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Episode 5046: Trump Addresses The GOP Following Arrest of Maduro

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My name is Shane Jenkins, Enrique Tario.
Robert Morris, Daniel Caldwell.
My name is Nikki.
My name is Pete Schwartz.
Barry Ramey, Ryan Nicholson, Deborah Mamau, John Nassif, Jordan McClure, George, White Wolf Riley, Robert Geesewine, Daudrianne Southern, Andrew Taki, Jessica Watkins, Timothy Hale, Tomiki, Billy Crossman.
This anthem means a lot to me because it's what held us together.
Against the odds, our faith that our days of this nation will be renewed is still there.
We formed bonds that can never be broken.
I, along with my brothers and sisters, weather destroyed.
We will never stop fighting for this country.
And my friends and my brothers that also help me through this tough time.
Because we are what makes this country the greatest country on this planet.
In this moment, in this anthem, is living.
We sing for all the people who never made it home through us their stories will be told.
We stand as one united in this fight for liberty.
Justice for our voices ring the dumb of the free.
Freedom ain't free, no, it comes with a price.
Rest in peace, Charlie, can't believe they took your life.
Didn't make it back home to your children and wife.
By any means, we have to keep freedom of speech alive.
Hey, rest in peace, Corey, all the fires that you fight.
To the cops and military that been fighting day and night.
So we could have liberty and our God-given rights.
To all the mothers and fathers that's just trying to protect their child.
Hey, freedom worth dying for, dreams worth fighting for.
God got us, I promise that's the reason I smile.
Protesting with our voice and our presence and our words.
We ain't killing people for disagreeing, man.
That's absurd.
We ain't burning down cities because we pray to all the people who never made it home through us their stories will be told.
We stand as one united in this fight for liberty.
Just as full of voices ring the dumb of the free stop killing people that just want to debate.
When we protest and you ain't seen no guns and no flames.
We don't have to agree, we ain't gotta think the same.
Country built on conservative values, let's reclaim it.
It's not about hate, we just wanna feel heard.
We're standing for the truth, not just following the herd.
You can love your country and still call out its flaws.
You can back the Constitution and still question the laws.
We don't wanna be killed just for speaking our voice.
God coming soon, man, so it's time to rejoice.
Let the ballots be counted, let the questions be asked.
Let the people decide, don't just bury the past.
And don't let evil get you down, cause God will be here.
We stand for all the people who never made it home through us.
We stand as one united in this fight for liberty.
Justice for our voices ring the dumb of the free.
Another person that I have to thank is Donald J. Trump.
Our brotherhood that we built and the country we believed in and especially our president, we never would have made it out.
Blessed by God, pardoned by Trump.
Thank you, Donald Trump, for pardoning us and giving us a second chance on life.
President Trump for pardoning me.
saving my soul and Donald Trump for giving me the part.
I want to thank Donald Trump for parting us, and it's the only reason that we're here today, all together, free, with smiles on our faces.
steve bannon
It's Tuesday, 6th January, in the year of our Lord, 2026.
It is five years to the day of January 6th.
I've already heard from the war room, some of the engine room folks, with the comment, finally, Steve, a cold open that we like.
You don't have the MSNBC crowd or CNN on there or the haters, the haters against President Trump.
One of the most significant days in American history, and I don't say that lightly, this was a day that people stood up and said, we're just not going to allow the 2020 election to be stolen.
Remember, theoretically, what was supposed to happen that day is that Mike Pence was going to, because he had already inquiries, a letter from the state of Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and others coming in,
they were going to say they couldn't certify the electors on that day and that they were going to give some time for these states like Georgia and Pennsylvania and Arizona and others to see if they couldn't sort out the mess back in their home states with the stolen, you know, both the Manlin ballot fiasco where they tried to steal it.
And now, since you've had this situation in Venezuela, we may actually get to the bottom of the machine situation with Sidney Powell and others were all over at the time.
And I think and I hope that we'll be getting all the information out about that, or we'll be getting it from the folks in Venezuela.
But what was going to happen or supposed to happen in, I don't know, a week or 10 days, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and Georgia and Arizona and others would say, hey, we just can't certify the Biden electors.
Not that they would put forward a slate of Trump electors.
You just couldn't certify this.
Because of the outright stealing of the Democratic Party, they could not be certified.
What would happen?
It would get thrown in, according to the Constitution and the Electoral Count Act of 1887.
It would get kicked into the House of Representatives for what's called a contingent election.
And that House members don't vote actually individually.
You vote as a state party delegation.
And at that time, I think it was 25 to 24 to 1 or 25, 23.
We would have won by one or two votes.
Now, the question is, would Liz Cheney being the sole vote in Wyoming voted?
Well, we don't know.
But we would have won the contingent election and Donald Trump would have been from the House selected as the winner in the presidential election of 2020.
You do not go back and revote.
That's some people get confused about that.
There's no revote.
The vote you do on the popular vote and what happens on election day stays on election day.
If the electors cannot be certified, and there's a method for this because they've had these problems back, particularly in the 19th century, they had a lot of problems post-Civil War, as you can imagine.
And that's how they came up with the Electoral Count Act 1887.
The reason I came up with the Electoral Count Act 1887 is I think they had too much difficulty in trying to change the Constitution.
Now, you should know that in the dark of night, Mitch McConnell in one of these must-pass bills changed the Electoral Count Act of 1887.
I think that is unconstitutional, hasn't been checked by the courts.
But the working class and middle class folks that showed up on January 6th and went down to the ellipse and heard the presidents, and the president really made a case, a quite Very focused, tough legal argument that made his case in the different states.
Of course, Rudy was there and others, and the mainstream media picked out a couple of things and condensed it.
President Trump wanted people to go up peacefully, as he said, peacefully, and make sure people understood that they knew what was going on.
Just to reiterate, the 2020 election was stolen.
And now President Trump over the last couple of days has been putting up some stuff on Truth Social that I think shows that the White House and the administration is very serious about getting to the bottom of this.
President Trump said when he came out to Amfest after the historic victory of 2024, he came to Amfest.
Charlie Kirk invited him.
And given all the work that Charlie Kirk had done in the Turning Point Action Team had done in making sure that President Trump was the winner, particularly in states like Pennsylvania and Arizona, and I would actually say that I point to Turning Point as being the group that actually delivered those two critical states to make sure that President Trump had a victory.
President Trump came out there, and for the first time, he said this on the stage at Turning Point in Phoenix, right before Christmas of 2024.
He said, the entire reason that I ran again in 2024 is not personally about vengeance or retribution or showing that I was right, but I had to do that for the country's sake.
We cannot let them steal a presidential election.
And that's what they did.
Now, Michael Schurr, one of the things that President Trump posted, and maybe our crack team can pull that.
I think I had it up on Getter.
The other night was Dr. Michael Schurr.
There's a quite controversial guy.
He was the head of the bin Laden team at the CIA before 9-11.
He wrote a book under the, this was the anonymous book that came out in those days in the early 2000s, of which he really laid bare many of the issues we had geopolitically, and particularly in his search for bin Laden and the warning and the flares he was sending up bin Laden.
But he just put out the other day, and President Trump reposted it to say on 3 November of 2020, the CIA had a coup.
And we know from all the information that's out there and then what happened in 2024 with the potential involvement because we still don't have clarity over the Butler situation.
In 2020, we know as in the run-up to it, as we released the laptop from hell and all the damning information about the corruption, forget the sexual antics of his son, of Hunter Biden, but what was in there about the Chinese Communist Party, what was in there about Ukraine, what was in there about, is this the president?
Is the president come to the, okay, we're going to go live.
President is at the Kennedy Center to address the House Republicans.
We're going to go to this live.
No commercial breaks.
Let's go right now.
donald j trump
I do love that song, but we got to get to business.
I love that song.
But I want to thank you all.
We special, special people.
And I want to just say that, you know, I announced I was coming over here and I said, I love those Republicans.
And I meant it.
I said, except for maybe a couple.
steve bannon
A couple I don't love.
donald j trump
But the people in this room, I don't know if those couple are here.
steve bannon
I don't know.
donald j trump
I don't care if they're here or not.
But we love you.
And you've been an amazing, you've done an amazing job.
You love the country.
You're doing what's right for the country.
And I want to wish everybody a happy new year.
The most successful House Republican majority in decades, and we did it with not a big majority.
This was not a, that was not a big majority, but it's a unified majority, and it's people that know what it takes to make America great again.
So, together we had 12 months of unprecedented success in 2025, and now we're going to make history and break records with the epic midterm victory that we're going to pull off.
It just doesn't seem to happen for people that win the presidency.
It's an amazing phenomenon.
You know, you win the presidency, and we sure as hell are having a successful presidency.
I will say that.
But even if it's a successful presidency, there's been nothing like what we're doing.
We had a very good day two days ago, too.
But even if it's successful, they don't win.
I don't know what it is.
It's something psychological like you vote against.
You can win by a lot.
We won every swing stay.
We won the popular vote by millions.
We won everything.
But they say that when you win the presidency, you lose the midterm.
So you're all brilliant people.
Most of you are in this business longer than me.
That makes me smarter than you.
Because look where I am, right?
No, it doesn't.
But I wish you could explain to me what the hell's going on with the mind of the public because we have the right policy.
They don't.
They have a horrible policy.
They do stick together.
They're violent.
They're vicious.
You know, they're vicious people.
And they stick together like blue.
They don't have a couple of the people that we have.
A couple of people, not too many, really very few.
And that's why I want to just say that before we go any further, I want to express our tremendous sorrow at the loss of a great member, a great, great, great member, Congressman Doug Lamalfa, who passed away yesterday, as you probably have heard.
And he was the leader of the Western caucus, a fierce champion on California water issues.
He was great on water.
He wanted, release the water, he'd scream out.
And a true defender of American children, he was a defender of everybody.
And our hearts go out to his wife, Jill, and his entire family.
You know, he voted with me 100% of the time.
And by the way, he wasn't a three o'clock in the morning person.
Do you know what I mean, by that?
Where the speaker goes, sir, could you call up?
Could you call?
I said, what time is it, Speaker?
Sir, it's three in the morning.
Could you make a couple of calls?
unidentified
How many?
donald j trump
Nine.
So I'd start calling.
I'd start calling.
Three in the morning, I said, like, I shouldn't use any names.
I'm just going to create problems.
But hi, Jim.
And I'm not talking about Jim Jordan.
I never had a call three in the morning for him.
But I'd say, hi, Jim, how you doing?
They just called to say hello.
You know, three in the morning.
Okay, sir.
Sir, you haven't spoken to me in three years, and it's now three in the morning, so I know what you want.
You want my vote?
And usually they almost always give it, but they wanted to be called.
And with Doug, I never had a call.
He was with us right from the beginning.
I love those guys.
I must say I probably love them the best, you know, the guys that I don't have to call.
They know we're doing the right thing.
I have a couple that are going to be with us all the way, but they just want the call.
They want love.
They need love.
They're more insecure than most of you.
unidentified
It's true.
donald j trump
No, most of you are secure people.
Don't you're all laughing.
No, most of you are secure people.
I had a couple say, look, I could have Trump call me all the time.
I just have to break his ass a little bit.
And he'll be calling, calling, calling.
But I appreciate those.
We actually had a little party.
We opened up a beautiful section of the White House in the Rose Garden and we had a party for all of those people that I never speak to and vote for me.
And you know, I spoke to Doug, but I didn't speak to him about, I mean, never had a problem.
And I was really, I was really saddened by his passing and was thinking about not even doing the speech in his honor.
But then I decided that I have to do it in his honor.
I'll do it in his honor because he would have wanted it that way.
He would have wanted it that way.
He would have said, do that speech.
Are you kidding me?
Do the speech, big guy.
But he was a fantastic person.
Man, that was a quick one.
I don't know.
I don't know quite yet what happened, but boy, it's a tough one.
He was just with us.
He was our friend, all of us, every one of us.
And I also want to send our best wishes to Congress and Jim Baird and his wife, who are recovering from a car accident.
They're going to be okay, but they had a pretty bad accident.
And we're praying that they get out of that hospital very quickly.
He's going to be fine.
She's going to be fine, but it was a bad accident.
And I want to thank the man who has been central to so many of our triumphs.
He really has been.
He's the guy that would call me to make those calls all the time.
He's always working.
And he's a nice person.
You know, he's a very nice, he's a high-quality person.
But I want to tell you, he's a very tough cookie.
I've seen both sides.
Not often do I have to see the other side because he's just, by nature, he's a very fine, religious person.
I like that.
He's a religious person.
I like that.
I like religious people.
It usually means they're more honest.
Sometimes it doesn't happen that way.
I've had some real religious ones that did numbers on me and I said, I'm going to get them someday.
They got me by surprise.
But it's usually good, okay, right?
And his name is Mike Johnson, Speaker Mike Johnson.
He has my complete and total endorsement.
Stand up, Speaker.
So, you know, but it is true.
A lot of times they'll say, I wish Mike were tougher, tough.
unidentified
He's tough.
donald j trump
He's tough as anybody in the room, actually.
But it can't be tough when you have a majority of three.
And now, sadly, a little bit less than that.
I mean, a little bit less than that, maybe.
But it can't be, it can't be Trump.
You can't, I warrant you, you know, you make 10 enemies, 20 enemies.
That's the end of that, right?
Everybody loves him.
I would say there's one person he's given up on.
I mean, I think he just gave up on this guy.
He's so bad.
He never votes for us.
But no matter how good, he won't vote for us.
There's a sickness there.
There's something wrong.
You can have the greatest bill, the greatest for the country.
Forget about for Republicans.
Great, great, great for the country.
I'm a no-vote.
We don't even bother calling him at three in the morning, do we?
But I want to thank another guy who's as tough as they come because he went through something that none of us have gone through.
I went through a little shot, but I get that throbbing feeling every once in a while.
But what he went through was incredible.
And then Steve Scalise, he got hit hard.
Where's Steve?
Steve, he's a tough cookie.
He was dead.
I went to the hospital.
His wife was crying so much.
He was a mess.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, she loves you.
That's the only thing I learned about Steve, that he has a wife who loves him.
Because I've gone to hospitals where guys are in bad shape and the wife couldn't care less.
She's looking for the next guy.
Who's the next guy down the bike?
Who the hell is the next guy?
He's died.
I said, that's so bad.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
I had one where the dog died and the husband died at the same time.
I said, it's so silly.
unidentified
Yes, I love this dog so much.
donald j trump
She couldn't give it.
And the guy left her a fortune.
Can you imagine?
He shouldn't have left her anything, but she was much more concerned.
unidentified
It's true.
donald j trump
Oh, the dog was devastated.
The husband, he was like an afterthought.
Your wife loves you, Steve.
She's a great wife.
Another one who has a great wife, Jackie, is Tom Emmer, right?
Look at you.
You have a great wife, but you haven't been tested like these guys.
We don't want to test her, right?
She's incredible.
She's a strong, beautiful, great person.
She's a great person.
She actually liked me at the beginning when we were having little fights.
We weren't even having fights.
We just didn't know each other.
We didn't know each other.
And I heard he said something negative about me.
He was sort of right about the subject, but you're not supposed to say ever, even though you're right.
But Jackie was signed.
I'm telling you, he's a great guy.
unidentified
He's good.
donald j trump
He's going to be a great president.
She was fighting for me.
And now I love this guy.
unidentified
He's great.
donald j trump
Jackie's right about, she was right about both of us, I think.
But Tom has been incredible.
He's incredible at what he does.
He's a great team player.
Your conference chair, Lisa McLean, is so strong and powerful and beautiful.
Thank you, Lisa.
Thank you.
Thank you.
And I think they're broadcast.
You know, we said we don't care if the press comes or not.
So when I say that, that means that they're broadcasting all this.
And I'm letting my feelings out because it's true.
I feel that way about so many people in the room.
I can say it about many of the people in the room.
Some I don't know as well, but many of the people in the room, they're incredible people.
You're incredible what you're doing.
We also have another one, Richard Hudson, chairman, NRCC.
Richard's always in there.
Always with a smile.
No matter what's happening, Richard.
He always has a smile.
He's always just a positive guy, smart and positive.
Thank you, Richard.
Really appreciate it.
You do a great job.
Republican Policy Committee Chairman Kevin Hearn.
Kevin, where are you, Kevin?
Thank you, Kevin.
Thank you.
Did a great job.
Every one of you, you've got to be proud of yourselves.
And basically the entire House Republican Conference, it's been really amazing what you've done.
And we're going to give you some ammunition today.
I said, I'd love to make a speech.
The speaker asked me, would you make a speech?
I said, sure.
You think Biden would do that?
Would you make a speech?
unidentified
What?
donald j trump
First of all, his people wouldn't ask him to make a speech because it never worked out well, right?
Could never find the exits.
You finished, look, stare here, stare there, stare here.
You could jump off the front if you had to.
No matter what he did, he got himself into trouble.
So basically, they didn't ask him to, but if he did, it wouldn't be good.
But it's good with me because, you know, we have so much ammunition.
We have ammunition.
The problem is the fake news.
That's why I like being on it.
I'd much rather do live television than do non-live because like When they say, as an example, in my speech, peacefully and patriotically to the capital, peacefully and patriotically.
Do you know that the unselect committee didn't report it that I said those words?
Do you know that the news never reported the words walk or march peacefully and patriotically to the capital?
Do you know they never reported it?
It's a scandal.
The unselect committee never reported that.
They never reported that Nancy Pelosi was offered 10,000 soldiers, National Guard soldiers, whatever you want.
No, I don't want them.
And the mayor.
The mayors were in writing.
She was more honorable about it.
But Nancy got caught when her daughter did a documentary.
She said documentary S.
And she has her mother saying, it's my fault.
I should have taken the soldiers or something.
I saw that in the documentary.
I said, whoa, this was a major story.
Has she spoken to her daughter since that?
But they just, you know, they are vicious people, even on the attack.
And it was an amazing military feat that took place yesterday.
Think of it.
An amazing military.
The people are saying, well, thank you.
You know, people are saying it goes down with one of the most incredible.
It was so complex.
152 airplanes, many, many.
Talk about boots in the ground.
We had a lot of boots on the ground.
But it was amazing.
And think of it, nobody was killed.
And on the other side, a lot of people were killed.
Unfortunately, I say that, the soldiers.
Cubans, mostly Cubans, but many, many killed.
And they knew we were coming, and they were protected, and our guys weren't.
You know, our guys are jumping out of helicopters, and you're not protected.
And they were, but it was so brilliant.
The electricity for almost the entire country was boom turned off.
That's when they knew there was a problem.
There was no electricity.
Caracas said, there's no electricity.
The only people with lights were the people that had candles.
It was just off.
So we sort of got him a little by surprise.
But it was brilliant tactically.
It was an incredible thing.
But I watched where Schumer, he's such a bad guy.
I mean, I've known the guy for a long time.
And he's such a bad guy.
You know, at some point they should say, you know, you did a great job.
Thank you.
Congratulations.
Wouldn't it be good?
I would say that if they did a good job, their philosophies are so different.
But if they did a good job, I'd be happy for the country.
They've been after this guy for years and years and years.
And, you know, he's a violent guy.
He gets up there and he tries to imitate my dance a little bit.
But he's a violent guy.
And he's killed millions of people.
He's tortured.
They have a torture chamber in the middle of Caracas that they're closing up.
But he's tortured people.
And now what they do, the radical left, they actually have people, and it's hard to get them.
They're all paid people.
Most of these people are paid.
Do you know they're paid when they have brand new, beautiful printed signs by like the highest quality printer?
And you have a woman, free Maduro.
And the sign is before we even did the attack.
Free Maduro.
Why do you want him freed?
I don't know, but he should be free.
Oh, she reads a sign.
What does that say?
It says free.
Well, that's what I believe.
And you know, you see the sign.
It's like, Lisa, we should all have quality signage like that.
The one thing I want, I want their sign maker.
The guy is great.
He does beautiful signage.
You know, the old days was better when they used to write out their own sign, wasn't it?
They'd make a sign in the basement.
They'd have an old broken board holding up a sign, and it's made with a magic marker, sloppy as hell, and it meant something.
But today, when you have that yellow and black, they should use different colors a little bit.
But the yellow is a beautiful shade of yellow.
No, I want to find out who that is.
I want him to work for the Republican campaign.
He's much better than our guy, whoever the guy is.
But the United States proved once again that we have the most powerful, most lethal, most sophisticated, and most fearsome.
It's a fearsome military on planet Earth, and it's not even close.
You know, I've been saying it for a long time.
Nobody can take us.
We don't want to have it.
We don't have a discussion, but you read all and you see everything else.
Nobody could have done that.
Nobody has our weapons.
Nobody has the quality of our weapons.
The problem is we don't produce them fast enough.
We're going to start producing them much faster.
We're going to be very tough on the companies.
We have the best weapons in the world, but it takes too long to get them, including allies when allies want to buy them.
They have to wait four years for a plane, five years for a helicopter.
We're not letting that happen anymore.
We're telling our defense contractors, you're going to start building faster.
You know, a guy makes.
I have a big problem with it.
I'm the king.
I have sold more Boeings than any human being on earth.
They gave me an award, salesman of the year.
I said, what about salesmen in the history of Boeing?
I've sold more Boeing planes than any man in history by far, probably over a thousand.
Over a thousand planes.
I said, that's the good news.
But why should they wait three, four years to get a plane?
They should get them immediately.
The F-35s, it takes too long to get them.
The Apache helicopter.
I mean, I had India coming to me, sir, I've been waiting five years.
We're changing it.
We're changing it.
India ordered 68 Apaches.
And Prime Minister Modi came to see me, sir, may I see you, please?
Yes, I have a very good relationship with him.
He's not that happy with me because, you know, they're paying a lot of tariffs now because they're not doing the oil, but they are.
They've now reduced it very substantially, as you know, from Russia.
We're getting rich because of tariffs, by the way.
I hope everyone understands that.
They hate to report.
We have over $650 billion poured into our country or coming in shortly because of tariffs.
You know, they're finding all of these pockets of money a couple of weeks ago.
Sir, we're off by $39 billion.
Oh, is that good or bad?
Meaning, do we have it or are we short of it?
Sir, it's $39 billion that we can't account for.
That means we have an extra 39.
Yes, sir.
I said, well, what are you saying?
We just don't know where it came from.
I said, check the tariff shelf.
Sir, that tariff doesn't start until September.
He said, no, no.
It started about a month and a half ago.
Check it.
Comes back 25 minutes later.
Sir, you were right.
It came from tariffs.
This never happened to us before.
Where we find plus 39 billion.
Not million.
Plus 39 billion.
They were missing.
We've taken in $650 billion or shortcoming.
And that's because I'm being nice.
And we have national security because of tariffs.
And frankly, we have a big Supreme Court case.
I hope they do what's good for our country.
I hope they do the right thing.
The president has to be able to wheel and deal with tariffs.
Now, if you have the right president, it's good.
You have the wrong person.
If you have the wrong president, nothing's good.
Tariffs are the least of your problems.
We found that out for four years.
We had the worst president, did the worst job.
They had the worst policy.
We have to even run against these people.
Now, I won't say cancel the election.
They should cancel the election because the fake news will say, he wants the elections canceled.
He's a dictator.
They always call me a dictator.
Nobody's worse than Obama and the people that surrounded Biden.
Not Biden.
I don't think it was Biden.
He didn't know what the hell was going on, okay?
The election was rigged.
He had no idea what happened.
He still doesn't.
The Autopen.
And by the way, you ought to make a big deal out of the Auto Pen.
The Auto Pen was your president because most of the things were signed by Autopen.
And you're not allowed to do that.
I signed very little.
Now I just sign everything because it's just so crazy.
But you know, like I had the other day, we elevated a general to four stars.
I think you should sign that.
You know, that's a big deal.
A general did a great job, was elevated to four stars.
And I had the gentleman, and I signed it in front of him, held it up.
You know, you gotta sign it.
You can't give it to an auto pen.
And you can always tell an auto pen.
One thing that has two little tiny dots, you know that?
Two little dots.
You know what that's from?
Two pins.
They go bing, bing, ph.
They're wonderful things, but you got to sign it.
And the law is you have to sign it.
If somebody's, you know, telling the AutoPen person, he has to be authorized by the President of the United States.
Well, he wasn't.
The guy barely knew the president.
How many times did you speak to the president, right?
He said two.
And they just spoke about the weather.
It was like, but he was never authorized to sign.
And I think it's, what is it, 95% of the things were signed by Autopen.
You can tell because the AutoPen is a nice plain signature and his signature is a mess.
The only thing he signed was, which is nice, was Hunter's pardon.
No, that's the only thing that we can find that he signed.
Most of it he didn't sign.
So somebody's sending papers to sign, and he wasn't the president.
First of all, the election was rigged.
You ought to have voter ID.
You ought to insist on it.
You ought to insist on it.
Can you imagine?
In California, they not only don't have voter ID, but if an official at the voting booths, which they don't have, by the way, because it's all male, if an official, a voting official, even asks somebody for voter ID, sir, we'd like to see your identification.
Do you come from our country?
They put him in jail for tampering with the election.
Okay?
We got to straighten this out before it gets too crazy.
California is more corrupt than any place.
California is more corrupt than Minnesota.
And I won Minnesota.
Well, Tom's going, I think so.
unidentified
Well, it's loose.
donald j trump
It can't be proportionately.
Probably nothing's more corrupt, right?
unidentified
We got to win something.
donald j trump
Yeah, right.
He says you've got to win.
I'll tell you what, I did great there three times.
I was surprised three times.
Those elections are corrupt.
They got you one time too.
But I heard a long time ago, but they got you.
But they got to straighten those out.
But we have to have voter ID.
And you know, when you confront a Democrat about voter ID, like in a debate or something, I said it a couple of times with Biden.
They're very embarrassed when they say, we want voter ID, voter identification.
The only reason somebody doesn't want that is because they want to cheat.
Our elections are crooked as hell.
And you can not only win elections over that and not only win future elections, but you'll win every debate because the public is really angry about it.
And you ought to pass the SAFE Act or whatever you're going to call it.
Are we going to save Act or the Save America Act?
I think we're going to change the name a little bit.
You're going to put that up for a vote.
I think everybody in this room certainly should do it.
And it's a bad vote for them because they're voting against things like voter ID and other things that are almost equal to voter ID.
But when somebody says, no, we don't want voter ID, that means they're crooked.
And the public understands it.
You win elections with that.
But I think it would be really important, Save America Act, if you would put that up for a vote.
It's got my total endorsement.
And all it is is common sense things about the election.
And they'll fight it like crazy because they cheat.
That's the only way they can win.
When you have policy so bad, when you have policy with men in women's sports, men in women's sports, and they fight like hell for it.
They still are.
I saw the other day a person that you know very well, a congressman, was fighting like hell.
And, you know, I was out the other day with somebody, and I was with an ex-football player.
The guy was massive.
His leg was like this.
And a young woman who plays flag football, and she's very good, supposedly, as an athlete.
She's smaller than this guy's leg.
Okay?
And if they were playing football together, he wouldn't even have to run.
He could just keep walking.
They couldn't take him down.
He can't even believe it.
But there are so many.
They had a race along the centre.
They had champion men, women, one of those marathon deals.
The man finished five hours and 14 minutes and 36 seconds sooner.
He beat the champion woman by five hours.
It's so demeaning to women.
It's so ridiculous, right?
It's so ridiculous.
The weightlifting, take a look at the weightlifting records.
One record stood for 18 years, and it was broken by 112 pounds.
They couldn't get one-eighth of an ounce, you know?
They put, speaker, they put an eighth of an ounce on.
And she's going to break the record for her mom who's sitting in the front with her father.
I'm going to break it.
And she's out there.
We're adding one-eighth of an ounce to each side.
This record has stood, ladies and gentlemen, for 18 years.
But she's going to do it.
She's looking to get into the Olympics, right?
And she gets up and they put a little tiny thing like this little thing.
And my wife, by the way, my wife hates when I do this.
She said, you know, she's a very classy person, right?
She said, it's so unpresidential.
I said, but I did become president.
Somebody, she hates when I dance.
I said, everybody wants me to dance.
Darling, it's not presidential.
She actually said, could you imagine FDR dancing?
She said that to me.
And I said, there's a long history that perhaps she doesn't know.
Because he was an elegant fellow.
Even as a Democrat, right?
He was the attack by Japan.
You know, he was quite elegant.
But he wouldn't be doing this.
But nor would too many others.
But she says, darling, please, the weightlifting is terrible.
And I have to say this, the dancing they really like.
She said, they don't like it.
They're just being nice to you.
I said, that's not right.
The place goes crazy.
They're screaming, dance, please.
But the weightlifting, but no, the girl gets up.
And you see, I want to be more, but I have somebody watching.
I want to be more effusive.
I want to really, yeah.
But she gets to the drops the thing, walks off the stage crying, her mother's crying, her father's crying.
Guy gets up.
He said, have you lifted before?
And he walks up, being, he could have gone ding, ding, ding, ding.
I think it was 112 pounds, right?
It's crazy.
Or the beautiful boxer, they have boxing now.
And that they have a young gentleman who transitioned.
He's a very good boxer, but he wanted to be a woman, which is, you know, to each his own.
Because I want to be very liberal when it comes to these subjects.
I'm trying to get that vote.
It's not an easy vote to get.
It's very tough for me to get it.
But he transitioned.
And he transitioned.
And the girl was a champion boxer from Italy, remember?
She got up, first round.
He hit a pump with a left.
A left for those everybody here knows about, but a left, Lisa knows better than anybody, but a leftist defense.
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He goes, she's like, oh my gosh.
donald j trump
She walked to the corner, remember?
She didn't go down, but she did everything else.
She said, I've never been hit like that before.
I don't want to go out again.
You can do it.
You can do it.
Bang.
She walked off.
She said, that's, he happened to win the gold medal, that young woman.
He won the gold medal.
There were two transition people.
They both won gold medals.
The whole thing is ridiculous.
You have policy on your side.
They don't have policy on your side.
You have policy.
And I saw this guy fighting like hell.
The swimming records is ridiculous when you look at the swimming, any records.
It's crazy.
And it's so demeaning to women.
Women are the, you know, and for a long time they refused to talk about it.
They were embarrassed to talk about it.
Now they do talk about it.
They talk about it openly.
But they have the worst policy on everything, open borders.
We want open borders.
You know, they still want an open border.
We did the greatest job ever on borders.
And you know, I think they forgot it.
My guy said to me today, I have a great guy, Ross.
He's the greatest speechwriter.
He said, sir, let's not mention the border.
Nobody cares about the border anymore.
Can you believe it?
This was the biggest, hello.
This was the biggest thing there was.
It says to me, nobody cares about the border.
Because it has a shelf life.
I fixed the border.
I fixed it in my first term.
But now I really had to fix it.
It was much worse, you know, when I came into office.
Millions and millions of people were pouring into our country.
And I fixed it.
And my guy who's incredible says, people don't want to hear it, sir.
You've done that.
The problem is people forget that I did it.
They totally forget.
They were talking about the other day, we don't like Donald Trump on this.
We don't like Donald Trump and that.
And somebody just out of the blue said, well, he did an unbelievable job.
Who cares about that?
They're saying, like, you know, that's been done.
What do we do about that, Mike?
Everything you do, it's almost like what have you done lately is the way you have to run your life.
In other words, I could have the most unbelievable four years.
And I guess I'm not allowed to run.
I'm not sure.
Is there a little something out there that I'm not allowed to run?
But let's assume I was allowed to run.
I could have, there's going to be a constitutional movement.
No, I could have the most unbelievable four years.
Everything was great.
But in the last week, I made a little slip up in something.
And you lose the election, it's like so we have, we can't let them forget that we did such a great job on the border.
By the way, Venezuela, everyone, they're marching in the streets, they love it, except in New York.
I mean, where they find these people, these people, they're not like, these people are a mess.
I know it's not nice to say that.
These people are a mess.
Where do they find these people?
They're the worst-looking people I've ever seen.
They got hats that are all frayed and all that.
They're all paid.
They don't even know what they're talking about.
When the people, the reporters don't interview them because they know that it's, you know, the reporters, the press is so anti-it's hard to believe the press could be so anti because it's all common sense.
You know, it's not, we're conservative, we're conservative, whatever.
It doesn't matter.
We're all common sense people.
It's not even conservative.
It's common sense.
But the press has no credibility whatsoever.
Think of it.
I got 97% bad stories on one network, 93% on the other, and I won in a landslide.
You know what that means?
The press has no credibility.
That's all it means.
And we got to keep it that way.
So I don't talk too much about the swimming, the weightlifting, the boxing.
I don't talk about it.
You know why?
I want to start bringing it up about a week before the election because I don't want them to correct themselves.
I don't want them to say, you know, we've decided that we don't want to have men playing in women's sports.
That'd be a devastating blow for us.
Because that's, you know, they say, it's an 80-20.
No, no, it's about a 98-2 issue.
We've decided that we will not have open borders where the entire world from the Congo, prisons from the Congo, these are extraordinarily tough people.
These are people that make our motorcycle gangs look like fine young men.
Our motorcycle gangs are wonderful people by comparison.
No, they come in from prisons in the Congo.
They come in from prisons from all over the world, but in particular, Venezuela, Trende Aragua.
Trende Aragua comes in and Trende Aragua.
They say it's the worst gang in the world.
It makes our gangs look like little sweethearts.
It makes our gangs, you want to take them out to dinner, they're so nice.
They cut off the fingers of people.
One guy makes a phone call in Colorado.
The governor stinks in Colorado, he's no control.
So Trende Aragua, they don't want to do anything about it, so ICE has to go in and take them out because the governor doesn't want to do anything.
But they make a phone call.
They've taken over my building.
The landlord's calling.
They took over his building.
So the governor doesn't want to do anything.
But he calls the police, the guy.
They come in.
Did you call the police?
This is Trende Araga.
We're talking to the man that owns the building.
Did you call the police here?
Boom, they cut off his fingers.
If you call him again, the next time your hand comes off, do you believe?
A guy's walking around, his fingers were cut off.
And these are the animals that we're throwing the hell out of here.
Washington, D.C. is now the safest city in the country.
And you people know that better than anybody because you, you were, I mean, think of it.
You're in Congress, you're respected people, you're afraid to walk outside.
Washington, D.C., you know, we had a terror attack four weeks ago, and one person's looking down from heaven, and the other one is actually recuperating and going to make it, I think.
But really badly hurt.
Really badly hurt.
Most positive mother I've ever.
No, my son's going to be fine, sir.
The mother was telling me that the night of the attack, I went just like I went to you.
I just spoke to this incredible woman.
Sir, everyone's praying for my son.
He's going to be fine.
Doctors thought she was, you know, just hoping against hope.
There was no chance.
And two weeks ago, he got up and started walking around.
It was amazing, actually.
So maybe some really bad.
It looks like he could be okay.
He's going to have pretty bad after effects.
But that was a different, that was a terrorist attack on people that are doing a great job.
And it could have been anywhere.
But we haven't had a murder.
You know, we would have, on average, two murders a week in Washington.
I don't even like talking about it.
Two murders a week in Washington.
They said, we haven't had one in seven months.
People can walk out now.
You can walk down with your wife down to the restaurants, which are booming, by the way.
I mean, if you go back to before I got in, and we did a pretty good job four years ago, but it was never this, you know, in my first term.
So when we were doing the first term, we were pretty good, but, you know, it wasn't like that big of an issue.
It became a big issue because people were being mugged all over the place.
We had a couple of people working in the White House that were killed.
We had one guy waiting for his wife in a car.
They said, get out of your car.
He said, well, I'm waiting for my wife.
They blew his head off.
The wife is walking up to the car.
Animals.
And then they get angry when I say, they're animals.
Nancy Bros.
They're not animals.
They're human beings.
No, they're not.
This is another thing.
That's a 98-2 issue also.
Now they're animals.
And we've taken them out.
We've took out over 2,000 people, brought them back to their countries from where they came, or they're in prison now in Washington.
Because it's not just like you have to take the bad ones out.
2%, 3% of the population causes 90% of the crime.
Think of it.
2% of the population in Washington, D.C. causes 90% of the crime.
So when you get rid of the 2%, we took out over 2,000 people, got them out of the country or in prison.
Some were so bad that we didn't want to send them back to their countries because they'll come back in, even though it's hard now, but you know, they're pretty smart.
They're sick, but they're smart.
But you're now living in one of the safest cities in the country.
It's a great thing.
You can walk to the restaurants.
Restaurants are booming.
New restaurants are open.
They were all closing.
You wouldn't have had a restaurant.
And I don't know about you, but to me, those soldiers standing there look so good.
I'm not going to feel safe walking down the street without them.
I don't think you would either.
Even though, you know, we took out so many criminals.
I just feel better.
To me, they're beautiful.
I look at these soldiers and you feel safe.
You feel safe.
I don't think if we took them out, even if the crime wasn't much, it would definitely be more.
We did a great job in Chicago.
They don't want to talk about it.
Against all this, this slob of a governor, this stupid slob, the family threw him out of the business.
He was a dope.
And the Pritzker family.
But they threw him out of the business.
And the mayor, he's a low IQ person, extremely low IQ.
We should give everybody like these competency tests, right?
The cognitive, they call it cognitive.
You know, I'm the only president that went for cognitives.
I think every president and vice president should be forced to take cognitive exams, mental tests.
Like, are they intelligent?
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Wouldn't it be nice?
donald j trump
Do you think Waltz could pass a cognitive test as an example?
Do you think Kamala could?
I don't think Gavin could.
He's got a good line of crap, but other than that, he couldn't pass.
I mean, here's a guy who didn't want to have water coming down from the Pacific Northwest.
Why?
You know, they have a little tiny fish, just big, little tiny fish, not doing well.
You know why?
No water.
They're sending water.
It's too much.
It's killing the fish.
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So they cut it off.
donald j trump
And then they have 25,000 houses burned down.
They don't know why.
Now, I think I believe in it.
I'm the only one that took a cognitive test.
I do meditate.
It's the worst.
If I don't do a medical exam, because I've had times where I went longer, because I'm busy.
If I don't do a medical exam, they say, Trump's not doing an exam.
There must be something wrong with him.
If I do the exam, they say, ah, why did he do this?
Why did he do this part of an exam?
He did too much.
There's something wrong with him.
Do you remember?
There was a period, Mike, where I had 32 days in a row.
I did one press conference, two, three, sometimes four.
I do them behind the desk.
Just do it.
I do press conferences.
But I do many press conferences.
I went 32 days.
And then one day, just one day.
This is 32 days in a row.
Must be some kind of a crazy record.
Then one day, do you remember I didn't do one?
Because I took Kai, my very brilliant golfer, beautiful young lady who swings the club so beautifully.
She's a great scratch golfer and loves playing.
Grandpa, would you take me to play golf?
So I ran, you know, I play golf and like record.
I play speed golf.
It's better that way.
You know the expression, miss it quick.
No, I play speed golf, but I'm a good golfer.
Everybody knows.
Anybody that I've beaten in this group, but I love to play golf, but I don't get to play much.
But I took off two hours, and the press couldn't find me.
But they knew I was there because they, you know, they follow me.
And I was getting friends.
Are you okay?
Guys are calling me up.
Some of the guys in this room.
Sir, are you okay?
Yeah, what's the problem?
There's a report, sir, that you're no longer with us.
Remember that?
No.
The report was that I was no, I wanted to, I don't want to use the D word.
That's such a horrible word.
Dead.
I don't like that.
There's a report, sir, that you're no longer with us.
They said, well, I just hit a 280-yard drive.
This isn't bad.
And, you know, it's one of the, and it took me a couple of weeks to get that one straightened out.
The new one is they did a report in the fake news, New York Times, where I worked this day from early in the morning till late in the evening.
But we don't give out a full schedule.
It's like you got who the hell wants to give out a schedule to these people.
But it's all work.
And in particular, this day was brutal.
I never got to leave the seat.
I couldn't do anything.
It was just one after another after another.
And this went on from early in the morning till late in the evening.
And my people gave out a report.
He had lunch.
They showed a report lunch with somebody.
And they did a story.
Donald Trump is slowing down.
He only had lunch.
And then he went back up.
And they said, that's malfeasance to what I did, right?
No, it's just terrible.
I was actually more angry with my people than I was with the New York Times.
But they wrote a story.
And it takes you a period of time to recover from these hits.
And it's almost no matter what you do, but you have to keep a positive eye.
But we have a fake press.
We did a thing that's so incredible on medicine that nobody has ever done it, reducing favored nations, most favored nations.
We reduced the cost of medicine at levels that have never even been dreamt of before.
We should win the elections on just that thing if we did nothing else and went home, go home.
We did favored nations where we're bringing down the price of a pill.
As an example, in London, the pill sells for $10.
In New York, it sells for $130.
That's 13 times as much.
Most favored is, I want to pay what the lowest nation in the world is paying.
Everybody knew about it, but nobody had the guts or the stamina to do it or the respect from other nations, but I do.
And then you also had to get the drug companies.
The drug companies were not easy, but they were much easier compared to the other nations.
So the other nations used to tell the drug companies, we're not going to pay more.
You kept it for years the same price.
We just kept going up, up, up.
And finally, I had the drug companies, and I said, listen, fellas, you can't do this.
Can't do it anymore.
I'm not going to let it.
We're going to do it.
And you're not going to do it.
And I did things to them that were brutal.
But I really found out it was the nations that were so tough.
So when France was told that the pill will go from $10 to $30, it's a big increase, right?
But it's not really.
And that ours would come down from $12 or $13 down to $30.
So theirs would go from $10 to $20 or $30.
And ours would go from $13 down to, meaning $130, down to $20 or $30.
So it's a huge drop for us.
Now, depending on the way you calculate it, it could be thousands of percent down.
It could also be 90% and 80%.
You know, there's two ways of calculating.
I don't know if you know.
They said, Donald Trump exaggerated.
Now, there are two ways of calculating it.
But calculate it at 80, 90%.
But the other way is more accurate, like 900%, because that's what it really is.
But there are two ways, but use the be generous 90%.
There hasn't been a reduction in 28 years, except for the one year where I got it down one quarter of 1%, and I had a news conference.
I was so proud of myself.
The drug prices, prescription drugs are going to be down by thousands of points, thousands.
On that one item, you should win this election.
The New York Times barely wrote about it.
The other papers barely wrote about it.
Nobody even knows that the drug prices.
Now, people will say, you don't mind if I don't read this crazy teleprompter, do you?
Because, you know.
Do you mind?
Because I have called standard.
But these things are so important because you guys got to get elected.
Because if you don't get elected, we have a country that's going to go to hell.
So we can't play games.
Ladies and gentlemen, the sun will rise tomorrow.
And when it rises, we will all, we don't need this.
We need to talk about favored nations.
And your numbers are coming down at levels that nobody's ever seen.
We inherited high prices.
We inherited a mess.
We inherited the greatest inflation in history.
And you know what was knocking it down?
The bad economy that we inherited.
We inherited bad.
We now have the hottest economy in the history of our country.
We have $18 trillion being invested in the United States.
You have, every one of you have car plants, AI plants, plants of all different types.
They're all because of tariffs.
I hope we get the good ruling from the Supreme Court.
I only hope we do because it's given us tremendous national security.
So let me just finish up because you know I weave.
I love to weave.
If you ever weave and don't come back to the point, then that's a problem.
Then you say, but when you weave and you go here and boom, boom, boom, always coming back, then you're in good shape.
But what's happening is by doing what I did, we're getting numbers that are so low.
But what did I do to the countries?
I said, France, your health care for prescription drugs is going to go up triple.
It's going from $10 a pill, just as an example.
I call it the fat drug.
You could say the fat drug, Hozempic.
Hosempic is $80 in London, and it's $1,300 in New York.
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The fat drug.
donald j trump
A friend of mine called me up.
He said, What the hell is going on?
Very rich guy, but he, I said, the fat drug doesn't work on you.
Why are you even taking it?
The drug has failed miserably.
But he's a very loud, boisterous.
He's not a bad guy, not a great guy.
Smart as hell.
But he's a very rich guy.
This drug, he could have paid millions for it.
It wouldn't have mattered.
But he said, in London, I'm paying 80 bucks.
In New York, I'm paying like many times more than that.
What the hell is that?
That's because of what's happened.
Because the nations held us back.
So the drug companies, I made a deal with them.
You're going to do it.
They said, whatever the nations agreed to, the nations were a bigger problem than the drug companies.
So I said, you tell me.
They'll never agree, sir.
I said, 100% they will.
100%.
They said, sir, the smartest guy, Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer, all geniuses.
They're all making numbers you wouldn't believe.
The defense contractors are making more.
That's why I'm going to say, you're making $45 million a year and you can't produce a freaking helicopter for seven years.
We're going to talk to them about that.
But I said to the friends, I call up, as an example, France, just as an example, I like him.
He's a nice guy.
Emmanuel.
You know, Emmanuel, Macron, Macron.
I love the French accent.
Emmanuel.
They said, listen, you're going to have to raise your prices a little bit because we're paying 14 times more than you.
That's a lot, right?
We're paying numbers.
In other words, we're making up for all of this deficit.
No, I don't know.
I will not be able to.
Mr. President, please excuse me.
Most people call me Mr. President, except for people that don't respect me.
unidentified
They call me Doug, which probably a lot of them do.
donald j trump
But they said, no, no, no, no.
Putin calls me Mr. President.
She calls me Mr. President.
Emmanuel goes, no, no, no.
We will not do that.
Yes, you will, Emmanuel, 100%, because I was told they wouldn't do it.
And this is, you can take a manual and add up Hans.
You can add up Ludwig.
You can add every name in the book.
It's all the same.
The answer is no.
We're not going to double our drug prices.
Not for you or anybody else.
I said, yes, you are.
100%.
We are not going to do it.
No, no, no, you don't listen.
100%.
You're going to do it and you're going to like it.
They go, I don't understand.
I've told you five times, why do you keep saying you're going to do it?
Because I'm always right about Trump is right about everything, right?
I said, the hat.
Trump is right about it.
I had been right about everything.
Got to keep it going.
Is there wood up here, Holder?
Ah.
I always like to, just in case.
Trump was right about everything.
And I said, so you're going to do it, Emmanuel No.
I said, okay, here's the story, Emmanuel.
If on Monday you haven't agreed to every single thing that we want, I'm putting a 25% tariff on everything coming out of France, including your wines, your champagnes, and everything else.
No, no, no, no, you cannot do that.
I said, I can do that, and I will do that.
Even for national security, I'll do that.
But this is for medical security.
And 100%.
Now, let me explain.
The tariff I'm imposing on you is 42 times more expensive than what I'm asking for you in return.
So you can either have a 25% tariff added onto you, like I did with China on fentanyl.
I put a 20% penalty tax on China, and it's drying up because the tax is far more than they make with fentanyl.
But with the other nations, I said, you're going to do it.
And you know what he said?
You can't do that to me.
I said, yes, I can.
Don't worry about it.
It's not going to be that bad.
You just have to explain it to your people.
Your 39 million people that, by the way, don't vote by mail.
They vote on paper ballots.
They tried voting by mail, and there was fraud all over the country.
We're the only country that votes by mail, essentially.
You know that, right?
You know, Speaker, that's another thing.
We're the only country that's stupid enough to vote by mail.
Even Jimmy Carter's commission said, don't do it.
But just to finish so that you won't say he wanders, Emmanuel said to me, Donald, you have a deal.
I would love to increase my prescription drug prices by 200% or whatever.
I would love to do it be such an honor.
Whatever you want, Donald, please don't tell the population.
Please, Donald, I beg you.
Every country said the same thing.
No, no, no, we will not do this.
Some were strong, some were very nice, some were rude.
But they all said one thing: no, we won't.
And within, I'd say on average 3.2 minutes, they were all saying, we would be honored to quadruple our drug prices.
So we would be honored to quadruple our prices if that's what you like.
We want to make you happy.
unidentified
Okay.
donald j trump
Therefore, I will not charge you a tariff, and you're going to increase your drug prices by three times what they were paying two days ago, right?
And we have now favored nations.
You think Biden could do that?
I don't think so.
Think Biden ever thought of it?
Now, everybody's wanted favorite nations, but everybody knew it was impossible to get the countries to agree to it because they wouldn't have done.
And they've been doing this for 40 years or whatever it is.
We were subsidizing the entire world.
That's just one of the many things we're giving.
But you should take that thing.
That's going to save.
Now, that also, when you add that to health care, your drug prices are much lower than what you projected.
So we're going to reduce health care by a lot.
One other thing.
On healthcare, it's never been our issue.
It should be our issue.
Get a very nasty vote from a couple of people.
I guess Collins, I guess Lisa Murkowski, and I guess a man named John McCain.
Remember?
Thumbs down.
You remember.
He said, I'm all for you.
For 10 years he campaigned.
I don't want to be nasty, but for 10 years he campaigned on Obamacare.
We're going to destroy Obamacare.
We're not going to do it.
And then we're going to terminate it.
And then it is surprising.
We could have had health care.
Good deal.
Obamacare is bad.
And the people understand it's bad.
And the premiums are horrible.
But one thing I've learned, I've learned a lot about healthcare.
I found healthcare sort of like not of tremendous interest, but it was very important.
And I made it of tremendous interest.
So I made a statement a couple of months ago because I saw the numbers.
I said, boy, because, you know, I like to see what's going on.
That's one of the reasons.
By the way, we set an all-time record again today.
We have the highest stock market in the history of our country by far, every single month.
That's another thing you should camp.
You know, they like to demean that.
You know what the Democrats?
Well, that doesn't mean anything.
That's just, no, no.
That means jobs, and it means 401ks, because a lot of people have 401ks.
And they have, hello, best lawyer in the room, the best, have 401ks, and they have 401ks.
Like, I had a young policeman.
I told this story twice, but it was the same thing.
This was a recent case.
I had a case years ago because I had a great economy.
You know, we had the greatest economy in history during my first term.
My first term was a tremendous success.
But again, nobody wants to talk about that.
We rebuilt our military.
We did things that nobody could have done.
We did a great job.
This term is blowing it away.
It's blowing every term.
There's never been a president that had a year like this, especially a starting year.
And we should win based on that too, all things.
But the 401k, so there's a policeman, and he comes up, and he was guarding me along with lots of other people.
Sir, I want to thank you.
My wife thinks I am the worst investor in the world.
And for the last year, I have, she thinks now I'm Warren Buffett.
She said, you're smarter than Warren Buffett.
You're a better investor than Mr. Warren Buffett, sir.
I said, how's your 401k?
It's doubled.
It's going up.
It's going up, boy.
I said, just relax.
But 401ks are through the roof.
Those are us.
Those are the people.
We have the highest stock market in history.
47 days out of 11 months.
We have just a piece of the last month left for the first year.
47 days out of 11 months, we hit a new record.
Well, we hit one last night.
We hit another one today, I understand.
But we hit one last night.
A new record, brand new record.
All exchanges, not just, you know, Dow, Dow is up, but all of them.
We have another record 40, that's the 47th time in 11 months that we've hit an all-time high.
And the future, because we have more money coming into our country than any country has ever had by far.
The record was about $3 trillion many years ago by China.
We've got $18 trillion pouring into our country.
You know why?
Because of tariffs.
Because if they build a factory, they don't have to pay any tariff.
But if they make it in another country and they send it in, they have a very big tariff to pay.
So they can't pay that tariff.
So what they do is they come into their building.
By the way, this is what China did to us for many years.
It's just reversing it.
Other than we have a great product.
We were losing our product now.
Tell you what, if I had lost this election, if you had Kamala, it's the same thing, Joe and Kamala, I call them equals.
If you had Kamala come in, I believe that our country would have been Venezuela on steroids.
I used to say that during the campaign: if I don't win, we're going to have Venezuela.
So we have 18 trillion coming in.
I think we could hit 20 trillion by the time the year is up, right?
It's less than one year, 18 trillion.
The record is $3 trillion.
$3 trillion, a lot of money.
$18 trillion is not even thinkable.
That's all investment.
That's building factories, that's building plants.
You know how many car factories we have?
Half of you guys are having car factories.
Where you are, Louisiana is doing great.
Georgia, right next to you, is doing great.
Hello.
Nice guy.
All nice people.
Actually, in this room, I can't see it.
Is there anybody I'm supposed to dislike in this room?
I think that a couple of people maybe didn't show up.
There's only one that I really dislike.
I mean, really.
The same person that Mike gave up on, because there's something wrong with him.
He's a sick person.
But there's only one really.
The others, you just have to understand them.
You know, they have some problems too, but you just have to sort of go with them and understand them, feel sorry for them, advise their family.
Are they okay?
Because what we're doing is right.
But $18 trillion, car plants being built.
I was in Japan.
Somebody admonished me.
She shouldn't be traveling.
I don't like to travel.
I don't like to travel.
But when I travel, I make a lot of money for the country.
Not for me.
For me, I don't make, I don't care.
I have a much higher purpose.
I have plenty of money.
I don't need money.
I don't want money.
I want to make money for the country.
And like I did with Intel, Intel came in.
They had a problem.
I said, I can solve the problem, but I think you should give the United States 10% of your company.
He goes, Whoa.
I said, Yeah, I think I can help you with the problem, but you've got to give the United States, not me.
Sometimes I'll say, give me, but when I say me, I'm talking about, I'd love to accept it, but I don't think that law enforcement would like that, right?
I'm very cognizant of law enforcement, perhaps more than anybody in history.
Actually, a friend of mine who's really smart said, you know, you've got to be the most honest guy in history.
Because you have been examined, your books, your records.
I have a big business.
Every record, I had these Democrats hired the biggest accounting firms, the biggest law firms, the biggest.
I went through years of abuse.
And here I am.
They didn't find anything wrong.
Remember?
We want his tax returns for years.
We want his.
Finally, the Supreme Court, shockingly, I'm the only one.
This couldn't happen to anybody else.
You have to give your tax returns, right?
I gave my tax returns there from here to here.
It's a big business.
It's a great business.
And I built a great business, like much bigger and better than anyone even understands.
But I gave my tax returns.
They go from here to the ceiling, practically.
They got him.
Headline, Trump to give tax returns.
Supreme Court ruled that.
I give my tax return.
Can you believe it?
Everyone said, you're not supposed to.
It's not supposed to do that.
And by fighting, they think you're trying to hide something.
You know, naturally.
I gave my tax returns.
That's the last we ever heard.
They hired the biggest accounting firm in the world, most powerful lawyers in the world.
They spent millions and millions of dollars going over those returns.
There hasn't been one story that I did anything wrong.
So this friend of mine who's highly sophisticated, rich guy, smart guy, said, there's nobody that I know that could have gone through an examination like that and not ended up in prison.
Nobody ever had to suffer like I did.
Nobody ever did that to anybody else.
You know, there was an expression, Andrew Jackson was the most abused president in the history of the United States.
You know who second was?
This before me.
You know who second was?
Abraham Lincoln.
But he had a Civil War.
So we have to give him a pass.
But Andrew Jackson was treated horribly.
He was a great general and a good president.
So bad that his wife died.
I mean, his wife died.
They were horrible.
But I just saw a report came out the other day.
I blow them away.
I blow.
He never got impeached twice.
I got impeached twice on nothing.
On a perfect phone call, remember?
Perfect phone call.
Tim Scott, who's a great guy, great, wonderful guy, South Carolina, straight guy, right?
He is a good guy, good person.
He's an honest person.
He read a transcript.
Thank goodness I had a transcript.
Essentially, the call was taped because they taped calls.
I didn't even know.
He said, was that call taped?
Yes, sir.
I said, oh, well, bring it down.
I don't even know.
And we read the transcript.
It was perfect.
It was so good.
I told Ukraine not to cheat.
And if you see any cheating, report it to the Attorney General of the United States.
That was my call.
They said he was trying to intimidate.
I said, just don't cheat.
And we have a signed agreement that Ukraine can't cheat.
You know that.
It's the only country we have actually assigned.
They violated the agreement many times, I would tell you.
You'll find out.
I was right about that, too.
But nobody's gotten treated.
But this guy said to me, for you to have escaped, but the one thing, and I'll just end it, because Jim Jordan back there, world champion wrestler, 128 and 1.
Whatever happened to the one guy?
The Russian.
How dare you lose to a Russian?
Do you know the more impressive record for Jim?
Because I'm a big sports person.
I love sports.
Jim went to high school.
In high school, he was considered like the top wrestler.
But he was undefeated in high school.
Now, what that means is that as a freshman, he was beating seniors.
unidentified
Is that true?
donald j trump
Were you actually undefeated?
Seriously, were you undefeated in high school?
That means as a freshman, he had to beat seniors, Steve.
Nobody could do it, because there's such a difference between a freshman and a senior.
To me, that's more impressive than anything.
But I'm also impressed with his fight.
Now we have to close the deal, Jim.
We've got to close the deal.
close that deal but i but the right so you know i respect I saw Jim, and the first time I met Jim, I looked at him and I said, tough-looking guy.
But I noticed the ears, they were a little rough.
They were a little bit of a rough.
Some people would say a little cauliflower on that ear.
They said, Jim, have you wrestled before?
unidentified
Yes, I did.
donald j trump
Where?
Was it Ohio State?
Something like, he was an all-American at Ohio State.
I said, yeah, I could sort of tell.
I look at the ears and I can sort of tell.
But have you had plastic surgery on your ears, Jim?
No?
Because they look better now than they did the first time.
They've healed over the years.
They've healed.
Actually, now you're wrestling with probably much tougher people, the radical left lunatics, right?
But anyway, so I just want to leave it by this.
I want to say that you are great people.
We have all of the policy.
We have wonderful.
Just stay together.
We got a few people that make life very difficult.
They don't have that.
I used to say they don't have a Mitt Romney in their midst.
I mean, Mitt Romney was very difficult.
You know, he'd always, he was almost like for them.
It was a very on the Senate side.
But we have a couple of people that are really bad.
I mean, they're bad, but maybe they'll straighten out.
Maybe somebody in the room can sit them down and straighten them out because what we're doing is the right thing for the country.
We're not Republican or Democrat.
We're doing the right thing for the country.
If you look at what we're trying to solve the health care problem, we're trying to get better health care at a lower price.
unidentified
I mean, that's a good thing, right?
donald j trump
And the one thing I learned, and just in concluding, and I said it like a month and a half ago, and it was the number one thing in the country, even the fake news covered it.
They tried to put a negative spin on it, of course.
I said, I read a story about insurance companies making a fortune.
A fortune.
Their stocks were up 1,700%.
Who invested recently in a stock that's up 17?
And that's because the money that they're getting from Obamacare is massive.
And the government generally, that means they're making a fortune.
And as soon as that, because I'm like, I have a natural, I don't want to say it again, but I have a natural business instinct.
I do.
I've always done things.
I've done some things that people said you're crazy and I made a lot of money with.
I've done a lot of things that were good.
I have an instinct, right?
Somebody said, he's got the best political instincts of any politician in 150 years.
I said, no, I don't.
I really don't believe I do.
I think I have good instincts.
I have common sense.
But they said that it was a very complimentary statement, but I don't believe that's necessarily right.
But I do have good policy.
I have good common sense.
And maybe they wheel that into instincts.
And I did become president.
So it can't be that bad.
And I never did it before.
Don't forget, I ran for president.
I had a politician telling me very strongly, they said, sir, I've run for office 20 times and I've won 17.
And I know what I'm talking about.
This was at the very beginning of my first time.
I said, well, I've only run once and I won, but I won for president.
He said, you got me in that one.
He's actually sitting in this room right now.
That son of a gun.
He knows who I'm talking about.
He was giving me a hard time, but he's turned out to be a decent person.
Not the best in the room, but the decent president.
He's not my favorite in the room, but he's decent.
But we have one thing that's really strong.
Uh-oh, it's a fake news.
Pull it surprise, right?
Pull it surprise.
He got one for the bullet.
He had the bullet, but he got how many bullets apprised?
Three bullet surprises and all talented guys.
These are great guys.
I don't like the people back there.
These are the ones that take the pictures.
Make me look thin for a change, Doug.
You're making me look a little bit heavy.
I'm not happy about it.
But one thing I did see and find out in the last two months, when you tell the people that we want the money to be paid to the people so the people can buy their own health insurance and health care, it is like, and I just said it, and I said it because I read a story on the front page of a certain paper that I don't even mention because it's so stupid, paper is so bad.
It's gotten so far off the Wall Street Journal.
I don't mention it.
I refuse to tell you which.
I refuse to tell you that it's the Wall Street Journal.
They've lost their way.
This is not the Wall Street Journal of old.
But I read a story on the Wall Street Journal and it said that the insurance companies are making so much money.
They weren't demeaning them or anything.
And I guess as an investor, you're happy.
When I read that, I said, wait a minute, they're making that kind of money.
And they're making it because of stupid politicians, I hate to say, that we allow them to make it.
If you guys can get in a room, because you know, we don't have that as one of our issues.
It's the only thing they have.
They're lousy at it.
They came up with Obamacare.
We tried to fight it.
We almost had it won, but we didn't get three votes.
We should have gotten them.
But here's, you want to turn this thing?
You work on favorite nations, you work on borders, you work on all of the things that we talked about.
But now you take the health care issue away from them, and they want to fight it.
You know why?
They're all owned by the insurance companies, and they cannot fight it successfully.
There's nothing they can do.
That's like almost the voter ID thing.
When they try and fight, I watched a guy trying to explain why we shouldn't have voter ID the other day, and the guy was a fool.
He looked like an idiot.
This is the same kind of an issue.
Let the money go in the healthcare account or however you do it.
Let the money go directly to the people.
Now, you have to be a little flexible on Hyde.
You know that.
You got to be a little flexible.
You got to work something.
You got to use ingenuity.
You got to work.
We're all big fans of everything, but you got to be flexible.
You have to have flexibility.
I came out with a statement: let the money go not to the big fat cats and the insurance companies that made 1,700% over the last short period of time.
Let the money go directly to the people where they can buy their own health care.
And I don't think, I'm not sure that I've ever said anything that was more impactful.
You know, I say a lot of things and have a lot of good ideas.
And this was an idea that, I mean, the whole world went crazy.
The whole country went crazy.
The world went crazy with envy.
If you can somehow do that, Mr. Speaker, Tom, all of you, Steve, if you can do that, you're going to have, this is going to be your issue.
And the other thing is fertilization.
They're trying to hit us on fertilization.
They were dead on fertilization when I got a call from a very wonderful young senator from Alabama saying they had just lost a case.
And the case, I've never been met with such scorn.
Friends of hers were just going crazy.
And I said, explain the issue to me.
And it was on IVF, the fertilization.
A judge ruled against and said all fertilization places have to be closed down like immediately.
It would have been a disaster.
And fortunately, I picked it up and we became, we owned the issue.
But now I understand they're trying to make a case on fertilization.
You can't let them do that.
Very important issue.
All of these issues are very important issues.
But you can own healthcare.
Figure it out.
Let the money go directly to the people.
It goes in a healthcare account.
It does, there are numerous things you can do, but you have to let no money for the insurance companies.
You're not going to meet with the insurance companies.
I said, I'm going to meet with them because I met with the prescription drug companies, and that's when I found out what was going on with the fact that we were paying 10 and 13 and 14 times more money than Europe and other places.
I learned that at the meeting.
Now, I'm going to meet with them in a few days.
I'm meeting with them all, 14 companies.
I'm meeting with them all.
I'm also meeting with oil companies.
Let's go.
You know what that's about.
We've got a lot of oil to drill, which is going to bring down oil prices even further.
But if you can come up with healthcare, remember this, where the money goes to the people, you have just owned, they can't fight it.
They're owned by the insurance companies.
You guys don't get money from the insurance companies.
They do.
They get a massive amount of money.
It's their biggest donor.
They're going to try and fight you, but they can't win the fight.
If you explain it, the money goes directly to the people.
That's going to be your issue.
The other thing is energy.
Your energy prices have come so far down since that president.
And nobody wants to, I saw on television, energy prices are down 3%.
No, they're not down 3%.
They were $3.50 and $4.
It's now $1.99 a gallon in many stations, many stations.
And it's going down further.
And that's like a massive tax cut.
And that's the other thing: tax cuts.
No tax on tips.
No tax on Social Security.
No tax on overtime.
Now think of this.
No tax on tips.
No tax for seniors on Social Security.
No tax on overtime.
You're allowed to deduct if you buy a car and you take out a loan on the car.
For the first time ever, middle-income people, all people could deduct, but they never got a deduction before like this.
It's only for rich people.
They got them.
They have so many deductions.
You're allowed to deduct the interest against your taxes.
Nobody thought it was possible.
It's going to be phenomenal for the car companies, but it's even more phenomenal for the people.
It's like getting a, you know, it's like paying half for the car.
All of these things, you have so much ammunition.
All you have to do is sell it.
Taxes.
But the one thing they know about the taxes, the great big, I call it the Great Big Beautiful Bill.
I think it's even better.
But the Great Big Beautiful Bill is just that.
There are so many goodies in the bill.
You have to get the word out.
Because the people in the back of the room won't do it.
That's why I love live television.
Because they can't, well, sometimes they'll turn the camera off, but they're embarrassed when they do that.
You know, if we're going too strong and doing too well, if the lights go off, you know you're doing well.
If the lights are on, you got yourself a problem, okay?
I see that little red light.
That light goes on.
If that light, that's bad, isn't that?
If that light goes off, you know that you're doing a good job because you're fighting the Democrats and you're fighting the fake news.
And it's amazing that they can be so stupid.
And they don't have credibility anymore.
And you can beat them.
I mean, it's the old thing that, you know, never fight the news, but you have no choice because it's almost like they become radicalized.
But you are fighting the news, but you can beat them.
That's why I'm standing here.
I mean, I had, Kamala, I was beating Joe by 30 points.
And then they changed him.
That's like a fighter in the ring.
He's losing.
And I said, let's put somebody else in to take his place.
Very unfair.
They changed in the middle of the election.
They said he's going to lose, so let's give somebody else.
And fortunately, she was just as bad as him.
Probably slightly.
unidentified
I don't know.
donald j trump
Would you say as bad or worse?
Close.
Pretty close.
But it took six weeks.
It was a honeymoon period, six weeks.
Took six weeks to find out that she didn't have what it takes.
But you got to win the midterms.
Because if we don't win the midterms, it's just going to be, I mean, they'll find a reason to impeach me.
I'll get impeached.
We don't impeach them.
You know why?
Because they're meaner than we are.
We should have impeached Joe Biden for 100 different things.
They are mean and smart.
But fortunately for you, they have horrible policy.
They can be smart as they can be.
But when they want open borders, when they want, as I said, men and women's sports, when they want transgender for everyone, bring your kids in.
We're going to change the sex of your child.
Just send them our way.
In some cases, like in Minnesota, they don't even tell the parents.
Is that right?
And nobody believes it when I say it.
I think we have six states.
Nobody, am I correct?
Okay, Tom Emerson, yes, so.
But it's true.
Where the kid comes back, they keep the kid.
They operate on the kid.
They don't tell the parents.
It's not believable.
We have great, solid common sense policy.
They have horrendous policy.
What they do is they stick together.
They never have a no vote.
They impeached me.
I never knew I was going to be impeached.
I get a phone call.
You just got impeached.
I said, what does that mean?
unidentified
It took them 10 minutes.
donald j trump
They impeached the president who did a damn good job.
I rebuilt our military, Space Force.
I got everything.
I did a lot.
They impeached me for nothing, twice, for nothing.
Fortunately, you were on our side, and we were unanimous.
And the second time, the few people in this little group, like Rice and this, they're all gone.
Every one of them is gone, except one that we're going to sort of let ride with.
Some guy that has a state that you might as well just let him ride.
But think of it, everyone's gone.
Everyone's gone.
It makes me feel so good.
I don't want to feel vicious, but I'm so happy that everyone.
And they're seriously gone too.
They lost in landslides.
This guy named Rice, he lost by 48 points, right?
Remember him?
Oh, no, there he is.
What a job you did, Mr. Fry, Congressman Fry.
I looked around for somebody.
It's true, this was a good choice.
We've made some bad choices too because you have to do it.
I said, who the hell can run against this guy, Rice?
It was a Trump plus 40 district.
They had riots around his house that night.
You know, he voted, I'd vote to impeach.
And that night they had riots.
So they said, who the hell?
Just give me somebody.
A warm body.
And then, and then, no, no, it has to be a living, breathing person.
And then if I could get a genius, it would be good.
And we got a guy who is so good, he's been, I think, are you happy with him?
I think so.
Stand up, bruh.
He's great.
I said, where does he come from?
He's like a senator, state senator, or something.
I said, all right.
I spoke to him one time.
I said, you're accepted.
But little did I realize how good he was going.
You did a great job.
You've done a great job.
And the people love him.
So he has done a great job.
I just want to say this.
I haven't read one word on this thing.
Who the hell else could do this?
And I think I gave you something.
It's just a roadmap.
And it's a roadmap to victory.
You have so many good nuggets.
You have to use them.
If you can sell them, we're going to win.
Because we've won two races in like 50 years.
It's for whatever reason, I don't know why, but just don't fight it.
It doesn't make sense.
There have been two, and they were unusual circumstances.
So whether it's a Republican or Democrat, whoever wins the presidency, the other party wins the midterm.
And it doesn't make sense because we've had the most successful year probably in the history.
They say, and now you add what happened essentially yesterday.
We've had the most successful first year of any president in history.
And it should be a positive and make it a positive.
So with that, I leave you.
I do.
And I started by saying I love you all.
And I'll end by saying I love you.
You're amazing people.
What you do for this country is incredible.
And thank you all very much.
Thank you.
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Thank you.
I'll say to young man, pick yourself off the ground.
I'll say to young man.
Cause you're in a new town.
There's no need to be unhappy.
You're ready.
There's a place you shouldn't go.
I'll say to young man.
When you're short on your note, you can't stay there.
And I'll show you a mind many ways to have a good time.
It's fun to stay at home.
Ladies and gentlemen, I don't even know how you describe it.
And it's historic.
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And here's why.
Never in the history of this country, never in the history of the world have you had a leader, a leader of this significance, a world historical figure like Donald Trump, sit there for an hour and 50 minutes, not use one line out of the prepared remarks that he had today to talk to the House guys and sit there and really off the top of his head, as he calls weave,
but ties all this together of everything he's been doing and how it ties together with humor and insight and stories.
I know many of you, I could.
I could watch that all day because it's never happened.
You know, Roosevelt's fireside chats, I don't care.
It's never happened.
You're seeing the thing itself right there.
And it's funny and it's, you know, some of it's caustic.
He's very self-deprecating.
Right there, you're seeing that's the real Trump.
And it's extraordinary.
Now, it did take an hour and 50 minutes.
We had so much other stuff scheduled.
But what we had scheduled is, you know, it's Jay 6.
We're going to get to all that.
We're going to go to the press conference here momentarily.
We're having to reorganize our show for this afternoon, but that's all easy.
Right there.
And what had happened is the House is actually at the Kennedy Center today, the Republican conference is there all day.
Andy Harris in the House Freedom Caucus put out a 10-page memo with 15 things approximately they want to pass to codify the executive orders of President Trump's second term, something we've talked about on the show nonstop.
They actually have a plan.
We're going to try to get Andy Harris up here tonight to talk about it.
President Trump, that was there to talk about, et cetera, but he talked about everything.
It's just extraordinary.
And the reason we stay with it and we'll always stay with it is that it's unique in human history.
You just don't see this.
Even if you take Putin, what he does on Christmas Day when he sits through, that's very performative and very staged.
He knows what he's going to say.
He kind of knows what the questions he's got to talk about, what the questions they're going to give him.
This is right off the top of the head.
Just extraordinary.
Now, without commercial break, I want to thank Birch Gold, our sponsor for this morning, without commercial breaks, birchgold.com.
By the way, silver hits 80 today during President Trump's talk.
Gold now coming up to an all-time high for the geopolitical issues.
We're going to cover that tonight, all day tomorrow.
We're going to be all over it as we head to Texas.
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