44:03.200And that is going to be a very delicate dance.
00:44:06.820So I think this is something that needs to be managed strategically.
00:44:10.260Could you come up with a like a flat tax or a 15 percent tax that just makes the economy roar?
00:44:20.080I absolutely do think that you can do that.
00:44:22.320And something that is simple also takes away a lot of the administration and the burden that comes along with that, that makes, you know, just takes away productive time from people.
00:44:34.600You know, you're spending it on paperwork instead of spending it out in the economy.
00:44:38.140So I do think there could be something that is streamlined.