Vice President JD Vance joins the show to mark the end of the Trump Admin's first hundred days. The VP lays out the most important achievements of the most ambitious White House in living memory, explains what victories don't get enough attention, and makes some news on the Ukraine peace negotiations. Become a member at 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: Who is Vice President J.D. Vance and what is his role?
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. Okay, joining us now is the Vice President of the United States of America, Mr. J.D. Vance. Mr. Vice President, great to have you on the program. Boy, it feels good to say that.
How are you doing, my friend? And great to have you on the program.
Chapter 2: What has been achieved in the Trump Administration's first 100 days?
Thanks, Charlie. It's good to be with you. And yeah, man, it's kind of crazy. It feels in some ways like we've done more in 100 days than other administrations do over 100 years. But it feels good. And obviously, we're going to keep up the momentum as much as we can. But it's a big milestone, and I'm happy to celebrate it with my dear friend Charlie Kirk.
Well, thank you. And let's dive into that. So just first, how has it been as far as operating at Trump speed and Trump pace? And the victories are enormous, and it's easy to forget some of them because there are so many victories. executive orders, so many problems that are now fixed. What has surprised you? What has met your expectations?
What has now exceeded your expectations, both from working closely with the president and also the portfolio of issues that you and the entire administration have decided to tackle?
Yeah, well, obviously, the president is working at a very fast pace. He goes to bed late. He wakes up early. He's constantly asking us, how can we do more? How can we give an objective and accomplish it faster?
And so I think it's actually liberating in a lot of ways because you know that whatever you do, so long as it is consistent with the president's objective, he's going to empower you to do it. He's going to encourage you to do it. And if you're not doing it, he's going to ask, why the hell haven't you got it done?
And I think that's a very easy way to go about the job of vice president, because, you know, I feel like I have pretty broad latitude, right. To accomplish the things that the president wants us to accomplish. And so I really enjoyed the job. Obviously I've only been in a hundred days, but I really enjoyed it. I think we've gotten a lot done.
And I think in particular, there's so many issues where the press said, you need a new piece of legislation. You need a grand bipartisan compromise. We're actually just having a different president changing the law enforcement apparatus of the country and has accomplished so much.
I think obviously the biggest example of that is at the border, where I think at this point we are down 99% or close to it border crossings since the president took office.
You have this sense of almost, you know, when I visited the border about a month ago, there was a sense of almost boredom among the border patrol agents because there were so many people coming across just a few short months ago. that they were like, wait, where did everybody go?
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Chapter 3: How is President Trump's leadership impacting border security?
you know, trade, bring back manufacturing, some of the things that we're working on when it comes to foreign policy. These things take a little bit longer to bake, but I think the border has been in some ways the most rewarding because you see the results so quickly.
Yeah. And the accomplishments are enormous and growing. What would you say is the biggest victory that hasn't received as much press attention? The border in right wing circles and conservative media has been mentioned. I think needs to be mentioned every single day, every single day when you talk about how we actually have a border.
There has only been nine people that were released into the interior of the United States. That is a 99.99% reduction. It is one of the greatest, most significant public policy accomplishments and victories without a piece of legislation in American history. Brett Stevens went on Bill Maher's show and said, this is one of the worst 100 days. This is the worst 100 days ever in American history.
And someone should look that guy in the eyes and say, unlike the wars that you wanted to start, Brett Stevens, for years, we actually have a border thanks to President Trump. What would you say is the greatest victory, though, Mr. Vice President, that hasn't received much attention?
Something you've been working on, something that you say, boy, this is a big deal, and I wish more people knew about it.
Yeah, I mean, look, I can point to a few things, but just on the border, you're right. Obviously, the border has gotten the most attention. I think it's the place where you can see the clearest direction and connection between the president's policy and the reduction of border crossings.
To your point, I think it's a radical improvement in a very short amount of time without a single piece of legislation. We had a border invasion, and now we don't. And the only thing that changed was Donald Trump's leadership. That is a very good thing. But There are all these subtle ways in which border enforcement, Charlie, it doesn't gather the same headlines.
It doesn't, you know, gather the same focus as the top line reduction border crossing. But Charlie, you just have cartels who are not engaging in the same level of activity. who would have crossed, would have been processed and released into the country, who just aren't even trying to make the trek.
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Chapter 4: What are the lesser-known victories of the Trump administration?
That means there are probably thousands of children who otherwise would have been trafficked across the southern border who haven't been. And so, yeah, it does gather the most headlines, but there are so many parts of a successful border policy that don't gather headlines at all that I think are worth focusing on.
And Charlie, I mean, if I point to another issue, it would have to be foreign policy, because as you know, this is sort of one of these issues where I think that the president is so right, his critics are so wrong. You know, yeah, have the Russians and the Ukrainians stopped fighting? No, but have we made more progress in three months than we made in the previous three years? Absolutely.
And you have even the Ukrainians, the Europeans, the Russians, all sort of simultaneously admitting that sometimes begrudgingly, that Donald Trump's diplomacy has advanced the ball there more in a few months than the previous few years. That's a big, big accomplishment.
The final thing I'd say, Charlie, is, you know, while the trade policy is maybe where we get the most criticism from the far left press, I actually think that what President Trump has done has fundamentally reset things. Whether you're an American business, and I talk to a lot of CEOs and
Whether you're a foreign investor, whether you're somebody who just works and lives in the economy, which is, of course, most of our citizens, I think that people recognize we're not going back. We're not going to go back to the same old ways of shipping American jobs overseas, of relying on hostile powers to make the things that we need. And there's a lot still to do there.
And there's a lot to accomplish. Obviously, as the president has said, we're negotiating a lot of these trade deals. But man, there's just this sense among the business community that this is a new era in American economic and investment, American economic activity.
I think that doesn't get the headlines, but that may be the enduring change from the second Trump administration is people recognize we're not going back. This rebalancing of global trade is here to stay. And that's all because of Donald Trump's leadership.
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Chapter 5: How is the Trump administration navigating judicial challenges and injunctions?
We had people who had valid deportation orders, and this judge was trying to prevent us from doing the job the American people elected us to do. As you heard Democrats say so often, no one is above the law, and that includes judges who are obstructing justice. And there's going to be a lot of justice for people who violated the law, Charlie. That's what you have to do.
The American principle of justice is not, you know, because you're a Democrat, you don't actually face the justice of the judicial system. The American system of justice is that rich or poor, Republican or Democrat, if you broke the law, you go through the judicial system. And we're committed to bring that basic principle back to life in the United States of America.
And I think there's a side benefit to it, Charlie. This is not why you do these things, of course. But if Democrats know that they are going to be penalized for violating the law, maybe they'll stop violating the law. And maybe they'll stop using the Justice Department as a weapon system against their political opponents.
We want to bring back common sense to this country, but there's no way to do it if Democrats think they can throw their opponents in jail. They're now finding out that if they violate the law, they're going to face the consequences. And that is a very important principle to bring back to this country.
Final point I want to discuss with you, Mr. Vice President, is something that obviously you and I care about. You mentioned it previously, which is ending the Russian-Ukrainian war. President Trump was sitting next to Zelensky in an epic picture in Italy at the Pope's funeral. This was their first meeting since your Oval Office meeting where you were also in there.
Talk what you know about this that you could share and how the president is doing everything he possibly can to bring peace to the region. And what is the United States' perspective on this seemingly impossible struggle and war that President Trump is leaning in literally with Zelensky to try to get finished?
Yeah, Charlie, so I obviously don't want to prejudge the negotiations because they are very much you know, in full swing. I actually had a conversation just this morning about this particular issue. Here's the way that I put it, Charlie, is, you know, one, if I could bring people on the inside, I think what they'd see is that sometimes you're incredibly frustrated with Ukrainians.
Sometimes you're incredibly frustrated with the Russians. You know, that is the nature of the negotiation is you're going back and forth. And sometimes you just want to throw your hands up, but that's what President Trump doesn't let us do. He doesn't let us just throw our hands up and say, you know what, this is ridiculous.
He forces us to continually go back to the table, continually try to find a solution, bring the sides together. And that really is sort of where this thing is right now. You have the Russians who have one peace settlement they'd like. You'd have the Ukrainians, they have a different peace settlement.
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Chapter 6: What progress has been made toward peace in the Russian-Ukrainian war?
I think there's this weird idea among the mainstream media that if this thing goes on for just another few years, the Russians will collapse, the Ukrainians will take their territory back, and everything will go back to the way that it was before the war. That is not the reality that we live in. If this thing goes on for another few years, We could have societies collapsing.
The demographics of both of these countries are a nightmare. You could have millions of more people killed if this thing goes on for another few years, and it could risk escalating into a nuclear war. It has to stop. It is the policy of this administration that it stops, and I guarantee you the president is having all of his people, including me, work very hard for that end goal.
Out of all the things that you guys are working on on a day-to-day basis, this might be one of the highest of moral significance, that and the southern border. And you are the southern borders already secured, but brokering peace and making sure we don't get into a thermonuclear war, making sure that another Ukrainian generation is not eliminated is incredibly important.
Mr. Vice President, congratulations on 100 amazing days. May this be a prelude for more accomplishments to come. We have your back. Thank you so much.
Sounds good, Charlie. Thanks, man.
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