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How are you? God bless you for standing out there in that weather and all these hours to get in here tonight.
Today, as Stephen Miller said, we have 20 hours until our long national nightmare is over. We're almost there. By the way, Stephen Miller, if you like what Trump did at the border, you have that guy to thank. In large part, that's the guy—he's the magic behind the man—and he's back. Thank God! Him and Tom Homan together.
The goodness of Scott Pressler—good to see you. The goodness that is about to rain down on us after Trump is inaugurated tomorrow is already starting. I've got to tell you, I am so pumped up about it. Things are already happening in anticipation of Trump being sworn in, like Facebook and McDonald's getting rid of their DEI programs. Good for you, McDonald's workers!
Looking at you, Kamala Harris—really, no, not really. Wasn't true. You have universities from the University of Michigan to North Carolina to all the public universities in Iowa, all the public universities in Texas, getting rid of DEI. You have got, yes, you've got a bill that passed the House this week: the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. Yes, it passed once before, but this time we control the Senate. We have a much better shot. Still have to get 60 votes to get a vote, but we're looking good.
You've got a judge who struck down Joe Biden's disgusting changes to Title IX, which has been stopped in its tracks, and it will be killed entirely—those changes—as soon as Trump gets in there. Have no doubt whatsoever. Good things are happening all around the country. Pete Hegseth was testifying this week that military recruiting is already going up in anticipation of their new commander-in-chief.
The deal in Gaza right before Trump takes office—he said if it's not done by the time I get there, all hell is going to break loose. The goodness just keeps on coming. I woke up this morning, I was two inches taller, a pound thinner, and I had skin like Jennifer Lopez.
I don't—that one's not true. Okay, speaking of JLo, how happy are you that her candidate lost? It's so delightful—these Hollywood celebrities who get up there and try to tell us how to vote. Really? I mean, like those celebrities who know nothing about anything. All JLo knows about what to do is to ruin marriages. She's an expert at that. Why does she have to try to ruin the country too? So goodbye, JLo. It didn't work out for you.
Goodbye, Meryl Streep, who showed up at that Oprah event saying, "Oh, Madam President" to Kamala Harris. Madam President, how'd that work out? About as well as her comment that Harvey Weinstein was God. Maybe we should stop listening to her. Maybe we shouldn't be going to her for our political advice.
And then you had Oprah herself. Oprah, she'll interview you if you pay her a million dollars too. Yeah, so LFE of a million dollars to sit down with Oprah Winfrey—apparently that's what the Harris campaign paid her production company. She says, and for that, you know what you get? You get Oprah yelling at you, "Come on! Why are you doing that? Calm down, Madam!"
Didn't work out for her either. But of course, the fakest person involved on that side of the aisle was the woman at the top, Kamala Harris herself. Thank you! Who pretended that she wasn't the border czar, who pretended that she was middle class, who pretended that she was smart. And the American people did not buy it.
Every time you turned around, this woman was doing something faker than the last, right? Her fake Jamaican accent, her fake Eastern European accent, her fake Spanish accent. It was like spending a day at Joe Biden's southern border—nonstop, right?
But my favorite was the preacher accent: "Jo cometh in the morning." And she wasn't wrong about that. It came at about 1:22 a.m. on election night when the election was called for Donald J. Trump. I felt it. I've been thinking so much about Trump, especially today and this week. I know you have too—praying for him, praying for his family. Thankful to them.
I mean, think about it. I interviewed Trump about a year or plus ago and asked him, "Why? Why are you doing this? You could be in Scotland. You could be at your golf courses." It's because he loves the country, and he wasn't done yet. And we're not done with him. So God bless him and the family for making this sacrifice and doing public service. Same with J.D. Vance and the cabinet members—all of whom need our prayers and support.
But I'm also thinking of all of you. I'm thinking about you. I'm thinking about Americans who got us here because of the things that Trump has accomplished. I mean, already some of the things I mentioned in anticipation of him taking office—that ball got rolling, yes, with Trump, but also with regular American people who stood up here, there, and everywhere to make a difference in their own communities.
I'm thinking about people like Jodie Shaw. You probably don't know that name, but Jodie Shaw was an administrative worker at Smith College. She didn't make a lot of money, single mom, two kids. And in late 2020, early 2021, she had had it with the DEI nonsense at Smith. So she made a Facebook video and she posted it.
Little Jodie Smith, who is sweet and quiet and not one to shake the tree, said, "I don't want to be forced to talk about my race at work anymore. I don't want to be told that I have implicit bias because I'm white. I don't want to have to enforce segregated dorms. Please stop making me do this."
And Smith unleashed holy hell on her. Smith, this super tolerant college, okay, made it, she alleged later on, untenable for her to stay. She got forced out of her job, and I'm honestly not sure whether Jodie’s fully recovered. So she got hurt, and she got hurt for all of you and for us and for the rest who are at Smith. She's a hero. Jodie Smith is a genuine hero for doing this.
But it wasn't just Jodie. I mean, I'm thinking about people like Andrew Gutman, who had a daughter at a posh school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and pulled her. But he didn't go quietly. He wrote a scathing letter ripping them to shreds for what they're doing to us with this race essentialism nonsense. He went out with a bang and he made sure other parents knew what the problem was.
Jason Riley of the Wall Street Journal—you may see him on Fox News sometimes—and his wife, Naomi Schaefer Riley, who pulled their mixed-race daughters from a school in Rye, New York, made a point of doing it because that school thought that their mixed-race daughters were desperate to talk about their Blackness all the time. And they found out the hard way those kids really just wanted to learn math.
These battles are being won piece by piece, one at a time, and there are so many others. I'm thinking of the 14-year-old girls in Wisconsin who had an 18-year-old guy come in there naked into their showers after gym. I'm thinking about the young woman in Massachusetts who just wanted to play field hockey and suddenly got all of her teeth knocked out because a boy played for the other team posing as a girl.
How do we know about these stories? Because people were outraged. Citizens went to the news. They went to their principals. Girls spoke out one by one and got the ball rolling on change, and change is coming.
All of you wearing the MAGA hats—it used to be an act of civil disobedience, right? Yes, sir! Defiance of a registered order that didn't want to hear from you. But wearing that hat for much of the past eight years has been an act of courage too.
And I know, I know just because you're here that you had your moments in your own communities, whether it was online or at the bowling alley or at the restaurant or at school, where you stood up for one of these same issues. Where you had to tell somebody you didn't want to be reduced to skin color. Where you said, "I prefer the days when we didn't make a thing out of that."
Where you had to tell somebody that boys cannot become girls and girls cannot become boys. Those battles, one after the other, have been fought, and this anti-DEI momentum has been built brick by brick thanks to all of you.
And you who listened to Donald Trump, who when a reporter asked him at a presidential debate in 2015 about some of the language he used, responded by saying, "What I say is what I say, and if you don't like it, too bad." That was more than just a quick comeback. That was a reminder of what America is.
In America, we have the right of free speech. We have the right to offend, to provoke, to annoy, and to stand up for what we believe in, even if you find it controversial. We have the right not to use the words you try to force on us, like your preferred pronouns or words like anti-racist or chestfeeding.
We are reminded of that daily by President Trump, who would never bow to the woke mob. Just ask Brett Kavanaugh, who will be swearing in J.D. Vance tomorrow as Kavanaugh sits in his robes as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
So I thank all of you for being part of the Trump movement and for bringing these changes upon us and for bringing Donald Trump back into office. And I remind you, before I go, stay strong. We haven't won the war; we're winning. We won a bunch of battles, but he's going to need all of you every step of the way.
We're going to have to be patient. We're going to have to steel our spines. Do not bend. Never bow. What I say is what I say. God bless you. God bless President Trump. God bless the United States of America.
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