Charlie Kirk Declares Conservative Movement's Greatest Victory After Donald Trump's Historic Comeback at America Fest

[00:03] welcome to America Fest

[00:09] everybody

[00:13] love

[00:15] Youk

[00:21] you thank you everybody the real thank

[00:24] you is the Turning Point team that

[00:25] worked their tail off this last year

[00:27] that's who you should be applauding

[00:31] by the way I like this Touch look at all

[00:32] these students that we have at turning

[00:33] point you look at

[00:35] this I like

[00:40] that they helped win the election

[00:42] everybody young people move by 30 points

[00:44] this election cycle I'll tell you

[00:48] what the kids are all right welcome

[00:52] everybody it feels good to win back our

[00:55] country

[01:00] I I'll tell you th this has been a

[01:03] difficult and challenging year in so

[01:05] many different ways and we have to think

[01:07] back to where we were as the video said

[01:09] in January of

[01:11] 2021 January 7th of

[01:14] 2021 they said the Maga movement was

[01:17] dead they said that Donald Trump will

[01:20] never have a political future Joe Biden

[01:23] was coming in and putting people in

[01:25] prison for going into the Capitol

[01:26] retunda and praying Joe Biden was

[01:30] mandating the vaccine keeping the Border

[01:33] completely and totally wide open we were

[01:35] seeing our country disappear and vanish

[01:38] from us but here's where you come in for

[01:41] every single one of you in this audience

[01:43] that never wavered that always had the

[01:46] president's back that continued to

[01:48] support him you guys are the beginning

[01:51] portion of the greatest political

[01:54] comeback in American history

[02:03] look at what we are up against because

[02:07] it defies any sort of human reason from

[02:10] the law fair they Tred to put Donald

[02:11] Trump in prison for 700 years every

[02:14] major tech company banned Donald Trump

[02:17] from their platform Donald Trump was

[02:19] banned from Facebook he was banned from

[02:22] Google he was banned from Pinterest

[02:24] because he's like a big Pinterest

[02:27] guy he was banned from Spotify he

[02:30] couldn't even listen to Phantom of the

[02:32] Opera they did everything they could to

[02:35] make him disappear but there was a

[02:37] problem is that you could put Donald

[02:39] Trump on in Exile at maral

[02:42] Lago but you can't make 75 80 million

[02:46] people

[02:51] disappear is that they can make him as

[02:53] if okay we're going to try to solve this

[02:55] problem but what are you going to do

[02:57] with the people of this country and

[03:00] that's where all of you that continue to

[03:01] do the work you entered we entered front

[03:05] stage and it was difficult we were told

[03:08] that this was never going to happen that

[03:11] the Democrat Party was immovable for all

[03:14] of you on campuses that continue to

[03:16] fight for conservative causes that were

[03:18] graded differently kicked out of class

[03:20] that were smeared that were slandered it

[03:21] was as if there was no immediate hope

[03:25] but you guys had faith and faith not

[03:28] just that we could take back our country

[03:30] and if we are honest with

[03:32] ourselves we cannot take credit for what

[03:34] happened on November

[03:36] 5th the person or more

[03:39] importantly who deserves credit is God

[03:43] Almighty for saving this country and

[03:46] giving

[03:47] us four years of Donald Trump

[04:03] we didn't earn it we work we worked out

[04:06] of obedience but we were inches away

[04:09] from a Civil

[04:11] War and Donald Trump just so happened to

[04:13] turn his head at a specific time to look

[04:16] at a PowerPoint I mean I've been do a

[04:18] lot of Maga rallies how many Maga

[04:20] rallies does he do a PowerPoint

[04:23] presentation and he just happened to

[04:25] turn his head at that specific moment

[04:26] and that Bullet whizzed by and grazed

[04:28] his ear and by the grace of God that we

[04:31] did not earn and we did not deserve his

[04:34] life was spared on July 13th in Butler

[04:40] Pennsylvania he had every reason to play

[04:42] it safe after that he had every reason

[04:45] to just kind of take it easy he had

[04:47] every reason not to continue to campaign

[04:49] to say that I'm just going to kind of

[04:51] hope for the best he did more events he

[04:54] said I'm going to go do outdoor events

[04:55] forget it we're not going to let the bad

[04:57] guys win and you could tell who a person

[05:00] is in a moment of

[05:02] Crisis you see our leaders talk a big

[05:04] game but anytime they actually feel the

[05:07] pressure they fold and we saw who Donald

[05:10] Trump actually is in that moment when he

[05:12] fell to the floor and he rose he spoke

[05:14] to all of us at a fundamental level at a

[05:16] level that we can't even put into words

[05:18] when he ascended and he said fight fight

[05:21] fight it was an Anthem it was a Clarion

[05:24] call for all of

[05:26] us that regardless of what you are up

[05:28] against this is a guy who did not need

[05:30] to be doing this you know that Donald

[05:32] Trump could have cut a deal Donald Trump

[05:34] could have cut a deal the final warning

[05:36] shot was when they raided maral Lago in

[05:39] August of

[05:41] 2022 that was the warning shot like hey

[05:43] you better not do this thing Run for the

[05:45] presidency cut a deal golf for the rest

[05:48] of your life or else we're going to put

[05:49] you in federal prison and Donald Trump

[05:51] had a choice do I do the easy thing or

[05:55] the right thing and if there is one

[05:57] thing that you teach your child

[06:01] it's you must do the right thing even if

[06:04] it is the challenging thing he knew what

[06:06] he was signing up for to be indicted by

[06:09] Fanny Willis by Alvin Bragg the show

[06:12] trial in New York 700 years in federal

[06:15] prison he could have just cut a deal

[06:17] guys I'm not running for the presidency

[06:18] keep me out of jail and every single

[06:22] gutless wonder politician of the last 40

[06:25] years would have cut that

[06:27] deal they tried to take his business

[06:29] Empire from him they did everything they

[06:31] could to cut him off but there's

[06:32] something that drives this man that is

[06:35] different and it's why all of you are

[06:38] here it is a love of the beautiful

[06:40] things it's a love of our home a place

[06:44] that we inherited that we were sick and

[06:46] tired of seeing abused to see our border

[06:50] wide open to see our kids transed in

[06:51] classrooms to see our beloved Homeland

[06:55] become a Dumping Ground for the third

[06:57] world to see our tax pair dollars being

[07:00] sent to Ukraine while our Southern

[07:02] border remains wide open Donald Trump

[07:05] loved his Nation so much so that he put

[07:08] all of his business Empire on the line

[07:11] so that he would go and take a bullet

[07:14] for you to save America for your kids

[07:16] and

[07:17] grandkids

[07:19] and more than that I want you to

[07:23] understand the cultural reversal that we

[07:26] all lived through because it was

[07:28] repeated now I'm going to ask ask

[07:29] somebody can somebody throw me your Maga

[07:30] hat here for a sec who wants the there

[07:32] you go okay 90 volunteers thank you guys

[07:35] look at

[07:36] this who remembers back in

[07:40] 2016 if you wore this hat on the streets

[07:43] of New York it was open hunting season

[07:46] if you wore this in

[07:48] 2021 they would come after you and yet I

[07:52] saw something

[07:53] fundamental it's fundamentally different

[07:55] and something change and it goes to show

[07:58] that the good guys can win if if we push

[07:59] hard enough it goes to show that we can

[08:02] turn the symbols where they are trying

[08:05] to ostracize us into symbols of Victory

[08:09] when I went to college campuses this

[08:11] last cycle we ordered a couple hundred

[08:14] magah hats all of a sudden all the kids

[08:15] wanted them we started passing them out

[08:17] I said okay we'll do a couple thousand I

[08:19] go to the University of Georgia I'm

[08:20] handing out 5,000 of these

[08:24] things this Maga hat that all of you

[08:28] guys own

[08:29] went from a symbol of those people are

[08:33] terrible

[08:34] Nazis to the

[08:36] coolest most desirable thing that one

[08:40] can wear in American

[08:45] politics and that didn't happen

[08:47] overnight who whose magah hat is this

[08:48] there you go that happened because we

[08:51] refused to accept the names they would

[08:55] call us and we kept on wearing the Hat

[08:58] we refus like oh okay you're going to

[08:59] call me a racist I don't care what else

[09:01] do you have I'm going to keep wearing

[09:03] the Hat it became a symbol of strength

[09:06] it became a symbol of resolve it became

[09:08] a symbol of grit it became a symbol of

[09:12] American masculinity coming back into

[09:15] our

[09:18] culture it became a symbol that American

[09:21] greatness is what we demand that we

[09:23] deserve that we are not going to

[09:25] apologize for being the greatest nation

[09:28] ever to exist in the history of the

[09:29] world world that we are going to have a

[09:31] mass deportation effort and that we're

[09:33] going to take back our

[09:39] nation that hat then represented

[09:42] something even more president Trump the

[09:44] greatest dealmaker that politics has

[09:46] ever

[09:47] seen he brokered quite a deal over the

[09:50] summer he said okay Democrats you guys

[09:53] get Liz Cheney and Adam

[09:56] kininger we get Bobby Kennedy and tsy

[10:02] gabard let's make a

[10:06] deal and that hat all of a sudden

[10:09] represented not just common sense but it

[10:11] represented people of all sorts of

[10:13] different political stripes and

[10:15] backgrounds that were coming together

[10:17] with their sphere of focus and influence

[10:20] maybe you are a parents right Advocate

[10:22] maybe you are here as a second amendment

[10:24] Enthusiast maybe you are a school board

[10:26] member maybe you are a pastor maybe you

[10:28] are a make America healthy again

[10:33] Advocate whatever focus group that you

[10:36] have as long as we can agree on the big

[10:39] stuff the country's collapsing things

[10:42] are a Miss we need to combine forces and

[10:45] defeat the incumbent regime welcome

[10:47] aboard we are going to make America

[10:49] great again

[10:56] and and what we witnessed on November

[10:58] the 5th

[10:59] being this great comeback

[11:03] story was also the result of the hard

[11:07] work that all of you guys did in the

[11:09] Grassroots for those of you that chased

[11:11] ballots for those of you that registered

[11:13] voters for those of you that gave

[11:15] powerful sermons on the Sundays before

[11:18] the election for those of you that

[11:19] showed up at Republican meetings at 7:00

[11:21] a.m. to make sure that everyone had the

[11:24] yard signs that they need this is your

[11:27] Victory you see if it is easy just to

[11:30] say that it's just one candidate versus

[11:32] another what it really is is an one Army

[11:35] of activists versus another Army of

[11:37] activists and guess what we were

[11:39] outspent but we outworked them this

[11:42] election

[11:44] cycle because we wanted it more KLA

[11:48] Harris had a billion dollars and hey by

[11:51] the way where did that a billion where

[11:52] did that billion dollars go China CH she

[11:55] sent it to

[11:57] China she sent it to zinski he's got

[12:00] enough

[12:03] money a billion dollars to do

[12:08] what and yet we were outspent we know

[12:11] it we knew that we were up against the

[12:13] most powerful well-funded machine in

[12:15] American political history and it was a

[12:18] machine versus a

[12:20] movement and the movement were people

[12:23] many of this in this room yeah that were

[12:25] not an was not an oligarch not a

[12:27] billionaire but you could knock on a,

[12:29] doors you could Chase 100 ballots in

[12:32] this state of

[12:34] Arizona which I as you know care deeply

[12:37] and passionately

[12:38] about we we made a promise we said we

[12:42] are going to invest the greatest Ground

[12:44] Force Arizona has ever seen we hired

[12:46] well over a thousand full-time people

[12:48] here on the ground in Arizona at Turning

[12:50] Point action and I can say now Arizona

[12:53] was the best performing swing state of

[12:55] the 2024 election

[13:00] we chased over

[13:02] 200,000 low propensity ballots here in

[13:05] the state of Arizona and in fact when I

[13:07] was you know Mr President can we have

[13:09] you at this event can we you know try to

[13:11] get you and he said Charlie I will only

[13:13] come under one circumstance it is called

[13:16] a tribute to Arizona to honor the great

[13:19] people of Arizona that gave me my

[13:20] greatest Victory ever in Arizona and

[13:23] brought State 48 back to

[13:27] Greatness and that happened because of

[13:29] the hard work and the grit the resolve

[13:31] of all of you in this room and it goes

[13:33] to show that things can change it goes

[13:36] to show that we can improve this country

[13:38] that we don't have to accept the premise

[13:41] but then it brings us to today's time

[13:44] because we must simultaneously look at

[13:46] the past what we've been through the

[13:48] present which is celebration and giving

[13:50] glory to God for what was given but also

[13:52] the future because if we let our guard

[13:56] down and act as if that everything is

[13:58] fine

[14:00] the the transformation of the Republican

[14:02] party is not yet complete you see for

[14:04] those of you that follow me on social

[14:06] media you know that I've been very

[14:07] outspoken the last week saying the

[14:10] following very simple it's not radical

[14:12] it's not revolutionary I think it's

[14:14] reasonable which is this if you are a

[14:17] republican from a deep red

[14:19] State and you voted for Joe Biden's

[14:24] nominees and you're giving Donald Trump

[14:26] a hard time about his nominees we

[14:29] primary you and remove you from office

[14:37] immediately and for all of those red

[14:40] state senators out there let this be a

[14:42] warning to you that the 20,000 people

[14:45] here at America Fest and the 1 million

[14:48] people here that are watching online and

[14:51] the millions of people that will see

[14:52] these clips we are not going to take a

[14:55] Republican party that gets in the way of

[14:58] the will of the people we want a

[14:59] Republican

[15:02] party that fights to win and for every

[15:05] US senator out there you must confirm

[15:08] Pete Heth Tulsi gabard cash Patel Bobby

[15:11] Kennedy Pam Bondi and Trump's entire

[15:15] cabinet or you will face a primary

[15:17] Challenger

[15:24] immediately because we want a Republican

[15:27] party that is as conservative as its

[15:31] voters we want a Republican party that

[15:33] is responsive to all of you we want a

[15:36] Republican party that actually listens

[15:38] to what you want not a Republican party

[15:40] that goes to the DC and becomes

[15:41] something completely and totally

[15:43] different and look at the power that you

[15:45] have in just the last 24 hours we did

[15:48] something that we never would have been

[15:49] able to do before they were trying to do

[15:52] this ridiculous sick and twisted and

[15:55] concocted

[15:56] 1,500 page Democrat boond doggle

[15:59] giveaway continuing

[16:04] resolution under old circumstances that

[16:06] thing just would have

[16:08] passed but there's new

[16:12] voices and we took to social media Elon

[16:15] Musk took to social media many of you

[16:18] took to social media and the president

[16:19] took the lead and said no we're not

[16:22] going to give Congress a 74% pay raise

[16:25] while Americans are being crushed by

[16:26] inflation we're not going to send more

[16:29] money to Ukraine we're not going to have

[16:30] this boond doggle of biolabs being spent

[16:34] overseas we're not going to have

[16:36] immunity for January 6 committee and

[16:38] what you did and I want to show the

[16:40] power that you have is that you

[16:43] everybody in this room and everyone

[16:44] watching online you defeated the

[16:46] Washington insiders in hours everybody

[16:49] and that CR is dead it is dead and you

[16:53] did

[16:55] that and it is going to be a Relentless

[16:59] fight now the new CR that they have went

[17:02] from, 1500 pages to now it's like four

[17:04] or five

[17:05] pages and president Trump is going to

[17:07] get what he's asked for which is a clean

[17:08] slate a debt sailing increase so that we

[17:11] can actually get the biggest baddest and

[17:14] best border bill in the history of our

[17:16] country as the first piece of

[17:18] legislation for president Donald

[17:20] Trump the top

[17:24] priority but it is only

[17:27] going to improve if we stay engaged in

[17:30] the Grassroots if we continue to knock

[17:33] on doors take over local Precinct

[17:35] committees to start turning point USA

[17:37] high school and college chapters and I

[17:39] just got a brag on our high school

[17:41] chapters it said this briefly in the

[17:43] video everybody

[17:45] but young men are the most conservative

[17:48] they have been in over 50

[17:52] years 50

[17:55] years think about that now

[17:59] a reporter asked me they said Charlie

[18:01] can you try to explain this phenomenon I

[18:03] said yeah it's very simple young men

[18:06] want to be part of a political movement

[18:08] that doesn't hate

[18:10] them in fact Let Me Go a step further

[18:14] that thinks they're essential to a

[18:16] future of a

[18:18] country that we need strong men and

[18:21] strong women that we're sick and tired

[18:24] of hearing about toxic masculinity when

[18:27] we are drowning in toxic femin

[18:32] feminity when we become a feelings based

[18:35] culture you can't say that you can't do

[18:37] that you're going to offend somebody and

[18:40] who is the most overtly masculine

[18:44] political figure of the last 100 years

[18:47] no I it's not Tim Walls stop it okay

[18:50] that's not

[18:53] true yeah

[18:56] no of course it's the man who would

[18:59] never apologize for America that stands

[19:02] proudly for our tradition and our

[19:04] history that doesn't care about what

[19:06] sensibilities he offends that calls

[19:08] Justin Trudeau Governor the guy that

[19:10] just

[19:12] said and in many ways this was an

[19:16] election that was more about culture

[19:18] than it was about politics that it was

[19:21] about who are we as a people what are we

[19:24] doing to the Next Generation to say that

[19:27] you have to be taught diversity Equity

[19:29] inclusion and critical race theory that

[19:31] you have to be under this transgenderism

[19:33] nonsense as a side note by the way as

[19:36] one of the first things that I hope this

[19:37] new Administration does we need to end

[19:41] the medical mutilation of our children

[19:43] called gender affirming care in this

[19:45] country

[19:52] immediately and also say no men in

[19:57] women's sports

[20:09] ever but understand that was a

[20:12] controversial thing to say three or four

[20:13] years ago it took a little bit of a I

[20:16] don't care energy a little bit of a

[20:18] masculine chip on the shoulder to say no

[20:20] actually you're not going to have some

[20:22] dude in my locker room change with my

[20:24] daughter and I'm not going to allow that

[20:26] to happen you see

[20:29] they wanted us to be quiet and Afraid

[20:31] and silent and subservient they wanted

[20:33] us to cower into our corner but the

[20:36] conservative movement has changed

[20:37] fundamentally I hope you guys understand

[20:39] this and we can't lose it we must lean

[20:40] into it we call the shots not the media

[20:44] not the oligarchs not Washington DC and

[20:46] our asss are so simple the media like

[20:48] say oh there's radical they're

[20:49] revolutionaries hold here's our ask we

[20:51] want a border we want our kids to to

[20:54] learn Reading Writing arithmetic and not

[20:56] graphic pornography at the age of 11

[20:59] we want our founding documents to matter

[21:01] much more than Federal registry and

[21:03] bureaucracies we believe the

[21:05] Constitution is the law of the land we

[21:07] believe in three branches not four we

[21:10] also believe I know this is so radical

[21:11] for them to understand that when you

[21:13] appropriate money American citizens are

[21:16] first not ukrainians wow like what a

[21:21] concept and you add all of that together

[21:25] they are the radicals and they have been

[21:27] the radicals for quite some time

[21:29] and the final point I'll make is this is

[21:32] the the the remarkable power and

[21:36] potency of the truth tellers in this

[21:38] room you see we have grown up in a time

[21:41] where we say the media is the worst the

[21:43] media is this and in fact president

[21:45] Trump said that at his first ever Maga

[21:46] rally do you know where his first ever

[21:47] Maga rally was in this building this

[21:51] building was the first ever Maga rally

[21:52] did you know that and the only feedback

[21:57] I have for President Trump is he says

[21:58] the media is this the media is that guys

[22:01] we are the media now not them their

[22:04] power is fading and waning no one reads

[22:08] their stuff their subscriptions are

[22:09] going down like CNN has less views than

[22:13] Hallmark movie reruns which again it's

[22:17] Christmas so a lot of people watch

[22:18] Hallmark during Christmas anyway

[22:20] separate issue or It lifetime I don't I

[22:22] get them both confused whatever and they

[22:25] they are increasingly irrelevant and

[22:27] what is relevant is is the

[22:29] democratization and the decentralization

[22:31] and I said it when it happened when Elon

[22:33] Musk bought Twitter I believe it was the

[22:36] most important singular purchase since

[22:38] the Louis Louisiana Purchase for this

[22:40] country I truly believe

[22:44] that and look at the cause set in motion

[22:48] that happened since Elon Musk bought

[22:50] Twitter it gave us the ability to speak

[22:52] our mind think about all the things that

[22:54] would have just happened without our

[22:55] ability to challenge it we were able to

[22:57] call out the BS the southern border we

[22:59] were able to talk about the transing of

[23:01] our kids we were able to talk about what

[23:03] they're actually teaching in our schools

[23:04] we were able to actually talk about like

[23:06] hey um KLA Harris can't speak in

[23:11] sentences let's watch this clip simple

[23:14] basic things and we joke around I do not

[23:17] think that we would have been able to

[23:19] expose the American people to how Joe

[23:21] Biden was brain damaged if it wasn't for

[23:23] Twitter or X cuz the media wasn't doing

[23:25] their job by the way the media should

[23:27] all immediate medely lose their

[23:29] government issued licenses day one for

[23:32] the malpractice they did for covering

[23:34] for Joe Biden

[23:39] cility we are in the driver's seat and

[23:42] that comes with a lot of

[23:44] obligation we are the cultural Force we

[23:47] are ascendant the bad guys are scattered

[23:50] confused and Afraid and they will be

[23:52] back and the posture should not be one

[23:55] that oh we won and that we're the

[23:56] greatest and that we're indestructible

[23:58] no it's the the opposite it should be

[23:59] one of humility that we are actually in

[24:03] charge and we didn't earn it but we have

[24:06] an obligation to deliver that we have an

[24:09] opportunity that we may never happen

[24:11] again it is a once in many lifetimes

[24:13] opportunity to fill the government with

[24:15] change makers I believe the four years

[24:18] of Exile is the ultimate Romans 122

[24:21] verse that God will use all things all

[24:25] things for good for those who love him

[24:28] when we got displaced from power in

[24:31] 2020 how many of you guys said boy 2020

[24:36] this is the worst thing that happened we

[24:37] lost our country we were trying to see

[24:40] what what was what was the takeaway here

[24:42] it felt as if it was so unjust which it

[24:44] was and it was so much lying and so much

[24:46] manipulation but God knew what he was

[24:48] doing what he was doing is he was

[24:50] putting our movement in a temporary

[24:52] state of Exile where we could become

[24:54] stronger we could become better where we

[24:56] could turn the we could separate the

[24:57] frauds from the real people we could see

[24:59] who people really were where we could

[25:02] expand our ranks we had to desire it

[25:04] more when our back was against the wall

[25:06] if we would have won in 2020 the second

[25:08] term I don't know if it would have been

[25:09] that great it would have just kind of

[25:11] been a little bit of Co okay that's fine

[25:14] and the second term is Almost Never As

[25:15] Good As the First and now we almost get

[25:17] two first terms in the second one we

[25:19] have a team that is ready to change the

[25:22] world and bring America back to

[25:27] Greatness I I will close with this soak

[25:30] in this conference everybody this is the

[25:32] first major turning point conference

[25:34] where we can just celebrate what has

[25:36] been done but

[25:38] also we got to keep our eyes on these

[25:40] students they're going to go nuts these

[25:41] next couple days I tell you but also go

[25:46] start a turning point USA College

[25:48] chapter go start a turning point USA

[25:49] High School chapter go start a turning

[25:51] point USA 5c school go find out how your

[25:54] church can get involved sign up and

[25:55] become an activist America Fest is the

[25:58] starting point for us to take America to

[26:01] Greater Heights in 2025 remember how

[26:05] lost we felt a year ago remember how

[26:08] directional we felt and instead of

[26:10] saying we've won everything I could take

[26:12] it easy and said is that God gave us a

[26:14] reprieve so that we can

[26:17] reload that we can lean in and that we

[26:20] can make the conservative movement

[26:22] stronger than ever before and that's the

[26:24] resources you're going to see in the

[26:26] exhibit hall there will be people here

[26:27] that could change your Life future jobs

[26:29] future friends maybe future spouses you

[26:31] never know we hear that a

[26:33] lot but have that posture of activism

[26:37] and action we have a slate of speakers

[26:39] that is the greatest in the entire

[26:41] country I mean this just unbelievable we

[26:42] have here it's going to be four days of

[26:44] energy and enthusiasm and you guys help

[26:47] make it possible this is the greatest

[26:50] country ever to exist in the history of

[26:51] the world and I can say wow there was a

[26:53] debate is God done with this country and

[26:56] now I can say confidently no God is not

[26:59] done with America and our best days are

[27:02] ahead God bless you guys thank you so

[27:04] much

[27:13] [Applause]