Speeches From The Archive- Charlie at Hillsdale’s College National Leadership Seminar

00:00:03 Speaker 1: My name is Charlie Kirk. I run the largest pro American student organization in the country, fighting for the future of our republic. My call is to fight evil and to proclaim truth. If the most important thing for you is just feeling good, you're gonna end up miserable. But if the most important thing is doing good, you'll end up purposeful. College is a scam, everybody. You got to stop sending your kids to college. You should get married as young as possible and have as many kids as possible. Go start at turning point, you would say, college chapter. Go start attning point, you say, high school chapter. Go find out how your church can get involved. Sign up and become an activist. I gave my life to the Lord in fifth grade, most important decision I ever made in my life, and I encourage you to do the same. Here I am Lord, use me. Buckle up, everybody, Here we go. The Charlie Kirk Show is proudly sponsored by Preserved Gold, leading gold and silver experts and the only precious metals company. I recommend to my family, friends and viewers. Thank you everybody, and thank you doctor arn It's very kind. I think I'm I might be the first speaker at a national leadership seminar not to go to college? Is that right? Maybe maybe we or not. But I'm on pace to complete every single Hillsdale Online course, so I think I'm making up for it. And I visit college campuses so you don't have to. And I could tell you that if every kid who's currently in college took the Hillsdale online courses instead of going to that four year college, America would be in a much better place, much better place. We might have some ideas now for this new administration. I just want to brag on Hillsdale. So I wrote a book called The College Scam, and I sent a copy to doctor arn I speak extensively about how great Hillsdale is and how it's the exception of what I talk about in the book. And I can tell you from firsthand experience, having visited and spoken at and intimately involved with organizing students on over what we're on over one thousand campus I have visited well over one hundred and seventy five of them personally, that there is no place like Hillsdale College. The students are different. They're focused on the right things, they are looking up, they're asking questions that are deeper in nature, they could tell you why they're there. So I'm visiting. We have our campus tour that's restarting on Thursday. Really, I'm excited to kind of go back out there. And when I ask these students, I say why are you here, They'll immediately give you an answer that is industrial in nature. I'm here to be able to get prepared to get a job. I say, okay, I asked a Hillsdale College student, why are you here? They say, well, I'm here to learn out learn how to be a good citizen. I'm here to learn what it means to be a good person, to grow in character and faith and duty. And I ask an average college student at Arizona State University, Harvard or the West down the street here, and let's just be honest. It pales in comparison to Hillsdale for many reasons. Let's just be honest. And I asked them, I said, what are you reading? And they could maybe recite one or two books. At Hillsdale College, they know the texts intimately. And it's not a mistake because it all starts from doctor Larry arn Hillsdale was a good college when doctor Arne took over. Now it is the best college in America after what doctor Arne has done over the last couple of decades, and it has turned into a cultural powerhouse because, as you well know Hillsdale, there's a waiting line to get in. The standards keep on getting higher and harder to get in. But the millions of people like myself that are taking these online courses is dramatically improving our chances of restoring a free society. The Constitution one on one course that alone should be taught mandatorily to every police officer, firefighter, marine, person in the military that has to take an oath for the Constitution. They should learn what they're taking an oath towards. And no better course does that than the Hillsdale Constitution one on one course. And the impact is beyond just what is happening in Michigan. It is digital, it is online, and I think it's even deeper than some of you guys that are on the board even recognize or realize, because it's not just how many people are taking these courses. It's the state legislature, it's the senators, it's the congress people. And I'm gonna I'm gonna build out that argument in a second, because the philosophical basis of this new administration is largely an outgrowth from the hard work that Hillsdale has been doing over the last couple decades. So it's impact in my life. I have a as doctor arn said, I've completed over thirty of them. My goal is to take all of them. Yes, even the Euclidean Geometry one. And I haven't done the Jane Austen novels one. Sorry, have done the Churchill one. It's good, okay, thanks. The new Totalitary novels is terrific. By the way, I highly recommend for any of you that have kids or grandkids to tell them that if they want special privileges to go on a trip, orf they want, you know, phone time or video games, tell them, Okay, you have to take a Hillsdale Online course. I'm telling what we're doing at Turning Point USA, because they have all these ridiculous federal holidays off. We're totally restructuring a June teenth. We're not giving a those days off. I'll say, however, we will give you Constitution day off if you take the Hillsdale Online course on Constitution one to one, so that is now practice at Turning Point USA. But I'll tell you this that as you take these courses, you realize how little our own elected leaders know about the own the country that they're supposed to be protecting and they're defending. How little the people that go on TV and start yamming about you know, we're all about freedom and liberty, and they can't tell you anything about the structure or the form of US Constitution what we're fighting for. And I think we're finding our way back as a country. I think that we are finding our way back to foundational roots. And part of that, by the way, is being driven by one of the most unusual forces, which is that this is a bottom up, youth led political movement that if you look at every single demographic in the twenty twenty four election, the one that moved most dramatically and surprisingly were voters under the age of thirty. These are people that traditionally would be card carrying members of the American left. Now, Donald Trump did not win the youth vote in every single state, And I will tell you one state, and he won the youth vote, And I give Doctor on all the credit. He did win the youth vote in Michigan. It's true, It's one hundred percent real. Donald Trump won the youth vote in Michigan. But all kidding aside, this movement of young people is largely driven by them being raised in the excesses of what we call woke is the kind of political correctness, of totalitari impulses of political correctness, and a resurgeon some of what the work we've done at turning point, but talking to the next generation about what kind of country do you actually want to live in? Do you want to be able to own a home, get married, and have kids, or do you want to just stare at a screen all day long and be an indentured Russian surf and never own anything for the rest of your life. And President Trump, to his great credit, ran an asymmetrical political operation that defied every single Norman custom of the political consultant elite over the last thirty years. He did podcasting instead of sixty minute interviews. He went and did TikTok videos instead of New York Times editorial sit down meeting. He said, no one reads the New York Times, but people do watch TikTok videos. And an amazing way President Donald Trump performed the best that a Republican president has performed with younger voters in over fifty years. Fifty years. And this is a bottom up resurgence where now of every demographic they say do approve or disapprove of Donald Trump? Baby boomers, no offense, they're not really crazy about what's happening in DC. Do you know who is the most supportive of what's happening right now Washington, DC voters under thirty And I'll tell you it makes perfect sense. By the way, it's because they think the entire system top to bottom, is wretched to the core and is a tumor that must be removed. And we must start from the beginning because it's not working for them, because they can't afford homes, and they're seeing themselves involved the most suicidal, depressed, anxious, and alcohol addicted generation history, and they want the same American dream that their parents and grandparents had. And so we saw this in this last election. I personally was able to witness it. Our videos to billions of views. We registered tens of thousands of voters here in Arizona, where we had over one thousand full time people on the ground. We chased well over two hundred thousand ballots for Sident Donald Trump, and I just have to brag Arizona best performing swing state one by five and a half points. So thank you for all the Arizona faithful that works so hard. Pretty awesome. But all of that has now led to the ultimate question, which, of course we all see what President Trump has done in just the last couple of weeks. President Trump is doing so much the Democrats can't remember why they're mad at him. Wait, I'm man, why I don't know? He's getting rid of this thing and signing this thing full court offense, shock and awe. It is time for us to overwhelm the left. You see, President Trump had a decision to make. He could do the kind of typical second term thing and wait for his legislative priorities and sign a couple proclamations to rename some post offices. President Donald Trump is going after one of the most ambitious reclamations of a republic in the history of the species. We've never seen anything like it. Now, of course, we know the Executive Order is saying there'll be no more DEI, and Federal Agent sees no more DEI in our military. We know that he's doing drill, baby drill. We know that he's closing the southern border. And by the way, did you see the recent numbers in just the last couple of days, So it's worth repeating if you haven't. In the last couple of days of Joe Biden being president, eleven thousand people were crossing a day into our country. Last like yesterday, one hundred and forty two people. That's too many. SAVA planning, too many. We got to go to zero. But yes, that's a ninety eight percent decrease, which, by the way, goes to show that open borders is a choice. You didn't need a Senate bipartisan bill, you didn't need some sort of committee. Joe Biden wanted the borders to be open, and he wanted us to have this flow of people from another country. President Donald Trump made a decision. I no, actually, nation is defined by its borders. We're going to have sovereignty, and if you want to come to this country, come the right way. But we're not going to allow you just waltz across the Rio Grand Valley and get the same benefits as someone who's the US passport holder. We're not going to put up with that anymore, and that is a moral argument at its core. Now we know about we know about Bobby Kennedy who's now HHS Secretary, Cash Patel, who's about to be FBI Director, Tulci Gabbard. My favorite executive order, by the way, is President Trump putting an end to the gender transitions called chemical castration for our kids, preventing the medical butchery that has been happening. All the incredible pardons of pro life warriors, the recommission of the seventeen seventy six commission that doctor arn chaired last time, we're ending the wars, and how amazing is his team from Marco Rubio today in Saudi Arabia, jd Vance in Munich, that was a ten out of ten speech. We got Scott Bessen in Ukraine. We got Pete Hegseth doing pt with the Marines at five am, where we had that slob Mark Millie who couldn't even walk up a flight of stairs, or Lloyd Austin that would get out of breath just for standing out of his chair. We got Pete Heggseth who's literally running miles with Marines and Navy seals where the sun gets up in Poland, a new administration is here, and all of this is worthy of celebration, but it does not get down to the core of the matter. It does not get down to what is the big and the looming fight. And I'm only able to articulate this because of Hillsdale College, because most people on TV are missing what's really going on here. They're missing what is going to be the republic determining element of this entire thing. And it comes down to three major questions, big questions that are being debated in the media, but they're not getting down to the meat of the matter. The first of which is so simple. And you can ask my daughter who's two and a half years old, and she knows the answer to this question. How many branches of government are there? Pretty simple? We all know three? Yes, thank you, that's right, good answer. And yes, there's seven articles of the Constitution, and yes we can go throw that. Yes there's three branches of government. Oh easy answer? Is it really that easy? Are there three branches of the government? Doctor Arnt has been saying for as long longer than I have been alive, and has been trying to get the American public to realize and recognize that there has been an invisible, unelected, unknown branch of government that has been operating unconstitutionally post Woodrow Wilson, and no one has had the moral clarity, the mandate or the gusto to even mention it, let alone challenge it, let alone deconstruct it. And we can call that the administrative state. We can call that the shadow government, the deep state. All of those are correct answers, by the way, But understand the profundity of President Donald Trump saying, Okay, JFK started usaid by an executive order, I can end usaid by an executive order. You serve at the pleasure of the president. And then they say, well, no, you can't do that. Hold on which branch of the three does that fall under? It falls under Article two, which goes into one of the other more fundamental questions. You see, what's been grown like a cancer over the last hundred years is this fourth branch of government. And you can see this in some of the reporting on the Department of Justice and the FBI in particular. Anytime you hear this, you should press pause and tell your friend nope, nope, and you should cancel this out of your thought. When they say, oh, that's an independent agency. No it's not. Actually, there's no such thing as an independent agency answers to the pleasure of the president. Period. End up story. The FBI is not independent. Now, the president could be as provocative, he'd get in peached to be does this, but he would be perfectly constitutional if he asked the FBI director to look at every pending case the FBI is looking into, perfectly constitutional. If you looked at everything the DJ is doing, it's perfectly constitutional. The DJ does not operate on a special island. I must have missed that in the Hillsdale Online course Federalist Paper's course where Alexander Hamilton was going on time about well, the Attorney General is kind of its own president, and the FBI kind of does its own thing. And guess what. President Trump does not know this. He knows this philosophically, but he knows it personally because that fourth the branch of government destroyed his first term, was the reason he did not get reelected in twenty twenty and is the reason why he faced seven hundred years in federal prison. President Donald Trump is counterattacking the fourth branch of government that tried to stop him over the last decade. This is the fourth branch that waged war on the sovereign. 00:15:35 Speaker 2: We're honored to be partnering with Alan Jackson Ministries and today I want to point you to their podcast. It's called Culture in Christianity, The Alan Jackson Podcast. What makes it unique is Pastor Allen's biblical perspective. He takes the truth from the Bible and applies it to issues we're facing today, gender confusion, abortion, immigration, Doge Trump, and the White House issues in the church. He doesn't just discuss the problems in every episode, he gives practical things we can do to make a difference. His guests have incredible expertise and powerful testimonies. They've been great friends and now you can hear from Charlie in his own words. 00:16:08 Speaker 1: Each episode will make you recognize the power of your faith and how God can use your life to impact our world today. The Culture in Christianity podcast is informative and encouraging. You could find it on YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes. Alan Jackson Ministries is working hard to bring biblical truth back into our culture. You can find out more about Pastor Allen and the ministry at Alan Jackson dot com forward slash Charlie And that is the key. So the next the big question, that's a big question. How many branches governed article? That's fine. The next big question though, is well, who is the sovereign exactly? Who's in charge of this place? Do you notice that when we fire a federal worker, it's like we're going to fire like the archbishop of Phoenix or something like. It's like unbelievable, Like they're totally on touch, Like you can't do that. Why who made them that they they are in some sort of holy realm that we can't ask the question, well, what do you do here? Why do you exist? What is your job? You can't say that. No, Instead, we have to act as if they're the untouchables literally, and if you listen to the media coverage carefully, it's like we work for them, when no, it's not the only way they work for us. Because our document starts morally clear, we the people of the United States, not the we the usaid. You know, purple hair g hotties that are sending money to Kazakhstan to trans the kids, right that's not how it works actually, and they sound like such fundamental, basic questions, But we're about to get down to the root of the matter. You know why, because our leaders have prolonged the inevitable for decades. George W. Bush did not have the moral clarity or the gusto to pick this fight. In fact, he grew the leviathan and grew the administrative state. We have new agencies because of Republican presidents. So this has been a fight that has been delayed for far too long. And this is where it is all heading. And so when it comes down to who is the sovereign, it comes down to, well, we the American people, elected a president to be able to do the job. And it still baffles the mind where I hear in some of these meetings when I'm in DC, Well, you can't fire these federal workers. You could put them an administrative leave. And how many of you guys in your corporate career or you run a business, what could ever operate that way? Nothing? And yet we put the federal government in a completely different bucket for no good constitutional reason. And then that goes to the final question, and really the big question that ties to the other two, which is is the president in charge of the executive branch. And this is known as the vesting clause of Article two of the US Constitution, which is all authority is invested in a in a president. That's it pretty simple, one sentence a lot there, and so yes, the president has the authority to say usad you don't go or anymore. He has the authority just send Elon Muskog a tomahawk missile into every single federal agency. By the way, how entertaining is this. It's like one of the greatest things ever. I want you to understand. What's going on here is that you have Elon, who I just have grown to just adore. He's become a friend. I think that when the history books are written, he's going to go down as one of the most interesting, consequential business titan political figures ever to exist. So here's a guy that has more money than you could ever imagine. He could buy Spain. Literally, you look it up. He could buy Spain. Okay, not a joke, Like I think the GDP of Spain. It's like one hundred and fifty billion dollars. You could just you know, buy it. And that's like a portion of his wealth, and he's literally sleeping on the floor of the Eisenhower Executive Office building. And it's not just him. Here's the best part. He has this platoon of the super geniuses. And I mean like super geniuses. I mean these guys look make mensa look like, you know, they don't know what they're talking about. And he'll walk into these federal agencies and he'll be like, where are the passwords? How do you send an email? How do you do the accounting? Has eye ever looked at the books? Here? Just one example, he did the Social Security kind of peripheral audit that there's like one hundred forty year old still getting Social Security checks. I can just see the New York Times art you know, headline Elon Musk, so cruel cuts off payments to one hundred forty year olds. You know, just see the headline right now. How dare he? Now, if any of you guys are one hundred and forty, I want to meet you and you can come on my show for the record. So, by the way, if you think our social security roles are messed up, how bad do you think our voter rolls are? Just makes you think so? But Elon Musk is getting down to the heart of the matter. Why it's so simple. Elon Musk sees the world very clearly because Elon Musk has actually built things, and so for him it does not compute. It's like a failure to launch in his mind. Where if at Tesla, if he wants to get rid of ten thousand people, he can get rid of ten thousand people at SpaceX. If he wants to get rid of that employee, and get rid of that employee in DC, you get rid of bad employees by putting them in charge of the CDC and running off your public health guidelines. You fail upwards, that's what you do. You actually ascend by failure. It's a gravitational pull in the wrong direction. And so it is a cultural sea change top to bottom that we are experiencing. And they're gonna fight with everything they possibly can. If you think they fought hard to prevent President Trump from re obtaining office, this is way worse than they actually thought this was going to go. They thought it would be like mass deportations. Notice that, like no one's talking about that anymore. Yeah, sure, take them go away, good. But this dose thing, it's like all the controversial stuff that we thought was gonna be big fights kind of gets go on on the on the you know extras. By the way, is a brilliant strategy by President Trump. Might I add because everyone's talking more about Elon than President Trump, and President Trump's is able to kind of not be attacked for the first time in a decade. It's pretty smart, right, And Elon I think feeds off of it. It's like a life force thing to him. The whole whole thing is just phenomenal. And so, but the reason they're fighting so hard on Doge and on what we are experiencing is we actually have a chance to do the thing that people thought that could never get done, which is we actually have a chance to reorient the ship back to the founder's intent to restore the three branches of government, to articulate what Article two actually is. And I think we have a shot at doing it. Article one is the hardest because Congress is a disaster. But I think the Supreme Court is actually willing to hear this out for the first time in a generation. I think the Supreme Court is now willing to hear are the arguments. What do you mean you're an independent agency. No, you're on an inpendent agency. You serve under Article two. And we've seen with some decisions, the Chevron Deference decision, the EPA decision, the courts are signaling that they're ready for these monumental type cases. And what that means everybody, is that the administrative state leviathan this regime that has been swallowing our freedom and liberty post Woodrow Wilson, for the first time, we can reverse it. We can go back to where we came from. But it's not just gonna happen because of one election. It will only happen with a free citizen re demanding it out of your leaders, with vocal support on a daily basis, educating the masses of what's really going on. And I believe we have a shot at doing it because we're able to communicate to millions of people in a moment's notice without having to go through the Washington Post. I'm able to open my phone right now, I could tweet to millions of people or post something on Instagram or Facebook about any of the guardians of the censors. Elon Musk is able to do these X spaces at midnight where he's just rambling for a couple hours. But all the thing's like going through documents talking about all the waste that he found, and literally like five million people are listening to these things. That's more than the CNN airport audiences for a decade, and he just goes through this. So because now we can go direct to consumer, but let me clarify that we can go direct to citizen. And that's the true revolution that's occurring, is that we are taking the bold and courageous move that is going to put a lot of people's lives and fortunes and sacred honors at risk to say subject no more citizen because we have lived as subjects for the last couple of years, whether we realize that or not, we have not been citizens, which is co rulers or co authorities of our own nation. And that's where the Trump thing gets way bigger than t And honestly, God bless this guy for being the man in the arena that Teddy Roosevelt has a we talked about having the courage and the stamina. God bless him for not taking the deal where they said, you know, don't run for president and just being king maker and doubling down getting shot, his whole business, empire nearly taken from him, and now getting into what is the most high stakes fight constitutionally, morally and civilizationally. And you guys know this, Europe is not going to save a free society. Europe has gone. It's a husk of its former self. We got the Chinese Communist Party rising up. If it's not us, it's nobody. As doctor Arnet said, it is the last best hope and it's only us if we can actually win the domestic war first, if we can restrain this beast that has been slowly taking over every one of our ways of life over the last couple decades and especially the last one hundred years, and then I want to talk about one other thing about this, and then we could do I think they said questions at some point. I don't know. The format is this, which is that I'm a big believer in God's providence over our nation. I believe that God had his hand on Donald Trump, and I believe that God is a hand in this country. I really believe that. And I believe that, as the founders did, that there is a providential element to all of this. And I remember after Donald Trump was displaced from office in the twenty twenty election. We were all is the country over and we believed through faith, as it says in Romans eight twenty eight, that God will use all things for good for those who love him, that maybe there is a plan here that we don't understand. And I know a lot of you know this, and few people say it publicly, But I think it's worthy of a teaching to our kids, especially because we thought it was the worst thing. But now we look back with say, honestly, exile might have been really good for us. Those four years off might have actually been grace, not judgment. Like those four years where we weren't in control of everything actually made a wronger and tougher, made us have more resolve, made us find out what we're really made out of. Made us shrink our ranks away from the people that were summer soldiers, that were Sunshine patriots. Go We told those people, go away, we'll call you back when everything's fixed. I think President Trump in exile, when he faced the entire power of the federal government, became a stronger person, and not just him, but his senior staff that was around him, from Stephen Miller to Susie Wiles, this whole team. They were around the table in Bedminster, New Jersey. I was not there, but I know about it very, very intimately when President Donald Trump was joking and playing Phantom of the Opera drinking diet coke, when all of a sudden his phone rang and they said, you're indicted. And at that moment, I mean, it's never happened for in American history. And then this avalanche of indictments came after that, and Jack Smith launched, you know, the lunatic thing, and his staff had a choice, do you jump ship or do you lean in. I think that's a lesser appreciated element of all this is the people that stood by him, his enter team, Because people say, Charlie, how are they so well prepared for all of this? Who is doing all this work? Who's really in charge? Trump's in charge? Okay, but he's empowered the people, his lieutenants that were around him when he got that phone call on Benminster, New Jersey. He's empowered the people that were around him when his arraignment was read to him, and he said, if we ever get power back, you know what to do. You're gonna listen to the voters, and we're going to go ten out of ten velocity. Right out of the gate. What you are seeing is the pent up of an entire community of people, about a couple dozen people that saw their boss get shot, that saw the president, and our entire country, in my personal opinion, literally come millimeters away from the country disintegrating into chaos, oblivion, and disorder. What I hate to say, civil war, but I think we all know that it might have gone to that. And it makes us really consider as the history books are written, that, boy, the Democrats should have let us win in twenty twenty, that them doing what they did in the twenty twenty election zuckerboxes mail in ballots might go down as one of the dumbest things the Democrat Party has ever done, because what they have to reap write now is a completely different conservative movement. It is completely different. It is three point zero. It is one that plays to win. It is one that is well staffed. It is one that understands the odds and the stakes. And we saw what we were up against. We saw it intimately, and we looked over the abyss we said, no thanks, We're going to go back to restore this beautiful country that we love, and that's where all of this comes together. And I believe you guys have an obligation to continue to support Hillsdale College to fight for a free society, because that's really where this is all going to be connected. My role these next couple of years, I'm not going in government role in the government. I'm an advisor. I'm a friend, I'm a fighter, I'm a warrior. I'm going to keep on doing the grassroots move with young people. Most importantly, I'm gonna keep on trying to keep people informed what's happening here so this thrust, this moment does not get lost, because this is a once in many lifetimes opportunity, a moment to reclaim what has been given to us that we did not earn, that we do not deserve, to get us back on the path of the divine providence that the founders talked about in our birth certificate, the Declaration of Independence, and it's only possible, in my opinion, thanks to Hillsdale College and all the work that you guys do here. 00:30:36 Speaker 2: We're honored to be partnering with Alan Jackson Ministries and today I want to point you to their podcast. It's called Culture in Christianity the Alan Jackson podcast. What makes it unique is Pastor Allan's biblical perspective. He takes the truth from the Bible and applies it to issues we're facing today, gender confusion, abortion, immigration, Doge Trump, and the White House issues in the church. He doesn't just discuss the problems in every episode, he gives practical things we can do to make a difference. His guests have incredible expertise and powerful testimonies. They've been great friends and now you can hear from Charlie and. 00:31:09 Speaker 1: His own words. Each episode will make you recognize the power of your faith and how God can use your life to impact our world today. The Culture and Christianity podcast is informative and encouraging. You could find it on YouTube, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts. Be sure to subscribe so you don't miss any episodes. Alan Jackson Ministries is working hard to bring biblical truth back into our culture. You can find out more about Pastor Allen and the ministry at Alan Jackson dot com. Forward slash Charlie, thank you, Thank you everybody. Okay, there's the questions, Okay, we have a format for that. 00:31:44 Speaker 3: Great miss thank you, mister Kirk. We now have time for Q and A. If you have a question, please raise your hand and wait for a microphone to be brought to you. 00:31:54 Speaker 4: Hi, Charlie, my name's Owen Anderson. I'm a professor at ASU. What you mentioned is the Harvard the West. 00:32:00 Speaker 1: Yeah. 00:32:02 Speaker 4: I like to add the idea that these state universities are also part of that bureaucratic state. And I'd like to ask for your help with ASU. You've already done a great job by coming out to under our students. I think you change the election, but there's. 00:32:16 Speaker 1: A lot more work to do. Yes, yes, there is. And let's just kind of go in some of the details what President Trump's going to try to do from the top down. Number one, eliminate the Department of Education and get completely rid of it. And it never should have existed. It should not exist right now. The second of which is you have to stop the flow of money. This is where enforcement's going to come in. Right now, I bet ASU is already in violation of the president of President Trump's executive order. Would you agree with that one hundred percent? So now it's going to come down to an enforcement question. Where President Trump signed an executive order saying no tax payer money is going to go to any school that teaches critical race theory, DEI transgender ideology, which obviously ASU does right. They have entire departments dedicated to this. And so it's now going to come into the enforcement of a couple test cases saying no, you're not going to get federal money, pelgrant money, research money, any subsidized student loans for them. That's only going to solve it partially. And this is why a free citizenry is so important. Is we need to ask the question of these bloated state institutions. Their financial model is actually completely corrupted if you take out subsidized student loans and the over certification of what education has actually become. That's why Hillsdale is so important, is that Hillsdale. Hillsdale refuses to scale to you know, just be an as one hundred thousand kids on campus because then you lose what college actually is, which means partnership. I can answer that question now, doctor n for the record, means partnership because you lose that community. And so, in my opinion, Phase two and three needs to be an all out campaign understanding that these colleges have become massive, bloated bureauck in their own states. But also even more importantly, they're training factories for the administrative state. And two they are petri dishes for all the worst ideas that then metastasize into corporate America, law enforcement, military, so on and so forth. And the other point I'll make is just you look. You go to Hillsdale College. Do you notice how aesthetically beautiful it is. It's a beautiful campus. Did you know that In a lesser appreciated executive order, President Trump on day one sign an executive order saying build beautiful buildings Again, it was executive order for all federal bureaucracies. Now you can laugh, but I encourage you next time you're in DC to drive by the Department of Education. It looks how it operates. It looks like a like a drawer cabinet. It looks like a file cabinet. I should say. It doesn't point up. There are no circles. It's simply squares. It looks like a place where widgets are made. Because that's what they think education is. They thinks you're just kind of a widget in a big system to serve the administrative machine. Nothing to be glorified, nothing to wonder, nothing to pursue, no philosophy to contemplate. But no, they look at themselves as carpenters, whereas doctor arn would say educators and were like gardeners where you let the kid grow into what they can become. Yes, next question, Hi, Charlie. 00:35:33 Speaker 5: I have a sophomore at Hillsdale, and before I get to my question, I just have to tell you that we've been Turning Point supporters long before we were Hillsdale supporters. About six or seven years ago, we saw you at University of Washington. You were there with Anna, Paulina Luna and Off Certatum. 00:35:57 Speaker 1: I remember that. 00:35:57 Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, this was the part when I didn't shut you down, which I think they did recently. So I was I wanted to ask something about Trump's recent comments. I mean, I totally understand the Gulf of America and where he's going with that. And he's an incredible negotiator. I mean, he's probably the most brilliant negotiator out there, and I think a lot of things he does or says are negotiating tactics. But sometimes I get a little concern. 00:36:32 Speaker 1: So it's only been six weeks I know, and so I just. 00:36:37 Speaker 5: Thought when it comes to like Canada being the fifty first. 00:36:42 Speaker 1: Date, Oh no, he's definitely serious, Okay. 00:36:45 Speaker 5: Okay, and then I know you went to Greenland with Don Junior even more serious okay, and my yeah, I'll say my Danish relatives are not real happy about that. And then this whole Gaza like take it. I'm just saying, I trust him, but I'm getting some. 00:37:08 Speaker 1: Imperialistic You're super sweet, thank you. So no, no, I mean that that's great. I hear that. I'm not going to speak on behalf of the administration Canada. You know, we will let that one be Gaza. I'm going to show my friend Josh Hammer, Josh, you're speaking to more about all this right Israel and all that. So I will yield to the expert. Josh will handle that extensively. Greenland I will defend, actually, because I think Greenland makes a lot of sense for a lot of different reasons. It has incredible raw rare earth, natural mineral deposits, It's geopolitically really situated. China wants it, Russia wants it, and also we've been trying to get Greenland for well over one hundred years actually one hundred and fifty years, and I could tell you having has it visited Greenland with Don Junior. It's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been in more ways than one. I will just kind of caution any if you like you're realistic. Let me say this is that President Trump is a deal maker. He's a negotiator, and you ask for the moon, and if you get Greenland in return, maybe the next National Leadership Seminar can be in Nook, but go in July, don't go in January. 00:38:22 Speaker 3: So yes, ma'am, Hi, I'm another supporter from the thank you Clay state of Washington. So what do you think the chances are that Trump will revoke the other earthshaking executive order from JFK, the one that allowed government employees to unionize. 00:38:45 Speaker 1: That is so I actually don't have insight into that. But let me first give Trump credit for revoking a separate executive order that I did not mention, which was their boat in and untouchable. My friend Jeremy Carl, who's written the best book on anti white racism. You're talking tomorrow, right, Jeremy, He's amazing, Which is that President Trump reversed the executive order requiring affirmative action for hiring practices in the federal government. That one deserves incredible credit. That took so much courage to do, and no one's talking about it because he's doing so much other stuff. Understand that the affirmative action regime was never passed by Congress. It was done by executive order saying that we're only going to hire in federal hiring practices based on skin color, not merit because of executive order. I can't speak on the unionization one. I'd have to look more into that, but I wouldn't be surprised if it's being contemplated. But if a president does it, a president can undo it. As you can see by usaid that was done by executive order by JFK. Why can't you just fold it into the state department. So okay, I think we have time for one or two more, Charlie. 00:39:47 Speaker 6: I'm ready to run through a brick wall after this speech. Here, so real quick. We're in Arizona, home to Intel, micro Chip, some of the big tech companies. What's your thought, if any, on shorting manufacturing. What are some of the pain we're going to have to go through to bring some of this back. Any thoughts or ideas on that, Yeah. 00:40:08 Speaker 1: It's a good question. I think that President Trump has alluded to this, and I think that the current economic nonsense that has been handed to us by the previous let's just say, easy cheap money regime is that there might have to be a moment to take some cough syrup metaphorically economically before we can get to some wellness. I mean, our economist friend doesn't think a soft landing as possible. That you guys debate that amongst yourselves. However, I will say this that President Trump using tarriffs is getting a very very bad rap in some financial circles or markets. But it's a forcing function to redomicile labor and industry back to this country. And in order to actually have a country, you have to you have to make things, not just be a series of hedge funds in tech companies and import all your plastic from China. And I'll give you just one example. We don't make vitamin C in this country. We don't make our necessary pharmaceuticals in this country anymore. You cease to be an independent, autonomous, sovereign country if you're dependent on a nation. Five thousand miles away to be able to get basic goods in necessity. So how much pain there will be I don't know. However, I will say there are a lot of major companies that are talking about redomiciling the production of their assets or their goods into the interior the United States, which is then how you circumnavigate or you circumvent the tariff is if you make it in the United States. So all right, last question, Yes, yes, ma'am. We now have time for one more question. 00:41:34 Speaker 7: Hi, mister Kirk, thank you for your speech tonight. So I'm excited to hear about the youth, the thirty and under, and I'm glad we're playing offense. What do you if you could speak about the old guard, the Mitch McConnell's, the Paul ryants. I feel like they've gone quiet, and I'm a little worried about it. 00:41:56 Speaker 1: Yeah, you guys are a paranoid group. Come on, it's like you're always looking for something. I like it. Look, there's a new generation that's rising in DC, and if that concerns you, I want to give you some comfort. This next generation is the type of person that has the character of a Hillsdale College type student. I want you to look at the type person I'm talking about. You have a Press secretary that's twenty seven years old named Caroline Levitt who's taken on the press every single day in an elegant and amazing way. You got Stephen Miller, who's in his young thirties running all the domestic policy and running the entire immigration department of the entire federal government. You have a next generation of people. Jade Vance is the youngest Vice president since Eisenhower and one of the youngest vice presidents in American history. Jade Vance is I think forty or forty one years old, and he just turned forty, right, he just turned forty. And so this next generation of Conservatives is operating with urgency and is taking over DC for the better. The old guard is going to do everything they possibly can. I mean, Mitch mcaf well, I'm not I'll let you guys fill in the blanks. I think it's very disappointing for this reason. I have much stronger opinions on Mitch McConnell than what I'm about to say, but I'll give you one that is very agreeable. It's very disappointing that Mitch McConnell for years would go around and preach to all of his Senate Republican colleagues, we must stick together, we must stick together. I need your vote. We must stick together. But now, in circumstances where we need him to keep the conference to stick together, he's the odd man out. And I think that tells us a lot about Mitch McConnell. Okay, in closing, everybody, Hillsdale College is amazing. You know that this is a fight for the most ultimate thing. It's exciting. We want in November. We want to keep those victories going. Thank you, guys for your belief in our work at Turning Point and what doing at Hillsdale College. Honored to be here. Thank you guys so much. God bless you. Thank you. 00:44:00 Speaker 5: Yeah. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to Charliekirk dot com.