The Charlie Kirk Show - You're On Trump Time Now

Episode Date: May 12, 2025

Everything with Trump always happens at a fast pace, but this weekend was remarkable even for that. Charlie discusses the blizzard of events over the weekend, from a tariff breakthrough with China to ICE arresting the mayor of Newark to the sudden Trump-brokered ceasefire between India and Pakistan. Sen. Rick Scott joins to discuss. Watch 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.

Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio. You're on Trump time right now. President Trump ends the Indian-Pakistani war that could have been a nuclear issue. We also are seeing hopefully the end of the Russian-Ukrainian war, American hostage release, and more. The wins are across the board. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com, and subscribe to the Charlie Kirk Show podcast.

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Roosevelt famously said, it's the man in the arena that counts. And President Trump is proving the contrast between a administrative state managed president that moves slow and is bureaucratic and is subservient to the expert class like we saw under Joe Biden and a president that has agility, vim, vigor, tenacity, focus, and yes, stamina. We are seeing a massive change in the geopolitical order for the better. And let's recap. One of the major news stories over the weekend, and the media was trying to build a problem, but of course they don't give President Trump any credit for the solution. Of course, we covered this briefly last week,

and that is in a part of the world that most Americans could not pinpoint on a map, there very well could have been, low likelihood, but could have been a nuclear war. Two nuclear powers were getting closer and closer to a very bloody war after hundreds and hundreds of years, nearly thousands of years, of pent-up conflict between the two nations, India and Pakistan. India and Pakistan were barreling towards a war. The media was talking all about it.

They were saying, hey, this could be a nuclear war. We could have a nuclear Armageddon. India has nuclear weapons. Pakistan has nuclear weapons. Fighter jets were being shot down. This was serious stuff on Friday evening. And boom, right into the arena, President Trump and J.D. Vance broker a peace settlement. Now, if on Friday you were talking about how a major war was looming in the Kashmir region, but on Sunday you were not giving President Trump for ending the war, you are the problem. President Trump helped broker a ceasefire between India and Pakistan and, again, might have saved hundreds of thousands of lives. Imagine Putin invading Ukraine under President Trump. Joe Biden would have armed India. Joe Biden would have said, well, there's really nothing we could do. We're going to move very slow. We're going to be very methodical about it. And hundreds of

thousands of people could have unnecessarily died. Play cut 188. And they did it for a lot of reasons. But trade is a big one. We're going to do a lot of trade with Pakistan. We're going to do a lot of trade with India. We're negotiating with India right now. We're going to be soon negotiating with Pakistan. And we stopped the nuclear conflict. I think it could have been a bad nuclear war. Millions of people could have been killed, so I'm very proud of that.

I also want to thank... In a minor detail, we solved a major war between two nations that bitterly hate each other with fighter jets being shot down and military bases that were strike. Just kind of minor details. We solved that. And then he moved on, of course, to a major announcement. So we solve a nuclear war on Sunday, on Saturday, Sunday, and then on Monday. Major announcement today. President Donald Trump reaching a sudden surprise tariff truce with China. 90-day pause that brings tariffs down

to 30% from nearly 150%. President Trump is structuring a phenomenal America First winning trade deal, all the while juggling the 900 different other portfolio issues. President Donald Trump is about to head to the Middle East tomorrow. On Air Force One, he will fly to the Middle East. He's going to go to Saudi Arabia. He's going to go to Qatar. I think he's going to the UAE. He's doing all the major Arab powers, which increasingly is a power center on the planet.

And while President Trump is doing that, he says, hey, Putin and Zelensky, in case you guys want to meet, I can easily take a detour from Riyadh and go up to Istanbul. I mean, think about this. This is the way an entrepreneur thinks. Yeah, look, if I need a detour and reroute, yeah, the Secret Service, they'll figure it out. I'll go to Istanbul and I'll meet with you guys. You understand how unique this is? Typically, when U.S. foreign policy is done, those sort of summits are months in the making, maybe even years in the making to sit down with the leader of Russia and the head of Ukraine to meet face to face. And President Donald Trump, in a moment's notice, sends out a true social. Yeah, I'll just swing on by. I'll play dad. I will negotiate. I will facilitate. I will referee this conversation. And I'll say, nope, you're lying.

Nope, you're lying. Come on, Zelensky, do this. Vlad, take the deal. And I'll just do that in between of brokering Middle East peace as well. And oh, by the way, today, Hamas has released the last American Israeli hostage. That's right. There was still an American being held hostage by Hamas, released by Hamas, as President Trump was coming to the Middle East. And that is no coincidence, by the way. It's no coincidence.

President Trump coming to the Middle East, and he's going to Qatar in particular, it would be a very bad look that anybody that has any sort of ties to the Palestinian Authority of Hamas, President Trump would have said, hey, bring our boy home, Eden Alexander, an American citizen and an Israeli passport holder held hostage by Hamas, released by Hamas. So we prevent a nuclear war. We get an American hostage back. We are potentially going to see the Istanbul summit,

which, by the way, is where the original breakdown of this entire war happened when Tony Blinken and Boris Johnson went to Istanbul and told the Russian Federation, actually, no, we're not going to settle for peace, land for peace. We want to see this war continue. The Russian-Ukrainian war could have ended 10 days in Istanbul, and hundreds of thousands of people would still be alive, and millions of people would still be in their homes with the warmongering machine under Washington, D.C. and former President Joe Biden said, no, we're going to reject that deal. So it is. It is beautifully ironic and a point of completion to go back to Istanbul to hopefully end the war. And then we have the China deal, as I've mentioned. On top of that, President Donald Trump revealed a new executive order aimed at slashing prescription drug prices by ordering the federal government to seek to pay no more than other countries do for their drugs.

And then, as President Trump has come to the Middle East, he says, I want to try to have an expansion of the Abraham Accords and bring peace to the Middle East. I'm sorry, everybody, that three days, you got more done in those three days than anything I could think of for the betterment of the world under George W. Bush, Barack Obama, or Joe Biden. Preventing a nuclear war, facilitating Zelensky and Putin, getting a hostage released, signing executive order on prescription drugs. All the while, by the way, our southern border is totally secure. We're getting no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security, major middle class tax cut. And despite what the left says, President Trump actually might raise taxes on the wealthy, something that, look, I kind of shrug my shoulders. I say, if I pay more taxes,

but I get less debts or deficits, fine. So be it. Doing a monster deal with one big, beautiful bill. Deregulation, oil prices are down, egg prices are down, inflation is going down. The market, by the way, is up nearly a thousand points today. And you pause and you say, who's criticizing President Trump again? This is why we got him elected for this reason. The energy that it takes this week is going to be a masterclass. And we will be here in studio following every single element of this. This is Trump at his best.

When Trump is playing offense, when Trump is thinking creatively, when Trump is doing deal after deal after deal, when Trump is in the arena, honestly, I've always said for a while, Trump is better when he travels than when he stays put. When he travels, his mind is going. It's a life force for him. When he is seeing people, meeting people, he leans into the situation. Some people do better when they're just kind of cooped up in their office. Some people do better when they're doing desk work. President Trump takes it into another gear. And as someone who travels a lot, I get that. When you're traveling, there's a velocity, there's a momentum. and this is how deals get done. And just to think, could you imagine the people at the CIA and, and, and the deep state saying, what do you mean? You're just going to

detour and go to Istanbul. That's right. That's how peace is brokered. And could you imagine when the history books are written? If president Trump ends up detouring Istanbul, there is no like pre-meeting conditions. There is no kind of like, well, we have to make sure that all these little details are out, just kind of swing and pop on by. This is Trump at his best. By the way, he's about to have a phone call with Xi Jinping as well. All of this simultaneously, it is fair to say President Trump is running the world and running the world for the better. Less war, more lives saved, better trade deals, American workers first. The invasion is over on our southern border. And that's only in a couple hours, everybody. And it's only going to get better. We're honored to be partnering with the

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J.D. Vance just came from India. J.D. Vance just came from India. J.D. Vance just came from India. He visited there with his wife, Usha, and they were treated very well, strengthening that bond. By the way, we should be very, very close with India. We should be very close. India has some serious problems when it comes to its treatment of Christians, but India is a not-so-subtle counter to the Chinese Communist Party. A ton of people. There's still some semblance of a democracy there, despite some of the more radical, nationalistic Hindu stuff, which is not exactly our flavor of governance here.

But India is a country of the future. If they can get their act together and they can get 600 million people out of third world poverty, that country's going to be something to be reckoned with. They are nowhere near as totalitarian as the Chinese Communist Party. And so we call India, and by the way, we've always had a very weird relationship with Pakistan as well.

Pakistan is the ISI. They're a frenemy. We work with them. We don't. Remember, they housed Bin Laden. The whole thing was very bizarre. And let's just be honest. With this whole conflict, Pakistan was far more to blame than India.

Pakistan is resolutely Muslim. India is Hindu. And we got involved and we ended what could have been a thermonuclear war. We didn't have to do it with fighter jets. We didn't have to spend javelin missiles. We didn't have to do troops. It was a phone call. And that is what diplomacy of a strong America looks like. And no one will give President Trump credit. If it wasn't for President Trump's tariffs, you have to wonder if India would have brokered peace that quickly. India wanted to make sure those tariffs were going to be lifted on their exports. So there's a high leverage, high incentive for India to do what the United States want. And they say, well, they bombed this and they bombed that. I cut it out.

Enough. We know you hate each other. You guys can high step and do your thing at the border. Remember Barack Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize for breathing. He went, I got the Nobel Peace Prize shortly after he came into office. President Trump should get the Nobel Peace Prize based on that standard. And if he ends the Russian Ukrainian war, that will be a non-joke. That will be something that he absolutely deserves. And then Barack Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize and went on to expand the Afghan war, drone like crazy the Middle East, and oversee the displacement of Muammar Gaddafi in Libya and also the Syrian civil war. That is the president of peace. President Donald Trump is a non-ideological actor on the world stage. He does not like to see human suffering. You can see it's like a

recurring theme when he talks. Every single time Russia, Ukraine comes up and he says this stupid bloodbath where hundreds of thousands of people are dying unnecessarily. And that is exactly right. That is the missing moral clarity that our politicians have not been saying. Instead, they're so interested in abstractions. Well, this is a fight between totalitarianism and democracy. No, it's not. This is a turf war over who's going to control that 100 miles or that 100 miles. President Donald Trump, despite all of his critics and all of the attacks against him, is far more of a true and genuine humanitarian when it comes to brokering peace than anybody we've seen. And this is also the element of his Middle East visit.

President Donald Trump going to Middle East also does not want a war with Iran. So he doesn't want a war with Iran. He doesn't want the Indian-Pakistan war. He doesn't want the Russian-Ukrainian war. This is the best possible example of a president using American strength for world peace. And then on top of it, we have the China deal. That is going to be so much better for our country than what we had previously. And we have not even seen the Vietnam deal. We haven't seen the Japanese deal. We haven't seen the South Korean deal. These things are going to be lined up like planes at LaGuardia on a Friday night. Boom, boom, boom, boom. One after the other.

Not to mention stopping the flow of fentanyl in this country. And I have to remind you, no one is crossing the southern border. It is down 99.99%. Border Patrol agents are bored. They're playing Tetris and Minecraft on their phone. They got nothing to do. Previously, they were the Expedia.com of the third world. Oh, where would you like to go, Diego? Where would you like to go, Jesus? Oh, you'd like to go to Detroit. Great. Let me book you that flight. They were making baby formula for the third world that was coming across the southern border. They were the concierge service. Now Border Patrol is like, well, what are we going to do?

And deportations are going to go up. You're on the precipice of seeing the convergence of all of these pent-up campaign promises. We're going to see major Supreme Court victories coming up, hopefully on school choice, religious liberty and religious charter schools. And I pray on men and female sports. You're going to see a major convergence on energy prices going down. And then you're going to see the reconciliation bill and expansion of CBP and Border Patrol. This is all thanks to President Trump's stamina and leadership. You're on Trump time, everybody. This podcast was once just a dream. And by the way, thank you guys for supporting it. We really appreciate it. And that dream has now turned into an entrepreneurial success story. I bet you have

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look at all the things Trump, I mean, look at just the last three days with what the president has done. If there's one person that can bring peace around the world, it's President Trump. He did it his first term. He's focused on stopping the Ukraine war, having peace in the Middle East. He's going to the Middle East, making sure India and Pakistan. So here's a guy that he wants peace around the world.

He's tired of all these forever wars and people dying that don't need to die. So I'm very appreciative of what the president's doing, what the vice president's doing, what Secretary of State Marco Rubio is doing. So now to other geopolitical news. I know that you stand with Israel and against Hamas. We are getting another hostage back, an American-Israeli hostage, Eden Alexander. Your thoughts, Senator? Well, thank God. I mean, first off, we need to stand with Israel. We need to fight this anti-Semitism. We need to understand Hamas is a terrorist organization and can never be trusted.

We have to hold the Hamas accountable, the Houthis, Hezbollah. We have to hold Qatar accountable for supporting Hamas. So we got a lot of work to do, but President Trump is the right person for the job, and so is Marco Rub So we got a lot of work to do, but President Trump is the right person for the job, and so is Marco Rubio. They're all of them. Vice President Vance are all working hard to bring peace. Yeah, Marco really is doing a great job. I'm glad you mentioned that. He's been exceptional. Can you comment on that? This guy has more jobs

than even Elon Musk. He's running the NSC. He's running State Department. He's running USAID. Some people said he was in running to become the Pope, all kidding aside. Senator, he's running the NSC. He's running State Department. He's running USAID. Some people said he was in running to become the pope. All kidding aside, Senator, he's also the National Archivist. I got to say, Marco Rubio has been the sleeper surprise all star of this administration. I give him an A, Senator. You know, I agree with you. A plus. I mean, here's a guy shows up every day. He's got from a wonderful family. We got elected together. He got elected as U.S. Senator. I got elected as governor back in 2010. He's from a wonderful family. We got elected together. He got elected as U.S. senator. I got elected as governor back in 2010. He's been a great partner. I was so excited when he got announced as Secretary of State, and he's doing a great job. He shows up every day. He works hard every day. I talked to him the other day. He says, I am busy. And he is busy with all the

things he's trying to do. There's, you know, Biden left just a horrible shape as a country. He left the world at a horrible time with all these conflicts around the world. And the president and vice president and Secretary Rubio are working their tail off trying to bring peace around the world. So, Senator, now I want to ask about China. You have been very good about the threat of the Chinese Communist Party. Looks as if we are closer to a trade deal. What do you have to say about that? The market is reacting very favorably. Your thoughts on a prospective trade deal with the Chinese Communist Party? Well, if there's one person that could get a trade deal done, that's Donald Trump. Hope springs eternal. The government of China hates our way of life.

Remember, they promised they wouldn't keep selling fentanyl. 70,000 people died of fentanyl coming from China last year. They promised in the past, oh, they would stop stealing our technology, things like that. They do it every day. It's a despicable government. So I'm very hopeful. And if one person can do it, it's Donald Trump. Do I believe that in the end, China will comply with anything? No, they didn't comply with the Trump trade deal when he was first president. They haven't tried to comply with the most favored nation, haven't complied with World Trade Organization. They haven't complied with anything they said they're going to do. They lie, cheat and steal. We need to decouple from China. Stop buying their stuff. And so what they're saying, though, Senator, is that this won't be

a full decoupling. What would you like to see from this administration so what they're saying, though, Senator, is that this won't be a full decoupling. What would you like to see from this administration and what you're doing in the Senate from a domestic policy standpoint to make the decoupling happen more naturally without force? Well, the best way is every American citizen needs to say China is not my friend. Stop buying from any products, any services, any apps from China. None. Zero. They want to destroy your individual oil life. They might have killed a family member through fentanyl, but they want to steal your jobs. They want to build a military to defeat us. They are despicable. I know the president is trying to, in a logical manner, decouple from China. I think we're going to get there. We shouldn't be buying Chinese stocks. They don't comply with the rules of the SEC.

Their financial statements do not follow general accounting principles, general accepted accounting principles. So we have to decouple from them. No drugs, no drones, nothing. And so a level deeper, I mean, the problem is so many of the American elites are highly invested in China. And they have been configuring American policy as a result of that. How do we fix that problem? Well, here's what I've done. Number one, when I got up there, 85% of the drones bought by a federal government were Chinese. None today. Other technologies like LiDAR.

We're still buying drugs from China for our military. That's crazy. So we're starting the process every year. We chip away. We passed legislation that said their Chinese stocks cannot be sold on our exchanges because they don't comply with general accounting principles. Now, the Biden administration didn't enforce that. The new SEC commissioner said he will enforce it. So every day we chip away.

But the best way to do it, don't rely on government. Rely on yourself. They don't like your way of life. You have to say, Amazon, if you won't tell us where something's made, I won't buy it. And if you get a package that's made from China, send it back and say, I didn't want anything made in China. That's right. OK, so now let's let's shift gears here for a second. I want to now talk about and we've talked about it before.

The one big, beautiful bill. Any progress or movement since our conversation last week, Senator? Well, we in the Senate, we had a great policy meeting on Wednesday to talk about it. I know the House has some committee meetings this week. We'll find out where they are. But let's put this in perspective. All of us want to make sure President Trump can secure the border. All of us want to make sure our military can defend our freedom. All of us that I know of want to make sure we extend the Trump tax cuts. What we're arguing about is, are we going to get our fiscal house in order? We're anticipating spending like $85 billion.

The $1.5 billion that the House is struggling to come up with is less than 2% increase, our saving money, when we've had a 53% increase in spending in the last five years. We have got to figure out how to get our fiscal house in order or interest rates are not going to come down. Inflation is not going to go away. We're not going to start paying down this debt. So there's a lot of us in the Senate that are working really hard with this. I'm optimistic, but we're not there yet.

This is going to take a few more weeks to come to a good conclusion, but I'm very optimistic we can get there. So, Senator, I said this with Mark Wayne Mullen, and given your enormous financial success, I imagine you're in the same bucket. Our show's doing very well. Praise the Lord. We're very happy about that. There is a proposition to raise taxes on higher income earners. That would involve you and me and Senator Mullen. I'm not thrilled about it, but honestly, I shrug my shoulders and I say, okay, if this is the only way to A, make the math work, and B, get the deal done, I could live with it.

It's not like a deal breaker. I don't love it. Where do you stand on that? Do you think that the conference, the only way that I'd be okay with it is if we get sizable cuts, that we get $10 of cuts for every $1 of a tax increase? There's a lot of mixed opinions here. Some people say, hey, George H.W. Bush raised taxes. He was ridiculed for that. There's some nuance there that's largely missing. Do you think that we might end up seeing the top tax rate go from 37% to 40%? No. First off, I've never, ever voted for a tax increase. I cut taxes 100 times while I was

governor. We need lower taxes and we'll get more revenues. Now, we don't have a tax. We don't have a revenue problem. We have record revenues. Revenues are up. We have a spending problem. 53% increase in spending in five years when the population is up 2%. So we don't need new taxes. We need to figure out how do we balance the budget. Now, I think maybe some people, like somebody texted me this morning, they said, you know, I would be okay if you raise my taxes if you balance a budget. Okay, well, they're not even talking about balance of budget. They're talking about reducing spending. We need to balance the budget, all right, and start paying down debt.

That's what I did as governor. I paid off a third of the state debt when I was governor. And guess what? Interest rates kept coming down. Inflation, we didn't have issues with inflation. That's what we've got to do. So no new tax increases, none. Reduce spending.

That's what we have to do. And I hope there is an appetite to reduce spending. I really do. And I hope I hope there is an appetite to reduce spending. I really do. And it is there more momentum remaining, Senator, from your colleagues to get at least back to the pre-COVID baseline? Absolutely. There's a lot of conversation about how do we make sure the federal programs work? Take take Medicaid. Medicaid should be a program for the poor and the chronically ill that's what it should be uh not to have people sit on their butt at home they don't want to work so we're going we have to go through we have to do what i did as governor i went through every line of the budget four thousand lines of budget and say that might be a nice to have but that's

somebody's money i gotta tax somebody to do that i'm not gonna do that that's what you've got to do with the federal with the federal budget We got to go through every line and have a written purpose for every line. Look at what Elon Musk has found. Just massive waste, massive waste. You can say some of it's fraud, but for sure, massive waste of money that you would never spend your money on. Senator, excellent work. Come back anytime. Thank you so much. And keep fighting for those spending cuts. We need them. Tell your I say this every week. We demand cuts. We demand cuts. Our government is too big. Thank you, Senator. I see Charlie. This is a word that comes up all the time, but does anyone know what it really means? Do you? Hillsdale College offers more than 40 free online courses.

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for an oversight visit to inspect the facility's compliance with local building codes. Now, mind you, they never, ever went to an ICE facility when Joe Biden was president. Remember that famous picture of AOC crying? She never to an ICE facility when Joe Biden was president. Remember that famous picture of AOC crying? She never did any of that when Joe Biden was president. Let's play some of the piece of tape here. This is cut 144. DHS says, quote, a group of protesters, including two members of Congress, stormed the gate and broke into the ICE detention facility. The members, Robert Menendez Jr. and Bonnie Watson Coleman, and multiple protesters are holed up in a guard shack area, the first security checkpoint.

Interim U.S. Attorney Alina Haba for the District of New Jersey posting on X that Newark's Democrat mayor, Raz Baraka, was there and, quote, committed trespass. This is a very easy one for my friend Kash Patel and Pam Bondi. Very easy. They went after American patriots for peacefully walking into the United States Capitol building nonviolently while being invited, while doors were opened. And they stayed within the lanes, the little rope lines. These are members of Congress that stormed into a federal ICE facility despite warnings. They should absolutely be charged for this, without a doubt.

No one is above the law, is what we've always been saying. No one is above the law. Play cut 168. There will likely be more arrests coming. We actually have body camera footage of some of these members of Congress assaulting our ICE enforcement officers, including body slamming a female ICE officer. So we will be showing that to viewers very shortly. If you have that video, are you suggesting that members of Congress will be arrested who were there yesterday? That is definitely on the table.

And that's exactly what should happen. You see, the Democrats have a big problem with immigration customs and enforcement. But if you assault ICE, you get consequences. If you storm an ICE facility, there will be consequences. Rob Menendez complained that they had put their hands on a member of congress oh i must have missed the memo that he was an untouchable he thinks they should be invulnerable that he is royalty and by the way his dad is literally a traitor bob menendez sold our country out to egypt for gold bars while on the senate for intelligence committee selling out american Committee. Selling out American secrets for cash and did he also had multiple instances of near misses with the law. This guy was a disgusting person. Let's play cut 197.

Just because you are a member of Congress or just because you are a public official does not mean you are above the law. We will continue if you you assault a law enforcement officer, we will also make sure you answer to justice. So I think that arrests are still on the table for this. This Tricia girl's doing well. I think I've met her. I know her. And I think the administration needs to have 10 or 12 people like this at every department be able to go on TV. She's been doing really well. Throw the book at him. Cash and Pam, you got all the details you need. Charge these members of Congress. The facts are there. They stormed the facility. They assaulted our ICE officers. They think they are above the law.

They tried to put President Trump in jail for 700 years for something he did not do. They are begging you to indict them and do it. Don't make a big show of it. Indict them. Charge them. The only way that we end the lawfare chapter in this country is reciprocity. They came after us. They assaulted ICE officers and we will go after them. Thanks so much for listening, everybody. Email us as always, freedom at charliekirk.com. Thanks so much for listening and God bless. For more on many of these stories and news you can trust, go to charliekirk.com.