Charlie Kirk calls for a DC-style takeover of “all of America’s greatest cities”

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From the August 21, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble

CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): Why would the left bring down crime rates? They side with criminals all the time. They want more criminals out of jail. They want fewer criminals arrested. Not because they think this will help America, but because they know it will make it worse. They are a parasitic force on the United States of America, and this DC thing is a perfect test case. I cannot tell you, this DC thing now allows us to deal in reality. Not a murder for seven days. That is unheard of in Washington, DC in the month of killing of August. 

There is this nihilistic drive that is the life force of the left. Now we have a control case, and now we have a template. President Donald Trump is the anti-abstraction president. President Donald Trump did not need another think tank from some nonprofit on K Street. By the way, you drive in DC, there’s all these, you know, $100 million buildings of this institute and this foundation. Some of them are plenty nice people. President Donald Trump did not need another, “Oh, well, sir, here’s a 55 page white paper on how you might –” He said, “I don’t know. This is a waste of time. Run in — roll in the tanks.” We don’t need a white paper. We need marines.

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For all the people that have had their cars jacked, for all the murders in DC, you can now know, Muriel Bowser, they were choosing to allow it to happen. If you live in a major US city and it’s dirty and it’s crime infested, it’s because your leaders are choosing for that to happen. Crime is a choice. Look at El Salvador. And now it’s time for us to scale it to all of America’s greatest cities. We have a controlled case of a week. Let’s spread it out to a month, and then let’s turn America’s cities into the safest in the Western Hemisphere. And I don’t care if the Democrats object.