Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the
President of the United States, Donald
J. Trump.
Hello. That's the first word I said. in
this uh beautiful setting. Uh we have uh
worked very hard to bring it to fruition
and not an easy situation, but it's
something that I think we're all going
to enjoy for many many years to come.
It's a tremendous uh tremendous place.
This is the rose garden. We never
touched a rose. The roses are in full
bloom and they will be in full bloom
during certain seasons, but we never
touched. I tell you what we did. the
grass was not usable. Every time we'd
have a press conference, women in
particular were sinking deep into the
mud. And at some point, I said, you
know, it's time to make the change. We
picked a great stone. And uh we have a
great speaker system. I hope I hope
everybody hears us perfectly. But a lot
of people are wondering why you're here
tonight. And I'll tell you very simply
why you're here. Because you are the
ones that I never had to call at four
o'clock in the morning. You are the ones
that have been my friend
and you know what I'm talking about and
you're smart and even brilliant people.
But you would tell people, you know, I
don't speak to the president much
because I always vote with the president
and Mike Johnson who's going to go down
as one of the great speakers of our time
or any other time. Mike, thank you very
much. I said, Mike, I want to do
something. I want to reward the people
that have confidence in their president
have confidence in you and vote for us.
And that includes some of the senators
that are here. We have senators. We have
congressmen. This was originally going
to be for Congress only. We're going to
have the senators sometime, but a couple
of the senators really wanted to be
here. And I'm going to start off by one
of them who's a really good friend of
mine. Comes from a state where I was I
think 77 out of 77 district or areas. I
won them all three times. Uh Ronald
Reagan was second. He got 56. Is that
right? I got 77 out of 77. And I did it
three times. So I happen to love the
state of Oklahoma. And I'm going to ask
James Langford to come up and say grace.
And he's very good at it. He's a
religious guy and we love him. And
you've done a fantastic job as senator.
And thank you for doing this, James.
Thank you very much. Thank you. Please.
Well, let's pray together.
Father, thank you for allowing us to be
here and the privilege we get to be able
to serve this nation
in all the work and all the long hours
and all the time. We just want to say
thank you again for entrusting us with
this task. And I ask for wisdom for all
of us to be able to lead well by example
and by task. Father, we pray for the
president of the United States.
We pray that you would overwhelm him
with the insight and wisdom he needs for
each day.
The challenges around the world are on
his shoulders.
But we are grateful that the government
is on yours and you are the one who
sustains us. So we pray for President
Trump, for his family, pray for the vice
president. Pray that you continue to be
able to instill in them the joy of the
task so they'd be able to fulfill things
well.
Pray for our members of the military and
intelligence community and law
enforcement. So may first responders
that they are in harm's way tonight as
we are in safety. So we pray that you
would protect them and their families.
God, thanks for this food and for the
privilege to be able to be here together
with each other. In the name of Jesus, I
ask tonight. Amen.
Beautiful. Appreciate it. Thank you.
That was very nice. So getting back to
why you got invited. So, I'd get a call
from the speaker and it'd say, "Uh, sir,
we have 16 hardnos.
It's 4:00 in the morning and we have one
of many bills because this happened many
times." And it tended to be the same 16,
18, 19 people all the time. 4:00, 5:00
in the morning, I call them. I said,
"Jim, how you doing, Jim? Everything
okay?" "Yes, sir. It's 5:00 in the
morning. How are you voting for us?"
Well, what do you think, sir? Tell me
what should I do, sir? And he broke my
ass. And they had about 16 others. That
doesn't mean we don't like them. But we
had about 16, 17 or 18 others. And they
made life very difficult. But we got
them there because we had a period where
we had a majority of one. Is that right,
Mike? One. We were one heart attack from
losing the house. Think of that. nobody could have done that but that man
right there. And I think I helped a
little bit. I think I helped a little
bit. But Mike, uh, unbelievable. And we
passed legislation, you know, our I call
it the great big beautiful bill. I add
the word great because it is it gives
the greatest tax cuts in the history of
our country. Uh, when you think no tax
on tips, no tax on social security, no
tax on overtime. These are working class
things. We get a deduction. If you buy a
car, you borrow money, we deduct the
interest, Jason, which is so incredible.
Nobody ever heard of that middle class.
Nobody ever got deductions like that.
The bill is unbelievable. In fact, we
really don't need any other votes
because we have everything in that. We
got that's why it's a great big
beautiful bill and Scott Bessent is here
who's done a fantastic job and he's one
of the people, one of the one of the
writers of it gave plenty of good ideas
and I think Howard is here someplace.
was Howard Ludnneck. Howard, thank you
very much. I call them the Bobsy twins.
They're the most different human beings
I've ever met. They're both great, but
one is a little bit different than the
other, like by about 200 yards, and
they're fantastic, and they get along
great, but we all, the administration
has been amazing. And what we've done
has not been done. a lot of people, even
the people that are not necessarily
lovers of President Trump, and some of
them are right there in the fake news,
but uh they said that nobody's done what
we've done in seven months, a little
more than seven months. Uh when you
think of it, we stopped seven wars. And
the war that I thought was going to be
the easiest is probably the most
difficult. That's the Ukraine and
Russia. I thought that would be easier.
The relationship with President Putin,
all of that, it didn't matter. It's
ended up being probably the most
difficult, but we stopped wars that one
was going on for 31 years. They said it
was unstoppable. I got it done in about
two hours, another one 35 years, and
another one 37 years. And we got them
all done. But we got seven of them done.
We ended up stopping the nuclear
potential nuclear disaster in Iran with
I think one of the greatest military
trips ever taken. Nobody's ever seen
anything like it.
We flew the B2 bomber. They flew for 36
hours. Not a single mishap, not a single
problem. And those pilots were great. I
invited them to the Oval Office month
ago and they came in handsome. They look
just like Tom Cruz. They look just I'm
telling you, they were great. They were
every one of them. And they were looking
forward to that mission. I said, "Did
you really want to go?" They said, "Sir,
we've been waiting for 22 years." They
said, "For 22 years, their predecessors
have been practicing three to four times
a year that mission." Because they knew
someday they had to take it out. And
they said, "No other president had the
courage to let us go, sir." And you did.
I said, "Were you happy or unhappy about
that?" And they could not have been
happier. They loved it. They were so
disappointed. When I heard one of the
news outlets, give the information as to
when we were taking off, when we were
landing, I called our great General
Kaine, as you know, he's done a phen I
don't know if he's here, but he did a
phenomenal job and he's done a
phenomenal job. Head of the joint chiefs
now because he wiped out ISIS. So, you
know, General Kaine, uh, I was told it
would take four years to defeat ISIS. He
did it in four weeks. I said, he's my
guy for the top. and uh he knows he
really knows how to win. But what we've
done has been incredible. I'm so happy
about that. But I'm really happy when
you see almost 17 trillion dollars will
be invested in this country over the
next few months. Actually, we started
from the day we came in. November 5th
was a big day. It was liberation day in
a lot of different ways. It's a lot of
different forms of liberation, but what
we really have is something that I don't
think any country has ever had. We're
going to have over 17 trillion and that
number is going to go much higher than
that invested in our country and it's
being vest invested right now as we
speak. We have factories from all over
the world coming in. We have car plants
that were stolen from us. We had 40% 47%
of our car industry stolen from us over
the last 40 years. And I think the
number is actually much higher than
that. They say 47. I think it's a lot
higher. It's all coming back. The AI
plants are massive. Some of them cost
$50 billion. We're allowing them to
build electricity with their plant.
Nobody ever heard of that before.
They're build and if we didn't do that,
they couldn't hook into the grid. We
wouldn't have AI. We're substantially
leading China. China knows it. We're
substantially and most of those people
were here. You know, you're the first
ones on this great place. We call it the
Rose Garden Club. And it's a club for
senators, for congress people, and for
people in Washington. And frankly,
people that can bring peace and success
to our country. And you're invited as
congressmen mostly. We have congressmen
and senators tonight. Again, you know
why you're first? Because it rained last
night. I had the high-tech guys we're
going to hear. And they didn't want to
have rain on top of their beautiful
heads. We had the highest IQ last night
in the history of the world. And we took
them inside because two reasons. Number
one, I wanted you to be number one and
you were. They could have endured the
little rain, but I wanted you to be
number one. And I would say I would
match IQ tonight here with what we had
last night, meaning IQ of common sense
and survival. Okay? I think you have a
higher IQ in certain ways, let me tell
you. But we had a great group last
night, and they're investing tens of
billions. They're investing trillions of
dollars. Some of the companies are
investing literally trillions of dollars
in this in this great country of ours.
So we've turned it around to a level we
were given a very bad hand. We had 25
million people allowed to come into our
country come in from mental
institutions, prisons from all over the
world emptied their prisons out into
this country. Drug dealers, drug
addicts, we have everything. They were
allowed to come in. murderers, 11,788
murderers, 50% of whom killed more than
one person during their life. They were
allowed to come into our country by the
Democrats and by Sleepy Joe, and that
was a thing. Now, they had the worst
inflation in history. We've got the
inflation down, but inflation is nothing
compared to what I just told you. to
allow 25 I believe the real number is 25
million people into this country many of
whom should never have been allowed into
this country and we're doing a great job
in getting them out and we're getting
them out by the thousands by the
thousands every month every week in some
cases and one example is right over here
Washington DC it was the most unsafe
city anywhere in the country our capital
and after 12 days, it became known as a
safe city. And then after two more days,
it's now one of the safest cities in the
country. And people are going out to
dinner. They're walking down the middle
of the street. Women are walking by
themselves alone. And they feel totally
safe.
And if you leave here right now and if
you walk back to wherever you happen to
stay, you're going to feel totally
secure, totally safe. We've done an
incredible job. And we'll be doing that
with other cities throughout the
country. I mean, when you look at
Chicago, we have a governor that says
that things are okay with crime, except
that last weekend 11 people were killed
and 68 people were wounded by gunshot.
The week before, five people were
killed, 28 people were wounded. The week
before, six people were killed,
19 people were badly wounded. Many of
the wounded are going to die. and he
said, 'Oh, well, we have a safe city.
These people are sick. There's something
wrong with them, but we're going to make
some other choices pretty soon. I
watched Portland, Oregon last night
burning to the ground. Just burning with
people. And these are agitators. These
are professional agit. These are not
people that are protesting. These are
professional paid agitators. And they're
paid by the left, not by the right. And
we're going to stop them. We're going to
stop it all. So, we're pretty much uh I
don't think you can do much better than
zero crime. They said crime is down 87%.
They said, "Really? Who are the 13%?"
Okay. I don't think they exist. So, I
we're so proud of what because this is
our nation's capital. Now, we're going
to be coming to you for a small amount
of money. We're going to fix the
roads. We're going to fix the medians.
We're going to clean up the place. We're
going to put new grass in all the parks.
You know, you don't know this. Grass has
a life. Do you know that, Mike? Grass
has a life like we have a life. It's so
long. Guess what? It expired about 40
years ago in these parks. There's no
grass on half of them. We're going to
regrass them with the best guys in the
country. We're going to grass them by
people that do Augusta in Georgia.
People that do the great golf courses of
the world. We're going to have the most
beautiful parks. We're going to fix the
curbs. I noticed some of your curbs are
broken. You know why? They're hitting
them with a hammer so they can pick it
up and throw it at the police. But not
anymore. They're not. Not anymore. So,
we have the safest place, Washington DC,
and we'll be going to other cities to
help out. Preferably, we'd like to be
asked, but in some cases, that just
won't happen because they're people that
don't understand the word ask. People
that don't understand, they're in
trouble or they're stupid. There's
something wrong with them. But these are
high crime areas as high as there is in
the world. You can go to Afghanistan.
You can go to places that you think of
are like unsafe. You're safer there than
you are in Chicago at night. But we're
going to make Chicago like this. We're
going to make Louisiana. We're going to
We have a great governor there. We're
going to make and a great, by the way,
and a great speaker there. That's true.
But we're going to come into New Orleans
and we're going to make that place so
safe. It's got a little problem right
now. A couple of headaches like
murderers. A lot of little murders going
on and we're not going to stand for it.
and we're going to come in. We're going
to clean it up. You're going to be safe
within two weeks. That's going to be the
safest place just like this is the
safest place. And then we'll be going
elsewhere throughout the country. We're
going to bring crime down because we
can't have cities that are unsafe. I
just want to thank you for everyone.
This is a special group. And it is true.
There's not one person in this audience
that I had to call to ask for help that
we needed your vote. You're unbelievable
people. That includes you, Jason.
There's nobody that knows more about tax
and money than that man right there.
I'll tell you, there's nobody. It's
true.
And I'm saying that in front of a lot of
television, Jason, so I can't ever take
it back, but it's true. You do a
phenomenal job. Mike, you surround
yourself with whether it's defense or
anything else. Every I could name every
single person here and amazing. But you
make my life easy. You trust me, you
trust Mike. You trust leadership, you
trust yourselves, and you don't make us
make the call. One of you said, you
know, I don't speak to the president
much. I like the president, but I always
vote for him. I don't want him to have
to waste. I have people, and you know
who they are, that I have to call, speak
to them. James, is that right? For
hours. Hours. I know they're going to
vote for us, but I have to speak to them
for hours. And it's brutal. And it's not
like at 3:00 in the afternoon. It's like
3:00 in the morning, right? 3:00 in the
morning. You hear that sound of the
train? The train is safe now. We don't
have to worry about it. Isn't that a
beautiful It's a much nice, you know,
it's a much nicer sound now than it was
uh three months ago. But so this is a
very special group and I say that with
love for all those other people that
have to work so hard, but they vote for
us. They do vote for us. Otherwise, we
wouldn't be doing what we're doing. But
you are the people that I I I was I
called Mike. I said, "We have to reward
the people that I don't get to speak to
that I like so much." Doc Ronnie.
Where's Doc Ronnie? Unbelievable doctor.
He was the doctor in the White House. He
was a great admiral and he's one of the
most popular politicians in in this
country. He won his district by 50
points, but I think I won by more. I
don't He's got one of the great
districts. But Doc Ronnie, the reason I
like him, he was a doctor the White
House. He took care of Bush, took care
of Obama, took care of Trump. And the
fake news right over here, they said to
him, "Doctor, could we ask you a
question?" Yes. What would you like?
Who's the healthiest? Bush, Obama, or
Trump. They said, "There's not even a
contest. By far, the healthiest is
President Donald J. Trump." I said, "I
love that guy. That guy is great." I'm
sure that Bush and Obama don't feel the
same way, but who the hell cares, right?
But, uh, I want to thank you, Ronnie.
You've been great in every way and
you've been a great congressman and
you're not a congressman that I had a
call. I never had to call you at 2 in
the morning to get your vote. Did I?
Huh? But you're the same and I just want
to thank everybody. You're a special
group of people and you're the first
people that I've had at the White House,
at the Rose Garden, and it's an honor to
have you. Now, I want you to sit down,
have a great meal. The food is seriously
good. We'll say goodbye to the press,
but it's an honor to have you. And
actually the press has been very good
lately except for one rumor that they
spread. I did about eight press
conferences in a row day after day after
day. Then I missed one because I was in
the Oval Office and I also went out to a
club because I had meetings at a club
and they saw that I was there and the
rumor started spreading this horrible
rumor that Trump is no longer with us.
They said I'm no and I said I got to the
club. Sir, are you okay? Are you okay?
The fake news was at it again, but
because I missed one day of press
conferences. So today I gave them about
a three-hour press conferences on
changing the name of the Department of
Defense to the Department of War
because you know we won World War I,
World War II, everything in between and
everything in front of it. It was called
Department of War. And then we went woke
after the Second World War incredible
victory and we said, "Let's change it to
defense." And look, war means something.
It means we're not going to have any
problems. We don't want problems with
people. And I've kept us out of wars.
I've solved wars. But the way you solve
wars is through strength. And that's
what we are. We make the best equipment
in the world. We have the best soldiers.
We have the most powerful military
anywhere in the world. We rebuilt it in
my first term.
As you know, we rebuilt it in our first
term. And we have the greatest mil. We
gave some away to Afghanistan which was
not exactly good. That was the most
embarrassing moment in the history of
our country. The Biden that day in
Afghanistan was the most embarrassing
day in the history of a country. And
they kept uh military equipment. But
fortunately, it's a very small
percentage compared to what it was. But
the fact that they could keep any. But I
just want to thank you all. You've been
unbelievable. I'll be with you for the
rest of my life. I will be with you and
you're going to be with me and with
leadership. And Mike, I want to thank
you for being a great speaker. You've
been really outstanding and working with
you has been an honor and thank you and
congratulations on being number one.
This is historic because you're number
one here and this little circle, this
little beautiful uh grouping of some of
the finest stone in the world. This is
uh I think going to go down as a very
important place over the period of time
for news conferences, for celebrations,
for dinners and we're going to bring
people together here. We're going to
bring maybe some of the Democrats. We'll
say the Democrats are invited. Now,
we'll do that for about a week or two
and then we'll find out. Well, it just
doesn't work perhaps and keep them the
hell out of here. We'll say you're going
to have to win the White House to get
here. But, uh maybe it will work. You
never know. We're going to give it a
shot. We're going to let Democrats come
and we're going to let Republicans come
and you're going to mingle. You know, in
the old days, Republicans and Democrats
got together and they'd go out to dinner
and then they'd fight a little bit
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during the day and a lot of times they'd
get 20% 30% of one or the other's vote.
And today that doesn't happen. It's
solid blocks one way or the other. And
probably that shouldn't be, but we'll
see what happens. I just want to thank
you all. You've been unbelievable.
You're warriors. And we're going to make
America so great. So much better than
anybody ever thoug
but much, much
better than anybody ever envisioned.
Thank you all for being with us. A great
honor. Thank you.