Charlie Kirk calls for eliminating sign language interpreters during emergency briefings: “It's a distraction”
Kirk: “Can we please just go away with half the screen during these emergency briefings to the sign language interpreters? ... This is just over the top.”
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From the January 8, 2025, edition of The Charlie Kirk Show, streamed on Rumble
CHARLIE KIRK (HOST): I'm gonna say this just off the cuff before I introduce our guest. Can we please just go away with half the screen during these emergency briefings to the sign language interpreters? I have nothing against, obviously, people that cannot hear, but there's closed captioning. I mean, this is just over the top. We can't do this. We gotta get back to how it used to be. It's just, oh, it's just too much. It's a distraction is what it is. The reason is they do these emergency briefings for fires or terrorist attacks, and you're looking at this and you're not listening. I don't like it. So we got — we just gotta — closed captioning's perfectly fine. I think we have to — we gotta get back to basics here.