• last week
Donald Trump appeared on stage at his Mar-a-Lago headquarters as the 45th and now 47th President of the United States, securing a return to the White House following a fiercely contested race against Democratic nominee Kamala Harris.
Transcript
00:00Thank you very much.
00:28Wow. Well, I want to thank you all very much.
00:39This is great. These are our friends.
00:41We have thousands of friends on this incredible movement.
00:47This was a movement like nobody's ever seen before.
00:50And, frankly, this was,
00:56I believe, the greatest political movement of all time.
01:01There's never been anything like this in this country
01:03and maybe beyond.
01:06And now it's going to reach a new level of importance
01:10because we're going to help our country heal.
01:15We're going to help our country heal.
01:16We have a country that needs help,
01:20and it needs help very badly.
01:22We're going to fix our borders.
01:23We're going to fix everything about our country.
01:26And we made history for a reason tonight,
01:30and the reason is going to be just that.
01:33We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible,
01:36and it is now clear
01:38that we've achieved the most incredible political thing.
01:43Look what happened. Is this crazy?
01:47But it's a political victory
01:53that our country has never seen before, nothing like this.
01:57I want to thank the American people
01:59for the extraordinary honor of being elected.
02:02You're 47th President and you're 45th President.
02:12And to every citizen, I will fight for you,
02:14for your family, and your future.
02:18Every single day, I will be fighting for you
02:21with every breath in my body.
02:25I will not rest until we have delivered the strong,
02:27safe, and prosperous America that our children deserve
02:31and that you deserve.
02:33This will truly be the golden age of America.
02:37That's what we have to have.
02:39This is a magnificent victory for the American people
02:47that will allow us to make America great again.
02:55And in addition to having won the battleground states
02:59of North Carolina, I love these places.
03:03Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin.
03:09We are now winning in Michigan, Arizona,
03:12and Nevada, and Alaska,
03:14which would result in us carrying
03:17at least 315 electoral votes.
03:26But it's much easier doing what the networks did
03:29or whoever called it because there was no other path.
03:34There was no other path to victory.
03:37We also have won the popular vote.
03:42That was great.
03:43Very powerful.
03:45USA! USA! USA!
03:54USA! USA! USA!
04:00Thank you very much.
04:03Winning the popular vote was very nice, very nice,
04:06I will tell you.
04:08It's a great feeling of love.
04:10We have a great feeling of love in this very large room
04:14with unbelievable people standing by my side.
04:17These people have been incredible.
04:20They've made the journey with me,
04:22and we're going to make you very happy.
04:25We're going to make you very proud of your vote.
04:27I hope that you're going to be looking back someday
04:30and say that was one of the truly important moments
04:33of my life when I voted for this group of people
04:37beyond the president, this group of great people.
04:43America has given us an unprecedented
04:49and powerful mandate.
04:51We have taken back control of the Senate.
04:55Wow, that's great.
04:57And the Senate races in Montana, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Michigan,
05:10Wisconsin, the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
05:15were all won by the MAGA movement.
05:19They helped so much.
05:24And in those cases,
05:26every one of them, we worked with the senators.
05:28They were tough races.
05:29And, I mean, the number of victories in the Senate
05:33was absolutely incredible.
05:35And we did teller rallies.
05:37We did teller rallies with each one of them.
05:39And sometimes we did two or three.
05:42And it was amazing to look at all of those victories.
05:44Nobody expected that, nobody.
05:47So I just wanted to thank you very much for that.
05:49And you have some great senators and some great new senators.
05:54And it also looks like we'll be keeping control
05:57of the House of Representatives.
06:06And I want to thank Mike Johnson.
06:08I think he's doing a terrific job, terrific job.
06:12I want to also thank my beautiful wife,
06:14Melania, First Lady.
06:25Who has the number-one best-selling book in the country.
06:30Can you believe that?
06:42Now, she's done a great job, works very hard,
06:45works very hard to help people.
06:47So I just want to thank her.
06:49But I want to thank my whole family, my amazing children.
06:53And they are amazing children.
06:55Now, we all think our children are amazing.
06:57Everybody here thinks their children are amazing,
06:59but that's a good thing when you think they are.
07:03But Don, Eric, Ivanka, Tiffany,
07:06Barron, Laura, Jared, Kimberly, Michael,
07:10thank you all. What a help.
07:13What a great family.
07:20My father-in-law, Victor, is tremendous.
07:23And we miss very much Melania's mother, Amalia.
07:27We miss Amalia, don't we, huh?
07:30She would be very happy right now, standing on this stage.
07:32She'd be so proud.
07:34She was a great woman, that one.
07:36Beautiful inside and out.
07:38She was a great woman.
07:41I want to be the first to congratulate our great,
07:46now I can say Vice President-Elect of the United States,
07:49J.B.
07:50Pence.
08:05And his absolutely remarkable and beautiful wife,
08:08Ushavez.
08:13And he is a feisty guy, isn't he?
08:16You know, I've said, go into the enemy camp,
08:20and you know the enemy camp is certain networks,
08:23and a lot of people don't like to,
08:26sir, do I have to do that?
08:28He just goes, okay.
08:29Which one, CNN, MSDNC?
08:32He'll say, all right, thank you very much.
08:35He actually looks like, he's like the only guy I've ever seen.
08:38He really looks forward to it, and then he just goes
08:40in an absolutely obliterate step.
08:46Say a couple of words.
09:04Well, Mr. President, I appreciate you
09:07allowing me to join you on this incredible journey.
09:10I thank you for the trust that you placed in me.
09:13And I think that we just witnessed
09:15the greatest political comeback in the history
09:18of the United States of America.
09:27And under President Trump's leadership,
09:28we're never going to stop fighting for you,
09:30for your dreams, for the future of your children.
09:33And after the greatest political comeback
09:36in American history, we're going to leave
09:38the greatest economic comeback in American history
09:41under Donald Trump's leadership.
09:51Thank you very much.
09:54He's turned out to be a good choice.
09:58I took a little heat at the beginning, but he was,
10:03I knew the brain was a good one, about as good as it gets.
10:07And we love the family, and we're going to have
10:09a great four years.
10:11And we're going to turn our country around,
10:13make it something very special.
10:14It lost that — lost that little —
10:19it lost that little — that little thing called special.
10:23We have to make it so — we're going to make this so great.
10:26It's going to — it's the greatest country
10:28and potentially the greatest country in the world by far.
10:32And right now, we're going to just work very hard
10:34to get all of that back.
10:36We're going to make it the best it's ever been.
10:38We can do that. We just — if we had to wait longer,
10:41I don't know — it was going bad,
10:43and it was going bad fast.
10:45We're going to have to seal up those borders,
10:47and we're going to have to let people come into our country.
10:52We want people to come back in.
10:55But we have to — we have to let them come back in,
10:59but they have to come in legally.
11:01They have to come in legally.
11:03Let me also express my tremendous appreciation
11:07for Susie and Chris — the job you did.
11:10Susie. Come, Susie. Come here. Come here, Susie.
11:15Chris. Come here, Chris.
11:18Susie likes to stay, sort of, in the back, let me tell you.
11:21The ice baby. We call her the ice baby.
11:24Come here, Susie. Come here, baby.
11:27Chris. Come here, Chris.
11:29Susie likes to stay in the background.
11:34She's not in the background.
11:39This was unexpected, but I just want to thank,
11:42obviously, President Trump for this journey.
11:44It was a great one, and he's a hell of a candidate,
11:47and he's going to be a hell of a great 47th president.
11:50And this team that we had, the best team,
11:53and, of course, even my boss, Susie Wiles, the best.
12:02Thank you, and thank you, Susie.
12:04Look at her. She's shy. I've never seen her be shy before.
12:08Susie. They've been — they're great.
12:11Everybody up here is great. Everybody up here is very special.
12:15But the Trump — who did you say?
12:20Oh, let me tell you, we have a new star.
12:24A star is born. Elon.
12:29Now he is. Now he's an amazing guy.
12:33We were sitting together tonight.
12:34You know, he spent two weeks in Philadelphia
12:37and different parts of Pennsylvania campaigning.
12:42You know, he sent the rocket up two weeks ago,
12:45and I saw that rocket, and I saw it coming down.
12:48I saw it. It was — when it left,
12:50it was beautiful, shiny white.
12:52When it came down, it didn't look so pretty.
12:54It was going 10,000 miles an hour,
12:56and it was burning like hell.
12:58I said, what happened to your paint job?
12:59He said, we've never made a paint
13:01that could withstand that kind of heat.
13:04And — but I saw it come down and turn around.
13:07And it was — you know, it's like 22 stories tall, by the way.
13:10It looks a little smaller than that, but it's big.
13:13And it came down and down, and you saw that fire burning.
13:18And I'm saying, only Elon can do this.
13:20It must be an Elon.
13:22And I tell the story. I told it last night.
13:24I had a man on the phone.
13:26I had the screen muted. No sound.
13:29I was talking to a very important man.
13:30Happens to be here.
13:32And a very important guy.
13:33One of the most important people in,
13:36I would say, the country, actually.
13:38But, you know, I was President, and now it looks like
13:42I was going to be maybe President again.
13:44So I figured I could ask him to hold.
13:47So I asked him to hold.
13:50And because — especially because you're going to be President again,
13:52they hold.
13:54So I took the phone down, and I'm looking at the screen.
13:56I'm seeing this crazy thing that's going around and coming down.
13:59It looks like it's going to crash into the gantry.
14:02And I said, oh, no.
14:03And I said, do me a favor.
14:04Do you mind holding for a couple of minutes?
14:06I want to see this.
14:07I thought it was a space-age movie or something.
14:10I put the phone down.
14:12Bad boy. I didn't pick it up for 45 minutes, and he was holding.
14:16But this spaceship came down,
14:18and I saw those engines firing.
14:20And it looked like it was over.
14:22It was going to smash.
14:23And then I saw the fire pour out from the left side,
14:26and I put it straight.
14:28And it came down so gently,
14:30and then it wrapped those arms around it.
14:33And it held it.
14:34And just like you hold your baby at night, your little baby.
14:39And it was a beautiful thing to see.
14:41And I called Elon.
14:41I said, Elon, was that you?
14:45He said, yes, it was.
14:47I said, who else can do that?
14:49Can Russia do it?
14:50No.
14:50Can China do it?
14:51No.
14:53Can the United States do it other than you?
14:55No.
14:56Nobody can do that.
14:56I said, that's why I love you, Elon.
14:58That's great.
15:00And you know, when we had the tragic Hurricane Helene,
15:05and it hit, in particular, it hit North Carolina,
15:09they were really devastated.
15:10The water, this was a big water,
15:12as big as we've ever seen, water hurricane.
15:14It built lakes out of nothing.
15:16Fields became lakes, and the danger was unbelievable.
15:20And the people from North Carolina came to me,
15:23and they said, would it be possible, at all possible,
15:26for you to speak to Elon Musk?
15:28We need Starlink.
15:30I said, what's Starlink?
15:31It's a form of communication.
15:33So I called Elon, and I'll tell you what he had,
15:36and it was very dangerous.
15:37People would die.
15:38They had no communication.
15:39All the wires were down.
15:40I called Elon Musk.
15:42I said, Elon, you have something called Starlink.
15:45Is that right?
15:47I said, yes, I do.
15:47What the hell is it?
15:48He said, it's a communication system that's very good.
15:51I said, Elon, they need it really,
15:53really badly in North Carolina.
15:56Can you get it?
15:57He had that there so fast.
15:58It was incredible, so.
16:00And it was great.
16:01It saved a lot of lives.
16:02He saved a lot of lives, but he's a character.
16:05He's a special guy.
16:06He's a super genius.
16:07We have to protect our geniuses.
16:09We don't have that many of them.
16:11We have to protect our super geniuses.
16:14I want to thank some of the guys.
16:15You know, we have up here today the U.S. Open champion.
16:18He's a fantastic golfer.
16:20Slightly longer than me.
16:21It's a ball a little bit longer than me.
16:24Just a little bit.
16:24Bryson DeChambeau is up here some place.
16:27What happened to Bryson?
16:32Where is he?
16:33Bryson.
16:36Oh, he was shot.
16:40He's hitting balls.
16:42Oh, he's on the way.
16:44He's hitting balls.
16:46Bryson.
16:49Oh, look at him.
16:57He had a great, he's got a great career going.
17:00Great U.S. Open, Bryson.
17:02That's a fantastic job.
17:04And we also have a man, Dana White, who has done some job.
17:07Dana.
17:12He's a tough guy.
17:19So Dana started UFC and came to me,
17:24do you mind if I use your,
17:26nobody wanted to give him a rinse
17:27because they said it's a rough sport, a little rough.
17:30And I helped him out a little bit.
17:32And I went and I said,
17:34this is the roughest sport I've ever seen.
17:36But I began to like it and he loved it.
17:39And nobody's done a better job in sports.
17:42And you know, he's a very motivational kind of a guy.
17:46What he does, he gets these fighters
17:48and they really go at it.
17:50And it's become one of the most successful
17:52sports enterprises anywhere at any time.
17:55It's doing so well.
17:56I'd like to ask Dana just to say a couple of words
17:58because people love to hear from him.
18:07Nobody deserves this more than him.
18:08And nobody deserves this more than his family does.
18:12This is what happens when the machine comes after you.
18:15What you've seen over the last several years,
18:17this is what it looks like.
18:19Couldn't stop him.
18:20He keeps going forward.
18:21He doesn't quit.
18:22He's the most resilient, hardworking man
18:24I've ever met in my life.
18:25His family are incredible people.
18:27This is karma, ladies and gentlemen.
18:28He deserves this.
18:30They deserve it as a family.
18:31He deserves this.
18:33They deserve it as a family.
18:36I want to thank some people real quick.
18:38I want to thank the Nelk boys, Aiden Ross, Theo Vaughn,
18:43Bustin' with the Boys, and last but not least,
18:47the mighty and powerful Joe Rogan.
18:51And thank you, America.
18:54Have a good night.
18:55That is a piece of work.
18:57Now he's an amazing, he's really an amazing guy.
19:00But most of all, I want to thank the millions
19:02of hardworking Americans across the nation
19:04who have always been the heart and soul
19:06of this really great movement.
19:10We've been through so much together,
19:12and today you showed up in record numbers
19:14to deliver a victory like, really,
19:17I probably like no other.
19:18This was something.
19:24This was something.
19:25This was something special.
19:26And we're gonna pay you back.
19:29We are gonna do the best job.
19:30We're gonna turn it around.
19:33It's gotta be turned around.
19:34It's gotta be turned around fast.
19:35And we're gonna turn it around.
19:37We're gonna do it in every way, so many ways,
19:40but we're gonna do it in every way.
19:41This will forever be remembered as the day
19:44the American people regained control of their country.
19:48So, I just want to say that on behalf
19:51of this great group of people,
19:53these are hardworking people.
19:55These are fantastic people.
19:57And we can add a few names like Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
20:01He came out.
20:02And he's going to help make America healthy again.
20:06And he's going to help make America healthy again.
20:10And he's going to help make America healthy again.
20:15Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby.
20:18Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby.
20:23Bobby, Bobby, Bobby, Bobby.
20:26And now, he's a great guy, and he really means it.
20:28He wants to do some things,
20:29and we're going to let him go to it.
20:31I just said, but Bobby, leave the oil to me.
20:37We have more liquid gold, oil, and gas,
20:39we have more liquid gold than any country in the world,
20:42more than Saudi Arabia.
20:44We have more than Russia.
20:46Bobby, stay away from the liquid gold.
20:48Other than that, go have a good time, Bobby.
20:53We're going to be paying down debt.
20:55We're going to be reducing taxes.
20:57We can do things that nobody else can do.
21:00Nobody else is going to be able to do it.
21:02China doesn't have what we have.
21:03Nobody has what we have.
21:06But we have the greatest people, also.
21:07Maybe that's the most important thing.
21:10This campaign has been so historic in so many ways.
21:14We've built the biggest, the broadest,
21:18the most unified coalition.
21:21They've never seen anything like it in all of American history.
21:23They've never seen it.
21:24Young and old, men and women, rural and urban.
21:28And we had them all helping us tonight, when you think.
21:31I mean, I was looking at it.
21:32I was watching it.
21:33They had some great analysis of the people that voted for us.
21:37Nobody's ever seen anything like that.
21:40They came from all quarters, union, non-union,
21:43African-American, Hispanic-American,
21:46Asian-American, Arab-American, Muslim-American.
21:51We had everybody.
21:52And it was beautiful.
21:54It was a historic realignment, uniting
21:58citizens of all backgrounds around a common core
22:03of common sense.
22:04You know, we're the party of common sense.
22:06We want to have borders.
22:08We want to have security.
22:10We want to have things be good, safe.
22:12We want great education.
22:14We want a strong and powerful military.
22:17And ideally, we don't have to use it.
22:18You know, we had no wars.
22:20Four years, we had no wars, except we defeated ISIS.
22:24We defeated ISIS in record time.
22:28But we had no wars.
22:29They said, he will start a war.
22:31I'm not going to start a war.
22:32I'm going to stop wars.
22:33But this is also a massive victory for democracy
22:37and for freedom.
22:39Together, we're going to unlock America's glorious destiny.
22:42We're going to achieve the most incredible future
22:45for our people.
22:47Yesterday, as I stood at my last stop on the campaign trail,
22:51I'll never be doing a rally again.
22:53Can you believe it?
22:54I think we've done 900 rallies, approximately, from the —
22:58can you imagine?
23:00900, 901-something — a lot of rallies.
23:08And it was sad. Everybody was sad.
23:10Many people, I said, this is our last rally.
23:13But now we're going on to something
23:14that's far more important,
23:16because the rallies were used for us to put —
23:18be put in this position where we can really help our country.
23:22That's what we're going to do.
23:24We're going to make our country better than it ever has been.
23:28When I said that, many people have told me
23:32that God spared my life for a reason.
23:41And that reason was to save our country
23:44and to restore America to greatness.
23:47And now we are going to fulfill that mission together.
23:50We're going to fulfill that mission.
23:53The task before us will not be easy,
23:55but I will bring every ounce of energy, spirit,
23:59and fight that I have in my soul to the job
24:03that you've entrusted to me.
24:06This is a great job. There's no job like this.
24:09This is the most important job in the world.
24:13Just as I did in my first term — we had a great first term,
24:18a great, great first term —
24:20I will govern by a simple motto,
24:23promises made, promises kept.
24:25We're going to keep our promises.
24:28Nothing will stop me from keeping my word to you,
24:31the people. We will make America safe, strong,
24:34prosperous, powerful, and free again.
24:37And I'm asking every citizen all across our land
24:40to join me in this noble and righteous endeavor.
24:43That's what it is.
24:44It's time to put the divisions of the past four years behind us.
24:49It's time to unite.
24:51And we're going to try. We're going to try.
24:53We have to try. And it's going to happen.
24:56Success will bring us together.
24:58I've seen that. I've seen that.
25:01I saw that in the first term.
25:03When we became more and more successful,
25:06people started coming together.
25:07Success is going to bring us together.
25:11And we are going to start by all putting America first.
25:16We have to put our country first for at least a period of time.
25:19We have to fix it.
25:21Because together, we can truly make America
25:24great again for all Americans.
25:25So I want to just tell you what a great honor this is.
25:29I want to thank you. I will not let you down.
25:31America's future will be bigger, better, bolder,
25:35richer, safer, and stronger than it has ever been before.
25:40God bless you, and God bless America.
25:42Thank you very much. Thank you.
25:45Thank you very much.

Recommended