Turning Point USA’s “This is The Turning Point Tour” resumed Wednesday at Auburn University, featuring Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville, Benny Johnson, along with Eric and Lara Trump, who headlined the event attended by 6,000 people.
Senator Tuberville, who served on the US Air Force Academy Board alongside Charlie Kirk (both appointed during the current term of President Trump), marveled over the magnitude of the event during his speech.
“This brings tears to your eyes of what Turning Point has been through, of what Erika has been through over the last two or three months,” Tuberville said. “It’s been a tough time for our country. So I want to thank everybody for supporting Turning Point USA. It is a phenomenal organization that’s making a lot of progress.”
“One thing that he wanted to do was bring knowledge to young people,” Tuberville, a retired college football coach, said of Kirk’s campus efforts. “He and I talked a lot about education. And that was the one thing he and I had in common.”
Benny Johnson discussed the successful campaign strategy of President Trump in 2024 and the effect America’s conservative youth had on the election.
“Ladies and gentleman, not only are you on the right side of American history: you are American history. You are the inheritors of American history.” Johnson told the audience, encouraging them to not cower from embracing the moniker of “America First.”
Johnson was later joined by Eric and Lara Trump, who discussed their marriage and the anniversary of the 2024 and 2020 elections before taking Q&A.
At one point Eric called his father, who said on the phone that “Auburn’s a special place… it’s a great school… we love Alabama and won it by forty five points. I just want to pay my respects to Charlie and Erika, these are two incredible people.”
“I’ve spoken to her often,” Trump said about Erika Kirk. “She’s just a spectacular person. And she’s going to start where Charlie left off. We should’ve never allowed this to happen, one of the greatest people we’ve ever known and was so responsible for our win.”
“Eric you better do a good job,” the president joked toward the end of the call. “These are smart people they know if you’re not doing a good job they’re going to report back to me.”
