Charlie Kirk Defends Donald Trump Against Claims of Divisiveness at College Campus Event

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[00:40] Um, just want to thank you for coming

[00:42] out here and answering all these

[00:43] questions to start off. Um, my biggest

[00:45] problem with Donald Trump is I feel like

[00:46] throughout his political career, he's

[00:48] built it around just degrading,

[00:50] belittling, and insulting anybody who

[00:51] disagrees with him. I strongly believe

[00:53] that a house divided against itself

[00:54] cannot stand. And I think his approach

[00:56] to politics in the United States is

[00:58] making us more divided, then I think in

[00:59] the long term, we will see repercussions

[01:01] for that.

[01:03] Okay. What's the question? Well, if

[01:05] whether or not you agree with that

[01:06] assessment of We won the election. So, I

[01:09] mean, like what is the relevant question

[01:11] though? Well, the relevant question is,

[01:12] do you think that that approach to

[01:13] politics and where the um stigma is

[01:16] right now is going to be dire in uh No,

[01:18] I I think it's somewhat of a

[01:20] miscatategorization. I mean, are there

[01:22] things that he says that I wouldn't say?

[01:23] Is there a style that he employs that

[01:24] I'll employ? You see how I do things.

[01:26] It's not always like that, right? But

[01:28] can you acknowledge he also keep it

[01:29] keeps his promises? That's pretty good,

[01:31] right? Well, I mean, not necessarily

[01:32] always pro the war was supposed to end

[01:34] on day one. The war didn't end on day

[01:36] one. I mean, again, there's there is

[01:37] some political bravado to some of this

[01:39] stuff, but the border is secure, right?

[01:42] Well, it's it's more secure now. No,

[01:44] it's totally secure. We have we have we

[01:45] we have literally nobody coming across

[01:47] the southern border. I mean, so he in

[01:50] the first term he kept promise after

[01:52] promise after promise after promise. And

[01:54] so I I guess what what is what would you

[01:58] prefer someone like Donald Trump that

[02:00] has a style you don't like or someone

[02:02] like George W. Bush that has a style you

[02:04] like and was a terrible awful lying

[02:06] president. Well, it it's less I mean the

[02:08] the style is going to turn into big

[02:10] demonstrations that we see across the

[02:12] country where it gets it becomes vulgar

[02:13] and it becomes difficult to work with

[02:15] one another. I mean if you look at kind

[02:16] of I mean you can pick January 6 or you

[02:18] could pick riots on the left side. Do

[02:20] you saw this kid that got punched by a

[02:21] professor here for wearing a Trump hat?

[02:23] No, no, no. But but it's the other side

[02:24] doing it. We're not doing that. But but

[02:26] it's it's both sides. Well, okay.

[02:27] January 6 is an example of that

[02:28] happening. How about something within

[02:29] the last three years? Anything within

[02:31] the last three years? Within the last

[02:32] three years. You can't name a single

[02:33] example of of of right-wing violence in

[02:35] the last 3 years. I mean, we're

[02:38] incredibly peaceful. No, seriously, you

[02:39] can't name an example, but I can name

[02:41] Tesla dealerships being burned, death

[02:43] threats every day against Tulsi Gabbard

[02:44] and President Trump. Oh, I don't know.

[02:46] President Trump getting shot on the 13th

[02:47] of July in Butler, Pennsylvania. So, I

[02:50] just find it to be just a little bit

[02:52] like outrageous that like, well, it's

[02:53] Donald Trump dividing the country. I

[02:55] know that he got shot. I know that he

[02:56] wanted to kill him and I know that he's

[02:57] been keeping promises. I know that the

[02:59] left is, you know, trying to murder us

[03:00] in the streets and punching our students

[03:02] in the face and I understand that

[03:03] they're hunting everybody with a Trump

[03:05] supporting hat down, but it's somehow

[03:06] Trump. I mean, come on. No, no, but

[03:08] that's not what I'm saying. What I think

[03:09] what you're confused about that's what

[03:11] I'm about to say. What what I think

[03:12] you're confused about is I'm not saying

[03:14] that I'm in support of what's happening

[03:15] on the left. I think the kid that got

[03:17] punched out in in front of the coup,

[03:19] awful situation. I think burning down

[03:21] Teslas, creating violence on the left

[03:22] side. I think that's an awful thing to

[03:24] do. I do agree with that. But I think

[03:25] that Donald Trump and I mean the

[03:27] president of the United States

[03:28] ultimately has some form of a

[03:29] responsibility to try to unite people.

[03:31] And I think that the stigma on both

[03:33] sides is just rising up. And I think

[03:35] that's as a result of the leader we have

[03:36] now. And also the final point just on

[03:38] January 6, just because January 6

[03:40] happened four years ago opposed to three

[03:41] doesn't make it any less significant

[03:43] this conversation. Again, 90% of the

[03:45] people there did nothing violent. They

[03:47] walked into the capital. They said a

[03:48] prayer. They didn't touch a police

[03:49] officer. They didn't touch they didn't

[03:51] they didn't do anything with the

[03:52] windows. And if we want to talk about

[03:53] violence, they did something with the

[03:54] window. You see, less than 10 again,

[03:56] like there were like maybe 50 people

[03:58] that were violent there and over 2,000

[04:00] people got arrested or convicted. The

[04:02] largest manhunt in federal government

[04:03] history. But again, while we're talking

[04:04] about, I don't know, mass violence and

[04:06] all this, like you remember the summer

[04:08] of 2020 where actually like material

[04:10] violent crime went up across the

[04:12] country. I know that you're not saying

[04:13] it's good. I don't agree with that, but

[04:14] I know. But it's just like what what

[04:16] exactly is your issue with Trump? He

[04:18] says mean things. Well, I mean, yeah, to

[04:20] some extent. I mean, come on, man.

[04:22] mature than that. It's ridiculous. No,

[04:23] but to some extent, what the thing is is

[04:25] Yeah, you can you can dumb it down to he

[04:27] says mean things, but he he he

[04:29] antagonizes the other side so far to the

[04:31] point. No, but it's how Yes. How?

[04:34] Anybody who disagree with the guy they

[04:36] shot him. Oh, he's antagonizing them.

[04:38] That's they try to put him in jail for

[04:39] 700 years. Oh, he's antagonizing them.

[04:41] I'm not That's not what I'm saying. No,

[04:43] no. Show me examples. Tell me exactly

[04:44] how Trump is antagonizing the other

[04:46] side. Well, it's not just the other

[04:48] side. It's Republicans as well. Show me.

[04:49] No, no, no. Come on. What are your

[04:50] examples? Okay. Well, I mean, from the

[04:52] Republican side, just as a specific

[04:54] instance, um, at a 2015 Iowa forum with

[04:57] John McCain, 10 years ago, man, but he

[04:59] was 60 some odd years old 10 years ago.

[05:01] This is an outrageous claim. I mean, can

[05:03] you name anything within the last decade

[05:07] that that Donald Trump has done to

[05:08] divide like seriously, it's like, oh,

[05:09] he's antagonizing. Well, there was a

[05:11] thing in 2015 at an Iowa. Okay. Well,

[05:13] just take take the debate then against

[05:14] Kla Harris, a fear-mongering example

[05:16] where he's talking about illegal

[05:18] immigrants coming over and eating the

[05:19] cats and dogs. There's a lot of evidence

[05:21] to show that there's not a lot of

[05:22] evidence to this. 100%. You have been

[05:24] propagandized by the media in

[05:25] Springfield, Ohio. There there were like

[05:27] there's literally reports of missing

[05:29] dogs over 75 dogs missing and there lit

[05:32] Haitians are known by the way to go and

[05:34] pick up cats and eat them. It is part of

[05:36] voodoo culture. You can laugh about it,

[05:37] but go lit. Part of voodoo culture is

[05:40] actually like scooping up errant cats

[05:42] and being believe they're like spiritual

[05:43] animals. There's a lot of truth to what

[05:45] Trump said. How does that antagonize the

[05:46] other side? Um because it creates a

[05:49] situation where it seems like the what's

[05:52] going on is worse than it actually is.

[05:53] And it's it's offensive to a lot of

[05:55] illegal immigrants that look at that.

[05:57] Oh, it's offensive to the people that

[05:58] broke into our country. I'm sorry.

[05:59] Leave. You broke into America. I'm sorry

[06:01] that we're offending you. Oh,

[06:04] I'm Oh, I'm so sorry. you broke into our

[06:07] country and that you're here illegally.

[06:09] Did I offend you? Oh, you don't eat

[06:10] dogs? Okay, then go back to Mexico.

[06:12] Sorry. I meant to say legal immigrants.

[06:14] I apologize. No, it's fine. But I mean,

[06:15] at some point, like you got to admit,

[06:17] man, like you're going to like nitpick

[06:20] on things that Trump have said when he

[06:21] is up an existential existential force

[06:24] that is trying to destroy this country

[06:26] as we know it, that is trying to debase

[06:28] everything we care about. Joe Biden let

[06:30] 10 million people into this country with

[06:32] no idea who they were. How is that not

[06:34] high treason? I I I I I agree with you

[06:36] on on the Biden administration's

[06:38] approach with with the border was was

[06:40] not the best. But then you can also

[06:41] point to when they really sat down and

[06:43] was like, "Okay, we need to make a

[06:45] bipartisan bill." That's going to We

[06:46] didn't need the bill, though. That's the

[06:47] thing. It was a scam. He closed the

[06:49] border in 10 days. So, you're believing

[06:51] the media propaganda. Biden never needed

[06:53] a bill. It was a ploy. Donald Trump did

[06:55] it with no bill in literally a week.

[06:57] Yeah. No, I understand. Well, yeah. So,

[06:58] then why did we need a bill? Well, well,

[07:00] what I'm saying is is that he tried to

[07:01] take strides to secure the border more

[07:04] and Donald Trump. No, it's not. In the

[07:07] summer before the election, he he pushed

[07:09] forward some policy working with

[07:11] Republicans that would secure the

[07:13] border. Donald Trump called him up and

[07:14] he said, "Listen, this is not going to

[07:15] be good for our election. Kill it."

[07:17] That's not Again, you you believe so

[07:19] much of the media lies in in the bill.

[07:21] It would have allowed 5,000 people a day

[07:22] to come across the border. Do you know

[07:24] that was in the bill? And it turns out

[07:25] none of that bill was necessary cuz

[07:27] Trump just closed it on day one. Again,

[07:29] we didn't need a bill. We needed a new

[07:30] president. So, I'm not even sure what to

[07:32] make of all this except for the fact

[07:33] that like you instead should be coming

[07:35] up and be like, you know what? I'm so

[07:36] glad that we have President Trump

[07:37] fighting for us every single day. Not

[07:39] nitpicking something he said 10 years

[07:41] ago at an Iowa forum. I reject the

[07:43] entire premise. I do. All right. I do.

[07:45] And No. And that's that's fair. I'm sure

[07:47] you do. So, judge him for what he does

[07:50] and how he does it, which is every

[07:51] single day deliver promis deliver on the

[07:53] promises for the American people. Yeah.

[07:55] Well, thank you very much. Got to ask

[07:56] question. Thank you.