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And you know, we want war because we want to have no wars. And then I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, national guard, but military. It's a war zone. And I said, "Never let that happen again. From now on, if that ever happens, and I say it here, you get out of that car and you can do whatever the hell you want to do. No matter what you do, they'll never be good. They're bad. They're they're career criminals."
So, I'm thrilled to be here this morning to address the senior leadership of what is once again known around the world as the Department of War. I know Pete spoke about it. He gave a great speech. I thought great speech. I don't want him to get so good. I hate that, you know. No, I hate it. I almost fired him. I said, "You can't I don't want to go on after that." No, he gave he gave a great speech, but he talked about Department of War. We were sitting there. I said, "Didn't it used to be called the Department of War?" And he goes, "Yes, sir. They changed it like in the early 50s."
So, we won the First World War. We won the Second World War. We won everything in between and everything before that. We only won. And then we went in a way woke. That was probably the first sign of wokeness. And we changed it to defense instead of war. And I said, "What do you think? How do you think if we change it back? Would that be a nice idea?" And Pete loved it immediately. Some people think thought about it. You know, they gave it a little thought, but in the end, we did it. And and I have to be honest, it's so popular. It's I thought would be met with fury on the left, but they're sort of giving up. I must be honest with you. They've had it. They've had it with Trump. They've been after me for so many years now. Here we are. Here we are. Come to the White House anytime you'd like. No, they've given up. Bad. A lot of bad people. But all over that's been so popular. It's been a very popular. I really thought that we were going to have to sort of fight it through. There's been no fight. There's been no fight.
Like what I called the Gulf of America, the Gulf of America. Because to me, it was always the Gulf of America. I could never understand. We have 92% of the frontage. And for years, actually 350 years, they were there before us. It was called the Gulf of Mexico. I just had this idea. I'm looking at a map. I'm saying, "We have most of the frontage. Why is it Gulf of Mexico? Why isn't it the Gulf of America?" And uh I made the change and it went smoothly. I mean, we had a couple of fake news outlets that refused to make the change and then one of them AP took us to court and we won. And the judge who was a somewhat liberal judge said uh the name is the Gulf of America because AP refused to call it the Gulf of America. They wrote they're not a good outfit by the way. They call it the Gulf of Mexico. I said no the Gulf of America is the name. And the judge actually said that uh in fact you can't even go into the room because what you're doing is not appropriate. The name is the Gulf of America. Google maps change the name. Everybody did but AP wouldn't. And then we won in court. How about that? Isn't that so cool, as Secretary Hex beautifully described, the name change reflects far more than the shift in branding. It's really a historic reassertion of our purpose and our identity and our pride.
That's when we go with the word war. And you know, we want war because we want to have no wars. But you have to be there. And you know sometimes you have to do it. I've said I have settled so many wars since we're here. We're here almost nine months and I've settled seven and yesterday we might have settled the biggest of them all. Although I don't know Pakistan India was very big. Both nuclear powers I settled that. But yesterday is could be the settlement in the Middle East. That's hasn't happened for 3,000 years. I said how long have you been fighting? 3,000 years. So that's a long time. But we got it I think settled. We'll see. Hamas has to agree and if they don't, it's going to be very tough on them. But it is what it is. But all of the Arab nations, Muslim nations have agreed. Israel has agreed. It's a amazing thing. It just came together.
War is very strange. You know, you never know what's going to happen with war. The easiest one of them all is Putin. I said, number one, it's a war that would have never happened if I were president. If the election weren't rigged and if I were president that war would have never happened. Not not even a little chance. And it didn't happen for four years. But I knew Putin very well and I thought that would be easy because I know him so well. Well, that wouldn't turn out to be the hardest of them all. We had uh some that were not settable and they all got settled. So, if this works out that we did yesterday with the Middle East, then uh that's that's more than a war. That's lots of wars. That's all combined. That's a lot of wars. Many of you were over there in many different capacities in many different countries. That was a that's a big that's a big part of the earth. But if that works out, it would be eight plus. I could give myself two or three for that one. And then we just have the one to settle. We have to settle it up with President Putin and Zalinsky. Got to get them together and get it done. But the only way we can do that is through strength. I mean, if we were weak, they wouldn't even take my phone call. But we have extreme strength. Uh we had the horror show in Afghanistan which is really the reason I think that Putin went in. He saw that horror show by Biden and his team of incompetent people and that showed I think it gave him a path in. I wasn't there any longer. Uh I watched that and it was so so horrible. I think it was the most embarrassing day in the history of our country. And now we're back. And that's it. We're not going to have any of that crap happen. I can tell you that was terrible. So terrible.
Together, we're reawakening the warrior spirit. And this is a spirit that won and built this nation. And from the cavalry that tamed the great plains to the ferocious unyielding power of Patton Bradley and the great general Douglas MacArthur. These are all great men in this effort. We're a team. And so my message to you is very simple. I am with you. I support you. And as president, I have your backs 100%. You'll never see me even waver a little bit. It's the way it is. And that includes our great police officers and firemen and all of these people that are doing so well. Together over the next few years, we're going to make our military stronger, tougher, faster, fiercer, and more powerful than it has ever been before. I rebuilt our nuclear, as you probably know, but we'll upgrade that also, and just hope we never have to use it. We have to hope we never have to use it because the the power of that is so incredible. I' I see things. I don't think they'd show it to you. I I really wouldn't want them to show it to you. But when you see the result of what's left, you never want to use that. Never. Never. Ever.
We were a little bit threatened by Russia recently. And I sent a submarine, nuclear submarine, the most lethal weapon ever made. Number one, you can't detect it. There's no way. We're 25 years ahead of Russia and China in submarines. Russia's actually second in submarines. China's third, but they're, you know, they're coming up. They're coming up. They're way lower in nuclear, too, but in five years they'll be equal. They're coming up. And you don't have to be that good with nuclear. You could have 12th what you have now and still do the damage. That would be, you know, you that'd be so horrendous. But I announced that, you know, based on his mention of nuclear, and it was really a stupid person that works for him mentioned the word nuclear, I moved a submarine or two. I won't say about the two over to the coast of Russia just to be careful because we can't let people throw around that word. I call it the nword. There are two nwords and you can't use either of them. You can't use either of them. And frankly, uh, if it does get to use, we have more than anybody else. We have better, we have newer, but it's something we don't ever want to even have to think about. But when somebody mentions it, that submarine started immediately thereafter, and it's just lurking. But I'm sure we're not going to have to use it. But it's a an amazing. It's undetectable. Totally. Ours is. Theirs isn't theirs are totally detectable. We can detect them easily. We go right to the spot. But we have u genius apparatus that doesn't allow detection. It doesn't allow detection at all by by anybody above water or below water. It's incredible. We're way ahead of everybody in that and other things.
But together with many of you in the room, we've brought back the fundamental principle that defending the homeland is the military's first and most important priority. That's what it is. Only in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia while America is under invasion from within. We're under invasion from within. No different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform, you can take them out. These people don't have uniforms. But we are under invasion from within. We're stopping it very quickly. After spending trillions of dollars defending the borders of foreign countries, with your help, we're defending the borders of our country from now on. We're not going to let this happen. Biden let people come in from prisons, mental institutions, drug dealers, murderers. You know, we had 11,488 murderers allowed into our country by this guy who had no clue. He had no clue. He shouldn't have been there in the first place, but he had no clue. The people that ran the de the the office, the White House were people that surrounded him. Radical left lunatics that are brilliant people but dumb as hell when it came to policy and common sense and uh they allowed people from all over the world from the Congo they opened up prisons in the Congo they came into our country totally unmatched unvetted unchecked and uh from all over South America not just South America you know you think South America no but from all over lot came in from Venezuela Venez Venezuela emptied its prison population into our country. That's why they have trend dear. One of the worst gangs ever. But we took care of them. We took good strong care of them.
And I just want to thank the National Guard in Washington DC. It was It's embarrassing to say this now. I can say it because we solved it. Washington DC was the most unsafe, most dangerous city in the United States of America and to a large extent beyond and beyond that. Go to some you go to Afghanistan, they didn't have anything like that. You go to countries that you would think there's problems, they didn't have that. And now Washington DC after 12 days of serious serious intensity, we took out 1,700 career criminals. If you have five career criminals, they can make your numbers look very bad because they'll commit many crimes a day. But we took out 1,700 and they took them out. There was no doubt who the boss was. They did an unbelievable job. Then they started even cleaning. I said, "I don't want them doing that, sir. They want they were cleaning it up." I I drove through it two days ago. It was beautiful. People are walking down the street holding hands. Men and wife coming from Iowa. They're not worried about being shot. Washington DC is now a safe city. In fact, I went out to dinner with my crew. I I haven't done that. Theory, I wouldn't do it. And I felt totally safe. And nobody's been attacked. Nobody's been hurt. Washington DC went from our most unsafe city to just about our safest city in a period of a month. We had it under control in 12 days, but give us another 15, 16 days. It was it's it's perfect. And people other than politicians that look bad, they think, you know, the the Democrats run most of the cities that are in bad shape. We have many cities in great shape, too, by the way. I want you to know that. But it seems that the ones that are run by the radical left Democrats, what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they're very unsafe places. And we're going to straighten them out one by one. And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That's a war, too. It's a war from within.
Controlling the physical territory of our border is essential to national security. We can't let these people in. You know, we had no people enter in the last four months. Zero. Even I can't believe that. You know, we had millions coming in pouring it. 25 million all told. And of those 25 million, many of them should never be in our country. They would take their worst people and their people from prisons and jail and they put them in a caravan and they'd walk up. CNN was interviewing one person. Oh, why are you coming? I want freedom. Good. Were you in jail? Yes. For what? Murder. He said, "You're in for You had to see this anchor, a young woman." She's like, I couldn't believe she'll probably lose her job. but because the left doesn't want to hear that. But we're running it based on common sense and based on love of our country. But I want to salute every service member who has helped us carry out this critical mission. It's really a very important mission.
And I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, National Guard, but military because we're going into Chicago very soon. That's a big city with an incompetent governor. Stupid governor. Stupid. They threw him out of his family business. He was so stupid. I know the family. He becomes governor. He's got money. Not money that he made, but he ran for governor. He won. And now he criticizes us all the time. And last week they had 11 people murdered, 44 people shot. The week before that they had five people murdered, 28 people shot. Every weekend they lose five, six. If they lose five, they're considering it a great week. They shouldn't lose any. you shouldn't lose any. This is civilization. And he's always up there saying, uh, we're in very good shape. We don't need the military. No, they need the military desperately.
How about Portland? Portland, Oregon, where it looks like a war zone. And I get a call from the liberal governor. Sir, please don't come in. We don't need you. I said, well, unless they're playing false tapes, this looked like World War II. Your place is burning down. I mean, you must be kidding, sir. We have it under control. I said, 'You don't have it under control, Governor. But I'll check it and I'll call you back.' I called her back. I said, you you this place is a nightmare. It's probably It's certainly not the biggest, but it's one of the worst. It's brutal. They go after our ICE people who are great patriots and tough job, too. But they love it. They love it because they're cleaning up our country. And so you look at some of the things where they took over parts of Seattle. They actually took over a big percentage of Seattle. Think of that. You remember that? That was a while ago. And I sent in the troops and they were gone as soon as I sent them in. Oh, when we sent in the troops, if you have a real leader that says you got to do what you have to do, I put that out the other day. You got to do what you got to do because we don't want our people hurt as they stand by.
I was watching during Biden there troops standing up like this brave standing up at attention the way I should stand all the time and I like this and people are standing their mouth is this far away from their mouth and they're spitting at him and they're screaming at him and that soldier standing there he wants to knock the hell out of the person but he's not allowed to do anything so they just stand there and they they get abused and the a woman was this far away from his face and she starts spitting in his face and he's not allowed to do anything. If it's okay with you generals and admirals, I've uh taken that off. I say they spit, we hit. Is that okay? I think so. They spit. It's a new It's a new thing. They spit, we hit.
How about the cars where the cars are coming out? They get brand new cars. Border Patrol. Beautiful. Nice new cars. and they're driving along and they have to go through a gauntlet of rocks being thrown at the car. So, here's this beautiful brand new car. By the time it goes a 100 yards, it's destroyed. These guys have pretty good arms, some of them. And they're throwing bricks at full force into the window and into the car. It looks like it's a war zone. And I said, "Never let that happen again. From now on, if that ever happens, and I say it here, you get out of that car and you can do whatever the hell you want to do because those people are are, you know, you can die from that. Those bricks go through the windows. You can die. They'd like it to they'd like it to go through the window. But this was a couple of months ago. They just kept driving and bricks are hitting the car. And I said, "Why aren't they stopping?" Because they were under orders from the past administration, never stop. But that's different with us. We we stop. And since I gave that order, we haven't had that problem. It's very interesting. It's amazing.
It's just like uh in Venezuela, you've seen the boats going. We can't find any more boats. They're they're carrying drugs. Massive. Every boat kills about 25,000 people. That's what they have. They had fentinol mostly and a lot of other drugs. And we take them out and we've taken out four. So, and it's on air. Everybody gets to see. Not that we like to do that, but every boat kills 25,000 on average 20. Some people say more. You know, you see these boats stacked up with bags of white powder that's mostly fentinol and other drug stuff. And now we have a problem. Uh General Kane says, "Sir, there are no boats out there. Not even fishing boats. They don't want to go fishing. I don't blame them. There'll be no fishing today, you know. But it's uh amazing what strength will do because all we want to do is stop drugs from flowing into our country. It's destroying. We lost 300,000 people died last year. Everybody knows friends, many friends probably that you lost a child or adults too, but you lost a son or daughter because of what's coming into our border. And uh we're making it very hard. Oh, and we haven't even started yet.
Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances. This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room because it's the enemy from within and we have to handle it before it gets out of control. It won't get out of control. Once once you're involved, it all they all joke. They say, "Oh, this is not good." You saw it in Washington. And we had gangs of trend day arug 10, 12, 15 kids and these military guys walk up to them and they treat them with disrespect and they just got pounded. They just got pounded. The gang just pounded then thrown into patty wagons and taken back to their country. Some are so dangerous we don't want to even do that because we don't want to. some of stone cold murders. We don't have the confidence even though they're not coming back very easily and we don't have the confidence. We put them in jails.
But these service members are following in a great and storied military tradition from protecting frontier communities to chasing outlaws and bandits and the wild west. And our history is filled with military heroes who took on all enemies foreign and domestic. You know that phrase very well. Well, that's what the oath says, foreign and domestic. Well, we also have domestic. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, George Bush, and others all use the armed forces to keep domestic order and peace. Many of our leaders used the military to keep peace. Now, they like to say, "Oh, you're not allowed to use the military." And you know what the people say? the people in those cities where they're being raped and shot and beat up. You know what they say? We love the milit. You ever see where they interview the people on the street? I've never seen somebody say they don't unless they're radical and paid off because a lot of these insurrectionists are paid by whether it's Soros or other people, but they're paid by the radical left.
So today, I want to thank every service member from general to private who has bravely helped us secure the nation's capital and make America safe for the American people. It's amazing. The whole world is watching. Everybody in the White House, they come up to me, young women, sir, thank you. I know immediately what they're thinking. I They don't have to say it. They walk to work now to the White House. We haven't had a crime in Washington in so long because we got the careers. We call them the careers. We got these lunatics out and they'll never be any good. You know, I hate to tell this to the to the liberal media. You could spend time with them. You could do whatever you want. You could send them to the finest schools, which they couldn't get into anyway. Mentally, they couldn't get in. But no matter what you do, they'll never be good. They're bad. They're they're career criminals. They I don't know. Maybe they were born that.