Charlie tagged along with Donald Trump Jr. on his visit to Greenland, and he has a lot to say about it. It's a land where polar bears walk the streets (really!), the Danish government keeps it trapped in poverty, and many locals are eager to join America. Charlie lays out why buying Greenland is far from a flight of fancy, but a major way to make America great again.Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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I am back behind the microphone, back from Greenland.
Lots to share about that.
I first want to say we are going to cover the terrible tragedy that's happening with the California fires later this program.
Three friends of mine have already lost their homes.
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But first, I want to give you, in this audience, an exclusive update of what I was up to this last 24 hours.
Donald Trump Jr., a very good friend of mine, gave me a call and said, Hey, do you want to come to Greenland?
Yeah, that sounds great.
So we boarded Trump Force One at 2 a.m.
on January the 7th.
I even hid this from most of my own staff.
Almost no one had any idea this was not to be leaked, not to be publicized.
At 2 a.m., we got on Trump Force One and flew from Palm Beach to Nook, to Nook, Greenland.
Six-hour flight, three-hour time change.
Let's get all the videos, guys, up there and all the pictures, please.
Landed around 11 a.m.
local time as the sun was rising.
The sunrise in Greenland this time of year is at 11 a.m.
Get off the plane.
And by the way, we are greeted by hundreds of people.
Hundreds of people that are just curious.
We then go to the top of a very sacred site in Greenland, the place where the first missionary actually ever came to Greenland from Europe in 1745. Yeah, that's it right there.
That's right as the sun is rising.
And all of a sudden we started to run into people with MAGA hats all throughout Nook, Greenland.
Now, mind you, the population of Greenland is 50,000 people.
In Nook, it's something like 30,000 people maybe.
And all of a sudden people are lining the streets asking Donald Trump Jr. for pictures and they have MAGA hats.
And there's people, by the way, there was a greeting group at the airport of hundreds of people.
What was striking is how many people in Nook Greenland watched the Charlie Kirk show, followed us on TikTok.
They said, oh, I follow you on TikTok.
Oh, I follow you on social media.
There's one of the people right there with the MAGA hat who was working at the airport and greeted us with a MAGA hat on right as the Trump Force One was coming in.
One of the ushers at the airport.
We then went to a restaurant and we were literally so...
We were so consumed by people, so overwhelmed, we had to go get a private room, and then we brought some of the local folks in.
There's Donald Trump Jr. just with some of the workers there, signing MAGA hats, taking questions, talking to people.
And we were there for three hours on the ground, and we learned a lot.
We learned a lot.
Number one, it is so hard to do it justice.
It's very, very hard to articulate.
It's hard to show the pictures of just how beautiful Greenland is.
I've been to Alaska.
I've been to all parts of Canada.
It is, objectively, one of the most pristine, overwhelming physical environments that I have ever seen.
It's untouched.
It's as raw nature as you can ever...
Fine.
That you can ever come in contact with.
It's like, you are here and there is the wild.
There's polar bears that walk around Nook.
Polar bears.
Very spiritual in many ways.
Incredibly so.
That's number one.
Number two, talking to the locals and getting to know them, they can't stand their current Danish masters.
They believe that Denmark, who is currently controlling of Greenland and of Nook, which is the largest city in Greenland, they are being mistreated.
They do not like the status quo.
And they want a change.
They say that when they go to Copenhagen, which of course is the capital of Denmark, they are told by local Danes, go back to your home of Nook.
You're not welcome here.
They want...
To be part of a country that respects them.
That gives them human rights.
Right now they said, quote, we feel like prisoners in our own land.
That we are being controlled by these Danish masters who treat us terribly.
And number three, which was the other take, where the people of Greenland are some of the sweetest.
They are some of the kindest and warmest people.
Incredibly authentic.
Now, you might be asking, but what is the reason that everyone is talking about Greenland?
Greenland is not just a fun issue to debate.
There are very serious geopolitical reasons as to why the United States of America should assume control or purchase or whatever process the president ends up doing back control of Greenland.
Number one, Greenland is the northernmost land in the Western Hemisphere.
And has critical military importance.
The shortest route from America to Russia is actually across the North Pole.
That's why we have actually a military base in northern Greenland, Thule Space Force Base, whose purpose is to monitor potential and possible missile launches.
Greenland is the world's largest island.
There are tons of resources buried under its ice cap.
We actually don't even know how wealthy As a side note, a young boy comes up.
He says, Charlie, Charlie.
I said, oh, hey, how are you?
I follow you on TikTok.
I need to show you something.
He shows me his phone.
He says, in my village three hours from here, when we just kind of go out into the countryside, we find rubies the size of baseballs.
I said, what?
He said, we have rubies the size of baseballs in my village.
Now, mind you, they're not as valuable as you might think because they need to be...
They need to be cut a certain way and they lose value, but they're very valuable.
And he says, the Danes don't let us mine our rubies, our gold, our lithium, or our gas.
He said it's time for a rebellion against the Danes.
The younger people of Nook, the younger people of Greenland, they want to be rich.
And oh my goodness, do they have wealth in Greenland.
Incomprehensible amounts of wealth.
We are talking that Greenland...
Could be the new Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Russia, Permian Basin, Marcellus Shale, and the Balkan, all mixed into one.
America should want those resources for our country, and Greenland should want them for their country.
We'd be far more willing and able to develop them than Denmark and the socialist Greta Thunberg environmentalists from Copenhagen.
In the long run, they will be developed by someone.
There are three options of who will control Greenland.
America, Russia, or China.
America, Russia, or China.
You're trying to tell me the Danish military is going to be able to fend off the Chinese Communist Party?
Greenland is so strategic, this is the third and final point, that during World War II, the United States occupied it just to keep Germans from seizing it.
After the war, we briefly proposed buying it back, but instead we gave it back.
We never should have given it back.
We should have insisted on a sale and assumed control of it.
Acquiring Greenland would give America a sense of growing vitality.
There would be a new American territory for ambitious Americans to go and develop.
And I could tell you in my short time there, but it was very thorough, there is so much opportunity.
You are talking about...
Places where resorts can be developed.
Entrepreneurs can deepen their roots.
The fishing, the wildlife, the hunting, the natural experience.
It is a perfect fit to the United States.
And people say, oh, you know, Charlie, America shouldn't expand.
Well, Alaska's part of the United States.
We purchased Alaska, and that was a good purchase for America.
Greenland, for the 21st century, would not just be good, it is essential.
It is integral, strategic location, defense against threats, access to key resources, preventing China's expansion, and economic and military advantage.
It was an honor to be able to see Greenland firsthand and right up close.
I never thought I would do it.
And I think the table is set for President Trump to make the art of the deal happen, the art of the possible.
And we might welcome Greenland as part of our American family.
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The people of Greenland are being terrorized by the Danish government.
And some people are saying, oh, you know, why do we want to expand the United States of America?
Look, we don't have a choice.
China is expanding.
And it's not a matter of even expansionism.
If you are against the acquisition of Greenland, then you should say, let's give Alaska back to Russia.
You must be consistent.
You should say, hey, we should just give the Louisiana purchase back.
To the French, Greenland is a small population of people that want to be great, that want their country back, that want to come to greatness.
And they were so complimentary of America.
They said, Americans, Americans are the nicest.
They are the kindest.
This is what the Greenlandic government said in 2021 when it scuttled the search for oil there.
Quote, the future does not lie in oil.
The future belongs to renewable energy.
The government said it wants to take co-responsibility for combating the global climate crisis.
So what they're saying is they want the people of Nook to remain poor because of climate change.
No growth.
Really, how are you going to power all of your AI data centers?
So basically, let's keep Greenland in the third world while they are sitting on liquid gold, and a lot of liquid gold.
By the way, you could structure a deal very similar to Alaska, where there is a trust, basically a universal basic income, where the people of Greenland could all get royalties off of the extracted oil, natural gas, and minerals.
It works in Alaska, and it could work in Greenland.
They have 50,000 people in Greenland, and they could all be partners in this deal.
And how about lithium or nickel, the key ingredients of technology?
Of the technology of the future.
This stuff does not just come ex nihilo and fall from the skies and the heavens.
What do you think your semiconductors are made of?
What do you think your phones are made of?
These environmentalists, they never want us to dig or search or exploit.
At the same time, they want to have an AI data center so you could go make an image of a cat dancing to YMCA. Well, what do you think actually powers the ability for you to be able to do that?
Rare Earth, by the way, is a huge component.
Do you know that the Chinese Communist Party controls 80% of all of the planet's rare earth minerals?
So here you have Greenland with wonderful people, strategically located, liquid gold, nickel, lithium, rare earth minerals.
It has 56,000 people.
So you're not talking about potentially assuming 56 million people.
56,000 people.
And by the way, if the Democrats all of a sudden say, oh, I don't know, you guys let 10,000 people a day into this country illegally.
I think 56,000 people in a separate territory is perfectly legitimate if we're going to get liquid gold, natural resources, strategic placement.
I mean, it's nothing but benefits, but there is this other component.
It makes America dream again.
That we're not just this sad, low-testosterone, beta male, slouching in our chair, allowing the world to run over us.
It is the resurrection of masculine American energy.
It is the return of manifest destiny.
Gulf of America.
We're taking back the Panama Canal.
And we're going to do whatever it takes to have Greenland be part of the United States of America.
And look, you can let the locals make decisions about their sovereignty.
Do a referendum.
If there is a referendum, the Danes will lose.
I guarantee that.
If there is a referendum, the Danes will lose.
The Greenlandic people love America.
They're wearing MAGA hats on the side of the street cheering.
How hard is it to get a MAGA hat in Greenland?
It's pretty remarkable.
This is about strengthening.
And solidifying the United States of America.
We've tried many times to try to purchase Greenland.
It's not a new idea.
But also, the Danes should sit this one out.
How many hundreds of billions of dollars have we spent on European security and defense over the years?
On NATO? On our military bases?
We pay for all of their national defense.
And Denmark is a small country.
Small, nice, fine, whatever.
I think they're technically a Scandinavian country.
I think they are.
Norway, Sweden, Finland, Denmark.
I think they are.
It's probably nothing against Denmark.
But the Danes are not going to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party.
That's a joke.
Not going to stand up to this behemoth in the East.
For the well-being of the people of Greenland, come under the United States of America.
You'll be wealthier.
You'll be happier.
You'll be protected.
You'll be safer.
You are living through history, everybody.
And we will cherish your homeland and protect it from all the enemies around the world.
And we will make Greenland great again.
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Joining us now is Senator Ron Johnson from the great state.
Senator, thank you so much for joining the program.
Lots to cover here.
Senator, first, I want to talk about some news within the United States Senate.
Are you in the opinion that we should have one major omnibus bill or two separate spending bills?
Listen, I'll go with whatever works.
I personally think it'd be easier to get the border funding passed because I think the tax bill...
Settling on, I think, the major sticking point is going to be what spending level are we going to agree to within the conference?
We've got big spenders in our conference as well.
I don't think anybody voted for President Trump to maintain Biden's spending levels, and I want to talk a little bit about that.
But I think the easiest thing to do would be two packages, quite honestly, so we can get that border funding right away.
Before the news media starts talking about what it looks like to deport somebody, could have a few individuals waver on their support for that.
So I'd rather get the border funding done and then take our time.
Part of the tax thing, I'd really like to simplify and rationalize their tax code.
Primary goals prevent a massive automatic tax increase from occurring in 2026. I mean, that ought to be incentive enough.
But as long as we're doing that, if we can simplify a rationalized tax code, that'd be a good thing.
But we must agree on dramatically lower spending levels than what we're spending right now.
This is absurd that we haven't returned to some pre-pandemic baseline.
In 2019, Charlie, we spent $4.4 trillion.
Then we have the spending spree during 2020, that was $6.6 trillion.
Last five years, we've averaged $6.5 trillion.
We've never returned to pre-pandemic level baseline, which is absurd.
It's ridiculous.
It's just not justified.
Yeah, so what is the appetite right now in the U.S. Senate to cut spending?
Is there anybody in the Democrat Party that's interested in this because we're borrowing a trillion dollars every hundred days?
No, and my concern is we're not going to have enough Republicans that are willing to do it either.
Again, it's so easy to just say, oh, well, that's what we spent last year, and boy, if we don't spend at least that amount, we're going to be accused of starving women and children.
So I'm trying to make the case.
I'm trying to actually tell the American public, these are the numbers, because I think we have a general sense that the federal government is totally out of control, but nobody knows specifically.
That's what I'm saying.
$4.4 trillion in 2019. Last five years, now $6.5 trillion.
Charlie, that's absurd.
It's like a family who makes $100,000, right, or spends $100,000.
They have an illness.
All of a sudden, they have $50,000 worth of medical bills, so they spend $150,000.
That individual gets cured, but they continue to spend $150,000 and borrow the money to do it.
I mean, nobody would do that.
That's exactly what the federal government's doing.
So I think we explain this.
I've come up with a couple different options.
For example, if you go back to 1998, that's the last year we had, the first year we had a surplus since 1969. This was Bill Clinton's spending.
And you take Social Security and Medicare off the table, you just plug those in at Biden's 2025 numbers and interest, but inflate all of Bill Clinton's spending to account for population growth and inflation, we'd be spending $5.5 trillion, and we have a balanced budget.
So does anybody argue that Bill Clinton didn't spend enough money on all this other crap?
If you go back to Obama's 2014, did the same thing, that'd be $6.2 trillion.
Even if you use 2019 and inflate it, again, based on population and inflation, you'd be at about $6.5 trillion, which is $800 billion less than what Biden says he's going to spend right now.
So why would we lock into Biden numbers?
And be arguing over saving $100 billion or so.
I mean, it's so inadequate.
We need to dramatically lower the baseline spending level back to what it was prior to the pandemic.
I totally and completely agree.
If you were to say just some of the, and I know you've detailed some of this, but where can we find some agreement in the Republican Conference of where to cut?
Is there any appetite to cut some of the Pentagon budget?
Certainly is on my part.
I think we need to really...
Look, where do we spend our money?
I mean, we've got these massive platforms that can be taken out with asymmetric warfare.
We've got these Abram tanks.
They have to kind of run out of their hole in Ukraine, fire a couple shots, and run right back because they're vulnerable to the drones.
Drones that cost thousands of dollars, not millions.
So again, the Pentagon, they're not keeping up with warfare right now.
They're coddling to the military-industrial complex.
The 155-millimeter shells, this is a prime example.
Russia produces those things, about 4.5 million of them, at about $600 a pop.
The West can only produce about 2 million shells.
We get charged $6,000, 8,000 euros in Europe.
That's how we're getting hosed, I'll use that word, by the military-industrial complex.
So yeah, no, we've got to take a real serious look at that.
So, Senator...
Let's now dive into the very curious developments of John Fetterman.
John Fetterman, who seems to be very hard to pinpoint here.
Here he is in this interview admonishing his fellow Democrats for opposing the Lake and Riley Act.
Let's play cut 64. We have hundreds and hundreds of thousands of migrants here illegally that have convicted of crimes.
And I don't know why.
Who wants to defend to allow them to remain in our nation after that?
And now, if you're here illegally and you're committing crimes and those things, I don't know why anybody thinks that it's controversial that they all need to go.
Do you think that this was one of, if not the biggest issue for this election?
Well, I think if we can't, you know, there's 47 of us in the Senate, and if we can't pull up with seven votes, if we can't get at least seven out of 47, if we can't, then that's the reason why we lost.
That's one of them.
That's one of why we lost, in part.
Senator, what is going on with Mr. Fetterman?
Well, first of all, he comes from a swing state like I do, and he realizes that, you know, obviously they lost the Senate seat in Pennsylvania.
He'll be up for re-election eventually.
I think, again, he's smart enough to realize that that was a big issue in this election.
And by the way, who could oppose, literally, what rational individual can oppose deporting criminals?
Well, Democrat Party, in total, they did oppose that because they wanted an open border.
They elect George Soros prosecutors, but a lot of those prosecutors lost as well.
So, you know, Fetterman, in a swing state, sees when the tide...
And he's a smart enough politician to at least not buck these major trends where, again, you can't defend opposing a bill that's going to deport criminals.
So it's hard to tell whether or not it's authentic.
Do you think that there will be more Democrats that potentially might signal similarly and John Ossoff or others?
Your thoughts on this?
Well, listen, I think vulnerable Democrats, those are up for reelection in 2026. They may vote.
I'll be surprised if we get more than six, because if we get seven, the bill passes.
I'm not sure the Democrat Party is going to let it pass.
I mean, again, I can't explain that.
I mean, I can't explain liberalism.
I can't explain the way the Democrat Party is taking such a strong turn to the left here.
But that's who they are right now.
Let's play cut 95, Senator Fetterman, of whether or not he might support some of Trump's nominees.
Play cut 95. But I want to sit down and have a conversation, and I'm really glad that I've done that.
And some of these nominees, I'm going to vote for already.
In fact, you know, whether it's our colleague Rubio, Representative Stefanik, or even Sean Duffy, you know, I expect to vote for him as well, too.
And Brooke Rollins for agriculture, again.
So there's a lot of them I can say right now here on Fox.
I'm going to vote for them.
And there's others, you know, that we're going to go through the process.
I'm open to hear from everyone.
And I don't know why that's controversial.
I mean, I wish that was the way that this would proceed, that we would have more discussions and dialogues like this and be open-minded.
I mean, Senator, you voted for some nominees of other parties before.
Can you speak to that?
I'm not putting you on the spot for that, but I'm saying there should be some yielding to an incoming administration, correct?
Well, that pretty much used to be the tradition of the Senate is, okay, elections matter.
A president should decide who wants to serve in their cabinet.
And as long as there's nothing disqualifying, you go ahead and confirm that nominee.
For one thing, you want to work with those department heads.
So you don't want to start off a relationship and say, I'm going to vote against you.
So again, the bias always was, if it's a qualified individual, elections matter.
You'd go ahead and vote for confirmation and try and work with that department head for the benefit of our constituents and for the benefit of America.
I stopped doing that with the Biden administration because the nominees were just wacko, radical leftists.
And in the end, you say, I can't support that at all.
So it's changed.
It's become very partisan.
That is unfortunate.
But what Fetterman's talking about right now is pretty much the way that the senators has always traditionally looked at confirmations.
And there's been a lot of bipartisan support for cabinet heads.
In closing here, Senator, is there any red flags that you are seeing from Pete to Tulsi to Bobby Kennedy Cash?
Some senators are saying that all of Trump's nominees seem poised to be confirmed.
Would you agree with that assessment?
I think so, because the default position, particularly on the Republican side, is elections do matter.
Trump had a convincing victory, and it's up to Trump to decide who he wants serving his cabinet.
Whether you like that individual or not, you're not the president.
He is.
And so our duty is pretty much to get in line and go ahead and confirm his nominees, barring some really disqualifying factors.
So I think that's the attitude of most Republican senators, and I do expect them to get confirmed.
What is the importance of the upcoming Wisconsin Supreme Court race, Senator?
It's vital.
Anybody who wants to run for president as Republican in 2028 better help support our...
Candidate for the Supreme Court.
If you want to maintain a majority in the House, if that court remains liberal, they will redistrict the federal, and we'll probably lose a couple of House seats, and we may never get the 10 electoral votes for Wisconsin again.
So it's absolutely crucial.
America has to focus on this.
Democrats will.
Democrats will send tens of millions of dollars, as they have in the past, to be the same support from conservatives and from Republicans.
Senator Johnson, thank you so much.
Excellent work as always.
Thank you.
Have a great day.
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The Mark Zuckerberg news is very big.
I did not get a chance to comment on it.
For those of you that missed the program yesterday or do not quite know the news, Mark Zuckerberg announced sweeping policy changes, saying they're getting rid of their fact-checking department, that this election was about more speech, not less speech, that they're changing their content moderation team to go from California to Texas.
These are dramatic changes.
And before I get into the details here, and I've had a chance to sit down with Mark Zuckerberg.
I'm getting to know Mark Zuckerberg.
People say, do you trust him or not?
I said, I'm getting to know him.
I found him to be very sincere when I sat down with him.
But it's going to be a growing relationship over these years.
that i appreciate basically mark and the facebook team joel kaplan and everybody who joel i do know very well to stand up to the government to stand up to these regimes and say no we are going to protect freedom of speech we're going to protect freedom of discourse let's play some pieces of tape here this is cut 51 hey everyone I want to talk about something important today, because it's time to get back to our roots around free expression on Facebook and Instagram.
There's been widespread debate about potential harms from online content.
Governments and legacy media have pushed to censor more and more.
A lot of this is clearly political.
But there's also a lot of legitimately bad stuff out there.
Drugs, terrorism, child exploitation.
These are things that we take very seriously and I want to make sure that we handle responsibly.
So we built a lot of complex systems to moderate content.
But the problem with complex systems is they make mistakes.
And we've reached a point where it's just too many mistakes and too much censorship.
So we're going to get back to our roots and focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms.
We got to give Elon so much credit here.
He took the risk and stood up for freedom of speech.
And this is a movement now three years later.
We are going to have the most open internet that we've had in a decade.
And the trend was a more controlled, a censored and censored internet.
We were going towards totalitarianism online.
And Elon Musk bought Twitter.
And because of his purchase of Twitter, President Trump was then able to win a triumphant landslide victory.
And here we are, fast forward three years later, where you have Facebook sounding like Elon Musk.
And in fact, Mark Zuckerberg went as far to say in his comments, X has it right, we want to follow more of the model of X. They are ready to show that this is not just talk, but this is action.
Real follow-through.
Accounts restored.
No more fact-checking.
No more suppression of political posts.
You must trust, but verify.
And I could tell you this last year.
I mean, I said this to the Facebook team.
I said this to Mark.
TikTok was way more viral for us than Instagram this last year.
It wasn't even close.
Daisy and the team did a great job running Instagram, but TikTok was as hot as a pistol.
I mean, TikTok was billions and billions and billions of views.
One of the reasons why is Facebook made a decision that they were going to dampen down all political content this year.
That it wasn't going to be as easy for political content to go viral on Facebook.
Mark Zuckerberg made his announcement, so sorry, never mind, we're going to go back.
And that's a good thing that you're going back.
These should not be political actors, and there does need to be some proof that the atonement for the $400 million given to Joe Biden to get him elected in 2020, you've got to get over that.
But I can say this is phenomenal development.
Phenomenal.
Mark Zuckerberg is reading the room, and the trend is our friend.
We should welcome that.
By the way, some people are saying, oh, you know, I don't trust him.
I'm not asking you to trust him.
You should welcome when people come in your direction.
That is key.
You should not be bitter or walled off where you say, oh, you weren't with me when.
It's a different thing of having people in your inner circle versus saying he's in control of the biggest platform on the planet.
He's saying something we agree with.
He's doing things allegedly that we agree with.
He wants to fight regime censorship around the world that I applaud.
And as somebody who has 4 million followers on Instagram and a couple million followers on Facebook, I can tell you that a free and open Facebook and meta is very, very good for the cause of America First and Liberty and the cause that we care about on this program.
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