Charlie Kirk says Sen. John Thune should turn off the Senate air conditioning to force through Trump nominees
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From the July 29, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): At every corner and every single turn, it seems as if we are the ones that are polite and that we are procedural, and we are guarding tradition. The Democrats, they don't care about any tradition. Now we should be traditionalists because we're conservatives in our DNA. We like how things are. We don't wanna change them. We don't wanna be revolutionaries. I think that is a proper posture to have towards politics. Just overthrowing the table and constantly playing into a French or Russian Revolution mindset, that is not who we are.
Edmund Burke wrote in the Reflections on the French Revolution about this, that we as conservatives must be prudent and we must be intentional anytime we are going to change laws or customs.
But what we're talking about here is the Democrats have actually broken from tradition and that we are globbing on to tradition. Are we going to respond in kind?
And I'm not joking about the air conditioning. Nowhere in the US Constitution does it say — you know, Amendment 19, Senate must have air conditioning. What I'm getting at the air conditioning is half joking, half reality. It's make the Democrats uncomfortable. They don't control the House. They don't control the Senate. They did not win the election. They got blown out. The popularity of the Democrat Party is at the lowest levels imaginable.
I'm using this as an example of what kind of mindset it takes to win. And you know what? I bet if you actually turn out the air conditioning, they'd be — you know, they'd go to the media. Chuck Schumer would be complaining. And John Thune is like, the air conditioning comes on when we get our nominees. Time to play hardball. And and look, there's some members of the US Senate that would not exactly do well in a US sauna called the US Senate.
And just so we're clear, if John Thune set — I'm not kidding with this. If he turned off the air conditioning, the base of MAGA would think this guy would be a hero. He'd think it'd be a — and he would kinda do it somewhat half-heartedly, but kinda jokingly, like, don't be too serious about if you're Thune. Like, hey. Air conditioning. The Founders didn't have air conditioning when they wrote the Declaration of Independence. There was no air conditioning in Independence Hall. So if you guys wanna filibuster every single one, you guys wanna go through every single one of these people, then we are going to turn this into a Swedish sweat lodge.