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I'm 72 years old, and for 70 years of my life, I would have bet any amount of money that I would not be addressing a Republican convention. The irony of my presence here is inescapable. I attended my first Democratic convention in 1960 when I was six years old, and I attended most of the conventions, the Democratic conventions after that, and I spoke as a keynote speaker in many of them. I grew up in a Democratic party of Franklin Roosevelt, of my Uncle John Kennedy, of my father Robert Kennedy, and ours was a party of strong principles of clear policies and an inspiring idealistic vision for America. My uncle ran on a platform of tax cuts, strong defense, and fighting communism. Does that sound familiar? The Democrats of that era stood with labor and working people and the American middle class. Nearly every cop and firefighter was a Democrat. Our party was a champion of the Bill of Rights and particularly for unbridled free speech. It was wary of centralized government power and corporate privilege and secret intelligence agencies. My uncle and father understood the connection between free markets and functional democracy. They stirred firmly against crony capitalism on the right and socialism on the left. They were all for competition, for meritocracy, and for excellence, which they thought should be a universal aspiration for Americans. My father and uncles had served in World War II, and they understood the difference between forever wars that they opposed and wars to protect our national security, which they believed we should never hesitate to defend. My family played critical roles in building NIH and the CDC into centers of gold standard science that transformed America into this relentless dynamo of international research. They promoted physical fitness, and they protected women's sports. My uncle Ted Kennedy wrote Title IX, which, because he wanted to make sure that women, real women, were able to have a safe and guaranteed spot in college sports, and they stood with Israel as the bulwark of democracy and as a beacon for press and religious freedoms, a haven from oppression to gays and women and ethnic and religious minorities amidst a regional sea of intolerance, of misogyny, of child marriage, of human slavery, and of ethnic and religious genocide. They saw Israel as America's most critical front-line ally in fighting the toxic ideology of Islamism, which, by its own accounts, is waging an existential war against our country and against Western liberal democracy. It's an ideology that has subjugated, impoverished, and tyrannized and tortured the people of Palestine and the people of Iran, and they openly promised to do the same to us. Democrats opposed government coercion, defended individual rights, believed the government should give Americans information, good information, and then let them trust them to make up their own minds. Democrats and labor leaders fought fiercely in my generation to stop illegal immigration at the border. During COVID, I watched the Democratic Party turn against every one of its essential values, its principles, and all of the policies that define my party. Democrats turned away from gold standard research and blindly defended industry-sponsored agenda driven science written by corrupt and captive regulatory agencies. And the Democrats, which were once the champions of the American Constitution, systematically obliterated the Bill of Rights, and particularly beginning with the First Amendment under the guise of combating misinformation, Democrats censored hundreds of scientists and physicians who questioned the government's dubious COVID pronouncements and orthodoxies. 37 years, 37 hours after President Biden took the oath of office, he ordered Facebook and Instagram to remove my accounts in order to prevent public debate. I'm not complaining about what happened to me, but it was a bad thing for our country. Democrats obliterated the second leg of the First Amendment, the right to the guaranteed right of assembly by social distancing regulations that were completely unscience-based. Democrats violated the third leg of the First Amendment, the freedom to worship. They closed every church in our country for a year. Who could imagine that would have ever happened? And they kept open the liquor stores and the big box stores as essential businesses. Democrats torpedoed the Seventh Amendment right to jury trial by giving liability shields to the giant pharmaceutical companies, no matter how negligent they were, no matter how reckless, no matter how toxic the ingredients, no matter how grievous your injury, you could not sue them. Democrats violated the Fifth Amendment by shutting down three million businesses with no due process and no just compensation. Democrats shut down the Fourth Amendment, protection from unlawful searches and seizures by forcing Americans to disclose their medical information before they could exercise their constitutional rights. In a single year, my party obliterated 250 years of constitutional guarantees. The only bill of right that they left unscathed was the Second Amendment and probably only because there is a Second Amendment. And then the party of my body, my choice for citizens to wear masks and to submit to invasive and intrusive medical interventions against their own wills. The party of me too, remember that we were all supposed to listen to women and to believe women a cruelly silence the voices of tens of thousands of mothers who believed that their children had suffered vaccine injuries. The Democrats declared war on women's sports, effectively destroying Title IX. The Democrats condemned meritocracy openly and celebrated mediocrity. The Democratic Party became the party of elites labeling working Americans as deplorables. Democrats cultivated deep ties with Big Pharma, Big Tech, Big Ag, Big Food, Big Insurance and the mainstream media. They embraced policies that divided Americans along racial lines. They abolished my uncle's physical fitness test because they said that competition was bad for children. The Democrats abandoned all of these values and all of their traditional values, offering Americans only one policy, one policy that they stood for, the unbridled sociopathic and blind hatred of a single man, Donald J. Trump. And they were so confident that Trump hatred alone was sufficient to win elections that they abandoned accountability and made our government a predatory organism of monumental incompetence and corruption. The Democrats dismantled the public integrity safeguards and opened the floodgates to thieves and fraudsters who fleece the American medical regulatory agencies for $100 billion annually during every year of the Biden administration. They somehow lost 360,000 children and they turned our federal government into the biggest child trafficking operation in world history. The Democratic Party in short lost its way. I mourn the fact that neither my father nor my uncle would recognize the Democratic Party of today. It struck me this was no longer about left and right, it was about sane and insane. It was about common sense and communism. In April 2023, I ran for president hoping to summons my party back to its bedrock values. But the Democratic Party had lost faith in American voters and utterly ironically lost faith in American democracy. They were convinced that they would lose the ballot box, they couldn't win, and so they unveiled a law fair strategy to prevent an election from occurring. They sued every candidate who dared to run against Joe Biden and then that attempted to remove us all from the ballot. A lot of you think that the law fair was just against Donald Trump, it was mainly against him but they sued Dean Phillips, they sued Mary Ann Williamson, they sued Cornel West, they sued Donald Trump 50 times in 38 states to remove him from the ballot. And they sued me in 12 states to remove me from ballots where I had legally qualified. And then this is almost comical, after I endorsed President Trump and I tried to remove myself from the ballot so that he could have my votes, they sued me to keep me on the ballot. I'm not joking. So here was the Democratic Party that in my youth the biggest issue that we had that my father and my uncle fought for was voting rights and particularly in the southern states to guarantee that every American had a right to cast a ballot. And here's that same party 60 years later using all of its ingenuity and all of its power to make sure that Americans could not vote for the candidates that they wanted to vote for. They excluded me from the debates, they canceled the primaries, the Democratic Party changed the rules to make sure I could not win and neither could the other people running as Democrats no matter how many votes we got. And for the first time in history they canceled their own convention. No voter ever cast a primary ballot for Kamala Harris. No elected delegate was ever consulted. Party of no kings simply anointed a queen. They handpicked a secretive party of elites who nobody even knows who they were. They're just faceless guys with lanyards who are calling all the shots from the upper decks of that convention center and nobody can see their face anymore than you can see the face of the people up there but that's who was making the decision. And then they canceled the convention and they held a coronation. The day that President Trump was shot in Butler, Pennsylvania within three hours of his shooting he called me and asked me for a meeting. And during the series of talks that followed I realized that everything that I had heard about President Trump and everything I believed about him from the mainstream media was a lie everything. I discovered I discovered a self-effacing man of superior intelligence of empathy and compassion with an encyclopedic grasp of the issues and within in molecular detail and most of all a near reckless courage to challenge vested interests and official orthodoxies. I found a man who cared deeply about transparency in government who believed in protecting free speech more than anything and the entire United States Constitution. We talked about lowering drug prices supporting farmers and ranchers standing up for working Americans restoring law and order and protecting public safety and security and national safety as well. We talked about ending official corporate influence unraveling the corporate capture of our regulatory agencies and restoring gold standard science and public trust. We talked about ending fraud waste and abuse and most importantly to me we talked about ending the chronic disease epidemic and restoring the health of our children. President Trump told me that he wanted safe food available to all Americans. He wanted to end chronic disease. He wanted to restore our kids health. He found it unacceptable that this country pays two to three times what every developing nation in the world pays and yet we have the sickest children in the history of the world. We have the highest chronic disease burden ever recorded. These conversations changed the course of my campaign and my life. I realized that many of the foundational values of the Democratic Party had found a new home and it was called the Republican Party. Now out of a sense of fairness after my conversation with President Trump I tried to have the same conversation with Kamala Harris. You think she would agree to meet with me? Did she even pick up the telephone? Well on August 23rd, 2024 I suspended my campaign and I endorsed President Trump. Later that day on stage at the turning point rally in Arizona I met President Trump and that moment would never have happened without my friend Charlie Kirk. Charlie played a critical and indispensable role at bringing me and President Trump together. In fact it was something that he was trying to do for almost a year, last year of my campaign and today on the first anniversary of his assassination I can't stand here without thinking about him. Charlie believed that people from all different political traditions could find common ground in their love of country that we were in this age of algorithms driving us all apart and creating this terrible destructive polarization. The only way that we were going to rescue our country is we started talking to each other and having congenial conversations and he helped build the bridge that President Trump and I walked across that day and I like to believe that Charlie is looking down on all of us now and seeing the seeds that he planted. That afternoon President Trump and I stood together in front of thousands of Americans. He shook hands and we made a promise to the American people. Here we promised to make America healthy again. Some of my Democratic friends told me that I was a fool for trusting President Trump and so I want to make the record clear right now. President Trump has kept every single promise that he made to me without exception. We have kept our promise to the American people. Today, two years into this administration, Americans are eating more real food. Real food sales were up 8% in 2025. Americans are eating less processed food. Since President Trump took office, obesity is down by 7% after 40 years of increasing. And this is best of all, preliminary data that I received two days ago from CDC indicates that we have now reversed a 30-year decline in longevity. President Trump has ended nine wars. He's restored competency to our government. He's restored public faith. He's restored America's leadership across the globe. And I am so grateful to God for giving our country a leader like this. And I'm grateful to President Trump for including me in his administration and giving me a place in this extraordinary revolution that is happening in our country where we're going to restore American democracy and restore the America that my uncle and father believed in, the exemplary nation respected and emulated across the globe. We are making America healthy again, but it's up to you now. We need to elect a Republican Congress to keep this momentum going. Let's go out and do that. God bless you. God bless America. Thank you.

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If you're up late with us on the west coast, Donald Trump is on the verge of returning to the White House, said to Sauer. What you are seeing is Donald Trump on the precipice of the greatest comeback in American political history. We've never seen anything like this. Who's here? He has risen from the ashes, yet again. The Fox News decision desk can now officially project that Donald Trump will become the 37th president of the United States. The golden age of America begins right now. From this day forward, our country will flourish and be respected again all over the world. During every single day of the Trump administration, I will very simply put America first.

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And on June 14, 1946, God looked down on his planned paradise and said, "I need a caretaker," so God gave us Trump. God said, "I need somebody willing to get up before dawn, fix this country, work all day, fight the Marxist, eat supper, then go to the Oval Office and stay past midnight at a meeting of the heads of state," so God made Trump. "I need somebody with arms, strong enough to rustle the deep state, and yet gentle enough to deliver his own grandchild, somebody to ruffle the feathers, tame cantankerous world economic forum, come home hungry, have to wait until the First Lady is done with lunch with friends, then tell the ladies to be sure and come back real soon, and mean it." So God gave us Trump. I need somebody who can shape an axe, but wield a sword, who had the courage to step foot in North Korea, who can make money from the tar of the sand, turn liquid to gold, who understands the difference between tariffs and inflation, will finish his 40-hour week by Tuesday noon, but then put in another 72 hours. So God made Trump. God had to have somebody willing to go into the den of vipers, call out the fake news for their tongues as sharp as a serpent's. The poison of vipers is on their lips, and yet stop. So God made Trump. God said, "I need somebody who will be strong and courageous, who will not be afraid or terrified of the wolves when they attack, a man who cares for the flock, a shepherd to mankind who won't ever leave nor forsake them. I need the most diligent worker to follow the path and remain strong in faith and know the belief of God and country, somebody who's willing to drill, bring back manufacturing and American jobs, farm the lands, secure our borders, build our military, fight the system all day, and finish a hard week's work by attending church on Sunday." And then his oldest son turns and says, "Dad, let's make America great again. Dad, let's build back a country to be the envy of the world again." So God made Trump. God bless. God bless. God bless. God bless. God bless. God bless.

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A composite/graphic image showing a close-up view of the Moon's cratered surface curving diagonally across the frame against black space, with a small crescent view of Earth visible in the distance to the right. In the upper right corner is a small American flag graphic. Bold white serif text is overlaid across the top of the image.

Text in image: THE MOON IS OURS

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A black-and-white archival photograph showing three people standing outdoors on a lawn with trees in the background. On the left, a middle-aged man in a light-colored suit with a boutonniere on the lapel and a dark tie stands holding a hat in his hand. In the center, a woman wears a fur hat, a fur stole/wrap over a dark dress, a pearl necklace, and white gloves, and is smiling; she holds a small clutch or floral item. On the right, a young man stands at attention in a formal military-style cadet uniform with a plumed shako hat, sash, medals, white gloves, and a sword at his side. The image has the grainy, aged look of a mid-20th-century photograph.

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This is an AI-generated (digitally composited/rendered) meme image showing three men in WWII-era U.S. Army officer uniforms standing side by side on a battlefield backdrop with smoke, fire, and tanks in the background. The man on the left, styled to resemble General George Patton, wears a helmet and has a stern expression. The man in the center is Donald Trump's face placed on a general's uniform with medals, ribbons, and stars, styled to look like a WWII general. The man on the right, styled to resemble General Douglas MacArthur, wears an officer's cap and is smoking a corncob pipe. Bold black text reading "Patton, Trump, MacArthur" appears at the top of the image on a white banner, implying a comparison or association between Trump and these two famous American WWII generals.

Text in image: Patton, Trump, MacArthur

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A composited/digitally altered photograph showing a man resembling Donald Trump (in a dark navy suit, white shirt, and light blue tie) standing next to a man resembling President John F. Kennedy (in a dark suit, white shirt, and black tie), posed together on the North Lawn of the White House in front of its columned entrance. The image has the color grading and slightly soft, hazy quality typical of an early-1960s photograph, with period-appropriate cars and two men in suits (apparently security or staff) standing on the lawn in the background on either side. The pairing of a contemporary Trump with a 1960s-era Kennedy in the same image indicates this is an AI-generated or otherwise manipulated composite rather than an authentic photograph.

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♪ If I can make it there, I'm gonna make it anywhere ♪ ♪ It's up to you, New York, New York, New York ♪

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A digitally-rendered watercolor-style illustration of a nostalgic Americana carnival/fair scene. A group of laughing children in vintage-style clothing (overalls, dresses, striped shirt) run toward the camera through a fairground. Behind them is a colorful carousel decorated with an American flag, a striped cotton candy stand with pink, blue, and yellow cotton candy, red-and-white striped tents, and strings of red, white, and blue pennant flags overhead against a blue sky with clouds. Adults in period-style clothing (hats, striped shirts) stroll in the background. Bold black text spans the top of the image above the illustration.

Text in image: AMERICA IS BACK!

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A meme/graphic with bold black text reading "Trump's America in 2026" above a watercolor-style painting of an idyllic American scene: a white cottage-style house with a red roof, decorated with American flags and red-white-and-blue bunting along its porch and a white picket fence. A bicycle with sunflowers in its front basket is parked against the fence, surrounded by flower beds. A leafy tree stands to the left of the house. The image presents an idealized, patriotic small-town/coastal Americana image, evoking nostalgic Fourth of July-style decor, framed as depicting the country's future under Trump.

Text in image: Trump's America in 2026

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A news/rally photograph of Donald Trump walking on a red carpet toward the stage of an indoor arena rally, smiling and clapping/gesturing toward the crowd. He is wearing a dark navy suit with a red tie and white shirt. Rows of Secret Service agents and staff in suits stand along the edge of the stage near American flags, and a blue curtained backdrop is visible. Behind him, a packed arena crowd fills stands and a floor level, many holding signs (some readable as "SAVE AMERICA" and "ALASKA...TRUMP"), waving flags, and taking photos with phones. Above the crowd is an illuminated arena signage board reading "TEXT ALASKA TO 88022" with star graphics, and another banner above reads "STEP UP YOUR MEDICAL IMAGING GAME!". A watermark in the bottom left corner reads "© 2022 Douglas Coulter", indicating this is press/event photography from a 2022 rally, apparently in Alaska given the signage.

Text in image: STEP UP YOUR MEDICAL IMAGING GAME! TEXT ALASKA TO 88022 SA[...] SAVE AMERICA ALASKA... TRUMP (partially obscured sign) KELLY (partially visible sign) © 2022 Douglas Coulter

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-This is an executive order relating to the use of paper straws. As you've consistently identified, nobody really likes paper straws. -Number-one trending. Can you believe it? A paper straw is number-one trending for three days or something. -The environmental impact of plastic straws versus paper straws is entirely unclear. This has cost both the government and private industry an absolute ton of money and left consumers all over the country wildly dissatisfied with their straws. So, we're asking aspects of the federal government, federal departments, and agencies to look at their existing procurement processes, and we're asking your domestic policy council to look holistically at this issue to address it, and it really is something that affects ordinary Americans and their everyday lives. -We're going back to plastic straws. These things don't work. I've had them many times, and on occasion, they break. They explode. If something's hot, they don't last very long, like a matter of minutes. Sometimes, a matter of seconds. It's a ridiculous situation. So, we're going back to plastic straws. I think it's okay. And I don't think that plastic is going to affect a shark very much as they're eating -- as they're munching their way through the ocean. Okay.

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Nothing worth doing ever came easy. Treat the word impossible as nothing more than motivation. Never, ever quit. Never quit. Adversity makes you stronger. Don't give in. Don't back down. And never stop doing what you know is right. They want to take away my freedom because I will never let them take away your freedoms. They're not coming after me. They're coming after you. And I just happen to be standing in their way. When they couldn't beat him, they tried to bankrupt him. President Trump is back in a New York City court. When that didn't work, they tried to put him in federal prison. Rated by the FBI. When that didn't work, they even tried to kill him. He just tried to kill President Trump. Donald Trump still stands, ready to fight, ready to win, and ready to make America great again. This is Donald Trump's house, brother. This election we all get to choose. I'm going to choose real American leadership and a real American badass. The 45th and soon to be 47th president Donald J. Trump. Starting on day one, we will defeat inflation quickly and we will make America affordable again. I will cut your energy costs in half. It's time for the working man and woman to finally catch a break. We are going to bring back the American dream bigger, better, and stronger than ever before. When I'm back in the White House, we will restore world peace and it will be again peace through strength. I will launch the largest deportation program in American history. I will put these vicious and bloodthirsty criminals in jail or kick them the hell out of our country. November 5th, 2024 will be Liberation Day in America. We all salute the same great American flag. Our best days are yet to come. Together, we will make America great again.

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♪ I see a sign to you ♪ ♪ You turn it down into this land ♪ ♪ And if you're doing it ♪ ♪ There's a light in you ♪ ♪ And everyone thinks I'm insane ♪ ♪ I'm not forgetting my vision ♪ ♪ Though I'm dreaming now ♪ ♪ And though I'm dreaming now ♪ ♪ I'm forgetting how I stand up ♪ ♪ This is the universe of fate ♪ ♪ The rainbow out of the sand ♪

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(crowd chanting) - USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA, USA! (crowd cheering) - I'm a good owner, I'm a good owner. I feel wealthy going to the airport. Well, I love you, good job. And I've always wanted you to work for me, guys. My next pick is a number that you get somebody that says you do, but it turned out to be a job to say this. - Oh, sir. How you doing? - I'm a wealthy guy. - Ah, yeah, you got to. - You know it's a lot of big deals. (laughing) That's great, thank you. (crowd chattering) - Mr. Trump, what's your favorite thing to order at McDonald's? - I like it all. (laughing) I like it, I'm serving everything. But I do like the French, so I'll be working. I listened to Kamala, she said it was so hot, it was so hot, it was such a tough job. I'm telling you, I have a man that's been doing it for many years. (crowd chattering) If you were gonna say I'm gonna learn to do it later. Thank you. - Yes, welcome here. (laughing) - So President Trump, I have... (crowd chattering) - That's gonna be a direct question for Senator media props. - Yeah, I think each location is a little different. (crowd chattering) - And then once these come up, I'll salt them, I'll make a couple of hands. (crowd chattering) And then you can go right into here on the left. Slowly gently lower it into the oil. You wanna burn yourself? (crowd chattering) There you go. And then we're gonna hit our fry timer right here. (crowd chattering) Now we can drop another one too. So we'll grab one more man with two hands. Yep, you're gonna put it right here. Lower slowly into the oil and burn. Then we're just gonna hit our fry timer right here. - Right there? - Yep. - Well that's how good this is. Hello everybody. This is not a normal situation, is it? What a good looking family. How did you produce those people? Oh, they look like, they look like you. How are you doing? Nice to meet you. Thank you. - We appreciate it all. (crowd chattering) - Thank you. There'll be no charge. Trump is paying for it. Is that okay? (crowd chattering) Oh, you're going to some extra stuff. - Oh, okay, great. - This is all on Trump. - Oh, hold on. - I'm allowed to do that, right? - Yeah. - Let's check and make sure. Everything you said it would be. - It better be. It's gonna be the best you have. I made it myself. - You're the best. Think about it. - That's your order. Thank you, man. Thank you. Thank you. Have a good time. Have a good time. That's great, isn't it? Okay. We've got the soul donor. Never touches the human hand. - Very good, very good. - Nice and full. - Thank you. - Good? It's cute. This is fun. I could do this all day. I wouldn't mind this job. - You do? - I like this job. I think I might come back and do it again. - Thank you. - This is compliments of Trump, okay? - Yes, thank you. Mr. President, please don't let the United States become Brazil. My native Brazil. - Oh, we'll keep it good. - Please, please. - We're gonna make it better than ever, okay? - Thank you. - Thank you. - Thank you. - It was a pleasure, Mr. President. - Thank you so much. - Thank you so much. - Thank you over there. - Thank you very much. - Thank you. - Have a good time. - Thank you for your time. - Nice to see you. - It's a great franchise. It's a great company. - And they've been very, very nice and come out. You know, if you look at really what's happening, look at the crowd over there. Look how happy everybody is. They're happy because they want hope. They need hope, and that's what we're doing. That's what we're gonna give President Hope. - What is working the fryer telling you about the people of Pennsylvania? - Make it back. - Mr. President, you actually have worked at McDonald's now. - Now I have worked at McDonald's. I've now worked for 15 minutes more than Kamala. - Are you gonna put this on your resume? - She never worked here. - Why would she lie about something like that? - Well, if we put on your resume. - I worked at McDonald's. - Why would she lie about that? - Why? Because she's lying Kamala in this amazing business. It's an amazing country. And we're gonna make America greater than ever before. We're gonna do it. - Are you gonna see Aaron Rock? - Look at the enthusiasm. I mean, that's thousands of people over there. They go miles back. That's incredible. So, look at that. - Are you gonna be an Aaron Rocker? - Sir, what do you want to hear? I'm gonna raise a minimum wage, Mr. President. - This is our game tonight, and we look forward to it. And it should be a good game. And yeah, we're gonna have a great coach. Let's start a great coach, and we'll see how it is. - Tell us about getting started in your own career, Mr. President. Tell us about those jobs that people take early on to try to make a break and how you did it. - It was a great job to take, if you could. It requires expertise. I'm going through the french fry stuff as a whole. - What have you learned? - Did you learn anything new? and it requires great expertise, actually.

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in the world. We're not considered a great nation right now but we're going to be a great nation again and it's not going to take long. I will quickly defeat inflation and we will make America affordable again. We're going to have to do that. It's not affordable. And you know what people bring up more than anything? Simple things like groceries. They say groceries. Who would think that? Groceries. But they bring it up. Cars. They do a lot of different everything basically. Look, we had the worst inflation I think. They say in 48 years I think ever. There's never been anything like it. And they don't even put the really bad like as an example. We had interest rates at 2%. They went up to 10%. Well, they don't include that.

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Donald Trump came to the Detroit Economic Club and stood there in front of the Ford Motor Executives and said "If you close these factories as you're planning to do in Detroit and build them in Mexico, I'm going to put a 35% tariff on those cars when you send them back and nobody is going to buy them." It was an amazing thing to see. No politician, Republican or Democrat had ever said anything like that to these executives. And it was music to the ears of people in Michigan and Ohio and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, the Brexit states. You live here in Ohio, you know what I'm talking about. Whether Trump means it or not is kind of irrelevant because he's saying the things to people who are hurting. And it's why every beaten down, nameless, forgotten working stiff who used to be part of what was called the middle class loves Trump. He is the human Molotov cocktail that they've been waiting for. The human hand grenade that they can legally throw into the system and store their lives from him. And on election day, although they've lost their jobs, although they've been foreclosed down by the bank, next came the divorce and now the wife and kids are gone, the car's been repothed, they haven't had a real vacation in years, they're stuck with the shitty Obamacare bronze plan where you can't even get a fucking party set. They've essentially lost everything they had except one thing, the one thing that doesn't cost them a cent and is guaranteed to them by the American Constitution, the right to vote. They might be penniless, they might be homeless, they might be fucked over and fucked up. It doesn't matter because it's equalized on that day. A millionaire has the same number of votes as the person without a job, one, and there's more of the former middle class than there are in the millionaire class. The dispossessed will walk into the voting booth, he handed a ballot, closed the curtain and take that lever or felt pen or touchscreen and put a big fucking X in the box by the name of the man who has threatened to upend and overturn the very system that has ruined their lives. Donald J. Trump. They see that the elites who ruined their lives hate Trump, corporate America hates Trump, Wall Street hates Trump, the career politicians hate Trump, the media hates Trump after they loved him and created him and now hate him. Thank you, media. The enemy of my enemy is who I'm voting for. You, Joe Blow, Steve Blow, Bob Blow, Billy Blow, Billy Bob Blow, all the blows get to go and blow up the whole goddamn system because it's your right. Trump's election is going to be the biggest fuck you ever recorded in human history and it will feel good.

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For generations, this city and state were the world capital of automotive production. And American automakers rolled one iconic model off the line after the next. The Mustang, the Corvette, the Pontiac GTO. I had two of them, actually. I had that GTO, oh, I thought I was the hottest guy around, it was crazy. We didn't have all of the foreign competition then. You were so proud to have a Corvette, oh, if you had a Corvette, I never got a Corvette, I tell you, I feel, I was left behind. But I had my GTO, I was something, man, I'd put that top down. See, in those days, I didn't mind when the hair waved, I'd go fast, and that hair would be waving, that blonde hair, and I'd say, who the hell can take me, nobody? Today I'm a little more careful, I wanted to be. I want to cover up that little area up there, it's a little bit soft up there. Cover it up. Now, it was great. But you did, you had the greatest product, it was just fantastic. And right here in Detroit, Americans invented the muscle car and the minivan and the family SUV, so much. And along the road, you made the American automobile an inseparable part of the, and it was inseparable of the American dream, it was part of the American dream. But after decades and decades of Michigan auto workers giving our nation their very best, our leaders in Washington did their very worst for them, they were terrible. You lost nearly 4 million manufacturing jobs after globalist politicians gave us the twin disasters of NAFTA, which I terminated, and China's entry into the World Trade Organization, that was a very expensive two things. Nearly a quarter of a million jobs were destroyed here, right here in Michigan alone, think of it, a quarter of a million, 250,000 jobs, including 40% of all of the auto jobs, and then it got to be much higher than that. Detroit was decimated as if by a foreign army. This was a foreign army invading us, but it was an army of business people, very brilliant business people that took the candy out of our pockets just like you take it from a baby. That's how easy it was for them. Factories were left in ruins, beautiful hotels and theaters crumbled, more than 80,000 homes were abandoned. And you see it outside.

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-We're not gonna let China and Mexico sell cars into the United States that are gonna just take back our jobs. They're gonna have to pay 100%, maybe a 200% tariff because we don't want those cars. We want to make our own cars in our country. We'll do it better than them. Other countries that make us pay a tax to do business with them will be charged the same tax when they send their product into the United States. It will be called the Trump Reciprocal Trade Act. In other words, if China or any other country charges us a 100, 200, or 300% tax, which they actually charge, then we will charge them a 100, 200, or 300% tax in return. Right now, we charge them nothing. My message is simple -- make your product here in America and only in America. That's what we wanted. My plan is that if you open your factory in Nevada, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Michigan, or anywhere else in the United States, you don't pay a tariff. You don't have to pay anything. All you have to do is pay the workers, and the workers are gonna be you. But if you move your production outside of the United States and send it back here, you will have to pay a massive tariff, and we don't even want your product even if you pay it. We are going to very quickly supercharge our country. And when I'm back in that beautiful White House, we will pass larger tax cuts for workers, and we have a special tax that here is going to do, I think, quite well. It's called No Tax on Tips. No tax on -- no tax on tips. But you see, when I announced that a long time ago, all of a sudden, she announced it, and she was met with rebuke. And, you know, they can't do it anyway because they have so much legislation and it makes sure that you pay your tax on tips, and it didn't go over too well. But we are going to do it. We'll get it done fast. You know, they said they were gonna cut the school lending when you borrow money to go to school. They were gonna cut it. They were gonna cut it down to nothing. Guess what? A big thud never happened. It never happened. You know why? Because they're all talk and no action. And you saw that the other night at the debate. She was all talk, "I'm gonna do this, and I'm gonna do that, and then I'm gonna cut tax, and then I'm gonna give you 25,000 for hours, and then I'm gonna go," you know, over and over. And I said very simply at the end of my last little statement, "Why haven't you done it? You've been there for three and a half years. Why haven't you done it? Right, Michael? Why haven't you done it, Michael? Right, Michael? Why haven't they done it?" I said, "We will leave this debate stage, which is just a waste of time anyway. I will go with you to Washington, and you can announce the closure of the border." You know, she doesn't need a bill. I didn't have a bill. I said, "We're closing the border. We closed the border." And we had the greatest chart of all time. You want to put up that chart if you can find it -- the border chart, my all-time favorite in the history of charts. Yeah, I love that chart. I'm gonna sleep with that chart. That chart saved my life. Can you believe it? Just like that. I said, "Put up the chart." I went like that to look at it. Bing! That chart -- think of it -- illegal immigration saved my life. See that? That is the most beautiful document I've ever seen. But you see the arrow on the bottom? That's when I left office. That's the lowest point in the history of our country for illegal immigrants to come in, but also drugs and everything else that was coming in bad. That point is the lowest. And then, as soon as they took over -- look, it became a rocket ship. Look at that. Like a rocket ship. And our country was destroyed. We had it under control. That's the lowest point in the history -- that was done by Border Patrol, that chart. But regardless of the numbers, I love that chart. I'm sorry. Additionally -- additionally, I will fight for and protect Social Security and Medicare with no cuts. No cuts. And we will have no tax on Social Security benefits for our seniors. (Applause.) No tax on Social Security. And then we wheeled out a great one. And I actually think this is going to be fantastic for the country, as well as the worker, because a lot of people are going to be working overtime. (Applause.) And just yesterday announced that there will be no taxes on overtime.

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There was no inflation under Trump. We had no problems. The world was safe. There was no terrorist attacks under Trump. Russia wasn't taking land under Trump. Israel would have never been attacked under Trump. Think of it -- all the difference that we'd have. No inflation, no wars. It would be a much different world right now. Much better world. But that's not the way it is. We're heading toward World War III. We have grossly incompetent leaders. In fact, do we even have leaders? She's in there cramming so that she can do an interview with somebody. And Joe is just sleeping. He just got back from a long vacation in California. He was going to go back to Washington, D.C., made a little turn. He went back to his vacation home in Delaware. He's taking another vacation. He wants to spend more time on the beach sleeping. This is not for a country that's under all of the siege, but these people are going to end up in World War III. It's not going to happen with Trump. Thank you.

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Russia took land under Bush, under Obama, and under Biden, they're going for the whole ball of wax. The only one they didn't take anything from was under Trump. They didn't take anything. Not from me, they didn't. The Ukraine disaster would have never happened. Iran also would have never, ever invaded Israel under President Trump. Nobody invaded anybody under Trump. China never even thought of invading Taiwan. Biggest ever embarrassment in Afghanistan would have never happened under Trump. To leave 13 dead soldiers, 45 horrifically wounded, and hundreds of people dead on that horrible day, greatest embarrassment in the history of our country. Billions and billions of dollars of brand new military equipment left behind. Now, this is an incompetent administration. This is the worst administration in the history of our country. They've allowed millions and millions of people to come in, many of them criminals, many of them from mental institutions, and many of them terrorists. They've destroyed our country, but we're going to bring it back and we're going to bring it back fast. Thank you very much.

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The Dow Jones made history today, closing over 26,000 points for the first time. This is a stand-out report. He's going to bring all these jobs back. Well, how exactly are you going to do it? What magic wand do you have? I'm going to bomb the shit out of them. The collusion delusion is over. You're fake news. Unbelievable. So dishonest. Mr. President. Mr. President. Pardon me, ma'am. Mr. President. Mr. President, that's enough. Put down the mic. So much winning. Everything you've done. Every day is NASCAR. Seems to come out right. Donald Trump. Keeper of promises. I am with you. I will fight for you. And I will win for you. America is winning again. It's right around the corner. So you ready? Let's go. Let me hear it. Make America great again.

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President Donald J. Trump gave us the most secure and prosperous economy in the U.S. history. Unemployment hit record lows. Seven million new jobs created under his leadership. The stock market hit record highs over and over again. Americans' household net worth soared trillions of dollars higher than ever before. And job-killing packs like NAFTA canceled and replaced by the greatest deal maker alive today. President Trump made our economy great once. He's ready to do it again.

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>> And instead of Joe Biden's weakness and chaos, we want peace through strength like we had it just four years ago.

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-Violin ex-con attacking a hard-working store clerk here in New York City. The clerk fought back and stabbed his attacker to death. Radical DA Alvin Bragg, slapping him with a murder charge. -Don't do it, Bodega. -Bodega! -Bodega! -Crowds gather in upper Manhattan as former President Trump visits a Bodega. -This is the moment Mr. Trump arrived tonight. People lined up along 139th and Broadway as he made his way inside the Hamilton Heights Bodega to meet with Jose Alba. Alba is the Bodega worker who fatally stabbed a man in July of 2022 in a case of self-defense. -On Tuesday, he used a Harlem Bodega as a backdrop to slam Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg for being what he calls "soft on crimes that matter." -Without a doubt, very much supported here in Harlem.

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- Are you better off now than you were in January of 2021? - No, I'm not. I mean, that's me being honest. I'm working five times harder. When I calculate everything, hours worked, the amount of money bringing in is nowhere near as high as it was. - Just 31% of Americans approve of how Biden is handling this economy, 56% disapproving. This is interesting. Just 13% of Americans say they've gotten better financially since the president took office. - Our latest ABC News poll shows four in 10 Americans say they're worse off than when you're elected. Only 16% said they were better off. - More than half of the country disapproves of Biden's job performance, weighed down by significant discontent over the economy. 40% say they are worse off financially than they were two years ago. The most negative response to that question in nearly 40 years of our polling. What do you say to the 44% of Americans who say they are worse off now than they were before Biden took office? - An exclusive News Nation decision desk headquarters poll out this morning reveals almost every American a staggering 97% is somewhat or very concerned about soaring prices. - The one thing I can't believe is that on my previous job, I got paid $5 less an hour than I do on this one. And I was better off at that time than I am right now.

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>> It is my great honor to present the next first lady of the United States, my wife, an amazing mother, an incredible woman, Melania Trump. >> I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you, I am so proud of you,

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ISIS was destroyed, Iran was broke, and we had the Abraham Accords breaking out across the Middle East. Trump is literally the only modern president that left the Middle East better than he found it. And by the way, this faction of ISIS is coming from Afghanistan. How many of us warned that what happens in Afghanistan does not stay in Afghanistan? Now they have an entire caliphate, a state from which to operate and to attack all over the world. And they're working very closely with ISIS in Syria that has 40 to 60,000 fighters holed up in these camps with us barely keeping a lid on. This thing is set to explode. ISIS is a ticking time bomb and the first and we don't know that they hear. And the irony is they came across Russia's literally their southern border where they have the stands down there Tajikistan Uzbekistan and they were importing labor because of their shortage their manpower shortage in Ukraine and ISIS came right up into those flows. It's just like they're doing on our southern board.

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- Excuse me, where's the lobby? - Down the hall and to the left. Thanks.

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under the Trump administration you were better off, your family was better off, your neighbors were better off, our country was better off, America was stronger, richer, safer and more confident than ever before, I would say, and we had the best economy in history. And when you had me behind the desk of the Oval Office, people did respect us, other nations respected us to a level I don't think maybe we've ever been respected like that. But just think of it, were you better off four years ago or are you better off today? Yeah, not even close, that's an interesting question, that's a question I'm going to be able to ask a lot.

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And since Joe Biden took over, we've had a three-year inflation rate of over 20%. Gasoline prices are now $5, $6, $7, and even $8 a gallon. By contrast, under the Trump leadership, by leadership, inflation was nonexistent. And we had gasoline down to $1.87 a gallon. Doesn't that sound beautiful? Beautiful. And we'll do it again. Drill, drill, drill, right? We'll do it again.

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A new op-ed lays out one of the reasons Americans don't like binomics. The bite it's taken out of our retirement savings. 401(k) is down nearly 25 percent. Pinchin plans have lost 12 percent.

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[MUSIC PLAYING] Before thousands were brutally killed, including Americans. Before Iran helped Hamas plan the attack, killing Americans. Before Biden gave billions of taxpayers money to Iran. Trump played hardball with Iran. Destroyed ISIS. Kept the Middle East at peace. Kept us out of endless wars through strength. History shows very plainly that evil only respects one thing, unyielding strength. When I'm back in the White House, our enemies will know, if you spill a drop of American blood, we will spill a gallon of yours. President Trump, the strength we need to make America strong again. I'm Donald J. Trump and I approve this message.

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[MUSIC PLAYING] Before thousands were brutally killed, including Americans. Before Iran helped Hamas plan the attack, killing Americans. Before Biden gave billions of taxpayers money to Iran. Trump played hardball with Iran. Destroyed ISIS. Kept the Middle East at peace. Kept us out of endless wars through strength. History shows very plainly that evil only respects one thing, unyielding strength. When I'm back in the White House, our enemies will know, if you spill a drop of American blood, we will spill a gallon of yours. President Trump, the strength we need to make America strong again. I'm Donald J. Trump and I approve this message.

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