50 posts from Tuesday, April 29, 2025

Only because the Commander-in-Chief invited me, Mr. President, thank you for restoring the warrior ethos inside our formations, for rebuilding our military, re-establishing deterrence around the world, and making Americans proud to wear the uniform. That recruiting surge we're seeing right now is because they know they have a Commander-in-Chief that has their back. That's my message to these men and women every single place we go. All I ever wanted, when I was in combat, was to know that my Commander had my back, no matter what. And when Donald J. Trump, that Commander, has your back. And that means something to the men and women of America, and that's why we're seeing a record surge in recruiting. That's why we're locking down our southern border. That's why our enemies know we mean business, because we have a Commander-in-Chief that has our back, and he has the back of this base as well. God bless you all. Thank you. (audience applauds)

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And I'm honored to be here at Selfridge Air National Guard Base with the men and women of the 127th Wing of the Michigan Air National Guard. Thank you very much for being here. This is great. It is a great honor and a great honor for me. We've had such success in Michigan.

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Trump got some brotherly love at the White House today. Super Bowl champs, the Eagles, were in town and stopped by to say hi to their favorite guy. The season started off slow, but you soon caught fire with your great coach inspiring you and you got the ball to your superstar running back who I met yesterday and I want to tell you he is, he's a handsome guy, but I wouldn't want to tackle him. Saquon Barkley, I offered him a ride on Air Force One because I was coming down and usually they say, no, no, I don't think so. He said, I'll take it, sir. And he loved it. We love being together. He's a great, he's a great young guy. Running back Saquon Barkley spent the weekend golfing at Bedminster. Democrats hate when black stars like Saquon chill out with Trump and they threw a fit, but none of that matters anymore. Saquon said some people are really upset because they played in golf and flew to the White House with the president. Maybe I just respect the office. Not a hard concept to understand. Just golf with Obama not too long ago and look forward to finishing my round with Trump. We're living in a different world. In 2018, the Eagles boycotted their White House visit and now they're visiting and getting in a round. The culture is embracing Donald Trump because just like in sports, Trump's about results. It doesn't matter what you say, it's how you play. Your opponent and your critics, they can say whatever they want, but the only thing that matters is the score at the end of the game. There's a lot of people who talk trash on the field, but can't back it up. Treasury Secretary Scott Besant says the game isn't even close to over. It's just getting started. There was a story 10 days ago that said this is the worst April for the stock market since the Great Depression. 10 days later, the NASDAQ is now up in the month of April and I haven't seen a story that says, oh, stock market has biggest bounce back ever. The White House has a lot of momentum. IBM's investing 150 billion into American tech manufacturing and Trump's tackling the border invasion all day every day. In Colorado Springs this weekend, an MS-13 nightclub got iced. Over 100 illegal gangsters were arrested with their girlfriends. Hope their wives weren't watching. Think about how brazen these migrants were. They had their own nightclub in the middle of Colorado and Biden knew about it and let it thrive. During the Biden administration, they received 170 911 calls to that club alone. That club we were just watching, 170 calls. Wouldn't you think that would have been a red flag? Nothing happened. Guns, shootings, ag batteries, nothing happened. So under Donald Trump, DEA, FBI, US Marshals, ATF, ICE, everyone went in together. DEA led this investigation, went in, got 115 illegal immigrants, aliens in our country, arrested them. In Florida, Operation Tidal Wave is in full swing. Biden migrants are having nightmares about Tom Homan. We are in the beginning stages of carrying out the largest deportation campaign in American history. Over this past weekend, it was announced that through Operation Tidal Wave, a joint effort between ICE Miami and Florida law enforcement agencies, nearly 800 illegal aliens were arrested during the first four days alone. But some of these bad hombres aren't too slick. One illegal got busted for stealing three grand in cash from Christy Noem's purse at a burger joint in DC. The guy pickpocketed the wrong kind of secretary. The feds found him, passed out, blowing his hall on cocktails in an Italian restaurant. And that's a lot of cash for Christy Noem to be carrying around in her purse. Maybe the Easter Bunny left it for her. So whenever I asked my wife if she has any cash, any cash, she never does. Trump planted 100 illegal alien mug shots right on the White House lawn. So every time a reporter does a live shot from their position outside the White House, the mug shots are in the background. And there's nothing they can do about it. He's forcing the media to cover the crime wave they just covered up. And these are the worst of the worst illegals convicted of murder to child rape. The media wanted to see Trump's mug shot. And he was like, take these instead. And the press is flabbergasted at how they keep getting out foxed. The White House has put up about 100 posters of what they say are unauthorized immigrants who have been arrested for violent crimes. You can see them there. They put them up on the driveway of the White House. But what's particularly noteworthy about this location is it is right directly behind the positions where TV correspondents do their hits from the White House lawn. So therefore, no matter what network you're on, that includes MSNBC, if you're doing a hit from the White House right now, those pictures will be behind you. I would encourage those individuals that have that as a backshot to blur those people out. I would encourage I recognize live shots are tough, but I encourage folks to actually make sure that those shots are blurred to the best of your abilities. We know that MSNBC is demanding privacy for illegal aliens who rape kids. They have to protect the privacy rights of Honduran nationals convicted of murder. In this industry, we only blur faces of minors, and they want to blur faces of illegals who rape minors. They're coddling foreign third world criminals like children. Like MS-13 needs protection from us. America's heartthrob says everyone's getting deported, whether they like it or not. What percentage of the let's just pick at even number of say 10 million illegal aliens. Let's say that Biden released. What percentage do you think we should let stay here of those 10 million? I'm not trying to do a game. You think that's the best use of hold on. Is it your view that if a Democrat president releases 10, 15, 20 million into the country, they all then should get to stay forever and for all of life. Steven, I don't have a view about what Democratic presidents do. I'm asking what the Republican president. Yeah. So, okay. So you don't want to answer the question because you know the answer is obvious. Everyone that Biden let in has to go home. Tom Homan's going to be a busy man. In fact, he says he's going to do a third term too. Maybe a fourth, maybe a fifth. People want to know, okay, I'm not going to retire for the third time. I'll retire whenever public safety threat, national security threat, child rape is eradicating this country. The media is protecting migrants and so are the judges. They're ordering planes full of illegals to turn around mid-flight and fly back to America. One judge got caught harboring a member of Trende Aragua. This judge gave him AK-47s and then smashed his phone with a hammer, Hillary style, when cops showed up at his door. This guy was so bad he had pictures of decapitated heads on his phone. That's why the judge hammered it. He knows a thing or two about evidence. And another was caught aiding and abetting a migrant escaping justice. This illegal was in court for allegedly beating a woman up. And this judge, who happens to be a woman, heard ICE was in the courthouse, stopped the proceeding and helped the illegal sneak out the back door. This judge swore an oath to the constitution to faithfully administer the law. And she's breaking the law by helping a foreigner break the law. So the justice department said no one's above the law and arrested the judge. They told us that's what happens. They told us no matter who you were, no matter what you do, no one's above the law. You break the law, you pay the price. Now the same people who told you that said judges should be above the law and should be able to break whatever law they want. And Trump, who's just enforcing the law, he should be in prison, not the illegal or the judge. Trump wants to be king. A king doesn't have a constitution. A king just does whatever he wants. This is a constitutional crisis. Arresting a judge today. Are you kidding me? That is a sign of weakness, not strength. It strikes me as maybe something illegal, but it also strikes me as something heroic. People are sometimes called to do civil disobedience. They're saying you can break the law to resist Trump. Not just you, judges, the military, politicians. This is why they didn't think Biden raiding Trump's house was that bad. This is why they don't care when psychos go to Ukraine and show up with a rifle at Trump's golf club. This is why DA's let you vandalize a Tesla and then drop charges. If a judge lets an illegal accused of abusing women escape out of the back door to ditch ICE, they're giving the whole country a permission slip to do whatever's necessary to stop Trump's agenda. An agenda that won in a landslide and a mandate on border security. That was at the top of the list with others, along with the economy. This is pre civil war style resistance. We're getting into traitorous territory. Democrat politicians who could be back in power in just two years want to arrest the attorney general and the FBI director on kidnapping charges. On the logic of this arrest of Judge Dugan, all of the people in the Trump administration who participated in defying that order by Judge Bozberg themselves could be arrested for interfering with a legal proceeding and perhaps other criminal charges like kidnapping, as you were suggesting before. This is the same thing they did with DEI and the same thing they did on trans. They are changing the language to justify their actions. Deporting criminals is now kidnapping Maryland dads. Democrats are telling us they're going to play dirty. They're going to chop blocks, spear, hitch in the family jewels. They'll do anything. They're already telling the country Trump's a failed president, that he's already a dictator and hitting him with over 90% negative coverage, telling their audience that him doing what he was elected to do means he's Mussolini. They're brainwashing you into thinking we're in a recession and in a constitutional crisis. Is that how you feel? I don't feel that way. People I talk to, they don't feel that way. J.P. Morgan's CEO says younger people in this country are on track towards having an unbelievable life. And Trump says as serious as his job is, he's having fun. Who wouldn't when you're golfing with Saquon?

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President Trump has been incredibly focused on energy because he understands that energy is not just one industry, it's the foundation of all other industries. The food on your table, the gas in your car, the clothes on your back, all have an energy component. So to make America affordable again, to have prosperity here at home, and actually being priests abroad because the conflicts that we're involved in overseas, whether it's Iran funding 24 terror groups, our adversaries are funding those efforts with illegal oil sales that the Biden administration failed to sanction. So President Trump is clear-minded on this, and then when we take a look at what's happening in Europe today, where there's 60 million people without power and complete chaos, President Trump is avoiding the Biden blackouts and brownouts that were potentially put right on our doorstep here because of the energy policies of the prior administrations going 180 degrees in the other direction with energy dominance. So President Trump, whether it's foreign investment coming to the U.S., whether it's re-shoring manufacturing, whether it's inflation down, cutting red tape, including we working with President Trump, we cut just simple common sense red tape on offshore production in the Gulf of America that's going to increase production 100,000 barrels a day, and it just takes the courageous president to say, look, we're going to make common sense rules here and stop punishing our energy industry. Well, and it takes courage to keep your promises because he's got a wall of opposition right now coming from the left.

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everything we've done in this term, the president has shown that he is able and has thought about this job now, doing it again over the last four years. We're doing everything faster. We're on a fundamentally different time frame than we were in the first term, as fast as we were doing things then. And you've been able to see, I think it was necessary for the world to see the seriousness that the president displayed on Liberation Day. And now we're in that period of time where the conversations are occurring, the negotiations are, the team is spread out to be able to facilitate those. And I think we're going to have some incredible results on behalf of the American people.

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We're 100 days into the second Trump administration, and our progress so far has been historic. The American people gave President Trump a mandate to shake up Washington, and that's exactly what he's doing. Here is the change we brought to the Department of Veterans Affairs in the first hundred days of the second Trump administration. We are refocusing our core mission, which is providing the best possible care and benefits to veterans, families, caregivers, and survivors. That means we're making sure veterans get the health care choices they were promised under the Mission Act. We're taking thousands of employees off of remote work and bringing them back into the office where we can work as a team to better serve veterans. We're phasing out treatment for gender dysphoria and directing all savings to helping paralyzed veterans and amputees. We're accelerating the deployment of our electronic health record system after the program was nearly dormant under the Biden administration. We are processing a record number of disability claims. We're redirecting hundreds of millions of dollars from our non-mission critical efforts to health care, benefits, and services that directly support VA beneficiaries. And we've ended DEI at the Department, reversing the divisive Biden era policies and stopping more than $14 million in DEI spending. Hey, but folks, we have so much more to do. The Biden administration was very good at spending money and hiring people, but not so good at solving tough problems. In fact, under President Biden, VA failed to address nearly all of the Department's most serious challenges, including benefits backlogs, rising health care wait times, and major difficulties with survivor benefits. We've got our work cut out for us, for sure, but this is exactly what I signed up for. We will reform the Department to make it work better for America's veterans, families, caregivers, and survivors – that I can promise you. And just like President Trump, we will keep fighting until the job is done.

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He is the most consequential American leader of the 21st century, and that's an understatement. President Trump has, here's a list, removed men from women's sports, ended DEI in the federal government and the U.S. military, expanded oil and gas extraction to lower prices, taken steps to end unfair trade practices, secured trillions of dollars in new investments in American manufacturing, deported criminal illegal aliens, stood up for religious liberty, and rooted out anti-Christian bias, combated virulent anti-Semitism on college campuses. The list goes on and on and on. That's just barely scratching the surface. That's in a hundred days. We're just getting started.

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I've been telling people here in the Detroit area when they voice any type of concern about the tariffs, because not everybody follows the issue as closely as I do or members of autoworkers for Trump, my group. So I tell them just be patient, have faith, and trust Trump. This guy wrote the book on negotiations. So the first thing he did was a 90-day pause on the tariffs to give his negotiating team guys like Howard Luttnick and Steve Besant a chance to negotiate with some of our top trade partners. And he's going to put together good trade agreements, not like the ones that have gotten us $37 trillion into debt and lost 90,000 manufacturing plants over the last 30 years. He's completely changing our trade table and going to negotiate plans that benefit Americans, not foreign countries and foreign companies. So I told everybody I've spoken to here in the Detroit area, be patient, have faith, trust Trump, watch this guy work, he's a master, and we have 100% of confidence in his ability to negotiate good trade deals, Todd.

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The time for Joe Biden's failed policies is over. The time for President Trump's proven leadership is right now. America's decline is over. With the stroke of a pen, President Trump moving swiftly and aggressively to make good on his campaign promises. First 100 days, President Trump signing the Lincoln-Riley Act into law. American teacher Mark Fogel is free this morning after three and a half years in Russian detention. The Trump administration, we will defend the proud tradition of female athletes and we will not allow men to beat up, injure and cheat our women and our girls. From now on, women's sports will be only for women. Since 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 crosses ever recorded. Thank you. The media and our friends in the Democrat Party kept saying we needed new legislation. We must have legislation to secure the border. But it turned out that all we really needed was a new president. Welcome to the first ever White House Digital Assets Summit. Last year I promised to make America the Bitcoin superpower of the world and we're taking historic action. No one in this room could have envisioned this, just a couple years ago. We're going to be returning education very simply back to the states where it belongs. I'm here and I'm alive. President Trump, you saved my life. We knew we need someone who do the things. That's President Trump. We are here because of President Trump. Thank you. I do say Donald Trump is a master negotiator. I mean, there is no other leader on the world stage that has his experience and has shown what he has shown in his first term. What he's willing to do and what he can get accomplished. If anybody can help these people get together and bring peace back to the region, it's Donald J. Trump. We have seven trillion dollars of investment already. You can go back many years and for a whole year they haven't had anywhere near that. Mostly they'd be well under a trillion dollars of investment.

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Well, first of all, he's done more in the first 100 days than I've done in my 38-year career, so he's great to watch. But I really love the Cabinet meetings. He lets the American people into those rooms. We get to observe the questions and the answers, know what they're doing. It's really a way that he connects with the public, and I think that's so important. Negotiating his skills are unbelievable.

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We'll look back 20 years from now, 30 years from now and go this man fundamentally changed the way that America works and the relationship that we have with our government. I just, and to be part of that, I still pinch myself that I gotta call the president and he'll pick up my call or call me back. It's really remarkable and he's just, I saw him yesterday, he doesn't stop. - I know. - He's late for a meeting and he's talking to people and he's talking about policy and he's signing executive orders and he has so much energy and he's so joyful.

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in reality, Maria, they're protesting because this has been the most effective, most impactful, in a positive sense, 100 days, certainly in my lifetime. Chuck Schumer seems to forget that in November of last year, 75% of the American public felt this nation was on the wrong track. As President Trump has come into office, he's fixed our border. He's put us on a fundamentally different plane in terms of crime in America. He's addressing some of the longstanding issues that we've had with some of our partners. We're moving in the right direction. And I think that the Democrat Party is imploding as a result of it. Today is, you know, So exhibit A at that point.

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look at the president's two top issues, immigration and inflation. Border crossings are down 99%. I spoke with President Trump on Sunday. He told me three people were apprehended at the border in the month of April, compared with 248,000. - Yeah, it's remarkable. - In the month last year, one year ago. That's the migration and immigration story. Now let's take a look at inflation. You and I talked about eggs a long time ago. The price of the eggs are down 50%. Look at where mortgage rates are down. Look at oil prices are down. So when you take a look at what President Trump said that he was going to do, it is a huge success in terms of these first 100 days.

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President Trump's first 100 days, win after win for America, border crossings down, violent criminals deported, gas prices slashed to $2.5 a gallon in Kansas, and $7 trillion in job creating investments. In President Trump's first 100 days, he has fixed Biden's chaos, he has secured our border, unleashed American energy, and he's working hard to save taxpayer dollars. He's got momentum and he's just getting started. President Trump is unleashing made-in-America mining and made-in-America energy. Mr. President, thanks for controlling that southern border, including the flow of fentanyl in the first 100, no, in the first 30 days. President Trump has unleashed American energy dominance, making it possible for our communities to run on the fuels that they need. It's been a tremendous year so far here in Washington, D.C. We've been working day and night to try to get common sense legislation passed to bring down inflation, get our border under control and bring some common sense back to our government. We've considered not one but two budget resolutions to provide the framework for a permanent extension of the 2017 tax relief and a transformational investment in our border, energy, and national security. President Trump has secured the border and now he's empowering our energy producers to make our country energy dominant. He is standing with women and he knows the difference between biology and ideology, and you know what, 79% of the American people agree with President Donald Trump. Just nine days into President Trump's presidency, he signed the Lincoln Riley bill into law. This is just one of the many ways he has taken action to secure our borders and keep our communities safe. The promise is made, the promise is kept, it's been a great first 100 days. After 100 days, President Trump is just getting started, pedal to the metal, and the Republican Conference is solidly behind him to help make America great again. President Trump has had phenomenal successes in his first 100 days. He has closed the border, revitalized our energy production, brought trillions of dollars of capital investment to the United States. Once again, President Trump delivered on the promises he made in the campaign. You can't do Made in America without Made in Ohio. It's all part of our America First agenda, and I look forward to working with the President to move us forward. We're 100 days into the Trump administration, we're already seeing enormous change on behalf of the American people, just like the President promised. We appreciate your leadership and we can't wait to get started on the next 100 days. Mr. President, congratulations on 100 days and thanks in particular for focusing so much on the great state of Alaska, in particular with this unleashing Alaska's extraordinary resource potential. He's doing an outstanding job, A+ will continue to even get better because he's solving more problems every day. Thank you President Trump for what you've done. Mr. President, you're bringing the kind of peace through strength our children will talk about 50 years from now. We thank you. Calling back harmful Biden policies, confirming Trump nominees, passing common sense laws, and locking in a strong budget. Promises made, promises kept, and we are just getting started. That's promises made, promises kept.

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Today officially marks 100 days of promises made and promises kept by President Trump. This has truly been the most historic start to a presidency in American history. After building the greatest economy in the world in his first term as president, President Trump is in the process of doing that all over again. The American people trust in President Trump. Since his first day in office, President Trump has focused on defeating the Biden inflation crisis, bringing down the cost of living, and making the United States the best place in the world to do business, invest, create jobs, and innovate. And President Trump's efforts are working. 345,000 jobs have already been added since the start of President Trump's term. Last month's jobs report saw nearly 100,000 more jobs than economists predicted, and it was the fourth highest month for private payroll growth in the past two years. 9,000 manufacturing jobs have been added to the economy already. This is a sharp contrast to the 6,000 manufacturing jobs that were lost each month in the final two years of the Biden administration. The US employment rate remains at historic lows. And thanks to President Trump, Americans are seeing price relief for the first time in years. The last inflation report showed the first consumer price decline since the COVID pandemic, a decrease in energy prices, and real average hourly wage growth. President Trump is delivering on his promises to lower costs for American families and businesses. Prices across the board for everyday goods have seen decline since this president was inaugurated. From airfare to used motor vehicles to prescription drugs, prices are dropping. In fact, last month's drop in the price of prescription drugs was the largest ever recorded. And after Joe Biden botched the response to the bird flu, President Trump and Secretary Rollins' aggressive plan have brought down wholesale egg prices more than 50% from Inauguration Day.

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One hundred days ago President Trump stood under the Capitol Rotunda and promised to deliver the America First Agenda and usher in America's new golden age. From day one he started doing it, and we've seen nothing but swift and decisive action from the President. It's been one hundred days of a secure border, safer communities, strength on the world stage, historic investments in American manufacturing, a return to common sense, and a more efficient and effective government. The Americans have given the President, the House, and the Senate a sweeping mandate for bold change, and together with President Trump and the White House, we are delivering for the American people. America is back, and we're just getting started.

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