Donald Trump’s 2026 State of the Union—mocked by Democrats for boycotting it—highlighted record economic gains: gasoline at $1.99/gallon, mortgage costs down $5K/year, and 2.4M off food stamps since his policies. He touted tariffs boosting jobs, healthcare reforms like $4K-to-$500 prescription savings (e.g., Catherine Raynor’s infertility treatment), and a "Delilah law" banning illegal aliens from commercial driving licenses after cases like Lisbeth Medina’s murder. Trump also pushed the "Save America Act" for voter ID, blamed Somali immigrants for $19B in fraud, and honored military heroes—including Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe (Medal of Honor for stopping an Afghan terrorist) and Chief Warrant Officer Eric Slover (Maduro capture mission)—while criticizing sanctuary cities and no-cash-bail policies. The episode framed his address as a defiant contrast to Democratic "People’s State of the Union" rallies, exposing perceived lies about progress while touting conservative victories in faith, security, and economic policy. [Automatically generated summary]
Tonight is the State of the Union address from Donald Trump, but we also have the Democrats People's State of the Union happening just about an hour before the State of the Union is set to occur.
So we will be largely just watching this and fact-checking and providing light commentary as we listen to what the president has to say about the current state of affairs in this country.
And of course, Democrats' pregame show, where they're boycotting the State of the Union address, saying that they're not going to go.
And oh boy, it's going to be a silly night.
There's a bunch of rumors circulating.
One, a false rumor, that Thomas Massey would be joining the Democrats and sitting alongside them.
That's not true.
Everybody's tweeting it.
The news is reporting it.
And Massey literally posted a picture from his seat on the Republican side of the aisle as they prepare for the State of the Union.
So, man, so much fake news going around.
But we'll talk about that plus some of the other rumors as we're going to be chilling and waiting.
I actually ordered some pizzas, which should be here not too late, actually, because the rumor is Donald Trump is going to be speaking for three hours.
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We've got the watch party for the Donald Trump State of the Union address coming up 9 p.m.
And in the meantime, we'll be watching the Democrats' weird version where they're boycotting and having the people's stay the union, which is a weird thing to call it because Trump was elected by the people, but sure.
And a couple of the stories that will pop up.
We'll have a general conversation as we flow through this.
Joining us tonight to talk about this and to comment on the gentle musings of the president is Jay Dyer.
And Tate was pointing out that for a lot of these smaller leftists, they come on these shows just to get a click to go viral so they can build an audience.
So they'll say things that, you know what I love about those debates?
Is we'll start like this.
I'll give you an example of how some of these debates go.
Before I introduce our host for tonight, I just want to give a special thanks to all of the people behind the scenes who helped to make tonight happen.
Louvon staff, the staff who serve our congressional representatives and senators here tonight, our partners, thank you so much.
This is no small task to put on a historic event to fight for our country.
And so tonight we are not going to hear a false state of the union.
We are going to hear the true state of our union from the people who are being impacted by the policies that are taking place at the hands of someone who has demonstrated no love for the Constitution, for the truth, or for the care and concern of the American people.
Is he basically a tall guy with a long utterance of this administration?
Let me speak as an American and as a Baptist minister.
The Trump administration is the most hostile to religious freedom in generations.
They attack any religious leader or Christianity not in lockstep with their political agenda.
He's just making this up, but in this house, the Pentagon, the Department of Justice, and ICE have weaponized religion for their white Christian nationalist crusade.
Let's not say that crimes and Democrats have to stop behaving normally.
And I'm not at the State of the Union speech tonight because you're not going to hear about the state of the Union.
You are going to hear lie after lie.
You are going to hear attack after attack.
You are going to see grandstanding.
The true state of the Union is this.
This union is in crisis right now.
Our cities are under attack by lawless law enforcement.
Our democracy is wilting under ceaseless attack from a president who wants to be a despot.
Millions of Americans are losing their health care because the president has chosen corruption to pad the pockets of his billionaire friends instead of helping average Americans.
You're not going to hear any of that in that speech tonight.
But by being here for the people's state of the Union, you are going to hear the real story of America.
A story of an America that is under siege, but a story of America that is not going to take it, that is going to fight back and is going to reclaim this country for everything that is good and right about the United States of America.
Fereshede is going to talk to you tonight about the state of immigrant and refugee America.
ICE is out of control.
It is disappearing legal immigrants.
It is tear gassing elementary schools.
It is murdering American citizens.
Right now, as you know, the Department of Homeland Security is shut down.
And I just want to be very clear with you about my position and I think the position of many others who will stand on this stage tonight.
Not one more dime for the Department of Homeland Security until they start following the law in this country.
Ferris Day came to this country over a decade ago, coming to the United States from a refugee camp.
She told me just off stage that this is the moment.
This is the reason that she came here to the United States to speak truth to power, to explain the trials and tribulations that every immigrant and every refugee goes through to get here and to press this country to get order and stuck in the border.
I mean, that's actually like a funny thing about the people that they want to import because we've gotten rid of a lot of these practices, but I'm just imagining they're bringing in people who have there was this seminar where a black woman argued for what did they call it, like non-white supremacist science or something, arguing that like ritual practices for healing were just as valid because they lived experiences of cultures.
Coming to the stage now is Pennsylvania's Fighting 12.
Representative, Representative Summer Lee.
She is one of the main reasons that we're getting some of those files.
She's going to be reading a story from Monica Ruiz, the executive director of Casa San Jose, waiting to keep families together and reform our unjust immigration system, all while her family is now being impacted by ICE.
I am Summer Lee, representing Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district, and I'm proud to stand here this evening with Move On, with organizers, with workers, and with everyday people who refuse to sit quietly while our country is pushed to the brink.
Right now, Donald Trump is preparing to deliver his made-up version of the state of the union.
He's going to tell a familiar story tonight: that the economy is booming, that our communities are safer, and that the America and that America is stronger than it's ever been, all because of him.
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We know that the fear that our families are facing of being hunted down by ICE.
We know our neighbors are working two or three jobs to make ends meet, that their health care has been gutted and their federal jobs have been eliminated by thousands.
We know our education systems and unions are being targeted because they threaten authoritarian power.
And they want us fighting each other so we don't pay attention to what they're stealing from us.
And I mean, all of us, Democrats and Republicans, and independents, young folks.
Her son-in-law was called by agents unprompted after he dropped his brother off at work.
They pulled him over without cause.
There was no traffic violation, no expired tag, just a man who...
She's going to be dragged to one of the worst centers in the country.
Meanwhile, just the other day, Monica's daughter Adriana just gave birth to a baby girl who is yet to meet her father because he's been locked up by this lawless agency.
The real state of our union, where families are being torn apart and traumatized, where corporations give more say in our democracy than the people we elect, where the government would rather protect powerful people and the Epstein fouls than the women and the girls who were sexually abused.
We live in a country where we have one reality for everyday people and another for the rich and the well-connected.
Trump's DLJ continues to obstruct justice and refuses to comply with our subpoena to release the full unredacted Epstein fouls.
Fundy must be held accountable for that.
And let's not forget, it was Trump who said it first, release the fouls.
So we'll keep that call up no matter what.
Because where I come from in Western Pennsylvania, we know what it means to be abandoned by politicians who make big promises and lie and deliver nothing.
We know what it's like when the factories close, when the hospitals cut services, when the schools can't afford to teach, when the corporations are given permission to point out, she's trying to be the next Maxine Water.
They're calling a golden tonight because this is about a movement that is big enough to defeat authoritarianism to stand up to quit power and boot it in a simple belief.
Millions of Americans right now are without health care.
The poorest of our country are trying to figure out how to make ends meet and how to pay for that grocery bill because they needed an extra billion dollars for their billionaire friends.
And when they had whatever money they had left over, then they used that amount of ice ages to have the massive amount of deportations that we have now that are also targeting U.S. citizens, racial profiling Americans, arresting Latino veterans and telling them you are not part of this country and make them prove that they're Americans.
Is say something that Trump did using a large word they can't understand.
So go to university with the microphone and say, you know, Donald Trump has obviously been violating the Constitution.
And we're here shocked because Trump is actually increasing matriculation among young people.
How do you feel about that?
Oh, it's terrible.
It's the worst thing ever.
And then once I get all of these people to say that college is bad, I get them all to sign a petition and then they'll be acting as if they're a military occupation.
Will I continue to pay for this very expensive health care or will I gamble?
Will I pay for my health care or will I pay the mortgage?
That decision was forced upon him by an uncaring Republican administration, by an uncaring Trump, who only wants to find more and more money to give more and more tax cuts to the richest of the country that do not need it, do not need it right now.
You'll be joined by Jenna Norton, a public health scientist focused on health equity and data standards to improve health outcomes in kidney and urologic diseases.
She was a lead organizer of the Bethesda Declaration, a whistleblower letter to the NIH director and members of Congress detailing this harm.
In November 2025, she was placed on retaliatory administrative leave.
So you're going to want to give her a major round of applause.
But instead, ever since he was sworn in, we've seen prices and costs go up on the American choices to extend tax cuts, tax credits that help people afford before Woodrow Wilson was a mistake.
We have a president who seeks not to build everything before Woodrow Wilson was a mistake.
And a president who said he would stop wars, who said he would stop wars, but instead is responsible for war crimes and as we speak, is threatening war wars.
Yeah, like we need to stop him.
We are gathered here because we know that we cannot pretend that this count was mentioning this that they may strike Iran tonight.
We're going to stand up just like the people in Minneapolis who have taken to the streets, who are blowing the whistle to protect their neighbors and to protect our Constitution, and who are getting in the way of the president's efforts to tear down our country.
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Now look, how does the competition back an effort to tear down our country?
And we all need to make sure that we put forward ideas to deal with it.
So, in my view, it's not enough that we hold a line against Donald Trump.
That we must do.
But let's face it, we also need to show the American people that we are willing to stand up and fight against big corporate special interests to the benefit of all of the American people.
A career public health researcher at the National Institutes of Health.
Dr. Norton blew the whistle on the outrageous actions that threaten the health and well-being of the American people.
And she has been retaliated against because she was willing to stand up and tell the truth.
But here's what we all know: when the history of this moment is written, the politicians and the law firms and the universities and the corporations who appease the bullies will be exposed as the cowards they are.
And the people who are standing up to save our democracy, like all of you gathered here today, and people like Dr. Cohen, how long do you think they're going to be there?
You can be a nerd, but you can still do your hair and get contact with his right-wing coach.
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I was placed on administrative leave in November of last year because I spoke up about the wrongdoing that I was seeing in a job that I used to love at the National Institutes of Health until it was fundamentally changed.
The Trump administration put research participants and public health at risk when they abruptly terminated NIH studies.
By halting these studies, they also wasted taxpayer resources.
When you halt a study, a five-year study, a $5 million study.
The lawlessness at the National Institutes of Health, you know, like a like a Did you see the guy who warmed his house at a wood stove with Krispy Kreme donuts?
You know, like you're walking into the store and a wolf just pops out and you're like, and that everyone, bro, guns, universal gun rights across the board overnight if we do that.
It's time for them to pay their fair share so that every man, woman, and child in this country can have a job that pays a living wage and affordable child care and health care as a basic human right for every single person.
But what happened was I saw a scoop that Trump is bringing a D-transitioner to the State of the Union as a guest and was going to make a comment on the shift and what's been going on with surgeries and the major announcements that we've seen since.
And as soon as that went live, I went to call she and it was like 50% that he'll say yes.
And I was like, okay, I'm going to buy this.
Because I'm always talking about how I watch the news all day.
And if I invested based off of the news that I saw, I'd probably make a bunch of money.
So instantly, it jumped to like 70% that he's going to say it.
And so I think I might turn a little profit off of gambling.
We did that bit for Cast Castle with James O'Keefe where Jamie Kilstein was talking to this beautiful woman and he was like, I'm just, I can't believe you're talking to me.
And she's like, yeah.
Is there any like corporate malfeasance you're involved in?
You want to tell me about?
And he's like, well, actually.
And then the camera pants him when it pants back, it's James in a wig.
It's the funniest thing about James O'Keeffe where these women are on dates with the guy and they're like, so like, tell me about bribery and corruption that you're involved in.
Oh, no, my point is, every day when we do this show, sometimes we break news.
Like someone will be like, hey, yo, this thing just happened and they'll pull it up.
And I've pointed out that most people don't invest on the immediate breaking news.
It's the next day.
So I was like, if we actually just bought shares and traded crypto or other things based on the news we're seeing live when we're doing it, we're hours ahead of the average person.
We'd profit.
I mean, we're not ahead of the AI or anything like that, but we'd profit.
And so Ian was talking about graphene years ago.
So I invested in a company that produces carbon products and graphene.
I'm up like 20 grand, I think.
And I was like, you know, Ian once stormed into my room like Kramer.
I've told the story a million times.
He like knocks on the door to our old student, the old studio we're in at the castle, and he's like, he just, nine, ok, over there.
Like, oh, dude, you got to buy Palantir.
Like, have you heard about this?
It's like, it's public now.
It's $13.
And I was like, Ian, I know, I heard a palantir.
I don't know.
What are you talking about?
He's like, bro, I'm telling you right now, you got to go, just buy a bunch of shares of Palantir.
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.
When I last spoke in this chamber 12 months ago, I had just inherited a nation in crisis with a stagnant economy, inflation at record levels, a wide open border, horrendous recruitment for military and police, rampant crime at home, and wars and chaos all over the world.
But tonight, after just one year, I can say with dignity and pride that we have achieved a transformation like no one has ever seen before and a turnaround for the ages.
After four years in which millions and millions of illegal aliens poured across our borders totally unvetted and unchecked, we now have the strongest and most secure border in American history by far.
In the past nine months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted to the United States.
The flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is down 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 while at the same time protecting the values of those people who already own a house that really feel rich for the first time in their lives.
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.
And I asked him, the one shot, the one where you put your stick in the back and it hit the neck of your stick and bounced off.
Do you practice that or was that little lucky?
He refused to answer that question.
But I just want to tell you that the members of this great hockey squad will be very happy to hear, based on their vote and my vote, and in this case my vote was more important, that I will soon be presenting Connor with our highest civilian honor, which we will be given and which has been given to many athletes over the years.
But when I say many, not too many, like 12.
It's called the highest civilian honor in our country, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Great athletes have gotten that very great, the best, and I thought he deserved it.
And I did take a vote, every single one of them.
I said, I'm not giving it if anybody goes no.
And every single one of them rapidly put up their hand.
So I want to thank you all.
What a special job you did.
What special champions you are.
Thank you very much.
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.
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.
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.
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It's hard to make the argument that he's not, that he's taxing the middle class, that he's hurting the middle class when he does pass things like that.
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 whose homeschools are 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.
Tax-free investment accounts for every American child.
This is something that's so special and 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 and Susan, as well as others like Brad Gerstner, a very tremendous guy.
He was behind it right from the beginning.
Brad Gerstner.
Thank you, Brad.
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?
It could be much more than that.
To make this investment in our children's future, go to trumpeaccounts.gov, trumpaccounts.gov.
And a lot of people are doing it.
It's setting every record in the book.
It's popular.
They knew what it was going to take.
I'm so proud of them.
I'm so proud of the people that got it started.
And now it's just taken off.
One of the primary reasons for our country's stunning economic turnaround, the biggest in history where the Dow Jones broke 50,000 four years ahead of schedule, and the SP 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.
They're not making money like they used to, but we're making a lot of money.
There was no inflation, tremendous growth.
And the big story was how Donald Trump called the economy correctly.
And 22 Nobel Prize winners in economics didn't.
They got it totally wrong.
They got it really wrong.
And then just four days ago, an unfortunate ruling from the United States Supreme Court.
It just came down.
It came down.
Very unfortunate ruling.
But the good news is that almost all countries and corporations want to keep the deal that they already made, right, Scott?
Knowing that the legal power that I, as president, have to make a new deal could be far worse for them.
And therefore, they will continue to work along the same successful path that we had negotiated before the Supreme Court's unfortunate involvement.
So despite the disappointing ruling, these powerful countries saving, 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.
I 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, open borders for everyone.
They poured in by the millions and millions from prisons, from mental institutions.
They were murderers, 11,888 murders.
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.
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 percent, Madam Secretary.
Thank you.
The cost of chicken, butter, fruit, hotels, automobiles, rent is lower today than when I took office by a lot.
And even beef, which was very high, is starting to come down significantly.
Just hold on a little while.
We're getting it down.
And soon you will see numbers that few people would think were possible to achieve just a short time ago.
Nobody can believe when they see the kind of numbers, and especially energy, when they see energy going down to numbers like that, they cannot believe it.
It's like another big tax cut.
I'm also confronting one of the biggest rip-offs of our times, the crushing costs of health care caused by you.
Since the passage of the Unaffordable Care Act, sometimes referred to as Obamacare, big insurance 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 percent, like nothing else.
That's why I introduced the great health care plan.
I want to stop all payments to big insurance companies and instead give that money directly to the people so they can buy their own 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 health care 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 of the second term, should be my third term, but strange things happen.
I took prescription drugs, a very big part of health care, from the highest price in the entire world to the lowest.
That's a big achievement.
The result is price differences of 300, 400, 500, 600 percent, and more, all available right now at a new website called trumprx.gov.
And here tonight is the very first customer ever to get that big discount, and it is big, Catherine Raynor.
For five years, she and her husband have struggled with infertility, and they turned to open your laundry.
One drug has been costing $4,000 to purchase.
A few weeks ago, she launched onto the TrumpRX website and got that same plug 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 percent.
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 Raysaul 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.
Rayselle, 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.
We will always protect Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid.
Since I took office, the typical 401k balance is up by at least $30,000.
That's a lot of money.
We have millions and millions of people because the stock market has done so well setting all those records.
Your 401ks are way up.
Yet half of all of working Americans still do not have access to a retirement plan with matching contributions from an employer.
To remedy this gross disparity, I'm announcing that next year my administration will give these often-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.
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I know that's popular with a lot of people, and it's fine.
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.
Delilah Colman 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, Delilah.
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, it was terrible.
Hard to believe, actually.
In 2023, a 16-year-old high school cheerleader named Lisbeth Medina was supposed to perform in her town's Christmas parade, but she never arrived.
Her mother, Jacqueline, went home to look for her, and she found her lying dead in a bathtub, bleeding profusely after being stabbed 25 times.
Lizbeth'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 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 your 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.
The 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.
And perhaps most importantly, 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.
All voters must show proof of citizenship in order to vote.
And no more crooked mail-in ballots, except for illness, disability, military, or travel.
In the gallery tonight are Sage Blair and her mother, Michelle.
In 2021, Sage was 14 when school officials in Virginia sought to socially transition her to a new gender, treating her as a boy and hiding it from her parents.
Hard to believe, isn't it?
Before long, a confused Sage ran away from home after she was found in a horrific situation in Maryland.
A left-wing judge refused to return Sage to her parents because they did not immediately state that their daughter was their son.
Sage was thrown into an all-boys state home and suffered terribly for a long time.
But today, all of that is behind them because Sage is a proud and wonderful young woman with a full ride scholarship to Liberty University.
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're even talking about this?
No one cares more about protecting America's youth than our wonderful First Lady, now a movie star.
She's 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.
Thank you both, and Melania, thank you.
I know how hard you worked on it.
I'm very proud to say that during my time in office, both the first four years and in particular this last year, there has been a tremendous renewal in religion, faith, Christianity and belief in God.
This is especially true among young people, and a big part of that had to do with my great friend, Charlie Kirk, a great guy.
So last year, Charlie was violently murdered by an assassin and martyred, really martyred for his beliefs.
His wonderful wife, Erica, is with us tonight.
Erica, please stand.
Thank you, Erica.
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 Surutka.
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 Irina was riding home on the train when a deranged monster who had been arrested over a dozen times and was released through no cash bail stood up and viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body.
No one will ever forget there were people on that train.
No one will ever forget the expression of terror on Irena'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.
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.
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 percent from a year ago.
They don't like to hear that.
One of the sick people, one of the brave service members who helped achieve this stunning turnaround, was 20-year-old West Virginia Army National Guard specialist Sarah 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 Beckstrom died in order to defend our capital, and we are honored to be joined by her wonderful parents, Gary and Evilie.
Your daughter was a true American patriot, and she will be greatly missed.
She was a great person.
I saw reports on her.
They've never seen anything like it.
So sorry.
Thank you very much.
She's a great young lady.
I saw reports that were like, perfect, he was perfect.
Serving alongside Sarah that day was Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe.
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.
35 million people said the Prime Minister of Pakistan would have died if it were not for my involvement.
Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Congo and Rwanda, and of course the war in Gaza, which proceeds at a very low level.
It's just about there.
And I want to thank Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for your help.
Thank you, Steve.
Thank you, Jay.
And I also want to thank the mandate report, too, 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 ever.
Under the ceasefire, I negotiated every single hostage, both living and dead, has been returned home.
Can you believe that?
Nobody thought it was possible.
Nobody thought that was possible.
Both living and dead.
And those parents who had a dead son, their boy, they'd always tell me their boy, they wanted him as much as though he were living.
It was an amazing period of time.
And they came back.
And when we got all of the living hostages back, and many, many before then, but I always said those last 20 are going to be very tough.
But we got many, many more, hundreds.
But I said those last 20 are going to be tough.
We got them back.
But we only got back 14 or 15 of the dead of the 28.
And believe it or not, Hamas worked along with Israel and they dug and they dug and they dug.
It's a tough thing to do, going through bodies all over, passing up 100 bodies sometimes for each one that they found.
Tough job.
And They finally got it back to 27.
And then Steve and Jared, they got it back to 28.
They found all 28.
Nobody thought that was possible, but we did it.
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 Salome.
I did that during my first term.
Had a huge impact.
He was the father of the roadside.
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.
They're 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.
can't let that happen.
And no nation should ever doubt America's resolve.
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 NATO.
Now they're paying 5% as opposed to not paying 2%.
Which I imagine the 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.
It's going to a.
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.
And with our new military campaign, we have stopped record amounts of drugs coming into our country and virtually stopped it completely coming in by water or sea.
You probably noticed that.
We very seriously damaged their fishing industry also.
Nobody wants to go fishing anymore.
We've also taken down one of the most sinister cartel kingpins of all.
You saw that yesterday.
In January, 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, very impressive.
They couldn't believe it.
They all watched.
They saw what happened.
This is a different fighting force that 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 Force is my baby, because we did that.
My baby, it's becoming so important.
And America's armed forces overwhelmed all defenses and utterly 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.
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, Enrique.
There were many heroes on that January raid to capture Maduro, really great heroes.
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 guns stood right in front of him, 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, we probably would have had to maybe cancel the mission if that didn't happen.
Eric told his co-pilot, also wounded, but not as gravely, to take over.
I'm about ready to pass out.
The success of the entire mission and the lives of his fellow warriors hinge on Eric's ability to take the searing pain.
It was unbelievable what's happened to his legs of the bullets and keep on flying and landing.
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.
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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.
Great to get to know 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, the Second World War with it.
And then they decided to change the name.
So we changed it back.
Everybody wanted to change back, too.
And 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.
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 dogfight of a lifetime, legendary dogfight, flying through blizzard conditions.
His squadron was ambushed by seven Soviet fighter planes.
It was his first aerial combat of the war, and despite being massively outnumbered and outgunned, Royce led the takedown of four enemy jets and almost destroyed the others, vanquishing his adversaries while taking 263 bullets to his own plane and being seriously hurt.
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.
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 open up that law, I will be there with you someday.
But you know, that's our highest honor, Congressional Medal of Honor, and that's a big thing.
And it's an honor to be in the same room with you.
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., the golden age of America is upon us.
The revolution that began in 1776 has not ended.
It still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot.
And our future will be bigger, better, brighter, bolder, and more glorious than ever before.
Thank you.
god bless you and god bless america that was uh that one's gonna be in the history books Yeah.