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00:00:00Well, thank you very much.

00:00:09This is a great room.

00:00:11And, you know, we've done very well in this room before,

00:00:14but right now we broke every record.

00:00:17I just heard from Mike Johnson.

00:00:18He said, we broke every record, sir.

00:00:21There is over $35 million.

00:00:23That's not bad for an evening.

00:00:25For an evening, that's not bad.

00:00:27I wonder if you ever turned the room this way.

00:00:31You know, it's interesting because I love real estate.

00:00:33I love ballrooms, have nice ballrooms, a lot of them.

00:00:36I wonder if they ever turned it this way instead.

00:00:38So it might be interesting.

00:00:40This way I'm not talking to a wall.

00:00:43They think they get a better view, but actually I'm not sure.

00:00:46But next time maybe we'll have to worry about that next year.

00:00:48Well, we'll do $45 or $50 million, right?

00:00:54I mean, a lot of people, you broke your record attendance

00:00:57and you broke your money record.

00:00:58And that's a great tribute to the Republicans and the party

00:01:01and everything it stands for.

00:01:02It's wonderful.

00:01:03And I want to thank especially Speaker Mike Johnson

00:01:06because he's been incredible.

00:01:12And we have some unbelievable supporters

00:01:15of our House Republican majority with us, as you know,

00:01:19and with the help of everyone in this room.

00:01:22The next year's Republican Party is going to defy history.

00:01:26We're going to really defy it.

00:01:27And we already are.

00:01:28We're getting things done.

00:01:30It's going to be very interesting to see.

00:01:33This is going to be a very interesting year.

00:01:34We have an interesting time.

00:01:36We're making a fortune with tariffs.

00:01:38$2 billion a day.

00:01:40Do you believe it?

00:01:40I was told $2 billion a day.

00:01:44You know, I get hit by the press about tariffs.

00:01:46We're making $2 billion billion.

00:01:50This isn't $35 million.

00:01:51That's peanuts.

00:01:53$2 billion a day.

00:01:55And then they say, gee, they don't know.

00:01:57You know, this is only the enemy can be talking this way.

00:02:00In addition, we have a lot of countries coming to see us.

00:02:03They want to make a deal.

00:02:04And we're doing things that nobody's ever even thought about doing.

00:02:09And we're going to defeat the radical-left Democrats who are out there complaining about everything.

00:02:15All they do is complain.

00:02:16And then they want to put men in women's sports and things like that.

00:02:20They want men in women's sports.

00:02:22They're still fighting for that.

00:02:23I saw this poor guy.

00:02:24You all know him.

00:02:25I won't mention his name.

00:02:26He's sort of a nice guy.

00:02:27He's a loser.

00:02:28He's a Democrat.

00:02:29But he's a loser.

00:02:30And he was fighting on a big show this morning.

00:02:33We've got to have that.

00:02:34It's not fair that, essentially, that men aren't allowed to compete against women.

00:02:39Can you believe this guy?

00:02:41But let them do it.

00:02:43I say we shouldn't be fighting a lot of these things.

00:02:45Just let them go.

00:02:45And then just before the next election, we'll unleash on them.

00:02:49Because it would be very sad if they actually changed their policies.

00:02:52We don't want that to happen.

00:02:53But we're going to win the midterm elections, and we're going to have a tremendous thundering landslide.

00:03:00I really believe that.

00:03:01And it's so important that we pass the big, beautiful bill, because that's going to be...

00:03:06And I really think we're helped a lot by the tariff situation that's going on, which is a good situation, not a bad.

00:03:14It's great.

00:03:14It's going to be legendary.

00:03:16You watch.

00:03:17Legendary in a positive way, I have to say.

00:03:20It's going to be legendary.

00:03:21But I really think it actually puts pressure on those few Republicans that just can't get there.

00:03:29You know what the alternative is?

00:03:31A Democrat bill or a chapter for the country.

00:03:34You know, we have the debt continuation.

00:03:38And they have to do this.

00:03:40They have to get there.

00:03:41And I think we are there.

00:03:42We had a great meeting today.

00:03:43I think we are there.

00:03:44But just in case there are a couple of Republicans out there, you just got to get there.

00:03:49Close your eyes and get there.

00:03:50It's a phenomenal bill.

00:03:52Stop grandstanding.

00:03:54Just stop grandstanding.

00:03:57Boy, oh boy, oh boy.

00:04:00You know, their policy, the Democrats, is horrible.

00:04:04It's horrible.

00:04:05Think of it.

00:04:06Open borders.

00:04:07Just all of the horrible, stupid things they have.

00:04:12You don't have energy.

00:04:13You don't have anything.

00:04:14They've lost their confidence.

00:04:15Everything is bad.

00:04:16But the one thing, they always vote in unison.

00:04:19You don't see somebody that's holding up.

00:04:21I'm going to hold up.

00:04:23And the alternative is hell.

00:04:25You know, the alternative is hell.

00:04:27So the Republicans just have.

00:04:29One little thing the Republican Party has to do is get together and damn vote.

00:04:34If you're a single guy or a second guy.

00:04:37And you fight like hell for what you can.

00:04:39And then in the end, you have to vote because the policy is phenomenal.

00:04:43You know, they don't get every little ounce.

00:04:45It doesn't work that way.

00:04:47And this bill that we're working on now is the best I think we've ever passed.

00:04:53Mike, wherever you may be, it's the best.

00:04:56I think it's the best thing we've – we'll get it passed.

00:04:59But I think it's going to be the most important thing we've ever passed.

00:05:01It's the best thing we've ever passed.

00:05:03And I do think that the war with the world, which is not a war at all, because they're all coming here.

00:05:08Japan is coming here as we speak.

00:05:10They're in a plane flying, lots of them, all tough negotiators.

00:05:14But things that people wouldn't have given us two years ago, wouldn't have even thought of it two years ago, three years ago, five years ago, seven – they're giving us everything.

00:05:23They don't want tariffs on themselves.

00:05:26And it's very simple.

00:05:28We're making deals, and people are paying tariffs.

00:05:32Countries are paying tariffs.

00:05:33Right now, China is paying a 104 percent tariff.

00:05:38Think of it, 104 percent.

00:05:40Now, it sounds ridiculous, but they charged us for many items, 100 percent, 125 percent.

00:05:48Many countries have.

00:05:49They've ripped us off left and right.

00:05:52But now it's our turn to do the ripping.

00:05:56That's okay.

00:05:57We're going to make our country even stronger, stronger than it ever was.

00:06:01And 20, 26 Republicans will fight for every state, every seat, and every single vote.

00:06:07We're going to fight like hell.

00:06:09I intend to personally campaign for candidates all across the country.

00:06:13And we just won't – you're right about that.

00:06:18We won't just keep our majorities.

00:06:22We want to expand our majorities by a lot.

00:06:24You know, there's this thing about midterm elections that you have a president and the – they never seem to win.

00:06:31I don't understand.

00:06:31They never seem to win the midterm elections.

00:06:34And I have no idea why.

00:06:36You know, we're not going to let that be a self-fulfilling prophecy.

00:06:40I have no idea why.

00:06:42We're setting records right now.

00:06:43We're getting more things approved than any president has ever done in the first 100 days.

00:06:48It's not even close.

00:06:50I had somebody say the most successful month – first month in the history.

00:06:55Now they said the most successful 100 days in the history of our country.

00:07:00And I believe that's right.

00:07:02And we're going to continue that way, if not more so.

00:07:05And we're going to do tremendously in midterms.

00:07:07There's no reason we should do great in the midterms.

00:07:10There's this thing that, for some reason, the president, whoever the president is, the midterms are tough.

00:07:15Why would they be tough?

00:07:17If we're doing great, they should be easy.

00:07:19And I'm telling you, we've got to win a lot more.

00:07:21But as Mike said before, I happened to listen to him.

00:07:25He was on C-SPAN 1.

00:07:27That's a big upgrade, right?

00:07:30I was listening as I was putting on the tie.

00:07:32How does it look?

00:07:33He was on C-SPAN 1.

00:07:35And they were talking about that.

00:07:37And I thought to myself, because people love him and they love your leaders.

00:07:42They love – really, the party is just doing well.

00:07:44A couple we could do without, to be honest with you.

00:07:47But the party is doing well.

00:07:50And there's no reason we shouldn't just get together and win these midterms and win them by a lot.

00:07:54Because seven, that I heard Mike talking about before, seven is not really enough.

00:08:00But we lived for one for a period of time.

00:08:03You know, the only thing good about seven, when you have one, and now all of a sudden you have seven, it sounds like it's like a landslide.

00:08:11It's so good.

00:08:13It's like the most amazing thing.

00:08:16Seven sounds so good when I hear that.

00:08:18It sounds like we can't be beaten.

00:08:19And we should be 50, 60 up.

00:08:23Honestly, we should be 100 up.

00:08:24Because based on policy, these people have the worst policy that anybody's ever seen.

00:08:30There's something wrong with them.

00:08:32Honestly, there's something wrong with them.

00:08:34All this crap.

00:08:35Thirteen House Democrats currently represent districts that voted for Trump and voted for Trump big.

00:08:42And in 2026, we're going to tell them, all 13, that you're fired.

00:08:47Get out.

00:08:47Out.

00:08:48Get out.

00:08:48No reason for that, 13.

00:08:53But 13 is a small number compared to some of these stats.

00:08:56We are going to work very hard.

00:08:59I'm going to do tele-rallies.

00:09:00You know tele-rallies?

00:09:01I'll do rallies for a lot of you, but I'll do tele-rallies at a minimum.

00:09:04And we just had two great elections, by the way.

00:09:07And I heard everybody is introducing our two new Congress.

00:09:10Where are they, please?

00:09:11Stand up.

00:09:12I want to look you in the eye.

00:09:14I want to look you in the eye, Randy.

00:09:16Look at the two of them.

00:09:19Where's...

00:09:20What a job you did, man.

00:09:22Huh?

00:09:23You were never in doubt.

00:09:25Where the hell...

00:09:26Where is our second person here?

00:09:28I know he's...

00:09:29Oh, there he is.

00:09:29Boy, they gave him a lousy seat.

00:09:31He's behind...

00:09:32Good.

00:09:35Great job.

00:09:36We're proud of you, man.

00:09:37Great job.

00:09:39Great job.

00:09:41And, you know, those...

00:09:42Both elections, they were saying,

00:09:44it's going to be close.

00:09:45It's going to be close.

00:09:46And I was listening.

00:09:47And they won by, like...

00:09:48You won by, what, 17 points, 18 points?

00:09:51I don't think that's close.

00:09:53I don't think it's close.

00:09:54So we won by 15 and 18 points.

00:09:58And they're saying,

00:09:59it was a terrible evening for Trump.

00:10:01Can you believe it?

00:10:02Terrible evening.

00:10:03They only won by 18 points and 15 points.

00:10:05Anyway, good job, both of you.

00:10:07Good job.

00:10:08But in addition to our fantastic House Speaker, we're pleased to be joined by Majority Leader Steve Skillis.

00:10:19And I watched you, too, Steve.

00:10:21I watched you on C-SPAN 1.

00:10:23And Steve has suffered greatly.

00:10:28I mean, I was there the night that it looked like he wasn't going to make it.

00:10:31He's very brave.

00:10:32He suffered greatly.

00:10:34And I tell the story about the baseball game where, I mean, he was really...

00:10:38The doctor told me,

00:10:39Sir, I've never had anybody lose so much blood.

00:10:42It's not looking good.

00:10:43And his wife loved him.

00:10:44She was such a disaster that night.

00:10:46She was crying.

00:10:48She was crying.

00:10:49Because I've been with people that were in serious trouble, and the wives couldn't care.

00:10:52They couldn't care less.

00:10:55In fact, after they recovered, I said,

00:10:58Do yourself a favor.

00:10:59Get rid of the wife.

00:11:00She couldn't...

00:11:01No, I'm only kidding, of course.

00:11:03I'm only kidding.

00:11:04I like to say I'm only kidding.

00:11:06That way, that cleans it up a little bit for the press.

00:11:09I say I was only kidding.

00:11:11Now, I've seen some wives that were truly not bothered too much.

00:11:14I had one where the dog died and the husband died on the same day.

00:11:18And I said, It's too bad about Harry.

00:11:20No, no, but Lucy died.

00:11:21Lucy, oh my God.

00:11:23Harry didn't mean...

00:11:24He left her a fortune, too.

00:11:25Can you believe it?

00:11:26Harry didn't matter.

00:11:28The dog mattered a lot.

00:11:30But I was with Steve, and he was really...

00:11:33You know, that was a tough thing.

00:11:34And then, amazingly, he was...

00:11:36Like a year later, he was in a baseball game against the Democrats,

00:11:40and he's playing second base.

00:11:42And he was having a hard time.

00:11:43You know, it's a hard time getting around.

00:11:45And with his luck, a shot was hit to him on the ground.

00:11:49A ground ball.

00:11:51And he got down, and that ball was...

00:11:53No way that ball was...

00:11:54It was right at him, but really, it was whacked.

00:11:57I don't know who the hell hit it.

00:11:58It looked like a major league ground ball.

00:12:00And Steve went down and blocked that sucker

00:12:03and got on his knees and threw it to first base.

00:12:07It was the most unbelievable thing that it could happen.

00:12:10This was God watching the game, I'm telling you.

00:12:13Does everybody remember that?

00:12:16He blocked it and knocked the hell out of his foot.

00:12:20Not his glove.

00:12:21It was his foot.

00:12:22And he got down and grabbed the ball, threw it out,

00:12:25and got the runner by quite a bit.

00:12:28And they then took him out of the game.

00:12:30And I said, what a great move.

00:12:32That was a good manager.

00:12:33They took him out of the game,

00:12:34because you can't improve on that, let me tell you.

00:12:36But he had great courage and amazing how he's done.

00:12:40And he's been very special, and all of us know it.

00:12:44He's really done great.

00:12:45Another man I've really gotten to know a lot,

00:12:48and I think he's fantastic, is Tom Emmer, majority whip.

00:12:52I think he's fantastic.

00:12:54Where's Tom?

00:12:56Where's Tom?

00:12:58Where is our Tom?

00:13:00Because I want to see his wife.

00:13:01You know, his wife is better than him.

00:13:03He admits it.

00:13:06Oh, that's good.

00:13:06Hi, Tom.

00:13:08So where is she, Tom?

00:13:10Oh, no.

00:13:11She's not.

00:13:12She's home.

00:13:13She's watching C-spin.

00:13:14Yeah, I know.

00:13:16Thank you, Tom.

00:13:17Great job you do.

00:13:19And, Lisa, you were up talking about Donald Trump tonight.

00:13:22And Lisa McClain, conference chair,

00:13:25she was talking about Trump.

00:13:27And I appreciate it, Lisa.

00:13:30Lisa, where are you, Lisa?

00:13:32This is like a roast.

00:13:34Thank you, darling.

00:13:36I saw your whole speech.

00:13:37I watched you and Steve and Mike.

00:13:39I watched the whole thing.

00:13:40And they said, sir, we have to leave.

00:13:42You're going to be late.

00:13:42I said, I don't want to watch your speeches.

00:13:43And we have Richard Hudson, the NRCC chairman, who set the record tonight.

00:13:49Richard, great going.

00:13:53That's a great job.

00:13:56And Brian Jack, who was with me from day one of my political career, he was so fantastic.

00:14:03He was so fantastic.

00:14:04And he came to me, he said, do you think it would be okay?

00:14:09He wanted to run for Congress.

00:14:10He always wanted to run for Congress.

00:14:12It was the most important thing.

00:14:14But he was with me, knows so much about politics and boxing.

00:14:17He knows a lot about boxing, too.

00:14:19But he loves politics.

00:14:20But he really just wanted to run.

00:14:22I think his ambition was to be a congressman.

00:14:24And the seat came due.

00:14:27A good member of Congress actually retired in Georgia.

00:14:31And Brian said, what do you think, sir?

00:14:34I said, well, you got my endorsement.

00:14:37And he won by a lot.

00:14:38And he's never looked back.

00:14:40He's a fantastic guy and a great political leader, a great politician.

00:14:45Brian Jack, where are you, Brian?

00:14:47Where are you, Brian?

00:14:48Hi, Brian.

00:14:52Great job.

00:14:53Proud of you, Brian.

00:14:54And more than 160 members of Congress.

00:14:57And I'd like to really, you've done incredibly well.

00:15:01They're really looking back.

00:15:02And, you know, I said before, the Democrats have taken a lot of beatings.

00:15:07They have lost their confidence.

00:15:09They've gone crazy.

00:15:11They've gone crazy.

00:15:13How about this new one they have?

00:15:14Their new star, Crockett.

00:15:16How about her?

00:15:16Is she?

00:15:17Is that real?

00:15:18Are they serious about that?

00:15:20That's their new star?

00:15:21If that's their new star, they're in serious trouble.

00:15:24I mean, this is Crockett.

00:15:26Oh, man.

00:15:27Oh, man.

00:15:28But we have done a job.

00:15:31But they've totally lost their confidence.

00:15:33And it's a hard thing when you lose your confidence.

00:15:37But they have.

00:15:38They've taken a lot of beatings.

00:15:39And now they're going to rely on Crockett to bring them back.

00:15:42Crockett's going to bring them back.

00:15:43You ever watch this?

00:15:45Last November, all the leaders here tonight were given a mandate from the American people.

00:15:50And at the presidential level, we won.

00:15:52Think of this.

00:15:53All seven swing states.

00:15:54We won the Electoral College 312 to 226.

00:15:58That's not bad.

00:15:59Remember?

00:16:00The fake news is saying it's going to be tough because people like Trump, but he should be able to get 270.

00:16:07I actually went to Nebraska and campaigned for one vote.

00:16:13I went to New Hampshire.

00:16:16I campaigned because they said that it could be where 270, 269.

00:16:21So I'm going to all the places and I'm trying to get one.

00:16:24We won Nebraska big, but there was one area.

00:16:27And I went there.

00:16:28I went all over the place campaigning.

00:16:30And then we get 312.

00:16:31But we won in a landslide, too, because we won the popular vote for the first time of a Republican in decades.

00:16:40And now I think that's going to be done routinely.

00:16:45We won 85 percent of all counties in America, 525 for them and 2,725 for us.

00:16:53That's that map that you see.

00:16:54It's all red except for the two corners.

00:16:56They have a little blue, a little line of blue.

00:16:58For the first time in history, all 50 states shifted toward the Republican Party.

00:17:03First time in history.

00:17:04It's never happened.

00:17:05It's a shift.

00:17:06It shifted Republican.

00:17:07And today there are more registered Republicans at any time in the history of our country.

00:17:13How good?

00:17:13How about that?

00:17:18Meanwhile, approval ratings for the Democrat Party have plunged to the lowest level ever recorded.

00:17:24There are 26 percent.

00:17:26So you tell me about the midterms, right?

00:17:2926, the lowest level ever for either party.

00:17:33The Republican Party is a much bigger party now than it was ever before.

00:17:38And I must say that it's the biggest now since you heard the name Donald J. Trump running as a politician.

00:17:45You heard the name before, but not as a politician.

00:17:48I said to my wife, you know, I think I'm going to do this thing.

00:17:51Do I have your approval?

00:17:52Yes, darling.

00:17:52I think you'll win.

00:17:54See, she's a supportive first lady.

00:17:56I don't know if she believed it or not, but she said it.

00:17:59She said, yes, darling, I think you'll win.

00:18:01How do you think I'll do?

00:18:02Oh, darling, you'll win very easily, even though I've never done it before.

00:18:07I said, I have one problem.

00:18:08I've never done it before.

00:18:10She said, that doesn't matter.

00:18:11You're so talented.

00:18:12I said, thank you very much.

00:18:14This is why we get along.

00:18:15It's easy to get along like that.

00:18:17But we have far more people and far more enthusiasm than the party's ever had.

00:18:23I think I could almost say than any party's ever had.

00:18:26I don't think any party's ever had more enthusiasm than us and spirit.

00:18:31A lot of that's our leadership.

00:18:33The Democrats are a broken party with bad policy.

00:18:37They've lost so much.

00:18:39And both as politicians and as people, they've lost.

00:18:44The stage is set for a monumental victory for the Republicans in the midterms.

00:18:49And many of you, I guess most of you, and so many great congressmen and women here.

00:18:55You've got some senators here also.

00:18:57But many of you are, all of you are up.

00:19:00We've got to, we've got to win.

00:19:02We've got to work really hard and we've got to win.

00:19:04Because there's no way they should be winning based on policy.

00:19:07And it's ultimately about policy.

00:19:09We simply have to keep our promises to the people.

00:19:12And we have to very simply put America first.

00:19:16Put America first.

00:19:19And I said, I ran on common sense.

00:19:22You know, I ran on common sense.

00:19:23It sounds like a phrase that would have been used.

00:19:26I don't know.

00:19:27Nobody tells me it was used in politics before.

00:19:29Now everybody's used it.

00:19:30I see the Democrats, some Democrat guy who's just real sleazeballs, got up.

00:19:35He said, yeah, I ran on common sense.

00:19:37That's what I did.

00:19:37Common sense.

00:19:38Yeah.

00:19:39And I said, gee, the problem in politics, you come up with a little slogan and they copy it.

00:19:45But, you know, they copied no tax on tips.

00:19:48Remember, I said no tax on tips.

00:19:50Nevada hadn't been won for many years by a Republican.

00:19:54And the state of Nevada.

00:19:56And don't ever call it Nevada.

00:19:59You'll lose 25 percent.

00:20:01Go ahead.

00:20:02Nevada.

00:20:02It's true.

00:20:03It seems almost nicer the other way.

00:20:08Nevada sounds like Brooklyn.

00:20:11Does that make sense?

00:20:12I come from Nevada.

00:20:14But don't ever call it Nevada.

00:20:17Call it Nevada.

00:20:18But as you know, the corrupt globalist establishment that ruled our country for decades is now complaining that I'm doing exactly what I pledged to do in the campaign.

00:20:31And all of these things, tariffs, the men and women's force, everything, the borders, strong borders.

00:20:38We have the strongest border we've ever had today.

00:20:41It was just announced.

00:20:43Strongest border.

00:20:43They don't want to write that.

00:20:46You know, they forget.

00:20:48They forget.

00:20:49Eggs.

00:20:50I came in.

00:20:50Eggs.

00:20:52Not a very glamorous thing to talk.

00:20:54But eggs.

00:20:55I was in for one week.

00:20:57And they said, egg prices are soaring.

00:20:59I said, I've just been here.

00:21:00I didn't know this.

00:21:01Please.

00:21:02I didn't know it.

00:21:03The fake news.

00:21:04They're going, egg prices are soaring.

00:21:07I said, man, I just got here.

00:21:10You know, let me know about it.

00:21:11What's going on with eggs?

00:21:12Tell me.

00:21:14So they gave me a little bit of a thing.

00:21:16And it's true.

00:21:17Under Biden, they soared like double, tripled, quadrupled.

00:21:19You couldn't even get them.

00:21:21They were not available.

00:21:22They said, don't use eggs for Easter.

00:21:24Use the plastic alternative plastic.

00:21:28We got at Mar-a-Lago, we got plastic eggs all over the place.

00:21:33They said, don't use it for Easter.

00:21:35If you're doing an Easter egg hunt, do not use eggs.

00:21:40Well, we have a wonderful secretary of agriculture, as you know, Brooke Rollins.

00:21:47She's here someplace, I think.

00:21:50And she got, she went after it.

00:21:52When she goes after something, we don't play games, right, Brooke?

00:21:55And eggs, egg prices are down now.

00:21:58Eighty-seven percent.

00:21:59And you have all the eggs you want.

00:22:01Eighty-seven percent.

00:22:03And they didn't write about it.

00:22:05They don't talk about it.

00:22:06I go up, I make speeches about eggs all the time.

00:22:09I never get a reporter writing about it because we were successful.

00:22:12If you're a Republican, when you're successful in something, you have to toot your own horn.

00:22:16Talk about it because you're the only one that's going to.

00:22:19It's a pretty rough, it's a rough business, I will tell you.

00:22:23But the shrill voices that you're hearing this week about tariffs are the same scoundrels and frauds who never thought twice about when the United States lost 90,000 factories and plants.

00:22:36Think of that, 90,000.

00:22:40How do you do 90?

00:22:40If you had a map, a big map the size of that wall and you had a pin for each factory, you wouldn't have enough room.

00:22:47You think of it, 90,000 factories since NAFTA.

00:22:51The worst trade deal in history, by the way.

00:22:53And we had it terminated.

00:22:56Everybody said you'd never be able to.

00:22:58It had to be terminated by Congress.

00:23:00And it was not easy.

00:23:01It was so bad.

00:23:02You know, the people have a lot of, it's very interesting, they have a lot of power.

00:23:07They have a lot of political power.

00:23:09It's hard to get even a bad deal terminated.

00:23:11But we did do it.

00:23:12And we got USMCA, and that's been really great.

00:23:16But when they cheat, it's not so good.

00:23:20And they cheat.

00:23:20They do cheat.

00:23:21You know, I respect Mexico.

00:23:23I respect Canada.

00:23:25But they cheat like hell.

00:23:26You know, Canada charges for our dairy products 270 percent.

00:23:30Nobody knows that.

00:23:31They charge you 2 percent for the first two cartons of milk.

00:23:35And after that, you go up to 270.

00:23:38And the press says, they've only charged 2 percent.

00:23:40No, that's for the first two cartons.

00:23:42So it's, you know, we can't have that.

00:23:45And we have to be wise to it and get along with everybody.

00:23:48But we have to call people out.

00:23:50Six million manufacturing jobs were lost since NAFTA when 21 million illegal aliens brought

00:23:56across our borders.

00:23:57Think of that.

00:23:58Many of whom were violent criminals, murderers, drug lords, and the mentally insane.

00:24:04Insane asylums were closed.

00:24:06They used to go crazy when I talk about Hannibal Lecter.

00:24:09The late, great Hannibal Lecter, right?

00:24:11Silence of the Lambs.

00:24:12The fake news would say, why does he talk about that?

00:24:17He's a fictional character.

00:24:19He's actually not.

00:24:20We have many of them that came across the board.

00:24:22He's actually not.

00:24:24But when the people went to the voting booth, then we understood why he talked about that,

00:24:28because they voted for us.

00:24:29They said, we don't want Hannibal Lecter in our country.

00:24:32The great Hannibal Lecter, he was a very important force.

00:24:38But the press would go absolutely crazy if I mentioned Hannibal Lecter's name, because

00:24:45they said he's a fictional character.

00:24:47No, but it was making a point.

00:24:49And the point is, they're emptying mental institutions and insane asylum.

00:24:52Not anymore.

00:24:53They're not insane asylums into our country.

00:24:57We had numbers, the likes of which nobody's ever seen anything like it.

00:25:02Other countries, I deal with other countries all the time.

00:25:04I am right now on tariffs where they want to make a deal with us.

00:25:07We don't necessarily want to make a deal with them.

00:25:10We're happy the way we are, taking our $2 billion a day.

00:25:13But they want to make a deal with us.

00:25:15And they talk about it.

00:25:16And they say, we cannot believe that they had open borders.

00:25:21These are countries.

00:25:21They have borders.

00:25:23They don't let people into their country.

00:25:25They can't understand how.

00:25:27They did it because they're sick or they're crazy.

00:25:30There's something really wrong with these people.

00:25:32But the same people now telling me about how to deal with China are the ones who sold out America for decades to China.

00:25:42For decades, they gave up to China.

00:25:44I'm the only one that – you know how much – China's paid almost $700 billion in tariffs under me.

00:25:50And then they say, Donald Trump hasn't been tough on China.

00:25:54They say, Trump hasn't been tough on Russia.

00:25:55Okay, here's the story.

00:25:57Nord Stream 2.

00:25:58Did anybody ever hear of it?

00:26:00It's the biggest pipeline in the world.

00:26:01I closed it.

00:26:03Russia had it.

00:26:04I closed it.

00:26:05Putin told me, that's the worst thing.

00:26:08You're supposed to be friendly with me.

00:26:10I'd hate to see you as my enemy.

00:26:11I closed Nord Stream 2.

00:26:13When Biden got in, he opened it up immediately.

00:26:15It serviced all of Europe going to Germany.

00:26:18It serviced all of Europe.

00:26:19We closed it.

00:26:20And they say, oh, it wasn't tough on Russia.

00:26:22I was very tough with the sanctions and everything else.

00:26:25And by the way, just for your information, we're trying like hell to get the fighting stopped between Russia and Ukraine.

00:26:31And a thing that never would have happened if the election wasn't rigged.

00:26:35We had a rigged election.

00:26:36And we can say it and say it loud and say it proud because the election was rigged and we can't let that stuff happen anymore.

00:26:44Go to paper ballots.

00:26:46Go to same-day voting.

00:26:47Go to voter ID.

00:26:49Go to citizenship.

00:26:50You have to prove your citizenship, a little piece of paper, and you won't have it.

00:26:56It's sort of disappointing because a lot of Republican governors, they could do that.

00:27:01Same-day voting, paper ballots, very sophisticated paper, actually.

00:27:05It's a watermark.

00:27:06You can't cheat.

00:27:07Very hard to cheat.

00:27:09France went that way.

00:27:10They were like us and they were, you know, having very bad elections, very crooked elections.

00:27:15They had 37 million people.

00:27:17They voted.

00:27:18They had a winner.

00:27:18They had a loser.

00:27:19They went home.

00:27:20That was it.

00:27:21Ten o'clock in the evening was over with us.

00:27:24You ever see, we have these machines that cost a fortune.

00:27:27And they say, we think we're going to have the final vote tally in two and a half weeks.

00:27:32And wait a minute.

00:27:33This is Election Day.

00:27:35You ever see where in California they were counting votes four weeks later?

00:27:39And then they say, and by the way, all paper costs 8% of the machines.

00:27:46Why is it that Republican governors aren't going to it?

00:27:49Okay?

00:27:50What's going on with our Republican governors?

00:27:53If nothing else, you say, even if it was just the same, and it's not, it's, you know, nothing's foolproof when it comes to voting, but it's pretty close.

00:28:00But it costs 8%, in other words, you can have your election 8% the cost of the machines, and you get an accurate count.

00:28:10So it's pretty amazing.

00:28:11They gave us NAFTA, mass illegal immigration, the Democrats did, the fake Paris Climate Accord, and the China's entry into the World Trade Organization.

00:28:26That was a wonderful day for us.

00:28:28China entered the World Trade.

00:28:30They've done pretty good.

00:28:31And, you know, they didn't do things exactly by the books.

00:28:36And they were a developing nation.

00:28:38They still are.

00:28:38They say, we are a developing nation.

00:28:40We should be entitled to more.

00:28:42And our people say, oh, that's right, they're developing.

00:28:45They're not developing.

00:28:46We're developing.

00:28:46Look at some of our inner cities.

00:28:48We've got to develop them.

00:28:51But we can't let the Democrats get away with this stuff.

00:28:56But we're developing more than they are.

00:28:58The globalists have been wrong about everything, and so I wear their attack on me because nobody has ever been attacked like a man named Donald J. Trump.

00:29:08In the history of our country, nobody has ever.

00:29:10But I wear it as a badge of honor.

00:29:14Nobody has ever been attacked.

00:29:16I was under more investigations than the late great Al Capone.

00:29:21He was the most violent criminal.

00:29:23He was the most violent mob boss in history.

00:29:26And I was under investigation far more than him.

00:29:30It wasn't even close.

00:29:32Our opponents are not afraid that our America First policies will fail.

00:29:37They're terrified that our strategy will succeed and we're going to get bigger and stronger and better as a party.

00:29:42And that's what's happening.

00:29:43And that is what's happening.

00:29:45It's going to be something.

00:29:46And I'm actually looking forward to the midterms.

00:29:49We're going to prove that all of their treasonous years of betrayal will not be forgotten because it's treason.

00:29:58What they did is treason.

00:29:59When they allowed millions of people to pour in through open borders from all over the world, they came.

00:30:06To me, that's treason.

00:30:07And what they've done to our country is unthinkable.

00:30:10The money we have to spend to take people out.

00:30:13And then we have judges that say, no, let Trendy Aragua come back into our country.

00:30:18They want them to come back in.

00:30:21Killers.

00:30:21They cut off a man's fingers because he did you cut off.

00:30:24Did you, sir, make a phone call to the police in Colorado?

00:30:30Yes, I did.

00:30:30I did.

00:30:31You've attacked.

00:30:32You've attacked us and you've taken over our building.

00:30:34They took over real estate all over Colorado.

00:30:38You did, right?

00:30:39Give me your hand.

00:30:40Put the hand down.

00:30:41Boom.

00:30:41Cuts off his fingers.

00:30:43And they want him back.

00:30:46And how about the mix up with the MS-13 where it wasn't a Trendy Aragua.

00:30:52It was an MS-13 killer.

00:30:55And they said, oh, they got to mix up.

00:30:58Let's get them back into our country.

00:31:00Now, we got to we need people that are going to love our country.

00:31:03I'm proud to be the president for the workers, not the outsourcers.

00:31:08The president who stands up for Main Street, not Wall Street.

00:31:11Who protects the middle class, not the political class.

00:31:15And who defends America, not trade cheaters all over the globe.

00:31:18They're trade cheaters.

00:31:20They cheated on us.

00:31:21They cheated with tariffs on us.

00:31:24They stole our money.

00:31:25They stole our jobs.

00:31:26And now people are going around saying, oh, we're not treating them right.

00:31:30No, we're treating them very good, actually.

00:31:32They're lucky we're treating them so good.

00:31:35And, you know, when I have tariffs and I say, well, we're going to charge what they did.

00:31:40We're going to charge what they did.

00:31:41And then I say, I'm going to charge much less than they did.

00:31:44Believe me, we're actually being nice about it.

00:31:46But we're doing very well, better than we've ever done before.

00:31:51My job is not to maximize the profits of outsourcers and foreign car.

00:31:56I mean, these foreign corporations are horrible.

00:31:59It's horrible what they're doing.

00:32:00But we're catching them.

00:32:02We're catching them by the dozens.

00:32:04My job is to defend the I have to defend the American dream.

00:32:08And I have to defend the American citizens.

00:32:11That's my job.

00:32:12I have to defend that.

00:32:13But the American dream is never mentioned.

00:32:15It was mentioned for four years and now it's being mentioned again.

00:32:19But it was never mentioned when we had Sleepy Joe in office.

00:32:23I used to have a big, the hardest thing I had to do with Joe Biden is the nickname.

00:32:28Do I call him Sleepy Joe or Crooked Joe?

00:32:31Could we take a vote, please?

00:32:33Who wants to call him Crooked Joe?

00:32:38Who wants to call him Sleepy Joe?

00:32:43That's my problem.

00:32:43It's like the same.

00:32:45They both work.

00:32:47They both work beautifully.

00:32:49Joe had one ability that I didn't have.

00:32:51You know, he said he was a good golfer.

00:32:52He's terrible.

00:32:55Somebody said the only time I got angry during our debate when he said he was a six handicap.

00:33:00He's not a six.

00:33:00He's not a 36.

00:33:02Okay?

00:33:02But he had one ability that I don't have.

00:33:07He was able to go to a beach, bathing suit and toe, because it looked like it was actually falling off.

00:33:14But he'd go, had a hard time walking through the sand, because, you know, sand is heavy on your feet.

00:33:19Carrying one of those six-ounce chairs that are made out of aluminum that, if you weigh a little bit too much, it just cracks in the middle when you sit down.

00:33:28And he could sit down in a beach with photographers on the beach.

00:33:33You know, he's the president, so he had a minimum of photographers, but he still had photographers.

00:33:38And he could fall asleep.

00:33:39Who the hell could do that?

00:33:41Who could fall asleep?

00:33:42And he'd turn around, and drool would be coming out.

00:33:46He didn't care.

00:33:47His wife didn't care.

00:33:48It's an ability that I could never fall asleep under those circumstances.

00:33:52I'd be very conscious of my body and what we look like.

00:34:00I'd be sitting up like this.

00:34:03And I'd say, darling, it's time to go.

00:34:05Let's get out of here.

00:34:07Well, it wouldn't most people.

00:34:08I mean, this guy could go to the beach, and he was out in seconds.

00:34:14Guys are shooting him.

00:34:15He'd be in the papers the next day, eyes closed, mouth open.

00:34:19The United States has been getting ripped off for 50 years, and we're simply not going to take it anymore.

00:34:26And that's what's happening right now.

00:34:30In 1950, the United States dominated global auto production, producing more than 75 percent of all of the cars on Earth.

00:34:38Think of that 75 percent, and even higher before that.

00:34:42Today, we produce 11 percent, while China produces three times more than we do.

00:34:46Let me tell you something.

00:34:48With the tariffs that we're doing, as you know, we have tariffs on automobiles, aluminum, steel, separate from the other tariffs.

00:34:57The baseline, we call it.

00:35:00Companies are pouring back into our country with plants.

00:35:03There's a run on sites.

00:35:05There's a run on old plants.

00:35:07Most of them are being ripped down for new plants.

00:35:09They've stopped building in Mexico, four or five plants, and they're all coming into the United States.

00:35:16I know what the hell I'm doing.

00:35:18I know what I'm doing.

00:35:19And you know what I'm doing, too.

00:35:20That's why you vote for me.

00:35:21And the chip makers are coming in.

00:35:28They're all coming in.

00:35:29We've never had anything like this.

00:35:31We have investment, they think, of about seven.

00:35:34Think of this, seven trillion dollars.

00:35:37And that's been in a month and a half.

00:35:39Think of that.

00:35:40For the first, like, you've got to give me a little time to get warmed up with that.

00:35:44So let's take the first couple of weeks off.

00:35:47For about a month and a half, we got seven, almost seven trillion dollars spoken for.

00:35:54Trillion.

00:35:55We've never had that.

00:35:56I don't know if we've ever had it at any time.

00:35:58But if you go back and look at Biden and these other campaigns, any of them, they had, they didn't have those numbers for the year.

00:36:07These are the biggest chip makers in the world, the biggest auto manufacturers in the world.

00:36:11So, seven trillion dollars of investment, and that means jobs.

00:36:16I look at it differently.

00:36:17Not investment.

00:36:18I look at it as jobs.

00:36:19And they're coming in at levels that we've never seen before.

00:36:22And it is true that Mexico, they've stopped building plants, and those plants are now going to be built in the United States of America.

00:36:29So it's pretty exciting.

00:36:32All because of two things.

00:36:34They say, they want to be nice to me.

00:36:35They say, sir, because of November 5th, the election, and because of tariffs.

00:36:40I said, in that order, and the smart ones say, yes, sir, first was that you got elected, and second was tariffs.

00:36:47And I'll accept that, you know.

00:36:49But I will tell you, because of tariffs.

00:36:51But I'm the only one that would have done the tariffs because everybody was afraid.

00:36:55They were afraid of being criticized because the globalists will go after you.

00:36:58For seven decades, American ships have patrolled the seas.

00:37:02American troops have kept the pace and peace.

00:37:05And American wealth has enriched the globe.

00:37:08But despite all we have given to them, you will not find an American car in Berlin, in Tokyo, in Seoul, in Shanghai, not a car.

00:37:18I used to say to Angela Merkel, Angela, how many Chevrolets do we have in Berlin?

00:37:23Why, none, Donald?

00:37:25None.

00:37:25That's right, Angela, you got it.

00:37:27How many Chevrolets do you think we have in Munich, Angela?

00:37:31None, Donald.

00:37:32I said, you sent us 7 million cars last year.

00:37:38So we're going to start buying American-made cars or cars that are manufactured in America.

00:37:45And if you can do it, not part of what I was going to say, but one of the best things that I think I've come up with is interest deductions.

00:37:55If you buy a car that's made in America, you get an interest deduction on the money you borrow.

00:37:59And I love it.

00:38:00I hope you can do it, Mike.

00:38:01I hope you can do it, because I haven't bugged you about that.

00:38:04I've been talking about no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, no tax on overtime.

00:38:09And I haven't really been as strong on this one, but it's only because it gets a little bit long, you know.

00:38:15But if you think of it, you buy a car, you borrow money, and you get a deduction on that money if the car is made in America.

00:38:24I think that will not cost you 10 cents.

00:38:28You'll make money with that one.

00:38:29I think you'll make money actually in a certain way with the other three also.

00:38:33I think they're very important, and they were part of our campaign.

00:38:36I was going to say before that in Nevada that when I came up with the no tax on tips, I think that's why we won by a massive amount.

00:38:44And interestingly, they came up about a month and a half later, she was making one of her few speeches.

00:38:50She didn't speak too much for a reason, good reason.

00:38:55She was making a speech.

00:38:56And in the middle, she said, oh, and by the way, we will have, everyone's falling asleep, we will have no tax on tips.

00:39:04That place booed the hell out of it.

00:39:06They said, you're a little later, that one.

00:39:08Because I was worried they'd copy me.

00:39:10You know, it was so good.

00:39:11You know how it actually happened?

00:39:13Maybe I should tell the story quickly.

00:39:15I was in my building in Las Vegas.

00:39:16We have a great restaurant there.

00:39:18And this young, beautiful waitress, and you're not allowed to say beautiful because that's the end of your political career.

00:39:23If you call a young woman beautiful, that's the end of your career.

00:39:27But what the hell, she was beautiful, so she came up to me.

00:39:31And she said, hello, sir, it's so nice to have you at the hotel.

00:39:36I said, thank you.

00:39:36I had a group of people, some political people, actually.

00:39:39It was very interesting.

00:39:40And I said, how's everything going?

00:39:43She said, oh, it's so tough.

00:39:46They're after my tips.

00:39:47Who's after the government?

00:39:48They're after my tips, constantly after my tips.

00:39:51They're after all of us for the tips.

00:39:52She said, sir, we should have no tax on tips.

00:39:56I said, say it again.

00:39:58What?

00:39:59We should have no tax.

00:40:00She said it.

00:40:01This was my consultant, a waitress from my hotel.

00:40:05Most people go out, spend millions of dollars to come up with an idea.

00:40:08I said, she just said, no tax on tips.

00:40:11That's the coolest thing I've ever heard.

00:40:13So I went outside.

00:40:14There were a lot of, we finished our wonderful meal, steak, went outside.

00:40:19And there were a lot of cameras, as there always are, unfortunately.

00:40:22I said, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to have a new policy all over the country, but

00:40:27specifically in Nevada.

00:40:29There will be no tax on tips.

00:40:33Right?

00:40:34And the cameras went wild.

00:40:35Click, click, click, click, click.

00:40:37And we won the state by a lot.

00:40:39So I don't know.

00:40:40So I have to find that waitress and thank her.

00:40:42She was my consultant, except I didn't pay her two million dollars like the other consultants

00:40:48that we all get screwed by.

00:40:50Even worse than the tariffs other countries impose are the non-monetary barriers.

00:41:00That's a non-monetary.

00:41:00These are not financial.

00:41:02These are other things, what they do so that you can't get your product in that country.

00:41:06And China, as you know, is one of the bigger offenders.

00:41:09And it's not all China.

00:41:11Look, I get along with President Xi.

00:41:13I have over the years.

00:41:15But, you know, you just, when COVID came, that was the end.

00:41:20That was it.

00:41:21That was called the bridge too far.

00:41:23But I've always had a good relationship with a very smart guy.

00:41:26Loves his country.

00:41:27I love our country.

00:41:28So, you know, we love our country.

00:41:30He loves his.

00:41:30I tell that to other leaders.

00:41:31You've got to fight for your country.

00:41:34You're not going to fight for us.

00:41:36But we can't fight for you.

00:41:37We're fighting for other countries.

00:41:39We're trying to make them great without making us great.

00:41:42But those days are over.

00:41:44They steal our intellectual property.

00:41:46They rob our trade secrets.

00:41:48They manipulate their currency to levels that have never been seen before.

00:41:52Today it was announced that China is reducing its currency.

00:41:58Did you see that?

00:41:59Big, big.

00:42:00In other words, they're going to make up for it.

00:42:02They've got every trick in the book.

00:42:03I'll tell you, they are great.

00:42:05You've got to hand it to them.

00:42:06You've got to hand it to them.

00:42:08They're manipulating their currency today as an offset against the tariffs.

00:42:13They're not supposed to do that.

00:42:14The game isn't supposed to be played that way.

00:42:16It makes it very hard for us.

00:42:18But in the end, it's not good because they have to buy oil.

00:42:22See, we don't need oil.

00:42:23We don't need oil and gas.

00:42:24We have more than any other country.

00:42:26They have to buy it.

00:42:26That's where it hurts them when they do that.

00:42:28It costs them twice as much.

00:42:29And they ship their products through every one of our trading partners running up our deficits with these countries.

00:42:38They sell a lot.

00:42:40You know, when you put a tariff on them, they sell it like with steel.

00:42:44They were dumping tremendous amounts of steel into our country during my term.

00:42:48I saved every steel mill.

00:42:50We only have steel mills because of what I did.

00:42:52I put a high tariff on them, 25 and then 50 percent, and it stopped.

00:43:00It stopped.

00:43:01They were dumping so much steel, we would have lost every single steel mill.

00:43:05The people that like me best are the people in the steel business.

00:43:08But I think the auto business is going to be right there.

00:43:10I think chips are going to be there.

00:43:11I think pharmaceuticals are going to be there.

00:43:14Because, you know, we don't make our own pharmaceuticals, drugs, and other things to get better.

00:43:22They're made in other countries.

00:43:23And you pay a number of – I mean, the same package in our country compared to, like, London and other places is sometimes 10 times more.

00:43:3710 times more.

00:43:39Something that sells for $88 in London sells for $1,300 here, made in the same factory by the same company.

00:43:48And that's over.

00:43:50I told them all that's over.

00:43:52They put all of their research and development – they put everything.

00:43:56But what they don't tell you is that these other countries are smart.

00:43:59They say you can't charge more than $88, otherwise you can't sell your product.

00:44:04And the drug companies, listen to them.

00:44:08But we're going to do something that we have to do.

00:44:11We're going to put – we're going to tariff our pharmaceuticals.

00:44:14And once we do that, they're going to come rushing back into our country because we're the big market.

00:44:18The advantage we have over everybody is that we're the big market.

00:44:22So we're going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals.

00:44:28And when you – and when they hear that, they will leave China.

00:44:33They will leave other places because they have to sell – most of their product is sold here.

00:44:37And they're going to be opening up their plants all over the place in our country.

00:44:41We're going to be announcing that.

00:44:42So that's breaking news.

00:44:43Ladies and gentlemen, we have breaking news.

00:44:46That's what's going to happen.

00:44:48What other presidents allow China to get away with is absolutely criminal.

00:44:52But I'm not like the other presidents.

00:44:54And it's not going to happen under President Trump.

00:44:58It's just not going to happen.

00:44:59After all of the abuses they've perpetrated, China's attempting to impose additional unjustified tariffs.

00:45:07Just so you understand, they all got rich because of tariffs.

00:45:09You know, now when we do it, oh, it's so terrible.

00:45:11What Trump is doing, it's so terrible.

00:45:13They got rich.

00:45:15And not only China, many countries.

00:45:17I mean, you look at Vietnam.

00:45:18You look at so many, I could name 50 right now.

00:45:23Biden couldn't do that.

00:45:24He couldn't name any.

00:45:26Name one country.

00:45:27Name any country.

00:45:28What's the name of our country?

00:45:29He doesn't know.

00:45:31That's why additional tariffs on Chinese goods are in place, effective midnight tonight at 104 percent.

00:45:38Until they make a deal with us, that's what it's going to be.

00:45:41I think they'll make a deal at some point.

00:45:44China will.

00:45:45They want to make a deal.

00:45:46They really do.

00:45:47They want to make a deal.

00:45:48They just don't know how to get it started because they're proud people.

00:45:52China will now pay a big number to our treasury.

00:45:57This is all taxes.

00:45:59And don't let them keep telling you that this is a tax on our people.

00:46:03I hate that.

00:46:03You know, they say it's a tax.

00:46:04No, often much of it is paid.

00:46:07And hey, look what happened during my first term.

00:46:10We had no inflation.

00:46:12And yet I took in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs and taxes from China.

00:46:17No other president got 10 cents in tariffs or taxes from China.

00:46:24I got hundreds of billions of dollars, hundreds of billions of dollars, and I still got along with them because they understood what they were doing was wrong.

00:46:33When you explain it, they said, I've had numerous leaders tell me, you're right, sir, I was waiting for you to bring this up.

00:46:45Because some of the trade deals that were made by predecessors as president were so bad, you almost wonder who did these deals.

00:46:53They were either crooked or stupid.

00:46:55They can be nothing else.

00:46:56They were either stupid or crooked.

00:46:58It's terrible.

00:46:59But it's all being changed.

00:47:00I changed a lot of it in the first four years.

00:47:02But it's all being changed.

00:47:04You know, in the first four years, we had the most successful country in history in terms of economics.

00:47:07We had an 88 percent increase in the stock markets.

00:47:11We had an 88 percent increase.

00:47:13There's never been any president that had an 88 percent increase.

00:47:18We had 88 percent.

00:47:21And there were a lot of happy people.

00:47:23And I think we're going to do much better than that this time because this time I'm doing what I want to do with respect to the tariffs.

00:47:29I think we're going to do much better.

00:47:31And just remember the numbers when you get up to two billion a day.

00:47:34Two billion a day.

00:47:35They're saying, sir, can't be that, can it?

00:47:37I said, yeah, I can.

00:47:38It's the biggest, the biggest transaction ever made.

00:47:41This is bigger than any deal.

00:47:44You guys, some of you work for companies.

00:47:45Your companies are peanuts.

00:47:46I don't care how big they are compared.

00:47:48This is the largest transaction in the history of our country.

00:47:52And don't let some of these politicians go around saying, you know, because I'm telling you, these countries are calling us up, kissing my ass.

00:48:00They are.

00:48:01They are dying to make a deal.

00:48:03Please, please, sir, make a deal.

00:48:05I'll do anything.

00:48:06I'll do anything, sir.

00:48:08And then I'll see some rebel Republican, you know, some guy that wants to grandstand, say, I think that Congress should take over negotiations.

00:48:16Let me tell you, you don't negotiate like I negotiate.

00:48:19Congress takes over negotiating.

00:48:24Sell America fast because you're going to go bust it.

00:48:26You don't, I just saw it today.

00:48:29A couple of your congressmen said, I think we should get involved in the negotiation of the tariffs.

00:48:34Oh, that's what I need.

00:48:35I need some, some guy telling me how to negotiate.

00:48:39I tell you, the happiest people in the world would be China.

00:48:42They wouldn't be paying 104 percent, I tell you.

00:48:45They'd be paying no percent.

00:48:46We'd be paying them 104 percent.

00:48:48That's the beauty is these guys.

00:48:50We've got to be careful.

00:48:52And even the concept of it hurts your negotiation.

00:48:54When they see a little story like that, the other side, you know, it hurts your negotiation.

00:48:59And then the fake news wants to build it up and it has no chance anyway.

00:49:02But we have to remain united as I defend workers from unfair trade.

00:49:09House Republicans have a chance this week to bring trillions and trillions of dollars pouring back into America

00:49:15by pushing forward with the largest tax cuts in American history, which is what you're working on right now.

00:49:21The largest in American history.

00:49:25And, you know, the reason we had, because we had a great first term and amazing first term.

00:49:32But I saw that the other day that we had the most successful, I mean, I knew it anyway, but I saw that we had 88 percent increase.

00:49:39That's a tremendous increase.

00:49:41Think of that.

00:49:42And that's with all of the difficulties and all of the fake investigations and the Adam Shifty shifts.

00:49:50Can you believe this guy?

00:49:52He's got the smallest neck I've ever seen.

00:49:56And the biggest head.

00:49:57We called him Watermelon Head.

00:49:59I'd say, how could that big fat face stand on a neck that looked like this finger?

00:50:05How can it?

00:50:06It was the weirdest thing.

00:50:07It's a mystery.

00:50:10Nobody can understand it.

00:50:12But he's one of the most dishonest human beings I've ever seen.

00:50:15And, you know, how we can allow people like that to run in office is a shame.

00:50:20But we did.

00:50:21He was in charge of the witch hunt.

00:50:23You know, he was in charge of the fake witch hunt with Russia, Russia, Russia.

00:50:26It was a made up story.

00:50:28Made up.

00:50:29Think of it.

00:50:30They make up a story.

00:50:31They know it's made up.

00:50:32It's gone on for a year and a half, two years.

00:50:36Russia, Russia, Russia.

00:50:37I knew nothing about it.

00:50:38The only thing I knew was that I taxed the pipeline that I told you about, that I put all sorts of sanctions and everything else.

00:50:45They never had no they never had a problem like they had with me.

00:50:49But it was Russia, Russia, Russia constant as a method of that was what they did is that was the complaint about why she lost an election because crooked Hillary was expected to win the election.

00:51:02But they didn't they didn't see what we saw.

00:51:05We saw the biggest crowds in history gathering only superseded by the crowds we just had.

00:51:10But here's a guy that goes out and he goes to an intelligence hearing or whatever you might call it.

00:51:16And it's supposed to be secret.

00:51:17He'd walk out.

00:51:18He'd either make a call off the record, off the record, this is crooked Adam shift, shifty shift.

00:51:26He's a shifty Adam.

00:51:28Or he'd just go out blatantly and have a news conference.

00:51:31And because it had to do with me and my family, he'd go out and have a news conference.

00:51:37And he said, you know, you've got to remember, he knows it's a hoax because he made it up with crooked Hillary.

00:51:43So he knows it's a hoax because we're dealing with human beings on the other side.

00:51:48He'd say Donald Trump, Jr., the son of the president of the United States, will spend many years in prison because of what he's done with Russia.

00:52:03Now, think of that statement on a human basis.

00:52:06I have a son, a young son, who is being told that he's going for prison on something he has.

00:52:12He doesn't even know what they're talking about.

00:52:13He said, Dad, I don't know what's going on.

00:52:15They keep talking about I'm involved with Russia.

00:52:18I don't know anything about Russia, I swear to you, Dad.

00:52:22And yet, Adam Schiff goes out and makes a statement about a hoax that he made up that he knows is false.

00:52:30How bad a human being do you have to be?

00:52:33They put my son and my family through that kind of trauma.

00:52:37These are bad people.

00:52:38These are sick degenerates.

00:52:40And I used to be much nicer to them.

00:52:43I gave them the benefit of the doubt.

00:52:45But I've just seen too much.

00:52:47They make up a story about Russia.

00:52:49It was a hoax.

00:52:50And eventually, now they've all admitted it was a hoax.

00:52:53On to the next one.

00:52:55That's Russia, Russia, Russia.

00:52:57But they know it's a hoax.

00:52:58And they say about a young man that he's going to spend the rest of his life in prison because of what he's done with Russia.

00:53:06He knows it's a hoax.

00:53:08How bad do you have to be to have that happen to your son?

00:53:12And, you know, there's a bad effect on a family, a bad effect.

00:53:15You know, are you okay, Don?

00:53:17I am, dear, but I don't understand.

00:53:18They keep tying me to Russia.

00:53:20I don't know anything about Russia.

00:53:21He didn't know a damn thing about Russia.

00:53:24It's a disgraceful situation.

00:53:26That's why we've got to kick their asses in the midterms.

00:53:28And we've got to kick their asses again in four years.

00:53:34If we slash taxes on American workers and producers, our economy will soar.

00:53:39Jobs will surge.

00:53:41Manufacturing will boom.

00:53:42And our country will prosper like never, ever before.

00:53:45We've got to get this big, beautiful deal done.

00:53:48We've got to get it done.

00:53:50And get it done now.

00:53:51Don't wait two weeks.

00:53:52Don't wait two weeks.

00:53:54See, bad things happen.

00:53:55Crazy things happen in politics.

00:53:57Just get the damn thing done and stop showboating.

00:54:02A couple of people want to say, sure, I've got to get a little bit more.

00:54:06A little bit more.

00:54:07You know what you're going to get?

00:54:08You end up getting nothing.

00:54:09You end up getting a Democrat bill or worse.

00:54:12In the past 11 weeks, we've already created 350,000 jobs.

00:54:16It's unprecedented, including 10,000 manufacturing jobs that we haven't even started yet.

00:54:23Gas prices, you know?

00:54:25When I came in, they said, he campaigned on prices coming down and prices are going up.

00:54:30They're not going up.

00:54:31They're going down.

00:54:32Gas prices are way down.

00:54:34In fact, they had something $2.50 a gallon.

00:54:39I saw on television a little while ago in between my watching my great friends on C-SPAN.

00:54:46And I saw that the prices are down to $2.50, $2.60, $2.75.

00:54:52It was, when I came in office, it was $3.50, $3.75.

00:54:57But prices are coming down.

00:54:59Prices on groceries are coming down.

00:55:00Prices of eggs are down like 87%.

00:55:0487.

00:55:05You know, they got me with that.

00:55:07I told you.

00:55:09Before I even got in office, they would tell me about it.

00:55:11They're down close to 87%.

00:55:14And core inflation has dropped to the lowest levels in four years.

00:55:19And as I said, we had no inflation in four years, despite the fact that I took in hundreds

00:55:25of billions of dollars in tariffs that we hadn't even started yet.

00:55:29Nearly $6 trillion of new investment.

00:55:32And that number is now revised up to about seven.

00:55:36Apple, great company, is spending $500 billion because of tariffs.

00:55:42$500 billion.

00:55:44Not $500 million.

00:55:46That's a lot.

00:55:47$500 million.

00:55:48You know, when I first heard the number, I said, you mean $500 million.

00:55:51You can build a lot of plants.

00:55:52No, sir.

00:55:53$500 billion.

00:55:54$500 billion?

00:55:57TSMC, the biggest, most powerful chip maker in the world.

00:56:00This is without that stupid chip act where they say, here's billions of dollars to a company

00:56:06that doesn't need it.

00:56:07These chip companies are loaded.

00:56:09They give these companies billions of dollars to build a plant in the United States.

00:56:13They don't build them in the United States.

00:56:15They keep the money.

00:56:16It looks good.

00:56:17They give them billions.

00:56:18No.

00:56:19TSMC, I gave them no money.

00:56:21Great company.

00:56:22Most powerful in the world.

00:56:24Biggest chip company in the world.

00:56:25They're spending $200 billion in Arizona building one of the biggest plants in the world.

00:56:30And that's without money.

00:56:31All I did is say, if you build, if you don't build your plant here, you're going to pay a

00:56:37big tax.

00:56:38$25, maybe $50, maybe $75, maybe $100%.

00:56:42NVIDIA is investing hundreds of billions of dollars.

00:56:47Johnson & Johnson is investing $55 billion.

00:56:50Eli Lilly is investing $27 billion.

00:56:53DeMAC is investing $20 billion.

00:56:56We have billions and billions being invested by Merck, Clarios, Stellantis, General Motors,

00:57:02Honda, Nissan, Hyundai.

00:57:05All are putting in billions and billions and billions of dollars.

00:57:09They're buying sites all over their building because they don't want to have to pay 25% and

00:57:1550% tariffs.

00:57:16They're all doing it.

00:57:18And I think they also have confidence in the country.

00:57:20They have a president that they have confidence in.

00:57:22I know many of them.

00:57:24With the help of people in this room, we are one big, beautiful bill signing away from the

00:57:30greatest economy in the history of the world.

00:57:38And it's an overhang.

00:57:39You know, this bill is an overhang because if it doesn't get signed, we will have imposed

00:57:44the biggest tax on the people of this country in our country's history by 40%.

00:57:51Biggest tax.

00:57:53Because we gave you the biggest tax cut in history, now we're giving you another, which

00:57:57is one of the reasons that there are many reasons why we were so successful.

00:58:01That's one of the big ones.

00:58:03The other one is that one-year deduction, all-in one-year deduction, so big.

00:58:08And I know they're working on that, the big deduction.

00:58:11It makes people invest.

00:58:13But now we're working on something that's going to, I think, blow it away.

00:58:16This bill is unbelievable.

00:58:17It's going to bring a lot of money back into our country.

00:58:20But if we don't do it, it's going to be a disaster.

00:58:25And you just better hope that people believe that it was the Democrats' fault because, you

00:58:29know, they're very good at saying it was our fault.

00:58:31It'll be the biggest tax increase in history.

00:58:33And all my life, as I watch politicians, I wasn't a politician, but I watched them and

00:58:37I contributed to them a lot, contributed a lot of money over the years, but I watched

00:58:41it.

00:58:41But all my life, I'd hear politicians saying, we are going to give you a tax cut.

00:58:48I will cut your taxes.

00:58:49We will cut your taxes.

00:58:50I never heard.

00:58:52They're the only party that says, we are going to increase your taxes.

00:58:55Vote for me.

00:58:56Who the hell ever heard this?

00:58:59Only these people.

00:59:00We're in a strange time.

00:59:02These lunatics go out and they tell everybody how you're going to have a big tax increase.

00:59:06So maybe they want the bill to fail so that we can have a tax increase.

00:59:09Maybe they'll take credit for it.

00:59:10But I've never heard that said.

00:59:12I've watched politics all my life.

00:59:14I've never seen politicians campaign on, we're going to increase your taxes, except

00:59:19these crazy Democrats.

00:59:21As part of this legislation, I am committed to spending cuts and I will fight hard to

00:59:27include the elimination of hundreds of billions of dollars in waste, fraud and abuse in the

00:59:32bill.

00:59:32We've already found hundreds of billions of dollars through Doge.

00:59:37And Elon has been terrific.

00:59:39He's been really terrific.

00:59:41But we found hundreds of billions of dollars of waste, fraud and abuse.

00:59:45But now we need to get the budget resolution and we have to get it passed in the Senate.

00:59:52We have to bring it through the House.

00:59:54It's going to pass in both.

00:59:56One thing I'll say is that Thune has been great.

01:00:02John Thune has been great.

01:00:03And he's worked with your great leader hand in hand.

01:00:06Those two bills are coming up together and they're very similar.

01:00:08And I didn't know if that would happen because you have a lot of different rules, procedures,

01:00:12complicated stuff.

01:00:13But Mike has been amazing and John Thune.

01:00:18And they've worked like amazingly well because they've just been going on at the same time.

01:00:23And we're ready to get this thing done and beyond and get rid of the debt hangover ceiling.

01:00:29That's a disaster for our country and for everybody.

01:00:32And to give people the biggest tax cuts they've ever had because we're going to add them both

01:00:36up together.

01:00:37It'll be the biggest tax cuts.

01:00:39It'll blow away the tax cuts that we got them four years ago.

01:00:43If we follow through on this agenda, we will be rewarded with a phenomenal economy and a

01:00:47massive victory at the ballot box in 2026 because we will have a record of triumph like

01:00:54no president has ever had, like no Congress has ever had.

01:01:00They will not be able to even touch your seat.

01:01:02Your seat is secure and we'll pick up 40, 50 or even 60 seats and we'll have something that's

01:01:09going to be smooth sailing for years to come.

01:01:12If we don't get it done because of stupidity or a couple of people that want to show how

01:01:16great they are, you just have to laugh at them or smile at them or cry right in their face.

01:01:23In less than three months, our new administration has already accomplished more than most

01:01:28administrations achieve in four years or eight years.

01:01:30And everybody says it.

01:01:31And we have to have this stuff documented and approved.

01:01:36In a matter of weeks, we've achieved the lowest level of illegal border crossings in American

01:01:41history and history.

01:01:42They have a plaza in front in Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico.

01:01:48I wouldn't advise going there on a trip, but nevertheless, they have a plaza, a big plaza,

01:01:53held hundreds of thousands of people.

01:01:56Yesterday morning, there were none.

01:01:58There was a man sweeping this massive plate of concrete, massive.

01:02:04And he was sweeping the concrete and there was nobody there.

01:02:09During the same period last year, Joe Biden released more than 184,000 illegal aliens into

01:02:16our country.

01:02:17Think of it.

01:02:17Many of these people were from jails and mental institutions, as I said.

01:02:22Since my inauguration, we've released a grand total of nine, nine, nine.

01:02:30And they were all, in all cases, medical emergencies.

01:02:35We did that for medical emergency reasons.

01:02:37Last month, we officially designated Tren de Aragua, MS-13, and the Mexican drug cartels

01:02:44as foreign terrorist organizations.

01:02:51And thanks to the Supreme Court yesterday, and today we had a big ruling, too.

01:02:56We had a very big ruling today.

01:02:58But we will continue to deport these monsters under the Alien Enemies Act.

01:03:04Think of that, Alien Enemies Act.

01:03:06Can you believe it?

01:03:07All things we wouldn't have had to do if the election weren't rigged.

01:03:11Now, in reconciliation, we need Republicans in Congress to give us the full funding to

01:03:17permanently secure the border and to carry out.

01:03:20That's part of what we're asking for.

01:03:22Who could fight that?

01:03:24We want to permanently secure, without a border or without fair elections, and without a good

01:03:28press, you don't have a country.

01:03:30Well, we have a lousy press.

01:03:32We now have a good border.

01:03:33And we're going to get good elections pretty soon.

01:03:37There's a lot of clamor for it.

01:03:38I think it's something that you should work on.

01:03:41You should go out and put a bill in demanding.

01:03:44You demand.

01:03:44You know, because the states are just an agent of the federal government, of you.

01:03:49You're to demand paper ballots.

01:03:50You're to demand one-day elections.

01:03:53You know what they do when it's longer than one day?

01:03:55All of a sudden, well, we're fixing the room up.

01:03:57Move those boxes.

01:03:58We're putting an air conditioner.

01:03:59Oh, really?

01:04:01We'll move the boxes back in a few days.

01:04:04Well, we're painting the room.

01:04:05Please move the boxes.

01:04:06And you notice the boxes go out.

01:04:07And then they move back in about half the number.

01:04:11Oh, it's so sick.

01:04:12One-day election.

01:04:13You don't need any more than that.

01:04:16One-day election.

01:04:17Paper ballots.

01:04:18I think you should put a bill in.

01:04:20I mean, I don't know.

01:04:21Who's in favor of a bill?

01:04:22Who could not want it?

01:04:23Who could not want it?

01:04:25But I think you should do a bill in that.

01:04:27I think it would be so popular.

01:04:29And more importantly than popular, it's so necessary.

01:04:31You have to have great elections.

01:04:33You have to have fair and free elections.

01:04:35And you've got to have borders.

01:04:36Otherwise, you don't have a country.

01:04:39To quickly bring down the cost of energy and lower the price of everything, on day one,

01:04:43I declared a national energy emergency to drill, baby, drill.

01:04:49We're drilling.

01:04:50Oh, we're drilling.

01:04:54I withdrew from the unbelievably expensive for us, the Paris Climate Accord.

01:05:03So we were paying what would have cost us a trillion dollars, a trillion.

01:05:09China doesn't come into it until like 2035.

01:05:13Russia is based on a 1992 standard when the air was dirty.

01:05:22Everybody was, India was based on a very low standard.

01:05:25Except the United States, we had to pay immediately.

01:05:30We would have spent trillions of dollars on that scam.

01:05:34And it sounds so nice, the Paris Climate Accord.

01:05:37What a beautiful name.

01:05:38Isn't it beautiful?

01:05:39It was a ripoff of the United States.

01:05:41Well, don't forget, you know, I mean, I'm negotiating with these people.

01:05:44But if you really look, the European Union, why was that set up?

01:05:49It was set up to screw the United States of America.

01:05:52It was, they formed a group of countries, got together,

01:05:56and let's make life miserable for the United States of America on trade and other things.

01:06:01And they have done that.

01:06:03They've done that.

01:06:04They've treated us very badly.

01:06:05We don't sell cars into the European Union.

01:06:07We don't sell, they won't take our agriculture.

01:06:10They want their own.

01:06:12But we take their agriculture, we take their cars by the millions.

01:06:15I terminated the Green News scam.

01:06:17One of the great scams, one of the great hoaxes in the history of our country,

01:06:21only superseded by Russia, Russia, Russia hoax.

01:06:25I canceled Joe Biden's insane electric vehicle mandate,

01:06:29where everybody had to have an electric vehicle in a very short period of time.

01:06:35Everybody was forced to have an electric vehicle.

01:06:38You know, they built some power stations in the Midwest.

01:06:41They look like gas pumps with electricity, right?

01:06:44They spent $8 billion, and four of the nine of them don't work.

01:06:50Four of nine, they built nine or eight, but half of them don't work.

01:06:54They spent $8 billion bringing the cables, bringing the wires.

01:06:58What a great investment that was.

01:07:00Billions of dollars they spent.

01:07:02Now people can go out and buy a gasoline-powered car, a hybrid.

01:07:06They can buy whatever they want.

01:07:10We don't want hydrogen because they have some big problems.

01:07:12They blow up, and you never see who was driving the car.

01:07:15You do not recognize them.

01:07:17That's a big problem.

01:07:19They were telling me about, sir, I'm really liking hydrogen cars.

01:07:23I said, but isn't there a problem?

01:07:25Yes, they tend to blow up on occasion.

01:07:28I said, how bad is it?

01:07:30Well, we found body parts 250 yards away from the car.

01:07:37We think it was Mr. Jones, but we're going to go to see his dentist and see if we can.

01:07:42So if you have one of those incidents, let's forget it, right?

01:07:51It's a bomb.

01:07:52It's a bomb.

01:07:54I don't want him to work.

01:07:55I actually said, don't work on it.

01:07:57Between that and windmills, you can have windmills too.

01:07:59Most expensive form of energy ever.

01:08:02Anybody have a windmill by your house?

01:08:04Congratulations.

01:08:04You'll never sell your house.

01:08:07And today I signed historic executive orders to unleash coal production.

01:08:13To the highest levels ever.

01:08:20Because, you know, coal is the most powerful thing.

01:08:23We have more of it than any.

01:08:24We have more liquid gold under our feet.

01:08:27Oil and gas.

01:08:29And we have more coal than any other country.

01:08:31Any other.

01:08:31No other country has as much as we have.

01:08:33All different forms of coal.

01:08:36And take a look at China.

01:08:38They're building two coal plants a week.

01:08:41Think of that.

01:08:42Two a week.

01:08:44We are screwing around with wind.

01:08:47Oh.

01:08:49Wind.

01:08:51These people are crazy.

01:08:52They say, oh, it's great for the environment.

01:08:55It kills all your birds.

01:08:58You want to see a bird cemetery?

01:08:59Walk under a windmill sometime.

01:09:01Got birds all over the place.

01:09:03They're screaming for help.

01:09:04They got whacked.

01:09:04The environmentalists.

01:09:07It's an environmental dream.

01:09:08You know why?

01:09:09Because you're never going to have energy.

01:09:11They're the most expensive form of energy there is.

01:09:15Ten times more expensive than clean natural gas.

01:09:20Ten times much more expensive than coal.

01:09:22And not very unreliable.

01:09:26Like if they wanted to watch us tonight on television.

01:09:30Alice, Alice, I want to watch the president tonight.

01:09:32I'm sorry, darling.

01:09:33But the windmills aren't blowing.

01:09:34We're going to give them confidence to do what they have to do long into the future.

01:09:42Because coal is going to be a big factor in our country now.

01:09:45You know, it does give us our electricity.

01:09:48Because there's nothing like coal in terms of power.

01:09:51But it's going to be clean, beautiful coal, like our bill.

01:09:55It's going to be clean and beautiful.

01:09:57Coal miners.

01:09:58And by the way, they've made tremendous progress with also coal in terms of clean coal.

01:10:04But the coal miners standing alongside of me this afternoon in the White House.

01:10:08They were incredible.

01:10:10They were a beautiful sight to behold.

01:10:11These are really great American patriots.

01:10:13They're beautiful guys.

01:10:15I didn't want to have any arm wrestling contests with any of them.

01:10:18I can tell you that.

01:10:19They're good, strong guys.

01:10:20That's what they want to do.

01:10:21They love to dig coal.

01:10:22That's what they want to do.

01:10:24They don't want to do gidgets and widgets and wadgets.

01:10:27They don't want to build cell phones with their hands.

01:10:29Their big, strong hands are doing a little thing.

01:10:32Remember when Hillary Clinton went to West Virginia?

01:10:35And she had decimated them three weeks before in, like, some state where they make little,

01:10:41tiny circuit boards.

01:10:44And she said, we're going to teach the miners in West Virginia how to make a circuit board.

01:10:50With little, tiny things.

01:10:53He said, we're going to teach them.

01:10:54And then she went to West Virginia.

01:10:56She was going to – she was in the campaign.

01:10:59And she had to go there.

01:11:00Do you remember that stop?

01:11:01It was memorable.

01:11:02It was one of the worst.

01:11:04Did they go after her?

01:11:05And one of the miners said, I don't want to do anything else but dig coal.

01:11:10I want to dig coal.

01:11:10They're so – they said it today.

01:11:12That's what they love.

01:11:13They love doing it.

01:11:14It's like that in a lot of industries.

01:11:15People love doing what they're doing.

01:11:18They want to dig coal.

01:11:19That's what they want.

01:11:19They don't mind going deep in earth.

01:11:22They feel comfortable.

01:11:23They're me.

01:11:23I could do without it.

01:11:25But they feel comfortable.

01:11:27They're incredible people, actually.

01:11:29Hardworking, incredible people.

01:11:31And we're giving them their lives back.

01:11:33We've also begun the largest deregulation campaign in history.

01:11:37For every one new regulation, I have directed that 10 old regulations must be eliminated

01:11:42before the first one can go into effect.

01:11:45And we're working tirelessly to restore peace through strength and bring back the hostages

01:11:51held captive abroad.

01:11:53We've brought a lot of them back already.

01:11:54But what a sad situation that is.

01:11:58What a sad situation that is.

01:12:01That would have never happened to our president.

01:12:03October 7th would have never happened.

01:12:05And I said Russia, Ukraine would have never happened.

01:12:09All this stuff – inflation would have never happened.

01:12:12Afghanistan disaster would have never happened.

01:12:15Most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.

01:12:17Not leaving.

01:12:18I was going to leave.

01:12:19I'm the one that got them to a point where they couldn't leave.

01:12:21But I was going to keep Bagram, the airbase, the biggest – one of the biggest in the world.

01:12:25I was going to keep it.

01:12:26Not for Afghanistan, because it's one hour away from where China makes its nuclear weapons.

01:12:31Wouldn't it be nice to have it?

01:12:32You know who occupies it now?

01:12:34China occupies it now.

01:12:37Can you believe how stupid this guy was?

01:12:40On top of that, they get blown up at the airport, leaving the wrong airport.

01:12:43They didn't leave from Bagram.

01:12:45They left from a local little airport, which was crowded and like crazy with the people from the towns and cities.

01:12:52And the bomb went off and decimated hundreds of people.

01:12:55Killed hundreds.

01:12:56We lost 13 soldiers.

01:12:58But we also had 42 or 48 horribly injured.

01:13:04Arms, legs, face horribly injured.

01:13:06All because we had a stupid leader.

01:13:09Should have never happened.

01:13:11Should have never been involved in that.

01:13:13We're also joined tonight by a number of brave souls who recently released from – they were recently released from Hamas captivity.

01:13:23Hamas is just a disaster.

01:13:26The level of hatred.

01:13:28Where are the people – Hamas?

01:13:34They understand what that's all about.

01:13:38Where are you?

01:13:46That's great.

01:13:46How does it feel to be out?

01:13:48How does that feel to be out, huh?

01:13:50You want to come up here for a second?

01:13:54Come on up here.

01:13:56Come on up here.

01:13:59Come on up.

01:14:01Yeah, let them up, please.

01:14:03That's great.

01:14:05That's great.

01:14:06I'll tell you, these people, what they had to go through.

01:14:08I've – I had 10 hostages in my office two weeks ago.

01:14:12What they had to go through is just horrible.

01:14:14Come on up.

01:14:14U.S. West – U.S. West – U.S. West!

01:14:18That's great.

01:14:19That is so nice to see you.

01:14:30That is so nice.

01:14:44Thank you, thank you very much, President Trump.

01:15:05I'm here, and I'm alive.

01:15:09President Trump, you saved my life.

01:15:21You saved the life of 33 hostages that because of your efforts and your setting the hostage

01:15:30crisis at the high priority of what you are doing among all of the enormous issues and

01:15:42things that you're dealing with since you came into your position as President of the

01:15:51United States.

01:15:54You set the hostage crisis at the highest priority.

01:15:56You got 33 of us home alive.

01:16:02We all owe our lives to you.

01:16:06Thank you, thank you, thank you.

01:16:08And please, please continue your tremendous efforts and your tremendous actions and your

01:16:18tremendous accomplishments.

01:16:21Continue, and we will get, with your help, all of the remaining 59 hostages still in Gaza

01:16:29back home.

01:16:34Thank you, President Trump, for bringing my Keith home.

01:16:48Keith's grandchildren are the happiest, Keith's children are the happiest, Keith's family

01:16:55is the happiest, but I am the most happiest.

01:17:00Thank you so much.

01:17:03We need you.

01:17:06We need you to bring all the hostages home.

01:17:10There's 24 that are alive and 59 to come home to their families.

01:17:17Just like I received Keith, they needed to.

01:17:22We have Yair standing here with us and Eitan, his brother, is underneath the ground now begging

01:17:30to get out.

01:17:33So I'm begging you all to help us.

01:17:36We need your help.

01:17:38So my name is Yair.

01:17:49I've been in hell for 498 days.

01:17:58I've been in hell with Hamas terrorists.

01:18:10When we didn't see the light, but we feel, when we heard President Trump get elected, we

01:18:24knew, we knew there is now someone who makes the things happen.

01:18:34We need, we needed, I'm sorry about my English.

01:18:39I am half Argentinian, half Israeli.

01:18:42I'm sorry.

01:18:44We knew we need someone who do the things.

01:18:49That's President Trump.

01:18:50We are here because of President Trump.

01:18:57Thank you for your efforts.

01:19:04It's really surreal to be here.

01:19:06You know, I'm a simple man.

01:19:11I'm running the bar in the kibbutz, in Niros, where I was live.

01:19:17And now I'm here with President Trump, who's running the world.

01:19:30We are thankful.

01:19:31We are really thankful, but humbly we ask for more.

01:19:38The last push, the last 59 people, the last 59 hostages, among them, my brother, Eitan,

01:19:50what is it, Liran, brothers, Zibi, Angali, Neviatar, all the brothers, all the families.

01:19:59In a few days we mark the Passover, right, Pesach, it's a family.

01:20:16Every time, so I expect that in the next seder.

01:20:33My mother made the kneidalach, the matzibols, that my brother Eitan, my little brother, who

01:20:41I call little, but he's 38, but it's my little brother.

01:20:48I hope he can sit with us in the seder of Passover.

01:20:55And, wow, it's overwhelming.

01:21:03I just want to tell you again, thank you.

01:21:08Thank you very much.

01:21:25I just want to say, I said, of the 59 people that you want to bring home, how are they and

01:21:40how are they doing?

01:21:41Do you have any idea?

01:21:42Because they left that whole scene not long ago.

01:21:46And they said, well, of the 59, 24 are living, the rest are dead.

01:21:51I just heard that.

01:21:53And I was told that before by somebody else, but 24 are living, the rest are dead.

01:22:00These are young people, largely young people.

01:22:02Young people don't die.

01:22:03Young people are killed, they don't die.

01:22:06But the conditions were so horrible.

01:22:08But think of that, so, of the 59.

01:22:11And I've had Israeli parents tell me that my son is dead, but please bring him home.

01:22:20As though he were alive, she wanted him brought home more than, it just seemed almost more

01:22:27than if her child was living.

01:22:30Amazing.

01:22:31She just, they wanted the mother and father.

01:22:35In three other cases, they wanted to have them brought home.

01:22:40I said, how is he doing?

01:22:43He's dead.

01:22:44It's only his body, but we want him home.

01:22:47So there's an amazing thing.

01:22:49But the 59 that you mentioned, you said that 24 were alive and the rest are dead.

01:22:56This is a terrible thing that's going on with Hamas, terrible.

01:23:00The hatred is so incredible, it's unbelievable.

01:23:04And the way they were made to live was not even understandable, I think, by anybody in

01:23:09this audience.

01:23:10And you have great people in this audience that love you, and they're going to fight for

01:23:13you.

01:23:14And I just want to thank you very much.

01:23:19You take care of yourself, okay?

01:23:22You did a good job.

01:23:38It's incredible what they've been forced to live with for 450, 500 days.

01:23:51Incredible.

01:23:52Nobody in this room could really understand it.

01:23:54I found it hard to understand.

01:23:57But we'll not rest until your loved ones have been returned home.

01:24:00And hopefully we can do it the right way.

01:24:05We want to get those 24 out really fast.

01:24:10And we're working on it very hard.

01:24:12There was no chance before.

01:24:13This is something that should have been done right at the beginning during the past administration.

01:24:20On day one, we ended the so-called diversity, equity, and inclusion policies across the entire federal government, private sector.

01:24:29And it's just not even allowed.

01:24:31I also signed an order making it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.

01:24:41We want to keep it simple.

01:24:42As you know, in a very important executive order, I banned men from competing in women's sports.

01:24:51That was done.

01:24:52And I hope all of these executive orders can be codified, can be voted on by Congress.

01:25:00I can't imagine any Republican that's not going to vote for them, many, many of them, over 100.

01:25:08And I think every single one of them is just common sense, good.

01:25:12It's good politics, but the word politics doesn't matter to me so much.

01:25:15It's good for our country.

01:25:16If Democrats retake the House next year, they will try to reverse all of the progress that we've made, which is record-setting progress.

01:25:25Instead of House committees run by Mike Johnson, Steve Scalise, Jim Jordan, James Comer, Ronnie Jackson, and so many other of our friends in this audience,

01:25:36The House will be run by the same band of radicals and lunatics you saw at my address to Congress, including Hakeem Jeffries, AOC, Ilhan Omar, Nancy Crazy Pelosi, and Weird Al Green.

01:25:51He's a weird dude.

01:25:54Oh, he should have been treated very badly for the way he behaved that night.

01:25:59Think of it.

01:26:00They didn't stand up.

01:26:02They didn't pay respect to anybody.

01:26:03They included, think of it, you take a look at Lake and Riley.

01:26:11You take a look at any of the people there, the parents of these incredible people, the young boy with cancer, serious cancer,

01:26:21wanted to be in a police department, would give anything to be a policeman someday.

01:26:27They refused to even applaud or acknowledge them.

01:26:30They're sick.

01:26:31There's something wrong with them.

01:26:32They sat, as the stories were explained, two young ladies killed by, killed, savagely killed by illegal aliens.

01:26:44They came into our country and they killed these two young ladies.

01:26:47And the Democrats sat there.

01:26:48They didn't smile.

01:26:49They didn't clap.

01:26:51They didn't do anything.

01:26:52I think you, frankly, win the midterms.

01:26:55Just all you have to do is show a picture of these grieving parents, uncontrollably grieving.

01:27:01And they didn't get one clap out of the whole group of them.

01:27:07They just sat there like stoic and disgraceful.

01:27:11And you show that in your commercials that you're going to be putting on and you'll win every race that we have in this room.

01:27:17That was a bad night for them.

01:27:19And now they know it.

01:27:20They're trying to make up for it.

01:27:21But they're just, I don't know, something wrong with them.

01:27:24That's why every day from now until November 2026, we're going to fight, fight, fight to elect and expand the Republican majority of the House and save our country from these radical left lunatics.

01:27:38We will not be deterred.

01:27:41We will not stop.

01:27:42We will not yield.

01:27:43And we will never, ever back down.

01:27:45We're not going to back down.

01:27:47They would lose respect if you back down.

01:27:49They're the ones that back down.

01:27:50They're the ones that have lost their confidence.

01:27:52They're no good anymore.

01:27:53I saw politicians that were good politicians four years ago.

01:27:57They're not good politicians anymore.

01:27:58They've lost their confidence.

01:28:00They've totally lost their confidence.

01:28:03But they can get their confidence back.

01:28:05So you can't rely on that too much, I guess.

01:28:08Together, we're liberating our country, reclaiming our wealth, unleashing our energy, protecting our children, rebuilding our military, repelling the invaders, deporting the criminals, destroying the gangs, and unlocking what history will know as the Golden Age of America.

01:28:26This is going to be the Golden Age of America.

01:28:29With your support, your commitment, and your help to elect more Republicans, we will finish the job that we have really brilliantly started.

01:28:44It's been a brilliant period of years.

01:28:47And we go back to 2016.

01:28:49It was brilliant.

01:28:50Then they stole it from us by illegally rigging the election.

01:28:56And we did great in that election.

01:28:58But we had to write it off, and we all went through hell.

01:29:01I went through hell in particular.

01:29:04Indictments.

01:29:07What we had to go through is hard to believe.

01:29:10Impeachments.