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Let's go back out to Griff Jenkins ahead of Trump's victory rally in D.C. today.
Hey, Griff.
Ainsley, we are still eight hours away from this rally that will feature President-elect Trump, Vice President-elect Vance, along with Elon Musk will speak.
But look at this crowd.
We're a block away from the front.
You can see this crowd is thousands going four blocks up here.
Let's talk to some of the people here.
What's your name and where are you from?
I'm Nick from Minneapolis, and I came out here to show we need to take America back and give the government back to the people, not the bureaucrats in Washington.
And it's not that cold, Ainsley.
It's only about 38, 39 degrees out here.
Are you happy you're not freezing?
Yeah, back home I think it's like negative 10. So this is a heat wave for me.
I'm going to go to the beach later, strip naked and go skinny dipping.
Oh, that sounds like fun.
Now look, you've got the garbage man t-shirt on.
Did you know that the garbage truck is supposed to make an appearance here?
Are you excited for that?
Absolutely.
And I was telling other people when President Trump gets to planning his library, we need to have the garbage truck in there and we need to have, like, you can make your own picture of him standing out there giving out the fries in the McDonald's window.
It would be epic.
All right, and what's your name, ma 'am?
My name is Gina.
Gina, and where are you from?
Alabama, and just moved to Charlotte and Winston-Salem area, so all over.
And what do you do?
Well, my husband's a roofing company, so we do a lot of roofs for people.
True roof.
All right, all right.
Well, listen, we're going to check in with all these folks here.
They are lining up, and it's not even that bad out here.
It's going to be a big day.
The line's getting long.
Ainsley, we'll send it back to you.
I know.
If you're just joining us, Griff interviewed someone in the first hour and she said she's been out there since Friday.
So it's a commitment.
Thank you so much, Griff.
We'll check back in with you later.
All right.
All right.
Make our country great again!
Make our country great again!
benny johnson
What's going on, everyone?
It's Benny here in Baby Watch.
I am not in Washington, D.C. What is happening right now is we are waiting for our fourth baby.
And I'm currently actually babysitting.
And so you may actually have an appearance by my kids.
Not actively babysitting, but they're around, so they may pop on the live, ladies and gentlemen.
Somebody else is going to pop on the live is going to be Donald Trump very soon.
You can see right here him leaving Arlington National Cemetery.
This was just seconds ago.
President Trump relaying wreaths at the Arlington National Cemetery, along with a lot of other exciting little moments.
I just wanted to give you all a happy and wonderful wish of Inauguration Weekend.
We've been covering as much as we possibly can from here.
My wife is due any day now, and I have promised the internet that I will see you.
Seriously, consider naming our baby Dawn if the baby is born on Inauguration Day.
We will be live for Inauguration Day one way or another.
And if I'm in the hospital, I will make sure to post that on social media.
This is my family.
This is my nine-month pregnant wife.
She's now at 39 weeks and seven days.
And so we are at the due date, ladies and gentlemen.
That's how it goes in the Johnson family.
Due date on Inauguration Day.
Here we go.
What is the rally that we are ready to see?
And of course, we are monitoring the rally right now.
Nothing but holding music at the moment.
But we do have executive producer ALX who's inside the rally as well.
ALX inside the rally.
So he may be sending us some very special updates.
We'll watch it all together here on the channel.
And I just want to say shout out to all of you in the chat.
We freaking love you.
This is going to be a...
Wild, wild night.
Get ready to lock in.
Donald Trump's energy has been through the roof, and we want to talk about some of the reasons why this rally is being held indoors, along with every single other festivity for the inauguration.
I've been to, like, every presidential inauguration since George W. Bush's first inauguration.
And they're very fun.
And going to them outside is a really neat experience.
And watching the parade is a really neat experience.
Even the parade will be indoors.
And I got to tell you, this is like pretty obvious that we are facing an extreme security threat environment for the president.
There are so many forces that do not want this president to be sworn in.
Pray God's safety and security and solid hand over President Trump.
Please, please, ladies and gentlemen, pray it and pray it now.
Okay, so I wanted to chat through who's going to be speaking tonight because this has just been updated.
Donald Trump.
We'll be speaking tonight.
Members of the First Family.
Last time it was Eric Trump and Don Jr. along with Laura Trump.
You never know.
Ivanka Trump jump up there.
You never know.
I'm hoping for Barron.
I am pulling for Barron.
Please let it be Barron.
Let it be Barron Trump, ladies and gentlemen.
By the way, ALX just sent me this.
Let's pop this up here.
ALX just sent me what a freaking view of the stage.
This is the stage inside of the arena, ladies and gentlemen.
And you can see here drum kits.
We have multiple musical performances.
Here we go.
Members of the family.
J.D. Vance, Elon Musk, Dana White, Megyn Kelly, Jon Voight.
That's a new one.
Awesome.
Hulk Hogan, Charlie Kirk, Stephen Miller, Paula White, Steve Witkoff, Girls Gone Bible.
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Okay, that's awesome.
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And performances by Kid Rock, along with Lee Greenwood, The Village People, Billy Ray Cyrus, and the Butler, Pennsylvania Tribute, Liberty University Praise Choir.
That's going to be amazing, ladies and gentlemen.
That's going to be amazing.
Again, broadcasting to you from my humble home here with my kiddos who may or may not be making an appearance on the stream.
If they do, I'll give them a grand introduction, ladies and gentlemen.
So here we go.
ALX is in the action.
He is in Capital One Arena.
There's going to be a lot of action, ladies and gentlemen, today.
Killer Kline, why don't you just pop up, please, the feed of the event right now, just to let everybody know.
This is what the event looks like from, you know, from our feed.
It's a lot of, like, milling about.
This kind of has the same vibes of Madison Square Garden.
We were there at Madison Square Garden having a, you know, riot of a time.
It's, like, really, really fun.
Ladies and gentlemen, nothing started yet, but it looks like a raucous crowd.
The arena can hold 20,000 people.
It's called the Capital One Arena.
It is a professional sports arena in Washington, D.C., where the Washington Wizards and the Washington Capitals play.
The Capitals is a NHL team.
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Wizards is a NBA team.
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Okay, so ladies and gentlemen, here we go.
We're extremely excited about what is about to happen.
Since we're on the shot, I might as well show outside.
Klein, can you pop me over to a couple of images of what the outside of the arena looked like?
Early this morning, there were people waiting in line for hours upon hours upon hours.
The earliest I saw was like a 3 a.m. in the morning.
There was already people standing and waiting.
This is crazy because this line goes all the way to the Smithsonian.
This is like a mile away from the arena.
You're looking at a one mile away from the arena right here.
Here you go.
Just insane.
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Look at that.
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And it goes on and on and on.
This is something that I fear, and that is just a sad reality of being the most popular president in my lifetime.
In New York City, when we were there, there was at least 80,000 people that couldn't get in.
I think there's going to be around that, if not more, and it makes me very sad.
And we're going to talk through some of the security scares that we've noticed over the past 24 hours because President Trump is moving and traveling very, very differently.
Something new has happened.
There's a high threat level that is out of this world.
I've never seen a president travel like this.
We're going to break it down as we await for the start of this rally.
But this is the line.
It goes on and on.
Again, you're already a mile from the arena here.
So this line is already a mile long, plus this.
Plus this.
Okay.
More and more.
What's up?
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This is...
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I told you we might have a...
I told you we might have a guest joining us.
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Hey, buddy.
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How you doing?
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Hey.
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What's going on?
What'd you get?
This is my son, Theo.
Theo, you want to say hi?
You want to say hi?
No?
Come here.
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Say hi.
Say hi.
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This is Theodore.
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Hello.
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Theo is one year old, ladies and gentlemen, and is very excited to get a new brother or sister.
We don't actually know just yet.
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Here we go.
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There you go, bud.
Okay, there you go.
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All right.
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Get your toy back.
Okay, so here we are, ladies and gentlemen, rocking and rolling.
This is the line, again, outside.
Again, something that I fear very much is that so many Americans will not get a chance to see President Trump.
It's just a crying shame.
And it's not President Trump's fault.
President Trump is being obviously ordered for this to be the security reality because you have to get this guy sworn in.
Consider this.
They didn't want President Trump to survive.
They just didn't want him to survive 2024.
They wanted him to perish.
They wanted an assassination.
And by they, I'm talking about some of the most evil people on Earth.
President Trump was supposed to have eaten a bullet.
Or, if he didn't eat a physical bullet, he was supposed to eat a judicial bullet and not be able to run for president.
Spaced 470 years in prison?
He was supposed to be done for.
President Trump, by every measure and by every mean, is the man.
Who survived.
Survived judicial assassination, impeachment assassination, political assassination, media assassination, physical assassination, and ladies and gentlemen, assassination by fraud and by every single dirty trick that they could possibly pull.
Which they did pull dirty tricks, it's just we outvoted the fraud.
And so we have now a man who is more powerful than he's ever been, with a full MAGA government, with a 100% rise in his approval rating.
President Trump now has an approval rating that is through the roof.
The way that he's handled this transition, people just absolutely loved it.
And ladies and gentlemen, now we are witnessing full MAGA control of the federal government.
Donald Trump in total and complete control, more powerful than ever.
What man intends for evil, God intends for good.
So just keep that in mind.
Good way to go through life, in fact.
Good way to think about pretty much everything in life.
And so this is the last thing they ever wanted to have happen, is Donald Trump in this position of power with such unity, with such energy behind him, with such dominance politically, and having the courts on his side.
He has a Clarence Thomas-run Supreme Court.
He has the Senate and the House and the presidency.
And he has his cabinet, which, by the way, his cabinet looks just—I mean, his cabinet is just freaking—this is the first cabinet photo, quote-unquote.
It's unofficial.
But did you guys see this?
Dude, this is so unbelievably strong.
Some friends of us, you can't really see Tulsi that well.
Pete Hegseth right here.
You got Lee Zeldin, Chrissy Noem, Burgum.
Here's Cash Patel.
Marco Rubio and RFK Jr.
Ladies and gentlemen, what a dream team.
A literal dream team.
A literal dream team.
So, ladies and gentlemen, we enter into this exciting time with President Trump under great security threat.
And this is why everything is being held inside.
There are so many forces that are looking to ensure or try as desperately as they can that Donald Trump does not swear in in 24 hours.
24 hours from now, President Trump will be our president.
It's going to be awesome.
Luckily for us, we have a brand new head of secret service, Sean Curran, and we have, ladies and gentlemen, a secret service that seems to be hopefully reoriented into actually protecting Donald Trump.
You have people that actually like Donald Trump.
Sean Curran is somebody who's worked with President Trump for 10 straight years.
He is a close personal friend with Donald Trump.
He's somebody who Donald Trump trusts with his life and vice versa.
He's somebody that jumped into action and sprung here.
Protecting President Trump with his body, commanding everyone in the Butler rally, willing to take a bullet for Donald Trump.
The bullets were still flying in this moment.
So ladies and gentlemen, we finally have an actual G in charge of the Secret Service.
So here we go.
This is the photos of Donald Trump getting off the plane last night.
Here's Donald Trump and Melania ready to go, looking stunning.
You'll notice something very interesting here with the plane last night.
They were getting off in the dark.
Something's going on.
I'm not trying to—I'm simply trying to undergird here what many, many smart people like Dan Bongino, Tucker Carlson, Alex Jones, like a lot of people who understand from a technical capacity and inside of the Secret Service have said and have said publicly, which is that the security threat is out of this world right now for President Trump.
The security threat, ladies and gentlemen, led to something very strange happening, which was this video that we kind of cued in here, which is a— Very specific vehicle carrying Donald Trump.
This is the vehicle that carried Donald Trump and Melania to the plane yesterday.
These little nodules up top here are jammers, radio jammers.
I've never seen a principal, and we checked.
We checked a lot of video of Donald Trump.
I've never seen a principal driving inside of the actual radio jammer vehicle.
There it is, ladies and gentlemen.
This was, you'll be able to see here, the bank vault doors that they open up, let Melania out, and you can see the radio jammers up there.
This is in order to prevent a drone attack, suicide drones.
This is in order to prevent laser-guided missiles, RPGs.
These are built like MRAPs.
They're effectively, like, military vehicle is like a tank, okay?
A tank that's been fashioned to look like an SUV.
And here we have Melania getting out, President Trump getting out on the other side.
This is the side that we can see.
President Trump is a protectee.
And I've never seen them traveling in a vehicle like that.
Again, this vehicle is designed for a very specific electronic countermeasures vehicle.
This is called a watchtower is the name of the vehicle.
The vehicle has large vertical aerials and domes on its spine that actively jams communications and remote detonating devices.
In some configurations, it may also work on detecting incoming projectiles, small unmanned aircraft via shortwave radar.
Vehicle, along with others in the motorcade, may also provide laser warnings used by some in anti-tank guided missiles and radar warnings for the convoy.
If a threat is detected, such as one using a laser or designation for ranging or threat radars detected IR smoke shaft, targeting and jamming could be deployed, disrupting such an attack.
This is a vehicle that is specifically designed to prevent a drone attack, suicide drone attack, or missile attack.
Now, why would there be missiles fired at President Trump?
Because we had a wide open border and we led a bunch of ISIS members through the border.
Next question.
Because nobody knew what was going over our southern border.
Because the cartels want Donald Trump gone.
Like, obviously, there are so many evil forces that want President Trump gone, ladies and gentlemen.
So this is why President Trump was traveling in this car.
You've never seen him travel in a car like this.
Neither have I. Of course, he was in a military aircraft.
He was in a military vehicle.
He got picked up in Air Force One, effectively, although it's not technically call-signed Air Force One.
Leftists, of course, can march with impunity all over Washington, D.C., and they did, and very sad and very pathetic, little, like, women's march screeching and screaming.
Ladies and gentlemen, here we go.
There's not just that.
There's also—and this is not—I'm not trying to do scare tactics.
I'm trying to, like, explain why President Trump, unfortunately, has to move the parade indoors, has to move the inauguration indoors.
There's some rumors that the inauguration may be moved to the White House.
I think that would look very, very cool.
I would be totally in favor of that.
But as of right now, it's going to be the Capitol Rotunda.
A friend tells me that just before it was announced that Trump's inauguration would be moved indoors, flat-bottom helicopters were making low-level passes all over Washington, D.C., and they were sniffing for something.
Yes, ladies and gentlemen, they're sniffing, unfortunately, for nuclear radiation in a dirty bomb.
This was explained via CBS News right here in a report where they actually went on one of these helicopters and explained, no, we're looking for somebody that may have created a nuclear weapon in Washington, D.C. I'm just trying to undergird here what a dangerous situation this all is.
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Look at how security officials are prepared.
After months of planning.
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From only 150 feet in the air, pilots dodge buildings.
Flying in a grid over the National Mall to scan for radiological or nuclear irregularities, threats like dirty bombs.
So you're trying to create a blueprint of what the radiation in Washington DC looks like ahead of the inauguration?
Correct.
Department of Energy scientist Jacqueline Brandon calls this low-flying helicopter, one of just two of its kind, her office.
If we find a radiological irregularity, we'll investigate it even further.
Highly sensitive technology sets off alarms in the air.
That's an alarm.
That is an alarm.
It's a slight variation in our spectra is what it's saying.
benny johnson
So, okay.
Should that be alarming to anyone?
This is the moment that we're living through.
The reason why, obviously, this is such a perilous time is because we've obviously seen in action the malign forces that are prepared and are willing to do anything to go get Trump and to take out President Trump.
Okay?
So, I am in favor.
The more I think about it and the more I ponder this and the more we cover this, the more I'm like...
Nope, this was the right decision, 100%.
And even if I had, like, gone up, you know, even if I was up there and we weren't on baby watch down here and I was there, I was physically there, I would not shed a single tear at all.
I mean, I've shed a lot of tears over the last 24 hours over not being awake when Trump launched his meme coin.
So that I have shed tears over.
This I would not because this is the right move.
It just is.
Five days ago, a Chinese drone manufacturer called DJI, and you may not know them, but we actually own some of these drones.
I don't want to do business with China, but we just had to.
It's the biggest drone manufacturer in the world.
They got rid of the geofencing for their drones.
The same day, Marjorie Taylor Greene says that there was unauthorized drone activity over the White House.
These drones, if you were to fly them in a swarm, if you were to fly 50,000 of them, or even just 800 of them, or even just 8 of them, Is there really any capacity to prevent them from doing major damage?
You can strap a bomb to them.
You can make them suicide drones.
This technology exists.
And it's like legitimately some of the scariest technology that is being deployed right now in the front lines of the war in Ukraine.
This is a scary time that we live in.
And the best that they could do is put President Trump...
A little lower on this because there's no actual audio on this.
The best they could do is put President Trump inside of these radar jamming tanks, which is what that is, with the little knob on the top, little nodule there.
It's a radar jamming tank to try and shut down anything that could fly toward it.
But they don't know what's been spungled across the border.
How could you possibly know?
Maybe it's American military equipment that was bungled across the border from Afghanistan.
Have you ever thought about that?
Maybe they could use our sophisticated equipment against us.
Perhaps that's what's happening here.
And we're, like, worried about using our own tech against us.
Well, of course, we left the Taliban all over, like, $20 billion worth of military gear.
Probably there are some grudges over there.
You just have to assume when you take over, ravage, and pillage, and destroy a country for 20 years.
You just have to assume, ladies and gentlemen.
Here it is.
There it is.
So this is how the Trumps are traveling now.
Now, I'm not saying this is all doom and gloom.
I'm not saying that the Trumps are scared.
These are the Trumps when they arrived last night.
They were greeted by Elvis.
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I'm the 47th president of the United States.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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So, Donald Trump not having a bad time at all.
Donald Trump then went on and had watched some fireworks and had an amazing time.
He obviously reveled with the people who were physically there.
A lot of those people were his staff, some Fox News hosts I saw.
But this is President Trump watching the fireworks last night.
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the golden arrow is upon us.
benny johnson
Great.
I mean, we started off this live.
I showed you President Trump leaving.
Again, this was him at bed minister.
I wanted to just make a quick point since we did bring up bed minister.
And the program hasn't started yet, by the way.
We're not filibustering over any of the speakers.
The speaker lineup is going to be incredible.
The program was supposed to start at 3 o 'clock.
It is now nearly two minutes until 3.30.
It is what it is.
And we have plenty to get to because there's a lot going on.
But no, ladies and gentlemen, this is a live shot of inside of the arena right now, a live shot where President Trump will be speaking alongside John Voight, Hulk Hogan, Elon Musk, probably a ton of our favorite members of Congress and many of our favorite Trump family members, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, and so on.
So this is going to be a wild and raucous time.
I've never seen a lineup like this.
Which was the single greatest Trump rally of my life.
I've gone to hundreds of Trump rallies.
This is the greatest Trump rally of my life.
Were you there?
Did you guys watch it on the channel?
It was freaking amazing.
We were there front row.
It was so great.
It was just great.
Really one of those things where you're just like so happy to be there.
Okay, so here is the live shot of the rally.
Bed Minister.
There's something interesting that we cued in on that happened a couple of weeks ago with all the drones in New Jersey.
You just have to assume that these drones, the drones in New Jersey, you have to assume that they were not being flown by the federal government.
I mean, at this point, why would you take the hit?
Why would you have so much drama about it all?
And also, if the drones were being flown by the United States, why would President Trump say in a press conference that he's canceling his trip to bed minister?
Was this...
As some have speculated, some of those people being Tucker Carlson, obviously somebody who's very knowledgeable and very well-sourced.
Tucker Carlson says that these drones were a Chinese op, that these drones were being flown by China, that America had to blow up a satellite effectively to stop the drones from flying, and that they were flying right over President Trump's house.
How can we effectively confirm that?
Well, ladies and gentlemen, President Trump decided to cancel his New Jersey trip just two weeks ago, saying that effectively he's worried about, like, who's actually flying these drones.
Is this a message to President Trump?
Now, you saw Trump there at bed minister.
Obviously, the situation has been mitigated, I suppose.
But here's President Trump from just two weeks ago.
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Can you comment on the drones that are flying around New Jersey?
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The government knows what is happening.
Look.
Our military knows where they took off from.
If it's a garage, they can go right into that garage.
They know where it came from and where it went.
And for some reason, they don't want to comment.
And I think they'd be better off saying what it is.
Our military knows and our president knows.
And for some reason, they want to keep people in suspense.
I can't imagine it's the enemy because it was the enemy that blasted out.
Even if they were late, they'd blast it.
Something strange is going on.
For some reason, they don't want to tell the people.
And they should because the people are really...
I mean, they happen to be over Bedminster.
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So Donald Trump saying he's not going to Bedminster because...
And he did stop his trip to Bedminster because of these drones.
So, I mean, this is the threat environment that we live in.
You just...
You have to use...
Just a simple logic to assume that the reason why President Trump is moving has to have everything moved indoors.
As Margaret Taylor Greene said, and she said it really well, she said, I've watched President Trump give a speech in a hurricane.
I've watched him give a speech in blistering heat and in freezing cold, in sub-zero temperatures and in the middle of the desert in the middle of summer.
Something else is going on here.
Something else is up.
It's not just the weather.
The weather is relatively foul.
Here's a photo of President Trump.
Obviously, it's raining in Washington, D.C. This is a terrible time in Washington, D.C. It's cold, windy, rainy.
And you can see the rain and the sleet here.
You can see the literal sleet there.
Here's President Trump meeting what I would assume to be Gold Star parents.
Could this be the Gold Star parents of Nicole G.?
Nicole G. is one of the people who died in Abbey Gate.
Joe Biden's...
A nightmarish Afghanistan withdrawal, one of the Marines who died at Abbey Gate.
I don't have it confirmed that this is her family, but you'd have to assume.
You'd have to assume that this is her family.
President Trump is headed to the rally, and where he was headed from was Arlington National Cemetery.
Of course, this is where President Trump was.
President Trump laid a wreath at Arlington National Cemetery moments ago.
It's a very solemn duty for the president or dignitary to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier.
Perhaps you've been there.
I don't think there's many places in America that have sort of canon and spirituality to them, and this is certainly one of those places.
I assume if you're a patriot, you've been in Arlington National Cemetery.
Maybe you have family there, but this is a solemn place.
Here's President Trump laying that wreath.
This happened just moments ago.
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Oh, it's so great to have an actual president back in charge.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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So incredibly powerful.
It's JD Vance here.
Of course you know, but...
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...and you can see it.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
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I'm sorry.
I'm sorry, guys.
Your phone wasn't screwed up.
It was me.
I'm sorry.
I got it.
Got it.
My apologies.
Why was I muted?
I was muted because it was a moment of silence there, and I didn't want to disrupt the moment of silence.
We take these things really seriously on the channel, and so the reason why I muted myself was that.
I didn't want any disruption.
I didn't want any typing or crying or yelling.
Have you ever had like four kids under four?
There is the potential for sure.
There's the potential.
And we've had one cameo and we may have others.
But thank you.
Thank you, producers, for letting me know that I'm muted.
This is the single greatest upgrade.
What I was saying is this is the single greatest upgrade in the history of mankind.
Forgive me, ladies and gentlemen, for forgetting that I had turned – My mic off during the moment of silence to respect that exact moment.
This is the single greatest upgrade in American history.
There's never been a better upgrade than going from this, going from this, right here, where Joe Biden is physically, literally looking at his watch during a dignified transfer of dead bodies, bodies that should have never been in caskets, but because of Joe Biden's feckless leadership they were, going from this.
Ladies and gentlemen, to Donald Trump laying the wreath.
That is a breathtaking and thankful upgrade.
We are deeply thankful for it.
Here we go.
First Lady Melania arriving at the tomb as well.
I think that's J.D. Vance's wife.
What a powerful photo.
Look at this.
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Wow.
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What an amazing photo.
Tomb of the Unknown Children is unknown remains that were American service members who gave their lives for this country and they were not able to be identified.
And they are held here in this hallowed ground and protected by a pretty amazing group of soldiers.
So, ladies and gentlemen, it's ready.
To rock.
And we're ready to roll.
My producers are telling me that there is some activity in the arena, but that we're going to wait for the actual show to start.
They're, like, getting their camera angles set and so on.
And so, ladies and gentlemen, we will be ready.
This is an unbelievable crowd.
We really hope that everybody got in.
Of course, Donald Trump.
Effectively saved TikTok today.
I have mixed feelings on that, but it is what it is.
I don't like a Chinese spyware app in our country, and what China is doing is destroying social continuity, and they will use that app in order to destroy the future generations of America.
You can rebuild an app.
You can rebuild social media.
You can get your money back in other ways.
You can start different stores.
Recreate a business, but you can't ever change the minds of people once they've been poisoned.
I do not want the contagion of Chinese communism in my country, so I do not like TikTok.
I do not like the TikTok app.
I do not like it, Sam, I am.
Nonetheless, Donald Trump said that TikTok can divest and become an American company, and if that is the case, then I'm in favor of it.
So it's pretty simple.
Trump is set to assign a batch of January 6 pardons immediately after taking office tomorrow.
That's going to be exciting.
We will be live.
We will be live.
Even if I'm at the hospital, we still have the team.
The team will be live.
We'll be ready to go.
Time Magazine has made this the Donald Trump cover.
There's Joe Biden's aviators going flying.
There's the water.
Conceivably, because Donald Trump doesn't drink water, he drinks Diet Coke.
He's back.
The Batman.
unidentified
Amazing.
benny johnson
Joe Biden's saying he's not going anywhere, which I think is very, very funny, and I hope he means it.
Joe Biden, you know, Joe Biden could run for another term.
Please, I'm begging you.
Joe Biden could run.
He could be 93 and be running.
He only had one term, so why doesn't—the Constitution lets him run again, so come on, Joe.
2028, think about it.
Think about it.
Hostages being released.
I mean, there's so much news.
We can barely even crack the surface and get to everything.
Hostages being released today.
American hostages.
And Donald Trump arriving at a place called the Blair House, which is a little historic house across the street from the White House where the president stays before he is sworn in.
Ladies and gentlemen, the Trump dance.
This is what I really wanted to get to.
The Trump dance last night.
Did you see it?
This is after Bedminster last night.
unidentified
There you go.
All right.
Good, good, good.
Good, good, good.
benny johnson
The golden age is upon us.
unidentified
What a photo.
benny johnson
Man, what a photo.
God protect these two, please.
God protect these two.
The golden age is upon us, ladies and gentlemen.
Just beautiful.
Look at that.
Here's Jeff Bezos, right?
One very powerful billionaire.
Jeff Bezos and his wife there at Bed Minister last night.
Man, they're having a great time.
Everyone's having a great time.
Have you ever seen a greater upgrade?
This side of President Trump saying, this side of President Trump and the way that he treats a dignified transfer and our soldiers.
But here is the cabinet photo from yesterday.
And it's an unofficial photo, right?
This is the official cabinet photo of the Biden regime.
unidentified
Woof.
Bro.
benny johnson
Just so beta.
Just so sad.
So many, like, sad, bloated degenerates.
Just an absolute vision of incompetence.
Malevolence towards the American people.
Hatred of what this country was founded on.
And I'm so happy to see it go.
Oh, good riddance.
Seriously, good riddance.
Anyway, this is a really, really exciting timeline, ladies and gentlemen.
And we are...
So, so, very back.
All right.
So, we move along.
This is why all of these events are indoors.
We've done our research here.
A lot of various Secret Service agents saying, effectively, what our worst suspicions are, which is that there is a tremendous threat on Trump's life.
The threat on Trump's life must be tremendous that President Trump elected using Air Force One before the inauguration.
Picture below are anti-drone jammers on top of vehicles.
This is not about the weather.
Trump used a military plane today with enhanced security requested by the campaign.
The plane would not be officially called Air Force One until the swearing-in ceremony.
So there you go.
It's a wild timeline.
So just remember, ladies and gentlemen, stay salty.
Stay locked in.
Keep your head on a swivel.
Donald Trump not letting it bother him at all.
Hitting the Trump dance.
And we are ready for the golden era.
Trump flies on Air Force plane to Washington as Biden sticks to tradition.
There you go.
So this is the Air Force plane that President Trump used.
It looks exactly the same as Air Force One.
For those who care, and I care a lot, Donald Trump is planning on changing colors here of this plane.
He's going to change the colors from, like, a, like, muted, sad, pathetic, neutered, periwinkle blue here that, like, would be almost too feminine for a small, like, for a baby boy's room to a masculine American dark red and blue, far more in line with, like, the color of our flag.
So it's time.
It's time, ladies and gentlemen.
Okay.
So...
All right, good.
So it looks like they are gearing up and ready now.
It is 45 minutes after the hour when this event was supposed to start at 3 o 'clock.
There are amazing speakers and it's going to be an amazing lineup.
So it is, ladies and gentlemen, what it is.
There's going to be a lot of performances, a lot of musicians.
The Village people are going to play, which is going to be wild.
So we're just going to let it ride, man.
We're going to just let it ride.
It's been a very, very interesting rollout.
This inauguration has been the most exciting, certainly, that I've experienced in my lifetime in spite of the security threats and in spite of some of the differences in This model of an inauguration.
But I think it was Cat Turd, if you follow him on X, that said, I don't care if Donald Trump is sworn in at a Waffle House.
Just swear him in.
Just get him the office of the presidency.
Get his hand on that Bible and get the oath of office administered.
Here we go, ladies and gentlemen.
Killer Kline, let's pop up the feed right now.
Have a look at what's going on.
Okay, looks like Kid Rock.
Kid Rock is speaking from the podium.
And let's go to the rally.
unidentified
Here we go.
Well come on!
Let's go!
Here we go.
benny johnson
You're right, baby.
unidentified
Come on!
Come on!
It was 1989.
My thoughts were short, my hair was long.
Caught somewhere between a boy and man.
She was 17 and she was five from in between.
It was summertime in Northern Michigan.
Come on!
Slashing through the sand blocks.
Talking by the camp pirates.
The simple things that life might win it will.
We didn't have no internet, but man, I never will forget The way the old I tried to come out And we were trying different things We were smoking bloody banks Making love out by the lake to our favorite song Sipping whiskey out the bottle Not thinking about tomorrow Chicken sweet old Palabra Put 'em up like this!
Come on!
Come on.
Singing sweet home Alabama, awesome.
Catching one out from the dock.
Watching the rage roll off the rocks.
To forever hold the spot inside my soul.
We'd blister in the sun.
We couldn't wait for night to come.
Head on up to Washington, D.C. And play a little rock and roll.
And we would try different things.
We would smoke and run and dance.
Making love out by the lake to our favorite song.
Sinking whiskey out the bottom.
Not thinking about tomorrow.
Singing sweet home Alabama, awesome.
Put'em up like this, let's rock!
Come on!
Let's rock!
Singin'sweet old Alabama, all summer long Turn it up!
Well, welcome to the Make America Great Again Victory Rally!
Do you feel good?
I have but one question for you Is MAGA in the house tonight?
Alright, before we go
we bring it back up we're gonna bring it all the way down now nothing seems as strange as when the leaves began to change how we thought those days would never end sometimes I hear that song now start to sing along you think man I'd love to
see that girl
we were smoking buddy man making love out by the lake to our favorite songs settle the whiskey out the bottle now think about tomorrow singing sweet home Alabama all summer long say what sweet home Alabama all summer
long come on give me a good one singing sweet home Alabama all summer long singing sweet home Alabama all summer long singing sweet home Alabama all summer long singing sweet home Alabama all summer long yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah He's still got it.
He's still got it.
donald j trump
Hello, everyone.
I love you all.
I know you're having a great time at the Kid Rock concert tonight.
Quite frankly, he's amazing.
All of you in attendance are the true backbone of our great country.
Hardworking, God-fearing, rock and roll patriots.
Bob is truly one of the greatest entertainers of our time.
Let's all continue to love one another, fight for our God-given freedoms, and most of all, let's make America rock.
Let's make America rock again.
unidentified
We the people, and now we do, reserve the right to scream, screw you!
Hey girl, hey girl, wear your mask, take your pills, now we'll hold generations mentally ill.
Hey girl, hey girl, but COVID's near, it's coming to town, we gotta act quick, shut our borders down.
Joe Biden does the media in praises, big doctors and any call them racist.
We the people, let's go Brandon!
We the people, we the people!
Stand it up, stand it tall, cause it's all for one, and it's one for all, all, all, all!
We the people!
We the people!
We the people, let's go Brandon!
We the people, stand the north, and stand the tall, cause it's all for one, and it's one for all!
We the people!
We the people, let's go Brandon!
We the people!
Get down y'all, we take me down!
We the people, let's go Brandon!
We the people, stand up!
Stand up!
Cause it's all for one!
Cause it's all for one!
And it's one for all!
All!
All!
If there's one thing I want you to take away from this show tonight, it's not a t-shirt, or the ringing in your ears from your favorite song.
No.
It's that for a couple hours, we lit it up and threw it down like only a group of good-time, hard-working Americans can.
Because when you call this place home, you're going to be a good-time, you're going to be And you know like I do, the only reason we can be here tonight is because of those who paid the ultimate price for our ticket.
Those who put their necks on the line to watch our backs, day in and day out, from sea to shining sea.
And not a day goes by when we're not reminded that the only reason any of us can...
To those who care enough to leave their homes behind.
Who head out to make sure they come back to a country as great as they left.
And they don't give a damn about what went down in the voting booth on Election Day.
They're fighting for what goes up on that Main Street flagpole.
Or in the hand of a kid at a Fourth of July parade.
You see, they don't care about red or blue on a map.
No.
They're fighting for the whole damn flag with all their hearts.
They're the stars.
The ones who've earned their stripes, fighting for every damn color behind the flag.
So I don't care what you call what we've got tonight.
A concert.
A show.
A gig.
I don't give a shit.
Because what I believe we've got here is a get-together.
We're proving that the only party that really matters is the one we're having tonight.
And it's been brought to you by those who fought Here's a salute to those who aren't looking for a hand, to standing at attention for those who deserve all of ours.
Here's to a program that was born free and brought to you by the United States of mother in America
Midnight riding in my O2 seat and rolling down the boulevard Headlights shining on rusty fences as I pass the prayer yard Black leather jacket on a Friday night Fire up the ladder and a lucky strike Radio saying take a walk on the wild side It has got me feeling like
Got me feeling like And go wide open it's a pedal down kind of theme A little bit of Motown school A little Memphis blues A sweet emotion that's raining all
over me Give me that heart Give me that soul Give me that heart Give me that soul American
rock and roll I can see the banner on the courthouse flying A wild red, wild and blue I can see her waving on the corner smiling Cause it feels just like I do Now she's sitting right next to me Everything's how it ought to be Being young in the
land of the free Yeah, she's got me feeling like Oh, oh, oh, oh.
You got me feeling like, oh, oh, oh, oh.
Ain't no way to bend it to peddle down kind of theme.
A little bit of samba loops, a little gangsters'move.
A sweet emotion that's raining all over me.
Give me that heart, give me that soul.
Give me that heart, give me that soul.
Three, four.
American rock and roll.
Oh, oh, oh.
American rock and roll.
Ain't no way to bend it to peddle down kind of theme.
A little bit of samba loops, a little blue sweet shoes.
A sweet emotion that's raining all over me.
Oh, oh, oh, oh.
Give me that heart, give me that soul.
Oh, oh, oh, oh, American rock and roll.
Oh, oh, oh, American rock and roll.
Oh, oh, oh, American rock and roll.
Round and roll, round and roll, round and roll.
Give me that heart, give me that soul.
Give me your heart, give me that soul.
Give me that soul.
Give me that heart, give me that soul.
Give me that soul.
benny johnson
It's not us.
It's the feed.
unidentified
I think we're going to switch up the feed here.
benny johnson
Yeah, okay.
Let's rock and roll.
The killer climb.
unidentified
There you go.
benny johnson
That sounds a lot better.
Sorry about that.
Sorry about that chat.
Much better.
unidentified
My name is King!
It's King, baby!
It's King!
Oh, that's all the money that you need to get in the voice of John.
Oh, that's all the money that you need to get in the voice of John.
It appears your voice.
benny johnson
I love the Trump the background.
unidentified
I love the Trump the green, all the balls and the lightning, I am your force.
And this is all the questions that the pet make the dancers.
We're not blanching, just in the top of dancers.
Again, the priests, the cars, pack the speakers.
And she's with the 40s and the chits with speakers.
And all your lights and the southern comfort.
And it don't even matter if your veins are punk-shared.
All the crackheads, the critics, the cynics.
All my heroes are the metal clinics.
All your masters and the IRS.
For the crooked cops and the cluttered dads.
For the shots of Jack and the cabs of men.
I have lines of love and the fiest stress.
For my hoods all-kid, I'm happy for it.
For my hoods of the world, it's understood.
I said it's all good, yeah, it's only fun.
Get in the pit and try to love someone.
I love the balls and lightning, baby, they get these enemies.
I love someone.
I love the balls and lightning, baby, they get these enemies.
I love the balls and lightning, baby, they get these enemies.
And I love the balls and lightning, baby, they get these enemies.
And I love the balls and lightning, baby, they get these enemies.
I love the balls and lightning, baby, they get these enemies.
They get them.
They get them to the balls and lightning, baby, they get these enemies.
They get them to the balls and lightning, baby, they get them.
They get them to the balls and lightning, baby, they get them to the balls and lightning.
They get them to the balls and lightning.
benny johnson
And ladies and gentlemen, we apologize for the audio.
You know, the audio is kind of like in and out, right?
And so that can happen when you have a lot of electronic music going on and you have a live feed.
This is the official live feed of the event.
So this is the official live feed and this is as good as it can possibly get.
And they were trying to get it dialed in, right?
Same as us.
So that's just the way, this is the way it goes sometimes.
The, um, you know, it got, like, a little muted there, and that's just because it's so loud, and there's so many instruments playing, and it's really hard to do an equalizer on that, and the soundboard, and, um, yeah, whatever.
I think it was a great set by Kid Rock.
There's a lot of classics in there.
Producers are going off, producers are going off on it, saying, like, uh, yo, this is, uh, oh, hey, look at this.
Again, this is the official feed, so, uh, there you go.
Anuel AA is, I know as a matter of fact, because it was explained to me, not because I actually follow their music, is a huge Latin celebrity pop star.
unidentified
First off, I want to thank President Trump for having us here.
I speak on behalf of all the Spanish community.
I'm so happy that everybody, the whole Spanish.
Community, it wasn't that, like, we just spoke and they really voted for the...
Like, they didn't win for no...
A lot of people went against us once we spoke for Trump, on Trump's behalf.
And I'm so happy now that they saw the results and that everybody...
Everybody ignored a lot of attacks that Trump was receiving.
Everybody was trying to dirty his image.
And...
All that was in vain.
I want to thank my Spanish community.
We stood tall.
We stood together.
Now we have the strongest president of all time taking care of us.
I know these four years is going to be one hell of a run.
I know he's going to do a lot of great things for the whole Spanish community, especially if we're going to make America great again.
I just want to make this super clear.
Trump is the strongest.
We're the strongest president that we've ever had, and I'm just happy we're in good hands.
There's nothing better than to have a strong president taking care of the strongest nation in the whole world.
Hello, America.
Hello, Washington.
So you're probably wondering what these two Puerto Rican artists are doing here.
It all started in Jostown, Pennsylvania during the president's campaign where we show our support to the president and make sure our Latino community came through and show lots of love to Mr. President Trump so we can get that W. I'm glad to be here just like everybody else up here.
I always say I love President Trump because he's not a puppet, you know?
I love that about him.
And this was my first time voting for any president of the United States, so...
You know.
First time voter, so...
I'm glad I gave that vote to Mr. Trump and me and Anuel Double R here supporting Que Viva Puerto Rico and Let's Make America Great Again!
Congratulations President Trump.
Please welcome to the stage, recipient of the National Medal of Arts and Academy and Golden Globe winner, acting legend, John Voight.
benny johnson
Here we go, baby.
I was wondering if they were going to play music or not.
Okay, there we go.
unidentified
*Music* Hi
everybody.
*Music*
What an honor.
What an honor it is for me to be up here in front of you, great men and women, who've all come here to celebrate the greatest win of all time.
*crowd cheers*
The greatest win of all time.
The victory we were all fighting for to save our country, our democracy.
And I'm so grateful that I'm able to say that Donald J. Trump is the 47th president of the United States of America.
Thank you.
And now he will make America thrive again.
He will make America great again, safe again.
And we, the people, will honor our flag again.
The red, white, and the blue, and for which it stands, one nation under God, with liberty and justice for all.
Donald J. Trump Fought hard to save this country.
And now he will bring God back to our nation's truths.
He will make her thrive again.
He will save the greatest country, America the Beautiful.
I'm proud to call The President of the United States, my friend.
Our friend.
My hero.
Our hero.
A man who never gave up on the American people.
we the people never gave up on him God bless Donald Trump.
And may God watch over him, and may he be sworn into the White House with the blessings of the Almighty.
God bless.
God bless, everybody.
It's great to be with you.
Much love.
I love you.
benny johnson
What a legend.
What an absolute legend.
Love Jon Voight.
Best Jon Voight movie?
Mission Impossible?
unidentified
It's great.
benny johnson
all right here we go Producer saying National Treasure.
Killer Klan saying National Treasurer Transformers.
Nice.
unidentified
Here we go.
benny johnson
Love for Stephen Miller, man.
Friend of the show.
unidentified
Friend of the show.
benny johnson
Here we go.
Probably the smartest man in the White House.
unidentified
One more day.
Just one more day.
It's goodbye, Joe Biden.
Goodbye, Kamala Harris.
Goodbye, Democrats.
And hello to the golden age of America.
And welcome back, Donald J. Trump.
It's been...
It's been four long years.
It's felt like 400 years.
Four years of weakness.
Four years of humiliation and embarrassment.
Four years of persecution.
Four years of inflation, poverty, incompetence.
Four years of betrayal.
Four years of wide, open, undefended, unprotected open borders.
But tomorrow, at 12 p.m., that's all going to end.
Because after four years of fighting, after four years of struggle, After four years of pain and, yes, suffering, after four years of trials, we are now at the dawn of our greatest victory.
And each and every one of you, each and every one of you shares in this victory.
Your hopes, your dreams, your sweat, your sacrifice, your devotion.
And those of millions of patriots around this country has delivered America to this moment where we can proudly say that the 47th president of the United States is Donald J. Trump.
And the vice president of the United States is J.D. Vance.
America, ladies and gentlemen, is about to become strong again.
It's about to become proud again.
It's about to become free again.
And it's about to be a country that is respected by every other nation around the world.
They're not going to kick us around.
They're not going to abuse us.
They're not going to exploit us.
Because they know if you mess with America, then you're going to have to deal with President Donald Trump.
And Donald Trump will never apologize for this country.
Donald Trump will never, ever, ever allow other countries to dictate to us, to tell us how to run our economy, to tell us how to police our borders.
Because Donald Trump believes in two simple but powerful words, and those words are America first.
Let me remind you.
Let me remind you.
Of all that transpired to arrive us at this moment, the Democrat Party and the radical left did everything in their power to try to put President Trump in jail.
They lied about him.
They framed him.
They smeared him.
They defamed him.
They indicted him.
They tried to imprison him and to take away his freedom.
To take away his family, to take away his business, to take away your voice, your future, to take away your hopes, your dreams, your government, your country.
And Donald Trump nearly lost his life on a stage in Butler, Pennsylvania, and then again a few short weeks later.
And no matter what they threw at him...
No matter the danger, no matter the horrors, no matter the abuse, no matter the corruption, the persecution, no matter how much the broken system tried to stop that man, he would not be stopped.
Because he has always been fighting for you.
He has always been fighting for all of us.
And what is that going to look like come Monday afternoon?
It's going to mean...
An executive order ending the border invasion, sending the illegals home, and taking America back.
It's going to mean the eradication of the criminal cartels and the foreign gangs who are preying on our people.
And it's going to mean justice for every American citizen who has lost a loved one to an illegal alien.
It's going to mean justice for Lake and Riley.
It's going to mean justice for Jocelyn Nungary.
It's going to mean justice for every precious soul stolen from us by Joe Biden's open border.
Accountability is coming.
Justice is coming.
The whole federal bureaucracy is about to learn that they don't work for themselves, they work for you, they work for President Trump, and they work for the American people.
We are about to get our country back and our democracy back.
And we are about to have a government at every level that is fighting for you, your family, and your future, lowering the cost of living, lowering the cost of health care, defeating inflation, getting criminal thugs off our streets and behind bars so that our kids can live in safety.
We're not going to walk over piles of needles and take our kids to the park.
And we're not going to let the radical left indoctrinate our children into believing...
There's 435 genders.
Because President Trump knows there are men and there are women.
And it's not up to you, whether you're a man or a woman.
That's a decision that's made by God, and it can't be changed.
So I ask all of you, I ask all of you to embrace this moment for all it represents and everything it means.
It's about the triumph of the everyday citizen over a corrupt and broken system.
Over the last not just four but eight years, the MAGA movement has been fighting against every single force that has been decaying, destroying, and decimating our society.
It's been fighting the corrupt special interests, the corrupt foreign governments, the weaponized bureaucracy.
And it's been fighting a political class that cares only for itself.
And they were so sure they were going to beat us.
They were so sure they were going to stop Donald Trump.
They were so sure that they were going to crush this movement out of existence.
And yet, here we stand today, and MAGA is stronger, more powerful, more united, and more determined than ever before.
And Donald J. Trump is about to save this country.
And we are about to live in a land where once again the dreams of America's sons, the dreams of America's daughters, the dreams of America's moms and dads are the dreams that will power and propel this country, this government, and this future.
So I want each and every one of you, and I want your families and I want your children to take this opportunity to feel the pride and the joy and the exuberance in knowing.
That the American people won.
We still control this country.
We still control this future.
We still control this government.
And we are about to inaugurate as the 47th president, our champion, Donald J. Trump.
Thank you.
God bless you and God bless America.
benny johnson
That man is arguably the most powerful staffer in the White House, Stephen Miller.
That guy, absolute fire.
He's the man who's going to be crafting policies for the president.
unidentified
Here we go.
benny johnson
She dropped bombs last time that she was on stage.
She was the last rally before the end of the 2024 election.
President Trump's final rally.
She spoke at.
And did a great job.
unidentified
Yeah!
Yeah!
Hi!
How are you?
megyn kelly
God bless you for standing out there in that weather and all these hours to get in here tonight, today.
As Stephen Miller said, we have 20 hours until our long national nightmare is over.
unidentified
We're almost there.
megyn kelly
By the way, Stephen Miller, if you like what Trump did at the border, you have that guy to thank in large part.
That's the guy.
He's the magic behind the man.
And he's back, thank God.
Him and Tom Homan together.
unidentified
The goodness, Scott Pressler, good to see you.
megyn kelly
The goodness that is about to rain down on us after Trump is inaugurated tomorrow is already starting, and I've got to tell you, I am so pumped up about it.
Things are already happening in anticipation of Trump being sworn in, like Facebook and McDonald's getting rid of their DEI programs.
Good for you, McDonald's workers.
Looking at you, Kamala Harris.
Not really.
Wasn't true.
You've got universities from University of Michigan to North Carolina to all the public universities in Iowa, all the public universities in Texas getting rid of DEI.
You have got, yes, you've got a bill that passed the House this week, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act.
unidentified
Yes.
megyn kelly
Now, it passed once before, but this time we control the Senate.
We have a much better shot.
Still have to get 60 votes to get a vote.
We're looking good.
You've got a judge who struck down Joe Biden's disgusting changes to Title IX, which has been stopped in its tracks, and it will be killed entirely, those changes, as soon as Trump gets in there.
Have no doubt whatsoever.
Good things are happening all around the country.
Pete Hegseth was testifying this week that military recruiting is already going up in anticipation of their new commander-in-chief.
The deal in Gaza, right before Trump takes office, as he said, if it's not done by the time I get there, all hell is going to break loose.
The goodness just keeps on coming.
I woke up this morning, I was two inches taller, a pound thinner, and I had skin like Jennifer Lopez.
It's, I don't, that last one's not true.
Okay, speaking of J-Lo, how happy are you that her candidate lost?
These Hollywood celebrities who get up there and try to tell us how to vote?
Really?
I mean, like, those celebrities who know nothing about anything?
unidentified
All J.Lo knows about what to do is to ruin marriages.
megyn kelly
She's an expert at that.
Why does she have to try to ruin the country, too?
So goodbye, J.Lo.
It didn't work out for you.
Goodbye, Meryl Streep, who showed up at that Oprah event saying, oh, Madam President, to Kamala Harris.
Madam President.
How'd that work out?
About as well as her comment that Harvey Weinstein was God.
Maybe we should stop listening to her.
Maybe we shouldn't be going to her for our political advice.
And then you had Oprah herself.
unidentified
Oprah, she'll interview you if you pay her a million dollars, too.
Yeah, it's a low, low fee of a million dollars to sit down with Oprah Winfrey, apparently.
megyn kelly
That's what the Harris campaign paid her production company, she says.
And for that, you know what you get?
You get Oprah yelling at you.
unidentified
Kamala Harris!
megyn kelly
Why are you doing that?
Calm down, madam.
Didn't work out for her either.
But of course, the fakest person involved on that side of the aisle was the woman at the top.
Kamala Harris herself.
Thank you.
unidentified
Who pretended that she wasn't the border czar.
megyn kelly
Who pretended that she was middle class.
Who pretended that she was smart.
And the American people did not buy it.
Every time you turned around, this woman was doing something faker than the last.
Right?
Her fake Jamaican accent, her fake Eastern European accent, her fake Spanish accent.
unidentified
It was like spending a day at Joe Biden's southern border.
megyn kelly
Non-stop.
Right?
We gonna win.
It's not how it went.
unidentified
Right?
megyn kelly
But my favorite was the preacher accent.
unidentified
Joy cometh in the morning.
megyn kelly
She wasn't wrong about that.
It came at about 1:22 a.m. on election night when the election was called for Donald J. Trump.
I felt it.
I've been thinking so much about Trump, especially today and this week.
I know you have, too.
Praying for him.
Praying for his family.
Thankful to them.
I mean, think about it.
I interviewed Trump about a year plus ago and asked him, why are you doing this?
You could be in Scotland, you could be at your golf courses.
It's because he loves the country.
And he wasn't done yet.
And we're not done with him.
So God bless him and the family for making this sacrifice and doing public service.
Same with J.D. Vance and the cabinet members, all of whom need our prayers and support.
But I'm also thinking of all of you.
I'm thinking about you.
I'm thinking about Americans who got us here.
Because the things that Trump has accomplished already, some of the things I mentioned in anticipation of him taking office, that ball got rolling, yes, with Trump, but also with regular American people who stood up here, there, and everywhere to make a difference in their own communities.
I'm thinking about people like Jody Shaw.
You probably don't know that name.
But Jody Shaw was an administrative worker at Smith College.
She didn't make a lot of money.
Single mom, two kids.
And in late 2020, early 2021, she had had it with the DEI nonsense at Smith.
unidentified
So she made a Facebook video, and she posted it.
megyn kelly
And little Jodi Smith, who is sweet and quiet and not one to shake the tree, said, I don't want to be forced to talk about my race at work anymore.
I don't want to be told that I have implicit bias because I'm white.
I don't want to have to enforce segregated dorms.
Please stop making me do this.
And Smith unleashed holy hell on her.
Smith, this super tolerant college, made it, she alleged later, untenable for her to stay.
She got forced out of her job.
And I'm honestly not sure whether Jodi's fully recovered.
So she got hurt, and she got hurt for all of you, and for us, and for the rest who are at Smith.
She's a hero.
Jodi Smith is a genuine hero for doing this.
But it wasn't just Jodi.
I mean, I'm thinking about people like Andrew Gutman, who had a daughter at a posh school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and pulled her, but he didn't go quietly.
He wrote a scathing letter.
Ripping them to shreds for what they're doing to us with this race essentialism nonsense.
He went out with a bang and he made sure other parents knew what the problem was.
Jason Reilly of the Wall Street Journal, you may see him on Fox News sometimes, and his wife Naomi Schaefer Reilly, who pulled their mixed-race daughters from a school in Rye, New York.
And made a point of doing it because that school thought that their mixed-race daughters were desperate to talk about their blackness all the time, and they found out the hard way those kids really just wanted to learn math.
These battles are being won piece by piece.
I'm thinking about the 14-year-old girls in Wisconsin who had an 18-year-old guy come in there naked into their showers after gym.
I'm thinking about the young woman in Massachusetts who just wanted to play field hockey and suddenly got all of her teeth knocked out because a boy played for the other team posing as a girl.
How do we know about these stories?
Because people were outraged.
Citizens went to the news.
They went to their principals.
Girls spoke out one by one and got the ball.
Rolling on change.
And change is coming.
All of you wearing the MAGA hats.
It used to be an act of civil disobedience, right?
Yes, sir.
Defiance of a registered order that didn't want to hear from you.
But wearing that hat for much of the past eight years has been an act of courage, too.
And I know, I know just because you're here.
That you had your moments in your own communities, whether it was online or at the bowling alley or at the restaurant or at school, where you stood up for one of these same issues.
Where you had to tell somebody you didn't want to be reduced to skin color.
Where you said, I prefer the days when we didn't make a thing out of that.
Where you had to tell somebody that boys cannot become girls.
And girls cannot become boys.
Those battles, one after the other, have been fought.
And this anti-DEI...
Momentum has been built brick by brick.
Thanks to all of you.
And you who listened to Donald Trump, who, when a reporter asked him at a presidential debate in 2015 about some of the language he used, responded by saying, what I say is what I say.
And if you don't like it, too bad.
That was more than just a quick combat.
That was a reminder of what America is.
In America, we have the right of free speech.
We have the right to offend, to provoke, to annoy, and to stand up for what we believe in, even if you find it controversial.
We have the right not to use the words you try to force on us, like your preferred pronouns or words like anti-racist or chest-feeding.
We are reminded of that daily.
By President Trump, who would never bow to the woke mob.
Just ask Brett Kavanaugh, who will be swearing in J.D. Vance tomorrow as he, Kavanaugh, sits in his robes as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
So I thank all of you for being part of the Trump movement and for bringing these changes upon us and for bringing Donald Trump back into the office and a reminder before I go, stay strong.
We haven't won the war.
We're winning.
We won a bunch of battles.
But he's going to need all of you every step of the way.
We're going to have to be patient.
We're going to have to steal our spines.
Do not bend.
Never bow.
What I say is what I say.
God bless you.
God bless President Trump.
God bless the United States of America.
unidentified
God bless the United States of America.
benny johnson
It was great.
I think it was great how we had, like, self-referential...
Self-referential Megyn Kelly talking about, oh, there was a reporter in 2016 who asked Donald Trump about his past comments.
unidentified
I wonder who that could be.
benny johnson
Just a thought.
Just a thought, ladies and gentlemen.
As we head into a new round of speakers, we've heard from Kid Rock and John Voight and Megyn Kelly, Stephen Miller.
Stephen Miller texted me to say thank you all for watching.
I told him that he did a banger of a job and was incredible, and that is the best Stephen Miller speech that I've ever heard.
And he said thank you, and he thanked all of you.
So ladies and gentlemen, hopefully joining us soon on the stream will be Stephen Miller.
He's been on dozens of times before over the last couple of years.
Stephen Miller is an absolute G. Up next, ladies and gentlemen, we have J.D. Vance, Donald Trump, members of the First Family, Elon Musk, Dana White.
Hulk Hogan, Charlie Kirk, Paula White, Steve Witkoff.
More performances by The Village People and Lee Greenwood.
So get ready, ladies and gentlemen.
This is going to be exciting.
Get ready.
unidentified
We will see what happens next.
benny johnson
We will see.
unidentified
All right.
benny johnson
We're ready to go.
Not good that there's a dude eating an eclair or a, I don't know, donut of some kind.
So they might be setting up for another musical act here, we'll see.
But everybody that's commenting on this on social media is saying, this is the same type of vibe of...
This is the same type of vibe of Madison Square Garden.
Which was the greatest...
Which was the greatest...
Greatest political event I've ever been to.
Ladies and gentlemen.
So, we rock and we roll and we are ready for more.
The time is at 4.41pm Eastern Standard Time.
And they are playing music right now and doing crowd shots because...
unidentified
Because...
benny johnson
I think that they might be setting up for another musical act, right?
You gotta swap them out.
But we'll see.
We'll see.
What's up, what's up, what's up?
Killer Kline, pop some comments up on the screen.
We'll do comments.
Why not?
While we get the net.
Trump, Trump, Trump.
unidentified
Please welcome to the stage.
Founder of the Whitcoff Group and the next special envoy to the Middle East.
Steve Wiccoff.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
Here we go.
Glory, glory, hallelujah.
Good evening, everybody.
Just a few things I want to say before I get to speak about my dear friend, the 47th President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.
I just received on my phone pictures of the first three hostages who were released.
We had a great team, but it doesn't happen without Donald J. Trump.
The president was responsible for this release, and we all owe him a debt of gratitude, as do all the families.
Mr. President, distinguished guests, and my fellow Americans, Today, we celebrate not just the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump, but the enduring values of American strength and leadership and the vision that he represents.
Over the years, I have had the privilege of witnessing firsthand the qualities that define President Trump, not just as a leader, but as a man.
to protect the interests of the American people, his bold approach to solving problems, and his relentless pursuit of progress have defined his presidency and inspired millions across the globe.
President Trump has always understood that leadership is not about following trends but about charting a new course.
In the face of immense challenges, he has consistently stood firm, driven by a deep belief in the potential of America and its people.
Today his leadership extends beyond our borders, influencing the world in ways that reflect the best of our ideals.
Nowhere is this more evident than in the Middle East.
Under President Trump's guidance, the Abraham Accords have transformed a region long defined by conflict.
Thank you.
These historic agreements have brought together nations that once stood divided, fostering cooperation, trade, and understanding.
The Accords are a testament to the President's belief that peace is achievable when we approach challenges with strength, clarity, and a shared vision for the future.
As the special envoy to the Middle East, it is my honor to carry forward this mission on behalf of the President.
Thank you.
*Cheering*
The work we do in this region is not just about diplomacy.
It is about creating a legacy of hope, stability, and opportunity.
The Middle East is home to extraordinary potential.
And through President Trump's leadership, we are unlocking that potential in ways that benefit the region and the entire world.
President Trump's achievements Are not just a reflection of his policies, but of his core principles.
He has always stood for religious freedom, human dignity, and the belief that every individual deserves the chance to succeed.
His efforts have strengthened alliances, encouraged economic growth, and ensured that America remains a trusted partner.
Mr. President, your vision for the Middle East is a reminder that true leadership is about results.
You have shown that even in the face of skepticism, progress is possible when we approach challenges with boldness and resolve.
The Abraham Accords are not just agreements.
They are a blueprint for a future where peace is not the exception, but is the expectation.
As we look ahead, the challenges remain significant, but so do the opportunities.
Under your leadership, Mr. President, we will continue to expand the circle of peace, strength, strengthen partnerships and promote prosperity across the world.
This is a cause worthy of our efforts, and I am deeply honored to play a role in advancing your vision.
I am reminded of the words of Abraham Lincoln, who said, I am a firm believer in the people.
If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis.
The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Mr. President, you have always trusted the American people with the truth, even when it has been difficult.
And you have reminded us all that through honesty, strength, and determination, no challenge is too great.
Today we begin a new chapter under your leadership.
It is a chapter defined by hope and unity and the belief that America's best days are still ahead.
Together, we will continue to build on the foundations you have laid, ensuring that your vision for a stronger, safer, and more prosperous world becomes a reality.
May God bless you, Mr. President.
May God bless the United States of America.
And may he guide us all in the pursuit of peace and progress.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
American businessman who is CEO and president of UFC, Dana White.
benny johnson
Oh, hell yeah.
It's our boy.
That's right.
Killer Kline's going nuts for this one.
unidentified
there we go Ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon.
I'm honored to be here to celebrate President Trump's historic victory.
He didn't just win this election, he won it in dominant fashion.
With record numbers of Americans from all walks of life.
Not only did he win the Electoral College by 86 points, but President Trump was the first Republican candidate in 20 years to win the popular vote.
He also made major gains among traditionally Democrat voters by increasing his support with Latin, Asian-American, Black, and young voters.
So what does that tell us?
Democracy is alive and well in this country.
And the people have spoke loud and clear.
America wants President Trump back in the White House.
Think about this.
Winning this election after everything that's happened over the last few years is an amazing achievement and an incredible comeback story.
Think of all the things President Trump had to go through to get back here.
All the powerful forces that tried to take him down.
The mainstream media, partisan prosecutors, assassins.
It's absolutely insane what this man has been through.
And only President Trump could have fought through all those obstacles, all the attacks, and still come out the winner.
But you know what?
That's just what he is.
This guy is a winner.
And I say this all the time.
He is the toughest, most resilient person that I've ever met, and nothing was going to stop him from fighting so hard for the country he loves.
He embodies what being an American is all about.
We are the toughest, most resilient people on earth.
And nothing can stop us when we unite.
To all those Americans who didn't vote for President Trump, and all they know about him is what they hear from the mainstream media, I just want to let you know...
He has been an incredibly loyal friend to me for over two decades.
And not once has he ever asked me for anything in return.
And he's proven again and again how tough he is, but he's also a man who truly cares about people.
Everything great that has ever happened to me in my career, he's been the first one to reach out and congratulate me.
And more importantly, in the hard times, he's been the first one to reach out.
And let me know if there's anything I need.
And all this during a time when he had a laundry list of his own problems he was dealing with.
He is the best human being that I have ever known.
So, America, it's time for us all to put our differences aside, and we can't do that if we continue to focus on all the issues that divide us instead of all the issues that unite us.
The fate of this country is tied to the fate of the president.
So if you love America, you should want America's president to be successful.
If he strengthens our economy, resolves conflict around the world, and makes our streets safe again, we all win.
When America's president is respected around the world, we all win.
When America succeeds, we all win.
Now it's time for us to come together as one nation, the United States.
This moment will be a turning point in our history and a triumph for all Americans.
Tomorrow, when Donald J. Trump is sworn in as the 47th President of the United States, the great comeback story begins and our country starts winning again.
Thank you, America!
Go!
Chowderon Chowderon
*Cheering*
benny johnson
This was my ice cream cone brought in here by my two-year-old.
I just want to say thank you all.
This is a family event for sure.
We are awaiting, if you didn't know, we are awaiting on Johnson Baby number four.
And we are ready.
We're ready to go.
I'm watching this with you.
I love having...
Love having this family meet my family, right?
It's our digital family.
Really, really excited.
I'm really excited for what's next.
The golden era getting kicked off beautifully, ladies and gentlemen.
unidentified
All right.
Please welcome to the stage members of the First Family, Don Jr., Eric, and Laura Trout.
There we go, ladies and gentlemen.
This is awesome.
All right.
benny johnson
What's Rock and Roll?
Somebody has their kids with them too.
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah.
We love you.
We love you, too!
donald trump-jr
We love you, America!
unidentified
We love you, Washington, DC!
So we have two little monsters here that want to do something very special.
donald trump-jr
They want to do the Pledge of Allegiance, which they do every single night.
unidentified
You guys want to take it away?
Yeah.
I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God, and invisible, with liberty and justice for all.
donald trump-jr
That's real America, ladies and gentlemen.
That's America.
unidentified
That's what we love about this country.
donald trump-jr
And guys, we as a family love you so much.
unidentified
This is the greatest political movement ever created.
And you know what, guys?
donald trump-jr
They tried to stop him.
They tried to indict him.
They tried to take him down.
They raided his home.
They went after his children.
They tried to bankrupt him.
They tried to imprison him.
They did everything they could to stop this movement, and they failed.
And here we are in Washington, D.C. on this beautiful day, and Donald J. Trump is about to take back the White House.
unidentified
*crowd cheers*
donald trump-jr
And guys, our country is back.
Our country will be respected again.
We as Americans will be proud again.
America will be feared again.
unidentified
We are going to have the greatest nation on earth.
The nonsense ends.
donald trump-jr
The bullshit ends right now.
unidentified
We love you.
donald trump-jr
Thank you for having me be such a big part of this journey.
I'll truly never, ever forget it.
unidentified
Thank you, guys.
We love you.
lara trump
Ladies and gentlemen, less than 24 hours from now, we will call Donald Trump President of the United States of America.
It's not just what we worked for over the past year, or even over the past four years.
It started the second.
A bold, brash businessman from New York City came down the golden escalator in Trump Tower nine and a half years ago.
And people said it was impossible.
And yet that man is the one who will save not just our country, but will save the entire world.
And so I just want to quickly say thank you.
Thank you guys for continuing, despite all you heard out there, to believe in Donald Trump, to stand by our family throughout this fight.
Thank you for trusting me to be your co-chair of the Republican National Committee.
I hope I did you proud.
I made promises all over this country when I went and spoke, and I said, you're not going to cheat in this election.
And they got upset when I said something around the lines of, if you are a person who wants to cheat in our election.
We will find you, we will track you down, and we will prosecute you to the full extent of the law.
So I said it louder next time.
And this was a free, fair, and transparent election.
And if there's one thing I am proud of, it's that we restored the American people's faith in our electoral system this election in 2024.
We didn't do it alone.
I see someone directly in front of me, Scott Pressler, who helped on that front as well.
But thank you, guys.
This has been the honor of all of our lifetimes, to be here and fight alongside of all of you to save this country.
The dawn of the golden era of America is tomorrow, right here, starting in Washington, D.C. God bless you guys.
We love you.
And we are almost there, folks.
Thank you, guys.
donald trump-jr
Hello, America!
I have to ask, has anyone ever been this excited for Monday morning to roll around?
It's like Christmas, Easter, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, my birthday, all wrapped up into one special day where we can take back our country once and for all.
unidentified
Thank you.
donald trump-jr
But guys, we could not have done this without all of you.
Those who stood steadfast and loyal, who wanted to fight for that next generation, to fight for the incredible aspects of this country that have been squandered.
That have been crapped on, that have gone by the wayside no more.
That ends tomorrow at noon.
Now, perhaps, unfortunately, it took the last four years of hell that they put my father through, that they put our family through, that they put all of you through for us to fully understand just how fragile everything we believe in is.
But I truly believe the opportunity we have now to start anew, not to keep the old administration from 16 to 20, the bad actors and the can kickers and those who are just trying to wait it out till we get back to normal.
But now, with the knowledge of that four years, in conjunction with the knowledge of the last four years, we can truly make a difference forever!
When you look at this cabinet, when you look at the fighters, you see people who truly all believe in the America First movement, and that's what this is about.
Putting America first.
Putting our families first.
Putting the Constitution first.
And putting our children first.
So with that, I have to introduce a young lady.
My oldest daughter, Kai.
Pretty good, Kai.
I don't know.
With that kind of applause in the Trump family, it creates some problems.
But she was with me.
She was with me when we found out about my father, her grandfather, and best golfing buddy was shot.
And she called me the next morning and said, Dad, I must speak at the RNC this week.
I don't care.
And I said to her, are you sure you want, you know...
Your first speech ever.
You wanted to be in front of 50,000 people and tens of millions on TV.
And she goes, I don't care.
So I called my dad.
I said, listen, she wants to do this.
And he goes, whoa, that's a big one.
And he just said, you know what?
That kid is an absolute winner.
Let her do it.
And that, again, is the fight that we all need in our country.
That's what we want for all of our children.
So with that, my daughter, Kai.
unidentified
Hi, everyone.
Thank you all for the support for the past decade, and we're looking forward to the next four years, Thank you, guys.
donald trump-jr
You are the best.
No one will fight harder than my father for all of you.
There is no more resilient man in the world than Donald Trump.
Every time they tried to take him out, every time they said he was finished and were moving on, he came back.
Bigger, better, stronger than ever before.
And this one, this next four years, with this incredible team that we've assembled, is going to be the piece de resistance.
This is going to be it.
We're going to win for all of you.
So thank you and God bless.
benny johnson
I love how family friendly they are.
We're here with, you know, I'm here with my kids.
I'm going to go run around with them for a little bit.
But here with my kids, waiting on our fourth kid.
Ladies and gentlemen, only God knows the timing, but it looks like an awesome, awesome family friendly rally there.
I've never heard love.
I've never heard love.
Where's Baron?
That's exactly right.
That's exactly right.
Toss your comments up, ladies and gentlemen, on screen.
We'll do comments.
God bless the Trump family.
That's exactly right, Ronda.
Ronda in Texas.
Great balls of fire.
Ultra fine point.
That's right.
Look at this dude doing the Trump dance.
MAGA forever.
Comments are rolling in.
Poor Killer Kline.
He's like, I can't.
I can't.
Click up fast enough.
Ladies and gentlemen.
Might be another attempt.
Yeah.
I just saw some red sirens there.
People are worried, obviously.
We talked about this, how President Trump was in a protected vehicle today.
unidentified
I want to live it like a little shit.
benny johnson
It's amazing.
It's amazing to see.
Look at all this.
Look at the happy people there inside of the arena and packed out 20,000 person capacity.
Again.
Trump for life, says Gianna Blanco.
Again, we feel bad for and wish we could do something about individuals who couldn't get in.
I know that there are potentially hundreds of thousands, if not millions of people that wanted to go to this inauguration.
I know this because multiple people on my block, including me, wanted to go to the inauguration but had to turn around.
So my neighbors, I don't know, is this your, is the same thing that happened to you?
My neighbors wanted to go, and they had already left.
They were halfway there.
When they heard that it wasn't going to be outside anymore and that there weren't going to be tickets, then they turned around and came back.
They just came back today, actually.
Keep praying and don't stop, ladies and gentlemen.
That was awesome.
Hey, baby.
Hey, baby.
You want to come say hi?
Make America godly.
Amen.
That's right.
Ladies and gentlemen, nothing but love.
Nothing but good and beautiful people.
Hi, sweetie.
unidentified
You want to say hi?
Yeah.
Okay.
benny johnson
Say hi.
We have a paintbrush here.
unidentified
Hi.
Let's see a paintbrush and a pair of tweezers and some other things.
And I say hi.
benny johnson
You say hi to everyone?
unidentified
Yeah.
Yeah?
benny johnson
Can you tell them your name?
unidentified
Juliet.
benny johnson
This is Juliet.
How old are you?
unidentified
Two.
benny johnson
You're two years old?
unidentified
Mm-hmm.
Two years old.
benny johnson
And what's your favorite thing to do?
unidentified
Cookies.
benny johnson
Cookies is your favorite thing to do.
unidentified
Who's your favorite president?
Baby Joe.
Do you like Donald Trump?
Do you like Donald Trump?
Yeah, okay.
benny johnson
We had an interesting day yesterday where she said Joe Biden pooped his pants.
So you can tell the commentary that goes on inside of the Johnson household.
Guess what?
You want this?
unidentified
There you go.
benny johnson
Our zoo cards.
That's the zoo.
unidentified
When we go to the zoo.
benny johnson
Just making sure I'm not putting our credit card information on this.
That's true.
But if you all want to go to the zoo on our...
There you go.
Very family friendly.
Juliet, what's your favorite ice cream flavor?
unidentified
Chocolate.
benny johnson
Chocolate.
And here's Kate.
unidentified
Here we go.
Here's the whole family.
Hi.
benny johnson
Hey.
This is the crew right here.
unidentified
Minus Eloise.
benny johnson
Minus Eloise.
And a new baby right here.
Everybody's been wishing you well.
Lots of love.
unidentified
We are ready to go.
Yes.
benny johnson
We are ready.
Will we name the baby Don if the baby comes tomorrow?
unidentified
No.
benny johnson
If we're having twins, if we have twins, we're naming them Don and Eric.
unidentified
Okay.
If we have twins, we can do that.
benny johnson
Okay.
lara trump
Deal.
unidentified
Surprised way.
benny johnson
How are you feeling, Kate?
unidentified
I feel good.
Yeah.
Just ready.
Okay.
Yes.
benny johnson
On our way.
unidentified
Okay.
Come on, JoJo.
We're going to go get some chicken.
I made a chicken.
Okay.
Mommy, no, I want daddy.
benny johnson
You want to stay here?
unidentified
Uh-huh.
benny johnson
Okay.
unidentified
You're talking about that.
Come on, babe.
benny johnson
I'm talking about who your favorite president is.
lara trump
Oh.
unidentified
Yeah, who's your favorite president?
Donald Trump?
Yeah, Donald Trump.
Baby doll.
benny johnson
Baby doll.
Also baby doll.
His favorite president.
unidentified
Very good president.
benny johnson
Yeah, that's right.
Family affair.
You get to see Eric and Laura and Don Jr. and their kids, and now you get to see the Johnson family.
unidentified
Come on, Juliet.
Let's go.
We're going to get some chicken.
I'm going to sit with Daddy.
benny johnson
We should just do this as the show.
We should just do this as the...
Why don't we just do this as the stream every day?
Come on.
This is like so easy.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are covering the rally.
If you just jumped in, this isn't just like the Johnson streaming.
A typical Sunday afternoon, which is exactly this.
We have paintbrush.
unidentified
Oh, okay.
benny johnson
Toothbrush.
unidentified
No.
Yeah, okay.
benny johnson
And a family affair.
We have a very happy little family here and living out our values.
unidentified
Daddy.
Yeah, baby.
Oh, so I can hear.
benny johnson
This is my earpiece.
unidentified
So I can hear what's going on.
benny johnson
We can just do this.
This is one of the more interesting interviews we've done in a long time.
unidentified
Yes, baby.
That's it.
That's a clip.
benny johnson
For my earpiece.
That I'm not using, which is why it looks like that.
Live out your values, man.
You are not going to have an American future if you don't have children.
Like, there is no America first if there's no America to pass.
Dad, are you going to work?
This country.
On to.
And so that's...
unidentified
Dad, are you going to work?
benny johnson
Yes.
Well, I'm currently working right now, baby.
I'm just working with you on my lap.
unidentified
I'm going to work.
Maybe we can do this more often.
benny johnson
No, sweetie.
I'm going to be right here.
And you can come visit.
Everyone loves you.
The chat loves you.
Can you say hi, chat?
unidentified
Hello.
benny johnson
Can you say hello, chat?
unidentified
Hi, chat.
There you go.
Yeah.
benny johnson
Can you say, can you say, can you say hello chat?
unidentified
Hello chat.
There you go.
There we go.
Alright.
benny johnson
Okay, so you live out your values, right?
Like, what's the point of fighting so hard?
You want to get down?
What's the point of fighting so hard to save this country if you have no one to pass it on to?
If you're going to pass it on to people who don't share your values?
In fact, the easiest way...
No, no, no.
Sorry.
If I log off, ladies and gentlemen, not on purpose.
It's because I had a two-year-old smash my keyboard.
If you don't have a family to pass on your values to, then what are you even doing, right?
This is not a knock, and this is not me trying to critique everyone.
I'm just saying it's time for us to lock it in and understand what actual saving America looks like.
Saving America means saving America for my American children.
It looks like we have Lee Greenwood out on the stage here.
So, ladies and gentlemen, we'll cut on back over.
Juliet, can you say bye-bye?
unidentified
Bye-bye.
benny johnson
Can you say bye-bye?
unidentified
Bye-bye.
All right.
benny johnson
Say bye, chat.
unidentified
Bye.
Ladies and gentlemen, President Donald J. Trump.
Whoa!
Here we go!
All right.
benny johnson
He's gonna come out during the song.
This is awesome.
unidentified
And it's time.
And it's time.
And it's time to be an American, or at least I know I'm free.
And I won't forget the men who died, who gave that right.
benny johnson
I cannot believe what we just witnessed.
Ladies and gentlemen, I cannot believe it.
Donald Trump just walking into the arena through the crowd.
I've actually never seen a man in the arena like that.
Donald Trump walking in through the arena.
That's Donald Trump.
Oh, that's Joe Biden.
unidentified
Joe Biden.
benny johnson
No, it's just Joe Biden who pooped in his pants.
That's Donald Trump.
All right, ladies and gentlemen, here we go.
Donald Trump.
unidentified
Amazing.
donald j trump
Well, thank you very much.
Thank you.
Thank you very much.
We won.
unidentified
You won.
You won.
donald j trump
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 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.
And 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, just notice a group of beautiful ladies, beautiful women from North Carolina, from North Carolina right here, too.
unidentified
Thank you.
donald j trump
I don't know how the hell they...
They've been to 167 rallies.
You believe?
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.
And up here I see we have front row Joes all over the place.
Uncle Sam, Mr. Wall.
Ah 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 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.
unidentified
Thank you.
donald j trump
And a record that will never be broken.
All 50 states shifted toward the Republican Party 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, and 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.
unidentified
We made it too big.
donald j trump
Oh, and they tried.
They tried.
It was too big.
Around 9:02, they just said, "Let's get the hell out of here.
This isn't working.
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.
Senate's in great shape.
House Republicans, actually, they both have great leaders.
They both have great people.
Heading John Thune is fantastic.
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 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.
Anybody 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 yet.
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 39-year high.
Bitcoin has shattered one record high after another.
The major investment company known as Demac Properties has announced that it will be investing between $20 and $40 billion in the United States.
And SoftBank, another great company, has pledged between $100 and $200 billion.
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.
unidentified
So...
donald j trump
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.
unidentified
I like it.
donald j trump
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...
unidentified
Who in this audience goes with TikTok?
donald j trump
Many?
Very popular.
And frankly...
We have no choice.
We have to save 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.
unidentified
I'm approving on behalf of the United States.
donald j trump
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?
unidentified
Good?
I think so.
donald j trump
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...
Cease fire 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, Honest Dave Lincoln.
We have Honest Dave.
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 are a strong man.
I said, "What the hell was that?" But I'm glad to report that the first hostages have just been released.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you.
donald j trump
And who knows what's going to happen.
I know that Biden is saying that they made the deal.
Well, you know...
unidentified
I mean, that deal should have...
donald j trump
First of all, it would have never happened if I were president.
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 had no money.
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'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 really couldn't have been done without Steve.
Where is Steve Whitcoff?
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?
Bah, guess what?
You have no fingers.
These are rough people and they're getting the hell out of our country.
unidentified
They're out.
donald j trump
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.
unidentified
Who they are?
donald j trump
I don't know.
I didn't tell them I was going to do this.
I didn't tell, but we have some very good people, but I didn't say it.
But we had a chart, and I looked to my right, and then they said, ooh, 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.
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.
unidentified
Look at that.
donald j trump
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 Lambs.
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 than 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 Tren d 'Iraqua from the United States.
Here's a little video for you to see about this gang.
unidentified
Go ahead.
The first deadly consequences.
Border crisis.
Record high crossings are putting a strain on cities across America.
It is a full-blown invasion.
Armed Venezuelan gang members storming an apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado.
When people talk about lack of crime, this is what they're talking about.
San Antonio, Texas, just one of the latest cities to have apartment complex be taken over.
By members of the Venezuelan gang.
Biden and 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 across the border as criminals.
More than 13,000 illegal immigrants convicted of 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.
Yeah, we need to probably think about starting from scratch.
More than a dozen people suspected of being Drenda Aragua gang members right here in San Antonio.
The gang members had been terrorizing the apartment complex.
New details in the murder of Lake and Riley.
The illegal immigrant suspect, who cops say committed the heinous murder, is a Venezuelan national.
And was rolled and released into the country.
By the Biden administration.
donald j trump
If they had all been properly vetted, that probably wouldn't have happened.
unidentified
Two men investigators say are in the country illegally from Venezuela, are charged with capital murder and the death of Jocelyn Nungarai.
Martinez and unheld wrapped his arms around it.
Jocelyn's neck took off her pants and climbed on top of her.
Later strangled Jocelyn 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.
The men threatened to cut off her fingers if she did not cooperate.
Manuel Fernandez-Hernandez was booked by Colleyville police just two days earlier and released the day before the robbery.
a Peruvian gang leader who was wanted for 23 murders, who was arrested by Border Patrol near Roma, Texas, then released into America.
donald j trump
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.
Crime all over the world is down.
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 headed up any of the countries.
I know most of those guys are smart.
They're leaders.
They are smart, streetwise people.
As soon as I heard they were going to have open borders, I 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.
The Congo is big on emptying their prison.
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 Lakin Riley, Rachel Morin, Joshua Nungary, Kayla Hamilton, and every other precious American soul that we have lost to these animals.
Their memories will live in the hearts forever, in our hearts forever, and we will never, ever forget them.
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.
There are hundreds and even thousands of victims of this horrible atrocity.
And you add those numbers to the numbers of crime that we're 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, David.
No, no, crime has gone down.
I said, it's gone through the roof.
And then he goes, I disagree with that.
The next day they announced the 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 of, you know, think of it, open borders, prisons, mental institutions, men playing in women's sports, transgender for everyone.
Transgender.
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 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?
unidentified
It was captured.
donald j trump
Ah, and X is with him.
X. Come on.
unidentified
Thank you, thank you, Mr. President.
Sorry, little X just followed me on the stage here.
He's a very enthusiastic supporter, as you can see.
Woo!
Yeah!
So, we're looking forward to making a lot of changes.
This victory is the start, really.
What matters going forward is to actually make significant changes, cement those changes, and set the foundation for America to be strong 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, Elon.
Thank you.
donald j trump
You know, I always say we have to be protective of our geniuses because 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, 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 and 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 it.
Nobody's been able to do that but him.
And he's a great guy.
And we have him and Vivek and some great people working on a thing called COS.
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.
unidentified
It was pretty good.
donald j trump
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 can 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 him at the beginning.
unidentified
We're going to sign him at the beginning.
donald j trump
You know that old story.
Let's do it later, then it never gets done.
No, we're doing them tomorrow.
And we'll have plenty to sign in the future.
Don't worry about it.
It's 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 in 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.
APPLAUSE 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.
unidentified
Take a look at this Oh You little scumbag!
I got your name!
I got your ass!
You will not laugh!
You will not cry!
You will learn by the numbers!
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've got a war face?
Ah!
That's a war face!
Now let me see your war face!
Ah!
Bullshit!
You didn't convince me!
Let me see your real war face.
You will be a weapon.
The minister of death reigns for war.
But until that day, you are pukes.
You are the lowest form of life on earth.
You are not even human fucking being.
You are nothing but unorganized, gravastic pieces of amphibian shit.
How to abracadabra these bitches know I got answers the way I...
It must be like the best party who ran down to crack your mama's ass and ended up with a brown stain on the matrim.
I love working for Uncle Sam.
I love working for Uncle Sam.
And she knows that who I am.
Let's be know just who I am.
1, 2, 3, 4, United States Marine Corps.
1, 2, 3, 4, United States Marine Corps.
Thank you.
Thank you.
donald j trump
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've 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 Defense.
Where's Pete?
unidentified
Where's Pete?
donald j trump
Pete's here someplace.
Where is he?
Good job, Pete.
They like you, Pete.
unidentified
Thanks, Pete.
donald j trump
They like him.
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.
A human said.
unidentified
Thank you.
donald j trump
To end the weaponization of our government and restore the impartial rule of law.
Oh, this is so important.
She's so incredible.
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, Kash Patel.
And tomorrow, everybody in this very large arena will be very happy with my decision on the J. Six hostages.
unidentified
Very happy.
I think you'll be very, very happy.
donald j trump
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 the owners for allowing this to take place.
It was really great.
And thank you.
It's a hell of an operation.
Great place.
Fantastic arena.
Thank you, Ted.
Thank you, everybody.
At Homeland Security, we will have a tough leader in Christy Noem, and we will have...
An outstanding Secretary of Transportation in Sean Duffy, Congressman Sean Duffy.
Great people.
And we're going to win so much at Governor Burgum of the Interior.
You know Governor Burgum, one of the best governors in the country, is in charge of Department of the Interior.
And the hottest man anywhere in the world for energy.
When I announced him, people couldn't believe it.
You didn't hear of him, but if you're in the energy business, he's considered the absolute best.
Mr. Chris Wright of the Energy Department.
He's going to head up the Energy Department.
He's the hottest guy, and there is anybody in the energy business.
They said, I can't believe you got Chris Wright.
And a man named Marco Rubio is going to be our great future Secretary of State.
And Howard Ludnick, a tremendous success on Wall Street, is going to be our Secretary of Commerce.
They have to go through these drills, but they're going to.
And I want to thank the Republican senators.
They've been doing great.
And John Thune has been doing a great job in moving the process along quickly.
We're going to have a lot of them hopefully approved very quickly.
And a very special woman, Linda McMahon.
It's going to be our future secretary of education, which we're going to be giving back to the states.
Let the state run education.
unidentified
Thank you.
donald j trump
I said to Linda, I said, Linda, I'm making you the secretary of education.
But if you do a great job, you will put yourself out of a job because you're going to be sending it back to the states.
And she's fantastic.
And her staff, which has been largely hired, is fantastic.
And all of the other leaders will come to me and they're going to say, do you remember I used to do this for fun?
But it's really not fun, it's fact.
Because we have to do some of best of, right?
But they're going to come and say to me, sir, sir, we're winning too much, sir.
We can't take it anymore.
We have to stop winning, sir.
We can't do it.
We're not used to winning in our country.
And each one of them is going to say, every single one, sir, please, please, you're destroying our country.
We're winning too much.
Our country isn't prepared for this.
They're not used to winning, sir.
And I'll say, no, no, Linda and everybody, we're not going to stop winning.
The people of our country want us to keep on winning, and we're going to go win like never, ever before.
And that's what we're going to do.
We're going to be doing it, Uncle Sam.
Uncle Sam is having a heart attack down here.
unidentified
Look at him.
donald j trump
Uncle Sam is going wild.
And they think I'd pay for these people.
I have no idea who he is.
All I know is he does.
And there's Abe Lincoln.
Thank you, Honest Abe.
I have no idea.
I swear.
I have no idea who the hell he is.
But he looks like Abe.
He's probably a little bit shorter at all.
Abe was 6 '6".
He's a little bit shorter.
He's about a foot shorter.
Other than that, he's perfect.
Thank you, Abe.
In addition to the most talented cabinet ever assembled, and we think we're hearing things like that, we will be supported in our mission by countless wonderful American patriots.
First, let me thank my incredible family, and I want to thank in particular somebody that headed up the Republican Party, along with Mike, the two of them.
Lara Trump, who you saw before, produced those two beautiful children.
Lara Trump is unbelievable.
She was the chairman of the Republican Party.
And nobody ever said, oh, gee, it's a family member.
They actually said, how the hell did you get her to do it?
And she did a phenomenal job.
We had a minimum of cheating.
We watched them like a hawk.
Where is Lara?
Where the hell is she?
She did some job.
See?
She wants to be nice and quiet.
She's here someplace.
Thank you, Lara.
Thank you very much, hon. She's phenomenal.
The job she did.
And her son.
Didn't they do a beautiful job?
The son and the daughter.
How many young kids know that one?
They don't know that one.
But her husband is somebody I'm very proud of.
He's doing a great job.
He's been subpoenaed more than any human being in history, I believe.
Every day he'd get a subpoena from Congress on something all bullshit.
unidentified
But he'd get a subpoena.
donald j trump
He's got a PhD in subpoenas.
But he did a fantastic job.
And Don, you know all about Don, how he did.
He's great.
He's very popular, too.
unidentified
He knows a lot about guns, I want to tell you that.
donald j trump
We had, by the way, I have to tell you, we had great support from every gun group, including the NRA.
It's really worked hard.
And Ivanka and Jared are here.
And Tiffany and Michael are here.
And Barron and my ten incredible grandchildren and another one coming through Tiffany.
And, of course, I want to thank our next Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance.
Wherever he may be, there's a lot of people.
Wherever the hell he is, he's here someplace.
It's a lot of people.
It's a little tough when you say, where is he?
You know, you've got a lot of people in here.
But J.D. Vance has been extraordinary.
And he's got an unbelievable wife.
The second lady of the United States, Usha Vance.
So Usha, thank you very much.
Beautiful couple.
Great people.
We're also pleased to be joined tonight by Hulk Hogan, the Hulkster.
unidentified
The Hulkster.
donald j trump
One thing, it's not hard to find him.
All he has to do is stand up and you say, there he is.
But he's great.
And Kid Rock, wow.
Kid Rock is a friend of mine.
He's a friend of mine for a long, long time.
He did that thing on Budweiser.
Budweiser will never be the same when he did the gun with the MAGA hat.
That was the commercial that everybody saw.
Also with us tonight is a great actor, tremendously talented guy, John Voight.
He's great and a friend of mine.
Sylvester Stallone is here.
Great guy.
And you know, I got Mel Gibson, Sylvester Stallone, and John Voight to become ambassadors to Hollywood, California, to put it back on track.
So they're all ambassadors.
You have to refer to them as ambassador, Mr. Ambassador.
And a man who's got an army of young people.
Charlie Kirk is here.
And I want to thank Charlie.
Charlie is fantastic.
I mean, this guy.
Don't believe this stuff when you hear the kids are liberal.
They're not liberal.
Maybe they used to be, but they're not anymore.
You've got to see how many people are for us.
And I want to thank Megan Kelly.
She's been terrific.
She's been really great.
And Billy Ray Cyrus.
And Lee Greenwood, wow, has he been trumpeted.
What a song and what a man.
And, you know, by the way, these microphones, you see the microphones?
I said, what the hell are those microphones doing standing behind me?
You're going to have a little special treat at the end of this speech.
I don't want to tell you because you'll rush me off the stage.
Get off the stage.
But you have a little special treat.
And I won't tell you, but let's put it this way.
It's the people that 30 years ago had a hot song, never hit number one, hit number five.
But 30 years later, it hit number one, week after week.
And they're here to sing.
They're here to sing.
For you.
And you won't recognize them.
They're slightly larger than they used to be, but that's the way life goes.
We can all tell you, that's the way life goes.
There's nothing we can do about that.
Sebastian Gorka, stand up, Sebastian.
I see Sebastian.
There's a patriot.
He's been with me through thick and thin, right, Sebastian?
Now he's with the administration.
Thank you.
Great guy.
And again, I want to thank Elon for what he did in Pennsylvania.
He worked so hard.
He worked so hard in Pennsylvania.
Great guy.
A man who is a champion.
A man who took something from nothing.
Everybody said this is something that will never work.
It's too violent.
But he understood people.
He said they like violence, unfortunately, right?
But a man who understood fighting better than any man ever.
There's never been anything like this.
What Dana White did with the UFC and building it into a monster sport franchise.
So I want to thank Dana White of USC for being here.
And Dana, you've done a job like nobody could have done.
unidentified
Thank you.
donald j trump
A great guy and a friend of mine.
A great friend of mine.
He's a tough cookie.
You want him on your side at all times.
Every one of those people you want on your side.
And we have dozens of other celebrities and everything, but we're going to get back to what we're doing.
But I do want to say, in the audience, we have many governors, many, many senators, many members of Congress and other distinguished guests, far too many to name, unless you'd like me to name them.
No.
You want me to name governors, senators, and congresspeople?
No.
I thought you were going to say that.
Sorry, governors.
No, but we appreciate all of the love that we've gotten from them.
I'll tell you, our House and our Senate Republicans have been unbelievable, and the governors are unbelievable, the job they're doing.
Of the crime-ridden cities, the top 25, every single one of them is run by a Democrat.
Does that tell you something?
We don't have problems in the Republican cities.
Tonight, I also want to send our love to everyone affected by the terrible wildfires raging in California.
We're praying for you all.
We love you all.
We're going to be there very soon.
I'm going to go out there on Friday to see it and to get it moving back.
We're going to get some of the best builders in the world.
We'll get it moving back.
Pay my respects to the great people of North Carolina.
You know, I won it every single time.
And they've been treated very badly.
FEMA almost didn't know it existed.
And we're going to get North Carolina rocking and rolling, okay?
unidentified
We're going to get them rocking and rolling.
donald j trump
They've been treated very badly as a state.
Together we will rebuild Los Angeles better, more beautiful.
Than ever before.
We're going to get it going.
We have the best builders in the world.
It's the only people that could do it.
Nobody else knows what the hell they're doing.
And in 2028, the Los Angeles Olympics will be one of the great sporting events and patriotic celebrations in history.
I was with Gianni, the head of the Olympics, and because of the wildfires, they're going to do a special, special job.
They're going to really do something very special for the Olympics.
And the opposite, some people said, oh, maybe the Olympics can't go there.
It turned out just the opposite.
They came to see me the other day and the committee, and it's just the opposite.
So the Olympics is great.
And Johnny, for the others, you know, the World Cup, Johnny is the head of it.
We had our top people, Wasserman.
They all came in on the Olympics, and then I saw Johnny.
And we got the World Cup, too.
And, you know, it's only because they...
You know, I got both of them.
I got the Olympics and I got the World Cup.
And I said, you know, it's too bad.
One was in 2026 and the other was in 2028.
I said, I won't be there.
I won't be your president.
But then they rigged the election and now we won.
So I'm going to be your president for the Olympics and for the World Cup.
So, Johnny, thank you for the World Cup.
And everybody, thank you for the Olympics.
We're going to have a great time.
We have another thing happening.
250 years.
A celebration like no other.
250 years.
And that's going to be taking place next year.
So we have a lot of big events coming.
And everything we do, we...
Do everything.
We take it very, very seriously.
But what do we do more than anything else?
We put America first.
And it all starts tomorrow when I raise my hand on the Bible to be sworn as you are.
We'll be sworn in tomorrow.
We're all going to be sworn in together.
That's the way I look at it.
unidentified
It's not me.
donald j trump
It's the greatest of all time.
So we will be sworn in.
Tomorrow, I'll be representing you as your 47th President of the United States.
unidentified
Thank you.
Thank you.
donald j trump
And just in conclusion, together, we're going to cut your taxes, end inflation, slash your prices, getting them back down, raise your wages, and bring thousands of factories back to the USA.
Right where they belong, and that'll be done through tariffs and smart policy.
We will build American, we will buy American, and we will hire American.
I will end the war in Ukraine, I will stop the chaos in the Middle East, and I will prevent World War III from happening, and you have no idea how close we are.
We will crush violent crime in our cities and give our police the support, protection.
Resources and respect they so dearly deserve.
We will strengthen and modernize our military again.
We did it.
We rebuilt our entire military.
And then they gave billions and billions of dollars of it to, you remember, to the Taliban.
They gave it to the Taliban.
They gave our military equipment, a big chunk of it, to the enemy.
Do you know that we pay billions of dollars a year?
Do you know this?
Does anyone know this to Afghanistan?
Do you know that?
And I say, if we're going to pay billions of dollars a year, tell them we're not going to give them the money unless they give back our military equipment that these poor, stupid people allowed for them to have.
So we'll give them a couple of bucks.
We want the military equipment back.
We will rebuild our once great cities, including our capital in Washington, D.C., making them safe, clean, and beautiful again.
And we want to make this city again safe.
We don't want people coming to Washington and getting mugged, shot, killed.
We're going to stop it.
Law enforcement.
And they have very good police here, but they have to be allowed to do their job.
We're going to stop it.
We're going to beautify it.
We're going to make it the most beautiful capital in the world.
We will teach our children to love our country, to honor our history, and to always respect our great American flag.
And we will get critical race theory and transgender insanity the hell out of our schools.
Always remember, this is so easy.
This will be done tomorrow.
We will keep men out of women's sports.
It's over.
I will defend religious liberty.
I will restore free speech.
And I will defend the right to keep and bear arms.
We're going to defend that.
After years of building up foreign nations, defending foreign borders and protecting foreign lands, we are finally going to build up our country, defend our borders and protect our citizens.
And we will stop illegal immigration once and for all.
We will not be invaded.
We will not be occupied.
We will not be overrun.
We will not be conquered.
We will be a free and proud nation once again, and that will take place tomorrow at 12 o'clock.
unidentified
*crowd cheers*
donald j trump
Everyone in our country will prosper.
Every family will thrive.
And every day will be filled with opportunity and hope, and also filled with a thing called the American Dream that you don't hear much about anymore.
For the past nine years, you and I fought side by side against the most sinister and corrupt forces on earth.
And in our magnificent victory on November 5th, you showed them once and for all that this nation does not belong to them.
this nation belongs to you.
From New York to Los Angeles.
From Philadelphia to Phoenix, from Chicago to Miami, and from Houston to right here in Washington, D.C. Our country was won and built by generations of patriots who gave everything they had for our rights and for our freedom.
They were farmers and soldiers, cowboys and factory workers, steel workers, coal miners, police officers and pioneers.
Who pushed onward, marched forward and let no obstacle stand in their path.
Nothing could get in their way.
Together they laid down the railroads, raised up the skyscrapers, built the great highways, won two world wars, defeated fascism and communism and launched American astronauts to the moon.
It was hardworking patriots like you who built this country.
And 75 days ago on November 5th, it was hardworking patriots like you who saved our country.
You saved our country.
Now, after all we have been through together, we stand on the verge of the four greatest years in American history.
With your help, We will restore America's promise and we will rebuild the nation that we all love so much.
We are one people, one family, and one glorious nation under God.
We will never give in.
We will never give up.
We will never back down and we will never, ever, ever, ever surrender.
We will fight, fight, fight, and we will win, win, win.
And together...
We will make America powerful again.
We will make America wealthy again.
We will make America healthy again.
We will make America strong again.
unidentified
We will make America proud again.
donald j trump
We will make America safe again.
unidentified
Amen.
donald j trump
And we will make America great again.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
What a great victory for everybody.
Thank you, America.
Thank you very much.
unidentified
Thank you.
Come on, everybody!
It's fun to see it though.
I didn't see it.
It's fun to see it though.
They have everything for you to know.
You can hang out for all the boys.
Understand those Y-N-C-A.
Understand those Y-N-C-A.
You can get yourself clean.
Have a good meal.
Do what you love your feet.
Young men, are you listening to me?
I said, young men, what do you want to be?
Young men, you can make millions of dreams.
You've got to know this one thing.
Young men, does it all by himself.
I said, young men, put your pride on the shelf.
Text your man to the Y-N-C-A.
I'll choose they can help you today.
All right, everybody.
It's fun to stay at the Y-N-C-A.
It's fun to stay at the Y-N-C-A.
They have everything for you to know.
You can hang out with all the boys.
It's fun to stay at the Y-N-C-A.
It's fun to stay at the Y-N-C-A.
Young men, you can get yourself clean.
You can probably do.
You know what they might not be.
Young men, I was one to your shoes.
I said, I was.
Down and out with the knees.
I felt no man.
Young men, you can't have a life.
I felt the whole world was so bad.
I said, someone came up to me and said, young man.
Take a walk up the street.
It's a place.
You can't stop you.
All you wish.
Everybody.
It's fun to stay at the Y-N-C-A.
It's fun to stay at the Y-N-C-A.
They have everything for you to know.
You can hang out with all the boys.
It's fun to stay at the Y-N-C-A.
Young men, young men, they will be free now.
Young men, young men, take yourself off the ground.
Y-N-C-A.
Young men, young men, take yourself off the ground.
Young men, take yourself off the ground.
Please raise your right hand and repeat after me.
I, Donald John Trump, do solemnly swear.
I, Donald J. Trump, do solemnly swear.
I, Donald J. Trump, do solemnly swear.
The war is turned.
Live the liberty.
You must...
Order the surrender.
How could it come to this?
An army of rabble.
Essence.
Everything will change.
Everything has changed.
What a nasty woman.
For Peanut.
In the game, the game is going to be a big fan.
For the next one, the game is going to be a big fan.
If you come back, the game is going to be a big fan.
You better get in line, stand there shaking, waiting for your turn.
Behind the old front, just heat this alert.
You better finish what you start.
The media clowns on for the attack, but I stand six feet above the ground Because you can't keep a good man down Come on, come on, take your best shot, pump my fist, give me what you got Cause you can't keep a good man down Come on, come on, take me to my grave I'll rise again and again and say, you can't keep a good man down No!
You can't keep a gold man down Cause you can't keep a good man down In America, we don't worship government.
We worship God.
We worship God.
This man never fades.
You know it's primetime when Benny invades.
From saving the nation to stories untold.
The Benny shows a storm.
See the truth unfold.
Stay in the loop.
Let freedom take hold.
Salt on all the libs.
Soul never sold.
It's the Benny show.
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