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It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes up short again and again because there is no effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.

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A screenshot of a stack of four X (Twitter) posts/replies, each with profile picture, verified checkmark, handle, and text, reacting positively to what appears to be a presidential address to Congress. From top to bottom: (1) "m d" @queenfortinbras compares a moment to JFK's "ask not what your country can do for you" line; (2) "Country of Fools" @CountryofFools praises "the speech" as brilliant and claims it exposed Democrats' "hatred for the American people"; (3) Matthew Boyle @mboyle1 (shown as reposted by "Cernovich") says Trump is in "open combat" with Democrats in the chamber and they look "crazy"; (4) Megyn Kelly @megynkelly calls it a "Very strong night for the President," describing it as affable, funny, with moving moments, and quotes the line "These ppl are crazy!" as the most memorable of the night, tied to Democrats not standing for people being honored.

Text in image: m d ✓ @queenfortinbras potential to be in the "ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country" realm of repetition and recognition. sure felt like a defining moment. Country of Fools ✓ @CountryofFools The speech was brilliant, but the real story of the night was his masterful exposure of the Democrats' deep-seated hatred for the American people. ↻ Cernovich reposted Matthew Boyle ✓ @mboyle1 Trump is in open combat with the Democrats in the chamber. They are getting destroyed on every issue. The Democrats look like crazy people in front of 10s of millions of Americans right now. This is just amazing. Trump has unique courage to call them out to their faces. Megyn Kelly ✓ @megynkelly Very strong night for the President. Affable, funny, several moving moments, mostly stuck to script, touting an incredible list of accomplishments. "These ppl are crazy!" - most memorable line of the night, well earned by the Dems refusing to stand for the most sympathetic Americans being honored among them.

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sound here guys and see if he says anything. Alright. And fantastic it went through. [laughter] [cheering] Oh it did go through. Alright we're done. Your first transaction by a president on the Bitcoin protocol. History. [applause] Hello everybody. I gotta go back and see them. Well let's go.

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Why do you do this? Or if you had it to do against sort of a similar question, would you do it over? And the answer to that is so easy and so emphatic yes. It could be wherever I want and I have great properties all over. Or I could be here with you people and you know what? I would rather be here with you than any other thing that I can do. In the end, I wouldn't change what we've done for anything. We're going to make America great again, greater than ever before. And we can't do that sitting on a beach, right? We can't do that sitting on a beach. So I wouldn't change it for a thing. Thank you. Who's the master? Is he the best? He looks like a young guy. Did a good job with your boy. I wouldn't mind this job. I like this job. I think I might come back and do it again. Thank you.

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>> And tonight chaos is brewing the Democratic Party as calls for Joe Biden to drop out are growing. Joining us now for an exclusive interview on the phone, former President Donald Trump. Mr. President, great to have you, sir. How are you? >> Well, thank you very much, John, I'm fine, thank you. >> Let's go back to the debate with you and President Biden, because immediately you can notice his voice was raspy. But beyond that, within minutes, I could tell this was not going to be a good night for Joe Biden. What was going through your head at that time? >> Well, it was a big evening and you could feel a lot of energy, boy, energy like you haven't felt in a long time. On any of the debates, I've done a lot of debates and we've had great success with debates, but this was something very special for whatever reason, it just seemed big. But when I got to Atlanta and this was at CNN headquarters, there was a lot of excitement. There were trucks, I call them the $10 million trucks, that's what the antennas all over and very incredible equipment, I'm looking at things that are, you know, it's just more of a scene than it normally would be. And it really was that way right from the start, right from the moment they introduced us and then they introduced him and introduced me and I walked out on his arm and he looked extremely pale, to put it nicely. And I don't know, maybe it was a good makeup job or maybe it wasn't, but he was a very pale looking man. And when he started to speak, I don't know, I thought his voice was weak, I didn't know exactly what was happening, it was strange. I do have to say that the CNN, Jake and Dana, they were really, they were pretty good. They were, they really, they were, I thought they were fair. I thought they were fair and the questions I thought to him to me, but it was a strange evening. I will tell you, it was a strange debate because within a couple of minutes the answers given by him were, they didn't, they didn't make a lot of sense. Well, let me ask you this. I think some of the worst moments for President Biden were when he wasn't talking, there was like this blank vacant stare and like he was checked out and I've run a montage of it. When you were speaking and you'd look over, did you notice that too or? You know, I was thinking about what I was saying. I wasn't looking over at him almost at all, except when he went a little bit haywire. I didn't look at him at all and I'm very disappointed in him. He's the worst president in the history of our country. We've never had anything like it. What he's done to our borders, what he's done to our, our country, inflation, the people that he's hurting, he's destroying social security, destroying social security. And people are, you know, I'm just so upset with him as president and so I wasn't really looking over. I purposely wasn't and I did take a couple of peaks when he was in the midst of giving some really bad answers that they weren't even answers, they were just words put together that no meaning or sense. But for the most part, I didn't really look over. Since before the 2020 election on radio and TV, I have chronicled the fact that Joe looked weak and frail and that he was a cognitive mess long before the election in 2020. The media, I call the state run media, Democrats, they're all acting shock like this just came out of nowhere. Is this one incident or is it, you know, is this, is this something permanent? I'm like, did they not notice the guy can't give a press conference? Did they not notice that he doesn't use the big boy stairs getting on Air Force One? Did they not notice the plan to surround him as he walks to and from Marine One? That he wouldn't do a Super Bowl interview, a layup interview for any president, really. What part of his cognitive decline do you think they missed or did they purposely cover for him in your view? Well, they cover for him and they still are sort of covering, but now it's getting very difficult to do that. And you know, it looks to me like he may very well stay and he's got an ego and he doesn't want to quit. He doesn't want to do that. It just looks to me like that's what he wants. I think Jill would like to see him stay. She's having a good time. I notice she really seems to be having a good time and I'm hearing that Hunter is calling the shots. So this isn't necessarily a very positive thing for our country. But I think he, you know, might very well stay in. And if he does, nobody wants to give that up that way. He's going to feel badly about himself for a long time. It's hard to give, give it up that way, the way where they're trying to force him out. So I mean, you really have to speak to his doctors, but obviously he's been sheltered by the fake news media. That's why they call it the fake news. Do you Mr. President, do you want Joe Biden to step aside? Do you care? Well we prepared for him, but I don't think it's going to matter. We have, we had a great four years. Our border was the strongest ever. Our economy pre-COVID was incredible, the best ever. But then when we got hit with the gift from China, the China virus that came in and we did a fantastic job and we got it back with the stock market was actually higher to just prior to COVID coming in. So I mean, we we've done a job by the military. We defeated ISIS, took out the worst terrorists in the world and defeated ISIS said that was a big thing. I was told it would take five years and it took us a couple of months. The military is fantastic. By the way, the military is not woke. The people that top are woke, but the military is never going to be woke. Those are incredible people. What they did for me in the fight on ISIS. And then we had no wars. I mean, I had no wars. We're heading into World War Three, in my opinion, with this man semi running things because he's not running things. The people that surround the Oval Office, the people that surround the resolute desk, the beautiful resolute desk, they're really running things in Washington, I suspect, and it's very bad. And, you know, he he got them into the warfare and lawfare, many different terms you can use, but basically going after your political opponent, using the Justice Department, using local DAs, using local attorney generals, going after your political opponent. Nobody's ever seen anything like that. And, you know, there are those I just read an article that it was up. It's been a positive for me, but it's not a positive. It's very unfair. It's fighting an unfair battle. But he's the one that got us into that. And all these lawsuits you see and everything else, that's all Biden inspired, meaning Biden people inspired. And it's a very sad, I think it's a very sad time for our country. We're not respected anywhere in the world. He's not respected. And our country is in very serious trouble. And I'll tell you what, if we're not careful, we're going to be right in the middle of World War Three. And that will be a war like nobody's seen before because of the weaponry. The weaponry is a whole lot different than two army tanks going up against each other. This is a whole different world. And we don't have somebody that can properly represent us. There's no question about that. What do you make of all the talk that if Biden steps aside or is pushed out, that it would be Vice President Harris? Do you expect that much would change? Well, I think that it will be her. I think they are very concerned about the vote if it's not her. They are very, very, I mean, they're gun shy. They don't want to do it any other way. I've actually come to believe that's what they're going to do. I think she's an ineffective person. She was in charge of the border. She's never been there. She didn't do a good job and she hasn't done a job on a lot of things. But it would seem to me that from a political standpoint, that's who they're going with. They're not even talking about alternatives. And it seems that if if he gets out for whatever reason, and I don't think he wants to get out, but if he gets out, it will be her. Interestingly, he's got a lot of power because he's got the delegates. You know, when you have the delegates, unless he says I'm getting out, they can't do anything to get him out other than the 25th Amendment, if they want to do it in a different route, it would be the 25th Amendment. But let's assume with not very much time left, you know, there's not much time left. And then we can straighten out our country will make our will make America great again. Right. But there's not a lot of time left. But I think unless they use the 25th Amendment, which they use in a different sense, he has all the power. He has the delegates. He doesn't have to get out. There's nothing they can do to get him out till he'll get the nomination. She got the nomination and then they'll have their meeting in Chicago, which, by the way, last week, 117 people were shot and 17 people were killed. That was last weekend in Chicago. And that's like that's like a war zone. But they have their convention in Chicago. And they're obviously very proud of Chicago. And I love Chicago. I have investments in Chicago, but when you look at the crime in Chicago, when you look at what's gone wrong with Chicago, it's it's not a very good thing to be displaying right now. I I still think every every election is about the future. It's about peace and prosperity. In this case, it would be about the border. It will be about the economy, law and order, the green agenda, America's role in the world. The one issue that pops almost at the top of every poll in the minds of Americans, well, really, to the border and the economy. Let's start with the border. We have nearly 11 million unvetted Joe Biden illegal immigrants in this country from nearly one hundred and eighty countries, but many from countries that have terrorized countries like Iran and Syria, Egypt, Afghanistan, Venezuela, Kazakhstan, nearly nearly sixty thousand from China in just the last 18 months, tens of thousands from Russia. And and I worry that this is now a clear and present danger for the country and that the likelihood the terror cells are probably already here is very high. I don't think I'm wrong. I pray to God that I'm wrong. I don't believe I am. And the media Democrats, you know, have ignored the issue and they've allowed it to happen. And Biden and Kamala Harris and Mayorkas have all said the borders closed and the borders secure, but they brag about ending the policies that you had in place when they got into power. I think a preventable preventable problem. I'm worried about our national security like never before. Well, the one thing you haven't said tonight that you always say is that it's one hundred percent certain that we're going to have a terror attack. And I agree with you on that. It's one hundred percent certain. I mean, we're letting I always say I pray I'm wrong. I put it into our country at a level that we've never seen before. Terrorists are coming in and they're coming in, Sean, from mental institutions and insane salams, they're coming in from prisons and jails from all over the world, all over the world, not just South America. They're coming in from the Congo and Africa. They're coming in from every part of the world. And some of these parts are rough parts of the world. And they're pouring into our country as prisoners, as mental patients. They're coming into our country and they're coming in also as terrorists. And this is poisoning our country and nobody should have been subjected to this. They should never have been allowed to do this. There's nothing good that can come of it. And we're going to have to get these criminals. And a lot of them are criminals and very high level, very bad criminals. We're going to get them out. We're going to have the largest deportation in our history, larger than the Eisenhower deportation. And we have no choice. I don't want to do that. But this man has destroyed our country. And I say in rallies, I'm doing a big one tomorrow at the rail in Miami, I say at rallies that you could take the 10 worst presidents in the history of our country and put them together. They will not have done the destruction and damage as this man has done. He's been a horrible president, the worst president, frankly, the worst president in history by far. And by the way, Jimmy Carter is the happiest guy around because Jimmy Carter now is saying, you know, I mean, he was like a genius compared to what Biden is. His administration was brilliant compared to the Biden administration. So it's a very, very sad. It's a very sad time in our country.

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And that's why Trump's beating Biden in six out of the seven swing states. Nationally, Trump's up six. That is a huge lead. Biden might be able to campaign freely, but what good does that do? He's been a politician for 50 years and reads a teleprompter like Ron Burgundy. Folks, imagine what we can do next. Four more years. Pause.

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A daytime photograph taken from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial looking east across the Reflecting Pool toward the Washington Monument, which is visible in the distance surrounded by trees. The sky is blue with scattered white clouds. Several people are scattered along the pool's edges and on the plaza in the foreground, including two people sitting on the steps in the foreground (a man in a white shirt and a woman with a ponytail). Some maintenance equipment and small tents/carts are visible along the sides of the pool, and a few people appear to be wading or working in the water itself. This appears to be a straightforward tourist/news-style photo of the National Mall, not a meme or screenshot.

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-I've come here today with a message of hope for all Americans. With your vote in this election, I will end inflation. I will stop the massive invasion of criminals into your state, and I will bring back the American dream.

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Instead of American workers worrying about losing their jobs to foreign nations, I want foreign nations to be worried about losing their jobs to America. That's going to happen. It's going to happen.

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In contrast, under my leadership, we had no inflation, and the 30-year mortgage rate was an all-time low. We had an all-time low, like 2.6 percent. That's a little better than paying 8 percent, and we don't give you the money. You know what they do? It's 8 percent. We don't give you the money, but if you pay 12, we'll give it to you. That's where they are. The typical family has lost over 7,400 in annual income with Crooked Joe in the White House.

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