FULL REMARKS: Trump Speaks To Rose Garden Club Hours Before Pivotal Trip To China

[0:00] A lot of races with that song. Uh-oh. I thought that was a drone. They make them in all different [0:07] sizes nowadays. They can be very destructive, as you probably heard. So this is... Oh, you can sit [0:13] down. Come on. It's an honor. Now, if you find it really exciting, stand up, pop up again. [0:21] But it's a great honor. Welcome. These are my friends. These people voted for me. 98% [0:26] that were looking for the other two. But I want to welcome you to the Rose Garden. You know, [0:31] there's a whole new thing. This used to be grass. And it took a little heat from my wife. [0:37] She said, darling, what did you do with my grass? I said, people got tired of standing in mud. [0:44] You know, the White House, you don't realize this, it's built on a wetland. So when it doesn't... [0:49] It didn't have to rain. The grass was always soaking wet. If you had a news conference, [0:54] the reporters who are back there, I think, the reporters, they walk out with their shoes. [0:59] The female reporters in particular, they weren't thrilled. But I said, we're going to get a gorgeous [1:04] stone, which we did. And we're going to put this up here. I don't know if you got this here. It's [1:09] just completed with the granite, the black granite. Again, Mr. Secretary, right? You just... You saw it. [1:14] You gave it your approval. Do we have a good news secretary? Would you please stand up, Mark White? [1:20] We have a great secretary. He's a great wrestler, by the way. You know, he's a championship wrestler. [1:26] You don't want to fight him. But you don't know. Some of these guys might be able to take you, but [1:31] probably not. I would be very disappointed in you if that happened. But we're honored to be joined [1:38] by Vice President J.D. Vance. Where's J.D.? J.D. Doing a terrific job. Thank you, J.D. [1:47] Interior Secretary Doug Burgum. Doug. And we'll be opening up the Reflective Pond. It's called [1:56] the Reflective Pond. It goes from the Lincoln to the Washington, the Washington Monument, and it goes [2:05] all the way. It's 2,500 feet. Think of this. And President Obama, a man who was a great divider, [2:15] President Obama, he spent 54 million trying to fix it, and it made it worse. They've been trying to get [2:21] it fixed for the last 40 years. So I got involved with Doug. They were going to spend, think of this, [2:27] 350 to 400 million. You have to understand, it's longer than the tallest building in the world laying [2:33] sideways. It's two Empire State buildings, and it's almost 200 feet wide. It's a lot. It's a big area. [2:41] It was going to take four years, and it was going to cost 350 to 400 million. I said, I think we can do [2:48] it for less. So I called people that do swimming pools, and I said, go take a look at it. They [2:54] were going to take stone out. They were going to put new stone in. It would have taken forever. It [2:59] would have taken three or four years. That's before overruns and over at cost. So they were for, [3:06] think of this, 350 million without cost overruns, and four years versus $3 million, and it'll be [3:16] finished this week. Think of that. And somebody said, somebody said, and by the way, a very [3:25] sophisticated job. They ground the stone. They ground everything. They sealed it. They did a lot. [3:31] They had to have a good base. And because I read in the New York Times, we just gave it a little [3:36] paint job. This is not paint. This is highly sophisticated stuff. But I said, get me the heavy [3:43] duty, industrialized, and it's thick. It's amazing. Actually, amazing stuff. It'll be good [3:49] for 50 years, probably. So somebody said, well, it's not the same job. No, it's better. It's going [3:55] to be beautiful. And I think we'll have it open next week, sometime next week, week after. So this [4:01] would have been under construction for four years, cost all of that money. It would have been over [4:06] $400 million with cost overruns, which, of course, are a normal cost of building if you don't know [4:14] what the hell you're doing. And we did it for a couple of million bucks. And we did it in one [4:19] week. I said, one week. That's not including the preparation, which was two weeks alone, [4:25] because it was so filthy dirty. We were getting complaints from people for years. It's been dirty [4:32] and disgusting and rotting, rotting garbage in it. Terrible. We took away 16 loads of garbage out of [4:40] that only two feet deep pool. So I just want to mention, because Doug has been great, [4:46] and he went with me 100 percent. So we put this magnificent coating. It's almost complete. [4:51] Not a paint job. New York Times, fake New York Times. I call it the failing New York Times. They're [4:56] losing subscribers. They're losing subscribers so badly, they don't know what the hell to do. [5:02] But they said, we did a paint job. We didn't do a paint job. The place would leak, [5:06] and we're going to have it totally sealed. It's basically, if you think of a swimming pool, [5:12] a heavy swimming pool coating. And the pool person said, sir, we're going industrial. [5:17] What is industrial? It's a heavy duty. It can handle anything. And it's going to be beautiful, [5:23] beautiful color. I picked American flag. See the blue? I picked American flag. It was called [5:28] American flag blue. I couldn't make up my mind. I had a hard time. I was having a very hard time. [5:36] And here the colors are, sir. There were like 70 colors. I said, couldn't you give me three? [5:42] 70 is a lot. They had every color you could imagine. And they called them, and I looked and [5:48] looked. I said, what is this? Sir, that's American flag blue. I said, I'll take that one. [5:53] And I think it's going to be beautiful. And you're going to see something. So this is 1922. It was built, [6:00] and it was broken for most of the time. And you are now with Doug and myself and the great staff you have. [6:07] And the people that did it. And by the way, these people did not work for me. [6:11] They said they worked for me. They didn't work for me. They come from a different part of the country. [6:16] But they were good. The people that worked for me recommended it. And they recommend we do it this [6:23] way. But I recommended it to them because I'm very good at construction. So we saved at least, [6:28] think of it. I saved $349 million. And I saved four years of construction. And the New York Times [6:38] said, I didn't bid it. I didn't bid it. It's unbelievable. It's unbelievable. But I had nothing [6:45] to do. I blame Doug. They gave it out. I didn't even give it out. So the other people we have, [6:51] and we have some of the greatest people on earth here tonight, Homeland Security. The Homeland Security [6:57] team has been unbelievable, I have to tell you. And I came up with an idea that I thought was brilliant. [7:03] I think all my ideas are brilliant, actually. But this one I knew I was brilliant. Then I got a call [7:08] from Tom Holman. He wasn't thrilled. Where's Tom? Is he here? I love Tom Holman. Said I'm the greatest [7:14] president in history. I said, Tom, you can't do better than that. Thank you, Tom. So I get a call [7:20] from Tom Holman. He didn't like it. But everyone else liked it. I wanted to change the name of ICE, [7:26] which is a tough name, you know, to nice. So that when the fake news reports, they said, [7:35] it was a nice day with nice. We spent a beautiful day with nice. I said, you will screw them up so [7:42] badly they won't know what to do. But they said the people that worked there didn't like the name as [7:47] much. I love the name. Hello, Janine. How are you doing? I love Janine. One of the greats of all time, [7:54] in my opinion. I lived in New York when she was the toughest DA, toughest fair DA. We had some [8:00] tough ones, but they were crooked DAs, like sort of, I would say, like a dirty cop, like Comey was a [8:07] dirty cop, you know, and others were dirty cops. She was a clean cop, but she was tough and fair. [8:13] So we have Secretary of Homeland Security, Mark Wayne. So stand up again, Mark Wayne. You love standing up. [8:20] We have a man who's doing a great job, I'll tell you. I knew it because he kept me out of jail for years, [8:27] acting attorney general, Todd Blanche. He kept me out of jail. They would indict me left and right. [8:33] The crooked Democrats, you know, it's amazing. They impeach me, they indict me. And then when I get in [8:39] office, if I say something like, well, maybe that should be looked into weaponization. I go through [8:47] court cases. I win them, but because there were fake indictments. But when I even mentioned, [8:53] like I said the other day that some of that stuff should be looked into, they said weaponization. [9:00] He's a terrible human being weaponization, right, Cash? They blame me for weaponization. They are [9:06] a crooked bunch. And we want to keep it the way it is. What we have now, we have great law enforcement [9:12] now. We have law enforcement that loves our country, not law enforcement that's sick and dangerous. [9:18] White House, Deputy Chief of Staff, Stephen Miller, who's fantastic. Stephen, thank you, Stephen. [9:25] He's great. He's an MVP candidate. That's all I can say. [9:31] FBI Director Cash Patel. Does he get enough publicity? If you could get a little more publicity, [9:35] it would be very... Thank you, Cash. DEA Administrator Terry Cole. Oh, [9:42] what a job Terry's doing. What a job Terry's doing. So, Terry, you know, with all of them, Cash and [9:51] Janine and everybody, we took Washington, D.C., which was a very, very dangerous place, horrible. It [9:59] was dangerous to it for four years under the Biden administration, sleepy Jill. And we took it from [10:05] a really dangerous, horrible situation into one of the safest cities anywhere in our country in a [10:15] period of really a few months. And now it's just continued. And we have climbed down by 90 percent [10:21] in Washington, D.C. And I want to thank the National Guard. I want to thank our park police. I want to [10:27] thank Doug Burgum. I want to thank Cash and Janine. I got to thank Janine. If I didn't thank Janine, I'd be in [10:34] very big trouble. But you did a great job, everybody. We're proud of you. Look, the fake [10:40] news just showed up. They missed the best part. I want to thank also a friend of mine, Secret Service [10:48] Director Sean Curran. I see you back there, Sean. Thank you very much. And I thought you did a great [10:55] job two weeks ago. You know why? Because I'm here, okay? We consider being here a success. And I'll tell [11:04] you what, your people are all over the place. You know, you got a little... No matter how [11:09] well you do, they're going to find fault. But I will be the one to find fault if I think there was [11:15] fault. They had great professional people. And they came out, and within seconds, I saw them take [11:21] JD by the shoulders and lift him up like he was a little boy. I said, how come they didn't lift me up [11:28] so fast? They lifted JD, got ripped out of the chair. That was a view of the week. But they did the job, [11:37] JD, right? I think so. The Director of the U.S. Marshal Service, Gaddy Seralta. Gaddy, where are you, [11:45] Gaddy? Great job. And you, with what you've done in D.C. You, the whole team. But I'm so proud of D.C. [11:52] because, you know, they all said that it really couldn't be saved. You got to remember, we took [11:59] over 5,000 people out of here. They were career criminals. They came in through the border, through [12:04] Joe Biden's open border. One of the dumbest things I've ever seen, open border. We had 6,000, [12:11] thousands. I won't even go into numbers, because who knows? Who knows what they represent. But we had [12:16] thousands of criminals. We had numerous murderers, people that were in for murder, people that were [12:21] taken out of jails. They murdered more than one per people, more than one person. And we got them [12:27] out of here. We got them out. And overall, I think we took over 5,000 people, career criminals out of D.C. [12:34] And one stat that's really good, that 2% of the people create 92% of the crime. And I love that [12:43] stat because we can solve that problem. We get rid of 2% and you get rid of your crime. And that's [12:48] essentially what we did. We took a large number of people, but not incredibly large. We got them out, [12:55] and now we have a safe place. And you know, people that work in the White House, whenever I'm out, [13:00] that people come up to me and they say, thank you, sir. I almost know what they mean. They say, [13:06] thank you, sir. And I said, I think I know. Go ahead. Thank me for what you made Washington, [13:12] D.C. safe. We live here. We couldn't leave our apartment. We couldn't go out to dinner. The [13:17] restaurants were closing. I mean, it was horrible. Restaurants, half of the restaurants closed. You [13:22] couldn't have run a restaurant. Even your car services, Uber, being robbed when they were in [13:28] the car was horrible. It was a horrible situation. And they come up to me. They say, thank you. It's [13:34] a safe city again. We walked to work. We walked to the White House. They wouldn't even think about [13:38] walking to the White House before. Now they all, I see them all over walking to the White House. It's [13:43] safe. And it's a beautiful thing. And restaurants are opening. Restaurants are opening. The place is [13:52] like hot. It's very hot. Like our country. You know, our country was a dead country. We were a dead [13:58] country and a laughing stock all over the world. One and a half years ago, we were dead as a doornail. [14:04] We had no future. Our country was laughed at, disrespected. Our president was disrespected. He [14:10] couldn't, he couldn't walk without falling down the damn stairs. I'd say, you know, some people [14:16] thought it was funny. I didn't like it. I didn't like watching it. Should have never been there. [14:22] And I'm very careful that I walk, by the way, because if I ever fall, I'm just the fake news. [14:27] Oh, they're going to have that headline. We'll go on for years. You know, sometimes like I walk out of [14:33] the plane late. I'm not looking to set any records. You go nice and easy. But we had a guy who's just [14:40] what a horrible president. We had a few of them, but he was a beauty. And we have safe now. We have [14:47] a country that's respected all over the world. So think of it. We were a dead country a year and [14:51] a half ago. And now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world. There's nobody close. [14:56] And our military is great. We are kicking ass. Another great guy, ATF director, Robert Cicada. [15:06] Robert, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you, Robert. Good job. And chief of the U.S. [15:12] Park Police, Scott Brecht. Where's Scott? Scott? Thank you, Scott. All the way back there. Scott. [15:18] That's very nice. And I'm pleased to report that the U.S. Park Police Officer, Ryan McDermott, [15:26] who recently took a bullet in the line of duty, will soon be returning to work, getting better. He's [15:31] going to be all 100 percent in a short period of time. So we want to pay our respects to Robert. [15:37] We're grateful also to be joined by the president of the National Fraternal Order of Police, [15:44] Patrick Yose. I'll tell you how I know Patrick. I'll tell you. You know what I'm going to say, [15:48] Patrick. I got a call early on. I said, I'm going to run. I ran the first time I won. I ran the second [15:55] time. I won by even more. Unfortunately, they rigged the election. And then I said, because we did so [16:01] good. I said, well, if I didn't think we did, I wouldn't have run. I ran the third time. I got a call [16:06] from a guy named Yose. I said, who the hell is that? He's the head of the Fraternal Order of [16:11] Police. He said, sir, I'd like to endorse you on behalf of the Fraternal Order. I said, how many [16:16] people are you? Remember? He said, 412,000. I said, I'll accept that. I'll accept. That's pretty [16:23] good. Thank you very much. Patrick, I don't forget that. I figured, what the hell is this guy? [16:28] Where is he working? Who is he? I have no idea who he is. He said, 412,000 police. I said, [16:34] I like you very much. I never forgot to call. President of the National Sheriff's Association, [16:40] Chris West. And a great guy. Thank you, Chris. Thank you very much. President of the National [16:47] Border Patrol Council, my friend. This guy, for years, along with others, he worked on the border. [16:55] He never got a call from the border czar. The border czar was Kamala, who is, by the way, [16:59] leading the polls and the Democrat. She's leading all Democrats, which tells you they're not deep. [17:05] They're not too deep. Can you believe that she's leading? So he never got a call. Where the hell are [17:12] you? There he is. So in four years, did you ever get a call from Kamala? Like, how are we doing on the [17:17] border? She never went there. She never called. But she did quite a good job. We had about 25 million [17:23] people come through, totally unchecked, unvetted, murderers, killers, drug dealers, drug addicts all over [17:30] the place, right? Mental people from mental institutions, insane asylums. We had 11,888 [17:40] murderers come through. Other than that, it was quite a nice situation. And she never once called. [17:45] And I said, boy, that's a big story, the fact that she never called. She never called you one time. [17:50] Is that right? Never one time. She was the border czar. She was great. She would have made a great [17:55] president. But she's leading in the polls. And we have to respect that. We have to respect it. I just [18:01] hope she gets it. President of how about how about Gavin Newsom, though? He went out and he said he's [18:07] a stupid person. He got bad test marks. He got bad this. He got bad that. He can't read a speech. [18:13] In other words, well, I'm not reading too much of a speech either. But said he can't read a speech. [18:19] He's not a smart person. He said, I'm dumb just like all the people in this room. [18:25] And now he was accused of being a racist. I mean, that was the stupidest. This guy, [18:29] what he said is so bad. It was the worst interview I've ever seen by a professional politician. [18:36] And he's running and he's in second place. So we got a lot of a lot of beauties out there, JD. [18:42] I envy you and other people. I don't know. Who's who's it going to be? Is it going to be JD? Is it [18:49] going to be somebody else? I don't know. Does anybody have? Okay, let's go. You ready? [18:54] Who likes JD Vance? Who likes Marco Rubio? All right. Sounds like a good ticket. JD. [19:08] It's a perfect. That was a perfect ticket. By the way, I do believe that's a dream team. [19:13] But these are minor details. That does not mean you have my endorsement under any circumstance. [19:20] But you know, it's a perfect. It was a big and then a very nice. I think it sounds like [19:26] presidential candidate and vice presidential candidate. [19:31] President of the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, [19:35] Matthew Silverman, another winner. Thank you, Matthew. Good to see you, Matthew. [19:41] So we're gathered here tonight and it's exciting because this place was not properly taken care of. [19:48] I was told by my wife, you have to act presidential. So don't use foul language. I won't. Therefore, [19:55] normally I would have said it was a shithouse, but I don't want to say that. The columns were falling down. [20:02] The plaster was falling off. You made a speech and I was saying, couldn't you fix up the paint job [20:08] up there? You know, it looked and this place is tippy top now, including all the brand new beautiful [20:14] stone. I paid for it myself. All of the stone, all of the different things we have. And we're bringing the [20:20] white house back to shape. I don't know if you got to walk into the the marble statue or it's called [20:26] statuary. The statuary marble, the white. I don't know if you got to walk in there. They probably [20:32] see your law enforcement. They don't want you to walk into the house. They want to keep you as far [20:35] away as possible. But it's beautiful bookmatched. And I spent a lot of time on bringing this house [20:43] back because this house was in very bad shape. Those walls were in horrible shape. I'm looking at them now. [20:48] Look at them. They're perfect. The plaster was falling off. It was terrible. It's a white house. [20:53] It's got to look incredible. It's got to be in pristine. And the big thing is we're building [20:58] a ballroom in the back, which will be, I think, the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world. [21:02] You'll never see anything like it. And it will also be very safe. It's going to be a very safe ballroom. [21:08] It's got glass this thick. It's amazing. The glass is this thick, like six inches thick. And you look [21:13] through it, and you can see as perfectly as though it weren't there. Now, how they do that, [21:19] I don't know. But it's at the highest level of safety. And you won't have a situation like you had [21:25] two weeks ago on Saturday night. We gathered here to begin police week. Very important, [21:31] my friends. I won about 98% of the police in this country. And we're trying to figure out who were the [21:37] other 2%, because nobody can figure that one out. Figure that. And we pay tribute to the heroes who [21:44] keep America safe. And they are heroes, indeed. This week, especially, our thoughts turned to the [21:50] officers who gave their lives in the line of duty to all of the incredible police officers, sheriffs, [21:55] sheriffs, deputies, law enforcement officers, all law enforcement. We want to thank you. [22:02] And thank you from the bottom of my heart. I respect nobody more than I respect you. [22:07] Without you, we have Bedlam. Without you, we have... Without you, we have Somalia. Okay, [22:13] a fine place where we have a congresswoman who brilliantly came over to the country by marrying [22:20] her brother. That was the first law she broke. That was the least of them. And she comes from a country [22:28] where they have nothing but crime, Bedlam, filth, a horrible place. They say it may be the worst place. [22:35] Comes to our country, and then she tells us how to run the United States of America. [22:40] It's an amazing thing. Ilhan Omar. It's an amazing thing how they can get away with it. And the people [22:47] don't want that to happen. And hopefully, you'll figure it out. But a very terrible thing. I can't [22:54] stand it. She says, the Constitution gives me certain rights. Go back to your own country, [22:59] talk about a constitution. They don't have... They don't have a constitution. They never will. [23:04] That's why, upon taking office, I signed an executive order directing the attorney general, [23:09] who is doing a great job, by the way, McGee. You're doing a great job, Todd. He's been good. [23:18] But anyone convicted of killing a police officer should face the death penalty. 100%. [23:25] That's an easy one. From day one, my administration has made public safety and the support of our law [23:34] enforcement our absolute highest priority. Last year, the murder rate saw its single largest decline [23:42] in recorded history to the lowest level in over 125 years. Before my father was born, [23:48] my father... I had a great father before my father was born. 125 years ago. 1900. The year 1900, Janine. [23:56] Pretty good, right? Probably because they don't want to mess around with you. You haven't been there [24:01] quite that long. I deployed our National Guard and federal law enforcement to restore law and order to [24:08] our most dangerous cities, including, as I said, right here in Washington, D.C. And as we prepare for [24:15] America's 250th anniversary celebration, we're planning a large public safety surge here in [24:21] Washington. We're going to have it nice and safe. And we're going to also, if requested, help other [24:26] cities like Los Angeles, New York. They're fools if they don't ask for help. Absolute fools. Since I took [24:33] office, our administration has made nearly 200,000 criminal arrests nationwide, a record. And we're [24:40] getting them off the streets and putting them in jail or, in many cases, sending them back to their [24:45] lovely countries where they came from. And sometimes their country will say, we don't want them. We're [24:50] not taking them. I'll say, that's okay. Slap about a 25% tariff on their country. And they call back. We [24:55] would love to have them back immediately. In addition, the Department of Homeland Security has [25:01] removed nearly 615,000 illegal alien criminals from our country for the past 12 months in a row. [25:09] Think of that. Zero illegal aliens have been admitted to the United States through our southern border. [25:16] And that's a, think of that. Think of that. Zero. And you know, the people that make those [25:25] charts are inclined toward being a Democrat. Or a new name I came up with yesterday was a Democrat, [25:33] because I was talking about this guy. I think that could be a good one. You know, [25:36] I've come up with some extraordinary names. But I was talking about Hakeem Jeffries. He's a low IQ [25:42] person. And he was asked, he was talking about all these things. He was saying things that were so [25:49] stupid, so basic and so stupid. He called our Supreme Court illegitimate. I don't agree with our [25:55] Supreme Court all the time. I can tell you that. But you can't call it illegitimate. If I ever said [26:01] that, you can imagine what would have happened. But there wasn't a big stir. But he was talking. [26:06] And I said, yeah, he's a dumb guy. And then I said, he's a Democrat. And I don't know if people [26:10] are going to like that term or not. It maybe catches on and maybe it doesn't. But it's true. [26:14] Their policies are insane. And they would drive our country into ruin. And we've got to do great [26:20] in the midterms. And if we don't, they will do everything they can to destroy our country. There's [26:25] something wrong with them. The flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is down, by the way, [26:30] by over 60 percent, which is a record nobody ever thought it was even possible. And coming in by sea, [26:36] it's down by 97 percent. And again, we're trying to find the three percent because we consider them [26:43] to be among the bravest people anywhere in the world. Anybody willing to get into one of those [26:48] boats after what they've witnessed, we would consider them to be among the bravest in the world. [26:54] These gains have been the result. And what a job our military and others are doing with respect. [27:00] Is that right, Paul? With respect to drugs coming in by sea, meaning drugs coming in by water, [27:05] by the ocean, by the sea. A lot of people don't know what I mean by sea. [27:09] They think I'm talking about vision. I'm not. I'm talking about sea like the sea. [27:13] These gains have been the result of our administration bringing together law enforcement [27:18] at every level through our new Homeland Security Task Force, including ICE, or as I call it NICE, [27:24] CBS, CBP, Homeland Security, the U.S. Marshals, the ATF, the FBI, and state and local police. [27:33] They're all incredible. Patriots are incredible people. I also want to recognize one hero who [27:39] exemplifies the amazing courage our police officers show each and every day, Assistant Chief Aaron Edwards [27:47] from the NYPD, New York's Finals. Where's Aaron? Where are you, Aaron? Great. Hello, Aaron. Good-looking guy. [27:55] I love the NYPD. They're great people. They've got to be respected by our elected officials. They have to [28:05] be respected. Last March, he was on duty when there were clashing protests outside of Gracie Mansion and [28:13] two radical Islamic terrorists threw explosive devices into the crowd, violently into the crowd. [28:20] He reacted instantly, jumping over a metal barricade and sprinting to apprehend one of the men. As fate [28:27] would have it, this 23-year-old veteran of the New York PD was inspired to join the force when he saw [28:34] police running into twin towers on September 11th. It had a profound impact, 2001. And now he's helped [28:42] arrest terrorists from all over the world, some really bad ones. So I just want to say, Assistant [28:48] Chief Edwards, I want to thank you very much. I've heard about your record. Your record is very [28:53] legendary. Congratulations. Thank you very much. That's great. So this Police Week, we pray for the [29:02] families of our fallen officers, those great, great families. And we thank the heroes who wear the badge [29:08] and risk their lives every day on behalf of our nation. You are restoring the foundation of law and order [29:14] for our country. And to our country, you're amazing people. You don't really understand [29:19] one thing. You don't know how much respect. People respect you. They love you. You don't hear that, [29:27] but they all feel it. I know it. And they tell me about it all the time, as much as anybody else and [29:33] more. So I just want to welcome you as great professionals, as unbelievable people and patriots to [29:41] the beautiful White House, the new and improved White House. And it's an honor to be with you. [29:47] And I said, I'm very busy tonight. I don't have time for dinner. And they said, oh, it's the police [29:54] we're honoring. Oh, I'll have dinner. So I'm going to join you for dinner. Is that OK? I'll set aside. [30:00] I'll set aside the Iranians for an evening. I'll put the Iranians aside and we're going to have a little [30:06] dinner. So I want to thank you all. You're really especially just amazing people. Thank you very much [30:11] for being here. Thank you.