President Donald Trump delivered the opening-night keynote address at the RNC midterm convention, rallying the Republican Party to stand together ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
“Pretend that I’m on the ballot,” Trump said, vowing to overcome the midterm curse and campaign in every swing district for Republicans.
The Dallas event marks the first midterm convention of its kind, highlighting the administration’s crackdown on fraud, tax cuts in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, and increased access to healthcare through TrumpRx, among other issues.
The president headlined the first night of the event, following speakers such as House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-FL), and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. The Republican National Committee released the full list of speakers slated to deliver remarks at the two-night convention, notably listing Trump as the night two closing remarks speaker after Vice President JD Vance’s keynote address.
Read on for the full transcript of Trump’s opening night keynote address:
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Friends, distinguished guests, Vice President Vance, and the proud citizens of the United States of America, welcome to the first-ever midterm convention of any party.
[The convention] took a little imagination to think of it, but we thought of it. I’m sure it’ll become a staple in the years to come, but this is the first-ever for any party. Two months ago, we came together to celebrate one of the most glorious days in history — the 250th anniversary of our Declaration of Independence. And in 1776, our founders lit the immortal flame of American liberty in Philadelphia. What a time that was!
Tonight, we gather in the great state of Texas, and by the way, I have to brag — it’s a state I won all three times in massive landslides and got the highest vote. got the highest vote in the history of Texas politics. Can you believe that? But we all hold the flame high and carry it boldly forward. We love this state, and we love this country. That’s all we can say. But what an honor it is to be in Texas. What a place! What a place! Love it.
With your support, we will make our Nation stronger, safer, richer, freer, and greater than it has ever been before. That’s what’s happening, you know, that’s what’s happening. I wish that fake news would report it. There they are — boy, that’s a lot of fake news. That’s a lot of fake news.
You have to remember when we originally announced this eight weeks ago. [The news] said, “Who’s going to go to a midterm convention? That’s … never going to … This place is packed, and not only is this packed — it’s a big arena — not only is this packed, but you have an equal number of people standing outside. If anybody would like to give up their seat or whatever, whatever if they’re standing or if they have a seat, would anybody like to raise your hand and give up your seat? I thought so.
Now we have an amazing response. They love our party. They love what we’re doing. In 55 days, Americans will be going to the polls in one of the most important elections in our country’s history. Your vote will decide whether our country stumbles at the starting gate of the next 250 years, or surges forward and never ever looks back.
If we hand America’s future to the radical left Democrats, our Nation will spend the next decade just getting back [on] its feet; it will be a tragedy. Vote Republican, and we will leave the world in our dust for generations to come. There’ll be nothing like it. We’re right at that game.
Thank you!
[The] choice in this election is very, very simple. Democrats are asking you to vote for their failed far-Left agendas, and it’s never worked. [Democrats] destroyed your finances and delivered you four years of disaster, bedlam, and death under Sleepy Joe Biden.
And I’m asking you to let us finish the job we began with the greatest two years in the history of the presidency — this has been the most successful two years financially and every other way in the history of the presidency.
And together we will turn a two-year comeback into a 250-year lead. We’ve never, nobody’s ever had a start. It’s not even two years, but we have more money being spent from outside countries and companies — over $20 trillion dollars. That’s 5…6…7 times higher than any country ever. Not just here, any country ever.
I’ve been saying $19.2 [trillion], but now it’s over $20 [trillion], for less than two years — substantially less than two years. When the two-year number comes out, that number could be $25 trillion dollars being invested here.
The record, by the way, is another foreign land. You probably know the land I’m talking about. In fact, the head of that land will be coming to the White House in two weeks. $3 trillion. So 3 trillion versus $20 trillion. But the $20 trillion, after two years, is going to be closer to $23, $24, [or] $25 [trillion]. Nobody’s ever seen anything like it ever, and it probably will never happen again.
And I want you to remember me in four or five years when this country is rocketing. Remember, I’m the one that got it started.
You know who they are, right? Oh, look who we have! Front row Joes, look at them! Wow, that’s great. And we have the great ladies from North Carolina. Can you imagine? So they’ve been to 217 rallies. They’re beautiful. They have wonderful husbands, but I never see the husbands or husbands. I think you’re driving your husbands crazy. No, they’ve been fans right from the beginning of our policy. I guess they like me, but of our policy and Front Row Joe’s, it’s number 412, I think. What do they do for a living? They make a lot of money, I think. But you guys are fantastic. Thank you very much.
And we have a special guest, Mr. Wall. I want to get a suit like that. Someday I’m going to go out and get a suit like that. Where do you get it? To walk up here because we built over. Think of this: We built over 1,400 miles of wall right on your Texas border. 1,400 [miles], and because of that, we have the greatest numbers ever on immigration. We stopped at gold. It was a disaster. It was destroying our country. But we’ll get onto that. When I’m on the ticket, Republicans always do very well. We won the presidency three times, and we won.
By the way, now you notice numerous people on the other side are actually admitting it. How about that? But this was a cool way of doing it. But we won it big, and we also won everything else because, you know, whatever it is, I was on the ticket. People came, and they did tremendously [well] with the senators and with the congressmen. But for some reason, when a president wins — even if he’s really a good president or a great president, there aren’t too many of them — they don’t win the midterms, and nobody quite knows why. It’s two [wins] out of 25 races. We’re going to change that. There’s no reason for it. There’s no reason for it. It’s something deep down and psychological. You’re going to have to explain it, but I’ve asked people what the reason for it [is], if you have a president that’s doing a great job. I don’t think anybody’s ever had two years like we have. All over the world, they’re admitting it.
Other countries are failing and failing badly, but I say — why is it that no matter how well you’re doing, we seem not a president, Democrat or Republican, [who] almost never wins the midterms [for their party]. We’ve got to change that, because we have something going that’s so good — we can’t let that string be broken. So I’m asking you to pretend that I’m on the ballot. Just one more time.
Because if we lose, you’re going to lose your border, you’re going to lose your tax cuts, you’re going to lose your safety and security, you’re going to lose your wealth. Our country is going through hell. You will be going through hell, just like you did just two years ago. We went through hell. We were a laughingstock all over the world. We were laughing. They don’t laugh at us anymore, do they? They don’t laugh. But that’s what would happen. The pundits, the fake news media, and the radical Left communists will say anything they can to try and stop us. But in this election, all that matters is that we are united, we are together, and what we say counts. That’s all that matters. And on November 3rd, the great American majority is going to stand up and continue to make America great again, and we will make our voices heard, perhaps like never before. That’s the beautiful challenge that the midterms are not supposed to be won by the sitting president, and we’re going to change that, and we’ll make it an even more important time in our country and presidency. It’ll be something very special. We have to do it.
And you know, we have a very short period of time, and we really have 35 races; they all count. But we have 35 races that are, I guess you’d call the swings, right? Like we had seven swing states; we won all seven, right? Now, so I said — not that I’m looking for the work, you know — the other day I’ve got so much of a schedule. I said, I thought I won. What do I have to do? I’m campaigning. We’re campaigning to make it incredible, to really make it great, and to keep it great.
So I am going to visit, and you have so many of those great senators. And I said, you know, the ones I want here. We have some that are leading by 30 points, and they’ve been there for 25 years. I said, “Don’t come, please, don’t come. The ones we need are the ones that you’ve heard, the ones that are very close. They might be winning by a little, or losing by a little, or tied. We can win every one of those races, but I’m going to go to every one of those states for congressmen and for senators. I’m going to do that, and we’re going to have rallies. And we’re gonna have rallies just like this. We’re gonna have big arenas loaded up with people. So the senators are great people. So many, just great people. Their policies are, you know, they’re common sense. I heard so many of the wonderful politicians that spoke — I watched a lot of them — and they talked about common sense. It’s really about common sense more than anything else. It’s not about the stupid policies that led us down the drain. We were going down the drain. If we hadn’t won the last election, I’m not sure that our country right now would even exist. It was going so bad.
So I’m going to go to every one of them — about 35 [states] — and in a couple of cases, I’ll go twice. And I’ll do tele-town halls. And I’ll be coming back to Texas, because we have to elect Ken Paxton — we have to elect him. And if I have to, I’ll come back twice or three times. You’ll say, “Get this guy out of here! Get him out!” You’re going to be saying, “Get him the hell out of here! He’s here too much.” No, I’ll come once or twice or three [times]. I’ll come; we have to elect Ken Paxton.
Together, we’re going to continue to have — we have the strongest borders now in the history of our country. We’ve never had anything — We have to have strong borders. We have to continue low taxes. I gave you the biggest tax decrease in the history of our country, and no crime. We want no crime. We don’t want crime. We’ll have American energy independence, something you know a lot about in Texas, and we will have energy dominance. We will stand with our heroes in the military, our veterans. We love our veterans, and we take care of our veterans, 94%, and our great police and law enforcement. We love our police and law enforcement. And above all, I think it’s so important, because there is a crazy little sick cloud over our country. I really believe it’s not going anywhere, but we have to make sure, because we will defeat communism in America and vote for American freedom. We will just vote very simply for American freedom.
And a big part of that American freedom is going to be electing Ken [Paxton]. We have to elect him. He’s really something special. The fact is, in some, and I have to say this about Ken [Paxton], it’s so insulting, and I hope he doesn’t get insulted. They said, “Sir, you can’t say that.” I said, “I have to.” They didn’t even put it on the teleprompter, but I don’t use the teleprompter that much. They said, “Sir, you can’t say it. You just please. It’s not good.” But I said it once before, and — he went through the roof — I got to say it again.
So they just said how wonderful he is and how we have to — but I said it a little differently, because the fact is that some may not like the way he dresses. I don’t. Although tonight he looked very spiffy in his blue suit. I must tell you, but they may not like the way he talks. I can see that, you know. Not everybody — a lot of people don’t like the way I talk either, but we do get crowds; there’s no question. And then they say, “You can’t say this, sir. That’s so insulting. Please, sir.” These are my analysts that get a lot of money for telling me a lot of nonsense. “Sir, please don’t, sir.” So I talked about dress. I talked about talk, and I even said this, “You know, some people don’t like the way I look either; you may not like the way he looks, but here’s the news: In the history of Texas, he is the single greatest attorney general you’ve ever had, and maybe the top attorney general in the whole United States.”
So I am very sorry, Ken [Paxton]. I hated the thing, and I’ll go backstage — “Sir. you shouldn’t have said that. You’ve given them a sign, but let me tell you, it’s true. He may not dress right, he may not talk exactly perfectly, and he may not be the best-looking guy I’ve ever seen. But you know what he is? He’s the greatest attorney general in America, and he deserves to be your next senator. I’m sorry, Ken [Paxton]. Where the hell is he?
[Trump looks to crowd]
I’m so sorry. He’ll never speak to me again, but that’s okay. We have to [talk]. But he’s a great guy, and I know for a fact because he fought with us so much. He took us. We have the wall because of him. We have so many victories because of Ken [Paxton]. [If we] didn’t have the wall, we’d be overrun, instead of having zero [illegal immigrants]. You know, we had zero people for the last 16 months; can you believe it? We had 25 million [illegal immigrants] come in under Biden. Zero [now]. But you know what? Without the wall, that he was instrumental [in], along with Greg Abbott, and by the way, both senators. See, I’m being very nice.
Ted Cruz worked very hard on the wall, and so did John Cornyn, so did John Cornyn. They both did [work], both senators. We had a lot of support, but without the wall — you know, we built this massive, beautiful, great wall, beautiful because it works. We could never have the numbers that we have, which is right now, think of it, and these are made up by Democrats — the people that do these statistics. Zero illegal aliens have entered our country from the southern border in the last 15 months. Zero.
So the Democrats.
[Crowd chants “USA, USA, USA”]
So the Dumocrats, as I call them — that was the other thing they said, “Sir, don’t use this. This is a very important speech.” I said, “Is it of the [same] importance of [the] State of the Union?” They said, “Maybe not.” Although I like this arena very much. But they said, “Please, please.” You know, State of the Union, you have to be very staid. That’s much easier to do than what I do. Believe me, that’s easy to do, ladies and gentlemen. It’s an honor to be your president. Thank you. And you do that for about an hour, and then everybody’s falling asleep. This is a much harder routine, let me tell you, but we’re also out here to have a little bit of fun.
I can’t believe it’s been I’ve been doing this for like 10 years. It just came up. We just didn’t want to be president, to be honest with you. A lot of guys over there-they’re a lot. They’re a hell of a lot longer. They’re not president. They’re my friends. I let them know that all the time, by the way. But I just came up with [Dumocrats] a couple of months ago, and I said, “You know, you take out the ‘E,’ and you replace it with a ‘U,’ and nobody knows that ‘dumb’ has a ‘B’ at the end of it. Most people think it’s D-U-M, and that’s fine.” So we take out the ‘E,’ we replace it with the ‘U,’ and they’re Dumocrats because their policy is so bad. It’s so bad.
And I usually don’t like talking about how bad, like, for instance, men playing in women’s sports. Okay, and I don’t like to do it much before the election. I like to wait about a week before the election. I’m doing it much too early because I’m petrified that they’ll change, and they’ll say, “You know what? Men should not be playing in women’s sports, and that will really hurt us. That’s one of our great sound bites of all time. And I thought, after we won in a landslide in the last election, they would change that. But I saw two senators and a congressman in the last week and a half on television fighting like hell for men to play in women’s sports, and I hope they continue to do that. They say it’s an 80-20 issue. I say it’s a 99-1, and I have no idea who the one is. I have no idea. You saw the two great fighters. I was so honored to have them — world champions — and I watched them for a little while, and I was going to ask Bo Nichol, who hasn’t been defeated in years, and Justin Gaethje, who is unbelievable. You saw that fight at the White House; it was the most violent fight. I’ve said, “Justin, Bo, come here a minute. Do you have any fear of fighting a particular woman?” They didn’t even know what the hell I was talking about. They said, “What’s wrong with this guy asking me such a stupid question?” Anyway, we love the women. It’s actually very demeaning what they’re doing to women. If you want to know the story.
So the Dumocrats gave us the worst and most dangerous border in American history, with 25 million illegal aliens pouring in. Can you imagine 25 million illegal aliens pouring in? Totally unchecked, unvetted, including gang members, human traffickers, child predators. 1,000. Think of this: we had 1000s, 11,888 murders, and you’ve heard me say this because that’s the exact number: 11,888 murders, many of whom, over 50%, killed more than one person. They allowed them to come into the country. I guess they think they’re going to reform; they’re going to be wonderful people; they’ll be the head of a bank someday. But today we have the strongest and most secure border in our country’s history.
And you saw the numbers — they came out just last week; we have the lowest level of illegal immigration ever recorded in our country. And as I said in the past exactly 16 months — these are government stats; this is not Donald Trump, although I think I have more credibility than government — but in the past 16 months, a historic record of zero, done by Democrats, mostly a couple of Republicans, I guess, but done by Democrats. Zero illegal aliens have been admitted into the United States through your border in Texas, where they used to be running around, running rampant, killing people, destroying many houses and farms, and ruining property values and creating havoc all over the state of Texas.
You know that I watched so often where they’re interviewing people on the border and long beyond the border — hundreds of miles away from the border, and their farms [and] their houses were overrun. And I saw a program last week where they were interviewing a man who was on a show — one of the shows I don’t want to say because it’s a terrible show, on a terrible network, but they’re sort of terrible, you know, they’re all fake, a lot of fake news. I couldn’t believe it. In fact, they’re probably going to fire the producer of that segment. They went to him, and they said, “How was it before?” They said it was horrible. “I was living in hell, but since President Trump got elected, we haven’t had one single incident. Nobody’s charging our house. Nobody’s holding us up. Nobody’s threatening to beat us up,” he said. It’s like it’s a very good statement. Actually, he said, “It’s like we’re living in a different country between now and two years ago,” and we know that. But we’ve designated the cartels, as you know, as foreign terrorist organizations, something which no other president had the courage to do. And we’re using our military force to totally decimate them. You probably noticed that the flow of fentanyl coming across our borders [is] down 67%, and fentanyl and other drugs coming in through the oceans and the seas, and most importantly, the Gulf of America.
[Crowd applauds]
Thank you.
You know, Lake Ontario — we’re going to call that now Lake America. Although maybe it’s going to work out, Canada very much wants to make a deal. They’re trying to make a deal, but it’s going to be called Lake America. The other one we came up with today — well, we could go into oceans like the Pacific Ocean or the Atlantic [Ocean]. We can’t have both; I don’t think you can do both. But we did come up with one the other day, which we think is appropriate. [Texas has] a neighboring state — New Mexico — we think it should be called New America.
I tell you, the people love the idea. I don’t know about the radical Left — I’m sure doesn’t like it, but the people love it. New America, your neighbor is called New America. But the Democrats very simply put handcuffs on our police, and we put handcuffs on criminals. There’s a big difference. Handcuffs, I believe. And last year, I think you saw this, we achieved the largest drop in violent crime ever recorded in the history of our country, with the murder rate falling to the lowest level in 125 years — the year 1900. And that’s despite the fact that, you know, we’ve removed tremendous numbers of people, and we focused on the bad ones, and we got some really bad, some of the worst killers you’ll ever imagine. But that’s despite the fact that some of these people, so many have come in. Again, we’ve gotten a lot of them out. I can say most, but soon it will be most of them out. We’re working like hell to get them the hell out of here. But that’s despite the lowest murder rate since the year 1900. That’s big stuff. That’s long before my father was born.
I had a great father. He was born after that number. He never liked talking about age, so he’s looking down at me, saying, “What do you have to mention that for, son?” Our predecessors killed and buried the American dream with trillions of dollars in waste and green energy scams — the greatest scams in American history. Green energy — they didn’t even know. Most of them had no idea what it was. They just said, “Let’s go green.” And every country that’s gone green is down the tubes. You do know that, but it caused prices to skyrocket. They used the word affordability, right? Fake — they are so fake because it was them that caused the affordability, to use their word, crisis, and I’m bringing the prices way down, way, way down. They caused the crisis, but we’re fixing it. We’re fixing it now.
My first time, if you remember, I won the election, and then January 20th, you take office, and I had my first news conference, like on January 21st, and those people right there recognized many of them, the fake news, and they started screaming. They started screaming at me. It’s a word they used: Affordability. They said, “What about affordability? And I said, “What about affordability? Tell me. They said, “Eggs are up four times since your administration.” I said, “Well, I didn’t really know that. I just got here. Like today, it’s my second day.” By the way, through Brooke, who you just saw speak, we got we got eggs down lower than during my administration, and food prices and almost every other item are rapidly going down.
And by the way, oil will be going down as soon as we win the war with Iran, which is taking place right now. We’ll win it. We’re winning it. We control the Hormuz Strait. I think we should call the Hormuz Strait the Trump. I should get something out of it. The Trump Strait. It’s going to be called — ladies and gentlemen, I’ll have an announcement — we’ll call it the Trump Strait, and I’m sure the Iranian leadership will be thrilled with that. I’d like to tell you it was their idea. It was not their idea. Don’t think they’re too happy about it. I don’t think they’re too happy about anything. Their country is falling apart. They’ve been the bully of the Middle East for 51 years, and they’re not the bully anymore.
Two years ago, our country was dead. Now we’re the hottest country anywhere in the world, hottest in the world. The stock markets, all of them, have set 80 all-time records since the election, so you’re talking about a little more than a year and a half. 80 days during that period of time, the stock market has set an all-time record, and maybe very importantly for some of the people, though they bear some relationship, the typical American’s 401(k) has gone up by almost $50,000, and unemployment claims have reached the lowest level ever recorded.
I mean, we’re doing well. I only wish the fake news would give us credit for what’s happening. There’s never been anything like it. I told you about the investment. The investment in our country is [a] record, but everything right now in the United States of America, we have more people working than we have ever had before, by a lot. By a lot. The last Democrat Congress took thousands of dollars out of your pocket. Our Republican Congress, and by the way, we have-I think-will go down as the greatest Speaker of the House in the history of our country, Mike Johnson. Now he’s amazing. Think of it. He’s got a majority of three, and three of them aren’t the best people. I will tell you. And we just get approving, approving. We get more stuff, including the great, Big, Beautiful Bill — the greatest bill, baby, ever passed. Thank you. Great job! He’s a fine person too.
And John Thune is here from the Senate. Where’s John? Where’s John? No, no, John is working hard. He’s got great opposition from the Democrat Schumer and these guys-they’re terrible — got great opposition. He’s working very hard. He’s going to have great success. You watch. Gonna have-we are going to have great, great success with our Republican senators. And by the way, we have great Republican senators.
David, thank you for being here. Eric, thank you for being here. I’m looking at our people over there. Thank you all for being here. We appreciate it. But our Republican Congress puts thousands of dollars into the pockets of working families with the largest tax cuts in the history of our country, so we had the largest in history. We gave you no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. And that’s done. That’s done. And we also made interest payments.
Think of this: People go out, they buy a car, they borrow money. Many people borrow money, and we got tax deductibility of your interest payment, all against your income tax, and people are loving it, and they’re using it, and it’s great for our car industry, which is, by the way, setting new records. We’re building car plants all over the United States for 48 years. We built none. Now we’re building them all over. Honda’s coming in, building one of the biggest in the world. Toyota’s building one of the biggest. General Motors is going wild. Ford is going. They’re all doing great. It’s like the Golden Age of America. It’s a Golden Age of the automobile business. But that interest is tax-deductible. But what’s the caveat? Only if the car is made in America.
With the help of our great energy workers here in Texas, our country is producing more oil and gas today than ever before. Now listen to this — more than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined. How about that? And you remember during the campaign? I love that campaign. It was something, but I love the second one too. I love that one too. But they cheat. We can’t let that happen. They cheat. That’s why we want to pass the Save America Act to stop the kill, and we will.
You know, we have tremendous opposition because you know what they’re talking about. They’re talking about, we want voter ID, voter identification. Ideally, ideally, we want it with a photo, so that when I see Tim Scott, who made a great speech tonight, by the way, I watched it, Senator Tim Scott, South Carolina. So when he speaks, I won’t get him mixed up with — let’s see who’s over there with Scott Besant. Okay. I want a photo ID so Tim and Scott don’t get mixed up. Now, the only reason the Democrats are fighting us on voter ID, and you know what the second is proof of citizenship. Okay, so the only reason they’re fighting us is that they want to cheat. There’s no other reason. But you have to admit they’re really good at this stuff. They come up with more excuses. They say it’s important not to have voter ID because it’s extraordinarily difficult for some people. It’s they have more bullshit than any human beings on the planet.
So they’re fighting us, 100%. Think of it, of the Democrats voted against voter ID, and 100% of the Democrats. And you know the Democrat voters actually like it. It polls at 87% for the whole voting public. One hundred percent of the Democrats voted against all these things — tax cuts, everything else, but they voted against voter ID, and they voted against proof of citizenship. “Like, sir, excuse me, sir, are you a citizen of the United States?” It’s none of your business. I’m voting. Can you believe this? 100% and most Republicans, most, not quite all. You’ll have to check them out, but not quite all. But most Republicans, almost all Republicans, voted for it, but we have a huge, a huge block. It’s the Democrats. They don’t want to have voter ID. They don’t want to have proof of citizenship. I think it’s a disgrace.
But getting back to oil, okay, what you are doing, and as I said, you’re the biggest. We’re now the biggest in the world. We were nowhere near that. Now we’re the biggest in the world, and that’s without Venezuela, which we’ve just added to our little stockpile. It’s the biggest oil deal, and probably it’s the biggest deal in the history of our country. 65 billion barrels are ours, and you know what they say? It is lifetime, 500 years. And you know, in Venezuela, you know how you find the oil? You know the way Exxon and Chevron, they go around looking? They hire these geniuses. They pay millions of dollars. They spend millions and millions for equipment. They go all over the world looking. They can’t find it. In Venezuela, what you do is the following: You look on the ground, and you see ground that’s soaking wet with oil, and you say, “Let’s build our rig right there.” There’s really nothing like it, and we have a great relationship.
But by the way, I’d like to thank Pete Hegseth, and I’d like to thank I’d like to thank General Kane. Where is General King? I’d like to thank-they’re here someplace. This is that big room. This place is packed. Do you think the fake news? You know what they’re going to do? The fake news will go around and see that man up there. He’s leaving for the bathroom. He’ll be back in two minutes. They’ll take a picture of his seat while he’s gone, and they’ll say, “Trump did not fill up the arena. The arena was not filled. Look at the seat.” So, please, if you don’t mind, don’t anybody go to the bathroom. No, we had it recently. So, Darlene Graham Lindsey, we loved Lindsey. Lindsey was a great guy, a good guy, and he’s looking down, and he’s smiling, but he was a good guy, and he has a great sister. But she never did politics before. We had a rally in South Carolina, and it was great. It was this really, thank you, right? And it was this really big; it was a really beautiful big arena. But it was, you know, more like a convention area, and not that big from the standpoint of, like, this. This is a big Dallas Mavericks team, which is going to be hopefully good. I don’t understand. I must tell you, I don’t understand the trade. That trade is that. What do I know about basketball? I would say that was not going to. It’s not going to go down as the greatest trade in the history of sports. It might go down as the worst trade in the history of sports. No, actually, okay, you know the worst trade in the history of sports, right? The great Babe Ruth. Babe Ruth, 19-year-old pitcher for a 36-year-old third baseman and $100,000. At that time, that was like 10 million, I guess, because Boston needed money. So Babe will always be the worst trade. But is it Luca? That’s not good. That wasn’t good. Maybe we could redo that trade. I redo deals all the time. We got to redo. We got to redo that deal. I don’t get that deal. You know, some deals you understand. I understand deals, but that one I didn’t quite get. Somebody from Dallas, I’m sure, can explain it to me.
But with Venezuela, Texas, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, our great senator David, thank you, and all of our other incredible states. We’re more powerful now than OPEC, and prices right after this very important election on November 3 will be plummeting. The war will be over very shortly after the election. They’re hanging on for dear life, hoping that we lose, so they can deal with dumb, weak Democrats, and they can have their nuclear bomb. But we’re not going to let that happen. So they’re going to be quitting or dropping out or who knows what the hell, whatever it is, right after Election Day, because they want to deal desperately, want to deal with Democrats like Obama, Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him? Barack Hussein Obama made a deal, J.C. P.O.A. One of the worst deals in history. It was a road to a nuclear weapon for Iran, or Sleepy Joe. Sleepy Joe gave them everything. They thought they could buy their way into a deal, and instead they used all the money they got to create nuclear weapons. And they got very close. And if we didn’t hit them, two things: if I didn’t cancel the JCPOA, and if we didn’t hit them with our beautiful the wing, our beautiful B-2 bombers. They would have a nuclear weapon right now, and I would be addressing them as Supreme Leader, Mr. Supreme Leader, sir. How are you? And now I don’t have to do that. If they had a nuclear weapon, I’d be calling the Supreme Leader, and I’d be saying, Mr. Supreme Leader, how are you, sir? Is there anything we can do for you, as opposed to bombing the crap out of them?
We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon. It’s very simple. We cannot let them have a nuclear weapon. You know, I decided to do this. We had the best reports that our country has ever had, and I went to Scott Besant, I went to Howard, I went to all of our guys. I said, you know, I’m sorry to do this, dude. We just announced a record. Our stock market hit records. By the way, our stock market’s much higher today than it was when I first did the attack. Just so you know, our stock market hit records. We were doing great, and oil was low. I was in Iowa; the oil was at $1.85 a gallon for cars. There was another one, 195, but I saw that last one, 185. We were doing great. I called them all into the office. I said, “Fellas, I hate to do this to you. We have the best records we’ve ever had, but we have a country that’s two, maybe three weeks away from having a nuclear weapon, and it’s the state sponsor of terror all over the world. Considered just about the most evil country, we cannot let them have a nuclear weapon. And a couple of them, including Scott, who’s a great financial guy, sir. Is there any time we could do it later? Maybe, sir. You think you could hold off in this a little bit, sir? I said no, because if we don’t hit them now, they’re going to have a nuclear weapon within one month. You know, the places we bombed would have been turned into nuclear weapons. I call it nuclear dust right now, but the nuclear dust could get very violent, and we hit them really hard. We did an amazing job. Those b2 bombers came in from Missouri, from Missouri, the home of Eric Schmidt. Came in from the great state of Missouri. They flew for 37 hours back and forth; they refueled four times up in the air, and they bombed the hell out of them, and they knocked them out.
And we may have to do it. There’s another place called Pickaxe Mountain, another nice place. We may have to give him a shot there too because somebody said there was a little movement at the site. We don’t need much. We see everything, you know, because of space force, which was my baby. I have to say, first heard, we can see everything. We can see the tag on their coat: Mohamed Al Sayed. Muhammad. It’s never Muhammad. It’s never Mohammed Jones. Mohammed Muhammad Ali, and it says right on his tag; we can read it from space. Can you believe this? Thousands of miles away, and we’re reading somebody’s. We know exactly what’s going on, but we notice there’s a little activity at pickaxe. I would advise Iran not to get cute because we will have to hit them very hard. We have no choice, right? We have no choice. Does anybody here think that Iran should have a nuclear weapon? Anybody? Who feels Iran should not have a nuclear weapon?
You know, it happens to me all the time. Guys come up. You know, I wish you didn’t do the war in Iran. Gasoline’s up, and I say, “Well, let me ask you, just smart people. Let me ask you one question: Can Iran have a nuclear weapon?” Absolutely not. Well, then I’m right that I win. Okay, because you know, for 51 years, they always say 47, but you know, I’ve been saying that for four years. For 51 years, people have been trying to, and other presidents have been trying to talk them out of it, but they don’t understand talk. These people, they don’t understand. They only understand one thing, and that’s they’re getting plenty of it. Between our Venezuelan oil deal, all of our new mineral deals, trillions and trillions of dollars that were taken in with my most favorite word, but now I moved it to fifth place. You know, because of the press, for the few people that haven’t heard the story, tariff. I said tariff is my favorite word in the whole picture. My favorite. I love the word, and I said that at one of the big rallies I had a while ago. Tariffs are my favorite word. It’s going to make America rich. It’s making us much richer than we ever thought. But we’re taking in trillions of dollars. Okay, but I said tariff is my favorite word, and the fake news went crazy. They said, “What about love? What about wife? What about God, religion, family? So I moved tariff down to fifth, and now I’m okay. Now I’m okay. They’ve been leaving me alone. Oh, they hit me hard. They hit me hard. They said tariff. What about religion? So I moved it to fifth, and now they’ve been pretty good. I’m surprised they didn’t move me deeper. But trillions of dollars in tariff revenue have come in, and record investments from foreign countries, and enormous new equity stakes in major companies. I did something. I’m getting killed for it. Intel, Intel is a good, really good company. But what happened is, stupid presidents allowed the chip business to leave our country and go to Taiwan. And stupid. All they had to do is put tariffs on. They wouldn’t have left. In other words, Taiwan. You’re going to sell chips to America. They got to pay 100 percent. Gotta pay 200 percent, 50 percent, anything, and you wouldn’t have. But they didn’t do that until I came along. What happened is, Intel became old and tired, and got in trouble. And they came to see me. The head of Intel was a nice man actually, and he said, “Sir, I need your help, and he said, “Why? Whatever it was. And I said, “Well, you came to the right place. I’m the only one that can help you. I was there with Scott and Howard Lutnick, our commerce secretary, is doing a good job, and a couple of others. I said, “I’m the only one that can. I’m the only one that can help you. I said, “Here’s a deal. Give the United States of America 10 percent of Intel. Now the thing was worth like 120 billion dollars. You know, it lost its way, but it’s still worth a lot of money. I say, “Give the United States of America 10% of Intel, and I’ll get this problem solved for you, he stood up immediately and he said, “You have a deal. And I said, “I should have asked for more. I said to my guys, “What the hell’s wrong with me? But anyway, I shook his hand. But that was worth 12 billion, so in one meeting I picked up 12 billion. But what’s happened? Well, that’s that’s not even the good part, because what happened to Intel is amazing. It like became the number one stock on the exchange, various exchanges, by the way. And I don’t know.
I see Scott up there. He made a great speech, by the way. I see Scott. Scott, how many times has it doubled, tripled, and quadrupled? What’s it now, Scott? How much is it worth? He said five times. No, it’s worth, like, I think we made a $60 billion profit, something like that. If I’m wrong, they’ll say.
If I’m wrong, they’ll say horrible. So let me lower the number, just because if I’m wrong, they’ll say he exaggerated the number, but it went up like four or five times. We made $50 or $60 billion in just a number of months, and it’s one of the hottest stocks on the stock exchanges because it’s numerous exchanges and more than one, and it’s been amazing. Do I get credit for it? No. Do I get credit for building a ballroom with my money? Where I’m the only one.
I build a ballroom, no money, no tax. I don’t want tax money. I don’t want anything. It’s me and a bunch of patriots. They put up lots of money to build this, which is desperately needed, and it’s going to be beautiful. And everyone’s going to say, “Oh, thank God! No, it’s going to be beautiful. Zero tax dollars for the ballroom. Zero tax dollars. And what happens? I get criticized. It’s the most incredible thing. Anybody else would do that. They say, “What a nice gesture. So I’m giving you a ballroom free of charge. Okay, that’s all I can tell you.
And it will be the most beautiful ballroom anywhere in the world. It’ll be the best, and it’s by the way, drone proof, bulletproof, everything proof. It’s got glass this thick, six inches thick. It’s going to be great. It’s going to be a little safer than the place that we happened to have that little White House correspondence to. Do you remember that? That was that. That was not the safest feeling. This is going to be great, but we give it to you tax-free, and I hope you enjoy it. You know, the other thing is that I’m only going to get to use it a few months. It’s going to be built. We’re on time. We’re under budget, actually, and ahead of schedule. And I’ll only get to use it. People forget. You know, they say he’s building a ballroom for himself. No, I’ll be there for a few months. I’d love to have it for a long time, but they’ve wanted a ballroom at the White House president’s for 150 years. You know, we have the president of China coming in two weeks. Who’s, you know, I get along great with him. We have a very good. That’s better. You know, it’s a good thing, not a bad thing.
Some people say, “Oh, it’s terrible. That’s a very good thing, but we have like 101 people. We could have 2,000 people. I could have this whole stadium would like to go there. So we’re building something that’s going to be the most beautiful anywhere in the world. When I was in China, they have a building. It’s called the Great Hall of China. It’s a serious hall. This is a very large hall, but we’re going to top it. You know, we’re going to top it, and it’s going to be at the White House. And all these presidents to come, hopefully mostly Republicans, but Democrats also are going to be very thankful that they have it. And it’s going to be an honor to to do it. And I just want to say that the radical left Democrats will not have and could not have, and this is very important because I’m getting to maybe, maybe, what will be the best part of the speech. So why I, because I love the weave. You know what the weave is? You talk about something, then you bring in a ballroom, or you bring in an airplane, or you bring in Air Force One. But you notice, I always get right back to the same topic. Now, when I don’t come back, she’s great. He says, “I love Melania. She’s doing a good job.”
So, when someday there’ll be a time when I do the weave is weave weave. Someday there’ll be a time when I don’t get back to the original subject, and then you can say he’s had it. Okay? You can say then he’s had it. But what we’re doing is because we’ve done so well, and because our country is making so much money that only I can make this promise to you, and here is my promise: If the Republicans win the House of Representatives and the United States Senate, both of them, because of our economic tremendous economic success, like in in history we’ve never had anything like what’s happening, but because of our tremendous strength and success economically, I will issue a dividend to every adult citizen in the United States of America for $5,000. I got it.
Very much like a successful company will do a cash distribution to its shareholders, or like last year when I gave our great members of the military 17 176, remember? I gave it to our military $1,776. Can you believe the number was 1775? And I said, you know, if we had $1, we’re at 1776. Can you? I said, “Did anybody think of that? No. But we gave our great military $1,776, and they are thrilled every time I see them. They thank me, but this is what we’re doing, and it was greatly appreciated. Just like I did with the Trump accounts for children, where young people, children, and many of them born into poverty or families with very little money or future will be potentially rich when they turn 18 or 21. Think of it: their family won’t have much money, but the government is putting $1,000 into an account for beautiful babies born, but in many cases they’re born into poverty. They’re born poor. They’re born not rich, but they get $1,000, and we do matching funds and all sorts of things. And Michael and Susan Dell, he put up. Think of this.
He put up $6,250,000,000. So far, he’s a large. Anybody in the room like to challenge that number and put up a little? So go out and buy his computers. He’s a very good guy. Now they’ll say, “Oh, he’s making a politician. I’m not making. The guy gave us 6,250,000,000, and he did that not because he had to, because he really wanted to do it. And children are going to turn 18 or 19 or 20 or 21. They’re going to have an account. And if the market is good, like if the market’s like today, they become quite rich at a very young age. Instead of having no money whatsoever, it’s an amazing thing and very popular.
We have other people, by the way. We have other rich people. They took the entire state. Somebody put up the entire state of Indiana, putting up money for every child born the entire state, Brad. Thank you very much. But the only condition on the payment of this dividend that we’re going to be making-so it’s $5,000 to every adult-the only caveat I have is that the dividend that we’re making must be spent in the United States of America.
We don’t want you going to Canada to spend the money. We don’t want you going to China, [or] to Germany. [You’ve] got to spend the money in the United States of America. In other words, if the Republicans win, if you win, we might not win. The reason the Democrats can’t do that is because they don’t do tariffs, they don’t take in money. All they know is poverty and how to ruin our country. But we’re making a fortune. So if the Republicans win, you win with us, and you get $5,000. It will be called the Trump dividend. We’ll call it the Trump dividend. Congratulations. Now all we have to do. Now all we have to do is win. Under my leadership, we also made our historic most favored nation agreements on drug prices. Nobody thought it was possible. For decades, Americans paid the highest prices for prescription drugs anywhere in the world. We paid the highest drug prices in the world, and now, because of what I did with Bobby Kennedy, who’s over there, with Dr. Oz, who’s over. Thank you,
Bobby, Dr. Oz — we have a great crew. So we went from the highest prices by far in the world, and now we pay the lowest prices in the entire world for prescription drugs. And nobody wants to write a story about it. I’m trying to get the press [to write a story]. I think it’s one of the biggest things to happen medically, healthcare-wise, in history. I cannot get a story out of it. I’m trying. I’m saying, “Would you please tell the people how great I am, please?” But I’m giving you the largest prescription drug price cuts in history, with differences of 400%, 500%, and even 600%. Think of that, and that alone should win the midterms. Honestly, if we did nothing else, that should because everybody said other presidents tried and they failed; they weren’t able to do it. But I would call countries. The big problem I got the drug companies to do, but I would call. But they knew that I couldn’t get it from countries. Never got. I would call France. I would call other countries. In the case of France, I would speak to President Macron. Beautiful accent, wonderful guy. Say, Emmanuel, please, please do us a favor. You have to double or triple the drug prices in France, if you don’t mind, because you’re paying $10 for a pillar, we’re paying $130 for the same pill. So the concept is they’ll go up somewhat and will come way down because the world is bigger than us, so it’s disproportionate down. So he said, “No, no, no, I will not do that, Donald. Why would I do a thing? Said, “You have no choice. You’re going to do it. He said, “No, no, I will not do that, Donald. You don’t understand. I will not do that, mr. President. I said, “Yes, you will. I will tell you, you will do it because if you don’t do it, I am putting a 150 percent tariff on all wines and everything else coming into the United States.
And he said, “Donald, you really can’t do that. I said, “Yes, I can. I have the papers in front of me. I’m going to sign them right now. He said, “Donald, I would love to do that. So he agreed, and had the same conversation with about 25 other countries. Had to get their approval, got everybody’s approval. It was whether it’s wine, champagne, cars. It was always something. Everybody’s got a weak spot. Remember that in life, everybody has a weak spot. I won’t tell you what my weak spot is. I refuse to. But on the world stage, America is respected again like we have never been respected before. That I can tell you.
And here at home, we ended the woke madness Democrats cruelly inflicted upon America. We abolished all of the diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates across the federal government. We made English the official language of the United States. We banned transgender ideology and critical race theory from our public schools, and ended the transgender mutilation of our children. There will be no more mutilation, which is what it was, of our children, and so importantly, will we will not have men playing in women’s sports. Won’t happen. And every single Democrat in Congress voted against our tax cuts. They voted against no tax on tips. This is every single one. It’s incredible that Congress, the Senate, the House, that they were able to get this passed. They voted against no tax on tips. They voted against no tax on overtime. They voted against 100 percent no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. They want to raise your taxes on Social Security. They want to raise your taxes on tips. They want to take. They want to get rid of no tax on tips. They want to get rid of no tax on Social Security for the seniors. They want to get rid of. Think of it. The overtime now is going wild. Companies love it. The people love it. They don’t have to pay tax when they work overtime. They’re working the longest hours. It’s great. It’s like a great incentive. They want to get rid of no tax on overtime. Every Democrat voted against funding for the border security bill. They voted against funding on everything. The wall. They voted against voter ID. They voted against proof of citizenship. They voted against funding for our military and for our vets. They voted in favor. They voted in favor of transgender everything, taxpayer-funded child utilization, and they voted in favor of men playing in women’s sports. Congressional Democrats voted against the American people every single time, and now they want you to vote yes on handing them the majority, so they can take us back. They want to take back every single thing that Republicans, through a lot of really hard work and a lot of very brilliant thinking, gave you. All of those taxes are going to go through the roof if you put in the Democrats on November 3rd. We will tell the radical left Democrats that we will never believe you again. We are never going back to where we were just two years ago when our country was an embarrassment. Our country was an embarrassment.
Now our country wasn’t. We had a president that couldn’t walk off the stage. You know, there’s so many stares-one here, one there. He’d finish the speech, but the speech has only lasted about a minute.
Where am I? Where? Remember the time he walked into the wall in the back and thought it was a stair. Couldn’t sign his name on a document. Autopend everything. Horrible. In this election, the Democrats have nominated the most extreme and dangerous group of candidates for the House and Senate ever to seek office. These people are radical left communists. Many of them-not all of them, but many of them-in state after state, the Democrat establishment has been overthrown and replaced by crazed lunatics and radicals. They call themselves Democrat socialists, but actually, they’re communists. They’re not socialists. They’re long beyond socialists. Remember, during the last State of the Union, I said our country will never be a socialist country. I was right. It’s going to be a communist country if they win. You know what they did? They dropped socialism. They went right for the big one. They went right for the big one. They didn’t want socialism anymore. They’re crazy. They’re crazy. Remember I said that during the State of the Year, and I shouldn’t have said it. It was very rude. But we’re handing out the Medal of Honor to a man that landed a helicopter with his leg virtually blown off in Venezuela. Flawlessly landed a big Chinook. That’s the double blader, big carrying many, many soldiers. Most people would have been out. He took that helicopter, landed it perfectly. We then were able to get Maduro. If we didn’t land it, we would have had a big problem. And we presented him and others, but we presented him with the Congressional Medal of Honor, boy, did he deserve it! And they sat there. Remember, like this, they wouldn’t clap. They would. Now I have to tell you, though, at the end of that State of the Union, they were clapping for everything. You know why? People were calling them, saying, “You guys are being slaughtered tonight. They wouldn’t clap. Remember the 100-year-old soldier that I gave a special, a special reward to very special, the most special. They refused to clap. He’s 104 years old. They refused to clap. So some wise Democrat called them up and said, “You people are crazy. You better start clapping. He’s making you. And you know, honestly, they were clapping for everything. I could say anything. They were clapping. They were going wild. So they went from one extreme to the other. You know why? Because they’re Democrats. That’s why.
But America has beaten communism before, and we will beat it again. We’ve beaten it before. The new Democrat communists have even published a manifesto. Do you believe it? We have a manifesto in our country. They vow to abolish the police. That makes a lot of sense. Abolish prisons. Abolish the United States Supreme Court. Abolish the United States senators. We have some very unhappy senators sitting right over there. They want to abolish ICE. They want to abolish Border Patrol. And Paul, you were great tonight, wherever you are, the head of Border Patrol. He was great. And they want to grant full amnesty and voting rights to all illegal aliens, regardless of whether they were criminals, murderers, or any other type. Everybody gets. If you were a murderer, you get to vote. They want to ban all oil and gas, which I would think in Texas will give Ken a very big victory. Now think of it. They want to ban oil and gas. We’re in Texas. I mean, this guy, Telefico. He. This guy is terrible.
They want to defund the United States military and lower my very high standard on healthcare for our great [veterans]. You know they want to take away health care for our veterans. They want to steal your money for reparations. They want to basically punish you for crimes that you never committed that happened hundreds of years ago, and our country doesn’t have that kind of money. They have the money for $5,000, but they don’t have that kind of money. And give it to the people that hate our country. The people that hate our country are asking for it, but it’s going nowhere. And while, by the way, as long as you have Republicans, it’s not even. It’s you know. You know, our party is really. We can say conservative or that. Our party is really based on a thing called common sense. It’s all common sense. It’s all common. But these are people who do not care if your country is invaded by illegal immigrants, if your home is burglarized, if your parks and city streets are turned to filth and squalor and death, if your loved ones are pushed in front of a subway train in New York City or stabbed in the middle of a field in any state you want to pick, they don’t care because they hate our country, and they are Democrats, and they’re very, very wrong. On election night, we’re going to prove that America does not belong to those who hate it. America belongs to those who love it.
I mean, we have so many great people here tonight. It’s so sad because I’d like to mention every one of them. We have so many great senators, so many great Congresspeople, but you can’t time. One of the Democrats’ top congressional candidates is a self-described Marxist who says he hates family households. Oh, that’s nice, and wants to destroy the American way of life. These are words he used. Another quote: “Karl Marx saying she wants to seize the means of production and puts the works of communist butchers like Lenin, Stalin into every library. They want to put the books of Lenin, Lenin, as they say, Lenin, Lenin, and Stalin and every library for all our young children to read and study. These are our Democratic Party’s nominees to wield control over the United States Congress. If they win, the greatest legislative body in history will, for the first time ever, be controlled by a communist caucus. They’ll have a caucus of 20 people, 18 people, 10 people. That’s enough to control Congress. Mike Johnson will tell you that we’ve got enough problems. We have enough. We have enough, Mike. How would you feel about having 22 communists in your in your little group? Mike says no. Please, I can’t. We have it’s enough problems getting pe...
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