Trump's 2026 State of the Union

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Members of Congress have the high privilege and distinct honor of presenting to you. The President of the United States. Well, thank you very much everybody, it's really an honor.

“Speaker Johnson, Vice President Advance, first lady of the United States.”

Second lady of the United States. Members of Congress and my fellow Americans. Our nation is back, bigger, better, richer, and stronger than ever before. Last then five months from now, our country will celebrate an epic milestone in American history. We 250th anniversary of our glorious American independence.

“This July 4th we will mark two and a half centuries of liberty and triumph, progress and freedom.”

In the most incredible and exceptional nation ever to exist on the face of the earth, and you've seen nothing yet.

We're going to do better and better and better. This is the golden age of America. When I last spoke in this chamber 12 months ago, I had just inherited a nation in crisis with a stagnant economy inflation at record levels, a wide open border, horrendous recruitment for military and police, rampant crime at home, and wars and chaos all over the world.

But tonight, after just one year, I can say with dignity and pride that we have achieved a transformation like no one has ever seen before and a turnaround for the ages. And it is indeed a turnaround for the ages.

We will never go back to where we were just a very short time ago, we're not going back.

Today our border is secure. Today our border is secure, our spirit is restored, inflation is plummeting, incomes are rising fast, the roaring economy is roaring like never before, and our enemies are scared, our military and police are stacked, and America is respected again, perhaps like never before. After four years, in which millions and millions of illegal aliens poured across our

Borders, totally unvetted and unchecked, we now have the strongest and most s...

in American history by far.

“In the past nine months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted to the United States.”

But we will always allow people to come in legally, people that will love our country and

will work hard to maintain our country. The flow of deadly fentanyl across our border is down by a record 56% in one year. And last year, the murder rate saw its single largest decline in recorded history. This is the biggest decline of it in recorded history, the lowest number, in over 125 years. Year 1900, in fact, substantially before my wonderful father, I had a wonderful father

friend before he was born, substantially before he was born, that's a long time ago.

He wouldn't like me to say that, but that's a long time ago. The Biden administration and its allies in Congress gave us the worst inflation in the history of our country, but in 12 months, my administration has driven core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years, and in the last three months of 2025, was down to 1.7%.

Gasoline, which reached a peak of over $6 a gallon in some states, under my predecessor,

“it was quite honestly, a disaster is now below $2.30 a gallon in most states.”

And in some places, $1.99 a gallon, and when I visited the great state of Iowa just a few weeks ago, I even saw $1.85 a gallon for gasoline. The mortgage rates are the lowest in four years in falling fast, and the annual cost of the typical new mortgages down almost $5,000 just since I took office. One year.

And low interest rates will solve the Biden-created housing problem well at the same time protecting the values of those people who already own a house that really

“feel rich for the first time in their lives.”

We want to protect those values who want to keep those values up. We're going to do both. And we are going to keep it that way. The stock market has set 53 all-time record highs since the election. Think of that one year, boosting pensions for a one-case and retirement accounts for the

millions and millions of Americans, they're all gaining everybody's up way up in four long years. The last administration got less than $1 trillion in new investment in the United States. And when I say less substantially less, in 12 months, I secured commitments for more than $18 trillion pouring in from all over the globe.

Think of it. Much less than $1 trillion for four years versus much more than $18 trillion for one year. What a difference a president makes. A short time ago, we were a dead country. Now we are the hottest country anywhere in the world, the hottest.

As thousands of new businesses are forming factories, plants and laboratories of being built,

We have added 70,000 new construction jobs in just a very short period of tim...

and bigger and stronger.

“Nobody can believe what they're watching.”

American oil production is up by more than 600,000 barrels a day, and we just received

from our new friend and partner, Venezuela, more than 80 million barrels of oil.

American natural gas production is at an all-time high because I kept my promise to drill, baby drill.

“More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country.”

Think about that.

Anytime in the history of our country, more working today, and 100% of all jobs created

under my administration have been in the private sector. We ended DEI in America.

“We cut a record number of job-killing regulations, and in one year we have lifted 2.4 million”

Americans a record off of food stamps. And for all of these reasons, I say tonight, members of Congress, the state of our union is strong. Our country is winning again, in fact, where winning so much that we really don't know what to do about it.

Please, please, please, Mr. President, we're winning too much. We can't take it anymore, we're not used to winning in our country until you came along,

we're just always losing, but now we're winning too much, and I say no, no, no, you're

going to win again, you're going to win big, you're going to win bigger than ever, and to prove that permit, to prove that permit, here with us tonight is a group of winners who just made the entire nation proud, the men's gold medal Olympic hockey team, come on in. Thank you very much, Mr. President, for having us here with us today, thank you, Mr. President, for having us here with us today, thank you, Mr. President, for having us here with us today, thank you, Mr. President, for having us here with us today, thank you, Mr. President, for having us here with us today, thank you, Mr. President, for having us here with us today, thank you, Mr. President, for having us here with us today, thank you, Mr. President, for having us here with us today, thank you, Mr. President, for having us here with us today, thank you, Mr. President, for having us here with us today, thank you.

[ Applause ] >> Go ahead, thank you. >> That's the first time I've ever seen them get up, and actually not all of them did get up, but they beat a fantastic Canadian team and overtime as everybody so as did the American women who will soon be coming to the White House.

[ Applause ]

>> They were in the oval office before, and I just want to say a second, very big congratulations to Team USA, but I have to say that, and I told them this and we took a vote of the team.

“I said anybody votes know I'm not doing it, so they stood there and they weren't about to say no, because I've never seen a gold tender play as well as Goli.”

[ Applause ] >> Thank you, but 46 shots are on gold, and I ask them the one shot, the one where you put your stick in the back and hit the neck of your stick and bounce off.

You practiced that, it was that little lucky.

He refused to answer that question, but I just want to tell you that the members of this great hockey squad will be very happy to hear based on their vote and my vote.

“And in this case, my vote was more important.”

That I will soon be presenting Connor with our highest civilian honor, which we will be given, and which has been given to many athletes over the years. Well, I say many, not too many, like 12. It's gold, the highest civilian honor in our country, the presidential medal of freedom. [ Applause ] >> Great athletes have gotten that very great, the best, and I thought he deserved it, and I did take a vote every single one of them.

“I said, "I'm not giving it if anybody goes no, and every single one of them rapidly put up the hand."”

So I want to thank you, or what a special job you did, what special champions you are. Thank you very much. [ Applause ] >> I'm also pleased to say that the next time the Olympic torch is lit, it will be here in America for the 20, 28, Olympics, and it's the summer version in Los Angeles. We're going to do a good job in Los Angeles. [ Applause ]

>> And Los Angeles is going to be safe, just like Washington, D.C., is now one of the safest cities in the country. [ Applause ] And this year, and I must say I got them both.

>> I got them in my first term, and I was disappointed because I did think I'd be the president when this happened.

But strange things took place, and now I've got them because I got the Olympics. I got the 20, 26 FIFA World Cup, and I wanted to claim the 250th, but I didn't get away with that one. I couldn't claim that one for myself, but we're getting the World Cup. So we have the World Cup and the Olympics coming, and that is exciting news. [ Applause ]

>> So this will be a year to celebrate our country, and the heroes who have kept it free, men like Buddy Taggart, at age 17, buddy volunteer to defend America in World War II,

Serving in the Pacific under the great general Douglas MacArthur.

He fought bravely in the famous Battle of Manila, worked so hard.

“He was badly wounded and almost killed by enemy machine guns and Luzon.”

And 81 years ago, this month he liberated the largest internment camp in the Philippines, one of the largest anywhere in the world. But he earned many honors, including a purple heart, and a bronze star came home, started a family in tonight. He is in the gallery looking forward to July 4th, 20, 26 is 100th birthday.

[ Applause ] [ Applause ] >> So Buddy, you're a brave man, and we salute you. Even in times of challenge, set back in immense heartache,

“the spirit of 1776 has always shown through very brightly,”

it was July 4th of last year when flood waters tore through a girl summer camp, in central Texas, one of the worst things I've ever seen, I was there. Rising 26 feet in the matter of minutes, tragically claiming many, many lives. You'll remember that one. The water is threatened to sweep her away 11-year-old, milly, Kate McLean,

close her eyes and prayed to God. She thought she was going to die. Those prayers were answered when Coast Guard, rescue swimmer Scott Ruskin, descended from a helicopter above nobody knew where he came from. It was God's first ever rescue mission, young guy, but very brave,

very, very top, always top in his flesh, and he lifted,

not just Billy Kate, but 164 others to safety. [ Applause ] >> People watched Scott from a distance, and they couldn't believe what they were seeing. The winds were blowing, the rain was pouring, everything was going, and that rapid water nobody's ever seen anything like it.

They said, wow, that's something. Tonight, Scott and Millie Kate are here together, reunited, for the very first time. Thank you, Scott, Millie Kate. [ Applause ]

And petty officer Ruskin, I'm pleased to inform you that I am now awarding you the legion of merit for extraordinary heros of which is what it was. Extraordinary heros of thank you. [ Applause ] And I'd like to have the military aid to please come down.

And take care of this service, military aid. Thank you very much.

“Take care of that very important service.”

Thank you very much. From 1776 to today, every generation of Americans and step forward to defend life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And they're really doing it for the next generation. But now it's our turn, together we're building a nation,

where every child has the chance to reach higher and go further. Where government answers to the people, not the powerful,

and where the interests of hardworking American citizens are always

our first and ultimate concern. That is the debt we owe to the heroes who came before us, and that is the promise we must keep to America for our 250th year.

Last year I urge this Congress to begin the mission by passing

the largest tax cuts in American history,

and our Republican majorities delivered so beautifully. Thank you, Republicans. [ Applause ] All Democrats, every single one of them voted against these really

“important and very necessary massive tax cuts.”

[ Applause ] They wanted large-scale tax increases to hurt the people instead. But we held strong and with the great-built, beautiful bill. We gave you no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on social security for our great-sheet.

[ Applause ]

And we also made interest on auto loans tax deductible the first time.

But only if the car is made in America. [ Applause ] Recently in Pennsylvania, I met Megan Hemhouser, a devoted mom whose homeschools are children, beautiful, two children during the day while waiting tables at night,

“as her husband works overtime, operating very heavy equipment.”

Megan is here this evening, and she's happy to tell you that she is so, so much richer because with no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and her expanded child tax credit, done again by Republicans. Megan and her husband will take home more than $5,000 extra,

just for the year, cutting her tax bill in more than half. [ Applause ] Megan, please stand up. We're fighting for you, Megan. [ Applause ]

Thank you, Megan. We're fighting for you, Megan. Under our bill, parents like Megan can also activate the children's brand new Trump accounts, and I didn't name it. I did not name that.

[ Applause ] Nobody believes me, but I did not name it. It's named by a very tall man standing right there in the third room. Nice man, a good man. Tax free, investment accounts for every American child.

This is something that so special has taken off and gone through the roof. Millions will be pre-funded courtesy of the US Treasury and private

individuals like Michael and Susan Dowell, who have donated $6,250 million

to fund the Trump accounts for 25 million American children. [ Applause ] They're great people. [ Applause ]

“And I asked Michael Dowell, how do you make all that money?”

He said, well, I just sat on my dorm in school, and I made computers, and I'd sell them to people. And I just kept selling and selling, and it's selling, and pretty amazing story. This is called the American Dream.

We sold a lot of computers, a lot of those laptops, so I congratulate him on that, but I really thank him and Susan, as well as others like Brad Gersner, a very tremendous guy. He was behind it right from the beginning. Brad Gersner, thank you, Brad.

[ Applause ] So with modest additional contributions, these young people's accounts could grow to over $100,000 a more by the time they turn 18. Think of it, how much money is that for somebody

that started with nothing over 100,000 could be much more than that. To make this investment in our children's future, go to trumpaccounts.gov. Trumpaccounts.gov.

A lot of people are doing it,

it's setting every record in the book, it's popular.

“They knew what was going to take, so proud of them.”

I'm so proud of the people that got it started. And now it's just taken off. One of the primary reasons for our country's stunning economic turnaround, the biggest in history where the Dow Jones broke 50,000, four years ahead of schedule.

And the S&P hit 7,000, where it wasn't supposed to do it for many years were tariffs. I used these tariffs to give hundreds of billions of dollars to make great deals for our country, both economically and on a national security basis.

Everything was working well, countries that were ripping us off for decades and now paying us hundreds of billions of dollars. They were ripping us so badly, you all know that. Everybody knows it, even the Democrats know it. They just don't want to say it.

And yet these countries are now happy. And so are we. We made deals. The deals are all done. And they're happy.

“They're not making money like they used to,”

but we're making a lot of money. There was no inflation, tremendous growth. And the big story was how Donald Trump called the economy correctly. And 22 Nobel Prize winners and economics didn't. They got it totally wrong.

They got it really wrong. And then just four days ago, an unfortunate ruling from the United States Supreme Court. It just came down. It came down.

Very unfortunate ruling. But the good news is that almost all countries and corporations want to keep the deal that they already made. Right, Scott? Knowing that the legal power that I, as president,

have to make a new deal could be far worse for them. And therefore, they will continue to work along the same successful path that we had negotiated before the Supreme Court's unfortunate involvement.

So despite the disappointing ruling, these powerful country saving

is saving our country, the kind of money we're taking in. Peace protecting many of the wars I settled was because of the threat of tariffs. I wouldn't have been able to settle them with a were remained in place under fully approved and tested alternative legal statutes.

And they have been tested for a long time. They're a little more complex, but they're actually probably better. Leading to a solution that will be even stronger than before. Congressional action will not be necessary. It's already time tested and approved.

“And as time goes by, I believe the tariffs paid for by far”

in countries will like in the past. Substantially replace the modern-day system of income tax, taking a great financial burden off the people that I love. (applause) Moving forward, factories, jobs,

investment, and trillions, and trillions of dollars will continue pouring into the United States of America.

Because we finally have a president who puts America first.

I put America first. I love America. (applause) For decades before I came along, we had the exact opposite from trade to health care, from energy to immigration.

Everything was stolen and rigged in order to drain the wealth out of the productive, hard-working people who make our country great, who make our country run. Under Biden and his corrupt partners in Congress and beyond, it reached a breaking point with a green-new scam.

Open borders for everyone. They poured in by the millions and millions from prisons from mental institutions. They were murderers, 11,888 murders. They came into our country.

You allowed that to happen. And record setting inflation that cost the typical family, $34,000 and just a speck of time. Now the same people in this chamber who voted for those disasters. Suddenly used the word affordability a word.

They just used it. Somebody gave it to them, knowing full well that they caused and created the increased prices that all of our citizens had doing, or you caused that problem. You caused that problem.

(applause)

They knew their statements were like, they knew it.

They knew their statements were a dirty, rotten lie. Their policies created the high prices.

“Out of the policies are rapidly ending them.”

We are doing really well. Those prices are plummeting down there. (applause)

Price of eggs is down 60 percent.

Madam Secretary, thank you. The cost of chicken, butter, fruit, hotels, automobiles. Red is lower today than when I took office by a lot. And even beef, which was very high, is starting to come down significantly.

It's hold on a little while. We get it down. And soon you will see numbers that few people would think were possible to achieve just a short time ago. Nobody can believe when they see the kind of numbers,

especially energy when they see energy going down to numbers like that. They cannot believe it. It's like another big tax cut. I'm also confronting one of the biggest ripoffs of our times, the crushing cost of health care.

It goes by you since the passage of the Un Affordable Care Act. Sometimes referred to as Obamacare, big insurance company of Scott Rich. It was meant for the insurance company, it's not for the people. With our government giving them hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars a year, as they stock prices stored 1,000, 1,200, 1,400,

and even 1,700 percent like nothing else.

“That's why I introduced the great healthcare plan.”

I want to stop all payments to big insurance companies, and instead give that money directly to the people. So they can buy their own healthcare, which will be better, healthier, and a much lower cost. In addition, my plan requires maximum price transparency.

That's a big deal. It sounds so simple, so big. I did that in my first term, and the Democrats immediately terminated it with full knowledge that they were doing a very bad thing for the people. We're going to go way up, and that's what happened.

Now, I'm bringing them way down on healthcare and everything else. I'm also lending the wildly inflated cost of prescription drugs

like has never happened before.

[ Applause ]

“Other presidents tried to do it, but they never could.”

They tried, most didn't try, actually. But they tried, they said they tried. They couldn't do it, they didn't even come close. They were all talk and no action, but I got it done. Under my just enacted most favored nation agreements of Americans,

who are for decades paid by far, the highest prices of any nation anywhere in the world for prescription drugs will now pay the lowest price anywhere in the world for drugs, anywhere. The lowest price. [ Applause ]

So in my first year of the second term, should be my third term. [ Laughter ] Strange things happen. I took prescription drugs, a very big part of healthcare, from the highest price in the entire world to the lowest.

That's a big achievement. The result is price differences of 300, 400, 500, 600 percent and more. All available right now at a new website called TrumpRx.gov and I didn't name that one either by the way.

[ Applause ] And here tonight is the very first customer ever to get that big discount and it is big. Katherine Rainer. For five years she and her husband have struggled with infertility

and they turned to IVF. One drug has been costing Katherine $4,000 to purchase. But a few weeks ago she logged onto the TrumpRx website and got that same drug that cost $4,000. Got it for under $500.

A reduction of much more actually than $3,500.

Katherine, we are all praying for you and you're going to be a great mom.

[ Applause ]

“So now I'm calling on Congress to codify my most favorite nation program”

into law.

Now the one thing I'm not sure it matters because it's going to be very hard for somebody that comes along after me to say let's raise drug prices by 700 or 800 percent.

But John and Mike, if you don't mind, codify it anyway. They may do it codify it anyway. Thank you. Many Americans are also concerned that energy demand from AI data centers could unfairly drive up their electric utility bills. Tonight I'm pleased to announce that I have negotiated the new rate payer protection pledge.

You know what that is? We're telling the major tech companies that they have the obligation to provide for their own power needs.

“They can build their own power plants as part of their factory.”

So that no one's prices will go up and in many cases prices of electricity will go down for the community and very substantially down.

This is a unique strategy never used in this country before.

We have an old grid. It could never handle the kind of numbers the amount of electricity that's needed. So I'm telling them they can build their own plant. They're going to produce their own electricity. It will ensure the company's ability to get electricity while at the same time,

lowering prices of electricity for you and could be very substantial. All of you cities and towns. You're going to see some good things happen over the next number of years. Another pillar of the American dream that has been under attack is homeownership. With us tonight is Rachel Wiggins, a mom of two from Houston.

She plays the bids on 20 homes and lost all of those bids to gigantic investment firms at bypass inspection. Payed all cash and turned those houses into rentals stealing away her American dream view is devastated. Stories like this are why last month I signed Executive Order to ban large Wall Street investment firms from buying up into thousands single family homes. [Applause] And now I'm asking Congress to make that ban permanent because homes for people.

Really, that's what we want. We want homes for people, not for corporations, corporations to do ingest find. Racial. Thank you very much. Good luck with your home.

[Applause] We're also working to make it easier for Americans to save for retirement and under this administration.

We will always protect social security and Medicare.

They are not protecting it for our seniors. We will always protect social security and Medicare. [Applause] Since I took off the typical 401K balances up by at least 30,000 dollars. It's a lot of money.

You have millions and millions of people because the stock market has done so well, setting all those records.

“If you want to make it easier for a 1K's or way up, you have to work in American still do not have access to a retirement plan with matching contributions from an employer to remedy this gross disparity.”

I'm announcing that next year my administration will give these off. Forgotten American workers, great people, the people that built our country. Access to the same type of retirement plan offered to every federal worker. We will match your contribution with up to $1,000 each year. As we ensure that all Americans can profit from a rising stock market,

let's also ensure that members of Congress cannot corruptly profit from using insider information. [Applause] They stood up for that I can't believe it did Nancy Pelosi stand up if she is here.

[Applause]

Pass the stop insider trading act without delay.

[Applause]

“I wasn't sure if anybody even on this side was going to applaud for that.”

I'm very impressed. Thank you. I'm very impressed. But when it comes to the corruption that is plundering, it's plundering America. There's been no more stunning example than Minnesota.

The members of the Somali community have pillaged and estimated $19 billion from the American taxpayer.

We have all the information. And in actuality the numbers much higher than that.

“And California Massachusetts, Maine and many other states are even worse.”

This is the kind of corruption that shreds the fabric of a nation. We are working on it like you wouldn't believe. So tonight, although started four months ago, I am officially announcing the war on fraud to be led by our great Vice President, JD Vance. [Applause]

We'll get it done. And we're able to find enough of that fraud. We will actually have a balanced budget overnight. It'll go very quickly. That's the kind of money you talk about.

We'll balance our budget. The Somali pirates who ransacked Minnesota remind us that there are large parts of the world. The bribery corruption and lawlessness are the norm, not the exception. Importing these cultures through unrestricted immigration and open borders brings those problems right here to the USA. And it is the American people who pay the price in higher medical bills, car insurance rates, red taxes and perhaps most importantly crime.

We will take care of this problem. We're going to take care of this problem. We are not playing games. Delilah. [Applause]

Delilah Colburn was only five years old in June, 2024 when a 18-wheel tractor trailer plowed into her stopped car traveling at 60 miles an hour or more. The driver was an illegal alien, led in by Joe Biden and given a commercial driver's license by open borders, politicians and California.

Doctors said Delilah would never be able to walk or talk, have a good life.

She wouldn't even be able to eat again, but against all odds she is now in the first grade learning to walk. And she's here this evening with her dead Marcus, a fantastic man. Delilah, please. You are a great inspiration, please send her. [Applause]

[Applause] Thank you, Delilah. Many of that most illegal aliens do not speak English and cannot read even the most basic road signs as to direction speed danger or location.

“That's why tonight I'm calling on Congress to pass, but we will call the Delilah law, barring any state from granting commercial driver's licenses to illegal alien.”

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Yesterday, as you probably saw at the White House, I hosted a ceremony with A...

How we allowed this to happen with our open borders.

“These are the angel moms and families that for decades, our government betrayed and our media totally ignored totally and it was terrible.”

Hard to believe, actually.

In 2023 or 16 year old high school of cheerleader named Elizabeth Medina was supposed to perform in her town's Christmas parade, but she never arrived.

After mother Jacqueline went home to look for her and she found her lying dead in a bathtub, bleeding profusely after being stabbed 25-time. Liz Beth's killer was a previously arrested illegal alien who had broken in and brutally extinguished the brightest light in her family's life violently and viciously. Her heart broken mother is in the gallery to remind everyone in this chamber. Exactly why we are deporting illegal alien criminals for our country at record numbers and we're getting them. The hell out of here fast, we don't want to.

Thank you very much, Jacqueline. Thank you.

“We can never forget that many in this room.”

Not only allowed the border invasion to happen before I got involved, but indeed they would do it all over again if they've had the chance. If they ever got elected, they would open up those borders to some of the worst criminals anywhere in the world. The only thing standing between Americans and a wide open border right now is President Donald J. Trump and our great Republican Patriots in Congress. Thank you. Democrats in this chamber have cut off all funding for the Department of Homeland Security and Zulcut off.

Zulcut off. They have instituted another Democrat shutdown. The first one cursing us two points on GDP. Two points we lost on GDP, which probably made them quite happy actually.

Now they have closed the agency responsible for protecting Americans from terrorists and murders. Ten item demanding the fall and immediate restoration of all funding for the border security, Homeland Security of the United States and also for helping people clean up their snow. We have no money because of the Democrats and it would be nice. You'd love to give your hand a clean it up, but you give no money. Nobody's getting paid. It's a shame.

“So you have to think about it. We have a case you didn't know pretty large snowstorm out there.”

One of the great things about the state of the union is how it gives Americans the chance to see clearly what their representatives really believe. So tonight I'm inviting every legislative to join with my administration and reaffirming a fundamental principle. If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support.

The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens not illegally.

(Applause.) (Applause.)

(Applause.

(Applause.)

“In that exchange, you should be ashamed of yourself, not standing up. You should be ashamed of yourself.”

That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who blocked the agreement.

Who blocked the removal of criminal aliens in many cases drug loads, murders all over our country. They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country and you should be ashamed of yourself. (Applause.) (Applause.)

Perhaps, most importantly, I'm asking you to approve the Save America Act.

I'm asking you to approve the American Act. It's very simple. All voters must show voter ID. (Applause.) All voters must show proof of citizenship in order to all. (Applause.)

And no more crooked mail-in balance except for illness, disability, military, or travel. (Applause.)

And this should be an easy one, by the way, it's polling at 89 percent, including Democrats, 89 percent.

(Applause.) Even the new Communist mayor of New York City, I think he's a nice guy, actually. Speak to him a lot. He had policy, but nice guy, just said they want people to shovel snow, they got hit hard.

“Want some to shovel snow, but if you apply for that job, you need to show two original forms of ID and a social security card.”

If they don't want identification for the greatest privilege of them all voting in America, now it's not good. Both Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly agree on the policy that we just announced he added. And Congress should unite and enact this common sense, country saving legislation right now, and it should be before anything else happens. (Applause.) And the reason they don't want to do it, why would anybody not want voter ID?

What reason? Because they want a cheat. There's only one reason. They make up all excuses. They say it's racist. They come up with things. You almost say what a imagination they have.

“They want a cheat. They have cheated, and the policy is so bad that the only way they can get elected is to cheat.”

And we're going to stop it. We have to stop it, John. (Applause.)

Here is one more opportunity to show common sense in government.

Hard to believe, isn't it? Before long, a confused sage ran away from home. After she was found in a horrific situation in Maryland, a left-wing judge refused to return sage to a parents because they did not immediately state that their daughter was their son.

“Sage was thrown into an all-boy state home and suffered terribly for a long time, but today all of that is behind them because sage is a proud and wonderful young woman with a full ride scholarship to Liberty University.”

Sage, Michelle, please stand up.

(Applause.)

“Thank you for your great bravery and who can believe that we're even speaking about things like this. 15 years ago, if somebody was up here and said that they say, "What's wrong with him?"”

Now we have to say it because it's going on all over. Numerous states, that even telling the parents, but surely we can all agree, no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents' arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents.

Well, who would believe that we've been talking about? We must ban it and we must ban it immediately.

Nobody says that these people are crazy. I'm telling you, they're crazy. We're lucky we have a country with people like this. Democrats are destroying our country, but we've stopped it just in the nick of time. (Applause.)

“No one cares more about protecting America's youth than our wonderful, first lady. Now, a movie star, a movie star. Can you believe it?”

We want to believe that over the past year, she has had an incredible impact happening AI legislation advancing a landmark executive order or force to care and helping secure $30 million to launch the Malania Trump force to use to independence initiative. It's a tremendous thing that happened and had a lot of bipartisan support. She gets much better by partisan support than I do. I get none. She gets some... Some day you're going to have to tell me how you did that. And students and educators in every state have joined the first lady's efforts in the presidential AI challenge keeping America's next generation position to succeed and strongly succeed in the future.

Tonight, we welcome two young people whose lives reflect the first lady's impact Sierra Burns and Everest, Nevermont. Thank you both and Malania, thank you. I know how hard you were to, thank you very much.

I'm very proud to say that during my time and office both the first four years and in particular this last year there has been a tremendous renewal in religion, faith, Christianity and belief in God.

This is especially true among young people and a big part of that had to do with my great friend Charlie Kirk who great guys here.

Last year Charlie was violently murdered by an assassin and murdered really m...

Thank you, Erica, it's a lot. In Charlie's memory we must all come together to reaffirm that America is one nation under God and we must totally reject political violence of any kind.

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“We love religion and we love bringing it back and it's coming back at levels that nobody actually thought possible. Really a beautiful thing to see.”

Above all, unleashing America's promise requires keeping our communities safe. We have made incredible strides yet dangerous repeat offenders continue to be released by pro crime, democrat politicians again and again.

We are honored to be joined tonight by a woman who's been through Hell, Ania, Syredska. In 2022 she and her beautiful daughter so beautiful what a beautiful young woman.

Irene of Fledd, what turn, what torn Ukraine to live with relatives near Charlotte, North Carolina and by the way what's going on with Charlotte. Last summer 23 year old Irene was writing home on the train when a deranged monster who had been arrested over a dozen times and was released through no cash bail stood up and viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body. No one will ever forget there were people on that train. No one will ever forget the expression of terror on Irene is face as she looked up at her attacker in the last seconds of her life. She died instantly. She had escaped a brutal war only to be slain by a hardened criminal set free to kill and America came in through open borders.

“Mrs. Zaretska tonight I promise you we will ensure justice for your magnificent daughter, Irene.”

How do you not stand? How do you not stand? I'm asking this Congress to pass tough legislation to ensure that violent and dangerous repeat offenders are put behind bars and importantly that they stay there. (Applause)

Starting last summer I deployed our national garden in federal law enforcement to restore law and order to our most dangerous cities including Memphis, Tennessee, Big Success,

“New Orleans, Louisiana, Big Success, and our nation's capital itself, Washington, D.C., where we have almost no crime anymore in Washington, D.C., how did that happen?”

In fact, crime in Washington is now at the lowest level ever recorded and murders in D.C. this January were down close to 100% from a year ago. (Applause) (Applause) (Applause)