Remarks: Donald Trump Delivers Closing Remarks at the RNC Convention in Dallas - September 10, 2026

Wow. Wow. Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody. And I wanna thank our great vice president. What a job he did tonight. You know, the Democrats are getting nervous. They said if we did a midterm convention, nobody would show up. This place is packed. It was packed last night. But even more important is the spirit.

The spirit I'm watching from backstage and I'm seeing spirit like we haven't seen in this country for a long time. Long time. But it came back about a year and a half ago. We went through four years of embarrassment, hurt, harm, sickness, filth. It was bad, but now it's good and it's gonna soon be greater than ever before, better than ever before.

It's gonna be, it's gonna be something very special. And I'm going to be a little bit brief because last night I spoke for two hours. [Laughter] And I don't feel like going over the same material again. So what I'm gonna do tonight is a little bit different. We all love music, right? [Audience responds affirmatively]

We're gonna get a little music. I'm gonna stand on the stage at the end with our great opera star, Christopher Macchio, and he's going to sing America the Beautiful, Nessun dorma. And all I ask of you from the Phantom of the Opera, and we're gonna have a good time listening to music because I'm getting a little bit tired of politics now.

So I'll be brief. [Audience chants "Let the people go"]

I'll be brief. I don't know if you. Should I be brief or should I not be brief? No. [Audience chants "Let the people go"]

No, I look, I look forward. [Audience chants "USA"]

Now, thank you very much. What a great country. What a great country we have. What a great country. [Audience chants "USA"] I just wanna thank everybody. This has been so amazing. You know, maybe this is going to be happening at midterms again and maybe not. We're gonna find out. But based on this, I would say, uh, we're gonna be doing it a lot.

Uh, perhaps I'll be here. I'll be standing with you one of these days, but you are a very special group. So I look forward to the performance and he's considered, as you know, really one of the most brilliant since a very good friend of mine, the late, great Luciano Pavarotti. So we're gonna have a lot of fun.

But less than two years ago, the American people gave us a mandate to save America. And in 19 months, I've delivered on every single promise I made and I think I delivered on far more. Joe Biden and the radical left Democrats created the worst inflation in American history. They gave us wide open borders with 25 million people pouring in from all over the globe.

They turned our cities into scenes of death and misery, murder, poverty, and destruction and made America a laughingstock. We were a laughingstock all over the world. But we took that dark age of America and turned it into the golden age of America. We delivered the largest tax cuts in American history, the largest regulation cuts in American history, the largest investment in our military, in the history of our country, and made America the energy and military superpower of the world.

We're the superpower of the world. I built almost 2,000 miles of wall and created the strongest, most secure border that America has ever seen. And it was just announced, you saw that, that we achieved the lowest level of violent crime in 125 years since the year 1900. We gave you the largest drop in prescription drug prices ever recorded, and I wish the news would report it. I wish the fake media would report it, but they just don't wanna do that.

With discounts of 60, 70, 80 and even 90% in many cases. We have cuts, you remember when I announced I was the only one in 28 years that cut drug prices in my first term? One eighth of 1%. I was so proud of it because nobody's ever done it from January to December. And now, we're cutting your prices by 50, 60, 70, 80, and a couple of cases, 90%. We went from the highest prescription drug prices, by far, anywhere in the world, to the lowest prescription drug prices anywhere in the world.

And that alone should get us a big victory in our midterms that are coming up. Get out and vote, please. Get out and vote. The stock market has set 80 all time record highs. Think of it, in a short period of time, 80, 80 days, we set records and more. Americans are working today than ever before. Your 401(k)s, by the way, are up 44,000 on average, $44,000, and most of you, much higher than that.

We terminated all diversity, equity, and inclusion mandates all across the federal government. We banned transgender ideology and critical race theory in our schools and ended the transgender mutilization of our beautiful children. No more mutilization. And as you know, we had big court victories in this.

We will not have men playing in women's sports. And if the radical left Democrats and communists win this election, they're promising to confiscate your wealth, tax your social security, abolish no tax on tips, no tax on overtime. They're going to defund the police, giving voting rights and welfare to 25 million illegal aliens, destroy Texas Oil & Gas, thereby doubling and tripling your taxes, have men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody, the mutilization of your children, and set loose criminals to rob, rape, and kill like we had just two years ago.

What we went through, we went through hell. If we win the midterms, we will, on the other hand, provide a, let's call it Trump dividend, $5,000 for every adult citizen in our country. And we can do that because our country has never done better. We're taking in trillions, trillions of dollars. There's never been any country, not even close, that's come anywhere near.

So it's five, we win $5,000 for every adult. We love our adults. It's about time we take care of our adults. And we will make all Trump tax cut. We're going to take those beautiful tax cuts. We're going to make them permanent because the Democrats want to end all those tax cuts. They want you to pay much higher taxes.

I never got it. All my life, I've watched politicians say, "We will cut your --" Even if they didn't mean it, to be honest with you, "We will cut your taxes. We will cut --" This is the only group I've ever seen, they say, "We are going to give you a major tax hike." But we will end all payments to big health insurance companies and give you the money directly so that you can buy your own healthcare and have money left over for yourself.

And we will make our very incredible, they tried getting it, some presidents. Most presidents didn't try because they never had a shot. Most Favored Nation prescription drug discounts, we're going to make it permanent in law. We will pass the No Invasion of Our Country Act. We don't want any more invasions of our country.

And with JD and everybody else, we will win the war on fraud. You know, we've got billions and billions of dollars already in our coffers of money that we caught on fraud. It's going to be, I would bet it will be over a trillion dollars by the time we're finished, over a trillion dollars. And we will end, and it started with this and we're gonna end it, no cash bail.

How about the no cash bail? Somebody kills somebody and they're out in the streets two hours later. No cash bail. We're gonna end it and we will pass the Save America Act mandating voter ID and proof of citizenship. And we have our great Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, up there to get it done. Get it done, Mike.

Get it done. So when I'm on the ticket, everybody comes to vote. We have, you know, we won Texas three times, the highest vote in the history of Texas for any race. And by the way, you've got to elect Ken Paxton. You gotta do it. And I said something yesterday, and I don't know if he'll ever talk to me again.

Perhaps he will. [Laughter] But I said it and my people said, "Please don't say that." So I won't say it, but I'll tell you what I was thinking about saying. [Laughter] I said, "I don't like the way Ken dresses." Although I also said he looked really sharp in that suit yesterday. I thought spiffy. And then I said, "I don't really like the way Ken talks." And then I said something that they really hated. "Please, sir, don't say it, sir." So I'm not gonna say it, but I'll tell you what I was thinking about saying. [Laughter] I said, "I don't really like the way he looks.

I don't like it. I don't like any --" But you know what I do like? He was the greatest attorney general in the history of Texas. He was the greatest attorney general in the history of our country. He helped us so much with the walls, with illegal immigration, with everything. He was our greatest attorney general and he deserves to go to the United States Senate.

So I don't know if he's gonna ever speak to me again, but you know, I don't care as long as he wins. I really don't care. [Laughs] I don't have to. I don't have to speak to him. He's gonna vote the way we would vote, so I don't have to speak to him. I don't care. You gotta vote for him. So they're gonna vote for me, but when I don't -- [Audience member calls out "We love you"]

I'm not on the ticket. You gotta pretend. I'm not on the ticket. You gotta do me a big, the biggest favor you've ever done me. You've gotta do this for me. You've gotta pretend I'm on the ticket. I'm on the ticket. I'm on the ticket. He's on the ticket. Pretend I'm on the ticket. Because this is going to turn out to be one of the most important elections.

It's a midterm. [Audience member calls out "Vote for every Republican"]

It's gonna be one of the most important elections. You know, you can tell just by this. Everybody said, "If you have a midterm convention, it's gonna be a disaster." No, but look at that. The highest rafter, no empty seats, the fake news. They, they searched the arena. There are thousands of people outside.

They searched the arena for a seat. That's why last night I said, "Please don't get up and go to the bathroom. Just sit." [Laughter] Because they're fake people. They're fake, horrible, horrible human beings. Not all, not all. You have some fine journalists, not too many, to be honest with you. But they search.

When somebody gets up, yesterday a couple got up, two people, that's a disaster. [Laughter] And you immediately see cameras running to take pictures of those two seats. No, we were packed last night. We had thousands of people outside and they said, "There was some seats that weren't filled." There were no seats at all.

In fact, look. Even the boxes, the rich people boxes, they usually have 'em blocked, those people. Look at them. Every box is loaded up, every box, every corner. Look at the, look at those boxes up there. I don't know if they're rich or they're poor, but they're there. We got a lot of people in this place.

Look at the upper ring. Look, everything is taken. And tomorrow you'll say, you'll read, you know what happens?

They have huge. They get angry. Tomorrow you're gonna read, there was some empty seats. Headline, empty seats. First of all, if we had one fifth of this crowd, it would be a success. But we have a packed arena with thousands of people outside, and I just want you to know it. It's unbelievable, but look at that.

Look at that. I gotta do a little bit better in the back right there. I don't like that little skin that's showing. I'm not happy with. That's not good. I shouldn't have looked up there. No, but look at this arena. This is a big arena. This is the arena where we had Luca playing just a little while ago. What the hell happened?

But this is, this is a beautiful place. But look at it, it's back. So I say this only because they're dishonest, they're fake, and you know what? Honestly, to have a really great country, you have to have an honest press. We really have a very largely dishonest press. But that is impressive. Look, every single box.

I don't know how the hell, ou know, the rich people have those things locked off. I don't know how all you people got into those boxes. But if the Democrats get in, they'll destroy everything that we built. They'll ruin our country. So on election day, November 3rd, you gotta do me a favor. You gotta get out and vote and you're gonna pretend I'm on the ballot because in a way I am on the ballot.

Because if they get in, they're gonna take away all of the things that we got and we can't let that happen. In many cases, look, they don't wanna give you voter ID. Why? Because they wanna cheat. They don't wanna give you proof of citizenship. Why? They say, "Well, it's a very complicated process." They have more lines as to why, we want voter ID, we want proof of citizenship, we want honesty in our elections, we want honesty in our country.

So please raise your right hand.

I pledge -- [Audience responds "I pledge"]

To the greatest president in the history of the United States. [Audience responds "To the greatest president in the history of the United States."]

That loves us so much he can't even breathe. [Audience responds "That loves us so much he can't even breathe."]

That I will go out with my family, my friends. I'll do it anyway. I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm gonna try and cheat like hell like they do. They never, there's never been bigger cheaters. They don't care. I am gonna go out and I'm gonna get my friends, my family, and we are going to vote on November 3rd or we are going to vote before that.

Right? I, okay, ready? Ready? Here's the way you, okay, are you ready? Look, front row Joe's, are you ready? [Audience members respond affirmatively]

The great la- -- oh, look at them. The great ladies of North Carolina. It's about number 300 rally. I don't know how the hell they do it. They are beautiful. Okay, are you ready? [Audience members respond affirmatively]

Ready? To finish the pledge. So we swear that -- [Audience responds "We swear"]

-- on November 3rd, we are going to go out and vote. [Audience joins in the response]

And you know what? If you want, you can vote Democrat, but I don't think there's one person in this room that's gonna vote. [Audience responds "No"]

I don't think so. So I don't have to preface, I don't wanna waste the words vote Republican, just go out. If you vote, you're voting Republican. Okay. So help me God. [Audience responds "So help me God"]

Whoa. Now I know. Now, I'd say just about everybody would scream. You know what happens if you don't vote? You go to hell. You know that. Okay? You go to hell. And I don't want that to happen to you, so please go and vote because together we will defeat the communists. We will reject -- [Audience chants "Vote"]

We will defeat the communists. We will reject, and that's what they are. They're not socialists. They're not Democrats. They're communists. We will reject these radical left lunatics. We will demolish the extremist, fanatics, lunatics and criminals who want to destroy our country. They want to destroy the country.

There's some -- [Audience member calls out "We love you Trump"]

-- wrong with them. Remember at the State of the Union, they wouldn't clap for people. The 104-year-old man got the Congressional Medal of Honor, the great helicopter pilot who's phenomenal. He was phenomenal. And I will tell you, he took that chopper down, and we took out Maduro with a Fort loaded up with soldiers.

Took 25 minutes. And we took over the oil of Venezuela, 65 billion barrels of oil. Remember, we talked about the pilot, that handsome guy, he stood up, bravely stood up, he had a hard time with a leg. And now, he's got a really hard, he's still suffering greatly with that leg. Very greatly. He was shot, but it didn't stop him.

He landed that chopper perfectly, exactly in the spot. And if he didn't, we would've had a big problem. And as you probably heard, he lost the leg. That beautiful guy lost his leg. And these Democrats wouldn't applaud. They're sick. There's something wrong with them. There's something wrong with them. They wouldn't applaud.

We gave him, that day, we gave him the Congressional Medal of Honor, and they wouldn't applaud. There's something wrong with them. But my one thing, when I started this whole beautiful journey, it's a journey, and we did it together, I didn't do it, you did it, you were just waiting for somebody to say the words because it's common sense, it's you could call it lots of, we want strong borders, we want great education, we want a tremendous, we built the strongest military in the world.

We had to use it a little more than I thought, but we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon, and they will never have a nuclear weapon. And they're folding all over the place. And by the way, we control the strait, the Trump Strait, I call it. We control the Trump Strait. But I started out with a very simple thing, little theme.

I, I came up with this little few words, Make America Great Again. That's what I want. That's all I want. And we are making America far greater than anybody in this room thought would be po- -- think of it. $22 trillion coming into this country when a record was three trillion many years ago by a totally different country, 22 trillion.

It's never happened before. So I just want to say we will make America great again. We will make it greater than ever before. And now, and now, that's enough of polit- -- I've been doing this now for seven days straight. I want a little music, if you don't mind. Enough with the politics. So ladies and gentlemen, one of the greatest talents, one of the greatest opera singers anywhere in the world.

And as I said, Luciano Pavarotti was a friend of mine and I see nobody was greater than Luciano, but I see no difference. And I asked Christopher, I said, "Christopher --" And I thought the answer was so nice because I wouldn't have said that. I would've said, "Yeah, much better than him." If I were, if I were Christopher.

I asked him, I said, "Christopher, can I ask you a question?" Pavarotti was a great friend of mine. He was a great guy. He was a diva like no woman. Believe me, there was no diva like, he was the old time diva screaming, "Those fools, those fool." He was great, but he was a diva. But I said to Christopher, "So Christopher, let me ask you this question.

Are you as good as Pavarotti?" You know what he told me? "No, no, sir. He is the maestro. He's the greatest of them all. "I would never have said that. [Laughter] If, if, if I were him and that question were asked, I would have said," Sir, I'm far better than Pavarotti. "I would have said Pavarotti is nothing compared to me. [Laughter] But I'll tell you what, Luciano was a friend of mine for a long time and he was great and I see very little difference.

Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Christopher Macchio, have a good time. We love you all. Go out and vote. Go out and vote. Thank you.