Charlie Kirk on Trump's Historic Comeback and the Corporate Shift Away from DEI

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[00:04] it is really really chilly here on the

[00:07] East Coast but has hell officially

[00:09] frozen over maybe next time I'll do the

[00:12] Don the Donald Trump

[00:15] dance

[00:17] CA

[00:19] wow oh please don't the dance is now

[00:22] ruined forever I can't unsee that all

[00:25] right but beyond the football players uh

[00:27] the ones doing the dance after the

[00:29] touchdowns there are a lot of other

[00:30] signs out there that Trump Mania really

[00:32] is catching on businesses across the

[00:35] country have changed their tune is it a

[00:38] real cultural shift or is it just a

[00:40] corporate shift well the Coca-Cola CEO

[00:43] visited Trump to gift him a

[00:45] commemorative White House bottle of his

[00:48] favorite soda McDonald Amazon meta are

[00:51] ditching Dei and the guy who slobbered

[00:55] over Anthony fouchy and ordered Facebook

[00:57] to censor conservatives Mark Zuckerberg

[00:59] is donating cash and running to Mar Lago

[01:03] and hosting an inaugural reception for

[01:05] the guy that his Silicon Valley Pals

[01:07] warned us all about for

[01:09] years but what are the real factors at

[01:12] play here is this all transactional or

[01:16] is it really a paradigm shift and how

[01:18] can we use this moment to create a

[01:20] generational shift joining me now is

[01:23] someone who knows a little bit about

[01:24] this Charlie Kirk Charlie it's great to

[01:27] see you um do you trust that Zuckerberg

[01:29] and and these other CEOs have really

[01:32] turned a

[01:35] corner well they've performatively

[01:37] turned a corner which is a good first

[01:39] step just to think that on the deis

[01:41] you're going to have Mark Zuckerberg

[01:43] Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos where back in

[01:46] 2017 they were just boycotting the

[01:48] inauguration back in 2017 the first

[01:52] inauguration was met with resistance

[01:54] marches protests people saying they're

[01:56] going to leave the country fighting

[01:58] Trump tooth and nail remember that

[02:00] Washington Post oped 30 minutes after

[02:02] the inauguration saying the resistance

[02:04] starts right now whereas now in the

[02:07] Trump second term it's really the

[02:09] acquiescence it is the bending of the

[02:11] knee it is we want to be in the good

[02:13] graces of President Trump and here is

[02:15] why in 2020 the radical left attempted a

[02:19] cultural revolution we saw in our

[02:21] institutions in our military and our

[02:23] college campuses we try to change all of

[02:25] our norms and our customs from how we

[02:27] address one another from our uh progress

[02:30] with it comes to um racial issues in

[02:32] this country it was all trying to be

[02:34] uprooted president Trump stood against

[02:36] that while he was in Exile and won a

[02:38] historic election and now we are seeing

[02:41] a lot of these corporate Titans whether

[02:42] it's authentic or inauthentic time will

[02:44] tell really have a collective cultural

[02:47] sigh of relief many of these companies

[02:49] deep down did not want to have to comply

[02:51] to these angry HR departments and

[02:53] they're finally thrilled to see a

[02:55] rebalancing a restoration of the

[02:57] equilibrium of normal American customs

[03:00] of meritocracy American greatness issues

[03:04] that shouldn't be controversial such as

[03:05] having a border and free speech so we

[03:08] all see whether or not this is actually

[03:10] an authentic uh move but I'm thrilled to

[03:12] see it yeah and I think some of them are

[03:14] just scared I I think some of them just

[03:17] don't want you know antitrust

[03:19] investigations or they're worried

[03:20] they're SC I a lot of them are just

[03:22] they're not very courageous but they're

[03:24] they're smart but they're maybe not that

[03:25] courageous so they're scared but I think

[03:27] Charlie we should celebrate you know

[03:30] some progress and just keep an open mind

[03:32] and and trust but verify perhaps but Fox

[03:35] News just released new polling that

[03:37] shows Charlie Trump's favorability

[03:39] rating at an all-time high and then when

[03:43] asked how should Democrats approach

[03:44] Trump's Administration 78% of registered

[03:48] voters said they'd like to see Democrats

[03:51] work with Trump

[03:56] Charlie this is this is somewhat

[03:58] shocking but the election result were in

[04:00] this Direction look the American people

[04:02] are fatigued when it comes to politics

[04:04] and there's just kind of this agreement

[04:06] that President Trump won they threw

[04:08] everything humanly possible at him from

[04:10] law fair to even him having to dodge a

[04:13] bullet from everything imaginable where

[04:15] president Trump is the Victor he is the

[04:17] winner and the American people want a

[04:19] restoration of how life used to be where

[04:20] we didn't have to be talking about

[04:22] politics all the time that it would

[04:23] divide families that it would have

[04:25] friends no longer talking to one another

[04:26] and also it's the agenda that President

[04:29] Trump ran and his focus on fulfilling

[04:32] that mandate and restoring a voice voice

[04:34] to the American workers to the muscular

[04:37] class to the Forgotten men and women of

[04:39] this country and so you start to see

[04:41] some Democrats like John fedman now we

[04:43] don't know if Federman is actually a

[04:44] True Believer we do know though that he

[04:46] wants to remain a US senator from

[04:48] Pennsylvania and he knows that in order

[04:50] to remain a US senator in Pennsylvania

[04:52] you got to work with Donald Trump oh

[04:54] that's just pragmatic but Trump's always

[04:56] been very pragmatic in dealing with

[04:59] people from all backgrounds and and so

[05:01] the Democrats in my view never really

[05:03] understood Trump they they would have

[05:05] been smarter had they found real ways to

[05:08] work with him but instead they treated

[05:10] him as as Public Enemy Number One right

[05:12] off the bat with that whole Mike Flynn

[05:14] nonsense they did so and they lost a big

[05:18] opportunity for themselves and for the

[05:19] country and I think that was a real

[05:21] shame and I don't see any sign today at

[05:23] the confirmation hearing Charlie of Pam

[05:25] Bondi or frankly even Marco Rubio that

[05:28] they've learned a thing not one

[05:30] think no no no they haven't also I mean

[05:33] look at what they tried to do with the

[05:34] Pete heg it was just completely

[05:36] outrageous and uncalled for however

[05:38] we're starting to see the country tilt

[05:39] center right as a response to the

[05:41] nonsense that we live through these last

[05:43] four years and I think it's a very

[05:45] important point for everyone to

[05:47] understand that if president Trump

[05:49] delivers on these promises he can have a

[05:51] permanent new governing Coalition of his

[05:54] Hispanics of black Americans of young

[05:56] people of people in the working class

[05:58] that no longer want to be be part of the

[06:00] screechy upper middle class liberalism

[06:03] that we've seen infect all of our major

[06:05] institutions the new governing Coalition

[06:07] president Trump has an opportunity that

[06:09] we have not seen since Ronald Reagan or

[06:11] FDR to rebuild the body politic to

[06:14] reconfigure how people view American

[06:15] political parties and to govern for a

[06:17] generation he's been given that mandate

[06:19] and we do not see the type of resistance

[06:21] that you would have thought we thought

[06:22] that we would be seeing widespread

[06:24] protests and corporations with these

[06:27] remember these emails they used to send

[06:28] oh we are so sorry now these they're

[06:30] getting rid of Dei departments they're

[06:31] saying no more it's remarkable witness

[06:34] the woman's March is now like code pink

[06:36] and like LZ Cheney together I don't know

[06:38] what that will be if anything Charlie as

[06:41] always great to see you thanks so much

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