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He knew what he had done, and he was commanding as president of the United States. But that's not the story. Although that's big news, that's not the story. The story was the Democrats. When you have a third of them not standing for the U.S. hockey team, what is going on? No real applause for the Olympics or the World Cup coming to America. Muted response for the first World War II veteran. Um, polite, restrained clapping for the Coast Guard rescue mission. What? What?
The moment that was the most powerful moment I have ever seen any president, uh, give other than Mr. Gorbachev, "Tear down this wall." There was no moment in presidential history in my lifetime that was as strong as that until last night. Stand if you agree. The first job of government is to protect the American citizen and not foreign citizens. That's the easiest applause line ever presented in American politics. That is, you shouldn't even think, you just stand up. That's not even partisan. Is the job of the American government, Congress, to protect the American citizen or illegals or foreign citizens? How? What? What happened? Hesitation, folding of arms, looking down, no one clapping, no one standing up on that side of the, uh, aisle. It just play this out with me. That's something that even if you don't believe in, you stand up for. It's something that you, you go like, "I don't believe in this, but this is going to look really, really bad. We all got to stand up." You don't damage your opponent when you do that. You damage your brand. This was the worst night for any brand. And maybe, and maybe twice as bad for the night that Coca-Cola came out and said, "We're getting rid of the original recipe and we're going right for New Coke." I mean, that did brand damage like I've never seen before. This, I'm not sure the Democrats survive the brand damage that they're doing right now. You know what I mean? When you, when you don't, you can't stand for that.
The American people last night were not watching like operatives. They were watching like parents. And parents understand instinctively. If you can't stand for protecting citizens, something is very broken. Something is very wrong. The border section was devastating to the Democrats. Angel moms, Elizabeth stabbed 24 times. Delilah crushed by an 18-wheeler. Now a little girl in first grade kissing her father. You don't stand for that. Calling for a commercial license to be denied to illegal immigrants because of her and calling it Delilah's Law. And you can't stand for that. You can't clap for removing dangerous rapists and criminals from the country. Think about this. We can disagree on immigration policy all you want. We can debate visa quotas. You can argue about asylum reform. But when you can't stand for deporting violent criminals, that's not a strategy. That's the end of your brand. That's moral confusion. I, I was stunned by that. Because America looked at that and went, "Do these people hate our country? Do they hate America?" The average person, you had to walk away with that.
The contrast on all of it, I mean, the economic contrast, very sharp. He talked about, you know, inflation and how they drove up inflation by spending too much energy. They drove up inflation because they stopped drilling, you know. And he said, "You caused this. Your policies caused this. I'm fixing it." Crushing healthcare costs. Everybody in the country knows healthcare is being crushed. It's crushing people. You did. You promised Obamacare. You said it would fix it and it hasn't. It's made it worse. And I'm going in and fixing it. When he comes out and he says, "Look, I, you're going to pay what was it? The IVF thing. I got to get into that." When he talks about any of the drug, drug costs going from $4,000 to $500. You can't stand an applause for that. You can't. What?
Then taxes. Did you notice that when they introduced Michael Dell, who gave what was it? $6 billion, some crazy amount of money to these, you know, to the, uh, you know, these America accounts? So, your kids can be, when they're born, they can get an account worth, I don't know how much. Well, Michael Dell gives, he and his wife give, I don't remember what it was. I think it was, I think it was $6 billion, wasn't it? Six billion. $6 billion. Okay. They don't stand for a guy who just gave the nation and the children and the most vulnerable $6 billion. They will stand and applaud for, "We want to take more of these rich billionaires' money, but we're going to take it. We're going to use it for the IRS. We're going to take it and then God only knows where that money goes." They'll cheer for taking and crushing billionaires, but they can't stand and applaud a man who voluntarily gave $6 billion to the government to help children. That should tell you a ton. They, they could not applaud for a deduction on your auto loan for the first time in history. Uh, no tax on tips. No tax on tips. They could not applaud for that. They couldn't applaud when he talked about 401(k)s are up, what did, what was it? 30%? I think. I mean, I know that, I know that you don't feel it. And quite frankly, it's hard to feel. I, you know, I don't feel it when I go to a, when I go to a fast food restaurant and I, I'm rolling out of there and it's just Tanya and I and we've just spent $35 at McDonald's. I have a hard time going, "Inflation's under control." So, I get it. If you're trying to buy a house, I completely get it. I don't think the average person feels it yet, but I don't think the average person has looked at their 401(k) either.
How much is the average 401(k) up? >> He said since I took office, the typical 401(k) balance is up by at least $30,000. >> $30,000. Okay. You can't applaud for that. You can't applaud. Actually, I think, I think Elizabeth Warren did applaud for the Wall Street being banned from buying up single-family homes. She also stood for insider trading. They didn't stand for paying the lowest prescription drug price paid anywhere in the world. I have always said, Democrats, why do you have a problem with us overpaying here in America? That we are paying the highest drug price in the world. Aren't we the wealthiest 1% in the entire world? Of course we are. America is, when you look at it globally, we are the wealthiest 1% in the world. You always say the wealthiest 1% should pay more. Well, you, your drug policy for prescription drugs, the way you, you allow America to have her eyes pushed in with the thumbs of the insurance and the drug companies, it at least fits your view that the wealthiest 1% should pay the highest because as a collective looking at America, even the poorest are among the wealthiest 1% in the world. But he comes in and he says, "That's not fair. That's not right. We should not be. We're now paying the lowest," and you can't recognize that accomplishment. I mean, you can argue policies. You can argue whether any of these mechanisms will work long-term. That's fair. But he was offering mechanisms. The Democrats last night offered facial expressions, pins that use the full word F ICE. You see Rashida Tlaib wearing a pin that said F ICE. That's appropriate. They offered angry insults, screaming on the floor. I mean, I, I, I mean, do I need to go into Joe Wilson? Do you remember what that was all about? Under Obama, during the debate on Obamacare, he said, "Look, you got to pass Obamacare. It's got to be done because it doesn't have anything that these people say it will. It will never be used to support, uh, healthcare for illegal aliens." That, that's an absolute blatant lie. It was a blatant lie then. It's a blatant lie now. Look at it. But he said that and Joe Wilson could not take it. And so he said, "You lie. What happened? What happened?" It was like the whole world caved in. Okay. You can't do that. How dare you say that? They, he had to apologize the next day. The president then accepted his apology. Uh, that, but that wasn't good enough for the Democrats. They didn't accept it. You know, John McCain, everybody was on fire because he said two words, "You lie." Last night, they were screaming, "You kill Americans." From the, from the floor, representatives were screaming, "You kill Americans," and nobody says anything. It was incredible. When he said Republicans voted for tax cuts and every Democrat voted against them, they sat. When he said stop insider trading in Congress, uh, it, Elizabeth Warren stood. Democrats did not. When he said, "We're putting the American worker first," arms folded. Do you know what the American voters saw last night? Resentment. Resentment. Uh, hatred for America. It was the most patriotic speech I have seen given by a president in a very long time. And they looked like they hated America.
I got to tell you, the, the energy section last night, tech companies building their own power plants because the grid can't handle AI demand. And so he is saying to these tech companies, "You cannot raise the prices on other people because of your demand. You want the power, you build the power plant." I mean, that is a, a pledge to protect your electricity costs for you and your children. That's future framing. That's, that's long-term positioning. And the Democrats were annoyed by it. And they showed. I mean, it was, it was amazing. Even the smaller moments mattered. Chuck Schumer looked diminished and tired and old. Al Green being kicked out. His outburst, "Holding blacks are not apes." I mean, two congressmen visibly sleeping. Guys, optics matter. Optics matter. And boy, did they matter last night.
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