Donald Trump Jr. issued a stark warning to those who distanced themselves from his father in the aftermath of the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot. During a Monday interview with right-wing host Charlie Kirk, Trump Jr. criticized former allies who failed to stand by his father and celebrated the resurgence of the Trump movement.
Kirk began the conversation by praising the movement’s resilience. “[M]any people thought the Trump movement was dead to rights on January 7th, 2021,” Kirk said. “And now look four years later, it is the most popular.” Trump Jr. reflected on past betrayals, recalling how some former friends stopped answering his calls after Donald Trump’s 2016 election victory. He expressed frustration at those who abandoned his father after the Capitol riot.
“Because you could be with us before, but if you sold out, if you bought into the narrative, if you said, ‘Oh my God, it’s worse than Pearl Harbor, you know, and 9/11 combined on January 7th,’ that’s the new day one,” he said. He argued that the legal challenges and fallout from January 6 created an opportunity to build a stronger and more loyal administration, free from what he called the influence of the “DC uni-party and the swamp.”
“If you didn’t have Jan. 6, if you didn’t have the weaponization of all these things, you would have had the same guys in the administration that were slow rolling him, that were doing the bidding basically of the Democrat party,” Trump Jr. asserted.
Looking ahead to a potential second Trump administration, he said his father now has the advantage of starting fresh with allies who are fully committed to the cause. “Now you got four years where we know what we’re doing, where we have a chance to start from scratch with people who we know are absolute warriors for the movement,” he said. “Now you’re stuck with that for four years.”
Concluding with a pop culture reference, Trump Jr. channeled the film Billy Madison, issuing a warning to detractors: “Now, as Billy Madison would say, you’re all in big, big trouble.” The interview underscored the Trumps’ intent to solidify loyalty within their political ranks and highlighted their continued defiance in the face of controversy over the events of January 6.