Rachel Salazar and Alex Drones dissect Trump’s State of the Union, where he touted economic gains—inflation at 1.7%, gas prices down from $6 to $2.30, and fentanyl flow cut by 56%—while pushing policies like the "Delilah law" to block commercial licenses for undocumented immigrants amid claims of $19B in Somali fraud. Military heroes, including Eric Slover (Medal of Honor for capturing Maduro) and 100-year-old Royce Williams (263 bullet hits downing Soviet jets), were honored, alongside NATO’s revised defense funding and ending eight wars in 10 months. The episode ties Trump’s agenda to reversing perceived decline—from open borders to AI-driven misinformation—while satirically mocking political opponents’ reactions, framing it as a battle for American renewal against systemic corruption and cultural erosion. [Automatically generated summary]
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State Of The Union Soak00:06:52
Yeah, you are tuned into another episode of De Liberty Broadcast, broadcasting liberty at the LibertyBroadcast.com.
And here is your host, Rachel Salazar.
Welcome, welcome.
Welcome to another episode of the Liberty Broadcast, broadcasting live out of Austin, Texas.
I'm your host, Rachel Salazar, and a big shout out to Alex Drones over here producing the show.
Thank you again.
Every week, you are number one.
Figuring out all the little things.
And I'm just sitting here like, is it fixed?
You're so awesome.
Thank you.
So tonight we are covering the State of the Union address.
So we are going to jump right into it and see what's going on.
Trump has just entered, so there's a lot going on as far as that.
I think I did see there was a coverage of State of the Swamp Address.
I don't know.
I really, to be honest with you, haven't been on my phone too much today, as I guess I probably should have, but I wasn't.
So I know that there's a lot of protesting happening and things like that.
There are a few things that I did see that we'll cover, but let's check it out.
Let's get into it.
Here he is.
I did also see Melania and Baron were in there.
Melania looking beautiful.
can't deny that guys i'm gonna try a selfie Trump's like, damn it.
I'm going to try a selfie.
Look at all these handshakes going on.
I was just going to say, remember whenever we couldn't shake hands?
All the handshaking is making me nervous.
No, I'm kidding.
All right, all right.
Oh, look at those decorated.
Yeah, the ribbons.
They are so decorated.
It's insane.
Wow.
Whoa, Fetterman with the nice suit.
Look at that.
Wow.
That is impressive.
They're like, if you wear this suit, we'll put you right up front.
No, he just, I don't know.
Fetterman's a wild card.
Like it, they
see flashbacks to COVID.
No.
They'll do it again.
Damn it.
They'll do it again.
You know they will.
I can just see.
Can't you...
Can't you just see Nancy?
I just can see Nancy just flapping it up.
He's over there teasing the podium.
Come on.
He's taking a head count.
He's like, okay, who's here and who's not?
Who are my enemies?
Yes, they are the ones I thought.
Members of Congress, I have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you the President of the United States.
He's soaking it in.
He's soaking it in.
Well, thank you very much, everybody.
It's really an honor.
Speaker Johnson, Vice President Vance, First Lady of the United States.
Oh, look at Barron.
Damn it, that boy's tall.
Shit.
No, I'm kidding.
We know that.
We know that.
Second Lady of the United States, members of Congress and my fellow Americans, our nation is back bigger, better, richer and stronger than ever before.
Oh, yeah, this is the standing.
That's the big thing.
The standing.
It is.
America's Golden Age00:15:14
Less than five months from now, our country will celebrate an epic milestone in American history, the 250th anniversary of our glorious American independence.
This July 4th, we will mark two and a half centuries of liberty and triumph, progress and freedom in the most incredible and exciting face of the earth.
And you've seen nothing yet.
We're going to do better and better and better.
This is the golden age of America.
He's always so easy to point out.
He's got that little way about him.
When I last spoke in this chamber 12 months ago, I had just inherited a nation in crisis with a stagnant economy, inflation at record levels, a wide open border, horrendous recruitment for military and police, rampant crime at home, and wars and chaos all over the world.
But tonight, after just one year, I can say with dignity and pride that we have achieved a transformation like no one has ever seen before and a turnaround for the ages.
It is indeed a turnaround for the ages.
There's the standing.
Trump makes it so hard, you know.
Oh, protesters in the crowd.
Protesters in the crowd.
Oh, whoa.
And we will never go back to where we were just a very short time ago.
We're not going to be able to do that.
Give me that angle.
Today our border is secure.
Get him out of here, get him out of here.
Get him out of here.
Thank you.
Today our border is secure.
Our spirit is restored.
Inflation is plummeting.
Incomes are rising fast.
The roaring economy is roaring like never before.
And our enemies are scared.
Our military and police are stacked.
And America is respected again, perhaps like never before.
I will agree about our military.
I mean, it's stronger.
But we were taken down to a pretty low level.
After four years, in which millions and millions of illegal aliens poured across our borders totally unvetted and unchecked, we now have the strongest and most secure border in American history by far.
Yes.
However, are we deporting with what we promised?
That's the hang-up on that one.
In the past nine months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted to the United States.
And only 25% of the deportation promise has been fulfilled.
But we will always allow people to come in legally, people that will love our country and will work hard to maintain our country.
The flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is down by a record 56% in one year.
A room divided.
And the murder rate saw its single largest decline in recorded history.
This is the biggest decline.
Think of it in recorded history, the lowest number in over 125 years, year 1900.
In fact, substantially before my wonderful father, I had a wonderful father, Fred, before he was born, substantially before he was born.
That's a long time ago.
He wouldn't like me to say that, but that's a long time ago.
The Biden administration and its allies in Congress gave us the worst inflation in the history of our country.
But in 12 months, my administration has driven core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years.
And in the last three months of 2025, it was down to 1.7%.
Gasoline, which reached a peak of over $6 a gallon in some states, under my predecessor, it was quite honestly a disaster, is now below $2.30 a gallon in most states.
And in some places, $1.99.
How long will the brag go on?
The great state of Iowa just a few weeks ago, I even saw $1.85 a gallon for gasoline.
Today, I saw the gas was up, actually, here in Austin.
Gas is up.
It was down.
Mortgage rates are the lowest in four years and falling fast.
And the annual cost of a typical almost $5,000 just since I took office.
One year.
Is that right?
Or $2?
What even is gas?
It's not a dollar.
And low interest rates will solve the Biden-created housing problem while at the same time protecting the values of those people who already own a house that really feel rich for the first time in their lives.
We want to protect those values.
We want to keep those values up.
We're going to do both.
60-year mortgage.
We are going to keep it that way.
The stock market has set 53 all-time record highs since the election.
Think of that.
And you can get a 60-year mortgage.
401ks and retirement accounts for the millions and millions of Americans.
They're all scanning.
Everybody's up, way up.
In four long years, the last administration got less than $1 trillion in new investment in the United States.
And when I say less, substantially less.
Meme Commando says, my gas is lower and I can get a meal at McDonald's for $5.
Winning.
Winning in the chat.
For $6 or $7.
Think of it.
Much less than $1 trillion for four years versus much more than $18 trillion for one year.
What a difference, a president.
I think that's a guy thing.
A short time ago, we were a dead country.
Now we are the hottest country anywhere in the world, the hottest.
We're the hottest.
Stand up.
We're the hottest.
The people that are sitting are not hot.
Don't you get it?
Thousands of new businesses are forming and factories, plants, and laboratories are being built.
We have added 70,000 new construction jobs in just a very short period of time.
It's getting bigger and bigger and stronger.
Nobody can believe what they're watching.
American oil production is up by more than 600,000 barrels a day, and we just received from our new friend and partner, Venezuela, more than 80 million barrels of oil.
They were happy to give it.
Tariff rebate check, please, says Lacey in the chat.
Because I kept my promise to drill baby drill.
We want those rebate, tariff rebate checks, which I heard that they weren't really able to actually do, but since it's been promised, that's the thing they're going to fulfill.
And the promises more Americans are working today.
Promises made, promises kept.
In the history of our country, think about that.
Any time in the history of our country, more working today.
And 100% of all jobs created under my administration have been in the private sector.
The private sector.
Clap for that.
Now.
We ended DEI in America.
Some, not all, almost, I'd say.
Huge difference.
However, we have seen some recordings of DEI still finding a way.
We cut a record number of job-killing regulations, and in one year, we have lifted 2.4 million Americans, a record off of food stamps.
Most of them were dead or illegal.
And for all of these reasons, I say tonight, members of Congress, the state of our union is strong.
Oh, Marco Rubio.
Oh, yeah, look at that.
Wow, right there.
Just wow.
Picture is winning again.
In fact, we're winning so much that we really don't know what to do about it.
Oh, yeah, I know.
People are asking me, please, please, please, Mr. President.
We're winning too much.
We can't do that.
But Nick really found his way to the bigger country.
Until you came along, we were just always losing, but now we're winning too much.
And I say, no, no, no.
You're going to win again.
You're going to win big.
You're going to win bigger than ever.
And to prove that point, to prove that point, here with us tonight is a group of winners who just made the entire nation proud.
The men's gold medal Olympic hockey team.
Come on in.
Come on in.
Here we go.
They were like, get the hell out of the way.
What is this woman doing standing in the way?
She almost got shoved down the stair.
Look at that.
They're just not letting them in.
They had to wait outside for their big entry.
That's pretty cool.
She's like, I don't want any photos of these guys.
I'm good.
Reporting that.
not important hopefully their medals don't break or anything I saw something about their medals breaking.
He's like, this is my dog.
Oh, whoa, that guy kind of looked like a guy that just passed away, sadly.
I've never seen so many metbooks in my life.
So one, two, three, up on the left.
He looks like that guy that just died from Dawson's Creek.
What's his name?
That's the first time I've ever seen them get up.
And actually, not all of them did get up.
Oh, I thought.
They beat a fantastic Canadian team in overtime, as everybody saw, as did the American women, who will soon be coming to the White House.
Trump loves winners, especially if they're USA.
And that's a nice thing for a president to like.
Oh, wow.
We even got Eamon up.
Oh, this guy's like, whatever.
How long do I have to tap?
He's probably.
I've never been in the Oval Office before.
And I just want to say a second, very big congratulations to Team USA.
But I have to say that, and I told them this, and we took a vote of the team.
I said, anybody votes no, I'm not doing it.
So they stood there and they weren't about to say no, because I've never seen a goaltender play as well as goalie Connor Halibu.
James Vander Beek, yes, that's who he looked like.
Thank you, Lacey, in the chat.
Goalie. Goalie of the year.
Goalie of the Union Address.
Think of it, 46 shots on goal.
And I asked him, the one shot, the one where you put your stick in the back and it hit the neck of your stick and bounced off.
Do you practice that?
Or was that a little lucky?
He refused to answer that question.
But I just want to tell you that the members of this great hockey squad will be very happy to hear, based on their vote and my vote, and in this case, my vote was more important, that I will soon be presenting Connor with our highest civilian honor, which we will be given and which has been given to many athletes over the years.
Los Angeles' Highest Honor00:03:42
But when I say many, not too many, like 12.
It's called the highest civilian honor in our country, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Great athletes have gotten that.
Very great.
The best.
And I thought he deserved it.
And I did take a vote, every single one of them.
I said, I'm not giving it if anybody goes no.
And every single one of them rapidly put up their hand.
So I want to thank you all.
What a special job you did.
What special champions you are.
Thank you very much.
All right, now get out of here.
Just kidding.
Hopefully they can come back and enjoy the rest of the speech.
I'm sure.
I'm sure they can.
Pretty good.
I like how that is to say that the next time the Olympic torch is lit, it will be here in America for the 2028 Olympics, and it's the summer version right in Los Angeles.
We're going to do a good job in Los Angeles.
They got Nick Shirley on the case already, so he's phase one of cleaning it up.
And Los Angeles is going to be safe, just like Washington, D.C. is now one of the safest cities in the country.
Is it the cleanest, though?
And this year, and I must say I got them both.
I got them in my first term.
And I was disappointed because I didn't think I'd be the president when this happened.
But strange things took place.
And now I've got them because I got the Olympics.
I got the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
And I wanted to claim the 250th, but I didn't get away with that one.
I couldn't claim that one for myself.
But we're getting the World Cup, so we have the World Cup and the Olympics coming.
And that is exciting news.
That'll be cool.
So this will be a year to celebrate our country and the heroes who have kept it free.
Men like Buddy Taggart.
At age 17, Buddy volunteered to defend America in World War II, serving in the Pacific under the great General Douglas MacArthur.
He fought bravely in the famous Battle of Manila, worked so hard.
He was badly wounded and almost killed by enemy machine guns in Luzon.
And 81 years ago this month, he liberated the largest internment camp in the Philippines, one of the largest anywhere in the world.
But he earned many honors, including a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, came home, started a family, and tonight he is in the gallery looking forward to July 4th, 2026, his 100th birthday.
A Hero's Tribute00:03:09
No, no, don't stand up.
Oh, you guys.
No.
Oh, no.
Do they have the camera on the wrong person?
Right, that's what they did.
They put it on the wrong, on the wrong guy.
They're like, it's the old guy.
That's why they had it on him.
And he was like, no, no.
So buddy.
I mean, even in times of challenge, setback and immense heartache, the spirit of 1776 has always shone through very brightly.
It was July 4th of last year when floodwaters tore through a girls' summer camp in central Texas.
One of the worst things I've ever seen.
I was there, rising 26 feet in the matter of minutes, tragically claiming many, many lives.
You all remember that one?
As the waters threatened to sweep her away, 11-year-old Millie Kate McClaymond closed her eyes and prayed to God.
She thought she was going to die.
Those prayers were answered when Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Ruskin descended from a helicopter above.
Nobody knew where he came from.
It was Scott's first ever rescue mission, young guy, but very brave, very, very top, always top of his class.
and he lifted not just Millie Kate, but 164 others to safety.
I'd clap for that one.
I said I clapped.
Sorry, I'm getting a little Gavin Newsome over here.
I can't read good.
You know what?
We'll get into it in a bit.
We'll get into it in a bit.
People watched Scott from a distance, and they couldn't believe what they were seeing.
The winds were blowing, the rain was pouring, everything was going in that rapid water.
Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
They said, wow, that's something.
Tonight, Scott and Millie Kate are here together, reunited for the very first time.
Thank you, Scott, Millie Kate.
What?
He hasn't visited her?
She hasn't cared to contact him?
What's going on?
Stand up.
Oh, no.
Thumbs up.
Yeah.
And Petty Officer Ruskin, I'm pleased to inform you that I am now awarding you the Legion of Merit for Extraordinary Heroism, which is what it was.
Extraordinary heroism.
Megan's Health Care Deal00:15:32
Thank you.
Oh, surprise.
Surprise.
Look at that.
Surprise.
Very good.
I'd like to have the military aid to please come down and take care of the service.
Military aid.
Thank you very much.
Uh-oh, somebody's having a medical aid.
Emergency.
Thank you very much.
Military aid.
From 1777.
Every generation of Americans has deped to defend life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
And they're really doing it for the next generation.
But now it's our turn.
Together, we're building a nation where every child has the chance to reach higher and go further, where government answers to the people, not the powerful, and where the interests of hardworking American citizens are always our first and ultimate concern.
That is the debt we owe to the heroes who came before us, and that is the promise we must keep to America for our 250th year.
Last year, I urged this Congress to begin the mission by passing the largest tax cuts in American history, and our Republican Liberty so beautifully.
Thank you, Republicans.
Shout out to the chat.
Thank you guys for tuning in.
Thank you guys.
We are the Liberty Broadcast.
We're back.
And we're streaming the State of the Union address tonight.
All Democrats, every single one of them, voted against these really important and very necessary massive tax cuts.
Freaks.
They wanted large-scale tax increases to hurt the people instead.
But we held strong, and with the great beautiful bill, we gave you no tax on tips, no tax on overtime.
Like Penguin.
Yeah, he's like the penguin in Batman.
And we also made interest on auto loans tax deductible the first time, but only if the car is made in America.
I can't remember if my car was made in America.
Don looked at it.
I'm pretty sure it was.
In Pennsylvania, I met Megan Hemhauser, a devoted mom who homeschools her children, beautiful, two children, during the day while waiting tables at night as her husband works overtime operating very heavy equipment.
Megan is here this evening and she's happy to tell you that she is so, so much richer because with no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and her expanded child tax credit done again by Republicans, Megan and her husband will take home more than $5,000 extra just for the year, cutting her tax bill in more than half.
I've yet to do my taxes, guys.
Don't report me.
Megan, please stand up.
We're fighting for you, Megan.
Thank you, Megan.
We're fighting for you, Megan.
Under our bill, parents like Megan can also activate their children's brand new tip accounts.
I didn't name it.
I didn't name it.
I did not name that.
Nobody believes me, but I did not name it.
It was named by a very tall man standing right there in the third row.
Nice man, a good man.
Tax-free investment accounts for every American child.
This is something that's so special has taken off and gone through the roof.
Millions will be pre-funded courtesy of the U.S. Treasury and private individuals like Michael and Susan Dell, who have donated $6,250,000,000 to fund the Trump accounts for 25 million Americans.
I can't believe it.
You can't believe it.
You're telling me this for the first time.
Is it Mike Johnson for the best reactions?
And Vance just looks like, I don't know.
How do you make all that money?
He said so dissipated.
I just sat on my dorm in school, and I made computers, and I'd sell them to people.
And I just kept selling and selling and selling.
Pretty amazing story.
That's called the American Dream.
He sold a lot of computers, a lot of those laptops.
So I congratulate him on that.
But I really thank him and Susan, as well as others like Brad Gerstner, a very tremendous guy.
He was behind it right from the beginning.
Brad Gerstner.
Thank you, Brad.
With the pray hands.
With the pray hands.
And the butt slap.
Was that a butt slap?
These young people's accounts could grow to over $100,000 or more by the time they turn 18.
Think of it.
How much money is that for somebody that started with nothing?
Over $100,000?
It could be much more than that.
To make this investment in our children's future, go to trumpeaccounts.gov.
TrumpTrumpAccounts.gov.
And a lot of people are doing it.
They're setting every record in the book.
It's popular.
They knew what was going to, what it was going to take.
I'm so proud of them.
I'm so proud of the people that got it started.
And now it's just taken off.
One of the primary reasons for our country's stunning economic turnaround, the biggest in history where the Dow Jones broke 50,000 four years ahead of scale.
There's the Dow.
And the S ⁇ P hit 7,000 where it wasn't supposed to do it for many years.
But the camera on Bondi.
Were tariffs.
I use these tariffs.
How do you like them?
Hundreds of billions of dollars to make great deals for our country, both economically and on a national security basis.
Everything was working well.
Countries that were ripping us off for decades are now paying us hundreds of billions of dollars.
They were ripping us so badly.
You all know that.
Everybody knows it.
Even the Democrats know it.
They just don't want to say it.
And yet these countries are now happy, and so are we.
We made deals.
The deals are all done.
And they're happy.
They're not making money like they used to, but we're making a lot of money.
There was no inflation, tremendous growth.
And the big story was how Donald Trump called the economy correctly.
And 22 Nobel Prize winners in economics didn't.
They got it totally wrong.
They got it really wrong.
And then just four days ago, an unfortunate ruling from the United States Supreme Court.
It just came down.
Very unfortunate ruling.
But the good news is that almost all countries and corporations want to keep the deal that they already made, right, Scott?
Knowing that the legal power that I, as president, have to make a new deal could be far worse for them, and therefore they will continue to work along the same successful path that we had negotiated before the Supreme Court's unfortunate involvement.
So despite the disappointing ruling, these powerful countries saving is saving our country the kind of money we're taking in.
Peace protecting many of the wars I settled was because of the threat of tariffs.
I wouldn't have been able to settle them without.
We'll remain in place under fully approved and tested alternative legal statutes.
And they have been tested for a long time.
They're a little more complex, but they're actually probably better, leading to a solution that will be even stronger than before.
Congressional action will not be necessary.
It's already time-tested and approved.
And as time goes by, I believe the tariffs paid for by foreign countries will, like in the past, substantially replace the modern day system of income tax, taking a great financial burden off the people that I love.
Is he talking about me or you?
All of us?
All of us?
Even the Democrats?
Moving forward, factories, jobs, investment, and trillions and trillions of dollars will continue pouring into the United States of America because we finally have a president who puts America first.
I put America first.
I love America.
In the Fed.
Lacey.
In the Fed.
For decades before I came along.
Fuck it, I'm not paying my taxes.
We had the exact opposite.
I'm just kidding.
From trade to health care, from energy to immigration, everything was stolen and rigged in order to drain the wealth out of the productive, hardworking people who make our country great, who make our country run.
Under Biden and his corrupt partners in Congress and beyond, they reached a breaking point with the Green News scam, open borders for everyone.
They poured in by the millions.
Did her pen say liar, liar?
And then it had like the gunshot going through.
I feel like that it did.
Record-setting inflation that cost the typical family $34,000 in just a speck of time.
Now the same people in this chamber who voted for those disasters suddenly used the word affordability a word.
I feel like I'll go back to the bottom.
Somebody gave it to them, knowing full well that they caused and created the increased prices that all of our citizens had to endure.
United States Supreme Court, it just came down.
The modern day all of our citizens had to endure.
I'm sure we'll see it again.
You caused that problem.
Who is this?
Don Lemon's nephew.
They knew their statements were alive.
They knew it.
They knew their statements were a dirty, rotten lie.
Their policies created the high prices.
Our policies are rapidly ending them.
We are doing really well.
Those prices are plummeting downward.
Go to bed.
It's down 60 percent, Madam Secretary.
Thank you.
The cost of chicken, butter, fruit, hotels, automobiles, rent is lower today than when I took office by a lot.
And even beef, which was very high, is starting to come down significantly.
Just hold on a little while.
We're getting it down.
And soon you will see numbers that few people would think were possible to achieve just a short time ago.
Nobody can believe when they see the kind of numbers, and especially energy, when they see energy going down to numbers like that, they cannot believe it.
It's like another big tax cut.
I'm also confronting one of the biggest rip-offs of our times, the crushing costs of health care caused by you.
Since the passage of the Unaffordable Care Act, sometimes referred to as Obamacare, big insurance company has gotten rich.
It was meant for the insurance companies, not for the company.
On his teleprompter says hundreds and hundreds of people goes off scripts a year as their stock prices soared 1,1200, 1,400, and even 1,700 percent, like nothing else.
What about that?
That's why I introduced the great health care plan.
I want to stop all payments to big insurance companies and instead give that money directly to the people so they can buy their own healthcare, which will be better health care at a much lower cost.
It's true.
See, he's like partially impressed.
In addition, my plan requires maximum price transparency.
That's a big deal.
Sounds so simple, so big.
And I did that in my first term, and the Democrats immediately terminated it with full knowledge that they were doing a very bad thing for the people, costing the way up.
And that's what happened, and now I'm bringing them way down on health care and everything else.
I'm also ending the wildly inflated cost of prescription drugs like has never happened before.
I will say today I took my dad to pick up some medicine, and he said it was way cheaper.
My dad had a kidney transplant.
So he takes medicine for that.
And when he picked it up, he goes, holy shit.
They couldn't do it.
They didn't even come.
A whole lot cheaper than it was last time.
So I don't know.
But I got it done.
Trump did that.
It was like half the price it was, who have for decades paid by far the highest prices of any nation anywhere in the world for prescription drugs will now pay the lowest price anywhere in the world for drugs.
Anywhere.
lowest price.
So in my first year of the second term, should be my third term, but strange things happen.
I took prescription drugs, a very big part of health care, from the highest price in the entire world to the lowest.
Catherine Rayner's Discount00:13:59
That's a big achievement.
The result is price differences of 300, 400, 500, 600%, and more, all available right now at a new website called trumprx.gov.
And I didn't name that one either, by the way.
And here tonight is the very first customer ever to get that big discount.
And it is big.
Catherine Rayner.
For five years, she and her husband have struggled with infertility, and they turned to IVF.
One drug has been costing Catherine $4,000 to purchase.
I haven't seen Eric.
A week ago, she logged onto the Trump RX.
I was told she was going to cost $4,000, got it for under $500, a reduction of much more, actually, than $3,500.
Catherine, we are all praying for you, and you're going to be a great mom.
She's like, who's Catherine?
It's your mom.
You know, kids.
So now I'm calling on Congress to codify my most favored nation program into law.
Now, the one thing I'm not sure it matters, because it's going to be very hard for somebody that comes along after me to say, let's raise drug prices by 700 or 800%.
But John and Mike, if you don't mind, codify it anyway.
They may do it.
Codify it anyway.
Thank you.
Many Americans are also concerned that energy demand from AI data centers could unfairly drive up their electric utility bills.
Tonight I'm pleased to announce that I have negotiated the new rate payer protection pledge.
You know what that is.
We're telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs.
They can build their own power plants as part of their factory.
so that no one's prices will go up and in many cases prices of electricity will go down for the community and very substantially down.
This is a unique strategy never used in this country before.
We have an old grid.
It could never handle the kind of numbers, the amount of electricity that's needed.
So I'm telling them they can build their own plant.
They're going to produce their own electricity.
It will ensure the company's ability to get electricity while at the same time lowering prices of electricity for you and could be very substantial for all of you cities and towns.
You're going to see some good things happen over the next number of years.
Another pillar of the American dream that has been under attack is homeownership.
With us tonight is Rachel Higgins, a mom of two from Houston.
She placed bids on 20 homes and lost all of those bids to gigantic investment firms that bypassed inspection, paid all cash, and turned those houses into rentals, stealing away her American dream.
She was devastated.
Stories like this are why last month I signed executive order to ban large Wall Street investment firms from buying up in the thousands single-family homes.
And now I'm asking Congress to make that ban permanent because home is for people, really.
That's what we want.
We want homes for corporations.
Corporations.
Lacey in the chat says AI data center coming.
Coming near you, AI data centers.
We're also working to make it easier for Americans to save for retirement.
And under this administration, I saw there was a debate coming up.
Social Security and Medicare.
If they are not protecting it for our seniors, we will always protect Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
Medicare, Medicaid.
Since I took office, the typical 401k balance is up by at least $30,000.
That's a lot of money.
We have millions and millions of people because the stock market has done so well setting all those records.
Your 401ks are way up.
Yet half of all of working Americans still do not have access to a retirement plan with matching contributions from an employer.
To remedy this gross disparity, I'm announcing that next year my administration will give these oft-forgotten American workers, great people, the people that built our country, access to the same type of retirement plan offered to every federal worker.
We will match your contribution with up to $1,000 each.
We ensure that all Americans can profit from a rising stock market.
Let's also ensure that members of Congress cannot corruptly profit from using insider information.
I can't believe it.
I can't believe it.
Did Nancy Pelosi stand up if she's here?
Doubt it.
Pass the Stop Insider Trading Act without delay.
Nancy's not clapping now, says Lacey.
I wasn't sure if anybody even on this side was going to applaud for that.
I was very impressed.
Thank you.
I'm very impressed.
But when it comes to the corruption that is plundering, really, it's plundering America.
There's been no more stunning example than Minnesota, where members of the Somali community have pillaged an estimated $19 billion from the American taxpayer.
Oh, we have all the information.
And in actuality, the number is much higher than that.
And California, Massachusetts, Maine, and many other states are even worse.
This is the kind of corruption that shreds the fabric of a nation, and we are working on it like you wouldn't believe.
So tonight, although started four months ago, I am officially announcing the war on fraud to be led by our great Vice President, JD Vance.
Oh, shit.
Oh, God.
But is his wife and Ihan Omar, they know each other?
We'll get it done.
Just kidding.
And if we're able to find enough of that fraud, we will actually have a balanced budget overnight.
It'll go very quickly.
That's the kind of money you're talking about.
We'll balance our budget.
The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world where bribery, corruption, and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception.
Importing these cultures through unrestricted immigration and open borders brings those problems right here.
I'm glad I picked this feed.
And it is the American people who pay the price in higher medical bills, car insurance rates, rent taxes, and perhaps most importantly, crime.
We will take care of this problem.
We're going to take care of this problem.
We are not playing games.
Delilah.
Every time she gets more manly, retired.
Delilah Colton was only five years old in June 2024 when a 18-wheel tractor trailer plowed into her stopped car traveling at 60 miles an hour or more.
The driver was an illegal LIN led in by Joe Biden and given a commercial driver's license by open borders politicians in California.
Doctors said Delilah would never be able to walk or talk, have a good life.
She wouldn't even be able to eat again.
But against all odds, she is now in the first grade learning to walk.
And she's here this evening with her dad, Marcus, a fantastic man.
Delilah, please, you are a great inspiration.
Please stand up.
She can't stand up.
She can't walk Trump.
Damn it.
Damn it!
She's so cute.
Thank you, Delilah.
Many, if not most illegal aliens, do not speak English.
Even the most basic road signs as to direction, speed, danger, or location.
That's why tonight I'm calling on Congress to pass what we will call the Delilah law barring any state from granting commercial driver's licenses to illegal aliens.
Now, will they uphold this law?
Oh, shit.
There she goes with the stand.
And yesterday, as you probably saw at the White House, I hosted a ceremony with Americans who lost their treasured loved ones to the scourge of illegal immigration.
People came into our country, how we allowed this to happen with our open borders.
These are the angel moms and families that for decades our government betrayed and our media totally ignored.
Totally it was terrible.
Hard to believe, actually.
In 2023, a 16-year-old high school cheerleader named Lisbeth Medina was supposed to perform in her town's Christmas parade, but she never arrived.
Her mother, Jacqueline, went home to look for her, and she found her lying dead in a bathtub, bleeding profusely after being stabbed 25 times.
Lisbeth's killer was a previously arrested illegal alien who had broken in and brutally extinguished the brightest light in her family's life violently and viciously.
Her heartbroken mother is in the gallery to remind everyone in this chamber exactly why we are deporting illegal alien criminals to our country at record numbers, and we're getting them the hell out of here fast.
We don't want them Thank you very much, Jacqueline.
Thank you.
We can never forget that many in this room not only allowed the border invasion to happen before I got involved, but indeed they would do it all over again if they ever had the chance.
If they ever got elected, they would open up those borders to some of the worst criminals anywhere in the world.
The only thing standing between Americans and a wide open border right now is President Donald J. Trump and our great Republican patriots in Congress.
Thank you.
As we speak, Democrats in this chamber have cut off all funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
That happened earlier today.
They have instituted another Democrat shutdown, the first one costing us two points on GDP.
Two points we lost on GDP, which probably made them quite happy, actually.
Now they have closed the agency responsible for protecting Americans from terrorists and murderers.
Tonight I'm demanding the full and immediate restoration of all funding for the border security, homeland security of the United States, and also for helping people clean up their snow.
We have no money because of the Democrats, and it would be nice.
We'd love to give you a hand at cleaning it up, but you gave no money.
Nobody's getting paid.
It's a shame.
Drama And Ashamed00:15:39
So you have to think about it.
We have, in case you didn't know, pretty large snowstorm out there.
One of the great things about the state of the union is how it gives Americans the chance to see clearly what their representatives really believe.
So tonight I'm inviting every legislature to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle.
If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support.
The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.
I do believe that.
It is so telling.
It's just more of what we already know.
That's the sad part.
Oh, there's some drama going on up there.
There is some drama.
Drama.
Somebody's up there trying to have some drama.
Maybe another protester.
He's a monopoly man without his monocle.
Whoa, that's high.
It looks cool.
You should be ashamed of yourself not standing up.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens, in many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country.
They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country.
And you should be ashamed of that.
Two of the maddest bitches, the saddest excuse.
strange times we're in and perhaps most importantly i'm asking you to approve the save america act He's keeping track.
He's like, who's standing?
Who's sitting?
I'm telling you, the standing sitting elections, that cheating is rampant in our elections.
It's rampant.
It's very simple.
All voters must show voter ID.
It's always the voter ID argument.
Never really feels that.
The voters must show proof of citizenship in order to vote.
It'll never happen, sadly.
No more crooked mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military, or travel.
None.
And this should be an easy one.
And by the way, it's polling at 89%, including Democrats.
Who told her a drawing on her eyebrows?
That's a good idea.
Speak to him a lot.
Bad policy, but nice guy.
Just said they want people to shovel snow.
They got hit hard.
Wants them to shovel snow, but if you apply for that job, you need to show two original forms of ID and a social security card.
Yet they don't want identification for the greatest privilege of them all, voting in America.
No, it's no good.
No.
Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly agree on the policy that we just enunciated.
And Congress should unite and enable two forms of ID to volunteer to shovel snow.
Before anything else happens.
That you don't have to show ID to vote.
Release the redacted files.
I agree with that.
I guess they didn't start thinking about that until now.
They don't want to do it.
Why would anybody not want voter ID?
One reason, because they want to cheat.
There's only one reason.
They make up all excuses.
They say it's racist.
They come up with things, you almost say, what imagination they have.
They want to cheat.
They have cheated.
And their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat.
And we're going to stop it.
We have to stop it, John.
And here is one more opportunity to show common sense in government.
In the gallery tonight are Sage Blair and her mother, Michelle.
In 2021, Sage was 14 when school officials in Virginia sought to socially transition her to a new gender, treating her as a boy and hiding it from her parents.
Hard to believe, isn't it?
Before long, a confused Sage ran away from home after she was found in a horrific situation in Maryland.
A left-wing judge refused to return Sage to her parents because They did not immediately state that their daughter was their son.
Sage was thrown into an all-boys state home and suffered terribly for a long time.
But today, all of that is behind them because Sage is a proud and wonderful young woman with a full ride scholarship to university.
Sage and Michelle, please stand up.
Crazy.
Oh, she did the tiny claps.
The tiny claps.
And thank you for your great bravery.
And who can believe that we're even speaking about things like this?
15 years ago, if somebody was up here and said that, they'd say, what's wrong with him?
But now we have to say it because it's going on all over numerous states without even telling the parents.
But surely we can all agree no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents' arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents' will.
Who would believe that we've been talking about?
We must ban it, and we must ban it immediately.
That would be nice.
That would be nice.
Look, nobody stands up.
These people are crazy.
I'm telling you.
I like our lone wolf over here.
Boy, oh, boy.
We're lucky we have a country.
With people like this, Democrats are destroying our country, but we've stopped it just in the nick of time, didn't we?
I've been like a Team U, Michelle Pfeiffer.
No one cares more about protecting America's youth than our wonderful First Lady, now a movie star.
She's movie star.
Can you believe it?
Who would have believed that?
Over the past year, she has had an incredible impact, championing AI legislation, advancing a landmark executive order on foster care, and helping secure $30 million to launch the Melania Trump Foster Youth to Independence Initiative.
It's a tremendous, really a tremendous thing that happened and had a lot of bipartisan support.
She gets much better at bipartisan support than I do.
I get none.
She gets a lot.
Someday you're going to have to tell me how you did that.
And students and educators in every state have joined the First Lady's efforts in the presidential AI challenge, keeping America's next generation positioned to succeed and strongly succeed in the future.
Tonight we welcome two young people whose lives reflect the First Lady's impact, Sierra Burns and Everest Nevermont.
Thank you both and Melania, thank you.
I know how hard you worked on her.
Thank you very much.
I can bear it.
It's okay.
Don't touch my mom.
I'm very proud to say that during my time in office, both The first four years and in particular this last year, there has been a tremendous renewal in religion, faith, Christianity, and belief in God.
This is especially true among young people, and a big part of that had to do with my great friend, Charlie Kirk, a great guy.
Oh, here we go.
I was wondering when there she is, there she is.
So last year, Charlie was violently murdered by an assassin and martyred, really martyred for his beliefs.
His wonderful wife, Erica, is with us tonight.
Erica, please stand.
She's like, oh, don't worry.
I've been standing, Phoebe.
God bless you.
All right, all right.
Charlie, Charlie.
Poor guy had to die.
Thank you, Erica.
Did she kill him?
Been through a lot.
In Charlie's memory, we must all stand together to reaffirm that America is one nation under God, and we must totally reject political violence of any kind.
Think we can all agree on that, right?
Right?
Okay.
Wow.
Holy.
I had no clue.
I had no clue that they felt this way about political violence.
Is it possible?
When literally they're wearing badges that say fuck I. America's promise requires keeping our community safe.
We have made incredible strides, yet dangerous repeat offenders continue to be released by pro-crime Democrat politicians again and again.
We are honored to be joined tonight by a woman who's been through hell, Anya Zaretzka.
In 2022, she and her beautiful daughter, so beautiful, what a beautiful young woman.
Irina fled war-turn, war-torn Ukraine to live with relatives near Charlotte, North Carolina.
And by the way, how did she get her here to teach her?
Last summer, 23-year-old Irina was riding home on the train when a deranged monster who had been arrested over a dozen times and was released through no cash bail stood up and viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body.
No one will ever forget there were people on that train.
No one will ever forget the expression of terror.
So sad Irina's face as she looked up at her attacker in the last seconds of her life.
She died instantly.
She had escaped a brutal war only to be slain by a hardened criminal, set free to kill in America, came in through open borders.
Mrs. Zaretska, tonight, I promise you, we will ensure justice for your magnificent daughter, Irina.
Erica's like, these are real emotions.
What are these?
Just kidding.
Yeah, no.
It's awful.
That's why it's so important to highlight these stories.
How do you not stand?
Even though...
How do you not stand?
I'm asking this Congress to pass tough legislation to ensure that violent and dangerous repeat offenders are put behind bars, and importantly, that they stay there.
Serving With Andrew00:05:55
Starting last summer, I deployed our National Guard and federal law enforcement to restore law and order to our most dangerous cities, including Memphis, Tennessee.
Big success.
New Orleans, Louisiana, big success.
And our nation's capital itself, Washington, D.C., where we have almost no crime anymore in Washington, D.C. How did that happen?
Just some stinky poo poo water.
In fact, crime in Washington is now at the lowest level ever recorded, and murders in D.C. this January were down close to 100% from a year ago.
They don't like to hear that.
One of the sick people, one of the brave service members who helped achieve this stunning turnaround was 20-year-old West Virginia Army National Guard specialist Sarah Beckstrom.
After a four-month deployment, she voluntarily extended her service, and her rank was going to be lifted.
She was doing so well.
They were so proud of her.
But the very next day, she was on patrol near the White House when she was ambushed and shot in the head by a terrorist monster from Afghanistan.
Shouldn't have been in our country.
And all because she wore the uniform of our nation, she was shot.
He traveled here because he didn't like people wearing our uniform.
He was sick and deranged.
Shouldn't have been in our country.
Sarah Bextrom died in order to defend our capital, and we are honored to be joined by her wonderful parents, Gary and Evilie.
Your daughter was a true American patriot, and she will be greatly missed.
She was a great person.
I saw reports on her.
They've never seen anything like it.
How awful that your life is now doing media tours in memory of your daughter that died at the hands of an illegal immigrant that came over from the open border policy of the Biden administration.
Thank you very much.
That you can tie it to that exact report.
Great young lady.
I saw reports that were like, perfect, she was perfect.
Serving alongside Sarah that day was Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolf.
The terrorist shot Andrew in the head, and no one thought he could possibly make it.
The two of them, Sarah and Andrew, both shot violently in the head.
Neither was expected to make it.
They weren't even given a chance, except his wonderful mother named Melody, who I spoke to the same night, and she was so positive.
The doctors thought that Andrew was gone, but his mother said, No, no, Mr. President, Andrew will be fine.
He's going to make it.
I've never seen anything like it.
I mean, he was given almost no chance.
She said, I have no doubt, sir, he's going to be okay.
This was a conversation that I had with her that night with her son laying helplessly in bed, blood all over.
Everybody is praying, she said, sir, he will be okay.
The doctors didn't understand what she was saying.
And after looking at the results of the damage done, neither did I.
She was so strong and conclusive that even Andrew's great father felt she didn't really understand the gravity of the situation.
But she turned out to be right, right, Melody?
She turned out to be right.
Amazing, actually.
I said, Where does this woman come from?
She's the most positive person I've ever met.
With God's help, Andrew has battled back from the edge of death, and we're talking about the edge of death.
On his way to a miraculous recovery, he's got a little work to do, but he's doing great.
Nice to see.
He's a good-looking guy.
Nice to see you.
Thanks, Andrew.
Thank you very much. I like that hat.
It's a good hat.
So, Andrew, while you're up, now I'm going to ask a highly respected General James Seward to present Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolf and the great family of Mother Bextram with the award created by our late great President George Washington himself.
It's called the Purple Heart.
Nuclear Threats and Restored Security00:14:47
Oh wow, that's
pretty badass.
Pretty badass, I have to say.
It's nice that Trump is giving the floor to so many other people instead of just talking about the history of the world.
We love you all.
Love you.
We're proudly restoring safety for Americans at home and we are also restoring security for Americans abroad.
Our country has never been stronger.
My first 10 months I ended eight wars including Cambodia, Rubio, sick people, Cambodia and Thailand, Pakistan and India.
Would have been a nuclear war.
35 million people said The Prime Minister of Pakistan would have died if it were not for my involvement.
Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Congo and Rwanda, and of course the war in Gaza, which proceeds at a very low level.
It's just about there.
And I want to thank Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for your help.
Thank you, Steve.
Thank you, Jane.
And I also want to thank the mandate report, too, Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
Thank you, thank you. Thank you.
Anyway, get the camera off of me, please.
There are enough memes of me out in the world.
People are like you.
You know, Marco got 100% of the votes when he was in confirmation.
I think our next one was about 54%.
And some of the Democrats are now saying, I can't believe we approved that guy.
And he said it's an honor that they feel that way, right, Marco?
You have done a great job, great Secretary of State.
I think he'll go down as the best of him.
You can just hear him talking.
See his face.
Under the ceasefire I negotiated, every single hostage, both living and dead, has been returned home.
Can you believe this?
Nobody thought it was possible.
Nobody thought that was possible.
Both living and dead.
And those parents who had a dead son, their boy, they'd always tell me their boy, they wanted him as much as though he were living.
It was an amazing period of time.
And they came back.
And when we got all of the living hostages back, and many, many before then, but I always said those last 20 are going to be very tough.
But we got many, many more, hundreds.
But I said those last 20 are going to be tough.
We got them back.
But we only got back 14 or 15 of the dead of the 28.
And believe it or not, Hamas worked along with Israel, and they dug and they dug and they dug.
It's a tough thing to do, going through bodies all over, passing up 100 bodies sometimes for each one that they found.
Tough job.
And they finally got it back to 27.
And then Steve and Jared, they got it back to 28.
They found all 28.
Nobody thought that was possible, but we did it.
I remember the family of the 28th, they were so grieved, but they were so happy, as happy as it's possible to be.
They had their boy back.
The mother said, sir, we have our boy back.
What a period of time that was, but we got them all back.
So thank you both very much.
And we're working very hard to end the Ninth War, the killing and slaughter between Russia and Ukraine, where 25,000 soldiers are dying each and every month.
Think of that, 25,000 soldiers.
You've got to make some room for the Iran war.
A war which would have never happened if I were presidental space.
As president, I will make peace wherever I can, but I will never hesitate to confront threats to America wherever we must.
That's why, in a breakthrough operation last June, the United States military obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons program with an attack on Iranian soil known as Operation.
I heard we left some parts there.
Perhaps some missiles that didn't allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, many decades.
Since they seized control of that proud nation 47 years ago, the regime and its murderous proxies have spread nothing but terrorism and death and hate.
They've killed and maimed thousands of American service members and hundreds of thousands and even millions of people with what's called roadside bombs.
They were the kings of the roadside bomb.
And we took out Solemani.
I did that during my first term.
It had a huge impact.
He was the father of the roadside line.
And just over the last couple of months with the protests, they've killed at least, it looks like, 32,000 protesters.
32,000 protesters in their own country.
They shot them and hung them.
We stopped them from hanging a lot of them with the threat of serious violence.
But this is some terrible people.
So State of the Union address everything we thought it would be.
I believe there's still another 25 minutes.
They were warned to make no future attempts to rebuild their weapons program, in particular nuclear weapons.
Yet they continue starting it all over.
We wiped it out.
Yeah, I didn't vote for Trump to go to war with Iran.
We voted for a lot of stuff that's happening right now, sadly.
One of those being no new wars.
preference.
My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy.
But one thing is certain, I will never allow the world's number one sponsor of terror, which they are by far, to have a nuclear weapon.
We can't let that happen.
And no nation should ever doubt America's result.
We have the most powerful military on earth.
I rebuilt the military in my first term.
We're going to continue to do so.
Also, we just approved a trillion-dollar budget.
We have no choice.
We have to be strong because hopefully we will seldom have to use this great power that we built together.
it's really called peace through strength and it's been very very effective it's okay until it turns into peace through war that's the one Thanks to Republicans in Congress, we're investing that record number of dollars, have no choice, in the United States Armed Forces.
Also creating a lot of jobs, but we're not even doing it for that reason.
Because as I said, we have more jobs, more people working today than ever before in the history of our country.
And NATO countries, our friends and allies, they are.
They're our friends and they're our allies, have just agreed, at my very strong request, to pay 5% of GDP for military defense rather than the 2% which they weren't paying.
We were paying for almost all of that.
Now they're paying 5% as opposed to not paying $3.
You just hear Lindsay's voice when you see it.
And getting that 5% was something which everyone said would never be done, could not happen.
We got it really easily with one meeting.
And big difference between 2% that's not paid.
We were paying afraid of many of them.
Very few were paid up.
Now 5%.
And everything we send over to Ukraine is sent through NATO, and they pay us in full.
They pay us totally in full.
Every branch of our armed forces is setting records for recruitment.
This is so exciting.
And every service member recently received a warrior dividend of $1,776.
You know, they put it on my desk.
We got the money from tariffs and other things.
A lot of money we have.
We have much more money than people understand.
Have to rebuild that program a little bit, but it won't take long.
But we got the money, and it was $1,775, and they wanted my approval.
And I said, what's the number?
$1,775.
I said, wait a minute.
For one more dollar, we can have $1,776.
I said, we're going to figure that.
I never asked anybody if we could afford it.
One more dollar.
I said $1,776.
And I said, that's good.
And I'll tell you what, our military, that was four months ago, our military.
I never see a person in the military that doesn't thank me for it, so we're honored to do it.
They deserve it.
And we call it 1776.
It was great.
And we love our military.
We love our law enforcement.
We love our firemen.
You know, the firemen don't get mentioned enough.
We love our firemen.
We're also restoring American security and dominance in the Western Hemisphere, acting to secure our national interests and defend our country from violence, drugs, terrorism, and foreign interference.
For years, large swaths of territory in our region, including large parts of Mexico, really large parts of Mexico, have been controlled by murderous drug cartels.
That's why I designated these cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and I declared illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
And with our new military campaign, we have stopped record amounts of drugs coming into our country and virtually stopped it completely coming in by water or sea.
You probably noticed that.
We very seriously damaged their fishing industry also.
Nobody wants to go fishing anymore.
We've also taken down one of the most sinister cartel kingpins of all.
You saw that yesterday.
in January, and now they are burning down Mexico.
In January, the warriors carried out one of the most complex, spectacular feats of military competence and power in world history.
No one's seen anything like it.
Foreign leaders, I won't tell you who called me and they said, very impressive.
Very impressive.
They couldn't believe.
They all watched.
They saw what happened.
This is a different fighting force than we had years ago when we fought to tie.
You know, it's a great fighting force.
Unbelievable Heroes Raid00:11:05
I'm so proud of it.
Look at Space Force's.
We did that.
My baby, it's becoming so important.
Especially with the aliens.
As soon as Hegseth releases the documents.
And America's armed forces overwhelmed.
All defenses are not only defeated, enemy, good fighters, to end the reign of outlawed dictator Nicolas Maduro and bring him to face American justice.
And this was an absolutely colossal victory for the security of the United States, and it also opens up a bright new beginning for the people of Venezuela.
We're working closely with the new president of Venezuela, Del Codriguez, to unleash extraordinary economic gains for both of our countries and to bring new hope to those who have suffered so terribly.
They really did suffer.
With us tonight is Alejandro Gonzalez.
She grew up in a tight-knit Venezuelan family and was especially close to her beloved uncle Enrique.
But after Enrique ran for office and opposed Maduro, he was kidnapped by Maduro security forces and thrown into the regime's really infamous prison in Caracas.
Alejandro feared she would never see her uncle again.
She feared for her own life also.
But since the raid, we have worked with the new leadership, and they have ordered the closure of that vile prison and released hundreds of political prisoners already, with more to come.
Alejandro, I'm pleased to inform you that not only has your uncle been released, but he is here tonight.
We brought him over to celebrate his raid with you in person.
Enrique, please come down.
He's doing a damn reunion tonight.
Thank you, Enrique.
Have a good time.
Nice to have you back, Enreque.
There were many heroes on that January raid to capture Maduro, really great heroes.
It was very dangerous.
They knew we were coming.
They were all set.
But the deeds of one warrior that night will live forever in the eternal chronicles of military valor.
Chief Warrant Officer 5, Eric Slover, planned the mission and was the flight lead in the cockpit of the first helicopter.
A big, beautiful, powerful helicopter.
It was a massive Chinook carrying, as you can imagine, many, many American warfighters.
Wearing the dog tags his wife Amy had blessed with holy water before he left.
She knew it was going to be a rough one.
Eric steered the Chinook under the cover of night and descended swiftly upon Maduro's heavily protected military fortress.
This was a majority of oil.
Protected by thousands of soldiers and guarded by Russian and Chinese military technology.
How did that work out?
Not too good.
While preparing to land, enemy machine guns fired from every angle, and Eric was hit very badly in the leg and hip, one bullet after another.
He absorbed four agonizing shots, shredding his leg into numerous pieces.
And yet, despite the fact that the use of his legs was vital to successful helicopter flight, legs are the most important part of flying a helicopter to deliver the many commandos who would capture and detain Maduro was the only thing Eric was thinking about.
Then, even as he was gushing blood, which was flowing back down the aisle, the lands at a steep angle, the machine gun stood right in front of him.
They were right in front of him, too.
Machine guns like an escape planes.
Eric maneuvered his helicopters' lives and souls to face the enemy and let his gunners eliminate the threat.
Didn't they use energy weapons to take care of business, saving the lives of his fellow warriors from what could have been a catastrophic crash deep from the territory?
Only after safely landing the helicopter with all the warriors aboard in the exact right spot, which was vital to the mission, probably would have had to maybe cancel the mission if that didn't happen.
Eric told his co-pilot, also wounded, but not as gravely, to take over.
I'm about ready to pass out.
The success of the entire mission and the lives of his fellow warriors hinge on Eric's ability to take searing pain.
It was unbelievable what's happened to his wings.
The Havana Syndrome weapons flying and landing lazy.
People knew what was happening.
Everybody in the back of the helicopter knew because they saw the blood pouring down the aisle.
Chief Warrant Officer Slover is still recovering from serious wounds, but I'm thrilled to say that he is here tonight with his wife Amy, Eric, and Amy.
Come on in.
Come on in.
He just has one out there.
Oh, shit.
He's about to get something.
I know, I know.
I did a good job.
I know.
Thank you guys.
Thanks.
Damn it.
He has a walker.
He's a big dude with a small, smaller head.
I don't know.
And his jacket's pretty big.
Love that chant.
So we have a surprise.
Surprise.
Eric and Amy.
In recognition of Eric's actions above and beyond the call of duty, I would now like to ask General Jonathan Braga to present Chief Warrant Officer Slover with our nation's highest military award, the Congressional Medal of Honor.
It's a choker.
Baby Blue.
He's like a real soldier.
It's a real life soldier.
Awesome.
love it.
And for his wife for standing by his side.
Good job, everybody.
Well, thank you very much, Eric and Amy.
Great to get to know you.
I met with them and with a lot of their fellow warriors at Fort Bragg recently.
You notice the name Fort Bragg, we have it back.
We brought it back.
We won the First World War with it, the Second World War with it, and then they decided to change the name.
So we changed it back.
Everybody wanted to change back, too.
And ten of Eric's fellow warriors from that incredible night of victory will also be receiving medals at a private ceremony that will soon be held at the White House.
Eric Adu, Deborah.
Thank you Eric That's a big one.
Tonight we've celebrated many truly extraordinary American patriots, but there is one last living legend to honor before we go.
He is one more heroic American aviator, Navy fighter pilot.
Royce Williams served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, flying more than 200 missions.
In disguise over Korea in 1952, Royce was in the dogfight of a lifetime, legendary dogfight, flying through blizzard conditions.
His squadron was ambushed by seven Soviet fighter planes.
It was his first aerial combat of the war, and despite being massively outnumbered and outgunned, Royce led the takedown of four enemy jets and almost destroyed the others, vanquishing his adversaries while taking 263 bullets to his own plane and being seriously hurt.
A Legend Recognized00:03:24
His story was secret for over 50 years.
He didn't even want to tell his wife, but the legend grew and grew.
But tonight, at 100 years old, this brave Navy captain is finally getting the recognition he deserves.
He was a legend long before this evening.
Royce, please stand up, and I will ask the First Lady of the United States to present Captain Royce Williams with his Congressional Medal of Honor.
Oh, no, the nails.
Is she going to be able to do it?
Oh, gosh.
Oh, she did.
Very good. Very good.
Very nice State of the Union address.
Not really addressing the other things, but I don't think we really expected to hear about the Epstein files or Iran or deportation numbers.
Looks like he's a sheriff now.
I've got to zoom that hard.
gotta zoom that hard.
I said boom, boom, boom.
Let me, let me, let me, let me do a zoom.
All right.
Good job.
Be careful.
Thank you, Eric.
I've always wanted to be able to do that.
They're making him stand up too long.
I know.
I'm so informed.
I'm not allowed to keep it to myself, and I wouldn't know why I'd be taking it, but if they ever open up that law, I will be there with you someday.
But you know, that's our highest honor, Congressional Medal of Honor, and that's a big thing.
And it's an honor to be in the same room with you.
Thank you both very much, Eric.
Thank you.
250 Years of American Ingenuity00:04:11
250 years is a long time in the life of a nation, but in another sense, it's really a mere moment in the eye of history.
Two of the gentlemen we met in the gallery this evening took their first breaths one century ago, 100 years before that, on July 4th, 1826, the author of the Declaration of Independence, brilliant, Thomas Jefferson drew his last breath.
Just a single long human lifespan separates the giants who declared and won our independence from the heroes who stand among us tonight.
Everything our nation has done, everything we have achieved, has been the work of those few great lifetimes.
In those brief chapters, Americans built this nation from 13 humble colonies into the pinnacle of human civilization and human freedom, the strongest, wealthiest, most powerful, most successful nation in all of history.
Americans ventured out across the daunting and dangerous continent.
We carved paths through an unforgiving wilderness, settled a boundless frontier, and tamed the beautiful but very, very dangerous wild west.
From empty marshes and wide open plains, we raised up the world's greatest cities.
Together, we mastered the world's mightiest industries and shattered histories, monstrous tyrannies.
And we liberated millions from the chains of fascism, communism, oppression, and terror.
Americans lifted humanity into the skies on the wings of aluminum and steel.
And then we launched mankind into the stars on rockets powered by sheer American will and unyielding American pride.
We wired the globe with our ingenuity.
We captivated the planet with American culture.
And now we are pioneering the next great American breakthroughs that will change the entire world.
All of this and so much more is the enduring legacy, unmatched glory of the hardworking patriots who built and defended this country and who still carry the hopes and freedoms on all of humanity's backs.
For years they were forgotten, betrayed, and cast aside.
But that great betrayal is over and they will never be forgotten again.
Because when the world needs courage, daring, vision, and inspiration, it is still turning to America.
And when God needs a nation to work his miracles, he knows exactly who to ask.
There is no challenge Americans cannot overcome, no frontier too vast for us to conquer, no dream too bold for us to chase, no horizon too distant for us to claim.
For our destiny is written by the hand of Providence, and these first 250 years were just the beginning.
From the rugged border towns of Texas to the heartland villages of Michigan, from the sun-kissed shores of Florida to the endless fields of the Dakotas, and from the historic streets of Philadelphia to right here in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C.
The golden age of America is upon us.
The revolution that began in 1776 has not ended.
It still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot.
And our future will be bigger, better, brighter, bolder, and more glorious than ever before.
Thank you.
God bless you.
And God bless America.
There you go.
Release The Names00:14:40
There you have it, the old wrap-up.
We should do the dance.
Yes. Yes.
Yes, Lacey got that one right, saying, can't wait for the leftists to call it dark and authoritarian.
Same old shit also, Lacey saying.
Yeah, yeah, basically.
I don't think we expected anything else than what we received here on this State of the Union address.
Basically, I mean, but we didn't hear a ton about the Dow, so that was nice.
I liked that he highlighted a lot of the situations with the illegal immigrants.
I think that's a big story.
I hate, I mean, yes, it happens every day, but I do think it's important that we kind of have a select few that we are highlighting.
Whichever stories those are, you know, so let it be whatever.
But yeah, I think it's a way almost, you know, to think about it, you know, to think about somebody else's story to put yourself in their shoes if you're a mom or a sister or a parent or whatever your position is to really, you know, get on this.
Obviously, you'll never, you know, be on the same level, but to be kind of in the same area of thought whenever it comes to those situations, I think is huge.
But then again, like we said, you know, Trump, low deportation numbers, pretty shitty.
Epstein file, I mean, I saw someone else saying, well, if it wasn't for Trump, we wouldn't have 3 million files released.
Trump pushed against that.
So, I mean, yes and no, and yes and no.
You know, there's not enough outrage for the obvious things when it comes to that.
Why didn't the Democrats ever push to have the files released?
Why are they so outspoken now?
These pins that they were wearing tonight could have easily been worn during the Biden administration, during the Obama, and so on and so forth.
Or the Obama.
Could Obama said anything?
When did the allegations come out?
I guess I really should get my timeline right.
But for sure, in the Biden administration, there was no noise about it.
There was nothing really going on about it.
And now there is.
And it's just like everything else.
It kind of all falls into Trump's lap.
And he willingly accepts it.
And then he makes a game plan for us.
And then he, you know, runs on that game plan.
And we all support it.
And then, you know, and then it just, it just sucks because it's, it's, I don't know, like if you listen to Nick Fuentez's take or if you've ever heard it, he's kind of like, you're going to have to earn my vote, which I severely agree with.
And he's, he's, gets a lot of flack from people because they're saying, oh, you, you think we would have been better under Kamala Harris.
And it's really, it's really almost like they force your vote because obviously you would never vote for Kamala.
But so then people then, you know, vote red, vote Republican because of, you know, Kamala or whatever.
And it's really not earning your vote.
It's just the better of the two evils.
And what he's saying is what Nick, Nick, I guess, is saying is that hold your vote or vote, wait for someone else to come to the table.
It's better.
And I hope that that's a thing that happens, but I don't know.
It's not looking too great for us.
So yeah, what's up?
There's Thomas Massey.
Thomas Massey.
Yeah, well, Massey is also like, you know, I know we were, you were saying he read some names.
So Thomas Massey knew names.
He told us a few names after he looked at the files.
And then he also told us that there were other names on there and that we would be shocked.
And then some other congresswomen went in and saw the files and they said the same thing.
We would be shocked if we knew what was in the files.
There's Democrats, there's Republicans, there's celebrities and everything else.
And the issue is really that tell us the names.
I mean, if Massey's telling us names that he discovered tonight and that's what he read on the House floor, then cool.
Thank you.
If he's telling us names and he's reading them on the House floor, names that he saw two weeks ago or a week ago, not good.
Not good.
So, I mean, he's just doing the same thing in my opinion.
I think release the name, say the names, do the stuff.
Don't hold out on information.
It's so annoying whenever someone knows something and they dangle it in front of you for it.
It makes you feel like, you know, I don't know.
I guess like I get it also about promotion on Facebook and like how you can really be in fat and in pactful with information that you have, but you have to do it in a really in a way where you're not going to look like a part of the problem.
And, you know, so yeah.
So so those are names like Les Wexner and Leon Black, Jess Stally.
These are names.
So Les Wexner was named like last week, right?
So if he has other names, he should name them.
Everybody who's gotten their eyes on them, just name them.
And is that all the names that he has?
Has anyone asked him that?
I don't know.
I'm glad that he's doing that.
And I'm in full support of anyone that is trying to get to the bottom of it.
But do we even know what is even the bottom of it?
And it's just this never-ending Epstein saga that continues to break every single day.
As soon as somebody gets into the emails, I mean, we're talking 3 million, you know, emails or files.
And that's a lot of files to go over, to go through.
Some of them are old stuff that you're seeing recycled.
I heard someone recently, like in defense of the files, somebody that is an investigative journalist, in my opinion, that was repeating parts of the files that were AI, that I knew were AI.
And so, you know, it's kind of sucks because you have people that really do go down and do the research.
And it's like a mix of people who don't maybe have the time to do the research, but they believe these things to be true.
And so then they're, you know, in public defending things incorrectly because they don't really know or they don't know yet that what they're using as their proof of justification is actually an AI image and so on and so forth.
So yeah, it's too much data, like Lacey's saying.
It's too much data.
It's so much to go through, which is why I think it is really important for people that are passionate about this, you know, like grassroots or whatever, like smaller investigative journalists that are out there to dissect these things and then bring light to them and, you know, whatever, and like a TikTok or a quick little, you know,
video that's going to go viral that everybody can be able to digest in a way that feels truthful, which is hard to do because everything, I mean, like even photos of emails are like, are these real?
I don't know.
And I don't know if any of you guys have ever actually searched the Epstein files, but you can do that.
I found the link or I didn't find the link, but I had a friend send me the link just to see because I heard that Jose Garza was in the Epstein files.
And I was like, Jose Garza is in the Epstein files.
What the hell?
And so I looked, I was able to search his name in the files and I found, you know, where they were talking about.
And of course, it was in relation to a sexual assault of a child situation.
I don't know.
I looked it up when I was at work, so I really couldn't spend a lot of time looking at it.
But it is worth a look on your own to look into it yourself and do your own research and check into it.
I definitely encourage that.
But to go off of every little word that anyone is saying on the left or the right, I would be cautious about that Because you don't want to run around with talking points that are generated by AI because so much was pulled into those files and a lot of it wasn't even substantial.
It was just Reddit, memes, this and that.
And so you really have to take the time to figure out who you're going to listen to.
So, yeah, so there was a lot of protests for the State of the Union address, a lot of angry Karens out there.
I did see also there was a video of these kids, and they had asked them about how the State of the Union address went.
It's just a 45-minute video, real quick.
I just wanted to play.
So let's check this video.
College kids are telling us Trump's State of the Union didn't go so well.
The only problem, it's tomorrow.
Rate Trump, Stay of the Union speech, one out of 10.
One's the worst, 10's the best.
Negatives.
And why?
I think we all know.
A lot of reasons.
What about the State of the Union last night?
One to 10.
It was like a wire channel.
I mean, it was all over the place.
Oh, we're just going to use zero.
I'm going to give it a one.
And why do you say one?
I don't think he's very articulate.
How did Trump do the State of the Union?
Zero.
I'll be real than I was it.
Like, yeah, I didn't really watch it much.
I watched it for a little bit, but the State of the Union last night.
How was that?
One to ten?
No, it's all night.
I thought it was tomorrow.
No, you're good.
You passed the test.
Good job.
College kids are.
Yeah, pretty dumb.
But also telling, very telling.
And telling in a way that, yeah, I mean, it's a disease.
TDS.
It's real.
It exists.
Don't deny it.
Don't deny it.
It's real.
Yes, also in the news, Senate Democrats rejecting resuming paychecks, as Trump hit on.
That happened just a few hours before the State of the Union address.
Also, something interesting, and I'm just hitting on some real quick things, and then we're going to end.
I know tonight was a little bit of a longer show, but there were just a few things that I wanted to go over real quick.
And then we'll do, we'll get into Illuminati weather, and then that'll be it.
So I did see this video.
Let's check it out.
You run again.
I haven't decided.
You're still thinking about it.
I might.
Yeah.
That's what I've been saying.
That's what I, I closed the book and I'm like, oh, she wants to.
She's just thinking about it.
About it.
If that, that was my impression.
I don't know if that's what you intended, but that was my impression.
No, the book is about a specific period in time.
There was no agenda beyond what we've discussed already, which is just sharing with people, you know, the reality of the experience and hopefully allowing people to see something of themselves.
So, yeah, because Kamala had did the book where she's basically puts all the blame on everything on Biden.
No, I'm just guessing now.
I didn't read the book, but interesting to know that Kamala, you know, might toss her hat in the race, which I think we would all love to see this happen.
I mean, it's like going to be a nightmare.
They're going to rig it.
Kamala's going to win.
It's going to be crazy.
Holy shit.
Don't put it too far out there.
It's definitely possible.
It's definitely possible.
Let's see.
So Gavin Newsom was in the news a bit.
Like Trump had mentioned about cleaning up the snow.
You have to show proof of ID and you don't really need to do that if You don't really need to do that if you want to vote.
So, if you want to vote, that's pretty cool.
I'm going to skip down past that, even though they were added great videos.
I just don't want to keep us too long.
Also, a 43-year-old anti-ICE mother arrested for stealing an ambulance, loading it up with gas cans, and driving it into a DHS office in Idaho, an act of domestic terror to kill ICE.
Gavin Newsom's Controversy00:08:43
Uh, here, and I'm playing it because that is a crazy story.
It's a minute-long clip.
Let's check it out.
Police identified the suspect as 43-year-old Sarah Elizabeth George of Boise.
Police say they arrested George just before five o'clock today outside her home in Boise.
Investigators say they spent the last five days canvassing, reviewing surveillance footage, and using technological analysis to identify George.
As we previously reported, last Wednesday, an ambulance was parked in the ambulance bay outside St. Luke's Hospital in Meridian while a crew transported a patient inside.
When Canning County paramedics returned, their vehicle was gone.
Police say George drove the ambulance into the Portico North Building near the hospital.
Investigators believe George intended to set the building on fire, but ran away when first responders arrived.
This incident happened in the same building where the Department of Homeland Security recently leased space.
So, if you recall, everyone stood up against political violence, right?
I think I remember that.
I would say that they would probably be in heavy support of this 43-year-old anti-ICE psychopath retard that did this.
I'm just guessing.
And then, last but not least, two things.
One of them is this, and I'm going to play this because I've seen it once and I want to see it one more time, and I want you to see it too.
And of course, what that is, is the Candace Owens preview to shot from a nearby building after being shot.
Sorry, her preview to her series: President Trump says that Kirk has died after he was shot from a nearby building after being shot at Utah Valley University.
The great and even legendary Charlie Kirk is dead.
The cries of this widow will echo around the world like a battle cry.
I didn't even get to give him a kiss.
Goodbye.
That young man, I forgive him.
Take your time.
Erica Kirk has been named the new CEO of Turning Point USA.
My husband's dead.
Like, I'm not trying to be morbid, but he's dead.
It's weird to say excited.
Describes your husband's funeral as the event of the century.
Merch hats.
We have 50,000 plus hot orders.
Nobody knows why she's out there in a glittering pantsuit in a recreated tent that her husband tragically was murdered in, throwing merch out.
Everyone grieves differently, so if someone's acting weird, don't read into that.
Zionists, the prime minister of Israel, all lied through their teeth about Charlie Kirk.
Her operation was in Constanta, the epicenter of Romania's trafficking scandal.
We heard conversations to have with a 15-year-old.
I'm going to touch your butt, $8.6 million to their own shell company.
What is going on?
We have nothing to hide.
My aunt used to tell me, never do something that you don't want on the front page of a newspaper.
That is pretty serious stuff there.
That is some pretty serious situation going on there.
And yeah, I don't know.
I don't know how to feel about it.
But I will say that I'm not going to play this whole thing here for you, but I will show you this tweet where which I thought was kind of funny.
An emotional Dan Bongino deals with the latest Candace Owens vicious attack on Erica Kirk, a movie produced by her entitled The Bride of Charlie and his recollection of the day Charlie was assassinated.
So here's a little bit of him.
Let's see.
Maybe.
It is about a, I don't know what to call it, some production Candace Owens is putting together called Bride of Charlie, an investigative series.
And Seth says, what would Charlie have to say about this?
And what would he think of his so-called friends who can't summon the courage to say it for him?
Here it is.
I mean. I've only been back four weeks.
I'm just a guy, folks, okay?
I'm not a superhero.
I can't snap my finger and change everything.
Just like I couldn't snap my finger and just jump back right into this.
It takes weeks for me to transition from this to go over to the government job and then to come back.
He did so much there at that government job.
He seems more distraught over Candace than he did over the, I don't know, Epstein files.
I'm just a regular guy.
Having a hard time transitioning.
I'm just having a hard time, guys.
All right, guys.
It has been such a long, fun night with you guys hanging out, watching The Seed of the Union with Donald Dre Trump telling us how it is.
If you want a continuation from that, I'm sure every single day you'll hear it.
And on that note, I think it's about that time for us to get into our favorite part of the show before we bid you adieu.
And, of course, the part that I'm talking about is the Illuminati weather forecast.
Yes, it's time for another Illuminati weather report brought to you by TheLibertyBroadcast.com.
All right, so check it out.
It appears, let's take a look at our radar here.
Looks like we got a lot of stuff going on.
This is the precipitation going.
Here we go.
We got our radar up.
Let's just zoom in.
It looks like up here up north, you know, in like Ohio and stuff, y'all are probably getting a lot of snow.
Looks like y'all are, you know, getting covered in some light snow here.
Yeah, but it looks pretty bad.
Over here, though, in Salt Lake City, it's raining blood.
So if you're in Salt Lake City right now, it's raining blood.
And next to it, you know, kind of around the area, it's also raining this light blue.
Normally, you know, on most radars you look at, this is green, and that means rain, but this is blue.
So that just means this particular type of rain is gay.
Back to you, Rachel.
All right.
Massive areas getting hit by the gay rain and the blood of the victims of the pedophiles.
It's the blood coming down the aisle.
If you're in Salt Lake City, you know, like if you're at the grocery store, you might see blood coming down the aisle.
And there you go.
Blood coming down the aisle.
There you have it.
Good times, always good times, especially when we fit in the Illuminati weather forecast.
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