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All right, it happened, after decades and decades of Republicans promising to intend or get around to sooner or later, President Trump, an executive order that will abolish the Department of Education and doing well, it never should have been done in the first place. We did not need that Department of Education. It was a big bloated mess. It was extraneous, superfluous, unnecessary, unneeded, unwarranted, very, very verbatious. That big, silly building sucking up so much money and not helping the children across the country. I did not realize though, when it was first established, did you actually know it was established right after the Civil War for a little while and they had the smarts to get rid of it all the way back then after like two minutes, but it was established by Jimmy Carter and the support that it had and did not have. There was nobody on the left who liked this thing either. When President Carter created the Federal Education Department in 1979, it was opposed by members of his own cabinet as well as the American Federation of Teachers, the New York Times editorial board and the famed Democrat, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan. History has proven them right, absolutely right. And we looked it up. It's true. They were afraid of the federal government and it would not be diversity in education that Washington would become too powerful. And Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the unions, the New York Times, they all lined up against the Department of Education. Of course, they're all crying about it being abolished now, except for Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the late great senator, no longer with us. More from President Trump today at a truly historic event with his executive order that will abolish the DOE. After 45 years, the United States spends more money on education by far than any other country and spends likewise, by far, more money per pupil than any country and it's not even close. But yet, we ranked near the bottom of the list in terms of success. It's an amazing stat. Those are two stats you don't want. The most money spent per pupil and you're at the bottom of the list. And that's where we are, like it or not. Like it or not. That's interesting. The Department of Education, they don't provide education. They study it. They put out a lot of studies. They monitor. They say things you can't do and say things you can and should do and must do, like the women playing in the girls' sports. That was coming from them. They were the filter. So Jimmy Carter was the guy initially. And like a lot of Democrats, it sounds good, right? It's a beautiful label. What could be wrong with it? Department of Education. But it was a power and money grab. It was sniffed out all the way back in the 1860s. The guy in the middle there, I think, is Andrew Johnson. He was the president. And for a short time, they had the Department of Education. There was a guy named Barnard, who was the superintendent of the Department of Education. And they got rid of it after about four months because it was highly dysfunctional and highly unnecessary. So fast forward to today. And they're acting like we just deprived students of their notebooks and pencils. Happening any minute now, Donald Trump will sign an order to eliminate the Department of Education, a dramatic and unprecedented overreach of his authority as president. And here you have an administration that says they care about children, but through their actions has made it crystal clear they do not. It will disrupt the educational services and delivery of those services to our kids overnight. When we're gutting these funds, we're taking all of this money away from our kids, we're depriving them of opportunity and we're depriving them of freedom. All right. We're taking all the money away from bureaucrats and giving it literally to the kids, to the states. And it's a lot of money, $268 billion a year. Can it be that high? Is that right? Not unnecessary. Some of the greatest education in our country took place in places like this, the one room schoolhouse. I don't think we ever did education as well since or the two room schoolhouses or on and on and on. No, forget those guys. Yeah. Remember? This is legendary. Abe Lincoln learned how to read in one of these things. Keep going through the 40s, the 50s, the 60s, the 2000s, school was direct. It was local. It was, well, the people, the communities know how to educate their children. Interesting that, well, once we had a department of education, it seemed like things started to, I don't know, go downhill a little bit. Where are we lately? Okay. Distracted kids. And now we have psychedelic kids. Right? I mean, take a look at this next one. All right. We got one with a fish head. Yeah. Kids are as goofy as ever. And the department of education, unnecessary. Just, it doesn't matter. Look, when we went to the moon, the engineers who took us to the moon, they didn't have a department of education either. Could we see that beautiful Apollo rocket launching with those engineers who managed to figure out math without a federal department of education? How about the brave souls who saved the world back in WW2? They call them the greatest generation. Right? Smart, tough, and they became that way without a federal department of education. How much was that budget again? Could it be 200 and something, something, $68 billion? Well, for all that money, you know what they couldn't do? Provide a decent lunch. Through local budgets, this is what a school lunch looks like. Very, very beautiful. Big hunk of chicken, vegetables, bread, fruit, dessert, you name it. It's on that plate. There's like 2,000 calories right there on a locally funded and served menu. This is what a federal lunch plan looks like. Do you remember the whole debate about cake? Can we pass off ketchup as a vegetable, right? And they actually worked the system so you could for a while. This is fantastic news that the federal government is officially getting out of education and letting the states do it. President Trump making it happen. And I do think this kind of sets him apart from all Republican presidents and especially Ronald Reagan. As President Trump accomplishes more and more, and we all love Ronald Reagan, right? But he's a little bit reduced, I think, because of the Trump presidency somewhat. We must cut out more non-essential government spending and root out more waste. And we will continue our efforts to reduce the number of employees in the federal workforce by 75,000. The budget plan I submit to you on February 8th will realize major savings by dismantling the Departments of Energy and Education and by eliminating ineffective subsidies for business. Well, it was a great statement. And he did a lot of very good and great things with Ronald Reagan, but he didn't work that hard. He didn't fight that hard. It was a different time. And he has been outclassed by President Trump and outdone and outperformed. Every moment when President Trump is giving a tour to Laura and Laura Ingram, and through the Oval Office, he poses an interesting question to the visitors in the Oval Office. I believe we have that clip. Where did it go? Do we? Hit it. I've asked this question maybe 200 times people come in. I said, "So who would you put in the place of prominence, George Washington or Ronald Reagan? Who would you put?" Washington. So far, it's 219-0, and they like Reagan. They like Reagan, but Washington, the father of our country, he gets the place of primacy in the Oval Office. But President Trump, compared to Ronald Reagan, it's quite clear now who is the more consequential president, in my opinion, and he still has a ways to go. We'll stay tuned. So the Department of Education, it's not happening overnight, and Congress and the courts will fight it, the DOE, the big building, all that stuff. But it's a process that has been initiated finally, and I think the country is going to be better off. I actually remember being educated before the Department of Education, and it was no big deal. It was fine. There I am in the back row, first grade. And I was oblivious to when they established the Department of Education. When I got to around sixth or seventh grade, it was like nothing changed. Nothing may have changed, but nothing else did. So a major step in the right direction, giving the freedom, the control, and the money to the states.

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-The weaponization of our system by law firms, even pro bono work they're doing, just in order to clog up government, stop government. And nobody knows about it more than me, and hopefully that'll never happen again. -So, the Covington and Burlington? -Covington and Burlington. -Okay. -Mr. President, may I ask you a question about Europe? So, long term, do you plan to maintain the number of U.S. troops stationed -- -Wait, I just want to savor this one, please. Who would like this pen? Why don't you send it to Jack Smith? A deranged person.

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have you caught your breath yet? It's been one month since Trump was sworn in. I do think that we've had maybe more executive orders than CNN has viewers each night. So hello to our friends at CNN. Trump signed more executive orders in the first 30 days than every president since the 80s combined. And we can already see the change. Criminals are going home. The border is sealed shut. America is safe, sovereign, proud, and free. We are a nation that everyone in the world understands all across this planet. You do not come here illegally. You will not get in. You will go to jail. You will go home. You will not succeed. This is the biggest and most successful change in any area of law enforcement that this nation has ever seen. And he did it in under one month. The America we knew under Joe Biden's vanish, poof, like that. President Trump's first month in office has exceeded the wildest dreams of his most loyal supporters and the darkest nightmares of his fiercest attractors. The America that Joe Biden left behind on January 20th is no longer recognizable, erased in four frenetic weeks by an empowered, implacable, and historically popular MAGA presidency. The White House celebrated the one-month anniversary by handing out nine-page packets full of Trump's accomplishments. Give it to the press. Doubt they'll report on it, so I will. Here's some highlights. Border secured. Hostages returned. Girls sports saved. DEI dead. Fraud dozed. Cabinet cleared. Hundreds of billions of foreign investments secured. Drill, baby, drill, and paper straws canceled. Just to name a few. The president also honored Black History Month today with a very special guest. Is there anybody like our tiger? How are you? Would you want to just say a couple of words? He doesn't. He's much more comfortable. It's an honor to be here. It's an honor to be here with you, Mr. President, and to be on the road here with all of you. Thank you so much. Things are going so well. He's thinking about never leaving. I won't be happy the next time. Should I run again? You tell me. There's your controversy right there. There's your controversy. Four more years of Trump. Democrats might actually move to Canada, but by that time it'll be a state. It's been a whirlwind month. That's all part of the plan. Unlike Trump 1.0, the chaos is calculated and explicitly designed to institutionalize MAGA, paralyze the president's enemies, and permanently break the Washington establishment. It's not just DC getting a makeover. He's upending the world order. No one expected Trump to handle global affairs like his predecessors, but few expected him to move so rapidly to reorient U.S. foreign policy away from the course it has charted since 1945. Trump's making our foreign policy more transactional. No more freebies from the U.S. If you want our help, you got to bring something to the table. And the president's taking a different approach to Ukraine. A modestly successful comedian, Vladimir Zelensky, talked the United States of America into spending 350 billion dollars to go into a war that couldn't be won. Zelensky admits that half of the money we sent him is missing. He refuses to have elections, is very low in Ukrainian polls, and the only thing he was good at was playing Biden like a fiddle, a dictator without elections. Zelensky better move fast or he is not going to have a country left. Zelensky probably wants to keep the gravy train going. I love Ukraine, but Zelensky has done a terrible job. His country has shattered and millions have unnecessarily died. Is this all part of the negotiation? I have no idea. I think what President Trump, what makes him such an effective negotiator, I've seen this in private, is that he doesn't take anything off the table. When he walks into negotiation, he says everything is on the table. And of course, that makes the heads explode in the American media because they say, why are you talking to Russia? Well, how are you going to end the war unless you're talking to Russia? You've got to talk to everybody involved in the fighting if you actually want to bring the conflict to a close. Senator Josh Hawley is here. So Senator, why did the president rip Zelensky's face off? Well, why did he? It's because he wants to bring him to the negotiating table. That's exactly what the vice president just said, Jesse. And you're right. I mean, listen, this has been an incredible month. President Trump has gotten Russia to the negotiating table after they refuse to come for years. I mean, Joe Biden, they wouldn't sit down with Joe Biden. They wouldn't do anything for him. Trump has them at the table. Zelensky will come to the table. And whether we're talking about Ukraine, whether we're talking about the fraud and waste and abuse that the president is exposing everywhere. Here's how I look at it, Jesse. He is really, he's getting the rot out of our government. Never has this government been so corrupt and Trump is just tearing the rot out of the government. And it's a great thing to see.

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In a single week, I've taken over 350 executive actions. We've signed 300 -- and whoever heard of that one? (Applause.) And as I said in my inaugural address, the American decline is over. It's over. (Applause.) The Golden Age of America has officially begun. And I think that's a good thing for us to talk about -- the Golden Age and the American Dream. I think it's a good thing because people haven't been talking that way for a long period of time. On day one, I directed every member of my cabinet to marshal all powers at their disposal to defeat inflation and bring down the cost of daily life. And we're going to do that. You're going to see it starting to happen when we get going with the energy. The energy is going to -- you know, it brought everything up, and it's going to bring everything down. I impose a federal hiring freeze, a federal regulation freeze, a foreign aid freeze -- a foreign aid freeze, isn't that right? We get tired of giving massive amounts of money to countries that hate us, don't we? And I created the new Department of Government Efficiency, and I think it's going to be very meaningful. (Applause.) I terminated the ridiculous and incredibly wasteful Green News scam -- one of the great scams in history.

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The Golden Age of America begins right now. America's decline is over. We will be working to meet every crisis with dignity and power and strength. We will move with purpose and speed to bring back hope, prosperity, safety, and peace for citizens of every race, religion, color, and creed. For American citizens, January 20, 2025, is Liberation Day. In everything we do, my administration will be inspired by a strong pursuit of excellence and unrelenting success. America will reclaim its rightful place as the greatest, most powerful, most respected nation on Earth. I am with you, I will fight for you, and I will win for you. We will not be conquered. We will not be intimidated. We will not be broken, and we will not fail. From this day on, the United States of America will be a free, sovereign, and independent nation. We will stand bravely, we will live proudly, we will dream boldly, and nothing will stand in our way because we are Americans, the future is ours, and our Golden Age has just begun. ♪♪ The Golden Age of America begins right now.

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But we begin with good news tonight against all odds after years of sketchy war and subpoenas early morning raids Dozens of cooked-up charges one after another far left judges and Trump hating juries. Donald Trump has Eviscerated the left's lawfare campaign today, New York judge Democratic donor Juan Mershon Announced that Trump would receive no jail time. No fine No probation after a Manhattan jury convicted Trump on what is a novel bizarre Legal theory surrounding a case that had no victims I mean it was a legal NDA put together by a lawyer and it was chronicled as a legal expense Judge Mershon told Trump sir I wish you Godspeed as you assume your second term in office. It was almost laughable but despite no penalty at all Donald Trump will rightly appeal this bogus conviction at his Sentencing the president elect blasting the left their attempts to weaponize our system of justice. Take a look This has been a very terrible experience. I think it's been a tremendous setback for New York and the New York court system This was a case that Alvin Bragg did not want to bring He thought it was from what I read and from what I hear that inappropriately Handled before he got there a Gentleman from a law firm came in and acted as a district attorney and that gentleman From what I heard was a criminal or almost criminal in what he did It was very inappropriate. It was a somebody involved with my political opponent Think about legal expenses are down as legal expenses and and I get indicted for business records. Everybody should be so accurate It's been a political witch hunt it was done to damage my reputation so that I'd lose the election and obviously that didn't work and The people of our country got to see this firsthand because they watched the case in your courtroom They got to see this firsthand and then they voted and I won and got the largest number of votes by far of any Republican candidate in history and One as you know all seven swing states One conclusively all seven swing states and one the popularity the popular vote By millions and millions of votes and they've been watching you trial So they understood it with all that's happening in our country today with a city that's burning to the ground one of our largest most important cities burning to the ground with with wars that are uncontrollably going on with all of the problems of inflation and attacks on Countries and all of the horrible things that are going on I got indicted over calling a legal expense a legal expense and the people of this country understand what's gone on This has been a weaponization of government. They call it lawfare never happened to any extent like this but never happened in our country before and I just like to explain that I was treated very very unfairly and I thank you very much All right Trump hating Democrats they tried to throw the former president in prison They wanted to send him to Rikers Island. They wanted to ruin his life They did try to destroy his reputation all in order to block him from winning an election This is a massive scandal one of the biggest in modern American history and the media. They're perfectly fine with it These Democrats utterly failed and now it's time for a reckoning at the DOJ The FBI and the clown shows that are going on in Atlanta and New York now I don't mean that Republicans should follow suit. No, they should end the weaponization of justice They should adhere to equal justice and application of our laws returned to constitutional order They shouldn't do to them and they're scared to death it that would happen That which was done to Donald Trump the left tried to turn our courts the FBI our Intelligence community into a Soviet style political enforcement arm of the Democratic Party Thankfully that'll end in what 12 days whatever it is on January 20th If you are a Democrat and you're watching tonight pay close attention in this country Crimes get prosecuted not people in this country Justice is supposed to be blind. We're supposed to have equal justice under the law without political bias far-left bureaucrats that live in DC Do not get to anoint our leaders and make our laws and American presidents are Supposed to lead and not take orders in between their naps from a you know group of unelected Overeducated socialists that have an agenda. This is a Democratic Republic. It must remain one It's supposed to be by of and for the people and our rights are enshrined by a creator not the thing Joe Anyway, the left tried to criminalize Donald Trump's free expression in the whole process Block is right to participate in our elections and in the process They ended up putting Donald Trump and his supporters through hell He this can never happen again The pompous far-left bureaucrats long entrenched in that Washington swamp when Donald Trump gets in I hope he fires them all Flushes them all out so that freedom equal justice the rule of law Constitutional order will be restored in just what ten days this important work will officially begin and not a moment too soon

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What will we do with this moment? How will we be remembered? Look at the opportunities before us. This election really isn't about the left versus the right. It's about we the people choosing our government and the choice between freedom versus tyranny. Nobody has a chronic disease burden like we have. Why are we allowing this to happen to our children? Ultimately the only thing that will save our country is if we choose to love our kids more than we hate each other. What is going on here is deeper than politics. It is deeply spiritual. We are being called to rise above the hatred and the fear and the evil. We need to remember above and beyond that we must love our neighbors, that we must treat other people as we hope to be treated. You want to be a rebel? You want to be a hippie? You want to stick it to the man? Show up on your college campus and try calling yourself a conservative. America is going to reach heights that it has never seen before. The future is going to be amazing. Don't you want healthy children? Don't you want a president that's going to make America healthy again? I come to you today as a former Democrat. I will be a first time Trump voter tonight. [MUSIC] The people dreamed this country. And it's the people who are making America great again.

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