9 posts from Tuesday, May 20, 2025

It's a real honor to welcome all of you to the White House, the famous Oval Office. And we award the first-ever medals of sacrifice to three heroic law enforcement officers from Palm Beach County, Florida. Corporal Louise Piers Jr., Deputy Sheriff Ralph Butch Waller Jr., and Deputy Sheriff McNasio Dan Diaz. I viewed my dad as Superman, someone a whole life you look up to. He's an amazing guy, and it's horrible that this happened to all three families. But I'm glad that something was done about it. We got represented, and everyone in the future will be. Earlier today, Congressman Brian Mast introduced a bill to ensure this new medal will be awarded to any law enforcement officer or first responder who gives his or her life in the line of duty. We'll never forget their legacy, and we will never forget the debt. We owe all of these great law enforcement heroes who have given their lives to keep our community safe and make America strong again. you

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In the campaign, I promised the American people that I would build a cut-in-edge missile defense shield to protect our homeland from the threat of foreign missile attack. And that's what we're doing. Today, I'm pleased to announce that we have officially selected an architecture for this state-of-the-art system that will deploy next-generation technologies across the land, sea, and space, including space-based sensors and interceptors. And Canada has called us and they want to be a part of it. So we'll be talking to them. They want to have protection also. So as usual, we help Canada do the best we can. This design for the Golden Dome will integrate with our existing defense capabilities and should be fully operational before the end of my term. So we'll have it done in about three years. Once fully constructed, the Golden Dome will be capable of intercepting missiles, even if they are launched from other sides of the world and even if they are launched from space.

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We have a very very united party. This man has done a fantastic job in some of you Lisa. But this man has done a fantastic job. He's a real unified. I don't think anybody else could have done it. We had, I just said to your cohorts downstairs, we had a majority of one for a period of five months. And he kept it together and we actually cast that. Nobody else could have done it. He's done a fantastic job to speak. We have a very very unified party. Remember we had one and now we have seven. We won elections. We won elections. And we don't win a lot of elections. The economy is big. I just had my highest poll numbers ever. Ever. And we had a big trip to the Middle East. We took in 5.1 trillion dollars. We brought it back to our country. 180 billion aircraft were being built now because of that trip. And many other things that's the least out of it. The economy is doing great. The stock market's higher now than when I came to office and we've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars in tariff money. And we've had no inflation. You know they kept saying inflation. There's no inflation. Groceries are down. Gasoline is way down. Way down. Everything is down. All energy costs are down. I'll tell you to me maybe the most respected thing. You saw the way they respected me. Between Qatar, Saudi Arabia and UAE. Probably the richest. Certainly the richest of their type nation. Great places. Unbelievable amounts of money. They respect our country again. They were going to go to China. China was going to take over those countries 100 percent. They were dealing with China because they weren't treated right by the last administration. And they have tremendous economic power. They have more money than anybody. We probably have more money, but we have other things like this. They are very, very, they are very cash rich to put it mildly. And they're spending 5.1 trillion. Probably it's going to be 7 trillion by the time we saw it. And you know somebody said every other president goes and leaves and spends money. Gives other countries money. I'm the only one that goes and takes money back. You know when you think of it, I said that's an interesting statement. I never thought of it that way. But we have a, this is really just a pep talk. We have a very unified House and we have a very unified Senate. And Mike is doing a phenomenal job as Speaker. He's going to be there a long time. And we have a man in the Senate, our leader Thun, Mr. Thun is doing a great job. I've gotten to like him a lot and he's doing a fantastic job. Between the two guys, very different personalities actually in certain ways. But they are doing a fantastic job. I don't think the Republican Party has ever been so unified. It's become a much bigger party.

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