The Charlie Kirk Show - Has President Trump Kept His Promises?

Episode Date: October 15, 2026

Promises made, promises kept? Few presidential candidates have ever been as explicit about what they planned to do in office as Donald Trump in 2024. Two years later, how have his pledges measures up? Andrew and Blake review the president's 20-point list from the 2024 campaign. Then, two TPUSA chapter leaders describe their participation in the first-ever Turning Point Men's Summit. Watch every episode ad-free on members.charliekirk.com!    Get new merch at charliekirkstore.com!Support the show: http://www.charliekirk.com/supportSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Yeah, you're finally back with your microphone. I am. I've been reunited. But here's this morning, we are going to do something a little different today. I think it's really important. We are going to audit President Trump's top 20 promises on the campaign in 2024, his promises, which stated, if enacted, would make America great again. And we are going to have an honest conversation. There's going to be no puff, no opium, no copium. We are going to go through all 20 of them. We've got to print it out right here. Okay? From the direct website itself, President Trump campaigned on these things. And we're going to go one by one and ask, did President Trump keep his promises? Promises made, promises kept? You remember hearing that? In Trump 1.0, we heard it all the time.

We heard it on the campaign trail. Can we say that, honestly, in Trump 2.0? And we're doing this because a thing we've heard, because there's a lot of people who are very angry, people who are dooming, people who are complaining a lot, and they love to disclaim President Trump abandoned his promises that he is not delivered. And they say, oh, he promised, for example,

to do all the Epstein stuff. And that was actually what he campaigned on. And he's not keeping his promises. And this is prompted. This is a producer of one of the friends of a show here, John Doyle. Yeah, John Doyle's posted this. He's also Blake, of course. So he's a great testament to the order of Blake's.

His name's Blake Cressis. And he wrote, the retard right gets real quiet when you show them President Trump's actual campaign promises, not the ones they made up in their head. And he says, and they realize only like three of them haven't come to fruition. So we thought, wait, we should actually, we should test that. We should look up that list. And so this is not just someone compiling promises. You'll see that sometimes. Democrats do this a lot. They'll just, oh, collect, oh, 50 different promises they made in different speeches.

President Trump's a different breed, because very few candidates really do this, where he just said, on his website, this is Trump Vance branding. If you look at that image we have up there, you can see the Trump Vance official campaign image right there on the top left. This was on his website. This is the 20 things he was promising to do if election. It's still on Whitehouse.gov. They have an archived link to show that they are not making this up. It's very Trumpian. He did this with the Supreme Court justices.

Here's the list of people he would choose, etc., etc. So it gives us sort of a line in the sand something to base his performance against. He got elected on these promises after all. So let's start right away. And by the way, I do want to just say why this is important. And then we're going to get into number one, which is seal the border. You're going to probably see a little bit of an inverted map from other years. Blue states that are living under oppressive Democrat regimes, they're still very open to change

because they're living under the malaise, the high crime, all of that, the regulation, the burdensome economic policies. And so they might still go a little bit more right this cycle, but it's red states that voted for Trump that were sometimes most worried about, Nebraska, Iowa, Ohio, Texas. So this is why it's so important because those are the voters that are saying, hey, I feel maybe betrayed. I feel disappointed. All right. So number one, promise. Seal the border and stop the migrant invasion. We have some great graphs on this. Put up 136. Yeah, it's up there already. That's great. That is monthly southwestern border

encounters in thousands. The highest month for Joe Biden, this is just southwestern border encounters. in late, it looks like late 2023, Joe Biden had 300,000 people encountered at the southern border. In your average month, he's routinely hitting 200,000. Almost every month is over 150,000. And that's encounters. So that's not counting people who just run across the border and aren't caught. It's not counting the extreme ease.

They basically stopped, for example, visa enforcement. So you could just come here on a tourism visa, on a student visa, on a temporary work visa, blow it off and stay. That was the Biden administration before. By the way, you will see at that peak, they realized they had a PR problem. So that's when you get the CBP1 app where they basically say, hey, we'll give you a plane ticket and we'll fly you in. We made an app to fly people into the country illegally. To avoid the bad PR at the border.

Well, guess what? Look at those red bars right there on the right. That's Trump 2.0. Instantly. Instantly cut it off. They told you for years that this was a problem. It was super hard to solve. You needed tons of money.

You needed tons of institutional reform. No, you just needed someone who actually wanted to stop it. And it was like turning off a light switch. Oh, we don't need to let people illegally into America. And what that chart doesn't show also is it doesn't show you that they revise that CBP1 app into an arrange your deportation app. Yeah. You get a stipend and a free ticket home as opposed to a free ticket here. Totally reversed it.

Absolutely zero doubt. Promise One has been kept. But just for further measure, we've done it on the visa source side. as well. 139. Vizes down by half and legal immigration cut more than illegal immigration. This is again, thanks to our friends over at Cato, who are no

friends of this administration. They make this to complain about Trump. Yep. Look at that. Student visas way down. H-1Bs, way down. And you can't see the numbers. If you can't see the numbers, it's like students going from 220,000 a year to 40,000.

You've got refugee visas, basically going down almost to zero from they were letting in 60,000 of those per year. They're letting, I guess actually this is a combined total, combined total of like 220,000 a month, I guess, actually. And they got that all the way down to about 40,000. And I want you guys to understand how difficult it is to limit legal immigration. Many of these things are established by bills, laws, passed by Congress, right?

So under Democrat administrations, you're going to be letting in 1.2 million people, the size of Montana every year, the size of Arkansas every three years. The population just keeps growing and growing and flooding and flooding with foreigners. To do this, you have to work the system expertly. You have to find loopholes. You have to cut off loopholes. You have to basically limit things using other powers, finding other means by which you can limit legal immigration. So to see that number drop all the way down in all of those different categories is truly, truly something to be hold.

And it is transformative. And they can repurpose so many things as well because, for example, refugee. the left often saw, oh, let's get our designated groups, let's like parachute a ton of Somalis into Minneapolis, into Fargo, into wherever. And they started letting in Afrikaners from South Africa. And every single left and group has lost its mind. Why? Because Afrikaners are white. That is explicitly the reason.

They lose their minds because someone led into the country as a refugee had white skin. Very, very clear point. And they'll integrate well. They integrate well and have skills. They hate people that are compatible with our culture. That's what it is. Oh, we're off to a great start here. Stop number two.

Well, actually, point number two, carry out the largest deportation operation in America. Okay, this is coming from their website. These are his promises. Look at that, 138. Obviously, they had to revamp this whole thing. They had to go past the one big, beautiful bill to get this funded. They had to hire ICE agents. They had to hire CBP.

They had to do all of this stuff. And look at that number ramp up. And you see it go down just briefly. when Mullen was confirmed as DHS Secretary after Christy Nome was, she resigned. They were retooling their strategy. They were retooling it. He came back and he said, I want to cooperate with local jails and prisons and look at that number, shoot right back up. We're over 50,000 the last three months on average.

A month. These are interior arrest. Okay, so if you are keeping score at home, the first two promises, seal the border and carry out the largest deportation operation in American history, those are two for two. There's no doubt. He is two for two right here. And let's just address a lot of people on the dissident right, the online base, which I often have been a part of, if I'm being completely honest with the audience here. They want more. They want more deportations. But go ahead and throw that up again.

138. 138. This shows that the efforts continue their increasing and all the hate that Secretary Mullen took when he was revamping. He was getting, listen, it's hard to come into a new job like that. It's a big job. DHS is huge. He also had to oversee, by the way, the World Cup and things like this. So getting those numbers up is huge. And they're going to keep ramping up. It is the largest in history. If you look at historical numbers, right, the, you know, it was basically in the 50s under Eisenhower. I think they did about one to one point three million. It's a whole different era.

Totally different era. This is by far the largest deportation operation. And there's, and that's arrests. So there are people who are voluntarily deporting themselves. There are people who are self, it's way easier to self-deport yourself. We have net migraine. Massive. We have net negative migration.

Massive win, massive win. And they're continuing to accelerate it. It is great stuff. All right. Let's move on to number three. This one's harder. End inflation and make America affordable again. No, three.

We know, we know what everyone said. Big headline items. Gasoline prices are high. Let's be frank. Yeah. And CPI is, which is sort of, the main, I guess, metric you'll look at. It did ramp up slightly yesterday.

Those were the new numbers largely driven by the Iran, war and the energy crisis that ensued. But if you look at that, Joe Biden had this big, huge spike of inflation. And then it came down, right? It did come down. But that was self-induced inflation. Let's just go back. Larry Summers actually wrote an op-ed, who was Obama's economic guy, and said,

hey don't pass all these stimulus you don't need it you're going to overheat the economy they didn't listen to him keeps going up we ramped all the way up there and then it came down and you notice that spike a little bit here now i agree with our friend citizen cane over at citizen free press who says this is a temporary transitory inflation little spike right there that is the iran war right at the right side of that graph okay here's the good news it does appear that these will be coming down now why do i say that. That's not opium or copium. I could be wrong, but why do I think it's coming down? Because oil flows, energy flows

out of the Middle East, are back at or exceeding pre-war levels. Now, that just happened within the last couple of weeks. Those tankers are still making their way to port. They still have to get refined. So that is going to take a little bit of time to put downward pressure on those energy prices. But we'll be

frank. It is still. You can see it on the chart. It has gone up. So, well, to say, at least that's a middling promise, I would say. Let's be frank. But here's the truth. for the Iran war, inflation was at about 2.7, 2.8, which is a slightly above Trump 1.0 average of 1.9% inflation, but it's still very well within the ideal three point range that economists usually set. So let's give it. We're going to give him, uh, I would just say, we have to wait and see on that one. I would say no. He has not achieved affordability.

Affordability remains the number, but it's not, he also hasn't achieved the Biden bubble. So let's keep that in mind. So with a war that has gotten a huge amount of negative press, it's less than one half of Biden's insane inflation. We'll give him half a point. Here's what we'll say. Here's what we'll say. I do believe that there is relief in the future, but not right now. So we're going into midterms. I'll give them half a point. That's what I'll say. All righty. But then we move into number four, make America the dominant energy producer in the world by far, which is quite relevant to the gas prices point. So this is, obviously we've pointed out, Democrats can't talk to you about gas prices because they hate gasoline.

They hate drilling for oil. They hate refining it. They hate selling it. They hate you burning it in your cars. President Trump knows one of America's chief assets is the huge amount of energy in our country. And so as of 2025, the largest producer of oil in the world is not Saudi Arabia. It is not Russia. It is not Venezuela.

It's not Canada. It is the United States of America. The top producer of liquid natural gas in the world is the United States. and the most important one, the top exporter of energy in the world is the United States of America now. Not only that, but we have heavy mastery of Venezuela, another major energy exporter in the world. You look at that headline. US sets new LNG export records and banner year marked by new capacity. We've had Energy Secretary Chris right on this show a number of times. I think he is absolutely brilliant at his job.

He's doing a great, great service to the country and obviously bringing a tremendous. amount of new wealth into the country just on oil exports alone okay look at this oil and gas drilling permit surge 55% under trump the rise in bureau of land management approvals reflects the administration push to increase domestic fossil fuel production uh next headline trump massive oil gas mineral exploration set to begin in greenland now greenland is uh they disagree with this uh i have a feeling president trump's probably going to get let's just say 60% of what he asked for here so I would give that a pass. Trump administration updates.

U.S. reaches deal for control of 65 billion barrels of Venezuela's oil reserve. All of this, I'm going to give him an absolute one for one on this. Not a half point. Yeah, 100%. That's a full point. Huge one. All right. Number five, stop outsourcing and turn the United States into a manufacturing superpower.

So this is a huge one that he's made. It's been a priority both of his administrations. That's what's driving his tariff policy. He wants to send the message. You have to bring manufacturing back to America. Now, that is a very long-term process. You are not going to be a China-level superpower overnight. But there's a lot of promising signs of us getting that done.

So you can see that chart there. Factory construction. That is jobs in basically the construction of it's a non-residential specialty trade construction. So it's basically workers building factories, plants. Let's be frank. Data centers. We know those are controversial, but they're building those in the United States. Yeah, but look at that.

It continues to ramp up as the admin continues. Okay, so there has been something, you hear Trump talk about these numbers of $18 trillion in investment and all this stuff. Well, some of that is pledges. It hasn't materialized yet, but we know that there's been over $1.6 trillion a manufacturing investment already done. And look at those factory construction jobs soar. And some of the stuff that were most concerned. concerned about for manufacturing in America is stuff like the technologies we need for our military, the technologies we need for our tech sector, that high-end stuff that basically determines whether

America is a competitive superpower or an also-ran. Well, we've got, for example, Elon Musk, he's building the TerraFab chip factory in Austin, Texas. The cost of that might be up to $120 billion. Gigantic investment. These are the chips that power your phones, your cars, everything. These are the most advanced chips in the world. They're overwhelmingly made right now in Korea, Japan, Taiwan. We have to import them. It makes us hugely vulnerable to China because all of those nations are menaced by China. We should build those in the United States. We're also building them right here in Phoenix. We have that TSM plant. They have announced a $100 billion expansion of their investment. I just actually flew over this plant the other day. It's gigantic.

It's huge. And guess what? They're building a whole other one. The first one is enormous. And now they're doubling down on that, which is amazing. Look at 153. U.S. is building again, thanks to President Trump's reindustrialization agenda, real GDP. This is a function of real GDP when it comes to reindustrialization. See that? It's almost like who you have in the Oval Office really does matter. If you've ever skipped the doctor because you couldn't afford it, you need to hear this. Christian Healthcare Ministries is the Christian alternative to health insurance. In under 10 minutes, you can join and start saving hundreds of dollars every month. As a member, you have freedom to get the best care at an affordable price with programs starting

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ch ministries.org slash Charlie and use the promo code Charlie. Look at Blake is pulling out his best Carl Rowe. Yeah, we're making we're making the chart to see how good we're doing on the tally. We're at, I'd say a hard four out of five right now. We can debate the inflation one, but four out of five just absolute home runs on the promise list but we've got a lot to get through there's 20 of these yeah let's dive right in the number six which is a quick one large tax cuts for workers and no tax on tips well one big beautiful bill locked in the 2017 tax cuts the democrats hated so we give him credit for that and no tax on tips no tax on overtime uh no tax on social security which is really like a write-off they they had to do with that because of the reconciliation package but it counts

massive massive tax cuts across the board people report reporting way bigger returns on their taxes. Okay. So we give them a point for that. Number seven, defend our Constitution, our bill of rights and our fundamental freedoms, including freedom of speech, freedom, religion, and the right to keep and bear arms. Again, yes, he has done that. You know, if you want to go into details, I would say this is absolutely been. I just that's such a thing of just not being a Democrat. So we actually have we have constitutional carry across the United States. They're not trying to blow that up. They're not trying to engineer weird Obama ways to curtail gun rights. They're not coming up with weird

FBI investigations of Latin mass because they think they're extremists. Like that stuff, swept away. We're focusing on getting the actual bad guys. I think that's a very quick, yes. We're, look at, I mean, we go to 166. Trump signs order to end government censorship of social media. The 167, Trump announces task force to eradicate an end anti-Christian bias. gun rights Justice Department won't enforce registration rules on silencers

and certain guns after court ruling I mean on and on it goes gun rights The social media censorship is a huge one You weren't able to speak freely Five years ago They were censoring us on Twitter censoring us on YouTube Instagram

So much better now And so much of that is fear of the Trump administration Putting its thumb on the scale Against these companies And so by the way This face act thing. This is where, you know, if you go pray outside of an abortion clinic, they're going to throw you in prison.

Stop that. They stopped. They stopped doing that. They dropped three cases. Well, that's, we'll get to that actually in a few more. Yeah. Okay. All right.

We've got a tough one here. Number eight, prevent World War III, restore peace in Europe and in the Middle East, and build a great Iron Dome missile defense shield over the entire country, all made in America. Okay. All right. Golden Dome is happening. Golden Done is happening. But let's see.

be frank. He does say prevent World War III. Now what I will note is that is different from what a lot of people prefer to say where he said, like no war with Iran, no conflicts that, let's be frank. We were hoping for that. We were hoping for that. But he is not actually

saying just categorically, I will not launch strikes on anyone. He's clearly saying there's already conflict in the Middle East. He's fought very hard to get a ceasefire in Gaza. He fought quite hard. He met with Putin to try to get peace in Europe in the Ukraine. I think it's very much a case in Ukraine, for example, that President Trump, even though it's not a war, he probably would have started.

He did not want to inherit it and be the guy who caused Ukraine to lose and allowed Putin to win and defeat someone we sponsor. It's a very intractable problem. I mean, these guys hate each other, these countries hate each other. Putin doesn't want to lose. So he just keeps thrown men at the front lines. It's a really tough one to fix. But we can't give him credit for restoring peace in Europe. We can give him credit for restoring peace in the Middle East, the Gaza War.

Well, but then... I mean, it's touch and go. I mean, they say there's still like 1,800 people that have died post-ceasefire, but it's way better than the 60 or 70,000 of the time. It's way better than a lot of people wanted. A lot of people were trying to push him. I think they thought once he started striking Iran, they could get him to send 50,000 troops into Iran and invade Tehran.

And then we'd be talking many hundreds, thousands of U.S. troops dead. He didn't do that. He didn't fall for it. And I'm grateful for that. But I don't think. I don't think we can give them credit for this. Sorry. Sorry.

Number eight, no point. No promise kept. Number nine. End the weaponization of government against the American people. That's the face act. Yeah, that would be the face act. He stopped the new prosecutions. He actually gave pardons to a lot of the people who got insane sentences for that.

173. Trump pardons nearly all charged with January 6 U.S. Capitol Riot. They like to call that the interruption, but then they don't ever like to talk about their summer of Love and the BLM and by the way, how many of these crazed lunatics went and straight into these capitals at the state houses and all the stuff? Don't even worry about that. But those aren't an interaction. Anyway, the point is we, I think this is, right it or wrong.

And a new one just came out. Absolutely bon. They went absolutely bonkers over J6. It was the largest investigation ever. They were fanatical about raids on people who were clearly no threat. They were trying to get them in jail for years on end. President Trump said, nope, we're closing them. the book on this pardon just ended it look at this it was a total psychosis 174 major banks closed accounts

of maga pro life and other conservative groups disfavored by bidenadmin bombshell report that's a new one yep and he and we're exposing that now writing those wrongs and you know this was the spLC was feeding into this all these groups we're telling them whose accounts to close that's no longer happening i mean this stuff that we're living on is just so draconian we got we got to keep humming along though man there's so many of them point there yep stop the migrant crime demolish the foreign drug cartels, crush gang violence, and lock up violent offenders. All right. Gigantic wins here.

Yeah. New U.S. military-led group aided Mexico's hunt for El Mancho cartel boss. There you go. U.S. immigration raids target illegal immigrants in Aurora, Colorado. Lots of updates there recently, too. U.S. military kills 11 people and strike a ledge drug boat from Venezuela. They get the drug boats. By the way, fentanyl is dropping like a rock.

50% drop in fentanyl crossing. That's huge. That's huge. Do you have any idea how many American lives have been saved by that? throw up this one, though. Let's throw up 179. 2025 was the biggest drop in violent crime in the United States in 90 years. That fall, preliminary numbers suggested as continued in 26. Yes, it's continued.

So literally, literally, America has the lowest homicide rate right now that it has had in your lifetime. Categorically, lower than the 1950s, lower than the early 2000s, lower than the Obama years, the lowest. It is the lowest that it has been measured at. Massive drop. I think a lot of it is a lot of that psychological that crime went up everywhere during Floyd a pluiz, not even just in the places where riots happened. It went up everywhere. There's clearly a psychological component to these things. And President Trump brought a change in psychology. That crime is something you fight and punish. I love it. We give them a point there. What are we at? What's our

points? What are we at? Oh, we're at eight out of ten. Eight out of ten. Let's go to 11. Rebuild our cities, including Washington, D.C., making them safe, clean and beautiful. And those two kind of play off each other. But look at this. DC went three weeks in 2026 without a homicide as violent crime drops. This is the real thing. The psychological thing. He sent the National Guard into D.C.

I think they're still there. And are they really making a ton of arrests? No. Actually, like most of the time, they're just kind of standing around. And yet, the psychological effect is huge. It changed how people behave. It gave a little more leeway for the police to go to the real dangerous parts of D.C. And force laws.

And, bam. You know, it's annoying. You know, it's annoying. You know, it's annoying now. Because of this. If I was, so I'm just imagining myself on the set of News Nation again. And they would be like, well, how about that reflecting pool? Okay. You get mad at a reflecting pool that had, you know, at least they tried. I didn't even try to fix it. It was, it was just gross and disgusting. And they've cleaned up so many other things. But listen, if you're going to quibble over a reflecting pool and not deal with the fact that crime is at a 90 year low, go pounce in. I think a funny part also, by the way, is another city that's improved a lot. Did you know? San Francisco. Memphis has improved a lot. A lot of these cities, Memphis, a lot of these cities, they just, we have an administration that won't say you're racist and evil for cleaning up homeless camps. The promise is stop the migrant crime epidemic. And guess what? They went into these cities with ice, cleaned out a lot of the bad hombres and boom. Crime went down.

We gave them a point on that. One hundred percent. And rebuild the cities. Okay. All right. And then strengthen and modernize our military making it without question the strongest and most powerful in the world. That is number 12. One of those manufacturing things we didn't get to was the Anderil. Anderil, multi-billion dollar investment into shipbuilding in the United States. Which is a big pet peeve of Blake Nest. Massive one. We used to be the big ship builder. We used to be able to build a ship in a day. We built ships faster than the Germans could sink them in World War II. There it is. We've totally lost a lot of that over time due to deindustrialization. We need to be able to make subs, make carriers, make warships.

These are going to be the apex predator submarines in the oceans. And that Anderil is I mean, this, if you could, I just recommend somebody go watch, if you're out there in the audience, go watch the hype videos for these things. It gave me, I literally put it in our group chat. It's so great. And on top of that, and they're a major drone company. This administration has really leaned into that the future is going to have, it's going to be a lot of unmanned drones. It's going to be lots of artificial intelligence. They're very forward about we need to get into the most advanced technology or we are going to lose an edge to China. They're not afraid of that. And I think that's something. And by the way, look at strongest military in the world. Look at our recruiting numbers. Recruiting numbers. Recruing numbers are through the roof, no trannies. I mean, we're back, baby. And higher numbers means you don't need to cut standards and let in a bunch of, like, you know, fat people and dumb people.

You just got better people. All right. Keep the U.S. dollar, the world's reserve currency. This is just a brand new headline, 183. Trump repeats tariff threats to dissuade bricks nations from replacing the dollar. I love that. So he is fighting like crazy on this front. Joe Biden just let it all happen.

I can't give him a full point in my opinion for this one. I would give him a 0.5. 0.5. Because he is actually fighting on this front. He's using leverage, but there's still a lot of pressure on the dollar because we spend too much. Yeah, we do.

But it's still, it is 58% of foreign reserve currency. It is still the reserve currency. What's our number at? Well, we're basically at, we have two full nose, I would say, and then a half on the, We're a 10.5 out of 13. 10.5 out of 13. Not bad. All right. So number 14, fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts,

including no changes to the retirement age. Promise kept. Didn't happen. But let's shout out, Trump RX, cut prices on some. First time prescription drug prices have fallen in your lifetimes. So they're down, I think, overall 6%. But some categories are not. One of the big was on that was a Zempec, by the way, America's obesity rate is down about 10%. So he didn't even keep that. a promise he's made. Trump is

fixing obesity, sort of. Thank you, Ozonec. The fat shot. Okay. 15. Cancel the electric vehicle mandate and cut costly and burdensome regulations. Yep. Trump revokes Biden's 50% EV target freezes unspent, charging funds. So, yeah, he's doing that.

184. Trump signs measures blocking California's ban on new sales of gas powered cars. Okay. Promise made, promise kept. Cut federal funding for any school pushing critical race theory, radical gender ideology, and other inappropriate racial, sexual, or political content on our children. This is number 16. That was like a day one executive order,

I think. That's one that Charlie really wanted. Yeah, so 187. Trump administration gives schools a deadline to NDI programs for risk losing federal money. Now, I would give this a work in progress on some because they have changed their name. So they drop DEI as the name, and then they call it like hope and opportunity or whatever.

And so this is an ongoing struggle. We know Harmeet Dillon. She's actually like looking into this. Like, this is like, and a cockroach infestation in your house. It's like you've really got to dig it out. Like they are fighting tooth and nail. But they've also, I mean, they sued Columbia and they got a settlement out of them for their anti-white discrimination. I think they sued Brown.

They froze funding for Cornell Northwestern University and the latest crackdown. You know, headline after headline, you know, PBS, NBC. Yeah, exactly. So, okay. They repealed the affirmative action order in the federal government. though because they're actually on it and Harmeet's on it. They're delivering. Yeah, they're delivering.

Number 17, keep men out of women's sports. Nice and simple. Well, he's signed an executive order really, really quickly. One 91. Trump signs executive order banning trans women from women's sports. This was a pretty like widespread effort that is ongoing. And obviously, states control some of this. So you can't just, you know, you can't just.

What he has done that the Biden administration fought against is he's certainly made it. So every red state that wants to ban this has been able to. And we're fighting to make that the case in blue states as well. But red states, your sports are safe. Yeah. And I think some people get frustrated because blue states still have some authority over their own governments. And that's our system. So you have to sort of say, hey, did he do what he could do?

Yes. Okay. I say promise made, promise kept. Number 18, deport pro-Hamas radicals and make our college campuses safe and patriotic again. Remember this was a huge issue during the campaign. and U.S. has revoked hundreds of visas over links to pro-Palestinian protests, says Rubio. By the way, we go back to that other graph on the first promise, stop the invasion. And if you look at that one graph, it shows student visas have fallen off like a rock.

Not that one. It's the, I forget what number it was. But student visas have fallen like a rock. And by the way, this is great. You want to know why this is also great? Because a lot of these universities are terrible. They're sub tier. They're like mid, right?

Or they're the bottom tier. And they're still propped up by foreign visa holders. These students that are paying full freight. You drop those. Those universities and colleges are either going to get better and innovate and come up with something new or they're going to go broke. And that's okay. All right. Yeah.

We've had trouble. We want to get rid of the Mahmood Khalil guy, the guy who's been like a student at Columbia for like 17 years. Obviously some sort of Intel asset, it seems as well. They've struggled. So we've had court. obstacles to this, but they've been 100% saying, if you're an insane anti-American radical, you don't belong here. Oh, we should remember on the Charlie anniversary, they were asking, like, if you see people celebrating Charlie's murder, let us know. Yep. And we were passing those

names up. I know they were actually monitoring that. I think one of my favorites was, I heard, I think one of our allied countries was even like sending people in their country that were like celebrating this so we would be aware of it. So number 19. So I give them a point on that. What are we at now? We are at like, I don't know, we're on number 19 and two have been negative and we have a half. All right. So we're at 16 and a half points. Secure our elections, including same day voting, voter identification, paper ballots and proof of citizenship. Nope.

Sadly, nope. That's on our Republican Congress. But Trump push like hell for it. I mean, how many times you see him. This is not a promise broken by Trump. This is a promise failed to keep by your glorious Republicans in the U.S. Senate. Yep. They didn't want to abolish the filibuster to get this done.

they didn't want to take Mike Lee up on it. They fought Mike Lee tooth and nail. We tried, but we can't, we can't claim that it happened because you need Congress to do it. So, sadly, we can't claim number 19. Although the USPS, I think is still going, it's still being fought in the courts where they're trying to look at voter rolls and cross-references against different databases. President Trump is doing everything he can do, but. Yeah. So I give him credit for, it's not like he hasn't tried like heck. He's been on it, like nobody else. It just hasn't happened. Number 20, unite our country by bringing it to new and record levels of success. Well, I will tell you, we are not united, but we have been

brought in many ways to record levels of success and many, many good progress points of happening. And I will just say, number one, seal the border and stop the migrant invasion and number two, carry out the largest deportation operation in America. Those two alone have united a lot of us, the fact that this is actually happening. And let's go back to the original tweet from that producer Blake over at John Dole Show, where he says, says, you know, they get real, people, the critics get real quiet. If you look at the list and you realize that he says, only like three of them haven't come to fruition. And so, like, let's look at this. So we've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve,

thirteen, fourteen, fifteen, fifteen, are just categorically, in my opinion. Yes, they got it done. We've got the U.S. dollars, like, it's still the reserve currency and it's like, influx. I would say he kept it the reserve currency. I would actually say, I would give him a point on that because because there has been way less news on that and way less downward pressure. Yeah. And so that's 16. And then number 20, that's like a vibes thing. It's not even really an explicit promise. It's basically just saying we're going to win and make America great again. His approval rating is in the toilet right now, sadly. So I'm going to, I'm not going to get okay. That's fair. And then so of those, we have basically inflation. We were frank about that.

Gas price is not good. Warren Iran has had upward pressure on prices. Restore peace. We weren't able to do that. He tried very hard with Ukraine, for example, but it didn't happen. And then secure elections, Republicans dropped the ball on that. Well, let's play SOT 11. I always do what I say. If you look back, promises made, promises kept, right? Other wins. And I would say, listen, he is a man of his word in that way.

He fight like, even the ones we didn't give him credit for, he fought like hell to end the Russia of Ukraine. Remember he met with Trump up in, or Putin, Putin up in Alaska, ongoing peace efforts everywhere. and, you know, fought like hell on securing the elections. So I give him a lot of credit on all these things. But look at this. Basically, 16 out of 20. 16 out of 20. No one, I'd say no politician actually is so emphatic about keeping their promises explicitly like Donald Trump is.

Other wins, just really quick. 70 million Trump accounts have been started. Funded by Dell and other philanthropists, philanthropists. US federal workforce drops to lowest level in 60 years. US aid cut. All these. dismantled completely. Snap has been declining, like massive and massive, massive numbers. So there are a number of different wins. We have to, we have to just be honest, not copium or hopium. Trump has

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on the list. And then if you just took the three, you could just take three of the huge wins that were not actually promised. Trump accounts weren't even a promise, but bam. Yeah, exactly. Well, so here's the thing. Send us your emails. They're already flooding in, but, you know, did we miss anything? Did you disagree with any of our verdicts? We gave them 17 out of 20. And

mind you, some of the ones that he didn't get are big, like the Middle East peace, the affordability. Those are basically two drivers of this election in many ways. But then the next question becomes, could the Democrats do any better? It was interesting. Steve Cortez came out with a poll. He pulled Arizona. And he admits, he said, hey, the Hispanic specifically, the affordability thing, that's a huge driver. But then when asked, would Democrats do it any better?

Would Kamala Harris have been better? she gets even worse numbers than President Trump. Are blue states more affordable than red ones? You tell us. Yeah. So even if we gave him not a point on something, if we didn't give him a point, you still got to ask yourself, would we be in a better place without it? Right.

So I think there's a lot there. We have one team member, by the way. I'm not going to name. But I went out there and said to me, that was really helpful. That actually helped me not be frustrated with some of the stuff, right? Yeah. It's interesting. It's tremendous.

We have young people on our team, and they are reflective of young people all across the country. So many people want to demoralize you, and they'll demoralize you by basically telling you lies. Yep. And it's so useful to just be able to say, this is what the Trump campaign promised you in 2024. This is how it turned out. And there was no copium there. We just went straight through it. And when he didn't deserve a point, we didn't give him one, okay?

Speaking of young people, I'm very excited about this. We have Jules Devine, and I might be misprime. pronouncing that, Jules. I apologize. I know Jules. And then Preston Parsons. Jules is from Colorado State. He's the university president there of our chapter there. And Preston is our Texas tech president. And this all happened in top secret, which is pretty funny for turning point. People out there are like, why are these two young, strapping young lads on our show today? Well, because we just did our first men's summit ever. And these two gentlemen were there. And nobody has probably heard about this, except for the fact that Erica announced it.

CLS that we were going to be doing it. Because men like secret things. Yeah, we didn't want to, we didn't want to like blast these guys out all over social media and do the normal thing. We wanted them to have time to be like alone and actually be able to express themselves. Talk freely. And we were secretive. There was no speaker drop.

There was no, it was basically sign up. We'll do something cool. Yep. And I don't even know what they did actually. All right, Jules and Preston, welcome to the show. It's good to see you guys. Why don't because nobody knows what the heck happened at this thing because it was all secretive not in like a weird way but just like we

wanted to give you guys some space to just have a good time tell us what happened at the first ever men's summit for turning point USA oh yeah thank you guys for having us on the show uh for most of the part other than waiting for the buses at the airport for a while and be able to see a good l a protest like we all dream of doing it was really good to just be able to bond with a ton of other guys that are in turning point uh i know we did a lot of sports i know there was axe throwing paintball football and just really be able to connect with the speakers one of the one of my favorite things was being able to connect all the speakers stayed for a whole day so we were able to have conversations with them i know brayden tatum he debated students for about four hours on theology and i know mark

rover talked to a ton of students about how to get girls and stuff so it was really cool just connect with speakers just one-on-one instead of just hearing them speak to us we actually got to have personalized conversations with them of course while bonding as brothers if that even means staying up till two in the morning playing gaga ball or eating s'mores or something oh that's awesome Preston I got to dive in jules by the way on the how to get girls thing you just dropped but okay Preston your your turn hey guys thanks for having us on it's always good to visit with you it was an incredible experience you know this country was built on the backs of 20 to 30 year old young patriotic men and to be around dozens of them up in the mountains in California excluded and getting the crack jokes at the soy

boys down in the valley who are completely jealous of our masculinity and the things that we love to do, sitting around a campfire, playing paintball, playing two-touch football. And that was something that I know me and Jules talked about, we reflected on. And Brandon Taney brought it up as well. Charlie would have loved to be there with us up in the mountains,

playing football, tossing the rock, all that good stuff. It was an incredible event, so many good speakers getting to connect with them one-on-one. My personal favorite was Dante Ramirez. He came and taught us a brisket master class. And other than when Toby Keith's, courtesy of the red white and blue came on i don't think we cheered louder and we when we found the secrets to become real pit masters so it was an incredible event getting to be up in the mountains

what an awesome experience nobody puts on events like tpusa oh that's awesome you know this uh this reminds you of kind of like nick friedis's book like his his was like a guide guide for masculinity oh yeah yeah yeah he has like he has like he has like he teaches men how to kick down doors like if you ever need. So it's like actual, so there's a mix of, we should have that at a men's summit. We should have them teach how to kick down a door. So, so it sounds like it was a mix of very practical things, like how to grill, but also you got to kind of have deeper questions and ask, what does it mean to be a man? What does it mean to grow up? What happens after college? What, what's the next steps? How to get a woman?

So, Jules, we have to get into this because I, you know, I want to make sure, you know, Daily Beast doesn't run with this or something. What, what was that conversation like? Well, so I talked to Mark just personally for two hours without anyone else around and not how to get a woman. I have a girlfriend, but just picking his mind about like how to handle being an influencer and how to go into this space. But for many of the men there, I think about 25% of them were in relationships. And he did talk about a lot about relationship advice, mistakes that he used to make in his past when maybe procrastinating a conversation with his girlfriend or anything. And didn't really touch on how to get a woman. but I know afterwards I heard some conversations about some guys asking what can I do to better myself to make myself more attractive so a woman will come to me or so when I ask women out, they will actually say yes instead of just turning me down or just giving me the same one answer. Oh, I just like you as a friend.

Yeah. Well, it's funny. I think that's, okay, if I was a hater, I would potentially be tempted to mock this particular thing. But it's so important because I've met so many turning point students. And the dating scene is just crazy hard, right? If you go and ask a girl last, out and she says no she doesn't like you you're liable to find that on social media in about 15 minutes and then you get like shamed by the wider community and it's a huge huge problem and then so so many there aren't asking women out and then women complain hey none of the men have any any spunk anymore they got no like they got no courage to come ask me out so the dynamic is fraught and actually we were it requires older men to come alongside younger men and say here's what you could do basic things to, exactly, to encourage the right type of interactions with the opposite sex. I mean, Preston, that's a big issue, right? I'm not this. I've heard this repeatedly from young men.

This is a huge issue, and you guys know this better than I do. No subgroup in American culture is more victimized than young men. The soy boys down in the valley, whenever they encounter any sort of problem, we're blamed for. Somehow, every single issue falls on young men, specifically young Christian men. So getting to go to this event and get poured into by these mentors, by these great men helps us build upon what it is to be a good, good man. One of the best messages that we got was from Dennis Prager. Of course, Dennis sadly is dealing with some health problems right now, so we couldn't join us in person. But he did join us via video call, and he gave us a full spiel about what it is to be a man, what it is to be a man and live a Christian lifestyle. And that was one of the

best things that we got from the summit was to be poured into and build this network, this brotherhood across the entire country to know that we are not alone in this fight and that we're not the only ones dealing with these issues. Like you said, the dating scene is, yes. Yeah, there was hundreds of, but I've seen some of the pictures. We don't publicize it, but I saw it was hundreds of you guys. I mean, it was a big crew up at this kind of like camp retreat site in the mountains outside of Los Angeles. It was just, it looked tremendous. and I could tell you guys were bonding. And that's what happens at these kind of,

and to hear about the fact that you had hours and hours of conversation time. Like we actually made space for just hanging out and communicating. And that's when you actually, and I had the same experience when I took my kids camping a couple weeks back. It's not that people don't want to do these kinds of things. It's making the time and dedicating the time to it is the real challenge. And so we put it on the calendar. that's the first struggle

put it on the calendar dedicate the time and then magic happens gentlemen did you get any good sleep at this thing that's always a question that's really interesting I mean because you guys are staying up way too yeah it's okay were you in tents or cabins

no these are cabins we were in cabins but the pillows had like two feathers in them at most you laid your head down and you just went so the backstory the backstory on the men's retreat is Charlie wanted to always he always wanted to have this like deprive him of

sleep deprive them of calories just like you know so so that's perfectly fitting with charlie's vision of this and it was something charlie always wanted to do it was just we always had a billion things going on and erika just made up her mind she said we've got to make sure the men i mean i think erika she's a woman obviously she knows the men need a little extra tension uh so that was that was always we had the women summit and i remember when she announced it at cLS the crowd just went wild the dudes were standing up the women were sitting down they're like i don't get it and the dudes are all standing up clapping this like elongated cheer um so we we have axe throwing paintball uh we had football grilling uh game i guess would be you know do you have game do you not have game how do you get game

uh so these are some of the topics but talk about the time amongst the the dudes and there was people from all over the country right i mean this was i mean you were meeting guys from all over the country probably building friendships for the future tell us any of those kind of stories just meet new people. How important is that? It's so important. It's crucial to have that network, that brotherhood that spans across the entire country, and to know that you're not alone in this fight. I mean, I was interacting with students from Montana, Oregon, students at Ole Miss, Middle Tennessee, students from all walks of life, New York even. So getting to come together in one of the craziest things that happened at this men's summit were the spontaneous Bible studies,

where the spontaneous prayer circles, guys getting together pouring into each other from all different walks of life and finding some commonality, whether that's in our Christian faith, whether that's in our conservative values, and whether that's our personal backgrounds and things that have nothing to do with our politics or what we do with our turning point chapters. So getting to interact with the guys was by far the best part of the entire summit because we have to have that network to know that we aren't alone in this fight. Let's go ahead. I brought it up. The team pulled it. Very, very cool. this is when Erica announced the men's conference at CLS SOT 20. And so this next program has been something that I am making sure honors my husband and provides all of you a way to be well equipped to be that man in your own community and your sphere of influence.

So I'm proud to announce that this fall and this summer we will be having our men's leadership summit. And by the way, the applause just continued on for like a long time. It surprised me, Jules, because I didn't realize just how much hunger and need that the young men felt in this way. Probably a little jealous that there was a women's leadership summit and they wanted one for themselves. but explain that why why was why is there this felt need that that men need attention in in particular yeah well men thrive on brotherhood and bonding i forget which biovers exactly it is but says iron sharpens iron as one man sharpens another and when you're able to connect with other men that are trying to lead chapters and lead a movement on their campus when

they're an outcast you need to have brothers that are going to fight right with you and hold you accountable to anything that you're doing in life. I mean, I'm in probably six different group chats with so many different guys in the group chats, and we're holding each other accountable. We're bouncing ideas off each other. And I know when I started talking to them, they started picking my mind pretty fast once they figured out I was doing pick with the mics for you guys. They pretty much instantly start talking, picking my mind.

How did you get to this? How's your chapter doing? Oh, what things are you putting your chapter in? It's a great way to bounce ideas off of to make turning point chapters better when you're able to communicate with other men and actually sharpen each other. sharpen each other's mind, tell them what's working for you, telling them what's working for others. And obviously, having debates among turning point, I mean, we're not an echo chamber.

There's a lot of things that we disagreed on. And that was one of the fun parts about Brande Tatum is he had a lot of theology that so many people disagreed on that he debated people for about four hours long. And even throughout different conversations, it was constantly either debates or conversations about one topic or the other topic, which really just set up of who is right, who is wrong, or what's the middle ground that we can find and we can just, degree on that we're still in the same mission, same fight, even though we might have small disagreements. That's really cool. I think that's more important than people probably realize

that when you realize the boundary lines of certain debates, then you kind of know all the different aspects of it. You're getting better for those tabling events on campus, and really just feeling secure in your own convictions, too. All right, gentlemen. So the verdict, would you recommend other young men go on this journey? Because we're going to keep doing these things. Would you recommend it? Did you vouch for it? I don't know the answer. Preston you first. No doubt. 110%. And this goes for any turning point conference, but especially for the young men who may be listening to this or will see the clips after, you have to attend the men's summit. Me and Jules, of course, were very fortunate. They were extremely selective about who they led into this because they wanted to keep it secret. But great group of guys, great speakers, great event, great venue. No doubt, if you get the opportunity to come to the men's summit, you have to. You. Jules, five seconds? I agree. If you can get to the Men's Summit, do it right away. Apply and do it. Go there. Awesome. Jules. Preston. Thank you guys. God bless you so much. We'll see you soon.

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Parents need choices. And the tools are there now. And the tools are there now. And we we want more and more people to understand this because, and it was part of the big beautiful bill. So you don't have to live in Arizona for this to work. So Norton, explain everything, the backstory here. And it just started in October this year. So we're just living in the very first opportunity here. Andrew Blake, thanks so much for having me on your show once again. I'm a huge fan of yours. And everything you stand for, the principals of Charlie Kirk in your show,

thank God for you and making sure we advance freedom in America. And thank God for advancing education, freedom in America. I'm actually in one of our partner schools, Valor Christian High School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado. This is our beautiful podcast studio. and ironically, the founder of this school was also a founder of ACE Scholarships 26 years ago, the great Ed McVaney. And I loved Ed McVaney because he talks so often about Milton Friedman, who was one of his heroes.

He loved him because he believed in free markets and capitalism. And in particular, Milton Friedman loved education reform and school choice. Because he knew something, and that is when you empower parents and you let them choose the education environment that's right for their child, great things happen. And 26 years ago, when we launched our program, we knew that by providing scholarships to lower-income parents, we were given them finally a choice to put their kid in the school they wanted,

and we've seen the most remarkable results in 26 years. 99% of our kids graduate. They go to college, the trades, the military, but more importantly, they're flourishing. They love America, and they're good kids who are smiling, they're optimistic, and they're prepared to succeed in life. And that's really what we set to do at ACE Scholarships.

And so to your point about this remarkable opportunity we have in our country, last year in the big beautiful bill, President Trump signed the Education Freedom Tax Credit. It is going to transform education in America beginning in 2027 because it enables every American taxpayer to give a federal tax credit donation to qualify programs like ACE Scholarships. It is incredible. you're so excited. Yeah. So this is, there's a lot here because I think, I think there's, part of it is just complicated for people to understand how it works and how ACE can make it all possible. But according to your website, it says beginning October 2026, taxpayers can commit to claim

their federal tax credit for the 2027 year. A. Scholarships brings more than 25 years of proven experience to help turn EFTC, which is the Educate and Freedom Tax Credit. Yeah, word of It helps turn that EFTC contributions into life-changing impacts for students. So you can get up to $1,700 in federal tax credits per taxpayer or $3,400 for married couples filing jointly. So for listening out there, maybe you're a grandparent and you don't have any kids in school, but you've got grandkids in school. And they're going to Christian school or they're going to a classical school. How can they take advantage of this and how are you guys connecting to us? because that's the part. People don't know how to do this, but Ace, that's why I wanted you on, Norton,

because you guys are making this really obvious and easy for people. Well, the first thing it's important for people now is a tax credit is different than a tax deduction. A deduction is a normal contribution you make, and of course, when you file your taxes, you receive a deduction. A credit is so much better. It is a redirection of your taxes, which you would have sent to Uncle Sam and Washington. You now have the ability to send it up to $3,400 to a program like Ace, to support students who go to private school, home school, and even students who need additional support in public schools. So it's a remarkable program. And what we're doing at ACE Scholarships is we're gearing up for this program.

As you mentioned, you can go to our website right now, and you can commit your $3,400, and in January, we'll reach out to you, and you make that contribution. And with the money we're raising, we truly have the ability to transform education in all 50 states in America. we believe that we can raise billions of dollars. And with the billions of dollars we're raising, that means that we can serve potentially millions of children in our country. That means kids right now who are being left behind. You know, we have a crisis in our country. Our kids can't read.

They can't write. America ranks anywhere from 15th to 35th in Educatious. We're letting our kids down on the American dream because they're not being educated. This tax credit will fundamentally change education in America, and we celebrate that. So we encourage every person right now to go to our website and learn more about this program and commit your dollars because it's the biggest no-brainer of all time as you redirect your taxes to help kids go to great schools.

So this is amazing. So if I, me and my wife, if we go to this website right now, educationfredom.org, you will help me basically put $3,400 in because we're a married couple filing jointly. So I get to put $3,400 in, even if I don't have anybody. that I know that needs it, you'll make sure somebody gets it that needs it, right? And then I then pay $3,400 less than my taxes. That's exactly right. I'm not losing any money by sending it to you. I'm just making sure that you give it to somebody that needs it. So some kids, it's something my dad would love who he will give money to basically anything if it means the government is not getting. I'm not kidding.

I love this. So you, you get $3,400. You pay $3,400 less than taxes. And I know that. you because I know you Norton personally you're a good man you're a good Christian man and you care about kids you care about students and you're going to make sure that people can then get that money and get a scholarship to go to a Christian school or classical education school get them out of the public school system it's as simple as that and the law only allows us to have 10% toward overhead so 90% plus of your money will go toward helping kids go to great schools I also too want to give a shout out to turning point education because that was a major initiative for Charlie Kirk. And under the leadership of Hutz-Hertsburg right now, you are growing the

schools in America, and you're also supporting other private schools in America that are classically educated. So a lot of the money that you're giving will go to schools like Turning Point Education. It's going to go to classical Christian schools. It's going to go to private schools in America and even homeschool families right now that are desperate to educate their kids. They just can't afford it. That's where we come in. The money you give supports kids, you're improving education, and you're making America a better place. So you've delivered over 121,000 scholarships over 26 years at ACE, and I can only imagine you're about to explode even more because of this new tax credit

through the big, beautiful bill. Guys, I'll just lay out the stakes. The federal government and the left, they want you to send your kids to public schools where they can indoctrinate them. It's as simple as that. And guess what? Those teachers then have to pay dues into teachers' unions. that work as Democrat super PACs for people like Bernie Sanders and Gavin Newsom and all these

crazies. Okay. This is a racket. We talk about fix everything switches. That would be immigration. These are mine, not yours, Norton, but immigration, feminism. And I'm telling you, education, public school education. These are three things that the left is controlled and we have to seize power back if we want

to save the future of the country. The big beautiful bill and people like Norton here at ACE are critically important junctures in this road, spokes in that wheel, because Ace is making it possible for you to just send your money, instead of sending it to Uncle Sam, you don't have to send it there. It gets to empower kids wherever they are, and you're working in inner cities,

right, Norton, you're working in rural, you're working in suburban, you're everywhere. It doesn't matter the color, race, creed of these kids, you're going to make sure that they get the opportunities to get out of the public school indoctrination mill. Am I saying it right? You nailed it. We believe that all boats will rise when you let

parents choose the school that's right for them. And the fact is right now we have a two-tier system. We have the halves and they have knots. We have those with the resources to put their kids in great schools. They would never compromise their child's education. But for those who can't afford it, often they're stuck in a zip coat and they're not provided the education they deserve. And we believe that every American child should be educated and that they should live

out their God-given talents. And that really does begin with the education. But we also know that parents in our country are incredibly frustrated. We learned this during COVID. We saw that parents when their kids were being shut out of school and they were shut down, they lost so much academically over a couple years and they've never been able to recover. And that's where we come in is making sure that parents can put their kids in the school that's right for them. That's the American way.

And that's what we set to do at age scholarships. Norton, I just have a technical question. So if I donate $3,400 bucks, can I then direct it to the child I want? or can I also put it into like a general fund and I'll let Ace do what you do kind of thing? Can I do it both ways? You can't direct it to a child, but you can direct it to a school, an institution, and we'll make sure that we send the money where you want to go. Great.

The law also has a provision. The money must be directed to a state that you reside in. And then you can also direct it to a school, which we're happy to do for any donor who commits. So, yeah, that's fantastic. I mean, Charlie loved you, Norton. He loved this program. You do work with Turning Point, but you're not like a sponsor. I'm not bringing you on because we're getting paid to do this.

I'm doing this because it's so critically important that we change the way we do education in this country and more and more families get to take advantage of something that was hugely undervalued in this big, beautiful bill. I mean, we talk about no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and all this stuff. School freedom of choice. This is huge, huge. Norton, one more time on the URL where people. can go. Educationfreedom.org. Thank you so much for your support. I love Charlie. He was a huge supporter. And I appreciate everything you're doing to grow this program because America needs it.

It will transform our country. It will. It will transform it. Freedom of choice when it comes to schooling is so critically important. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Norton Rainey, CEO of Ace Scholarships. Okay, so we did our whole list. Trump got a 17 out of 20 on promises made, promises kept. Which we wanted to do that because, again, it really helps to remind people, this is what Trump was campaigning on. This is not what surrogates were saying, not what other people were projecting onto him. This is what President Trump ran saying he would do. This came up at News Nation because they were like, Stephen A. Smith looked at me and he was like, he was like, well, Trump ran on Epstein. And I was like, listen, I don't want Epstein stuff released as much the next guy.

And by the way, I also want prosecutions as much the next guy. Okay, if you, if you hurt a little girl, I want you in prison forever. I would support the capital punishment. Okay, I want all that stuff. The truth, though, is he was asked about it twice on the campaign trail and he said I'd be inclined to. And by the way, and I called this out. I was sitting next to a Democrat congresswoman who was like wearing a survivor bracelet and all this stuff. I was like, yeah, did you talk about it at all during, you know, Biden's years?

No. Okay, so it's just a political football for these people. And they lie endlessly. They say, they love to imply that like Trump does this because he's like in the upstream. files that I mean you go online people will just say Trump is a confirmed pedophile well no no there's no evidence of that listen do I love the way it was handled no

I'm honest about it but at the same time it's also dishonest to say that this was one of his 20 promises or that he like stumped on it in the campaign trail no he was asked twice about it he ran on these 20 things he ran on these 20 things and he's done a stupendous job

delivering on them and even where he hasn't you can see the attempt like on reforming elections the same American He needs Congress and Congress let him down, as an example. And he also, you know, Putin let him down. Exactly. Putin let him down. Congress let him down. Anyway, so we want to read some of your emails.

Jan says, great list. The administration should be compiling this for a comm strategy. It's great that you have done it, but they should be doing it. Fair enough. I wouldn't object. You guys should, the administration absolutely should be 100%. We're going to get it out. We got another one.

The name was cut off from it, but they said, great job on the presentation of promises made and kept. You guys nailed it. I hope it is available on your web to recapture. Yeah, we're going to put it on all the social medias to really drive that point home. Another one says, can Blake or someone get what Trump has accomplished into a graphic so we can share before the election? Again, I think a lot of people are seen. This is a really good way to just efficiently present the wins that President Trump promised and immediately delivered on.

There was a few skeptical ones that I want to respond to a bit. Michelle says, I love Trump, and I believe he's achieved a lot of important things, but he has fallen short. He has let Maha down on several fronts. They claim that he didn't restrict roundup. They're complaining about vaccines. I would say a few things. First of all, it's not a core part of his promises, but he actually did deliver a lot of ways. He faced a ton of opposition to making RFK Jr. HHS secretary. And he pushed through. He said that was a promise that I made. people said you should just break that promise who cares and no he kept that promise that he was going to put rfk into his cabinet as an example uh the the recommended vaccine schedule from the federal government that was revised this email says that and the pediatric academy still has their old writ list but we don't control the pediatric academy we do control the CDC yep and they've modified that and he's modified uh the the dyes that are going into foods so yeah there are real wins on that if that's what you care about like Alex on our team. She's frustrated about some of the glyphosate stuff. She's frustrated about

we just talked about ranchers bringing in foreign beef and things like that to bring prices down a little bit. Listen, it's not a direct line from here to there. Directionally, we are very much on the right track. And the vaccine schedule has been revised, things we can control. But there is a ton of institutionalized power that's blocking a lot of this stuff. There's court cases, legal cases. And so directionally, and RFK will say this. Am I 100% happy with everything? No, but he's directionally happy and he understands that this thing can be phased

in. I don't want to sound like I'm dismissive. So I'll pick an issue that's very near and dear to my and Andrew's heart, like the pro-life issue. We know President Trump is not as pro-life as us. In that list of 20, he's not making any big promises about abortion. But are we getting wins on that? Like, you know, pardoning the

pro-life protesters, just not doing lawfare against them? Is he being friendly towards the pro-life movement? Absolutely. Are we getting wins we wouldn't get otherwise 100%. And I think that's how you should look at it with Maha. It's not on that list of core promises that Trump made a central part of his plank, but he welcomed Maha into his coalition. He said, you will get wins with me. And you have gotten wins with him. You've gotten wins that would have never in a million years happened in a Kamala administration. And I think that's the healthiest way to look at that.

Yep. Any other emails that you want to highlight here? It's okay if not. Someone says they're upset that he hasn't put Obama, Hillary, and all the other traitors in jail. They're disappointed. You got to understand. Trump knows that when he's out of office, assuming he lives many years afterwards, they're going to come after him and try and throw him in prison.

So you've got to understand that from his perspective, it would be probably unwise on some level. But listen, Fauci needs to be in prison. That's for darn true. Yeah, that would be good. He should rot in prison. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.