Charlie Kirk Reveals How Hillsdale College Shaped Trump's War Against the Administrative State

[00:02] thank you everybody and thank you Dr Arn it's very kind I think I'm uh I might be

[00:08] the first speaker at a national leadership seminar not to go to college is that right maybe maybe we not but I I

[00:14] I'm on Pace to complete every single Hillsdale online course so I think I'm making up for it and I I visit college

[00:23] campuses so you don't have to and I could tell you that if every kid who's

[00:28] currently in college took the Hillsdale online courses instead of going to that four-year College America would be a

[00:33] much better place much better place we might have some ideas now for this new Administration I just want to brag on

[00:40] Hillsdale so I wrote a book called The College scam and I sent a I sent a copy to Dr

[00:46] Arn I I speak extensively about how great Hillsdale is and how it's the exception of what I talk about in the

[00:53] book and I can tell you from firsthand experience having visited and spoken at and intimately involved with organiz ing

[01:00] students on over well we're on over 1 thousand campuses I have visited well

[01:05] over 175 of them personally that there is no place like Hillsdale College the students are different they're they're

[01:13] focused on the right things they are looking up they're asking questions that are deeper in nature they could tell you

[01:19] why they're there so I'm visiting uh we have our campus tour that's restarting uh on Thursday really I'm excited to

[01:26] 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

[01:33] that is Industrial in nature I'm here to be able to get prepared to get a job I

[01:39] say okay I ask a Hillsdale College student why are you here I say well I'm here to learn out learn how to be a good

[01:45] citizen I'm here to learn what it means to be a good person to grow in character and faith and

[01:52] Duty and I ask a average college student at Arizona State University Harvard of

[01:57] the West down the street here and let's just be honest it pales in

[02:03] comparison to Hillsdale for many reasons let's just be honest and I asked them I said what are you reading and they could

[02:09] maybe recite one or two books at Hillsdale College they know the texts intimately and it's not a mistake

[02:16] because it all starts from Dr Larry AR Hillsdale was a good college when Dr AR

[02:22] took over now it is the best college in America after what Dr AR has done over

[02:27] the last couple of decades and it has turned into a cultural Powerhouse

[02:33] because as you well know Hillsdale there's a waiting line to get in the standards keep on getting higher and

[02:39] harder to get in but the millions of people like myself that are taking these online courses is dramatically improving

[02:46] our chances of restoring a free Society the Constitution 101 course that alone

[02:52] should be taught mandatorily to every police officer firefighter Marine person

[02:58] in the military that has to take an oath for the Constitution they should learn what they're taking an oath towards and

[03:05] no better course does that than Hillsdale Constitution one one course and the impact is beyond just what is

[03:12] happening in Michigan it is digital it is online and I think it's even deeper

[03:18] than some of you guys that are on the board even recognize or realize because it's not just how many people are taking

[03:24] these courses it's the state legislature it's the Senators it's the Congress people and I'm going to I'm GNA build

[03:30] out that argument in a second because the philosophical basis of this new

[03:36] Administration is largely an outgrowth from the hard work that Hillsdale has been doing over the last couple decades

[03:44] so it's impacted my life I I have a as as Dr Aron said I've completed over 30

[03:49] of them my my goal is to take all of them yes even the ukian geometry one and

[03:55] I haven't done the Jane Austin novels one sorry have done the Churchill one it's good

[04:02] okay thanks um the new totalitarian novels is corre terrific by the way I highly recommend

[04:09] for any of you that have kids or grandkids to tell them that if they want special privileges to go on a trip or

[04:14] 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

[04:21] they have all these ridiculous federal holidays off we're totally restructuring at juneth we're not giving all those days off I'll say however we will give

[04:27] you Constitution Day off if you take the the Hillsdale online course on Constitution 101 so that that is now

[04:32] practice at at Turning Point USA but I'll tell you this that as you take

[04:37] these courses you realize how little our own elected leaders know about the own

[04:44] the country that they're supposed to be protecting and they're defending how little the people that go on TV and

[04:50] start yammering about you know we're all about freedom and liberty and they can't tell you anything about the structure or

[04:56] the form of the US Constitution or what we're fighting for and I think we're finding our way back as a country I

[05:04] think that we are finding our way back to foundational routs and part of that by the way is being driven by one of the

[05:10] most unusual forces which is that this is a bottomup youth-led political

[05:15] movement that if you look at every single demographic in the 2024 election

[05:21] the one that moves moved most dramatically and surprisingly were voters under the age of 30 these are

[05:28] people that traditionally would be card caring members of the American left now Donald Trump did not

[05:34] win the youth vote in every single state and I will tell you one state he won the youth vote and I give Dr Aron all the

[05:40] credit he did win the youth vote in Michigan it's true it's 100% real Donald Trump won the youth vote in Michigan um

[05:46] but all kidding aside this movement of young people is

[05:52] largely driven by them being raised in the excess of what we call wokeism the kind

[05:59] of political correctness of total the totalitarian impulses of political correctness and a Resurgence some of

[06:05] what the work we've done at turning point but talking to the Next Generation about what kind of country do you

[06:11] actually want to live in do you want to be able to own a home get married and have kids or do you wanted to stare at a

[06:16] screen all day long and be an indentured Russian Surf and never own anything for the rest of your life and president

[06:23] Trump to his great credit ran an asymmetrical political operation that defied every single Norman custom of the

[06:31] political consultant Elite over the last 30 years he did podcasting instead of 60-minute interviews he went and did Tik

[06:38] Tok videos instead of New York Times editorial sitdown meeting he said no one reads the New York Times but people do

[06:43] watch Tik Tok videos in an amazing way president Donald Trump performed the

[06:48] best that a Republican president has performed with younger voters in over 50 years 50 years and this is a bottomup

[06:56] Resurgence where now of every demographic of thead do approve or disapprove of Donald Trump Baby Boomers

[07:02] no offense they're not really crazy about what's happening in DC do you know who is the most supportive of what's

[07:07] happening right now in Washington DC voters under 30 and I'll tell you it makes perfect sense by the way it's

[07:13] because they think the entire system top to bottom is wretched to the core and is

[07:19] a tumor that must be removed and we must start from the beginning because not working for them because they can't

[07:25] afford homes and they're seeing themselves involved the most suicidal depressed anxious alcohol addicted

[07:30] generation history and they want the same American dream that their parents and grandparents had and so we saw this

[07:36] in this last election I personally was able to witness it our videos did billions of views we registered tens of

[07:43] thousands of Voters here in Arizona where we had over a thousand full-time people on the ground uh we chased well

[07:49] over 200,000 ballots for president Donald Trump and I just have to brag Arizona best performing swing State won

[07:56] by 5 and a half points so thank you for all the Arizona faithful that worked so hard pretty

[08:02] awesome but all of that has now led to the ultimate question which of course we

[08:07] all see what president Trump has done in just the last couple of weeks president Trump is doing so much the Democrats

[08:15] can't remember why they're mad at him wait I'm mad why I don't know he's

[08:21] getting rid of this thing and signing this thing full court offense shock and all it is time for us to overwhelm the

[08:27] left you see President Trump had a decision to make he could do the kind of typical second term thing and wait for

[08:33] his legislative priorities and sign a couple proclamations to rename some post offices president Donald Trump is going

[08:39] after one of the most ambitious reclamations of a republic in the history of the species we've never seen

[08:46] anything like it now of course we know the executive order saying there will be no more Dei in federal agencies no more

[08:52] 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

[08:58] 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

[09:04] last couple of days of Joe Biden being president 11,000 people were crossing a

[09:09] day into our country last like yesterday 142 people that's too many stop applauding

[09:16] it's too many we want to go to zero but yes that's a 98% decrease which by the way goes to show that open borders is a

[09:24] choice you didn't need a senate bipartisan bill you didn't need some sort of committee Joe Biden wanted the

[09:31] borders to be open and he wanted us to have this flow of people from another country president Donald Trump made a

[09:36] decision that no actually nation is defined by its borders we're going to have sovereignty and if you want to come

[09:41] to this country come the right way but we're not going to allow you to just Walt across the real Grand Valley and get the same benefits as someone who's a

[09:47] 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

[09:54] about we know about Bobby Kennedy who's now HHS secretary cash who was about to

[10:00] be FBI director Tulsi gabard my favorite executive order by the way is President

[10:05] Trump putting an end to the gender transitions called chemical castration for our kids preventing the medical

[10:12] Butchery that has been happening all the incredible pardons of pro-life Warriors the recommission of

[10:19] the 1776 commission that Dr AR chaired last time ending the wars and how

[10:25] amazing is his team from Marco Rubio today in Saudi Arabia JD Vance and in Munich that was a 10 out of 10 speech we

[10:32] got Scott Besson in Ukraine we got Pete hegseth doing PT with the Marines at 5:00 a.m. where we had that slob Mark

[10:39] 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

[10:45] heg who's literally running miles with Marines and Navy Seals before the sun gets up in Poland a new Administration

[10:52] 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

[10:59] down to what is the big and the looming fight and I'm only able to articulate this because of Hillsdale College

[11:05] because most people on TV are missing what's really going on here they're missing what is going to be the Republic

[11:15] determining element of this entire thing and it comes down to three major

[11:20] questions big questions that are being debated in the media but they're not

[11:26] getting down to the meat of the matter the first of which is so simple and you can ask my daughter who's 2 and a half

[11:32] years old and she knows the answer to this question how many branches of government are there pretty simple we all know three

[11:39] yes thank you that's right good answer um and yes there's seven articles of the Constitution we can go through all that

[11:44] but yes there's three branches of government oh easy answer is it really that easy are there three branches of the

[11:50] government what Dr AR has been saying for as long longer than I have been alive and has been trying to get the

[11:57] American public to realize and recognize that there has been an invisible

[12:03] unelected unknown branch of government that has been operating unconstitutionally post woodro Wilson

[12:10] and no one has had the moral Clarity the Mandate or the Gusto to even mention it

[12:17] let alone challenge it let alone deconstruct it and we can call that the administrative State we can call that

[12:24] the shadow government the Deep State all of those are correct answers by the way but under understand the profundity of

[12:31] President Donald Trump saying okay JFK started Us by an executive order I can

[12:37] end usaid by an executive order you serve at the pleasure of the president and then they say well no you can't do

[12:43] that hold on but which branch of the three does that fall under it falls

[12:48] under article two which goes into one of the other more fundamental questions you see what what's been grown like a cancer

[12:56] over the last 100 years is this fourth branch of government and you can see

[13:01] this in some of the reporting on the Department of Justice and the FBI in

[13:06] particular anytime you hear this you should press pause and tell your friend no no and you should cancel this out of

[13:12] your thought when they say oh that's an independent agency no it's not actually

[13:18] there's no such thing as an independent agency answers to the pleasure of the president period end of story the FBI is

[13:26] not independent now the president could be as provocative he'd get get impeached if he does this but it would be perfectly constitutional if he asked the

[13:33] FBI director to look at every pending case the FBI is looking into perfectly constitutional if he looked at

[13:38] everything the doj is doing it's perfectly constitutional the doj does not operate on a special Island I must

[13:43] have missed that in the Hillsdale online course Federalist Papers course where Alexander Hamilton was going on talking

[13:49] about well the Attorney General's kind of its own president and the FBI kind of does its own thing and guess what

[13:55] president Trump does not know this he knows this philosophically but he knows it personally because that fourth branch of

[14:02] government destroyed his first term was the reason he did not get

[14:08] reelected in 2020 and is the reason why he faced 700 years in federal prison president Donald Trump is

[14:15] counterattacking the fourth branch of government that tried to stop him over the last decade this is the fourth

[14:21] branch that waged war on the Sovereign and that is the key so the next the big

[14:27] qu that's the big question how many branches govern are that's fine the next big question though is well who is The Sovereign exactly who's in charge of

[14:34] this place do you notice that when we fire a federal

[14:39] worker it's like we're going to fire like the Archbishop of Phoenix or something like it's like unbelievable

[14:46] like they're totally Untouchable like you can't do that why who made them that

[14:54] 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

[15:02] exist what is your job you can't say that no instead we have to act as if

[15:09] they're The Untouchables literally and if you listen to the media coverage

[15:15] carefully it's like we work for them when no it's not that way they work for

[15:21] us because our document starts morally clear we the people of the United States

[15:28] not the we the usaid you know purplehair jihadis that are sending money to Kazakhstan to trans the kids right

[15:35] that's not how it works actually and these sound like such fundamental basic questions but we're about to get down to

[15:41] the root of the matter you know why because our leaders have prolonged the inevitable for

[15:47] decades George W bush did not have the moral Clarity or the Gusto to pick this

[15:54] fight in fact he grew the Leviathan and grew the administrative State we have new a gencies because of Republican

[16:00] 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

[16:06] when it comes down to who is The Sovereign it comes down to well we the American people elected a president to

[16:14] be able to do the job and it still baffles the Mind where I hear in some of

[16:19] these meetings when I'm in DC well you can't fire these federal workers you could put them on administrative

[16:25] leave and how many of you guys in your your corporate career or you run a business what could ever operate that

[16:33] way nothing and yet we put the federal government in completely different bucket for no good constitutional reason

[16:41] and then that goes to the final question and really the big question that ties to the other two which is is the president

[16:46] in charge of the executive branch and this is known as the vesting Clause of article two of the US Constitution which

[16:52] is all authority is invested in a in a president that's it pretty simple one

[16:59] sentence a lot there and so yes the president has the authority to say USA

[17:05] you don't go you go anymore he has the authority to send Elon Musk like a Tomahawk missile into every single federal agency by the way how

[17:11] entertaining is this it's like one of the greatest things ever I I want you to understand what's

[17:18] going on here is that you have Elon who I just have grown to just adore he's become a friend I I think that when the

[17:26] history books are written he's going to go down as one of the most interesting consequential business Titan political

[17:33] figures ever to exist so here's a guy who has more money than he could ever imagine he could buy Spain literally you

[17:39] look it up he could buy Spain okay not a joke like I think that GDP of Spain is like $150 billion do you could just you

[17:44] know buy it and that's like that's like a portion of his wealth and he's

[17:50] literally sleeping on the floor of the isenhower executive office building and it's not just him here's the best part

[17:58] he has this platoon of these super Geniuses and I mean like super Geniuses

[18:03] I mean these guys look make Mena look like you know they they don't know what they're talking about and he'll walk

[18:09] into these federal agencies and he'll be like where are the passwords how do you send an email how do you do the

[18:14] accounting has anyone ever looked at the books here just one example he did the Social Security kind of per peripheral

[18:20] audit that there's like 140 year old still getting Social Security checks I can just see the New York Times art you

[18:26] know headline Elon Musk so rule cuts off payments to 140 year olds you know just

[18:32] see the headline right now how dare he now if any of you guys are 140 I want

[18:37] 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

[18:43] messed up how bad do you think our voter roles are just makes you think um so but

[18:48] Elon Musk is getting down to the heart of the matter why it's so simple Elon Musk sees the world very clearly because

[18:54] Elon Musk has actually built things and so for him it does not compute it's like

[18:59] a failure to launch in his mind where if at Tesla if he wants to get rid of 10,000 people he can get rid of 10,000

[19:05] people at SpaceX if he wants to get rid of a bad employee can get rid of a bad employee in DC you get rid of bad employees by putting them in charge of

[19:11] the CDC and running all your public health guidelines you fail upwards that's what you do you actually Ascend

[19:16] by failure it's a gravitational pull in the wrong direction and so it is a

[19:22] cultural SE change top to bottom that we are experiencing and they're going to fight with everything they possibly can

[19:29] if you think they fought hard to prevent president Trump from RE obtaining office this is way worse than they actually

[19:36] 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

[19:43] take them go away go but this Doge thing it's like all the controversial stuff that we thought was going to be

[19:49] big fights kind of gets go on on the on the you know Extras by the way is a brilliant strategy by President Trump

[19:55] might I add because everyone's talking more about Elon than presid president Trump and president Trump's able to kind of not be attacked for the first time in

[20:02] 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 thing

[20:09] is just phenomenal and so but the reason they're fighting so

[20:14] hard on Doge and on what we are experiencing is we actually have a

[20:20] chance to do the thing that people thought that could never get done which is we actually have a chance to reorient

[20:27] the ship back to the founders intent to restore the three branches of government

[20:34] to articulate what Article 2 actually is and I think we have a shot at doing it article one is the hardest because

[20:40] Congress is a disaster but I think the Supreme Court is actually willing to hear this out for the first time in a

[20:45] generation I think the Supreme Court is now willing to hear the arguments what do you mean you're an independent agency

[20:52] no no you're not independent agency you serve under Article 2 and we we've seen with some decisions the Chevron

[20:58] reference decision the EPA decision the courts are signaling that they're ready for these Monumental type cases and what

[21:05] that means everybody is that the administrative State Leviathan this regime that has been swallowing our

[21:11] freedom and liberty post woodro Wilson for the first time we can reverse it we

[21:18] can go back to where we came from but it's not just going to happen because of

[21:23] one election it will only happen with a free citizenry demanding it out of your leaders with vocal support on a daily

[21:30] basis educating the mass of what's really going on and I believe we have a shot at doing it because we're able to

[21:35] 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

[21:42] millions of people or post something on Instagram or Facebook not any of the Guardians or the censors Elon Musk is

[21:48] able to do these X spaces at midnight where he's just rambling for a couple hours about all the he's like going

[21:54] through documents talking about all the waste that he found and literally like 5 million people are list listen to these

[21:59] things that's that's more than the CNN airport audience is for a

[22:06] [Applause] decade and he just goes through this

[22:11] because now we can go direct to Consumer but let me clarify that we can go direct

[22:17] to Citizen and that's the true Revolution that's occurring is that we are taking

[22:24] the bold and courageous move that is going to put a lot of people's lives and Fortune and sacred honors at risk to say

[22:31] subject no more citizen because we have lived as subjects for the last couple of

[22:37] years whether we realize it or not we have not been citizens which is co-rulers or co- authorities of our own

[22:44] nation and that's where the Trump thing gets way bigger than Trump and honestly God bless this guy for being the man in

[22:51] the arena that Teddy roselt we talked about having the courage and the stamina God bless him for not taking the deal

[22:57] where they said you know don't run for president just being kingmaker and doubling down getting shot his whole

[23:03] business Empire nearly taken from him and now getting into what is the most high stakes fight constitutionally

[23:10] morally and civilization and you guys know this Europe is not going to save a free Society Europe is gone it's a husk of its former self we got the Chinese

[23:16] Communist Party rising up if it's not us it's nobody as Dr ARA said it is the last best hope and it's only us if we

[23:24] can actually win the domestic war first if we can restrain this this Beast that

[23:29] has been slowly taking over every one of our ways of life over the last couple

[23:36] decades and especially the last 100 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

[23:42] point I don't know the format is is this which is that I I'm I'm a big believer in

[23:49] God's Providence over our nation I believe that God had his hand on Donald Trump and I believe that God is a hand

[23:54] on this country I really believe that and I believe that that as the founders

[24:00] did that there is a providential element to all of this and I remember after

[24:06] Donald Trump was displaced from office in the 2020 election we were all is the country over

[24:13] and we we believed through faith as it says in Romans 8:28 that God will use all things for

[24:19] good for those who love him that maybe there is a plan here that we don't

[24:25] understand and I know a lot of you know this and few people say it public public but I think it's worthy of a teaching to

[24:31] our kids especially because we thought it was the worst thing but now we look back we say honestly Exile might have

[24:36] been really good for us those four years off might have actually been Grace not

[24:44] judgment like those four years where we weren't in control of everything actually made us stronger and tougher

[24:50] made us have more Resolve made us find out who what we're really made out of made us shrink our ranks away from the

[24:57] people that were summer soldiers that were Sunshine

[25:02] Patriots go go we told those people go away we'll call you back when everything's fixed I think president Trump in Exile

[25:10] when he faced the entire power of the federal government became a stronger

[25:15] person and not just him but his senior staff that was around him from Steven

[25:21] Miller to Susie WS this whole team they were around the table in Bedminster New

[25:27] Jersey I was was not there but I know about it very very intimately when President Donald Trump was joking and playing Phantom of the Opera drinking

[25:34] diet coke when all of a sudden his phone rang and they said you're indicted and in that moment I mean it's

[25:41] never happened before in American history and then this Avalanche of indictments came after that and Jack Smith launched you know

[25:48] the lunatic thing and his staff had had a choice do you jump ship or do you lean in I think that's a lesser appreciated

[25:55] element of all this is the people that stood by him his inner team because people say Charlie how are they so well

[26:02] prepared for all of this who is doing all this work who's really in charge okay Trump's in charge okay but he's

[26:08] empowered the people his lieutenants that were around him when he got that phone call in Ben merer New Jersey he's

[26:14] empowered the people that were around him when his arraignment was read to him and he said if we ever get power back

[26:21] you know what to do you're going to listen to the voters and we're going to go 10 out of 10 velocity right out of

[26:27] the gate what you are seeing is the pent up of an entire community of people

[26:32] about a couple dozen people that saw their boss get shot that

[26:38] saw the president and our entire country in my personal opinion literally come millimeters away from the country disintegrating into chaos Oblivion and

[26:44] Discord or 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

[26:51] consider as the history books are written that boy the Democrats should

[26:57] have let us win in 20 20 that them doing what they did in the

[27:02] 2020 election Zucker boxes mail and ballots might go down as one of the dumbest things the Democrat Party has

[27:09] ever done because what they have to reap right now

[27:14] is a completely different conservative movement it is completely different it is 3.0 it is one that plays to win it is

[27:23] one that is well staffed it is one that understands the odds and the stakes and we saw what we up against we saw it

[27:29] intimately and we we looked over the abyss we said no thanks we're going to go back to restore this beautiful

[27:35] country that we love and that's where all of this comes together and I believe you guys have an obligation to continue

[27:41] to support Hillsdale College to fight for a free Society because that's really where this is all going to be connected

[27:46] my role these next couple years I'm not going in government I have no role in the government I'm I'm an adviser I'm a friend I'm a fighter I'm a warrior I'm

[27:53] going to keep on doing the Grassroots moving with young people most importantly I'm going to keep on trying to keep people informed what's happening

[27:58] here so this thrust this moment does not get lost because this is a once in many lifetimes opportunity a moment to

[28:05] reclaim what has been given to us that we did not earn that we do not deserve

[28:10] to get us back on the path of the Divine Providence that the founders talked about in our birth certificate the

[28:17] Declaration of Independence and it's only possible in my opinion thanks to Hillsdale College and all the work that you guys do here thank you and let's do

[28:24] questions if time alls thank you

[28:30] [Applause]

[28:51] thank you thank you everybody okay is the questions okay we have a format for that great M thank you Mr Kirk we now

[28:58] have time for Q&A if you have a question please raise your hand and wait for a microphone to be brought to

[29:08] you there's some over

[29:23] here hi Charlie my name is Owen Anderson I'm a professor at ASU which you mentioned is the Harvard the

[29:30] West yeah I'd like to add the idea that these state universities are also part of that

[29:37] bureaucratic State and I like to ask for your help with ASU you've already done a great job you by coming out and T to our

[29:44] students I think you change the election but there's a lot more work to do yes yes there is and let's just kind of go

[29:51] in some of the details what president Trump's going to try to do from the top down number one eliminate the Department

[29:57] of Education and get completely rid of it and it NE it never should have existed

[30:03] it should not exist right now the second of which is you have to stop the flow of money uh this is where enforcement's

[30:09] going to come in right now I bet ASU is already in violation of the Pres of President Trump's executive order would

[30:15] you agree with that 100% so now it's going to come down to an enforcement question where president Trump signed an

[30:22] executive order saying no taxpayer money is going to go to any school that teaches critical race Theory Dei transgender IDE ology which obviously

[30:29] ASU does right they have entire departments dedicated to this and so it's now going to come into the

[30:34] enforcement of a couple test cases saying no you're not going to get Federal money pel grant money research

[30:40] money any subsidized student loans for that that's only going to solve it partially and this is why a free

[30:46] citizenry is so important is we need to ask the question of these bloated State institutions their financial model is

[30:53] actually completely corrupted if you take out subsidized student loans

[30:59] and the over certification of what education has actually become this why Hillsdale is so important is that

[31:06] Hillsdale Hillsdale refuses to scale to you know just be an ASU 100,000 Kids on Campus because then you lose what

[31:12] college actually is which means partnership I can answer that question now Dr R for the record means partnership um because you you lose that

[31:19] community and so in my opinion phase two and three needs to be an allout campaign

[31:26] understanding that these colleges have become massive bloated bureaucracies in their own States but also even more

[31:33] importantly their training factories for the administrative State and two they

[31:39] are Petri dishes for all the worst ideas that then metastasize into Corporate

[31:44] America law enforcement military so on and so forth and the other point I'll

[31:49] make is just you look you go to Hillsdale College do you notice how aesthetically beautiful it is it's a

[31:56] beautiful campus did you know that in a lesser appreciated executive order

[32:01] president Trump on day one signed an executive order saying build beautiful buildings again it was an executive

[32:07] order for all federal bureaucracies now you can laugh but I encourage you next time you're in DC to drive by the

[32:14] Department of Education it looks how it operates it looks like like a like a

[32:23] like a drawer cabinet it looks like a file cabinet I should say it doesn't point up there are no circles it's

[32:30] simply squares it looks like a place where widgets are made cuz that's what they think

[32:35] education is they think is you're just kind of a widget in a big system to serve the administrative machine nothing

[32:42] to be glorified nothing to wonder nothing to pursue no philosophy to

[32:48] contemplate but no they look at themselves as Carpenters whereas Dr AR would say

[32:54] educators are more like gardeners where you let the kid grow into what they can become yes next

[33:02] question hi Charlie um I have a sophomore at Hillsdale and before I get

[33:08] to my question I just have to tell you that um we've we've been Turning Point

[33:14] supporters long before we were Hillsdale supporters about six or seven years ago

[33:19] we saw you at University of Washington um you were there with Anna Paulina Luna

[33:26] and um officer I remember that yeah this was the part when they didn't shut you down which I

[33:32] think they did recently yes that's right um so I was I wanted to ask something

[33:41] about um Trump's recent comments I mean I totally understand the Gulf of America

[33:48] and and where he's going with that and he's an incredible negotiator I mean he's probably the most brilliant

[33:54] negotiator out there and I think a lot of things he does or says or negotiating

[34:00] tactics but sometimes I get a little concerned so um it's only been six weeks

[34:06] I go a little I know and and so I just thought when it comes to like Canada

[34:12] being the 51st state oh no he's deathly serious okay okay and then I know you

[34:19] went to Greenland with Don Jr even more serious okay and my yeah I'll say my my

[34:26] Danish relatives are not really real happy about that um and then this whole Gaza like taking I'm just saying I I I

[34:35] trust him but I'm getting some imperialistic you're you're you're super

[34:42] sweet um thank you so no no I I mean that that's great I I I I hear that I'm not going to speak on behalf of the

[34:47] administration Canada is you know we I'll let that one be Gaza I'm going to

[34:52] show to my friend Josh Hammer Josh you're speaking tomorrow about all this right Israel and all that so I will to

[34:58] the expert Josh will handle that extensively uh Greenland I I will defend actually because I think Greenland um

[35:05] makes a lot of sense for a lot of different reasons uh it has incredible raw uh Rare Earth natural mineral

[35:11] deposits it's geopolitically really situated China wants it Russia wants it and also we've been trying to get

[35:17] Greenland for well over a 100 years actually 150 years and I could tell you having visit has visited Greenland with

[35:24] Don Jr it's one of the most beautiful places I've ever been um in more ways than one I will just kind of caution any

[35:30] if you like imperialistic let me say this is that President Trump is a dealmaker he's a

[35:36] negotiator and you ask for the moon and if you get Greenland in

[35:43] return maybe the next uh National leadership Seminar can be in

[35:50] Nook but go in July don't go in January so yes ma'am hi um I'm another supporter

[35:57] from the uh slave state of Washington so what do you think the

[36:03] chances are that Trump will revoke the other Earth shaking executive order from

[36:12] JFK the one that allowed government employees to unionize that is so I I actually don't

[36:19] have insight into that but let me first give Trump credit for revoking a separate executive order that I did not

[36:25] mention which was Bowen and Untouchable my friend Jeremy Carl who's written the

[36:30] 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

[36:38] affirmative action for hiring practices in the federal government that one deserves incredible credit that took so

[36:44] 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

[36:51] passed by Congress it was done by executive order saying that we're only going to hire in federal hiring practice

[36:57] practices based on skin color not Merit because of executive order I can't speak on the unionization one I'd have to look

[37:04] more into that uh but I wouldn't be surprised if it's being contemplated but if a president does it a president can

[37:09] undo it as you can see by usaid um that was done by an executive order by JFK

[37:14] why can't you just fold it into the state department so okay I think we have time for one or two

[37:20] more Charlie I'm ready to run through a brick wall after this speech here so uh

[37:26] real quick we in Arizona home to Intel microchip some of the big tech companies

[37:33] what's your thought if any on on Shoring manufacturing what are some of the pain we're going to have to go through to

[37:39] bring some of this back any thoughts or ideas on that yeah it's a good question I think that President Trump has alluded

[37:46] to this and I think that the current economic nonsense that has been handed To Us by the

[37:51] previous let's just say easy cheap money regime is that there might have to be a moment to take some cough syrup

[37:57] metaphorically economically before we can get to some Wellness I mean our e Economist friend doesn't think a soft

[38:03] Landing is possible that you guys debate that amongst yourselves however I will say this that President Trump using

[38:10] tariffs is getting a very very bad R in some Financial circles or markets but it's a forcing function to redomicile

[38:17] Labor and Industry back to this country and in order to actually have a country you have to you have to make things not

[38:23] just be a series of hedge funds in tech companies and import all your plastic from China

[38:29] and I'll give you just one example we we don't make vitamin C in this country anymore we don't make our

[38:35] necessary Pharmaceuticals in this country anymore you cease to be an independent autonomous sovereign country

[38:41] if you're dependent on a nation 5,000 miles away to be able to get basic goods

[38:46] and Necessities so how much pain there will be I don't know however I will say there are a lot of major companies that

[38:51] already talking about redomicile the production of their assets or their goods into the interior the United

[38:57] States which is then how you circum circumnavigate or you circumvent the Tariff is if you make it in the United

[39:03] States so all right last question yes yes ma'am we now have time for one more

[39:08] question hi Mr Kirk thank you for your speech tonight um so I'm excited to hear

[39:14] about the youth the 30 and under and I'm glad we're playing

[39:19] offense what do you if you could speak about the Old Guard the Mitch McConnells

[39:25] the Paul ryant I feel like they've gone quiet and I'm a little worried about it

[39:31] yeah you guys are a paranoid group come on it's like you're always looking for something I like it um look there's a

[39:37] new generation that's rising in DC and if that concerns you I want to give you

[39:43] some comfort this next generation is the type of person that has the character of

[39:48] a Hillsdale College type student I want you to look at the type of person I'm talking about you have a press secretary

[39:54] that's 27 years old named Caroline levit who's taken the Press every single day in an elegant and amazing way you got

[40:01] Steven Miller who's in his young 30s running all the domestic policy and running the entire immigration

[40:07] department of the entire federal government you have a next generation of people JD Vance is the youngest vice

[40:13] president since Eisenhower and one of the youngest vice presidents in American history JD Vance is I think 40 or 41

[40:20] years old I think he just turned 40 right he just turned 40 and so this next generation of conservatives is operating

[40:27] with urgency and is taking over DC for the better the the Old Guard is going to

[40:32] do everything they possibly can I mean Mitch McConnell I'm not I'll let you guys fill in the blanks I I think it's very disappointing for this reason I

[40:39] have much stronger opinions on Mitch McConnell than what I'm about to say but I'll give you one that is very

[40:46] agreeable it's very disappointing that Mitch McConnell for years would go

[40:54] around and preach to all of his Senate Republican colleagues we must stick together we must stick together I need

[41:01] your vote we must stick together but now in circumstances where we need him to

[41:07] keep the conference to stick together he's the odd man up and I think that tells us a lot about Mitch McConnell

[41:15] okay in closing everybody Hillsdale College is amazing you know that this is a fight for the most ultimate thing it's

[41:21] exciting we won in November we want to keep those victories going thank you guys for your belief in our work at

[41:28] turning point in what doing at Hillsdale College honored to be here thank you guys so much God bless you thank you

[41:37] [Applause]