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Jan. 28, 2025 - Bannon's War Room
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WarRoom Battleground EP 695: President Trump Addresses Members Of Congress
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donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
That's the other term that they use, which is actually more accurate, more understandable.
And it's ridiculous.
We're the only country that has it, and certainly the only country that has it to that extent.
And it wasn't meant, if you look, it was really meant for children of slaves.
This is when it happened, the children of slaves.
It was not meant for everyone to come into our country by airplane or charging across the borders from all over the world and think they're going to become citizens.
It's not meant for that.
It wasn't meant for that.
And hopefully at some point the courts will understand that without having to go through a whole big deal.
This was meant for the children of slaves.
And look at the timing of it and you'll see.
And I hope judges will understand that.
And it has to stop because it's really hurting our country very badly.
In the coming weeks, I'm looking forward to working with Congress on a reconciliation bill that financially takes care of our plans to totally and permanently restore the sovereign borders of the United States once in...
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For all.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
This should include full funding for a record increase in border security personnel and retention bonuses for ICE and Border Patrol.
These people are incredible people.
I got to know them so well.
I was on the phone with them all the time when I was president.
When she was the border czar, she never called them.
Remember?
We went like four years and they started asking her, did you ever speak to her?
No.
We asked the border patrol, did you ever speak to the president, the head of the border patrol, did you ever speak to the vice president who was your border zone?
No, I never got to speak to her.
This was a terrible thing that was going on.
This was a con job.
We also need a massive increase in the number of detention beds and funding for all border security, infrastructure, and barriers, including the completion of the border wall.
We did 500 miles of wall, and that's one of the reasons we had the lowest number.
You remember the famous chart that I looked to my right?
Bring down the chart.
And I looked at my right.
Something went right by he.
But that chart, I don't know if they have it now, frankly.
I didn't tell them to bring it.
But they're very competent people.
They might.
If you have the chart, put it up.
If you don't, that's okay, too.
But that chart showed that we had the lowest number of illegals coming into our country in history.
And I loved the chart.
Even if it didn't show that, I would have loved that chart.
Because that chart, I wouldn't be here right now without that particular chart.
But it was pretty amazing.
It was pretty, really amazing.
And we did a great job.
The week I left office, we had the lowest number of illegal immigrants coming into our country that we ever had.
Simultaneously, we must make a record investment in interior enforcement, including deportation flights and aircraft, as well as funding for our new task force to eradicate the presence of foreign gangs.
We have some of the worst foreign gangs.
It's not even believable.
And criminal networks that have brought devastating crime to American soil.
We're getting them all out.
We're getting them all out.
I won on that, you know.
It's like some people explain it very well.
They say, gee whiz, you know, they look at the people.
As you know, in Colombia, they agreed with us almost immediately after I got involved.
And Marco Rubio and I worked together.
He did a great job.
And we really did.
And Mike Waltz.
We have a great group of people.
But we were...
Being scolded because we had them in shackles in an airplane.
And he said, this is no way to treat people.
Now you've got to understand, these are murderers, drug lords, gang members, just the toughest people you've ever met or seen.
How would you like to be the pilot of a plane?
You've got two pilots up there and you've got 300 people sitting in a plane.
Every one of them, either a murderer, a drug lord, a kingpin of some kind, the head of the mob.
Or a gang member.
And you're flying that plane.
It's not going to end well.
Do you ever see the movie Con Air?
That's what, yeah.
Except, here's the difference.
The people in Con Air were actors.
They weren't nearly as tough as these guys.
I would say that that plane would be gone before it ever left.
Those pilots would be gone before it ever left.
So they don't want us to shackle them.
I don't want to be in that plane.
I want to thank every Republican House member for voting to pass the Lake and Riley Act.
The first enforcement-only bill that's been passed in three decades.
I met the parents of Lincoln, and they were incredible people.
They were just so devastated.
I mean, I can't even explain to you.
You can't say somebody's life is over, but essentially their life is so different.
And it can never be the same.
She was beautiful.
She was great.
Great person.
But to have a bill of such importance named after is a great tribute.
But what these parents, and you have so many of them, where they've lost a loved one to crime, but to this new form of crime, criminal, illegal aliens, it's massive.
The numbers are massive, and you add that to the crime we already had.
This shows the potential for additional enforcement bills that will help us.
Crack down on criminal aliens and totally restore the rule of law in our country.
I'm also eager to get to work with Congress on the largest package of tax cuts and reforms in American history.
We got to get that done.
And we don't want to get hung up on the budget process.
We just want...
Whether it's one bill, two bills, I don't care.
These guys are going to work it out.
They're going to work it out one way or the other.
But the bottom line, the end result is going to be the same.
We want to have all of those benefits.
And we want to keep people's taxes low and actually make them lower.
And that's not just rich people.
That's everybody.
It's, frankly, proportionately the lower scale, much more so than a higher scale.
Not only must we permanently extend the Trump tax cuts.
You know, if we don't, you're going to have about a 60% tax increase.
But I also intend to keep my promises, starting with no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security, and no tax on overtime.
We're working very hard to get them done.
I went to Nevada just this last couple of days.
I started off in North Carolina because I didn't want to forget the people of North Carolina were treated so badly by FEMA. They came to me.
They said, sir, you're going to California tomorrow.
I said, well, what about North Carolina?
Well, we'll do that another time.
And I said, no, we won't.
I'm stopping in North Carolina first.
And we stopped there.
We met great people.
Franklin Graham has done a fantastic job.
He's done a great job.
But others also.
And I met people that were devastated.
The Democrat Party with FEMA, their FEMA, did absolutely nothing.
And we have that worked out.
Your congressmen are helping very much there.
You three Congress.
People are working very hard on that whole thing, along with Michael Watley.
And Laura wants to be involved, too.
Laura Trump, she's doing great jobs.
She's done a great...
Michael and Laura have been unbelievable as the head of the RNC. They've been unbelievable.
Unbelievable.
You know why I picked Michael?
I said, who ran North Carolina?
Tell me.
Because in the 2016 election, we did so...
We did so well, and then in 2020, we did great in North Carolina, but others we watched...
What the hell's going on?
But with North Carolina, when he had 600 lawyers, 601 lawyers working for him, and they didn't play games in North Carolina, I said, that's the guy I want to run it.
And Michael Watley has done an unbelievable job, and he worked with Laura so well.
She comes from...
That state from North Carolina.
They've done such an incredible job.
So thank you very much.
I want to just thank you in front of leadership.
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Incredible.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
And I really don't want to give him another job, to be honest.
That's the most important job.
He said, sir, I'll go anywhere.
I said, I don't want you to go anywhere.
I want you to stay where you are.
We'll give you plenty of money to get the job done, right?
But we don't want to lose it.
I mean, he could do anything, actually.
A very talented person.
There's nothing more important because we have to win in two years or we have to win in four years.
There's nobody better to head it up.
So thank you very much, Michael, and really stand up.
We're just an incredible job.
Really amazing.
I wanted to save that for leadership because I say it all the time.
People don't know what the hell I'm talking about, but leadership knows what I'm talking about.
It's really incredible.
The two of you as a team are unbelievable.
Our administration will also be working to implement the Make It in America plan that I outlined very successfully in my campaign.
You know, I think my campaign, I really focused on the border more than anything else.
A lot of people said the biggest thing was inflation and the economy, and then maybe the border was third.
I always felt the border was first.
Because I felt that people could really understand that you can't have people pouring in from the prisons all over the world and from mental institutions all over the world and dumped into our country.
So I talked about that much more so than I did inflation.
I mean, inflation was terrible.
I think it was the worst in the history of our country.
But you can only talk about it so long.
You know, the price of apples doubled.
The price of bacon is quadrupled.
Everything is a disaster.
And you say it, and then what do you do?
With this, I could give examples of what they're doing to destroy our country.
And I felt it was the strongest thing.
You know, it's funny.
In 2016, I won on the border.
In 2020, we did so well, I couldn't talk about the border.
My people would say, sir, don't bring up the border.
Nobody wants to hear it.
I said, no, I did a great job.
It was a horrible border in 2016. But that border was beautiful compared to what we have now.
So I didn't talk about it, and we did great.
I mean, look, I got millions of more votes in 2020 than I got in 2016. Nobody ever got the most votes of any Republican in history in 2020. But this time I said, let's make it too big to rig.
We're going to make it too big to rig, and that's what happened, and they couldn't.
They tried.
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They tried, these cheating guys, these cheating people, but they tried, but they gave up.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
I brought taxes down from 40% to 21%, which everybody said was impossible, and I did it with these people up here and a lot of the people there.
A great congressman.
I want to name every one of them, but I'd be naming them all night.
I'm looking at them.
Look at all these people.
They're great.
They're so great, Russell and you.
Every single Virginia.
Look at Virginia.
She's a killer.
Nobody would know she's a killer.
But I got all these congressmen.
I want to name every one of them, but I got like a hundred and something things.
People would say, let's get the hell out of here.
This is getting very boring, right?
But I will tell you, as a group and individually, they're incredible people.
Every one of them I like, although every once in a while, if somebody votes against me, I don't like them for a little while.
But we like every one of them.
And this guy has the ability to get along with everybody, which he has to when you have a majority of really five.
You know, they say one, but it will be.
But right now it's one.
I want to make him sound a little bad.
But he has an ability to get along with people, and he's very smart, very tough.
But everyone likes him because he's a high-quality person, very religious person, and he's a high-quality person.
You know, we have other guys here, and I know that everybody likes him, but they're about, like...
One of them in particular, I love this guy so much, I won't name him because I don't want to embarrass him, but I don't know if he'd be happy or not happy, but he's very, very strong, very, very popular, but he has 36 people that won't vote for him.
He's 36. That's not a lot.
That's a small percentage.
Tom is incredible, but Tom has a couple of people that probably have been beaten badly and beaten up, beat up some people badly, and it's a little tougher.
But he's done an unbelievable job.
I've become friendly with him.
I didn't really know him.
And over the last year or so, I've become friendly.
He's an incredible leader.
You really are.
But you have a couple of people that may be more than one.
Let me put it that way.
They all love him.
Your wife loves you.
That I can tell you.
He's got a great...
Where are you?
Where are you?
Stand up, please.
Just stand up.
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Come on.
What a great wife and family.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
That's true.
Thank you.
She is a great...
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Look at her.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
She's very popular, isn't she?
She's great.
More than you.
You're very popular.
And now I'm bringing them down.
I'm bringing the taxes down from 21% to 15%, but only if they make their product in America.
So if they make their product in America, we're bringing it down.
So if you think about it, we took it down from 40% to...
15%.
But again, you keep 21, but you go down to 15 if you make your product here.
We are going to have so many business moving back into our country.
And remember, again, the word tariff.
We're going to protect our people and our businesses, and we're going to protect our country with tariffs.
And you got a little indication of that yesterday with what happened with a very strong country.
Colombia is traditionally a very, very strong-willed country.
If they don't make their product in America, then very simply they should have...
To pay a tariff, which will bring in trillions of dollars into our treasury from countries that never paid us ten cents.
We're not going to let that happen.
We're not going to let them destroy our country.
In the words of President McKinley, who is the tariff king, the protective system invokes the highest law of nature that a self-preservation, and that is self-preservation, there is every reason, founded in justice, why the American producer...
Should in every way be favored against a foreign producer whose products compete with his, this is our natural market.
We have made it.
We have made it an enormous cost, capital, and exertion.
And think of this.
And we did that through exertion and brain and muscle and guts and stamina.
We preserved it against foreign wars and domestic conflicts, a great sacrifice of men and women.
The foreign producer has contributed nothing to the growth or development of this country.
So if you want to share with the citizens of the United States our home market, then you must pay for the privilege of doing it.
In other words, you have to pay for the privilege of coming into our country, taking our jobs, taking our product, destroying our countries.
We mentioned North Carolina, the furniture business, what they've done to these great artisans.
I used to go down to North Carolina all the time to buy furniture for hotels that I was building, and they had the most incredible artisans.
That whole thing was wiped out by China mostly, but others, and just wiped out.
But it's going to come back.
It's going to come roaring back.
It's all going to come roaring back.
We're going to put tariffs on outside countries and outside people that really mean us harm.
Well, they mean us harm, but they basically want to make their country good.
Look at what others do.
China's a tremendous tariff maker, and India, and Brazil, and so many countries.
So we're not going to let that happen any longer because we're going to put America first.
Always put America first.
That's what's going to happen.
We're going to establish a very fair A very fair system where money is going to come into our coffers, and America is going to be very rich again, and it's going to happen very quickly.
It's time for the United States to return to the system that made us richer and more powerful than ever before.
Do you know, the United States in 1870 to 1913, all tariffs, and that was the richest period in the history of the United States, relatively speaking.
In other words, relatively.
And they set up the Great Tariff Commission of 1887, and this commission had one function, what to do with all the money that we took in.
It was so enormous that they had no idea it was a blue-ribbon committee was set up 1887, and what to do with all of the money that we had.
And again, Teddy Roosevelt was a beneficiary because when McKinley was killed, He took over this vast sum of money, and he did all of those national parks and all of the other things.
And I'm not knocking him, but he was given a vast amount of money.
And that was all made through tariffs.
We had no income tax.
The income tax came in in 1913. As I said in my speech last week, instead of taxing our citizens to enrich foreign nations, we should be tariffing and taxing foreign nations to enrich our citizens.
Does that make sense?
Under the American first economic model, as tariffs on other countries go up, taxes on American workers and businesses will come down, and massive numbers of jobs and factories will come home.
The job creation will be enormous.
In particular, if you look at the automobile sector, I mean, we're just being wiped out.
You just take a look at what's happened to that over the years.
And the auto workers voted for me.
I have an obligation to do what's right, and I'm going to do that.
Do you know in Mexico they were going to build the largest auto plant anywhere in the world?
And it was during the campaign, my campaign, my most recent campaign.
And a very great gentleman, all he does is build.
He builds auto plants.
He was building this factory.
And I said, how's it going?
I said, I want to go around and take a look at one of your factories that you're building.
One of the big ones, one of the good ones.
I said, okay, are you ready?
When are you going to do it?
This is eight months ago, nine months ago.
He said, you'll have to go to Mexico.
I said, what about the United States?
He said, we're putting up a couple, but they're small.
He's the biggest guy at doing this.
He said, in Mexico, they're building massive automobile factories.
I said, you mean they're doing it?
And who's the owner of the factories?
He said, mostly China.
One in particular is massive, and it's built fairly close to the border.
So they were going to build cars and send them into the United States for no tax or very little tax and destroy Detroit, just destroy the rest of it, what's left of it.
Because they've already taken, Mexico's taken 32% of our business over years, over 30 years.
And the other one is Canada.
Canada's taken massive amounts of, you know, they send us millions of cars.
We don't need them for that.
We don't need, we want to have the cars made in Detroit or South Carolina or many other locations, whether it's union or not union.
But we, I said to him, I said, so when is this plant going to open?
He said, well, we're going to start it in a couple of months.
And it'll be open in about a year and a half.
It's the largest plant in the world.
I said, I'm not happy with that.
And I said in my next speech that I am going to charge them if it takes 100% or 200%.
No car is coming in from Mexico into the United States without a massive tariff.
And I said it three or four times.
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And what happened...
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Is about two months later, I see that same gentleman who was in the audience, and I said, I want to see him backstage after I'm finished with the speech.
And I met him backstage.
I said, John, let me ask you, what happened with that plant?
Where is it now?
He said, sir, China's canceled it.
Why?
Because they think you're going to be elected, and they thought you were going to charge.
Big tariffs on the cars coming in and it doesn't work if you're going to charge.
So they canceled the plant and Detroit now will breathe and we're going to do just the opposite.
We're going to have these companies come in and they can build that plant if they want, but they have to build it across the line.
They have to build it in the United States.
Amazing.
Amazing.
We did so many things and we weren't even elected yet.
That would have been a disaster.
If that plant were built, it would have been a disaster.
That would have wiped out.
That was bigger than most of the factories put together, the auto plants put together.
In particular, in the very near future, we're going to be placing tariffs on foreign production of computer chips, semiconductors, and pharmaceuticals to return production of these essential goods to the United States of America.
They left us and they went to Taiwan, which is about 98% of the chip business, by the way.
And we want them to come back.
And we don't want to give them billions of dollars like this ridiculous program that Biden has.
Give everybody billions of dollars.
They already have billions of dollars.
They've got nothing but money, Joe.
They didn't need money.
They needed an incentive.
And the incentive is going to be they're not going to want to pay a 25, 50, or even 100 percent tax.
They're going to build their factory with their own money.
We don't have to give them money.
They're going to come in because it's good for them to come in.
They're giving them money.
They don't even know what they're going to do with it.
I had people tell me, we have no idea.
We didn't need money.
They don't know if they're even...
They're probably going to use the money to build in other places, other countries.
It's a ridiculous plan.
Very expensive and ridiculous.
The only way you'll get out of this is to build your plant.
If you want to stop paying the taxes or the tariffs, you have to build your plant right here in America.
That's what's going to happen at record levels.
We're going to have more plants built in the next short period of time than anybody ever envisioned before.
Because the incentive is going to be there.
Because they have no tariff whatsoever.
In fact, they have help from us if they build their plant in America.
And we're going to look at pharmaceuticals, drugs.
We're going to look at chips, semiconductors.
And we're going to look at steel and some other industries.
And you're going to see things happening.
If I didn't put on the massive steel tariffs, you wouldn't have one steel plant right now in the United States.
If I didn't put on the tariffs on washing machines, dryers, and the like, You wouldn't in Ohio.
You would have lost all of those companies that made washing machines and dryers.
Jim Jordan is the one that got me started.
Was Jim here by any chance?
Is Jim here?
Where's Jim?
Where's Jim?
Oh, look at him.
Wow.
That's not a great seat for a man of such power.
Do you know that Jim has a couple of...
He's a great wrestler.
He was an all-American wrestler three times.
128 in one.
That's not a bad record.
And that's the way he fights, too.
But he has a better record.
Undefeated as a wrestler in high school.
And I say, how can you do that?
Because a freshman can't beat a senior.
But he figured out how to beat seniors.
So stand up again, Jim.
Let's give you a hand as a wrestler.
As a wrestler, big hand.
As a politician, very good.
But, Jim, is it true that we say if we went up there, remember we had 25,000 people standing on the streets in this little beautiful town with whirlpool, right?
And they were going to close up their factories because South Korea was dumping washing machines and other things like that.
And they were dumping.
And we put a 50% tariff and then 75%, even 100%.
And now they're thriving, right?
Without Trump, they would have been closed up.
But Jim was the one that got me involved.
Are you guys all happy with Jim?
Do you like him?
Because I like him.
I like him, right?
We like Jim.
What's not to like?
He gets on television.
He's like a wrestler.
He's got this boom, boom, boom, boom.
Very impressive, Jim.
Anyway, it's good to see you.
I like that guy a lot.
I like a lot of the people in the audience a lot.
I like the people in this room.
We have the same basic philosophy.
We have the same thoughts.
What's not to like?
But I'll also be placing tariffs on steel, aluminum, and copper, and things that we need for our military.
We have to bring production back to our country.
You know, there was a time when we made one ship a day.
And now we can't build a ship.
We don't know what the hell we're doing.
It's all gone to other locations and other lands.
And to further return production to the United States, we're going to environmentally free up our rare earth minerals.
We have some unbelievable sites.
We have some of the best rare earth anywhere in the world, but we're not allowed to use it because the environmentalists got there first.
They said, you cannot touch that land.
I look at the land.
It looks like every other piece of land.
What is it?
Well, this is very protected.
They have no idea what they're doing to our country.
They use the environment to stop progress, so we're not going to let that happen.
We have Lee Zeldin.
I don't know if Lee's here today, but Lee Zeldin is going to be fantastic.
He's going to head up the whole environmental.
And I said, Lee, if we put in for a power plant, and if we don't get the approval, like, that you can start within 12 days.
One day would be even better, but 12 days, 14 days, see what you can do.
And Lee's great.
Lee knows what's good and he knows what's bad, and he'll be very fair, but we have to get it moving because some of these jobs, like the ones in Louisiana, they were 14, 15 years they couldn't get their approvals.
We can't let that happen.
When people come here with massive amounts of money, they want to start, they want to go, and we know what's good and we know what's bad, too.
and Lee Zeldin is going to do a great job environmentally as we fix our tax system we could also cut colossal amounts of government waste, fraud and abuse of which is a lot but tonight I restate my pledge from the campaign I will not sign any bill that cuts even a single penny from Medicare or Social Security for our great seniors we don't have to do that We don't have to do that.
We'll not touch those benefits in any way, shape, or form.
I want to use that because during the campaign, they had these fake ads.
Trump is going to cut Social Security.
No, they're the ones that are going to cut it because the country is going to go bankrupt under them.
And that's why it's going to cut because they're not going to have a choice.
Not that they're saying we're going to cut it, but the country was, our country was heading for absolute bankruptcy.
Using reconciliation, I also look forward to working with you to make our energy policies permanent and making our historic deregulation efforts a fixture of U.S. law so that no future president like they did with ANWR. I got ANWR approved.
Nobody could do it, including Ronald Reagan in Alaska.
It's the largest site, potentially the largest site in the world, larger than Saudi Arabia.
And I got it done.
Ronald Reagan couldn't get it.
Nobody could get it done.
They tried, but they couldn't get it done.
I got it done.
And the first thing they did was end ANWR in Alaska, the biggest, most powerful site, maybe anywhere in the world, that we got it done, and we're going to get it done again very quickly now.
I think I do it with an executive order because they didn't go through Congress.
I got it approved through Congress.
So I think we get it done fast.
But that can supply all of Asia with its location.
All of Asia can be supplied by ANWR. So there's so many things.
But we don't want to have any future president ever sabotage our economy with out-of-control regulations as the last two Democrat presidents have done.
They went crazy.
Last week I signed an order revoking Joe Biden's destructive artificial intelligence regulations so that AI companies can once again focus on being the best, not just being the most woken.
Today and over the last couple of days I've been reading about China and some of the companies in China, one in particular, coming up with a faster method of AI and much less expensive method.
And that's good because you don't have to spend this much money.
I view that as a positive, as an asset.
I really think if it's fact and if it's true, and nobody really knows if it is, but I view that as a positive because you'll be doing that too, so you won't be spending as much and you'll get the same result, hopefully.
The release of DeepSeek AI from a Chinese company should be a wake-up call for our industries that we need to be laser-focused on competing to win because we have the greatest scientists in the world, even...
Chinese leadership told me that.
They said, you have the most brilliant scientists in the world in Seattle and various places.
But Silicon Valley, they said, there's nobody like those people.
This is very unusual when you hear a deep seek, when you hear somebody come up with something.
We always have the ideas.
We're always first.
So I would say that's a positive.
That could be very much a positive development.
So instead of spending billions and billions, you'll spend less and you'll come up with hopefully the same.
Under the Trump administration, we're going to unleash our tech companies and we're going to dominate the future like never before.
And finally, we need to work together on a defense bill that once again fully rebuilds our military for our great warriors.
warriors.
We have to have a strong, strong defense.
And in a little while, I'll be signing four new executive orders.
First is that I'm directing our new Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth, who's going to be great, by the way.
Thank you for the support.
Thank you very much for the support.
You really did support him greatly.
I think he's going to be fantastic.
I know him very well.
I think he's going to be fantastic.
He's what we need.
To immediately begin the construction of a state-of-the-art Iron Dome missile defense shield, which will be able to...
Protect Americans.
You know, we protect other countries, but we don't protect ourselves.
And when Ronald Reagan wanted to do it many years ago, luckily we didn't.
We didn't have the technology then.
It was a concept, but we didn't.
And now we have phenomenal technology.
You see that with Israel.
We're out of 319 rockets.
They knocked down just about every one of them.
So I think the United States is entitled to that.
And everything will be made right here in the USA, 100%.
And next, to ensure that we have the most lethal fighting force in the world, we will get transgender ideology the hell out of our military.
It's going to be gone.
In addition, we will stop our service members from being indoctrinated with radical left ideologies such as critical race theory.
We're going to stop it.
It's already been stopped.
It's already been halted.
Totally halted.
And finally, we will offer full reinstatement to any service member who was expelled from the armed forces due to the COVID vaccine mandate.
And we will restore them to their former rank with full pay.
And I think we're going to have a lot of people that join.
And one thing I'll say, if you looked at our recruitment over the last week or so, two weeks, it's through the roof.
You know, we were having a lot of...
A lot of people weren't signing.
We were having a hard time recruiting people because they were looking at these people that were supposed to be their leaders.
And they weren't happy.
They didn't like people that fall going upstairs.
If you're going to fall, at least go downstairs from the plane.
That triple fall.
I used that thing in more ads.
I didn't have an ad where I didn't put that in.
Just a little quick.
One, two, three.
Reminded me of Joe Frazier when he went down, right?
George Foreman, Joe Frazier.
Three falls in a matter of seconds.
I said, can you speed it up a little bit?
People are getting tired of it.
But no, we have now the best recruitment we've seen in a long time.
There's a tremendous number of people wanting to sign up.
January 20th, 2025 was a turning point in American history.
Starting last week, we're ending years of incompetence, radicalism and betrayal.
And we're ushering in the most exhilarating era of reform and renewal in the 250-year history of our country.
And just in conclusion, I just want to say that this has been a very exciting and will be a very exciting new chapter.
There's nothing we cannot achieve as long as the Republican Party remains united.
I hope you can remain united.
And it's one thing I give the Democrats a lot of credit for because, you know, they have lousy policy.
I think, frankly, half of them are totally crazy.
But they do stick together.
They stick together on stuff that nobody can...
I mean, how can you want prisons emptied out into our country?
They stick together.
They stick together on everything.
Impeachment hoax number one.
Impeachment hoax number two.
They stick together.
Although I must tell you, you gave me great support during those two...
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donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Those two fake witch hunts, which have now turned out to be totally fake and disgusting.
But you gave me tremendous support.
But the Republican Party has to stick together.
We just can't have people going, you know, one, two, three votes.
And we don't have that luxury.
It would be different if we had a 20-point, 30-point, 30-person majority, but we don't.
We have to help leadership.
And, you know, you can be assured that you have certain philosophies.
That if you're going to have most of the people, almost all of them, voting for something, you're going to be okay.
It's not going to be bad.
You have to stick together.
It's the one thing that I would say we don't get very high marks.
Everything is so hard.
We always have two or three or five or something, people that just don't want to do it.
And you just got to do it.
You just got to do it.
Make life easy.
He just got to do it.
So right now we have a very special period because we have the House, we have the Senate, and we have the White House.
And we're a team, and we're a really good team.
And I appreciate so many times, like even with Mike, I called three or four people and they said, okay, sir, I'll do it.
I'm going to vote.
I'm going to vote positively.
And they're very happy they did now.
But when I called, we've gotten such a great response.
We just had that happen with Pete Hexa, and we have it happening with others.
We really appreciate it with the House.
The House has been, you know, it's a very difficult situation when you have that small a majority.
But in a certain way, it brings you together.
It actually can unify more than anybody would ever know.
And a victory is sweeter, as they say, because of it.
And I think we're going to have a lot of victories, but we have to stick together.
We have to work together.
We have to fight together.
We're going to win together.
We're going to win like never before.
We have a chance to win.
Like never before, as long as we stay united, the 119th Congress will be remembered as the most successful and accomplished Republican majority in American history.
I believe that.
I think we have a chance of doing it.
And in January 2027, we will have a larger Republican House, a larger Republican Senate, and our country will be richer, safer, stronger, prouder, greater, freer.
Ever before, I really think that we're going to have some big victories coming up, and I'm going to be helping every single one of you.
I'm raising a lot of money, and I want to use it for the House, and I want to use it for the Senate.
I've raised a lot of money.
And, you know, I told my people, we raised $1.7 billion.
They raised $2.6 billion.
I have the unions with, you know, check-offs, which is always tough, $10 a month times millions and millions of people.
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donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
And they wanted to go out, and they still haven't raised it.
They're trying to raise $28 million.
They cannot raise 10 cents.
It's good to win, I will tell you.
It's really good to win, but they can't raise money.
But I told my people the morning after.
Now, normally, because we have so many donors here and so many people that I love and respect, a lot of great friends of mine, but I told my people, Meredith and Susie.
By the way, how good is Susie?
The Ice Maiden.
Where is the Ice Maiden?
She is so great.
She is so great.
Stand up, Susie.
The Ice Maiden, ladies and gentlemen.
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Wow, look at that.
Most powerful woman in the world, they say.
donald j trump ▲ ● ▼
Most powerful woman in the world.
She's made of ice.
She's great.
No, you know, when I came to Florida, Florida was a...
Democrat state had a Democrat governor.
They had one Democrat senator.
It was largely a Democrat state.
And through various reasons, I ended up with Susie running the campaign, and she was unbelievable.
We won it in a landslide.
And then the second time, we won it in an even bigger landslide.
And when it came time to choosing somebody to...
Run the campaign, the whole campaign.
I said, what about Susie from Florida?
She never lost.
I won every primary.
I won every...
I didn't lose anything.
And again, it was a Democrat state.
And it was a landslide both times.
And all of the Republican stuff was almost like it didn't even exist.
It was amazing.
I said, what about Susie?
Well, sir, you know, a woman has never been in this position before.
I said, really?
Oh, by the way, we have Kellyanne Conway.
She didn't do too badly either, right?
She did a great job, 2016. And when it came time to chief of staff, do you know that there has never been a woman chief of staff?
But there is now.
There is now.
Right?
I didn't know that.
I'm so surprised.
I'm very surprised.
But it came time to running the campaign, and I said, well, I've never had a loss with Susie.
She comes from great stock, you know.
Pat Summerall is her father.
Pat Summerall was a football player, a great football player, but a really great announcer, really the voice of the NFL for 27 years or something.
He was great.
And a leader.
He worked with John Madden, and he was able to get John Madden to do things that nobody else could do.
They'd call him, they'd say, Pat, John is really difficult.
Now, you know, John was a difficult guy, but he got big ratings and he was good.
And Pat would go, come on, John, let's get this done.
Come on.
I know you don't like the heads of the company.
They're paying you a lot of money.
Come on, John, let's get it done.
And he'd go and do it.
And this went on for, what, 27 years, right?
But he was a leader, her father.
And, you know, this is somebody that has the gene.
I'll tell you, she's great.
And she's done a fantastic job.
So she was so good with the campaign.
I said, let's let her do the campaign.
It was flawless.
And again, I said before, we had to win a lot of votes because it's crooked as hell.
And I hope you can go to voter ID and same-day voting and paper ballots and all of those things because ultimately we'll never lose a race if you do that.
I'm telling you, you'll never lose a race.
And I hope you can get that.
And that's said to the governors mostly, but, you know, you people have a lot of power over it.
But Susie ran the race, and we did phenomenally, and then we just made her the chief of staff, and she's doing great.
They say it was the greatest week, opening week, in presidential history, and I think, you know, it could be a hell of a lot better.
Even CNN is saying, this guy is amazing.
I couldn't believe it.
I said, did CNN really say that?
Because nobody watches, so nobody was able to confirm it.
But it was pretty amazing.
Oh, their camera just went off.
It's always tough.
Usually you get them by surprise.
But I just want to thank everybody.
We're going to make this tremendously successful.
We're going to have, I believe, we're going to have one of the greatest four years in the history of our country.
We're going to turn it around quickly, and then we're going to go on, and we're going to progress like nobody ever thought possible.
And I want to thank these great four people, because they really are leaders, and they're phenomenal people.
And I want to thank all of my friends in the audience, many of whom are congressmen.
Congresswomen and people that have just tremendous talent.
Every single one of you, I know every one of you, and you have tremendous talent.
And if we stick and if we fight together, nobody can stop us.
We're going to have, because they have bad policy.
Their policy is so bad.
Nobody could win with this policy.
Nobody.
And we have the best policy.
And again, as they say, and we say, and I've been saying for a long time, we're the party of common sense.
And we're the party that's going to have the best four years ever.
Thank you very much.
Appreciate it.
Thank you very much.
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Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
at the Doral, the Blue Monster.
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They have ever President Trump.
Over an hour of commentary for an hour and 10 minutes, 70 minutes, roughly.
Into a wide range of items that we'll get into for a second.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Of course, the YMCA, his exit music.
Are they still playing the music going off the stage?
Okay.
Maybe not.
They cut away.
Back to me.
I guess I can direct, too.
at the same time give commentary.
President Trump really went into some topics quite deeply today, and I think it's for a bunch of reasons.
Number one, he said about the...
And we're going to get Joe Allen up here in a second.
There's something quite obvious, I think, happening with the Chinese Communist Party.
And we have to face this.
And if no one's talking about it, you've got to admit it.
You've got to talk about it.
There are no coincidences when it comes to the Chinese Communist Party.
Knowing what President Trump said about tariffs.
And right there, President Trump gave you a very detailed, talking about McKinley, talking about, and this is back in the day when 100% of the U.S. government was funded, fully funded, by external sources.
There was no internal revenue.
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There'd have been a huge debate.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
During the Continental Congress and informing the country around the contract that was the Constitution about what really was the power to tax.
There was no concept.
They would not even be able to think through personal taxes from a centralized government.
That would have never happened with their framers.
It was hard enough, them working out accommodations about...
Taxes at state level and what that went for.
Remember, it was all tariffs, customs and duties, which had been one of the big complaints even in the taxes and all that on the British East India Company led to the Boston Tea Party and many other things related to the early resistance before the shot heard around the world.
The shot heard around the world is in less than 90 days, right?
The 19th of April?
Here, you know, you've got Lexington and Concord, the 250th anniversary, and it'll lead up to that.
All the contention that'll be going on right now is about charging tariffs, duties, additional taxes on, like, stamps, all of it.
So this was hugely contentious, hugely contentious.
Today, President Trump went back to McKinley, who really was one of the greatest of the tariff.
Of people thinking through tariff and really external markets.
This is why President Trump causes the external revenue service.
This is not just a one-off.
This is actually something he's very much thought through.
He said right there, President Trump gave another commitment to no tax on tips.
He was speaking in the Republican Conference.
No tax on tips.
No tax on Social Security and no tax on overtime.
Once again, a commitment.
So, wow.
That's another, I don't know, $500 billion that's going to be short on the tax side.
I'm all for it.
I think you're throwing no tax on bonuses.
As long as we can cut investment banker bonuses out of it.
Also, obviously, you have to get carried interest, all those types of things, financial transactions.
But I'm seeing tax cuts right there.
Those are populist tax cuts.
But something is happening here.
You know, it called for all out, you know, almost like a Marshall.
Didn't get there, but almost like a Marshall Plan on AI and other technologies.
I think that this is where it's got to be a public conversation.
Exactly what's going on.
Who's going to make decisions?
What is this?
We have to have this defined.
No more.
We cannot have Marc Andreessen because what we've done is basically allowed an apartheid state in Silicon Valley to be formed and made a pact with them that will allow you.
This is Obama and Biden.
This is Obama.
That they would be the wealthiest people on earth with virtually no regulation, and in addition, no antitrust, no justice department.
This is why Google can be so big.
This is why Facebook can be so big.
This is why Twitter can be so big.
This is why Amazon can be so big.
And how many businesses, small businesses, have Amazon destroyed to sell Chinese Communist Party product?
They've destroyed businesses.
Bezos is as bad as it gets.
Democracy dies in darkness.
Well, American small business died in the light of Amazon.
And now I guess the warehouse is even being shipped, even being built in mainland China, not even over here anymore.
We allowed that.
We allowed no competition.
We allowed them to become basically monopolistic rent seekers, not profits.
These are not profits.
They go, it's rents.
These are rent seekers.
And we allow them to become the wealthiest and allow an apartheid state where no Hispanics and African Americans and really white working class dare enter while they bring over indentured servants from South Asia who have to live in, you know, tend to a room that didn't get their green cards, bring their families over at one-third to 50% less than American workers, American citizens' workers.
But the Chinese Communist Party gave us a love tap today.
So the oligarchs have failed.
Is Joe Allen with me?
Joe Allen joins us.
Joe, they're flooding the zone.
They're taking the Steve Bannon strategy, and they're flooding the zone with updates, releases, new technologies.
They've already won TikTok.
TikTok dominates.
That's something on social media that you see the ads they're taking out now, so your kids won't be overwhelmed by it.
Oh, I'm a good dad.
I'm not a cool dad.
I'm a good dad.
That's the TikTok new advertisement.
So we've already lost, really, the war on social media, and now it looks like we've lost it on artificial intelligence, if this is to believe.
What else has happened, Joe Allen?
Your perspective and observation, sir.
joe allen ▲ ● ▼
Like I said this morning, Steve, it's all these different forces converging at once.
You have this massive bubble, this overvaluation.
Of, you know, big tech, so Google, Microsoft, and really OpenAI, Amazon Meta, so on and so forth.
In the U.S., also, though, you have what Marc Andreessen calls little tech, right?
The startups, the smaller companies.
And even though it doesn't really fit, you could kind of put Elon Musk and his projects over on that side just because he's so adversarial with big tech.
And what happened with the just skyrocketing?
Of DeepSeek in popularity in the U.S., in displaying its capabilities, which are at least comparable to the top AI models in the U.S., and as has been claimed, far more efficient.
And even if you don't believe the Chinese numbers, the numbers put out by DeepSeek, $5 to $10 million to train.
You know, a handful of low-grade NVIDIA chips, and I certainly don't buy that.
It's still very much a streamlined model, and it's free.
So China, seeing all of this technological upheaval in the U.S., just smashed us with a total destabilization.
The NVIDIA stocks plummeting, Qualcomm, and all these different chip stocks.
Just plummeting in response.
And then today, I think just to rub it in, today, that same company, DeepSeek, released a multimodal model, which is kind of like a visual AI generative model called Janus.
And also today, Alibaba releases Quinn, which is sort of like an agent that...
It takes over your computer, it can do things for you, it recognizes things visually, so on and so forth.
Just putting the technicality aside, it looks to me, if you consider the economic competition between the U.S. and China as warfare, and that is certainly how you have described it, unrestricted warfare, then on the economic side and on the psychological side, this was a massive hit to the U.S. And in response, what I see...
Is U.S. companies rallying in order to compete, the acceleration of AI, and we've already seen the stripping of regulations.
And then, as our own Grace Chong predicted from the beginning, you had David Sachs suggesting possibly that U.S. companies might ask for bailouts.
So, it really, you know, a hell of a day.
Today, Steve, and I think that...
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Hang on.
Was it Sachs or was it Bill Ackman?
I think it was...
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Bill Ackman.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Yes, sorry.
joe allen ▲ ● ▼
Thank you for the correction.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Bill Ackman.
joe allen ▲ ● ▼
Yes.
Bill Ackman.
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Bill Ackman.
joe allen ▲ ● ▼
Yes.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
No, but here's when I say bailout.
What they want is a massive government.
You're going to start seeing right now, they want a space program type.
They want a Mercury missile type, a Mercury program, first to the moon, JFK first to the moon, or a Marshall plan.
To essentially bail them out.
More additional money for the accelerationists to get it.
And the question is, how do we get caught?
I want to know why the intelligence services didn't see this.
I want to know.
Because even if it's a PSYOP, they're doing it in the market.
NVIDIA, which has been carrying the stock market, lost $600 billion in market value today.
Largest loss in the history of the NASDAQ. $1.9 trillion.
So all the folks, particularly the day traders, have been playing the tech stocks, the MAG-7.
Today you took a hit, a big hit.
Could this come back tomorrow?
Yes, it could.
If you didn't sell the stock, you really haven't taken a loss, right?
It's a paper loss.
But the MAG-7 and all this, ever since ChatGBT came at Davos, this is all they've been talking about.
This is, you know, the whole thing's driven by AI, and today the Chinese Communist Party came out and said, oh, we've got something that's 100% cheaper and thousands of cents, and it's not going to take all the energy, and we don't use blunt force computing.
We're much smarter, we're much more nimble, and we did with Chinese scientists.
You're going to see the pressure now.
On H-1Bs, they're going to say, no, no, no, no, we need to get everybody, all the Americans got to be fired because the Americans, according to Elon Musk and this crowd, are all retards and lazy.
You know, Vivek is that you're mediocre.
You're mediocre because you're not a math Olympiad.
You're a cheerleader or you play quarterback.
This is going to metastasize to an all-encompassing, and we have to have it.
President Trump spent at least 20% Of his talk right there to the Republican Party that has historically grown up with this fantasy of free markets, because it's not free.
China is a totally mercantilist system, a 100% mercantilist system.
You heard Lee Wamsgan was on from Texas, from Patriot Mobile, and she said, hey, one of the issues they deal with Texas is China owning land.
You know, Chinese nationalists, if they're buying land in the U.S., they're associated and or part of the CCP. You just don't get to take your cash out of China and buy it in the United States unless you're getting official approval.
Down in Texas, can you go buy a bunch of property in China?
Oh, no, you can't.
Can you really own a company in China?
No, you can't.
It's a totally mercantilist system.
100% mercantilist.
And I think the deficit's, what, $600 billion?
They're burying us every year.
So President Trump lays out the case for...
Not tariffs, but external revenues, is how he calls it, back to the days of McKinley, when we fully financed this.
Joe, how is internet culture, how is tech bro culture handling this right now?
Because they've got a lot to explain.
Even if it's a PSYOP, they still look absurd.
Because we made this deal.
We gave them total monopolistic power.
We made them the richest people on Earth.
And some of the most powerful people on Earth, the oligarchs, and allowed them, the progressives, Obama and Biden, allowed them to create, and the Newsoms of the world and all the people in California.
They consciously allowed them to create an apartheid state, and the bargain was you're going to keep us as the dominant tech, particularly in the age of the algorithm, and today we get a wake-up call that that may not be the case, sir.
joe allen ▲ ● ▼
What I see is you've got the two different sides, basically, with a whole lot of noise in between.
On the one side, you've got those that are celebrating this.
The DeepSeek R1 is open-sourced, which means that it can then be replicated in the U.S. Their efficiency can be replicated on much larger AI infrastructure.
And then on the other side, you've got, you could say, the COPE crew, who are basically in denial, Correct assumptions that China used OpenAI's research and all the resources that they put into developing GPT. They basically knocked it off and improved it a bit and then open-sourced it to undermine them.
But, you know, I really do think that, from what I can see, day one, basically...
You're getting a big rally, and people like Marc Andreessen are really kind of leading the charge.
In fact, I would say that people like Marc Andreessen, who celebrated the release of R1 right away, that...
He, in some ways, and people like him, drove the massive downloads and the interest in this system, the DeepSeek R1 system, which then led to the cascade of the loss of confidence in NVIDIA and so on and so forth.
I think, ultimately, the response...
Setting aside all of my personal qualms with all of this, the response that we will simply build up our own systems and crush China is probably the one that's going to win the day.
I don't think that American Tech Bros, outside of a couple of losers, are going anywhere.
I don't think NVIDIA is going anywhere.
I don't think OpenAI is going anywhere, XAI, or any of the many companies that Marc Andreessen...
In fact, I would say Andreessen probably stands to gain the most because the subversion of these big tech companies opens up a space for all the smaller AI companies that he's investing in to rise up and fill in that gap.
The audience knows all of my problems with it.
It just doesn't matter.
But that confidence, I think, is really there.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Joe, real quickly, we're going to monitor it overnight.
Have you back at 10 tomorrow.
Real quickly, where do people go to get you between now and then?
joe allen ▲ ● ▼
Social media at J-O-E-B-O-T-X-Y-Z and my site, JoeBot.X-Y-Z. Thank you very much, Steve.
steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Thank you, brother.
Mike Lindell, we got about 45 seconds.
Hit me, brother.
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steve bannon ▲ ● ▼
Scott Besant is the Secretary of the Treasury, CEO.
68 to 29, I think it was.
Congratulations, Scott Besson.
He starts work as soon as he gets sworn in, which I think.
We'll be shortly.
See you tomorrow morning at 10 a.m.
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