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BREAKING NEWS! Trump Tells Generals "America Under Invasion From Within" · Elon Musk Podcast

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Hey everybody. Welcome back to the Elon Musk
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Podcast. This is a show where we discuss
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the critical crossroads, the Shape, SpaceX, Tesla X, The
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Boring Company, and Neurolink. I'm your host, Will Walden.
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Fantastic job. I've never walked into a room so
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silent before. This is very don't laugh, don't
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laugh. You're not allowed to do that.
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You know what? Just have a good time and if you
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want to applaud, you applaud and if you want to do anything you
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want, you can do anything you want.
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And if you don't like what I'm saying, you can leave the room.
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Of course there goes your rank, there goes your future, but you
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just feel nice and loose, OK? Because we're all on the same
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team. And I was told that, Sir, you
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won't hear, you won't hear it. A murmur in the room.
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I said we had to loosen these guys up a little bit so you just
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have a good time. But I want to thank Secretary
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Haig said and General Kane, General raising Kane for a
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reason. They call him that.
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When I heard his name, I said you're the guy I'm looking for.
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Did your chiefs of staff and so many others in this room who
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together represent the greatest and most elite fighting force in
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the history of the world? the United States military,
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we're very proud of our military.
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Rebuilt the military during my first term.
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It's one of the greatest achievements.
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We had the greatest economy in history, and I built the
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military. Those are the two things I say
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more than anything else. And I also kept us safe at the
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borders. We had very good borders.
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We didn't have people coming in from jails and prisons and
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everything like took place over the last four years.
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I'll never forget what happened to this country over the last
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four years with the incompetence.
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There could be no higher honor than to serve as your commander
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in chief. It is a great honor.
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I look at you, you just incredible people, Central
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casting, I might add, to each and everyone of you, I thank you
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for your unwavering devotion to the armed forces and to the
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country that we've all sworn a sacred oath to defend.
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We all have that oath, every one of us.
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I'm thrilled to be here this morning to address the senior
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leadership of what is once again known around the world as the
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Department of War. I know Pete spoke about it.
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He gave a great speech. I thought great speech.
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I don't want him to get so good. I hate that, you know, I hate
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it. I almost fired him.
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I said, you can't. I don't want to go on after
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that. Now he gave he gave a great
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speech, but he talked about Department of War.
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We were sitting there. I said, didn't it used to be
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called the Department of War? And he goes, yes, Sir.
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They change it like in the early 50s.
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So we won the First World War, we won the Second World War.
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We won everything in between and everything before that we only
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won. And then we went, in a way,
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woke. That was probably the first sign
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of wokeness. And we changed it to defense
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instead of war. And I said, what do you think?
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How do you think if we change your back?
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Would that be a nice idea? And Pete loved it immediately.
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Some people think they thought about it, You know, they gave it
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a little thought. But in the end, we did it.
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And I have to be honest, it's so popular.
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It's I thought would be met with fury on the left, but they're
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sort of giving up. I must be honest with you.
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They've had it. They've had it with Trump.
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They've been after me for so many years now.
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Here we are. Here we are.
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Come to the White House anytime you'd like.
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Now they've given up. They've had a lot of bad people,
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but all over that's been so popular.
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It's been a very popular. I really thought that we were
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going to have to sort of fight it through.
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There's been no fight. There's been no fight like what
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I call the Gulf of America, the Gulf of America, because to me
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it was always the Gulf of America.
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I could never understand. We have 92% of the frontage and
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for years, actually 350 years that were there before us, it
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was called the Gulf of Mexico. I just had this idea.
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I'm looking at a map. I'm saying we have most of the
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frontage. Why is it Gulf of Mexico?
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Why isn't it the Gulf of America?
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And I made the change and went smoothly.
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I mean, we had a couple of fake news outlets that refused to
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make the change. And then one of them, AP, took
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us to court and we won. And the judge, who was a
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somewhat liberal judge, said the name is the Gulf of America
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because AP refused to call it the Gulf of America.
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They wrote that they're not a good aspect, by the way.
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They call it the Gulf of Mexico. I said no, the Gulf of America
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is the name, and the judge actually said that.
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In fact, you can't even go into the room because what you're
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doing is not appropriate. The name is the Gulf of America.
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Google Maps change the name. Everybody did, but AP wouldn't,
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and then we won in court. How about that?
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Isn't that so cool? The secretary Heck says.
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Beautifully described. The name change reflects far
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more than the shift in branding. It's really a historic
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reassertion of our purpose and our identity and our pride.
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That's when we go with the word war.
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And you know, we want war because we want to have no wars.
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But you have to be there and, you know, sometimes you have to
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do it. I said I have settled so many
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wars since we're, we're here almost nine months and I've
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settled 7. And yesterday we might have
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settled the biggest of them all, although I don't know, Pakistan,
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India was very big, both nuclear powers.
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I settled that, but yesterday is it could be the settlement in
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the Middle East that hasn't happened for 3000 years.
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I said, how long have you been fighting?
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3000 years. So that's a long time, but we
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got it. I think settled.
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We'll see. Hamas has to agree and they
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don't. It's going to be very tough on
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them, but it is what it is. But all of the Arab nations,
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Muslim nations have agreed, Israel has agreed.
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It's amazing thing it just came together.
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War is very strange. You know, you never know what's
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going to happen with war. The easiest one of them all is
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Putin. I said #1 it's a war that would
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have never happened if I were president, if the election
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weren't rigged. And if I were president, that
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war would have never happened. Not not even a little chance.
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And it didn't happen for four years.
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But I knew Putin very well, and I thought that would be easy
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because I know him so well. Well, that wouldn't turn out to
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be the hardest of them all. We had some that were not
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settlable and they all got settled.
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So if this works out that we did yesterday with the Middle East,
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then that's that's more than a war.
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That's lots of wars. That's all combined.
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That's a lot of wars. Many of you were over there in
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many different capacities in many different countries.
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That was a that's a big, that's a big part of the Earth.
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But if that works out, it would be 8 plus.
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How can I give myself two or three for that one?
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And then we just have the one to settle.
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We have to settle it up with President Putin and Zelensky,
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got to get them together and get it done.
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But the only way we can do that is through strength.
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I mean, if we were weak, they wouldn't even take my phone
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call. But we have extreme strength.
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We had the horror show in Afghanistan, which is really the
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reason I think that Putin went in.
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He saw that horror show by Biden and his team of incompetent
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people and that showed. I think it gave him a path in.
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I wasn't there any long longer. I watched that and it was so, so
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horrible. I think it was the most
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embarrassing day in the history of our country.
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And now we're back and that's it.
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We're not going to have any of that crap happen.
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I can tell you that was terrible, so terrible.
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Together we're reawakening the warrior spirit and this is a
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spirit that won and built this nation.
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And from the cavalry that tamed the Great Plains to the
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ferocious, unyielding power of Patton, Bradley and the great
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General Douglas MacArthur, these are all great men in this
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effort. We're A-Team.
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And so my message to you is very simple.
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I am with you, I support you, and as president, I have your
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backs 100%. You'll never see me even waver a
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little bit. That's the way it is, and that
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includes our great police officers and firemen and all of
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these people that are doing so well together.
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Over the next few years, we're going to make our military
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stronger, tougher, faster, fiercer and more powerful than
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it has ever been before. I rebuilt our nuclear, as you
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probably know, but we'll upgrade that also and just hope we never
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have to use it. We have to hope we never have to
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use it because the the power of that is so incredible.
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I've I see things, I don't think they'd show it to you.
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I don't. I really want them to show it to
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you. But when you see the result of
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what's left, you never want to use that.
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Never, never, ever. We were.
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A little bit. Threatened by Russia recently
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and I sent a submarine. Nuclear submarine, the most
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lethal weapon ever made. Number one, you can't detect it.
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There's no way. We're 25 years ahead of Russia
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and China in submarines. Russia is actually second in
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submarines, China's third. But you know, they're coming up.
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They're coming up. They're way too lower in nuclear
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too. But in five years they'll be
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equal. They're coming up.
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And you don't have to be that good with nuclear.
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You could have 120th what you have now and still do the
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damage. That would be, you know, that'd
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be so horrendous. But I announced that, you know,
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based on his mention of nuclear and it was really a stupid
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person that works. Or I mentioned the word nuclear,
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moved a submarine or two. I won't say about the two over
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to the coast of Russia, just to be careful as we can't let
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people throw around that word. I call it the N word.
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There are two N words and you can't use either of them, can
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use either of them. And frankly, if it does get to
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use, we have more than anybody else.
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We have better, we have newer, but it's something we don't ever
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want to even have to think about.
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But when somebody mentions it, that submarine started
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immediately thereafter and it's just lurking.
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But I'm sure we're not going to have to use it.
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But it's an amazing it's undetectable, totally arsonist.
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There's a there's a totally detectable.
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We can detect them easily. We go right to the spot, but we
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have genius apparatus that doesn't allow detection.
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It doesn't allow detection at all by by anybody above water or
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below water. It's incredible.
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We're way ahead of everybody. And then and other things as a
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result of the exciting renewal of the spirit of our own forces.
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And that's what it is. It's really reaching its spirit
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unprecedented heights. Over the past eight months, new
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enlistments, I'm so proud of this, have searched to record
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highs, the highest we've ever had.
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And we used to have recruiting shortages.
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If you remember, about a year and a half ago, I was at the
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beginning stage of a campaign and things came out that you
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couldn't get people to join the armed forces.
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And by the way, the police officer fire department, I
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always put the fire department in because they're great.
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They're great. And I got. 95% of their vote
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too. That helps when you get 95% of
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their vote. You always have to mention them,
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but they're great and they're brave in our inner cities, which
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we're going to be talking about because it's so it's a big part
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of war now. It's a big part of war.
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But the firemen go up in ladders and you have people shooting at
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them while they're up in ladders.
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I don't even know if anybody heard that.
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But, and I said don't talk about it much, but I think you have to
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know firemen are incredible. They're up in one of these
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ladders that goes way up to the sky rescuing people, and you
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have animals shooting at them, shooting.
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Bullets at firemen that are. Way up in in death territory,
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you fall off that letter, it's over.
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It's over. They don't even have to inspect
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you when you hit the ground and you have people shooting bullets
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at them in some of these inner cities.
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We're not going to let that happen.
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So I always mentioned the firemen because that's actually
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a big problem we have. They are unbelievable like you,
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they're unbelievable people. For the first time on record in
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2025, the Navy Air. Force and Space Force all met or
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surpassed their recruiting goals three months early.
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That never happened before, and the Army did even better.
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Congratulations, Army. They met everything and.
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These were the highest standards because we're making it larger.
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So these were much higher standards than you had four
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years ago, three years ago during the sleepy Joe Biden era.
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And the Army did it four months early.
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And you remember a year and a half ago, they said the big
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stories that were way behind with the Army, Air Force, the
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Navy, the Marines were way behind Coast Guard and even
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Space Force. I love space wars because that
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was my creation. You know, when you create
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something, I love it. And the people we put in there
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were good. I got that right.
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We put in great people initially and we really dominated.
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We really dominated that sphere. Now we we're way behind China
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and Russia and now we dominate Space Force turned out to be a
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very important thing. I said from the beginning, you
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know, when Biden came into office, he wanted to terminate
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and he said, and this thing called Space Force so we could
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get rid of that. And he got hammered by the
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people in this room for even suggesting it because it's very
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important, one of the most important.
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And as time goes by, it'll get more and more important.
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But we're now at 106% of our recruiting targets for the year,
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and that's the best in far more than a generation.
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And for the Marines, morale is so strong that the Marine Corps
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will meet its 2026 retention targets before the end of
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October, which never happens. And that's the earliest it's
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ever happened in the history of our country.
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And it makes you feel good. You know, I felt guilty.
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I'd go make a speech in front of never people like you.
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You are the, you are the leaders, but people, soldiers
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and I felt embarrassed because there'd be stories about, you
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know, you couldn't, we couldn't fill up our Army, Navy air
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flight. We couldn't fill them up.
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And it was headlines, his headlines.
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He was doing Biden's four years, the auto pen.
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I call him the auto pen. That's how would you like to
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have your things signed by an auto pending.
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You know, when I have a general and I have to sign for a general
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because we have beautiful paper. They're gorgeous paper.
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I said throw a little more gold on it.
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They deserve it. Give me I want the A paper, not
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the D paper we used to sign a piece of garbage.
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I said this man's going to be a general, right?
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Yeah. I don't want to use this.
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I want to use the big beautiful firm paper.
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I want to use the real gold writing when you talk about the
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position and they're beautiful and but how would you like to
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have that where you some kid sitting in the back office is
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having it signed with an auto pen?
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I thought about it and I thought about you people first,
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Admirals, generals. And I said somebody works as his
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whole life. He gets into maybe the academies
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or wherever, but however you got there and you go through years
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of work and now you become an Admiral or general or whatever.
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And when you do, the President of the United States just signs
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your Commission, as you know. And that Commission is
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beautifully displayed. And I sign it.
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Actually. I love my signature.
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I really do. Everyone loves my signature, but
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I signed it very proudly. And I always think to myself,
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how can you have an autopen sign this?
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It's just so disrespectful to me.
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It's just totally disrespectful. And it turned out that almost
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everything he did was signed by by auto pen, except for what he
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gave his son Hunter. Pardon.
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He signed that one. And that's actually the worst
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signature I've ever seen. That was the bad.
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The auto pen looks much better. But as leaders, our commitment
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to every patriot who put on the uniform is to ensure that
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American military remains the most lethal and dominant on the
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planet, not merely for a few years, but for the decades and
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generations to come. For centuries.
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We must be so strong that no nation will dare challenge us,
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so powerful that no enemy will dare threaten us, and so capable
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that no adversary can even think about beating us.
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And we've had it recently. I had India and Pakistan were
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going at it, and I called them both.
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And in this case, I used trade. I'm not going to trade with you.
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Used to A2 nuclear nations, big nuclear no, no, no, you cannot
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do that. I said, yes, I can you go into
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this freaking war that I'm hearing about.
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You know, actually they just shut down 7 planes, 7 planes.
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It was starting. There's a lot of bad blood.
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And I said, you do, this was not going to be any trade.
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And I stopped the worst it was going, it was raging for four
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days, but that was just the beginning and we stopped.
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It was a great thing. And the Prime Minister of
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Pakistan was here along with the Field Marshall, who's a very
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important guy in Pakistan. And he was here three days ago.
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And I didn't even realize it as beautiful as he said it.
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But he said that to a group of people that were with us, 2
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generals, but a group, he said this man saved millions of lives
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because he saved the war from going on.
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And that war was going to get very bad, very, very bad.
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President Trump saved millions and millions of lives.
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That was a bad war. And I was very honored.
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I love the way he said it. Susie Wiles was there.
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She said that was the most beautiful thing.
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But we saved a lot of them, saved a lot of them.
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Even in Africa, we saved the Congo with Rwanda.
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They've been fighting for 31 years, 10 million people dead.
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I got that one done and very proud of it.
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So if this works out, we'll have 8-8 and eight months.
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That's pretty good. Nobody's ever done that.
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Will you get the Nobel Prize? Absolutely not.
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They'll give it. They'll give it to some guy that
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didn't do a damn thing. They'll give it to a guy that
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wrote a book about the mind of Donald Trump and what it took to
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solve the war. So he'll get the Nobel Prize,
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will go to the a writer. No, but well, let's see what
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happens. But it's be a big insult to our
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country. I will tell you that I don't
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want it. I want the country to get it.
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But it should get it because there's never been anything like
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it. Think of it.
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So if this happens, I think it will, I don't say that lightly
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because I know more about deals than anybody.
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This what my whole life was based on.
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And they can change and this can certainly change.
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But we have just about everybody.
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We have one signature that we need and that signature will
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will pay. In hell, if they don't sign, I
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hope they signed for their own good and we create something
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really great. But to have done 8 of them is
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just like such an honor. And then we have Putin and
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Zelensky. The easiest one of them all.
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I said that one I'll get done. I thought that was going to be
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first. The other was much harder.
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Some of them, Azerbaijan was, this was going on for 36 years.
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They said it's not solvable, so you can't don't do it.
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I said I will do it, I will do it.
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And I got on the phone with the two countries.
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They were great. They were great.
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I knew immediately. I knew as soon as I started
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talking to him. We're going to solve that war we
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did now. They're so happy now they're
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friends. Once said he's been president
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for 32 years, 22 years. He said, you know, for 22 years
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I did nothing but kill his people.
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They were in the room together at the Oval Office, and they
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started off spread like this, have the beautiful Resolute
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desk. And one was here and one was
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here. You couldn't get further away.
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That's the furthest I've ever seen two people in front of me.
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And as the hour went by, they got closer, closer, closer.
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And at the end of the hour, we had it done, and they hugged and
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hugged and hugged. And I said, that's so nice and
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you're going to remain friends. And I spoke to them, one of them
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the other day, He said, no, he's now my friend.
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But for 22 years, he's been the head of Azerbaijan for 22 years.
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And the other guy's great guy, too. 7 And you know, that war,
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that was a war that was not solvable.
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He said for seven years. The other one said, for 22
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years, all I did was kill his people.
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That's all I've done. I said, well, we're going to put
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a stop to that. So we solved that.
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So it's a great thing. It's a great feeling.
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You know, you're saving Kosovo and Serbia, you're saving so
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many lives doing this if you can do it.
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But our people deserve nothing less than the very best and
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we'll never going to let them down.
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And if we can solve wars and said that you having to fight
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wars, wouldn't that be wonderful, right?
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Wouldn't that be wonderful? That's why one of the first
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executive orders I signed upon taking office was to restore the
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principle of merit. That's the most important word
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other than the word tariff. I love tariffs.
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Most beautiful word. But I'm not allowed to say that
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anymore. I said tariff is my favorite
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word. I love the word tariff.
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You know, we're becoming rich as hell.
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We have a big case in front of the Supreme Court, but I can't
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imagine because this is what other nations have done to us
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and do we have, you know, great legal grounds.
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Well, but you still have a case would be very bad.
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Something happened. But I said my favorite word in
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the English Dictionary is the word tariff.
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And people thought that was strange.
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And the fake news came over and they really hit me hard on it.
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They said what about love? What about religion?
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What about God? What about wife, family?
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I got killed when I said tariff is my favorite word.
23:17
So I change. It's now my fifth favorite word.
23:20
And I'm OK with that. I'm OK with that.
23:23
But they hit me hard. But it is.
23:26
I mean, when you look at we've taken in trillions of dollars,
23:30
we're rich, rich again. And they'll never be when we
23:34
finish this out. They'll never be any wealth like
23:37
what we have. Other countries were taking
23:40
advantage of us for years and years.
23:42
You know that better than anybody.
23:44
And now we're treating them fairly.
23:47
But the money coming in is we've never seen anything like it.
23:50
The other day they had 31 billion that they found, $31
23:53
billion. So we found $31 billion and
23:57
we're not sure from where it came.
24:00
A gentleman came in, a financial guy.
24:03
I said, well, what does that mean?
24:05
Said we don't know where it came.
24:07
I said check the tariff shelf. No, Sir, the tariffs haven't
24:11
started in that sector yet. I said yes, they have.
24:14
They started seven weeks ago. Check.
24:16
It comes back 20 minutes late. Sir.
24:18
You're right. It came from tariffs. 31
24:21
billion. That's enough to buy a lot of
24:24
battleships, Admiral, to use an old term.
24:28
I think we should maybe start thinking about battleships.
24:31
By the way, you know, we have a Secretary of the Navy came to me
24:35
because I look at the Iowa out in California and I look at
24:40
different ships in the old pictures.
24:42
I used to watch Victory at sea. I love Victory at sea.
24:44
Look at these Admirals. It's got to be your all time for
24:47
in black and white. When I look at those ships, they
24:50
came with the destroyers alongside of them and meant
24:53
nothing was going to start. They were 20 deep and they were
24:56
in a straight line and there was nothing going to stop them.
25:00
And we actually talk about, you know, those ships, some people
25:04
would say, no, that's old technology.
25:06
I don't know. I don't think it's old
25:07
technology when you look at those guns.
25:10
But it's something we're actually considering the concept
25:12
of battleship, nice 6 inch side solid steel, not aluminum,
25:18
aluminum that melts if it looks at a missile coming at it starts
25:22
melting as the missiles about two miles away.
25:25
Now those ships, they don't make them that way anymore, but you
25:27
look at it, your secretary likes it.
25:30
And I'm, I'm sort of open to it and bullets are a lot less
25:35
expensive than missiles. A lot of lot of reasons I should
25:39
take a vote, but I'm afraid to take that vote because I may get
25:41
voted out on that one. But I tell you, it's, it's
25:45
something we're seriously considering there, there were
25:49
powers, there were big powers that were just about as mean and
25:54
scary as you could be. And so we're looking at that.
25:57
One of the biggest cases that we won was the decision of the
26:01
United States Supreme Court to allow us to proceed on the word
26:06
merit, merit. So those two words are right up
26:10
there. So this is, I would say the
26:13
opposite of you ask for a definition, the opposite of
26:16
political correctness. We went through political
26:20
correct where you had to have people that were totally unfit
26:25
to be doing what you're doing. For many reasons, I won't get
26:27
into them, but for many reasons they were unfit.
26:31
Now it's all based on merit. There was such an unbelievable
26:36
decision. I didn't expect we're going to
26:38
win that one. We went in, we said we need it.
26:40
We went in for colleges. You know where kids with AC
26:44
average are getting into the best colleges and the kids with
26:48
A averages won't get in and kids with the highest boards and the
26:52
highest marks are the best marks.
26:53
Couldn't get into the best schools and people that had not
26:58
good boards and not very good marks.
27:00
I mean, OK, but nothing special. They were getting into our best
27:03
colleges. I said this is just crazy.
27:05
We can't run. You can't run a country like
27:08
this. And it's it was lingering for
27:11
years and it got to the Supreme Court and we won that decision.
27:16
Merit. Everything's based on merit.
27:18
You're all based on merit. We're not going to have somebody
27:21
taking your place for political reasons because they are
27:26
politically correct and you're not.
27:29
We take the people that are going to do the best job.
27:32
It's all, it's very simple. And that's the way our country
27:34
was built. We were built on merit.
27:36
We got away from it for a long time and everyone understands it
27:41
and it was done. It was approved.
27:44
I give great credit to the Supreme Court because I thought
27:46
they had tremendous courage. I didn't think they'd do that.
27:50
That was tremendous. I give maybe for that decision,
27:54
almost more than anything, I because it's a hard decision to
27:58
make. It's really hard.
27:59
The apparatus of our country was not set up for merit.
28:03
It was set up for political correctness.
28:07
And you can never be great if you're going to do that.
28:10
And we're going to be greater than we ever were before.
28:14
We're bringing back a focus on fitness, ability, character and
28:18
strength, and that's because the purposes of American military is
28:23
not to protect anyone's feelings.
28:25
It's to protect our Republic, and it's the Republic that we
28:29
dearly love. It's to protect our country.
28:32
We will not be politically correct when it comes to
28:36
defending American freedom, and we will be a fighting and
28:40
winning machine. We want to fight, we want to
28:42
win, and we want to fight as little as possible.
28:44
You have to count on people like me to keep you out of wars
28:47
because we don't want to. Going towards many of the wars
28:50
that I just told you about. We could have entered those wars
28:52
and settled them in a different way.
28:54
Lose a lot of our troops and we're going to settle them, I
28:58
guess differently. Maybe not actually.
29:01
Actually, you might not have been able to settle and we just
29:04
would have been in the middle of a lot of a lot of firepower.
29:08
But but when we do need it, you're going to be so ready and
29:13
you know it. But very importantly, with that
29:16
goal in mind, I've committed to spending over $1 trillion on our
29:22
military in 2026. And that's the most in the
29:25
history of our country, $1 trillion.
29:27
That's a lot of money. I hope you like that, Mams.
29:31
And sirs, I hope you like it. That's a hell of a lot of money.
29:35
We have the best of everything. Every branch is seeing major
29:39
investments. And as I announced in the Oval
29:42
Office in March, we are rapidly moving forward with the first
29:47
ever 6th generation fighter jet. I didn't name it.
29:50
I did not name it. Boeing came in and they said,
29:54
Sir, this is our submittal. It's the greatest fighting jet
29:58
ever done. And you know, they're testing
30:00
all these planes. All the companies are testing
30:02
and this one tested like through the roof.
30:04
And they said we'd like to name it the F-47.
30:09
I said, let me think about it. Then after thinking for about
30:13
two seconds, I said, OK, you know what that means?
30:17
47 I'm 47, so I'm 4546 and 47. You know, if you think about it,
30:23
I just don't want the credit for 46.
30:26
I don't want to have their open borders and people coming in
30:30
from all over the world, including jails and mental
30:33
incidents. I don't want that on my record.
30:34
But I like I like having it. We're investing 10s of billions
30:39
of dollars in modernizing our nuclear deterrence capabilities
30:43
like never before. And we've begun construction on
30:46
what we call the Golden Dome missile defense shield.
30:49
It'll be the most sophisticated in the world.
30:51
You watched it do well until they had some problems at the
30:55
end with a little bit of a lack of ammunition, defensive
31:02
ammunition, but they've got that taken care of.
31:05
But I tell you, it's what we're doing is so good and we deserve
31:09
it. You know, when we help other
31:10
countries with it, we don't have it ourselves.
31:14
And Canada called me a couple of weeks ago.
31:16
They want to be part of it. To which I said, well, why don't
31:19
you just join our country? You become 51, become the 51st
31:23
state and you get it for free. So I don't know if that made a
31:29
big impact, but it does make a lot of sense that actually
31:32
because they're having a hard time up there in Canada now
31:34
because as you know, with tariffs, everyone's coming into
31:38
our country. We have more investment than
31:40
we've ever had before, $17 trillion coming in as an
31:44
example, in four years, Biden didn't have one trillion.
31:49
We have 17 trillion more than that in eight months coming in.
31:53
And they're coming in from Canada, Mexico, from Europe,
31:57
from all. Over AI.
31:59
Auto plants, everybody's coming back to the United States.
32:04
Under my budget. We will be expanding the US Navy
32:07
by at least 19 ships next year, including submarines,
32:10
destroyers, assault ships and more.
32:13
And it's going to be a much more than that as we go along because
32:16
we basically don't build ships anymore.
32:18
We do build submarines, but we don't build ships.
32:23
Do you know the Second World War?
32:25
They were freighters and different types, but we were
32:27
doing a ship a day and now we don't do ships.
32:31
And I'm not a fan of some of the ships you do.
32:33
I'm a very aesthetic person and I don't like some of the ships
32:37
you're doing aesthetically. They say, oh, it's stealth.
32:40
I said that's not so an ugly ship.
32:43
It's not necessary in order to say your stealth.
32:48
By the way, the B2 bombers were incredible.
32:50
That is stealth. They went into that.
32:52
I was with General Kane and every and Pete were the, we call
32:58
it the war room, but we're watching them go in and they
33:01
were totally untouched. They were not seen.
33:04
They were literally not seen. They dropped their bombs.
33:06
They hit every single one of them hit its target.
33:08
It was total obliteration. CNN when we came back, fake news
33:13
CNN. Oh, their camera just went off.
33:17
You know their camera. Every time I mentioned they turn
33:19
the camera off because it's never good, they said this is a
33:22
problem, but I don't blame them. You're better off keeping it
33:24
off. But they they have some scammer
33:29
reporter who started saying without any now and said he may
33:33
not have hit the targets as well as they thought it may not been
33:37
obliteration. He did hit the targets and I got
33:39
to give us a little credit, right?
33:41
It was obliteration. It turned out the Atomic Energy
33:45
Commission said it was obliterate.
33:47
They had not only did they hit the target, they had the shoots.
33:50
And think of this here, way up in the sky, there was no moon.
33:54
It was dead dark, Couldn't see a thing.
33:57
You couldn't see them, but they had, I guess, a beam going right
34:01
into these chutes. Every single one of those bombs
34:04
went right down those chutes into his Granite Mountain.
34:07
I think it's the last time they're going to build air
34:09
chutes that these air chutes that were nice, beautiful, they
34:13
were meant for us, but it was total obliteration.
34:17
And now they give us credit for that.
34:19
But these people were phenomenal.
34:21
I tell you, for the Air Force people here, you can be very
34:24
proud that veto. We just sorted a lot of new
34:26
ones, new ones and updated ones. But I'd be, I'd take the other
34:33
ones. Let me tell you, they couldn't
34:34
have worked any better. So they flew for 37 hours total,
34:40
back and forth, no stops, no nothing.
34:43
We had 52 tankers loading them up, and that's a job I wouldn't
34:47
necessarily want too much flying a tanker loaded up with hundreds
34:50
of thousands of gallons of fuel. I don't know if I'd do that
34:54
shit. I asked the question, what
34:56
happens if it gets hit? Sir, You don't want to know
34:58
about that, right? I don't want to know about that.
35:02
But those guys, they just hear us.
35:03
They're incredible. I had them all to the Oval
35:05
Office and we had the B2 pilots and a lot of the people, even
35:09
the people that took care of them, the maintenance people,
35:12
just as important, we had them all to the White House.
35:15
Gave him a big party on the lawn, brought some of them into
35:18
the Oval Office. But on top of all this, we'll
35:21
deliver a hard earned pay raise of 3.8% to every soldier,
35:25
sailor, airmen, Coast Guardsmen, Space Guardsmen and Marine.
35:30
Something you weren't getting from the past administration.
35:33
They did not treat you with respect.
35:35
The Democrats, they never do. Not only are we rebuilding our
35:39
great strength, but for the first time in years, my
35:42
administration is actually using that strength to defend the core
35:45
and vital interests of America. And very simply, we are putting
35:49
America first. And I have, since I've been
35:50
elected, I've always put America first.
35:53
It's sort of simple, you know, when you think it's.
35:56
My campaign was run on common sense and we did great.
36:00
We got the highest numbers ever received in terms of districts.
36:06
You know, they have it broken up. 2500 versus 525.
36:13
We won every swing state, we won the popular vote, we won
36:17
everything. We won everything.
36:18
You have to take a look at the map.
36:20
It's almost entirely red, except there's a little blue line on
36:24
each coast, and I think that's going to disappear too.
36:27
We did really great and part of it is because of our success
36:30
with the military, the rebuilding of the military, the
36:33
vote that I got from the military and they were the
36:36
vicious people. You know, that we have to fight
36:38
just like you have to fight vicious people.
36:40
Mine are different, a different kind of vicious.
36:43
But they spread all these horrible, you know, they made-up
36:47
statements and said what I said about everything, but even about
36:50
the military. But fortunately the military
36:52
didn't believe it. It's hard.
36:53
You know, they make up a statement and they said, you say
36:56
we had 25 people that said he never said that 25.
37:00
We had 25 affidavits and they said, well, we're going with it
37:03
anyway. You know, these sleazebags.
37:06
And that's why the press is really losing more power,
37:09
because people aren't believing it.
37:11
We need an honest press. We need borders.
37:13
We need borders. We need an honest press.
37:15
We need fair elections. I mean those three things and we
37:18
don't have an honest. Press.
37:20
We have a really corrupt press, but we fight through the corrupt
37:23
press and the people understand you have to do this stuff a lot.
37:27
You have to go on television a lot because you can't get a fair
37:29
shake if you're going to rely on somebody else.
37:31
It's, they just, they don't understand.
37:34
They've destroyed the the image of media now is at the lowest
37:37
point it's ever been. It's lower than Congress.
37:40
Can you believe that it's? Something.
37:43
But together, with many of you in the room, we've brought back
37:47
the fundamental principle that defending the homeland is the
37:51
military's first and most. Important priority, that's what
37:54
it is. Only in recent decades did
37:56
politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to
37:59
police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia while America is
38:04
under invasion from within. We're under invasion.
38:08
From within, No different than a foreign enemy, but more
38:14
difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms.
38:17
At least when they're wearing a uniform you can take them out.
38:20
These people don't have uniforms, but we are under
38:23
invasion from within. We're stopping it very quickly
38:27
after spending trillions of dollars defending the borders of
38:29
foreign countries with your help, we're defending the
38:33
borders of our country from now on.
38:37
We're not going to let this happen.
38:39
Biden. Let people come in from prisons,
38:41
mental institutions, drug dealers, murderers.
38:46
You know, we had 11,488 murders. Allowed into our country by this
38:52
guy who had no clue. He had no clue.
38:56
He shouldn't have been there in the 1st place, but he had no
38:58
clue. The people that ran the debt of
39:01
the the office, the White House were people that surrounded him.
39:06
Radical left lunatics that are brilliant people but dumb as
39:12
hell when it came to policy and common sense.
39:15
And they allowed people from all over the world, from the Congo.
39:19
They opened up prisons in the Congo.
39:21
They came into our country totally unmatched and vetted
39:26
unchecked. And from all over South America,
39:30
not just South America, you know, you think South America.
39:33
No, but from all over, Lot came in from Venezuela.
39:36
Venezuela emptied its prison population into our country.
39:40
That's why they have Trend de Rugwa, one of the worst gangs
39:43
ever. But we took care of them.
39:46
We took good strong care of them.
39:48
And I just want to thank the National Guard in Washington,
39:52
DC. It was, it's embarrassing to say
39:55
this now, I can say it because we solved it.
39:57
But Washington, DC was the most unsafe, most dangerous city in
40:01
the United States of America. And to a large extent beyond and
40:06
beyond that. Go to some, you go to
40:08
Afghanistan, they didn't have anything like that.
40:10
You go to countries that you would think there's problems
40:13
that then. And now Washington, DC, after 12
40:17
days of serious, serious intensity, we took out 1700
40:24
career criminals. If you have five career
40:27
criminals, they can make your numbers look very bad because
40:31
they'll commit many crimes a day.
40:33
But we took out 1700 and they took them out.
40:36
There was no. Doubt who the boss was.
40:38
They did an unbelievable job. Then they started even cleaning.
40:42
I said I don't want them doing that, Sir, they want to.
40:44
They were cleaning it up. I drove through it 2 days ago.
40:46
It was beautiful. People are walking down the
40:48
street holding hands, man and wife coming from Iowa.
40:52
They're not worried about being shot.
40:54
Washington DC is now a safe city.
40:57
In fact, I went out to dinner with my crew.
40:59
I know I haven't done that theory.
41:01
I wouldn't do it. And I felt totally safe and
41:06
nobody's been attacked, nobody's been hurt.
41:08
Washington, DC went from our most unsafe city to just about
41:13
our safest city in a period of a month.
41:16
We had it under control in 12 days, but give us another 15-16
41:21
days. It was it's, it's perfect.
41:23
And people other than politicians that look bad and
41:26
they think, you know, the, the Democrats run most of the cities
41:30
that are in bad shape. We have many cities in great
41:33
shape too, by the way. I want you to know that.
41:35
But it seems that the ones that are run by the radical left
41:39
Democrats, what they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New
41:43
York, Los Angeles, they're very unsafe places and we're going to
41:48
straighten them out one by one. And this is going to be a major
41:51
part for some of the people in this room.
41:53
That's a war, too. It's a war from within.
41:56
Controlling the physical territory of our border is
41:59
essential to national security. We can't let these people in.
42:03
You know, we had no people enter in the last four months, 0 even.
42:07
I can't believe that. You know, we had millions coming
42:10
in, pouring it, 25,000,000 all told.
42:13
And of those 25,000,000, many of them should never be in our
42:16
country. They would take their worst
42:17
people and their people from prisons in jail and they put
42:20
them in a caravan and they woke up.
42:23
CNN was interviewing one person. Oh, why are you coming?
42:27
I want freedom. Good.
42:29
Were you in jail? Yes.
42:31
For what? Murder I said you're in for.
42:35
You had to see this anchor. A young woman, She's like, I
42:39
couldn't believe she'll probably lose her job.
42:42
But because the left doesn't want to hear that.
42:45
But we're running it based on common sense and based on love
42:49
of our country. But I want to salute every
42:51
service member who has helped us carry out this critical mission.
42:54
It's really a very important mission.
42:56
And I told Pete we should use some of these dangerous cities
42:59
as training grounds for our military National Guard.
43:03
But military, because we're going into Chicago very soon.
43:07
That's a big city with an incompetent governor, stupid
43:10
governor stupid. They threw him out of his family
43:13
business. He was so stupid.
43:14
I know the family. He becomes governor.
43:18
He's got money. Not money that he made, but he
43:22
ran for Governor One and now he criticizes us all the time.
43:25
And last week they had 11 people murdered, 44 people shot.
43:31
The week before that, they had five people murdered, 28 people
43:34
shot. Every weekend they lose 5-6.
43:37
If they lose 5, they're considering a great week.
43:40
They shouldn't lose any. You shouldn't lose any.
43:43
This is civilization. And he's always up there saying
43:48
we're in very good shape, we don't need the military.
43:51
No, they need the military desperately.
43:53
How about Portland? Portland, OR where it looks like
43:58
a war zone and I get a call from the Liberal governor.
44:03
Sir, please don't come in. We don't need you.
44:05
I said, well, unless they're playing false tapes, this looked
44:09
like World War 2. Your place is burning down.
44:14
I mean, you must be kidding, Sir.
44:16
We have it under control. I said you don't have it under
44:18
control, Governor, but I'll check it and I'll call you back.
44:22
I called her back. I said you, you.
44:23
This place is a nightmare, probably.
44:27
It's certainly not the biggest, but it's one of the worst.
44:30
It's brutal. They go after our ICE people who
44:33
are great patriots and tough job, too, but they love it.
44:37
They love it because they're cleaning up our country.
44:40
And so you look at some of the things where they took over
44:42
parts of Seattle, they actually took over a big percentage of
44:46
Seattle. Think of that.
44:48
You remember that? That was a while ago.
44:51
And I sent in the troops and they were gone as soon as I sent
44:54
them in. Oh, when we send in the troops,
44:56
if you have a real leader that says you got to do what you have
44:58
to do, I put that out the other day.
45:01
You got to do what you got to do because we don't want our people
45:05
hurt as they stand by. I was watching during Biden.
45:08
They were troops standing up like this, brave, standing up at
45:12
attention the way I should stand all the time.
45:15
And I would like this. And people are standing in their
45:19
mouth is this far away from their mouth and they're spitting
45:22
at them and they're screaming at them.
45:26
And that soldier standing there, he wants to knock the hell out
45:29
of the person, but he's not allowed to do anything.
45:34
So they just stand there and they get abused.
45:36
And a woman was this far away from his face and she starts
45:41
spitting in his face and he's not allowed to do anything.
45:45
If it's OK with you generals and Admirals, I've taken that off.
45:49
I say they spit, we hit. Is that OK?
45:53
I think so. They spit.
45:55
It's a new thing. They spit.
45:58
We had. How about the cars where the
45:59
cars are coming out? They get brand new cars.
46:01
Border Patrol. Nice, beautiful, nice new cars.
46:06
And they're driving along and they have to go through a
46:08
gauntlet of rocks being thrown at the car.
46:11
So here's this beautiful, brand new car.
46:13
By the time it goes 100 yards, it's destroyed.
46:19
These guys have pretty good arms, some of them, and they're
46:22
throwing bricks at full force into the window and into the
46:25
car. It looks like it's a war zone.
46:30
And I said never let that happen again from now on, if that ever
46:33
happens. And I said here, when you get
46:35
out of that car and you can do whatever the hell you want to
46:38
do, because those people are, you know, you can die from that.
46:42
As bricks go through the windows, you can die.
46:45
They'd like it to, they'd like it to go through the window.
46:48
But this was a couple of months ago.
46:50
They just kept driving and bricks are hitting the car.
46:52
And I said, why aren't they stopping?
46:54
Because they were under orders from the past administration
46:56
never stop. But that's different with us.
46:59
We, we stop. And since I gave that order, we
47:02
haven't had that problem. It's very interesting.
47:04
It's amazing. It's just like in Venezuela,
47:08
you've seen the boats going. We can't find any more boats
47:12
there. They're carrying drugs too
47:14
massive. Every boat kills about 25,000
47:17
people. That's what they have.
47:19
They had fentanyl mostly and a lot of other drugs and we take
47:23
them out and we've taken out four.
47:26
So, and it's on air. Everybody gets to see it.
47:30
Not that we like to do that, but every boat kills 25,000 on
47:35
average 20. There's some people say more.
47:37
You know, you see these boats just stacked up with bags of
47:39
white powder. That's mostly fentanyl and other
47:42
drugs too. And now we have a problem.
47:47
General Kansas, Sir, there are no boats out there, not even
47:51
fishing boats. They don't want to go fishing.
47:53
I don't blame them. There'll be no fishing today,
47:57
but it's amazing what strength will do because what we want to
48:02
do is stop drugs from flowing into our country.
48:04
It's destroying. We lost 300,000 people died last
48:07
year. Everybody knows, friends, many
48:09
friends probably that you lost a child or adults too, but you
48:14
lost a son or daughter because of what's coming into our
48:17
border. And we're making it very hard.
48:21
Oh, and we haven't even started yet.
48:23
Last month, I signed an executive order to provide
48:26
training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil
48:31
disturbances. So this is going to be a big
48:33
thing for the people in this room because it's the enemy from
48:37
within and we have to handle it before it gets out of control.
48:41
It won't get out of control once once you're involved at all.
48:46
They all joke. They say, oh, this is not good.
48:50
You saw it in Washington. We had gangs of trendy.
48:52
A rug was a 10/12/15 kids and these military guys woke up to
48:57
them and they treat them with disrespect and they just got
49:00
pounded. They just got pounded.
49:04
The gang just pounded, then thrown into Paddy wagons and
49:09
taken back to their country. Some are so dangerous.
49:13
We don't want to even do that because we don't want to.
49:15
Some of Stone Cold murders, we don't have the confidence, even
49:19
though they're not coming back very easily.
49:21
We don't have the conference. We've put them in jails, but
49:24
these service members are following in a great and storied
49:27
military tradition, from protecting frontier communities
49:31
to chasing outlaws and bandits in the Wild West.
49:34
And our history is filled with military heroes who took on all
49:38
enemies, foreign and domestic. You know that phrase very well.
49:43
That's what the oath says, foreign and domestic.
49:45
Well, we also have domestic. George Washington, Abraham
49:50
Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, George Bush and others all use
49:55
the armed forces to keep domestic order in peace.
49:59
Many of our leaders used the military to keep peace.
50:03
Now they like to say, oh, you're not allowed to use the military.
50:06
And you know what the people say that people in those cities
50:09
where they're being raped and shot and beat up, you know, they
50:13
say we love the military. You ever see where they're
50:15
interview the people on the street?
50:17
I've never seen somebody say they don't unless they're
50:20
radical and paid off because a lot of these insurrectionists
50:23
are paid. But whether it's Soros or other
50:26
people, but they're paid by the radical left.
50:29
So today, I want to thank every service member from general to
50:32
private who has bravely helped us secure the nation's capital
50:36
and make America safe for the American people.
50:38
It's amazing. The whole world is watching
50:41
everybody in the White House. They come up to me.
50:43
Young women, Sir, thank you. I know immediately what they
50:46
thank you. They don't have to say they walk
50:48
to work now to the White House. We haven't had a crime in
50:52
Washington in so long because we got the careers, we call them
50:56
the careers. We got these lunatics out and
51:01
they'll never be any good. You know, I hate to tell this to
51:04
the liberal media. You could spend time with them.
51:09
You could do whatever you want. You could send them to the
51:11
finest schools, which they couldn't get into anyway.
51:14
Mentally, they couldn't get in. But no matter what you do,
51:17
they'll never be good. They're bad.
51:19
They're, they're career criminals.
51:21
So I don't know, maybe they were born that way.
51:24
Some people don't like me to say that, but maybe they were.
51:27
Certainly some were. Together with the leaders here
51:30
today, we're also restoring a needed focus on defeating
51:34
threats in the Western Hemisphere.
51:36
Throughout this region, cartel terrorists have been allowed to
51:40
wage a relentless campaign of death and destruction on our
51:44
country, all because we had weak leadership on top.
51:49
And we did a great job with it first term.
51:51
But this is something else. What we're doing now, we're
51:53
taking it to the next level, probably next level times 3.
51:59
But we had COVID come up and we had to take care of that.
52:01
We did a great job with COVID. We had the therapeutics.
52:06
It was just Regeneron. So many things we did for COVID,
52:10
but we had to focus on that. And every other country in the
52:12
world was being decimated by COVID, so we had to change gear
52:17
a little bit to take care of that.
52:19
But under our leadership, the military is now the knife's edge
52:22
in combating the sinister enemy. We have to put the traffickers
52:27
and cartels on notice, and we've done that.
52:29
And we've put them, a lot of them.
52:31
We've called them a terrorist organization, which is actually
52:35
a big thing to do. Nobody's done it, but I've done
52:38
it with a lot of them. It gives you a tremendous
52:41
advantage. If you try to poison our people,
52:44
we will blow you out of existence because that's the
52:48
only language they really understand.
52:51
That's why you don't see any more boats on the ocean.
52:53
You don't see any boats around Venezuela.
52:56
There's nothing. As president, I will never
53:00
hesitate to defend our people from threats of, of violence
53:05
from the, the horrible plague that's taking place from within
53:13
the Iran nuclear power, the Iran, all of the, the great
53:18
power that we thought existed, we blew it out to Kingdom.
53:25
We took advantage of it and we just really took advantage of
53:29
it. And it was a beautiful thing to
53:30
see. And that's what military power
53:34
can achieve. That's why I chose raising Cain.
53:40
He's fantastic, by the way. I hope you all agree.
53:43
If anybody disagrees, could I please have your hand?
53:46
Who disappears at raising cane is no good.
53:48
Just raise your hand. I don't see any hands raised.
53:52
All right, That means you're OK. That means that he's OK now.
53:56
But I saw his results. You know, he he took out ISIS.
53:59
I was told it was going to take four years.
54:01
It took four weeks. I went to see him and he took
54:05
him out in four weeks. Knocked him out, knocked him to
54:08
hell. And I was told by military
54:11
people it was going to take four to five years to do it.
54:14
And I don't even know if we'll have it then.
54:15
Sir, these were the Washington generals.
54:17
I call them the television generals.
54:20
But raising Cain did it in four weeks, took out 100% of the ISIS
54:23
caliphate. As a result of these actions and
54:27
many others since my inauguration, we're witnessing
54:29
the triumphant return of peace through strength.
54:33
We have great peace through strength.
54:35
America is respected. Again, as a country, we were not
54:37
respected with Biden. They looked at him falling
54:41
downstairs every day. Every day the guy's falling
54:43
downstairs. He said it's not our president.
54:47
We can't have it. I'm very careful.
54:50
You know, when I walk downstairs for like I'm one stairs, like
54:53
these stairs, I'm very, I walk very slowly.
54:58
Nobody has to set a record. Just try not to fall because it
55:03
doesn't work out well. A few of our presidents have
55:06
fallen and it became a part of their legacy.
55:09
We don't want that. You walk nice and easy.
55:12
You're not having, you don't have to set any record.
55:14
Be cool. Be cool when you walk down, but
55:17
don't don't pop down the stairs. So one thing with Obama, I had
55:22
zero respect for him as a president, but he would bop down
55:24
those stairs. I've never said you'd go down
55:29
the stairs. Wouldn't hold on.
55:30
I said it's great. I don't want to do it.
55:32
I guess I could do it. But eventually bad things are
55:36
going to happen and it only takes once.
55:39
But he did a lousy job as president a year ago.
55:43
We were a dead country. We're dead.
55:46
This country was going to hell. We were dead in every way, from
55:50
immigration to military. We didn't have the weapons we're
55:54
giving everything to. We're giving everything to
55:57
Ukraine. We had nothing.
56:00
And by the way, I have to tell you now, as you know, I went
56:04
over and I met with NATO and NATO raised from 2:00 to 5:00,
56:07
which everyone said 5% of GDP, millions.
56:11
And now trillions of dollars are pouring in.
56:14
They didn't pay the 2% because they know we were there to pay
56:17
it and now they paid the 5%. That's trillions of dollars.
56:21
And we're not spending any money on that war.
56:23
Not $0.10. We sell our equipment to NATO.
56:26
NATO pays us for the equipment and they give it to Ukraine or
56:29
whoever they give it to, but they can keep it.
56:32
But we're not involved. We have no money going out.
56:35
Biden gave $350 billion, not sustainable, 350 billion.
56:41
And we have a war that should have never started, but we're
56:45
not doing that anymore. So I just want you to know we're
56:47
selling equipment. Our people are buying equipment.
56:51
They're buying. They are buying the equipment at
56:54
full price, a fair price. So I don't want to say we're
56:58
making money because I don't want to say I don't want to be
57:00
making money on a war. It's too many people dying.
57:02
They're losing 7000 soldiers a week.
57:05
A lot of them are Russian soldiers, But between the two
57:08
countries, mostly soldiers. By the way, sometimes, you know,
57:11
in Kiev, they'll lap a missile in and some drones and kill some
57:15
people, but mostly it's soldiers.
57:18
Russia and Ukraine are losing 7000 souls.
57:22
And you know, they're not, they're not American, they're
57:27
not us, they're not you or have a special obligation.
57:31
But they're soldiers. They're young people.
57:33
They leave their parents, they wave goodbye and then two days
57:35
later, they're blown up so unnecessarily.
57:40
And so that's the primary reason I want to get it done.
57:44
We got to get it done. It's crazy what's going on.
57:46
That's the worst war that there's been since World War 2.
57:49
The number of soldiers that are being killed there.
57:51
It's just crazy. From 5 to 7000 soldiers die a
57:55
week. Think of that.
57:57
So I think we'll get that done. But that's turned out to be the
58:00
toughest one. I'm so disappointed in President
58:02
Putin. I thought, I thought he would
58:04
get this thing over with. He should have had that war done
58:08
in a week. And I said to him, you know, you
58:12
don't look good. You're four years fighting a war
58:14
that should have taken a week. Are you a paper tiger?
58:19
And it's a shame, but I think eventually we'll get that one
58:24
done just like we in theory. I want to knock on wood because
58:28
you never know. It's like we're going to have
58:30
the Middle East done, which is actually a much harder thing to
58:33
do. I mean, thousands of years, but
58:37
we have to get that war done. So now we're just think of it.
58:41
We're a dead countries with the King of Saudi Arabia, great guy.
58:45
I was with the emir of Qatar. I was with the great leadership
58:50
of UAEI was over there. We brought back $2 trillion and
58:57
more. They ordered 200 planes.
59:00
Boeing's, they order so much and they were great, but they all
59:04
said essentially the same thing. They said one year ago you were
59:10
a dead country, and now you're the hottest country anywhere in
59:13
the world. We are.
59:14
We're the hottest country in the world right now, the absolute
59:17
hottest country in the world we have.
59:19
There's nobody even close. Putin said that to me.
59:23
We met in Alaska. I had a good meeting.
59:26
Then he went back and started sending drones into Kiev.
59:29
I said I thought we had a good meeting, but it's one of those
59:33
things. But we were dead country a year
59:37
ago, and now we're the hottest country anywhere in the world.
59:40
Think of that. You could be proud of that.
59:43
And you must have felt like hell when you have a wife or a
59:46
husband at home and you used to read the numbers that we can't
59:50
get people to join the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, Coast
59:54
Guard. You must have felt like, you
1:00:00
know, I have a job that nobody wants.
1:00:01
It doesn't feel good. Well, now you have a job.
1:00:04
That is brimming over with people wanting it, they want it
1:00:08
and you're able to get a much higher quality because now you
1:00:11
have your choice. You know, you want so many and
1:00:14
we're going to have many, many people that aren't going to be
1:00:16
able to join because of the fact that we don't, you know, we
1:00:19
don't need them at this moment. But think of it, what a
1:00:23
difference that is from, I could just imagine two years ago.
1:00:27
You're reading front page articles and the New York Times,
1:00:31
of course, and Wall Street Journal, they always give us
1:00:34
unfair stories. But they played it so big.
1:00:37
They were playing it so big. Nobody wants to join the Army,
1:00:40
the Marines, the Air Force. They want, they don't want to
1:00:42
join. They don't want to join the
1:00:45
Coast Guard at all. Nobody wants to join.
1:00:49
Nobody wants to join our police forces, our police forces also.
1:00:52
It's almost went hand in hand. And I used to say, boy, you
1:00:57
know, I'm speaking in front of the military today, and it's
1:00:59
embarrassing because I'm speaking in front of people who
1:01:03
have a job that other people don't want.
1:01:05
But now you have a job that everybody wants.
1:01:08
So I think that has to make you feel good.
1:01:10
It's one of the reasons I love being here today because I
1:01:12
wanted to say that I have to say that everybody wants to be in
1:01:16
the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines.
1:01:20
If you think the Coast Guard and Space Force, our beautiful Space
1:01:24
Force, it's a whole different world.
1:01:27
And now they're signing up, by the way, seriously, big numbers
1:01:30
for the police. Dangerous job, isn't it?
1:01:32
A fire department? But that's the paving the way
1:01:37
for progress once thought almost impossible.
1:01:39
I mean, a year ago you wouldn't have thought that was possible.
1:01:42
A year ago they were talking about making the military
1:01:46
smaller because they can't get the people to join.
1:01:48
We're thinking about making it larger because we have so many
1:01:52
people and it's nice to be able to cut people because of merit
1:01:56
that aren't really qualified for any reason, a physical reason, a
1:02:01
mental reason. You don't have to take them
1:02:04
anymore because you have, you have the pick of the litter and
1:02:09
they all want to be with you. They all want your job.
1:02:11
They want to be with you. They want to work with you.
1:02:15
They'll even take your job. You know, got to be a little bit
1:02:18
sharp. You got to watch it, but
1:02:20
everybody wants to be doing what you're doing now.
1:02:23
What a difference when I speak to you and I can say that as
1:02:26
opposed to a couple of years ago when I was talking to rooms
1:02:29
where they were desperate to get people and they couldn't get
1:02:32
them. What a difference a presidential
1:02:35
election can make. That's all it is.
1:02:37
It's just a presidential election.
1:02:40
Yesterday at the White House, we put forward a plan for peace in
1:02:44
Gaza. We announced it and we're going
1:02:46
to create something that was my idea, but unfortunately I got
1:02:50
drafted. It's going to be called the
1:02:52
Board of Peace and it's going to reign over that territory and
1:02:58
we're going to get that done. And they asked if I'd be the
1:03:01
chairman of the Board of Peace. I wasn't counting on that.
1:03:03
I had the idea for the Board of Peace, but I'd said yes.
1:03:07
And I guess because of that, every leader, every, everybody
1:03:10
wants to be on the Board of Peace.
1:03:12
And we're going to watch over that very volatile part of the
1:03:14
world and keep it non volatile so you don't have to get
1:03:19
involved. We want to save you for other
1:03:21
things or save you for nothing. From that standpoint, we don't
1:03:24
want you fighting wars. But if you have to, you're going
1:03:26
to be the most lethal fighting force in the world.
1:03:29
And I would say that even 2-3 years ago, but now I say it with
1:03:33
great enthusiasm. It's so true.
1:03:35
And we're striving tirelessly to end the terrible war in Ukraine.
1:03:39
And as you know, we're also working hard to get the allies
1:03:42
to share more of the burden of our defense.
1:03:45
Much of that has really already taken place, but all NATO
1:03:50
members have committed to the increase that I talked about.
1:03:53
Think of that. That was unthinkable.
1:03:55
It used to be 1%. Then we got it up to two in my
1:03:58
last term, and they did not like it.
1:04:03
And now I got it to five. And I get along great with all
1:04:05
of them. In fact, they call me the
1:04:07
president of NATO. I said I don't think so, But
1:04:11
they're great. They're great people and they're
1:04:13
spending a lot of they're spending a lot of money and a
1:04:17
lot of money that they should have been spending in the past.
1:04:19
But I think Putin was a wake up call for them really.
1:04:23
We're now selling large quantities of American made
1:04:26
weapons to NATO and we're getting really fair pricing,
1:04:31
making a lot of money. It's my hope that from Europe to
1:04:35
Asia to the Middle East, our allies will make similar
1:04:39
commitments to increase their military capabilities.
1:04:43
And this will greatly strengthen our alliances.
1:04:45
And also it will make war far less likely.
1:04:49
You know, if you have a strong, if you're a strong presence like
1:04:52
we are, we are such a strong presence now.
1:04:55
And I go around bragging about that.
1:04:56
I said we have the strongest military anywhere in the world.
1:04:59
I say it. You never heard Biden say that.
1:05:03
You never heard him say anything, but you never heard
1:05:06
him say, did he ever hear him say we have the strongest
1:05:08
military? He doesn't say that.
1:05:10
I say it, we have the strongest military anywhere in the world.
1:05:13
We have great leadership. And I'll tell you, Pete and
1:05:17
General Kane, all of the people that I've met that have been
1:05:21
lifted up in rank and we got many of them out of here too.
1:05:25
I'll be honest with you, didn't like doing it, but we got many
1:05:28
of you out of here because we weren't satisfied.
1:05:31
We have, we know everything about everybody.
1:05:33
It will also help the United States rapidly rebuild our
1:05:36
defense industrial base. Each of you can play an
1:05:39
important part in getting allies to do their part.
1:05:43
So to that end, Secretary Hank Seth will soon be announcing
1:05:46
major reforms to streamline military acquisitions and
1:05:50
expedite foreign military sales. We have tremendous numbers of
1:05:56
countries that want to buy our equipment.
1:05:58
And, you know, many cases it takes too long.
1:06:01
They have backlogged. We're backlogged on all the
1:06:03
equipment, which is something that's new to us a little bit.
1:06:07
And I told those companies, you better get your ass going
1:06:10
because we're, you know, we're buying, we're selling you a lot
1:06:13
of equipment. We're getting countries to buy
1:06:15
your equipment. You got to produce the
1:06:16
equipment. Some of the countries I'm not
1:06:19
going to mention, but some of the countries are buying a lot
1:06:23
and that's a good thing. They're on our side 95%.
1:06:28
I'll never say 100% because it can always turn right, you know
1:06:31
about that, But they're on our side.
1:06:34
The problem is we have to get the companies that make this
1:06:37
equipment and we, we make the best equipment in the world.
1:06:39
But they got to make it faster. We have orders for the F35, we
1:06:44
have orders for everything. The new F-47, we have orders for
1:06:47
everything. They got to make it faster, a
1:06:50
lot faster. Ammunition they have to make
1:06:52
faster. In the coming months, we'll be
1:06:55
making even more historic announcements to fully embrace
1:06:58
the identity of the Department of War.
1:07:02
I love the name. I think it's so great.
1:07:04
I think it stops wars. The Department of War is going
1:07:07
to stop wars. If we are as ruthless and
1:07:11
relentless as our enemies, the United States Armed Forces will
1:07:15
be totally unmatched in the future.
1:07:19
We have a group of enemies that are very ruthless and very
1:07:24
smart, but they can't match us. They can't match us.
1:07:27
They don't even come close to matching us.
1:07:30
Again, you know, it's very important for me to say we are
1:07:32
the greatest military in the world, but we make the best
1:07:34
equipment in the world. I watched our anti missile
1:07:40
missiles. I watched our patriots just
1:07:43
knock things out as like a needle hitting another needle on
1:07:46
the stage. There's a needle up there and
1:07:48
you send another needle up and it hits it every time.
1:07:53
During the war we went 14 for 14.
1:07:55
We had 14. This is where the ran.
1:07:57
We had 14 missiles coming at us. All 14 were knocked out of the
1:08:02
sky. Every one of them we make the
1:08:06
best equipment. From Sparta to Rome to the
1:08:09
British Empire to the United States of America, history has
1:08:12
shown that military supremacy has never been simply a matter
1:08:17
of money or manpower. At the end of the day, it is the
1:08:21
culture spirit of our military that truly sets us apart from
1:08:24
any other nation. Our ultimate strength will
1:08:28
always come from the fierce people and those brilliant
1:08:32
people with such pride and the unbending will and the
1:08:35
traditions of excellence that have made us the most
1:08:38
unstoppable force ever to walk the face of the earth.
1:08:43
And that's what we are. Remember, we never want to use
1:08:46
it, but we have the most powerful nuclear capability, and
1:08:50
I call it nuclear deterrent of any other country.
1:08:52
Nobody close. The men and women in this room
1:08:55
inherit the legacy built and won by Washington and Jackson, Grant
1:08:59
and Pershing, Eisenhower and Patton, Nimitz and Lemay.
1:09:04
We carry forward the majestic military heritage passed down
1:09:08
from father to son, soldier to soldier, and one generation of
1:09:12
warriors to the next. You are warriors.
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You know that, right? You're great warriors.
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Well, you wouldn't be in this room.
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You're the best of the best. From Concord Bridge to Fort
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McHenry, from Gettysburg to Manila Bay, from Normandy to
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Sicily, and from the jungles of Vietnam to the dusty streets of
1:09:35
Baghdad, America's military has charged into Hellfire, climbed
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up jagged mountains, crossed roaring oceans, and thundered
1:09:45
across open deserts to defend our flag, our freedom, and our
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homeland. Nobody does it like you.
1:09:53
Now we are discovering American muscle, reasserting American
1:09:57
might, and beginning the next story chapter in American
1:10:01
military legends and war. That's LORE.
1:10:09
It is lore When it comes to defending our way of life.
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Nothing will slow us. No enemy will stop us.
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They're not. They cannot stop us and no
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adversary will stand in our way. They won't stand in our way.
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We don't want them to stand in our way.
1:10:26
We don't want to even put them in that position, but they're
1:10:28
not going to stand in our way ever again.
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You'll never see four years like we had with Biden and that group
1:10:35
of incompetent people that ran this country that should have
1:10:39
never been there because we had the United States military, the
1:10:43
best, the boldest, the bravest that the world has ever seen,
1:10:47
that the world has ever known. With leaders like we have right
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here in this beautiful room today, we will Vanquish every
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danger and crush every threat to our freedom and every generation
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to come because we will fight, fight, fight, and we will win,
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win, win. I want to just thank you once
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again, and God bless the United States military and God Bless
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America. God bless you all.
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