Donald Trump's visit to East Palestine has been the biggest triumph of his third presidential campaign thus far. Charlie dissects Trump's visit and lays out why it should be the template for this entire 2024 strategy. Then, he teams up with Ric Grenell to pour some well-deserved mockery on America's affirmative action Transportation secretary, Pete Buttigieg, who is having a miserable time of his own in East Palestine while his husband bashes TPUSA online.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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MAGA season two.
What does that mean?
Well, MAGA season one were big rallies, tens of thousands of people.
But in the last couple of weeks, I've started to see some examples of something I've been pushing for for quite some time that is just making me so excited.
I see the opportunity.
I'm sorry.
The marketer in me is saying this, this, this is a whole new wrinkle.
If season one was the big grand entrances of 30,000 people, season two should be the exact opposite.
It should be Trump in living rooms, Trump at McDonald's, Trump in diners, Trump talking to people one-on-one.
I've said this for quite some time, and Rick Grinnell will agree in just a second when we bring him in, that when you get in a room with Donald Trump, it is magical.
You could walk into the room.
I've had people, donors, that tell me when they're walking in the room.
I hate the guy.
He's awful.
He's terrible.
And I don't even know why I'm here and why I'm getting a picture and I donated to the RNC and I don't even want a picture.
And boom, as soon as he walks into the room after, like, wow, that guy's great.
It's like all the bad memories just disappeared.
Like, just washes away.
When he walks into a room, he commands the presence.
Just a little taste here.
And then we'll have Rick Grinnell as I'm trying to make the argument that we need something a little bit new.
And I think it's right there in front of us.
It just can't be the same rallies back and forth.
No, no, no.
Deploy the best asset you have, which is the marketer himself, who's fabulous with people.
He loves people.
Let's play Cut 95, Donald Trump telling the McDonald's workers, I know this menu better than you guys.
Play Cut 95.
What's your specialty today?
Nice to meet you.
Hello, everybody.
That's a nice, beautiful looking group of people.
So I know this menu better than you do.
I do.
I probably know it better than anybody in here.
We're going to take care of the fire department.
Okay.
We're going to take care of the police department.
If we're going to be trying to win back the White House, it's got to be a new wrinkle, a new approach.
And I think this is where he's at his best.
Rick Rinnell is here.
He knows the president very well.
Rick, welcome back to the program.
What do you think, MAGA season two?
Are we seeing something here?
I think the pilot has passed with amazing approval.
Your thoughts.
And look, the premiere of season two yesterday was lit.
If you didn't watch it, you better go get it because it was pretty amazing.
Charlie, I think you are exactly right.
You know the president well.
You know the team well.
You know the strategy.
And the huge crowds are one thing.
But Donald Trump is a real person.
He's not a robotic politician.
He's not from DC.
He doesn't act like DC.
He literally is a real person who has human feelings.
This could be the biggest scam that the media have ever put out, which is trying to pretend like Donald Trump is something that he's not, trying to make him into a Russian asset, trying to make him into a mean-spirited guy.
And he is just a funny, real guy with big ideas about America, wanting to be proud of America again and bring it back to its roots.
I think that you're right.
If we can show Donald Trump on the human side and really show him in his element, you're right.
I've seen the exact same thing where people come in very magical and say, wow, he's really electric.
So I think you're right.
And I think you're onto the strategy.
He commands a presence.
And by the way, it will then demand whoever he ends up running against, whether it be Newsom or Biden, they have no presence when they walk into a room.
And, you know, Rick, one of them.
They're robotic.
No, they're robotic.
They're synthetic.
And Pete Buttigieg certainly is.
We'll talk about that in a second.
But I just want to, one of the best moments of the Trump administration, you remember this.
And, you know, I had plenty of battles with some of the people in the White House to get them to think creatively.
And I know you did too, Rick, as well, which is, remember when the boy came to mow the lawn and Trump comes out?
That was one of the most viral human moments.
And I said, every week, there should just be someone who's a teenager that had some sort of, you know, issue starting a lemonade stand, and you could just have that.
Trump is amazing with those people.
Or when he did the job fair and he takes up the Louisville slugger and he says, boy, this is kind of nice.
And I feel as if, you know, COVID was obviously a surprise to a lot of people.
It almost made it where that kind of retail politics in 2020 was harder to do.
You had to almost do kind of these teletown halls and these rallies.
But now we're looking about winning.
We want to win.
And the response I've received from even people who hate Donald Trump is like, wow, I mean, if this is what he's going to be doing, going into real places, talking to real people, improv, impromptu, not reading a teleprompter, it's a whole new dimension.
Look, you're so right because it's not even politics.
It's just reminding people of the great spirit of America, right?
Hard work, young people mowing the lawns, doing newspaper deliveries, or whatever the technology allows today.
Look, I got, you know, my godson is traveling around the neighborhood washing trash cans.
And he was under so much demand to have people wash the trash cans that he raised the price.
We taught him how to raise the price and said, you know, you got to do a faster job.
You're getting the trash can's trash cans way too clean.
Don't spend so much time on it.
Raise your prices.
This is America.
This is how you teach kids hard work.
This is how you teach kids ethics and morality and truthfulness and transparency.
And I think that this is what Donald Trump is really good at: reminding people that America is a beacon of capitalism.
Hard work is what gets you ahead.
And when he's around people who work hard, they feel it.
They feel the compliment.
They feel that he is somebody who respects their hard work.
And that's what we have to get back to.
It seems like over the last decade, we've had this whole government system that all they're trying to do is highlight the people that are getting around the rules or want freebies.
And they've lost the hard ethical messaging that America used to stand on the top of the mountain and scream to the rest of the world.
And we got to get back to that because I'll finish with this, Charlie.
You've heard me say this before.
But I think that our American diplomats should be pushing the idea of America around the world.
Because when America puts itself first, the rule of law is first.
Capitalism is first.
The respect for human rights are first.
We are not a conquering nation.
We are a nation that helps free people.
That messaging makes the rest of the world safer and more secure and more prosperous.
America first is good for the world, and our diplomats need to be articulating that.
Pete Buttigieg is in East Palestine.
And just watching him walk around and interact, the contrast.
I mean, again, Pete Buttigieg is if chat GPT was ever uploaded into a human being, it's Pete Buttigieg.
And then Don Jr. said yesterday that he was selected only because he's gay and you defended Don.
Explain.
Oh, everybody knows that he was selected because he's gay.
Look, this is a Biden administration like the Obama administration, which announced someone's sexuality as they're being hired.
And, you know, I once had, we'll get into this.
I'll tell this quick story when we come back.
But the reality is, is that the Biden administration and the Obama administration, Democrats like to emphasize it.
I think it's offensive.
I think it's shameful.
I think it's degrading to have your sexuality be the reason why you're hired and to be trumpeted out.
It's just not something that we should be doing in America.
We got to kill this idea that somehow this characteristics that are irrelevant about somebody are somehow the criteria for being hired.
Yeah, I mean, are you qualified?
Are you competent?
Pete Buttigieg is none of those things, period.
And it's really a disgrace because, you know, I think they're like, oh, transportation, whatever, it doesn't really matter.
Actually, you can't have a functioning or flourishing society if trains are being derailed and you're ignoring people and you can't get planes in the air and you put quote unquote equity over competency.
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So Pete Buttigeg is on the ground in East Palestine, Ohio.
And one of our Turning Point USA reporters, our journalist, Savannah Hernandez, tried to ask questions of Buttigeg.
And now Buttigieg's partner, Chaston, is coming out and attacking Turning Point USA.
Rick, this is a total mess.
And they do not want to take responsibility for their actions at all.
And I'm afraid this is a theme that we're just going to keep seeing of trying to have this sort of synthetic progress over competency.
Look, there's this game in Washington where if you saw Pete Buttigieg's press secretary, she says, hey, can you turn your cameras off?
And of course, a whole bunch of dutyful reporters turned them off, but Savannah didn't.
Good thing.
And she keeps asking, you know, I'm going to give you information.
I'm willing to give you information.
This is that Washington, D.C. trade.
But it has to have the cameras off.
I want to do this in secret.
Demanding Transparency Now00:03:43
I want to give you some information.
I want to spin you.
This is the game in Washington and every reporter follows it.
Thank God Savannah didn't, because honestly, what you have is an unwillingness on the part of Pete's team to not be transparent.
They want to be able to talk you out of your story and then if there's no record of it, deny it later.
We need to have transparency in Washington.
We need to demand transparency.
This is why I think Donald Trump really upset all of Washington, D.C. so much is because he was very transparent.
You saw what his actions were.
He told you what his motives were.
He would say it immediately on what he's going to do, and then he would follow through.
I want to go back to one point on Mayor Pete, Charlie, because there's this woke ideology within the media that somehow gays and lesbians are more represented by Biden or by Obama and by Democrats.
And one time an NBC reporter asked me how many gay people were working in the Trump administration.
And I said, I have no idea.
We don't keep lists.
We don't ask.
It's certainly not a criteria.
And this NBC reporter said, well, that's exactly the point because in the Obama administration, there were 3,000, whatever.
And I said, it's humiliating to me that you have a list.
Yeah, I think that's exactly right.
Yes.
It's offensive that somehow you're going to ask people and put them on a list.
We didn't care.
When I was appointed, DNI, Donald Trump had no idea.
He just made history.
He had no idea.
And we didn't talk about it.
It wasn't something that was part of the criteria or the reason for appointing me.
This is what he did all along.
He didn't care.
Donald Trump looks at whether or not you can do the job and then he hires accordingly.
So I think that it's really important that people understand, young people especially, that we're not keeping lists because we don't think it's a relevant characteristic.
And that is a higher moral ground than somehow keeping lists and having people that are completely unqualified, but because they are wearing women's clothes and they're really out front and they can go on bravo.
Somehow that that is, you know, representation matters is what they always say.
I think competency matters more than anything.
I mean, obviously, and the American people are totally on board for that.
And they're not going to put up with planes falling out of the sky, trains being derailed, our quality of life being eroded because of some sort of fake progress list that makes themselves feel good.
It doesn't do any good whatsoever, right?
And you said, look, Donald Trump's a real guy.
He says, okay, whatever.
I made history.
Okay.
But I put Rick because he's a strong American and he's a patriot and he's going to do a great job.
And Rick, I do think this is actually reaching a breaking point.
I think some people, you know, have the majority of Americans might have, let's just say, neutral or moderate social views on these things.
But at the same time, they say, I want a functioning country.
I do not want my civilization to fall apart so that some ideologue can have a list.
Look, I think I just want to say this at the forefront of this anti-woke gay agenda is the log cabin Republicans, conservatives who are literally trying to say, no, we don't want special rights.
We think that it's terrible when you're trying to talk to a kindergartner about sex when you're not their parent.
Stopping Pre-Scripted Politics00:09:57
Don't be creepy.
We don't think that you should have under the age of 18, there should be rules or an allowance to let kids change their gender under 18.
We don't even let kids get captured.
It's so reprehensive.
It's outrageous.
And so I think you're right.
It's at the tipping point, but the gay conservatives are at the forefront of really pushing back against the gay.
I'm glad to hear that because it needs to be a broad-based coalition to repudiate this evil.
Period.
Hard stop.
You're not going to go after eight-year-olds.
Let kids be kids.
It's ridiculous.
Rick, thank you so much.
Appreciate your leave.
All the best, Charlie.
Good to see you.
Thank you.
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Okay, I just want to build this out a little bit more.
And we're receiving overwhelmingly positive response.
I've not seen, there's only one negative email I got, and it's actually not negative.
It's actually just a question, but it had some negative connotations to it where one person said, well, Charlie, you try to say Trump can't draw big crowds.
No, that's not what I'm saying.
We know he can draw big crowds.
He could do it immediately.
All he needs is a flag and a podium, and he can draw tens of thousands of people.
That has been proven.
There is no need to stress test that thesis any longer.
But my whole argument for MAGA season two is that I think the rallies, I know they're expensive.
I mean, they talk openly, the Trump campaign talked about how they spend millions of dollars, and they do, and they get it back in data, and they get it back in donations, but it's not cheap.
You got to have the press rise or you got to have security, you got to have fencing, you got to have the stage, got to have lighting, got to have the AV, got to have security.
It's a millions of dollars of operation.
And so what if I told you you could actually get more virality, a bigger bang for your buck for the impromptu, the improv Trump?
So you go down to the absolute micro.
So not just McDonald's and all that, but you just find a random MAGA mom in Georgia, in rural Georgia, and Trump just goes into her living room and you just bring a couple cameras.
You just guess the number.
Hey, what's going on?
Tell me what, are you, are you worried about your country?
And just a random person, just, I mean, you could vet it out a little bit, but you got to have a little bit of this.
No one's really expecting.
You could probably have like 20 potential homes.
Like, hey, someone might come by the president.
Oh, wow, it's amazing.
But you actually don't tell which one it is because the kind of the spontaneity, the off the cuff, and it creates more viral moments.
And again, with the rallies, the rallies just kind of feel the same at this point.
And I'm not, I mean, I'm not saying that I don't think in an overly negative way.
And based on the emails I'm receiving from all of you, you agree.
You're like, yeah, look, the rallies are just kind of the same sort of message.
And that's fine.
There's a place for rallies.
I don't think you should cancel them.
Remember, though, the mainstream media used to cover the rallies wall to wall.
It used to be total coverage.
But at this moment, again, this was my advice in the 2020 campaign, and I was ignored completely because they knew what they were doing.
And they told me that repeatedly.
I said Trump needs to be in the most natural environments time and time again with, you know, the just spontaneous, you got to be spontaneous.
Joe Biden is going little circles and he's quarantining.
You need to have Donald Trump be the regular man, go out, not be afraid.
And that really wasn't advice taken.
I mean, right, so here's a great example.
Something that Trump knows super well is that Donald Trump once a week should just go visit a construction work site.
He knows those really well and just ask questions.
How's the supply chain?
How are your wages?
How are your kids?
He literally worked job sites for 40 years.
He knows it better than anybody else.
And he'll be like, wow, okay, that's an interesting design.
What are you guys building here?
He could wearing a hard hat.
Not a big deal.
Joe Biden, are you kidding me?
He wouldn't know the first thing.
You put Joe Biden on a work site or a construction site.
He wouldn't know any of the vocabulary.
He'd make a fool of himself.
He wouldn't know asphalt from cement.
He wouldn't know anything.
And meanwhile, Donald Trump would come in.
He'd know the whole thing.
He'd look like a regular person.
By the way, those are his voters.
And the same could be to humanize him, to put him into the suburban mom's home.
Like, go find someone that is a registered Republican, might not be a huge Trump fan, and put Trump right into that environment, not CNN, not MSNBC.
And by the way, you don't let any of the opposition media in, okay?
You film it all yourself.
You live stream it on Real America's Voice.
You live stream it on all of our friendly networks, right?
And you have Donald Trump just have a dialogue with a registered Republican woman who's not sure about Trump.
He would win her over.
Like, tell me what's on your mind.
And she would say, like, oh, you know, I don't like your tone.
I think you're dividing the country.
And just let him have dialogue.
Look, the path to 2024 is going to be largely predicated on the machine that we build.
But the same sort of Trump strategy, I do not think is going to get us to the promised land, which is getting the White House back so we can fix our country, save our country.
So what do you have to do?
You got to think creatively.
And one of my biggest complaints about people in politics is they're so one-dimensional.
Some of them are incredibly corrupt because they make a bunch of money on the typical thing.
Consultants don't make a lot of money with Donald Trump going into living rooms or McDonald's.
They just don't.
You could get, by the way, Donald Trump just going and giving out water yesterday and going into the McDonald's, I think was hundreds of millions of dollars of free and earned media.
Let's just say tens of millions.
Let's just be conservative, okay?
You couldn't buy television ads in eastern Ohio or western Pennsylvania for what he got.
And what did he do?
He was just kind of joking around.
You have the billion dollar marketing machine right there.
You remember, I think, again, the media attacked him for it.
One of the moments that I think was so viral is when Donald Trump was throwing, he was shooting the toilet paper.
Remember that?
During the hurricane relief?
Like, oh, it's terrible.
People actually love this.
Like, oh, wow, he's actually kind of making fun of it.
The candid moments, the unscripted, the improv.
And here's the thing.
The people, some people around Trump, I know this because they push back on me.
They say, oh, no, no, it's too risky.
You're not going to win back the White House by sterilizing Donald Trump.
You got to let the beast out into the wild.
And he is.
He's a life force.
And I mean that.
The energy, the enthusiasm.
You got to stop this pre-scripted stuff.
Like, oh, it's just another rally and all this.
No, no, no.
Look, you got to play like you're 10 points down because guess what?
You're up against the FBI.
You're up against the Department of Justice.
Are you going to be a populist candidate or not?
And that's where he's at his best.
Yesterday, you couldn't stop watching the footage.
Wow.
Where has this been?
And by the way, many of you have said, I only tune into the rallies for the unscripted moments.
Then just do nothing but unscripted moments.
The one-liners.
Was Trump not amazing when he brought Chuck U. Schumer and Nancy Pelosi into the Oval Office and they had it out in front of the press pool on immigration?
It was one of Trump's best moments.
And Chuck Schumer was kind of his head down and submissive.
And so I think what we saw yesterday in East Palestine, Ohio, if I may submit my opinion to you, the jury, the audience, is not just more of this, but this should become the new modus operandi of the entire Trump 2024 campaign.
Spontaneity, originality, to where he's at his best.
And you could think of a million different ideas.
Instead of one MAGA rally at a time, MAGA, one house at a time.
I'm going to go into your living room.
Just be yourself.
He's so good on camera.
He ran the apprentice.
He knows how to market.
He's definitely not shy.
And it would become a almost, and this is what, again, not, hopefully they'll listen, right?
But what do I know?
I'm just a radio guy.
You need to produce a television show because that's what politics is.
If we're honest about ourselves, 2020, one of the reasons we fell short, obviously, you know, the nonsense, the ballots and all that garbage, but one of the reasons was that you tried to run Donald Trump in 2020 as a candidate.
One of the reasons Donald Trump was successful in 2016 was he ran it like a television show.
And guess what?
People ate it up when he went to Iowa.
Do you remember when I was there, when Donald Trump went to Iowa?
I was just curious.
I was much younger.
Donald Trump went to the Iowa caucus with a helicopter and everyone mocked him and he lands on the helicopter and he says, kids get free rides.
And kids are coming up and saying, are you Batman?
And millions and millions of views.
And parents are driving in trying to get their kid on Trump's helicopter.
Donald Trump should just go to a golden corral and just say, look, let's have a roundtable.
Not this obviously prescripted.
No, you got to lean in to the unpredictability.
Trumps Television Style Campaign00:07:50
It doesn't matter if they don't pass a background track.
It doesn't matter actually if you run it as somebody that hates you.
That's actually probably good.
They're just yelling at you.
They're mad.
And I'm like, wow, that person's pretty upset.
Like, he can handle it.
He's tough.
He's a New York City developer.
I think he can handle a heckler at Golden Corral.
Obviously, you have to make it secure and you got to make sure it's safe because that's a very real thing.
But that's, someone said, Charlie, it's not safe.
Okay.
I think our willingness of what is safe for presidents and former presidents has definitely been pushed to the limit.
Honestly, with Joe Biden taking a train to Kiev.
Just to be honest, I think that if Joe Biden can take a train to Kiev, I think that Donald Trump can go into a golden corral with a couple people getting wanded, making sure no one has weapons, and he walks in.
I see an opportunity here.
I have no idea if this is going to be taken up.
I've called, I've talked, I have conferred.
Big opportunity here to get people excited, look at it differently and new.
Season one was big and bold, tens of thousands of people.
Season two, personal and intimate, compassionate, spontaneous, full of improvisation.
I love your thoughts.
What do you think about all this?
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I want to play some pieces of tape yesterday so you guys can see it.
Maybe you saw it, maybe you didn't.
The media was largely ignoring it.
And then I want to hear, I want you to play.
This is the morning, Joe.
He's such a joke.
But what his response was to this.
They just got really angry that Trump actually went to go listen and help the people of East Palestine.
Play cut 86.
Most of it, some of it, we had to go to a much lesser quality water.
You want to get those Trump bottles, I think, more than anybody else.
But we're bringing a lot of water, thousands of bottles, and we have it in trucks.
And we brought some on my plane today.
But to that end, I'm pleased to announce that we've helped coordinate the delivery of the water and bottled water as well as the tractor trail is full of it.
We have big tractor trailers full of water.
I think you're going to have plenty of water for a long time, maybe.
Now, I got to tell you, I'm very impressed by how angry Joe Scarborough is able to get between 6 a.m. and 9 a.m.
Like, I'm still just trying to figure out my bearings at this time, but this guy at like 7 a.m. Eastern is like his default setting is bitterness.
And I really don't think he's a happy person because every time I see a clip of him, it's just scornful condemnation of anything that is not a robotic, technocratic, neoliberal.
Joe Scarborough, just really just an angry person for 7 a.m., play cut 87.
The guy's just so gross.
He really is.
I mean, talking about Trump water, branded Trump water.
And by the way, he's such a hypocrite, too, talking about attacking Joe Biden while Joe Biden is going, you know, risking his life fighting for Western democracy, something he doesn't give a damn about.
Something, you know, when you have a guy that talks about suspending the Constitution, it's just absolutely insane.
So that was risking his life, like Hillary Clinton dodging sniper fire or Brian Williams almost being swept away by a hurricane.
Admittedly, him going to Kyiv took a spine.
Okay, that was something.
But risking his life, he called Putin ahead of time.
Putin wasn't going to do that.
Let's just take a step back.
Okay.
That is ridiculous.
Was it notable?
I'll acknowledge that.
That's notable.
That's a thing.
Okay.
To take a train to go to Kyiv and surprise, risking your life.
How significant do you think the military presence was around Joe Biden's train ride there?
People say he took a train.
I think that's the current narrative there.
So now Pete Buttigej is being asked questions in East Palestine, Ohio by our Turning Point USA reporters, and it's really bothering them because the regime media isn't just kind of saying, hey, Pete Budajej, please tell us about your deepest feelings of East Palestine.
Tell us how great you are.
No, actually, he's getting real questions and it really irritates him.
Savannah Hernandez from Turning Point USA, educational journalist right on the ground here, just asking Pete Buttigieg, and they said she's being too aggressive.
Yeah, you're not allowed to do that.
They're used to CNN.
Play cut 91.
So, can we ask why it took him almost three weeks to get here?
I'm sorry, I don't want to do this on camera.
Well, if you're the press secretary of the Secretary of the Department of Transportation, don't you think you should be able to ask questions from the American public?
Absolutely.
Certainly, I would like to do it without the camera on.
Can I ask why?
I think that is a little bit aggressive.
That's why it's not.
Why is it aggressive?
It's too aggressive.
These people have never been challenged.
I'm very proud of Turning Point USA.
People that you guys support Turning Point USA, that's one of our best.
Savannah Hernandez, part of our Frontlines project.
We've got a lot of different projects going on at Turning Point USA, and this is what I'm so proud of, where the whole mission of frontlines is just to tell the truth.
Go find powerful people and ask them questions.
That's it.
There's no political agenda.
There's no ideological agenda.
Just go find powerful people and ask them questions.
And the press secretary says, can you turn off the cameras?
Can you turn off the cameras?
I'm happy to explain it to you as long as no one knows.
It's a little aggressive for me.
And then, of course, I was just counting the minutes.
I said, how long until they attack Turning Point USA?
Because now they're starting to learn that Turning Point USA is deploying energetic, very disciplined young journalists to the front lines, and that freaks them out.
So Chaston, the partner, the husband of Pete Budajej, comes out and starts attacking Turning Point USA as disinformation artists.
Like, okay, pal, you're trying to say we're disinformation artists?
We're the one asking Pete your partner questions.
That's all we're doing.
And you can't, it's a little aggressive for me.
Turn off the cameras.
No agenda.
We're just going to ask powerful people questions.
And by the way, that's just one of many clips that are now going viral because, and all the rest of the media, they're so obedient.
They do whatever Buddha Jej wants.
We need more of this, everybody.
Citizen journalists.
And by the way, we are, in some ways, just trying to hold down the fort as Veritas goes through the whole circus.
Thanks so much for listening, everybody.
Email me your thoughts as alwaysfreedom at charliekirk.com.
Thank you so much for listening, and God bless.
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