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March 5, 2025 - Loomer Unleashed - Laura Loomer

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EP106: LIVE COVERAGE: President Trump Addresses Congress

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	I think that one of the reasons or a couple of reasons why they chose Senator Slotkin is because she won a state in which Kamala Harris didn't during the same time frame by several points.
	It is because she is from the Midwest and people believe that she appeals to American voters in a way that They think that the Democratic message was lacking this election.
	She is somebody who comes from a national security background, so she can talk about that from a firsthand point.
	And people believe that she's more down to earth.
	I think the other really interesting thing about Senator Slockett is that she was actually among some of the Democrats to pretty early question the vitality of Joe Biden, question whether or not that should be the party leader, whether or not he should be on the ticket in a way that other folks didn't.
	And so I think that she has a big platform today.
	And, you know, it will be, you know, time will only tell whether or not she delivers or will.
	Whether or not people like her message, but certainly, you know, this is an area for Democrats in which, you know, they don't have a real leader.
	We just saw the Senate leave the chamber.
	They are out of session now.
	And this is live in Statuary Hall.
	As you can see, it did not take long for the Senate to make its way over to Stat Hall.
	J.D. Vance leading the charge of senators.
	I also wanted to piggyback a little bit on what Jasmine was saying about Senator Slotkin.
	She, you know, was first elected in 2018 as part of this.
	A kind of national security democratic moms group with people like Abigail Spanberger, who left Congress and is now running for governor.
	Right, former assistant defense secretary for the Obama administration.
	Right, Slotkin, and also a former CIA analyst.
	Spanberger, another former CIA officer.
	Running for governor now in Virginia.
	Right, and so, and Mikey Sherrill, who's a combat pilot, is also running for governor.
	Running for governor of New Jersey.
	New Jersey.
	All Democrats.
	Right, all Democrats, all women, all national security backgrounds, all moms.
	You know, they're very...
	They're dream candidates, and they were part of that big wave when the Democrats reclaimed the majority in 2018. And I think that what Democratic operatives are looking for is more of the same, if they can tap into that kind of imagery and also their expertise.
	Well, it looks there like Angus King, the gentleman with the mustache right behind...
	Right behind him is Rand Paul walking in with a senator from Washington State and Maggie Hassan from New Hampshire.
	So it does look like they are doing the D and the R thing like they have done in the past here.
	I would love to see some of these dynamics as you get down to the last bit.
	It's almost like being picked last for a basketball game.
	Some people are naturally very compatible.
	And then sometimes you get stuck with somebody who you can't imagine ever having to want to take a photo with.
	You're like, please don't film me.
	I mean, it's interesting.
	We just saw Senator Katie Britt of Alabama go past, and she obviously gave the rebuttal last year.
	And that was, frankly, not a great moment for her.
	I think that people did not receive it well.
	It felt a little bit odd, her speaking, the way that she was speaking during it.
	And if you could just hold that thought for two seconds, Jasmine Wright, let's listen to Speaker Johnson.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	John Thune and Chuck Schumer just snuck by.
	Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Democrat.
	J.D. Vance, the vice president, is in that mix.
	He's shaking people's hands on the side.
	John Barrasso, who is in the leadership.
	For the Republicans, Dick Durbin, 80 years old, in the leadership there.
	The gentleman in the gray hair in the back and the blue shirt.
	He was just re-elected in 2020, and so he will be up.
	In 26, if he runs again.
	And there's J.D. Vance.
	Jason Dick, you have been covering these, the people on the aisle.
	What time do they get down there?
	And the late Sheila Jackson Lee, Democrat from Texas, was famous for always being on the aisle, regardless of presidents.
	I'd love to see that collection of photos.
	But how long does it take if you're going to get on the aisle here?
	To greet the president and everybody else.
	Sometimes they get there very early, sometimes four or five hours early as soon as the security sweep is over.
	It is a first-come, first-serve situation.
	It's a little nerve-wracking to be that, but they want to position themselves, and whether they're Democrats or Republicans, they like those corner seats.
	And there's Nancy Mace in the white dress, a Republican of South Carolina, talking to J.D. Vance.
	Sometimes, I mean, it was a little lonely.
	I mean, some of the other people who come to mind who get there very early, Elliot Engel, former Democrat from New York, Cynthia McKinney, a Democrat.
	From Georgia.
	And you'd hear about also just like small little bits of bonding, you know, sometimes for people who wouldn't necessarily spend a lot of time together, particularly, you know, Democrats and Republicans from different parts of the country and so forth.
	And it is, you know, it's one of those quirky kind of rituals that makes covering Congress a lot of fun to know about.
	These are things.
	We've got some old photos in the Roll Call archive of people bringing newspapers and just reading them all day long, waiting for the president and people to start filling in.
	And you can see the Joint Chiefs had come in.
	There's Senator Scott behind J.D. Vance.
	Byron Donalds running for governor of Florida as a Republican.
	Big, big President Trump supporter on the campaign.
	There's Chip Roy.
	Republican of Texas who has been a supporter and been, you know, sometimes a little bit of an iconoclast.
	There we go.
	There we go.
	That's a nice way.
	Former snaver for Ted Cruz.
	Jasmine Wright, you were talking about Senator Katie Britt last year.
	Up to that rebuttal, she was chosen because she was seen as a rising star and potential VP pick.
	Yeah, she was seen as a rising star.
	She was seen as someone who had a great future ahead of her.
	I would argue that she is still really in the mix.
	She is one of the White House's most used senators, most talked to senators on the Hill.
	So, you know, I mean, you know, I think that they, these...
	If these rebuttals go poorly, obviously it's some bad PR, but it doesn't completely derail your entire career.
	But certainly, I think after hers, there were a lot of questions about whether or not she would be a good person.
	Do you see a lot of members?
	By the way, we have been simulcasting on C-SPAN and C-SPAN 2. Now, we're going to say goodbye to our C-SPAN 2 viewers, and that will be completely sights and sounds.
	So if you want just sights and sounds...
	Stay with C-SPAN, too.
	If you want to continue listening to our program, we'd love to have you stay with us.
	Jasmine Wright of Notice, Jason Dick of Roll Call, will be here along with Greta Brawner, of course.
	So I didn't mean to interrupt you there.
	No, you're okay.
	I want to say goodbye.
	Yeah.
	No, I think that they, you know, people question whether or not she'd be a good person to be Trump's number two.
	But still, she has a very big role in the Senate and is well utilized, I think.
	See who's in the chamber there?
	Or up in the gallery, I should say.
	That was Elon Musk, who has now arrived.
	And we should be seeing Usha Vance, second lady, and Melania Trump shortly arriving in there as well.
	Yeah, I have a sneaking suspicion that we are going to see a lot of Elon Musk throughout this speech as he sits next to Melania and next to...
	The second lady up in the gallery.
	Is that Tom Homan?
	That is Tom Homan.
	Do you see him at the White House from time to time?
	Yes.
	He gaggled twice with reporters there.
	He often goes out to Pebble Beach along the cameras next to the White House that are typically out of the screen when they're doing things on the North Portico to go do.
	TV hits with various different networks and comes and talks to the press.
	He is very press friendly and very open to talking about The latest numbers that they've been able to accumulate through deportations, the fact that they would like more money from Congress to continue to do those wide-scale deportations, something that we know that Trump is going to ask Congress for again today, really trying to not just get money for deportations, but get money for a larger border security package.
	There's Mark Warner, John Bozeman.
	Newton Calista Gingrich, former speaker, is up in the gallery as well.
	And you can see that we have extra cameras on the floor of the House when we have shots like this.
	Usually the House of Representatives controls the cameras, but on special occasions they give the press pool.
	The C-SPANs, the CNNs, etc.
	Like multiple speaker votes, for instance.
	Yes.
	Yeah, there were several extra cameras.
	And, of course, there's Speaker Pelosi.
	It looks like a Ukraine-colored flag or scarf in her hand.
	And Steny Hoyer with a Ukraine-designed or Ukraine-colored tie, the former leaders of the House Democrats.
	John Bozeman is right there in the center of your screen.
	He's a Republican from Arkansas working his way down.
	There's Mark Warner, Democrat of Virginia, former governor of Virginia.
	Right behind him, Elizabeth Warren, Democrat of Massachusetts.
	The Senate still has not gotten seated.
	We've been watching them come down the aisle for quite a while.
	Hakeem Jeffries and Debbie Dingell.
	Debbie Dingell's husband, John Dingell, the late John Dingell, was the Dean of the House from Dearborn, Michigan, for years and years and years, and now she's been in Congress for years.
	And, of course, Hakeem Jeffries is the leader of the Democratic Party.
	Jasmine Wright, do you see a lot of members coming through at the White House?
	You actually do.
	Sometimes they, particularly in the first few weeks, they would come into the press briefing after an unannounced meeting with the president because they said, you know, I hadn't been here in four years.
	I wasn't invited the entire time that Joe Biden was in office.
	And so they were really excited to be in there, to be back into the Oval Office, really, frankly, to be back into power.
	I think, you know, the...
	The president has been really adamant about having these members of Congress come over to the White House.
	It's one of the...
	Biggest tools that the president can use, kind of not just the power of the pulpit there, but really bringing lawmakers on Air Force One, bringing them into the Oval, allowing them into the grandness of the White House so that in turn they can give you kind of this legislative freedom to do what you will and to make your agenda become a reality.
	And so I think that is what Donald Trump is using.
	But we know tomorrow the House Freedom Caucus, Chip Roy, we saw him a few moments ago.
	They will be going to the White House as Trump tries to pull them along.
	Lindsey Graham, who we see on the screen right now, he was at the White House on Friday.
	He came out to the sticks to talk to reporters after the Zelensky blow-up and kind of started, at least publicly, rolling the tires on whether or not there should be a regime change in Ukraine.
	Obviously, that language has kind of softened in the last, really, like three hours.
	I believe that's Lisa Murkowski coming up on the screen.
	It looks like, is that Senator Smith in front of her?
	Yes, Tina Smith and Catherine Cortez Masto, and he was with Ben Ray Lujan from New Mexico.
	Lisa Murkowski was.
	Yes.
	Lisa Murkowski has been somebody who, you know, moves to the hurl.
	Should we go with his word, iconoclastic?
	Yes.
	There's Cash Patel, FBI Director Cash Patel down there.
	He's in the gallery, it looks like.
	He's up in the gallery.
	There's Ivanka.
	That was Ivanka, I believe.
	Was that Ivanka?
	Yeah, I think that was Ivanka.
	And there's Mrs. Vance.
	And you can see the Vice President and the Speaker waiting for everything to happen.
	Just looking at the schedule that we were given ahead of time, it looks like they are running just a few minutes late, but all is well.
	And that's Tiffany.
	There's Tiffany Trump, I believe.
	Donald Jr. Right behind her.
	Yeah, the whole family is up there.
	Hey, let's check in with Greta Brawner.
	Hi, Greta.
	Peter, you've pointed out a couple members of the president's cabinet tonight.
	One you will not see is the Veterans Affairs Secretary, Doug Collins.
	He is the designated survivor tonight, per the White House official by CNN's Caitlin Collins, reporting that, the designated survivor.
	Skips out on these joint addresses, the State of the Unions, in case of a catastrophic event.
	And so tonight it is the VA Secretary, Doug Collins, who will not be in the chamber.
	And then you were talking about those folks that line up on the center aisle.
	Billy House of Bloomberg noting that the great center aisle seat claimers of the past.
	Elliott Engel, the late Sheila Jackson Lee, Michelle Bachman.
	They're not there tonight, but a new group has appeared to be already getting in place.
	This was hours ago at 4 p.m.
	Eastern Time.
	They were getting in place along the center aisle, and that included Representative Anna Paulina Luna, Republican of Florida, other Republicans, Andy Ogles of Kentucky, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, and Congresswoman Miller Meeks of Iowa, all lining up on the Republican side on the center aisle hours before the speech in hopes that they get to shake the president's hand when he comes down the aisle.
	Jason Dick, has this become more of a blown-up event than it used to be?
	Or has this always been a lot of, you know, razzmatazz?
	I think that, I mean, it depends on how far back you want to go.
	I mean, Lyndon Johnson in 1966 moved the speech from the mid-afternoon to the evening.
	You know, like, in order to catch a better audience.
	And that was 1966. I mean, he saw that, you know, television helped his predecessor, John F. Kennedy, get elected.
	And he wanted, you know, Linda Johnson.
	The members of the committee on the part of the House to escort the President of the United States into the chamber.
	The following.
	The gentleman from Louisiana, Mr. Scalise.
	The gentleman from Minnesota, Mr. Emmer.
	The gentlewoman from Michigan, Mrs. McClain.
	The gentleman from North Carolina, Mr. Hudson.
	The gentleman from Pennsylvania, Mr. Reschenthaler.
	The gentleman from Utah, Mr. Moore.
	The gentleman from Indiana, Mrs. Houchen.
	The gentleman from Oklahoma, Mr. Hearn.
	The gentleman from New York, Mr. Jeffries.
	The gentleman from Massachusetts, Ms. Clark.
	The gentleman from California, Mr. Aguilar.
	The gentleman from California, Mr. Liu.
	The gentleman from Colorado, Mr. Neguse.
	The gentleman from Washington, Ms. Delbine.
	The gentleman from Michigan.
	Mrs. Dingell.
	The President of the Senate, at the direction of that body, appoints the following senators as members of the committee on the part of the Senate to escort the President of the United States into the House chamber.
	The Senator from South Dakota, Mr. Thune.
	The Senator from Wyoming, Mr. Barrasso.
	The Senator from Arkansas, Mr. Cotton.
	The Senator from Oklahoma, Mr. Lankford.
	The Senator from West Virginia, Mrs. Capito.
	The Senator from South Carolina, Mr. Scott.
	The Senator from New York, Mr. Schumer.
	The Senator from Illinois, Mr. Durbin.
	The Senator from Minnesota, Ms. Klobuchar.
	The Senator from New Jersey, Mr. Booker.
	The Senator from Wisconsin, Ms. Baldwin.
	The members of the Escort Committee will exit the chamber through the lobby doors.
	Thank you.
	The penguin doesn't know it.
	The penguin doesn't know it.
	He dresses up okay.
	My wife loves this person.
	I hate it.
	She doesn't know it.
	She doesn't know it.
	And we're about 5, 10 minutes away from the president entering the chamber and beginning 10 minutes away from the president entering the chamber and beginning his Jasmine Wright, Jason Dick, we've been watching this.
	Chatting amongst ourselves, is there anything that we can share that we were talking about?
	I think one thing that I'm noticing is a difference between the way that former Vice President Harris and Speaker Mike Johnson We're talking last year versus now.
	I mean, it's so much more jovial with Vice President Vance and Speaker Johnson than it was.
	It's so much more kind of homeboy.
	These people know each other and they're kind of on the same side.
	It's just interesting to watch the differences, you know, just a year.
	Would you call Harrison Johnson formal?
	Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the United States Supreme Court.
	That's great.
	Thank you.
	Good evening, everybody.
	Welcome to episode 106 of Loomer Unleashed.
	I'm your host, Laura Loomer.
	Tonight, we're just going to have a live stream, carried coverage of President Trump's address to Congress.
	This is President Trump's first address to Congress.
	It's not a State of the Union.
	It's rather an address.
	And so we're looking forward to seeing what President Trump has to say.
	He put out a little teaser on True Social a couple days ago saying that tune in for a big surprise because he was going to tell it like it is.
	And so you're really not going to hear me doing a lot of commentary because I find it to be incredibly obnoxious when you're trying to watch the president speak and people are, you know, adding in their commentary and talking over.
	So this stream is just going to be a place for you to watch President Trump speak tonight.
	It's on X.
	It's also on Rumble.
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	Happy Mardi Gras, by the way.
	I just got back from New Orleans.
	I spent the weekend in New Orleans, so I had a great time and was down on Bourbon Street and...
	Did the whole thing.
	Got a lot of beads, ate a lot of food, had a really nice time.
	So happy Mardi Gras to all of you.
	Hope if you live in the New Orleans or Alabama panhandle area that you had a good time if you were celebrating.
	I know I had a good time.
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	We have that video on my X account, so it should begin momentarily.
	I know that they said that they're running about 10 minutes behind or so.
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	Let's go back to the split screen here.
	We have J.D. Vance, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson awaiting right behind the podium there for President Trump's arrival.
	We can go ahead and just put the audio on.
	We're expected to see President Trump drive home his America First agenda and talk about the achievements.
	You can go ahead and mute it.
	We'll just get the B-roll up on the screen.
	But we can expect President Trump to not only talk about promises made, promises kept, and everything that he and his administration and his team have accomplished over the last seven weeks since he was sworn in as the 47th president.
	But we can also expect the president to talk about the efforts with Doge and his desire to...
	Cut waste, fraud, and abuse and his plans to expose this with Elon Musk and the Democrats' obstruction to exposing waste, fraud, and abuse.
	So I'm sure that we're going to hear President Trump talk about the new minerals deal with Ukraine that was just announced today.
	After a very contentious meeting with Zelensky at the White House just a few days ago where their luncheon was canceled and Zelensky was actually thrown out.
	We have Nancy Pelosi there.
	Let's go ahead and get that up on the screen.
	Nancy Pelosi sitting next to Steny Hoyer.
	That's what I really love.
	I love watching all of the videos of the members of Congress piling in because you just get to see all the scowls on their face and you get to see who's happy to be the...
	Excuse me, who's happy to be there and who is not happy to be there?
	Let's see who do we have coming in now.
	Colsey Gabbard, Melania Trump, Oh, we have First Lady Melania Trump.
	Let's go ahead and put the audio back on.
	Alania, Trump was expected to bring members of Corey Comparatori's family with her as Cory Comparatori of course is the firefighter who tragically lost his life in Butler, Pennsylvania.
	She also is Expected to have Jocelyn Nungarai's mother, the mother of that poor, innocent young girl who was raped and killed by illegal aliens.
	How much she would be in Washington, how frequently she'd be around.
	But I think that there's a real shift in energy, not just from the president, but also from her office.
	It wouldn't be an address without self-aggrandizing, self-centered conservative influencers to fill the chamber.
	Oh, here we go.
	President Trump's cabinet has arrived.
	Marco Rubio, Scott Besant, Ed Hegseth, and Blondie. Ed Hegseth, and Blondie.
	Thank you.
	And now the cabinet is coming in.
	Secretary of State Rubio, Secretary of the Treasury Besant.
	We saw there, as well, Attorney General, Pam Bondi, Pete Hegseth was there.
	Mr. Lutnick, the Commerce Secretary who we talked about a little bit earlier.
	RFK Jr., of course, HHS. There's Scott Turner.
	HUD. There's Seth.
	Duffy.
	I'm so sorry.
	Sean Duffy.
	Transportation.
	There's Senator Adam Schiff.
	Sitting with a senator from...
	Yep.
	The new senator from Delaware.
	Lisa Blunt, Rochester.
	Let's go full screen.
	We had Carol from Illinois.
	Carol.
	Mosley Braun.
	We have Angela Alsobrooks, Maryland.
	Kamala Harris was the second.
	Kamala Harris, of course, and then Lisa Blatt Rochester.
	Interchangeably three or two.
	And there's Kristi Noem, who's talking there with the, is that the congressman from New Jersey, Jeff?
	No, that's Tim Burchett from Tennessee.
	There we go.
	Is that Brooke Rollins, the ag secretary?
	It is sort of odd to have something like this with, I mean, there's so much we're paying attention to the fashion because of some of the protests and so forth, having just done the Oscars two nights ago.
	It's not quite as glamorous.
	Not quite the same.
	Not quite the same.
	But there is a lot more power.
	I would simply say...
	Jason Dick that nobody in the world cares what you or I are wearing.
	Last year, Joe Biden took at least a half hour to get out of the chamber.
	It was a moment for him, politically, that boosted him.
	That got rid of some of the rumors of mental decline, etc.
	Work that room for a half an hour.
	It's one of the most, in a sense, iconic things I've ever seen in politics.
	And do we expect President Trump to do the same?
	I don't know.
	He likes to chat.
	I don't know if President Trump will be there as long.
	I mean, in that span, Joe Biden had like two hot mic moments that went viral.
	I mean, he was there for forever.
	I don't know if we expect President Trump to be there that long.
	But the reality is that, as I've talked to people close to him, He is enjoying this moment.
	He's happy to be back in the White House.
	He's happy to have a party that responds to him, that respects him.
	And he's happy, you know, back to being the center of everything.
	And so I think you're going to see him show that happiness, shaking hands with his friends, shaking hands, potentially people who don't like him very much, Democrats, you know, kind of pushing them to say something, potentially.
	He's kind of reveling in this moment that he has now that he's back in the White House.
	And so I think he is going to be there a long time.
	Whether or not he's there as long as Joe Biden, I think only time will tell.
	Because Joe Biden, I mean, I remember being there, I mean, being, you know, covering it last year and being like, dang, can you leave?
	I'm trying to go home.
	It did have an end of the night at your high school reunion type fight.
	Wrap it up, Joe.
	We'll see.
	We'll see what Donald Trump does.
	I would guess, too, that some of that is, there's a little bit of wistfulness, like that Biden was running for re-election, but who knows what kind of doubts he may have had about his own path.
	And this is like a beginning, as opposed to sort of an end, even if it seems like we've been in this loop for a while.
	Yeah, you can see that the cabinet is still not completely seated.
	And they're not going to bring him in while there's still people in the aisles, but he is nearby.
	He's in the holding room next to the chamber and should be coming in shortly.
	Just want to remind our viewers, obviously we're going to shut up as soon as the president gets in there.
	We're going to listen to everything that happens.
	We'll watch the president leave the room all without us.
	There's Tulsi Gabbard, of course, talking with Chip Roy.
	Kelly Loeffler of the SBA. Yeah, that's right.
	Former senator from Georgia.
	I talked to a lot of people.
	I don't know if that's saying anything.
	I talked to Jeff Van Drew.
	I wonder if it was a conversation about fluoride.
	Who knows?
	I guess Jeff Van Drew is a dentist.
	Is he really?
	Did not know that.
	Did not know that.
	Yeah, I mean, RFK is having quite the moment right now, too, with this measles outbreak kind of going back and forth between.
	Whether or not he should be promoting vaccines, whether or not he should be promoting more homeopathic remedies that aren't necessarily shown to have much weight against a measles outbreak.
	I would be interested to see if Donald Trump brings that up.
	I'd be a little shocked if he does, but...
	Again, the entire speech, of course, and the Democratic response.
	Senator Alyssa Slotkin, freshman Democrat from Michigan, will be speaking from Michigan, and we will bring that to you live, of course.
	You can expect, you know, as they're talking about now on C-SPAN as well, Democrat Senator from the state of Michigan, Alyssa Slocken, who was a CIA analyst and worked for the government and the Bush administration and worked for who was a CIA analyst and worked for the government and the Bush administration and worked She is going to be the individual who gives the counter address to President Trump's address tonight.
	Loomer Unleashed confronted her many times on the campaign trail this last election season.
	If you recall, Alyssa Slocken was for open borders.
	She supported open borders.
	She refused to answer our questions when we asked her about the deadly flow of fentanyl into our country and why she's supporting open borders when it's allowing for so much fentanyl to pour into our nation.
	She endorsed and campaigned for Kamala Harris in Michigan.
	So, you know, the Democrats are really struggling right now to find their voice and to find their...
	Their stance.
	Post-mandate.
	Because we saw that President Trump had a resounding victory.
	We took the Senate.
	We kept the House.
	And now the Democrats are struggling.
	They're flailing around and they're having a very hard time figuring out how to effectively message.
	But that's the problem, is they don't really have any effective messaging.
	Their new strategy is just to complain and protest about President Trump and Elon Musk on a daily basis.
	So the Democrats are going to have to change up their strategy sometime soon if they plan on winning elections in the near future.
	We'll cut back.
	You had the audio.
	But, yeah, I think that tariffs are going to be a large part of this.
	For viewers who are seeing a State of the Union or a joint session for the first time, on your screen, the Republicans will be on the left, and the Democrats will be on the right, so you can always tell what the applause lines are by which side stands up, and it gets pretty stark at them, doesn't it?
	It absolutely does.
	And, I mean, another thing that I'm looking for, in addition to just some of the policy notes that we're looking at, Is just how the Democrats are going to approach things that they feel are a winner for them.
	Whether it's something...
	If Trump does talk about tariffs, he does talk about how great they are.
	We're seeing, again, as you mentioned, Jasmine, the market does not like them.
	The Wall Street Journal editorial page doesn't like them.
	This is kind of across the board.
	And the economy, over and over again, came up as the number one issue people are worried about.
	But he's also going to go for some base issues, you know, like transgender issues.
	How is that going to be?
	You know, how is that going to be?
	Here we go.
	Mr. Speaker, the President of the United States.
	Here we go.
	President Trump has arrived.
	Let's cut full screen.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you very much.
	It's a great honor.
	Thank you very much.
	Speaker Johnson, Vice President Vance, the First Lady of the United States.
	Members of the United States, Congress,
	Thank you very much.
	And to my fellow citizens, America is back.
	USA!
	USA! USA! USA! USA!
	Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this Capitol and proclaimed the dawn of the Golden Age of America.
	From that moment on, it has been nothing but swift and unrelenting action to usher in the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country.
	We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations.
	accomplished in four years or eight years and we are just getting started
	I returned to this chamber tonight to report that America's momentum is back our spirit is back our pride is back our confidence is back and the American dream is surging bigger and better than ever before
	The American dream is unstoppable, and our country is on the verge of a comeback the likes of which the world has never witnessed and perhaps We'll never witness again.
	There's never been anything like it.
	The presidential election of November 5th was a mandate like has not been seen in many decades.
	We won all seven swing states, giving us an electoral college victory of 312 votes.
	We won the popular vote by big numbers and won counties in our country.
	We won the popular vote by big numbers and one counties in our country -- -- and one counties in our country, 2,000
	USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA! USA!
	people in the country, and one counties in our country, 2,700 to 525
	2,700 to 525 on a map that reads almost completely red for Republican.
	Now for the first time in modern history, more Americans believe that our country is headed in the right direction than the wrong direction.
	The most astonishing record, 27-point swing, the most ever.
	Likewise, small business optimism saw its single largest one-month gain ever recorded.
	A 41-point jump.
	Members are directed to uphold and maintain decorum in the House and to cease any further disruptions.
	That's your warning.
	Members are engaging and willful in continuing breach of decorum, and the chair is prepared to direct the sergeant at arms to restore order to the joint session.
	Mr. Green, take your seat. take your seat.
	Take your seat, sir.
	Take your seat.
	Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption of proper decorum, the chair now directs the sergeant-at-arms to restore order.
	Remove this gentleman from the chamber.
	Good time.
	Hi there.
	Good time.
	Members are directed to uphold and maintain the quorum in the House.
	Mr. President, you continue.
	Thank you.
	Over the past six weeks, I have signed nearly 100 executive orders and taken more than 400 executive actions, a record, to restore common sense, safety, optimism, and wealth all across our wonderful land.
	The people elected me to do the job, and I'm doing it.
	In fact, it has been stated by many that the first month of our presidency, it's our presidency, is the most successful in the history of our nation. .
	by many and what makes it even more impressive is that you know who number two is George Washington.
	How about that?
	I don't know about that list, but we'll take it.
	Within hours of taking the oath of office, I declared a national emergency on our southern border, and I deployed the U.S. military and border patrol to repel the invasion of our country.
	And what a job they've done.
	As a result, illegal border crossings last month were by far the lowest ever recorded, ever.
	They heard my words and they chose not to come.
	Much easier that way.
	In comparison, under Joe Biden, the worst president in American history, there were hundreds of thousands of illegal crossings a month, and virtually all of them, including murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and people from mental institutions and insane asylums, were released into our country.
	Who would want to do that?
	This is my fifth such speech to Congress.
	And once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud.
	Nothing I can do.
	I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations or announce the answers to the greatest economy in history.
	Or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded.
	And these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements.
	They won't do it, no matter what.
	Five times I've been up here.
	It's very sad.
	And it just shouldn't be this way.
	So Democrats sitting before me, for just this one night, why not join us in celebrating so many incredible wins for America?
	America.
	For the good of our nation, let's work together and let's truly make America great again.
	Every day my administration is fighting to deliver the change America needs to bring a future that America deserves.
	And we're doing it.
	This is a time for big dreams and bold action.
	Upon taking office, I imposed an immediate freeze on all federal hiring, a freeze on all new federal regulations, and a freeze on all foreign aid.
	I terminated the ridiculous Green News scam I withdrew from the unfair Paris Climate Accord, which was costing us trillions of dollars that other countries were not paying.
	I withdrew from the Corrupt World Health Organization.
	And I also withdrew from the anti-American U.N. Human Rights Council.
	We ended all of Biden's environmental restrictions that were making our country far less safe and totally unaffordable.
	And importantly, we ended the last administration's insane electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto workers and companies from economic destruction.
	To unshackle our economy, I have directed that for every one new regulation, ten old regulations must be eliminated, just like I did in my very successful first just like I did in my very successful first day.
	On that first term, we set records on ending unnecessary rules and regulations like no other president had done before.
	We ordered all federal workers to return to the office.
	They will either show up for work in person or be removed from their job.
	And we've ended weaponized government where, as an example, a sitting president is allowed to viciously a sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent like me.
	How did that work out?
	Not too good.
	Not too good.
	Thank you.
	And I have stopped all government censorship and brought back free speech in America.
	back.
	And two days ago, I signed an order making English the official language of the United States of America.
	I renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of America.
	And likewise, I renamed for a great president, William McKinley, Mount McKinley again.
	Beautiful Alaska.
	I love Alaska.
	Thank you.
	We've ended the tyranny of so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies all across the entire federal government and indeed the private sector and our military.
	And our country will be woke no longer.
	We believe that whether you are a doctor, an accountant, a lawyer, or an air traffic controller, you should be hired and promoted based on skill or an air traffic controller, you should be hired and promoted based on skill and competence, Very important.
	You should be hired based on merit.
	And the Supreme Court, in a brave and very powerful decision, has allowed us to do so.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	We have removed the poison of critical race theory from our public schools, and I signed an order making it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.
	I also signed an executive order to ban men from playing in women's
	sports. .
	Three years ago, Peyton McNabb was an all-star high school athlete, one of the best, preparing for a future in college sports.
	But when her girls' volleyball match was invaded by a male, he smashed the ball so hard in Peyton's face, causing traumatic brain injury, partially paralyzing her right side and ending her athletic career.
	It was a shot like she's never seen before.
	She's never seen anything like it.
	Peyton is here tonight in the gallery, and Peyton, from now on, schools will kick.
	the men off the girls team, or they will lose all federal funding.
	And
	if you really want to see numbers, just take a look at what happened in the women's boxing, weightlifting, track and field, swimming or cycling, where a male recently finished a long distance race, five hours and 14 minutes ahead of a woman for a new record by five hours and 14 minutes ahead of a woman for a new Broke the record by five hours.
	It's demeaning for women, and it's very bad for our country.
	we're not going to put up with it any longer.
	What I have just described is only a small fraction of the common sense revolution that is now, because of us, sweeping the entire world.
	Common sense has become a common theme, and we will never go back.
	Never.
	Ever going to let that happen.
	Among my very highest priorities is to rescue our economy and get dramatic and immediate relief to working families.
	As you know, we inherited from the last administration an economic catastrophe and an inflation nightmare.
	Their policies drove up energy prices, pushed up grocery costs, and drove the necessities of life out of reach for millions and millions of Americans.
	They've never had anything like it.
	We suffered the worst inflation in 48 years, but perhaps even in the history of our country.
	They're not sure.
	As president, I'm fighting every day to reverse this damage and make America affordable again.
	Joe Biden especially let the price of eggs get out of control.
	The egg price is out of control.
	And we're working hard to get it back down.
	Secretary, do a good job on that.
	You inherited a total mess from the previous administration.
	Do a good job.
	A major focus of our fight to defeat inflation is rapidly reducing the cost of energy.
	The previous administration cut the number of new oil and gas leases by 95%, slowed pipeline construction to a halt, and closed more than 100 power plants.
	We are opening up many of those power plants right now.
	And frankly, we have never...
	Seen anything like it.
	That's why on my first day in office, I declared a national energy emergency.
	As you've heard me say many times, we have more liquid gold under our feet than any nation on Earth, and by far.
	And now, I fully authorize the most talented team ever assembled to go and get it.
	It's called...
	Drill, baby, drill.
	My administration is also working on a gigantic natural gas pipeline in Alaska, among the largest in the world, where Japan, South Korea, and other nations want to be our partner with investments of trillions of dollars each.
	There's never been anything like that one.
	It will be truly spectacular.
	It's all set to go.
	The permitting is gotten.
	And later this week, I will also take historic action to dramatically expand production of critical minerals and rare earths here in the USA. To further combat inflation,
	we will not only be reducing the cost of energy, but we'll be ending the flagrant waste of taxpayer dollars.
	And to that end, I have created the brand new Department of Government Efficiency.
	Thank you.
	Goj!
	Perhaps you've heard of it.
	Perhaps.
	Which is headed by Elon Musk,
	who is in the gallery tonight. . who is in the gallery tonight. .
	Thank you, Elon.
	He's working very hard.
	He didn't need this.
	He didn't need this.
	Thank you very much.
	We appreciate it.
	Everybody here, even this side, appreciates it, I believe.
	They just don't want to admit that.
	Just listen to some of the appalling waste we have already identified.
	$22 billion from HHS to provide free housing and cars for illegal aliens.
	$45 million for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
	$40 million to improve the social and economic inclusion of sedentary migrants.
	Nobody knows what that is.
	$8 million to promote LGBTQI +, in the African nation of Lesotho, which nobody has ever heard of.
	$60 million for indigenous peoples and Afro-Colombian empowerment in Central America.
	$60 million. $8 million for making mice transgender.
	This is real.
	$32 million for a left-wing propaganda operation in Moldova.
	$10 million for male circumcision in Mozambique.
	$20 million for...
	The Arab Sesame Street in the Middle East.
	It's a program.
	$20 million for a program.
	$1.9 billion to recently created decarbonization of Homes Committee.
	Head it up.
	And we know she's involved.
	Just at the last moment, the money was passed over by a woman named Stacey Abrams.
	Have you ever heard of her?
	A $3.5 million consulting contract for lavish fish monitoring.
	$1.5 million for voter confidence in Liberia.
	$14 million for social cohesion in Mali.
	$59 million for illegal alien hotel rooms in New York City.
	He's a real estate developer.
	He's done very well.
	$250,000 to increase vegan local climate action innovation in Zambia.
	$42 million for social and behavior change in Uganda.
	$14 million for improving public procurement in Serbia.
	$47 million for improving learning outcomes in Asia.
	Asia's doing very well with learning.
	You know what we're doing.
	We should use it ourselves.
	$101 million for DEI contracts at the Department of Education.
	The most ever paid, nothing even like it.
	Under the Trump administration, all of these scams, and they're far worse, but I didn't think it was appropriate to talk about them.
	They're so bad.
	Many more have been found out and exposed and swiftly terminated by a group of very intelligent, mostly young people.
	Headed up by Elon, and we appreciate it, we found hundreds of billions of dollars of fraud.
	And we've taken back the money and reduced our debt to fight inflation and other things.
	Taking back a lot of that money.
	We got it just in time.
	This is just the beginning.
	The Government Accountability Office, the federal government office, has estimated annual fraud of over $500 billion in our nation.
	And we are working very hard to stop it.
	We're going to.
	We're also identifying shocking levels of incompetence and probable fraud in the social security program for our seniors.
	And that our seniors and people that we love rely on.
	Believe it or not, government databases list 4.7 million Social Security members from people aged 100 to 109 years old.
	It lists 3.6 million people from ages 110. To 119. I don't know any of them.
	I know some people that are rather elderly, but not quite that elderly.
	3.47 million people from ages 120 to 129. 3.9 million people from ages 130 to 139. 3.5 million people.
	From ages 140 to 149. And money is being paid to many of them.
	And we're searching right now.
	In fact, Pam, good luck.
	Good luck.
	You're going to find it.
	But a lot of money is paid out to people because it just keeps getting paid and paid and nobody does.
	And it really hurts.
	Social Security, it hurts our country.
	1.3 million people from ages 150 to 159 and over 130,000 people, according to the Social Security databases, are age over 160 years old.
	We have a healthier country than I thought, Bobby.
	Including, to finish, to finish, 1,039 people between the ages of 220 and 229.
	One person between the age of 240 and 249.
	And one person is listed at 360 years of age.
	Thank you.
	More than 100 years.
	More than 100 years older than our country.
	But we're going to find out where that money is going.
	And it's not going to be pretty.
	by slashing all of the fraud, waste, and theft we can find.
	We will defeat inflation, bring down mortgage rates, lower car payments and grocery prices, protect our seniors, and put more money in the pockets of American families.
	And today interest rates took a beautiful drop Big, beautiful drop.
	It's about time.
	And in the near future, I want to do what has not been done in 24 years.
	Balance the federal budget.
	We're going to balance it.
	With that goal in mind, we have developed in great detail what we are calling the gold card, which goes on sale very, very soon
	For $5 million, we will allow the most successful job creating people from all over the world to buy a path to U.S. citizenship.
	It's like the green card, but better and more sophisticated.
	And these people will have to pay tax in our country.
	They won't have to pay tax from where they came.
	The money that they've made, you wouldn't want to do that, but they have to pay tax, create jobs.
	They'll also be taking people out of colleges and paying for them so that we can keep them in our country instead of having them being forced out.
	Number one, at the top school, as an example, being forced out and not being allowed to stay and create tremendous numbers of jobs and great success for a company out there.
	So while we take out...
	The criminals, killers, traffickers, and child predators who are allowed to enter our country under the open-border policy of these people, the Democrats, the Biden administration, the open-border insane policies that you've allowed to destroy our country.
	We will now bring in brilliant, hard-working job-creating people.
	They're going to pay a lot of money and we're going to reduce our debt with that money.
	Americans have given us a mandate for bold and profound change.
	For nearly 100 years, the federal bureaucracy has grown until it has crushed our freedoms, ballooned our deficits, and held back America's potential in every possible way.
	The nation founded by pioneers and risk-takers now drowns under millions and millions of pages of regulations and debt.
	Approvals that should take 10 days to get, instead take 10 years, 15 years, and even 20 years before you're rejected.
	Meanwhile, we have hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have not been showing up to work.
	My administration will reclaim power from this unaccountable bureaucracy, and we will restore true democracy to America again.
	And any federal bureaucrat who resists this change will be removed from office immediately.
	Thank you, Julie.
	Because we are draining the swamp.
	It's very simple.
	and the days of rule by unelected bureaucrats are over.
	And the next phase of our plan to deliver the greatest economy in history is for this Congress to pass tax cuts for everybody.
	They're in there.
	They're waiting for you to vote.
	And I'm sure that the people on my right, I don't mean the Republican right, but my right right here, I'm sure you're going to vote for those tax cuts because otherwise I don't believe the people will ever vote you into office.
	So I'm doing a big favor by telling you that.
	But I know this group is going to be voting for the tech.
	Thank you.
	It's a very, very big part of our plan.
	We had tremendous success in our first term with it.
	A very big part of our plan.
	We're seeking permanent income tax cuts all across the board.
	and to get urgently needed relief to Americans hit especially hard by inflation.
	I'm calling for no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security benefits for our great seniors.
	And I also want to make interest payments on car loans tax deductible, but only if the car is made in America.
	Thank you.
	And by the way, we're going to have growth in the auto industry like nobody's ever seen.
	Plants are opening up all over the place.
	Deals are being made.
	Never seen.
	That's a combination of the election win and tariffs.
	It's a beautiful word, isn't it?
	That, along with our other policies, will allow our auto industry to absolutely boom.
	It's going to boom.
	Spoke to the majors today, all three, the top people, and they're so excited.
	In fact...
	Already numerous car companies have announced that they will be building massive automobile plants in America, with Honda just announcing a new plant in Indiana, one of the largest anywhere in the world.
	And this has taken place since our...
	Great victory on November 5th, a date which will hopefully go down as one of the most important in the history of our country.
	In addition, as part of our tax cuts, we want to cut taxes on domestic production and all manufacturing.
	And just as we did before, we will provide 100% expensing.
	It will be retroactive to January 20th, 2025. And it was one of the main reasons why our tax cuts were so successful in our first term, giving us the most successful economy in the history of our country.
	First term.
	We had a great first term.
	If you don't make your product in America, however, under the Trump administration, you will pay a tariff, and in some cases, a rather large one, Other countries have used tariffs against us for decades, and now it's our turn to start using them against those other countries.
	On average, the European Union, China, Brazil, India, Mexico, and Canada, have you heard of them?
	And countless other nations charge us tremendously higher tariffs than we charge them.
	It's very unfair.
	India charges us auto tariffs higher than 100%.
	China's average tariff on our products is twice what we charge them.
	And South Korea's average tariff is four times higher.
	Think of that four times higher.
	And we give so much help militarily and in so many other ways to South Korea, but that's what happens.
	This is happening by friend and foe.
	This system is not fair to the United States and never was, and so on April 2nd, I wanted to make it April 1st, but I didn't want to be accused of April Fool's Day.
	That's not...
	Just one day cost us a lot of money.
	But we're going to do it in April.
	I'm a very superstitious person.
	April 2nd, reciprocal tariffs kick in.
	And whatever they tariff us, other countries, we will tariff them.
	That's reciprocal, back and forth.
	Whatever they tax us, we will tax them.
	If they do non-monetary tariffs...
	To keep us out of their market, then we will do non-monetary barriers to keep them out of our market.
	There's a lot of that, too.
	They don't even allow us in their market.
	We will take in trillions and trillions of dollars and create jobs like we have never seen before.
	I did it with China and I did it with others, and the Biden administration couldn't do anything about it because there was so much money they couldn't do anything about it.
	We have been ripped off for decades by nearly every country on Earth, and we will not let that happen any longer.
	Much has been said over the last three months about Mexico and Canada.
	But we have very large deficits with both of them, but even more importantly, they've allowed fentanyl to come into our country at levels never seen before, killing hundreds of thousands of our citizens and many very young, beautiful people destroying families.
	Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
	They are, in effect, receiving subsidies of hundreds of billions of dollars.
	We pay subsidies to Canada.
	And to Mexico of hundreds of billions of dollars.
	And the United States will not be doing that any longer.
	We're not going to do it any longer.
	Thanks to our America First policies we're putting into place, we have had $1.7 trillion of new investment in America in just the past few weeks.
	The combination of the election...
	And our economic policies that people of SoftBank, one of the most brilliant anywhere in the world, announced a $200 billion investment.
	OpenAI and Oracle, Larry Ellison, announced $500 billion investment, which they wouldn't have done if Kamala had won.
	Apple announced $500 billion investment.
	He called me.
	He said, I cannot spend it fast enough.
	It's going to be much higher than that, I believe.
	They'll be building their plants here instead of in China.
	And just yesterday, Taiwan, semiconductor, the biggest in the world, most powerful in the world, has a tremendous amount, 97% of the market, announced a $165 billion investment to build the most powerful chips on Earth right here in the USA. We're
	not giving them any money.
	Your CHIPS Act is a horrible, horrible thing.
	We give hundreds of billions of dollars, and it doesn't mean a thing.
	They take our money and they don't spend it.
	All that meant to them, we're giving them no money.
	All that was important to them was they didn't want to pay the tariffs, so they came and they're building, and many other companies are coming.
	We don't have to give them money.
	We just want to protect our businesses and our people.
	And they will come because they won't have to pay tariffs if they build in America.
	So it's very amazing.
	You should get rid of the CHIP Act.
	And whatever's left over, Mr. Speaker, you should use it to reduce debt.
	or any other reason you want to.
	Our new trade policy will also be great for the American farmer.
	I love the farmer.
	Who will now be selling into our home market, the USA, because nobody is going to be able to compete with you.
	Because those goods that come in from other countries and companies, they're really, really in a bad position in so many different ways.
	Uninspected.
	They may be very dirty and disgusting, and they come in and they pour in, and they hurt our American farmers.
	The tariffs will go on agricultural product coming into America, and our farmers starting on April 2nd.
	It may be a little bit of an adjustment period.
	We had that before when I made the deal with China, $50 billion of purchases, and I said, just bear with me, and they did.
	They did probably have to bear with me.
	Again, and this will be even better.
	That was great.
	The problem with it was that Biden didn't enforce it.
	He didn't enforce it.
	$50 billion of purchases.
	And we were doing great, but Biden did not enforce it.
	And it hurt our farmers.
	But our farmers are going to have a field day right now.
	So to our farmers, have a lot of fun.
	I love you, too.
	I love you, too.
	It's all gonna happen.
	And I have also imposed a 25% tariff on foreign aluminum, copper, lumber and steel because if we don't have as an example steel and lots of other things, we don't lumber and steel because if we don't have as an example steel and lots of other things, we don't have a military and frankly won't
	Here today is a proud American steelworker, fantastic person from Decatur, Alabama, Jeff Denard.
	Has been working at the same steel plant for 27 years in a job that has allowed him to serve as the captain of his local volunteer fire department, raise seven children with his beautiful wife, Nicole, and over the years provide a loving home for more than 40 foster children.
	So great, Jeff.
	Thank you, Jeff.
	Thank you, Jeff.
	Thank you.
	Stories like Jeff's remind us that tariffs are not just about protecting American jobs.
	They're about protecting the soul of our country.
	Tariffs are about making America rich again and making America great again.
	And it's happening, and it will happen rather quickly.
	There'll be a little disturbance, but...
	We're okay with that.
	It won't be much.
	No, you're not.
	And look where Biden took us.
	Very low.
	The lowest we've ever been.
	Jeff, I want to thank you very much.
	And I also want to recognize another person who has devoted herself to foster care community.
	She worked so hard on it.
	A very loving person.
	our magnificent First Lady of the United States.
	Melania's work has yielded incredible results, helping prepare our nation's future leaders as they enter the workforce.
	Our First Lady is joined by two impressive young women, very impressive.
	Haley Ferguson, who benefited from the First Lady's Fostering the Future initiative, and is poised to complete her education and become a teacher.
	And Elliston Berry, who became a victim of an illicit, deepfake image-produced By a peer.
	With Elliston's help, the Senate just passed the Take It Down Act.
	And this is so important.
	Thank you very much, John.
	John Thune.
	Thank you.
	Stand up, John.
	Thank you, John.
	Thank you all very much.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	And thank you to John Thune and the Senate.
	Great job.
	To criminalize the publication of such images online is a terrible, terrible thing.
	And once it passes the House, I look forward to signing that bill into law.
	Thank you.
	And I'm going to use that bill for myself, too, if you don't mind.
	Because nobody gets treated worse than I do online.
	Nobody.
	That's great.
	Thank you very much to the Senate.
	Thank you.
	But if we truly care about protecting Americans' children, no step is more crucial than securing America's borders.
	Over the past four years, 21 million people poured into the United States.
	Many of them were murderers, human traffickers, gang members, and other criminals from the streets of dangerous cities all throughout the world because of Joe Biden's insane and very dangerous open border policies.
	They are now strongly embedded in our country, but we are getting them out and getting them out fast.
	And I want to thank Tom Holman and Chris DelPierre.
	I want to thank you and Paul of Border Patrol.
	I want to thank you.
	What a job they've all done, everybody.
	Border Patrol, ICE. Law enforcement in general is incredible.
	We have to take care of our law enforcement.
	After.
	Last year, a brilliant 22-year-old nursing student named Lakin Riley, the best in her class, admired by everybody, the best in her class, admired by everybody, went out for a jog on the campus of the University of Georgia,
	That morning, Lakin was viciously attacked, assaulted, beaten, brutalized, and horrifically murdered.
	Lakin was stolen from us by a savage, illegal alien gang member who was arrested while trespassing across Biden's open southern border.
	And then set loose into the United States under the heartless policies of that failed administration.
	It was indeed a failed administration.
	He had then been arrested and released in a Democrat-run sanctuary city, a disaster, before ending the life of this beautiful young angel.
	With us this evening are Lakin's beloved mother, Allison, and her sister, Lauren.
	Thank you.
	Last year I told Lakin's grieving parents that we would ensure their daughter would not have died in vain.
	That's why the very first bill I signed into law as your 47th president mandates the detention of all dangerous criminal aliens who threaten public safety.
	It's a very strong, powerful act.
	It's called the Lakin-Riley Act.
	So Allison and Lauren America will never, ever forget our beautiful Lakin-Hope-Riley.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Since taking office, my administration has launched the most sweeping border and immigration crackdown in American history, and we quickly achieved the lowest numbers of illegal border crossers ever recorded.
	Thank you.
	The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation.
	We must have legislation to secure the border.
	But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president.
	Thank you.
	Joe Biden didn't just open our borders.
	He flew illegal aliens over them to overwhelm our schools, hospitals and communities throughout the country.
	Entire towns like Aurora, Colorado and Springfield, Ohio, buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption like nobody's ever seen before.
	Beautiful towns destroyed.
	Now, just as I promised in my inaugural address, we are achieving the great, great, great, great liberation of America.
	But there still is much work to be done.
	Here tonight is a woman I have gotten to know, Alexis Ngary from Houston.
	Wonderful woman.
	Last June, Alexis' 12-year-old daughter, her precious Jocelyn.
	Walked to a nearby convenience store.
	She was kidnapped, tied up, assaulted for two hours under a bridge and horrifically murdered.
	Arrested and charged with this heinous crime are two illegal alien monsters from Venezuela released into America by the last administration through their ridiculous open border.
	The death of this beautiful 12-year-old girl and the agony of her mother and family.
	We touched our entire nation greatly.
	Alexis, I promised that we would always remember your daughter, your magnificent daughter.
	And earlier tonight, I signed an order keeping my word to you.
	One thing I have learned about Jocelyn is that she loved animals so much.
	She loved nature.
	Across Galveston Bay, from where Jocelyn lived in Houston, you'll find a magnificent national wildlife.
	Refuge.
	A pristine, peaceful, 34,000-acre sanctuary for all of God's creatures on the edge of the Gulf of America.
	Alexis, moments ago, I formally renamed that refuge in loving memory of your beautiful daughter, Jocelyn.
	So, Mr. Vice President, if you would, may I have the order.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	All three savages charged with Jocelyn and Lakin's murders were members of the Venezuelan prison gang, the toughest gang they say in the world, known as Tren de Aragua.
	Two weeks ago, I officially designated this gang along with MS-13 and the bloodthirsty Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
	They are now officially in the same category as ISIS, and that's not good for them.
	Thank you.
	Countless thousands of these terrorists were welcomed into the U.S. by the Biden administration.
	But now every last one will be rounded up and forcibly removed from our country, or, if they're too dangerous, put in jails, standing trial in this country, because we don't want them to come back ever.
	With us this evening is a warrior on the front lines of that battle, Border Patrol Agent Roberto Ortiz.
	Great guy.
	In January, Roberto and another agent were patrolling by the Rio Grande, near an area known as Cartel Island.
	Doesn't sound too nice to me.
	When heavily armed gunmen started shooting at them, Roberto saw that his partner was totally exposed at great danger and he leapt into action, returning fire and providing crucial seconds for his fellow agent to Seek safety, and just barely.
	I have some of the prints of that event, and it was not good.
	Agent Ortiz, we salute you for your great courage and for your line of fire that you took and for the bravery that you showed.
	We honor you, and we will always honor you.
	Thank you, Roberto, very much.
	Thank you, Roberto. Roberto.
	And I actually got to know him on my many calls to the border.
	He's a great, great gentleman.
	The territory to the immediate south of our border is now dominated entirely by criminal cartels that murder, rape, torture and exercise total control.
	They have total control over a whole nation, posing a grave threat to our national security.
	The cartels are waging war on America, and it's time for America to wage war on the cartels, which we are doing.
	Five nights ago, Mexican authorities, because of our tariff policies being imposed because of our tariff policies being imposed on them, think of this.
	Handed over to us 29 of the biggest cartel leaders in their country.
	That has never happened before.
	They want to make us happy.
	First time ever.
	But we need Mexico and Canada to do much more than they've done, and they have to stop the fentanyl and drugs pouring into the USA. They're going to stop it.
	I have sent Congress a detailed funding request laying out exactly how we will eliminate these threats to protect our homeland and complete the largest deportation operation in American history, larger even than current record holder, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a moderate man, but someone who believed very strongly in borders.
	Americans expect Congress to send me this funding without delay so I can sign it into law.
	Mr. Speaker, John Thune, both of you, I hope you're going to be able to do that, Mr. Speaker.
	Thank you.
	Mr. Leader, thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	And let's get it to me.
	me I'll sign it so fast you won't even believe it.
	And as we reclaim our sovereignty, we must also bring back law and order to our cities and towns.
	Thank you.
	In recent years, our justice system has been turned upside down by radical left lunatics.
	Many jurisdictions virtually seized enforcing the law against dangerous repeat offenders while weaponizing law enforcement against political opponents like me.
	My administration has acted swiftly and decisively to restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law, starting at the FBI and the DOJ. Pam, good luck.
	Cash, wherever you may be, good luck.
	Good luck.
	Pam Bond.
	Good luck.
	So important.
	You're going to do a great job.
	Cash, thank you.
	Thank you, Kesh.
	They've already started very strongly.
	They're going to do a fantastic job.
	You're going to be very proud of them.
	We're also once again giving our police officers the support, protection, and respect they so dearly deserve.
	They have to get it.
	They have such a hard, dangerous job, but we're going to make it less dangerous.
	The problem is the bad guys don't respect the law, but they're starting to respect it, and they soon will respect it.
	This also includes our great fire departments throughout the country.
	Our firemen and women are unbelievable people, and I will never forget them.
	And besides that, they voted for me in record numbers, so I have no chance.
	One year ago this month, 31-year-old New York police officer Jonathan Diller, unbelievably wonderful person 31-year-old New York police officer Jonathan Diller, unbelievably wonderful person and a great officer, was gunned down at a traffic stop on Long Island I went to his funeral.
	The vicious criminal charged with his murder had 21 prior arrests, and they were rough arrests.
	He was a real bad one.
	The thug in the seat next to him had 14 prior arrests and went by the name of Killer.
	He was Killer.
	He killed other people, they say, a lot of them.
	I attended Officer Diller's service when I met his wife and one-year-old son, Ryan.
	It was very inspirational, actually.
	His widow's name is Stephanie, and she is here tonight.
	Stephanie, thank you very much, Stephanie.
	Thank you very much.
	Stephanie, we're going to make sure that Ryan knows his dad was a true hero, New York's finest.
	And we're going to get these cold-blooded killers and repeat offenders off our streets, and we're going to do it fast.
	Got to stop it.
	They get out with 28 arrests.
	They push people into subway trains.
	They hit people over the head, back of the head with baseball bats.
	We got to get them out of here.
	I've already signed an executive order requiring a mandatory death penalty for anyone who murders a police officer.
	And tonight I'm asking Congress to pass that policy into permanent law.
	I'm also asking...
	For a new crime bill getting tough on repeat offenders while enhancing protections for America's police officers so they can do their jobs without fear of their lives being totally destroyed.
	They don't want to be killed.
	We're not going to let them be killed.
	Joining us in the gallery tonight is a young man who truly loves our police.
	His name is DJ Daniel.
	Billy is 13 years old and he has always dreamed of becoming a police officer.
	Thank you.
	But in 2018, DJ was diagnosed with brain cancer.
	The doctors gave him five months at most to live.
	That was more than six years ago.
	Since that time, DJ and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true, and DJ has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer actually a number of times.
	The police love him.
	The police departments love him.
	And tonight, D.J., we're going to do you the biggest honor of them all.
	I am asking our new Secret Service Director.
	Sean Curran to officially make you an agent of the United States Secret Service.
	Thank you.
	Thank you, DJ. DJ.
	DJ's doctors believe his cancer likely came from a chemical he was exposed to when he was younger.
	Since 1975, rates of child cancer have increased by more than 40 percent.
	Reversing this trend is one of the top priorities for our new presidential commission to make America healthy again, chaired by our new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. With
	the name Kennedy, you would have thought everybody over here would have been cheering.
	How quickly they forget.
	Our goal is to get toxins out of our environment, poisons out of our food supply, and keep our children healthy and strong.
	As an example, not long ago, and you can't even believe these numbers, one in 10,000 children had autism.
	One in 10,000.
	And now it's one in 36. There's something wrong.
	1 in 36. Think of that.
	So we're going to find out what it is, and there's nobody better than Bobby and all of the people that are working with you.
	You have the best to figure out what is going on.
	Okay, Bobby?
	Good luck.
	It's a very important job.
	Thank you.
	My administration is also working to protect our children from toxic ideologies in our A few years ago, January, little John and her husband discovered that their daughter's school had secretly socially transitioned their 13-year-old little girl.
	Teachers and administrators conspired to deceive January and her husband while encouraging her daughter to use a new name and pronouns.
	They, them pronoun, actually.
	All without telling January, who is here tonight and is now a courageous advocate against this form of child abuse.
	January, thank you.
	Thank you.
	Thank you very much.
	Thank you.
	Stories like this are why shortly after taking office, I signed an executive order banning public schools from indoctrinating our children with transgender ideology.
	Thank you.
	I also signed an order to cut off all taxpayer funding to any institution that engages in the sexual mutilation of our youth.
	And now I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body.
	This is a big line.
	And our message to every child in America is that you are perfect exactly the way God made you.
	Thank you.
	Because we're getting wokeness out of our schools and out of our military, and it's already out, and it's out of our society.
	We don't want it.
	Wokeness is trouble.
	Wokeness is bad.
	It's gone.
	It's gone.
	And we feel so much better for it, don't we?
	Don't we feel better?
	Our service members won't be activists and...
	Ideologues, they will be fighters and warriors.
	They will fight for our country.
	And Pete, congratulations.
	Secretary of Defense, congratulations.
	And he's not big into the woke movement, I can tell you.
	I know him well.
	I am pleased to report that in January the U.S. Army had its single best recruiting month in 15 years and that all armed services are having among the best recruiting results ever in the history of our services.
	What a difference.
	And you know it was just a few months ago where the results were exactly the opposite.
	We couldn't recruit anywhere.
	We couldn't recruit.
	Now we're having the best results just about that we've ever had.
	What a tremendous turnaround.
	It's really a beautiful thing to see.
	People love our country again.
	It's very simple.
	They love our country, and they love being in our military again.
	So it's a great thing, and thank you very much.
	Thank you so much.
	Great job.
	Thank you.
	We're joined tonight by a young man, Jason Hartley, who knows the weight of that call of duty.
	Jason's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all wore the uniform.
	Jason tragically lost his dad, who was also a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy when he was just a boy, and now he wants to carry on the family legacy of service.
	Jason is a senior in high school.
	A six-letter varsity athlete, a really good athlete, they say.
	a brilliant student with a 4.46, that's good, GPA.
	And his greatest dream is to attend the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
	And Jason, that's a very big deal getting in.
	That's a hard one to get into.
	But I'm pleased to inform you that your application has been accepted.
	You will soon be joining the Corps of Kiddo.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Jason, you're going to be on the long gray line, Jason.
	Thank you.
	As Commander-in-Chief, my focus is on building the most powerful military of the future.
	As a first step, I'm asking Congress to fund a state-of-the-art Golden Dome Missile Defense Shield to protect our homeland, all made in the USA. Wanted to do it long ago, but the technology just wasn't there, not even close.
	But now we have the technology.
	It's incredible, actually.
	And other places, they have it.
	Israel has it.
	Other places have it.
	And the United States should have it, too.
	Right, Tim?
	Right?
	They should have it, too.
	So I want to thank you.
	But it's very, very important.
	This is a...
	Very dangerous world.
	We should have it.
	We want to be protected, and we're going to protect our citizens like never before.
	To boost our defense industrial base, we are also going to resurrect the American shipbuilding industry including commercial shipbuilding and military shipbuilding.
	And for that purpose, I am announcing tonight.
	That we will create a new office of shipbuilding in the White House and offer special tax incentives to bring this industry home to America where it belongs.
	We used to make so many ships.
	We don't make them anymore very much, but we're going to make them very fast, very soon.
	It will have a huge impact.
	To further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal, and we've already started doing it.
	Just today, a large American company announced they are buying both ports around the Panama Canal and lots of other things having to do with the Panama Canal and a couple of other canals.
	The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans, not for others.
	But others could use it.
	But it was built at tremendous cost of American blood and treasure.
	38,000 workers died.
	Building the Panama Canal.
	They died of malaria.
	They died of snake bites and mosquitoes.
	Not a nice place to work.
	They paid them very highly to go there, knowing there was a 25% chance that they would die.
	The most expensive project also that was ever built in our country's history, if you bring it up to modern-day costs.
	It was given away by the Carter administration for $1.
	But that agreement has been violated very severely.
	We didn't give it to China.
	We gave it to Panama, and we're taking it back.
	And we have Marco Rubio in charge.
	Good luck, Marco.
	We know who to blame if anything goes wrong.
	Marco's been amazing and he's going to do a great job.
	Think of it.
	He got a hundred votes.
	You know, he was approved with actually 99, but the 100th was this gentleman and I feel very certain.
	So let's assume he got a hundred votes and I'm either very, very happy about that or I'm very concerned about it.
	He's already proven.
	I mean, he's a great gentleman.
	He's respected by everybody.
	And we appreciate you voting for Marco.
	He's going to do a fantastic job.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	He's doing a great job.
	Great job.
	And I also have a message tonight for the incredible people of Greenland.
	We strongly support your right to determine your own future.
	And if you choose, we welcome you into the United States of America.
	We need Greenland for national security and even international security.
	And we're working with everybody involved to try and get it.
	But we need it really for international world security.
	And I think we're going to get it.
	One way or the other, we're going to get it.
	We will keep you safe.
	We will make you rich and together.
	We will take Greenland to heights like you have never thought possible before.
	It's a very small population, but very, very large piece of land and very, very important for military security.
	America is once again standing strong against the forces of radical Islamic terrorism.
	Three and a half years ago, ISIS terrorists killed 13 American service members and countless others.
	In the Abbey Gate bombing during the disastrous and incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan.
	Not that they were withdrawing.
	It was the way they withdrew.
	Perhaps the most embarrassing moment in the history of our country.
	Tonight I am pleased to announce that we have just apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity.
	And he is right now on his way here to face the swift...
	sword of American justice.
	And I want to thank especially the government of Pakistan for helping arrest this monster.
	This was a very momentous day for those 13 families, who I actually got to know very well, most of them, whose children were murdered and the many people that were so badly, over 42 people, so badly injured on that fateful day in Afghanistan.
	What a horrible day.
	Such incompetence was shown.
	That when Putin saw what happened, I guess he said, wow, maybe this is my chance.
	That's how bad it was.
	Should have never happened.
	Grossly incompetent people.
	I spoke to many of the parents and loved ones, and they're all in our hearts tonight.
	Just spoke to them on the phone.
	We had a big call.
	Every one of them called, and everybody was on the line.
	They did nothing but cry with happiness.
	They were very happy, as happy as you can be under those circumstances.
	Their child, brother, sister, son, daughter was killed for no reason whatsoever.
	In the Middle East, we're bringing back our hostages from Gaza.
	In my first term, we achieved one of the most groundbreaking peace agreements in generations, the Abraham Accords.
	And now we're going to build on that foundation to create a more peaceful and prosperous future for the entire region.
	A lot of things are happening in the Middle East.
	People haven't been talking about that so much lately with everything going on with Ukraine and Russia.
	A lot of things are happening in the Middle East.
	It's a rough neighborhood, actually.
	I'm also working tirelessly to end the savage conflict in Ukraine.
	Millions of Ukrainians and Russians have been needlessly killed.
	We're wounded in this horrific and brutal conflict.
	With no end in sight, the United States has sent hundreds of billions of dollars to support Ukraine's defense.
	with no security, with no anything.
	Do you want to keep it going for another five years?
	Yeah, you would say Pocahontas says yes.
	Two thousand people are being killed every single week.
	More than that.
	They're Russian young people.
	They're Ukrainian young people.
	They're not Americans.
	But I want it to stop.
	Meanwhile, Europe has sadly spent more money buying Russian oil and gas than they have spent on defending Ukraine by far.
	Think of that.
	They've spent more buying Russian oil and gas than they have defending.
	And we've spent perhaps $350 billion, like taking candy from a baby.
	That's what happened.
	And they've spent...
	$100 billion.
	What a difference that is.
	And we have an ocean separating us, and they don't.
	But we're getting along very well with them, and lots of good things are happening.
	Biden has authorized more money in this fight than Europe has spent by billions and billions of dollars.
	It's hard to believe that they wouldn't have stopped it and said, at some point, come on, let's equalize.
	You've got to be equal to us.
	But that didn't happen.
	Earlier today, I received an important letter from President Zelensky of Ukraine.
	The letter reads, Ukraine is ready to come to the negotiating table as soon as possible to bring lasting peace closer.
	Nobody wants peace more than the Ukrainians, he said.
	My team and I stand ready to work under President Trump's strong leadership to get a peace that lasts.
	We do really value how much America has done to help Ukraine maintain its sovereignty and independence.
	Regarding the agreement on minerals and security, Ukraine is ready to sign it at any time that is convenient for you.
	I appreciate that he sent this letter.
	Just got it a little while ago.
	Simultaneously, we've had serious discussions with Russia.
	And have received strong signals that they are ready for peace.
	Wouldn't that be beautiful?
	It's time to stop this madness.
	It's time to halt the killing.
	It's time to end this senseless war.
	If you want to end wars, you have to talk to both sides.
	Nearly four years ago, amid rising tensions, a history teacher named Mark Fogle was detained in Russia and sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony.
	Rough stuff.
	The previous administration...
	Barely lifted a finger to help him.
	They knew he was innocent, but they had no idea where to begin.
	But last summer, I promised his 95-year-old mother, Malfin, that we would bring her boy safely back home.
	After 22 days in office, I did just that, and they are here tonight.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	To Mark and his great mom, we are delighted to have you safe and sound and with us.
	As fate would have it, Mark Fogle was born in a small rural town in Butler, Pennsylvania.
	Have you heard of it?
	Where his mother has lived for the past 78 years.
	I just happened to go there last July 13th for a rally.
	That was not pleasant.
	And that is where I met his beautiful mom right before I walked onto that stage.
	And I told her I would not forget what she said about her son.
	And I never did, did I? Never forgot.
	Less than ten minutes later, at that same rally, gunfire rang out and a sick and deranged assassin unloaded eight bullets.
	My life was saved by a fraction of an inch, but some were not so lucky.
	Corey Comparator was a firefighter, a veteran, a Christian, a husband, a devoted father, and above all, a protector.
	When the sound of gunshots pierced, the air was a horrible sound.
	Corey knew instantly What it was and what to do.
	He threw himself on top of his wife and daughters and shielded them from the bullets with his own body.
	Tory was hit really hard.
	You know the story from there.
	He sacrificed his life to save theirs.
	Two others very fine people were also seriously hit.
	But thankfully, with the help of two great country doctors, We thought they were gone and they were saved, so those doctors had great talent.
	We're joined by Corey's wife, Helen, who was his high school sweetheart, and their two beloved daughters, Allison and Kaylee.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	To Helen, Allison and Kaylee, Corey is looking down on his three beautiful ladies right now, and he is cheering you on.
	He loves you.
	He is cheering you on.
	Corey was taken from us much too soon, but his destiny was to leave us all with a shining example of the selfless devotion of a true American patriot.
	It was love like Cory's that built our country, and it's love like Cory's that is going to make our country more majestic than ever before.
	I believe that my life was saved that day in Butler for a very good reason.
	I was saved by God to make America great again.
	again.
	I believe that.
	Thank you very much for
	From the patriots of Lexington and Concord to the heroes of Gettysburg and Normandy, from the warriors who crossed the Delaware to the trailblazers who climbed the Rockies, and from the legends who soared at Kitty Hawk to the astronauts who touched the moon, Americans have always been the people who defied all arts, transcended.
	All dangers made the most extraordinary sacrifices and did whatever it took to defend our children, our country, and our freedom.
	And as we have seen in this chamber tonight, that same strength, faith, love, and spirit is still alive and thriving in the hearts of the American people.
	Despite the best efforts of those who would try to censor us, silence us, break us, destroy us, Americans are today a proud, free, sovereign and independent nation that will always be free and we will fight for it till death.
	We will never let anything happen to our beloved country because we are a country of doers, dreamers, fighters and survivors.
	Our ancestors crossed a vast ocean.
	Strowed into the unknown wilderness and carved their fortunes from the rock and soil of a perilous and very dangerous frontier.
	They chased our destiny across a boundless continent.
	They built the railroads, laid the highways and graced the world with American marvels like the Empire State Building, the mighty Hoover Dam and the towering Golden Gate Bridge.
	They lit the world with electricity, broke free of the force of gravity, fired up the engines of American industry, vanquished the communists, fascists and Marxists all over the world, and gave us countless modern wonders sculptured out of iron glass and steel.
	We stand on the shoulders of these pioneers who won and built the modern age.
	These workers who poured their sweat into the skylines of our cities.
	These warriors who shed their blood on fields of battle and gave everything they had for our rights and for our freedom.
	Now it is our time to take up the righteous cause of American liberty.
	And it is our turn to take America's destiny into our own hands and begin the most thrilling days in the history of our country.
	This will be our greatest era.
	With God's help over the next four years, we are going to lead this nation even higher, and we are going to forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic, and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this earth.
	We are going to create the highest quality of life, build the safest and wealthiest and healthiest and most vital.
	Communities anywhere in the world.
	We are going to conquer the vast frontiers of science and we're going to lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond.
	And through it all, we are going to rediscover the unstoppable power we are going to rediscover the unstoppable power of the American spirit.
	And we are going to renew unlimited promise of the American dream.
	every single day we will stand up and we will fight, fight, fight for the country our citizens believe in and for the country our people deserve.
	My
	fellow Americans get ready for an incredible future because the golden age of America has only just begun.
	It will be like nothing that has ever been seen before.
	Thank you, God bless you, and God bless America.
	Thank you.
	Thank you.
	Great job.
	Almost two hours, an amazing speech by President Trump, his first address to Congress since becoming the 47th President of the United States of America.
	Very inspirational speech filled with many heartwarming, touching moments from the honoring of the children, one of whom lost his father.
	And the line of duty who then got accepted to West Point.
	And then you had little DJ who had brain cancer basically being appointed to become a Secret Service agent.
	So a lot of very inspirational, viral moments.
	I see a lot of people clipping the clips.
	It's going viral all over social media, but that's what you get with President Trump.
	There's always viral moments because not only does he have charisma, but I would say that President Trump is probably the most inspirational president in modern history, if not the most inspirational president ever in American history that we have ever had.
	And so every single time President Trump speaks, I just feel that...
	You know, he's inspiring another generation of leaders.
	And it's sad to see the Democrats have such a lack of decorum.
	I mean, look, I can't stand Marjorie Trader Greene, as I call her, as many of you know.
	But I will say, I remember when the Democrats went absolutely ballistic, when Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert booed Joe Biden after the death of 13 U.S. service members.
	From Biden's disastrous Afghanistan pullout during Biden's address, and the Democrats acted like, oh my God, worst thing ever that these two women were booing, and yet you had Congressman Al Green literally have to get escorted out.
	by Capitol Police because, well, the Democrats just decided to disrupt.
	Very disrespectful for the Democrats when you have family members whose children were raped and killed by illegal aliens in the room.
	You had the widow and the daughters of Corey Comparatory and we've seen how the Democrats have incited political violence and they've promoted open borders policies that have resulted in the death of so many innocent Americans.
	So I would say that, you know, President Trump and the Republicans I don't know if President Trump was,
	you know, being a little sarcastic when he said, good luck, Pam, good luck, I hope you find it, given her...
	A week of a lot of media controversy, given the fact that she completely botched and fumbled the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
	But we'll see what happens.
	But it's going to be up to these cabinet members within the Trump administration to successfully implement President Trump's agendas and his policies.
	And right now, you know, the MAGA base is getting a little unhappy, not with President Trump, but by some of the flip-flopping and also some of the stalling by some of President Trump's cabinet picks.
	So my warning is just, you know, we need to have cabinet members and we need to have elected Republicans actually fully support and keep their promises to the American people, just like President Trump has kept his promises to the American people, or else we will see the Republican base get a malaise.
	It doesn't matter, you know, how good President Trump is, but we will see this malaise come 2026 in the midterms if these elected Republicans do not provide President Trump with the support that he needs in order to deliver to the American people.
	All of his America First promises.
	And we know that President Trump is a man of his word, right?
	Promises made, promises kept.
	But I think that going into this address, this was probably my biggest concern.
	And we've seen that President Trump has no problem commanding the attention of the nation and delivering an inspiring speech.
	But I guess what we're going to see...
	is over these next several years and also within the next year from now to the midterm elections is whether or not his cabinet can keep up, whether or not his cabinet will deliver.
	And I hope that they will.
	I hope that the cabinet will be successful.
	But President Trump can't do everything on his own.
	I want to go to the chat.
	Let's see what people thought about the speech tonight, whether you agree with my assessment.
	I mean, look, I was obviously expecting President Trump to knock it out of the ballpark, but I will say that given what we saw this last week from some of his cabinet members, it's a bit concerning.
	It's a bit concerning because we want to make sure that President Trump's legacy is going to remain intact and won't be tarnished by the deficiencies by some of the members within his cabinet.
	I'll always support President Trump.
	I think he's amazing.
	I find him to be the most inspirational president, as I said before, that we've ever had in this country.
	But I would be lying if I said that I wasn't a little soured this last week by some of the actions of his cabinet members, specifically Pam Bondi.
	Aside from that, I think that President Trump had an amazing speech tonight, delivered an incredible speech, and I want to see what all of you have to say about it as well.
	Let's see.
	President Trump did a great job.
	I want his cabinet to be successful.
	Look, we all want President Trump's cabinet to be successful.
	But my biggest concern is that you're going to have some of these incidents where, look, President Trump's doing a great job and him and his staff aren't aware of everything that all of his cabinet members are doing at any given moment.
	And what my biggest concern is, is that we're going to have these one-off moments from various cabinet members that...
	You know, either due to a lack of vetting or a lack of organization or just pure incompetence by some of these individuals, that it creates embarrassment for the Trump administration.
	We shall see.
	Somebody, a lot of people, a lot of you agree with me.
	Scroll up.
	You said, I agree.
	I felt it was commanding, empathetic to Americans and stern to the world that America is no longer going to be suckered by guilt.
	Absolutely.
	It didn't sound like a vindictive campaign speech like Biden's speeches were, if you remember.
	It always felt like he was lecturing MAGA and demonizing half the country.
	President Trump has this ability to make all Americans feel welcome in his speeches, regardless of, you know, whether or not they voted for him, which is another reason why it was.
	So disgraceful what the Democrats did because, well, I thought that was an insurrection.
	We were lectured for years about how protests within official government proceedings, this was an official government proceeding, an official government event inside the United States Capitol Rotunda there.
	You know, you just see the Democrats' hypocrisy on full display.
	I thought that this was an insurrection, right?
	They're organizing protests where you have members of Congress, the Democrat Party, of course, Hanging out with protesters who are holding signs outside of this address tonight that were advocating for the death of Elon Musk and the death of President Trump.
	So again, we're seeing really just a repeat of...
	When I say a repeat of the first term, I'm not necessarily talking about Trump's cabinet and the Trump administration, but just a repeat of the resistance.
	And President Trump made this point very well tonight when he said, you know, it doesn't matter if I were to find the cure to the worst illness and the worst disease in the world, they would still find a way to demonize me.
	They are never able to give this man credit for anything, even when he's praising a child who survived brain cancer.
	It's quite incredible when you think about it.
	Thank you.
	It's a sad state of affairs for our country, because what is it going to mean for Americans and also just the future of our country after these next four years when we aren't going to have President Trump?
	We're not going to have President Trump forever, sadly.
	He isn't a king, and we do not have a monarchy in this country, despite what some people in the Democrat Party are proclaiming or what some of the new technocrats in the Trump administration would hope.
	We do not have a monarchy, and we do not have kings in this country.
	And so I said tonight, You know, Donald Trump is so good.
	He's so inspirational.
	And he has such a commanding authority to him when he speaks.
	And he's such a strong leader that I'm worried that there isn't going to be a successor.
	And so while the Democrat Party is so helplessly far gone and they are so depraved and they are so deranged to the point where, you know, your average American has moved so far away.
	From calling themselves a proud Democrat or being able to admit that they would proudly support the Democrat Party, my greatest fear is what is to come after Trump.
	Because truly, there is nobody, when you watch President Trump speak and when you watch him command the authority that he has during these speeches and also just during these addresses, whatever they may be, an address to Congress, a campaign speech, a campaign rally.
	There is nobody in the Republican Party.
	And look, I like J.D. Vance, but I would say even J.D. Vance included.
	There is nobody in the Republican Party who has what it takes to be Donald Trump's successor.
	There's nobody.
	So hopefully he's coaching J.D. I mean, look, I think that obviously there's a lot of differences between President Trump and J.D. And I like J.D. I don't have anything against J.D. But is J.D. Vance Trump?
	No.
	I mean, I think that he tries to emulate President Trump, and I think that J.D. Vance has a lot of very strong characteristics.
	But I want to get your take on this because I personally think that there's nobody currently within the Republican Party who could truly call themselves Trump's successor.
	Nobody.
	I don't really see how Alyssa Slocken, Eliza, Alyssa, whatever the hell she calls herself, this Democrat, former spook CIA agent who worked for Obama and Bush, who's now a Democrat senator, who is now giving the rebuttal address.
	Perhaps we can get that pulled up, Cannon.
	Let's see if we can get Alyssa Slocken's rebuttal address pulled up.
	If not, it's fine.
	But not that it's really going to be inspirational.
	But I don't really see how the Democrats are going to counter what President Trump said tonight.
	Because we'll...
	Everything he said is true.
	Everything President Trump said is completely true.
	And we are in this new golden age of America, and things aren't perfect.
	Things are not perfect.
	Like I said, there are some disappointments thus far with not President Trump, but I would say members of his cabinet.
	Here we go.
	Let's cut to Alyssa Slocken, who's now beginning her address.
	This is the Democrat rebuttal.
	I've been in public service my entire life because I happened to be in New York City on 9/11 when the Twin Towers came down.
	Before the smoke cleared, I knew I wanted to make a life in national security.
	I was recruited by the CIA and did three tours in Iraq alongside the military.
	In between, I worked at the White House under President Bush and President Obama, two very different leaders who both believed that America is exceptional.
	You can find that same sense of patriotism here in Wyandotte, Michigan, where I'm speaking from tonight.
	It's a working-class town just south of Detroit.
	President Trump and I both won here in November.
	It might not seem like it, but plenty of places like this still exist across the United States, places where people believe that if you work hard and play by the rules, you should do well and your kids should do better.
	It reminds me of how I grew up.
	My dad was a lifelong Republican, by mom a lifelong Democrat, but it was never a big deal because we had shared values that were bigger than any one party.
	We just went through another fraught election season.
	Americans made it clear that prices are too high and that the government needs to be more responsive to their needs.
	America wants change, but there's a responsible way to make change and a reckless way.
	And we can make that change without forgetting who we are as a country and as a democracy.
	So that's what I'm going to lay out tonight.
	Because whether you're from Wyandotte or Wichita, most Americans share three core beliefs.
	That the middle class is the engine of our country, that strong national security protects us from harm, and that our democracy, no matter how messy, is unparalleled and worth fighting for.
	Let's start with the economy.
	Michigan literally invented the middle class.
	The revolutionary idea that you could work at an auto plant and afford the car you were building.
	That's the American dream.
	And in order to expand and protect the middle class, we have to do a few basic things.
	We need to bring down the price of things we spend the most money on.
	Groceries, housing, health care.
	We need to make more things in America with good-paying union jobs and bring our supply chains back home from places like China.
	We need to give American businesses the certainty they need to invest and create the jobs of the future.
	And we need a tax system that's fair for people who don't happen to make a billion dollars.
	Look, the president talked a big game on the economy, but it's always important to read the fine print.
	So, do his plans actually help Americans get ahead?
	Not even close.
	President Trump is trying to deliver an unprecedented giveaway to his billionaire friends.
	He's on the hunt to find trillions of dollars to pass along to the wealthiest in America.
	And to do that, he's going to make you pay in every part of your life.
	Grocery and home prices are going up, not down, and he hasn't laid out a credible plan to deal with either of those.
	His tariffs on allies like Canada will raise prices on energy, lumber, and cars, and start a trade war that will hurt manufacturing and farmers.
	Your premiums and prescriptions will cost more because the math on his proposals doesn't work without going after your health care.
	Meanwhile, for those keeping score, the national debt is going up, not down.
	And if he's not careful, he could walk us right into a recession.
	And one more thing.
	In order to pay for his plan, he could very well come after your retirement.
	The Social Security, Medicare, and VA benefits you worked your whole life to earn.
	The president claims he won't, but Elon Musk just called Social Security the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.
	While we're on the subject of Elon Musk, is there anyone in America who is comfortable with him and his gang of 20-year-olds using their own computer servers to poke through your tax returns, your health information, and your bank accounts?
	No oversight, no protections against cyber attack, no guardrails on what they do with your private data.
	We need a more efficient government.
	You want to cut waste?
	I'll help you do it.
	But change doesn't need to be chaotic or make us less safe.
	The mindless firing of people who work to protect our nuclear weapons, keep our planes from crashing, and conduct the research that finds the cure for cancer, only to rehire them two days later?
	No CEO in America could do that without being summarily fired.
	Okay, so we've talked about economic security.
	How about national security?
	Let's start with the border.
	As someone who spent my whole career protecting our homeland, every country deserves to know who and what is coming across its border.
	Period.
	Democrats and Republicans should all be for that.
	But securing the border without actually fixing our broken immigration system is dealing with the symptom and not the disease.
	America is a nation of immigrants.
	We need a functional system keyed to the needs of our economy.
	That allows vetted people to come and work here legally.
	So I look forward to the president's plan on that.
	Because here's the thing.
	Today's world is deeply interconnected.
	Migration, cyber threats, AI, environmental destruction, terrorism.
	One nation cannot face these issues alone.
	We need friends in all corners.
	And our safety depends on it.
	President Trump loves to say peace through strength.
	That's actually a line he stole from Ronald Reagan.
	But let me tell you, after the spectacle that just took place in the Oval Office last week, Reagan must be rolling in his grave.
	We all want an end to the war in Ukraine.
	But Reagan understood that true strength required America to combine our military and economic might with moral clarity.
	And that scene in the Oval Office wasn't just a bad episode of reality TV. It summed up Trump's whole approach to the world.
	He believes in cozying up to dictators like Vladimir Putin and kicking our friends like the Canadians in the teeth.
	He sees American leadership as merely a series of real estate transactions.
	As a Cold War kid, I'm thankful it was Reagan and not Trump in office in the 1980s.
	Trump would have lost us the Cold War.
	Donald Trump's actions suggest that in his heart, he doesn't believe we're an exceptional nation.
	He clearly doesn't think we should lead the world.
	Look, America is not perfect, but I stand with the majority of Americans who believe we are still exceptional, unparalleled.
	And I would rather have American leadership over Chinese or Russian leadership any day of the week.
	Because for generations, America has offered something better.
	Our security and our prosperity, yes, but our democracy, our very system of government, has been the aspiration of the world.
	And right now, it's at risk.
	It's at risk when the president decides you can pick and choose what rules you want to follow, when he ignores court orders and the Constitution itself, or when elected leaders stand by and just let it happen.
	But it's also at risk when the president pits Americans against each other, when he demonizes those who are different and tells certain people they shouldn't be included.
	Because America is not just a patch of land between two oceans.
	We are more than that.
	Generations have fought and died to secure the fundamental rights that define us.
	Those rights and the fight for them make us who we are.
	We're a nation of strivers, risk-takers, innovators, and we are never satisfied.
	That is America's superpower.
	And look, I've lived and worked in many countries.
	I've seen democracies flicker out.
	I've seen what life is like when a government is rigged.
	You can't open a business without paying off a corrupt official.
	You can't criticize the guys in charge without getting a knock at the door in the middle of the night.
	So as much as we need to make our government more responsive to our lives today, don't for one moment fool yourself that democracy isn't precious and worth saving.
	But how do we actually do that?
	I know a lot of you have been asking that question.
	First, don't tune out.
	It's easy to be exhausted, but America needs you now more than ever.
	If previous generations had not fought for this democracy, where would we be today?
	Second, hold your elected officials, including me, accountable.
	Watch how they're voting.
	Go to town halls and demand they take action.
	That's as American as apple pie.
	Third, organize.
	Pick just one issue you're passionate about and engage.
	And doom scrolling doesn't count.
	Join a group that cares about your issue and act.
	And if you can't find one, start one.
	Some of the most important movements in our history have come from the bottle up.
	In closing, we all know that our country is going through something right now.
	We're not sure what the next day is going to hold, let alone the next decade.
	But this isn't the first time we've experienced significant and tumultuous change as a country.
	I'm a student of history, and we've gone through periods of political instability before.
	And ultimately, we've chosen to keep changing this country for the better.
	But every single time, we've only gotten through those moments because of two things.
	Engaged citizens and principled leaders.
	Engaged citizens who do a little bit more than they're used to doing to fight for the things that they care about.
	And principled leaders who are ready to receive the ball and do something about it.
	So thank you tonight for caring about your country.
	Just by watching you qualify as engaged citizens.
	And I promise that I and my fellow Democrats will do everything in our power to be the principal leaders that you deserve.
	Good night, everyone.
	And that was Alyssa Slotkin, about 11 minutes from Wyandotte, Michigan, with the Democratic She's a freshman senator.
	Just a bunch of nothing.
	I mean, really, she didn't really say anything.
	It sounds like a pep talk, like, hey guys, you know, I know you're feeling really defeated, but we all have to stick together and not give up.
	And I mean, the one thing that I will say that I think that people on the left and the right are getting a little tired of is, you know, unelected.
	Technocratic billionaires occupying space in the White House.
	I mean, that is like the only thing I will say that the Republicans and the Democrats maybe share common ground on is that, you know, you have people on the left, the middle and the right who are saying, you know, I don't really feel comfortable with unelected bureaucrats, which also includes billionaire donors who maybe they're doing good work.
	Maybe they're not, depending on who you ask.
	I would say that that is like the only fair point.
	That was mentioned by Alyssa Slotkin in that I think this is going to become an issue, and I've said this from the get-go, that there are going to be people who become resentful, whether it be because they themselves are laid off or because they get fatigued from seeing a lot of these big tech executives and billionaires in the White House.
	But I really do think that class warfare and Classism is going to be one of the top issues in America driving political discourse come 2026. So I will say that unfortunately the Democrats are incapable of messaging that in a coherent manner and finding common ground because They're not able to give credit where credit's due, right?
	Like, give President Trump credit for the good things that he does, give Elon Musk credit for the good things that he does, while making points in a way that would invite your average American or maybe somebody who isn't politically affiliated but is also kind of annoyed with the What many would say is overbearing presence of these big tech executives in the White House.
	If they were to say it in a more diplomatic way, they would find that there are a lot of people on the right who feel this way.
	There were a lot of people on the right tonight who were kind of subtweeting this.
	And these are people who are diehard Trump supporters.
	The Democrats, though, are never going to give credit where credit's due.
	And if you want to actually have real change or find common ground, then it can't just be constant attack, attack, attack, attack without giving credit.
	You have to admit when your so-called enemies do something good, and you have to be willing to have a peaceful conversation with them without demonizing them and their colleagues and all of their associates as being...
	Hitler, or as being fascist, or as being totalitarians in nature.
	But I will say, I tweeted, I said, I think that Alyssa Slocken needs to lose weight.
	Some people said, oh, that's a stupid, petty thing to say.
	I don't.
	Look, the Republican Party is now cool.
	They used to say that Republicans were not cool.
	Well, being conservative is the new counterculture.
	So, again, why after having this Massive defeat on election day with the Democrats have an overweight deep stater who, you know, is just speaking like a Karen.
	When I say she's an overweight deep stater, I mean, she's morbidly obese.
	And the outfit that she was wearing tonight was much more slimming than what this woman looks like in person because Loomer Unleashed has actually confronted Alyssa Slocken.
	She is morbid, okay, morbid in her size.
	And I bring this up.
	Because it's important, right?
	The Democrats are out here encouraging people to live unhealthy lifestyles.
	They're trying to glamorize weakness.
	They're trying to glamorize obesity.
	They're trying to glamorize the LGBTQ agenda and transmutilation of children.
	They're trying to glamorize things that are really just not aesthetically appealing or just aesthetically satisfying.
	And so you would think that if the Democrats truly wanted to have a rebuttal or they wanted to inspire the next generation of Democrats to really, you know, join their so-called resistance and to oppose President Trump and to get excited about the midterms, you would think that you would have a woman that...
	You know, actually put a little bit of care into their personal appearance and a little bit of care into how they carry themselves.
	Because I don't want to be lectured about how somebody is so bad as an elected official or how awful my decision-making is as a Trump voter or how awful Trump voters' decisions were to put Donald Trump back into the White House by a woman who can't even control how much food she's putting in her mouth.
	And so the Democrats are going to have to come to terms with the fact that their glorification of terrible aesthetics is one of the things that pushed so many people away.
	And a lot of people say, oh, well, that's really petty.
	You should just focus on the policy.
	Well, why do you think that so many first-time voters and so many independents and so many youth, so many first-time voters voted for Trump over Biden?
	Why do you think that they voted for Republicans over Democrats?
	There is an aesthetics crisis within the Democrat Party.
	There is.
	There's an aesthetics crisis within the Democrat Party.
	And so I'm just being honest here.
	So I'm not trying to be disrespectful about a woman and her appearance, but she just looks very disheveled.
	She was posting photos of herself eating donuts before the rebuttal address tonight.
	I mean, honestly, if you are that big, you should not be eating donuts before you You know, get in front of a camera to give the so-called rebuttal to President Trump's address tonight.
	And I don't think that the Democrats realize that people look at these things and they see somebody like Donald Trump, a successful billionaire, gorgeous wife, gorgeous children, children who are put together.
	He's cool.
	He's embraced by all of these culture icons in our society.
	And then you have Joe Biden, Sleepy Joe, and you have these disheveled Democrats that are trying to make it so that men can destroy women's sports and so that children can be sexually mutilated so that you can be murdered by illegal aliens or poisoned by fentanyl.
	And everything that they support and everything that they put front and center is just ugly.
	Right?
	It's just ugly.
	There's no aesthetic appeal to it.
	It just has no inspirational value or inspirational element to it at all.
	And so I would disagree with the people that are saying, oh, you know, you shouldn't say that Alyssa Slocken should lose weight.
	That has nothing to do with the substance of, you know, the address that she gave tonight.
	It actually does have everything to do with...
	with the substance of what she said tonight because the Democrats are going to continue losing and the Democrats are going to keep on repelling people and also pushing voters away from their party as long as they continue to glorify and platform gross people who promote degeneracy who promote unhealthy habits and who promote A lifestyle of degeneracy and make it so that you think it's
	okay to be a slob, so that you think it's okay to be mediocre and simply rewarded.
	For the color of your skin or your sexual orientation as opposed to how hard you work.
	And that's what President Trump is talking about when he's talking about the golden age of America.
	We're going to make things beautiful again.
	We're going to get rid of all the graffiti.
	We're going to get rid of all of the trash.
	You know, we're going to get rid of all these terrible Democrat policies that destroyed our society, destroyed our culture, destroyed our youth, destroyed our border, destroyed our country that just made everything so ugly.
	And when I look at somebody who's so grotesque, like an Alyssa Slocken, I just think to myself, the Democrats just project this image of disheveledness and this image of this total lack of respect and a lack of attention to aesthetic appeal.
	And so for me, you know, it's not about being shallow.
	It's not about being judgmental.
	It's just this desire to finally get away from all of this Non-inspirational, you know, everybody gets a trophy bullshit that the Democrats have been promoting and just shoving down our throats for the last four years.
	I just am kind of repulsed by it.
	And so I don't really understand how people can find anything wrong with what President Trump said tonight.
	I understand that there can be issues that we, you know, all find to be a little bit distasteful.
	Like, I agree, this idea of an oligarchy or the Enormous amount of power that these so-called tech oligarchs and tech executives and tech billionaires now have with their proximity to President Trump.
	But there's a way to talk about that without coming across like a lunatic.
	There's a way to talk about that without waving a Hamas flag or waving a Ukraine flag in the middle of the street and uniting with people that are calling for President Trump to be killed and dressing up like Luigi Mangione outside of these protests, right?
	And I don't know, it's just the Democrats are, they seem to be kind of either unwilling to accept this reality or just completely deranged by years of Trump derangement syndrome that they have no idea how or what is considered appealing to the everyday American.
	I don't know if you agree with me or not.
	I mean, some people didn't like my comment about...
	Her looks and her appearance and her weight, but I just personally think that the Democrats are going to continue to lose as long as they continue to project this unhealthy aura.
	Not just an unhealthy aura about the lifestyle choices of these politicians in the Democrat Party, but also just an unhealthy aesthetic for the future of our country.
	And that's what people voted against this last election season.
	And that is one of the reasons why so many people, especially so many young people, overwhelmingly voted Republican as opposed to Democrat.
	Yeah.
	Reality Storyline said, avoid a spirit, Laura, avoid a spirit.
	They're losing their soul.
	Yeah, I mean, I think that that's honestly what it is.
	They honestly just have no concept of what is good, what is pure, what is aesthetically pleasing, what is beautiful.
	And again, when you surround yourself with this kind of like low standard and you embrace people who have poor lifestyle choices and you make exceptions for people who are...
	Severely obese and you make exceptions for people who are severely mentally ill and you try to platform that and make that the new normal, it's going to have serious social consequences.
	And the Democrats are now reeling from it.
	They cannot, no matter what they do, they cannot find their footing.
	And it's incredible to see this cultural and also just this social shift in our society because you see how the Democrats for years were considered the cool party, right?
	The party of Hollywood, the party of pop culture, and the party that was going to dictate the social norms and the culture.
	And now there's nothing more uncool than being a Democrat.
	I don't know if you would agree, but I personally think that there's no greater insult that you could give somebody in our society currently.
	Then they're like a radical leftist or a member of the Democrat Party.
	It's almost just completely embarrassing.
	I would be absolutely ashamed and embarrassed to say that I was a member of the Democrat Party.
	So it's over.
	Her rebuttal was not really much of a rebuttal because as I said before, what are they truly going to rebut?
	They have nothing to say.
	It was just a little pep talk.
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	you Oh, some of you like my sweater from Mardi Gras.
	It was so cold in New Orleans.
	I just got back tonight.
	I literally got back like an hour before I did my show tonight.
	So, I had a good time in Mardi Gras, but it was freezing cold.
	I'm pretty sure Slotkin is a lesbian.
	Somebody said, is she a lesbian?
	From what I know, she's a lesbian.
	I don't really care if she's a lesbian.
	I just have a problem with the fact that the Democrats actually think, you know, after we just got done watching weaponized lawfare and the deep state, they thought that having a spook and a woman who worked for Obama and Bush as a CIA agent who is so disheveled, she's so obese, she's popping out of her suit, okay?
	Give an address to counter President Trump.
	I just don't understand how that is appealing.
	To anybody.
	Aren't we moving away from all of, you know, these weaponized agencies and aren't they smart enough to see that having a spook and having a CIA agent address the country probably, you know, probably isn't the best idea.
	The American people right now are a little sick and tired of weaponized government and trust within the agencies, whether it be the FBI or the CIA, is at an all-time low.
	President Trump's nominees have barely been confirmed.
	They've barely been in their positions for a week now.
	And so you just have to ask yourself, who's doing the Democrats' messaging for them?
	I don't know.
	They're just not very smart.
	And I'm glad that many of you agree with me because I personally just...
	I don't know.
	I am just sitting here as a woman, especially.
	Like, they think that having a woman to counter Trump is going to appeal to women.
	They need to understand that nobody gives a shit about all this gender warfare anymore.
	Nobody cares.
	You're not going to inspire people by having a woman who is a law enforcement agent who's also a lesbian get up on the stage and give a counter-rebuttal address to President Trump.
	Gone are the days of identity politics.
	We are eradicating DEI, okay?
	We are eradicating glorification for federal law enforcement and federal agents who weaponize our agencies, that of which Alyssa Slokin had no problem doing as a federal law enforcement agent under the Bush administration and the Obama administration, okay?
	We are...
	We are not glorifying these corrupt cops anymore.
	We're not.
	We respect law enforcement here on the right, but gone are the days of just giving blanket respect to federal law enforcement agencies that have weaponized their agencies to, you know, interfere in our elections, to illegally spy on presidential candidates, to illegally spy on the American people.
	So I don't know what the Democrats were thinking.
	Absolute failure.
	I mean, isn't there anybody else who is a little bit more appealing, both aesthetically and also in terms of their resume, who could have given the rebuttal tonight?
	It's crazy.
	I just don't see how the Democrats have a comeback.
	back.
	Thank you.
	The only thing, as I said before, that Republicans need to be careful of is not having these one-off screw-ups by members of the Trump administration.
	Trump himself is doing a good job, but some of his cabinet members are already breaking their promises and turning off a lot of people in the MAGA base.
	So we need to make sure that a malaise is not created ahead of the midterms because that is what will stunt voter turnout.
	That's why we need to be aggressive, just like I've been aggressive against Pam Bondi over the last few days, getting called out a lot from members of the Republican Party who are telling me that I need to calm down.
	Calm down for what?
	These people are going to cost us the midterms if we don't hold them accountable.
	They want to embarrass President Trump and they want to sabotage his America First agenda.
	We can't allow them to get away with doing that.
	So no, I will not shut up and I will not stop attacking Republicans because we need to make sure that Republicans keep in line and that they are held accountable.
	And that they are called out every single time they say something or do something that goes against President Trump's agenda or creates an embarrassment for his administration.
	So, no.
	I'm not going to apologize alrighty everybody Well, that's it for tonight.
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