
Dems Need to Stand Up — Then Wake Up
Democrats made idiots of themselves with their reaction to President Trump's first big speech. They even sat out a standing ovation for a child battling cancer. Charlie reacts, and Senator Jim Banks joins to comment on Trump's monumental speech and what it signals for the coming four years.
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Hey everybody, there is a spiritual darkness in the Democrat Party. I don't say that lightly.
You should listen to this, especially the first portion of this program, and send it to your friends that are on the left. A young man with brain cancer was celebrated last night.
The Democrats scowled with bitterness and refused to stand up. Email us freedom at charliekirk.com.
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Last night, last night we streamed a pretty late here on real America's voice. And also all of our streaming platforms, our reaction to the speech last night, not the State of the Union, but Donald Trump's address to Congress.
Now, it says in the U.S. Constitution that the president shall give a joint address to Congress, and this was a joint session of Congress, not technically a State of the Union.
You know, State of the Unions used to be delivered, just a fun little tidbit. They used to be written.
It's a new phenomenon actually of State of the Unions given orally. Usually it was written and delivered to the Speaker of the House and say, here, read all that we've done.
We've changed a lot as a society with television, digital broadcasting. Feels like the president has been,
President Trump has been there for well over a year, two years.
He's only been in office for six months.
When he was sworn into office, we had no border.
One of the greatest accomplishments that he has been able to celebrate
is that we have a secure border.
There's nobody invading our country anymore.
It doesn't happen.
It's gone.
There is no more southern border invasion. He has been president for six weeks.
And we have a country that is bubbling back to life. Now, I want to play some of the highlights here, but upon further reflection, these events, these joint sessions of Congress are largely political theater.
You stand up for the stuff you like. You sit down for the stuff you like.
But traditionally, everybody stands up during the agreeable stuff. You stand up for the stuff where if you don't applaud, you could look kind of bad.
So, of course, the Democrats, they stayed seated when Donald Trump said we had a secure southern border. He stayed seated when he was talking about how he was marshalling resources to underserved communities that were struck by wildfires.
They, of course, the Democrats refused to applaud during Donald Trump's moment saying
that he wanted to broker peace with Ukraine. And optics really matter here.
But this went to a
whole different level. The Democrats were, of course, trying to interrupt him throughout his
entire speech. You had Al Green with his rod trying to interrupt Donald Trump.
It's
Thank you. You had Al Green with his rod trying to interrupt Donald Trump.
It's important that we recognize and we realize that the Democrats don't just have a political problem. The Democrats do not just have a policy problem.
There is a spiritual sickness that has infected the Democrat Party. And I don't say that lightly.
You know, usually the political theater, okay, it is what it is. It went to a whole different level last night, a whole different level.
And it takes a lot for me to say this. President Trump had this amazing moment with a young man by the name of D.J.
Daniel. D.J.
Daniel is a 13-year-old battling cancer. D.J.
Daniel has always wanted to be a law enforcement officer, and he's been sworn in as a ceremonial law enforcement officer with police departments across the country. He lifts people's spirits.
He has an amazing smile. Who could not support D.J.
Daniel? So before I get into the inspiring moment that happened last night at the joint session of Congress, here is DJ Daniel's story. Play Cut 141.
What you want to know, the craziest part? Because my mom, babe, me and my brothers all together. And out of nowhere, I locked up.
And then my dad was calling my name, and I started going to the slow thing and he said stop playing with me and I'll start and I started to act I ain't gonna lie I started to act slow and then as soon as that as soon as he said that we was speeding all the way running lights going to the hospital and then next thing you know I was seasoned on the table they said no we're gonna have to go in his brain tonight then, I had 13 brain surgeries, and that's how many times my personality has changed.
And that's something that you don't hear from a terminally old child.
They had five months to live.
I'm going to keep on going until my gas tank's run out.
And that's when God calls you home.
You never know when God's going to call you home.
I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for my dad.
I know he's pretty proud of me, and I'm pretty proud of him, too. And I'd like to thank President Trump, because if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be here today.
I'm not crying. You're crying.
I mean, it's just, it's beyond a tearjerker. It just, it moves you at a level of the soul.
It's not political. It's what makes us human beings.
It is a moment that should bring the country together, not divide it, no matter how much you hate Trump. So here's President Trump in a now very viral moment, appointing 13 year old DJ Daniel to be an honorary member of the U.S.
Secret Service. Play cut one thirty.
In twenty eighteen, DJ was diagnosed with brain cancer. The doctors gave him five months at most to live.
That was more than six years ago. Since that time, DJ and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true.
And DJ has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer actually a number of times. Peace.
The
police love him. The police departments love him.
And tonight, DJ, we're going to do you the biggest
honor of them all. I am asking our new Secret Service director, Sean Curran, to officially
make you an agent of the United States Secret Service. That's a kid with brain cancer who might not be around much longer.
Everybody at home loved it. But look who didn't.
That's the Democrats. During that exact moment, when President Trump was celebrating the ceremonial promotion of DJ Daniel, they are sitting, scowling with bitterness.
Everybody, we are not the same. We're not built the same.
We don't see the world the
same. I hate talking like this.
I don't know what has infected the base of the Democrat party, but it can only be an invisible dark force that could be called whatever you want. demoniconic, satanic.
You could fill in the dots.
But they hate you and they hate the country and they hate us so much that they also hate 13-year-olds with brain cancer.
Now, there's no spin, by the way.
Show that picture again.
Show the picture.
I want one media pundit and one member of the Democrat Party to show me that is your Democrat Party. Republicans would always stand during the ceremonial agreeable stuff when Joe Biden would do similar stuff like this.
Political pageantry is normal. What is not normal is for an entire political party to stay seated during a non-political humane moment that elevates us and thinks about the beautiful things because the Democrat Party is ugly to the core.
There is a spiritual cancer in the Democrat Party, a sickness that is beyond what we're able to describe in words. They are darker than anything we have ever realized.
And praise the Lord that we want and they can never get close to power because they would not even put two hands together. To applaud.
The kid with brain cancer. There's something demented about your party, Democrats, demented to the core.
And it's not just that three people didn't stand. Your entire party, stay seated.
You guys need an exorcism and a reckoning. You guys need something a lot greater than just a political reckoning.
There is an unseen force that I never thought we'd see in our country. You want to see good versus evil? There it is.
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It's not just the Democrat lawmakers.
Post State of the Union,
Nicole Wallace, who is a very disturbed individual, very dark. And it seems to be that the further left you go, it becomes an all-encompassing life destroyer.
Where the party of joy seems to be chugging antidepressants. They're strong on the benzos and the Prozac.
There's a spiritual sickness of the Democrat Party. Can we put that 160 up on screen? And I have a non-sarcastic question.
How many of the Democrats that are seated, which is all of them, regularly go to church and believe that there is a God or synagogue or whatever. How many of those people do you think would write that God is a top priority in their life? I've had a lot of them would write government as a top priority in their life.
The state is a top priority in their life. The bureaucracy is a top priority in their life.
If you are ever asked by liberal friends or relatives or Democrats, oh, you know, we all want the same thing. No, we don't.
The Democrats want something profoundly different than we do. And they will not even stand out of their chair.
It's just fine. If you don't believe it, just pretend they can't even pretend to support the kid with brain cancer.
But it wasn't just them. This is Nicole Wallace.
And Nicole Wallace needs professional help. She needs like a whole team of people.
She's got to go to Switzerland. She's got to get a whole workup.
She's got to have a whole committee working on her for like a couple months. She needs the whole operation there.
They got to do blood work. They got to do brain scans.
There's something really deep and dark about her. Because you just don't go on TV and say something like this.
You don't. She started off good.
She started off fine. And then, boom, she pivots into, I think, one of the more repulsive things I've ever seen on television, actually.
And that says something. This is the Democrat Party.
This is their official communications arm. This is who the Democrats listen to the show they go on to.
Playcut 143. I think this was a lesson in finding one thing that that you let yourself feel and i let myself feel um joy about dj and i hope he's alive for another you know 95 years right and i hope he lives um and the life he wants to live he wants to be a cop he knows what he wants And maybe when you have childhood cancer, that crystallizes for you.
And I hope he has a long life as a law enforcement officer. But I hope he never has to defend the United States Capitol against Donald Trump supporters.
And if he does, I hope he isn't one of the six who loses his life to suicide. And I hope he isn't one who has to testify against the people who carried out acts of seditious conspiracy and then lived to see Donald Trump pardon those people.
Who thinks like this? I. I, as I said earlier, I don't I don't get speechless quite often.
This is the state of the Democrat Party. She's wishing that a 13 year old brain cancer doesn't commit suicide, that he doesn't have to testify making some sort of bizarre connection to January 6th to this young man who just had this amazing moment.
She started off fine. And then all of a sudden, like a different programming set got put in as if like the files got mixed up.
As if there was just a glitch.
She was like, my programming tells me I must say something agreeable. And then boom!
As if there was just kind of a programming error.
And she goes into, I mean, she of course should be taken off air.
But more than that, she should be watched very closely.
It's very, very dark.
And I mean, that is dark
stuff. I mean, that would be dark if just like a random YouTuber said that or like a random person on the side of the street.
This is a woman with a news broadcast show that lawmakers go on. And of course, all the media outlets say Republicans pounce on MSNBC host.
right wingersers pounce. This is the Independent.
MAGA loses its mind over Nicole Wallace's sickening comments. The Daily Mail, to their credit, said Nicole Wallace gives sickening take on 13-year-old with terminal cancer.
It's the Democrat Party that has this spiritual cancer. And they need to get that tumor removed for the betterment of the country.
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Senator, great to see you.
Your reaction of the speech last evening in front of Congress. Hey, Charlie, it was the best speech I've ever heard by a great president who's given many great speeches before.
He not only broke the record for the longest speech before a joint address, but he owned the Democrats. They looked foolish.
They looked stupid sitting on their hands, not clapping for what the president talked about in so many ways, making this country great again. They don't love our country like we do.
And they proved it last night in their reaction. It was a great night for the president, a great night for America, for Republicans.
And it's just we're just a short time into this second term for this president. We have a long ways to go.
A lot more winning to come. You know, I'll say that the it didn't feel long.
It felt like it had a great flow. It felt kept everyone on the edge of their seat.
Senator, the Democrats, excluding one person, there was one woman in red that stood up, decided to just ignore and not applaud DJ Daniel, the 13 year old brain cancer who got awarded there. I mean, Senator, do any of your colleagues mention that afterwards? I mean, how is this how are you supposed to do business with people that don't even applaud a kid with brain cancer? Help the audience understand.
Well, it's a sickness on their part.
I mean, they hate this president so much that they won't get up and clap for a 13-year-old boy, a very special moment that President Trump created last night. Every one of them should have been on their feet.
And Charlie, let me say this. When Joe Biden walked out and when they announced the president of the United States of America before the state of the unions on his watch, every Republican got up and clapped, not for Joe Biden, but for the position of the president of the United States of America.
Those Democrats sat on their hands. They disrespected the president.
They disrespected our country. And in that case, they disrespected the life of a 13-year-old boy.
I'll tell you what, one moment I saw, because I was on the far right side, on the Republican side, and I could see the Democrats across the House chamber, and I saw one senator when President Trump talked about capturing the terrorist who was the mastermind behind the Abbey Gate attack that killed 13 of our heroes. And by the way, none of the Democrats clapped for that either.
I mean, how can you not clap for that? I saw one Democrat look to the Democrat to his right and say, we should stand up. You can see him mouthing it.
We should be standing up. And they were all shaking their heads.
No, we have to stay seated. That's how foolish these Democrats are.
There is not a line that came out of President Trump's mouth last night that 75% or more of Americans don't agree with. There was nothing controversial last night that he said he was speaking to the American people.
Everything that came out of his mouth was something that the majority of Americans agree with, and the Democrats wouldn't stand up for it. Donald Trump has broken the Democrat Party.
They are beyond repair.
And the fool, just... agree with and the Democrats wouldn't stand up for it.
Donald Trump has broken the Democrat party. They are beyond repair.
And just how foolish they looked last night is something that's going to linger over them for a long time to come. Views of Trump's speech.
Let's put this up on screen. I've been around this space for about 13 years.
I'm just drawing from memory. It is very rare to have a 76 percent approval rating of a joint session of speech to Congress.
Very rare, very unusual. If I remember, Biden might be high 50s at the watermark and then maybe low 50s.
Even Obama might have been high 60s, low 70s during the high Obama period, then went down from there. We can probably look at other speeches and reactions.
That's 76% of Americans that approved President Trump's speech. And the Democrats, instead of at least having some sort of an agreeable attitude, their bitterness and their sourness towards America is disturbing and it is revealing of a darker sickness that has infected our politics.
This is one of my favorite parts of the speech. And I want to want to get your reaction.
Senator, some of your colleagues said, well, we need a bipartisan border bill to secure the border. We can't secure the border unless we get a bipartisan border bill.
Turns out we actually just needed a new president. Play cut 120.
Within hours of taking the oath of office, I declared a national emergency on our southern border and I deployed the U.S. military and border patrol to repel the invasion of our country.
And what a job they've done. As a result, illegal border crossings last month were by far the lowest ever recorded.
Ever. They heard my words and they chose not to come.
Much easier that way. In comparison, under Joe Biden, the worst president in American history, there were hundreds of thousands of illegal crossings a month.
And virtually all of them, including murderers, drug dealers, gang members and people from mental institutions and insane asylums were released into our country. So.
So, Senator, first, explain all the jeering. Is that the Democrats standing up for Joe Biden? And secondly, the border is now secure.
President Trump went on to say it turns out that we didn't need a bill, we just needed a new president. And we got that in Donald Trump.
After he took the oath of office, secure the moment.
Let's play cut 122.
And once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me and I realize there is absolutely
nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud.
Nothing I can do.
I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out
Thank you. or smile or applaud.
Nothing I can do. I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations or announce the answers to the greatest economy in history or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded.
And these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements. They won't do it no matter what.
Five, five times I've been up here. It's very sad and it just shouldn't be this way.
You will see a conversation that I had with Governor Newsom of California that at times got a little spicy. The premise at times was, hey, Charlie, what is the path forward for Democrats? I said, I'm not one to give advice.
If only I had the conversation afterwards. I would have said, you know, Governor Newsom, stand up for the kid with brain cancer and applaud.
Probably good. You know, some Democrat consultant is about to make a bunch of money, Senator.
I'm going to say, you know, next time, guys, when the kid with cancer gets announced, make sure you applaud. Senator, I want to bring this now back to legislative action.
What did you hear from the president about legislative agenda? This wasn't get this is not get as much coverage, but tax cuts, because right now we've seen, yes, some really good personnel wins, and thank you for that. We got to start seeing laws passed so President Trump can start signing bills into law.
What's going on here? Well, the first thing has to be to extend the Trump tax cuts on working class families. President Trump talked about that last night.
Democrats, again, stayed seated. Republicans stood and cheered because the tax cuts are on working class families and small businesses.
It was a mistake in 2017 when Paul Ryan and those others in charge of the House and the Senate made corporate tax rates permanent, but didn't make the individual tax rates permanent on working class families.
That's what we have to start with. President Trump brought it up.
Republicans are unified behind it. It has to happen in the next few weeks in the reconciliation bill.
That's where we have to start. But then we have to fund ICE to deport illegal criminals out of our country and back up the efforts to build the wall and secure the border.
That's all part of the one big, beautiful bill, the reconciliation package that's going to come out of the Congress soon.
Republicans are united more than ever before.
You saw it last night on the floor.
But we have to unite behind that piece of legislation to get it done.
Senator, thank you for your time.
Any final thoughts for our audience about a minute remaining?
Well, the golden age of America has just begun. Last night, I was so proud of our president, the best speech I've ever heard him give.
But it also reminds me that we have almost four years. We can't waste a single day.
I saw President Trump after the speech. He was upbeat.
And he makes that point to Republicans all the time. Do not waste a single day.
Let's get it done. We have a lot of work to do.
This is just the beginning. Senator, thank you so much.
Come back anytime. Excellent work.
And let's get that legislative agenda done. We need more border security.
We need more funding for ICE. And we need to liberate the economy from disastrous regulation, high taxation.
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For us, it makes our job quite easy because President Trump just keeps on saying things that are very agreeable that should have wide bipartisan support. For example, cutting all of the waste in our federal budget.
One of my favorite moments was President Trump going through some of the insane spending that Doge has identified. It's hilarious.
It's spot on.
This is why 76% of people who watch the speech loved it. Play cut 119.
$40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants. Nobody knows what that is?
$8 million to promote LGBTQI
plus
in the African nation
of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of. $60 million for indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian empowerment in Central America.
$60 million. $60 million.
LGTQI plus. President Trump identifying this waste.
We all deserve a government that is more efficient. Who could be against the Department of Government Efficiency? Well, the Democrats can because they value government more than God.
They value the state more than family. They value the bureaucracy more than community.
For them, the state is their source of meaning. It is their reason for existence.
It gives them purpose. It fills the existential void.
In Viktor Frankl's book, Man's Search for Meaning, one of the greatest books written over the last hundred years, says that the number one thing outside of food and water that men, collective men, men and women, mankind, seek is not sex, it's not power, but it is meaning. It is the will to meaning.
And for Democrats, the state gives them that meaning because they have very disturbing personal lives. They're filled with this dark spiritual sickness, as you can see.
And I think that's one of the main reasons why they were so nasty last night. They were nastier than any time during Trump's first term during an equivalent State of the Union or joint session of Congress.
Because President Trump never actually went after the rank and file of the bureaucracy during the first term. He did a lot of things they didn't like.
They called him a Russian agent. He closed the southern border.
He did all these things. But going after the federal bureaucracy, that is their wholly protected class.
Play cut 149. $8 million for making mice transgender.
This is real. Meanwhile, Al Green is screaming, I was promised transgender mice.
A good off the cuff moment here from President Trump. Play cut 125.
Over 130,000 people, according to the social security databases, are age over 160 years old. We have a healthier country than I thought, Bobby.
Healthier country than we thought. Now they claim this is BS.
And we'll see. Elon Musk has identified waste after waste and fraud and abuse, and it is overwhelmingly popular with the American people.
The database needs to be cleaned up. Is it 130,000 people? Is it 130 people? At the very least, clean it up.
Make it more efficient. And my favorite moment, and we'll end with this, how did that work out? Did we see an end of lawfare? Play cut 121.
And we've ended weaponized government where, as an example, a sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent like me.
How did that work out? Not too America. It's back.
And two days ago, I signed an order making English the official language of the United States of America.
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