2026 State Of The Union Address From President Trump
President Trump’s 2026 State of the Union—nearly two hours long—boasts record economic claims: core inflation at 1.7%, gasoline prices down to $1.85/gallon, and $5,000/year saved on mortgages, while slamming Democrats for $34,000 family inflation costs under Biden. He touts 53 stock market records, $18T global investments, and Trump Accounts (backed by $6.25B from Dells) to fund children’s futures, plus a housing ban on corporate land purchases. On immigration, he cites $19B in Somali fraud, pushes the "Delilah law" to block licenses for illegal aliens, and demands voter ID via the Save America Act (89% support). Military pride includes a Medal of Honor for a wounded helicopter pilot in Maduro’s raid and honoring a 100-year-old WWII vet, but critics mock NATO’s 5% GDP pledge, question Ukraine aid reimbursements, and call his $1.776 "warrior dividend" a tariff-funded gimmick. Skepticism grows over claims like 2M off food stamps via DEI cuts and Iran’s protester death tolls (100K–2K), while Al Green’s "rent apes" sign sparks racial tensions, leaving Trump’s vision of a "golden age" under heavy scrutiny. [Automatically generated summary]
President Trump addressing the nation, the 2026 State of the Union address.
I will be carrying this live coverage, Owen Schroyer, with you here from the Wynn Network.
I anticipate we will just be carrying the State of the Union, the full feed live without any interruption.
And then we will be doing some post-speech wrap-up, let's say, some post-game wrap-up when the speech concludes.
Now, I think we're all anticipating pretty much what we've heard from President Trump almost every time he's spoken the last couple of months, which is it's the hottest country ever.
It's the greatest economy ever.
That stuff, I think, will mostly fall flat on the American people.
We'll see if he wants to address any of the controversial issues around foreign policy, maybe Iran and or Israel directly.
Some of the controversy surrounding the Epstein files, if he dare goes there.
We do know that the U.S. men's hockey team is in attendance.
They will be getting a shout out.
We also know that Erica Kirk is in attendance.
So I anticipate that will be addressed and political violence.
Maybe he will also talk about the president.
We'll also talk about the attempts on his life.
We'll see how political he wants to get with that.
I imagine the one thing that he can definitely declare victory on tonight is the border is closed.
The border is closed.
Outside of that, I'm not sure how much else really will sink into the vast majority of people that listen to this tonight, but we shall see.
We've been told that there is going to be at least one or two policy announcements tonight, including, but maybe not limited to, something in regards to taxes.
So we'll pay attention to that.
I imagine there will be some blame games.
The prior administration will probably get brought up.
The golden age is likely to be something that we hear about as that has become a calling card of the administration.
Whether it lands or not again, we shall see.
Some of the announcements are now being made as it looks like Congress has filed in.
And now the who do we have coming in here?
Now, as we watch them pile in, looks like some of the administration, the cabinet coming in now.
Thomas Massey is sitting with the Democrats tonight.
Strangely enough, Massey sitting with the Democrats.
Not sure what motivated that.
Perhaps the cooperation on the Epstein files, perhaps the attacks from the president.
But that was the decision that was made by Thomas Massey.
And so if you see him over there, although now reports are he is not.
Apparently that was fake news.
I was hoping that wasn't true.
I was hoping that Massey would not be sitting with them.
That would not be a good look.
So, well, I guess we'll find out whether that was true or not.
Hopefully not, though.
So it looks like Massey has actually corrected that record, whatever that was, fake news.
Oh, so just more lies about Massey.
I see.
Just more lies about Massey.
They just can't help themselves.
They just can't help themselves.
I wonder what kind of commentary, maybe some added commentary, if you will, from the gallery tonight.
Somebody wants to raise a fuss about Epstein.
Will some leftist Democrat want to make a show of it here?
Wouldn't surprise us if that happens.
You know, Trump is probably going to have at least one or two other surprised guests that he'll give a shout out.
I'd like to see Tina Peters get a mention tonight.
I think that's well overdue.
But yes, Massey will be sitting with the Republicans.
That was fake news.
Somebody, more hit pieces on Massey.
So glad we got that covered before we started here.
Will Trump mention the aliens?
I wonder.
I wonder if Trump will be mentioning the alien files that he is teasing the release of.
How many times will the Democrats be willing to stand and cheer?
Maybe, maybe only, but certainly you would expect them to stand and cheer for the men's hockey team, the gold medal winning men's hockey team.
The men accepted the invitation to the White House and to the State of the Union address.
The women's team respectfully declined that invitation.
So we will definitely be getting a shout out there.
The Supreme Court is now entering the Capitol, the hall here, the chambers.
So let's pick up our coverage.
Let's go to the audio feed now.
This is going to be a C-SPAN audio video that we'll be covering.
We'll be following Trump's State of the Union address without interruption.
There will be no interruptions.
We will be carrying it live with no interruptions.
And then we will be doing some post-speech coverage afterwards.
We're anticipating about an hour and a half tonight.
We'll see how long Trump wants to go.
President Trump and the 2026 State of the Union, just moments away.
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That's right.
As we predicted, Kavanaugh is there.
We know the president is very happy with him on that tariff ruling that he sided with him.
But Coney Baird on the other side, the president is not so happy with, yet she wanted to be there.
And with some of the guests that she announced earlier that she was bringing two young female students who exemplify some of her policies related to AI education and foster youth services.
The one woman wrecking ball of the America First Agenda, the gatekeeper of the Trump administration.
If there's one source that isn't named Donald Trump that has divided MAGA and destroyed the policy and the priorities of this administration, most people agree that it is Susie Wiles.
This is also a Susie Wiles who worked for Benjamin Netanyahu.
And so when we see all the Israel first policy and the unpopular foreign policy that benefits Israel, a lot of people suspect that that has to do with Susie Wiles as well.
But of course, top donor to the Trump campaign, Marion Adelson, who Trump was in Israel congratulating Marion about how she cares about Israel more than America.
Trump thought that was funny.
Not so funny to the rest of us American patriots as the rest of the cabinet enters.
This is going to be the first state of the union from President Trump where his base is split.
And that would be putting it kindly.
I would maybe even go a step further and say this is the first State of the Union address where much of Trump's base has abandoned him, turned on him, and doesn't see him in the same light as they once did.
And even that might be putting it lightly.
But that's where we're at tonight.
This is going to be the first time where I think a lot of people that are watching this on the right side of the aisle are going to be dealing with a major cringe factor and feeling like a lot of this speech is political propaganda and slop that they just have no interest in.
I think this is the first time we're heading into that where you know that that's how the left is going to feel about things no matter what.
But now I think the much of the American right is going to feel that way about tonight's speech as well.
We're taking selfies.
We're taking selfies with RFK here.
He just got done.
RFK just left the gym, the tanning bed, the ice bath.
Ready, ready for the ready for the lights.
Did Luttnick already enter?
I must have missed Lutnick.
He slithered his way through there.
Probably the most controversial figure now of the Trump administration is Howard Luttnick.
And that's not gone so well.
There is the Trump family.
The cabinet continues to make their way in, shake their hands.
Oh, it's all nice.
It's all fun.
Susie Wiles, very popular on both sides of the aisle.
Go figure.
Both sides of the aisle.
Happy with the former Netanyahu campaign manager, Susie Wiles, now runs the Trump administration and the number one gatekeeper for who gets in, who doesn't, what information Trump sees, and he doesn't.
It's not good.
Do you think Trump will, he'll obviously, I think, recognize Melania and her presence in some way, shape, or form.
Do you think he'll give a shameless plug to her movie?
There's one for you.
There's an outside of the box one.
Will Trump give a shameless plug to his wife's movie that came out just a few months ago?
He might be, off the top of my head, the only major cabinet member, the only major leader of a bureaucracy that is not presence, that is not present tonight.
Well, maybe Cash is a little hungover from partying with the hockey team.
Maybe Cash is a little jet lagged from his FBI trip to Italy to watch the gold medal match and then celebrate with the team as if he won it.
Not the proudest moment for our FBI, but for him, he didn't care.
He figured he might as well do it.
Win in Rome.
But no Kash Patel.
The hockey team that he was partying with, they all made it.
Huge security event because everybody is in one room.
So Chuck Schumer and Jon Thune, Mike Johnson, the vice president, the whole gang is, you know, in that room.
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it looks like i'm always interested in who's grabbing the aisle seats to get the entrance greetings with the people coming down the center aisle mr speaker the president of the united states
We got the hair cut all ready to go and somebody didn't comb it.
I can't blame myself.
I've never done anything wrong in my life.
Somebody else messed up my hair.
Unbelievable.
Look at that flop.
Look at that spike job.
It's unbelievable.
The golden president's hair and we got a spike up.
Somebody better fix it before I get to that podium or I'm going to be pissed.
Somebody will finally get fired.
Can't fire anyone, but they blew it with the hair.
They're going to get fired for this one.
Came out tonight and heard I had a bad hair job.
We're going to call it a bad hair day, but I've just got the intel from our greatest ally.
It was Iran.
Iran did the hair job.
It was Iran.
So I'm deciding right here for the first time ever at the greatest state of the union, we are going to be bombing Iran.
They've done a lot of things, but the hair job was the worst.
The hair job was the unacceptable one.
So we are now officially, as I'm standing right here, going to be bombing Iran.
Look at that hair.
Totally unacceptable for your president to be addressing the nation with a spike up like that.
It's a flop.
It's a bad flop.
So we're going to be bombing for the hair.
They're calling it the hair bombing.
So we got photo bombing and hair bombing, and it's just not working for your favorite president tonight.
It's the hottest country, and it's going to be even hotter in Iran, at least for a couple hours, because somebody came in with a hair dryer is what they did.
We have it on intelligence from our greatest ally.
There was an Iranian asset with a hair dryer, and we see the result.
Speaker Johnson, Vice President Vance, First Lady of the United States, Second
Lady of the United States.
Members of Congress and my fellow Americans, our nation is back, bigger, better, richer, and stronger than ever before.
Less than five months from now, our country will celebrate an epic milestone in American history, the 250th anniversary of our glorious American independence.
This July 4th, we will mark two and a half centuries of liberty and triumph, progress and freedom in the most incredible and exceptional nation ever to exist on the face of the earth.
And you've seen nothing yet.
We're going to do better and better and better.
This is the golden age of America.
When I last spoke at this chamber 12 months ago, I had just inherited a nation in crisis with a stagnant economy, inflation at record levels, a wide open border.
horrendous recruitment for military and police, rampant crime at home, and wars and chaos all over the world.
But tonight, after just one year, I can say with dignity and pride that we have achieved a transformation like no one has ever seen before and a turnaround for the ages.
It is indeed a turnaround for the ages, and we will never go back to
where we were just a very short time ago.
We're not going back.
Today, our border is secure. Thank you.
Today our border is secure.
Our spirit is restored.
Inflation is plummeting.
Incomes are rising fast.
The roaring economy is roaring like never before.
And our enemies are scared.
Our military and police are stacked.
And America is respected again, perhaps like never before.
After four years in which millions and millions of illegal aliens port across our borders totally unvetted and unchecked, we now have the strongest and most secure border in American history by far.
In the past nine months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted to the United States.
But we will always allow people to come in legally, people that will love our country and will work hard to maintain our country.
The flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is downed by a record 56 percent in one year.
And last year, the murder rate saw its single largest decline in recorded history.
This is the biggest decline, think of it in recorded history, the lowest number in over 125 years, year 1900.
In fact, substantially before my wonderful father, I had a wonderful father, Fred, before he was born, substantially before he was born.
That's a long time ago.
He wouldn't like me to say that, but that's a long time ago.
The Biden administration and its allies in Congress gave us the worst inflation in the history of our country.
But in 12 months, my administration has driven core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years.
And in the last three months of 2025, it was down to 1.7%.
Gasoline, which reached a peak of over $6 a gallon in some states, under my predecessor, it was quite honestly a disaster, is now below $2.30 a gallon in most states and in some places.
$1.99 a gallon.
And when I visited the great state of Iowa just a few weeks ago, I even saw $1.85 a gallon for gasoline.
Mortgage rates are the lowest in four years and falling fast.
And the annual cost of a typical new mortgage is down almost $5,000 just since I took office.
One year.
And low interest rates will solve the Biden-created housing problem well, at the same time, protecting the values of those people who already own a house that really feel rich for the first time in their lives.
We want to protect those values.
We want to keep those values up.
We're going to do both.
And we are going to keep it that way.
The stock market is at 53 all-time record highs since the election.
Think of that.
One year, boosting pensions, 401ks, and retirement accounts for the millions and millions of Americans.
They're all gaining.
Everybody's up, way up.
In four long years, the last administration got less than $1 trillion in new investment in the United States.
And when I say less, substantially less.
In 12 months, I secured commitments for more than $18 trillion pouring in from all over the globe.
Think of it, much less than $1 trillion for four years versus much more than $18 trillion for one year.
As thousands of new businesses are forming in factories, plants, and laboratories are being built, we have added 70,000 new construction jobs in just a very short period of time.
It's getting bigger and bigger and stronger.
Nobody can believe what they're watching.
American oil production is up by more than 600,000 barrels a day, and we just received from our new friend and partner, Venezuela, more than 80 million barrels of oil.
American natural gas production is at an all-time high because I kept my promise to drill, baby, drill.
More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country.
Think about that.
Any time in the history of our country, more working today.
And 100% of all jobs created under my administration have been in the private sector.
We ended DEI in America.
We cut a record number of job-killing regulations, and in one year, we have lifted 2.4 million Americans, a record off of food stamps.
And for all of these reasons, I say tonight, members of Congress, the state of our union is strong.
But they beat a fantastic Canadian team in overtime, as everybody saw, as did the American women who will soon be coming to the White House.
They were in the Oval Office before.
And I just want to say a second very big congratulations to Team USA.
But I have to say that, and I told them this, and we took a vote of the team.
I said, anybody votes no, I'm not doing it.
So they stood there, and they weren't about to say no, because I'd never seen a goaltender play as well as goalie Connor Halibut.
Think of it, 46 shots on goal.
And I asked him, the one shot, the one where you put your stick in the back and it hit the neck of your stick and bounced off.
Do you practice that?
It was that little lucky.
He refused to answer that question.
But I just want to tell you that the members of this great hockey squad will be very happy to hear, based on their vote and my vote, and in this case, my vote was more important, that I will soon be presenting Connor with our highest civilian honor, which we will be given and which has been.
When I say many, not too many, like 12.
It's called the highest civilian honor in our country, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Great athletes have gotten that.
Very great.
The best.
And I thought he deserved it.
And I did take a vote, every single one of them.
I said, I'm not giving it if anybody goes no.
And every single one of them rapidly put up their hand.
So I want to thank you all.
What a special job you did.
What special champions you are.
Thank you very much.
I'm also pleased to say that the next time the Olympic torch is lit, it will be here in America for the 2028 Olympics.
And it's the summer version right in Los Angeles.
We're going to do a good job in Los Angeles.
And Los Angeles is going to be safe, just like Washington, D.C., is now one of the safest cities in the country.
And this year, and I must say I got them both.
I got them in my first term.
And I was disappointed because I didn't think I'd be the president when this happened.
But strange things took place.
And now I've got them because I got the Olympics.
I got the 2026 FIFA World Cup.
And I wanted to claim the 250th, but I didn't get away with that one.
So this will be a year to celebrate our country and the heroes who have kept it free.
Men like Buddy Taggart.
At age 17, Buddy volunteered to defend America in World War II, serving in the Pacific under the great General Douglas MacArthur.
He fought bravely in the famous Battle of Manila, worked so hard.
He was badly wounded and almost killed by enemy machine guns in Luzon.
And 81 years ago, this month, he liberated the largest internment camp in the Philippines, one of the largest anywhere in the world.
But he earned many honors, including a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, came home, started a family, and tonight he is in the gallery looking forward to July 4th, 2026, his 100th birthday.
So, buddy, you're a brave man, and we salute you.
Even in times of challenge, setback, and immense heartache, the spirit of 1776 has always shone through very brightly.
It was July 4th of last year when floodwaters tore through a girls' summer camp in central Texas, one of the worst things I've ever seen.
I was there, rising 26 feet in the matter of minutes, tragically claiming many, many lives.
You all remember that one?
As the waters threatened to sweep her away, 11-year-old Millie Kate McClaymond closed her eyes and prayed to God.
She thought she was going to die.
Those prayers were answered when Coast Guard rescue swimmer Scott Ruskin descended from a helicopter above.
Nobody knew where he came from.
It was Scott's first ever rescue mission, young guy, but very brave, very, very top, always top in his class.
and he lifted not just Millie Kate, but 164 others to safety.
People watched Scott from a distance, and they couldn't believe what they were seeing.
The winds were blowing, the rain was pouring, everything was going in that rapid water.
Nobody's ever seen anything like it.
They said, wow, that's something.
Tonight, Scott and Millie Kate are here together, reunited for the very first time.
Thank you, Scott, Millie Cate, and Petty Officer Ruskin.
I'm pleased to inform you that I am now awarding you the Legion of Merit for Extraordinary Heroism, which is what it was, Extraordinary Heroism.
From 1776 to today, every generation of Americans has stepped forward to defend life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
And they're really doing it for the next generation.
But now it's our turn.
Together, we're building a nation where every child has the chance to reach higher and go further, where government answers to the people, not the powerful, and where the interests of hardworking American citizens are always our first and ultimate concern.
That is the debt we owe to the heroes who came before us, and that is the promise we must keep to America for our 250th year.
Last year, I urged this Congress to begin the mission by passing the largest tax cuts in American history, and our Republican majorities delivered so beautifully.
Thank you, Republicans.
All Democrats, every single one of them, voted against these really important and very necessary massive tax cuts.
They wanted large-scale tax increases to hurt the people instead.
But we held strong, and with the great, big, beautiful bill, we gave you no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for our great city.
And we also made interest on auto loans tax deductible the first time, but only if the car is made in America.
Recently in Pennsylvania, I met Megan Hemhauser, a devoted mom who homeschools her children, beautiful, two children, during the day while waiting tables at night as her husband works overtime operating very heavy equipment.
Megan is here this evening and she's happy to tell you that she is so so much richer because with no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and her expanded child tax credit done again by Republicans, Megan and her husband will take home more than $5,000 extra just for the year, cutting her tax bill in more than half.
Under our bill, parents like Megan can also activate their children's brand new Trump accounts.
And I didn't name it.
I did not name that.
Nobody believes me, but I did not name it.
It was named by a very tall man standing right there in the third row.
Nice man, a good man.
Tax-free investment accounts for every American child.
This is something that's so special has taken off and gone through the roof.
Millions will be pre-funded, courtesy of the U.S. Treasury and private individuals like Michael and Susan Dell, who have donated $6,250,000,000 to fund the Trump accounts for 25 million American children.
They're great people.
You know, I asked Michael Dell, how do you make all that money?
He said, well, I just sat on my dorm in school and I made computers and I'd sell them to people.
And I just kept selling and selling and selling.
And pretty amazing story.
That's called the American Dream.
He sold a lot of computers, a lot of those laptops.
So I congratulate him on that.
But I really thank him, Susan, as well as others like Brad Gerstner, a very tremendous guy.
He was behind it right from the beginning.
Brad Gershner.
Thank you, Brad.
So with modest additional contributions, these young people's accounts could grow to over $100,000 or more by the time they turn 18.
Think of it.
How much money is that for somebody that started with nothing?
Over $100,000, could be much more than that.
To make this investment in our children's future, go to trumpeaccounts.gov, trumpeaccounts.gov.
And a lot of people are doing it.
They're setting every record in the book.
It's popular.
They knew what was going to, what it was going to take.
I'm so proud of them.
I'm so proud of the people that got it started.
And now it's just taken off.
One of the primary reasons for our country is studying economic turnaround.
The biggest in history where the Dow Jones broke 50,000 four years ahead of schedule and the S ⁇ P hit 7,000 where it wasn't supposed to do it for many years were tariffs.
I used these tariffs, took in hundreds of billions of dollars to make great deals for our country, both economically and on a national security basis.
Everything was working well.
Countries that were ripping us off for decades are now paying us hundreds of billions of dollars.
They were ripping us so badly.
You all know that.
Everybody knows it.
Even the Democrats know it.
They just don't want to say it.
And yet these countries are now happy.
And so are we.
We made deals.
The deals are all done.
And they're happy.
They're not making money like they used to, but we're making a lot of money.
There was no inflation, tremendous growth.
And the big story was how Donald Trump called the economy correctly.
And 22 Nobel Prize winners in economics didn't.
They got it totally wrong.
They got it really wrong.
And then just four days ago, an unfortunate ruling from the United States Supreme Court.
But the good news is that almost all countries and corporations want to keep the deal that they already made.
Right, Scott, knowing that the legal power that I, as president, have to make a new deal could be far worse for them, and therefore they will continue to work along the same successful path that we had negotiated before the Supreme Court's unfortunate involvement.
So, despite the disappointing ruling, these powerful countries are saving.
It's saving our country, the kind of money we're taking in.
Peace protecting many of the wars I settled was because of the threat of tariffs.
I wouldn't have been able to settle them without will remain in place under fully approved and tested alternative legal statutes.
And they have been tested for a long time.
They're a little more complex, but they're actually probably better, leading to a solution that will be even stronger than before.
Congressional action will not be necessary.
It's already time-tested and approved.
And as time goes by, I believe the tariffs paid for by foreign countries will, like in the past, substantially replace the modern-day system of income tax, taking a great financial burden off the people that I love.
Right.
Moving forward, factories, jobs, investment and trillions and trillions of dollars will continue pouring into the United States of America because we finally have a president who puts America first.
Put America first.
I love America.
For decades before I came along, we had the exact opposite.
From trade to health care, from energy to immigration, everything was stolen and rigged in order to drain the wealth out of the productive, hardworking people who make our country great, who make our country run.
Under Biden and his corrupt partners in Congress and beyond, it reached a breaking point with the Green News scam, opened borders for everyone.
They poured in by the millions and millions from prisons, from mental institutions.
They were murderers, 11,888 murderers.
They came into our country.
You allowed that to happen.
And record-setting inflation that cost the typical family $34,000 in just a speck of time.
Now, the same people in this chamber who voted for those disasters suddenly used the word affordability, a word.
They just used it.
Somebody gave it to them, knowing full well that they caused and created the increased prices that all of our citizens had to endure.
You caused that problem.
You caused that problem.
They knew their statements were a lie.
They knew it.
They knew their statements were a dirty, rotten lie.
Their policies created the high prices.
Our policies are rapidly ending them.
We are doing really well.
Those prices are plummeting downward.
The price of eggs is down 60%, Madam Secretary.
Thank you.
The cost of chicken, butter, fruit, hotels, automobiles, rent is lower today than when I took office by a lot.
And even beef, which was very high, is starting to come down significantly.
Just hold on a little while.
We're getting it down.
And soon you will see numbers that few people would think were possible to achieve just a short time ago.
Nobody can believe when they see the kind of numbers, and especially energy, when they see energy going down to numbers like that, they cannot believe it.
It's like another big tax cut.
I'm also confronting one of the biggest rip-offs of our times: the crushing costs of health care caused by you.
Since the passage of the Unaffordable Care Act, sometimes referred to as Obamacare, big insurance companies have gotten rich.
It was meant for the insurance companies, not for the people.
With our government giving them hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars a year as their stock prices soared 1,1200, 1,400, and even 1,700%, like nothing else.
That's why I introduced the great health care plan.
I want to stop all payments to big insurance companies that instead give that money directly to the people so they can buy their own health care, which will be better health care at a much lower cost.
In addition, my plan requires maximum price transparency.
That's a big deal.
Sounds so simple, so big.
And I did that in my first term, and the Democrats immediately terminated it with full knowledge that they were doing a very bad thing for the people.
Costs were going to go way up, and that's what happened.
And now I'm bringing them way down on healthcare and everything else.
I'm also ending the wildly inflated cost of prescription drugs like has never happened before.
Other presidents tried to do it, but they never could.
They tried.
Most didn't try, actually.
But they tried.
They said they tried.
They couldn't do it.
They didn't even come close.
They were all talk and no action, but I got it done.
Under my just enacted most favored nation agreements, Americans, who have for decades paid by far the highest prices of any nation anywhere in the world for prescription drugs,
will now pay the lowest price anywhere in the world for drugs anywhere the lowest price so in my first year second term should be my third term but strange things happen
I took prescription drugs, a very big part of healthcare, from the highest price in the entire world to the lowest.
That's a big achievement.
The result is price differences of 300, 400, 500, 600%, and more, all available right now at a new website called trumprx.gov.
And I didn't name that one either, by the way.
And here tonight is the very first customer ever to get that big discount.
Catherine Rayner, for five years, she and her husband have struggled with infertility, and they turned to IVF.
One drug has been costing Catherine $4,000 to purchase.
But a few weeks ago, she logged onto the Trump RX website and got that same drug that cost $4,000, got it for under $500, a reduction of much more actually than $3,500.
Catherine, we are all praying for you, and you're going to be a great mom.
So now I'm calling on Congress to codify my most favored nation program into law.
Now, the one thing I'm not sure it matters because it's going to be very hard for somebody that comes along after me to say, let's raise drug prices by 700 or 800%.
But John and Mike, if you don't mind, codify it anyway.
They may do it.
Codify it anyway.
Thank you.
Many Americans are also concerned that energy demand from AI data centers could unfairly drive up their electric utility bills.
Tonight, I'm pleased to announce that I have negotiated the new rate payer protection pledge.
You know what that is?
We're telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs.
They can build their own power plants as part of their factory so that no one's prices will go up.
And in many cases, prices of electricity will go down for the community and very substantially down.
This is a unique strategy never used in this country before.
We have an old grid.
It could never handle the kind of numbers, the amount of electricity that's needed.
So I'm telling them they can build their own plant.
They're going to produce their own electricity.
It will ensure the company's ability to get electricity while at the same time lowering prices of electricity for you and could be very substantial for all of you cities and towns.
You're going to see some good things happen over the next number of years.
Another pillar of the American dream that has been under attack is homeownership.
With us tonight is Race O'Wiggins, a mom of two from Houston.
She placed bids on 20 homes and lost all of those bids to gigantic investment firms that bypassed inspection, paid all cash, and turned those houses into rentals, stealing away her American dream.
She was devastated.
Stories like this are why last month I signed executive order to ban large Wall Street investment firms from buying up in the thousands single-family homes.
And now I'm asking Congress to make that ban permanent because homes for people, really, that's what we want.
We want homes for people, not for corporations.
Corporations are doing just fine.
Racelle, thank you very much.
Good luck with your home.
get one soon.
We're also working to make it easier for Americans to save for retirement.
And under this administration, we will always protect Social Security and Medicare.
They are not protecting it for our seniors.
always protect social security medicare medicaid since i took office the typical 401k balance is up by at least thirty thousand dollars It's a lot of money.
We have millions and millions of people because the stock market has done so well setting all those records.
Your 401ks are way up.
Yet half of all of working Americans still do not have access to a retirement plan with matching contributions from an employer.
To remedy this gross disparity, I'm announcing that next year my administration will give these oft-forgotten American workers, great people, the people that built our country, access to the same type of retirement plan offered to every federal worker.
We will match your contribution with up to $1,000 each year.
As we ensure that all Americans can profit from a rising stock market, let's also ensure that members of Congress cannot corruptly profit from using insider information.
They stood up for that.
I can't believe it.
I can't believe it.
Did Nancy Pelosi stand up if she's here?
Count it.
Pass the Stop Insider Trading Act without delay.
I wasn't sure if anybody even on this side was going to applaud for that.
I was very impressed.
Thank you.
I'm very impressed.
But when it comes to the corruption that is plundering, really, it's plundering America.
There's been no more stunning example than Minnesota, where members of the Somali community have pillaged an estimated $19 billion from the American taxpayer.
Oh, we have all the information.
And in actuality, the number is much higher than that.
And California, Massachusetts, Maine, and many other states are even worse.
This is the kind of corruption that shreds the fabric of a nation, and we are working on it like you wouldn't believe.
So tonight, although started four months ago, I am officially announcing the war on fraud to be led by our great Vice President, JD Vance.
Get it done.
And if we're able to find enough of that fraud, we will actually have a balanced budget overnight.
It'll go very quickly.
That's the kind of money you're talking about.
We'll balance our budget.
The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world where bribery, corruption, and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception.
Importing these cultures through unrestricted immigration and open borders brings those problems right here to the USA.
And it is the American people who pay the price in higher medical bills, car insurance rates, rent, taxes, and perhaps most importantly, crime.
We will take care of this problem.
We're going to take care of this problem.
We are not playing games.
Delilah, Delilah Coleman was only five years old in June 2024 when a 18 wheel tractor trailer plowed into her stopped car traveling at 60 miles an hour or more.
The driver was an illegal alien, led in by Joe Biden and given a commercial driver's license by open borders politicians in California.
Doctors said Delilah would never be able to walk or talk, have a good life.
She wouldn't even be able to eat again.
But against all odds, she is now in the first grade learning to walk.
And she's here this evening with her dad, Marcus, a fantastic man.
Delilah, please, you are a great inspiration.
Please stand up.
Thank you, Dillow.
Many, if not most, illegal aliens do not speak English and cannot read even the most basic road signs as to direction, speed, danger, or location.
That's why tonight I'm calling on Congress to pass what we will call the Delilah law barring any state from granting commercial driver's licenses to illegal aliens.
And yesterday, as you probably saw at the White House, I hosted a ceremony with Americans who lost their treasured loved ones to the scourge of illegal immigration.
People came into our country, how we allowed this to happen with our open borders.
These are the angel moms and families that for decades our government betrayed and our media totally ignored, totally terrible.
Hard to believe, actually.
In 2023, a 16-year-old high school cheerleader named Lisbeth Medina was supposed to perform in her town's Christmas parade, but she never arrived.
Her mother, Jacqueline, went home to look for her and she found her lying dead in a bathtub, bleeding profusely after being stabbed 25 times.
Lisbeth's killer was a previously arrested illegal alien who had broken in and just brutally extinguished the brightest light in her family's life violently and viciously.
Her heartbroken mother is in the gallery to remind everyone in this chamber exactly why we are deporting illegal alien criminals for our country at record numbers, and we're getting them the hell out of here fast.
We don't want to.
Thank you very much, Jacqueline.
Thank you.
We can never forget that many in this room not only allowed the border invasion to happen before I got involved, but indeed they would do it all over again if they ever had the chance.
If they ever got elected, they would open up those borders to some of the worst criminals anywhere in the world.
The only thing standing between Americans and a wide open border right now is President Donald J. Trump and our great Republican patriots in Congress.
Thank you.
As we speak, Democrats in this chamber have cut off all funding for the Department of Homeland Security.
It's all cut off.
It's all cut off.
They have instituted another Democrat shutdown, the first one costing us two points on GDP.
Two points we lost on GDP, which probably made them quite happy, actually.
Now they have closed the agency responsible for protecting Americans from terrorists and murderers.
Tonight I'm demanding the full and immediate restoration of all funding for the border security, homeland security of the United States, and also for helping people clean up their snow.
We have no money because of the Democrats, and it would be nice.
You'd love to give you a hand at cleaning it up, but you gave no money.
Nobody's getting paid.
It's a shame.
So you have to think about it.
We have, in case you didn't know, pretty large snowstorm out there.
One of the great things about the state of the Union is how it gives Americans the chance to see clearly what their representatives really believe.
So tonight I'm inviting every legislature to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle.
If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support.
First duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.
Isn't that a shame?
You should be ashamed of yourself not standing up.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens, in many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country.
They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country.
i'm asking you to approve the Save America Act to stop illegal aliens and others who are unpermitted persons from voting in our sacred American elections.
That cheating is rampant in our elections.
It's rampant.
It's very simple.
All voters must show voter ID.
Voters must show proof of citizenship in order to vote.
And no more crooked mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military, or travel.
And by the way, it's polling at 89%, including Democrats.
89 percent and even the new communist mayor of new york city i think he's a nice guy actually Speak to him a lot.
Bad policy, but nice guy.
Just said they want people to shovel snow.
They got hit hard.
Wants them to shovel snow.
But if you apply for that job, you need to show two original forms of ID and a social security card.
Yet they don't want identification for the greatest privilege of them all, voting in America.
No, it's no good.
No good.
Both Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly agree on the policy that we just enunciated.
And Congress should unite and enact this common sense, country-saving legislation right now.
And it should be before anything else happens.
And the reason they don't want to do it, why would anybody not want voter ID?
One reason, because they want to cheat.
There's only one reason.
They make up all excuses.
They say it's racist.
They come up with things, you almost say, what imagination they have.
They want to cheat.
They have cheated.
And their policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat.
And we're going to stop it.
We have to stop it, Josh.
And here is one more opportunity to show common sense in government.
In the gallery tonight are Sage Blair and her mother, Michelle.
In 2021, Sage was 14 when school officials in Virginia sought to socially transition her to a new agenda, treating her as a boy and hiding it from her parents.
Hard to believe, isn't it?
Before long, a confused Sage ran away from home after she was found in a horrific situation in Maryland.
A left-wing judge refused to return Sage to her parents because they did not immediately state that their daughter was their son.
Sage was thrown into an all-boys state home and suffered terribly for a long time.
But today, all of that is behind them because Sage is a proud and wonderful young woman with a full ride scholarship to Liberty University.
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Sage and Michelle, please stand up and thank you for your great bravery.
And who can believe that we're even speaking about things like this?
15 years ago, if somebody was up here and said that, they'd say, what's wrong with him?
But now we have to say it because it's going on all over numerous states without even telling the parents.
But surely we can all agree no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents' arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents' will.
Who would believe that we've been talking about this?
With people like this, Democrats are destroying our country, but we've stopped it just in the nick of time.
No one cares more about protecting America's youth than our wonderful first lady.
Now a movie star.
Can you believe it?
Who would have believed that?
Over the past year, she has had an incredible impact, championing AI legislation, advancing a landmark executive order on foster care, and helping secure $30 million to launch the Melania Trump Foster Youth to Independence Initiative.
It's a tremendous, really a tremendous thing that happened and had a lot of bipartisan support.
She gets much better bipartisan support than I do.
I get none.
She gets a lot.
Someday you're going to have to tell me how you did that.
And students and educators in every state have joined the First Lady's efforts in the presidential AI challenge, keeping America's next generation positioned to succeed and strongly succeed in the future.
Tonight we welcome two young people whose lives reflect the First Lady's impact: Sierra Burns and Everest Nevermont.
I'm very proud to say that during my time in office, both the first four years and in particular this last year, there has been a tremendous renewal in religion, faith, Christianity and belief in God.
Tremendous.
This is especially true among young people.
And a big part of that had to do with my great friend, Charlie Kirk, a great guy.
So last year Charlie was violently murdered by an assassin and martyred, really, martyred for his beliefs.
His wonderful wife, Erica, is with us tonight.
Erika, please stand.
Thank you, Erika.
Been through a lot.
In Charlie's memory, we must all come together to reaffirm that America is one nation under God, and we must totally reject political violence of any kind.
We love religion, and we love bringing it back.
And it's coming back at levels that nobody actually thought possible.
It's really a beautiful thing to see.
Above all, unleashing America's promise requires keeping our communities safe.
We have made incredible strides, yet dangerous repeat offenders continue to be released by pro-crime Democrat politicians again and again.
We are honored to be joined tonight by a woman who's been through hell, Anya Surutska.
In 2022, she and her beautiful daughter, so beautiful, what a beautiful young woman, Irina fled war-turn, war-torn Ukraine to live with relatives near Charlotte, North Carolina.
And by the way, what's going on with Charlotte?
Last summer, 23-year-old Irena was riding home on the train when a deranged monster who had been arrested over a dozen times and was released through no cash bail stood up and viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body.
No one will ever forget there were people on that train.
No one will ever forget the expression of terror on Irina's face as she looked up at her attacker in the last seconds of her life.
She died instantly.
She had escaped a brutal war only to be slain by a hardened criminal, set free to kill in America, came in through open borders.
Mrs. Zaretska, tonight I promise you we will ensure justice for your magnificent daughter, Irina.
How do you not stand?
How do you not stand?
I'm asking this Congress to pass tough legislation to ensure that violent and dangerous repeat offenders are put behind bars, and importantly, that they stay there.
Starting last summer, I deployed our National Guard and federal law enforcement to restore law and order to our most dangerous cities, including Memphis, Tennessee.
Big success.
New Orleans, Louisiana, big success.
And our nation's capital itself, Washington, D.C., where we have almost no crime anymore in Washington, D.C. How did that happen?
In fact, crime in Washington is now at the lowest level ever recorded, and murders in D.C. this January were down close to 100% from a year ago.
One of sick people, one of the brave service members who helped achieve this stunning turnaround, was 20-year-old West Virginia Army National Guard specialist Sarah Bextram.
After a four-month deployment, she voluntarily extended her service and her rank was going to be lifted.
She was doing so well.
They were so proud of her.
But the very next day, she was on patrol near the White House when she was ambushed and shot in the head by a terrorist monster from Afghanistan.
Shouldn't have been in our country.
And all because she wore the uniform of our nation, she was shot.
He traveled here because he didn't like people wearing our uniform.
He was sick and deranged.
Shouldn't have been in our country.
Sarah Bextram died in order to defend our capital, and we are honored to be joined by her wonderful parents, Gary and Evalie.
Your daughter was a true American patriot, and she will be greatly missed.
She was a great person.
I saw reports on her.
They've never seen anything like it.
So sorry.
Thank you very much.
A great young lady.
I saw reports that were like, perfect, she was perfect.
Serving alongside Sarah that day was Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolf.
The terrorist shot Andrew in the head, and no one thought he could possibly make it.
The two of them, Sarah and Andrew, both shot violently in the head.
Neither was expected to make it.
They weren't even given a chance, except his wonderful mother named Melody, who I spoke to the same night, and she was so positive.
The doctors thought that Andrew was gone, but his mother said, No, no, Mr. President, Andrew will be fine.
He's going to make it.
I've never seen anything like it.
I mean, he was given almost no chance.
She said, I have no doubt, sir, he's going to be okay.
This was a conversation that I had with her that night with her son laying helplessly in bed, blood all over.
Everybody is praying, she said, sir, he will be okay.
The doctors didn't understand what she was saying.
And after looking at the results of the damage done, neither did I.
She was so strong and conclusive that even Andrew's great father felt she didn't really understand the gravity of the situation.
But she turned out to be right, right, Melody?
turned out to be right.
Amazing, actually.
I said, Where does this woman come from?
She's the most positive person I've ever met.
With God's help, Andrew has battled back from the edge of death, and we're talking about the edge of death on his way to a miraculous recovery.
He's got a little work to do, but he's doing great.
Nice to see you.
He's a good-looking guy.
Nice to see you.
Thanks, Andrew.
Thank you very much.
So, Andrew, while you're up, now I'm going to ask a highly respected General James Seward to present Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe and the great family of Sarah Beckstrom with the award created by our late, great President George Washington himself.
We're proudly restoring safety for Americans at home, and we are also restoring security for Americans abroad.
Our country has never been stronger.
My first 10 months, I ended eight wars, including Cambodia.
Isn't it funny?
Sick people.
Cambodia and Thailand.
Pakistan and India would have been a nuclear war.
35 million people said the Prime Minister of Pakistan would have died if it were not for my involvement.
Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Congo and Rwanda, and of course the war in Gaza, which proceeds at a very low level.
It's just about there.
And I want to thank Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for your help.
Thank you, Steve.
And I also want to thank the man they report to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
You know, Marco got 100% of the votes when he was in confirmation.
I think our next one was about 54%.
And some of the Democrats are now saying, I can't believe we approved that guy.
And he said it's an honor that they feel that way, right, Marco?
You have done a great job, great Secretary of State.
I think he'll go down as the best of them.
Under the ceasefire, I negotiated every single hostage, both living and dead, has been returned home.
Can you believe this?
Nobody thought it was possible.
Nobody thought that was possible.
Both living and dead.
And those parents who had a dead son, their boy, they'd always tell me their boy, they wanted him as much as though he were living.
That was an amazing period of time.
And they came back.
And when we got all of the living hostages back, and many, many before then, but I always said those last 20 are going to be very tough.
But we got many, many more, hundreds.
But I said those last 20 are going to be tough.
We got them back.
But we only got back 14 or 15 of the dead of the 28.
And believe it or not, Hamas worked along with Israel and they dug and they dug and they dug.
It's a tough thing to do, going through bodies all over, passing up 100 bodies sometimes for each one that they found.
Tough job.
And they finally got it back to 27.
And then Steve and Jared, they got it back to 28.
They found all 28.
Nobody thought that was possible, but we did it.
And I remember the family of the 28th, they were so grieved, but they were so happy, as happy as it's possible to be.
They had their boy back.
The mother said, sir, we have our boy back.
What a period of time that was, but we got them all back.
So thank you both very much.
And we're working very hard to end the Ninth War, the killing and slaughter between Russia and Ukraine, where 25,000 soldiers are dying each and every month.
Think of that, 25,000 soldiers are dying a month.
A war which would have never happened if I were president, would have never happened.
As president, I will make peace wherever I can, but I will never hesitate to confront threats to America wherever we must.
That's why in a breakthrough operation last June, the United States military obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons program with an attack on Iranian soil known as Operation Midnight Hammer.
For decades, it had been the policy of the United States never to allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon, many decades.
Since they seized control of that proud nation 47 years ago, the regime and its murderous proxies have spread nothing but terrorism and death and hate.
They've killed and maimed thousands of American service members and hundreds of thousands and even millions of people with what's called roadside bombs.
They were the kings of the roadside bomb.
And we took out Salimani.
I did that during my first term.
Had a huge impact.
He was the father of the roadside road.
And just over the last couple of months with the protests, they've killed at least, it looks like, 32,000 protests.
32,000 protesters in their own country.
They shot them and hung them.
We stopped them from hanging a lot of them with the threat of serious violence.
But this is some terrible people.
They've already developed missiles that can threaten Europe and our bases overseas, and they're working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America.
After Midnight Hammer, they were warned to make no future attempts to rebuild their weapons program, in particular, nuclear weapons.
Yet they continue starting it all over.
We wiped it out, and they want to start all over again.
And are at this moment, again, pursuing their sinister ambitions.
We are in negotiations with them.
They want to make a deal, but we haven't heard those secret words.
We will never have a nuclear weapon.
My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy.
But one thing is certain.
I will never allow the world's number one sponsor of terror, which they are by far, to have a nuclear weapon.
let that happen.
And no nation should ever doubt America's result.
We have the most powerful military on earth.
I rebuilt the military in my first term.
We're going to continue to do so.
Also, we just approved a trillion-dollar budget.
We have no choice.
We have to be strong because hopefully we will seldom have to use this great power that we built together.
It's really called peace through strength, and it's been very, very effective.
So thanks to Republicans in Congress who are investing that record number of dollars, have no choice, in the United States Armed Forces.
Also creating a lot of jobs, but we're not even doing it for that reason.
Because as I said, we have more jobs, more people working today than ever before in the history of our country.
And NATO countries, our friends and allies, they are.
They're our friends and they're our allies have just agreed at my very strong request to pay 5% of GDP for military defense rather than the 2% which they weren't paying.
We were paying for almost all of that.
now they're paying five as opposed to not paying for it and getting that five percent was something which everyone said would never be done could not happen We got it really easily with one meeting.
And big difference between 2% that's not paid.
We were paying afraid of many of them.
Very few were paid up.
Now 5%, then they're paid.
And everything we send over to Ukraine is sent through NATO and they pay us in full.
They pay us totally in full.
Every branch of our armed forces is setting records for recruitment.
This is so exciting.
And every service member recently received a warrior dividend of $1,776.
You know, they put it on my desk.
We got the money from tariffs and other things.
A lot of money we have.
We have much more money than people understand.
Have to rebuild that program a little bit, but it won't take long.
But we got the money, and it was $1,775, and they wanted my approval.
And I said, what's the number?
$1,775.
I said, wait a minute, for one more dollar, we can have $1,776.
I said, we're going to figure that.
I never asked anybody if we could afford it.
One more dollar.
I said, $1,776.
And I said, that's good.
And I'll tell you what, our military, that was four months ago, our military, I never see a person in the military that doesn't thank me for it.
So we're honored to do it.
They deserve it.
And we call it 1776.
It was great.
And we love our military.
We love our law enforcement.
We love our firemen.
You know, the firemen don't get mentioned enough.
We love our firemen.
We're also restoring American security and dominance in the Western Hemisphere, acting to secure our national interests and defend our country from violence, drugs, terrorism, and foreign interference.
For years, large swaths of territory in our region, including large parts of Mexico, really large parts of Mexico, have been controlled by murderous drug cartels.
That's why I designated these cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and I declared illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
And with our new military campaign, we have stopped record amounts of drugs coming into our country and virtually stopped it completely coming in by water or sea.
You probably noticed that.
We very seriously damaged their fishing industry also.
Nobody wants to go fishing anymore.
We've also taken down one of the most sinister cartel kingpins of all.
saw that yesterday.
In January, elite American warriors carried out one of the most complex, spectacular feats of military competence and power in world history.
No one's seen anything like it.
Foreign leaders, I won't tell you who called me, and they said, very impressive.
They couldn't believe it.
They all watched.
They saw what happened.
This is a different fighting force than we had years ago when we fought to tie.
You know, it's a great fighting force.
I'm so proud of it.
Look at Space Force, Space Forces, my baby, as we did that.
All defenses are not only defeated, enemy, good fighters, to end the reign of outlawed dictator Nicolas Maduro and bring him to face American justice.
And this was an absolutely colossal victory for the security of the United States.
And it also opens up a bright new beginning for the people of Venezuela.
We're working closely with the new president of Venezuela, Del C. Rodriguez, to unleash extraordinary economic gains for both of our countries and to bring new hope to those who have suffered so terribly.
They really did suffer.
With us tonight is Alejandro Gonzalez.
He grew up in a tight-knit Venezuelan family and was especially close to her beloved uncle Enrique.
But after Enrique ran for office and opposed Maduro, he was kidnapped by Maduro security forces and thrown into the regime's really infamous prison in Caracas.
Alejandro feared she would never see her uncle again.
She feared for her own life also.
But since the raid, we have worked with the new leadership and they have ordered the closure of that vile prison and released hundreds of political prisoners already, with more to come.
Alejandro, I'm pleased to inform you that not only has your uncle been released, but he is here tonight.
We brought him over to celebrate his freedom with you in person.
Enrique, please come down.
Thank you, Enrique.
Have a good time.
Nice to have you back, Enreke.
There were many heroes on that January raid to capture Maduro, really great heroes.
It was very dangerous.
They knew we were coming.
They were all set.
But the deeds of one warrior that night will live forever in the eternal chronicles of military valor.
Chief Warrant Officer 5, Eric Slover, planned the mission and was the flight lead in the cockpit of the first helicopter.
A big, beautiful, powerful helicopter.
It was a massive Chinook carrying, as you can imagine, many, many American warfighters.
Wearing the dog tags his wife Amy had blessed with holy water before he left.
She knew it was going to be a rough one.
Eric steered the Chinook under the cover of night and descended swiftly upon Maduro's heavily protected military fortress.
This was a major military installation, protected by thousands of soldiers and guarded by Russian and Chinese military technology.
How did that work out?
Not too good.
While preparing to land, enemy machine guns fired from every angle, and Eric was hit very badly in the leg and hip, one bullet after another.
He absorbed four agonizing shots, shredding his leg into numerous pieces.
And yet, despite the fact that the use of his legs was vital to successful helicopter flight, legs are the most important part of flying a helicopter to deliver the many commandos who would capture and detain Maduro was the only thing Eric was thinking about.
Then even as he was gushing blood, which was flowing back down the aisle, helicopter lands at a steep angle.
The machine gun stood right in front of him.
They were right in front of him, two machine gunners who escaped the wrath of the previous planes.
Eric maneuvered his helicopter with all of those lives and souls to face the enemy and let his gunners eliminate the threat.
Turn the helicopter around so the gunners could take care of business, saving the lives of his fellow warriors from what could have been a catastrophic crash deep in enemy territory.
Only after safely landing the helicopter with all the warriors aboard in the exact right spot, which was vital to the mission, probably would have maybe canceled the mission if that didn't happen.
Eric told his co-pilot, also wounded, but not as gravely, to take over.
I'm about ready to pass out.
The success of the entire mission and the lives of his fellow warriors hinge on Eric's ability to take searing pain.
Unbelievable what's happened to his legs of the bullets and keep on flying and landing.
And people knew what was happening.
Everybody in the back of the helicopter knew because they saw the blood pouring down the aisle.
Chief Warrant Officer Slover is still recovering from his serious wounds, but I'm thrilled to say that he is here tonight with his wife Amy, Eric, and Amy.
Come on in.
So we have a surprise, Eric and Amy.
In recognition of Eric's actions above and beyond the call of duty, I would now like to ask General Jonathan Braga to present Chief Warrant Officer Slover with our nation's highest military award, the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Well, thank you very much, Eric and Amy.
Great to get to know you.
I met with them and with a lot of their fellow warriors at Fort Bragg recently.
You notice the name Fort Bragg.
We have it back.
We brought it back.
We won the First World War with it, the Second World War with it, and then they decided to change the name.
But we changed it back.
Everybody wanted to change back too.
And 10 of Eric's fellow warriors from that incredible night of victory will also be receiving medals at a private ceremony that will soon be held at the White House.
Tonight, we've celebrated many truly extraordinary American patriots, but there is one last living legend to honor before we go.
He is one more heroic American aviator, Navy fighter pilot.
Royce Williams served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, flying more than 220 missions.
In disguise over Korea in 1952, Royce was in the dog fight of a lifetime, legendary dogfight, flying through blizzard conditions.
His squadron was ambushed by seven Soviet fighter planes.
It was his first aerial combat of the war, and despite being massively outnumbered and outgunned, Royce led the takedown of four enemy jets and almost destroyed the others, vanquishing his adversaries while taking 263 bullets to his own plane and being seriously hurt.
His story was secret for over 50 years.
He didn't even want to tell his wife, but the legend grew and grew.
But tonight, at 100 years old, this brave Navy captain is finally getting the recognition he deserves.
He was a legend long before this evening.
Royce, please stand up and I will ask the First Lady of the United States to present Captain Royce Williams with his Congressional Medal of Honor.
Thank you, Royce, and thank you, Eric.
I've always wanted the Congressional Medal of Honor, but I was informed I'm not allowed to give it to myself, and I wouldn't know why I'd be taking it, but if they ever opened up that law, I will be there with you someday.
But you know, that's our highest honor, Congressional Medal of Honor, and that's a big thing.
And it's an honor to be in the same room with you.
250 years is a long time in the life of a nation, but in another sense, it's really a mere moment in the eye of history.
Two of the gentlemen we met in the gallery this evening took their first breaths one century ago, 100 years before that on July 4th, 1826, the author of the Declaration of Independence, brilliant, Thomas Jefferson, drew his last breath.
Just a single long human lifespan separates the giants who declared and won our independence from the heroes who stand among us tonight.
Everything our nation has done, everything we have achieved, has been the work of those few great lifetimes.
In those brief chapters, Americans built this nation from 13 humble colonies into the pinnacle of human civilization and human freedom, the strongest, wealthiest, most powerful, most successful nation in all of history.
Americans ventured out across the daunting and dangerous continent.
We carved paths through an unforgiving wilderness, settled a boundless frontier, and tamed the beautiful but very, very dangerous Wild West.
From empty marshes and wide open plains, we raised up the world's greatest cities.
Together, we mastered the world's mightiest industries and shattered history's monstrous tyrannies.
And we liberated millions from the chains of fascism, communism, oppression, and terror.
Americans lifted humanity into the skies on the wings of aluminum and steel.
And then we launched mankind into the stars on rockets powered by sheer American will and unyielding American pride.
We wired the globe with our ingenuity.
We captivated the planet with American culture.
And now we are pioneering the next great American breakthroughs that will change the entire world.
All of this and so much more is the enduring legacy, unmatched glory of the hardworking patriots who built and defended this country and who still carry the hopes and freedoms on all of humanity's backs.
For years they were forgotten, betrayed, and cast aside, but that great betrayal is over and they will never be forgotten again.
Because when the world needs courage, daring, vision, and inspiration, it is still turning to America.
And when God needs a nation to work his miracles, he knows exactly who to ask.
There is no challenge Americans cannot overcome, no frontier too vast for us to conquer, no dream too bold for us to chase, no horizon too distant for us to claim.
For our destiny is written by the hand of Providence, and these first 250 years were just the beginning.
From the rugged border towns of Texas to the heartland villages of Michigan, from the sun-kissed shores of Florida to the endless fields of the Dakotas, and from the historic streets of Philadelphia to right here in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C.
It still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot, and our future will be bigger, better, brighter, bolder, and more glorious than ever before.
That is officially the longest State of the Union address ever.
I can go into the chat, look at your response.
I can go to my notes.
Let's just get the notes out.
Let's just go to the notes.
Let's do that, guys.
I believe it was just shy.
I believe it was just shy of two hours, but it was officially the longest state of the union in U.S. history.
We had a couple of Ruths tonight.
We had a couple of babe Ruths.
We called the shots on a couple of things tonight, but we won't get into that.
Starts off talking about we're back, the great American turnaround.
I don't know how much that lands with people.
I don't know if this ship is truly turned around yet.
Our idea of turning it around was draining the swamp, deep state arrests, massive tax cuts, massive reduction of foreign aid, foreign entanglements, foreign wars, foreign involvement.
So, I mean, I don't know what that really means to him.
I don't know what the we're back, great turnaround.
Not really sure where that lands.
Al Green exits early.
He had a sign that said, I think it said, was it Black Americans Aren't Apes?
I think is what that one said.
I got a picture of it.
Al Green, Democrat from Texas.
Black people aren't apes.
And then he was holding it the way Al Green, he's not the brightest guy.
I've met Al Green a couple of times.
You may have seen those viral clips.
If you've never seen me and Al Green at the Washington, D.C. airport, Reagan International, those are fun.
Al Green once tried to start a mob riot against me at Reagan International because I was calling him out on his anti-Trump garbage.
So he's holding up the sign that says black people aren't apes, but he has his hand over the R, the AR, and it reads, black people rent apes.
And then he exited the building.
He was out.
A couple of Democrats exited early.
He talked about the economy, greatest ever, hottest country.
We all predicted that.
That doesn't land with the vast majority of Americans.
So that just doesn't hit.
Border most secure, leaned into the border.
That is true.
Leaned into the net migration being down.
That is true.
Leaned into the crime being down.
That is good.
Those are the strong points of the administration, no doubt.
Blamed the inflation on Biden.
It's really kind of a nice cop-out because really that was Trump.
The inflation and the permanent damage that was done to the economy was Trump in 2020 with all the COVID policies and the lockdown and the economic shutdown and the printing of billions of dollars.
So really that was caused by the Trump administration and then the Biden administration took the blame for it.
So he did bring that up.
Said gas prices are down.
I checked gas was down on average 16 cents year over year.
Gas was down 16 cents year over year on average.
So some states, it's down, some states not so much.
Kind of a state issue.
Down a little bit.
16 cents a gallon, we'll say.
Mortgage rates down.
That's true, but the housing market is still a disaster.
And he kind of had to, he had an interesting, weird moment there where he talked about how he wants to lower the price of housing, but how he also wants to keep the value of homes up because he doesn't want people to lose their equity.
I don't really know how you plan on doing that.
It's kind of impossible.
I guess you could say new builds, new houses are going to be cheaper, but then that drives down the price of old houses because why would you buy an older house that's more expensive?
So that's just a disaster.
That's caused by banks, though.
That's a bank issue.
That's a, you know, these giant corporations buying up all the real estate, BlackRock Vanguard, which there was a big bait and switch.
Trump said, oh, we're going to get them out.
And then all they did was just change the rule.
And it used to be, it was like, if you had more than 25, I forget what it was.
It was like, if you had more than a billion in holdings and then they cut it down to 25 million.
So basically now, whatever classified as, you know, you can't buy up all this housing if you have X amount of holdings, they just, they just changed the rule.
So really, it was kind of a false start.
It's kind of a bait and switch.
But that's just a weird one that he went into.
Bragged about the stock market being high.
That only helps the rich.
That only helps the 1%, really.
He keeps talking about now it's $18 trillion that he brought in, $18 trillion of investments, where, what, how.
It just seems like this thing he throws around.
I'm not sure how real it is.
Talks about the oil from Venezuela.
Well, that's an interesting one.
I guess, I mean, we stole it and then it went to Israel.
So, okay.
Ended DEI.
Well, you know, maybe the culture of DEI is not where it once was, but no, they just signed a bill.
The most recent bill that they passed has DEI all over it.
So, no, they didn't end DEI.
Winning so much, so sick of winning.
You know, then he points to the hockey team.
If we didn't have the hockey team victory, I don't know where the winning comes from.
You know, the hockey moment was great.
Yeah, I'm a sucker for that.
I know.
I'll admit that.
And the funny thing is, I'm sitting here.
You know what?
I think what we need to do is actually just let the U.S. hockey team actually run Congress.
Just kick them all out.
Take everybody out and just let the U.S. men's hockey team run Congress.
Let's just do that.
How about that?
Connor Hellebuck, he can be the president and then let the hockey team run Congress.
It'll probably be better, probably be less corrupt.
They give Hellebuck the Medal of Freedom.
You know, I liked the move.
He got snubbed on the MVP of the Olympics.
So they give him the nod with the Medal of Freedom.
I like that.
World War II vet gets honored.
Camp Mystic vet gets Camp Mystic hero gets honored.
A couple of other honors tonight.
A lot of awards we're giving out.
No tax on tips overtime in Social Security.
That's another kind of bait and switch false starter because there's a cap on that.
And it's like right where the tax bracket cap was already for lower income people that barely pay any taxes.
So that one's also kind of a non-starter.
That one's also kind of a bait and switch, honestly.
The Trump accounts.
You know, I got to tell you, I think the Trump accounts is a big scam.
I have to be honest.
It sounds nice.
Maybe it works out.
But really, it's just a stock market grift.
It's a stock market grift.
Now, he says it's tax-free.
What's interesting about the tax-free thing is if you have stocks, if you're in the stock market and you make money, then they're wanting to tax you on that money.
But if you lose money, the government's not paying you back for losing money.
They're only taking money if you win it.
So this idea of capital gains tax is bullshit.
There should be no capital gains tax.
It's total horseshit.
And so it's funny that they say, oh, this will be a tax-free account.
Now, here's the interesting thing.
Of course, this gives a boost to the stock market.
And anybody who follows this stuff knows the day that they launched that, the stock market got a boost.
So all the smart money got in and got a little 5%, 10% boost that day.
If you go to the actual Trump account website and he says, I didn't come up with these names, Trump accounts, Trump RX, Trump, Trump, Trump.
Yeah, okay.
If you go to the fine print, it actually says that the numbers are not guaranteed and they just represent, you know, assumed stock market value.
So they're assuming the stock market is going to go up 100%.
So I don't even know how realistic, quite frankly, the whole thing is.
I don't know.
So I don't know how they're planning on getting 100% gains over 20 years in a government tax-free stock account, but that's basically what they're saying.
If the stock market tanks, then what happens?
Nothing.
You get nothing.
That's the interpretation.
The Dems cheered for the Supreme Court tax ruling.
They cheered for that one.
They didn't like that one.
So that's just straight up clown world across the board.
And so Trump responds.
He says he doesn't need congressional approval.
He'll just do tariffs anyway.
He says he wants it to replace the income tax.
How about just cut the income tax?
How about just cut the income tax?
That would be actually ideal if you could just cut the income tax.
Did anybody understand the babbling about the health care plan?
Then he droned on, and this is when it started to get into the drone on territory.
The Sanctuary Cities segment that popped the Democrats off.
That's the first kind of contentious moment was a Sanctuary Cities.
And they should all be arrested.
All the people that did the Sanctuary Cities, they should all be arrested.
So I don't want to hear about it until you arrest them.
It's obnoxious.
That's aiding and abetting crime.
If you took in criminals into your house, that'd be aiding and abetting crime.
So all the Sanctuary City mayors need to be arrested.
So I'm not playing games.
Droning on again, attacks Dems over something.
I don't even know what it was.
And then they started screaming about the Epstein files.
We called the shameless movie plug for Melania.
Oh boy.
Oh boy.
Then there was the Erica Kirk and Irania Zaruska mother moment.
Oh boy.
You know, in the middle of all the drama, someone's going to say it.
Might as well say it.
Could you tell the difference in the pain and suffering from Erica and Irania's mother?
Someone's going to say it.
Someone probably already has said it.
So, you know, whatever.
Did you guys notice that?
I mean, that was like that was bad.
I mean, let's just say it.
That was not really a good time to have that moment.
And I bet you the one person that's covering that aspect, covering that angle that returns to her show tomorrow, is going to be mentioning that.
I wouldn't be shocked one bit if the person who was the number one target of bought and paid for digital influence propaganda campaign, Candace Owens today, I bet you she's going to be showing that.
That juxtaposition between those two in their moment of grief, moment of mourning.
Yikes.
Let's just move on.
He gets into obliterating the nuclear sites, celebrating that.
But now it's, oh, we obliterated the nuclear sites, but sorry, we actually didn't.
You know, I don't want to get too much into the foreign policy stuff here, but since he brought it up, you know, he brings up how Iran is, you know, how Iran and Sulamani killed Americans.
And, you know, look, I'm an American patriot.
I don't fault the men and women that joined the military and go do their service.
But let's just be, you know, let's just say it for what it is here.
Those Americans were not killed in America.
Those Americans were in a foreign country for a foreign agenda that was not in our interests.
And so, yeah, I mean, I don't want to see any of our men and women get wounded overseas.
That's why I want to end these wars.
That's why I want to bring all the troops home.
But everybody sees what it is now.
Our military is being used for foreign interests.
And I'm concerned now that all of this pro-military propaganda that is driving up The recruitment to the military, I'm afraid that it's going to be used for foreign interests yet again.
I don't want to see any more men and women die, whether it's Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan.
I don't want to see any more men and women die in the Middle East for foreign interests.
I want none of it.
But that's not Iran attacking us in our homeland.
And it looks like they're building it up again.
Let's hope not.
He brings up the Iranians killing protesters.
We keep hearing different numbers.
First, it was 100,000, then it was 50,000, then it was 2,000.
I don't know what number Trump said today.
Mark Levin said it was 50,000 on his show today.
He's just a known lying rat.
Where's all the footage?
Where's all the proof of all these killed protesters?
I'm not saying it's not happening, but I'm saying that I've got so much video proof of what Israel is doing in the Gaza Strip that I don't want to support.
And I'm told to ignore that and that that's all good.
And then I'm told, oh, the Iranian protesters and Iran is the worst ever.
And it's a CIA Mossad operation that's leading these people to death.
And then the Iranian missiles that are going to hit us, more foreign war propaganda.
Iran can never have a nuke, more foreign war propaganda, but Israel has illegal nukes.
Israel has illegal nukes and technically should not be receiving a dime of foreign aid and is not even considered an ally in legal terms because they have illegally proliferated nuclear weapons, which Mike Huckabee basically admitted in the Tucker Carlson interview.
So it's weird how Israel just gets to play by different rules.
They're above the rules and we have to fund their entire operation.
Doesn't matter how broke you are.
Oh, he drones everyone on drones, drone, drones, more foreign propaganda slop for a while.
And that's when it started getting ridiculous once it went over the record for longest ever.
And then they showed Nancy Pelosi on the screen.
Who looks worse?
Nancy Pelosi or Mitch McConnell?
That's tough.
Nancy Pelosi or Mitch McConnell, guys.
Who looks worse?
Boy, oh, boy.
All right, guys.
I want to give a shout out to everybody that tuned in.
Shout out to all the super chats tonight.
Nice to see you back.
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Nice to see you back, Albert.
It's been a while.
Been a while.
Hope you're doing well.
We're wondering.
It's good to see you.
What happened to Tiffany Dober, the nurse that took the vaccine and disappeared?
It's good to have you back, Albert.
Really appreciate you in the super chats tonight.
Really appreciate all the support, all the super chats.
Thank you guys.
We've been here for two and a half hours now on top of a three-hour show.
We're almost on six.
Well, actually, we are on six hours.
We did a three and a half hour show.
We've done two and a half hours tonight.
That's six hours.
We're going to be back tomorrow.
I have a feeling it's going to be a fun day.
I have a feeling there's going to be some stuff going on tomorrow.
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