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But Donald Trump's media omnipotence broke Howard Stern. This is very important. Trump used to be on Stern's show every week. They were friends. So this idea that Trump was the worst guy who ever walked the face of the earth, why were you hanging out with him, okay? But this is what happened. Trump, okay, came along and had a similar act to Howard's in the sense that he was crass and vulgar and he really did resonate with the little guy. And he rode that mentality all the way to the White House. It killed Howard 'cause he was the king of all media. He had that super ego of like, I'm the most important person to ever open their mouth in front of a microphone. And suddenly Trump turned Howard from the king of all media into the Prince Harry of all media. Nobody cared. It just whined it. - So you don't think it has anything to do with politics for today? - Yes, it does. - It has to do with ego. - Oh, it's 100% ego, okay? The secondary level of this is politics from the standpoint of Howard did so many things that were anti-woke. When you're talking about objectifying women, when you talk about wearing blackface in your sketches, that his political proclamations are the end result of a hostage situation. He openly takes them every day, okay, because he knows that crowd would cancel him in a second, okay, for all of the things he did. So it's two things. One is ego, the other is ransom, okay. - To me, this feels like fear and overcorrection. - Oh, of course it is. - Because we've seen other comedians do this as well. Jimmy Kimmel used to host The Man Show. And now he's aghast at everything. - Yeah, how dare you? - And so there's just this massive correction from all of these people because they're afraid, possibly, of getting canceled. - Yeah, that's what it is. It's performative stupidity. I'm with CVS. (laughing) Stop it.

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-This is the final battle. With you at my side, we will demolish the deep state. We will expel the warmongers from our government. We will drive out the globalists. We will cast out the Communists, Marxists, and Fashions. We will throw off the sick political class that hates our country. We will route the fake news media, and we will liberate America from these villains once and for all. -[ Knocking ]

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Mistakes in this election could not be higher. Next November, you have a choice between war, poverty, and weakness under Crooked Joe Biden, or peace, prosperity, and strength under President Donald J. Trump. Just three years ago, our economy was booming, the world was safe, and America was strong. Annual incomes went up by more than $6,000 under the Trump administration, and they went down by about $6,000 under the horrible Biden administration, the worst in the history of our country. The 30-year mortgage rate reached a record low of 2.65%. We had no inflation, and we had gasoline down to $1.87 per gallon. I was also the first president in decades who didn't start a war, and I brought our troops back home. We defeated ISIS, and that was it. Everybody came back home where they should be. Under Crooked Joe Biden, the economy is at a shambles, and the world is going up in flames. Real incomes have gone down by $7,400 per family under Crooked Joe. Gas prices are $4, $5, $6, and $7 a gallon. Cumulative inflation is nearly 20%, and mortgage rates are pushing a brutal 7%, 8%, 9%, 10%, and you can't get the money. We have war in Europe, we have wars in the Middle East, and we are stumbling into World War III. That's what's going to happen with this leadership because they don't know what they're doing. The contrast could not be more stark. The road back to peace, stability, prosperity, and security for your family begins with a landslide Trump victory in one year from now. We will make America great again, greater than ever before. Thank you.

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Well, this is the fifth anniversary of the loss of a really great man, a great conservative, somebody that loved our country, loved his family, loved a lot of things. But he was a friend of mine, Rush Limbaugh. I never met Rush when I announced that I was running. I'll never forget, 2015. And I got a call, all excited that Rush Limbaugh just endorsed you. I never met him. He liked my opening speech. He liked when I got up in June and I said, you know, we got bad borders, we got bad crime, we got bad everything. And he liked it. I came down the escalator with now our first lady, and he thought it was great. And he endorsed me, and then I got to know him, and I realized what a great guy he was. But it's five years that we miss Rush. As Sean Hannity would often say, there will never be another Rush Limbaugh. Also to his family, his great wife and family, I just want to say we miss you all. We miss him. And there'll never be anybody like him. Thank you very much.

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the more people tell you it's not possible that it can't be done the more you should be absolutely determined to prove them wrong treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation relish the opportunity to be an outsider embrace that label being an outsider is fine embrace the label because it's the outsiders who change the world and who make a real and lasting difference

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But people need to understand, President Trump had illegal immigration down 83 to 90 percent. So when 83 to 90 percent, less people were coming across the border, how many women didn't get sexually assaulted by the cartels? How many aliens didn't drown in the river or die in the desert? How many Americans didn't die from fentanyl overdoses because the border was secure, less fentanyl was coming across? How many known suspected terrorists didn't get into the country? Under President Biden, we have over 1,700 migrants that died in U.S. soil. Our historic record, over 100,000 Americans dead from fentanyl overdoses, an historic record. Over 300 people on the terrorist watch has arrested, since he's been in office, just on the southwest border, twice as many on the northern border that we'd only talk about, historic record. So President Trump's policies save lives. A secure border saves lives. Border barrier saves lives. I've worked with six presidents, I've seen policies come and go. I know what policies work, I know what policies don't. Trump was a game changer, and we saved thousands of lives by securing that southern border.

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Thank you very much. This is a very special group of people. I've been with them from the beginning. Abbeygate, you know, Abbeygate, one of the dumbest days in the history of our country by a previous administration, getting out of a place that we shouldn't have been. At a minimum, they should have been at Bagram, the big field, where, you know, we have hundreds of acres around it. Nobody's going to get near it. They left from a small airfield, and the consequences were horrible. And these people have been, my friends, have been with me, and I've been with them 100%. And we meet more than once a year, actually. I think our all-time meeting was in Bedminster, where we played music, right? Right. Late into the night. They thought I'd be there maybe for five minutes, maybe not at all, and I showed up for like four hours. We were listening to music all night long, and they were all crying because they lost their loved ones. But it's a lot of, it's four years, it's a four-year anniversary. So we're signing a proclamation honoring them, and honoring you, and honoring your loved one, and so sad, and so unnecessary. And you know, what people don't know, there were a lot of other people killed from the other side. I call that, you know, people killed, and the people that we also contact are, we have like 32, maybe more, but approximately 32 who lost their arms and their legs, and your kids didn't make it. They made it, but boy, they got to go through hell. And we have 32, at a minimum, 32. And then you had hundreds of people killed overall, you had hundreds of people killed that day. That was a rough day. We had 13 of our great ones, right? Yes. And somehow this group is just, we get together every once in a while. So I just want to thank you, we're four years now into this nightmare, we're just a nightmare. I think that that date also helped start the war with Putin and Ukraine, because he saw how incompetent our military was under Biden, and under Milley, and all these dopes, these dopey people. And that's not our military. You see what our military is now, we knock the hell out of people if we have to, or we settle because they don't want to play games with us. But I just want to say, I'm really honored to be with you again, and we'll be with each other for a long time. And your loved ones are looking down, and they're very proud. This is the new and improved Oval Office, we had an Oval Office, which was still the Oval Office, so I don't want to disrespect it, but now it's very special, and you see what's happened, and everyone loves it. It's all the real deal, 24 karat gold, and people come from all over, and I do believe they're serious, they're not rolling their eyes, you know, the roar of the eyes, but we don't have any of them. And we brought the pictures up, they were in the vaults, those are pictures of some of our great presidents, a lot of them, and they were in the vaults for over 100 years in many cases. And they were just, they're beautiful pictures, works of art, Lincoln, Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson, that's Monroe of the Monroe Document. All mostly great presidents, we have a couple of them, Benjamin Franklin, not a president, but we figured he'd make the cut, discovered electricity, a couple of other things, but we have a lot of great presidents. But think of it, they've been down there, there's George Washington, the big one, they've been down there for, in some cases, much more than 100 years, and we brought them out. I went through the vaults myself, I spent hours down there looking. That's in between Russia, Ukraine, China, all the other stuff, we do it. I want to thank Doug Collins for being here, the secretary who's done an unbelievable job, thank you very much. And JD, thank you very much, you've been fantastic. And all of the others, Pete, good, we did a little thing with Pete about Secretary of War today, and it seemed to be well received. We'll do it a couple of more times, and if everyone likes it, we'll make that change, Pete, you'll decide. But I just want to thank everybody for being here, very special to me, a very special day, four years is a very special time, and now it's lightening up, but it'll never be really light. But there are some great souls that are looking down on you right now, and they're very proud of their parents and brothers and sisters, but moms and dads especially, that's what I seem to have dealt with mostly, it's a tough, there's nothing tougher. So thank you very much. In the media, I want to thank you because you've been very respectful of this group of people, and they deserve it. They went through hell for no reason, it should have never happened. And I'm going to sign the proclamation now, and we will have our, we will have a very special proclamation done and completed, okay. Oh, that's a good one. That's our good one, we rate them. I don't put them under the auto pen, I don't say, have the auto pen sign it, right? We don't do that. I don't know how anybody's allowed to do that. They actually weren't. Good one, right? Yes, a couple of good questions today. It's been very fair, actually. Okay. Do you have any questions on this subject, please? Mr. President. Yes. The Defense Secretary's order a review of Afghanistan withdrawal that is ongoing. I'm curious if you have any update on that review. And then for the families, I know that there was frustration with previous investigations on Capitol Hill. Are you satisfied with the speed of this investigation thus far? Pete, do you want to answer that? Yes, sir. On behalf of this beautiful group, on behalf of these families, on behalf of your loved ones who fought for our nation, America deserves answers as far as what happened in Afghanistan. The military needs to answer for what happened in Afghanistan. So upon the President's direction, immediately we initiated an investigation which showed that there needed an even deeper dive. So Sean Parnell, our Pentagon spokesman, who himself is an Afghanistan veteran, is leading this effort. It's a top priority for us. We're getting access to all documents necessary, why decisions were made, why they weren't made, why certain force protection measures were ignored. Again, there's never been accountability for this. It's something that Joe Biden allowed to happen that never should have happened. Any objective observer knows that's not how you leave a country, and certainly these families know better than anyone else. These families deserve answers. We're going to be honest about it. We're going to get to the bottom of it. Sean Parnell, an Afghanistan vet, is leading it, and we're doing it on behalf of the American people. So I would anticipate middle of 2026, that's how thorough of a review we're doing. Probably a little bit sooner, but we're going into everything to get an understanding of what happened. So we remember these great 13 souls, but we also remember the people that were so badly injured, our soldiers, 32 of them, approximately. And we're in contact with them always also, but they lost arms and legs, and their faces were blown to pieces, and they're incredible, and they suffer with it. And so we understand that, it should have never happened, should have never been allowed to have happened, and they were in the wrong place. Bagram was the place to be. Big massive airfield with hundreds of acres surrounding it. Nobody could get near it, and who would not have done that, but we had a bunch of incompetent people running our country. So we are going to talk for a little while, and we'll talk about people that I've gotten to know. We have friends and daughters and others that died, and there were hundreds of people that died that day, hundreds, many from the other side, needless thing also. They did nothing to hurt anybody, but that was a terrible day, and I think it was the worst day, and in many ways the most embarrassing day in the history of our country. And yet, at the same time, we learned so much that it's, you know, we call it a big lesson. It won't happen again. I think like that can never be allowed to happen again. Doug, would you like to say something, please? You've been so fantastic. It would be great. I appreciate it. Thank you, Mr. President. For these families here, I think you expressed the nation's grief of what happened. We saw just a tragic mistake that was there, someone who has been in the middle of -- I was in Iraq and others, but Afghanistan, when you saw that withdrawal, but what you suffered went through. And for those that you've mentioned, Mr. President, who are injured, who took the VA, the Department of Defense, we're taking care of those folks, and we're going to continue to do so at your direction. But with the families, it's just one of those times it's a place that never goes away. But I know from this president is he's made a commitment that that memory will not be forgotten and the Cabinet understands that and our American people understand that because of what she does. And this is actually our biggest gathering today. So you must have heard Oval Office and you said, "I want to get there and do a job in the Oval Office." But it is. And it is a special place. But this is our biggest gathering in terms of the numbers, everybody here, because there was always somebody couldn't be, everybody's here, and that's a great honor, I think it's a great honor. J.D., do you want to say a couple of words, please? Oh, sir, I just echo what you said. We're so honored to have all of you here. I know that days like today can't make the hurt go away, but hopefully four years on, we can start to remember with fondness and with a little bit of joy the people that were taken from us. We're so proud of you. We're so proud of your loved ones for giving their life for our country. And I think importantly today, this is a rectification of a wrong. The fact that the President of the United States lost your loved ones through incompetence, but never acknowledged it. And your government never actually put pen to paper to say we're grateful for your sacrifice. We correct that wrong today, and we're going to keep on fighting to understand, as Pete said, what happened so it never happens to another family again. But God love you all, God bless you, we're so thrilled to have you here in the People's Oval Office. Thank you. Thank you for having us. And I don't think they ever heard from Biden or anybody, did they? No. Nobody ever even called him. It's a terrible thing we suffered through for four years, so needless to say, yes, ma'am. I wanted to ask about veterans, and I wanted to say I'm so sorry for all of your loss. And I know we've covered it in the media, but I can't imagine what you all have been through. And thank you for being here. I wanted to ask, just on behalf of those veterans who served in Afghanistan and Iraq, and I know we talked about this in the Oval previously, about making sure care for those, for example, exposed to burn pits while serving. Making sure that they have the care, are you considering maybe a streamlined service like the World Trade Center health care program, and maybe the Veterans Secretary can comment too, but are you considering something like that to make sure, because it seems like they're struggling to get care? Well, there's a lot of things. We take care of our vets. Nobody loves our vets more than me, and we take good care of our vets, great care of our vets. Do you want to just say a couple of words about what we're doing, Doug? Yes, Mr. President, through the PACT Act and through others of the burn pit, which is something I've been under as well, we're streamlining following the Congress direction, but we're also adding more services we've included, a lot who have applied. We're also streamlining our backlog under President Trump's direction also. We took that backlog that was under President Biden was up at over 260,000. We're down now, Mr. President, I get to tell you that, under 150,000 in just a little over six months. So we're making sure that what was bogged up in a bureaucratic system, we're streamlining it so they get that care quicker, and we're making sure that it is what they need. And then we're also doing that in our hospitals as well, so they get that care quicker in not only in our hospitals, but in our community as well. That's been the biggest difference. We're about the veteran at the VA, not about the bureaucracy, so we are making progress there. And the VA has a 93% approval rating. It was down in the low 40s when we did. So I had pretty close to that in the first term, we had a great first term, and it was pretty close to that. And then they took over and it went down into the 30s and 20s and 40s, but it went down at one point to 28 or 29%, which is terrible. They gave away choice and accountability, choice meaning you have the way to, as a veteran, you can go and you can choose who your doctor is, et cetera, et cetera. They gave that up, and accountability is getting rid of the people that were sadists and really bad people that abused our veterans and really badly abused them. And they got rid of both of them and we put them back. I couldn't believe when they did it. Anyway, but now you've blown everybody away, Doug, at 93%. So we're 93% approval for our vets, and I like that, so that's good.

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