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trump | The forced religious conversions, the orange suits prior to many beheadings, all of which were openly displayed for the world - this was all Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi's work. He was vicious and violent, and he died in a vicious and violent way, as a coward, running and crying. This raid was impeccable, and could only have taken place with the acknowledgement and help of certain other nations and people. | speech |
trump | I want to thank the soldiers, sailors, airmen, and marines involved in last night's operation. You are the very best there is anywhere in the world. I want to thank General Mark Milley and our Joint Chiefs of Staff, and I also want to thank our professionals who work in other agencies of the United States government and were critical to the mission's success. | speech |
trump | Last night was a great night for the United States and for the World. A brutal killer, one who has caused so much hardship and death, was violently eliminated - he will never again harm another innocent man, woman or child. He died like a dog. He died like a coward. The world is now a much safer place. | speech |
trump | The reach of America is long. As you know, last month we announced that we recently killed Hamza Bin Laden, the very violent son of Osama Bin Laden, who was saying very bad things. | speech |
trump | They say there is something wrong with our president. I'll let you know if there's something wrong, okay? I'll let you know if there's something, I'll tell you what, there's something wrong with Biden, that I could tell you. | speech |
trump | Also here is a man who's respected by so many. He's a little bit right of the people we've been talking about tonight. Senator Tom Cotton of the great state of Arkansas. Thank you, Tom. They like you people. | speech |
trump | In recent years, America's warriors have made clear to all the high cost of threatening the American people. The savage ISIS caliphate has been 100 percent destroyed under the Trump administration, and its barbaric leader, al-Baghdadi, is gone, killed, over. And the world's number-one terrorist, Qasem Soleimani, is likewise dead. | speech |
trump | For the first time in 70 years, we established a new branch of the United States military: the Space Force. It's a big deal. | speech |
trump | To the 1,107 who today become the newest officers in the most exceptional Army ever to take the field of battle, I am here to offer America's salute. Thank you for answering your nation's call. | speech |
trump | Through four long years, you have honed your skills, trained your mind and body, overcome every obstacle, and earned your place of pride in the Long Gray Line. You made it through the rigors of R-Day and Beast, the intensity of CLDT, and weeks of training in the blistering heat. You have pushed yourselves far beyond every limit imaginable. | speech |
trump | As long as you remain loyal, faithful, and true, then our enemies don't even stand a chance, our rights will never be stolen, our freedoms will never be trampled, our destiny will never be denied, and the United States of America will never be defeated. With the grace of God and the heroes of West Point, America will always prevail. Nothing will stand in your way, nothing will slow you down, and nothing will stop the West Point Class of 2020 from achieving a true and lasting victory. | speech |
trump | Standing here before you more than two centuries later, it is clearer than ever that General Washington's words still hold true. West Point is still the indispensable post for America, the vital ground that must not lose. And the survival of our nation still depends on a great chain reaching out from this place -- one made not of iron, but of flesh and blood, of memory and spirit, of sheer faith and unyielding courage. | speech |
trump | Tomorrow, America will celebrate a very important anniversary: the 245th birthday of the United States Army. Unrelated, going to be my birthday also. I don't know if that happened by accident. Did that happen by accident, please? But it's a great day because of that Army birthday. | speech |
trump | This is your history. This is the legacy that each of you inherits. It is the legacy purchased with American blood at the crest of Little Round Top, on the crimson beaches of Normandy, in the freezing mud of Bastogne, and the dense jungles of Vietnam. It is the legacy of courageous, selfless, faithful patriots who fought for every inch of dirt with every ounce of strength and every last scrap of heart and drive and grit they had. | speech |
trump | Today, each of you becomes another link in that unbroken chain, forged in the crucible known as the United States Military Academy, the greatest on Earth. It has given you soldiers that you can rely on to your right and to your left. And now we are entrusting you with the most noble task any warrior has ever had the privilege to carry out: the task of preserving American liberty. | speech |
trump | The depth and breadth of the U. S. Military's contributions to our society are an everlasting inspiration to us all. I want to take this opportunity to thank all members of America's Armed Forces in every branch -- active duty, National Guard, and reserve -- who stepped forward to help battle the invisible enemy -- the new virus that came to our shores from a distant land called China. We will vanquish the virus. We will extinguish this plague. | speech |
trump | But let our enemies be on notice: If our people are threatened, we will never, ever hesitate to act. And when we fight, from now on, we will fight only to win. As MacArthur said: "In war, there is no substitute for victory." | speech |
trump | The survival of America and the endurance of civilization itself depends on the men and women just like each of you. It depends on people who love their country with all their heart and energy and soul. It depends on citizens who build, sustain, nurture, and defend institutions like this one; that is how societies are made and how progress is advanced. What has historically made America unique is the durability of its institutions against the passions and prejudices of the moment. When times are turbulent, when the road is rough, what matters most is that which is permanent, timeless, enduring, and eternal. | speech |
trump | As I have said, the United States is prepared to negotiate mutually beneficial, bilateral trade agreements with all countries. This will include the countries in TPP, which are very important. We have agreements with several of them already. We would consider negotiating with the rest, either individually, or perhaps as a group, if it is in the interests of all. | speech |
trump | We will enforce our trade laws and restore integrity to our trading system. Only by insisting on fair and reciprocal trade can we create a system that works not just for the U. S. but for all nations. | speech |
trump | Thank you to our hosts, thank you to the leaders and innovators in the audience. But most importantly, thank you to all of the hardworking men and women who do their duty each and every day, making this a better world for everyone. Together, let us send our love and our gratitude to make them, because they really make our countries run. They make our countries great. | speech |
trump | Since my election, we've created 2.4 million jobs, and that number is going up very, very substantially. Small-business optimism is at an all-time high. New unemployment claims are near the lowest we've seen in almost half a century. African American unemployment has reached the lowest rate ever recorded in the United States, and so has unemployment among Hispanic Americans. | speech |
trump | The nation's greatness is more than the sum of its production. A nation's greatness is the sum of its citizens: the values, pride, love, devotion, and character of the people who call that nation home. | speech |
trump | In rebuilding America, we are also fully committed to developing our workforce. We are lifting people from dependence to independence, because we know the single best anti-poverty program is a very simple and very beautiful paycheck. | speech |
trump | America is the place to do business. So come to America, where you can innovate, create, and build. I believe in America. As President of the United States, I will always put America first, just like the leaders of other countries should put their country first also. | speech |
trump | The United States will no longer turn a blind eye to unfair economic practices, including massive intellectual property theft, industrial subsidies, and pervasive state-led economic planning. These and other predatory behaviors are distorting the global markets and harming businesses and workers, not just in the U. S., but around the globe. | speech |
trump | America is a cutting-edge economy, but our immigration system is stuck in the past. We must replace our current system of extended-family chain migration with a merit-based system of admissions that selects new arrivals based on their ability to contribute to our economy, to support themselves financially, and to strengthen our country. | speech |
trump | And we really though February 1st it was going to kick in and everybody was going to be--well, we haven't even gotten there yet and it's kicked in. And it's had an incredible impact on the stock market and the stock prices. We've set 84 records since my election--record stock market prices, meaning we hit new highs 84 different times out of a one-year period. And that's a great thing. And in all fairness, that was done before we passed the tax cuts and tax reform. | speech |
trump | Each of you has the power to change hearts, transform lives, and shape your countries' destinies. With this power comes an obligation, however --a duty of loyalty to the people, workers, and customers who have made you who you are. | speech |
trump | We have the best colleges and universities in the world, and we have the best workers in the world. Energy is abundant and affordable. There has never been a better time to come to America. | speech |
trump | We are also making historic investments in the American military because we cannot have prosperity without security. To make the world safer from rogue regimes, terrorism, and revisionist powers, we are asking our friends and allies to invest in their own defenses and to meet their financial obligations. Our common security requires everyone to contribute their fair share. | speech |
trump | Good, I would like to do that. That's very nice. | speech |
trump | Well, we have tremendous amounts of money, including my newfound friends from last night --great companies. They're all investing. When one of the gentlemen said he's putting in $2 billion because of the tax cuts, I said to myself, "Wow, he's actually the cheap one in the group" --because they're putting in massive numbers of billions of dollars. | speech |
trump | When it comes to terrorism, we will do whatever is necessary to protect our nation. We will defend our citizens and our borders. We are also securing our immigration system, as a matter of both national and economic security. | speech |
trump | Thank you all very much. I appreciate it. | speech |
trump | America is roaring back, and now is the time to invest in the future of America. We have dramatically cut taxes to make America competitive. We are eliminating burdensome regulations at a record pace. We are reforming the bureaucracy to make it lean, responsive, and accountable. And we are ensuring our laws are enforced fairly. | speech |
trump | Now is the perfect time to bring your business, your jobs, and your investments to the United States. This is especially true because we have undertaken the most extensive regulatory reduction ever conceived. Regulation is stealth taxation. The U. S., like many other countries, unelected bureaucrats--and we have--believe me, we have them all over the place--and they've imposed crushing and anti-business and anti-worker regulations on our citizens with no vote, no legislative debate, and no real accountability. | speech |
trump | Represented in this room are some of the remarkable citizens from all over the world. You are national leaders, business titans, industry giants, and many of the brightest minds in many fields. | speech |
trump | After years of stagnation, the United States is once again experiencing strong economic growth. The stock market is smashing one record after another, and has added more than $7 trillion in new wealth since my election. Consumer confidence, business confidence, and manufacturing confidence are the highest they have been in many decades. | speech |
trump | My administration is proud to have led historic efforts, at the United Nations Security Council and all around the world, to unite all civilized nations in our campaign of maximum pressure to de-nuke the Korean Peninsula. We continue to call on partners to confront Iran's support for terrorists and block Iran's path to a nuclear weapon. | speech |
trump | Thank you, Klaus, very much. It's a privilege to be here at this forum where leaders in business, science, art, diplomacy, and world affairs have gathered for many, many years to discuss how we can advance prosperity, security, and peace. | speech |
trump | So I think you have a brand-new United States. You have a United States where people from all over the world are looking to come in and invest, and there's just nothing like what's happening. | speech |
trump | But overall--I mean, the bottom line--somebody said, well, they couldn't have been that bad because here we are--we're president. And I think we're doing a really great job with my team. I have a team of just tremendous people, and I think we're doing a very special job. And I really believe it was time, and it was time to do that job, because I don't think the United States would have done very well if it went through four or eight more years of regulation and, really, a very anti-business group of people. | speech |
trump | Last week, we took decisive action to stop a ruthless terrorist from threatening American lives. At my direction, the United States military eliminated the world's top terrorist, Qasem Soleimani. As the head of the Quds Force, Soleimani was personally responsible for some of the absolutely worst atrocities. | speech |
trump | Our great American forces are prepared for anything. Iran appears to be standing down, which is a good thing for all parties concerned and a very good thing for the world. | speech |
trump | As we continue to evaluate options in response to Iranian aggression, the United States will immediately impose additional punishing economic sanctions on the Iranian regime. These powerful sanctions will remain until Iran changes its behavior. | speech |
trump | Soleimani's hands were drenched in both American and Iranian blood. He should have been terminated long ago. By removing Soleimani, we have sent a powerful message to terrorists: If you value your own life, you will not threaten the lives of our people. | speech |
trump | The fact that we have this great military and equipment, however, does not mean we have to use it. We do not want to use it. American strength, both military and economic, is the best deterrent. | speech |
trump | The very defective JCPOA expires shortly anyway, and gives Iran a clear and quick path to nuclear breakout. Iran must abandon its nuclear ambitions and end its support for terrorism. The time has come for the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Russia, and China to recognize this reality. | speech |
trump | Finally, to the people and leaders of Iran: We want you to have a future and a great future -- one that you deserve, one of prosperity at home, and harmony with the nations of the world. The United States is ready to embrace peace with all who seek it. | speech |
trump | Peace and stability cannot prevail in the Middle East as long as Iran continues to foment violence, unrest, hatred, and war. The civilized world must send a clear and unified message to the Iranian regime: Your campaign of terror, murder, mayhem will not be tolerated any longer. It will not be allowed to go forward. | speech |
trump | Soleimani directed the recent attacks on US personnel in Iraq that badly wounded four service members and killed one American, and he orchestrated the violent assault on the US embassy in Baghdad. In recent days, he was planning new attacks on American targets, but we stopped him. | speech |
trump | Tens of thousands of ISIS fighters have been killed or captured during my administration. ISIS is a natural enemy of Iran The destruction of ISIS is good for Iran, and we should work together on this and other shared priorities. | speech |
trump | The American military has been completely rebuilt under my administration, at a cost of $2.5 trillion. US Armed Forces are stronger than ever before. Our missiles are big, powerful, accurate, lethal, and fast. Under construction are many hypersonic missiles. | speech |
trump | Three months ago, after destroying 100 percent of ISIS and its territorial caliphate, we killed the savage leader of ISIS, al-Baghdadi, who was responsible for so much death, including the mass beheadings of Christians, Muslims, and all who stood in his way. He was a monster. Al-Baghdadi was trying again to rebuild the ISIS caliphate, and failed. | speech |
trump | But you were so incredible, representing -- I don't say "me" -- representing our country and getting it out of this impeachment hoax. What you did was incredible. | speech |
trump | And they say where he works out -- you know, where the congressmen, senators, they work out -- they say, when Jim works out -- even though he's not as young as he was, but he works out -- the machine starts burning. You know, it's just a different form of a workout than us. Right, Sonny? And -- there he is. Look at that guy. | speech |
trump | But now we have that gorgeous word -- I never thought a word would sound so good. It's called "total acquittal." Total acquittal. | speech |
trump | So, Debbie, please stand up. Debbie Lesko. | speech |
trump | I invited some of our very good friends. And we have limited room, but everybody wanted to come. We kept it down to a minimum. And believe it or not, this is a minimum. | speech |
trump | People came to Washington to help other people. "Bright-eyed and bushy-tailed," I say. They came -- one or two or three people in particular, but many people. | speech |
trump | And during these horrible times -- I mean, the way he worked and Jim and all of you guys -- the way they worked so -- it was like their life was at stake. So many. | speech |
trump | And we did win. It was one of the greatest wins of all time. And they said, "Okay, he won." And, you know, I wrote this down because that was where a thing called the "insurance policy" -- to me, when I saw the insurance policy -- and that was done long before the election. That was done when they thought that Hillary Clinton was going to win. | speech |
trump | So everyone went into the dugout -- ran into the dugout, but Steve was really hit badly in the stomach, and -- with a bullet that rips you apart. It was supposed to do that. It rips -- it rips you apart. | speech |
trump | You know, you should have gone -- I wish you got angry. You could have gotten the whole ballgame. He would have said, "I give up." Chuck Grassley is an incredible guy. | speech |
trump | And the other thing, as mentioned in the call and something that I've told Mike Pence, our great Vice President -- I would tell him all the time, and I told him when he went on the trip, because he was over there. He never mentioned anything about this when you had your meeting. It's a terrible thing. | speech |
trump | Fortunately, for all of us here today and for our country, we had transcripts. We had transcribers -- professional transcribers. Then they said, "Oh, well, maybe the transcription is not correct." But Lieutenant Colonel Vindman and his twin brother -- right? -- we had some people that -- really amazing. | speech |
trump | Think what we could have done if the same energy was put into infrastructure, prescription drug prices. Think of what we could have done. And I'm now talking both sides. Think of what we could have done if we had the same genius -- because it's genius. | speech |
trump | But, Mark, I want to thank you very much. Fantastic job. Thank you very much. Mark Meadows. | speech |
trump | It's a very tough thing. And then we ended up winning on Russia, Russia, Russia. It should have taken the one day, as I said, and it took years. | speech |
trump | We can say that Mike Lee is, by far, the most popular senator from the state. But you've done a fantastic job, Mike, in many ways. In many ways. | speech |
trump | And a lot of -- actually, a lot of my guys went there. They went to Iowa. And a lot of friends went there, and we had tremendous -- they say the spirit -- the spirit for the Republican Party right now is stronger, I think, than it's ever been in the history of our country. I think it's stronger than it's ever been. | speech |
trump | I probably have a legal obligation, Mr. Attorney, to report corruption. But they don't think it's corrupt when a son that made no money, that got thrown out of the military, that had no money at all, is working for $3 million up front, $83,000 a month. And that's only Ukraine. Then goes to China, picks up $1.5 billion. Then goes to Romania, I hear, and many other countries. | speech |
trump | But in normal times -- decades, you would call it; that was a little unusual time; it was for a very short period -- the Republicans Party -- Party's poll numbers and Donald Trump's poll numbers are the highest I've ever had them. So maybe they were. It's no way to get your poll numbers up. It's not worth it -- because from my family's standpoint, it's been very unfair for my family. It's been very unfair to the country. | speech |
trump | So, the theory was you couldn't beat her. Great campaigner. Remember the last campaign, she was going to be taken out. She was always going to be taken out, then she wins and people say, "How did that happen?" Didn't happen with him. | speech |
trump | So we'll probably have to do it again because these people have gone stone-cold crazy. But I've beaten them all my life, and I'll beat them again if I have to. But what they're doing is very unfair. Very unfair. | speech |
trump | And, by the way, Hillary Clinton and the DNC paid for millions -- millions of dollars -- the fake dossier. And now Christopher Steele admits that it's a fake because he got sued by rich people. I should have sued him too. But when you're President, people don't like suing. | speech |
trump | Jim Jordan, did you want to say something? Go ahead. Huh? Mark? | speech |
trump | But I just want to tell you that it's an honor to be with you all. I want to apologize to my family for having them have to go through a phony, rotten deal by some very evil and sick people. And Ivanka is here, and my -- my sons and my whole family, and that includes Barron. That includes Barron, who is up there as a young boy. | speech |
trump | But a tremendous thing was done over the last number of months, but really, if you go back to it, over the last number of years. We had the witch hunt. It started from the day we came down the elevator, myself and our future First Lady, who's with us right now. Thank you, Melania. | speech |
trump | The man who we beat, who was expected to win easily, called me after the race. He said, "You endorsed him, and it was like a nuclear bomb went off. There was nothing I could do." He never even spent his money. He saved it. | speech |
trump | And one of the reasons the stock market has gone up so much in the last few days is people think we're doing so well. They liked the State of the Union speech. It really is -- it's a true honor to give it. | speech |
trump | She saw it very early on, and we have -- I don't know if we have other senators here, but we got a hell of a lot of congressmen. And I'll go over them quickly, but they have -- they have also been -- you know, it helped when we won 197 to nothing. That's got to be a first, Kevin. Right? Is that, like, a first? | speech |
trump | This is a guy -- he just -- he's just a very special guy. His wife I actually like better than him, to be honest. Because he doesn't know that I know that he didn't actually support me right from the beginning, but she did. | speech |
trump | Jim Banks of Indiana. Jim, thank you. Great job. | speech |
trump | And I love the FBI and the FBI loves me -- 99 percent. It was the top scum. And the FBI people don't like the top scum. | speech |
trump | Well, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. | speech |
trump | And now, I just heard that they're suing the United States of America because they were interfered with. We're not going to let it happen. Just not going to let it happen. We cannot let this happen to our country. We can't. | speech |
trump | But I'll tell you, Chuck Grassley -- he's looking at Comey: "Well, you tell me, what did you say?" Now, he wasn't being rough. That was just the way he talked. And that was when Comey -- I think that was when Comey announced that he was leaking, lying, and everything else, right? He choked because he never heard anybody talk like that. | speech |
trump | But, you see, we thought, after the election, it would stop. But it didn't stop; it just started. And tremendous corruption. Tremendous corruption. | speech |
trump | Bradley Byrne, Alabama. What a great place. Thank you, Bradley. | speech |
trump | And two days ago, ExxonMobil, in addition to many others, just announced that they are investing $50 billion in the United States. So the good news just keeps on rolling in, and it's going to. | speech |
trump | We can reduce the price of prescription drugs and ensure that terminally ill patients have a right to try. So important--right to try. You know, those drugs, they sit in there for 12, 13, 14 years. And a person is terminally ill, they have two months left, and under the old system they don't want to give them even an experimental medicine because they're afraid they're going to be hurt. Well, they're not going to be around for two months. | speech |
trump | And I think the word "vocational" is a much better word than, in many cases, a community college. A lot of people don't know what a community college means or represents. So we're working very hard on vocational schools so that when all these companies move into this country, we're going to have a workforce that knows exactly what they're doing. | speech |
trump | So--no, we were always going to get it. We never had a problem with it. But if you think about, that by itself is a big bill. The individual mandate by itself is a big, powerful bill. That was just added on to what we did with the massive tax cuts. | speech |
trump | If the Democrats choose to filibuster a framework that includes a generous path to citizenship or something that is not fair, we are not going to approve it. We're just not going to approve it. | speech |
trump | As I said the other night, we are a nation that built the Empire State Building in one year. Actually, to be exact, it was--we built it in less than a year. Would you believe it? Working 24 hours around the clock. | speech |
trump | For the last 12 months, I have kept one promise after another, and we're just getting started. So often I'll see--and I must say, six, seven months ago, they were saying, he didn't fulfill his promise on this or that. I said, I've only been here for four months. You know, other people were there for eight years and they would finally get something passed. I was there four months--you know this, Paul--and they were saying, "He didn't fulfill a promise." | speech |
trump | So they'll sign a waiver, and we're going to give them the hope of finding something. You have people--and I've known people like this--they travel all over the world to try and find a cure. And we have great experimental drugs, but it will be years before they come on to the market. | speech |
trump | The Republican position on immigration is the center, mainstream view of the American people, with some extra strength at the border and security at the border added in. What we're asking for and what the American people are pleading for is sanity and common sense in our immigration system. We want immigration rules that protect our communities, defend our security, and admit people who will love our country and contribute to our society. | speech |