Episode 5176: President Trump Holds Rally In Corpus Christi Texas
President Trump’s Corpus Christi rally slashed energy costs, cutting core inflation to 1.7% in late 2025 while dropping prices on eggs, beef, and mortgages by $5,000 annually via $200B bond purchases—boosting Texas homebuyers to 50,000. His administration secured $18T in investments in 12 months, axed EV mandates, and forced tech firms to build power plants, while slashing drug prices by 400%–600%. Border Patrol Council president Paul Perez credited Trump’s policies for zero crossings in nine months, praising his immediate law enforcement support over Biden’s delays. The Save America Act tightens voter ID rules to combat fraud, framing Democrats as radical opponents. Texas’s LNG projects and deepened shipping channels fueled economic growth, but Iran negotiations remain fraught with "dangerous people." Trump’s policies reshaped Texas’s economy, security, and political landscape, cementing his dominance ahead of midterms. [Automatically generated summary]
Did you see these people on my right, the way they just sat there?
Some of them.
How about Omar screaming, screaming, screaming like a lunatic?
You looked at her bulging eyes, she's crazy.
Get it the hell out of here, the Omar and her friend and her little friend sitting next to her.
Slashing energy costs is among the most important actions we can take to bring down prices for American consumers because when you cut the cost of energy, you really caught, you just cut the cost of energy.
Everything follows.
Look, you're in an industry, a business, whatever you want to call it, a profession in many cases.
Everything follows energy.
Now, AI, they build these big plants.
They say, how do you make your money?
Information.
Somehow I like oil better.
I'm sorry.
I think oil.
If I had my choice, I have to stick with oil.
In 12 months, we've driven core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years.
And in the last three months of 2025, it's been down to one point inflation, 1.7%.
Nobody thought that.
So we went from the highest inflation ever to low inflation.
You know, everything took place.
I've been here one year.
Think of it.
One year, a little bit more than one year now.
Time flies.
Fly flies.
Maybe we should, maybe we do one more term.
Should we do one more term?
Do one more term.
One more term.
Well, we're entitled to it because they cheated like hell in the second.
We would actually be entitled to it.
But think of it.
The price of eggs is down 60%.
The cost of chicken, butter, fruit, hotels, automobiles, rent is lower today than it has been in years.
And even beef is right now on the way down.
It's coming down.
It's coming down fast.
Prices of almost everything is down.
And we inherited a mess one year ago, a mess.
And they came up with the word affordability.
Affordability.
And I said, what are they talking about?
They're the ones that caused it.
They're cons, they're liars, not good.
Other than that, we want to have unity.
Let's have unity.
To have unity, you need sane people on the other side.
And when you watch them not stand up for a mother that just lost her daughter or not stand up for a great, brave helicopter pilot that did so well and so amazing in Venezuela or not stand up when I asked the question, stand up if you love our country.
Think of it.
And you love great American patriots.
But don't stand up if you don't, or if you love illegal alien criminals.
And not one of them stood up.
They got killed.
You know, at the end of the night, they were all standing up for anything because the word was, they are getting killed.
Pastor, did you see they were passing notes all over the place?
Stand up, stand up for anything, stand up.
They were instructed, you know, they have terrible policy, terrible everything, but they do stay together, as bad as it is.
But they were instructed, under no circumstances are you to applaud or stand up.
So I say, stand up for a mother who lost her beautiful daughter.
And they don't applaud.
They sit there like, and eventually we just looked at them and said, you people are crazy.
And they are.
They're crazy.
And we've got to win the midterms.
We brought this country back.
We don't want to lose the midterm.
We've got to win the midterms.
We got to get out.
You got to get out or we've got to vote.
We'll keep it all going, better even than it is now, as good as it is.
Tuesday night, in my State of the Union address, I laid out the historic actions my administration is taking to put more money in the pockets of workers and families, like those here today, the greatest people on earth.
You built the country, and to ensure that we always keep America first.
You know, they don't keep America first.
They keep America last.
With the help of our Republican majorities in Congress, we passed the largest tax cuts in American history.
That includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for our great seniors.
And the average Texas family will save over $4,000 on their taxes this year alone and much more next year.
We gave you the best tax cuts anyone's seen.
We also got you an interest deduction if you buy a car.
If you borrow some money to buy a car, you have a loan.
You're allowed to deduct the interest for income tax purposes.
Never happened before.
But only if it's an American-made car.
We put that in.
We have cut a record number of job-killing regulations, slashing 129 old regulations for every one new regulation that we approve.
So if we put a regulation on, we slash 129 old regulations, which is far and above what anybody's been able to do.
We terminated the insane electric vehicle mandate where you had to have a car, like all electric car, within a couple of years.
It was not going to work.
I mean, you don't mind driving 200 miles to get a charger, right?
You ever see the signs?
Charge, you're running out, you're running low, and they say, charging booth 112 miles to the right.
These people are crazy, I'm telling you.
But the mandate is over and the other radical attacks, and now you can go out and you can buy a gasoline-powered car, a hybrid, an electric car.
You can buy whatever the hell you want.
In four long years, the last administration got less than $1 trillion.
So $1 trillion less, much less of new investment came into the country.
In less than 12 months, I secured commitments for more than $18 trillion.
So think of it.
For four years, think of it at what it does to a place like this.
Four years, much less than $1 trillion.
Less than one year, more than $18 trillion.
I would say that's the difference between making America great again and making America a major loser.
A short time ago, we were a dead country.
We were totally a dead country.
The King of Saudi Arabia said it to me.
I was over, they invested $2 trillion in our country.
I was over there with other great countries, but the King of Saudi Arabia said to me, President, two years ago, you were a dead country.
Now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
Can you imagine?
The stock market has hit 53 all-time record highs since the election.
Think of that in one year.
Adding trillions of dollars in value, Americans' pensions and 401ks and retirement accounts, they're all through the roof.
Who has a 401k?
Wow.
Is anybody unhappy with the job I'm doing?
Your 401ks have doubled, right?
Are they doubled?
I have a policeman.
I tell the story.
Same guy I mean him.
But this wonderful, tough policeman from New York.
He's taking good care of us.
And he said, sir, it's so good my married life has gotten so much better.
Why?
My wife thought I was a loser financially.
I couldn't make any money because my 401k was dying for years.
And now she thinks I'm the smartest financial genius ever.
It's made my sex life good.
It's made my life good.
It's given me a tremendous boost in life, sir.
This is a big, tough cop.
He said, my wife treated me like a dog, and now she admires my financial genius.
And I haven't done anything.
My 401k has gone through the roof.
So I said, thank you very much.
But everybody's there, right?
Everybody's up.
Has anybody gone down with their 401k?
Because if you do, you're a loser.
Nobody.
And then, you know, you hear these radical lunatics say, the stock market doesn't matter.
Well, it does matter because they have 401ks.
They have investments.
They buy stocks without 401ks.
It matters a lot.
Our stock market's going through.
You know, we beat 50,000 on the Dow.
They said when I got elected, if I could beat 50,000 by the end of my fourth year, it would be a tremendous miracle.
And we then hit 7,000 on the SP.
And that was even tougher.
They said there's no way that could be done.
I did them both by the end of my first year.
Not my fourth year, my first.
Which means you also did them both.
So, you know, so everybody's happy.
And to help ensure that all Americans share in the gains from the rising stock market, I announced on Tuesday night that any worker whose employer does not provide matching contributions to a retirement account, my administration will begin matching your retirement savings with up to $1,000 a year.
Nobody ever thought that's possible.
And we passed the bill, the great, big, beautiful bill that the Democrats are, they're always saying, oh, the great, big, big, they don't know.
It's basically the great, big, beautiful tax cut bill, if you really want to look at it, probably more accurate name.
Every parent can actively just activate all of their children's accounts.
We have a new thing, and it was Michael and Susan Dell, Dell Computer.
Go out and buy a Dell computer.
They're great.
Because he put up $6,250,000 in the Trump accounts, and it's for children.
it's tax-free investment accounts for every american child every single american child born born rich so millions and millions will be pre-funded courtesy of the u.s treasury and private individuals like michael and susan dell who have donated the think of it six billion
He put up $6,250,000,000, and now he wants to put up more to fund what's called the Trump accounts for 25 million American children, and that number is growing rapidly all the time.
So these children, they reach 18 or 19 or 20, they could have over 100,000.
They could have much more than that.
Think of it.
They'll be like rich.
They started with nothing, a small amount of seed money.
And by the time they're 18 years old, they could have well over $100,000.
And to make this investment in our children's future, go to trumpeaccounts.gov.
It is amazing.
It's going through the roof.
One American who is benefiting tremendously from our tax cuts is Kevin Rhodes from Andrews, Texas.
Kevin is a Marine Corps veteran who has spent 20 years in the oil and gas industry.
Great guy, just met him.
He works as a Wells Tech in Permian Basin, where he averages 15 hours a week in overtime.
Now, there's no tax on overtime anymore, Kevin.
As a result, Kevin and his wife, Marcy, will take home more than $7,000 extra this year thanks to no tax on overtime with money that they are going to take.
The two boys are on a road trip to Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park.
Nice place.
Oh, you can save the money or you could buy a house or do whatever the hell you want with it, right?
But you know what?
I'd like to have Kevin and Marcy come up there so happy.
No tax, in this case, overtime.
But think of it, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social security for the seniors.
So who the hell else could have gotten that?
Come on up, Kevin.
unidentified
Thank you, Mr. President.
It's a huge honor to be here in Corpus Christi, Texas with everyone here.
Thank you to Oil and Gas Workers Association also.
I stand here as a Marine Corps veteran.
With my wife, who is a small business owner, we own a small catering company.
We are products of the oil and gas industry of West Texas.
We send our oil here to Corpus Christi to send out across the world.
With the legislation that has been passed with a no-tax on overtime, we were able to buy a commercial refrigerator for our business.
And then, like Mr. President said, we're going to take our kids on a trip to Yellowstone and Grand Teton.
We are just Americans, two parents trying to give the best life to their children.
Opportunities for both of our sons, one who is in automation, fixing to go into the oil and gas industry.
We have big dreams and are excited for the future of this nation and our family.
We are grateful that God has given us a president like Mr. Trump that allows us to that he has put America first.
So God bless you, Mr. President, and God bless this nation.
So we're also grateful to be joined by a man who's, they say, the most talented man in the oil industry, Doug Bergham, who, as you know, is a great gentleman.
He was former governor of North Dakota.
I wanted to put him at energy.
He said, sir, I'm really good at energy, but there's one man that's better, and his name is Chris Wright.
So I made Chris Wright the Secretary of Energy, and he has really proven to be fantastic.
Wherever you are, Chris, where is Chris?
Thank you.
And he's got a beautiful hat.
Beautiful.
I love the hat.
Gulf of America.
I love that hat.
We have one of the great governors of our country.
He is an unbelievable guy, a tremendous friend of mine, and he is something very special.
He's tough as hell, I want to tell you.
If you think he's a nice guy, you're wrong.
He's tough.
He's mean, but it's all for you.
So I want to just say, Greg Abbott, we love you, Greg Abbott.
He's been the chairman of my chairman of my campaign all three times.
All three times we set records.
We set records like nobody.
Okay, I don't want to brag, but in the history of Texas, I have, correct, Governor, I have by far the largest number of votes ever gotten, and it was the highest, then the highest again, and we just topped it big in the last election.
So we have the highest ever gotten by a lot, by millions of votes.
I think I got to move here fast.
I'll stay in Washington for a little while.
We'll stay in Washington for a little while longer.
So thank you very much.
And we have a great Attorney General, Ken Paxton.
Where's Ken?
Hi, Ken.
Hi, Ken.
And we have a great senator, John Cornyn.
Hi, John.
Thank you, John.
Do we need a race together?
You know that, right?
A little bit of a race.
It's going to be an interesting one, right?
They're both great people, too.
Thank you both very much.
We appreciate it.
Texas House Speaker Dustin Burroughs is here doing a terrific show.
Hi, Dustin.
Thank you, Dustin.
Good job.
Like you much better than the last guy, Dustin.
And we have a senator who's really an amazing guy.
I'm thinking about putting him in the Supreme Court.
I know now I'm thinking, because it's very hard, you know, getting these nominations through is very tough.
He's the only guy I know.
He'll get 100% of the Democrat vote, 100% of the Republican vote.
They want to get him out of there.
He is such a pain in the ass, but he's so good and so talented.
Ted Cruz.
That's right.
If we ever had a problem, I just picked Ted.
That had solved that problem.
No, he's a great guy, and he's a very talented guy, too.
They're all leading in the polls, every one of them.
And I want to call up three people that are running.
And we don't even have the polls yet, but they're, I think, doing well.
When we endorse people, I'd like I take it seriously, but these people we endorse, and just run on up here, real fairs.
Carlos De La Cruz, Webb County Judge Tano Tijarina, Ti Harina, come on up.
And former assistant attorney Eric Flores are all running, and I think they're doing great.
Say a couple of words.
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I have to first thank our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for opening every single door for my family.
I want to thank my family, Annette, and my daughter, Rebecca.
And, Mr. President, I want to thank you, sir, for securing our borders and making America strong.
And I got a lot of fighting in me, sir.
And I'm going to make sure that Texas 35 brings you a wingman.
Mr. President, it's true an honor to stand up here.
Soy un Mexicano, American, Mexican-American, soy un mexicano, poro or guyoso, por cisto con el mejor presiente tol mundo.
Mr. President, this is South Texas right here.
Hardworking patriots, faith-filled patriots, Mr. President.
Men and women that power this country, that our ports, our refineries, our ranches, and our military bases.
Aquíno tenemos miedo.
Para trabajar.
Nún catenemos miedo.
We're not just a border, but we're the future, Mr. President.
And we're here to back you up and continue to fight, fight, fight.
Mr. President, I am honored to be here with you today.
As someone who has worn the uniform of the United States Army and locked up some of the worst of the worst, I believe in strength, never backing down and staying focused on the mission.
That is the kind of leadership that you have brought back to America, and that's the leadership that I will bring to D.C. to fight for Texas 34 and always have your back, Mr. President.
South Texas stands ready to do our part to secure our borders grow our economy and keep America strong Thank you for being here, Mr. President, in Corpus Christi.
Thank you for your endorsement and for your trust.
And above all, thank you for your unwavering, unapologetic devotion to our great nation.
Every day under the Trump administration, we're taking on the corruption and fraud that drives up your cost of living.
And we're defending the honest, hardworking citizens of our country like you.
Under the most favored nation agreements for drug prices, we're slashing drug prices at record levels like never seen before, with price differences of 400, 500, even 600%.
I went to other countries.
I said, no way.
You know, we were paying the highest prices in the entire world by far.
And now we're paying the lowest price.
It's numbers that have come down for decades.
Think of it.
For decades, Americans have paid the highest drug prices.
Nobody's ever paid more.
We would pay sometimes 8, 10, 12 times more than places in Europe and other countries.
But from now on, because of what I did, we're going to be paying the lowest, but it's called favored nations, most favored nations.
So these incredible price reductions are available right now.
And I didn't name this, but somebody did.
They thought it was good.
I said, whatever sells, trumprx.gov, trump RX.
And you'll see numbers.
You'll see numbers where, and I tell the story of a friend of mine, very smart, very heavy guy, very, I'm trying to be nice, never use the word fat.
Very heavy, slightly obese, but he takes the fat drug, and it didn't work.
But he's a very brilliant guy.
He's highly neurotic, very brilliant, very smart, rich.
He calls me, he was in London.
He called me.
He said, you know, he takes the fat drug, one of the many fat drugs.
And he says, in New York, I pay $1,300, and in London, I'm paying $87.
What the hell is going on?
So he checked it.
He's a man of means, same plant, same factory, same manufacturer, shipped over to London, and it's a tiny fraction.
He said, what is it?
And I said, well, that started years ago, and nobody's been able to do anything about it, but I'm working on it hard.
I got it done.
And I got it done by saying very simply to the other countries, if you're not going to do it, we're going to charge you a massive tariff that's many times more because they had to approve it.
The drug companies approved it, the countries approved it, and now you'll have a pill that would sell for $1, but in New York would sell for $13.
And now that pill is selling in London for $2 or $3, and it's selling in New York for $2 or $3.
Came all the way down.
And I said, that alone, Governor, that alone should win us the midterms.
Ted, that alone should win us the midterms.
That is the single biggest thing to happen.
It's a revolution in prescription drugs.
Your prices are going down 80%, 85%, 70%.
Numbers that nobody ever saw.
You know, in my first term, I had a year, my third year, where I got it down one quarter of a percent.
Think of it.
One quarter.
I was so proud of myself, I called the news conference immediately.
I announced that I got, because nobody in 28 years had gotten drug prices down, I got them down from the beginning of the year to the end, one quarter of 1%.
I thought it was great, because nobody else had done it for 28 years.
Now I've got them down 80%, 85%, 75%, 55%.
And that should really do it.
And other presidents have tried, and they were unable to get it.
They were unable to get the other countries to do it.
They were unable to get the drug companies.
Everything's done.
Everything is signed up.
You know that Ted and John and everybody, everything is signed up, done.
When it was done, a major paper, it's the single biggest thing in years in medicine.
A major paper put it on page 22 of the newspaper.
So we have to explain.
It's the biggest thing.
It's the greatest thing.
One of the great things.
And that also has to do with bringing your health care way down.
Since the passage of the Unaffordable Care Act, which is Obamacare, did you ever hear of Barack Hussein Obama?
Barack Hussein.
Who likes Barack Hussein Obama?
Who doesn't like him?
I've heard worse.
I've heard less popular people than that.
Big insurance companies have gotten rich with our government, giving them hundreds of billions of dollars as their stock prices soared because Obamacare was good, rotten health insurance.
Good for one reason, the insurance companies.
The insurance companies made a fortune.
The insurance companies own Democrats.
They own them.
So the Democrats never want to do anything good for us.
They want to do it for the insurance companies.
That's why Obamacare is terrible and it's way too expensive.
So that's why in introducing the great, we call it the Great Health Care Plan, I want to stop all payments to big insurance companies and all money, billions and billions of dollars, goes directly to the people so that you can buy your own health care, which is better and much less expensive than Obamacare.
As I announced on Tuesday under our new rate payer protection pledge, we're also telling the big tech companies that energy usage, AI data centers cannot drive up price in community electric prices in communities.
We have told them, you've got to build your own power plant.
You can't take it.
You've got to build it.
And actually, we're doing them a favor because they never thought they'd have it so good.
Because our grid, which is very old and broken, tired, and doesn't have great capacity, cannot sustain the kind of numbers that you're draining out of it.
So I gave them the right, and now it's mandatory, I made it mandatory, where they have to build their own electric power plant so they're no longer taken out of the community.
And any excess they give back into the grid.
So the grid is actually going to be enhanced as opposed to hurt.
They wouldn't have been able.
We're leading China.
We're leading everybody right now in AI.
And the reason we're doing it is because they're building their own plants.
Otherwise, we couldn't build much at all.
And so I just want you to know, as you see these massive plants, they're building their own power plant.
They're becoming essentially their own utility.
We're expanding the dream of home ownership to millions of Americans.
And after I directed the purchase of $200 billion in mortgage bonds, that's $200 billion in mortgage bonds.
Mortgage rates just fell substantially lower than 6% for the first time in five years.
The annual cost of a typical new mortgage is now down almost $5,000 in one year.
Think of that.
And I have a lousy guy in the Fed.
Terrible.
Jerome Too Late.
You know what?
He's too late.
You know why we call him too late?
He's too late in reducing mortgage interest rates or interest rates.
He's not doing too good.
But fortunately, he's going to be out of there soon.
But even despite him, you know, did you ever hear you got a little wall, an obstacle, you power through, we power through the wall.
He's a wall that we just power through.
In the past 12 months, we've helped over 50,000 first-time homebuyers in Texas get the house of their dreams.
And we've really created the American dream.
By the way, our country right now, this is the golden age of America.
We're in the golden age.
This is the beginning.
This is the beginning of the golden age.
They're going to be reading about this in 100 years.
We are in the golden age of America.
We've got to keep it going.
Got to win the midterms.
We've got to keep it going.
Last month, I signed an executive order to ban large Wall Street investment firms from buying large numbers of family homes, single-family homes.
No, you'd have these firms go out and buy 2,000 houses.
We don't want it.
We want you to buy the houses, not them.
We're also fighting to pass the Save America Act, my all-time favorite.
It's my all-time favorite.
The Save America Act.
We got it, John.
You hear that, Ted?
You're unstoppable, because, you know, they cheat like hell in elections, in case you haven't noticed.
They cheated in the third election.
Second election was ridiculous.
We got them.
We caught them.
It's all coming out.
Daily, it's coming out.
They cheated like dogs.
That guy couldn't win.
But to stop illegal aliens and other unpermitted persons.
See, that's a politically correct unpermitted persons.
Rather than illegal aliens, they'd rather have us use unpermitted persons.
That first time I've ever heard those words.
I don't sort of like them, unpermitted persons.
Is that the new phrase we're using?
The governor says, no, good.
Thank you.
No, Ted, right?
Unpermitted.
He's an unpermitted person.
He's killed 19 people.
We're not permitting him in.
From voting in our sacred American elections.
We don't want people that aren't citizens of our country voting.
We don't want people that aren't studied.
And we don't want people that can't love our country voting in our elections.
So it's very simple.
All voters must show, this is the Save America Act.
Now think of it.
I watched Humor the other day.
We will stop the Save America Act.
I said, no, no, we're talking about saving America.
It's a really hard thing.
It was like MAGA.
Biden, remember Biden?
He made those speeches.
We will stop MAGA.
He falls off the stage.
We will stop.
We will stop MAGA.
We must stop MAGA.
He had no idea what, and I said, no, no.
MAGA is make America great again.
You don't want to stop it.
You don't want to stop MAGA.
And this may be even better.
The Save America Act.
I watched Humor today.
We're going to stop the Save America Act.
You know what it is?
Basically voter ID, et cetera.
But what's wrong with that?
So they came up with all different theories about why anybody should.
You have voter ID for everything.
No matter where you go, it's ID.
You have an identification for everything, except for one of the most sacred things you could be doing is voting.
And the reason they don't want voter ID is because they want to cheat.
Because the only way they can get elected is to cheat, because their policies are no good.
They do stick together.
You saw that the other night.
They wouldn't stand up and clap for anyone.
For anybody.
We could introduce, ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce you to the late, great Amelia Earhart.
Here she is.
They would not clap.
They wouldn't clap for anybody.
There was nothing I can think of.
Nothing I can think of where they would clap.
They're sick people.
So they don't want all votes must show voter ID.
All voters must show three simple things.
Proof of citizenship in order to vote.
Voter ID, proof of citizenship.
And then third, and I'm telling you, it's the most important.
No mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military, or travel.
And if I had my choice, I think I'd take that one.
You want to know the truth?
There's more cheating with mail-in ballots.
They drop them in the river.
See this beautiful port?
You see the damn things floating down the, it is so terrible.
Our elections are so rigged and crooked.
And those three things will solve it.
Think of it.
Voter ID, proof of citizenship, no mail-in ballots with exceptions.
Military, we want an exception.
Illness, disability, we're under an exception.
And if you're traveling, you're on a business trip, you're somewhere, even a vacation, you can vote by mail.
But that's a very small number of people.
And you will see that they will never win another election again.
They will never win because their policy is no good.
I am the president of the National Border Patrol Council, and I can tell you without a doubt, President Trump is the only president that backed up every campaign promise he made when it came to the border and everything else.
We have record drops in immigration, in border crossings, in drug seizures, because President Trump, within one hour of being inaugurated, allowed us to do more than what Biden allowed us to do in the entire four-year term.
President Trump is the best president in the history of this country.
The whole group, ICE, Border Patrol, law enforcement, by the way, our great firemen, how about that?
You know, one of the things, and we sort of, we can just talk today, we're together.
One of the things that I'm most proud of, if you go back two years, three years, and four years under the last administration, we had the worst recruitment for our military in the history of our country.
Nobody wanted to be a soldier.
They didn't want Army, Air Force, Navy.
They didn't want the Marines.
They didn't want even beautiful Space Force or Coast Guard.
They didn't want to be in the police.
They didn't want to be in the fire departments.
They didn't want to be anywhere.
They didn't want anything with a uniform because it represented our country.
Since then, and it started really with November 5th, which was the election.
But since November 5th, we have the highest record of recruitment in the history of our country.
He had the facts, he had the figures, a lot of humor.
He brought a lot of people to the stage.
It was just celebratory.
He loves Texas.
Of course, he won.
There's a massive crowd there.
Can we keep the shot?
Can we go back to the shot?
Denver, there we go.
Thank you.
I want to keep that shot as long as possible.
Maybe you pull the music in the background.
Just absolutely incredible.
Brian Glenn is there.
We're going to get Brian up in a second.
At the top of the hour, we're going to go, we're going to continue with War Room Texas.
And I'm actually going to go back to the White House.
We've got Neil McCabe at the White House.
We have in Corpus Christi.
And was that the best backdrop we've seen in a while?
The port of Corpus Christi with the tankers there and the open port.
You had the port masters, some of the folks that worked there.
Look at that crowd.
This is a Friday afternoon outdoors.
Hell, the crowd could have gone for another hour.
The president was absolutely on the roll.
Kind of a follow-on from his State of the Union speech.
He went through a number of his accomplishments.
Also, I think was very blunt about the Democratic opposition, its radical Democratic opposition, talked a little bit about Iran.
Said, once again, I want to do it the peaceful way, but they're very difficult people, very difficult to negotiate.
I think the President of the United States said, as you know, we're not a big fan of a kinetic activity or event over in Iran, but the president has tried over and over and over again to get there.
This has got to be one of the coolest backdrop that I think President Trump has had in a long, long time.
We've got one vessel that's filled with, and he mentioned it in the speech, Venezuelan oil.
And then you have another vessel on the other side of the channel here that's in place.
You've got the National U.S. Coast Guard.
You've just got just a beautiful backdrop to what has been a very successful rally here today.
And I got to tell you, it's a beautiful day here in South Texas on a Friday.
But granted, the crowds that we saw trying to get into this space, I think they turned away several huge amounts of people that wanted to be here.
They said they couldn't do it, Steve.
Didn't have the space for them.
But nevertheless, today was a great day here in the state of Texas.
And when you look at the crowd response, Steve, that when he started naming names, who was in the crowd, who was in attendance, there was your straw poll.
There was your basic, let's just take a pulse of what MAGA feels about the Senate race.
And I had a recording of it on my phone, and I'll post it up a little bit later.
But it seems to me, if I'm just going to go off the applause from this crowd when they introduced Attorney General Ken Paxton, that was the most applause in that Cornyn and Wesley Hunt group.
I'd say Wesley Hunt had more applause than John Cornyn.
Like you said, they could have stayed here a little bit longer.
The president speaking for just kind of over about an hour and 15 minutes on this speech.
But he talked about the investments in this area, particularly in South Texas with the LNG gas, dredging the channel here, going about 54 deep, 54 feet deeper.
Talked about the impact that this area has had on the entire nation.
Jobs are up.
The economy's up.
Security's up at the border.
People are real happy right now with President Trump.