Jasmine Wright and Jason Dickerson discuss the Democratic response to the Vice Presidential Pro-Elections Primary Debate, which was delivered in front and center in front of the Joint Conference Room in the Capitol. They also discuss the 2020 Democratic primary field and the challenges facing Democratic presidential hopefuls.
00:00:04.000I think that one of the reasons or a couple of reasons why they chose Senator Slotkin is because she won a state in which Kamala Harris didn't during the same time frame by several points.
00:00:17.000It is because she is from the Midwest and people believe that she appeals to American voters in a way that They think that the Democratic message was lacking this election.
00:00:31.000She is somebody who comes from a national security background, so she can talk about that from a firsthand point.
00:00:38.000And people believe that she's more down to earth.
00:00:40.000I think the other really interesting thing about Senator Slockett is that she was actually among some of the Democrats to pretty early question the vitality of Joe Biden, question whether or not that should be the party leader, whether or not he should be on the ticket in a way that other folks didn't.
00:00:57.000And so I think that she has a big platform today.
00:01:02.000And, you know, it will be, you know, time will only tell whether or not she delivers or will.
00:01:06.000Whether or not people like her message, but certainly, you know, this is an area for Democrats in which, you know, they don't have a real leader.
00:01:16.000We just saw the Senate leave the chamber.
00:02:09.000They're dream candidates, and they were part of that big wave when the Democrats reclaimed the majority in 2018. And I think that what Democratic operatives are looking for is more of the same, if they can tap into that kind of imagery and also their expertise.
00:02:28.000Well, it looks there like Angus King, the gentleman with the mustache right behind...
00:02:35.000Right behind him is Rand Paul walking in with a senator from Washington State and Maggie Hassan from New Hampshire.
00:02:44.000So it does look like they are doing the D and the R thing like they have done in the past here.
00:02:54.000I would love to see some of these dynamics as you get down to the last bit.
00:03:01.000It's almost like being picked last for a basketball game.
00:03:07.000Some people are naturally very compatible.
00:03:11.000And then sometimes you get stuck with somebody who you can't imagine ever having to want to take a photo with.
00:05:17.000And the late Sheila Jackson Lee, Democrat from Texas, was famous for always being on the aisle, regardless of presidents.
00:05:25.000I'd love to see that collection of photos.
00:05:27.000But how long does it take if you're going to get on the aisle here?
00:05:31.000To greet the president and everybody else.
00:05:33.000Sometimes they get there very early, sometimes four or five hours early as soon as the security sweep is over.
00:05:40.000It is a first-come, first-serve situation.
00:05:43.000It's a little nerve-wracking to be that, but they want to position themselves, and whether they're Democrats or Republicans, they like those corner seats.
00:05:51.000And there's Nancy Mace in the white dress, a Republican of South Carolina, talking to J.D. Vance.
00:05:59.000Sometimes, I mean, it was a little lonely.
00:06:02.000I mean, some of the other people who come to mind who get there very early, Elliot Engel, former Democrat from New York, Cynthia McKinney, a Democrat.
00:06:12.000And you'd hear about also just like small little bits of bonding, you know, sometimes for people who wouldn't necessarily spend a lot of time together, particularly, you know, Democrats and Republicans from different parts of the country and so forth.
00:06:27.000And it is, you know, it's one of those quirky kind of rituals that makes covering Congress a lot of fun to know about.
00:06:38.000We've got some old photos in the Roll Call archive of people bringing newspapers and just reading them all day long, waiting for the president and people to start filling in.
00:06:49.000And you can see the Joint Chiefs had come in.
00:06:52.000There's Senator Scott behind J.D. Vance.
00:06:57.000Byron Donalds running for governor of Florida as a Republican.
00:07:01.000Big, big President Trump supporter on the campaign.
00:08:01.000By the way, we have been simulcasting on C-SPAN and C-SPAN 2. Now, we're going to say goodbye to our C-SPAN 2 viewers, and that will be completely sights and sounds.
00:08:13.000So if you want just sights and sounds...
00:08:47.000That was Elon Musk, who has now arrived.
00:08:50.000And we should be seeing Usha Vance, second lady, and Melania Trump shortly arriving in there as well.
00:08:59.000Yeah, I have a sneaking suspicion that we are going to see a lot of Elon Musk throughout this speech as he sits next to Melania and next to...
00:09:20.000He gaggled twice with reporters there.
00:09:23.000He often goes out to Pebble Beach along the cameras next to the White House that are typically out of the screen when they're doing things on the North Portico to go do.
00:09:35.000TV hits with various different networks and comes and talks to the press.
00:09:39.000He is very press friendly and very open to talking about The latest numbers that they've been able to accumulate through deportations, the fact that they would like more money from Congress to continue to do those wide-scale deportations, something that we know that Trump is going to ask Congress for again today, really trying to not just get money for deportations, but get money for a larger border security package.
00:11:25.000Debbie Dingell's husband, John Dingell, the late John Dingell, was the Dean of the House from Dearborn, Michigan, for years and years and years, and now she's been in Congress for years.
00:11:35.000And, of course, Hakeem Jeffries is the leader of the Democratic Party.
00:11:39.000Jasmine Wright, do you see a lot of members coming through at the White House?
00:11:44.000Sometimes they, particularly in the first few weeks, they would come into the press briefing after an unannounced meeting with the president because they said, you know, I hadn't been here in four years.
00:11:57.000I wasn't invited the entire time that Joe Biden was in office.
00:12:00.000And so they were really excited to be in there, to be back into the Oval Office, really, frankly, to be back into power.
00:12:19.000Biggest tools that the president can use, kind of not just the power of the pulpit there, but really bringing lawmakers on Air Force One, bringing them into the Oval, allowing them into the grandness of the White House so that in turn they can give you kind of this legislative freedom to do what you will and to make your agenda become a reality.
00:12:42.000And so I think that is what Donald Trump is using.
00:12:44.000But we know tomorrow the House Freedom Caucus, Chip Roy, we saw him a few moments ago.
00:12:49.000They will be going to the White House as Trump tries to pull them along.
00:12:54.000Lindsey Graham, who we see on the screen right now, he was at the White House on Friday.
00:12:59.000He came out to the sticks to talk to reporters after the Zelensky blow-up and kind of started, at least publicly, rolling the tires on whether or not there should be a regime change in Ukraine.
00:13:12.000Obviously, that language has kind of softened in the last, really, like three hours.
00:13:18.000I believe that's Lisa Murkowski coming up on the screen.
00:13:22.000It looks like, is that Senator Smith in front of her?
00:13:25.000Yes, Tina Smith and Catherine Cortez Masto, and he was with Ben Ray Lujan from New Mexico.
00:15:11.000They were getting in place along the center aisle, and that included Representative Anna Paulina Luna, Republican of Florida, other Republicans, Andy Ogles of Kentucky, Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, and Congresswoman Miller Meeks of Iowa, all lining up on the Republican side on the center aisle hours before the speech in hopes that they get to shake the president's hand when he comes down the aisle.
00:15:36.000Jason Dick, has this become more of a blown-up event than it used to be?
00:15:44.000Or has this always been a lot of, you know, razzmatazz?
00:15:48.000I think that, I mean, it depends on how far back you want to go.
00:15:52.000I mean, Lyndon Johnson in 1966 moved the speech from the mid-afternoon to the evening.
00:15:57.000You know, like, in order to catch a better audience.
00:16:00.000And that was 1966. I mean, he saw that, you know, television helped his predecessor, John F. Kennedy, get elected.
00:16:07.000And he wanted, you know, Linda Johnson.
00:16:10.000The members of the committee on the part of the House to escort the President of the United States into the chamber.
00:16:57.000The President of the Senate, at the direction of that body, appoints the following senators as members of the committee on the part of the Senate to escort the President of the United States into the House chamber.
00:17:09.000The Senator from South Dakota, Mr. Thune.
00:17:12.000The Senator from Wyoming, Mr. Barrasso.
00:17:15.000The Senator from Arkansas, Mr. Cotton.
00:17:18.000The Senator from Oklahoma, Mr. Lankford.
00:17:20.000The Senator from West Virginia, Mrs. Capito.
00:17:24.000The Senator from South Carolina, Mr. Scott.
00:17:27.000The Senator from New York, Mr. Schumer.
00:17:29.000The Senator from Illinois, Mr. Durbin.
00:17:32.000The Senator from Minnesota, Ms. Klobuchar.
00:17:35.000The Senator from New Jersey, Mr. Booker.
00:17:38.000The Senator from Wisconsin, Ms. Baldwin.
00:17:42.000The members of the Escort Committee will exit the chamber through the lobby doors.
00:19:20.000And we're about 5, 10 minutes away from the president entering the chamber and beginning 10 minutes away from the president entering the chamber and beginning his Jasmine Wright, Jason Dick, we've been watching this.
00:19:44.000Chatting amongst ourselves, is there anything that we can share that we were talking about?
00:19:49.000I think one thing that I'm noticing is a difference between the way that former Vice President Harris and Speaker Mike Johnson We're talking last year versus now.
00:20:01.000I mean, it's so much more jovial with Vice President Vance and Speaker Johnson than it was.
00:21:33.000And so we're looking forward to seeing what President Trump has to say.
00:21:37.000He put out a little teaser on True Social a couple days ago saying that tune in for a big surprise because he was going to tell it like it is.
00:21:44.000And so you're really not going to hear me doing a lot of commentary because I find it to be incredibly obnoxious when you're trying to watch the president speak and people are, you know, adding in their commentary and talking over.
00:21:56.000So this stream is just going to be a place for you to watch President Trump speak tonight.
00:22:43.000Loomer Unleashed GC contributor Charles Downs just sent me video of President Trump's motorcade.
00:22:48.000We have that video on my X account, so it should begin momentarily.
00:22:53.000I know that they said that they're running about 10 minutes behind or so.
00:22:57.000President Trump's motorcade, if you go to my X account, you can see there's the motorcade passing by.
00:23:09.000If you are watching live, like I said before, we are live on X and Rumble.
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00:24:52.000Let's go back to the split screen here.
00:24:54.000We have J.D. Vance, Vice President J.D. Vance, and Speaker of the House Mike Johnson awaiting right behind the podium there for President Trump's arrival.
00:25:05.000We can go ahead and just put the audio on.
00:25:07.000We're expected to see President Trump drive home his America First agenda and talk about the achievements.
00:25:20.000We'll just get the B-roll up on the screen.
00:25:23.000But we can expect President Trump to not only talk about promises made, promises kept, and everything that he and his administration and his team have accomplished over the last seven weeks since he was sworn in as the 47th president.
00:25:38.000But we can also expect the president to talk about the efforts with Doge and his desire to...
00:25:48.000Cut waste, fraud, and abuse and his plans to expose this with Elon Musk and the Democrats' obstruction to exposing waste, fraud, and abuse.
00:25:57.000So I'm sure that we're going to hear President Trump talk about the new minerals deal with Ukraine that was just announced today.
00:26:05.000After a very contentious meeting with Zelensky at the White House just a few days ago where their luncheon was canceled and Zelensky was actually thrown out.
00:26:23.000I love watching all of the videos of the members of Congress piling in because you just get to see all the scowls on their face and you get to see who's happy to be the...
00:26:34.000Excuse me, who's happy to be there and who is not happy to be there?
00:26:42.000Let's see who do we have coming in now.
00:26:45.000Colsey Gabbard, Melania Trump, Oh, we have First Lady Melania Trump.
00:27:01.000Let's go ahead and put the audio back on.
00:27:03.000Alania, Trump was expected to bring members of Corey Comparatori's family with her as Cory Comparatori of course is the firefighter who tragically lost his life in Butler, Pennsylvania.
00:27:30.000She also is Expected to have Jocelyn Nungarai's mother, the mother of that poor, innocent young girl who was raped and killed by illegal aliens.
00:27:41.000How much she would be in Washington, how frequently she'd be around.
00:27:46.000But I think that there's a real shift in energy, not just from the president, but also from her office.
00:27:51.000It wouldn't be an address without self-aggrandizing, self-centered conservative influencers to fill the chamber.
00:29:56.000Is that Brooke Rollins, the ag secretary?
00:30:09.000It is sort of odd to have something like this with, I mean, there's so much we're paying attention to the fashion because of some of the protests and so forth, having just done the Oscars two nights ago.
00:31:24.000I don't know if we expect President Trump to be there that long.
00:31:27.000But the reality is that, as I've talked to people close to him, He is enjoying this moment.
00:31:33.000He's happy to be back in the White House.
00:31:35.000He's happy to have a party that responds to him, that respects him.
00:31:39.000And he's happy, you know, back to being the center of everything.
00:31:43.000And so I think you're going to see him show that happiness, shaking hands with his friends, shaking hands, potentially people who don't like him very much, Democrats, you know, kind of pushing them to say something, potentially.
00:31:59.000He's kind of reveling in this moment that he has now that he's back in the White House.
00:32:04.000And so I think he is going to be there a long time.
00:32:07.000Whether or not he's there as long as Joe Biden, I think only time will tell.
00:32:10.000Because Joe Biden, I mean, I remember being there, I mean, being, you know, covering it last year and being like, dang, can you leave?
00:32:29.000I would guess, too, that some of that is, there's a little bit of wistfulness, like that Biden was running for re-election, but who knows what kind of doubts he may have had about his own path.
00:32:44.000And this is like a beginning, as opposed to sort of an end, even if it seems like we've been in this loop for a while.
00:32:50.000Yeah, you can see that the cabinet is still not completely seated.
00:32:55.000And they're not going to bring him in while there's still people in the aisles, but he is nearby.
00:33:00.000He's in the holding room next to the chamber and should be coming in shortly.
00:33:05.000Just want to remind our viewers, obviously we're going to shut up as soon as the president gets in there.
00:33:09.000We're going to listen to everything that happens.
00:33:11.000We'll watch the president leave the room all without us.
00:33:15.000There's Tulsi Gabbard, of course, talking with Chip Roy.
00:33:17.000Kelly Loeffler of the SBA. Yeah, that's right.
00:33:40.000Yeah, I mean, RFK is having quite the moment right now, too, with this measles outbreak kind of going back and forth between.
00:33:47.000Whether or not he should be promoting vaccines, whether or not he should be promoting more homeopathic remedies that aren't necessarily shown to have much weight against a measles outbreak.
00:34:02.000I would be interested to see if Donald Trump brings that up.
00:34:06.000I'd be a little shocked if he does, but...
00:34:09.000Again, the entire speech, of course, and the Democratic response.
00:34:16.000Senator Alyssa Slotkin, freshman Democrat from Michigan, will be speaking from Michigan, and we will bring that to you live, of course.
00:34:26.000You can expect, you know, as they're talking about now on C-SPAN as well, Democrat Senator from the state of Michigan, Alyssa Slocken, who was a CIA analyst and worked for the government and the Bush administration and worked for who was a CIA analyst and worked for the government and the Bush administration and worked She is going to be the individual who gives the counter address to President Trump's address tonight.
00:34:52.000Loomer Unleashed confronted her many times on the campaign trail this last election season.
00:34:57.000If you recall, Alyssa Slocken was for open borders.
00:35:02.000She refused to answer our questions when we asked her about the deadly flow of fentanyl into our country and why she's supporting open borders when it's allowing for so much fentanyl to pour into our nation.
00:35:13.000She endorsed and campaigned for Kamala Harris in Michigan.
00:35:17.000So, you know, the Democrats are really struggling right now to find their voice and to find their...
00:36:06.000But, yeah, I think that tariffs are going to be a large part of this.
00:36:09.000For viewers who are seeing a State of the Union or a joint session for the first time, on your screen, the Republicans will be on the left, and the Democrats will be on the right, so you can always tell what the applause lines are by which side stands up, and it gets pretty stark at them, doesn't it?
00:36:28.000And, I mean, another thing that I'm looking for, in addition to just some of the policy notes that we're looking at, Is just how the Democrats are going to approach things that they feel are a winner for them.
00:44:02.000Six weeks ago, I stood beneath the dome of this Capitol and proclaimed the dawn of the Golden Age of America.
00:44:12.000From that moment on, it has been nothing but swift and unrelenting action to usher in the greatest and most successful era in the history of our country.
00:44:24.000We have accomplished more in 43 days than most administrations.
00:44:30.000accomplished in four years or eight years and we are just getting started
00:44:54.000I returned to this chamber tonight to report that America's momentum is back our spirit is back our pride is back our confidence is back and the American dream is surging bigger and better than ever before
00:45:16.000The American dream is unstoppable, and our country is on the verge of a comeback the likes of which the world has never witnessed and perhaps We'll never witness again.
00:46:26.000people in the country, and one counties in our country, 2,700 to 525
00:46:40.0002,700 to 525 on a map that reads almost completely red for Republican.
00:46:56.000Now for the first time in modern history, more Americans believe that our country is headed in the right direction than the wrong direction.
00:47:06.000The most astonishing record, 27-point swing, the most ever.
00:47:24.000Likewise, small business optimism saw its single largest one-month gain ever recorded.
00:47:49.000Members are engaging and willful in continuing breach of decorum, and the chair is prepared to direct the sergeant at arms to restore order to the joint session.
00:48:03.000Mr. Green, take your seat. take your seat.
00:48:34.000Finding that members continue to engage in willful and concerted disruption of proper decorum, the chair now directs the sergeant-at-arms to restore order.
00:48:44.000Remove this gentleman from the chamber.
00:49:29.000Over the past six weeks, I have signed nearly 100 executive orders and taken more than 400 executive actions, a record, to restore common sense, safety, optimism, and wealth all across our wonderful land.
00:49:45.000The people elected me to do the job, and I'm doing it.
00:50:09.000In fact, it has been stated by many that the first month of our presidency, it's our presidency, is the most successful in the history of our nation. .
00:50:24.000by many and what makes it even more impressive is that you know who number two is George Washington.
00:50:43.000I don't know about that list, but we'll take it.
00:50:48.000Within hours of taking the oath of office, I declared a national emergency on our southern border, and I deployed the U.S. military and border patrol to repel the invasion of our country.
00:51:32.000In comparison, under Joe Biden, the worst president in American history, there were hundreds of thousands of illegal crossings a month, and virtually all of them, including murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and people from mental institutions and insane asylums, were released into our country.
00:51:57.000This is my fifth such speech to Congress.
00:52:01.000And once again, I look at the Democrats in front of me and I realize there is absolutely nothing I can say to make them happy or to make them stand or smile or applaud.
00:52:14.000I could find a cure to the most devastating disease, a disease that would wipe out entire nations or announce the answers to the greatest economy in history.
00:52:27.000Or the stoppage of crime to the lowest levels ever recorded.
00:52:32.000And these people sitting right here will not clap, will not stand, and certainly will not cheer for these astronomical achievements.
00:53:53.000This is a time for big dreams and bold action.
00:53:57.000Upon taking office, I imposed an immediate freeze on all federal hiring, a freeze on all new federal regulations, and a freeze on all foreign aid.
00:54:09.000I terminated the ridiculous Green News scam I withdrew from the unfair Paris Climate Accord, which was costing us trillions of dollars that other countries were not paying.
00:54:33.000I withdrew from the Corrupt World Health Organization.
00:54:42.000And I also withdrew from the anti-American U.N. Human Rights Council.
00:54:48.000We ended all of Biden's environmental restrictions that were making our country far less safe and totally unaffordable.
00:55:02.000And importantly, we ended the last administration's insane electric vehicle mandate, saving our auto workers and companies from economic destruction.
00:55:25.000To unshackle our economy, I have directed that for every one new regulation, ten old regulations must be eliminated, just like I did in my very successful first just like I did in my very successful first day.
00:55:49.000On that first term, we set records on ending unnecessary rules and regulations like no other president had done before.
00:55:57.000We ordered all federal workers to return to the office.
00:56:01.000They will either show up for work in person or be removed from their job.
00:56:06.000And we've ended weaponized government where, as an example, a sitting president is allowed to viciously a sitting president is allowed to viciously prosecute his political opponent like me.
00:57:51.000We've ended the tyranny of so-called diversity, equity and inclusion policies all across the entire federal government and indeed the private sector and our military.
00:58:07.000And our country will be woke no longer.
00:58:12.000We believe that whether you are a doctor, an accountant, a lawyer, or an air traffic controller, you should be hired and promoted based on skill or an air traffic controller, you should be hired and promoted based on skill and competence, Very important.
00:58:58.000We have removed the poison of critical race theory from our public schools, and I signed an order making it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders, male and female.
00:59:14.000I also signed an executive order to ban men from playing in women's
00:59:48.000Three years ago, Peyton McNabb was an all-star high school athlete, one of the best, preparing for a future in college sports.
00:59:57.000But when her girls' volleyball match was invaded by a male, he smashed the ball so hard in Peyton's face, causing traumatic brain injury, partially paralyzing her right side and ending her athletic career.
01:00:13.000It was a shot like she's never seen before.
01:00:57.000if you really want to see numbers, just take a look at what happened in the women's boxing, weightlifting, track and field, swimming or cycling, where a male recently finished a long distance race, five hours and 14 minutes ahead of a woman for a new record by five hours and 14 minutes ahead of a woman for a new Broke the record by five hours.
01:01:20.000It's demeaning for women, and it's very bad for our country.
01:01:23.000we're not going to put up with it any longer.
01:01:26.000What I have just described is only a small fraction of the common sense revolution that is now, because of us, sweeping the entire world.
01:01:50.000Common sense has become a common theme, and we will never go back.
01:02:02.000Among my very highest priorities is to rescue our economy and get dramatic and immediate relief to working families.
01:02:11.000As you know, we inherited from the last administration an economic catastrophe and an inflation nightmare.
01:02:20.000Their policies drove up energy prices, pushed up grocery costs, and drove the necessities of life out of reach for millions and millions of Americans.
01:03:21.000A major focus of our fight to defeat inflation is rapidly reducing the cost of energy.
01:03:36.000The previous administration cut the number of new oil and gas leases by 95%, slowed pipeline construction to a halt, and closed more than 100 power plants.
01:03:49.000We are opening up many of those power plants right now.
01:04:35.000My administration is also working on a gigantic natural gas pipeline in Alaska, among the largest in the world, where Japan, South Korea, and other nations want to be our partner with investments of trillions of dollars each.
01:05:03.000There's never been anything like that one.
01:05:09.000And later this week, I will also take historic action to dramatically expand production of critical minerals and rare earths here in the USA. To further combat inflation,
01:05:34.000we will not only be reducing the cost of energy, but we'll be ending the flagrant waste of taxpayer dollars.
01:05:41.000And to that end, I have created the brand new Department of Government Efficiency.
01:13:31.000by slashing all of the fraud, waste, and theft we can find.
01:13:34.000We will defeat inflation, bring down mortgage rates, lower car payments and grocery prices, protect our seniors, and put more money in the pockets of American families.
01:13:59.000And today interest rates took a beautiful drop Big, beautiful drop.
01:14:15.000With that goal in mind, we have developed in great detail what we are calling the gold card, which goes on sale very, very soon
01:14:44.000For $5 million, we will allow the most successful job creating people from all over the world to buy a path to U.S. citizenship.
01:14:54.000It's like the green card, but better and more sophisticated.
01:14:59.000And these people will have to pay tax in our country.
01:15:03.000They won't have to pay tax from where they came.
01:15:05.000The money that they've made, you wouldn't want to do that, but they have to pay tax, create jobs.
01:15:10.000They'll also be taking people out of colleges and paying for them so that we can keep them in our country instead of having them being forced out.
01:15:19.000Number one, at the top school, as an example, being forced out and not being allowed to stay and create tremendous numbers of jobs and great success for a company out there.
01:15:31.000The criminals, killers, traffickers, and child predators who are allowed to enter our country under the open-border policy of these people, the Democrats, the Biden administration, the open-border insane policies that you've allowed to destroy our country.
01:15:48.000We will now bring in brilliant, hard-working job-creating people.
01:15:53.000They're going to pay a lot of money and we're going to reduce our debt with that money.
01:16:00.000Americans have given us a mandate for bold and profound change.
01:16:15.000For nearly 100 years, the federal bureaucracy has grown until it has crushed our freedoms, ballooned our deficits, and held back America's potential in every possible way.
01:16:28.000The nation founded by pioneers and risk-takers now drowns under millions and millions of pages of regulations and debt.
01:16:38.000Approvals that should take 10 days to get, instead take 10 years, 15 years, and even 20 years before you're rejected.
01:16:48.000Meanwhile, we have hundreds of thousands of federal workers who have not been showing up to work.
01:16:53.000My administration will reclaim power from this unaccountable bureaucracy, and we will restore true democracy to America again.
01:17:02.000And any federal bureaucrat who resists this change will be removed from office immediately.
01:18:03.000And I'm sure that the people on my right, I don't mean the Republican right, but my right right here, I'm sure you're going to vote for those tax cuts because otherwise I don't believe the people will ever vote you into office.
01:18:16.000So I'm doing a big favor by telling you that.
01:18:20.000But I know this group is going to be voting for the tech.
01:20:07.000Already numerous car companies have announced that they will be building massive automobile plants in America, with Honda just announcing a new plant in Indiana, one of the largest anywhere in the world.
01:20:35.000Great victory on November 5th, a date which will hopefully go down as one of the most important in the history of our country.
01:20:42.000In addition, as part of our tax cuts, we want to cut taxes on domestic production and all manufacturing.
01:20:56.000And just as we did before, we will provide 100% expensing.
01:21:01.000It will be retroactive to January 20th, 2025. And it was one of the main reasons why our tax cuts were so successful in our first term, giving us the most successful economy in the history of our country.
01:21:19.000If you don't make your product in America, however, under the Trump administration, you will pay a tariff, and in some cases, a rather large one, Other countries have used tariffs against us for decades, and now it's our turn to start using them against those other countries.
01:21:42.000On average, the European Union, China, Brazil, India, Mexico, and Canada, have you heard of them?
01:21:51.000And countless other nations charge us tremendously higher tariffs than we charge them.
01:22:25.000This system is not fair to the United States and never was, and so on April 2nd, I wanted to make it April 1st, but I didn't want to be accused of April Fool's Day.
01:23:20.000They don't even allow us in their market.
01:23:23.000We will take in trillions and trillions of dollars and create jobs like we have never seen before.
01:23:30.000I did it with China and I did it with others, and the Biden administration couldn't do anything about it because there was so much money they couldn't do anything about it.
01:23:38.000We have been ripped off for decades by nearly every country on Earth, and we will not let that happen any longer.
01:23:46.000Much has been said over the last three months about Mexico and Canada.
01:24:02.000But we have very large deficits with both of them, but even more importantly, they've allowed fentanyl to come into our country at levels never seen before, killing hundreds of thousands of our citizens and many very young, beautiful people destroying families.
01:24:41.000Thanks to our America First policies we're putting into place, we have had $1.7 trillion of new investment in America in just the past few weeks.
01:25:26.000He said, I cannot spend it fast enough.
01:25:28.000It's going to be much higher than that, I believe.
01:25:30.000They'll be building their plants here instead of in China.
01:25:34.000And just yesterday, Taiwan, semiconductor, the biggest in the world, most powerful in the world, has a tremendous amount, 97% of the market, announced a $165 billion investment to build the most powerful chips on Earth right here in the USA. We're
01:26:07.000Your CHIPS Act is a horrible, horrible thing.
01:26:10.000We give hundreds of billions of dollars, and it doesn't mean a thing.
01:26:14.000They take our money and they don't spend it.
01:26:16.000All that meant to them, we're giving them no money.
01:26:20.000All that was important to them was they didn't want to pay the tariffs, so they came and they're building, and many other companies are coming.
01:28:24.000And I have also imposed a 25% tariff on foreign aluminum, copper, lumber and steel because if we don't have as an example steel and lots of other things, we don't lumber and steel because if we don't have as an example steel and lots of other things, we don't have a military and frankly won't
01:28:47.000Here today is a proud American steelworker, fantastic person from Decatur, Alabama, Jeff Denard.
01:28:58.000Has been working at the same steel plant for 27 years in a job that has allowed him to serve as the captain of his local volunteer fire department, raise seven children with his beautiful wife, Nicole, and over the years provide a loving home for more than 40 foster children.
01:30:23.000our magnificent First Lady of the United States.
01:30:26.000Melania's work has yielded incredible results, helping prepare our nation's future leaders as they enter the workforce.
01:30:53.000Our First Lady is joined by two impressive young women, very impressive.
01:30:58.000Haley Ferguson, who benefited from the First Lady's Fostering the Future initiative, and is poised to complete her education and become a teacher.
01:31:07.000And Elliston Berry, who became a victim of an illicit, deepfake image-produced By a peer.
01:31:16.000With Elliston's help, the Senate just passed the Take It Down Act.
01:32:14.000But if we truly care about protecting Americans' children, no step is more crucial than securing America's borders.
01:32:22.000Over the past four years, 21 million people poured into the United States.
01:32:27.000Many of them were murderers, human traffickers, gang members, and other criminals from the streets of dangerous cities all throughout the world because of Joe Biden's insane and very dangerous open border policies.
01:32:42.000They are now strongly embedded in our country, but we are getting them out and getting them out fast.
01:32:50.000And I want to thank Tom Holman and Chris DelPierre.
01:33:06.000I want to thank you and Paul of Border Patrol.
01:33:21.000Last year, a brilliant 22-year-old nursing student named Lakin Riley, the best in her class, admired by everybody, the best in her class, admired by everybody, went out for a jog on the campus of the University of Georgia,
01:33:45.000That morning, Lakin was viciously attacked, assaulted, beaten, brutalized, and horrifically murdered.
01:33:52.000Lakin was stolen from us by a savage, illegal alien gang member who was arrested while trespassing across Biden's open southern border.
01:34:04.000And then set loose into the United States under the heartless policies of that failed administration.
01:34:10.000It was indeed a failed administration.
01:34:13.000He had then been arrested and released in a Democrat-run sanctuary city, a disaster, before ending the life of this beautiful young angel.
01:34:25.000With us this evening are Lakin's beloved mother, Allison, and her sister, Lauren.
01:34:55.000Last year I told Lakin's grieving parents that we would ensure their daughter would not have died in vain.
01:35:03.000That's why the very first bill I signed into law as your 47th president mandates the detention of all dangerous criminal aliens who threaten public safety.
01:36:03.000Since taking office, my administration has launched the most sweeping border and immigration crackdown in American history, and we quickly achieved the lowest numbers of illegal border crossers ever recorded.
01:37:13.000Joe Biden didn't just open our borders.
01:37:16.000He flew illegal aliens over them to overwhelm our schools, hospitals and communities throughout the country.
01:37:23.000Entire towns like Aurora, Colorado and Springfield, Ohio, buckled under the weight of the migrant occupation and corruption like nobody's ever seen before.
01:38:16.000She was kidnapped, tied up, assaulted for two hours under a bridge and horrifically murdered.
01:38:23.000Arrested and charged with this heinous crime are two illegal alien monsters from Venezuela released into America by the last administration through their ridiculous open border.
01:38:35.000The death of this beautiful 12-year-old girl and the agony of her mother and family.
01:40:11.000All three savages charged with Jocelyn and Lakin's murders were members of the Venezuelan prison gang, the toughest gang they say in the world, known as Tren de Aragua.
01:40:25.000Two weeks ago, I officially designated this gang along with MS-13 and the bloodthirsty Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
01:40:52.000They are now officially in the same category as ISIS, and that's not good for them.
01:41:00.000Countless thousands of these terrorists were welcomed into the U.S. by the Biden administration.
01:41:06.000But now every last one will be rounded up and forcibly removed from our country, or, if they're too dangerous, put in jails, standing trial in this country, because we don't want them to come back ever.
01:41:21.000With us this evening is a warrior on the front lines of that battle, Border Patrol Agent Roberto Ortiz.
01:42:07.000When heavily armed gunmen started shooting at them, Roberto saw that his partner was totally exposed at great danger and he leapt into action, returning fire and providing crucial seconds for his fellow agent to Seek safety, and just barely.
01:42:26.000I have some of the prints of that event, and it was not good.
01:42:32.000Agent Ortiz, we salute you for your great courage and for your line of fire that you took and for the bravery that you showed.
01:42:42.000We honor you, and we will always honor you.
01:43:12.000The territory to the immediate south of our border is now dominated entirely by criminal cartels that murder, rape, torture and exercise total control.
01:43:22.000They have total control over a whole nation, posing a grave threat to our national security.
01:43:29.000The cartels are waging war on America, and it's time for America to wage war on the cartels, which we are doing.
01:43:36.000Five nights ago, Mexican authorities, because of our tariff policies being imposed because of our tariff policies being imposed on them, think of this.
01:43:58.000Handed over to us 29 of the biggest cartel leaders in their country.
01:44:11.000But we need Mexico and Canada to do much more than they've done, and they have to stop the fentanyl and drugs pouring into the USA. They're going to stop it.
01:44:24.000I have sent Congress a detailed funding request laying out exactly how we will eliminate these threats to protect our homeland and complete the largest deportation operation in American history, larger even than current record holder, President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a moderate man, but someone who believed very strongly in borders.
01:44:47.000Americans expect Congress to send me this funding without delay so I can sign it into law.
01:44:54.000Mr. Speaker, John Thune, both of you, I hope you're going to be able to do that, Mr. Speaker.
01:45:37.000In recent years, our justice system has been turned upside down by radical left lunatics.
01:45:47.000Many jurisdictions virtually seized enforcing the law against dangerous repeat offenders while weaponizing law enforcement against political opponents like me.
01:45:59.000My administration has acted swiftly and decisively to restore fair, equal, and impartial justice under the constitutional rule of law, starting at the FBI and the DOJ. Pam, good luck.
01:46:57.000They have such a hard, dangerous job, but we're going to make it less dangerous.
01:47:02.000The problem is the bad guys don't respect the law, but they're starting to respect it, and they soon will respect it.
01:47:08.000This also includes our great fire departments throughout the country.
01:47:12.000Our firemen and women are unbelievable people, and I will never forget them.
01:47:17.000And besides that, they voted for me in record numbers, so I have no chance.
01:47:21.000One year ago this month, 31-year-old New York police officer Jonathan Diller, unbelievably wonderful person 31-year-old New York police officer Jonathan Diller, unbelievably wonderful person and a great officer, was gunned down at a traffic stop on Long Island I went to his funeral.
01:47:49.000The vicious criminal charged with his murder had 21 prior arrests, and they were rough arrests.
01:49:37.000For a new crime bill getting tough on repeat offenders while enhancing protections for America's police officers so they can do their jobs without fear of their lives being totally destroyed.
01:51:24.000Since that time, DJ and his dad have been on a quest to make his dream come true, and DJ has been sworn in as an honorary law enforcement officer actually a number of times.
01:52:45.000DJ's doctors believe his cancer likely came from a chemical he was exposed to when he was younger.
01:52:51.000Since 1975, rates of child cancer have increased by more than 40 percent.
01:52:59.000Reversing this trend is one of the top priorities for our new presidential commission to make America healthy again, chaired by our new Secretary of Health and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. With
01:53:36.000the name Kennedy, you would have thought everybody over here would have been cheering.
01:54:38.000My administration is also working to protect our children from toxic ideologies in our A few years ago, January, little John and her husband discovered that their daughter's school had secretly socially transitioned their 13-year-old little girl.
01:54:56.000Teachers and administrators conspired to deceive January and her husband while encouraging her daughter to use a new name and pronouns.
01:55:36.000Stories like this are why shortly after taking office, I signed an executive order banning public schools from indoctrinating our children with transgender ideology.
01:55:57.000I also signed an order to cut off all taxpayer funding to any institution that engages in the sexual mutilation of our youth.
01:56:06.000And now I want Congress to pass a bill permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on children and forever ending the lie that any child is trapped in the wrong body.
01:57:49.000I am pleased to report that in January the U.S. Army had its single best recruiting month in 15 years and that all armed services are having among the best recruiting results ever in the history of our services.
01:58:43.000We're joined tonight by a young man, Jason Hartley, who knows the weight of that call of duty.
01:58:58.000Jason's father, grandfather, and great-grandfather all wore the uniform.
01:59:04.000Jason tragically lost his dad, who was also a Los Angeles County Sheriff's deputy when he was just a boy, and now he wants to carry on the family legacy of service.
02:00:47.000As Commander-in-Chief, my focus is on building the most powerful military of the future.
02:00:52.000As a first step, I'm asking Congress to fund a state-of-the-art Golden Dome Missile Defense Shield to protect our homeland, all made in the USA. Wanted to do it long ago, but the technology just wasn't there, not even close.
02:01:40.000We want to be protected, and we're going to protect our citizens like never before.
02:01:45.000To boost our defense industrial base, we are also going to resurrect the American shipbuilding industry including commercial shipbuilding and military shipbuilding.
02:01:57.000And for that purpose, I am announcing tonight.
02:02:06.000That we will create a new office of shipbuilding in the White House and offer special tax incentives to bring this industry home to America where it belongs.
02:02:24.000To further enhance our national security, my administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal, and we've already started doing it.
02:02:41.000Just today, a large American company announced they are buying both ports around the Panama Canal and lots of other things having to do with the Panama Canal and a couple of other canals.
02:02:55.000The Panama Canal was built by Americans for Americans, not for others.
02:06:25.000And I want to thank especially the government of Pakistan for helping arrest this monster.
02:06:55.000This was a very momentous day for those 13 families, who I actually got to know very well, most of them, whose children were murdered and the many people that were so badly, over 42 people, so badly injured on that fateful day in Afghanistan.
02:12:24.000If you want to end wars, you have to talk to both sides.
02:12:28.000Nearly four years ago, amid rising tensions, a history teacher named Mark Fogle was detained in Russia and sentenced to 14 years in a penal colony.
02:15:31.000He sacrificed his life to save theirs.
02:15:34.000Two others very fine people were also seriously hit.
02:15:38.000But thankfully, with the help of two great country doctors, We thought they were gone and they were saved, so those doctors had great talent.
02:15:49.000We're joined by Corey's wife, Helen, who was his high school sweetheart, and their two beloved daughters, Allison and Kaylee.
02:16:47.000Corey was taken from us much too soon, but his destiny was to leave us all with a shining example of the selfless devotion of a true American patriot.
02:16:59.000It was love like Cory's that built our country, and it's love like Cory's that is going to make our country more majestic than ever before.
02:17:08.000I believe that my life was saved that day in Butler for a very good reason.
02:17:14.000I was saved by God to make America great again.
02:17:41.000From the patriots of Lexington and Concord to the heroes of Gettysburg and Normandy, from the warriors who crossed the Delaware to the trailblazers who climbed the Rockies, and from the legends who soared at Kitty Hawk to the astronauts who touched the moon, Americans have always been the people who defied all arts, transcended.
02:18:05.000All dangers made the most extraordinary sacrifices and did whatever it took to defend our children, our country, and our freedom.
02:18:14.000And as we have seen in this chamber tonight, that same strength, faith, love, and spirit is still alive and thriving in the hearts of the American people.
02:18:26.000Despite the best efforts of those who would try to censor us, silence us, break us, destroy us, Americans are today a proud, free, sovereign and independent nation that will always be free and we will fight for it till death.
02:18:45.000We will never let anything happen to our beloved country because we are a country of doers, dreamers, fighters and survivors.
02:18:57.000Strowed into the unknown wilderness and carved their fortunes from the rock and soil of a perilous and very dangerous frontier.
02:19:07.000They chased our destiny across a boundless continent.
02:19:11.000They built the railroads, laid the highways and graced the world with American marvels like the Empire State Building, the mighty Hoover Dam and the towering Golden Gate Bridge.
02:19:25.000They lit the world with electricity, broke free of the force of gravity, fired up the engines of American industry, vanquished the communists, fascists and Marxists all over the world, and gave us countless modern wonders sculptured out of iron glass and steel.
02:19:45.000We stand on the shoulders of these pioneers who won and built the modern age.
02:19:51.000These workers who poured their sweat into the skylines of our cities.
02:19:56.000These warriors who shed their blood on fields of battle and gave everything they had for our rights and for our freedom.
02:20:05.000Now it is our time to take up the righteous cause of American liberty.
02:20:09.000And it is our turn to take America's destiny into our own hands and begin the most thrilling days in the history of our country.
02:20:22.000With God's help over the next four years, we are going to lead this nation even higher, and we are going to forge the freest, most advanced, most dynamic, and most dominant civilization ever to exist on the face of this earth.
02:20:40.000We are going to create the highest quality of life, build the safest and wealthiest and healthiest and most vital.
02:20:51.000We are going to conquer the vast frontiers of science and we're going to lead humanity into space and plant the American flag on the planet Mars and even far beyond.
02:21:04.000And through it all, we are going to rediscover the unstoppable power we are going to rediscover the unstoppable power of the American spirit.
02:21:30.000And we are going to renew unlimited promise of the American dream.
02:21:34.000every single day we will stand up and we will fight, fight, fight for the country our citizens believe in and for the country our people deserve.
02:23:30.000Almost two hours, an amazing speech by President Trump, his first address to Congress since becoming the 47th President of the United States of America.
02:23:38.000Very inspirational speech filled with many heartwarming, touching moments from the honoring of the children, one of whom lost his father.
02:23:50.000And the line of duty who then got accepted to West Point.
02:23:54.000And then you had little DJ who had brain cancer basically being appointed to become a Secret Service agent.
02:24:02.000So a lot of very inspirational, viral moments.
02:24:05.000I see a lot of people clipping the clips.
02:24:07.000It's going viral all over social media, but that's what you get with President Trump.
02:24:11.000There's always viral moments because not only does he have charisma, but I would say that President Trump is probably the most inspirational president in modern history, if not the most inspirational president ever in American history that we have ever had.
02:24:25.000And so every single time President Trump speaks, I just feel that...
02:24:29.000You know, he's inspiring another generation of leaders.
02:24:32.000And it's sad to see the Democrats have such a lack of decorum.
02:24:37.000I mean, look, I can't stand Marjorie Trader Greene, as I call her, as many of you know.
02:24:41.000But I will say, I remember when the Democrats went absolutely ballistic, when Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert booed Joe Biden after the death of 13 U.S. service members.
02:24:53.000From Biden's disastrous Afghanistan pullout during Biden's address, and the Democrats acted like, oh my God, worst thing ever that these two women were booing, and yet you had Congressman Al Green literally have to get escorted out.
02:25:07.000by Capitol Police because, well, the Democrats just decided to disrupt.
02:25:12.000Very disrespectful for the Democrats when you have family members whose children were raped and killed by illegal aliens in the room.
02:25:19.000You had the widow and the daughters of Corey Comparatory and we've seen how the Democrats have incited political violence and they've promoted open borders policies that have resulted in the death of so many innocent Americans.
02:25:32.000So I would say that, you know, President Trump and the Republicans I don't know if President Trump was,
02:25:55.000you know, being a little sarcastic when he said, good luck, Pam, good luck, I hope you find it, given her...
02:26:03.000A week of a lot of media controversy, given the fact that she completely botched and fumbled the release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
02:26:12.000But it's going to be up to these cabinet members within the Trump administration to successfully implement President Trump's agendas and his policies.
02:26:22.000And right now, you know, the MAGA base is getting a little unhappy, not with President Trump, but by some of the flip-flopping and also some of the stalling by some of President Trump's cabinet picks.
02:26:32.000So my warning is just, you know, we need to have cabinet members and we need to have elected Republicans actually fully support and keep their promises to the American people, just like President Trump has kept his promises to the American people, or else we will see the Republican base get a malaise.
02:26:48.000It doesn't matter, you know, how good President Trump is, but we will see this malaise come 2026 in the midterms if these elected Republicans do not provide President Trump with the support that he needs in order to deliver to the American people.
02:27:09.000But I think that going into this address, this was probably my biggest concern.
02:27:14.000And we've seen that President Trump has no problem commanding the attention of the nation and delivering an inspiring speech.
02:27:21.000But I guess what we're going to see...
02:27:23.000is over these next several years and also within the next year from now to the midterm elections is whether or not his cabinet can keep up, whether or not his cabinet will deliver.
02:27:42.000Let's see what people thought about the speech tonight, whether you agree with my assessment.
02:27:46.000I mean, look, I was obviously expecting President Trump to knock it out of the ballpark, but I will say that given what we saw this last week from some of his cabinet members, it's a bit concerning.
02:28:00.000It's a bit concerning because we want to make sure that President Trump's legacy is going to remain intact and won't be tarnished by the deficiencies by some of the members within his cabinet.
02:28:15.000I find him to be the most inspirational president, as I said before, that we've ever had in this country.
02:28:21.000But I would be lying if I said that I wasn't a little soured this last week by some of the actions of his cabinet members, specifically Pam Bondi.
02:28:32.000Aside from that, I think that President Trump had an amazing speech tonight, delivered an incredible speech, and I want to see what all of you have to say about it as well.
02:28:46.000Look, we all want President Trump's cabinet to be successful.
02:28:49.000But my biggest concern is that you're going to have some of these incidents where, look, President Trump's doing a great job and him and his staff aren't aware of everything that all of his cabinet members are doing at any given moment.
02:29:00.000And what my biggest concern is, is that we're going to have these one-off moments from various cabinet members that...
02:29:08.000You know, either due to a lack of vetting or a lack of organization or just pure incompetence by some of these individuals, that it creates embarrassment for the Trump administration.
02:29:34.000It didn't sound like a vindictive campaign speech like Biden's speeches were, if you remember.
02:29:39.000It always felt like he was lecturing MAGA and demonizing half the country.
02:29:43.000President Trump has this ability to make all Americans feel welcome in his speeches, regardless of, you know, whether or not they voted for him, which is another reason why it was.
02:29:52.000So disgraceful what the Democrats did because, well, I thought that was an insurrection.
02:29:55.000We were lectured for years about how protests within official government proceedings, this was an official government proceeding, an official government event inside the United States Capitol Rotunda there.
02:30:08.000You know, you just see the Democrats' hypocrisy on full display.
02:30:12.000I thought that this was an insurrection, right?
02:30:16.000They're organizing protests where you have members of Congress, the Democrat Party, of course, Hanging out with protesters who are holding signs outside of this address tonight that were advocating for the death of Elon Musk and the death of President Trump.
02:30:31.000So again, we're seeing really just a repeat of...
02:30:35.000When I say a repeat of the first term, I'm not necessarily talking about Trump's cabinet and the Trump administration, but just a repeat of the resistance.
02:30:43.000And President Trump made this point very well tonight when he said, you know, it doesn't matter if I were to find the cure to the worst illness and the worst disease in the world, they would still find a way to demonize me.
02:30:55.000They are never able to give this man credit for anything, even when he's praising a child who survived brain cancer.
02:31:03.000It's quite incredible when you think about it.
02:31:06.000It's a sad state of affairs for our country, because what is it going to mean for Americans and also just the future of our country after these next four years when we aren't going to have President Trump?
02:31:16.000We're not going to have President Trump forever, sadly.
02:31:19.000He isn't a king, and we do not have a monarchy in this country, despite what some people in the Democrat Party are proclaiming or what some of the new technocrats in the Trump administration would hope.
02:31:30.000We do not have a monarchy, and we do not have kings in this country.
02:31:33.000And so I said tonight, You know, Donald Trump is so good.
02:31:38.000And he has such a commanding authority to him when he speaks.
02:31:41.000And he's such a strong leader that I'm worried that there isn't going to be a successor.
02:31:45.000And so while the Democrat Party is so helplessly far gone and they are so depraved and they are so deranged to the point where, you know, your average American has moved so far away.
02:31:57.000From calling themselves a proud Democrat or being able to admit that they would proudly support the Democrat Party, my greatest fear is what is to come after Trump.
02:32:09.000Because truly, there is nobody, when you watch President Trump speak and when you watch him command the authority that he has during these speeches and also just during these addresses, whatever they may be, an address to Congress, a campaign speech, a campaign rally.
02:32:24.000There is nobody in the Republican Party.
02:32:27.000And look, I like J.D. Vance, but I would say even J.D. Vance included.
02:32:31.000There is nobody in the Republican Party who has what it takes to be Donald Trump's successor.
02:32:40.000So hopefully he's coaching J.D. I mean, look, I think that obviously there's a lot of differences between President Trump and J.D. And I like J.D. I don't have anything against J.D. But is J.D. Vance Trump?
02:32:52.000I mean, I think that he tries to emulate President Trump, and I think that J.D. Vance has a lot of very strong characteristics.
02:32:58.000But I want to get your take on this because I personally think that there's nobody currently within the Republican Party who could truly call themselves Trump's successor.
02:33:12.000I don't really see how Alyssa Slocken, Eliza, Alyssa, whatever the hell she calls herself, this Democrat, former spook CIA agent who worked for Obama and Bush, who's now a Democrat senator, who is now giving the rebuttal address.
02:33:26.000Perhaps we can get that pulled up, Cannon.
02:33:28.000Let's see if we can get Alyssa Slocken's rebuttal address pulled up.
02:34:04.000I've been in public service my entire life because I happened to be in New York City on 9/11 when the Twin Towers came down.
02:34:20.000Before the smoke cleared, I knew I wanted to make a life in national security.
02:34:25.000I was recruited by the CIA and did three tours in Iraq alongside the military.
02:34:30.000In between, I worked at the White House under President Bush and President Obama, two very different leaders who both believed that America is exceptional.
02:34:39.000You can find that same sense of patriotism here in Wyandotte, Michigan, where I'm speaking from tonight.
02:34:45.000It's a working-class town just south of Detroit.
02:34:49.000President Trump and I both won here in November.
02:34:52.000It might not seem like it, but plenty of places like this still exist across the United States, places where people believe that if you work hard and play by the rules, you should do well and your kids should do better.
02:35:06.000My dad was a lifelong Republican, by mom a lifelong Democrat, but it was never a big deal because we had shared values that were bigger than any one party.
02:35:17.000We just went through another fraught election season.
02:35:20.000Americans made it clear that prices are too high and that the government needs to be more responsive to their needs.
02:35:27.000America wants change, but there's a responsible way to make change and a reckless way.
02:35:32.000And we can make that change without forgetting who we are as a country and as a democracy.
02:35:38.000So that's what I'm going to lay out tonight.
02:35:41.000Because whether you're from Wyandotte or Wichita, most Americans share three core beliefs.
02:35:47.000That the middle class is the engine of our country, that strong national security protects us from harm, and that our democracy, no matter how messy, is unparalleled and worth fighting for.
02:36:53.000President Trump is trying to deliver an unprecedented giveaway to his billionaire friends.
02:36:58.000He's on the hunt to find trillions of dollars to pass along to the wealthiest in America.
02:37:03.000And to do that, he's going to make you pay in every part of your life.
02:37:08.000Grocery and home prices are going up, not down, and he hasn't laid out a credible plan to deal with either of those.
02:37:15.000His tariffs on allies like Canada will raise prices on energy, lumber, and cars, and start a trade war that will hurt manufacturing and farmers.
02:37:24.000Your premiums and prescriptions will cost more because the math on his proposals doesn't work without going after your health care.
02:37:33.000Meanwhile, for those keeping score, the national debt is going up, not down.
02:37:37.000And if he's not careful, he could walk us right into a recession.
02:37:43.000In order to pay for his plan, he could very well come after your retirement.
02:37:48.000The Social Security, Medicare, and VA benefits you worked your whole life to earn.
02:37:53.000The president claims he won't, but Elon Musk just called Social Security the biggest Ponzi scheme of all time.
02:38:00.000While we're on the subject of Elon Musk, is there anyone in America who is comfortable with him and his gang of 20-year-olds using their own computer servers to poke through your tax returns, your health information, and your bank accounts?
02:38:13.000No oversight, no protections against cyber attack, no guardrails on what they do with your private data.
02:38:26.000But change doesn't need to be chaotic or make us less safe.
02:38:29.000The mindless firing of people who work to protect our nuclear weapons, keep our planes from crashing, and conduct the research that finds the cure for cancer, only to rehire them two days later?
02:38:41.000No CEO in America could do that without being summarily fired.
02:38:46.000Okay, so we've talked about economic security.
02:41:12.000It's at risk when the president decides you can pick and choose what rules you want to follow, when he ignores court orders and the Constitution itself, or when elected leaders stand by and just let it happen.
02:41:25.000But it's also at risk when the president pits Americans against each other, when he demonizes those who are different and tells certain people they shouldn't be included.
02:41:35.000Because America is not just a patch of land between two oceans.
02:42:05.000I've seen what life is like when a government is rigged.
02:42:08.000You can't open a business without paying off a corrupt official.
02:42:11.000You can't criticize the guys in charge without getting a knock at the door in the middle of the night.
02:42:16.000So as much as we need to make our government more responsive to our lives today, don't for one moment fool yourself that democracy isn't precious and worth saving.
02:44:31.000I mean, really, she didn't really say anything.
02:44:33.000It sounds like a pep talk, like, hey guys, you know, I know you're feeling really defeated, but we all have to stick together and not give up.
02:44:40.000And I mean, the one thing that I will say that I think that people on the left and the right are getting a little tired of is, you know, unelected.
02:44:49.000Technocratic billionaires occupying space in the White House.
02:44:52.000I mean, that is like the only thing I will say that the Republicans and the Democrats maybe share common ground on is that, you know, you have people on the left, the middle and the right who are saying, you know, I don't really feel comfortable with unelected bureaucrats, which also includes billionaire donors who maybe they're doing good work.
02:45:11.000Maybe they're not, depending on who you ask.
02:45:13.000I would say that that is like the only fair point.
02:45:17.000That was mentioned by Alyssa Slotkin in that I think this is going to become an issue, and I've said this from the get-go, that there are going to be people who become resentful, whether it be because they themselves are laid off or because they get fatigued from seeing a lot of these big tech executives and billionaires in the White House.
02:45:41.000But I really do think that class warfare and Classism is going to be one of the top issues in America driving political discourse come 2026. So I will say that unfortunately the Democrats are incapable of messaging that in a coherent manner and finding common ground because They're not able to give credit where credit's due, right?
02:46:09.000Like, give President Trump credit for the good things that he does, give Elon Musk credit for the good things that he does, while making points in a way that would invite your average American or maybe somebody who isn't politically affiliated but is also kind of annoyed with the What many would say is overbearing presence of these big tech executives in the White House.
02:46:33.000If they were to say it in a more diplomatic way, they would find that there are a lot of people on the right who feel this way.
02:46:40.000There were a lot of people on the right tonight who were kind of subtweeting this.
02:46:44.000And these are people who are diehard Trump supporters.
02:46:49.000The Democrats, though, are never going to give credit where credit's due.
02:46:53.000And if you want to actually have real change or find common ground, then it can't just be constant attack, attack, attack, attack without giving credit.
02:47:02.000You have to admit when your so-called enemies do something good, and you have to be willing to have a peaceful conversation with them without demonizing them and their colleagues and all of their associates as being...
02:47:15.000Hitler, or as being fascist, or as being totalitarians in nature.
02:47:22.000But I will say, I tweeted, I said, I think that Alyssa Slocken needs to lose weight.
02:47:27.000Some people said, oh, that's a stupid, petty thing to say.
02:47:31.000Look, the Republican Party is now cool.
02:47:33.000They used to say that Republicans were not cool.
02:47:36.000Well, being conservative is the new counterculture.
02:47:39.000So, again, why after having this Massive defeat on election day with the Democrats have an overweight deep stater who, you know, is just speaking like a Karen.
02:47:57.000When I say she's an overweight deep stater, I mean, she's morbidly obese.
02:48:01.000And the outfit that she was wearing tonight was much more slimming than what this woman looks like in person because Loomer Unleashed has actually confronted Alyssa Slocken.
02:48:08.000She is morbid, okay, morbid in her size.
02:48:23.000They're trying to glamorize the LGBTQ agenda and transmutilation of children.
02:48:28.000They're trying to glamorize things that are really just not aesthetically appealing or just aesthetically satisfying.
02:48:41.000And so you would think that if the Democrats truly wanted to have a rebuttal or they wanted to inspire the next generation of Democrats to really, you know, join their so-called resistance and to oppose President Trump and to get excited about the midterms, you would think that you would have a woman that...
02:49:01.000You know, actually put a little bit of care into their personal appearance and a little bit of care into how they carry themselves.
02:49:09.000Because I don't want to be lectured about how somebody is so bad as an elected official or how awful my decision-making is as a Trump voter or how awful Trump voters' decisions were to put Donald Trump back into the White House by a woman who can't even control how much food she's putting in her mouth.
02:49:28.000And so the Democrats are going to have to come to terms with the fact that their glorification of terrible aesthetics is one of the things that pushed so many people away.
02:49:39.000And a lot of people say, oh, well, that's really petty.
02:49:44.000Well, why do you think that so many first-time voters and so many independents and so many youth, so many first-time voters voted for Trump over Biden?
02:49:54.000Why do you think that they voted for Republicans over Democrats?
02:49:57.000There is an aesthetics crisis within the Democrat Party.
02:50:08.000So I'm not trying to be disrespectful about a woman and her appearance, but she just looks very disheveled.
02:50:14.000She was posting photos of herself eating donuts before the rebuttal address tonight.
02:50:19.000I mean, honestly, if you are that big, you should not be eating donuts before you You know, get in front of a camera to give the so-called rebuttal to President Trump's address tonight.
02:50:31.000And I don't think that the Democrats realize that people look at these things and they see somebody like Donald Trump, a successful billionaire, gorgeous wife, gorgeous children, children who are put together.
02:50:46.000He's embraced by all of these culture icons in our society.
02:50:50.000And then you have Joe Biden, Sleepy Joe, and you have these disheveled Democrats that are trying to make it so that men can destroy women's sports and so that children can be sexually mutilated so that you can be murdered by illegal aliens or poisoned by fentanyl.
02:51:06.000And everything that they support and everything that they put front and center is just ugly.
02:51:15.000It just has no inspirational value or inspirational element to it at all.
02:51:21.000And so I would disagree with the people that are saying, oh, you know, you shouldn't say that Alyssa Slocken should lose weight.
02:51:28.000That has nothing to do with the substance of, you know, the address that she gave tonight.
02:51:32.000It actually does have everything to do with...
02:51:35.000with the substance of what she said tonight because the Democrats are going to continue losing and the Democrats are going to keep on repelling people and also pushing voters away from their party as long as they continue to glorify and platform gross people who promote degeneracy who promote unhealthy habits and who promote A lifestyle of degeneracy and make it so that you think it's
02:52:05.000okay to be a slob, so that you think it's okay to be mediocre and simply rewarded.
02:52:11.000For the color of your skin or your sexual orientation as opposed to how hard you work.
02:52:16.000And that's what President Trump is talking about when he's talking about the golden age of America.
02:52:21.000We're going to make things beautiful again.
02:52:22.000We're going to get rid of all the graffiti.
02:52:25.000We're going to get rid of all of the trash.
02:52:27.000You know, we're going to get rid of all these terrible Democrat policies that destroyed our society, destroyed our culture, destroyed our youth, destroyed our border, destroyed our country that just made everything so ugly.
02:52:41.000And when I look at somebody who's so grotesque, like an Alyssa Slocken, I just think to myself, the Democrats just project this image of disheveledness and this image of this total lack of respect and a lack of attention to aesthetic appeal.
02:52:59.000And so for me, you know, it's not about being shallow.
02:53:06.000It's just this desire to finally get away from all of this Non-inspirational, you know, everybody gets a trophy bullshit that the Democrats have been promoting and just shoving down our throats for the last four years.
02:53:24.000And so I don't really understand how people can find anything wrong with what President Trump said tonight.
02:53:30.000I understand that there can be issues that we, you know, all find to be a little bit distasteful.
02:53:35.000Like, I agree, this idea of an oligarchy or the Enormous amount of power that these so-called tech oligarchs and tech executives and tech billionaires now have with their proximity to President Trump.
02:53:49.000But there's a way to talk about that without coming across like a lunatic.
02:53:53.000There's a way to talk about that without waving a Hamas flag or waving a Ukraine flag in the middle of the street and uniting with people that are calling for President Trump to be killed and dressing up like Luigi Mangione outside of these protests, right?
02:54:11.000And I don't know, it's just the Democrats are, they seem to be kind of either unwilling to accept this reality or just completely deranged by years of Trump derangement syndrome that they have no idea how or what is considered appealing to the everyday American.
02:54:32.000I don't know if you agree with me or not.
02:54:34.000I mean, some people didn't like my comment about...
02:54:37.000Her looks and her appearance and her weight, but I just personally think that the Democrats are going to continue to lose as long as they continue to project this unhealthy aura.
02:54:49.000Not just an unhealthy aura about the lifestyle choices of these politicians in the Democrat Party, but also just an unhealthy aesthetic for the future of our country.
02:55:00.000And that's what people voted against this last election season.
02:55:03.000And that is one of the reasons why so many people, especially so many young people, overwhelmingly voted Republican as opposed to Democrat.
02:55:21.000Yeah, I mean, I think that that's honestly what it is.
02:55:23.000They honestly just have no concept of what is good, what is pure, what is aesthetically pleasing, what is beautiful.
02:55:30.000And again, when you surround yourself with this kind of like low standard and you embrace people who have poor lifestyle choices and you make exceptions for people who are...
02:55:45.000Severely obese and you make exceptions for people who are severely mentally ill and you try to platform that and make that the new normal, it's going to have serious social consequences.
02:55:55.000And the Democrats are now reeling from it.
02:55:58.000They cannot, no matter what they do, they cannot find their footing.
02:56:03.000And it's incredible to see this cultural and also just this social shift in our society because you see how the Democrats for years were considered the cool party, right?
02:56:12.000The party of Hollywood, the party of pop culture, and the party that was going to dictate the social norms and the culture.
02:56:20.000And now there's nothing more uncool than being a Democrat.
02:56:24.000I don't know if you would agree, but I personally think that there's no greater insult that you could give somebody in our society currently.
02:56:32.000Then they're like a radical leftist or a member of the Democrat Party.
02:56:36.000It's almost just completely embarrassing.
02:56:38.000I would be absolutely ashamed and embarrassed to say that I was a member of the Democrat Party.
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02:59:05.000you Oh, some of you like my sweater from Mardi Gras.
02:59:30.000I don't really care if she's a lesbian.
02:59:31.000I just have a problem with the fact that the Democrats actually think, you know, after we just got done watching weaponized lawfare and the deep state, they thought that having a spook and a woman who worked for Obama and Bush as a CIA agent who is so disheveled, she's so obese, she's popping out of her suit, okay?
02:59:51.000Give an address to counter President Trump.
02:59:53.000I just don't understand how that is appealing.
02:59:57.000Aren't we moving away from all of, you know, these weaponized agencies and aren't they smart enough to see that having a spook and having a CIA agent address the country probably, you know, probably isn't the best idea.
03:00:11.000The American people right now are a little sick and tired of weaponized government and trust within the agencies, whether it be the FBI or the CIA, is at an all-time low.
03:00:21.000President Trump's nominees have barely been confirmed.
03:00:25.000They've barely been in their positions for a week now.
03:00:30.000And so you just have to ask yourself, who's doing the Democrats' messaging for them?
03:01:04.000You're not going to inspire people by having a woman who is a law enforcement agent who's also a lesbian get up on the stage and give a counter-rebuttal address to President Trump.
03:01:16.000Gone are the days of identity politics.
03:01:21.000We are eradicating glorification for federal law enforcement and federal agents who weaponize our agencies, that of which Alyssa Slokin had no problem doing as a federal law enforcement agent under the Bush administration and the Obama administration, okay?
03:01:45.000We respect law enforcement here on the right, but gone are the days of just giving blanket respect to federal law enforcement agencies that have weaponized their agencies to, you know, interfere in our elections, to illegally spy on presidential candidates, to illegally spy on the American people.
03:02:04.000So I don't know what the Democrats were thinking.
03:02:09.000I mean, isn't there anybody else who is a little bit more appealing, both aesthetically and also in terms of their resume, who could have given the rebuttal tonight?
03:02:34.000The only thing, as I said before, that Republicans need to be careful of is not having these one-off screw-ups by members of the Trump administration.
03:02:41.000Trump himself is doing a good job, but some of his cabinet members are already breaking their promises and turning off a lot of people in the MAGA base.
03:02:49.000So we need to make sure that a malaise is not created ahead of the midterms because that is what will stunt voter turnout.
03:02:57.000That's why we need to be aggressive, just like I've been aggressive against Pam Bondi over the last few days, getting called out a lot from members of the Republican Party who are telling me that I need to calm down.
03:03:08.000These people are going to cost us the midterms if we don't hold them accountable.
03:03:12.000They want to embarrass President Trump and they want to sabotage his America First agenda.
03:03:17.000We can't allow them to get away with doing that.
03:03:20.000So no, I will not shut up and I will not stop attacking Republicans because we need to make sure that Republicans keep in line and that they are held accountable.
03:03:26.000And that they are called out every single time they say something or do something that goes against President Trump's agenda or creates an embarrassment for his administration.
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