WATCH: President Trump Hosts a Rose Garden Club Lunch - 10/21/25

Hello everybody. Thank you very much.

Thank you. What a friendly group this

is. No Democrats are here, right? Well,

I want to thank everybody. Uh this has

been a labor of love. You know, we took

over a building that was uh not properly

taken care of. It just wasn't. It's a

very special building and we are taking

care of it. This was grass and when you

have a news conference and this was

going on for many years, but everybody

would just sink into the mud. It was

extremely luxurious grass, especially

when it was raining because you'd go

back, you'd go down about 5 in into the

mud and when we had a press conference

here, all the press standing back there,

they'd be cursing. The women would be

lifting up their shoes saying, "You've

destroyed my shoes. This is terrible.

So, we got a stone that's the exact same

stone and color as the White House

itself because we wanted the friendly

feeling of that light color and it uh

reflects the sun and it keeps you cool

even in the summer. And we've had press

conferences. We finished it about a

month ago. This is, as you see over

here, the presidential walk of fame. And

we had this long wall with half windows

because to be a swimming pool on the

other side of the wall. That was the

swimming pool where Jackie would say, "I

hear women inside. Are women inside?"

Quite a famous I'm not saying anything.

This was a part of a movie. And the

Secret Service said, "No, ma'am. There's

no women inside, ma'am. I'm sorry,

ma'am. You're gonna have to move along.

But I hear women inside. No, ma'am.

You'll have to move along, ma'am. So,

that was the famous swimming pool. Now,

it's even worse. It's for the media.

They covered the pool up. They covered

the pool up and now it's for the media.

And I think we have a small

representative group. I I don't think

they allowed the rest of them. I don't I

can't believe it. What happened? They're

all on the other side of the wall. Can

you believe it? Because this is supposed

to be sort of a private event. And uh

there is no such thing in politics as a

private event. Lindsay, you learned that

a long time ago, right? The great

Lindsey Graeme doing fant. You're up 34

points, Lindsay. That's not bad. I'll

tell you, it's not bad. So, uh, so we

did the presidential walk of fame from

the great George Washington all the way

to

well, I think we have to rate him above

me. So, less than great. Less than

George. Somebody went up there. They

say, "You're the third best president in

the United This was on television. Third

best." And they said, "Who are the first

two?" George Washington and Abraham

Lincoln. And I got extremely angry at

this man. You know, you can't

be tough to beat Mr. Senator. It's going

to beat John. It's going to be very

tough to beat Washington and Lincoln,

but we're going to give it a try. Right.

Hey, they didn't put out eight wars.

Nine coming. All right. We put out eight

wars and the ninth is coming. believe it

or not.

So, uh I just want to say it's great to

be with you and uh when we're finished

later on, we're going to have a little

quick lunch and they do great food at

the White House and uh this is used

sometimes for evening where we have

we've had some incredible people for the

evening and some of the big foreign

leaders have been coming and most

excitingly on the other side you see the

the fence and the wall. We're building a

worldclass ballroom. You know, for 150

years, they've wanted a ballroom here.

We don't have a ballroom. We have a

little cocktail area, but we don't have

a ballroom. The the East Room, it's

called, is a very small uh cocktail

area. 88 people if it's if it's tight.

And we said I said if I do this again,

I'm going to get a ballroom built. And

we're putting up our own money where the

government is paying for nothing. You

probably hear the beautiful sound of

construction to the back. You hear that

sound? Oh, that's music to my ears. I

love that sound. Other people don't like

it. I love it, Josh. I think when I hear

that sound, it reminds me of money. In

this case, it reminds me of lack of

money because I'm paying for it. So,

it's the opposite. But, it's going to be

one of the most beautiful ballrooms

anywhere in the world. And it's going to

be able to take care of tremendous uh

things. when you have, as an example,

I'm going to see President Xi in two

weeks. I'm going over to uh South Korea.

We're going to meet in South Korea.

We're going to talk about a lot of

things. They want to discuss the fact

that they're paying

57% tariff. It's a little little higher

than they thought. And uh we're doing

very well. I think we're going to do

well in that negotiation. We've done

well with Japan, with South Korea, with

Europe. The European nations got

together. We made a deal and it was all

based without the tariffs. You could

have never made the deal. I'll tell you

what, tariffs equal national security.

Remember that. Tariffs equal national

security. You got to remember that. And

they also equal wealth for our nation

because we've taken in hundreds of

billions of dollars in a very friendly

manner. given to us by nations that used

to take it from us and they used tariffs

on never used it on them because we were

foolish or we were led by people that

weren't business people but it really

does it equals national security and I

wouldn't have put out I mentioned eight

wars nine coming of the eight five were

based solely on trade and tariffs India

Pakistan were going at it two nuclear

powers and Syria's nuclear seven planes

shot down they were ready to go and I

called them up I said, "You go to war

and we're not doing a trade deal." And

they said, "Well, what is one thing for

the other?" I said, "It has a lot. Your

nuclear powers and if you do it, we're

not doing a trade deal." And 24 hours

later, they called me, we have decided

not to do it. We stopped the war. We

stopped a potential disaster, a nuclear

disaster because of trade. And uh it's

been really amazing. But the tariffs

have made us a wealthy country. They've

given us tremendous defense. They've

given us things that we can do for other

countries. Very positive. But again,

really, it's it's national, it's

national defense, and they are so

important. And it's incredible that

presidents for the most part didn't know

how to use them, when to use them. Uh if

you go back, you'll see some of the

presidents that were the most successful

were believers in tariffs. And I even

see foreign countries now that we are

doing very well with taking ads. don't

go with tariffs. They're taking ads. I

saw an ad last night from Canada. If I

was Canada, I'd take that same ad also.

But uh they're actually on television

taking ads. But uh I I do believe that

everybody's too smart for that. We have

a very very big and important case

coming up. We should win the case based

on the legal merit. We should also win

the case based on all of the things I

just said. But we're a wealthy country

again. Last week, as you know, they were

they found $31 billion. They came to see

me, "Sir, uh, we found $31 billion."

They said, "We don't know why." I said,

"Was this a good find or a bad find?" It

was a good find. It was a plus 31. We're

used to finding negative 31s, right? For

the last 30 years. I said, "Check the

tariff shelf." Well, those tariffs

haven't kicked in. Yes, they did. They

kicked in two months ago. Check it. He

comes back two hours later. Sir, uh, you

were right. We have an additional 31

billion dollars. Billion, not million,

Lindsay. Billion that we just found from

tariffs. They kicked in earlier than we

thought. You were right. Uh, we're a

wealthy nation again. And we're a nation

that can be secure. We're a nation that

can start paying down our debt. And with

tariffs, we're the wealthiest nation

ever in the history of the world.

Without them, we've got a slog. We've

got a slog. But remember this, other

nations including China, Japan, European

nations, they used tariffs against us

for many years. That's why we owe 37

trillion dollars. That's why. But they

used tariffs very successfully against

us. And we had presidents that never

fought it. But now you have a president

that does fight it. So I just want to

welcome you to the uh incredible Rose

Garden. It's uh just an incredible

place. It was uh done. We did it uh

brought it back to health. It was in

very bad shape actually and we brought

it back to health. Uh first lady Melania

did a fantastic job on it. The surrounds

and everything. It's all new wiring. You

know, underneath there is a lot of a lot

of wire, a lot of things. Everything

brand new. Everything beautiful. Uh the

only thing we did is we had to get a

hard surface here because nobody could

use it because of the grass. So, I just

want to welcome you and I hope you're

going to be here a lot. Uh, we're going

to use it for meetings. We're going to

use it for press conferences. Now, we

can use it. It was unusable before and

now we can use it. But everything that

you see was redone. All of this was

redone. And the whole White House is

being redone. Some of you came through

what called they call the Rose Hall.

They call it different names, but you

probably noticed I don't know if you

came through this door. Did you notice

the white marble floor that was put

there? That was that was made out of

Home Depot tiles about 1 ft by 1 ft.

They were all broken about 30 years old.

And I replaced it with book matched

marble paid for by your friend President

Trump. It's like it's amazing how people

like it when you say you paid for it.

When I say I paid for it, they say, "Oh,

I love it." But it really they did a

beautiful

talents. a very talented marble people I

have and they replaced it with beautiful

uh Paradichio marble and statuary marble

and it's really really beautiful. I want

to thank the outstanding leadership team

and you really do have that majority

leader John Thun who's been my friend.

He really really has done an amazing

job. Thank you John. Thank you. Done an

amazing job. I didn't get to know John

as well in the first term and uh I've

gotten to know him very well over the

last nine months, John. And you're doing

a fantastic job. Thank you very much.

Really great. Majority whip John Baraso

who's outstanding man. Thank you, John.

Thank you. Great guy, too. Conference

chair Tom Cotton. He loves that

military. He loves the He loves the

military. Policy Committee Chair Shelley

Moore Capo. Shelley, thank you very

much Shelly.

Vice Chair, James Langford. Very good,

James. Thank you. And you know, we have

everybody but one person here. You know,

everybody showed up. I said I figured

you'd have like I'd say 40 would have

been a good number, right? We have

everybody. We're just missing one

person. You'll never guess who that is.

Let me give you He automatically votes

no on everything. He thinks it's good

politics. It's really not good politics.

He's an automatic no. But I don't know.

Look, if he wanted to come, I'd probably

let him come, right? I'd let him come

begrudgingly, but would let him come. A

national Republican senatorial committee

chair, a unbelievable guy, Tim Scott.

You know, Tim, I shouldn't say it cuz

it's so I don't know if it's going to

be, but Tim ran and he was very

effective and very good, but he was on

on the debate stage and everything else.

He was good just cuz he's good, but he

wasn't as good as I thought he was. And

when he got out of the race, he endorsed

me almost immediately. And I used him as

a surrogate. And I wasn't sure if I

should because, you know, sometimes I

want a total lunatic to get up and fight

for me. And Tim is Tim is a really good

person. So I wasn't sure and I put him

on the stage and he ripped the heart out

of everybody. He was so brutal. He was

so unbelievable. Turned out to be

absolutely one of my best surrogates and

it includes a lot of you people that

were here. You were all surrogates. But

Tim ripped these people apart. And after

watching two or three times then I

wanted him all the time. Right, Susie? I

said I want Tim Scott. Get up there. But

he was so good. And I said to him, Tim,

when you fought for yourself, you were

much different. When you fought for me,

you were a tiger. You were like

unstoppable. You were really was You all

saw that. What's the difference? He

said, "I'd never liked selling myself.

And I love selling somebody that I

really do believe in. I really believe

in you." And I just felt that way. And

it was so nice the way he expressed it.

And I want to tell you, you are a

champion. and you are a winner and

congratulations. Thank you very much.

I never love telling that story because

I'm not sure if it's a good or a bad

story, but I'm telling you, you are an

amazing guy and you fought for me so

hard and I really appreciate it. You got

to be my number one choice, Tim. So,

something

having great doing what you're doing

right now. I also want to thank the

entire Senate Republican Conference for

your tremendous work on confirmations.

Boy, did we have a couple of weeks, huh?

Uh we had some uh we got I signed like

150 of them and I didn't use an auto pen

by the way. I signed you know when

you're signing these important like a

general getting approved from three star

to fourstar and all of these different

things and big confirmations and you

know big stuff you really have an

obligation to actually sign it. I think

uh you probably noticed right there

number 46. We put up right we put up a

little bit of an auto pen. We have 46.

We have 45. We have 47. That's it's very

interesting. Yeah. 46 is an auto pen.

It's up there. It stays up there. People

like it. It's probably going to stay up

there for a long time. And I know you're

looking into that. Uh and by the way,

the autopen person said he never spoke

to Biden. the auto pen. You're not

allowed. You're not allowed to do that.

So, if you're looking at anything, just

remember it. And remember, they treated

us very badly. They treated us very,

very badly. So, I think you're allowed

to just report the truth, including the

confirming of my cabinet much faster

than first time. I mean, we went so fast

and I give John Thun and and all of you

credit for that. It was amazing. All of

a sudden, I was calling John. John, I've

got to get him approved. Come on, John.

And you could because I was getting like

one every two weeks and you know I had

people they left their job and they left

everything and it looked like they were

all of a sudden it was like an

avalanche. They walked in James and

James my double James I call them. They

walk in and they had like so many of

them. I said you got to be kidding. Is

this like are you for real right James?

John Thun did his job and uh you got

them all done and you have all those

people out there working now and instead

of uh instead of being very upset with

the fact that we couldn't get them

approved quickly. So I really appreciate

it. You used a method that I wish you

could use on US attorneys. You know I

have 10 US attorneys who are who are

phenomenal phenomenal a Harvard a Yale

or this or that. all top and the problem

is they're not going to ever be

confirmed. I guess I put them in,

they'll be there for three or four

months and then they have to leave

because anytime you have, as you know,

anytime you have a Democrat senator, not

even two, just one, they'll say because

of the time we're in, we're not

approving that person. We're not

approving. They never do. They won't

approve. And therefore, because of blue

slip, I have to tell the person after

three months, I'm sorry, you'll have to

leave. And I put somebody else in. And

I've had Democrat senators say, the only

one will ever approve is a Democrat.

This is not constitutional. And you

really I hope you can look at that blue

slip thing because I have 10 people that

are going to that are phenomenal. and

they're going to have to leave office,

highly educated, top of their class,

everything, and they're going to have a

mark on their career that they were a US

attorney for 3 months or four months,

and then they had to leave. And that's

so unfair. It's unfair to the public

because the public voted for me by in a

landslide, and I'm supposed to be

picking the US attorneys. And this goes

for judges also, but actually more so

even for the US attorney with a blue

slip. So, I have these phenomenal

people, many of them young, but truly

fantastic people and they're wondering

what's going to happen in another three,

four, five weeks. They're going to have

to leave office. I think it's a shame

and I hope you can do something about it

because I'd like to tell those people

you're, you know, we put you there and

you're not going to have on your resume

for the rest of your life. You were

there for four weeks or six weeks and

you you left like you got canned. So, I

hope you look at that. Very important.

And after your pivotal changes to the

Senate rules last month, as a result,

this is what you did. The unprecedented

obstruction by the Democrats, we've

confirmed more than

175 public servants, people that are

phenomenal, to keep post. And that's

just been over the last couple of weeks.

It's an unbelievable thing what you've

done, John, you all of you together. So,

work closely with me and House majority.

The Republican Senate also gave us the

largest workingclass tax cut in American

history. And you passed the Lake and

Riley Act to throw illegal alien

criminals out of our country. You passed

the Genius Act and the Take It Down Act

with the support of our wonderful first

lady. She got, by the way, she got

actual support from the other side. It

was bipartisan.

I think Rand didn't vote for it again,

but

I think it was only Rand. You had

bipartisan support. Maybe Rand. But uh

another one I'm going to ask you to vote

for and it's in the House now and I hear

it's doing well in the House, James. Uh

it's Kate's Law. A young lady named Kate

Steinley. I remember it so well.

Probably

eight or 10 years ago now in San

Francisco.

She was uh holding hands with her father

on the San Francisco pier looking out

into the water. This beautiful

everything was beautiful. But the person

was beautiful that did this. And uh this

was an illegal

alien that came into our country five

times, was thrown out four or five

times, I don't even know, but a lot. And

came back and shot her through the head.

And she went down and she looked at her

father. Daddy, daddy, something

happened. and something happened and she

immediately passed away in his arm

and I mean you can imagine

it was so sad such a beautiful beautiful

beautiful person

father was destroyed you know virtually

destroyed and they passed a uh they

wanted to pass what they call Kate's law

and it's now again in Congress and I

hear we're going to get it passed in

Congress and when it gets up to the

Senate it. I hope you guys can pass it.

And basically, very simply, it says that

if you're an illegal alien and you come

in and you get thrown out, if you come

back and get caught, you have to spend

10 years in jail. Very simple. Very

simple. If they would have had that,

Kate Steinley would be alive today. That

was a big event at the time. If you

remember Bill O'Reilly,

uh, for those of you that like Bill, I

think I like Bill, but he was the one he

was he devoted his life to that law

trying to get it passed. I think it's

time that we pass it so that if you get

taken out of the country and you come

back illegally knowing that this law is

in existence, you go to jail for 10 year

period and it's going to keep the repeat

offenders from coming in. It's going to

really keep them from coming in. Senate

Republicans have already voted 11 times

to get our government back and open for

business. We have record business. We're

going to be I think by the time I had my

uh I hit month number 12, I think we're

going to have 20 trillion dollars of

investment. We're over 17 right now. Uh

as an example, President Biden had less

than a trillion for four years. have 20

trillion dollars in less than 12 months

and we're over 17 trillion right now.

So, it's the largest

it's the largest amount in our country

by far by many times that's in our

country. But here's the one. It's the

largest amount in the history of the

world. There's never been a country

that's had anywhere near 17 or it will

be 20. And it's going up fast. A lot of

it's because of tariffs because they're

coming in because they don't want to pay

tariffs. In other words, uh they make

their product in a certain country and

they used to just send it in here and

there was no charge. Absolutely. Now, if

they have to pay a 20%, 30%, 50%, the

100% or 2%. tariff, they say, "Well,

it's better if I build my plant in the

United States." It it always amazed me

for, you know, I did this first term. We

had the we had the greatest economy in

the history of our country in first

term. We had COVID and we did a good job

with that. That was a that was a curse

for every country in the world. It was

terrible. But we had the greatest

economy we ever had. But if you

remember, I started the tariffs, but I

held it off because it wouldn't have

exactly been good at the time to tell

France, you know what they were going

through, you know what Spain was going

through and Italy was going through.

that by the way we're going to charge

you tariffs but uh I had started the

process all we were going the country

was doing good and I took in hundreds of

billions of dollars from China I put the

full tariffs on China Biden left the

tariffs because he couldn't it was too

much money but they gave so many

exceptions that they were essentially

meaningless in other words here's the

tariffs but you don't have to pay if you

look at somebody the wrong way you don't

have to pay so they didn't pay very much

But with me, they were paying hundreds

of billions of dollars. And again, I

have a great relationship with President

Xi. I expect to be able to make a a good

deal with him. And he'll make a good I

want him to make a good deal for China.

But it's got to be fair. For years, they

were making five, six, 700 billion

dollars. 700 billion dollars and we'd be

making nothing. It was a one-sided. It

honestly it we built their military. We

built China's military with the money

that we lost for so many years getting

ripped off. So now we're going to have a

fair deal and I think we're going to

have a very successful meeting.

Certainly there are a lot of people that

are waiting for it. Maybe it won't

happen, maybe it won't happen. Things

can happen where, for instance, uh maybe

somebody will say, "I don't want to

meet. It's too nasty." But it's really

not nasty. It's just business. and we're

going to we're going to do a good job

representing you people and representing

the people of our country.

Unfortunately, in a craven and pointless

act of partisan spite, Chuck Schumer,

who I've known for a long time and the

radical left Democrats are holding the

entire federal government hostage to

appease the extremists in their party.

And they are extreme. I mean, I've never

seen anything like it. It's they're

extreme. And you know what? We had a

landslide election. We won the popular

vote by a lot. We won the swing states,

all seven. Remember they said, "Oh, if

Trump could get three swing states, he'd

be." And well, I didn't get three, I got

seven. We got all seven by a lot by

record numbers. We won the electoral

college 312 votes. They said it's very

hard for a Republican. It's harder for a

Republican. Although now I think we've

swapped it. I think it's now harder for

a Democrat because if you see what we've

done with the Hispanics, with the black

workers and black men and recently a

poll came out with black men and women

were doing so well. You know, they want

security. They don't want to have their

city destroyed. Uh women in Chicago,

beautiful black women walking around

with red MAGA hats because they don't

want to be mugged and shot and

everything else. And then you see a

Democrat get up and tell you how safe it

is in Chicago. Do you know they've had

in a fairly short period of time 4,000

murders. This is over a short period of

time. 4,000

murders. And they had a uh holiday where

they had 28 people killed and almost a

hundred shot. And then you listen to

this guy Pritzkar. I've known the family

for a long time. They threw him out cuz

he was no good and he became governor.

He's got money through the family. He

didn't make He's got money through the

family, but they threw him out. He

became governor. I said, "I wonder how

he's going to do. It's uh it's a crime

palace. It's a shame." And you know what

we did in DC is unbelievable. You

people, you can walk down the middle of

the street. Senator, you can walk down,

you can have your wife meet you at the

restaurant and she's not going to be

accosted, shot, beat up, raped. It's

unbelievable how bad it was. It was one

of the worst in the country. And now

it's it's stone cold. I don't say the

word perfect, but it's pretty damn

close. And you know, they used to have

they would average more than a murder a

week in Washington DC. This is just

before we got here. A murder wick. Think

of that. The capital of, in my opinion,

the capital of the world. They come from

Iowa. They come from Indiana. They come

from Florida. You call up the parents.

I'm sorry, sir. Your son has been shot

and killed. We have no crime here now.

We have no crime. And the National Guard

has been unbelievable. The job.

Unbelievable.

And you know, it also looks better. I do

a tour. I I hop in that beast. I feel

very safe in the beast. The windows are

this thick. I hop in the beast and I

tell the secret service, "Let's drive

around town." I used to do that. I could

drive myself around. I actually like

that better, but now I don't think it's

a good idea. But we drive around in the

streets. The place is looking much the

grass is good. The the fences are down.

There's no tents. There's no anything.

We are looking like it's just a whole

new look. And the most important thing,

there's no crime. And we're going to fix

the roads. We have great pavers. We're

going to fix the uh medians in between

the roads, which are half of them are

falling down. We're going to take some

of the tiles off the bridges, the

tunnels that you have. They've been up

for 40 years. They're rotted. And we'll

put up brand new, gorgeous white tiles

like it's supposed to be. And but this

place is looking really good. And we

haven't even started the real uh fixing

up of the of the town. We're getting rid

of the graffiti. You notice there's

almost no graffiti anymore. A lot of

that beautiful statuary marble had red

graffiti all over it. Had bad signs up

and it stopped. We've taken out 1,700

career people that came in through an

open border. They came in through

Biden's open border and we've taken them

out. the uh thing having to do with all

of the elements in the great big

beautiful bill. I'll tell you, it's

amazing what we've done. $200 billion in

in costs for medical. What we've done,

$50 billion for rural hospitals, and

remember, no tax on tips, no tax on

social security, no tax on Think of

Think of all of these things that we've

done. This is the biggest This is the

greatest bill. Social Security, no tax

on overtime,

but no tax on tips. I got that from a

waitress and Nevada. I was making a

speech and I'm at one of my restaurants

in in the hotel I own there and I I say,

"How are you doing?" "Well, sir, it's

terrible. They're taxing my tips.

They're going, "I didn't even I wouldn't

have even thought that." And I looked at

it and she said to me, "Sir, there

should be no tax on tips." I said, "Say

it one time or no tax on tips." I walked

outside to the press. I said there will

be no tax. She was right. And uh we won

that state by a lot. That's not a state

that we win by that much, David, but we

won it by a lot. So it was uh it was

pretty good. But that bill is chock full

of so many different things. So it was

the biggest bill. I'm actually saying

this to the fake news so that they maybe

print it, but maybe not because you

people know. It was the biggest bill

ever passed in Congress. And what we did

was little risky. We put everything into

the bill, John. Right. And some people

were against it. They said, "No, you got

to do small bites." And we gave it a

shot and we got it passed. I got a call

from John. He said, "Uh, it was 3:00 in

the morning. Sir, we have four hard

nose. Could you please call him?" I

said, "What time is it, John?" It's 4:00

in the morning, sir. So, I call up. One

of you is sitting right here.

I said, "Uh, Jim, could I uh say hello

to you? It's four o'clock in the

morning, right?" He said, "Sir, you have

my vote." I said, "Wow." Then I called

up another person. I'll use fictitious

names. Doug, could I get your vote?

You've got it, sir. Then I called up

another one. How about Josh? Could I

have your vote, Josh? Because I like

Josh. And Josh, who can be very

difficult, said, "Sir, you have my

vote." His wife was screaming at him on

the other side. So, you have my vote.

But I called people and they weren't

really hard nos. They wanted a little

attention unfortunately at 4 in the

morning. Sometimes they're like the ones

that don't like the attention, but we'll

take it anywhere we can. And we got it

passed, right, John? And uh nobody

thought that could happen because you

have a small majority. And in in the how

about in the House, we had a majority of

three. We actually went down after that

for a period of about two months. We

went down to a majority in the house of

one and I kept I kept saying, you know,

because I'll tell you, Mike Johnson's

great. The team, these two teams, did

you ever see two people more different?

One's tall, one's slightly less tall. We

want to be polite.

They are very different people, but

they're the same in terms of talent.

They did an un the two guys and they get

along incredibly well. Well, we all do.

We get along great. But we passed a

bill. We don't need to pass any more

bills. We got everything in that bill.

There's nothing else we have to put. We

got the largest tax cuts in history. We

got the extension of the Trump tax cuts.

We got all of these things.

And you know, remember they uh they lie.

They will look at the I saw it the other

day. Somebody they were talking about I

call it the great big beautiful bill,

but that's what it is. The great big

beautiful the biggest bill ever passed.

And what they say, they make up stories.

And I saw they were interviewing a

senator and they said, "Well, what's

wrong with their bill?" He didn't know

what to say because there's nothing he

could say. It's it covers everything. He

said, "Death. Death. It brings death."

Now, if I'm a regular person and I hear

that, I say, "Oh, that's terrible." But

it's just the opposite. It brings life.

It brings Medicaid, Medicare, Social

Security. It secures all those things

and they just are so bad. You know,

they'll they said death. It was like

death and there's nothing about death.

Theirs is death because they're going to

lose Medicaid. They're going to lose

social security. They're going to lose

Medicare. All of those things are going

to be gone because the whole country

would be bankrupt and you're not going

to have any kind of medical insurance.

So, with us, it's the opposite. And it's

a great bill. We don't need anymore. And

I want to just say from the beginning,

our message has been very simple. We

will not be extorted on this crazy plot

of theirs. They've never done this

before. Nobody has. You always vote for

an extension. Chuck Schumer and the

Democrats need to vote for the clean

bipartisan CR and reopen our government.

It's got to be reopened right now.

We're not doing that. They're they are

the obstructionists. And the reason

they're doing it is because we're doing

so well. We're doing well all over the

world. We're doing well with the close

to 20 trillion dollars that I just told

you about. It will be that number. But

even if you take it down to over 17,

that's a guarantee. We're doing well

with everything. Car plants are pouring

back into our country. AI plants, we're

leading. We're dominating China right

now in AI. And I did something that I

think you'd like because we have an old

grid. It's a tired grid. It doesn't have

the juice that you need to fire up these

plants. You know, these plants will need

more than double the energy we have

right now for the whole country. That's

how big it is. And we can't do that.

There's no way we can do that. China is

building right now 52 power stations.

But I did something better. I'm letting

everybody build their own power plant so

they'll become like an electric utility

in addition to AI. But if they want to

build their own plant and we get their

approvals within less than a month. It

used to take five years prior to

rejection. Sometimes a guy in uh

Louisiana, they had one, it took 12

years and then they got rejected. I got

it approved in two weeks when I got into

office. That was the first term. And the

plant is up now and it's been a a great

thing for the state. I did it twice

actually. I got two of them that were

dead after 12 years and I got them

approved. both of them in less than a

week. And that's what we're doing. Lee

Zeldon, by the way, is doing a

phenomenal job. Environmental

Commission, I have to tell you, he's he

knows that we have to get them fast. And

we're getting them fast. So, we're

leading China in the AI race by a lot

under Biden. Democrats voted 13 times

for continuing resolutions to keep the

government open. And all we want is

simply to ask them to do it once again.

They always voted for it. They never

voted against it. Nobody votes against

it, but they do that. And they do. It

It's partially my fault. I mean, I'm

watching you and I'm looking at all

these great faces that I've seen. Really

great people. I think with few

exceptions, a couple of you I don't like

that much, but with with few exceptions,

great people. And you look at what they

do and you look at the game they play

and it's a horrible game. And you know,

we have the hottest country ever. This

is the hottest country anywhere in the

world. And I I say this, I'm sure you've

heard me say it, but I was over in the

Middle East and the king of Saudi Arabia

and others also said essentially the

same thing. They said, "You know,

President, a year and a half ago,

your country was dead. We never thought

we'd see this. And right now, you have

the hottest anywhere in the world." We

do. We have the hottest country anywhere

in the world, which tells you about

leadership, and that includes your

leadership. So, as you know, my door is

always open to anyone. It's not like

that AOC. How about her? Where she said,

she's talking about having rebellions

and everything. She said, "Well, my door

is always open." But she's not the

leader. I'm sure the leaders felt very

nicely about when she said her door is

open. Who the hell wants to go into her

door anyway? She doesn't know what the

hell she's talking about. She's the one

that started, you know. I remember I'll

never forget she never took a course on

the environment and I watched her one

day and she was on tele.

Our planet will be dead within 12 years.

That was a long time ago. Our planet was

supposed to be dead. Remember the

12-year theory? We were environmentally

dead. No, these people, they've got an

agenda that nobody quite understands.

The good news is they don't understand

it either. They really have no idea. But

the people do. The the people

understand. We're giving you the biggest

tax cuts in history. All of these

things, it all adds up that we should do

fantastically well in the midterm. The

only thing wrong with a mid

statistically when you look a president

gets elected and for some reason and

nobody even the great John Thun cannot

explain to me for some re even if he's a

reasonably good president and we've had

success like nobody but for some reason

you lose the midterms. I don't know why.

I mean, the odds are tremendously

against like 92% or something. It

doesn't make sense. If you have a great

presidency, it only makes sense that you

win the midterm. So, there should be no

reason for it. Somebody's going to

explain there might be some dark, deep

psychological reason where they want to

vote the opposite way. I don't know what

it is, but we have to win the midterms.

Otherwise, all of the things that we've

done, so many of them are going to be

taken away by the radical left lunatics.

I mean, we're going to end up with a

communist mayor in New York. Can you

believe it? A communist. Remember, I

would always say we will not have a

socialist elected in our country.

Remember, I say that all the time. And I

was right. We skipped socialist. We got

a communist elected. So, I didn't tell a

lie. I didn't tell a lie. I was right.

We have a communist, not a socialist.

But we've already seen the impacts of

the dangerous game that they're playing.

Democrats are causing delays in our air

traffic control system. So important, we

wouldn't have had, you know, this Pete

Budage. He spent billions of dollars on

fixing the air traffic control that use

copper wire going into glass wire. Uh

any union electrician here or any non-UN

electrician would say you can't hook

copper into into glass. It doesn't work.

They spent billions of dollars. They

turned on the system and it was stone

cold blank. We're getting a brand new

system. We have bids out now. We have

three great companies bidding and I want

one bid. Sean Duffy is doing

terrifically. I want one bid. I want

just bid and they're responsible for

everything. Not where you had they had

like a thousand contractors. Every

contractor, they're all running around.

In the end, if one of them does a bad

job, we want to be able to blame

somebody and it's going to be one of the

very big companies because there's a a

lot of interest in it. So, the air

traffic control system is going to be

rebuilt. Over 1 million federal workers

right now, as you know, are going

unpaid. That's the Democrat's fault. And

children, tourists unable to visit the

museums in Washington DC that we now

have beautiful, safe streets, but we

don't have the museums open. we should

probably just open them. But uh we are

doing things that nobody's ever done,

nobody's ever seen. So all of this and

the pain that the Democrats have caused

during this reckless and completely

unnecessary affair. And you could call

it the Schumer shutdown or the Democrat,

you can call it whatever you want. And I

will say this that we have Darth Vader.

You know Darth Vader, right? Darth Vader

is a man who uh I think I sitting right.

Is that Darth? Stand up, please. Darth

Vader, stand up. Does everybody know

this is they call him Darth Vader. I

call him a fine man, but he's cutting

Democrat priorities and they're never

going to get him back. And they've

caused us and they've really allowed us

to do it. And by the way, thank you.

You're doing a great job. I have to tell

you. So really a great shot cuz many of

the things they're cutting like the New

York project $20 billion we're cutting

it. They're not going to get it back. I

mean they're not going to get a lot of

things back. They may not get it back.

Maybe we'll talk to them about it but

they're losing all the things that they

wanted. But there many of the things

that they wanted are things that we

don't want. The things that are just so

bad for our country and we're cutting

those things out. So, while they thought

they were doing maybe bad, maybe

indirectly they're doing good, the

cynical comment uh that they've made all

over the place and all of their cynical

remarks proves beyond all doubt that

Schumer is a calculating political

partisan. But we knew that. But he's

somebody that's in deep trouble. He's

losing in all of the polls. He's even

losing to AOC plus three. Remember plus

three? What happened to the plus three?

Are they still around? I I had one uh I

met the when I was at the United

Nations, I met the president of Somalia

and I say, "I have somebody I'd like to

give back to you." Thanks. We don't want

her. He didn't want anything to do with

her. But today, I'm calling on every

Senate Democrat to stop the madness, to

let our country get back. In the

greatest moment in the history of our

country in terms of wealth, in terms of

uh job creation and and in terms of

investment coming in, these guys go on

strike. It's really a shame. So, I'm

asking them to be smart. It's not

working. They're getting killed in the

polls. The public understands what

they're doing. They're doing the wrong

thing. And with that, I just want to say

welcome to the White House. Uh when

we're finished, they do a great job.

When they finish, we're going to all

come in. It'll be a little crowded, but

that's okay. Into the Oval Office. We'll

talk a little bit, couple of minutes.

Got some interesting things. And I think

I'd like to have, if I could, John come

up and say a few words and we can close

it out. And by the way, this is an open

mic. It's open to the world. I think

they can hear me out on the screen. If

anybody wants to come up and say after

friends and you can speak your heart

out, but we've got to get our government

open. and the Democrats are trying to

keep it closed. Thank you, John. Please.

Thank you, man. Thank you, sir.

Well, Mr. President, thank you for

having us. This is the fourth week of

the Democrat shutdown, but we are all

here today because your Republican team

in the Senate is unified. We are

this is now the the longest full

shutdown in history. But everybody here

has voted now 11 different times to open

up the government and we are going to

keep voting to open up the government

and eventually the Democrats hopefully

sooner or later are going to come

around. But Mr. President uh your agenda

is the right one for this country. This

is your team. We are your partners in

achieving and implementing the agenda

that you campaigned on and the American

people voted for. And you just mentioned

it has been a series promises kept

whether it's national security, whether

it's the border, whether it's the

economy taxes regulations energy

Trump, newborn accounts, school choice.

You look at what we've accomplished so

far. is a remarkable remarkable uh team

and a record of accomplishment that

can't be matched uh and I would argue at

least in my time here but perhaps in all

of history. So thank you for your

leadership and uh we will continue to be

good partners and work with you to get

the work done for the American people

and let's hope that the Democrats get

wise and starting perhaps even today

vote to reopen the government so we can

get back to work for the American

people. Mr. President, thank you for

having us at your home. You have

beautiful homes and thank you for

everything you're doing to make this

such a beautiful place. This is

America's house. We're delighted to be

here. Thank you.