The Charlie Kirk Show
"If It's Not Us, It's Nobody" — My Speech at Hillsdale College
Sun, 02 Mar 2025
If America fails, the world fails. And only we can keep America from failing — there's no one to pass the buck to. Enjoy Charlie's speech to one of Hillsdale College's National Leadership Seminars, where he discusses the immense strides the country has taken since Trump's inauguration, Elon Musk and DOGE's fight to break the spending death spiral, the call to build a better culture, and more. 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.
Chapter 1: What is Charlie Kirk's speech about at Hillsdale College?
Hey everybody, my speech at the Hillsdale Leadership Seminar. People say it was one of the best speeches I've given in recent memory. I tend to agree, and I don't say that lightly. I think it was laid out correctly and had the right framing and the right discussion and the right diagnosis of our problems. So I think you're going to enjoy it.
Email me as always, freedom at charliekirk.com and subscribe to our podcast. Get involved with Turning Point USA at tpusa.com. That is tpusa.com. Buckle up everybody here.
Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk.
Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA.
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Learn how you could protect your wealth with Noble Gold Investments at noblegoldinvestments.com. That is noblegoldinvestments.com. It's where I buy all of my gold. Go to noblegoldinvestments.com. Thank you, everybody. Thank you, Dr. Arnn. It's very kind. I think I might be the first speaker at a national leadership seminar. Not to go to college, is that right? Maybe, maybe not.
But I'm on pace to complete every single Hillsdale online course, so I think I'm making up for it. And I visit college campuses, so you don't have to. I could tell you that if every kid who's currently in college took the Hillsdale online courses instead of going to that four-year college, America would be in a much better place. Much better place.
We might have some ideas now for this new administration. I just want to brag on Hillsdale. So I wrote a book called The College Scam, and I sent a copy to Dr. Arnn. I speak extensively about how great Hillsdale is and how it's the exception of what I talk about in the book.
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Chapter 2: How is Hillsdale College influencing education?
And two, they are petri dishes for all the worst ideas that then metastasize into corporate America, law enforcement, military, so on and so forth. And the other point I'll make is, You go to Hillsdale College. Do you notice how aesthetically beautiful it is? It's a beautiful campus.
Did you know that in a lesser appreciated executive order, President Trump on day one signed an executive order saying build beautiful buildings again? It was an executive order for all federal bureaucracies. Now you can laugh, but I encourage you next time you're in D.C. to drive by the Department of Education. It looks how it operates. It looks... like a drawer cabinet.
It looks like a file cabinet, I should say. It doesn't point up. There are no circles. It simply squares. It looks like a place where widgets are made. Because that's what they think education is. They think you're just kind of a widget in a big system to serve the administrative machine. Nothing to be glorified, nothing to wonder, nothing to pursue, no philosophy to contemplate.
But no, they look at themselves as carpenters, whereas Dr. Arnn would say educators are more like gardeners, where you let the kid grow into what they can become. Yes, next question.
Hi, Charlie. I have a sophomore at Hillsdale, and before I get to my question, I just have to tell you that We've been Turning Point supporters long before we were Hillsdale supporters. About six or seven years ago, we saw you at University of Washington. You were there with Anna Polina Luna and Officer Tatum.
I remember that.
Yeah, yeah. This was the part when they didn't shut you down, which I think they did recently. Yes, that's right. So I wanted to ask something about... Trump's recent comments, I mean, I totally understand the Gulf of America and where he's going with that. And he's an incredible negotiator. I mean, he's probably the most brilliant negotiator out there.
And I think a lot of things he does or says are negotiating tactics, but sometimes I get a little concerned. It's only been six weeks.
I know. And so I just thought...
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