Rob Schneider Issues Blunt Warning to America While Honoring Charlie Kirk [WATCH]

Actor and comedian Rob Schneider delivered a wide-ranging statement reflecting on the influence of Charlie Kirk, arguing that Kirk’s work challenged foundational assumptions among young Americans whilehighlighting what Schneider described as the fragile state of freedom in the United States.

Schneider said Kirk played a pivotal role for university students across the country by questioning ideas that many had taken for granted and by framing America as central to the survival of Western civilization.

“Charlie did for me what he did for so many university students across this country. He dismantled foundational thinking,” Schneider said.

“He understood that America is now the keystone of Western civilization. However, he also knew how precarious it was and that it would take only one generation to lose it.”

Schneider said Kirk consistently warned that Americans should not expect outside forces to preserve the nation if it falters.

“He said no one is coming to save us. There will be no Marines from some other country landing on our beaches. There will be no Marshall Plan to financially bail us out. We are the Marines,” Schneider said.

According to Schneider, Kirk framed the moment as a decisive one in human history, with the survival of individual liberty at stake.

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“So the question is simply this, will America be a temporary experiment in human history, a brief moment where freedom for the individual enjoyed by relatively few people in human history, before it returns to some brutal feudal system where individual freedom is lost to a world government with complete control,” Schneider said, adding that preserving freedom would require more than “political posturing.”

Schneider said Kirk believed faith was essential to sustaining liberty and warned that freedom cannot survive when it is detached from deeper moral foundations.

“Charlie understood something fundamental without faith, freedom becomes fragile. Our roots must be rooted in something higher than government, and he warned us, a civilization that abandons God will deteriorate and ultimately collapse from the inside out,” Schneider said.

Schneider also recalled Kirk’s emphasis on the dangers of dehumanizing political opponents and the importance of maintaining dialogue.

“Charlie said, when you stop having a human connection with someone you disagree with, it becomes a lot easier to want to commit violence against that group,” Schneider said.

“What we as a culture have to get back to, he said, is to be able to have reasonable disagreement where violence is not an option.”

He described the current state of the country as a “cold civil war” and said Kirk believed debate and dialogue were necessary to prevent further escalation.

“Now we are in a cold civil war right now, but we must do everything in our power to make sure that this doesn’t become an actual hot Civil War, and we must do that with dialog and debate,” Schneider said. “We must let the better nature that each of us have rise to the surface.”

Schneider contrasted public reaction to Kirk’s death with episodes of unrest in recent years.

“I want to point out that after Charlie was murdered, no American cities were burned to the ground, no cars were set ablaze. No looting took place. The only burning was candles, candles to honor someone who dearly loved our country and fought passionately to preserve these unique liberties that so many have fought and died for,” he said.

Schneider then drew a historical parallel to Telemachus, a priest killed in 404 AD after opposing violent spectacles, and compared that moment to Kirk’s actions on college campuses.

“In 404 AD, the crowd killed the priest because he told them the truth. He told them to stop enjoying the blood sport,” Schneider said.

“In 2025 Charlie Kirk jumped into our modern Coliseum, the arena of the university campus. He stood between the mob and their rage, he handed the crowd a microphone. He gave his opponents a voice.”

Schneider said Kirk sought to redirect hostility toward faith and dialogue rather than violence.

“He sat there, told the truth, took their fury and tried to move them and our nation closer to God and closer to our Savior, Jesus Christ, and they killed him for it,” Schneider said.

He expressed hope that Kirk’s death would mark a turning point similar to the end of gladiatorial games in ancient Rome.

“May Charlie Kirk’s death be what Telemachus death was. May it be the end of the games, the end of the spectacle, the end of the blood sport,” Schneider said.

Schneider said Kirk wanted to be remembered for his faith and courage.

“Charlie said he wanted to be remembered for courage and faith, and he will be always,” Schneider said.

“And though we lost him way too soon, Charlie Kirk knew you don’t kill a Christian. You only change his address.”

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