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Thank you very much. We won! We won! Thank you very much, everybody. What a good feeling! We like winning, don't we?
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're going to end the reign of a failed and corrupt political establishment in Washington, a failed administration. We're not going to take it anymore.
We're going to stop the invasion of our borders. 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 ideologies 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 over the nation to take part in this very special moment. I just heard, and 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. From North Carolina, right here too! I don't know how the hell they've been to 167 rallies. Can you believe it? You think their husbands are happy about that? I don't know, but they look beautiful. They're incredible people, and they love our country. Thank you very much!
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 for 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— all 50 states! We won 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. On top of that, youth, men, 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—too big to rig! We made it too big!
Oh, and they tried! They tried! It was too big! Around 902, they just said, "Let's get 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 a presidential year 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 Senate seats, but in great shape! House Republicans actually—they both have great leaders. They both have great people heading. John Th is fantastic! And if you look at Mike Johnson, he's got a pretty tight majority, but actually, it's very tight, but it's 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 won a mandate, but we built a new American majority that will lead our country to unparalleled success for generations to come. That's what we want to do!
And someday, in 30 years from now, 40 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 set us! 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 border policy! Do you think that makes sense? Open borders?
Anyone wants to—jails, prisons, mental institutions, gangs being emptied right through that ugly open border! A government that cannot care for its citizens in a time of emergency. Look at what's happening in Los Angeles! Look at what's happening in North Carolina! They've treated them so badly!
And 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! We're not going to have a country left!
Before even taking office, you are already seeing results that nobody expected to see. Everyone is calling it the—I don't want to say this, it's too braggadocious, but 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 has soared a record 41 points to a 39e high! Bitcoin has shattered one record high after another! The major investment company known as DEAC, the properties, has announced that it'll be investing between 20 and 4 billion in the United States.
And SoftBank, another great company, has pledged between 100 and 20 billion! These are all investments that are only being made because of the fact that we won the election! Can 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!
So, you know, I did a little TikTok thing. We have a guy, TikTok Jack. He's a young kid, like 21 years old, and we hired this guy. And I went on TikTok! 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 vote by 36 points!
So I 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 we're talking about a tremendous—who in this audience goes on TikTok? Many? Yeah, very popular! And frankly, we have no 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 other people!
And I said, 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. And they did that 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 said very simply—a joint venture! So if TikTok is worth nothing—zero—without an approval, you know, if you don't approve, they're out of business! They're worth nothing! If you do approve, they're worth like a trillion dollars! They're worth some crazy number!
So I said, I'll approve, but let the United States of America own 50% of TikTok! I'm approving on behalf of the United States! So they'll have a partner—the United States—and they'll have a lot of 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?
So whether you like TikTok 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 supporting 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, Honest Abe! We have Honest Abe! We have Uncle Sam! You know, Uncle Sam shook my hand about two months ago. He's got the strongest grip I've ever—you're a strong man! I said, "What the hell was that?"
But I'm glad to report that the first hostages have just been released! And who knows what's going to happen? I know that Biden is saying that they made the deal. Well, you know, I mean, that deal should have—first of all, it would have never happened if I were president! It would have never happened!
There was not even a thought of it! Iran was broke! They had no money for Hezbollah! They had no money for Hamas! They were broke—totally broke! And they would have never done anything! But they did it!
You know, 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 made a beautiful speech. I heard he made a great speech, but he's an amazing guy! I said, "I got to get myself a negotiator! We have to get a good negotiator!"
A lot of guys are knowledgeable, but they can't negotiate! They don't have the personality or whatever, and Steve does! And Steve is 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 really, it couldn't have been done without Steve! 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! They're 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 very safe!"
I said, "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 the best, safest border 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 do! Who? 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 it! That hurt! What the hell was that? I still have that throbbing feeling in my ear!
Oh, there it is! Look at it! 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!
But if you look at that chart and you look at the red arrow on the bottom, that's the single lowest we ever had in history—at least recorded history—of illegals pouring into our country! We had done a great job!
And then they took over, and look what happened! It's like an Elon Musk rocket ship going up! That reminds me of Elon—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! I'd say, "The late great Hannibal Lecter came into our country today!" Silence of the Lamb!
Anybody 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 reestablish control of our sovereign territory and borders!
We will expel every single illegal alien, gang member, and migrant criminal operating on American soil and remove the savage gang trend from the United States!
Here's a little video for you to see about this gang! Go ahead! Open borders—deadly consequences! Border crisis—record high crossings are putting a strain on cities across America! It is a full-blown invasion! Armed Venezuelan gangs storming an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado!
When people talk about migrant crime, this is what they're talking about! San Antonio, Texas, just one of the latest cities to have apartment complexes taken over by members of the Venezuelan gang!
Biden and Harris had 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 across the border as criminals!
More than 13,000 illegal immigrants convicted of murder have been released into the United States! My 20-year-old daughter, Kayla Hamilton, was murdered in her own room! Kayla's murderer was apprehended by Border Patrol crossing illegally into the U.S.!
Kayla's murderer had been improperly released into the United States! Abolish ICE! We need to probably think about starting from scratch! More than a dozen people suspected of being Daga gang members right here in San Antonio!
The gang members had been terrorizing the apartment complex! New details in the murder of Lak Riley—the illegal immigrant suspect who cops say committed the heinous murder is a Venezuelan national and was paroled and released into the country by the Biden administration!
If they had all been properly vetted, 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 Joselyn Nungaray Martinez!
And Anel wrapped his arms around Joselyn's neck, took off her pants, climbed on top of her, later strangled Joselyn 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 are members of the Venezuelan street gang!
The men threatened to cut off her fingers if she did not cooperate! Emanuel Hernandez was booked by police just two days earlier and released the day before the robbery! A Peruvian gang leader who is wanted for 23 murders was arrested by Border Patrol near Roma, Texas, then released into America!
That's what we allowed in! And they're nice people compared to 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!
You know why? Because they got their criminals into the United States of America! You look at Venezuela—they've emptied their prisons into our country! Many other places, the same! I would have done the same if I had 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, I said, "If you do that, every prison all over the world is going to be emptied out into our country!"
They come in from the Congo! The Congo is big on emptying their prisons! The only thing good about it is they make our criminals look like really nice people! These people are vicious people all over the world—not just South America—all over the world!
They come from mental institutions and from jails and prisons! With our actions tomorrow, my administration will deliver justice for every family whose loved one has been stolen from them by migrant crime, including Lak and Riley, Rachel Moren, Joselyn 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 ever forget them! And there were their contributions! I told their mothers, who were 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!" There are hundreds and even thousands of victims of this horrible atrocity! And you add those numbers to the numbers of crime that we 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 Mu 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!"
DAV: "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 announced the crime was up like 40%! This guy is—the whole thing is 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 in women's sports! Transgender for everyone!
And very soon, we'll begin the largest deportation operation in American history—larger, even larger than President Dwight Eisenhower, who has 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 it's going to end up being more than that!
And we're going to slash—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—the waste in our bloated federal bureaucracy! We will create the new Department of Government Efficiency, headed by a gentleman named Elon Musk, 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! X, come on! Say a couple of words!
Okay, thank you! Thank you, Mr. President! Um, sorry, little just followed me on the stage here! He's a very enthusiastic supporter, as you can see!
Yeah, so we're looking forward to making a lot of changes! And, you know, this victory is the start, really! What matters going forward is to actually make significant changes, have those cemented, and set the foundation for America to be strong for a century—for centuries! Forever!
So, and make America great again! Yeah! So, um, yeah! So anyway, we're going to do great things here! Thank you! Thank you!
You know, I always say we have to be protective of our geniuses! CU, we don't have too many, but that one is a good one! Now, I watched this rocket come down about three months ago, and I thought it was crashing! I was talking to somebody on the phone!
By the way, the same thing happened yesterday! It came down, and it was captured so beautifully! It came down! It's tumbling! It's a mess! It's going down! I say, "Oh, look at that thing! That's a disaster!"
And then it gets like a couple of miles away from Earth, and all of a sudden, the engines start going on! The things start! And then I see it coming in and landing in the gantry! And I'm watching it! I say, "Oh, it's going to crash!"
Oh, but those engines came out, and they blew the fire all over the place! And all of a sudden, those two big arms came and hugged it like you would hug your little baby! And that sucker landed! Nobody's been able to do that but him!
And he's a great guy! And we have him and V and some great people working on a thing called costs! And he's got the credibility to do it too! We're going to do things that are really amazing!
But he went out to Pennsylvania after that! He landed that rocket! Nobody had ever seen! By the way, China can't do it! Russia can't do it! Or come close! It'll be 10 years before they can do it!
And the U.S. can't do it except for him! And it's pretty amazing! But he did that! And then he journeyed to Pennsylvania, where he spent like a month and a half campaigning for me in Pennsylvania! And he's a popular guy! And he was very effective!
And he knows those computers better than anybody—all those computers, those vote counting computers! And we ended up winning Pennsylvania like in a landslide! So it was pretty good! It was pretty good!
So thank you to Elon and his son's name, who's cute as a button! His son's name is X! He's the only guy who could get away with the name X! But his son is a great guy! One thing we know—his son is smart!
If you believe in the racehorse theory, he's got a nice smart son! But thank you very much to Elon and everybody! We've had so much help!
Every radical and foolish executive order of the Biden administration will be repealed within hours of when I take the oath of office! Oh, you're going to have a lot of fun watching television tomorrow!
Somebody said yesterday, "Sir, don't sign so many in one day! Let's do it over a period of weeks!" I said, "Like hell! We're going to do it over weeks! We're going to sign them at the beginning!"
You know that old story? "Let's do it later!" That never gets done! Now we're doing them tomorrow! And we'll have plenty to sign in the future! Don't worry about it!
So not going to stop! But we're going to stop the destructive and divisive diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates all across the government and private sector and return our country to the merit system!
You know, the Supreme Court ruled that the United States is allowed to go by the merit system, which is what made us great in the first place! That was a big, big ruling that a lot of people don't even know about! But it was a big, tremendous ruling!
And you're focusing on character, competence, and qualifications in all hiring decisions! Now you're allowed to go by competence and ability and genius! You don't have to hire somebody to send up one of his rocket ships that doesn't know anything about what's happening!
As the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government, we will also reverse the over-classification of government documents! And in the coming days, we are going to make public remaining records relating to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert Kennedy, as well as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and other topics of great public interest!
It's all going to be released! Uncle Sam and I will direct our military to begin construction of the great Iron Dome missile defense shield, which will all be made in the USA!
And we will get wokeness the hell out of our military immediately and make it like it used to be! Take a look at this, you little scumbag! I got your name! I got your ass! You will not laugh! You will not cry! You will learn by the number!
Happy Pride! Happy Pride Month! And actually, let's declare it a summer of pride! So you're a killer, sir? Yes, sir! Let me see your war face, sir! You got a war face? Ah, that's a war face!
Now let me see your real war face! I hear it! I know! I know! You will be a weapon! You will be a minister of death praying for war! But until that day, you are pukes! You are the lowest form of life on Earth!
You are not even human beings! You are nothing but unorganized, grabastic pieces of amphibian shabra! These know I got answers the way I me! Like the best part of you ran down to cracking your mom's ass and ended up as the brown stain on the m!
I love for un! Let me know who I am! Let me know who I am! 3, 4! United States Marine! 1, 2, 3, 4! United States Marine! Thank you!
So we won two world wars with that! And that's the way it's going to be! The American people have given us their trust, and in return, we're going to give them the best first day, the biggest first week, and the most extraordinary first 100 days of any presidency in American history!
To implement this historic agenda, I have assembled an all-star cabinet of patriots and visionaries and reformers who will fight for America! And together, we will win, win, win for America!
To restore the spirit of American armed forces, I have appointed Pete Hegseth as our next Secretary of the—where's Pete? Where's Pete? Pete here someplace? Where is he? Good job, Pete! They like you, Pete! Thanks! They like him too!
To bring back integrity to our intelligence community, Tulsi Gabbard will be our next Director of National Intelligence! To make America healthy again, we will have Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services!
To end the weaponization of our government and restore the impartial rule of law—oh, this is so important! She's so incredible! Pam Bondi will be an outstanding Attorney General! She's going to do an incredible job!
She will do an incredible job, and she's working with another person who's going to be unbelievable at the FBI—Cash Patel! And tomorrow, everybody in this very large arena will be very happy with my decision on the J6 hostages! Very happy!
I think you'll be very, very happy! I would say about 99.9% in this beautiful arena! And by the way, I want to thank the owners of this arena! They are great! They're up here someplace in one of those beautiful boxes, and their team is doing very well!
And Ovechkin is a great player, right? But I want to thank Ted and all of