The Charlie Kirk Show - Revisiting Charlie's RNC Speech
Aired: 2025-10-09
Duration: 06:40


=== Start a Turning Point USA Chapter (02:14) ===

[00:00:04]  My name is Charlie Kirk.
[00:00:06]  I run the largest pro-American student organization in the country fighting for the future of our republic.
[00:00:12]  My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth.
[00:00:15]  If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're going to end up miserable.
[00:00:21]  But if the most important thing is doing good, you'll end up purposeful.
[00:00:26]  College is a scam, everybody.
[00:00:27]  You got to stop sending your kids to college.
[00:00:29]  You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible.
[00:00:32]  Go start a Turning Point USA college chapter.
[00:00:34]  Go start a Turning Point USA High School chapter.
[00:00:36]  Go find out how your church can get involved.
[00:00:38]  Sign up and become an activist.
[00:00:40]  I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade.
[00:00:42]  Most important decision I ever made in my life.
[00:00:45]  And I encourage you to do the same.
[00:00:46]  Here I am.
[00:00:47]  Lord, use me.
[00:00:49]  Buckle up, everybody.
[00:00:50]  Here we go.
[00:00:57]  The Charlie Kirk Show is proudly sponsored by Preserve Gold, the leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company I recommend to my family, friends, and viewers.
[00:01:10]  Ladies and gentlemen, Charlie Kirk.
[00:01:29]  We're people!
[00:01:30]  Thank you, everybody.
[00:01:32]  Thank you.
[00:01:34]  Good evening.
[00:01:35]  I'm Charlie Kirk, founder of Turning Point USA and Turning Point Action.
[00:01:43]  Together, the largest conservative grassroots organizations in the country.
[00:01:49]  Thanks to our work, I talk to a lot of young people on campuses, at our events, on my radio show, podcast, and social media.
[00:01:58]  Said differently, I visit college campuses, so you don't have to.

=== American Dream Deferred (03:30) ===

[00:02:06]  I hear a lot from young people about their hopes, their dreams, and their fears.
[00:02:13]  You see, young people are idealists.
[00:02:16]  They respond to vision.
[00:02:19]  For the past four years, they've seen the vision of the Biden-Harris regime.
[00:02:25]  That vision is, you'll own nothing and be happy.
[00:02:31]  The Democrats say, instead of owning a home, you'll rent a 400-square-foot studio apartment.
[00:02:38]  Instead of owning a car, you'll rent a scooter using some app.
[00:02:42]  Their vision is this.
[00:02:44]  Limit your dreams.
[00:02:46]  Give up.
[00:02:48]  Aim lower.
[00:02:49]  Be content with less.
[00:02:52]  If you're a 20-something in America, life has been really tough.
[00:02:56]  You've watched home prices rise 47% since 2020.
[00:03:01]  47%.
[00:03:03]  Home ownership is now out of reach unless you make over $106,000 a year.
[00:03:10]  Since I last spoke at the Republican convention four years ago, I've become a husband and father.
[00:03:18]  In fact, we have two under two.
[00:03:21]  I think I get extra points for that.
[00:03:24]  For millions of people my age, that is a dream that feels farther away than ever under the Biden-Harris administration.
[00:03:34]  According to current projections, one-third of today's young Americans will never get married.
[00:03:39]  The average American is having fewer children than ever before.
[00:03:44]  Why?
[00:03:45]  It's because for far too many, they simply can't afford them.
[00:03:51]  The basic things our parents enjoyed are increasingly out of reach for Gen Z and millennials.
[00:03:58]  You see, the American dream has become a luxury item for the wealthy elite.
[00:04:05]  Happy countries have children.
[00:04:08]  Broken countries have addiction, depression, and suffering.
[00:04:13]  Democrats have given hundreds of billions of dollars to illegals and foreign nations, while Gen Z has to pinch pennies just so that they can never own a home, never marry, and work until they die, childless.
[00:04:30]  Under Biden, our young people own nothing and they are miserable.
[00:04:34]  Donald Trump refuses to accept this fake, pathetic, mutilated version of the American dream.
[00:04:45]  When he was president, young people were richer than ever before, and he will do it again.
[00:04:53]  Donald Trump is on a rescue mission to revive your birthright.
[00:05:00]  One your grandparents and those before them gave everything to hand down to you.
[00:05:06]  And listen carefully, everybody.
[00:05:08]  This is why young men are the most conservative that they have been in 50 years.

=== Choose Success Together (01:20) ===

[00:05:22]  To all the Gen Zers watching this convention on TikTok right now, I have a message just for you.
[00:05:30]  You don't have to stay poor.
[00:05:32]  You don't have to accept being worse off than your parents.
[00:05:35]  You don't have to feel aimless and unhappy.
[00:05:38]  You don't have to support leaders who lied to you and took advantage of you for your vote.
[00:05:43]  America's future is a series of choices.
[00:05:47]  Our current state of slow-motion national decline is a choice.
[00:05:56]  This November, we're going to choose success.
[00:06:00]  We're going to choose to put the future of Americans first.
[00:06:06]  We are going to choose to no longer be spectators this election.
[00:06:11]  We together are going to do the work to save America.
[00:06:17]  We are going to choose to work harder than ever before, to chase ballots, to vote early, to register new voters.
[00:06:26]  And all of us together working harder than ever, we will fire the Biden-Harris regime and put Donald Trump back in the White House where he belongs.
[00:06:38]  God bless you guys.
[00:06:39]  Thank you so much.