Glenn Beck Remembers Charlie Kirk: The Man Who Surpassed Rush Limbaugh and Would Have Been President

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Glenn Beck Remembers Charlie Kirk: The Man Who Surpassed Rush Limbaugh and Would Have Been President

Glenn Beck shares intimate memories of his relationship with Charlie Kirk, from their first meeting when Charlie was just 17 years old to the prophetic conversation about assassinations they had on a Miami balcony. Beck reveals how Charlie transcended the role of broadcaster to become a pastor, rabbi, political organizer, and statesman all in one, arguing that replacing Charlie would require six people at the top of their craft. In an emotional tribute broadcast from Turning Point USA headquarters, Beck places Rush Limbaugh's golden EIB microphone in front of Charlie's chair while declaring that Charlie had surpassed even Rush himself. Featuring conversations with Andrew Kolvet, Anna Paulina Luna, Tyler Bowyer, and investigative reporter Ryan Morrow, who unveils explosive new research tracking over $80 million from George Soros to organizations engaged in domestic terrorism.

Categories: Tributes
September 17, 2025

A Friend Remembers Charlie Kirk

Glenn Beck opens with an intensely personal tribute to Charlie Kirk, broadcasting from the Turning Point USA studio with Rush Limbaugh's golden EIB microphone positioned in front of Charlie's empty chair. Beck recalls meeting Charlie when he was just 17 years old, immediately recognizing something special in the young man who was so well-read, smart, and clear in his thinking.

Beck shares a story he had never told publicly before, one he regretted not having time to tell Charlie himself. When they first met, Charlie told Beck he wanted to be like him, to do what he did. Beck understood this meant Charlie wanted to be the next Rush Limbaugh, one of radio's greatest of all time. At the time, Beck thought Charlie might have what it takes, but was thinking too small.

More Than a Broadcaster

Beck argues that Charlie was simultaneously a broadcaster and a narrowcaster, a pastor and a priest, and given his ability to think and argue differently, a rabbi as well. But Charlie was also a political organizer, a political think tank himself, and a compassionate friend who surpassed Rush Limbaugh by miles.

The tribute becomes even more profound when Beck declares that Charlie would have been president. Unlike Rush, who never had that desire or perhaps the skill set for it, Charlie could have been a great president. Beck believes there may not be another person in history on the conservative side, at least in the last 150 years, who was like Charlie Kirk. To replace him would require perhaps six people at the top of their craft to cover everything he accomplished.

The Scene at Turning Point USA

Beck describes arriving at TPUSA headquarters at 4:30 a.m. to an enormous tribute on the road in front of the building, with police barricades and security everywhere. The outpouring of love reminded him of the public mourning after Princess Diana's death or when Elvis died. During the broadcast, the building received a bomb threat, forcing everyone to evacuate temporarily, which Beck interpreted as Satan's futile attempt to disrupt the light Charlie represented.

Andrew Kolvet on Charlie's Character

Andrew Kolvet, who worked closely with Charlie, shares insights into how many people begged Charlie to run for president. Charlie would always decline, saying he was happy doing what he was doing. The existence of JD Vance gave Charlie emotional freedom to say that JD was the next man up, and their job was to support him.

Kolvet emphasizes that while Charlie was a brilliant communicator and an autodidact who constantly studied classics, political philosophy, and theology, he was also deeply skilled at the quiet, behind-the-scenes work. Charlie was trusted because if you had a heated discussion with him in private, nobody would ever hear about it. His goal was always to keep people together, understanding that so many forces in politics are designed to rip everyone apart.

Just weeks before his death, Charlie sent Kolvet a hierarchy of what the Greeks considered the highest virtues and callings. Charlie said they needed to strive to be statesmen, philosophers, and theologians at the top, not actors and entertainers at the bottom. He understood that God had put him in a position to keep people together, and he would craft his messaging and strategy around managing the current moment so that everyone remained part of the movement.

Breaking the George Soros Network

Ryan Morrow from the Capital Research Center unveils explosive new findings about George Soros's funding network. According to Soros's own files from his Open Society Foundations, Morrow and his colleagues traced over $80 million going to at least 54 groups engaged in crime and domestic terrorism on U.S. soil, or that are pro-terrorism, endorsing things like the October 7th attacks, or are associated with foreign terrorist organizations.

Of that amount, over $23 million went to at least seven groups doing things that meet the FBI's definition of domestic terrorism. Morrow provides specific examples, including the Center for Third World Organizing, which received $400,000 and openly boasted of their involvement in the Minnesota uprisings and rioting. Many of these groups create protest guides or activism toolkits that appear innocuous but contain hyperlinks to guides recommending property destruction, violence, false IDs, and how to obstruct justice.

The research took about a year to complete and was inspired by Morrow's earlier report on anti-Israel protests, which identified over 150 pro-terrorism groups organizing those demonstrations. One radical entity responded to that earlier report by saying such research posed an existential threat that could mean a quick death for most groups by getting their tax-exempt statuses revoked.

A 2010 Warning About George Soros

Beck shares that he was warning about George Soros and the RICO statute as far back as 2010, playing a clip from that era where he discussed revolutionary tactics and directly asked if Soros had ever heard of the RICO statute. He reveals that around 2010, Soros's number two person met with Beck's number two person for lunch. The meeting began with a threat that Beck needed to stop hurting Soros, and that the ship was already sailing and Beck needed to decide if he wanted to be on it or not.

Beck's representative said his boss wouldn't want to be on that ship. The Soros representative ended the conversation by saying clearly: this is going to stop. Beck took that as a very large threat, which became one of the reasons he did a three-day special called The Puppet Master on Fox, showing everything about Soros they could find at the time.

Now, 15 years later, Beck declares that the ship Soros's people were talking about is going to be sunk. All the big billionaire-funded organizations funding what he calls filth that poisons American civil society and spreads hate are on notice. If they're doing it by mistake, Beck volunteers to help them vet organizations. If they're not genuine and continue, they're next.

Anna Paulina Luna on the Turning Point

Congresswoman Anna Paulina Luna shares her personal connection to Turning Point, recounting how during finals week at the University of West Florida, she saw two girls tabling with pins that said Big Government Sucks. She grabbed one, never imagining that a year later she'd be working with Charlie at Turning Point.

Luna emphasizes that Charlie was fighting indoctrination on college campuses that wasn't just coming from liberal professors from the 1960s, but was actually a foreign government-funded operation. Many left-wing organizations pushing violent riots and targeted campaigns have associations with groups calling for assassinations of the president, conservative commentators, and even Charlie's family.

She reveals that she co-signed a letter to the U.S. Treasury to freeze the assets of Neville Singham, who has been funding the Party for Socialism and Liberation and Code Pink. She met with Judge Jeanine Pirro and learned he's guilty of a FARA violation, and believes the Department of Justice will be charging him.

Luna notes that while it's been hard to see commentary from people on Capitol Hill who didn't know Charlie and continue spreading rhetoric about him, many of them actually know the truth that he was not what they painted him to be. She's happy that Charlie has a team in place standing with Turning Point to continue the fight.

The Electoral Strategy Going Forward

Tyler Bowyer, COO of Turning Point Action, discusses the organization's future plans. Losing Charlie as CEO has been tough, but the beautiful part is they've been putting pen to paper the entire time, focused on 2028 and working backwards, even looking at 2032. This is the same process the left uses, and it allows them to formulate plans quickly through their Chase the Vote initiative.

Bowyer emphasizes that people weren't joining Turning Point because they were fans of Charlie personally; he was teaching principles. The base is principle-based, which is a healthy foundation. Their number one culture point is grassroots humility. If you focus on the grassroots, you get candidates the grassroots wants to work for, and the program builds itself.

He explains they felt they had to step up after the 2022 election when the Republican establishment was lying to people, promising a red wave without showing up with anybody. They knew they could take the talent of people who had become disciples at Turning Point and convert it into action, which built the C4 plan heading into 2024.

Bowyer acknowledges that media coverage leading up to the election seemed designed to put Turning Point on the line, setting them up as someone to blame if Trump lost. But working next to Charlie Kirk for so many years meant living in a pressure cooker, and they lived for that pressure. He wouldn't have it any other way, because without that pressure, the celebration of what they accomplished wouldn't feel the same, and it sets the stage for what Charlie Kirk's legacy will be.

The Overwhelming Response

The response to Charlie's death has been extraordinary. Over 56,000 requests for new Turning Point chapters have come in, not just new members but entire chapters people want to open on college campuses. This number represents an unprecedented grassroots movement that Charlie helped build and that will continue his legacy.

A Prophetic Conversation

Beck shares a conversation he had with Charlie in 2018 or 2019 on a balcony in Miami. When Charlie asked what was coming next, Beck told him assassinations, predicting that Donald Trump was probably the biggest target. He referenced the 1960s when Malcolm X, RFK, and MLK were all assassinated. They discussed what they would do if that started happening.

This makes the reaction to Charlie's death even more significant. Beck is happy to see how everyone is responding, whether they knew Charlie personally, worked with him, were part of TPUSA, or were just fans who felt like they knew him because he was so personal.

A Song for These Times

Beck reveals that he knew these times were coming, which is why around 2018 he had David Osmond write a song for these days. His daughter Cheyenne, who was about 10 feet away from the tent in Utah when the shooting occurred, went into the studio with David Osmond to record the song in honor of Charlie Kirk. The song, titled We Are One, speaks to standing together, raising voices, and overcoming division because injustice anywhere threatens justice everywhere.

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