My LIVE Reaction to the Trump/Putin Summit
The Charlie Kirk Show
Charlie Kirk
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🗓️ 16 August 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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America and the world are one step closer to peace after President Trump’s meeting with Vladimir Putin in Alaska. Charlie offers his immediate live reaction to the events of the day and what they reveal about both our president and his critics.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody, Charlie Kirk here live from the Bitcoin.com studio. Here are my instant thoughts, everybody, on the Trump-Pooten meeting straight from Anchorage. Email us, as always, freedom at charliecirk.com. Buckle up, everybody here. We go. 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. |
| 0:02.3 | He's an incredible guy. to know we are lucky to have Charlie Kirk. Charlie Kirk's running the White House, folks. |
| 0:22.7 | I want to thank Charlie. |
| 0:24.1 | He's an incredible guy. |
| 0:25.2 | His spirit, his love of this country. |
| 0:27.0 | He's done an amazing job. |
| 0:28.6 | Building one of the most powerful youth organizations ever created, Turning Point USA. |
| 0:33.3 | 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. |
| 0:42.2 | That's why we are here. |
| 0:45.8 | Okay, everyone, it is late on a Friday night, and it is a historic day. President Donald Trump woke up at 5 a.m., boarded Air Force One and flew across the continent all the way to |
| 0:57.4 | Alaska. Why did he do this? Went to Alaska to go meet with Vladimir Putin. Vladimir Putin |
| 1:03.0 | actually flew longer. Why did Vladimir Putin fly all the way from Moscow to Anchorage? That is one of |
| 1:09.8 | the buried components of this that I want to explore, which is Putin did not have to do this. He's on the verge of an ugly victory that he flew all the way across his continent to meet with Donald Trump. Donald Trump, by the way, he was going to fly six hours there, do the meeting and fly six hours back. The guy's a total machine. So just a little bit of a setup here. |
| 1:27.6 | This was done at an Air Force base in Anchorage, Alaska, right outside Anchorage, Alaska. |
| 1:32.8 | They decided not to do it at a resort or a hotel where sometimes these meetings happen, but instead on a U.S. Air Force Base. |
| 1:38.9 | And I think we now know why President Trump decided in that. |
| 1:42.9 | It wasn't necessarily because of security. |
| 1:45.2 | I mean, they could have figured out security. |
| 1:46.8 | But President Donald Trump, he wanted his opening salvo to be a show of force. |
| 1:52.2 | You see, Vladimir Putin is a lot of things, but he is a brute force actor. |
| 1:56.8 | What he understands most fundamentally, more than anything else, is force and the administration of force. |
| 2:02.8 | And Vladimir Putin coming down the tarmac there, shaking hands with President Donald Trump. |
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