What to Be Thankful For in 2025

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Speaker 5 All right, happy Wednesday. It's the Charlie Kirk Show.
I'm Andrew Colby, executive producer of this fine show, joined by Blake Neff. It is the day before Thanksgiving.

Speaker 5 Yeah, we have a lot to be thankful for this

Speaker 5 year, in spite of the tragedy, in spite of the loss. And I think, Blake, you said it best.

Speaker 5 Even especially in the midst of what's been a really rough season, we have to practice the discipline of being thankful, being grateful for the mercies of God, the blessings of God Almighty.

Speaker 5 And we will do that in this show. We are going to spend probably the second half of this hour doing that.

Speaker 5 First, we've got a couple breaking news stories that we want to get to.

Speaker 5 First, big breaking news story this morning: Blake Neff, the state of Georgia, is basically refusing or declining to pursue its case, the Fannie Willis case, against Donald J.

Speaker 5 Trump, Rudy Giuliani, John Eastman, and many others.

Speaker 5 This is a fitting end, but kind of a whimper in what was a main huge story of 2024.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I wanted us to start with this because I think it actually perfectly encapsulates the life arc of a lot of things we've lived through in the Trump era.

Speaker 6 There's how many times have the walls been closing in about 50,000 different times?

Speaker 6 There was a meme video of the walls are closing in, how often they said it in, I think, 2016 or early 2017. And it's just been the same way ever since.

Speaker 6 So when Trump was out of office, they waited a few years. They didn't do anything initially.

Speaker 6 And then suddenly, 2023, they thought, let's roll out all of these indictments of Trump, Manhattan in Georgia, and then the two federal cases. Eugene Carroll, the business case,

Speaker 6 of course, yeah, the business case, Carol Jordan case, all of these things to take take him down. And a lot of them, they'll superficially look formidable.

Speaker 6 He's got four different criminal indictments and all these civil cases.

Speaker 6 And what has always stood out to me is how every single one of them has some insane flaw, either unprecedented use of the law, of law and law failing,

Speaker 6 a total novel reinterpretation.

Speaker 6 I remember, remember, this case, the Fulton County case, it included in the indictment that as part of his conspiracy to do various bad things they that trump encouraged people to turn on oan

Speaker 6 to watch i believe the georgia legislature hold a hearing yeah that was part of the conspiracy i believe another part of his conspiracy was

Speaker 6 encouraging uh was that he like called lawmakers i believe he called lawmakers and urged them to vote a certain way on legislation which i will observe is Part of the First Amendment, your right to petition lawmakers for redress of grievances.

Speaker 6 I believe that extends to the president. They had things like this.
And then, in case you've forgotten, Fannie Willis also hired her boyfriend, Nathan Wade, onto the case.

Speaker 6 They paid him, I believe, over $600,000. They were taking luxury vacations.
They tried to lie about the fact that they were in a relationship.

Speaker 6 He, I believe, might have left his wife or girlfriend as part of this. There was a whole sordid background to that.
All of this I bring up to you again. And now we've come here.
Nothing came of it.

Speaker 6 It ended in total humiliation. They have to drop the case.
Millions of dollars were wasted so Big Fanny Willis could look like a big superstar.

Speaker 6 And

Speaker 6 so many things are like that. All of the Trump criminal cases were ultimately like this.
Even the one where he got convicted, huge problems with it.

Speaker 6 I think it would have gone down in court eventually.

Speaker 5 You're talking about the Eugene Carroll case.

Speaker 6 No, not the Carroll case, the Manhattan case. Oh, yeah, of course.

Speaker 6 Of course.

Speaker 6 So just one thing after another, they would bring up these cases that are half-baked, they're entirely politically motivated, and they go down to an embarrassing defeat.

Speaker 5 You mean the Manhattan case where he successfully paid back his bank loans?

Speaker 6 No, no, no, no, no. This is the one where they said that he was engaging in...

Speaker 6 What was it was the election case.

Speaker 5 You know, it was with, you're talking about with Stormy Daniels.

Speaker 6 Yes, yeah, yeah, Stormy Daniels. The Hush Mona case, where they said it was a illegal campaign contribution to allegedly pay hush money.

Speaker 6 And then they also that it was a felony because he was covering up a federal crime that the the federal government had never charged him with, had in fact investigated and declined to charge him for.

Speaker 6 And then they tell the jury, you can just pick whatever crime you feel like might have been covered up. You don't even need to unanimously agree on a crime.

Speaker 6 Well, all of these things are like that. And so we wanted to open that because today is Thanksgiving.
Well, today's day. And you can...

Speaker 6 Not today. Yeah.
Tomorrow is Thanksgiving. Thank you, Andrew.

Speaker 6 Fact check. Yeah, and so.

Speaker 5 So, but all this, you know, this is what gets me: is there's another round of this that seems to be about to pop off.

Speaker 5 And now, Bloomberg has somehow gotten its hands on a leak between a Witkoff, Steve Witkoff, special envoy

Speaker 5 appointed by President Trump to handle Ukraine-Russia issues. He's been traveling all over the world working on peace negotiations, and Yuri Ushakov, Vladimir Putin's top foreign policy advisor.
So,

Speaker 5 this is a new story breaking today, Blake, where it is it seems to be a story where I instantly want to ask Cui bono who benefits, right?

Speaker 5 Because if you let's go through the paces here, so there was a 28-point peace plan that was leaked, right?

Speaker 5 First leak, and by the way, Jack Pasovic actually predicted that there was going to be a leaked phone call yesterday, which is pretty remarkable because it came came out today, or it came out last night.

Speaker 5 And there was a 28-point peace plan, which was widely derided by the foreign policy establishment as too pro-Kremlin.

Speaker 5 So then we get the EU coming in and we get a follow-up peace plan, which is much more, let's say, pro-Ukrainian.

Speaker 5 There was

Speaker 5 basically,

Speaker 5 you had made the point earlier this week, Blake, that the 28-point peace plan was somewhat remarkable in the sense that it actually included a provision where the U.S. would

Speaker 5 identify portions of formerly Ukrainian land as now Russian land and territory. That's a pretty big deal.
So this one, the new peace plan does not necessarily have that. It has a

Speaker 5 doesn't have a cap on the size of the Ukrainian military. There's other things that you obviously interpret as more pro-Ukrainian, pro-Europe, right?

Speaker 5 There's basically a NATO Article 5 type security guarantee involved in the new plan. So it's much, much more pro-Ukrainian.

Speaker 5 I think the 28-point plan is much more pragmatic and probably realistic where this is going to finally end out in the end.

Speaker 5 But now we have a leak, and you have to ask, why would somebody leak this phone call between Witkoff and

Speaker 5 Ushakov? So the

Speaker 5 call is essentially, I think, a nothing burger, but it's being made much of in the press because it appears to them and the way they're painting it is that Witkoff is playing ball with the Russians, coaching the Russians on how to sell this peace plan to Trump, right?

Speaker 5 Trump, you're the peace president, you know, kind of

Speaker 5 glazing President Trump,

Speaker 5 giving his ego a boost. And I think that this is completely par for the course.
This is standard operating procedure, standard negotiation tactics. And I believe the president agrees.

Speaker 5 Let's go ahead and play cut 232.

Speaker 7 This audio that Bloomberg has of Witcoff coaching the Russians on how to appeal to you and get American friends? No, but that's a standard thing, you know, because he's got to sell this to Ukraine.

Speaker 7 He's got to sell Ukraine to Russia.

Speaker 7 That's what a deal maker does. You've got to say, look, they want this.
You've got to convince them of this. You know, that's a very standard form of negotiation.

Speaker 5 Blake, do you think that's a standard form of negotiation?

Speaker 6 I don't, whether it's standard in diplomacy, it's standard with what Trump does. Trump is a real estate guy.
Trump is a guy who is...

Speaker 6 He likes Witkoff because Witkoff negotiates the way I think Trump likes to make deals. And I think of how you might make deals in the business world.

Speaker 6 It probably would be normal to tell someone, hey, before you talk to this guy, here's how you're going to make sure this conversation goes well.

Speaker 6 That is a normal conversation that you will have if you are in a business world of negotiation. And

Speaker 6 I think it's, if Trump says he likes it, that probably makes sense. That's probably true.

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Speaker 5 So we're going to play a clip. Somebody created an AI generated version as opposed to me reading this back and forth between Steve Witkoff and his Russian counterpart.

Speaker 5 We're going to play it for you so that you can hear directly what was being said. And then we're going to relate it to what happened in 2019 with Vinmin,

Speaker 5 the other leak. I don't know what happens with Ukraine and our intelligence agencies.
Was it MI6? Was it the Europeans? Was it Ukrainians? Who leaked this? Quibono, that is the question.

Speaker 5 And it just strikes me that the foreign policy establishment is more outraged at a possible peace deal

Speaker 5 than they are that

Speaker 5 our intelligence is getting leaked to Bloomberg. It's an AI-generated version, but I think it does a good job of giving you the brief of what this leak call entails.
265.

Speaker 6 Okay, okay, my friend. I think that the very point our leaders could discuss.

Speaker 6 Hey, Steve, I agree with you that we will congratulate. He will say that Mr.
Trump is a real peaceman and so-and-so. That he will say.

Speaker 6 Maybe he says, President Trump, you know, Steve and Jury discussed a very similar 20-point plan to peace. And that could be something that we might move to.
AI is not good enough to justify that

Speaker 6 infliction upon us. Yeah, that is actually the wrong version.

Speaker 5 There's another one that's going around, which is much better. But the point is, there is coaching going on.

Speaker 6 You don't want a better one because then people will think it's the real thing. Oh, that's true.

Speaker 5 But, I mean, this was a phone call. It was trying to be, it was a, it was supposed to be a reenactment.
That was a bad version of that.

Speaker 5 But the point is, they're trying to coach President Trump, and everybody's saying, oh, look at the Kremlin's too involved. But this all strikes me as a throwback to the 2019 Vinmin leak, right?

Speaker 5 And there is this amazing, amazing cut here that I'm going to pull up in just a second.

Speaker 5 Basically, you have

Speaker 5 Vinman testifying before Congress, and

Speaker 5 then Adam Schiff jumps in to protect Vinman, and it is this really telling moment that just is,

Speaker 5 I'm having flashbacks to 2019, so you have to have them with me too. Let's go ahead and play cut,

Speaker 5 I believe this would be 233.

Speaker 8 Did you discuss the July 25th phone call with anyone outside the White House on July 25th or the 26th?

Speaker 5 Yes, I did.

Speaker 9 My core function is to coordinate U.S. government policy, interagency policy, and I spoke to two individuals with regards to providing

Speaker 9 some sort of readout of the call.

Speaker 8 Two individuals that were not in the White House.

Speaker 9 Not in the White House.

Speaker 2 If I could interject here,

Speaker 8 we don't want to use these proceedings. It's our time,

Speaker 2 but we need to protect the whistleblower.

Speaker 5 Oh, need to protect the whistleblower.

Speaker 6 Whistleblower.

Speaker 5 So this is how this happened.

Speaker 6 That was just, that's such a bizarre episode in hindsight, that entire whistleblower saga where there was someone who was just making allegations against the president that were ridiculous. And then

Speaker 6 people,

Speaker 6 hundreds, thousands of people knew who this person was, but you couldn't say their name on television because they were the whistleblower. It was Eric Siaramilla.
That was the name, right?

Speaker 6 Shimmarella. Whatever.
I can't pronounce these.

Speaker 5 So, yeah, he was the whistleblower.

Speaker 5 But basically, what that was was an instance of somebody got a readout of the call, thought it wasn't good, and then accused the president, which ends up

Speaker 5 resulting in crazed impeachment proceedings. So

Speaker 5 these are the stakes that we're playing with. And never forget, you know, six ways to Sunday, the Intel

Speaker 5 agencies have six ways to Sunday of getting you.

Speaker 5 The notorious warning from the good Chuck Schumer, who's now up against it. By the way, his approval rating in New York is like in the low 30s.
It's the lowest that he's ever had.

Speaker 5 His back against the wall. We could play the cut.
Why not? 244.

Speaker 10 To take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he's being really dumb to do this.

Speaker 11 What do you think the intelligence community would do if they were motivated?

Speaker 10 I don't know, but from what I am told, they are very upset with how he has treated them and talked about them. And we need the intelligence community.
We don't know what's going on.

Speaker 10 Look at the Russian hacking. Without the intelligence community, we wouldn't have discovered it.

Speaker 11 Do you think he has an agenda to try to dismantle parts of the intelligence community? I mean, this form of

Speaker 10 whether you're a super liberal Democrat or a very conservative Republican, you should be against dismantling the intelligence community.

Speaker 6 No video is a better argument for just a systematic purge

Speaker 6 of the Intel agent. Just fire huge numbers of people at random if you need to.

Speaker 5 I think totally good. CIA,

Speaker 6 because it's so sinister.

Speaker 6 Oh, well, we only know these things if the intelligence community tells us. And you better do what the intelligence community wants.
You don't make them upset or they'll get back at you.

Speaker 6 That's despicable. We live in a republic.
Voters get to decide what actually happens in their country.

Speaker 5 Well, and in this instance, it's pro - I would doubt that it's the CIA that.

Speaker 5 Maybe there's involvement of the CIA, but you look at this. This was a.

Speaker 5 it could have been Ukrainian Intel, could have been MI6, could have been the five eyes.

Speaker 5 You got to ask yourself who benefits from leaking this call to sabotage a peace plan because

Speaker 5 they think that the Trump administration is being too pro-Kremlin.

Speaker 5 But I will say it again: I think the original 28-point plan is the more pragmatic, honest plan that has the greatest chance of success.

Speaker 5 Europe thought it was bending the knee to the Kremlin. I disagree.

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Speaker 5 All right, we have to address something here.

Speaker 6 Yeah, we get this just came in hot in from the very top. So we'll get to the Thanksgiving part in a moment.
But

Speaker 6 we're both very big fans of Erica Kirk, and she wanted us to talk about something that has just bubbled up.

Speaker 5 Well, I actually commented on it last night, I have to say. So this is not new to me.
Let's go ahead and play cut 258. This is Joy Reed pushing the Deranged conspiracy theory.

Speaker 5 It is Deranged, that J.D. Vance is going to leave his wife Usha, second lady, for Erica.

Speaker 6 258.

Speaker 13 They can't have the successor to MAGA be the guy with the brown Hindu wife. They're also Christian nationalists.
That ain't going to work. That's why he's throwing his wife under the bus or Usha.

Speaker 13 Or she's in on it, right? And she's gonna slap and tickle with Erica Kirk. It's the weirdest I've ever seen.
Yeah, it's she's like in her Tammy Faye era.

Speaker 6 Okay, holding on the back of his head and rubbing on his head.

Speaker 13 Some weird

Speaker 6 don't do that to Jason.

Speaker 13 I'm gonna start thinking something's going on.

Speaker 6 Why are you holding the back of his head?

Speaker 13 I'm like, you're not doing that right thing. You're supposed to be a widow.
You in leather pants.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 13 That's not widow wear.

Speaker 13 Could you imagine?

Speaker 13 Wouldn't it be the most perfect fairy tale, MAGA fairy tale? Yeah. If he finally sees the light, that he needs a white queen instead of this brown Hindu.

Speaker 5 Golly. Rubbing on his head.
She's at you in that lily pants.

Speaker 6 I'm annoyed. I'm a little bit annoyed that

Speaker 6 we had the Megan Kelly thing last week and

Speaker 6 they were praising her because she was a little anti-trans. It's just like, I remember warning you, this is a disgusting woman.
She's going to say something very disgusting very soon, how soon it was.

Speaker 6 Yeah.

Speaker 5 So I think what's really sick about this, and I'll tell you, is that these are three deranged, likely post-menopausal women

Speaker 5 that are flippantly turning a moment of shared grief where J.D.

Speaker 5 Vance, the vice president, goes out of his way to honor his friend Charlie by traveling halfway across the country to talk to students at a Turning Point USA event.

Speaker 5 And he greets Erica, who just had watched this truly emotional video that the team put together, a tribute from Charlie actually to Erica, about Charlie talking about his wife.

Speaker 5 And JD leans in, and Erica will tell the story, but it says he'd be so proud of you. And they hug.

Speaker 5 It's a moment of shared grief, and they turned it into some sexualized liberal fever dream where they're projecting their own grossness and their own racism towards Usha

Speaker 5 onto really good people. And I find that disgusting.
And by the way, like it is a true insight into the spiritual core of the left.

Speaker 6 For sure, for sure. But she did want us to play this.
So this was Erica with Megan Kelly

Speaker 6 last weekend. Let's play, explaining this, 266.

Speaker 14 For those of you who know me, I never, I'm a very,

Speaker 14 I love, I hug is like you're an intense hugger. Whoever is like hating on a hug needs a hug themselves.
I will give you a free hug anytime you want a hug. My love language is touch, if you will.

Speaker 14 But seriously, that hug. So I will give you a play-by-play.

Speaker 14 They just played the emotional video. I'm walking over.
He's walking over. I'm starting to cry.
He says, he's so proud of you. And I say, God bless you.
And I touch the back of his head.

Speaker 14 Anyone who I have hugged, that I have touched the back of your head when I hug you, I always say, God bless you.

Speaker 14 That's just me. If you want to take that out of context, go right ahead.
Again, that to me shows that you need a hug more than anyone else.

Speaker 5 Yeah, and I mean, listen, she says, God bless you. And it was actually a really beautiful, touching moment between two friends.

Speaker 5 And just want to reiterate so much gratitude and thanksgiving for Vice President J.D. Vance and Second Lady Usha, who have stood by Erica in this moment of tremendous grief and sorrow.

Speaker 5 And she's grateful. We all are grateful for the way that J.D.
Vance has provided such incredible leadership. I mean, statesmanship.

Speaker 5 Not only was this a tremendous loss to Erica, but this was a tremendous loss to the entire country. And J.D.
Vance rose to the occasion in more ways than one. But just think about this.

Speaker 5 This is what's so gross about this moment. is that it's the sneering and the derision and the jeering at the suffering of a widow just because her slain husband happened to be conservative.

Speaker 5 And they think

Speaker 5 they have the right to completely smear

Speaker 5 this moment and Erica more directly. I find it tremendously disgusting.
We're talking like 70 days away from her going through the unthinkable. And this is their reaction.

Speaker 6 That would be their reaction. It was their reaction if you looked online the week after.
They're fundamentally gross people. Fundamentally disgusting.
They are as, let's be frank.

Speaker 6 Joy Reed is as hideous on the inside as on the outside.

Speaker 5 Well said.

Speaker 5 Well, I think we dealt with that sufficiently.

Speaker 5 We've been promising it, Blake. Okay, so there's a lot of talk about the fracturing on the right.

Speaker 5 I would say that the enthusiasm has waned

Speaker 5 in moments. And I think it's important that we refocus and we say, what are we thankful for? Because actually, there's a lot to be thankful for.
You do not have President Kamala Harris.

Speaker 6 Yeah, and it's especially important. We talked about this a good amount yesterday.
We talked about it on Thought Crime as well. That

Speaker 6 Charlie and the early Americans both believed it was especially important to express thanks in adversity, in difficulty. And

Speaker 6 there's no adversity like what we've had in these past three months. And

Speaker 6 there's also a lot of adversity on the country. And as you say, the movement fracturing apart.
There's people who are upset about one thing or another.

Speaker 6 There's almost a bad vibe over the country where people have decided to fixate on things they are unhappy about rather than things they are happy about.

Speaker 6 And this can easily just become a self-perpetuating cycle. 100% right.
And so we wanted to tag,

Speaker 6 we wanted to reframe things. We wanted to focus on this is the end of the year.
What are the things you should be grateful for?

Speaker 6 And there are a lot of them, both personally and there are a lot of them nationally on the political level.

Speaker 6 When Charlie was talking at the end of in his Thanksgiving message last year, Charlie says, God has shown mercy upon our country. And we've seen that mercy actually manifest.

Speaker 6 It wasn't just a hopeful thing. We've seen one of the things we should never forget to talk about.
We had a year ago, we had a complete wide open border with the entire third world.

Speaker 6 We had a de facto trader, Alejandro Mallorcas, running the show, letting in gangsters from China,

Speaker 6 possible terrorists from Central Africa, everyone coming in.

Speaker 6 Overnight, closed the door. President Trump closed the door.
We don't have an open border anymore. We have a real border.

Speaker 6 And it happened so instantaneously and so totally that people allow themselves to forget that it happened. And instead, this is the sort of, it's the grievance mindset.

Speaker 6 It's the mindset of, I'm mad, there are not enough deportations happening quickly enough. We agree.
We would like more deportations. We would like faster deportations.

Speaker 6 And yet, we're attempting to do them. We actually have the arrests happening.
We have deportations being made. We have multi-billion dollar ICE hiring expansion to accelerate it in the following year.

Speaker 6 We should be thankful for those things.

Speaker 6 We should be thankful for a ceasefire in the Israel-Gaza war and the other ceasefires that have happened for the progress towards a ceasefire in the Russia-Ukraine war, the deadliest war in Europe in nearly a century.

Speaker 5 Well, I totally agree. And, you know, this is the conundrum that the administration faces, right?

Speaker 5 Where they get peace in the Middle East, something everybody wanted, but then instantly, you know, you see the chatter. And by the way, I've contributed to this, and

Speaker 5 I make no apologies for it, but

Speaker 5 then it's sort of like

Speaker 5 the domestic front is not getting enough attention, which is true. Nevertheless,

Speaker 5 it's a heck of a job being the president of the United States.

Speaker 5 I want to call out attention to one other thing that we're thankful for. We talked about it before the show, Blake.
And, you know, you can be kind of a hard grader, and I like that about you.

Speaker 5 But one of the things that you gave the president and this administration really high high marks on was some of the changes within the hiring policies of the executive branch.

Speaker 5 And so going to the correct way.

Speaker 6 100%.

Speaker 6 They came in. They actually, do we have right-wing revolution around? There's one back there.

Speaker 6 There's that sort of

Speaker 6 fantasy scene because it was written before Trump came back into office where it's describing a possible day one of the administration with this cascade of executive orders.

Speaker 6 And that's pretty much what the admin did in real life. Trump said, bring me pieces of paper to sign.
And some of those he signed. He repealed orders going all the way back to LBJ that mandated DEI.

Speaker 6 They didn't call it that at the time, but mandated DEI, affirmative action, all of these race-based, sex-based, discrimination-based quotas for how you do things and imposing them on contractors, on the private sector.

Speaker 6 And he sweeps these things away. He goes to these universities that have just gotten unlimited money from the American people for decades, without question.

Speaker 6 And he goes to Columbia, he goes to Penn, and he says, you guys are doing anti-American stuff. You're allowing crazy students to harass people because they're Jewish or they're white or whatever.

Speaker 6 And you're not allowed to do that. You actually have to change your admissions so they're fair.
Otherwise, and you have to have other rules to make sure there's no harassment.

Speaker 6 Otherwise, we're cutting off the money. There was a news story just the other day.

Speaker 6 Columbia is worried Trump will cut off their supply of international students, so they're looking to expand their undergraduate class of mostly domestic admits up to 20%. Wow.

Speaker 6 So, more actual Americans might get to go to Columbia. They might get to have access to one of the greatest universities in America for Americans.
Yeah. And that's well said.

Speaker 6 So many little things too. Just he got rid of those dumb Biden-era names on all of our military bases where they went to Fort Bragg.
Hey, the fort.

Speaker 6 The fort that trained the men who won World War II. And Biden says, yeah, get rid of that name and call it Fort Liberty.
I'm grateful for Pete Hagseth.

Speaker 5 And by the way, I'm grateful that Charlie fought for Pete Hegseth as hard as he did because we got rid of all of these woke standards. We got rid of the,

Speaker 5 now we have gender-neutral combat standards, got rid of all the furries and the LGBTQ poem readings and all this stuff out of the mill.

Speaker 5 I'm very grateful for that because my brother serves, and he says it's been like night and day. If you look.

Speaker 6 Issue after issue, there's so much progress compared to a year ago. And we'll continue this.
You have to look at where the progress has been made.

Speaker 5 All right, I want to show the audience some of these Charlie Thanksgiving tweets that are just amazing. Go ahead and throw up 208.
This is

Speaker 5 Charlie says, Happy Thanksgiving from our family to yours. We are thankful for the gift of salvation, our amazing children, and God's mercy on our great country this year.

Speaker 5 Take a moment today to be grateful that we did it. By God's grace alone, we took our country back.

Speaker 5 Here's one from November of 2020.

Speaker 5 Throw up 209: Jesus Christ is the king of the world. He died for you this Thanksgiving.
Give your life to Christ. How about this from November 2024, 217? Psalm 100, verse 4.

Speaker 5 Enter his gates with thanksgiving and his courts with praise. Give thanks to him.
Bless his name. And here's yet another 219.

Speaker 5 This is from last November. I'm overwhelmed with gratitude this Thanksgiving.
What a time to be alive.

Speaker 5 Charlie was an expert at being grateful with a whole movement full of people that are really good at being not so grateful, maybe being a little negative, gavetching, whatever words you want to put on it.

Speaker 5 Charlie modeled for all of us gratitude and thanksgiving and always looking up to God, which is truly the model from the first Thanksgiving and onward, even in

Speaker 5 Abraham Lincoln's declaration of the first Thanksgiving. It was always looking to God and being grateful to the Almighty for the providential hand that he's had on this country.

Speaker 6 Many of the pilgrims who celebrated the first Thanksgiving weren't there, I think, even a year later. And they did it anyway.

Speaker 5 And our country has a history of fasting and prayer, and especially in the early days of the founders. And so we need to model what they handed down to us, be grateful for the many blessings.

Speaker 5 And we're going to continue talking about some of our favorite things that we're thankful for this year because there is much to be grateful for.

Speaker 5 All right, I'm going to say one of the things that I'm really happy about, actually.

Speaker 5 Charlie ended up becoming really convinced about the Big Beautiful Bill. Now, I know that it was contentious.
It was a tough road to get there, but guess what?

Speaker 5 It funded ICE, expanded ICE, and it funded our Border Security. Huge, huge win.
ICE was one of the few areas of the U.S. government that had not ever expanded

Speaker 5 since its founding. So since ICE had come onto the scene, it had not grown.
They had not added personnel. We got that done with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and I am very, very happy about that.

Speaker 6 The ICE expansion in particular. I'm just looking through.
I encourage you to go look up list of executive orders in the Trump administration. Maybe even

Speaker 6 look up what Democrats are complaining about from the Trump admin. You might find some stuff you like quite a bit.

Speaker 6 I'm just looking through here. We got

Speaker 6 so as of August, at least 21 transgender hospitals or clinics had closed their doors, including the largest one in the country in Los Angeles. Just almost, again, it's like the border.

Speaker 6 It's almost an overnight total 180-degree swerve from something that was incredibly evil. And now I'm so annoyed because I'll run in.

Speaker 6 You'll see people who will say, actually, that issue was always a distraction. That issue, that issue doesn't really matter much.
It mattered a lot. They were mutilating children.

Speaker 6 They still want to do it. They're fanatical about it.

Speaker 6 The scale of the evil, how sinister it was, the scale of the lie they had to tell, that you could just, a boy could just become a girl or the other way around was so unthinkable.

Speaker 6 And the fact that we actually don't talk about it nearly as much anymore, other than the occasional, oh, a guy goes into a girl's locker room or something.

Speaker 6 Things have gotten so drastically better. And that's so heavily due to who we have in the White House, who we have making policy in this country, who we have setting the conversation.

Speaker 6 And that is an amazing mercy on our country. How about this?

Speaker 5 Core inflation is down to 2.1, the lowest since Trump's first term. Egg prices are down 53%.

Speaker 6 I think I saw gas. Gas is this?

Speaker 5 Get this? There's it. The cheapest gas in the country, Oklahoma, $2.50 a gallon.
But you can get it here in Phoenix at $3.19 a gallon.

Speaker 6 $319? That's pretty low for Phoenix. Yeah.
We had, you know.

Speaker 5 USAID. USAID.

Speaker 6 USAID. Totally.
We dismantled this giant foreign aid apparatus that gave money to a lot of things that once people saw what it was, they did not care for it.

Speaker 6 We have the January 6th Pardons, 1,000 people people who were, it was the biggest manhunt in American history to find every single person who was remotely adjacent to this event and treating it as the new Pearl Harbor.

Speaker 6 It was this core part of the new left-wing, anti-MAGA third foundation of the country myth that we basically need a new constitution to wage war on MAGA.

Speaker 6 Pardons, it's just over with. January 6th is done.

Speaker 6 And we have Vice President J.D. Vance.

Speaker 6 We don't have Charlie anymore.

Speaker 6 We have the person he saw as one of his best friends in politics, one of his closest political analogs in politics, who shares his thoughts about nationalism, who shares his thoughts about faith, who shares his thoughts about so many things.

Speaker 6 And that man is the Vice President of the United States. Every single day, he's blossoming as a communicator on X.

Speaker 6 He's hosted this program. He's done so many things.
He's such a worthy standard-bearer for the cause. And Charlie fought so hard specifically for that.
You and I saw it,

Speaker 6 how much he campaigned for that behind the scenes throughout 24.

Speaker 6 And we have him as this leader.

Speaker 5 And I totally agree. JD's the best, and he's, you know, he's got a bright future ahead.
That's all we'll say. Here's what else I'll say: $31 billion in tariff revenue this last month.

Speaker 5 I know, Blake, that's not on your list, but it's on my list. I am all about it.

Speaker 6 If it works, if it works. He ran on it.
He has the opportunity. I'm grateful for it.

Speaker 5 I'm grateful for it.

Speaker 5 And that is,

Speaker 5 listen,

Speaker 5 I love trying to onshore manufacturing, and I love the trillions of dollars of pledges. We obviously want to see those shovel ready.

Speaker 6 We'll close the hour with this. We have an email from Rita who says, I am thankful for Charlie and the insight of those closest to him.
Thank you very much, Rita.

Speaker 5 Happy Thanksgiving. We will see you next week.

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