8 Years Ago Today, Everything Changed
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
4.6 • 65.6K Ratings
🗓️ 16 June 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Eight years ago today, America changed forever when Donald Trump announced his presidential run. In the years since Trump descended his golden escalator, politics, media, and American society have changed almost beyond recognition. How did Trump have such a huge impact on American history? Charlie walks through the past eight years, and how they would have never happened if not for the one ambitious tycoon from New York.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody, Tan, Charlie Kirk Show. Eight years ago today, everything changed. Donald Trump went down the escalator, and our lives were never the same. |
| 0:10.1 | Email us, freedom at charliecirk.com. T.P. Action.com is where you can get your tickets to the Turning Point Action Conference. Tucker Carlson, Dan Bongino, Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, Josh Hawley, and more. |
| 0:22.9 | Megan Kelly will be there as well. TPaction.com. That is tpaction.com. |
| 0:29.6 | Buckle up, everybody here. We go. |
| 0:31.9 | Charlie, what you've done is incredible here. |
| 0:33.6 | Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus. |
| 0:35.5 | I want you to know we are lucky to have Charlie |
| 0:38.3 | Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. I want to thank Charlie. He's an incredible guy. |
| 0:44.5 | His spirit, his love of this country. He's done an amazing job. Building one of the most powerful |
| 0:49.4 | youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. We will not embrace the ideas that have destroyed countries, destroyed lives, and we are going to fight for freedom on campuses across the country. |
| 1:01.5 | That's why we are here. |
| 1:04.3 | Brought to you by the loan experts I trust, Andrew and Todd at Sierra Pacific Mortgage at Andrew and Todd.com. |
| 1:18.5 | I'd say most people didn't take it seriously. |
| 1:21.3 | He was considered a joke. |
| 1:23.6 | It quickly turned into an internet meme. |
| 1:26.6 | There's no way this guy is serious talking like this. |
| 1:28.9 | This is just for him to sell more apartment buildings and this is a branding exercise. Where were you? Where were you? When you first heard the |
| 1:39.3 | news? Not 9-11, not even for some of you, Pearl Harbor, not the Kennedy assassination. |
| 1:47.9 | Now, where were you when Donald Trump went down the golden escalator? |
| 1:53.3 | I think it's without a doubt one of the most top 30, top 40, top 50, significant moments in American political history, easily. |
| 2:02.9 | Where were you? |
| 2:04.2 | Were you sitting at home, kind of minding your own business, maybe listening to Rush? |
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