Progressive Politics

Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk was a guest on CNBC’s Squawk Box Wednesday, an inexplicable and indefensible booking even in light of networks wanting to reach a politically diverse audience.

Other media outlets, including CNN, The Washington Post, and the Los Angeles Times, have struggled with covering the Trump administration. But is there really no one else willing to go on television and discuss conservative views, GOP policies, and the Trump administration’s agenda from a center-right perspective besides Charlie Kirk?

During Kirk’s seventeen minutes on Squawk Box, co-hosts Joe Kernen and Andrew Ross Sorkin rolled through a number of timely and topically relevant questions, but the 31-year-old was unable to offer much more than diluted White House talking points and declarations of MAGA fealty.

Kernen commented that Kirk was something of a “mind reader of the president” and asked him “how should the business community think about what he says.”

Kirk’s answer was that it was “very simple” and “not complicated,” that Trump “wants what’s best for America, it’s not ideological and he wants what’s best both for capital and labor and he wants the market to succeed and wants wages to go up,” before prattling on about Trump’s “victories” with the trade deals.