Charlie Kirk: “It's time for a federal takeover of Chicago. ... I think you're gonna see the president pull the trigger sometime soon.”
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From the September 2, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): I think President Trump should call his bluff. I think we should flood the zone.
It's already working in Washington DC. Chicago is a next perfect test case.
As I said in DC and people laughed at me, you bring in the tanks, you fly the drones, you send in the Marines. It worked in DC. It will work in Chicago. People were laughing. Oh my goodness. Why are there tanks in DC? Well, it worked because the show of force is all that these good-for-nothing low lifes, these low lifes that are shooting people at one or two AM, that's all they understand. These good for nothing low lifes that are spraying and praying and sometimes a six year-old girl gets struck on her way to school, that right there is completely unacceptable. We're not gonna put up with that. In the United States of America, we're not gonna put up with urban crime anymore.
We're gonna go city by city, block by block. And the Democrats really don't like it. The left, they don't know how to answer it because, oh, our cities are so safe, so stay away so we can keep them unsafe. Really? You guys have been complaining about how dangerous these cities are for a while. Give us more money because our cities are so unsafe. It's time for a federal takeover of Chicago. We've been calling for this for quite some time. I think we're getting closer. I think you're gonna see the president pull the trigger sometime soon.