Newt Gingrich
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148 appearances
5 recordings
2 series
first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
Newt Gingrich’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Maybe Charlie Kirk is on the college campus.
Well, first of all, thank you, Charlie. You do such a great job of fighting for conservative ideas. I'm delighted to be here to talk about Trump's triumph, America's greatest comeback. I started writing it in October because I was sure he was going to win. And as a historian, I wanted to put a framework
for the American people on how he had made this huge comeback and how America had made a huge comeback. And it's that combination that makes this an unusual moment. I think there's a very real chance that Trump is going to become one of the most important change agents ever to occupy the presidency, certainly in the same league as Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
And if he succeeds, if he wins in 26 and 28, when his policies continue to move in the right direction, he will, in fact, I think, become probably the biggest change agent since Lincoln. It's a remarkable experience, and it grows out of the American people. The American people want this. They rejected Biden. They turned around and rejected Harris.
No candidate in history has beaten an incumbent president and an incumbent vice president in the same year, except Donald Trump. So it tells you something very profound was going on.
Yeah, look, I think this movement goes all the way back to Goldwater in 1964. And I think you can see the original frame of it if you go to YouTube and pull up Ronald Reagan's amazing October 1964 speech, A Time for Choosing. It relates today. I mean, Reagan went right to the core of the American people, the American Constitution. and whether or not a big government socialism could work.
Those issues are as alive today as they were in October of 64. Then you had the Reagan Democrats who joined in. Then we had the contract with America and won control of the House for the first time in 40 years, got reelected for the first time in 68 years, not since 1928, had Republicans won twice in a row. And we shifted the whole balance of power in Washington. Then the people were frustrated.
The Tea Party movement sprang up in 2010. And you have to see the Obama-Biden cycle as a sequence. Biden's just Obama's third term. And all the great policy mistakes start with Obama. And that further alienated people. And Obamaism was repudiated in 2016. The left counterattacked in ways that were unimaginable. I mean, you know, Calista and I were there.
We first talked with Trump in February of 2015 in Des Moines about running. And I would never have dreamed, with all the experiences I've had, I would never have dreamed the savagery, the viciousness, the dishonesty of the FBI, the Central Intelligence Agency, the New York Times and the Washington Post.
The counterattack on Trump in his first term told you how real he was because they were terrified. Then the election was rigged. in 2020, which it turned out to have been one of the greatest mistakes the left ever made because it gave Trump four years in the wilderness to think through what he's doing and what he wants to do.
It made him much more bold, much more determined, I think, than he would have been if he'd gotten reelected. And the other thing I would say is that they really underestimated his capacity. So you both had the American people who were increasingly fed up with the left,
And you had this extraordinary charismatic leader who I think is captured best by giving out French fries at McDonald's and then getting on a garbage truck and putting on a garbage collector's vest and walking into a 50,000 people arena and saying, they tell me this makes me look thinner. Maybe I should wear it for the rest of the campaign. I mean, the ability to connect with humans.
Remember, 87% of the country goes to McDonald's at least once a year. And 40 million Americans, including Jeff Bezos, have actually worked at McDonald's. So Trump's instinct for being where the American people are, not where the Harvard professor is or the Yale or Princeton professor, but where the American people are, has been astonishing. It's a remarkable thing.
Well, let me point out, by the way, we're speaking during a week when the Trump endorsed candidate just won the presidency of Poland in a very divisive election in which the European Union and Brussels had poured billions into trying to help reelect a left winger. And he lost and he had with the direct support of the Trump team. For the conservative populist.
So there's something very big going on planet wide. Trump does make a big difference. And I think you have to start with me just ask yourself, as you point out that this is a billionaire, who I think owns like 18 or 19 golf courses, he could go home, spend the rest of his life being happy.
He gets assaulted viciously for four years, loses what I think is absolutely a rigged election, is at his low point after January 6th, with everybody pounding on him, including a number of Republicans. And he ends up, you know, getting his act together, looking in his heart, deciding that he owes it to America.
And I really think he believes that, that this is an act of citizenship and of patriotism. And then, having already been investigated, impeached twice, had four different efforts to put him in jail. Then he has two assassination attempts. And I remember when Calista and I made movies about John Paul II and about Ronald Reagan, they were both shot by an attempted assassin.
And when they first got together, they compared notes and why did God spare them? And they concluded God spared them to defeat the Soviet empire, which they did in the following eight or nine years.
Well, I think Trump, and I know this in part from Speaker Mike Johnson, who was with President Trump in Mar-a-Lago the day he was told about the second potential assassin who had been caught literally on the golf course, trying to get ready to shoot the president while he was golfing. And as Johnson told me, that really broke through.
And he and the president went to a private room and prayed for two hours. And I think that's why you see in the inaugural address and in later speeches that I think Trump really does think he was spared, because as you'll remember at Butler, if he had turned One second later, he'd have been dead.
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