00:02:40.000Tonight is the State of the Union address from Donald Trump, but we also have the Democrats People's State of the Union happening just about an hour before the State of the Union is set to occur.
00:02:52.000So we will be largely just watching this and fact-checking and providing light commentary as we listen to what the president has to say about the current state of affairs in this country.
00:03:02.000And of course, Democrats' pregame show, where they're boycotting the State of the Union address, saying that they're not going to go.
00:03:09.000And oh boy, it's going to be a silly night.
00:03:12.000There's a bunch of rumors circulating.
00:03:13.000One, a false rumor, that Thomas Massey would be joining the Democrats and sitting alongside them.
00:03:22.000And Massey literally posted a picture from his seat on the Republican side of the aisle as they prepare for the State of the Union.
00:03:29.000So, man, so much fake news going around.
00:03:32.000But we'll talk about that plus some of the other rumors as we're going to be chilling and waiting.
00:03:37.000I actually ordered some pizzas, which should be here not too late, actually, because the rumor is Donald Trump is going to be speaking for three hours.
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00:06:30.000We've got the watch party for the Donald Trump State of the Union address coming up 9 p.m.
00:06:36.000And in the meantime, we'll be watching the Democrats' weird version where they're boycotting and having the people's stay the union, which is a weird thing to call it because Trump was elected by the people, but sure.
00:06:47.000And a couple of the stories that will pop up.
00:06:49.000We'll have a general conversation as we flow through this.
00:06:51.000Joining us tonight to talk about this and to comment on the gentle musings of the president is Jay Dyer.
00:07:48.000You know, like someone could post a video from like 2016 of like a rave, and they could tell me that it's like New York under siege aliens.
00:09:52.000We were talking about how nobody debates anymore.
00:09:55.000And Tate was pointing out that for a lot of these smaller leftists, they come on these shows just to get a click to go viral so they can build an audience.
00:10:03.000So they'll say things that, you know what I love about those debates?
00:11:56.000Before I introduce our host for tonight, I just want to give a special thanks to all of the people behind the scenes who helped to make tonight happen.
00:12:04.000Louvon staff, the staff who serve our congressional representatives and senators here tonight, our partners, thank you so much.
00:12:12.000This is no small task to put on a historic event to fight for our country.
00:13:58.000And so tonight we are not going to hear a false state of the union.
00:14:04.000We are going to hear the true state of our union from the people who are being impacted by the policies that are taking place at the hands of someone who has demonstrated no love for the Constitution, for the truth, or for the care and concern of the American people.
00:16:34.000Is he basically a tall guy with a long utterance of this administration?
00:16:41.000Let me speak as an American and as a Baptist minister.
00:16:49.000The Trump administration is the most hostile to religious freedom in generations.
00:16:58.000They attack any religious leader or Christianity not in lockstep with their political agenda.
00:17:07.000He's just making this up, but in this house, the Pentagon, the Department of Justice, and ICE have weaponized religion for their white Christian nationalist crusade.
00:17:21.000They turned to art in the paint for this stuff.
00:17:24.000Who is a true American, conveniently made in their own image, and relegate all the rest of us to second-class status?
00:21:46.000Our cities are under attack by lawless law enforcement.
00:21:52.000Our democracy is wilting under ceaseless attack from a president who wants to be a despot.
00:22:00.000Millions of Americans are losing their health care because the president has chosen corruption to pad the pockets of his billionaire friends instead of helping average Americans.
00:22:10.000You're not going to hear any of that in that speech tonight.
00:22:14.000But by being here for the people's state of the Union, you are going to hear the real story of America.
00:22:21.000A story of an America that is under siege, but a story of America that is not going to take it, that is going to fight back and is going to reclaim this country for everything that is good and right about the United States of America.
00:22:37.000Fereshede is going to talk to you tonight about the state of immigrant and refugee America.
00:22:57.000Right now, as you know, the Department of Homeland Security is shut down.
00:23:02.000And I just want to be very clear with you about my position and I think the position of many others who will stand on this stage tonight.
00:23:10.000Not one more dime for the Department of Homeland Security until they start following the law in this country.
00:23:22.000Ferris Day came to this country over a decade ago, coming to the United States from a refugee camp.
00:23:31.000She told me just off stage that this is the moment.
00:23:38.000This is the reason that she came here to the United States to speak truth to power, to explain the trials and tribulations that every immigrant and every refugee goes through to get here and to press this country to get order and stuck in the border.
00:24:10.000They lift us up to a common purpose and to a common goal to understand that the best of Americans treat the body terror and torture and desperation.
00:27:36.000Federalist papers living in uncertain society.
00:27:45.000I mean, that's actually like a funny thing about the people that they want to import because we've gotten rid of a lot of these practices, but I'm just imagining they're bringing in people who have there was this seminar where a black woman argued for what did they call it, like non-white supremacist science or something, arguing that like ritual practices for healing were just as valid because they lived experiences of cultures.
00:32:00.000She is one of the main reasons that we're getting some of those files.
00:32:03.000She's going to be reading a story from Monica Ruiz, the executive director of Casa San Jose, waiting to keep families together and reform our unjust immigration system, all while her family is now being impacted by ICE.
00:32:30.000I am Summer Lee, representing Pennsylvania's 12th congressional district, and I'm proud to stand here this evening with Move On, with organizers, with workers, and with everyday people who refuse to sit quietly while our country is pushed to the brink.
00:32:45.000Right now, Donald Trump is preparing to deliver his made-up version of the state of the union.
00:32:52.000He's going to tell a familiar story tonight: that the economy is booming, that our communities are safer, and that the America and that America is stronger than it's ever been, all because of him.
00:33:04.000We know that the fear that our families are facing of being hunted down by ICE.
00:33:13.000We know our neighbors are working two or three jobs to make ends meet, that their health care has been gutted and their federal jobs have been eliminated by thousands.
00:33:22.000We know our education systems and unions are being targeted because they threaten authoritarian power.
00:33:29.000And they want us fighting each other so we don't pay attention to what they're stealing from us.
00:33:35.000And I mean, all of us, Democrats and Republicans, and independents, young folks.
00:33:42.000They're not absolutely familiar with that.
00:33:42.000Whether you're in a red or a blue-just conviction.
00:33:45.000Whether you're in rural towns or a factory community.
00:33:48.000Correction doesn't check your voter registration before it robs you.
00:34:49.000There was no traffic violation, no expired tag, just a man who...
00:34:53.000She's going to be dragged to one of the worst centers in the country.
00:34:58.000Meanwhile, just the other day, Monica's daughter Adriana just gave birth to a baby girl who is yet to meet her father because he's been locked up by this lawless agency.
00:35:22.000The real state of our union, where families are being torn apart and traumatized, where corporations give more say in our democracy than the people we elect, where the government would rather protect powerful people and the Epstein fouls than the women and the girls who were sexually abused.
00:35:37.000We live in a country where we have one reality for everyday people and another for the rich and the well-connected.
00:35:43.000I thought these people were like pro-PDFs.
00:35:45.000Like, what's the problem with sexual abuse?
00:35:47.000The moment with both that level the playing field and deliver justice no matter how much money you have.
00:36:05.000Trump's DLJ continues to obstruct justice and refuses to comply with our subpoena to release the full unredacted Epstein fouls.
00:36:14.000Fundy must be held accountable for that.
00:36:17.000And let's not forget, it was Trump who said it first, release the fouls.
00:36:21.000So we'll keep that call up no matter what.
00:36:24.000Because where I come from in Western Pennsylvania, we know what it means to be abandoned by politicians who make big promises and lie and deliver nothing.
00:36:33.000We know what it's like when the factories close, when the hospitals cut services, when the schools can't afford to teach, when the corporations are given permission to point out, she's trying to be the next Maxine Water.
00:36:42.000She's like, no, that no matter what language is.
00:36:45.000My region de-industrialized, so we know that we are all being squeezed by the same rig system.
00:36:51.000So when Trump points the fingers at immigrants, our trans kids, our protesters, our journalists understand what he's doing.
00:37:55.000They're calling a golden tonight because this is about a movement that is big enough to defeat authoritarianism to stand up to quit power and boot it in a simple belief.
00:38:04.000That when working people come together across race, across geography, and across whatever lines they try to divide us by, we are unstoppable.
00:38:13.000So all power to the people, and thank you all for being with us.
00:38:16.000See, it's not about right versus left.
00:40:04.000Millions of Americans right now are without health care.
00:40:07.000The poorest of our country are trying to figure out how to make ends meet and how to pay for that grocery bill because they needed an extra billion dollars for their billionaire friends.
00:40:18.000And when they had whatever money they had left over, then they used that amount of ice ages to have the massive amount of deportations that we have now that are also targeting U.S. citizens, racial profiling Americans, arresting Latino veterans and telling them you are not part of this country and make them prove that they're Americans.
00:42:01.000And then once I get all of these people to say that college is bad, I get them all to sign a petition and then they'll be acting as if they're a military occupation.
00:43:03.000Will I continue to pay for this very expensive health care or will I gamble?
00:43:08.000Will I pay for my health care or will I pay the mortgage?
00:43:12.000That decision was forced upon him by an uncaring Republican administration, by an uncaring Trump, who only wants to find more and more money to give more and more tax cuts to the richest of the country that do not need it, do not need it right now.
00:44:40.000Coming to the stage is a great Chris Van Holland.
00:44:42.000But she can't understand what they're saying, so she's like, you're bad.
00:44:44.000You're in the state state of Maryland.
00:44:46.000You'll be joined by Jenna Norton, a public health scientist focused on health equity and data standards to improve health outcomes in kidney and urologic diseases.
00:44:56.000She was a lead organizer of the Bethesda Declaration, a whistleblower letter to the NIH director and members of Congress detailing this harm.
00:45:05.000In November 2025, she was placed on retaliatory administrative leave.
00:45:10.000So you're going to want to give her a major round of applause.
00:47:28.000But instead, ever since he was sworn in, we've seen prices and costs go up on the American choices to extend tax cuts, tax credits that help people afford before Woodrow Wilson was a mistake.
00:47:44.000We have a president who seeks not to build everything before Woodrow Wilson was a mistake.
00:47:48.000Everything since Woodrow Wilson endorsed down.
00:47:52.000And a president who said he would stop wars, who said he would stop wars, but instead is responsible for war crimes and as we speak, is threatening war wars.
00:49:10.000We're going to stand up just like the people in Minneapolis who have taken to the streets, who are blowing the whistle to protect their neighbors and to protect our Constitution, and who are getting in the way of the president's efforts to tear down our country.
00:49:32.000Now look, how does the competition back an effort to tear down our country?
00:49:40.000So tonight, right up that hill, the United States Capitol, he's going to pretend that he really wants to help working Americans.
00:49:52.000He's going to pretend that he does want to bring down those prices.
00:50:01.000And we know that that is not what he wants because just a lot of people are going to be able to do it.
00:50:08.000And we talked about the affordability crisis.
00:50:32.000But let's face it, we also need to show the American people that we are willing to stand up and fight against big corporate special interests to the benefit of all of the American people.
00:53:02.000A career public health researcher at the National Institutes of Health.
00:53:07.000Dr. Norton blew the whistle on the outrageous actions that threaten the health and well-being of the American people.
00:53:15.000And she has been retaliated against because she was willing to stand up and tell the truth.
00:53:22.000But here's what we all know: when the history of this moment is written, the politicians and the law firms and the universities and the corporations who appease the bullies will be exposed as the cowards they are.
00:53:40.000And the people who are standing up to save our democracy, like all of you gathered here today, and people like Dr. Cohen, how long do you think they're going to be there?
00:54:58.000You can be a nerd, but you can still do your hair and get contact with his right-wing coach.
00:55:03.000I was placed on administrative leave in November of last year because I spoke up about the wrongdoing that I was seeing in a job that I used to love at the National Institutes of Health until it was fundamentally changed.
00:55:18.000The Trump administration put research participants and public health at risk when they abruptly terminated NIH studies.
00:55:28.000By halting these studies, they also wasted taxpayer resources.
00:55:33.000When you halt a study, a five-year study, a $5 million study.
00:55:38.000I feel like doing push-ups right now because my time is being wasted.
00:56:06.000Yeah, Pringles, I think it's like they just puree potatoes and then press it into a sheet and then come instead of a science that serves all of us.
00:56:14.000But everybody knows the best potato chips are the greasiest kettle chips you can get.
00:56:19.000Just you open the bag and oil just pours out.
00:56:22.000When this began, I knew that speaking up was my duty.
00:57:02.000The lawlessness at the National Institutes of Health, you know, like a like a Did you see the guy who warmed his house at a wood stove with Krispy Kreme donuts?
00:59:44.000You know, like you're walking into the store and a wolf just pops out and you're like, and that everyone, bro, guns, universal gun rights across the board overnight if we do that.
00:59:52.000You're making Nick Point this argument.
01:01:18.000Our union is not strong when Americans fear they can be killed or taken by massed agents in our streets.
01:01:26.000And now the latest news is that Trump is going to take about another tax cut for the richest people in this country and for big corporations.
01:01:39.00017 million Americans are already paying Donald Trump's last billionaire tax cut by losing their health care.
01:01:54.000It's time for them to pay their fair share so that every man, woman, and child in this country can have a job that pays a living wage and affordable child care and health care as a basic human right for every single person.
01:02:07.000They pay the lion's share of the taxes.
01:02:09.000And while we're at it, we should have a lot of people who are in the middle.
01:02:12.000So that way, middle class people can have a job.
01:02:13.000It's like everybody's answering to the people who gives jobs to billionaires.
01:02:18.000I want the billionaires paying less now.
01:04:20.000But what happened was I saw a scoop that Trump is bringing a D-transitioner to the State of the Union as a guest and was going to make a comment on the shift and what's been going on with surgeries and the major announcements that we've seen since.
01:04:31.000And as soon as that went live, I went to call she and it was like 50% that he'll say yes.
01:04:35.000And I was like, okay, I'm going to buy this.
01:04:36.000Because I'm always talking about how I watch the news all day.
01:04:39.000And if I invested based off of the news that I saw, I'd probably make a bunch of money.
01:04:42.000So instantly, it jumped to like 70% that he's going to say it.
01:04:48.000And so I think I might turn a little profit off of gambling.
01:04:53.000D-transition, then you have like a hockey player, and then you have like someone that's had a relative killed by a legal immigrant.
01:04:58.000And it's just James O'Keefe coming on a different disguise.
01:05:02.000You know, have you ever seen that thing where the guy does the hot and crazy graph?
01:05:43.000We did that bit for Cast Castle with James O'Keefe where Jamie Kilstein was talking to this beautiful woman and he was like, I'm just, I can't believe you're talking to me.
01:06:11.000It's the funniest thing about James O'Keeffe where these women are on dates with the guy and they're like, so like, tell me about bribery and corruption that you're involved in.
01:06:57.000So I was like, if we actually just bought shares and traded crypto or other things based on the news we're seeing live when we're doing it, we're hours ahead of the average person.
01:16:00.000Less than five months from now, our country will celebrate an epic milestone in American history.
01:16:06.000The 250th anniversary of our glorious American independence.
01:16:13.000This July 4th, we will mark two and a half centuries of liberty and triumph, progress and freedom in the most incredible and exceptional nation ever to exist on the face of the earth.
01:16:46.000When I last spoke in this chamber 12 months ago, I had just inherited a nation in crisis with a stagnant economy, inflation at record levels, a wide open border, horrendous recruitment for military and police, rampant crime at home, and wars and chaos all over the world.
01:17:08.000But tonight, after just one year, I can say with dignity and pride that we have achieved a transformation like no one has ever seen before and a turnaround for the ages.
01:17:21.000It is indeed a turnaround for the ages.
01:17:27.000If he says discombobulator, people get paid a lot of money.
01:18:47.000After four years in which millions and millions of illegal aliens poured across our borders totally unvetted and unchecked, we now have the strongest and most secure border in American history by far.
01:19:13.000In the past nine months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted to the United States.
01:20:40.000He wouldn't like me to say that, but that's a long time ago.
01:20:43.000The Biden administration and its allies in Congress gave us the worst inflation in the history of our country.
01:20:51.000But in 12 months, my administration has driven core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years.
01:20:58.000And in the last three months of 2025, it was down to 1.7%.
01:21:19.000Gasoline, which reached a peak of over $6 a gallon in some states, under my predecessor, it was quite honestly a disaster, is now below $2.30 a gallon in most states and in some places.
01:22:12.000And low interest rates will solve the Biden-created housing problem while at the same time protecting the values of those people who already own a house that really feel rich for the first time in their lives.
01:23:56.000As thousands of new businesses are forming in factories, plants, and laboratories are being built.
01:24:02.000We have added 70,000 new construction jobs in just a very short period of time.
01:24:07.000It's getting bigger and bigger and stronger.
01:24:10.000Nobody can believe what they're watching.
01:24:12.000American oil production is up by more than 600,000 barrels a day, and we just received from our new friend and partner, Venezuela, more than 80 million barrels of oil.
01:28:51.000That's the first time I've ever seen them get up.
01:28:55.000And actually, not all of them did get up.
01:28:59.000But they beat a fantastic Canadian team in overtime, as everybody saw, as did the American women who will soon be coming to the White House.
01:30:52.000But I just want to tell you that the members of this great hockey squad will be very happy to hear, based on their vote and my vote, and in this case my vote was more important, that I will soon be presenting Connor with our highest civilian honor, which we will be given and which has been given to many athletes over the years.
01:31:15.000But when I say many, not too many, like 12.
01:31:18.000It's called the highest civilian honor in our country, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
01:31:51.000Great athletes have gotten that very great, the best, and I thought he deserved it.
01:31:56.000And I did take a vote, every single one of them.
01:31:59.000I said, I'm not giving it if anybody goes no.
01:32:01.000And every single one of them rapidly put up their hand.
01:32:30.000I'm also pleased to say that the next time the Olympic torch is lit, it will be here in America for the 2028 Olympics.
01:32:41.000And it's the summer version right in Los Angeles.
01:32:44.000We're going to do a good job in Los Angeles and Los Angeles is going to be safe, just like Washington, D.C. is now one of the safest cities in the country.
01:34:08.000At age 17, Buddy volunteered to defend America in World War II, serving in the Pacific under the great General Douglas MacArthur.
01:34:19.000He fought bravely in the famous Battle of Manila, worked so hard.
01:34:24.000He was badly wounded and almost killed by enemy machine guns in Luzon.
01:34:30.000And 81 years ago this month, he liberated the largest internment camp in the Philippines, one of the largest anywhere in the world.
01:34:38.000But he earned many honors, including a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, came home, started a family, and tonight he is in the gallery looking forward to July 4th, 2026, his 100th birthday.
01:37:21.000Tonight, Scott and Millie Kate are here together, reunited for the very first time.
01:37:26.000Thank you, Scott, Millie Kaye, and Petty Officer Ruskin.
01:37:54.000I'm pleased to inform you that I am now awarding you the Legion of Merit for Extraordinary Heroism, which is what it was, Extraordinary Heroism.
01:38:52.000Together, we're building a nation where every child has the chance to reach higher and go further, where government answers to the people, not the powerful, and where the interests of hardworking American citizens are always our first and ultimate concern.
01:39:09.000That is the debt we owe to the heroes who came before us, and that is the promise we must keep to America for our 250th year.
01:39:20.000Last year, I urged this Congress to begin the mission by passing the largest tax cuts in American history, and our Republican majorities delivered so beautifully.
01:39:47.000All Democrats, every single one of them, voted against these really important and very necessary massive tax cuts.
01:40:04.000They wanted large-scale tax increases to hurt the people instead.
01:40:12.000But we held strong, and with the great, big, beautiful bill, we gave you no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for our great city.
01:40:31.000It's hard to make the argument that he's not, that he's taxing the middle class, that he's hurting the middle class when he does pass things like that.
01:40:38.000We also made interest on auto loans, tax deductible the first time, but only if the car is made in America.
01:40:58.000Recently in Pennsylvania, I met Megan Hemhauser, a devoted mom whose homeschools are children, beautiful, two children, during the day while waiting tables at night.
01:41:11.000as her husband works overtime operating very heavy equipment.
01:41:17.000Megan is here this evening and she's happy to tell you that she is so, so much richer because with no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and her expanded child tax credit done again by Republicans, Megan and her husband will take home more than $5,000 extra just for the year, cutting her tax bill in more than half.
01:42:30.000Tax-free investment accounts for every American child.
01:42:33.000This is something that's so special and has taken off and gone through the roof.
01:42:38.000Millions will be pre-funded courtesy of the U.S. Treasury and private individuals like Michael and Susan Dell, who have donated $6,250,000,000 to fund the Trump accounts for 25 million American children.
01:44:32.000One of the primary reasons for our country's stunning economic turnaround, the biggest in history where the Dow Jones broke 50,000 four years ahead of schedule, and the SP hit 7,000 where it wasn't supposed to do it for many years, were tariffs.
01:44:51.000I used these tariffs, took in hundreds of billions of dollars to make great deals for our country, both economically and on a national security basis.
01:45:55.000But the good news is that almost all countries and corporations want to keep the deal that they already made, right, Scott?
01:46:05.000Knowing that the legal power that I, as president, have to make a new deal could be far worse for them.
01:46:13.000And therefore, they will continue to work along the same successful path that we had negotiated before the Supreme Court's unfortunate involvement.
01:46:23.000So despite the disappointing ruling, these powerful countries saving, it's saving our country the kind of money we're taking in.
01:46:33.000Peace protecting many of the wars I settled was because of the threat of tariffs.
01:46:38.000I wouldn't have been able to settle them without, will remain in place under fully approved and tested alternative legal statutes.
01:46:46.000And they have been tested for a long time.
01:46:49.000They're a little more complex, but they're actually probably better, leading to a solution that will be even stronger than before.
01:46:58.000Congressional action will not be necessary.
01:47:01.000It's already time-tested and approved.
01:47:04.000And as time goes by, I believe the tariffs paid for by foreign countries will, like in the past, substantially replace the modern-day system of income tax, taking a great financial burden off the people that I love.
01:47:32.000Moving forward, factories, jobs, investment, and trillions and trillions of dollars will continue pouring into the United States of America because we finally have a president who puts America first.
01:47:58.000For decades before I came along, we had the exact opposite.
01:48:04.000From trade to health care, from energy to immigration, everything was stolen and rigged in order to drain the wealth out of the productive, hardworking people who make our country great, who make our country run.
01:48:18.000Under Biden and his corrupt partners in Congress and beyond, it reached a breaking point with the Green News scam, open borders for everyone.
01:48:28.000They poured in by the millions and millions from prisons, from mental institutions.
01:50:17.000And soon you will see numbers that few people would think were possible to achieve just a short time ago.
01:50:26.000Nobody can believe when they see the kind of numbers, and especially energy, when they see energy going down to numbers like that, they cannot believe it.
01:50:37.000I'm also confronting one of the biggest rip-offs of our times, the crushing costs of health care caused by you.
01:50:47.000Since the passage of the Unaffordable Care Act, sometimes referred to as Obamacare, big insurance companies have gotten rich.
01:50:55.000It was meant for the insurance companies, not for the people.
01:50:58.000With our government giving them hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars a year as their stock prices soared 1,1200, 1,400, and even 1,700 percent, like nothing else.
01:51:13.000That's why I introduced the great health care plan.
01:51:17.000I want to stop all payments to big insurance companies and instead give that money directly to the people so they can buy their own health care, which will be better health care at a much lower cost.
01:51:43.000In addition, my plan requires maximum price transparency.
01:51:56.000And I did that in my first term, and the Democrats immediately terminated it with full knowledge that they were doing a very bad thing for the people.
01:52:04.000Costs were going to go way up, and that's what happened, and now I'm bringing them way down on health care and everything else.
01:52:09.000I'm also ending the wildly inflated cost of prescription drugs like has never happened before.
01:52:26.000Other presidents tried to do it, but they never could.
01:52:40.000But I got it done under my just enacted most favored nation agreements.
01:52:46.000Americans, who have for decades paid by far the highest prices of any nation anywhere in the world for prescription drugs, will now pay the lowest price anywhere in the world for drugs, anywhere, the lowest price.
01:53:10.000So in my first year of the second term, should be my third term, but strange things happen.
01:53:22.000I took prescription drugs, a very big part of health care, from the highest price in the entire world to the lowest.
01:54:24.000A reduction of much more, actually, than $3,500.
01:54:29.000Catherine, we are all praying for you, and you're going to be a great mom.
01:54:34.000So now I'm calling on Congress to codify my most favored nation program into law.
01:55:00.000Now, the one thing I'm not sure it matters because it's going to be very hard for somebody that comes along after me to say, let's raise drug prices by 700 or 800 percent.
01:55:11.000But John and Mike, if you don't mind, codify it anyway.
01:55:58.000It could never handle the kind of numbers, the amount of electricity that's needed.
01:56:03.000So I'm telling them they can build their own plant.
01:56:06.000They're going to produce their own electricity.
01:56:08.000It will ensure the company's ability to get electricity while at the same time lowering prices of electricity for you and could be very substantial for all of you cities and towns.
01:56:19.000You're going to see some good things happen over the next number of years.
01:56:23.000Another pillar of the American dream that has been under attack is homeownership.
01:56:28.000With us tonight is Raysaul Wiggins, a mom of two from Houston.
01:56:33.000She placed bids on 20 homes and lost all of those bids to gigantic investment firms that bypassed inspection, paid all cash, and turned those houses into rentals, stealing away her American dream.
01:56:48.000Stories like this are why last month I signed executive order to ban large Wall Street investment firms from buying up in the thousands single-family homes.
01:57:10.000And now I'm asking Congress to make that ban permanent because homes for people, really, that's what we want.
01:57:19.000We want homes for people, not for corporations.
01:58:17.000Yet half of all of working Americans still do not have access to a retirement plan with matching contributions from an employer.
01:58:26.000To remedy this gross disparity, I'm announcing that next year my administration will give these often-forgotten American workers, great people, the people that built our country, access to the same type of retirement plan offered to every federal worker.
01:58:40.000We will match your contribution with up to $1,000 each year.
01:58:45.000As we ensure that all Americans can profit from a rising stock market, let's also ensure that members of Congress cannot corruptly profit from using insider information.
01:59:58.000But when it comes to the corruption that is plundering, really, it's plundering America.
02:00:04.000There's been no more stunning example than Minnesota, where members of the Somali community have pillaged an estimated $19 billion from the American taxpayer.
02:01:33.000Importing these cultures to unrestricted immigration and open borders brings those problems right here to the USA.
02:01:41.000And it is the American people who pay the price in higher medical bills, car insurance rates, rent, taxes, and perhaps most importantly, crime.
02:02:11.000Delilah Colman was only five years old in June 2024 when a 18-wheel tractor trailer plowed into her stopped car traveling at 60 miles an hour or more.
02:02:25.000The driver was an illegal alien led in by Joe Biden and given a commercial driver's license by open borders politicians in California.
02:02:36.000Doctors said Delilah would never be able to walk or talk, have a good life.
02:02:42.000She wouldn't even be able to eat again.
02:02:44.000But against all odds, she is now in the first grade learning to walk.
02:02:49.000And she's here this evening with her dad, Marcus, a fantastic man.
02:02:54.000Delilah, please, you are a great inspiration.
02:03:30.000Many, if not most illegal aliens do not speak English and cannot read even the most basic road signs as to direction, speed, danger, or location.
02:03:40.000That's why tonight I'm calling on Congress to pass what we will call the Delilah law barring any state from granting commercial driver's licenses to illegal aliens.
02:04:04.000And yesterday, as you probably saw at the White House, I hosted a ceremony with Americans who lost their treasured loved ones to the scourge of illegal immigration.
02:04:17.000People came into our country, how we allowed this to happen with our open borders.
02:04:22.000These are the angel moms and families that for decades our government betrayed and our media totally ignored, totally, it was terrible.
02:04:33.000In 2023, a 16-year-old high school cheerleader named Lisbeth Medina was supposed to perform in her town's Christmas parade, but she never arrived.
02:04:44.000Her mother, Jacqueline, went home to look for her, and she found her lying dead in a bathtub, bleeding profusely after being stabbed 25 times.
02:04:56.000Lizbeth's killer was a previously arrested illegal alien who had broken in and just brutally extinguished the brightest light in her family's life violently and viciously.
02:05:12.000Her heartbroken mother is in the gallery to remind everyone in this chamber exactly why we are deporting illegal alien criminals for our country at record numbers, and we're getting them the hell out of here fast.
02:05:53.000We can never forget that many in this room Not only allowed the border invasion to happen before I got involved, but indeed they would do it all over again if they ever had the chance.
02:06:07.000If they ever got elected, they would open up those borders to some of the worst criminals anywhere in the world.
02:06:14.000The only thing standing between Americans and a wide open border right now is President Donald J. Trump and our great Republican patriots in Congress.
02:06:47.000They have instituted another Democrat shutdown, the first one costing us two points on GDP.
02:06:54.000Two points we lost on GDP, which probably made them quite happy, actually.
02:06:59.000Now they have closed the agency responsible for protecting Americans from terrorists and murderers.
02:07:05.000Tonight I'm demanding the full and immediate restoration of all funding for the border security, homeland security of the United States, and also for helping people clean up their snow.
02:07:19.000We have no money because of the Democrats, and it would be nice.
02:07:24.000You'd love to give your hand at cleaning it up, but you gave no money.
02:07:31.000We have, in case you didn't know, pretty large snowstorm out there.
02:07:35.000One of the great things about the state of the union is how it gives Americans the chance to see clearly what their representatives really believe.
02:07:45.000So tonight I'm inviting every legislature to join with my administration in reaffirming a fundamental principle.
02:07:52.000If you agree with this statement, then stand up and show your support.
02:07:58.000The first duty of the American government is to protect American citizens, not illegal aliens.
02:10:03.000That is why I'm also asking you to end deadly sanctuary cities that protect the criminals and enact serious penalties for public officials who block the removal of criminal aliens, in many cases, drug lords, murderers all over our country.
02:10:21.000They're blocking the removal of these people out of our country.
02:10:26.000and you should be ashamed of yourself.
02:10:31.000And you should be ashamed of yourself.
02:10:54.000And perhaps most importantly, I'm asking you to approve the Save America Act to stop illegal aliens and others who are unpermitted persons from voting in our sacred American elections.
02:11:19.000That cheating is rampant in our elections.
02:12:58.000Both Republicans and Democrats overwhelmingly agree on the policy that we just enunciated.
02:13:06.000And Congress should unite and enact this common sense, country-saving legislation right now, and it should be before anything else happens.
02:13:37.000The reason they don't want to do it, why would anybody not want voter ID?
02:13:42.000One reason, because they want to cheat.
02:14:08.000And here is one more opportunity to show common sense in government.
02:14:21.000In the gallery tonight are Sage Blair and her mother, Michelle.
02:14:27.000In 2021, Sage was 14 when school officials in Virginia sought to socially transition her to a new gender, treating her as a boy and hiding it from her parents.
02:14:43.000Before long, a confused Sage ran away from home after she was found in a horrific situation in Maryland.
02:14:52.000A left-wing judge refused to return Sage to her parents because they did not immediately state that their daughter was their son.
02:15:02.000Sage was thrown into an all-boys state home and suffered terribly for a long time.
02:15:09.000But today, all of that is behind them because Sage is a proud and wonderful young woman with a full ride scholarship to Liberty University.
02:15:45.000And who can believe that we're even speaking about things like this?
02:15:49.00015 years ago, if somebody was up here and said that, they'd say, what's wrong with him?
02:15:55.000But now we have to say it because it's going on all over numerous states without even telling the parents.
02:16:02.000But surely we can all agree no state can be allowed to rip children from their parents' arms and transition them to a new gender against the parents' will.
02:16:12.000Who would believe that we're even talking about this?
02:16:15.000We must ban it, and we must ban it immediately.
02:17:21.000Over the past year, she has had an incredible impact, championing AI legislation, advancing a landmark executive order on foster care, and helping secure $30 million to launch the Melania Trump Foster Youth to Independence Initiative.
02:17:38.000It's a tremendous, really a tremendous thing that happened and had a lot of bipartisan support.
02:17:44.000She gets much better bipartisan support than I do.
02:17:51.000Someday you're going to have to tell me how you did that.
02:17:54.000And students and educators in every state have joined the First Lady's efforts in the presidential AI challenge, keeping America's next generation positioned to succeed and strongly succeed in the future.
02:18:09.000Tonight, we welcome two young people whose lives reflect the First Lady's impact, Sierra Burns and Everest Nevermont.
02:18:19.000Thank you both, and Melania, thank you.
02:18:48.000I'm very proud to say that during my time in office, both the first four years and in particular this last year, there has been a tremendous renewal in religion, faith, Christianity and belief in God.
02:19:16.000This is especially true among young people, and a big part of that had to do with my great friend, Charlie Kirk, a great guy.
02:19:36.000So last year, Charlie was violently murdered by an assassin and martyred, really martyred for his beliefs.
02:19:46.000His wonderful wife, Erica, is with us tonight.
02:20:14.000In Charlie's memory, we must all come together to reaffirm that America is one nation under God, and we must totally reject political violence of any kind.
02:20:37.000We love religion, and we love bringing it back.
02:20:41.000And it's coming back at levels that nobody actually thought possible.
02:20:48.000Above all, unleashing America's promise requires keeping our communities safe.
02:20:53.000We have made incredible strides, yet dangerous repeat offenders continue to be released by pro-crime Democrat politicians again and again.
02:21:03.000We are honored to be joined tonight by a woman who's been through hell, Anya Surutka.
02:21:11.000In 2022, she and her beautiful daughter, so beautiful, what a beautiful young woman.
02:21:16.000Irina fled war-turn, war-torn Ukraine to live with relatives near Charlotte, North Carolina.
02:21:26.000And by the way, what's going on with Charlotte?
02:21:29.000Last summer, 23-year-old Irina was riding home on the train when a deranged monster who had been arrested over a dozen times and was released through no cash bail stood up and viciously slashed a knife through her neck and body.
02:21:47.000No one will ever forget there were people on that train.
02:21:51.000No one will ever forget the expression of terror on Irena's face as she looked up at her attacker in the last seconds of her life.
02:22:45.000I'm asking this Congress to pass tough legislation to ensure that violent and dangerous repeat offenders are put behind bars and importantly that they stay there.
02:23:09.000Starting last summer, I deployed our National Guard and federal law enforcement to restore law and order to our most dangerous cities, including Memphis, Tennessee, big success.
02:24:12.000One of the sick people, one of the brave service members who helped achieve this stunning turnaround, was 20-year-old West Virginia Army National Guard specialist Sarah Bextram.
02:24:26.000After a four-month deployment, she voluntarily extended her service, and her rank was going to be lifted.
02:24:38.000But the very next day, she was on patrol near the White House when she was ambushed and shot in the head by a terrorist monster from Afghanistan.
02:28:43.000So, Andrew, while you're up, now I'm going to ask a highly respected General James Seward to present Staff Sergeant Andrew Wolfe and the great family of Sarah Beckstrom with the award created by our late, great President George Washington himself.
02:30:20.000Pakistan and India would have been a nuclear war.
02:30:23.00035 million people said the Prime Minister of Pakistan would have died if it were not for my involvement.
02:30:30.000Kosovo and Serbia, Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, the Congo and Rwanda, and of course the war in Gaza, which proceeds at a very low level.
02:34:20.000And we're working very hard to end the ninth war, the killing and slaughter between Russia and Ukraine, where 25,000 soldiers are dying each and every month.
02:34:30.000Think of that, 25,000 soldiers are dying a month.
02:34:37.000A war which would have never happened if I were president.
02:34:42.000As president, I will make peace wherever I can, but I will never hesitate to confront threats to America wherever we must.
02:34:50.000That's why in a breakthrough operation last June, the United States military obliterated Iran's nuclear weapons program with an attack on Iranian soil known as Operation Midnight Hammer.
02:35:17.000For decades, it had been the policy of the United States never to allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon.
02:35:26.000Since they seized control of that proud nation 47 years ago, the regime and its murderous proxies have spread nothing but terrorism and death and hate.
02:35:37.000They've killed and maimed thousands of American service members and hundreds of thousands and even millions of people with what's called roadside bombs.
02:35:48.000They were the kings of the roadside bomb.
02:36:36.000They've already developed missiles that can threaten Europe and our bases overseas, and they're working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America.
02:36:47.000After Midnight Hammer, they were warned to make no future attempts to rebuild their weapons program, in particular nuclear weapons.
02:38:20.000We have to be strong because hopefully we will seldom have to use this great power that we built together.
02:38:29.000It's really called peace through strength, and it's been very, very effective.
02:38:45.000So thanks to Republicans in Congress who are investing that record number of dollars, have no choice, in the United States Armed Forces.
02:38:57.000Also creating a lot of jobs, but we're not even doing it for that reason.
02:39:01.000Because as I said, we have more jobs, more people working today than ever before in the history of our country.
02:39:07.000And NATO countries, our friends and allies, they are.
02:39:09.000They're our friends and they're our allies, have just agreed, at my very strong request, to pay 5% of GDP for military defense rather than the 2%, which they weren't paying.
02:39:22.000We were paying for almost all of NATO.
02:39:25.000Now they're paying 5% as opposed to not paying 2%.
02:41:16.000And I'll tell you what, our military, that was four months ago, our military, I never see a person in the military that doesn't thank me for it, so we're honored to do it.
02:41:38.000We're also restoring American security and dominance in the Western Hemisphere, acting to secure our national interests and defend our country from violence, drugs, terrorism, and foreign interference.
02:42:06.000For years, large swaths of territory in our region, including large parts of Mexico, really large parts of Mexico, have been controlled by murderous drug cartels.
02:42:20.000That's why I designated these cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and I declared illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction.
02:42:31.000Cauchy's faster than the actual speech.
02:42:34.000Oh, so I saw it jump to 100% before he even said it.
02:42:37.000Because we're in the lane, so people in the room are saying, Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
02:42:41.000And with our new military campaign, we have stopped record amounts of drugs coming into our country and virtually stopped it completely coming in by water or sea.
02:43:08.000In January, in January, elite American warriors carried out one of the most complex, spectacular feats of military competence and power in world history.
02:44:20.000And America's armed forces overwhelmed all defenses and utterly defeated enemy, good fighters, to end the reign of outlawed dictator Nicolas Maduro and bring him to face American justice.
02:44:44.000And this was an absolutely colossal victory for the security of the United States, and it also opens up a bright new beginning for the people of Venezuela.
02:44:55.000We're working closely with the new president of Venezuela, Del C. Rodriguez, to unleash extraordinary economic gains for both of our countries and to bring new hope to those who have suffered so terribly.
02:45:09.000With us tonight is Alejandro Gonzalez.
02:45:13.000grew up in a tight-knit Venezuelan family and was especially close to her beloved uncle Enrique.
02:45:20.000But after Enrique ran for office and opposed Maduro, he was kidnapped by Maduro security forces and thrown into the regime's really infamous prison in Caracas.
02:45:32.000Alejandro feared she would never see her uncle again.
02:45:39.000But since the raid, we have worked with the new leadership and they have ordered the closure of that vile prison and released hundreds of political prisoners already, with more to come.
02:45:51.000Alejandro, I'm pleased to inform you that not only has your uncle been released, but he is here tonight.
02:45:59.000We brought him over to celebrate his freedom with you in person.
02:48:07.000While preparing to land, enemy machine guns fired from every angle, and Eric was hit very badly in the leg and hip, one bullet after another.
02:48:18.000He absorbed four agonizing shots, shredding his leg into numerous pieces.
02:48:24.000And yet, despite the fact that the use of his legs was vital to successful helicopter flight, legs are the most important part of flying a helicopter, to deliver the many commandos who would capture and detain Maduro was the only thing Eric was thinking about.
02:48:45.000Then, even as he was gushing blood, which was flowing back down the aisle, helicopter lands at a steep angle, the machine guns stood right in front of him, right in front of him, two machine gunners who escaped the wrath of the previous planes.
02:49:01.000Eric maneuvered his helicopter with all of those lives and souls to face the enemy and let his gunners eliminate the threat, turn the helicopter around so the gunners could take care of business, saving the lives of his fellow warriors from what could have been a catastrophic crash deep in enemy territory.
02:49:22.000Only after safely landing the helicopter with all the warriors aboard in the exact right spot, which was vital to the mission, we probably would have had to maybe cancel the mission if that didn't happen.
02:49:36.000Eric told his co-pilot, also wounded, but not as gravely, to take over.
02:50:07.000Everybody in the back of the helicopter knew because they saw the blood pouring down the aisle.
02:50:13.000Chief Warrant Officer Slover is still recovering from his serious wounds, but I'm thrilled to say that he is here tonight with his wife Amy.
02:51:16.000So we have a surprise for Eric and Amy.
02:51:21.000In recognition of Eric's actions above and beyond the call of duty, I would now like to ask General Jonathan Braga to present Chief Warrant Officer Slover with our nation's highest military award, the Congressional Medal of Honor.
02:53:19.000And 10 of Eric's fellow warriors from that incredible night of victory will also be receiving medals at a private ceremony that will soon be held at the White House.
02:53:58.000Tonight we've celebrated many truly extraordinary American patriots.
02:54:03.000There is one last living legend to honor before we go.
02:54:07.000He is one more heroic American aviator, Navy fighter pilot.
02:54:13.000Royce Williams served in World War II, Korea, Vietnam, flying more than 220 missions.
02:54:22.000In disguise over Korea in 1952, Royce was in the dogfight of a lifetime, legendary dogfight, flying through blizzard conditions.
02:54:33.000His squadron was ambushed by seven Soviet fighter planes.
02:54:37.000It was his first aerial combat of the war, and despite being massively outnumbered and outgunned, Royce led the takedown of four enemy jets and almost destroyed the others, vanquishing his adversaries while taking 263 bullets to his own plane and being seriously hurt.
02:54:57.000His story was secret for over 50 years.
02:55:00.000He didn't even want to tell his wife, but the legend grew and grew.
02:55:05.000But tonight, at 100 years old, this brave Navy captain is finally getting the recognition he deserves.
02:55:14.000He was a legend long before this evening.
02:55:17.000Royce, please stand up, and I will ask the First Lady of the United States to present Captain Royce Williams with his Congressional Medal of Honor.
02:57:39.000I've always wanted the Congressional Medal of Honor, but I was informed I'm not allowed to give it to myself, and I wouldn't know why I'd be taking it.
02:57:46.000But if they ever open up that law, I will be there with you someday.
02:57:52.000But you know, that's our highest honor, Congressional Medal of Honor, and that's a big thing.
02:57:56.000And it's an honor to be in the same room with you.
02:58:26.000But in other sense, it's really a mere moment in the eye of history.
02:58:29.000So his book was 53 when he gave this speech to Trump's 80s.
02:58:31.000Two of the gentlemen we met in the gallery this evening took their first breaths one century ago, 100 years before that, on July 4th, 1826, the author of the Declaration of Independence.
02:58:48.000Thomas Jefferson drew his last breath.
02:58:52.000Just a single long human lifespan separates the giants who declared and won our independence from the heroes who stand among us tonight.
02:59:02.000Everything our nation has done, everything we have achieved, has been the work of those few great lifetimes.
02:59:09.000In those brief chapters, Americans built this nation from 13 humble colonies into the pinnacle of human civilization and human freedom, the strongest, wealthiest, most powerful, most successful nation in all of history.
02:59:25.000Americans ventured out across the daunting and dangerous continent.
02:59:30.000We carved paths through an unforgiving wilderness, settled a boundless frontier, and tamed the beautiful but very, very dangerous Wild West.
02:59:42.000From empty marshes and wide open plains, we raised up the world's greatest cities.
02:59:49.000Together, we mastered the world's mightiest industries and shattered history's monstrous tyrannies.
02:59:56.000And we liberated millions from the chains of fascism, communism, oppression, and terror.
03:00:03.000Americans lifted humanity into the skies on the wings of aluminum and steel.
03:00:08.000And then we launched mankind into the stars on rockets powered by sheer American will and unyielding American pride.
03:00:18.000We wired the globe with our ingenuity.
03:00:22.000We captivated the planet with American culture.
03:00:25.000And now we are pioneering the next great American breakthroughs that will change the entire world.
03:00:33.000All of this and so much more is the enduring legacy, unmatched glory of the hardworking patriots who built and defended this country and who still carry the hopes and freedoms on all of humanity's backs.
03:00:50.000For years they were forgotten, betrayed, and cast aside.
03:00:54.000But that great betrayal is over and they will never be forgotten again.
03:00:58.000Because when the world needs courage, daring, vision, and inspiration, it is still turning to America.
03:01:06.000And when God needs a nation to work his miracles, he knows exactly who to ask.
03:01:14.000There is no challenge Americans cannot overcome, no frontier too vast for us to conquer, no dream too bold for us to chase, no horizon too distant for us to claim.
03:01:28.000For our destiny is written by the hand of Providence, and these first 250 years were just the beginning.
03:01:37.000From the rugged border towns of Texas to the heartland villages of Michigan, from the sun-kissed shores of Florida to the endless fields of the Dakotas, and from the historic streets of Philadelphia to right here in our nation's capital, Washington, D.C., the golden age of America is upon us.
03:01:59.000The revolution that began in 1776 has not ended.
03:02:04.000It still continues because the flame of liberty and independence still burns in the heart of every American patriot.
03:02:13.000And our future will be bigger, better, brighter, bolder, and more glorious than ever before.