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March 5, 2025 - Human Events Daily - Jack Posobiec

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THOUGHTCRIME - The Renewal of the American Dream Speech Special

Charlie, Jack, Tyler, and Blake preview Trump's speech to a joint session of Congress, then react to it afterwards. What will be said about tariffs, Ukraine, DOGE, Gaza, and more? Support the show

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	Welcome to Thought Crime Tuesday.
	It's not a Thursday this time.
	I am Andrew Colvett, producer Andrew.
	I am joined by Blake Neff and Tyler Boyer tonight.
	My earpiece keeps falling out.
	Charlie will be joining us momentarily, as will Jack Posobiec.
	We're getting the stream going, letting the juices flow here from Phoenix, Arizona, in preparation of President Trump's address to a joint session of Congress.
	He's dubbing this evening as the Renewal of the American Dream, which I think is apt.
	And since it's not a State of the Union, it's actually something sort of different.
	He was invited by Speaker Mike Johnson to do this.
	Normally we would have a State of the Union.
	Next year we'll have a State of the Union.
	So Renewal of the American Dream, that's the theme.
	It looks like we've got senators coming into the main hall.
	I'm sure we get that picture-in-picture there, guys, so people can sort of follow along visually.
	J.D. Vance has been spotted.
	Tom Homan.
	Borders are.
	We're looking at different images.
	I mean, there's a lot of people filtering into this room.
	President Trump's supposed to start in about 15, 14 minutes.
	It's still a little ways out, but it takes a little while to get all those people, wrangle all those cats.
	So what are we expecting to hear tonight?
	Obviously, Blake Tyler, the tariff issue is prime tonight.
	We just levied an additional 10% tariff against China.
	We did 25% against Mexico and Canada.
	Now we're hearing that he might be willing to walk that back.
	There's a lot of negotiations going behind the scenes.
	Set the stage here.
	Blake, Tyler, either of you can take this.
	What do you expect to hear from the president?
	Yeah, it's very interesting because usually with the State of the Union...
	It's, you know, the president sets his agenda for maybe the whole year, or he's bragging about what he's already done, which Trump can definitely do that.
	He came out with a bang.
	But you don't usually associate these speeches with, like, breaking policy news where a lot's up in the air.
	But a lot has been up in the air just the past five days.
	We had the blow-up with Zelensky, where, you know, Mineral Deal was dead.
	Zelensky left.
	He was pausing military aid to Ukraine.
	Now there's reports just a few hours ago that Zelensky is open to, you know, renegotiating the peace process, opening that up.
	Then with tariffs, we have Trump come out and say, we're imposing 20% tariffs on Canada, on Mexico.
	We're doing new tariffs on China.
	Canada comes out and is retaliating, saying they're going to impose similarly large tariffs on the U.S. But then Trump says, yeah, we might have...
	I don't know if Trump announced it, but someone in his cabinet...
	Yeah, he says he's ready to escalate.
	He truthed it.
	He truthed it.
	He's ready to escalate again, but then I believe Secretary of Commerce came out and said, I think it was Congress.
	Yeah, and he came out and said, well, we might actually have a deal to pause it by tomorrow.
	So we may literally have a case where we could get breaking news on either of those topics tonight, or even maybe the Gaza piece process.
	That's been going on in the background as well.
	Well, I'll add to the tariffs.
	He also talked about the farm tariffs for the exports outside the country, which that's also freaking out Mexico and so many others because they're so dependent on...
	A lot of what we produce within the country, too.
	So, yeah, there's a lot to talk about, to your point, and it's really exciting.
	And I hope, I was saying in the chat with the team, I hope he says stuff that his team doesn't even know he's going to say.
	I hope Trump goes off script.
	That he doesn't even know he's going to say it.
	He's going to get in the moment, he's going to be like, you know, I'm just going to say it.
	And I hope he comes out with it and just like, because this is, I think this is the pacing that's making us successful, is Trump is staying so far ahead of the media that it's making I totally agree.
	Your life, a little bit crazy.
	No, totally.
	Charlie's life, a little bit crazy.
	Your life, a little bit crazy.
	But it's so good for policy.
	Here's the way this works, though.
	Normally, in politics, somebody comes out with one big thing.
	It's Obamacare.
	And the next six months...
	Politically, it's spent arguing about the merits or drawbacks of Obamacare.
	And how is the website working?
	And in that six months, you have all this time to come up with thought pieces.
	And there's position papers.
	And then the economists weigh in about the pros and cons and the pluses and minuses.
	Trump is doing the equivalent of a political Obamacare unilaterally via the executive branch, which he has the authority to do, obviously.
	People feel differently.
	They're challenging that in the courts.
	He's doing this on a daily basis, just about.
	And so the thought pieces and the think pieces and the think tanks and the economists, they can't keep up with the outrage.
	I just want to note, we have breaking imagery.
	I think they just had it up on stage.
	Now they cut away, but Elon Musk put on a suit for this speech.
	Oh, wow.
	He's in the chamber.
	And I believe J.D. and Speaker Johnson are in position.
	I've seen J.D. already, yeah.
	J.D. and Speaker Johnson, just for everybody.
	There's Don Jr. Don's in the back of the room.
	And I just want a preview for everyone.
	And hello, we're on YouTube as well, as well as Rumble.
	I just wanted to say, Charlie will be joining us.
	He's not with us yet.
	We'll be watching the speech when it begins.
	And we'll be reacting afterwards.
	He was busy showering after.
	A long day amongst Democrats.
	I can't blame him.
	Yeah, for those of you who didn't see the tweet heard around, that thing's got like three million engagements already.
	He's decontaminated.
	Charlie, and I was in the room.
	Blake was in the room.
	We lived to tell the tale here.
	But yeah, Charlie was on Gavin Newsom's podcast.
	And from what we can tell, there was one warm-up episode, and then Charlie, and I don't think with...
	They didn't tell me who, but it didn't sound like it was as big of a person.
	He had to get one under his belt, and I think that's important.
	I saw who it was.
	Who was it?
	I don't even know if they've announced it or not.
	I can't be as big as Charlie.
	Charlie's like 6'5".
	He's a very big person.
	By the way, I'd love to know your thoughts out of the gate here in the comments section.
	Charlie Kirk does Gavin Newsom's podcast.
	I don't want to give too much away.
	It's going to be exciting.
	People will like the episode.
	It will be one of the most enjoyable, entertaining, you know, and even talk about this, politics and culture and entertainment sort of overlap in these ways, like it or not.
	This was politics meets entertainment.
	I mean, it's actually just remarkable to think about.
	We got one of the most notable...
	Liberal governors versus one of the most notable conservatives of any kind.
	By the way, the biggest economy in the country, the fifth largest economy in the world, if you took it by itself, to sit down.
	And to their credit, they invited Charlie, and it was great.
	So anyways, I'd love to know your thoughts in the chat.
	Do you think we're giving Gavin Newsom an opportunity to pivot?
	Because he's obviously going to be thinking about running for president in a few years.
	Or do you think this is...
	That's exactly what we should be doing as Americans.
	I've seen both sides on social media.
	I think it's a fascinating debate.
	Here's what I'll say for people, our conservatives that are concerned.
	There's no reason to be concerned.
	The last time that Charlie went on podcasts with a Democrat that was thinking about running for president, he promptly quit.
	The Democrat Party, and endorse President Trump.
	Listen, you have to give it your all.
	If you're worried about Charlie Kirk moving position-wise, you haven't known Charlie for that long.
	Mike Lee was like, he didn't turn you, did you?
	Charlie replied back with a smiley face, like a laughing face.
	Anyways, I just think it's...
	Oh, I heard Charlie.
	No, I think Speaker Mike Johnson's announcing the president right now.
	I could be wrong.
	I think I heard Charlie.
	No, that was Ryan.
	He's just letting us know if Speaker Johnson's speaking.
	Do we want to go there and watch the speech?
	I think Speaker Johnson's just announcing the entry of the president.
	I could be wrong.
	All right, here goes J.D. Let's take the sound, guys.
	Appoints the following senators as members of the committee on the part of the Senate to escort the president of the United States into the House chamber.
	The senator from South Dakota, Mr. Thune.
	The senator from Wyoming, Mr. Barrasso.
	The senator from Arkansas, Mr. Cotton.
	The senator from Oklahoma, Mr. Lankford.
	The senator from West Virginia, Mrs. Capito.
	The senator from South Carolina, Mr. Scott.
	The senator from New York, Mr. Schumer.
	The senator from Illinois, Mr. Durbin.
	The senator from Minnesota, Ms. Klobuchar.
	The senator from New Jersey, Mr. Booker.
	The senator from Wisconsin, Ms. Baldwin.
	The members of the Escort Committee will exit the chamber through the lobby doors.
	Parliamentary procedure.
	So now they're out in the lobby, they meet the president, they all shake his hand, and then they...
	Come in and remember, so this is actually kind of a cool story.
	Speaker Johnson was nice enough.
	Andrew and I, the day before inauguration, Andrew and I actually went down to the Capitol to see the Rotunda, do everything.
	It was great.
	It was cool.
	We hung out with some of our really close friends that are influential in the space, too.
	And while we were there, we met.
	The sergeant at arms who's the guy that's going to come out and he's going to announce the president.
	That's his job.
	So I think they do that for State of the Unions.
	I'm pretty sure he'll do the same thing for the joint.
	Because that's his job.
	What does he do when he's not announcing the president?
	He runs the security.
	Yeah, he runs the keep it running a tight ship.
	So he showed us everywhere where there's bullet holes in the chamber and everything else.
	He's a bit of a maitre d' as well as the head of security.
	He was very cool, very kind.
	So you're going to see him.
	So he's kind of the famous, infamous guy.
	Who will come out.
	And this room that they're in is very small.
	Oh, yeah.
	It's tiny.
	It looks huge on TV. And when you actually get in there, it is really small.
	Really small.
	It's intimate.
	It's cozy.
	The chairs, the sitting places are tiny.
	It's really...
	Right, Andrew?
	It's probably just like...
	It's deceptively...
	I mean, the TV just makes it look like this grand hall.
	Are we going to have the president here?
	No, they're all standing and talking still.
	They're all standing up right now.
	There's probably a couple different groups that will come in first.
	I'm not sure who this is.
	As long as people are waving and giving thumbs up, we're probably not at a full presidential arrival.
	We have Nancy Mace blowing kisses to somebody, giving thumbs up.
	Who is it?
	Nancy may say, call me.
	Okay.
	So some of the interesting points that are going to happen here is, again, you have a full room.
	So if you didn't see the news, the president has invited, it was about a dozen, what they call everyday Americans.
	So people that have a really normal, honorable story that he's going to cover.
	So a big chunk of his speech, 12 people is a lot of people.
	So covering each of their stories and what they went through, just as a whole point to them, they're probably going to be sitting near the family that's up in the top, so where Trump is speaking stage right to his left, or stage left, I should say, to his right on TV. So that's what you're going to see a lot of.
	So you're going to hear these stories in between some of the policy things and how they support his policy.
	A lot of people in the comments are asking if Charlie is there live.
	No, Charlie will be joining us on this stream after the speech is over.
	He's just occupied right now.
	He's had a long day.
	He's had a very long day.
	He's decontaminating from the Gavin Newsom.
	And the speech will be at 9, so it's just a matter of minutes.
	In the science laboratory situation, you gotta like...
	You know, make sure you're completely free of all that.
	Yeah, no, Charlie will be joining.
	He's going to be watching and chiming in.
	I would love to know your guys' thoughts, though.
	In the chat, do you think it was the right move for Charlie to go on the podcast?
	Is it a wait and see with Gavin Newsom?
	Or do you think it's totally the right thing to do?
	I happen to be of the opinion that it was the right thing to do, but I also saw how it went.
	And Charlie...
	Question from the chat, how long is the speech?
	Nobody knows.
	I think it's slated for about 60 minutes, but I could be wrong.
	Nobody knows with Trump, because he might just pause, kind of work the room.
	He might ad-lib, do his, what do they call it?
	The Trump tangents?
	The weave.
	I think he should just go for four hours.
	Don't stop.
	Just keep going.
	I think that would be a mistake.
	In theory, if he just kept going, what would happen?
	Yeah, just never stop.
	And then meanwhile, Come right off, and then sign ten more executive awards.
	It's like three years later, and he's still just like, and they were very unfair to me with how they reported the size of the crowds at my inauguration.
	This was a record inauguration.
	Chicken son, I guess, starts in three minutes.
	Yeah, well, it starts in two minutes now, but it's President Trump.
	He might be...
	A little bit late.
	Let's hope he's right on time.
	Seems like they're running on time.
	One other thing for the chat.
	So guys, when we get back and we come out of this stream when the president gets done speaking, think of some good questions here.
	We're going to go to the chat and debate some of the items here.
	So, you know, what you love.
	What you wish you heard more of, what you can't wait to hear more about.
	We want to have some debate, some talk about that.
	I know Charlie will be up for it, even though he's had a heck of a day here.
	Logan Log23, which his name is Logan, says, Charlie will destroy Gavin Newsom.
	As somebody who was there, Logan, I can assure you that it was a gentlemanly chat.
	It was combative.
	At times.
	It went in and out of being combative, but I definitely think Charlie got more than a fair share of his points in.
	I have to say I was very pleased with how it went.
	He should have ghosted new scum and not done the thing.
	Gavin has a state to fix and run.
	Well, I mean, here's the thing.
	Gavin is a lame duck governor at this point.
	His term is up in 2026. Thoughts are that he's going to pivot.
	So that was the argument against doing it.
	Do you help him sort of present more moderate to the world?
	At the end of the day, I think he's got a challenge because California is kind of broken.
	He doesn't have a whole lot to show for himself.
	So I think Charlie was in a powerful spot.
	How are we doing on where are we at in the proceeding here?
	It looks like they're pretty ready for President Trump.
	It's full.
	They're just waiting for him to show up and chatting away.
	All right, let's go ahead and let's get a little sound here so we can listen in.
	Keep our mics open here.
	Just white noise.
	Once they announce the president, we can pretty much cut through.
	So as soon as they announce the president, guys, we'll probably cut out and we'll be back again just as soon as we're done, as the president wraps up, and we'll go right into commentary with Charlie.
	And it's funny, too, because, you know, we have a wall here with all of the different, like, broadcasts.
	And, you know, it's funny because they're all obviously arguing about the tariffs and they're trying to make high drama out of that.
	And it is high drama in one sense.
	But it's just our perspective on the show is probably so much different than what they have to, like, say on the news media.
	Playing very hard.
	He's willing to go hard.
	But as soon as somebody concedes to him and does what he wants, it's going to be over.
	I don't think we have to overly be concerned about it.
	That's my personal take on tariffs.
	Blake, maybe you have a different take on it, but I can sort of tell that that's all the intrigue.
	Like, what's Trump going to say about this?
	I mean, look, this is probably one of, you know, anytime you have a State of the Union or a joint session or a joint address, you have a moment where you probably get...
	Hundreds of millions of dollars worth of media outcome.
	He gets to strike all of the successes here.
	Worldwide.
	So this is the moment to scare the living daylights out of every country.
	I think they're scared.
	I mean, they already are, but it's like...
	It's one thing to have a press conference where you say something, it gets picked up, and it's worth millions of dollars worth of earned media.
	You're 100% right.
	This is tens of millions of dollars, maybe a hundred plus million dollars worth.
	You're 100% right.
	And all the pomp and circumstance of the joint session.
	You've got to hit it hard.
	This is such a flex internationally.
	As much as our institutions have been sort of...
	I don't know.
	The veil's been torn.
	We've seen behind the sausage making.
	Our institutions are not what they once were.
	This still feels big and powerful.
	And especially, can you imagine watching halfway around the world, seeing the joint session, seeing Trump.
	He's talking about, we know from the title of it, it's the return of the American dream.
	He's going to strike a triumphant tone.
	He's going to go through all of his accomplishments, which are myriad.
	There are so many to recount.
	I can't even remember all the things he's done.
	And so he's probably going to list it out, and he's going to basically, I think he's going to say that, listen, the world's going to bow to these things, whether it be tariffs or peace in Ukraine.
	We also got a signal today from Vladimir Zelensky that he wants to work this out.
	He wants peace.
	And we're hearing that Canada wants...
	You know, free trade.
	We've got some clapping going on.
	So Trump, I think he has a lot of momentum behind him, a lot of reason to be confident.
	I think this is where the family's entering.
	So if I'm not mistaken...
	Well, I already saw Ivanka.
	It looks like right now Melania's entering.
	So that means that she left the president's side, so the president's going to be up next.
	As soon as she sits, you should expect entry.
	Yeah, there's Melania.
	And she's got Lakin.
	And then we've got Lakin Riley's mother, I believe.
	Okay, I am here, guys.
	Oh, we have Charlie.
	Charlie's hopping on.
	Charlie, we're just about to have the president come out.
	Melania Trump just sat down, Charlie Kirk.
	Great.
	Wonderful.
	Hey, guys, great to see you.
	Sorry, it's been quite an eventful day.
	I will one day tell you the tale of what happened today.
	That is a private tale.
	I might come back down to the studio, but we'll see.
	And I know we're going to enjoy an amazing state.
	Well, it's like a state of the country American dream address.
	Welcome to the United States Cabin.
	Catch it afterwards.
	Yeah.
	What a cabinet, too.
	Charlie Kirk, you should take some pride in that, my friend.
	It's a great group of people, wouldn't you say?
	By the way, I think they accomplished it.
	You've got to give credit to Thune as well, especially J.D. Vance, in my opinion, for working behind the scenes.
	The amount of approvals and appointees that have been confirmed, I mean, is really something.
	It's truly a Project 2029 cabinet, is what I tell people.
	Oh, gosh.
	Here we go.
	Did she just take Project 2025 and raise this to the 2029?
	No, it's Project 2029 cabinet.
	It's a lot of preparation.
	You've got to think ahead.
	Well, cool.
	So now we've got...
	So the First Lady's sitting, getting seated right now.
	Scott Bessent, Marco Rubio.
	It's really hitting me that we have a member of...
	Like, the most famous member of the Kennedy family.
	Scott Turner.
	Walking in, shaking hands as a member of a Republican president.
	Oh, my gosh.
	And, yeah, RFK is shaking.
	Lauren Boebert's taking a selfie with Lauren Boebert.
	Yeah.
	The HUD secretary is...
	That's HUD. There's Duffy.
	It's a good bunch.
	I mean, honestly.
	There's Andy Biggs.
	There's our man, Eli Crane.
	Andy Biggs.
	Andy Biggs right next to APL. APL. These are our guys.
	These are the Turning Point crew right here.
	We've got APL. Oh, look.
	Governor Senator Scott.
	Mike Lee just shook Marco Rubio's hand.
	And Eric Schmidt from Missouri.
	Oh, and there's Joni Ernst.
	Joni Ernst voted for Hegseth.
	We can appreciate that.
	She's really trying to come back.
	I didn't actually see.
	Hegseth's right there.
	Standing very close to Joni.
	With an American flag lapel.
	Eric Schmidt is tall.
	Eric Schmidt is really tall.
	I did not know that he comes on our show all the time.
	But, you know, you're on a Zoom.
	Charlie, any thoughts before we welcome the president in?
	Yes, sir.
	I am processing.
	This is a momentous moment.
	I actually might come down and join you guys.
	I just sorted out what I needed to sort out.
	But it's pretty amazing to see all of our hard work combined to this crescendo.
	And praise the Lord.
	Just enjoy it, is my advice to everybody at home.
	Don't overanalyze it.
	Just sit back and say, what a change.
	What a moment.
	Praise the Lord.
	So let's enjoy, everybody.
	And I'm probably going to come down and see you guys in a moment.
	Love it.
	Looking forward to it.
	And think about, too, like just Charlie said, enjoy it.
	Think about, too, what could have been.
	Think about the disaster we could be watching right now if everybody that's listening to our voices right now didn't get out and work, do the ballot chasing, support, getting the word out, knowing what's going on.
	I mean, people were really, I think, frightened after we lost Rush.
	Because they didn't know what was going on.
	And there was a moment there that it felt like it.
	And the listening base here that our avid Charlie Kirk Show listeners have come right on.
	They're part of this.
	And they're part of this in even a deeper way.
	We love Rush.
	He was incredible.
	He was so brilliant.
	And he kept everybody informed what was happening down in the swamp.
	We also have all of the flexed muscle that's happening in the grassroots.
	And that's different.
	That's changed from the Obama era, where it was just like we had Rush and talk radio.
	I totally agree.
	And by the way, not only that, but all of these voices online that helped amplify and spread the message.
	I mean, everybody deserves so much credit for what our country has accomplished since November 5th.
	That changed the future of this country and changed history.
	A truly momentous moment and everything that's happened since January 20th and onward has really been tremendous.
	And to Charlie's point, there's so much to appreciate here.
	Take a second, take a step back and appreciate all that's happened and everything that we have to be thankful for.
	There's a lot of battles ahead.
	There's a lot of fights, but there's a lot to be grateful for.
	I totally agree.
	And as somebody who felt like they hadn't really rested since January 6, 2021, I'm going to take a moment here and really absorb this and appreciate everything that's been accomplished in the interim.
	Let's see.
	Do we have any comments from our viewers before the president comes out?
	We've got Dream Team Cabinet.
	People like your take on Rush, Tyler?
	And remember, it wasn't that long ago in a State of the Union that Rush was being recognized for his life achievements by the president.
	Again, no other president ever did that.
	No one else gave Rush that love.
	You've got a cabinet that's full of, you know, as Charlie puts them, wingers.
	Strong conservatives that support what we do.
	Look at all the hot pink they've got in the Democrat half, it looks like.
	They must be celebrating Fat Tuesday.
	I can't stand that about the left.
	I'm going to be really honest.
	I find it very cringe.
	When they all wore white that one year.
	We would do that if we were in the, you know.
	I think both sides do their stunts.
	No, we don't.
	Not in unison.
	Not like this.
	We just yell things like, you lie!
	Yeah, exactly.
	But that's one-off and it's not coordinated.
	But this whole video where there's 22 senators saying that S word is a lie or whatever the thing was, that was so freaking uncomfortable for me to watch unfold.
	And I just felt like they made them all look like such fools.
	And this is basically like...
	You know, we're all going to wear the same color to protest what?
	Well, you know, it's a gimmick to get on CNN or MSNBC to explain their outfit choice and what it meant, and I can't stand it.
	And I just find it completely, the theater of it, the theatrical nature of it, I just find it really sort of disgusting.
	There's Scott Bessent and Tulsi, Mark Wayne Mullen, Russ Vogt, Sean Duffy.
	That was a little power click right there.
	Yeah, Mark Wayne Mullen's giving Sean Duffy the bro hug.
	And there's Mike Waltz, National Security Advisor.
	Supreme Court there.
	I think they probably entered earlier.
	John Roberts, Kavanaugh, Amy.
	Are they all there?
	Or just the kind of sympathetic ones?
	ACB. I see Kav, I see Roberts, I see ACB. Is that Kagan?
	I think Kagan's there.
	I think she's between Roberts and I think is that Kavanaugh or Alito?
	That's Kavanaugh.
	I don't see Alito.
	I think that's Kagan between them.
	That's Kagan.
	I don't see KGB. Who's on the end right there?
	Who just sat?
	The one at the end is Roberts, isn't it?
	Oh, the other end?
	Is that...
	It's like the Supreme Court Justice nobody talks about.
	Is that Alito?
	No, it's not Alito.
	I'm getting bad at this.
	I'm getting bad at my Supreme Court jujitsu.
	Hold on, I got you.
	It is...
	I don't even know who that is.
	It's not Gorsuch.
	It's not Kavanaugh.
	Now I'm really confused.
	Who was that?
	Was it like a federal judge?
	Is there someone who's just...
	Is it like an emeritus judge?
	Did they bring in Kennedy as an emeritus?
	Oh, that's probably what it was.
	Yeah, it probably was that.
	Because I was going to say, it looks like...
	Yeah.
	I think you're right.
	Maybe it is.
	Now I've got to go venture them.
	No, because I've got them all here.
	I don't see Ketanji.
	She'll be there.
	Is it Breyer?
	No, that's Kennedy.
	That's totally Anthony Kennedy.
	I thought it was Kennedy, but I didn't want to say that because I was not on the court anymore.
	I guess they can just come out of retirement to hang out.
	Other people are noticing it.
	Yeah, okay.
	Four sitting members are there.
	Robert Skagin, Kavanaugh, ACB, and then Kennedy is also present.
	I'm surprised Thomas and Alito aren't there.
	They're not much for the D.C. I guess Alito soured on it after Obama went and crapped on him during one of his speeches.
	Remember that?
	I think it was over, was that Obamacare?
	No, it was over Citizens United, I think.
	Yeah, Citizens United, I think that's right.
	He just, he convinced about it.
	Oh, here we go.
	All right, they're gabbling it in.
	That means take your seats.
	Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States.
	Here he is.
	All right.
	We'll see all of you when the speech is over.
	Yep.
	Enjoy.
	Enjoy.
	Thank you.
	Members of the United States Congress, thank you very much.
	And to my fellow citizens, America is back.
	USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
	USA! USA! USA! USA!
	Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this Capitol and proclaimed the dawn of the Golden Age of America.
	From that moment on, it has been nothing but swift and unrelenting action to usher in the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country.
	We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations.
	accomplished in four years or eight years, and we are just getting started.
	Thank you.
	I return to this chamber tonight to report that America's momentum is back, our spirit is back, our pride is back, our confidence is back, and the American dream is surging bigger and better than ever before.
	Thank you.
	The American dream is unstoppable and our country is on the verge of a comeback the likes of which the world has never witnessed and perhaps We'll never witness again.
	There's never been anything like it.
	The presidential election of November 5th was a mandate like has not been seen in many decades.
	We won all seven swing states, giving us an Electoral College victory of 312 votes.
	We won the popular vote by big numbers and won counties in our country.
	USA! USA! USA!
	and won counties in our country 2,700 to 525 on a map that reads almost completely red for Republican.
	USA! USA!
	Now for the first time in modern history, more Americans believe that our country is headed in the right direction than the wrong direction.
	In fact, it's an astonishing record, 27-point swing, the most ever.
	Likewise, small business optimism saw its small business optimism saw its single largest one-month gain ever recorded.
	Mr. President.
	41.2.
	Jump!
	Members are directed to uphold and maintain decorum in the House and to cease any further disruptions.
	That's your warning.
	Members are engaging and willful in continuing breach of decorum, and the chair is prepared to direct the Sergeant at Arms to restore order to the joint session.
	Thank you.
	Mr. Green, take your seat.
	Take your seat, sir.
	Take your seat.
	Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption of proper decorum, the chair now directs the sergeant-at-arms to restore order.
	Remove this gentleman from the chamber.
	Thank you.
	Members are directed to uphold and maintain decorum in the House.
	Mr. President, you continue.
	Thank you.
	Over the past six weeks, I have signed nearly 100 executive orders and taken more than 400 executive actions a record to restore common sense, safety, optimism, and wealth all across our wonderful land.
	The people elected me to do the job and I'm doing it.
	In fact, it has been stated by many that the first month of our presidency, it's our presidency, is the most successful in the history of our nation.
	by many.
	And what makes it even more impressive is that, do you know who number two is?
	George Washington.
	How about that?
	I don't know about that list, but we'll take it.
	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.
	Who would want to do that?
	This is my fifth such speech to Congress.
	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.
	So, Democrats sitting before me, Democrats sitting before me, for just me, for just this one night, why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for America? .
	For the good of our nation, let's work together and let's truly make America great again.
	Every day my administration is fighting to deliver the change America needs to bring a future that America deserves.
	And we're doing it.
	This is a time for big dreams and bold action.
	Upon taking office, I imposed an immediate freeze on all federal hiring, a freeze on all new federal regulations, and a freeze on all foreign aid.
	I terminated the ridiculous Green News scam, I withdrew from the unfair Paris Climate Accord, which was costing us trillions of dollars that other countries were not paying.
	I withdrew from the corrupt World Health Organization.
	And I also withdrew from the Anti-American UN Human Rights Council.
	We ended all of Biden's environmental restrictions that were making our country far less safe and totally unaffordable.
	And importantly, we ended the last administration's insane electric vehicle mandate, saving our autoworkers and companies from economic destruction.
	To unshackle our economy, I have directed that for every one new regulation, 10 old regulations must be eliminated, just like I did in my very successful first time.
	Thank you.
	And in that first term, we set records on ending unnecessary rules and regulations like no other president had done before.
	We ordered all federal workers to return to the office.
	they will either show up for work in person or be removed from their job.
	And we have ended weaponized government where, as an example, a sitting president is allowed to viciously a sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent, like me.
	Oh, no.
	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.
	I renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
	And likewise, I renamed for a great president, William McKinley, Mount McKinley again.
	Beautiful Alaska.
	We love Alaska.
	We've ended the tyranny of so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies all across the entire federal government and indeed the private sector and our military.
	And our country will be woke no longer.
	We believe that whether you are a doctor, an accountant, a lawyer, or an air traffic controller, you should be hired and promoted based on skill and competence, you should be hired and promoted based on skill and competence, not race or Very important.
	You should be hired based on merit.
	And the Supreme Court, in a brave and very powerful decision, has allowed us to do so.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	We have removed the poison of critical race theory from our public schools, and I signed an order making it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.
	I also signed an executive order to ban men from playing in women's sports.
	Applause Three years ago, Peyton McNabb was an all-star high school athlete, one of the best, preparing for a future in college sports.
	But when her girls volleyball match was invaded by a male, he smashed the ball so hard in Peyton's face, causing traumatic brain injury, partially paralyzing her right side and ending her athletic career.
	It was a shot like she's never seen before.
	She's never seen anything like it.
	Peyton is here tonight in the gallery, and Peyton, from now on, schools will kick.
	the men off the girls team, or they will lose all federal funding.
	And
	if you really want to see numbers, just take a look at what happened in the women's boxing, weightlifting, track and field, swimming, or cycling, where a male recently finished a long-distance race, five hours and 14 minutes ahead of a woman, for a new record five hours and 14 minutes ahead of a woman, for a new record Broke the record by five hours.
	It's demeaning for women, and it's very bad for our country.
	country, we're not going to put up with it any longer.
	What I have just described is only a small fraction of the common sense revolution that is now, because of us, sweeping the entire world.
	Common sense has become a common theme, and we will never go back.
	Never.
	Never gonna let that happen.
	Among my very highest priorities is to rescue our economy and get dramatic and immediate relief to working families.
	As you know, we inherited from the last administration an economic catastrophe and an inflation nightmare.
	Their policies drove up energy prices, pushed up grocery costs, and drove the necessities of life out of reach for millions and millions of Americans.
	They've never had anything like it.
	We suffered the worst inflation in 48 years, but perhaps even In the history of our country, they're not sure.
	As president, I'm fighting every day to reverse this damage and make America affordable again.
	Joe Biden especially let the price of eggs get out of control.
	Oh!
	The egg price is out of control.
	And we're working hard to get it back down.
	Secretary, do a good job on that.
	You inherited a total mess from the previous administration.
	Do a good job.
	A major focus of our fight to defeat inflation is rapidly reducing the cost of energy.
	The previous administration cut the number of new oil and gas leases by 95%, slowed pipeline construction to a halt, and closed more than 100 power plants.
	We are opening up many of those power plants right now.
	And frankly, we have never Seen anything like it.
	That's why on my first day in office, I declared a national energy emergency.
	As you've heard me say many times, we have more liquid gold under our feet than any nation on Earth, and by far, and now I fully authorize the most talented team ever assembled to go and get it.
	It's called...
	Drill Baby Drill.
	My administration is also working on a gigantic natural gas pipeline in Alaska, among the largest in the world, where Japan, South Korea, and other nations want to be our partner with investments of trillions of dollars each.
	There's never been anything like that one.
	It will be truly spectacular.
	It's all set to go.
	The permitting is gotten.
	And later this week, I will also take historic action to dramatically expand production of critical minerals and rare earths here in the USA. To further combat inflation,
	we will not only be reducing the cost of energy, but we'll be ending the flagrant waste of taxpayer dollars.
	And to that end, I have created the brand new Department of Government Efficiency.
	Goj.
	Perhaps you've heard of it.
	Perhaps.
	Which is headed by Elon Musk, who is in the gallery tonight. . who is in the gallery tonight. .
	Thank you, Elon.
	He's working very hard.
	He didn't need this.
	He didn't need this.
	Thank you very much.
	We appreciate it.
	Everybody here, even this side, appreciates it, I believe.
	They just don't want to admit that.
	Just listen to some of the appalling waste we have already identified.
	$22 billion from HHS to provide free housing and cars for illegal aliens.
	$45 million for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
	Scholarships in Burma.
	$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. $8 million for making mice transgender.
	This is real.
	$32 million for a left-wing propaganda operation in Moldova.
	$10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique.
	$20 million for...
	The Arab Sesame Street in the Middle East.
	It's a program.
	$20 million for a program.
	$1.9 billion to recently created decarbonization of Homes Committee headed up.
	And we know she's involved.
	Just at the last moment, the money was passed over by a woman named Stacey Abrams.
	Have you ever heard of her?
	A $3.5 million consulting contract for lavish fish monitoring.
	$1.5 million for voter confidence in Liberia.
	$14 million for social cohesion in Mali.
	$59 million for illegal alien hotel rooms in New York City.
	He's a real estate developer.
	He's done very well.
	$250,000 to increase vegan local climate action innovation in Zambia.
	$42 million for social and behavior change in Uganda.
	$14 million for improving public procurement in Serbia.
	$47 million for improving learning outcomes in Asia.
	Asia's doing very well with learning.
	We know what we're doing.
	We should use it ourselves.
	And $101 million for DEI contracts at the Department of Education, the most ever paid, nothing even like it.
	Under the Trump administration, all of these scams, and they're far worse, but I didn't think it was appropriate to talk about them.
	They're so bad.
	Many more have been found out and exposed and swiftly terminated by a group of very intelligent, mostly young people.
	Headed up by Ilana, we appreciate it.
	we found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud.
	And we've taken back the money and reduced our debt to fight inflation and other things.
	Taking back a lot of that money.
	We got it just in time.
	This is just the beginning.
	The Government Accountability Office, the federal government office, has estimated annual fraud of over $500 billion in our nation, and we are working very hard to stop it.
	We're going to.
	We're also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the Social Security program for our seniors.
	And that our seniors and people that we love rely on.
	Believe it or not, government databases list 4.7 million Social Security members from people aged 100 to 109 years old.
	It lists 3.6 million people from ages 110. To 119. I don't know any of them.
	I know some people that are rather elderly, but not quite that elderly.
	3.47 million people from ages 120 to 129. 3.9 million people from ages 130 to 139. 3.5 million people.
	From ages 140 to 149. And money is being paid to many of them.
	And we're searching right now.
	In fact, Pam, good luck.
	Good luck.
	You're going to find it.
	But a lot of money is paid out to people because it just keeps getting paid and paid and nobody does.
	And it really hurts.
	Social Security, it hurts our country.
	1.3 million people from ages 150 to 159 and 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.
	Including, to finish, to finish, 1,039 people between the ages of 220 and 229.
	One person between the age of 240 and 249.
	And one person is listed at 360 years of age.
	More than a hundred years.
	More than a hundred years older than our country.
	But we're going to find out where that money's going and it's not going to be pretty.
	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 today, interest rates took a beautiful drop Big, beautiful drop.
	It's about time.
	And in the near future, I want to do what has not been done in 24 years.
	Balance the federal budget.
	it.
	We're going to balance it.
	With that goal in mind, we have developed in great detail what we are calling the "gold card which goes on sale very, very soon.
	For $5 million, we will allow the most successful job creating people from all over the world to buy a path to U.S. citizenship.
	It's like the green card, but better and more sophisticated.
	And these people will have to pay tax in our country.
	They won't have to pay tax from where they came.
	The money that they've made, you wouldn't want to do that, but they have to pay tax, create jobs.
	They'll also be taking people out of colleges and paying for them so that we can keep them in our country instead of having them be being forced out.
	Number one at the top school, as an example, being forced out and not being allowed to stay and create tremendous numbers of jobs and great success for a company out there.
	So while we take out The criminals, killers, traffickers, and child predators who are allowed to enter our country under the open-border policy of these people, the Democrats, the Biden administration, the open-border insane policies that you've allowed to destroy our country.
	We will now bring in brilliant, hard-working job-creating people.
	They're going to pay a lot of money, and we're going to reduce our debt with that money.
	Americans have given us a mandate for bold and profound change.
	For nearly 100 years, the federal bureaucracy has grown until it has crushed our freedoms, ballooned our deficits, and held back America's potential in every possible way.
	The nation founded by pioneers and risk-takers now drowns under millions and millions of pages of regulations and debt.
	Approvals that should take 10 days to get instead take 10 years, 15 years, and even 20 years before you're rejected.
	Meanwhile, we have hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have not been showing up to work.
	My administration will reclaim power from this unaccountable bureaucracy, and we will restore true democracy to America again.
	And any federal bureaucrat who resists this change will be removed from office immediately.
	Thank you, Julie.
	Because we are draining the swamp.
	It's very simple.
	and the days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over.
	And the next phase of our plan to deliver the greatest economy in history is for this Congress to pass tax cuts for everybody.
	They're in there.
	They're waiting for you to vote.
	And I'm sure that the people on my right, I don't mean the Republican right, but my right right here, I'm sure you're going to vote for those tax cuts because otherwise I don't believe the people will ever vote you into office.
	So I'm doing a big favor by telling you that.
	But I know this group is going to be voting for the tactic.
	Thank you.
	It's a very, very big part of our plan.
	We had tremendous success in our first term with it, a very big part of our plan.
	We're seeking permanent income tax cuts all across the board.
	and to get urgently needed relief to Americans hit especially hard by inflation, I'm calling for no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security benefits for our great seniors.
	Thank you.
	Good luck.
	And I also want to make interest payments on car loans tax-deductible, but only if the car is made in America.
	Thank you.
	And by the way, we're going to have growth in the auto industry like nobody's ever seen.
	Plants are opening up all over the place.
	Deals are being made.
	Never seen.
	That's a combination of the election win and tariffs.
	It's a beautiful word, isn't it?
	That, along with our other policies, will allow our auto industry to absolutely boom.
	It's going to boom.
	I spoke to the majors today, all three, the top people, and they're so excited.
	In fact, already numerous car companies have announced that they will be building massive automobile plants in America.
	with Honda just announcing a new plant in Indiana, one of the largest anywhere in the world.
	And this has taken place since our great victory on November 5th, a date which will hopefully go down as one of the most important in the history of our country.
	Applause In addition, as part of our tax cuts, we want to cut taxes on domestic production and all manufacturing.
	And just as we did before, we will provide 100% expensing.
	It will be retroactive to January 20th, 2025. And it was one of the main reasons why our tax cuts were so successful in our first term, giving us...
	The most successful economy in the history of our country, first term.
	We had a great first term.
	If you don't make your product in America, however, under the Trump administration, you will pay a tariff, and in some cases, a rather large one, Other countries have used tariffs against us for decades, and now it's our turn to start using them against those other countries.
	On average, the European Union, China, Brazil, India, Mexico and Canada, have you heard of them?
	And countless other nations charge us tremendously higher tariffs than we charge them.
	It's very unfair.
	India charges us auto tariffs higher than 100%.
	China's average tariff on our products is twice what we charge them.
	And South Korea's average tariff is four times higher.
	Think of that four times higher.
	And we give so much help militarily and in so many other ways to South Korea.
	But that's what happens.
	This is happening by friend and foe.
	This system is not fair to the United States and never was.
	And so on April 2nd, I wanted to make it April 1st, but I didn't want to be accused of April Fool's Day.
	Just one day would cost us a lot of money.
	But we're going to do it in April.
	I'm a very superstitious person.
	April 2nd, reciprocal tariffs kick in.
	And whatever they tariff us, other countries, we will tariff them.
	That's reciprocal, back and forth.
	Whatever they tax us, we will tax them.
	If they do non-monetary tariffs...
	To keep us out of their market, then we will do non-monetary barriers to keep them out of our market.
	There's a lot of that, too.
	They don't even allow us in their market.
	We will take in trillions and trillions of dollars and create jobs like we have never seen before.
	I did it with China, and I did it with others, and the Biden administration couldn't do anything about it because there was so much money they couldn't do anything about it.
	We have been ripped off for decades by nearly every country on earth and we will not let that happen any longer Much has been said over the last three months about Mexico and Canada and
	But we have very large deficits with both of them, but even more importantly, they've allowed fentanyl to come into our country at levels never seen before, killing hundreds of thousands of our citizens and many very young, beautiful people destroying families.
	Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
	They are, in effect, receiving subsidies of hundreds of billions of dollars.
	We pay subsidies to Canada.
	And to Mexico of hundreds of billions of dollars, and the United States will not be doing that any longer.
	We're not going to do it any longer.
	Thanks to our America First policies we're putting into place, we have had $1.7 trillion of new investment in America in just the past few weeks.
	The combination of the election...
	And our economic policies that people of SoftBank, one of the most brilliant anywhere in the world, announced a $200 billion investment.
	OpenAI and Oracle, Larry Ellison, announced $500 billion investment, which they wouldn't have done if Kamala had won.
	Apple announced $500 billion investment.
	Called me.
	He said, I cannot spend it fast enough.
	It's going to be much higher than that, I believe.
	They'll be building their plants here instead of in China.
	And just yesterday, Taiwan, semiconductor, the biggest in the world, most powerful in the world, has a tremendous amount, 97% of the market, announced a $165 billion investment to build the most powerful chips on Earth right here in the USA. And
	we're not giving them any money.
	Your CHIPS Act is a horrible, horrible thing.
	We give hundreds of billions of dollars, and it doesn't mean a thing.
	They take our money and they don't spend it.
	All that meant to them, we're giving them no money.
	All that was important to them was they didn't want to pay the tariffs, so they came and they're building, and many other companies are coming.
	We don't have to give them money.
	We just want to protect our businesses and our people.
	And they will come because they won't have to pay tariffs if they build in America.
	So it's very amazing.
	You should get rid of the CHIP Act and whatever's left over.
	Mr. Speaker, you should use it to reduce debt or any other reason you want to.
	Our new trade policy will also be great for the American farmer.
	I love the farmer.
	Who will now be selling into our home market, the USA, because nobody is going to be able to compete with you.
	Because those goods that come in from other countries and companies, they're really, really in a bad position in so many different ways.
	Uninspected.
	They may be very dirty and disgusting and they come in and they pour in and they hurt our American farmers.
	The tariffs will go on agricultural product coming into America and our farmers starting on April 2nd.
	It may be a little bit of an adjustment period.
	We had that before when I made the deal with China.
	$50 billion of purchases and I said, just bear with me.
	And they did.
	They did.
	Probably have to bear with me.
	Again, and this will be even better.
	That was great.
	The problem with it was that Biden didn't enforce it.
	He didn't enforce it.
	$50 billion of purchases.
	And we were doing great, but Biden did not enforce it.
	And it hurt our farmers.
	But our farmers are going to have a field day right now.
	So to our farmers, have a lot of fun.
	I love you, too.
	I love you, too.
	It's all going to happen.
	And I have also imposed a 25% tariff on foreign aluminum, copper, lumber and steel because if we don't have, as an example, steel and lots of other things, we don't have a military and frankly won't have, we just won't have a country very long.
	Here today is a proud American steelworker, fantastic person from Decatur, Alabama, Jeff Denard.
	has been working at the same steel plant for 27 years in a job that has allowed him to serve as the captain of his local volunteer fire department, raise seven children with his beautiful wife, Nicole, and over the years provide a loving home for more than 40 foster children.
	So great, Jeff.
	Thank you, Jeff.
	Stories like Jeff's remind us that tariffs are not just about protecting American jobs.
	They're about protecting the soul of our country.
	Tariffs are about making America rich again and making America great again.
	And it's happening, and it will happen rather quickly.
	A little disturbance.
	But we're okay with that.
	It won't be much.
	No, you're not.
	Oh.
	And look where Biden took us.
	Very low.
	The lowest we've ever been.
	Jeff, I want to thank you very much.
	And I also want to recognize another person who has devoted herself to foster care community.
	She worked so hard on it.
	A very loving person.
	our magnificent First Lady of the United States.
	Melania's work has yielded incredible results, helping prepare our nation's future leaders as they enter the workforce.
	Our First Lady is joined by two impressive young women, very impressive.
	Haley Ferguson, who benefited from the First Lady's Fostering the Future initiative, and is poised to complete her education and become a teacher.
	And Elliston Berry, who became a victim of an illicit, deep-fake image produced.
	By a peer.
	With Elliston's help, the Senate just passed the Take It Down Act.
	And this is so important.
	Thank you very much, John.
	John Thune.
	Thank you.
	Stand up, John.
	Thank you, John.
	Thank you all very much.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	And thank you to John Thune and the Senate.
	Great job.
	To criminalize the publication of such images online is a terrible, terrible thing.
	And once it passes the House, I look forward to signing that bill into law.
	Thank you.
	And I'm going to use that bill for myself, too, if you don't mind.
	Because nobody gets treated worse than I do online.
	Nobody.
	That's great.
	Thank you very much to the Senate.
	Thank you.
	But if we truly care about protecting Americans' children, no step is more crucial than securing America's borders.
	Over the past four years, 21 million people poured into the United States.
	Many of them were murderers, human traffickers, gang members, and other criminals from the streets of dangerous cities all throughout the world because of Joe Biden's insane and very dangerous open border policies.
	They are now strongly embedded in our country, but we are getting them out and getting them out fast And I want to thank Tom Holman and Christelle I want to thank you and Paul of Border Patrol.
	I want to thank you.
	What a job they've all done, everybody.
	Border Patrol, ICE, law enforcement in general is incredible.
	We have to take care of our law enforcement.
	After -- Last year -- -- a brilliant 22-year-old nursing student named Lakin Riley, the best in her class, admired by everybody, went out for a jog on the campus of the University of Georgia,
	That morning, Lakin was viciously attacked, assaulted, beaten, brutalized, and horrifically murdered.
	Lakin was stolen from us by a savage, illegal alien gang member who was arrested while trespassing across Biden's open southern border.
	And then set loose into the United States under the heartless policies of that failed administration.
	It was indeed a failed administration.
	He had then been arrested and released in a Democrat-run sanctuary city, a disaster, before ending the life of this beautiful young angel.
	With us this evening are Lakin's beloved mother, Allison, and her sister, Lauren.
	Last
	year I told Lakin's grieving parents that we would ensure their daughter would not have died in vain.
	That's why the very first bill I signed into law as your 47th president mandates the detention of all dangerous criminal aliens who threaten public safety.
	It's a very strong, powerful act.
	It's called the Lakin-Riley Act.
	So Allison and Lauren, America will never ever forget our beautiful Lakin Hope Riley.
	Thank you very much.
	.
	Since taking office, my administration has launched the most sweeping border and immigration crackdown in American history, and we quickly achieved the lowest numbers of illegal border crossers ever recorded.
	Thank you.
	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.
	Thank you.
	Joe Biden didn't just open our borders, he flew illegal aliens over them to overwhelm our schools, hospitals, and communities throughout the country.
	Entire towns like Aurora, Colorado and Springfield, Ohio, buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption like nobody's ever seen before.
	Beautiful towns destroyed.
	Now, just as I promised in my inaugural address, we are achieving the great liberation of America.
	But there still is much work to be done.
	Here tonight is a woman I have gotten to know.
	Alexis Nengarry from Houston.
	Wonderful woman.
	Last June, Alexis' 12-year-old daughter.
	Her precious Jocelyn walked to a nearby convenience store.
	She was kidnapped, tied up, assaulted for two hours under a bridge and horrifically murdered.
	Arrested and charged with this heinous crime are two illegal alien monsters from Venezuela released into America by the last administration through their ridiculous open border.
	The death of this beautiful 12-year-old girl and the agony of her mother and family It touched our entire nation greatly.
	Alexis, I promised that we would always remember your daughter, your magnificent daughter.
	And earlier tonight, I signed an order keeping my word to you.
	One thing I have learned about Jocelyn is that she loved animals so much.
	She loved nature.
	Across Galveston Bay, from where Jocelyn lived in Houston, you will find a magnificent national wildlife.
	Refuge.
	A pristine, peaceful, 34,000-acre sanctuary for all of God's creatures on the edge of the Gulf of America.
	Alexis, moments ago, I formally renamed that refuge in loving memory of your beautiful daughter, Jocelyn.
	So, Mr. Vice President, if you would, may I have the order.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	All three savages charged with Jocelyn and Lakin's murders were members of the Venezuelan prison gang, the toughest gang they say in the world, known as Tren de Aragua.
	Two weeks ago, I officially designated this gang along with MS-13 and the bloodthirsty Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist I officially designated this gang along with MS-13 and the bloodthirsty
	They are now officially in the same category as ISIS and that's not good for them.
	Countless thousands of these terrorists were welcomed into the U.S. by the Biden administration.
	But now every last one will be rounded up and forcibly removed from our country, or, if they're too dangerous, put in jails, standing trial in this country, because we don't want them to come back ever.
	With us this evening is a warrior on the front lines of that battle, Border Patrol Agent Roberto Ortiz.
	Great guy.
	Thank you.
	the Rio Grande, near an area known as Cartel Island.
	Doesn't sound too nice to me.
	When heavily armed gunmen started shooting at them, Roberto saw that his partner was totally exposed at great danger and he leapt into action, returning fire and providing crucial seconds for his fellow agent to Seek safety, and just barely.
	I have some of the prints of that event, and it was not good.
	Agent Ortiz, we salute you for your great courage and for your line of fire that you took and for the bravery that you showed.
	We honor you, and we will always honor you.
	Thank you, Roberto, very much.
	Thank you, Roberto.
	And I actually got to know him on my many calls to the border.
	He's a great, great gentleman.
	The territory to the immediate south of our border is now dominated entirely by criminal cartels that murder, rape, torture and exercise total control.
	They have total control over a whole nation, posing a grave threat to our national security.
	The cartels are waging war in America and it's time for America to wage war on the cartels which we are doing Five nights ago Mexican authorities because of our tariff policies being imposed on them think of this and
	Handed over to us 29 of the biggest cartel leaders in their country.
	That has never happened before.
	They want to make us happy.
	First time ever.
	But we need Mexico and Canada to do much more than they've done, and they have to stop the fentanyl and drugs pouring into the USA. They're going to stop it.
	I have sent Congress a detailed funding request laying out exactly how we will eliminate these threats to protect our homeland and complete the largest deportation operation in American history, larger even than current record holder, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a moderate man, but someone who believed very strongly in borders.
	Americans expect Congress to send me this funding without delay so I can sign it into law.
	Mr. Speaker, John Thune, both of you, I hope you're going to be able to do that, Mr. Speaker.
	Thank you.
	Mr. Leader, thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	And let's get it to me.
	me.
	I'll sign it so fast you won't even believe it.
	And as we reclaim our sovereignty, we must also bring back law and order to our cities and towns.
	Thank you.
	In recent years, our justice system has been turned upside down by radical left lunatics.
	Many jurisdictions virtually seized enforcing the law against dangerous repeat offenders while weaponizing law enforcement against political opponents like me.
	My administration has acted swiftly and decisively to restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law, starting at the FBI and the DOJ. Pam, good luck.
	Cash, wherever you may be, good luck.
	Good luck.
	Pam Bondy.
	Good luck.
	So important.
	You're going to do a great job.
	Cash, thank you.
	Thank you, Cash.
	They've already started very strongly.
	They're going to do a fantastic job.
	You're going to be very proud of them.
	We're also once again giving our police officers the support, protection, and respect they so dearly deserve.
	They have to get it.
	They have such a hard, dangerous job, but we're going to make it less dangerous.
	The problem is the bad guys don't respect the law, but they're starting to respect it, and they soon will respect it.
	This also includes our great fire departments throughout the country.
	Our firemen and women are unbelievable people, and I will never forget them.
	And besides that, they voted for me in record numbers, so I have no choice.
	One year ago this month, 31-year-old New York police officer Jonathan Diller, unbelievably wonderful person 31-year-old New York police officer Jonathan Diller, unbelievably wonderful person and a great officer, was gunned down at a traffic stop on Long Island I went to his funeral.
	The vicious criminal charged with his murder had 21 prior arrests, and they were rough arrests.
	He was a real bad one.
	The thug in the seat next to him had 14 prior arrests and went by the name of killer.
	He was killer.
	He killed other people, they say, a lot of them.
	I attended Officer Diller's service when I met his wife and one-year-old son, Ryan.
	It was very inspirational, actually.
	His widow's name is Stephanie, and she is here tonight.
	Stephanie, thank you very much, Stephanie.
	Thank you very much.
	Stephanie, we're going to make sure we're going to make sure that Ryan knows his dad was a true hero, New York's finest.
	And we're going to get these cold-blooded killers and repeat offenders off our streets, and we're going to do it fast.
	Got to stop it.
	They get out with 28 arrests.
	They push people into subway trains.
	They hit people over the head, back of the head with baseball bats.
	We got to get them out of here.
	I have already signed an executive order requiring a mandatory death penalty for anyone who murders a police officer.
	And tonight I'm asking Congress to pass that policy into permanent law.
	I'm also asking...
	For a new crime bill getting tough on repeat offenders while enhancing protections for America's police officers so they can do their jobs without fear of their lives being totally destroyed.
	They don't want to be killed.
	We're not going to let them be killed.
	Joining us in the gallery tonight is a young man who truly loves our police.
	His name is DJ Daniel.
	He is 13 years old, and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	But 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, DJ and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true, and DJ has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer actually a number of times before.
	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.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, DJ.
	DJ's doctors believe his cancer likely came from a chemical he was exposed to when he was younger.
	Since 1975, rates of child cancer have increased by more than 40%.
	Reversing this trend is one of the top priorities for our new presidential commission to make America healthy again, chaired by...
	Our new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. With the name Kennedy,
	you would have thought everybody over here would have been cheering.
	How quickly they forget.
	Our goal is to get toxins out of our environment, poisons out of our food supply, and keep our children healthy and strong.
	As an example, not long ago, and you can't even believe these numbers, one in 10,000 children had autism.
	One in 10,000.
	And now it's 1 in 36. There's something wrong.
	1 in 36. Think of that.
	So we're going to find out what it is, and there's nobody better than Bobby and all of the people that are working with you.
	You have the best to figure out what is going on.
	Okay, Bobby?
	Good luck.
	It's a very important job.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	My administration is also working to protect our children from toxic ideologies in our schools.
	A few years ago, January, little John and her husband discovered that their daughter's school had secretly socially transitioned their 13-year-old little girl.
	Teachers and administrators conspired to deceive January and her husband while encouraging her daughter to use a new name and pronouns.
	They, them pronoun, actually.
	All without telling January, who is here tonight and is now a courageous advocate against this form of child abuse.
	January, thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	Stories like this are why, shortly after taking office, I signed an executive order banning public schools from indoctrinating our children with transgender ideology.
	I also signed an order to cut off all taxpayer funding to any institution that engages in the sexual mutilation of our youth.
	Thank you.
	And now I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body.
	This is a big lie.
	And our message to every child in America is that you are perfect exactly the way God made you.
	Because we're getting wokeness out of our schools and out of our military, and it's already out, and it's out of our society.
	We don't want it.
	Wokeness is trouble.
	Wokeness is bad.
	It's gone.
	It's gone.
	And we feel so much better for it, don't we?
	Don't we feel better?
	Our service members won't be activists.
	Ideologues, they will be fighters and warriors.
	They will fight for our country.
	And Pete, congratulations.
	Secretary of Defense, congratulations.
	And he's not big into the woke movement, I can tell you.
	I know him well.
	I am pleased to report that in January the U.S. Army had its single best recruiting month in 15 years and that all armed services are having among the best recruiting results ever in the history of our services.
	What a difference.
	And you know, it was just a few months ago where the results were exactly the opposite We couldn't recruit anywhere.
	We couldn't recruit.
	Now we're having the best results just about that we've ever had.
	What a tremendous turnaround.
	It's really a beautiful thing to see.
	People love our country again.
	It's very simple.
	They love our country and they love being in our military again.
	So it's a great thing and thank you very much.
	Thank you very much.
	Great job.
	Thank you.
	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.
	And, Jason, Jason, that's a very big deal getting in.
	That's a hard one to get into.
	But I'm pleased to inform you that your application has been accepted.
	You will soon be joining the Corps of Cadets.
	Thank you.
	Jason, you're going to be on the long gray line, Jason.
	As Commander-in-Chief, my focus is on building the most powerful military of the future.
	As a first step, I'm asking Congress to fund a state-of-the-art Golden Dome missile defense shield to protect our homeland, all made in the USA. And Ronald Reagan wanted to do it long ago, but the technology just wasn't there, not even close.
	But now we have the technology.
	It's incredible, actually.
	And other places, they have it.
	Israel has it.
	Other places have it.
	And the United States should have it, too.
	Right, Tim?
	Right?
	They should have it, too.
	So I want to thank you.
	But it's very important.
	This is a...
	Very dangerous world.
	We should have it.
	We want to be protected, and we're going to protect our citizens like never before.
	To boost our defense industrial base, we are also going to resurrect the American shipbuilding industry, including commercial shipbuilding and military shipbuilding.
	And for that purpose, I am announcing tonight...
	That we will create a new office of shipbuilding in the White House and offer special tax incentives to bring this industry home to America, where it belongs.
	We used to make so many ships.
	We don't make them anymore very much, but we're going to make them very fast, very soon.
	It will have a huge impact.
	To further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal.
	And we've already started doing it.
	Just today, a large American company announced they are buying both ports around the Panama Canal and lots of other things having to do with a large American company announced they are buying both ports around the Panama Canal and lots of other things The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans, not for others.
	But others could use it.
	But it was built at tremendous cost of American blood and treasure.
	38,000 workers died.
	Building the Panama Canal.
	They died of malaria.
	They died of snake bites and mosquitoes.
	Not a nice place to work.
	They paid them very highly to go there, knowing there was a 25% chance that they would die.
	The most expensive project, also, that was ever built in our country's history, if you bring it up to modern-day costs.
	It was given away by the Carter administration for $1.
	But that agreement has been violated very severely.
	We didn't give it to China.
	We gave it to Panama and we're taking it back.
	And we have Marco Rubio in charge.
	Good luck, Marco.
	We know who to blame if anything goes wrong.
	Marco's been amazing and he's going to do a great job.
	Think of it.
	He got a hundred votes.
	You know, he was approved with actually 99, but the 100th was this gentleman and I feel very certain.
	So let's assume he got a hundred votes and I'm either very, very happy about that or I'm very concerned about it.
	He's already proven.
	I mean, he's a great gentleman.
	He's respected by everybody.
	And we appreciate you voting for Marco.
	He's going to do a fantastic job.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	He's doing a great job.
	Great job.
	And I also have a message tonight for the incredible people of Greenland.
	We strongly support your right to determine your own future.
	And if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America.
	We need Greenland for national security and even international security.
	And we're working with everybody involved to try and get it.
	But we need it really for international world security.
	And I think we're going to get it.
	One way or the other, we're going to get it.
	We will keep you safe.
	We will make you rich and together.
	We will take Greenland to heights like you have never thought possible before.
	It's a very small population, but very, very large piece of land and very, very important for military security.
	America is once again standing strong against the forces of radical Islamic terrorism.
	Three and a half years ago, ISIS terrorists killed 13 American service members and countless others.
	In the Abbey Gate bombing during the disastrous and incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan.
	Not that they were withdrawing.
	It was the way they withdrew.
	Perhaps the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.
	Tonight I am pleased to announce that we have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity.
	and he is right now on his way here to face the swift sword of American justice.
	And I want to thank especially the government of Pakistan for helping arrest this monster.
	I'm This was a very momentous day for those 13 families, who I actually got to know very well, most of them, whose children were murdered and the many people that were so badly, over 42 people, so badly injured on that fateful day in Afghanistan.
	What a horrible day.
	Such incompetence was shown.
	That when Putin saw what happened, I guess he said, wow, maybe this is my chance.
	That's how bad it was.
	Should have never happened.
	Grossly incompetent people.
	I spoke to many of the parents and loved ones, and they're all in our hearts tonight.
	I spoke to them on the phone.
	We had a big call.
	Every one of them called, and everybody was on the line.
	They did nothing but cry with happiness.
	They were very happy, as happy as you can be under those circumstances.
	Their child, brother, sister, son, daughter was killed for no reason whatsoever.
	In the Middle East, we're bringing back our hostages from Gaza.
	In my first term, we achieved one of the most groundbreaking peace agreements in generations, the Abraham Accords.
	And now we're going to build on that foundation to create a more peaceful and prosperous future for the entire region.
	A lot of things are happening in the Middle East.
	People haven't been talking about that so much lately with everything going on with Ukraine and Russia.
	But a lot of things are happening in the Middle East.
	It's a rough neighborhood, actually.
	I'm also working tirelessly to end the savage conflict in Ukraine.
	Millions of Ukrainians and Russians have been needlessly killed.
	Or wounded in this horrific and brutal conflict.
	With no end in sight, the United States has sent hundreds of billions of dollars to support Ukraine's defense.
	with no security, with no anything.
	Do you want to keep it going for another five years?
	Yeah, you would say Pocahontas says yes.
	Two thousand people are being killed every single week.
	More than that.
	They're Russian young people.
	They're Ukrainian young people.
	They're not Americans.
	But I want it to stop.
	Meanwhile, Europe has sadly spent more money buying Russian oil and gas than they have spent on defending Ukraine, by far.
	Think of that.
	They've spent more buying Russian oil and gas than they have defending.
	And we've spent perhaps $350 billion, like taking candy from a baby.
	That's what happened.
	And they've spent...
	$100 billion.
	What a difference that is.
	And we have an ocean separating us, and they don't.
	But we're getting along very well with them, and lots of good things are happening.
	Biden has authorized more money in this fight than Europe has spent by billions and billions of dollars.
	It's hard to believe that they wouldn't have stopped it and said, at some point, come on, let's equalize.
	You've got to be equal to us.
	But that didn't happen.
	Earlier today, I received an important letter from President Zelensky of Ukraine.
	The letter reads, Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer.
	Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians, he said.
	My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump's strong leadership to get a peace that lasts.
	We do really value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence.
	Regarding the agreement on minerals and security, Ukraine is ready to sign it at any time that is convenient for you.
	I appreciate that he sent this letter.
	Just got it a little while ago.
	Simultaneously, we've had serious discussions with Russia.
	And have received strong signals that they are ready for peace.
	Wouldn't that be beautiful?
	It's time to stop this madness.
	It's time to halt the killing.
	It's time to end this senseless war.
	If you want to end wars, you have to talk to both sides.
	Nearly four years ago, amid rising tensions, a history teacher named Mark Fogel was detained in Russia and sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony.
	Rough stuff.
	The previous administration...
	Barely lifted a finger to help him.
	They knew he was innocent, but they had no idea where to begin.
	But last summer, I promised his 95-year-old mother, Malphine, that we would bring her boy safely back home.
	After 22 days in office, I did just that.
	And they are here tonight.
	Thank you.
	To Mark and his great mom, we are delighted to have you safe and sound and with us.
	As fate would have it, Mark Fogle was born in a small rural town in Butler, Pennsylvania.
	Have you heard of it?
	Where his mother has lived for the past 78 years.
	I just happened to go there last July 13th for a rally.
	That was not pleasant.
	And that is where I met his beautiful mom right before I walked onto that stage.
	And I told her I would not forget what she said about her son.
	And I never did, did I? Never forgot.
	Less than ten minutes later, at that same rally, gunfire rang out and a sick and deranged assassin unloaded eight bullets.
	My life was saved by a fraction of an inch, but some were not so lucky.
	Cory Comparator was a firefighter, a veteran, a Christian, a husband, a devoted father, and above all, a protector.
	When the sound of gunshots pierced, the air was a horrible sound.
	Cory knew instantly What it was and what to do.
	He threw himself on top of his wife and daughters and shielded them from the bullets with his own body.
	Corey was hit really hard.
	You know the story from there.
	He sacrificed his life to save theirs.
	Two others very fine people were also seriously hit.
	But thankfully, with the help of two great country doctors, We thought they were gone and they were saved, so those doctors had great talent.
	We're joined by Corey's wife, Helen, who was his high school sweetheart, and their two beloved daughters, Allison and Kaylee.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	To Helen, Allison, and Kaylee, Corey is looking down on his three beautiful ladies right now, and he is cheering you on.
	He loves you.
	He is cheering you on.
	Corey was taken from us much too soon, but his destiny was to leave us all with a shining example of the selfless devotion of a true American patriot.
	It was love like Cory's that built our country, and it's love like Cory's that is going to make our country more majestic than ever before.
	I believe that my life was saved that day in Butler for a very good reason.
	I was saved by God to make America great again.
	again.
	I believe that.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	From the patriots of Lexington and Concord to the heroes of Gettysburg and Normandy, from the warriors who crossed the Delaware to the trailblazers who climbed the Rockies, and from the legends who soared at Kitty Hawk to the astronauts who touched the moon, Americans have always been the people who defied all arts, transcended.
	All dangers made the most extraordinary sacrifices and did whatever it took to defend our children, our country, and our freedom.
	And as we have seen in this chamber tonight, that same strength, faith, love, and spirit is still alive and thriving in the hearts of the American people.
	Despite the best efforts of those who would try to censor us, silence us, break us, destroy us, Americans are today a proud, free, sovereign and independent nation that will always be free and we will fight for it till death.
	We will never let anything happen to our beloved country because we are a country of doers, dreamers, fighters and survivors.
	Our ancestors crossed a vast ocean.
	Strowed into the unknown wilderness and carved their fortunes from the rock and soil of a perilous and very dangerous frontier.
	They chased our destiny across a boundless continent.
	They built the railroads, laid the highways, and graced the world with American marvels like the Empire State Building, the mighty Hoover Dam, and the towering Golden Gate Bridge.
	They lit the world with electricity, broke free of the force of gravity, fired up the engines of American industry, vanquished the communists, fascists, and Marxists all over the world, and gave us countless modern wonders sculptured out of iron glass and steel.
	We stand on the shoulders of these pioneers who won and built the modern age.
	These workers who poured their sweat into the skylines of our cities.
	These warriors who shed their blood on fields of battle and gave everything they had for our rights and for our freedom.
	Now it is our time to take up the righteous cause of American liberty.
	And it is our turn to take America's destiny into our own hands and begin the most thrilling days in the history of our country.
	This will be our greatest era.
	With God's help over the next four years, we are going to lead this nation even higher, and we are going to forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic, and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this earth.
	We are going to create the highest quality of life, build the safest and wealthiest and healthiest and most vital.
	Communities anywhere in the world.
	We are going to conquer the vast frontiers of science, and we are going to lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond.
	And through it all, we are going to rediscover the unstoppable power of the American spirit.
	And we are going to renew unlimited promise of the American dream.
	Every single day we will stand up and we will fight, fight, fight for the country our citizens believe in and for the country our people deserve.
	Thank you.
	My fellow Americans get ready for an incredible future because the golden age of America has only just begun.
	It will be like nothing that has ever been seen before.
	Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you very much.
	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.
	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 Asian 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.
	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 Hegsatz.
	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 D.C. power structure, the power structure that you say there assembled, one of the only times all year.
	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 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.
	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.
	The American people widely support what he is doing.
	This election wouldn't have come down the way that it 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 So I want to just make sure this is framed correctly for everybody, 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, 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 cut 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.
	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 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.
	Masaru.
	There's a lot of ones that start with M that are like all same-ish in Africa.
	I love President Trump running through the LGBT. He's like LGBTQI+. In my defense, Mbibane 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 can say it however they want.
	Here's the beautiful Masero.
	Masero.
	Masero?
	I don't know.
	There it is.
	Nobody's ever heard of it.
	Trump, once again, accurate.
	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, you know, 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 where he's able to say, like, 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, you know, combating the cartels.
	It really does.
	It sounds like an administration that's a lot older than six weeks.
	And I just, I want to marvel again.
	I know we said this at the beginning.
	Hello everybody that's just tuning in right now.
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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 he...
	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 are 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, you know, 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.
	Like, you could see it.
	Righteous indignation.
	He kind of like, He 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.
	They could see it.
	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 conference.
	Exactly.
	Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted description of proper decorum, I love this I love this Look at Ted Lieu that works this sound Of course Where is it?
	JD with the thumb?
	Yeah, by the way, that meme's going huge JD with the thumb is just like By his ability He has a memetic capacity Yes, Rumble has a like Rumble plus Because JD understands memes Yes, Jack Yeah, Jack Break down the meme ability of JD Vance Mimetic worker.
	Right, so J.D. understands memetic warfare.
	He's already been the hottest meme of the last 24 hours.
	J.D. Vance edits are currently the hottest meme.
	If you're in the meme economy right now, you want to invest heavily in J.D. Vance edits right now.
	They're going to the meme.
	Are you long on J.D. memes?
	They are currently roaming.
	Let me cut you off, Jack.
	It's just incredible.
	Let me just cut you off.
	We're about to get Rav, and I just want to make sure we welcome Rav.
	I think in three, two, the studio can tell me.
	Five, four, three.
	I want to make sure we time this up.
	Hello San Diego and other towns watching as well.
	This is a Tuesday edition of Thought Crime and we are honored to be on Real America's Voice and streaming on other channels.
	We have Tyler, we have Blake, we have Andrew and of course Real America's Voice own Jack Posobiec as he looms over all of us here.
	What an amazing speech that was.
	We were just kind of marveling at Speaker Mike Johnson with his little deportation effort with the gavel and pretty remarkable.
	We love, Rav, we love Real America's Voice.
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	I think this is almost approximately when the rear of the Charlie Kirk show would be on on Rav.
	Anyway, 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 1.34.
	I'm sorry, this is Al Green, who is going when he went after the reporters.
	You know what Al Green was shouting?
	I voted for trans mice.
	That's what he was...
	This is amazing.
	Play cut 134. 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 in their own minds.
	They actually thought that all the Democrats would come with him as if Moses parting the Red Sea.
	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.
	I just really need to know.
	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. 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.
	And two days ago, I signed an order making English the official language of the United States of America.
	Also a shout out to Ty Gontra.
	20 bucks.
	Thank you, guys.
	He says his message was, thank you, Charlie.
	Hello, Tygon.
	It was Charlie.
	Oh, Charlie.
	Very good.
	So, Lawfare.
	No, I think it's French.
	Charlay.
	Charlay.
	Hey, I got a lot of friends in France.
	You do.
	The French love you.
	Who wants to take this?
	Whoever can chime in.
	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.
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	Thank you very much.
	Mutually assured destruction.
	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, you know, them being fearful.
	I love the side-by-side clip of Kash Patel, you know, before he was even nominated to be FBI agent or director, saying, you know, Schiff is a criminal.
	He's the number one criminal in Congress.
	And then you've got Schiff protesting.
	Kash 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 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, like, 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.
	Don't say it!
	I'm just so...
	I'm just losing so much.
	We lost Jack.
	This is Rachel the Great.
	Playcut 140. For the record, and this is disgusting, the president made a spectacle.
	Out of praising a young man who's 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.
	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.
	Dude, 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 like DC bi-coastal inflection but specifically one that travels between like the DC Georgetown area where you are putting pronunciation on strange 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 even.
	You've got to kind of be dead.
	You have your moments, Charlie.
	You have your moments.
	Oh, when I go up or I go down?
	That's the question.
	We'll see.
	It's a very coffee shop Karen conversation.
	Totally.
	If you overhear...
	Have you ever heard Karens 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 cut 122, one of my favorite.
	Remarks, just calling out the Democrats for who they are, what they believe, and their nonsense.
	Play cut 122. 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.
	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.
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	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.
	Tudor on her 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, he's like, what do you think about this design?
	I'm like, that's amazing.
	It's unique, by the way.
	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.
	It's got the little turning coin.
	Imagine if you're totally non-political, and you're just like, what the hell?
	What is 47?
	Is that a football player?
	Something the kids are doing?
	They think it's a sports.
	Yay, sports.
	Let's go to another...
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	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.
	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.
	You should...
	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...
	Alright, let's watch this.
	Mic'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 Not a single Democrat
	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?
	Yeah, 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.
	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?
	Did I do good or not so good, Andrew?
	10 out of 10. I think that's great.
	I think people are going to enjoy it.
	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.
	That says a lot.
	Because Andrew has spent a lot of hours watching the interviews.
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	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?
	I was like, he's going to offer it.
	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.
	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.
	Just to be clear, Trump never actually said the word honorary.
	So, I mean, I think DJ's on the job.
	Well, it'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.
	Nungere?
	I want to mess up her name.
	Nungere, yeah.
	Jocelyn Nungere.
	Terrible.
	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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	Rebecca, email freedom at charliekirk.com.
	And, 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.
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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 it, he was like...
	Oh, the cameras are on me.
	By the way, I love Bobby.
	No one can make me hate Bobby.
	You know, Bobby's got this almost like an aura about...
	What's up, Jack?
	Breaking?
	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...
	With their great checkup.
	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 checks.
	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 like one of our guys doing Bernie Sanders as a chick.
	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, like, the octogenarian thing is really kind of hurting our politics.
	Like, come on, guys.
	You gotta just go be with your grandkids.
	Like, be a normal person.
	Right?
	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 people should get it.
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	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 it.
	There we go.
	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...
	Shave your eyebrows?
	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.
	That will live in infamy for a long time.
	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 going into the camera with a Bears jersey has got to be the Bears sweater.
	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.
	For sure.
	But the Bears are so bad, it's like a humiliation ritual.
	Exactly.
	I want you to own it.
	Oh, I know.
	He's been good in, like, 20 years.
	Blake should have to wear a really thick Mike Dickham mustache for a full week.
	Oh, you have to grow it.
	For a full week.
	No, no, no.
	No, a fake one.
	He's never going to grow it.
	He might.
	I could grow a mustache.
	No, we need a full broom suite.
	We just need, 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.
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	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 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 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 what I'll always remember.
	There was, like, a bunch of those during the campaign where they would get together and try and be the party of joy, but it was, like, 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.
	It 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.
	Well, 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, 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.
	Their housing 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 you 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 pin.
	Oh, we got more 47 hats.
	She's doing the war dance.
	We're gonna put them on.
	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.
	with no other thing.
	Do you want to keep it going for another five years?
	Yeah, you would say Pocahontas says yes.
	That felt really epic.
	Yeah, it was great.
	But you didn't mean to.
	You just had to.
	And it goes to her, and she's just like...
	She's like, yeah.
	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?
	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 some drunken stupor messaged me and say something about Trump, da-da-da-da-da, 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...
	You know, the devil incarnate.
	And so, this being tied to Putin, they have made 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...
	Because it's useful to their narrative.
	So they think anybody that doesn't just blindly stand with the oligarch, the Ukrainian oligarch, is somehow 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 or whatever?
	No, it's not even that.
	George W. Bush would hang out on his ranch with Putin.
	George W. Bush would go over.
	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.
	He had the pickup truck.
	Remember the pickup truck?
	Yes.
	And Putin's just sitting there next to him.
	Like driving around.
	I want to get out.
	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 villainize Putin and blame Trump for it, when they were the ones who were closer than anyone ever was.
	And I studied this.
	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 and his relationship.
	The Clinton Foundation got money for Uranium One, etc.
	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 like make an offhanded comment or something or have us or JD Vance will make a comment about the British and they'll say that he's destroyed relations.
	But 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 believed 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.
	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, I'd 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.
	What is it called?
	WORTAC. 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, though.
	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.
	And 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, play cut 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.
	He's a colorful guy.
	Therefore, I answer the question.
	We're not apologists.
	He said, Charlie, what do you think of Yair?
	Yair's great.
	I text with Yair all the time.
	Be more specific if you want Yair.
	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...
	Declare an invasion.
	You declare an invasion, the DOD can fire on demand, do whatever you want.
	But the entire point of a national army is defending the nation.
	Unless you're actually being invaded.
	It would be simple.
	Yeah, so these simple, like, you get these weird, like, quasi-libertarian, I call them conservatarian arguments, from phrases that used to get said on talk radio in, like, 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 the 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 correctable.
	So much of that.
	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 Democrat, I thought that was just, I think there were times when they should have risen.
	I think what Al Green did was despicable.
	Despicable?
	Unbeakable.
	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, X, 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 borders 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.
	I just have to say, I feel like...
	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 presence, the permanent field presence.
	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?
	The Supreme Court hangs in the balance of Wisconsin, and if the Democrats take control of it, it's a...
	A partisan election.
	The 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, attorney 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 whole-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, though.
	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.
	Come.
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	It's a quick drive.
	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.
	And I think that's so important because people like James Lankford and people like, you know, I'm not going to let him go for this one.
	No, 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 Langford'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 bill.
	But if we passed 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.
	And 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.
	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 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, godless wonder.
	This is why we got such bad deals because our leaders took absolute garbage deals and said, hey.
	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 is...
	I was so pleased not to have to look at Nancy Pelosi's face behind Donald Trump that entire time.
	Seeing J.D. Vance was not the greatest thing.
	Look, and I was thinking about this, Charlie, and you probably agree, this is something that you think about, is 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 the entire time.
	I think that's bad.
	Don't look at the pictures when she was doing the walk in Italy, okay?
	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 like such a...
	You don't understand.
	Imagine if we had Tim Walls behind.
	There's the contrast.
	We've come a long way, folks.
	Look at that.
	Imagine if we had Tim Walls in Kamala's seat there, like, looking all bug-eyed.
	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 the theatrics.
	It had the pomp and circumstance.
	It had that sort of head of state appeal to it, sort of 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?
	Just, 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...
	We've come a long way.
	You would say, what brand of mushrooms and how often are you taking them?
	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, actually.
	No, no, no.
	I blame you completely for this.
	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.
	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 to Liz Collin and 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.
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