About this transcript: This is a full AI-generated transcript of President Trump delivers remarks in Pennsylvania — 6/23/2026 from CNBC Television, published June 23, 2026. The transcript contains 8,634 words with timestamps and was generated using Whisper AI.
"He did it again to a tougher candidate, and I tell him, if he didn't win, his wife, who's a beautiful woman, would have left him. I'm telling you. She would have left him, so he had great courage doing it a second time. Very successful guy. 24 years on his father. That's a law. And he had to beat..."
[21:17] He did it again to a tougher candidate, and I tell him, if he didn't win, his wife, who's a beautiful woman, would have left him.
[21:22] I'm telling you.
[21:24] She would have left him, so he had great courage doing it a second time.
[21:28] Very successful guy.
[21:43] 24 years on his father.
[21:46] That's a law.
[21:47] And he had to beat him.
[21:49] Pressure.
[21:50] That's called pressure.
[21:51] Knowing his wife was gone, and if he didn't make it, she was gone 100%.
[21:55] He's married, actually, to a terrific woman.
[21:58] She probably would have stayed.
[22:00] I'm not 100%.
[22:01] And last year, I saved a great American company, U.S. Steel, and we're keeping its headquarters in Pennsylvania, where it belongs, and 17.
[24:41] So, now they can't say that anymore, because they have a guy with a tattoo on his chest.
[24:53] Tumble and a bullet.
[24:54] But they voted against no tax on Social Security.
[24:59] They voted against no tax on overtime, and if they got it off, you will have all taxes and all of it that you're saving.
[25:10] The big savings on Social Security, it's going to all be terminated.
[25:15] You're going to have to start paying it.
[25:16] They want to pay it.
[25:17] I don't know what's wrong with these people.
[25:19] They voted in favor of the estate tax or the death tax or your farms and your businesses.
[25:25] You know, farmers and small business people, they love their children.
[25:29] They love them.
[25:30] It's great.
[25:31] Most of the people love them.
[25:32] Some can't stand.
[25:33] There are people that can't stand their kids.
[25:34] They're not going to leave them 10 cents.
[25:35] But if you love your child, you want to leave your farm, especially for these farmers.
[25:42] It's bored in them somehow.
[25:45] They want to have their children on the farm.
[25:47] The children don't want to leave.
[25:49] But sometimes they're land rich and cash poor.
[25:53] You know, I've known that expression too.
[25:55] I've oftentimes been land rich and cash poor.
[25:58] It's not a good period of time.
[26:00] And you die and you have an estate and they tax you at 40, 50, 60 percent.
[26:06] And they end up losing their farm, losing their small business.
[26:09] And in many cases, you don't read about this, they commit suicide.
[26:12] They actually go out and commit suicide because they're forced off their farm by a bank.
[26:16] They have to go out and borrow money from a bank.
[26:19] And they're forced to go out, borrow the money.
[26:21] They're unable to pay the loan of the bank.
[26:24] Even if it's a nice bank, they give them a chance.
[26:26] They give them another chance.
[26:27] And then they ultimately foreclose.
[26:28] They lose everything.
[26:29] And in many cases, they commit suicide.
[26:32] And they said, we're not going to have that crap go on.
[26:35] So you have no estate tax to pay on your small farm, small business, on your farms, your businesses.
[26:41] And you can, if you love your children, you can leave your farm or your small business to your child and they're not going to lose it.
[26:49] If you don't love your children, then don't listen to what I'm saying because it doesn't matter.
[26:54] If you don't like them, don't leave them anything.
[26:56] They probably deserve it.
[26:59] But think of it.
[27:00] The Democrats voted against the border wall.
[27:02] The border wall gave us the safest border.
[27:04] We have the safest border now in the history of the country.
[27:06] They voted voter ID.
[27:17] You know why they voted against voter ID?
[27:19] Because they want to cheat.
[27:20] There's only one reason.
[27:22] Mr. Wall, right?
[27:23] Correct.
[27:28] One day, I don't know if it's very presidential.
[27:31] I'm going to walk up in a suit with the design of the wall on it.
[27:35] I don't know.
[27:38] She says, darling, please, please don't dance.
[27:48] It's not presidential.
[27:51] I said, but the people love it when I dance.
[27:53] And she said, please, please, the men in women's sports, please don't do the weightlifting thing.
[28:03] And don't do the swimming thing.
[28:05] You know, the weightlifter where he goes up.
[28:07] The record stood for years and years and years.
[28:11] And this young lady, she's trying out for the Olympics and she's going to do it.
[28:14] And the record stood for 19 years.
[28:18] And they put an eighth of an ounce on one side, an eighth of an ounce on the other.
[28:23] And I have to understand, Melania, who's now a movie star, she got the number one.
[28:27] Can you believe she hit big one?
[28:28] That's that.
[28:31] There can only be one star in her family.
[28:33] Please remember.
[28:34] But they put an eighth, like a feather on one side, a little bit, just to break the record.
[28:40] The parents are sitting right there with Big Bo.
[28:43] He's a nasty guy, that punchy thriller.
[28:45] He's got to be very nice to Bo.
[28:47] I've got to be very nice.
[28:48] I've got to make sure he's never angry at me.
[28:50] But she said her parents are right there in the front and they're so proud.
[28:54] The father's not so proud because, you know, she's not going to do it because she's a woman.
[28:58] That's a lot of weight.
[28:59] The mother, though, is screaming, darling, I love you.
[29:01] Do it.
[29:02] And she gets over the weights and she spins her.
[29:05] And then she gets her.
[29:06] And she gets her.
[29:09] And the mother's screaming, darling, I love you, darling.
[29:12] And the father's looking, saying she has no chance.
[29:16] And she's like this.
[29:17] And you see it?
[29:18] Ah, ah, ah, ah.
[29:21] Drops him.
[29:23] And she's like, yeah, I'll say it for the rest of her life.
[29:25] And then a guy comes along who transitioned.
[29:28] That's the term.
[29:29] I got very good at that term.
[29:31] I used to take a lot of heat for my definition of the movement over.
[29:36] But he transitioned.
[29:37] He was a poor, very poor, bottom of the line, male weightlifter.
[29:43] And now he's a female weightlifter.
[29:46] And he looked at the amount.
[29:48] I think it was like 210 pounds or something like that.
[29:51] Well, that's a lot for a woman.
[29:52] But not that much for a man.
[29:54] You could do it with one hand.
[29:55] And he goes, looks down at the weight.
[30:04] And he says, and he won.
[30:07] And everyone said, oh, isn't that wonderful?
[30:10] Are we crazy?
[30:12] Men should not be able to participate.
[30:15] I said 99 percent of the area of the fake news.
[30:27] They said, that's an 80-20 issue.
[30:29] No, it's not.
[30:29] It's 99-1.
[30:31] You know, I've been doing politics now for 10 years.
[30:34] Not that long, considering I've won three elections.
[30:37] You know, it's really not.
[30:38] But we did great in the second one.
[30:42] It's a great deal.
[30:43] But pretty short.
[30:45] But with all of that, and all of the time I spent speaking to people, they say, sir,
[30:49] could you cut taxes on this?
[30:51] Could you get me a tax deduction or a car loan?
[30:53] I did that.
[30:54] By the way, I did that.
[30:54] Do you buy, have you borrowed money to buy?
[30:57] Are you getting all these things?
[30:58] They asked me for hundreds of things.
[31:00] Not once did anyone ever come up to me and say, sir, please, this is so bad.
[31:06] You have to be able to have men playing women's sports.
[31:10] Please, sir, could you pull that off?
[31:11] I've never had anyone ask me for that.
[31:14] So I say it's a 99-1 issue, not 80-20.
[31:18] The fake news back there, they say, oh, that's a target issue.
[31:21] But I don't like talking about it because I want them to continue on with that.
[31:26] I want them to continue on with the, you know, they're in favor of the
[31:30] mutilization of your child for transgender purposes.
[31:34] The mutilization of your child.
[31:36] And I would say, politically, it's a very good thing to run against a person
[31:40] that's in favor of that kind of stuff.
[31:43] So we let them, we don't bring it up during off-political seasons,
[31:46] but we have a political season coming up.
[31:48] And they'll be doing all of that nonsense, and they're going to lose a lot of elections.
[31:52] And now, if you look at New York, we have all communists running.
[31:55] They're all excited.
[31:56] They're going to win their progress.
[31:57] But I can't imagine they could beat a normal Republican.
[32:00] So I think it's a good thing.
[32:02] What do you think?
[32:03] I think it's a good thing.
[32:03] Would you like to run against somebody like that?
[32:05] Well, Shapiro's not that much better, to be honest with you, but I'll let that.
[32:11] They'll all be forced.
[32:12] They'll all be forced.
[32:13] A guy like Shapiro, he's going to be forced to run after.
[32:15] Otherwise, he's not going to get the nomination.
[32:18] But they voted against proof of citizenship.
[32:20] Think of it.
[32:21] We'd like to have proof of citizenship.
[32:24] You walk into the voting booth.
[32:26] Would it be okay, sir, if I looked at you and said,
[32:28] how dare you ask me for my citizenship?
[32:31] You know, in California, if you ask that question to a voter,
[32:35] you are criminally liable.
[32:37] In other words, they can put you in jail.
[32:39] If you say, sir, you have proof of citizenship,
[32:42] they put you in jail if they ask that question.
[32:45] You're not allowed to ask that.
[32:46] Did you know that?
[32:46] It's the craziest thing I've ever seen going on.
[32:49] Hey, did they screw the kid, Pratt?
[32:51] Boy, he's leading, and all of a sudden, he's lost.
[32:56] And it was sort of interesting.
[32:58] The election, you ever see an election where they're two and a half weeks in,
[33:01] an election that takes weeks to count the votes?
[33:04] But after the evening, it looked like he was going to win,
[33:07] or certainly in the runoff.
[33:09] And then I started hearing rumors as the days went by,
[33:12] days and days just went by,
[33:14] that Pratt is fading.
[33:16] He's fading.
[33:17] I said, they rigged the election.
[33:18] And then lo and behold, he didn't qualify,
[33:22] even though he was so far up in the third place person
[33:25] that it was almost impossible, and he didn't qualify.
[33:29] And then it started happening with the next candidate,
[33:31] Steve Hilton, who's running for governor.
[33:33] He was up in front, just about leading, no problem.
[33:37] And all of a sudden, about four or five days after,
[33:40] this is after the election's over,
[33:42] they said, Steve Hilton has started to lose votes.
[33:45] I said, here we go again.
[33:47] And I called up the U.S. attorney in California.
[33:50] They said, we're going to have a number in the next week.
[33:53] Next week.
[33:54] I called up the very powerful, very good U.S. attorney in California,
[33:58] and I said, do me a favor, take a look.
[34:00] They're trying to steal that election, too.
[34:03] I guess they called up.
[34:04] They said, this is the U.S. attorney call.
[34:06] We have your great U.S. attorney here today, by the way,
[34:08] and your assistant U.S. attorney.
[34:10] You're doing great, David.
[34:11] Thank you.
[34:12] So over the next week, he was definitely going to lose,
[34:19] but the U.S. attorney called.
[34:20] We wanted to check your votes about an hour after the call.
[34:24] Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Hilton has won.
[34:28] So had I not made that call,
[34:31] Steve Hilton would right now be looking,
[34:34] watching the election from home.
[34:35] So I don't know.
[34:37] He would have a great chance,
[34:38] but the election's totally real.
[34:40] California's totally real.
[34:40] All mail-in ballots, it's a disgrace.
[34:43] We got to pass the Save America Act, okay?
[34:45] That's really easy, guys.
[34:57] It's one love.
[35:00] A friend of mine is a very big real estate developer,
[35:02] but he's got a problem with speaking in front of crowds.
[35:05] He chokes, you know?
[35:06] He chokes like a dog.
[35:07] He said, how do you do it?
[35:08] I say, it's easy,
[35:10] because there's so much love in the room.
[35:13] There's so much unbelievable love.
[35:14] It's easy.
[35:15] You know, he's got this tremendous fear of speaking.
[35:21] He said, the guy's a major player.
[35:24] Most of you have heard of him.
[35:25] And he's a killer.
[35:26] He destroys people for a living, financially.
[35:29] Not physically, financially.
[35:31] Physically, he can barely walk.
[35:33] He's a basket kid.
[35:34] But he's up here.
[35:35] He's very smart.
[35:37] And he destroys people.
[35:39] Very rich.
[35:41] But he can't get up in front of a crowd and talk.
[35:43] I said, what's wrong with you?
[35:44] He said, I don't know.
[35:45] I have a fear of crowds.
[35:46] You believe all sorts of people.
[35:48] You know, a lot of people want to do what I did.
[35:50] A lot of people, well, David did it.
[35:51] David was very successful, but he's a great speaker.
[35:53] But a lot of people, they say, well, Trump became president for being a very successful
[35:58] businessman he ran.
[35:59] He became president.
[36:00] I want to do it, too.
[36:01] And that's when they find out that they might have the flaw of speaking, or even worse,
[36:07] is a terrible past.
[36:09] You know, the past will come out to haunt you.
[36:12] It's not an easy thing to do, but I love it.
[36:14] You know, I say, it's real easy to do when you have people that love you.
[36:20] I guarantee who we are voting for Trump.
[36:35] Don't raise your hand.
[36:36] Think you're going to be cute, because you might be a big, big problem.
[36:42] And they'll blame me for causing problems.
[36:44] Who did not vote for Trump?
[36:46] Young man, he wants to be, he's a young man, he thinks he's being cute.
[36:56] Yes.
[36:56] As he gets pounded on.
[36:58] No, he just said, no, I didn't.
[37:00] I was the first.
[37:00] He said, I'm the first.
[37:01] But the Democrats voted in favor of Iran having a nuclear weapon, and they voted against military
[37:09] spending.
[37:11] But I overrode that.
[37:12] Let me tell you, if the Democrats get in, your 15,000 trucks that Mr. Royer is looking
[37:18] to get are dead.
[37:20] They're not going to have 15,000.
[37:22] They're not going to have 15 trucks.
[37:24] They'll be back to the number I originally guessed, right?
[37:26] How many did you make it?
[37:27] 15?
[37:29] 15,000 trucks will be down to nothing.
[37:31] Zero.
[37:32] And they'll make you put electric on it, you know, electric, so that when you're in
[37:35] the middle of a jungle someplace and you need a charge, where's my charging booth?
[37:40] As opposed to carrying a nice tank of diesel on your back, throwing it in and taking it
[37:47] off, right?
[37:48] Where's my charging booth, they'll be saying.
[37:51] They created the strongest.
[37:53] We created the strongest military in history, and you see that with Venezuela.
[37:58] Venezuela, one-day operation, right?
[38:03] And now we're making a lot of money with Venezuela, and Venezuela great.
[38:08] Also, it's a happy country now, but it took us exactly 48 minutes to win that war.
[38:13] We're the greatest military in the world, 48 minutes.
[38:16] And the cost of the war, when do you hear this?
[38:25] 28 times already.
[38:26] War, but 28 times.
[38:28] So the cost of the war, we've already, because we have, we brought millions of barrels of oil
[38:32] out, and we're getting along great.
[38:34] The people running it, they're our people, they're great people.
[38:38] And the people are happy in the country.
[38:40] They have smiles, they were miserable, they were starving.
[38:43] But they have a lot of oil under that ground.
[38:45] And you know how you find oil in Venezuela?
[38:47] Just look at the ground.
[38:49] You'll see oil bubbling up.
[38:50] They have so much oil, they don't know what to do with it.
[38:53] But they had a bad system.
[38:54] They're making more money now for the country than they've ever made before, and we're making
[38:58] a lot of money, too.
[39:00] But also Iran, we knocked them out.
[39:02] One week, it was essentially militarily over.
[39:04] Much bigger country, 91 million people.
[39:06] And much different ideology, the ideology of the Muslims is slightly different than the
[39:14] ideology of the Catholics.
[39:16] We have the Catholics and the Muslims, slightly different.
[39:20] But Venezuela's been great, and Iran's been great.
[39:22] I mean, you know, Iran's reasonable, they're smart.
[39:25] Otherwise, we'll have to finish the job, which will take about maybe less than a week.
[39:30] But they're going to be okay, I think.
[39:32] They're going to do what they have to do, because we want to have it done.
[39:35] But they voted against lower energy prices, the Democrats did, and then they went on to
[39:41] create the highest energy prices that we've ever had in the history of our country.
[39:44] People don't realize that.
[39:46] Much higher than ours.
[39:47] During the war, they had the highest inflation in history.
[39:51] The highest inflation in history, they say 48 years, but that's not a history as far as
[39:56] I'm concerned.
[39:57] And they were absolutely terrible on affordability.
[40:01] Remember, I got here my first day.
[40:04] The fake news is screaming at me.
[40:05] What about affordability?
[40:07] I'm only here one day.
[40:09] Remember, eggs were up about five times higher than they ever were?
[40:12] And we have prices are coming down right now at levels that you've never seen.
[40:17] And now with oil crashing, you're going to see something really amazing.
[40:21] To top everything else, they let 25 million people into our country, many of them criminals
[40:27] and thugs and people from mental institutions and drug dealers.
[40:31] And even though 11,888 murderers into our country, murders, 11,888, more than 50% of which
[40:44] have killed more than one person.
[40:46] And I've gotten the worst of them out.
[40:48] We've gotten them out, Tom Holman and our whole group of people.
[40:51] But the W1-0-1, you can imagine that the people of this commonwealth will never let that happen
[41:06] again.
[41:07] What they allowed to happen to our country, we can never allow it to happen again.
[41:11] As an example, the war with Russia and Ukraine would have never, ever started our president.
[41:17] We can never let elections get rigged again.
[41:21] But we're pleased to be joined today by one of those Pennsylvanians who's benefiting from
[41:25] the historic tax cuts, Sergeant Sam Elias, with the Bethlehem Police Department.
[41:32] And he also can help his wife take care of their six beautiful children during the day.
[41:41] And I'm told the youngest is named after our great first lady.
[41:50] So Sam is taking home thousands of dollars extra because of no tax or overtime.
[41:55] And Sam, you want to come up and say a few words?
[41:57] Come on up.
[42:12] Good afternoon, everyone.
[42:15] Express my appreciation to President Trump, Congressman Ryan McKenzie, and the entire White
[42:22] House administration.
[42:23] As a father of six children in a single-income household, I can tell you the working families
[42:31] tax cuts is a policy that helps my family.
[42:35] Hard work should pay off, not get punished for higher taxes.
[42:39] Tax on overtime, no tax on tips means more money in the pockets of working Americans.
[42:52] These savings have translated to what was once a trip, a day trip to the park.
[42:57] It's now an overnight stay at the Jersey Shore.
[43:00] Your tax returns, Americans can create new family memories and save for future projects.
[43:07] The President said, I also work night shift as a police sergeant in the fine city of Babylon.
[43:14] The region of police recruitment has left our department depleted of officers.
[43:28] Our officers get called out for overtime to cover these shortages.
[43:32] Some pain period, officers are working over 40 hours of overtime.
[43:36] That's why I'm grateful for no tax on overtime.
[43:40] Thank you, Mr. President.
[43:42] I'm also thankful for the support President Trump and Congressman McKenzie have shown for
[43:56] law enforcement.
[43:58] We understand that communities thrive when we invest in public safety.
[44:03] Congressman McKenzie has stood strong with public safety and working families.
[44:10] And that's why he's been endorsed by the brothers and sisters of Bethlehem FOP Star Lodge 1.
[44:16] Congressman McKenzie has been on the front lines in supporting public safety.
[44:26] He secured $700,000 for the Bethlehem Police Department for much-needed technology and equipment
[44:33] upgrades at our police department.
[44:34] Along with bringing home $1.6 million in funding for volunteer firehouses and infrastructure.
[44:42] Thank you, Congressman.
[44:43] I'm a very grateful American.
[44:54] A son to Lebanese immigrants who came to the United States 50 years ago in pursuit of the
[45:00] American dream.
[45:03] My 80-year-old father is here with me today.
[45:13] He would often tell me, work hard and it'll pay off.
[45:17] Well, 50 years later, thanks to President Trump and Congressman McKenzie, my father's dream
[45:24] has come true.
[45:25] I thank you for that.
[45:35] Additionally, thank you to President Trump and your entire administration.
[45:39] After more than 50 years, the Lebanese people finally have an American ally who advocates
[45:46] for a sovereign and independent Lebanon governed by the Lebanese people.
[45:51] Thank you for that.
[45:55] Mr. President, you have the support of almost 20 million Lebanese people worldwide.
[46:01] Leadership is more than a title.
[46:09] It's action.
[46:11] I'm grateful for the actions coming from President Trump and Congressman Ryan McKenzie.
[46:17] Your actions are prioritizing the American dream.
[46:21] Less taxes, safer communities, and America first policies.
[46:27] I thank you, President Trump.
[46:28] Happy belated birthday.
[46:30] And happy birthday to the United States of America.
[46:59] I said, oh, we're in trouble.
[47:02] But you know what?
[47:03] That was good.
[47:04] That was a good job.
[47:07] I was a little worried when I said the pages at the page.
[47:10] Very good.
[47:11] Great job.
[47:15] Sam, where's your father?
[47:18] Hello, Pop.
[47:19] How are you?
[47:20] Got a good boy.
[47:21] Got a good boy.
[47:23] Taking care of your people.
[47:25] So our administration is also delivering one historic win after another for another group
[47:31] that works a lot of overtime, and that's our great autoworkers.
[47:34] We have a lot of autoworkers in here today.
[47:36] Commons, the UAW workers.
[47:41] You know, Republicans, I don't know, for whatever reason, they don't do like I do.
[47:46] But in the campaign, I ended Biden's insane electric vehicle mandate, that crazy mandate,
[47:53] which meant for a short while all cars had to be auto-elected.
[47:59] And many of them would be built in China and others in foreign countries all over the world.
[48:03] That's what was going to happen.
[48:05] And I stopped that.
[48:06] I ended it in my first week in office.
[48:08] I ran on it.
[48:10] And you know what?
[48:10] If you like electric cars, I think that's great.
[48:13] I wouldn't say Elon was thrilled with what I did, but he understood that.
[48:17] But if you like electric cars, I think it's great.
[48:19] But you have to have the right to buy a regular, I mean, we have more gas steam than any country
[48:24] anywhere in the world.
[48:25] If you want to have gas, if you want to have a hybrid, you can have whatever the hell you
[48:29] want, including a lot.
[48:30] But I terminated Biden's disasters, fuel emission standards that would have crushed Mack
[48:36] Trucks.
[48:37] Mr. Roy, your company would be crushed if I didn't do that.
[48:42] You would have been, you wouldn't be bidding on anything.
[48:44] Neither would anybody else.
[48:46] It was the most insane environmental regulations ever conceived of by man.
[48:50] And it was totally unreasonable and ridiculous.
[48:52] And you can sell trucks for much less money that are now much better trucks that work,
[48:58] that actually work.
[48:59] And we made interest on auto loans, fully tax deductible.
[49:03] But only if you buy a car that is made in the USA.
[49:07] And I say to the auto manufacturing business in America, we have more auto being built today
[49:19] than we've had in 60 years, and I think maybe ever, and bigger and better.
[49:24] They had one, a big one in a certain state that I love also.
[49:28] I love a lot of, a lot of places.
[49:31] And they took out this old plant, but it was big.
[49:34] And I said, did you redo it yet?
[49:35] They said, we're not redoing it.
[49:37] We're ripping down and building a brand new one of beauty.
[49:39] You know the one I'm talking about, Dave.
[49:41] Well, we're pleased to be joined today by Pat McHugh, a Marine Corps veteran, a great guy,
[49:47] who spent 28 years with Matt Trucks.
[49:50] And he leads his grandfather to work here.
[50:00] His son is working here.
[50:04] And they know how important it is to keep manufacturing jobs in Pennsylvania.
[50:08] Pat Sanford works.
[50:29] Today, I'll celebrate his birthday.
[50:43] Most recently, Matt Trucks, McHugh Jr., and an even prouder employee.
[51:15] To me today, it is my father's truck working experience building the greatest trucks on
[51:38] earth.
[51:45] You can say, Matt Trucks runs in our blood.
[51:56] And we're proud of building the United States of America.
[51:59] Producing the best quality trucks we ever have.
[52:21] Trucks in America.
[52:25] And dedicated workforce in the trucking.
[53:33] It's not easy, but they've done a great job.
[53:35] David Durgan and Timothy Herzog of the UAW committee.
[53:55] Get yourself just a little bit so they can get the contract.
[53:58] Just a little bit.
[53:59] Thank you, fellas.
[54:00] Get this congressman elected.
[54:03] That's what you've got to do.
[54:04] But we're pleased to be joined also by Labor Secretary Keith Sonderling.
[54:10] Keith, where are you, Keith?
[54:12] Where's me?
[54:14] Hi, Keith.
[54:14] Good job.
[54:17] Is he three of you guys good?
[54:19] Good job.
[54:20] He better treat you good.
[54:23] A very special guy.
[54:24] Somebody that everybody wanted.
[54:26] I have to tell you.
[54:27] Everybody wanted him.
[54:28] He's some person who was actually an astronaut.
[54:32] He went out.
[54:32] He made a lot of money because he's smart.
[54:34] And he's now the NASA administrator.
[54:37] You saw that rocket two months ago up and go around the moon at record levels.
[54:42] The furthest any ship has ever flown.
[54:45] And come back.
[54:46] And he's working very heavily on the moon.
[54:48] But what he's done with NASA is amazing.
[54:51] And he's a very special person.
[54:52] And a brilliant one.
[54:54] Jared Isaacman.
[54:55] Jared.
[54:56] Great job.
[55:04] As well as, you know, I introduced him a little bit only by the name David.
[55:08] Because he knows me.
[55:09] And I know him by David.
[55:10] But David McCormick is your senator.
[55:13] And he's a brilliant person.
[55:14] Brilliant businessman.
[55:15] And this is where he wanted to be.
[55:24] And he had a rough, I told you, he had a rough fight.
[55:26] This is a rough meeting like 24 years.
[55:29] And a father for 24 years.
[55:32] And I said, I don't know.
[55:33] Are you sure you know what you're doing, David?
[55:35] But you won.
[55:35] And you won easily.
[55:36] And I'll tell you what.
[55:37] You have a great senator.
[55:38] One of the best in the country.
[55:40] So I just want to thank you very much.
[55:42] Four warriors for Pennsylvania in Congress.
[55:50] These are warriors.
[55:51] Lloyd Smucker is here.
[55:53] Lloyd.
[55:54] Thank you.
[55:55] Thank you.
[55:57] John Joyce is here.
[55:59] John.
[56:00] Thank you.
[56:03] Dan Muser is here.
[56:05] Thank you.
[56:05] And these guys are all in good shape.
[56:12] But we got to get Ryan McKenzie.
[56:23] We got to get Ryan.
[56:26] Come on.
[56:27] Just run.
[56:27] What do you want to hear, Ryan?
[56:32] David did it.
[56:32] You're up for one minute.
[56:33] Thank you.
[56:34] But it's just to me.
[56:35] And everybody thought he was the greatest speaker.
[56:39] Okay.
[56:40] I can't thank you enough for coming here to the Lehigh Valley truck.
[56:50] Doing all the new in Washington, D.C. for our first responders.
[56:55] And everybody in this country to continue to maintain America as the greatest country in the world.
[57:02] You are the...
[57:31] Writers anywhere in the country knows more about Commonwealth, Pennsylvania.
[57:38] I think that anybody is a...
[57:39] She's a terrific person.
[57:41] And right from the beginning, she said, Trump is going to win.
[57:44] Therefore, I like her.
[57:45] She said, Trump is going to win in 2015.
[57:49] In fact, she wrote her article in 2014.
[57:52] She said, this guy Trump should run.
[57:54] I hadn't thought too much about it.
[57:56] I was having a lot of fun putting up buildings.
[57:58] But she was very early on.
[58:01] And I really mean, I don't think she...
[58:03] I don't think there's anybody that knows more about it.
[58:06] They used to call it the Rust Belt.
[58:07] I call it the Money Belt now.
[58:09] It's gone from the Rust Belt to the Money Belt.
[58:11] Either one is okay.
[58:12] But there's nobody that knows more about it than Selena Zito.
[58:17] She's fantastic.
[58:18] Where are you, Selena?
[58:18] Where are you, Selena?
[58:20] With your beautiful daughter?
[58:21] Thank you, Selena.
[58:25] Selena's an incredible woman.
[58:28] And her daughter is following in her footsteps.
[58:32] She's just been so good.
[58:33] Very powerful writer, actually.
[58:35] Some of the biggest papers in the world.
[58:38] It's nice to have good stories on occasion.
[58:39] Truthful stories.
[58:41] Thanks as well to the president of the NRA who's here with me.
[58:45] Bill Hockenberg.
[58:46] Bill?
[58:55] Because I saved the Second Amendment that you think is easy.
[59:01] On occasion, it was not easy.
[59:03] Right, Bill?
[59:03] But we did it.
[59:04] We did it with your help.
[59:07] And we're doing a couple of other things, working with you and your people.
[59:10] But I think you've done a fantastic job.
[59:12] The NRA, everybody.
[59:13] They really have been with me right through.
[59:15] This would be what I support the national right to carry legislation.
[59:24] How do you feel about national right to carry?
[59:26] That's my free poll.
[59:33] You know, that is just a free poll.
[59:35] I don't have to pay $300,000 to somebody that doesn't even do polling, you know?
[59:40] You keep your phone-in numbers.
[59:42] See, those are real numbers.
[59:43] National right to carry.
[59:45] Yeah, we're working on it.
[59:47] And we have a very special guest who you just saw on the highest-rated fight show ever in the history of television.
[59:57] The UFC Freedom 250.
[59:59] So this guy, well, I just have to set it up a little bit if I don't know.
[1:00:03] Because I'm thinking, you know, I'm a similar size.
[1:00:06] I weigh more than he does, actually.
[1:00:08] So therefore, I have a tremendous physical advantage over him.
[1:00:13] His muscles are slightly harder and slightly younger.
[1:00:16] He's a lot younger.
[1:00:18] But I think I can do it because I'm a great athlete.
[1:00:20] He knows I'm a very good golfer.
[1:00:22] And I'm much better off on the golf course against him than I am with the wrestling man.
[1:00:28] But he went virtually undefeated.
[1:00:30] I mean, he went four years.
[1:00:31] He was the top wrestler.
[1:00:32] His friend, Tony, who's another champion.
[1:00:35] I'll introduce you to Tony.
[1:00:38] And these two guys were on the Penn State team.
[1:00:39] He went Bo Nickel, but, I mean, you couldn't defeat the guy.
[1:00:45] And then, he had every battle.
[1:00:48] I guess he was a three- or four-time All-American.
[1:00:51] But then he turned pro when he went to the UFC.
[1:00:54] Did you find them tougher?
[1:00:56] What do you guess?
[1:00:56] A little different.
[1:00:58] You know, a little different.
[1:00:59] But he's won just about everything.
[1:01:02] But he had a big fight last week with a lot of pressure, with the White House in the background.
[1:01:07] And he's a guy that I like.
[1:01:08] I met him a while ago.
[1:01:10] I looked at the ears.
[1:01:11] I said, man, this guy's a fighter.
[1:01:13] You can tell a lot by the ears.
[1:01:15] And he told me, no, he doesn't mind the ears.
[1:01:16] He likes them.
[1:01:17] It's almost as simple.
[1:01:18] For great fighters, it's as simple.
[1:01:20] That's why I'm worried about you, Tony.
[1:01:21] You have pretty normal ears.
[1:01:24] But I got to know Bo a little bit, and I got groove for him.
[1:01:27] And I almost felt like his father up there.
[1:01:30] His father's great.
[1:01:30] But I felt like his father, so I was nervous for the fight.
[1:01:34] And he was fighting somebody that Dana White, the great Dana White, he's a phenomenal guy.
[1:01:38] He said, no, Bo's got a tough one tonight.
[1:01:41] I said, why?
[1:01:41] Why do you do that to him?
[1:01:43] Because if you lose at this time, it was the biggest audience they've ever had by far.
[1:01:48] The whole world watched it.
[1:01:49] The people at the White House, we had 5,000 seats around the cage we built.
[1:01:54] And we had 100,000, more than 100,000 people in the park right next door.
[1:01:58] And we had the largest television audience they've ever had by far.
[1:02:03] And I said, why do you have to give him such a tough opponent?
[1:02:07] He was pretty tough.
[1:02:08] But then it happened.
[1:02:09] So Bo is known as a great wrestler because he was the best wrestler by far in college.
[1:02:14] Nobody could beat him.
[1:02:15] And I figured Bo would be wrestling.
[1:02:18] But no, he wasn't wrestling.
[1:02:20] He was punching.
[1:02:21] I said, Bo, grab his legs and start wrestling.
[1:02:23] That's what you do.
[1:02:24] But he didn't do that.
[1:02:25] He didn't listen to me.
[1:02:26] And he got a shot off that was brutal.
[1:02:30] And in the first round, right, knocked him out.
[1:02:33] He was really knocked out.
[1:02:34] Good, a good, great fighter.
[1:02:35] The guy was a great fighter.
[1:02:37] He's a great fighter.
[1:02:38] So I just want to thank you.
[1:02:40] He's from Penn State.
[1:02:41] He loves Penn State.
[1:02:42] He is the NCAA wrestling champ.
[1:02:47] And he's fantastic.
[1:02:48] And his friend, and you probably know, is also, I think you were roommates, right?
[1:02:53] That's a tough room.
[1:02:54] I wouldn't want to fight these two guys.
[1:02:56] Let's go pick on those two guys.
[1:02:58] I don't think so.
[1:02:59] But he was the heavyweight.
[1:03:00] And he lost a lot of weight.
[1:03:01] He weighed 35, 40 pounds.
[1:03:03] And how much did he wrestle?
[1:03:04] About 40 pounds heavier.
[1:03:06] In other words, you want to live, right?
[1:03:08] But he was also the champion, NCAA champion, and his name is Anthony Kassar.
[1:03:15] So come up here, fellas, because I want to just ask the audience a question.
[1:03:18] Come here.
[1:03:19] Come here, bud.
[1:03:23] So here's my question.
[1:03:25] If I work out for the next couple of months, really work hard, lifting those weights so
[1:03:29] it really, really work, could I beat Bo or Anthony in wrestling?
[1:03:34] You're very disloyal.
[1:03:38] You're very disloyal.
[1:03:39] I think walking up here, I was almost as nervous as the fight.
[1:03:51] But it feels like a fight.
[1:03:53] Yeah, it feels like it.
[1:03:54] But this is exciting.
[1:03:56] I'm grateful to be here with everybody.
[1:03:58] So grateful to President Trump for making an event that, in my mind, never seemed possible
[1:04:05] happen.
[1:04:05] UFC Freedom 250 on the White House lawn.
[1:04:08] I'm grateful to do something like that, and, you know, just so unbelievable for me.
[1:04:20] Both my parents were high school teachers.
[1:04:23] My dad was a wrestling coach.
[1:04:24] My grandpa was a wrestling coach.
[1:04:26] And I grew up around sports and just competing from five years old.
[1:04:30] And so to be able to do something like that is a dream come true.
[1:04:34] And it's just through hard work, effort, discipline, and a lot of time in the wrestling room, a lot
[1:04:41] of time in the cage, that I was able to do that.
[1:04:44] And that's really because America is the land of opportunity.
[1:04:47] And if you set your mind to something and you feel passionate about what you do, you
[1:04:52] can accomplish anything.
[1:04:53] And thank you.
[1:05:03] The first time I met President Trump, it was in 2019 at the White House.
[1:05:07] And our team and I won the Nationals, the NCAAs.
[1:05:11] And today we are.
[1:05:13] We're given the opportunity to meet President Trump.
[1:05:20] And it was really special because he took a lot of extra time to talk with us as wrestlers.
[1:05:26] I think he respected the wrestlers a lot.
[1:05:29] And I told him that when I'm done wrestling, I was going to fight.
[1:05:32] And he asked me if I needed a manager.
[1:05:35] He has better things to do than that.
[1:05:39] But really since then, I feel like we've had a special connection that I'm extremely grateful
[1:05:44] for.
[1:05:45] And fast forward seven years, I'm fighting on the White House lawn.
[1:05:50] And I turn and look at my corner and President Trump is right next to him.
[1:05:53] To me, like, he was in my corner.
[1:06:03] That was something that was just so special.
[1:06:07] I feel like just incredibly grateful.
[1:06:11] And overall, the experience, everything, the word that kept coming to mind that I kept feeling
[1:06:17] was gratitude.
[1:06:17] And I'm grateful for President Trump, grateful for friends and family and supporters.
[1:06:26] And I'm grateful to be an American.
[1:06:27] And it's the best country on earth.
[1:06:29] It's just an honor to be here, freshman year at Penn State.
[1:06:49] And it's my support, Mr. President, this great nation, and the American workers that built
[1:06:57] the foundation in the United States of America.
[1:06:59] So as a small business owner and real estate investor, I just want to thank President Trump
[1:07:04] for the big, beautiful bill, all he's done for small business owners.
[1:07:08] And most importantly, I'm happy to bless him and God to lead this great nation.
[1:07:14] And God bless all of them.
[1:07:15] Great champions.
[1:07:32] That's great.
[1:07:33] Good to have him here, too.
[1:07:35] We have a lot of champions in the audience.
[1:07:37] These are two very special people.
[1:07:38] When you do that, I was saying to myself, you know, going into that ring and you've got
[1:07:43] all these people, we had the richest and the biggest politicians, we had the biggest of
[1:07:48] everything.
[1:07:49] You couldn't get a ticket.
[1:07:50] The thickest was out of some crazy numbers I heard.
[1:07:53] We gave them away to everybody, but somehow some got out.
[1:07:56] And I was saying, that's a tremendous amount of pressure.
[1:08:01] And you're fighting the toughest people on Earth.
[1:08:03] I mean, these are the strongest, toughest men on Earth.
[1:08:07] No women in the crowd, but, which is nice.
[1:08:12] But these are the toughest men on Earth.
[1:08:14] And that's tremendous pressure.
[1:08:17] And, you know, the muscles, you got the muscles, you guys, you got the big, strong muscles,
[1:08:20] but you got this muscle, too, because it takes much more than just the normal muscle to win
[1:08:25] those matches, I mean, the strategy and the genius that goes in.
[1:08:29] It is a genius.
[1:08:30] A lot of people wouldn't understand that.
[1:08:31] But there's a genius.
[1:08:32] It's a genius in sports.
[1:08:34] But there's a great amount of courage and power that you have that a lot of other people
[1:08:40] don't have.
[1:08:40] So congratulations, really.
[1:08:42] Great job.
[1:08:42] Great job.
[1:08:43] Good time.
[1:08:46] And everything we do, we're once again fighting for the people of Pennsylvania, and that includes
[1:08:53] our amazing Pennsylvania oil and gas workers.
[1:08:55] And I ended the last administration's war on Pennsylvania energy, and I signed an order
[1:09:01] to drill baby drills.
[1:09:05] The United States is now the number one producer of oil and gas on Earth, larger than Russia
[1:09:15] and Saudi Arabia combined by a lot.
[1:09:23] Fourth place.
[1:09:23] Now we're larger.
[1:09:24] This doesn't include Venezuela.
[1:09:26] I include Venezuela once, because it's essentially, it should be included.
[1:09:31] I also ended the war on clean, beautiful Pennsylvania coal.
[1:09:36] In fact, in my administration, you know coal was dead.
[1:09:40] China uses it.
[1:09:41] Other countries, very successful countries use it.
[1:09:45] The unsuccessful countries use wind.
[1:09:47] And those beautiful windmills that go round and round and don't do anything.
[1:09:51] Except, of course, your money.
[1:09:52] Every time it goes around, you lose $10.
[1:09:54] You're supposed to make money with energy, not this money.
[1:09:57] Now, every country that's using wind is a disaster.
[1:10:02] Every country that's using our beautiful substances from underground are doing very nicely.
[1:10:08] Thank you.
[1:10:09] But in my administration, you're not allowed to say the word coal without preceding that
[1:10:15] word with the words clean, beautiful.
[1:10:18] So you say clean, beautiful coal.
[1:10:19] And I have Secretary of the Interior, Doug Berger, who's fantastic, and Chris Wright.
[1:10:26] And they made a speech about coal.
[1:10:27] And they mentioned coal like 50 times in the speech.
[1:10:30] It's all about coal.
[1:10:31] And they kept saying clean, beautiful coal.
[1:10:33] Clean, beautiful coal.
[1:10:34] I said, no, no, it's enough.
[1:10:36] It's enough.
[1:10:37] But we're not allowed to use the word coal without saying, because what they can do with coal today
[1:10:41] is amazing.
[1:10:41] It is clean.
[1:10:42] It is beautiful.
[1:10:43] They can clean it.
[1:10:44] And it's a very powerful form of energy.
[1:10:47] And if you look at China, they're building 57 coal plants, so big monster plants all over
[1:10:52] their country.
[1:10:53] And then we're not supposed to do that?
[1:10:54] No.
[1:10:55] We're doing that.
[1:10:56] Clean, beautiful coal.
[1:10:57] We've invested over $1 billion to save dozens of coal plants.
[1:11:02] We've saved them.
[1:11:02] They were ready to close.
[1:11:03] And some had closed.
[1:11:05] And more than 100 coal power plants, including the Keystone and the Conmar generating stations
[1:11:11] right here in Pennsylvania, as you know, are really moving now and employing a lot of people.
[1:11:17] They were all getting ready to close up.
[1:11:19] They were essentially closed.
[1:11:21] We're working hard to lower the cost for all consumers.
[1:11:24] And we want powerful energy.
[1:11:26] Under my administration, the most favored nation agreements on drug prices that we just did
[1:11:32] are delivering the largest prescription drug price cuts in history, with numbers like 400, 500,
[1:11:40] and even a 600% reduction from where it was.
[1:11:44] Think of that.
[1:11:45] That alone should win us the midterm.
[1:11:48] And the fake news back there refuses to talk about it because they know how good it is because
[1:11:53] they can't produce it.
[1:11:55] They've been trying to do it for years.
[1:11:56] Favorite nation.
[1:11:57] We paid the highest drug price in the world by far.
[1:12:00] As an example, for the fat drug, which Bo and Tony don't need to take.
[1:12:06] But a lot of people are taking it.
[1:12:08] Who takes the fat drug?
[1:12:09] So in New York, think of it, it was costing a fortune.
[1:12:14] Many, many times.
[1:12:15] It was costing $1,300.
[1:12:18] And in London, it was $87.
[1:12:22] And a friend of mine who's extremely fat, sloppy, very brilliant.
[1:12:27] He's a brilliant businessman, but he's a slob.
[1:12:29] There's no question about it.
[1:12:30] Very neurotic person, which you need sometimes to be successful.
[1:12:35] But he called me, I'm used to call me Donnie.
[1:12:37] Donnie!
[1:12:38] Now he calls me Mr. President.
[1:12:39] That's a sign of great respect.
[1:12:42] But he said, President, I just came over here and I bought, I won't say it was epic or whatever
[1:12:46] the hell it was, but I bought the fat drug.
[1:12:50] I said, I didn't know you used it because it's not working.
[1:12:53] And I used him as, he's begging me not to use his name.
[1:12:58] I said, well, but he's a very successful guy.
[1:13:00] He's actually a pretty well-known guy.
[1:13:02] Brilliant business guy.
[1:13:03] Worth a lot of money.
[1:13:05] And he checked.
[1:13:05] He just, you know, he said, well, how come in London I just sent out and I'm paying $87
[1:13:11] and in New York I'm paying $1,300.
[1:13:16] I said, because that's the way, the prices are rigged.
[1:13:19] And it's rigged, the whole world is rigged against us.
[1:13:21] And I said, but you know what, you brought it out better than anybody can bring it out
[1:13:25] because I've been looking at it and they all said it was impossible to do.
[1:13:29] And I went to the drug companies and I said, well, it's not going to be any more.
[1:13:32] You're going to raise their price a little bit.
[1:13:33] You're going to lower ours a lot because the world is bigger than us.
[1:13:37] So it really worked that way and they said, well, we'll do it.
[1:13:40] They were very unhappy, but they knew I wouldn't get it from the countries because you had to
[1:13:43] get it from the countries.
[1:13:44] And I went to France.
[1:13:45] I said to a very nice man named Emmanuel Macron, I said, Emmanuel, you've got to raise your
[1:13:53] prices on drugs.
[1:13:54] Of course I would not do that.
[1:13:55] Why would I do that?
[1:13:56] Because it's unfair.
[1:13:58] We're paying 10 times more than you and you're going to have to raise them a little bit.
[1:14:03] We're going to drop ours a lot.
[1:14:04] He said, no, no, I will not do that.
[1:14:05] I said, yes, you will.
[1:14:06] We're putting on 100% tariff for all wines and champagnes coming into the United States.
[1:14:14] He said, yes, I will do that.
[1:14:16] And I had the same conversation with Germany, with every country, with UK, every single one
[1:14:24] of them within five minutes agreed to do it.
[1:14:25] Nobody could believe it.
[1:14:27] And they agreed to raise their price.
[1:14:28] And we have gotten the biggest price reductions in the history of drugs, medical.
[1:14:37] Nobody's ever seen anything like that.
[1:14:38] So instead of paying $1,300, you'll be paying about $175.
[1:14:48] Nobody's ever done that before.
[1:14:50] And this is on many, many drugs.
[1:14:54] A bill that sells for $10 in London and selling for $150 in Texas.
[1:15:01] Anyplace.
[1:15:02] It's all the same in the United States.
[1:15:04] They basically discriminated.
[1:15:07] So now instead of $10, it goes to $20.
[1:15:09] Because, again, the world is a big place.
[1:15:11] And we would bring ours down to $20 from like $150 down to $20.
[1:15:15] This is the kind of price reductions you're getting.
[1:15:18] Go to Trump.com, by the way.
[1:15:20] And I didn't name it.
[1:15:21] That was Bobby Kennedy that did it with Dr. Oz.
[1:15:24] Everyone thinks I named it.
[1:15:25] I did not name it.
[1:15:26] But that side is through.
[1:15:28] And these are the biggest price reductions in the history of our country for anything having
[1:15:33] to do with drugs, prescription medicine.
[1:15:35] So that alone should win the midterms.
[1:15:40] And there's a real chance that they would end it because they're totally controlled by
[1:15:43] these foreign countries, the Democrats, the Democrats.
[1:15:47] So starting next week, weight loss drugs will be available for just $50.
[1:15:53] Think of that.
[1:15:54] For seniors who previously had to pay $1,200, $1,500, $1,400.
[1:16:00] Couldn't pay it.
[1:16:01] Think of that.
[1:16:02] Now, they don't want to write.
[1:16:04] Look, they turn the cameras off when they talk about it because they don't want good stuff
[1:16:07] for us because they don't want us to win elections.
[1:16:09] And why, I don't know.
[1:16:11] Why they want to have people pouring into our country.
[1:16:14] Why they want to have high taxes.
[1:16:15] Why they want to have all of these problems that took place over the last four years in
[1:16:20] the last administration, one of the worst administrations in history.
[1:16:24] But the other ones wouldn't be much better because they have all of these crazy policies.
[1:16:29] They've got communists.
[1:16:30] But just over one year ago, we inherited.
[1:16:32] The worst border in history.
[1:16:35] But I quickly turned it into the most secure border in the history of our country by far.
[1:16:39] Almost nobody's here in America.
[1:16:41] And in the past 13 months, and this is a chart kept by generally Democrat people.
[1:16:52] In the past 13 months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted into the United States.
[1:16:59] They'd love to have it be high, but we can't do that.
[1:17:10] We have a country and we're going to run it well.
[1:17:13] We don't want to have prisons released into a...
[1:17:15] Some of these countries were emptying their prisons into the United States of America through
[1:17:20] the southern border.
[1:17:21] Prison, prison population.
[1:17:23] Some of the countries had no prison population left.
[1:17:25] You know what that's saying to them?
[1:17:26] Some of them had no mental institutions.
[1:17:29] The mental institutions were taken.
[1:17:31] All of those people were taken to our southern border and allowed to just walk freely into our
[1:17:36] country under sleepy Joe Biden.
[1:17:38] And this group of thugs, a group of real thugs.
[1:17:42] Weaponization, that's all they're good at.
[1:17:44] Weaponization and cheating on elections.
[1:17:46] In 2025, we achieved the largest drop in the murder rate ever recorded in the history of
[1:17:52] our country, despite the fact that we haven't gotten all of these criminals out of our country.
[1:17:57] We had the lowest since 1900.
[1:18:01] That's 125 years ago.
[1:18:03] And we cut the flow of 56 percent.
[1:18:12] That's a big number.
[1:18:17] And we cut the flow of illegal drugs coming in by water, coming in by ocean or sea.
[1:18:25] We cut it by 97 percent.
[1:18:29] It's very drastic, but people aren't traveling that way too much anymore.
[1:18:42] We have the most powerful — I built the military in my first term.
[1:18:48] We used it in my second term more than I thought, but we have no choice.
[1:18:51] We have no choice.
[1:18:53] But think of it.
[1:18:54] We cut frontal.
[1:18:55] For years, they've been interdicting.
[1:18:56] They've been grabbing boats, bringing them in, putting them in court.
[1:18:59] They go out by the same night.
[1:19:01] They're back, sending drugs by the ocean, by the Gulf, by the sea.
[1:19:06] And now it's down 97 percent.
[1:19:09] And we're looking for the 3 percent, because I think those 3 percent are more brave than
[1:19:14] Roe Nicol was any day.
[1:19:15] The 3 percent of the people that are willing to get into a boat to deliver drugs now, they're
[1:19:20] the bravest people, perhaps, anywhere in the world.
[1:19:23] But it won't happen long, but what we've done is amazing.
[1:19:28] Our military — we have the greatest military in the world.
[1:19:30] We have the greatest law enforcement.
[1:19:39] And we have the highest number of people.
[1:19:41] So a year and a half ago, it was headlines.
[1:19:45] Nobody wanted to join the military, the Army, Navy, Marine — nobody wanted to join any
[1:19:51] of them.
[1:19:52] Air Force, Space Force, other Space Force, Coast Guard — nobody wanted to join any of
[1:19:58] the military.
[1:19:59] They had tremendous recruitment problems.
[1:20:01] And even it carried over to the police — they have great police here — the police and
[1:20:06] the fire departments.
[1:20:07] Nobody wanted to do anything with the name America, anything with a uniform.
[1:20:10] And today, we have the highest recruitment, the most successful recruitment.
[1:20:16] Every single slot is filled.
[1:20:18] And that includes — they want to be policemen, and they want to be firemen and women.
[1:20:26] So we went from the least successful in our history, David, to the most successful in
[1:20:32] the history, in terms of recruitment.
[1:20:33] We was — it was very embarrassing.
[1:20:34] A year and a half ago, two years ago — and it all happened from November 5th.
[1:20:39] That's when we won the election.
[1:20:42] From November 5th on, everybody wants to be a soldier.
[1:20:45] Everybody wants to be the Army, the Navy, the Marine.
[1:20:48] They want to fly the jets in the Air Force.
[1:20:52] The Coast Guard is hot.
[1:20:54] Everything's hot.
[1:20:55] And, of course, Air Force.
[1:20:56] You know, I started Air Force — that was a part of the Air Force.
[1:21:00] The Space Force was part of the Air Force.
[1:21:02] I said, no, it's got to be separate.
[1:21:04] It's got to do its own thing.
[1:21:05] And it's become — so we were in third place four or five years ago.
[1:21:09] And I put it in.
[1:21:10] We were losing to China and to Russia.
[1:21:12] And now we're totally ahead of both of them, like, at numbers that they can't believe.
[1:21:17] Space Force could end up being one of your most important.
[1:21:19] To stop the massive theft of taxpayer dollars, including millions of illegals, we've launched
[1:21:25] the war on fraud led by our great Vice President, J.D. Vance.
[1:21:29] Good job.
[1:21:30] Smart guy.
[1:21:33] We ended Medicaid for illegal immigrants, and we redirected $50 billion to make the largest
[1:21:40] investment in rural health in the history of our country — hospitals and everything
[1:21:44] else in the rural area.
[1:21:45] And with the help of our Republican majorities in Congress, we will defend our jobs, our factories,
[1:21:52] our safety, and we will defend our borders like never before.
[1:21:57] We will crush violent crime, impose harsh new penalties and dangerous repeat offenders
[1:22:03] that shouldn't be in our country, crack down on bosses, prosecutors, and judges, and
[1:22:08] we will immediately end the most dangerous thing that's ever been put into our country from
[1:22:15] the standpoint of law enforcement.
[1:22:18] It's called no cash bail.
[1:22:20] You kill someone, you go to the judge and let you kill somebody in the afternoon, please.
[1:22:25] That was the beginning of crime.
[1:22:27] We will pass the great health care plan to stop all payments to big insurance companies
[1:22:34] and give the money directly to the people so they can buy their own health care, which
[1:22:39] will be much better.
[1:22:47] All voters must show a photo.
[1:23:03] May we see a picture of them.
[1:23:07] All voters must provide proof of citizenship, and there will be no mail-in ballots except
[1:23:13] for illness, disability, military deployment.
[1:23:16] In permanent law, no men in women's sports, gender surgeons, or children.
[1:23:36] Together, we will make —
[1:23:39] We will make —