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March 5, 2025 - The Charlie Kirk Show

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THOUGHTCRIME: Renewal of the American Dream Speech Special

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	Hello, everybody.
	That was quite the speech.
	I hustled back down to the studio after a rather eventful evening.
	We are going to have all the exclusive analysis here on our respective channels.
	And it was quite a barn-burning speech in many different ways.
	President Trump listing off his accomplishments, his vision, his agenda for the country.
	And, of course...
	All of the impediments that the Democrats are going to throw up.
	Now we see this a lot, where Democrats refuse to stand, Democrats refuse to applaud, but it's worse than ever.
	And literally there was one moment where Donald Trump called out a young man with brain cancer becoming an agent of the Secret Service, and Democrats still did not stand up and applaud.
	If you will not stand up and applaud for a young boy who becomes a member of the Secret Service in an honorary way...
	There's something really sick and messed up about you.
	Okay, we have Blake.
	Blake, how we doing?
	Howdy.
	And I think we also have Jack Remote as well.
	Producer Andrew is coming in here.
	Now, these speeches, they tend to not matter a lot.
	However, I will say, I think we first need to appreciate the macro.
	How awesome it is to kind of see our year of work crescendo in this.
	I mean, it's like all of our friends are involved from Kash Patel.
	To Bobby Kennedy, come on in, Tyler.
	And the whole team.
	Pretty remarkable stuff.
	Pete Hegseth.
	It was like a...
	They were wondering, would any of those guys get through?
	And they basically all got through.
	And I think you deserve a huge amount of credit for that.
	Charlie, you deserve a huge amount of credit for that.
	The team deserves credit.
	For one or two of those, I will receive some praise.
	Pete Hegseth in particular, that was the red line.
	You drew the battle line.
	And you deserve a ton of credit for that.
	It was like America Fest there on the floor.
	No, that's exactly right.
	It's like our speaker list for that.
	Okay, Jack is with us.
	Remote Jack, can you hear me?
	Jack, your thoughts?
	Instant analysis, Jack, as Miss Daisy is doing all of the aesthetic adjustments here.
	Jack, your reaction to this historic address tonight from President Trump?
	Yeah, so first of all, Charlie, I think you hit the nail on the head in terms of the macro.
	Not only is this a cap on a remarkable year in 2024, but also it's a cap on a remarkable four-year period, an interregnum.
	Remember the last time President Trump was giving a speech in this same chamber, Nancy Pelosi was...
	Tearing it apart and throwing it on the floor.
	And now Nancy Pelosi is sitting up in the cheap seats crying.
	This is a man who the entire world had written off.
	This is a man who the entire DC power structure, the power structure that you say there assembled, one of the only times all year that you'll see this, by the way, the three branches represented in one room there in the Capitol.
	They said this man was done, that Trumpism was a fluke, that MAGA was done, that it would never return.
	And yet, in really not that long at all, it's right back, but back in full dominating command.
	And this was a command performance from President Trump.
	Even the Democrats were stuck simply reacting to him.
	And I think one of the key things that a lot of people are leaving out, and I know folks will, and it's already trending, of course, all over Twitter, that people are talking about how they're all, it's the stunt, The Democrats are performing stunt after stunt and trying to be disruptive and holding up placards and all this.
	this.
	But what it really comes down to it is, Charlie, the Democrats have no message.
	That's why they're resorting to stunts.
	That's why they're trying to delay.
	They have no message.
	The things that President Trump are doing are popular.
	Their own polls indicate this, that the American people widely support what he is doing.
	This election wouldn't have come down the way that he did, winning the popular vote, going seven for seven in the swing states, if they didn't actually want the things that he is currently doing.
	And that's why the Democrats are sitting there flailing about because they are in absolute panic mode.
	They're demoralized.
	They're completely demoralized.
	And all they can do is basically sit there and jeer because they have no actual response to the work of the American people that's being done by President Trump, J.D. Vance, and yes, even Speaker Johnson.
	So I want to just make sure this is framed correctly for that this was not a technical State of the Union address.
	This was the kind of setup of the administration.
	I mean, first the news-gathering item of Al Green trying to interrupt and interject, but the Democrats just looked like angry hall monitors.
	Petulant.
	Petulant.
	Sore losers.
	Small, sore losers, not applauding kids with brain cancer.
	I mean, and the Republicans looked lively.
	We looked forward thinking.
	Andrew, have we ever seen...
	I mean, we've been working together almost seven or eight years.
	I've been doing this for 13 years.
	Have we ever seen, let's just say, since Obama, the Democrat Party this week, this disunified, demoralized, just they are a bitter shell for themselves.
	Almost as if they're a permanent minoritarian faction.
	That was one of my biggest takeaways.
	Just how nasty and how small they've become.
	Well, they've found themselves...
	Because of their TDS, and I know it's cliche at this point, but it's really true, on the losing side of just about every 70-30 issue, sometimes 80-20 issue, and they've dug their heels in, they're doubling down on stupid, and they just keep going for it.
	I mean, you know, proof positive is the fact that you were just invited on the Gavin Newsom podcast to explain why they're losing so bad.
	And why you're drawing crowds of 3,000, 4,000, 5,000 students on these blue campuses.
	Because they have zero energy.
	They have zero activist energy, specifically.
	There's nothing bottom-up in the Democrat movement right now.
	It's just the sparks aren't there.
	They're trying to get people rallied at these pro-Ukraine things.
	It's not working.
	They're trying to get people rallied against Doge.
	It's not working.
	It's not sticking.
	They're trying to do these really cringe videos of all the senators.
	You know, doing the same video over and over and over again, and it gets mocked mercilessly online.
	Everything that they are throwing at this president, he is literally Teflon Don.
	It's not just lawfare anymore.
	It's not just, you know, trying to bankrupt his businesses.
	It's not just trying to get him impeached.
	Everything that they are throwing at him is not sticking.
	And here is the real rub if you're a Democrat tonight.
	He read the Zelensky letter.
	The Zelensky letter that says, I'm ready to sign the middle of the rights deal at your convenience, Mr. President.
	Thank you for your leadership.
	Let's get peace in Ukraine.
	Let's get to some of the tape here, just to kind of, you know, if people are just tuning in, they had stuff to do, they were at practice or whatever.
	Let's just kind of go through some of the tape here.
	I want to go around the horn.
	Let's start with Cot 118.
	And to my fellow citizens, America is back.
	Followed by one of the more viral moments where President Trump went through just some of the waste of doge plaza.
	Playcut 119. $40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants.
	Nobody knows what that is.
	$8 million to promote LGBTQI+. In the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of.
	$60 million for indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian empowerment in Central America.
	$60 million.
	Sir, we have the ambassador and president from Lesotho on the line.
	Who the hell is from Lesotho, Blake?
	What is the capital of Lesotho?
	Oh, what's the capital of Lesotho?
	Oh, crap.
	It might be Mbobane.
	I have to go check that out.
	Study harder, Blake.
	Mbobane.
	It is the country that is completely surrounded by South Africa.
	Yeah, it's South Africa.
	Yeah, it's the one totally surrounded by South Africa.
	Let me check what the...
	I'm going to look it up.
	I think you're right.
	I just looked it up, and it's...
	I think it's Masaru.
	Oh, it's Masaru.
	Masaru.
	There's a lot of ones that start with M that are, like, all Samish and African.
	But I love President Trump running through the LGBT. He's like, L-G-P-T-U-I-P-L-S. In my defense, Mbobane is the capital of...
	Iswatani, which is the other country surrounding it.
	Blake, you're not allowed to be wrong.
	This is an image of the Lesotho.
	I always thought it was called Lesotho.
	I looked up the pronunciation.
	Here's the beautiful Masero.
	Masero.
	Masero?
	I don't know.
	Masero.
	There it is.
	Nobody's ever heard of it.
	I've heard it.
	President Trump continued by...
	I just want to run through this just to kind of reestablish the vibe.
	President Donald Trump continued by talking about how he declared an emergency on the southern border, something that the Democrats do not like and they don't support.
	Play cut 120. Within hours of taking the oath of office, I declared a national emergency on our southern border, and I deployed the U.S. military and border patrol to repel the invasion of our country.
	And what a job they've done.
	As a result, illegal border crossings last month were by far the lowest ever recorded.
	ever.
	They heard my words and they chose not to come.
	Much easier that way.
	In comparison, under Joe Biden, the worst president in American history, there were hundreds of thousands of illegal crossings a month, and virtually all of them, including murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and people from mental institutions and insane asylums, were released into our country.
	Blake, so we can go into more detail here, but just more broadly, we're talking about Doge, America's back.
	What do you think of the vibe, the tone that President Trump struck here?
	It feels as if he's resolutely on offense and not letting up.
	Yeah, it really is.
	Considering he's been in office a month and a half, it almost sounded like a State of the Union he'd give a year in.
	Totally.
	Bam!
	We're on aggression on the border.
	We're doing all of this in foreign policy.
	We're going to be wrapping up the Ukraine war.
	We're going to be trying to get Greenland.
	He even kind of lays out...
	The approach on Greenland where he's saying we support Greenlandic self-determination because that's how it would happen.
	We're unlikely to just invade it.
	What it would be is we would want the people of Greenland to agitate for independence and then say, you know, we'll accept you if you were to obtain independence.
	He lays it out that way.
	Obviously on the border, on Doge.
	On combating the cartels, it really does.
	It sounds like an administration that's a lot older than six weeks.
	And I want to marvel again.
	I know we said this at the beginning.
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	The other element that I just, the visual of seeing Trump's cabinet was just remarkable.
	Oh, look, they have at least Slotkin for the response.
	We definitely will not air that.
	That is a cursed and a wretched, let's just say.
	Duty?
	Yeah, task.
	I was going to task that one has.
	Tyler, just kind of from the internet vibe here, most of America doesn't watch this speech.
	Everyone kind of goes to their teams.
	But was there anything the Democrats did to win over leaners, independents?
	In fact, I think President Trump did a lot to probably bring anybody that might have been like, oh, I'm not sure about this Doge thing.
	Further into our camp, I thought he delivered it very effective.
	I thought that the way he went about it was a master class.
	And I'm not just saying that because he's a friend and we support him.
	I thought a lot of center-right people in my life were texting me very favorably throughout the speech, Tyler.
	Yeah, no, I totally agree.
	I think this was the best speech he's ever given.
	By a lot.
	And we've been very critical and watched every single one.
	I thought he was excellent.
	He was excellent.
	How they handled the people who were out of line.
	He was great.
	He was magnanimous.
	And Speaker Johnson did it perfectly.
	That was one of the most surprising moments.
	Do we have a tape from that?
	The forcefulness with which he said...
	And you could actually...
	There was a moment, by the way.
	I hope we get this in the clip, where the anger flashed on Speaker Johnson's face.
	It was actually something.
	You could see it.
	Righteous indignation.
	He kind of like...
	Mike Johnson glared at Al Green, you could tell, and then he kind of composed himself.
	Gosh darn it, stop it.
	I'm a little surprised.
	I'll be honest.
	I'm a little surprised once that started happening that Democrats didn't plunge in on it and say, okay, fine, escort all of us out.
	Imagine if they'd done that.
	Take a half hour to walk every single one out.
	They got the vibe that it was not going well for them.
	You could see it through the screen.
	And Mike Johnson, he's a little guy.
	And he's nice, and he's like your next-door neighbor.
	He's the guy that you see at PTA meetings.
	Let's analyze it.
	That's right.
	Mike Johnson is the guy that shows up early at church, and he helps you park cars.
	Exactly.
	Welcome to our congress.
	Exactly.
	Yes.
	Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted.
	This is based for Mike Johnson.
	The chair now directs the sergeant.
	Mike Johnson unleashed.
	Remove this gentleman from the chamber.
	I love this.
	Look at Ted Luda.
	Remove this gentleman from JD. JD with the thumb.
	Yeah, by the way, that meme's going huge.
	JD has surprising memetic capacity.
	Rumble has a, like, Rumble Plus has a JD stare.
	Because JD understands memes.
	Yes, Jack.
	Yeah, Jack, break down the meme ability of JD Vance.
	Memetic warfare.
	Right.
	Right, so JD understands memetic warfare.
	He's already been the hottest meme of the last 24 hours.
	JD Vance edits are currently the hottest meme.
	If you're in the meme economy right now, you want to invest heavily in JD Vance edits right now.
	They're going to the moon.
	Are you long on JD memes?
	They're currently moving.
	And it's just incredible.
	So much to cover, guys.
	Let's go to some more tape here of Speaker Mike Johnson getting a little bit fired up.
	This is 134. Oh, this is when, I'm sorry, this is Al Green, who is going when he went after the reporters.
	Al Green, you know what Al Green was shouting?
	I voted for trans mice.
	That's what he was.
	I watched.
	This is amazing.
	Play cut 134. He is a person who has consistently used incivility against civility.
	Well, look, I'm willing to suffer whatever punishment is available to me.
	I didn't say to anyone, don't punish me.
	I've said I'll accept the punishment.
	But it's worth it to let people know that there are some of us who are going to stand up against this president's desire to cut Medicaid, Medicare, and Social Security.
	Okay, that's the best they got.
	By the way, he's all alone.
	I think he thought he was going to have some sort of show of force.
	That was the Jerry Maguire of the joint session.
	Who's coming with me?
	It's like a Napoleon move, and he charges out.
	It's like, men, follow me!
	And he runs up, turns around.
	No one followed him, gets blown away.
	No, the Sergeant of Arms came down to him and whispered to him.
	That's what he was saying to him.
	Hey, nobody's with you.
	Nobody's with you.
	You're not cool.
	You're not cool.
	They're all legends of their own minds.
	They actually thought that all the Democrats would come with him as if Moses parting the Red Sea and everyone just marches out.
	And then they realized it was just Al Green, but not like the good Al Green.
	I just want to know why it is that Mr. Snuffleupagus was escorted out.
	This was one of my favorite moments.
	This was President Donald Trump saying, so how did all that work out for you?
	Just a beautiful taunt to these savages that wanted to put Donald Trump in Rikers Island.
	A taunt to all of them and making them eat it in front of their face, in front of the media.
	He deserves all this, by the way.
	President Trump should have gone.
	He was, by Trump terms, very restrained and presidential because he could have gone a lot harder on them on this stuff.
	A lot harder.
	Considering a lot of the architects of the Trump lawfare were in the audience.
	Schiff was there.
	Adam Schiff was in the audience.
	A lot of these people that have been trying to put Donald Trump behind bars were right there.
	Let's play Cut 121. We've ended weaponized government where, as an example, a sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent, like me.
	How did that work out?
	Not too good.
	Not too good.
	And I have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America.
	It's back.
	And two days ago, I signed an order making English the official language of the United States of America.
	Also, a shout out to Tai Gant.
	20 bucks.
	Thank you, guys.
	He says his message was, thank you, Charlie.
	Hello, Tygon.
	His name is Charlie.
	Oh, Charlie.
	Very good.
	So, Lawfare.
	I think it's French.
	Charlay.
	Charlay.
	I got a lot of friends in France.
	Charlay Cook.
	You do.
	The French love you.
	Who wants to take this?
	Whoever can chime in.
	Charlay Vu Francais.
	Is this the end of the modern Lawfare state?
	Who wants to take it?
	That's a big question.
	Have we seen an end?
	The point being that it's now not just unethical so that it's wrong, but what Trump might have done is that it actually could create a political force that could displace you, meaning that it's now politically dangerous to do this.
	I think, given how aggressive the left got, kind of the best way to check it is a sense of mutually assured destruction.
	And if there is a fear that if you go...
	Way beyond the bounds of what can remotely be justified, that you'll get vaporized by the DOJ in some way, that will encourage polite behavior.
	An armed society is a polite society, as a lot of gun rights activists like to say, and we can have...
	That same principle apply to lawfare.
	The best guarantee against lawfare is that both sides can do it to each other.
	Thank you, Max Q, for a $5 donation.
	Thank you very much.
	Mutually assured destruction.
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, I would say that my read on it is their overreaction to Trump, even as he's been president, they're saying he's weaponizing the DOJ, Kash Patel, whatever.
	It's simply a projection of their own guilt onto themselves.
	Because they know that they acted out of line.
	They know that they have it coming.
	And they know that he has every right to seek a little bit of retribution after what happened to him.
	And so all of this is projection.
	All of this is them being fearful.
	I love the side-by-side clip of Kash Patel before he was even nominated to be a director saying, Schiff is a criminal.
	He's the number one criminal in Congress.
	And then you've got Schiff protesting.
	Cash Patel becoming the next FBI director.
	There's a reason these people are running in panic.
	Well, and that's with bullies.
	I mean, the only way that you can defeat a bully is by standing up to a bully.
	And you've got to, like, punch back.
	And sometimes it takes the whole school.
	Sometimes it takes the group.
	And these people are individual bullies.
	There's not that many of them.
	It's just, it's really a dozen really bad people that are directing.
	Hundreds of sheep.
	But they're enabled by the sheep.
	Well, for sure.
	But we have hundreds of thousands, millions of people who are willing to step up now.
	All right.
	Here is the overly happy and joyous...
	When I think of joy in the morning, I think of Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. There's no other joys we can think of on MSNBC anymore.
	Because they're joyless.
	Don't say it!
	I'm just so...
	We lost Jack.
	This is Rachel the Great.
	Play cut 140. For the record, and this is disgusting, the president made a spectacle.
	Out of praising a young man who thus far survived pediatric cancer, as if the president had something to do with that.
	This was in the midst of him praising Doge.
	Doge cuts, among other things, have cut off funding for ongoing research into pediatric cancer.
	Do you notice she kind of does that thing where she just kind of like smugly ends every sentence?
	Pediatric cancer.
	Pediatric cancer.
	Yes, and I hate it.
	Do you know what I mean?
	I totally agree.
	I want to say dialectically.
	I guess that is the right word, right?
	It's an intonation down.
	Exactly.
	It's configured into the DNA of how she speaks.
	It's like the attitude has a parallel.
	It's when you listen.
	Dude, I could...
	I could talk about this for hours.
	It is a way that Democrats and people in Washington, D.C., and anyone who's been...
	You guys have all spent time in D.C. recently.
	It's a way of indicating that you're on the same team as someone when you match this weird D.C. bi-coastal inflection, but specifically one that travels between the D.C. Georgetown...
	Area where you are putting pronunciation on strange words.
	And then if you're Chris Hayes, what you will do is at the end of every sentence, you will then go up and you will say Elon Musk.
	It's like you're getting scared as you're saying the word or something.
	It's completely ridiculous.
	The opposite of which, of course, is Tulsi Gabbard who always goes down at the end of her sentences.
	No, that is true.
	She does go down.
	I think I stay pretty...
	Pretty even.
	You have your moments, Charlie.
	When I go up or I go down?
	That's the question.
	We'll see.
	It's a very coffee shop, Karen.
	Totally.
	If you overhear...
	If you've ever heard Karen's talking about how much they hate Trump in a coffee shop...
	Yeah, but it has to be in a big city blue big city.
	It's the eternal Obama inflection, kind of.
	That's what it always makes me think.
	It's definitely a female Karen-y thing.
	Let's go to Cut122, one of my favorite remarks.
	Just calling out the Democrats for who they are, what they believe, and their nonsense.
	Play Cut122.
	And once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud.
	Nothing I can do.
	I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations or announce the answers to the greatest economy in history.
	Or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded.
	And these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements.
	They won't do it, no matter what.
	Five times I've been up here.
	It's very sad.
	And it just shouldn't be this way.
	All right.
	I also want to say thank you, Shonek and Shadow, for your support.
	They said, quote, thank.
	They couldn't stand for the victims.
	May God help them.
	Poor Pocahontas couldn't even look up from her phone.
	Also getting lots of questions asking about...
	Our hat, that is charliekirkstore.com.
	Ryan will put it in the chat.
	That is charliekirkstore.com.
	If you guys want to wear this 47 hat or this Doge shirt, we'll get them off for you guys.
	I see the 47 hat everywhere.
	It's amazing.
	Everywhere.
	It has blanketed the value.
	It's actually really good quality, not to toot our own hair, but it's, what do you call it, plush or whatever?
	It stands out.
	I think it was Justin that the day after the election...
	What do you think about this design?
	I'm like, that's amazing.
	It's unique, by the way.
	It's great, and it's understated, so you don't get...
	Well, maybe some people want that.
	But it's kind of a code, right?
	Yeah, exactly.
	And people look at it like...
	It's got the little turning point.
	Imagine if you're totally non-political, and you're just like, what the hell is that?
	What is 47?
	Is that a football player, or is that a basketball player?
	Something the kids are doing?
	Yeah, seriously.
	I think it's a sports.
	Yay, sports.
	So, okay, let's go to another...
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	Purchase them and also become a member if you'd like.
	Members.CharlieKirk.com Let's go here to this one.
	One of my favorite...
	Okay, so by the way, there's a lot more tape here.
	Nicole Wallace has just attacked this guy with brain cancer as well.
	Saying, quote, I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump supporters.
	Yikes, that's dark.
	We're about to have it.
	These people are...
	These are demented people.
	That's really sick.
	That's like sick, sick stuff, man.
	Nasty folks.
	Here is the beautiful moment.
	Let's watch it.
	Let's keep our mics live here.
	This is the one that, it was so powerful.
	You know the best moment because the Democrats have to go all in on it, where President Trump appoints 13-year-old DJ Daniel, who has brain cancer and only months to live, as an honorary Secret Service agent.
	And the MSNBC decides to go all in attacking this kid.
	Well, attacking Trump for celebrating.
	No, I'm saying I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Trump supporters.
	No, they are attacking him.
	This is the real sick line.
	And if he does, I hope he isn't one of the six who loses his life to suicide.
	She straight up says that.
	That's crazy.
	I mean, these people are...
	You should be yanked off of TV because the FCC... Again, I'm not big on cancel culture, but that's...
	I mean, all right, let's watch this.
	Mike's on.
	And can we please get Nicole Wallace?
	And then can we tweet it and really do our thing there?
	1.30, please.
	In 2018, DJ was diagnosed with brain cancer.
	The doctors gave him five months at most to live.
	That was more than six years ago.
	Since that time, D.J. and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true, and D.J. has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer actually a number of times.
	The police love him.
	The police departments love him.
	And tonight, D.J., we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all.
	I am asking our new Secret Service Director.
	Sean Curran to officially make you an agent of the United States Secret Service.
	So beautiful.
	That's so proud.
	Not a single Democrat.
	Beautiful video.
	Oh, that was a touching moment.
	And that's Mark Coran, the same guy that was next to Trump in Butler, Pennsylvania.
	So here is now, with that framing, breaking news, Nicole Wallace.
	Again, it takes a lot for me to kind of get outraged about cable news chattering.
	Like, it's just kind of talking at each other.
	They have to come up with something.
	I talk about maybe less than half of 1% of incendiary stuff makes it onto the Charlie Kirk show.
	Usually they come on, like, whatever.
	Play cut 143. I think this was a lesson in finding one thing that you let yourself feel, and I let myself feel joy about DJ, and I hope he's alive for another, you know, 95 years, right?
	And I hope he lives.
	And the life he wants to live.
	He wants to be a cop.
	He knows what he wants to do.
	And maybe when you have childhood cancer, that crystallizes for you.
	And I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer.
	But I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump's supporters.
	And if he does, I hope he isn't one of the six who loses his life to suicide.
	And I hope he isn't one who has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then lived to see Donald Trump pardon those people.
	How do you make that mental jump?
	Did you hear the sound of silence from our panel for like two seconds?
	Like the pain.
	Jack, what's your take there?
	So what it is is, again, the NPC mind only runs on what its last programming is.
	So the MSNBC news talker...
	Who doesn't come up with their own minds themselves, who doesn't write their own scripts.
	She's scrambling because she doesn't have her producers in her ear telling her what to say.
	And so she's thinking, oh, well, the last time I've said anything positive about police officers.
	It was directly to January 6th.
	So she's just going right back to whatever the current standard programming model is for police officers.
	So you can't say police officer racist.
	You can't say police officer, oh, they target black people because obviously it doesn't work here.
	So she's got to say police officer good.
	And that means, oh, January 6th.
	But then the problem is she takes it.
	She just goes way too far down the line because she runs the entire program.
	What you're actually seeing here, this is very instructive into understanding the NPC model.
	The way the NPC works, the non-player character, is they're just running programs.
	And so she just runs the J6 program over.
	And I honestly guarantee you she doesn't even realize what she said.
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	I wish I could read the chat right now, Charlie, but I can't.
	It's too many beeps.
	I want to read a couple of these.
	This is FB for $10.
	Thank you.
	This is amazing.
	Hey, Charlie, I don't know if you'll see this, but you inspired me to join the Navy.
	You never talk about military service, really, which is true.
	I don't.
	But the belief of willing to fight for my fellow man started with you.
	That's really amazing.
	That's amazing.
	I'd love to send you a signed hat or book and meet you one day.
	And God bless you.
	Thank you for wanting to serve our country.
	You are in much better hands now serving under President Trump and Pete Hegseth and the entire team there.
	And recruitment is going through the roof.
	It's going through the roof.
	Charlie, can you please wish my mom a happy birthday?
	Her name is Valerie.
	She's watching now.
	Scooty.
	Happy birthday, Valerie.
	God bless you.
	And today is the 4th of March, so God bless you.
	This is Ann Coleman.
	Ooh, this is a good one.
	Thank you, Charlie and team.
	When can we see the podcast with Newscom?
	It's supposed to post Thursday morning on his channels, right?
	Yep.
	Now, did I do good or not so good, Andrew?
	Ten out of ten.
	I think that's great.
	I think people are going to enjoy it.
	All right.
	That's it?
	So good?
	So everyone should watch it.
	It was the most enjoyable experience I've ever had being in the room with you while you did an interview.
	It was completely electric.
	That's saying a lot because Andrew has spent a lot of hours watching the interview.
	That's it.
	People got to watch it.
	No more spoilers.
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	On Thursday morning on the Charlie Kirk Show.
	Don't say any content though.
	We're going to review for the full hour of the first hour on the Charlie Kirk Show.
	So 12 Eastern.
	12 Eastern, so 9 a.m.
	Pacific.
	We're going to be breaking down the Charlie Kirk interview with Gavin Newsom.
	Exclusively on our program, so it'll be done simultaneously.
	We're not going to tease any of the content that comes earlier, and it's going to be really interesting.
	I want to say a must-watch.
	Mike says, just order the hat and shirt.
	Keep it up, guys.
	You are making America great again.
	President Trump is doing that, and we are helping.
	You guys can check it out.
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	Let's watch some more.
	Let's recap more of this here together.
	I love this right here.
	President Trump informs Jason Hartley.
	Whoever gave the president this advice, I think I know who it was.
	Probably Susie or Taylor or the great team over there.
	To kind of do the Oprah Winfrey thing.
	And you get a car.
	Very smart, right?
	And you go to West Point.
	And I'm pardoning you when you're doing this.
	Boom.
	Very smart.
	And the executive order.
	Oh, it was amazing.
	Again, it was a reality show.
	It was like, what news?
	What is he going to do next?
	By the way, did I not predict the West Point thing?
	Yeah, but I don't know.
	You might have got some early advance notice.
	I have no sources.
	By the way, Charlie can't even talk about half the stuff.
	So whatever.
	133. We're joined tonight by a young man, Jason Hartley, who knows the weight of that call of duty.
	Jason's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all wore the uniform.
	Jason tragically lost his dad, who was also a Los Angeles County Sheriff's Deputy when he was just a boy, and now he wants to carry on the family legacy of service.
	Jason is a senior in high school.
	A six-letter varsity athlete, a really good athlete, they say.
	A brilliant student with a 4.46, that's good, GPA. And his greatest dream is to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
	I'm pleased to inform you that your application has been accepted.
	You will soon be joining the court.
	Don't you love that?
	It's just great.
	I don't know how you can hate on that.
	If you're a Democrat and you didn't get up, I mean, I didn't see the crowd shot in that moment, but if you're a Democrat and you didn't get up, I mean, how do you not celebrate that?
	It's America's preeminent military academy, and this young man just had his dreams come true.
	What are you going to hate on?
	Because he's white?
	And you can tell he was legitimately surprised.
	The best part about that interaction, he did not see that coming at all, and he was like, oh my gosh, because he's young.
	Kids can't fake it most of the time.
	He was totally shocked.
	And by the way, you saw that with the young cancer survivor, DJ. When they told him he got to be an honorary member of the U.S. Secret Service, and he gets a hug from the Secret Service director, and his dad's lifting him up.
	I mean, truly, truly touching stuff.
	Excuse me, just to be clear, Trump never actually said the word honorary.
	So, I mean, I think DJ's on the job.
	That's an upgrade from what we've had.
	That's commitment.
	I was crying for...
	I mean, I'm telling you, Charlie knows this.
	I think you guys might know this.
	My family was impacted by illegal immigration at one point.
	Big time.
	Violent crime.
	I was in absolute tears.
	Over the 12-year-old girl who got murdered.
	I don't want to mess up her name.
	Jocelyn Nungary.
	Terrible.
	Nungary Nungary.
	You saw the mom holding it together.
	I don't know if we have this clip, but the mom keeping it composed through that.
	I was choked up.
	I was tearing up.
	It was back to back to back with all this stuff that made it so special.
	Like Charlie said, it wasn't just that you get a car, you get a thing named after you, but there was the emotional side that was attached to each of these people, and it was incredible.
	Someone says, Charlie, for someone like myself that's dealt with severe brain injury when I was younger, I know how it feels to be attacked like that, but in this case, cancer, but I do forgive them.
	That's $10 from Derek.
	Got it.
	Let's see.
	$50 one.
	Charlie, I stood up for my insanely liberal professors today.
	I stood up to my insanely liberal professors today.
	You helped me gain confidence in standing up for what I believe.
	Thank you so much.
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	We've got another one here.
	Hold on.
	Rebecca, email freedom at charliekirk.com.
	Yeah.
	Daisy will get you sorted.
	And we've got Braxton Jackson gave $10.
	Let's keep giving thanks to God during this space of grace.
	God will continue to lift up America if we stay humble.
	I want to play one of the funnier lines, but we're also doing a giveaway.
	Don't worry, Daisy.
	He's just easing coming up.
	I'm going to give away 10 of these hats.
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	One of the more memorable moments and funny moments is 125. Over 130,000 people, according to the social security databases, are age over 160 years old.
	We have a healthier country than I thought, Bobby.
	I think that was off the cuff, right?
	Probably, yeah.
	That sounds like an original.
	In Bobby's face after that, when he went to him, he was like, oh, the cameras are on me.
	By the way, I love Bobby.
	No one can make me hate Bobby.
	Bobby's got this almost like an aura about...
	What's up, Jack?
	Do you guys see the Chinese government just now?
	What did they do?
	Yeah, they talk.
	I wouldn't derail this too much.
	This is a bit more...
	I wouldn't derail it, but no, I think we have to call it out when there's responses like this.
	What is it?
	People's Republic of China is usually a bit more restrained in their responses.
	The Chinese embassy in the U.S. tweeted out just as the speech was ending.
	If war is what the U.S. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war, or any type of war, we're ready to fight till the end.
	That's the Chinese embassy in the United States on X with their great jackup.
	Wow.
	That's a great way to get more tariffs with Trump.
	Good luck.
	We hold the cards.
	Okay, so let's go here to...
	Let's go to Derek.
	Ten bucks.
	Charlie, for somebody like myself that has dealt with...
	I'm sorry, we already did that one.
	Let's go to another piece of tape here.
	Let's go to some reaction, actually, from the opposition.
	Here is Comrade Sanders responding to President Trump.
	Playcut 146. Nobody, nobody who was 150 years old or 200 years old or 300 years old is receiving...
	Social Security Chuck.
	Is that an SNL? First of all, why does it look like he's in a PBS studio?
	Why does it look like he's 130 years old?
	I know, exactly.
	For a second, I thought that was one of our guys doing Bernie Sanders.
	I thought it was a chick.
	No, that's Bernie.
	I will say Bernie has impressive stamina, I have to say.
	How old is he now?
	Like 84, 85?
	I mean, the octogenarian thing is really kind of hurting our politics.
	Come on, guys.
	You've got to just go be with your grandkids.
	Be a normal person.
	83. Is he really?
	1941. He's so old.
	So he turns 84 in September.
	He looks older than that, too.
	I mean, he's looking good for 83 or 84, but still.
	I mean, I completely agree.
	Joe Biden's 82. He's one year behind him.
	Nancy Pelosi's 84. A lot of old octogenarians.
	They're going to lose a lot of people very quickly here.
	Walt Budd says, I've been a member of Charlie Kirk members.
	I love it.
	More.
	More people should get it.
	That's right.
	So members.charliekirk.com.
	That is members.charliekirk.com.
	More clips.
	More clips.
	Okay, we're going to get talking about it.
	Let's do some more clips.
	All right, we'll do more clips here.
	Let's go to Cut 127. By slashing all of the fraud, waste, and theft we can find, we will defeat inflation, bring down mortgage rates, lower car payments, and grocery prices, protect our seniors, and put more money in the pockets of American families.
	And in the...
	Near future, I want to do what has not been done in 24 years.
	Balance the federal budget.
	We're going to balance that.
	I just love that we're talking about balancing the budget again.
	As a goal, you might think it's improbable, Blake.
	It's a good aspiration.
	I will always say what is spoken will then be more likely to be done.
	Why can't they do it, Blake?
	Come on.
	There's a lot of reasons.
	Blake, they can do it.
	Blake, believe.
	Believe, Blake.
	Don't let your memes be dreams, I guess.
	Believe, Blake.
	If we do it, I will be the first one to line up and be like, man, that guy did the impossible.
	What will you do?
	You should do something.
	If Donald Trump successfully balances the budget, let's not get too dramatic here.
	If Donald Trump successfully balances the budget, I will wear a Minnesota Vikings jersey.
	On this show, and I will pledge my fealty.
	That doesn't mean anything for me.
	This has got to be more real.
	Fine, I'll wear a Chicago Bears jersey.
	Alright, now we're getting closer.
	I will wear a Chicago Bears jersey of your choice at this desk, and I will say that Mike Ditka is my daddy.
	If we balance the budget, I'll do that.
	I think you need to write an op-ed that's titled, I was wrong about Trump.
	I think Charlie would get more out of the first one.
	I think that Blake...
	Blake going into the camera with a Bears jersey.
	No, it's got to be the Bears sweater.
	I've got it.
	Is that not the greatest memorabilia ever?
	I have it.
	It's in my closet.
	I don't have one.
	I lost mine.
	During NFL season, I should just wear it one day on the show, right?
	Yeah, you need to get it.
	We'll get it for you as a present.
	But the Bears are so bad, it's like a humiliation ritual.
	Oh, I know.
	Bears haven't been good in like 20 years.
	Blake should have to wear a really thick Mike Dickham mustache for a full week.
	For a full week.
	No, no, no.
	A fake one.
	He's never going to grow it.
	I could grow a mustache.
	No, we need a full...
	Broom sweet, like a full walk of shame.
	I just love this email.
	By the way, I want you guys to email us, freedom at charliekirk.com.
	Also, your reaction in addition, just to everything else, subscribing to our podcast.
	I love this email.
	Charlie, in three weeks I'll be 70 years old, so preemptive happy birthday.
	I've never been prouder to be an American, more grateful to God for his answer to prayer on November 5th.
	I'm also so grateful to God he saved me and kept me from becoming a hateful socialist.
	Thank you and your entire staff, Charlie, your devotion to God, and the truth was beyond anything we could have.
	I've imagined.
	God is good all the time.
	What a beautiful email.
	I mean, people are just effusively grateful in the emails that we are receiving right now.
	And I do have to wonder that when the Democrats won back at this time equivalent in 2021, do you think their emails were full of like thank yous to God?
	I don't think so, right?
	Probably not to God.
	It was probably like, I wonder what that Trump man is doing right now.
	I'm so grateful to the crystals in my...
	The image that will always stick with me is Steven Pinker, the Harvard professor, doing the extremely cringe dance on Twitter with his wife.
	That's the one I'll always remember.
	There was a bunch of those during the campaign where they would get together and try and be the party of joy, but it was so forced.
	Brandon says, because he gave five bucks, Bernie says no one is 100 years old.
	Me, Bernie, your yearbook is signed by Adam and Eve.
	Okay.
	And we got Val1224, Charlie.
	Trump's body language tonight was outstanding.
	145. I just walked out of Trump's joint address to Congress.
	I went there because I was insistent that I wanted to hear directly from him what he had to say.
	But after hearing him spew lie after lie after lie, racism and xenophobia at the center of everything, I walked out.
	And I'm going to insist that we stand up for our constituents, for the American people across this country, and fight back so that we can make sure we're delivering for working people everywhere.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	I've been corrected.
	It's Jayapal.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Isn't she the leader of the progressive caucus within the Democrats?
	Something like that.
	Rachel Maddow, Big Mad, Plague Cut 144. For the record, the economy that he was left by President Biden was not a catastrophe.
	It was literally the best economy in the world and was described by The Economist magazine as the envy of the world.
	That was the economy that was left to Donald Trump by Joe Biden.
	It says the multimillionaire who gets $20 million a year to work one day a week.
	Spare me, Rachel Maddow.
	Everything's just fine for you.
	You know, this is one of the most telling moments, Charlie, when you're on campus, by the way.
	There will always be one smug little, you know, econ student that goes, ah, the economy is the best of the G7, blah, blah, blah.
	And then you look at the audience and you go, how many of you are struggling to afford your bills?
	How many of you had more money four years ago?
	And it's like every single hand goes up.
	Every single time that you appeal to the audience, everybody's like, yeah, I'm not doing that well.
	So the best economy, the envy of the world, was terrible for everybody else.
	Okay, Rachel Maddow?
	So enjoy that.
	Here we have...
	I think I've hit my quota of sharp comments.
	Playcut 147. All right, y'all, I don't have a lot of time.
	I just came off the House floor.
	I could not stand one more second, tolerate one more second.
	This man who pardoned January 6th insurrectionists, who desecrated the very chamber that we are sitting in in this moment, this man who has no respect for Congress, does not respect us as a co-equal branch of government, who is...
	Put us into a constitutional crisis.
	This man, with his hateful rhetoric and his even more harmful policies, I went because I wanted to honor my State of the Union or my Joint Address of Congress guest, Claire from Everett, a probationary federal worker who was damn good at her job at housing and urban development, enforcing fair housing laws.
	She was fired.
	She didn't deserve that.
	The work that she did remains unfinished.
	There are people that will be unhoused because that work is unfinished.
	There's housing that will not get built because that work is unfinished and her life has been completely upended and disrupted.
	And because Claire is also a manual wheelchair user and navigated a lot of ableist spaces to come here today, I wanted to take a seat and take up space and honor her.
	But there is no way that I could stay there.
	For this address, it is insult to injury, the lies, and the propaganda.
	Did she just say something about ableist spaces there?
	I heard some sort of high-frequency noise.
	It was shrill indeed.
	We continue as our march through the cut sheet.
	This is making all the news.
	The media is very mad about it.
	President Trump going after Elizabeth Warren, who, by the way, has become a huge neocon.
	Can we just appreciate how Elizabeth Warren...
	Has become just a shrill neocon.
	She's full Liz Cheney now.
	Like full Liz Cheney.
	Just like full war machine.
	She's wearing the Ukrainian pen.
	Oh, we got more 47 hats.
	She's doing the war dance.
	We're going to put them on.
	But she's doing the war dance.
	She's doing the war dance.
	Let's play cut 135 of dollars to support Ukraine's defense with no security.
	Do you want to keep it going for another five years?
	Yeah, you would say Pocahontas says yes.
	That felt really up.
	That was great.
	But you didn't mean to.
	You just had to.
	And it goes to her and she's just like...
	I mean, so who wants to take this, just from a more philosophical and less lighthearted, but...
	Just briefly, what is driving someone like Elizabeth Warren, who obviously had or might still have some presidential ambitions, who never used to be a neocon, to just go all in?
	How do you explain this?
	Tyler, politically.
	I'll just say from a political, sociological standpoint, I dwell on this every day.
	And actually, just this weekend, I had somebody that's related to me reach out to me and...
	You know, and some drunken stupor messaged me and say something about Trump and relevant to the anti-war sentiment of what happened in the White House this last week.
	And I said, I don't know what you're talking about, but I'm very proud to be anti-war.
	And I think it's bizarre that every single Democrat who attacked feverishly for basically 15 years the Republican Party for being so pro-war.
	Are now in full alignment.
	And Charlie, I cannot understand it for the life of me that the most progressive, lunatic Democrats are basically Liz Cheney now.
	But think about this.
	They have spent the last essentially eight years turning Putin into the devil incarnate.
	And so this being tied to Putin, they have made this...
	This boogeyman, and I'm not saying Putin isn't a bad dude.
	Like, okay, ad nauseum, I get it.
	Terrible guy, invaded, he takes blame for that.
	But, like, they have turned him in to something larger and bigger because it's useful to their narrative.
	So they think anybody that doesn't just blindly stand with, like, the oligarch, you know, the Ukrainian oligarch, is somehow...
	You know, perpetrating a mass injustice on the world.
	It's because they have created this dichotomy, this black hat, white hat thing in their head, just to get back at Trump, though.
	But here's the crazy part, Andrew.
	George W. Bush was best buddies with Putin.
	Totally.
	Remember when Hillary Clinton went with the reset button?
	No, it's not even that.
	George W. Bush would hang out on his ranch with Putin.
	George W. Bush would go over.
	They brought...
	No, George W. Bush brought Putin to the elementary school in his hometown in Crawford.
	Yeah, go ahead.
	And they did a whole, welcome Putin.
	Yeah.
	So this is what's so mind-blowing, which I cannot understand.
	Tyler, you had the pickup truck.
	Remember the pickup truck?
	Yes!
	And Putin was just sitting there next to him.
	He was driving around.
	It was a buddy comedy.
	I want to go get a corn dog or something.
	Remember, he sat with Clinton, too, and said, hey, Clinton, I want to join NATO. And Clinton was like, yeah, we can probably do that.
	Here's the mind-blowing part, though.
	The same people who were in that policy camp of being best buddies with Putin...
	Which was the Dick Cheney-era foreign policy experts here, are the same people who have done exactly what you said, which is villainized Putin and blamed Trump for it, when they were the ones who were closer than anyone ever was.
	And I studied.
	This is what I studied.
	Hillary Clinton and Bill Clinton made what Bill Clinton...
	Jack, you probably remember this.
	It's like a $500,000...
	Payment for speaking in Russia?
	Nothing's closer to, I'm telling you, George W. Bush.
	Look at the payments.
	The Clinton Foundation got money for doing one, et cetera, et cetera.
	You know, Tyler, I was going to say, though, but this actually is typical of the neocon because the neocons all supported Saddam Hussein in his war against Iran.
	It was the neocons that totally supported the Mujahideen against the Soviet Union and completely funded.
	And founded what later became the Taliban, as well as the early elements of Al Qaeda, the same elements of Al Qaeda that the neocons and neolibs also to this day are supporting in Syria.
	So if you look at it from a different perspective, it also goes to show you that they will use and drop foreign actors at a whim.
	And that's because of this post-1990s mentality that it's the end of history, the United States is the global hegemon.
	We can do whatever we want.
	We don't need to actually uphold any relationships, which is funny because those are all the things that they blame Trump for because he'll make an offhanded comment or something or JD Vance will make a comment about the British and will say that he's destroyed relations.
	When no, it's actually been their failed leadership over the past 40 years that has put us in this position to begin with.
	And their insanity of, as you say, either you're working with someone one day and then you're vilifying them the next.
	And then we expect them to think that we are rational actors when we seem the ones who are kind of like the drunken sailors, which I can say because I'm a sailor.
	Although I don't drink.
	Like when we're the ones who are acting completely belligerently and we are the ones who are acting irrationally all the time.
	Yeah, I mean, I actually, just one note, I have a slightly different theory.
	Democrats and progressives, what do they lift up more than anything else?
	Institutions.
	Well, there's institutions, but the institutions that were formed out of the civil rights era.
	So they look at their ultimate heroes as the people that marched, the people that sat on the bus, you know, all of these things, the peaceful protests, and they were going against something that they believe was objectively evil and bad and everything, right?
	And in many ways, that's accurate.
	So what they are doing, progressives of the modern era, they have a sense that they have to find a boogeyman even where one doesn't exist.
	So their highest and best use of their time, they think, is finding an oppressor to march against.
	Putin is the oppressor.
	Trump is the oppressor.
	These are poorly directed energies for them, but they have to find something to march against because they want to live up to their civil rights predecessors that they find to be the great heroes of American lore and history.
	It's always 1968. Even though there's no boogeyman anymore.
	The racism that they think they're fighting, they've come to embody.
	So my whole theory with them is that they need a boogeyman.
	They've been in power, like every institution.
	They need a scapegoat.
	In order to make themselves feel good.
	I think with Putin, what happened was when he was hanging out in the truck in Crawford, Texas, Bush was like, what's on your agenda?
	He's like, I'd like to at least have some Crimea.
	And then they were like, great.
	And so Bush went to McCain and was like, hey, I found out what they want.
	And then they were like...
	Let's do this.
	Let's start a whole color revolution, and then we can get both sides of it.
	What do you say, guys?
	And that's the entire American history and foreign policy in Eastern Europe in the last 15 years.
	That's one take.
	Certainly one take.
	Oh, we got another comment here.
	We got a great one.
	Another one you'll want to read, Charlie, here?
	Let me see here.
	This is...
	Wow.
	Jeremy says, you inspired me to join the Border Patrol.
	I'm prior service military.
	Thank you.
	I'm 23, and you're motivated my generation to go from the silent majority to be very loud about our family and Christian values.
	Thank you, Charlie.
	That is Jeremy.
	Jeremy would love to send you a signed hat.
	We need more patriots in the Border Patrol.
	That is admirable service, if not on the same moral footing as the U.S. military.
	Might I add.
	Border Patrol is right there.
	When we say serving your country, Border Patrol almost should be a portion of the U.S. military.
	By the way, I didn't realize this.
	They have this elite unit that's almost like the special forces of Border Patrol.
	I forget what it's called, Jack.
	Maybe you know.
	Or Jack.
	What is it called?
	Bortak.
	Bortak.
	Yeah, it's amazing, by the way.
	They're super legit.
	Those guys are hardcore.
	By the way, every single one of them voted for Trump.
	I don't think a single one.
	And they all live in Arizona.
	This one here.
	Yeah, I love this one.
	It's like $2.37.
	Jordan Benoit.
	I think I know him, actually.
	Maybe I don't.
	As a proud Canadian, I can't even be mad.
	Our government is a disgrace.
	Trump is looking after his country.
	I only wish we had a strong, capable leader to do the same.
	Fair enough.
	Despite the stuff, we want the best for Canada.
	No, of course we do.
	I think you just had a great idea.
	I think we should have another branch of the military.
	It should be Border Patrol.
	I think you should roll Border Patrol into DOD. It would fix a lot of problems.
	Oh, yeah.
	It would be run differently, better funding.
	By the way, it would end all the funding.
	Could you just do that unilaterally?
	Yeah, he should.
	He did Space Force.
	Space Force took Congress.
	Oh, did it?
	Yeah.
	He announced it and then Congress agreed.
	Can we play a clip here, Charlie?
	I don't want to take the floor away from you, but it's this clip of Brit Hume.
	And the reason I think this is interesting is that Brit Hume has literally come after people, I won't say who, on this show.
	He's kind of a hit-and-miss kind of guy.
	This is him basically singing the praises of Donald J. Trump, and I believe it is 148. This was the most boisterous, the longest, the most partisan speech I've ever heard a president give in this kind of setting, and I go back about maybe 50 years on this.
	I also think it may have been the most effective.
	I mean, if you ever doubted that Donald Trump is the colossus, the political colossus of our time and our nation, this night and this speech should have put that to rest.
	The Democrats seem to be falling into trap after trap after trap as he recognized these people and celebrated the people he pointed to in the gallery and their stories while the Democrats sat glumly on their hands through all of that.
	It was a terrible look.
	Al Green's attempt to disrupt the speech was a bad look for the Democrats.
	This was, I think, politically speaking, this was pretty powerful.
	All the moderate Democrats would be so mad at Al Green.
	He couldn't be more right.
	It's like an episode of Looney Tunes right now.
	And it's just, it's like literally Coyote and Roadrunner stuff.
	Yeah.
	And the president is always the brilliant Roadrunner.
	Yeah, well, I just love that line, though.
	The colossus of our time.
	I mean, he really is.
	I mean, and I go back to the tariffs.
	We've debated tariffs.
	We've debated the Ukraine strategy.
	I just think he's going to end up on the winning side of both of these issues.
	It doesn't mean it's not going to be ugly in the short term, but I think he's going to come out on top, and America's going to come out on top as a result.
	The colossus of our time is a line that really sticks out.
	Okay, let's go to another piece of tape here.
	Let's get to more Democrat reaction.
	We had Ayanna Pressley.
	We had Bernie Sanders.
	We had Rachel Maddow.
	Let's go to Jake Tapper, Playcut 139. Never heard a president attack the opposition in a speech like this in such a pointed way, even going after to use a rather derisive nickname for Senator Elizabeth Warren.
	A derisive.
	Such a derisive, Mr. Fake Tapper, who was part of the cover-up of his senility, and then he comes out and says, Inside the cover-up of Joe Biden's senility.
	Talk about just absolute brazen BS from a political commentator.
	And he is a political commentator.
	He's not a journalist.
	This guy's a partisan political commentator.
	And to know that that tape exists of you and to still have the...
	The gall to go out and write that book?
	Anyways.
	$100.
	Someone says, Charlie, what do you think of Netanyahu?
	I like some of the stuff he does.
	I don't like other stuff.
	I'm not a member of the Israeli nation, so I don't have that strong of opinions of it.
	I actually got to know his son.
	His son's pretty cool.
	So I'm guessing he means Yair Netanyahu.
	So by the way, I can answer the question however I want.
	What do I think of Yair Netanyahu?
	Awesome guy.
	Because it doesn't say BB. He's a colorful guy.
	So therefore, I answer the question, right?
	We're not apologists here.
	No, I'm just saying.
	He said, Charlie, what do you think of Yair?
	Yair's great.
	I text with Yair all the time.
	He's been to our headquarters.
	Be more specific if you want BB or Yair.
	He's got a pretty strong meme.
	This one says, God bless the USA. Thank you for opening our eyes, Charlie.
	I'm so proud to be the first one in our family to have not ruined my record by ever being a registered Democrat.
	God bless America.
	God bless the USA. Isn't it crazy that it just really feels like there's one party that's proud to be American, that loves the flag, loves the nation, defends our military, supports our troops, border patrol, you know, our sovereignty, and there's a whole other part of the country that apparently thinks these things are passive.
	So Chris says, posse comitatus, if they roll border patrol in the DOD, they cannot, under posse comitatus, enforce civil law, but they can repel invasions.
	So...
	You declare an invasion, the DOD can fire on demand, do whatever you want.
	The entire point of a national army is defending the nation.
	Unless you're actually being invaded.
	It's really simple.
	You get these weird quasi-libertarian, I call them conservatarian arguments, from phrases that used to get said on talk radio in the 2010s or even earlier than that.
	And it's like, guys, that's just not...
	True.
	Actual active duty army and marines were used in L.A. riots in 1992. I mean, we've used the military for things all the time.
	So this idea that, oh, you can't do it, you can't do it, it's just not historically correct at all.
	Let's go here to David Axelrod, who's probably trying to speak truth into the Democrat Party.
	He'll be ignored.
	Let's play to 150. So it's one thing to mine our differences.
	It's another thing to try and heal our differences.
	And that is, you know, that's the difference between real leadership and political expedience.
	Would it have been healing to stand for Mark Fogle?
	Might have been.
	No, I agree.
	You know, you are absolutely right.
	I will do what you will not.
	I will say, I thought Democrats, I thought that was just, I think there were times when they should have risen.
	I think what Al Green did was despicable.
	Despicable.
	Despicable.
	150, 151, this dialogue continues.
	And at some point, you've got to stop blaming Joe Biden, and you're going to be accountable.
	And, you know, he must have met Biden a dozen times in his speech.
	I mean, the ex.
	I love you.
	You guys were blaming George W. Bush in year eight.
	You know, Scott, we learned something from that.
	We learned something from that.
	He's been in office for 40-something days.
	I am hearing a lot of COPE. These social issues, you know why he talks about them?
	He's good.
	Because they work.
	They're like 80-20 issues, and he's on the right side of them, and Democrats are on the wrong side of them.
	It worked in the campaign, and nobody, oh, he's not talking about the right things.
	It worked in the inaugural.
	It's working in the executive orders.
	It's why he put it in the speech tonight.
	And on immigration, you're exactly right.
	It's his number one achievement so far.
	The border's effectively closed.
	The line of the night was they kept saying we need new legislation to secure the border, but it turns out all we really needed was a new president, without question, in my mind, top-scoring model.
	He's got to stay put.
	We are here at midnight 7 Eastern, so we're getting a little bit late.
	Tyler, you have 30 seconds.
	What is this poster behind me?
	Show it again.
	That says, travel to Wisconsin and chase 100 ballots.
	What is that?
	Charlie, the Turning Point Action team is on the ground.
	We have dozens and dozens and dozens of full-time staff that we've kept there.
	We have the largest field presidents, the permanent field presidents.
	We have an office in Waukesha, which is the epicenter for the Supreme Court races coming up.
	Why does that matter?
	What does that matter to a person from Tennessee?
	Tell us why.
	The Supreme Court hangs in the balance of Wisconsin, and if the Democrats take control of it, it's a partisan election.
	Democrats take control.
	They can do one major thing.
	They can redistrict and cost us the House.
	They can also make it impossible to win Wisconsin or really, really difficult to win Wisconsin if they get control of this.
	So we need everybody to come out.
	We've got hotel rooms that are available by the great gift from our donors.
	Yep, a turning point action.
	We're stepping up.
	We're investing almost a million bucks, right?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	I think a lot more than that when you consider all the full-time staff millions.
	That's right.
	Probably, yeah, a couple million bucks.
	Which we don't have to do, by the way.
	And we're bringing people in.
	And so we need thousands of people.
	Right now we are at, just broke, a thousand people coming in.
	We need more than that.
	The left is paying people to vote.
	They're paying people to get out the vote.
	So they're giving people $250 a pop.
	We are providing hotel rooms.
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	Come help out for a day.
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	That's our Commit 100 program, which is just committing to chase just 100 votes.
	So that means we give you a list of 100 people to chase, and then we just need you to go talk to them, remind them to vote, and then help them walk their ballot to their mailbox in some cases, or go vote early.
	Love it.
	Let's also check that out at tpaction.com slash 100. Let's go to a couple.
	The line of the night, which I thought was beautifully crafted and wonderfully delivered.
	Playcut 154. The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation.
	We must have legislation to secure the border.
	But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president.
	Good pass.
	And I think that's so important because people like James Lankford and people like...
	I'm not going to let him go for this one.
	No, I'm telling you, he's done.
	He is gone.
	And all these Democrats that were like, you need this ridiculous...
	Now, I want you to think about if we would have lived in James Lankford's world.
	Because people might say I'm being unfair.
	Let's see if he got his way.
	Do you know that Trump would not be able to close the border right now?
	1.8 million.
	It would have handcuffed Trump's ability.
	It would have robbed Trump's term of the ability to close the border.
	That was James Lankford's bipartisan border.
	But if we pass that, Charlie, the Democrats would not call us racist ever again.
	No, exactly.
	I just hope all of you guys in Oklahoma know, James Lankford, you're done.
	We're not going to let you run for dog catcher, for water reclamation district, for mosquito abatement director, U.S. senator or governor.
	Is that an office?
	Oh, I'm sure there is.
	Hey, it's Oklahoma, okay?
	You got 50-50 Native American reservations.
	I got all sorts of different jobs there.
	You know half the state of Oklahoma is a Native American reservation?
	Governor Stitt should become a senator.
	He's phenomenal.
	Governor Stitt should be the next senator.
	He's great.
	No, Lankford's done, and he's not up until 2028, but, well, I got my eyes right on you.
	You're at the top of the list.
	But the reason being is because he went out there and brokered this deal, and he gave the Democrats this talking point, saying, we have to do this bipartisan border deal.
	And, by the way, it was never necessary, and I think we would have won by even more if it wasn't for Lankford.
	That actually persuaded some people in the middle, gave them a chance of a talking point, gave them some over-the-top stuff.
	The Democrats just kept saying it over and over again.
	On campus, I would get that question a lot, and I was like, okay, Lankford, I remember you.
	And none of it was necessary.
	We didn't need a bipartisan border bill.
	You needed a president.
	Blake, I want you to just riff on this for a second.
	We're running a little out of time here.
	But how profoundly our border is closed is pretty amazing right now.
	I mean, it's effectively sealed.
	It really is that all you had to do was make it so if you show up at the border, you will not get in.
	Magical solution.
	If you show up and won't get in, they'll stop coming.
	You don't need an app for that?
	Like, people are just, they're so rock stupid.
	They're just like, they'll show up and then they'll all die.
	No, they won't show up if they won't get in.
	That's how it works.
	And that would apply to everything.
	All those boats in the Mediterranean, they would stop if all you did was stop the boat, drop them off back in Libya where they started.
	If you did that every time, no more boats in the Mediterranean.
	You don't need an app?
	You don't need an app.
	You don't need a million programs.
	Just remember all the nonsense in that James Langford bill.
	It said that 4,999 people could cross a day.
	That was literally in the bill.
	Remember, the bill said...
	We can actually just turn it off when it gets over 5,000.
	That's right.
	So we admit that we can just turn it off.
	So 4,999.
	It locked in the record high before Biden as the normal amount of people that just led into America.
	The baseline was 4,999.
	We negotiated.
	We were doing some hard negotiations.
	You are a worthless, gutless wonder.
	This is why we got such bad deals, because our leaders took absolute garbage deals and said, This is somehow good.
	We've done our job.
	And Trump, to his great credit, is now demonstrating you didn't need any of that stuff.
	The border's completely secure.
	And not only is it one of his greatest accomplishments, and again, Dems on campus, they go stone-cold silent when I say that the border's completely sealed because they can't even process it.
	Well, here's the numbers.
	At its peak, we almost had 400,000 people come in a month.
	Last month, we had just about 8,000, which was 277 per day.
	We went from 15,000 a day at one point with Biden, and it fluctuated.
	But let's say 15,000 at its peak to 277 a day, and none of them got in.
	And I just want to reiterate, the Democrats wanted the open border.
	You can't do that without...
	It was an intentional invasion.
	It was architected by the Democrats in order to change the political makeup of this country, the demographic makeup of this country, the cultural makeup of this country.
	It was an absolute...
	Designed disaster and a humanitarian catastrophe that could have been avoided.
	Any other Super Chats we have to get to?
	Not right now.
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	And let's go around the horn one more time.
	Final thoughts, Tyler.
	Yeah, I'm going to say this.
	I was so pleased not to have to look at Nancy Pelosi's face behind Donald Trump that entire time.
	Was that not the greatest thing?
	Look, and I was thinking about this, Charlie, and you probably agree.
	This is something that you think about.
	Think about how many more votes and more favorability we get by not having Nancy Pelosi behind him.
	People just respond more positively by not watching that, not giving them an upstaging moment, not having to look at that.
	I was distracted the whole time looking at her nasty face.
	I think that's bad.
	Don't look at the pictures when she was doing the walk in Italy.
	And again, you've got neighborhood Ned Flanders, speaker Ned Flanders.
	You've got J.D. Vance, the millennial child boy wonder up there.
	It's such a beautiful thing.
	Imagine if we had Tim Walls behind.
	There's the contrast.
	We've come a long way, folks.
	Imagine if we had Tim Walls in Kamala's seat there, looking all bug-eyed.
	Dude, America having gone through...
	America passed right over Gen X. We just went from that to that so abruptly, and you couldn't have a greater comparison tool that exists in American politics, maybe in history.
	I agree.
	Jack, final thoughts?
	Yeah, look, I really want to come back to the way the Democrats acted tonight because I talk about this a lot.
	I talk about how the importance of...
	To the meta-normie narrative out there, because people for a long time on the conservative right, these sort of old cons, would think that it's about beating the Democrats in there, winning the argument, winning the debate or something like that, when it's really about winning over normies, winning over normies to your side.
	And the person who wins over the Normies wins the election.
	President Trump showed how to do that resoundingly in 2023 with him at the helm of this incredible coalition that he put together.
	And what the problem is with that is the Normies are only paying attention at certain times.
	They pay attention.
	To the debates, that's why they're so important.
	That's why Joe Biden was yanked after his first debate and someone tried to kill President Trump on national television.
	It's also why Kamala Harris couldn't really survive her debate.
	Tim Walz flamed out in debates, whereas J.D. Vance became a national figure in his debate, even though he was a national figure in his own right.
	The State of the Union addresses, and this was a State of the Union address, again, to the Normie audience.
	In that context, this was a State of the Union address.
	It had theatrics.
	It had the pomp and circumstance.
	It had that sort of Head of state appealed to it, sort of in the dual-hatted role of the presidency being head of state and head of government.
	And so the way the Democrats acted, completely breaching decorum, completely laughing, completely, and by the way, not standing up and applauding for a child with brain cancer.
	I mean, these are politically devastating decisions.
	And make no mistake, they are decisions.
	And you know that whatever the...
	The cooler heads that there are in the Democrat establishment.
	Charlie, you may have spoken to one of them earlier today.
	We'll find out on that later.
	You'll let me know how I did.
	You'll know that they've got to be cringing because they realize just how badly received this is going to be by the American people.
	I don't want to speak for Gavin or any of these guys, but if any of them want to try to win an election in the future...
	What the Democrats did tonight was so self-defeating.
	It's so just doubling and tripling down on minoritarian nonsense.
	Just petty.
	Andrew, final thoughts.
	Throw up 155. This is my final thought.
	Look at this bar graph.
	President Trump's speech was the longest ever first addressed to Congress by like a lot.
	And this reminded me of something Blake said at the beginning, so hat tip Blake, that he's only been in office for about 40 days, and yet the...
	Mountain of accomplishments is so large and so sweeping and so dramatic and the creativity and the upheaval and so much has changed so quickly that he filled an hour and 40 minutes of content and I didn't even realize it was that long.
	I was sitting there.
	We were looking and analyzing in real time.
	It did not feel like it dragged on.
	It didn't feel like any of that because there is so much to talk about.
	And I think we can definitively say that there has never been a more productive or effective or important and impactful first 40 days of a presidency in all of history.
	I think that is...
	Safe to say.
	Now, you could look at maybe Truman wrapping up World War II or something, but outside of wartime, there is nothing that I think compares in American history, and Blake, maybe you'll disagree with me, but this is so sweeping and radical in so many good ways that it's an hour and 40 minutes, and he deserved every ounce of that time.
	Blake, final thoughts?
	I would say we should look ahead.
	He'll have to deliver his first real State of the Union in a year.
	And if things work out, think about what he'll be able to talk about in a year.
	If he's able to say, we've had a year of secured border now.
	Peace.
	If we now have the peace deal in Ukraine.
	The economy is going to be the question.
	Peace deal in the Middle East.
	We'll see on the economy.
	We will have tax cuts.
	We'll have D-reg.
	And we know we have AI something.
	And we have energy.
	So the economy...
	He has a potential to have a monumental...
	First state of the union.
	Yeah, the only reason, the question mark in the economy, we don't know how bad it was what we've inherited.
	We've heard some things.
	Yeah, that there's going to be some.
	Again, we could get bailed out by certain stuff.
	And by growth.
	Yes.
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	And we will be back tomorrow at 12 Eastern.
	We have Ben Shapiro on the program tomorrow.
	For a full hour.
	How about why we should pardon Derek Chauvin?
	Now, Blake, a year ago, if I told you Ben Shapiro was going to be on my show advocating for the pardon of Derek Chauvin.
	Yeah.
	We've come a long way.
	You would say, what brand of mushrooms and how often are you taking?
	And it's not a knock against Ben.
	Just to give a little insight, break the fourth wall here.
	To my everlasting shame, I wasn't convinced that this was a good idea.
	Charlie and Blake were like, we need to pardon Derek Chauvin.
	You've been doing it for a year.
	How forceful have I been on the pardon thing?
	No, you've been huge.
	No, you should blame me.
	It's my fault.
	I own this one.
	But Ben, to his credit, is coming out hard, and he's a lawyer, and he's very smart, and he's very analytical.
	But you've wanted to do this for a year.
	Of course, because it was a Moscow show trial.
	The whole thing's insane.
	No, he got railroaded.
	It's terrible.
	But, you know, Blake, you pushed it hard.
	Charlie, you push.
	I just want the world to know.
	The reason it probably wasn't more is because I was the wet blanket in the room going like, I don't know if we're there yet, but my bad.
	We should give credit real quick.
	Liz Collin did her work with Alpha News.
	We've been covering it.
	We've been getting closer and closer.
	Which I fully supported.
	It was great to get her reporting on it.
	I mean, there's a lot there to unpack, so don't miss that.
	Hour two tomorrow of the show is going to be phenomenal.
	We've got Jim Banks as well.
	Senator Jim Banks on in hour one.
	So it's going to be a great show.
	Thanks so much for listening, and God bless.

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