Kirk: Do Away With ASL Interpreters During Disasters

“I’m gonna say this just off the cuff before I introduce our guest. Can we please just do away with giving 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. Closed captioning’s perfectly fine. We gotta get back to basics here.” – Charlie Kirk.

Okay, seriously, can we stop giving half the screen during these crisis briefings to sign language interpreters? Closed captioning exists. I have nothing against the hearing impaired of course, but this is a joke. pic.twitter.com/LGiyx2nlaF

— Charlie Kirk (@charliekirk11) January 8, 2025

And a bright pink shirt ??? Distracting from the issues at hand

— Riley Gaines (@Riley_Gaines_) January 8, 2025

A solid, no print shirt that shows contrast with the skin tone so that the hands are clearly visible is well within the ASL interpreter guidelines, Riley.

I am no expert, but I dated a sign language interpreter (A “Terp”, as she called herself) for a while.

— Sir Kolbath (@SirKolbath_2) January 8, 2025

I’ve been saying this for years. It’s nothing but a virtue signal. Every platform where the video is viewed has closed captions. Every single one. These interpreters are unnecessary and annoying.

— PNW Pureblood (@pnwpureblood) January 8, 2025

Cali Leadership: How can we make this speech more dramatic?

Absolutely No One: Sign language.

— The North Poll (@the_northpoll) January 8, 2025

This is true, but anyone talking about how many of these fires could be started by our foreign adversaries? Think of all of the drones we have seen lately. How hard would it be for a drone to start a fire and leave billions of dollars in damages in its wake while we are…

— John Dawson (@winthewestback) January 8, 2025