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A busy list, a busy day on day number 1 of this second Trump term. And of course, we're still waiting and watching through the, uh, curtain that comes down from up top. It was a golden elevator back in 2016. Right now, it's a red carpet to the stage at this Victory rally in Washington, D.C.
Let's listen in as the crowd erupts as the president, President-elect, makes his way to the stage. All right, you can hear the synonymous song with Donald Trump, "God Bless the U.S.A." by Lee Greenwood. They're talking about this as he's making his way down the steps here to the stage. You'll likely be flanked by Vice President JD Vance as Trump arrives here at Capitol One Arena for this described victory rally.
And we've seen him a time or two at different press conferences ahead of this. And it's going to be a busy day number 1 of the second Trump term already. Really talking about that executive order that he plans to put in place around TikTok as the once banned social media app is already reactivated.
And that is going to be one of many topics that we get into over the next four years, the next week. Uh, so it's a busy time for him as he comes in, fast-moving, talking about all those uh, confirmation hearings that we watched unfold in real time over the last week on Capitol Hill in front of all these different senators.
Uh, so the administration is quickly taking shape, or so it seems, than it did during his first term in office. You can see them with the different people greeted by a raucous crowd in our nation's capital, and it is indoors. Same with Inauguration tomorrow; it will be indoors.
As you can see the MC there giving him a big hug, uh, 24 hours out from this inauguration. And, uh, you can see Lee Greenwood there, the official uh, this. Let's just continue to listen in as I believe this song wraps up, but he will soon step to the podium. Donald Trump will make these remarks.
Let's listen in. "Well, thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. We won. We won. Thank you very much, everybody. Lot of good feeling. We're going to make our country greater than ever before. Hello, Washington. And hello, America. We're all over America. I'm thrilled to be back with so many friends, supporters, and true American patriots on the eve of taking back our country. That's what we're going to do. Take back our country.
Tomorrow at noon, the curtain closes on four long years of American decline. And we begin a brand new day of American strength and prosperity, dignity, and pride. Bringing it all back once and for all. We are going to end the reign of a failed and corrupt political establishment in Washington. A fair administration. We're not going to take it anymore.
We're going to stop the in. We're going to reclaim our wealth. We're going to unlock the liquid gold. That's right, under our feet. Liquid gold. We're going to bring back law and order to our cities. We're going to restore patriotism to our schools, get radical left woke ideology the hell out of our military and out of our government. And we are going to make America great again.
I want to thank the tens of thousands of incredible men and women who have come from all parts of this very special moment. And I just heard in watching some of the coverage that there are rallies like this taking place all over the country. People are happy. People are happy. It's been a long time. None of this would have been possible without you and the millions of hardworking citizens who have joined our cause, you know?
Right over there, I just noticed a group of beautiful ladies, beautiful women from North Carolina, right here too. I don't know how the hell they've been to 167 rallies, can you believe that? You think their husbands are happy about that? I don't know. But they look beautiful. They love our country. Thank you very much.
Then up here, I see we have front row Joe's all over the place. Uncle Sam. Mr. Wall. Oh boy, oh boy. But we've been through so much together, and for the next four years, I will fight for you every single day. We're going to be fighting for you. This is the greatest political movement in American history.
And 75 days ago, we achieved the most epic political victory our country has ever seen. That's what they say. We won the popular vote for the first time of any Republican in many, many years. We swept all seven swing states by big numbers. We won Pennsylvania. We won Georgia. We won North Carolina. We won Michigan. We won Wisconsin. We won Arizona. We won Nevada. We won them all by historic margins.
And we won the great state of Florida by 13 points. Nobody's done that ever. And a record that will never be broken. All 50 states shifted toward the Republican Party for the first time that that's ever happened. The largest number of African American voters in Republican Party history. We won more Hispanic American votes than any Republican has ever gotten before, by a lot.
And we won Latino men and women. And on top of that, you men and women, urban, suburban, rural, and people from everywhere in between are joining us in record numbers. We've never had anything like this. Too big to rig. That's what I used to say.
To victory, we made it to the oh, and they tried. They tried. It was too big around 9:02. The hell out of here. This isn't working. They were swamped, to put it nicely. We also took back the U.S. Senate. We had some great people running. And the House Republicans won their largest popular vote majority in presidential years since 1928.
We had a lot of people voting, so the Senate, the House Republicans, we got all three of them. A little bit close on those two senators in great shape. House Republicans actually, they both have great leaders. They both have great people heading. John Thune is fantastic. And if you look at Mike Johnson, he has a pretty tight majority. But actually, very good because we vote unified.
We're really voting unified, and so it doesn't make much difference in the election of 2024, which will be the most consequential election in American history. We not only want a mandate, but we built a new American majority that will lead to success for generations to come. That's what we want to do.
And someday in years from now, 50 years from now, some of these young people are going to say, 'I remember Donald Trump. He did a good job. He set us on his way. He told us. He gave us a path.' Our new administration will inherit disasters at home and abroad, an economy plagued by inflation and high interest rates, a catastrophic border crisis.
Nobody can believe they let people in. They have an open borders? Anybody wants to? Jails, prisons, mental institutions, gangs being emptied right through that government that cannot care for its citizens at a time of emergency. Look at what's happening in Los Angeles. Look at what's happening in North Carolina. They've treated him so badly.
On a planet on the brink of World War III. It's not going to happen. That's not going to happen. But starting tomorrow, I will act with historic speed and strength and fix every single crisis facing our country. We have to do it. I'm not going to have a country that, before even taking off, is. You are already seeing results.
See, everyone is calling it the, I don't want to say this, it's too braggadocio. We'll say it anyway, the Trump effect. It's you, you're the effect. Since the election, the stock market has surged, and small business optimism is up 41 points to a 39-year high. Bitcoin has shattered one record high after another.
The major investment company known as Demat Properties has announced that it'll be investing between 20 and 40 billion dollars in the United States. And SoftBank and other great companies have pledged between 100 and 200 billion dollars. These are all investments that are only being made because of the fact that we won the election.
Can you create jobs for hundreds of thousands, even millions of Americans? Today, I spoke with Tim Cook of Apple. He said they're going to make a massive investment in the United States because of our big election win. And as of today, TikTok is back.
TikTok thing. We have a guy, TikTok Jack, he's a young kid, like 21 years old. And we hired this guy. Can you believe what I'll do to win an election? And we went on TikTok. And Republicans have never won the young vote, the youth vote. They win a lot of votes, but they never won the youth vote.
We won the youth like TikTok. I like it. I like it. I had a slightly good experience, wouldn't you say? Romney lost it by 40 points not so long ago. We won it by 36 points. That's a very big spread. But I said, we need to save TikTok because it's tremendous.
Who in this audience goes with TikTok? Lenny? Yeah. Great problem choice. We have to save it. A lot of jobs. We don't want to give our business to China. We don't want to give our business to, you know, TikTok without my approval, meaning the president's approval because Congress gave the president the right to make a deal, do whatever he wants a long time ago when they had a different president.
They didn't know that I was going to be the president, I guess. So, I venture said very simply, a joint venture. So if TikTok is worth noting zero without an approved, you know, if you don't approve, they're out of business. They're worth noting. If you do approve, they're worth like a trillion dollars.
There was some crazy number. So, I the United States of America owned 50% of TikTok. I'm approving on behalf of the United States, so they'll have a partner, the United States bidders, and the United States will do what we call a joint venture.
And there's no risk. We're not putting up any money. All we're doing is giving them the approval without which they don't have anything. So I don't know. It sounds like that works. What do you think? Good? Think so or not? We're going to make a lot of money.
Perhaps most beautiful of all, this week we achieved an epic ceasefire agreement as a first step toward lasting peace in the Middle East. And this agreement could only have happened as a result of our historic victory in November. That was some victory. Was that the greatest? I don't even know which was greater, 2016 or this one. I think this one.
Look, honestly, we have honesty. We have Uncle Sam. You know, Uncle Sam shook my hand about two months ago. He's got the strongest grip I've ever felt. You are a strong man. I said, what the hell was that? Report that the first hostages have just been released. And who knows what's going to happen?
I’m saying that they made the deal. Well, you know, I mean that all. It would have never happened if I were president. It would have never happened. There, Iran was broke. They had no money for Hezbollah. They had no money for Hamas. They had no money. They were broke. Totally broke.
And anything, but they did it, you know. It's, I like to think back to the past. I said, if only the election weren't rigged, all the things that would have happened that would have been so good, but it was. We're not going to let that happen again.
I want to thank my friend Steve Witkoff, who I think is here. I know he heard he. They don't have the personality or whatever. And Steve does, and Steve's a great negotiator, a very successful guy. But he's our new special envoy to the Middle East for helping reach this great breakthrough.
And, uh, really couldn't have been done without. See, where is Steve Witkoff? Is he around here someplace? Because he was so great. There he is. Hello, Steve. Thank you, Steve. Thank you, Steve. What a job.
Our incoming administration has achieved all of this in the Middle East in less than three months without being president. We've achieved more without being president than they've achieved in four years with being president. But just imagine all of the good things that we will accomplish together with four more years in the White House.
And we're going to do a lot of things. You're going to see something tomorrow. You're going to see executive orders that are going to make you extremely happy. Lots of them. Lots of them. We have to set our country on the proper course by the time the sun sets tomorrow evening.
The invasion of our borders will have come to a halt, and all the illegal border trespassers will, in some form or another, be on their way back home. Think of it. We've allowed millions and millions of people into our country through open borders. No checks, no vetting, no anything. Millions and millions of people.
And lots of those people are murderers. 52% of them killed more than one person. Other than that, they're quite fine and nice people. These are rough people. Remember I used to say these people are rough, and they would say, no, no. These are illegal immigrants. They're not safe.
Look at what's happened with Venezuela, where they're sending these gangs in, and they're taking over apartment complexes in Colorado and then cutting off the fingers of a man who had the nerve and desire to call the police. He said, you want to call the police? Guess what? You have no fingers.
These are rough people. And they're getting the hell out of our country. They're out. The border security measures I will outline in my inaugural address tomorrow will be the most aggressive, sweeping effort to restore our borders the world has ever seen.
You know, we had in the history of our country. You remember that, with the great chart that I put up? I don't even know if they have that chart now. Maybe they do. These guys are good. Maybe they know who they are. I don't know. I didn't tell them I was going to do this.
I didn't tell, but we had a chart, and I looked to my right, and then they said, oh, that was a, that hurt. What the hell was that? I still have that throbbing feeling in my ear. Oh, there it is. Look at that. These people are amazing. I didn't tell them I was doing that. That's fantastic.
Yeah, it's all over the place. I love that. That is the most beautiful piece of paper I've ever seen in my life. The chart. Bottom. That's the single lowest we ever had in history, at least recorded history, of illegal sporting into our country. We had done a great job.
And then they took over, and look what happened. Just like an Elon Musk rocket ship going up. That reminds me of Elon and his rocket ships. Look at that. Look at the difference. And it just continued and continued. And we're taking in people that shouldn't be here.
They come in from prisons, from jails. They shouldn't be here. Mental institutions. I used to mention, and the press would always excoriate me and say, "The late great Hannibal Lecter came into our country today." Silence of the Lambs, but I see that movie, lovely movie.
And when people went to the voter booth, they said, "We don't want Hannibal Lecter in our country." The press would say, "Why is he bringing up Hannibal Lecter?" That was a fictitious character, actually. They're not so fictitious. We have people in our country that are probably worse that we allowed in.
But we will quickly re-establish control of our sovereign territory and borders. We will expel every single alien gang member and migrant criminal operator on American soil and trendy aqua from the United States. Here's a little video for you to see about this gang. Go ahead.
Open borders, deadly consequences. Order crisis record high. Crossings are putting a strain on cities across America. Wayland gang members storming an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado. People talk about my good crime. This is what they're talking about.
San Antonio, Texas, just one of the latest cities to have an apartment complex taken over by members of the Venezuelan gang. Biden Harris have created a program to bring them in under humanitarian parole. I am in favor of saying that we're not going to treat people who are undocumented cross borders, criminals.
More than 13 illegal immigrants have been released into the United States. Kayla's murderer was apprehended by border patrol crossing illegally into the U.S. Kayla's murderer had been improperly released into the Abolish ICE.
Yeah, we need to probably think about starting from scratch. More than a dozen people suspected of being gang members right here in San Antonio, terrorizing. New details in the murder of Lincoln Riley, the illegal immigrant suspects who cops say committed the heinous murder is a Venezuelan.
So there's pros and the least country by the Biden Administration. That probably wouldn't have happened. Two men investigators say are in the country illegally from Venezuela are charged with capital murder in the death of Jocelyn Nungaray Martinez.
Helped. His arms around Johnson's neck, took off her pants, and climbed on top of her. Later, strangles Joseline to death and then tied up her hands and feet. Court documents suggest a group of men arrested for beating and robbing a Dallas woman last month threatened to cut off her fingers if she did not cooperate.
Emmanuel Hernandez was booked by Collie Bill police just two days earlier and released the day before the robbery. The Peruvian gang leader who was wanted for 23 murders was arrested by border patrol near Roma, Texas, then released into America. That's what we allowed, and some of them, they're nicer than others.
These are really vicious people, gang members. And many, many people from prisons and crime all over the world because they got their criminals into the United States of America. You look at Venezuela. They've emptied their prisons into our country. Many others have done the same.
If I had it up any other countries, I know most of those guys are smart. Their leaders, they are smart, streetwise people. As soon as I heard they were going to have open borders, they said, "You do that, every prison all over the world is going to be emptied out into our country."
They come in from the Congo, big on emptying their prisons. The only thing good about it is they make our criminals look like really nice people. People all over the world, not just South America, all over the world. They come from mental institutions and from jails.
And tomorrow, my administration will deliver justice for every family whose loved one has been stolen from them by migrant crime, including Lake and Riley, Rachel, Lauren, Joseline Nungaray, Kayla Hamilton, and every other precious American soul that we have lost to these animals.
Their memories will live in our hearts forever. And we will never forget their contribution. I told their mothers who are devastated, their parents, their fathers, they're devastated. They'll never be the same. They'll never be the same. But I said, your daughter has made a major contribution. Your son has made a major contribution.
The hundreds and even thousands of victims of this horrible atrocity. And you add those numbers to the numbers of crime that we are already going through the roof. And it's something that you wouldn't even believe. Do you remember? I did the debate, and I had David Muir from ABC saying, "No, no, crime has gone down."
I said, "No, no. It's gone through the roof." Crime has gone through the roof. Table? "No, no, crime has gone down." I said, "It's gone through the roof." And then he goes, "Uh, I disagree with that." The next day, they reported that crime was up like 40%.
This guy is, the whole thing is so, it's so bad. You can't even imagine how anybody could. Before these things, you know, think of it. Open borders, prisons, and mental institutions. Men playing women's sports, transgender for everyone.
Transgender. And very soon, we'll begin the largest deportation operation in American history, even larger than the record right now. And we're going to end the Biden war on American energy and unleash our energy resources to quickly defeat inflation and achieve the lowest cost of energy and electricity on Earth.
And we're going to be using our emergency powers to allow countries and entrepreneurs and people with a lot of money to build big plants, AI plants. We need double the energy that we already have, and we're going to slash the regulations, environmental regulations that are really put in there in order to stop progress in this country.
We're going to also slash something else: federal bureaucracy. We will create the new Department of Government Efficiency, headed by a... Who's here someplace? I don't know where the hell he is. He's here, someplace. Come here, Elon. Did you see his rocket yesterday? It was captured.
Ah, and X is with him. Thank you, thank you, Mr. President. Um, sorry, a little extra following me on the stage here. He's a very enthusiastic supporter, as you can see. So, we're looking forward to making a lot of changes.
And, you know, this victory is the start really, uh, there. What matters is going to make significant changes, have those cement those changes, and have America to be strong forever. So, and make America great again.
So, um, yeah. So anyway, we're going to do great things here. Um, thank you. Thank you, hon. You know, I always say we have to be protective of our geniuses because we...