Speech: Donald Trump Hosts a Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration - September 30, 2026

Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much. And so we remember, we're going to -- we're going to do something a little special.

We're going to open those doors, and you'll be the first people of consequence to ever step on the new ballroom floor. Good. So, that'll be exciting, so we'll wait til the end. We have some things to say. And if you don't mind, what I'm going to do before we talk about the incredible Hispanics -- you know, there's lots of different names, Latinos.

They call them so many different names. But I've used Hispanics and I got elected. And I got a big majority of your votes, so I'm going to keep using the same -- the same way. And I've so many friends here, amazing. But before we do that and before we go outside -- and I think you really get an example of incredible constructions and incredible structure that's half finished.

We're ahead of schedule. Under budget, ahead of schedule, when have you last heard that from a government? But I wanted to announce something that I'm also very proud of. Today I'm pleased to announce that the last American forces are leaving Iraq. It's been a long time with very bad decision making that got us involved in this quagmire in the first place.

It was a quagmire. Many, many years it lasted, but soon that part of history will be over. This is a great day for America. And importantly, we leave with Iraq having a wonderful new prime minister, Ali al-Zaidi, fantastic guy, a friend of mine and somebody I supported from the very beginning and I fully endorsed.

He was running for election. He wasn't given even a chance. And I endorsed him and politicked for him a little bit, and he ended up winning in a virtual landslide, beating somebody that was not a good person, in my opinion. So, I'm very proud of him, and hopefully he's going to do a fantastic job. But he won the election, and it was very unexpected.

It was a very big thing and he did so in landslide order. Launched in 2003 under the presidency of George W. Bush and continued under the administration of Barack Hussein Obama -- have you heard of him -- [Laughter]In 2014 and then further continued under Sleepy Joe Biden -- [Laughter]Operation Inherent Resolve, which is what they called it, ends in 2026 under the leadership of President Donald J. Trump.

We're getting the hell out of there. So, this day is a victory for the United States. It's a victory for Iraq and a decisive victory over ISIS, which has been completely decimated, which is the reason we went in there in the first place. I decimated them and took them out in my first administration. So, I don't know what took them so long to be making the announcement that I'm making today.

But it was all about ISIS at the time, should have never been allowed to form. It did form. We took it out. Others weren't able to do so. But it's just a very big thing. And just to go on just a little bit about it, I have to make some comparisons. Unlike Afghanistan, where much military equipment and everything else was left behind and 13 warriors lie dead -- I know the families of those incredible young people, got to know them very well over the last couple of years.

What happened to those -- to their children should never have been allowed to happen. With many badly wounded, so many badly -- 48 were so badly wounded. They never get mentioned. I mention them all the time, badly wounded, no legs in some cases, arms, face. This orderly departure of coalition forces and equipment from Erbil Air Base marks the end of a very expensive excursion into hell.

And again, we took all of our equipment. I said take a little longer. Take everyone. We left all of the equipment, if you remember, in Afghanistan. Everything was left behind. We -- we left. I said I want every screw taken. If there's a screw lying on the ground, take it. If we have a canvas tent, take it. We took everything.

I set a clear mission, gave our commanders the tools to finish it, and refused to let a temporary presence become a permanent one. A lot of people wanted us to be permanently there. I had a choice to stay or to leave, and felt without question that it was time for America to go home. Prime Minister -- Prime Minister al-Zaidi is outstanding and will hopefully be able to handle things very well.

We came to fight a caliphate and there is no longer a caliphate, so we are going home indeed. Now, as a comparison, we have been in that war for 23 years, lost more than 4,500 great American soldiers and had over 31,000 injured, some very badly, plus hundreds of civilian contractors were killed. So, think of that. 23 years, 4,500 dead soldiers, 31,000 badly injured, and that doesn't include contractors that were -- many killed.

By comparison, in our war with Venezuela, some -- a place you're very familiar with, by the way. Did we do a good job in Venezuela, huh? That's right. I'm -- I'm speaking to the right group. I'm speaking to the right group. But by comparison, in our war with Venezuela, we lost zero soldiers. And, you know -- I don't know if you know, but we went into a major fort, a major military complex with thousands of -- thousands of soldiers.

We went in with 201 great, talented, brilliant, tough people. We lost zero, accomplished our mission of getting the number one state sponsor of terror. He was the number one, rated number one. We took him out. He was locked behind iron doors. Those iron doors came down in seconds. It was -- you gotta see this, too.

You wouldn't believe it. And the war lasted for exactly 148 minutes. [Laughter]The fake news doesn't talk about that. And Venezuela has now been, you know, great. We -- we're helping the people become rich again. We're -- the big oil companies are moving in. We've taken out many, many times the cost of the war in oil and getting along really well, really, really well.

And the country's coming back and the people have a smile on their face. They see what's happening. The -- the money is pouring in. And -- and we opened it up for travel. Some of you are Venezuelan. I know in Doral -- Doral is -- they call Little Venezuela. I love Doral, love Doral Country Club. [Laughter]But it's Little Venezuela, and it's a great area.

It's an amazing area with the most amazing -- And as -- and as you know -- and as you know, we now have flights going into Venezuela. Who thought -- who would have thought that was going to be happening anytime soon? You have full flights going in. But think of it. So, it's a 148 minutes as opposed to 23 years.

We lost nobody and we had -- have complete -- a total military victory. Likewise in Iran, we have been there for six months with 18 killed. By the way, one is too many. But they lost 4,500. We lost 18. And we have very soon -- you'll see things happening very soon. But we have a nation that's been virtually destroyed.

Their economy is no good. They have 300 percent-plus inflation. Their navy is gone. Their air force is gone. Their anti-aircraft equipment is gone. The last week in the Hormuz Strait, which we have almost total control -- I would say total, but every once in a while they'll drop a mine in there and disrupt things a little bit, but we have virtually total control of the Hormuz Strait.

And in fact, in the last three days more oil has come out of the Hormuz Strait than at any time in the history of the Hormuz Strait. I'm not just talking about I'm not talking about since the war. I'm saying at any time in history. It's been -- it's been pent up. So, we don't -- you know, the fake news doesn't like talking about it, but I like talking about it. [Laughter]But think of it. So, we have a war that was over in 148 minutes.

We have another one where we're six months in. And we have -- you know, their military is totally wiped out. And we're going to have that war won very quickly, one way or the other. They'll either be one way or the other. Does anyone know what that means? I don't know. I'm not sure that Sean Duffy knows.

I'm -- I'm looking at Sean and Rachel. And your sister is here, too, Rachel, I hear. Oh, there she -- oh, I don't know who's more beautiful. I can't tell. You know you're not allowed to talk -- as a politician, you're not allowed to talk about the beauty of a woman because -- [Laughter]It's the immediate end of your political career.

But you're both very beautiful, so. [Laughter] And I hear you're doing a fantastic job as ambassador, that's what I do here. So, congratulations. No, Sean has been incredible, transportation, he's been incredible. He knows exactly what's happening and he inherited a real mess. He has 50-year-old equipment landing planes.

And how you're doing it as well as you're doing it is amazing. But one of the things we're doing is we're doing a completely new system, all the best equipment in the world, even the replacement of some of the towers that are so old, they're almost falling down, the air control towers. But all of the air traffic control equipment is going to be the best in the world soon.

It will take a little while, but by the end of this administration, so less than two and a half years -- sad. When I think about that, I said that's getting it quick. But nobody could do what we did in an administration, and we have the best of everything. We have the best -- you know, we have the greatest -- if you look at the real, the big, the powerful economy, we have the greatest economy in the history of our country by far.

We have $21 trillion being invested in this country as an example, which is a record for any country by a lot, by five times. And if you look at the Biden administration, in four years, they had half a trillion. We have $21 trillion in 15 months. Think of that $21 trillion, it's a little different, a little bit different.

Now we're doing great. We don't -- what we're doing poorly in we're not getting the word out. I mean, we're just not getting it -- that's why. I'm going to be making -- I thought I was finished campaigning, but in order to help Republicans because we need the votes, we have to have the votes, otherwise we'll have these lunatics with the open borders.

We'll have the open border lunatics. They'll open the borders they'll let the prisoners from every -- I'm not talking about only South America, I'm talking about from all over the world, they'll let the lunatics in. Every prison -- I mean, all over the world, prisons from the Congo, in Africa, from all over the world they emptied their prisons into our country, and we've gotten them mostly out.

A big, big focus on the bad ones, the worst, the worst of the worst, as we call them. But we've gotten thousands of murderers out of our country, some we had to put in jail. Thousands, murderers, drug lords, we have them all. They emptied their mental institutions, and I would have done the same thing if I was in charge of any of the countries, any country.

When I heard that we had open borders, nobody even checking, people just walking. You saw, 25 million people walked across the border into our country, and many of those people were not people that you would want in this country. And frankly, it's the hardest job that I've had, the hardest job because they'll say you're too tough or you're too soft, get tougher, get softer.

No matter what you do it's always tough. But we have we've been very strong. And for the last 17 months, Rachel, we had zero people. I mean, think of that, were able to come into the country illegally. And we have people coming in. We have people coming in, but we have them coming in through a legal process legally, we have them coming in legally.

So, I'm thrilled to welcome you. Now we'll get back to Hispanics, OK, if you want? But the Hispanics, what I just said about being out of a place where probably shouldn't have gone, was so good. You know what happened? They fired everybody. They took everybody in Iraq; they fired the soldiers, they fired the generals, they fired the police.

They fired everybody in the home office or the equivalent of the what -- they had nobody. So, they have Iraq and they have nobody to run it and you know what happened? ISIS formed. The generals and all of the police that all got fired, everybody was fired in that country, everybody, they had nobody. They'd call in, nobody would answer the phones.

It was a mess. And we do it a lot differently. We learned from the stupidity of what they did there. But ISIS formed out of all those people that got fired so stupidly. But I'm thrilled to welcome you to the great White House, where I spend a lot of time fixing it and making it better. It was falling down.

I hate to say it. I refuse to say the White House was a dump, but I'll tell you, it was in bad shape. You know, like on the exterior of the White House, you have these beautiful moldings and florals and everything was beautiful. And you'd have a window in between and a molding here, but the molding here was missing, or the molding here was falling down to the ground about 30 years ago, it was never replaced.

So, you'd have a half molding and a molding, or you'd have no molding and a full mold. And I fix it because I do that stuff well. You know what I do? They do a fiberglass copy from the one that's existing because it's hard to ever compete with it. And then you take that and you form it, and you put plaster, exterior plaster into it and you put it up. And now, lo and behold, you have two moldings, and then you paint it, and then you paint it. And I'd say 20 percent of the building, the front -- I don't know if you walk through the front, but the front was terrible.

It had massive gaping wounds all over the place. Hadn't been -- nobody touched it for literally a couple of hundred years. It was in very, very -- in other words, it was in bad shape. You know, I came here like 18 years ago and I said, man, this place is in bad shape and it was. See this room? We had this room redone.

Look -- beautiful. If you would have looked at this room, some of you, not everybody sees it, but some of you would have seen a big scar right in this spot. Somebody hit it with a -- looked like they hit it with a hammer, but they hit it with something in fixing up for whatever. This was our ballroom, a very small space.

We had the president of China here the other day. It was a great meeting, but we could only have about 125 people. That's not really a ballroom; that's a cocktail area, wouldn't you say? [Laughter]That's really meant for cocktails. But we've fixed -- I spent a lot of effort and not a lot of money, relatively speaking.

But the press would say, why does he spend so much time fixing. First of all, it's very little time for me. And second of all, for me, that's -- for a lot of people it's turmoil in their mind. For me, it relaxes me actually. I do it easily; that's what I've done my whole life. And I've made this building more beautiful than it's ever been.

And remember -- this building, because I do get criticized. "Oh, he spends money fixing the White House, why is he?" Well, the building was in bad shape; the plaster was falling off the exterior walls, the plaster was falling off the interior walls too. And we made it like this; we made it all beautiful, it's like it's almost complete.

But I have an obligation, I'm president. Somebody had to do it and you have to fix it because You know, first of all, I love doing it because that's what I did my whole life. But I love doing it. And second of all, I'm really good at it and I do it for the right price, like that big, beautiful building that you're going to see, you'll be the first ones.

The Hispanics will be the first First, the Hispanics. The Hispanics, plus Sean Duffy. He's not Hispanic to the best of my knowledge. But, no, you'll be the first. You're going to love it, you're going to love it. In fact, you're going to say, get this speech over with, we want to go outside. But you're going to see something, it's great.

But I have an obligation. The White House is a symbol of our country, maybe, in my opinion, you know, you could say the Capitol, certainly. But maybe more than anything else, the White House is a symbol. When you have a White House where the walls on the outside are broken, cracked, in horrible condition, and you have somebody that's really good at fixing them.

I know the right people. We've had some tremendous talent involved in this little situation. And it's not even a big money thing; it's just the thing you have to do. And many of these things took place 30, 40, 50 years ago. They'd have a massive hole in the wall from getting hit by something -- car doors, you had to see the cars where cars come out.

The wall was like; nobody ever fixed it. And I have an obligation because this is a symbol of our country, this is a symbol. And if you look up and you see the beautiful White House and you see a massive crack in the columns, and there were many of them, big cracks where stone had literally fallen out. And you know what they'd do? They'd paint it, they'd paint it. So, you'd have a nice crack, and it would be painted.

So, I felt I had it, and you'll -- when you leave today, you'll take a look and you'll see something that -- I don't get credit, I don't get credit for anything, but -- and I don't really want credit. You know, I'm the only one -- I'm the only president -- they say they think George Washington maybe. But I'm the only president that donated his salary.

I don't get -- they pay me $550,000 a year. And in my first term, I donated it and I don't think I ever got a story about it. Now, I'll tell you one thing, if I said I donated it and I didn't, I'd be killed. [Laughter]But in my second term, I donated it too. And you know what I donated it to here? To fixing the White House.

I donated the salary into the White House preservation -- it's called the White House Preservation Fund. And if I don't say it, nobody else will.

And surprisingly, because we've had wealthy presidents, FDR was wealthy. Kennedy was wealthy. A lot of people were sort of wealthy. Some were very wealthy. George Washington was a very wealthy person. But the only one -- the only one they say may have done that was George Washington, but the records are not there.

But they say they think George Washington worked for a dollar. You're not allowed to donate every -- you have to work for $1, so I get actually $1, to be specific. I'm not allowed to do it. I have to get something by law so I take $1. But I'm very proud to do it and I'm very proud of the job we've done. We've done a job.

But I've done a very bad job of explaining -- I saw Rachel talking about it. I've done a very bad job of explaining how -- how good the country is doing. We're doing better than any country in the world economically. You're going to see Europe -- Europe's a mess. Other countries are not doing as well. Even President Xi, the first thing he said to me, wow, you've done a good job.

He said that in Chinese, by the way, if you want to -- [Laughter]That's -- I think that's about the best description I can say. [Laughter]But he knows. But I'm thrilled to have you at the White House celebrating National Hispanic Heritage Month. That's why we're here. That's what we're here. See, now, today -- I -- I said that a little later in the speech, but I pardoned myself.

But I think getting out of Iraq is a very big deal. But the press will say tomorrow, "He rambled for 20 minutes about unrelated subjects to Hispanics." It's actually very related because it's good for our country, very good. They'll say he didn't get to the Hispanic Heritage Month for over 15 minutes, how terrible.

He's terrible. That's crazy. These people are crazy. But we honor the countless Hispanic American patriots throughout our history who have been among the greatest champions of faith, family, and our God given freedoms. You really are. You're amazing. And I'm a politician that got the most -- for a Republican got the most but almost for anybody, got the most Hispanic votes of anybody.

We changed -- I got a call from the governor of Texas, who's a good guy, and he said -- during actually all the elections, but I won all of the Hispanic cities. He said you won everything along the border of Mexico, every single -- Think of that. And that's never happened be -- nobody's done it. And it's mostly Hispanic.

It's 85, 90 percent Hispanic. So, I love you, too. You know, the truth is you're -- you probably can't -- you're not supposed to generalize, but I do. You're hard working people. You're smart as hell. You're energetic, sometimes too energetic, I might add. [Laughter]A little bit too -- right? Sean knows that, a little bit too energetic.

But you're incredible people, and I've loved you right from the beginning. I loved you for many years before I ever decided to do this political thing, and you've liked me from the beginning because the numbers are incredible and I appreciate it. And you also know when I build a wall, I'm building a wall to keep bad people out.

And you want -- and you want those bad people kept out more than anybody. So, with the help of many friends in this room, two years ago we won more votes from the Hispanic Americans than any Republican president in history, and we won more than almost anybody that's ever run for office. And it was a great -- I mean, it was a great thing.

The polls had it totally wrong. They said he'll do fairly well, but probably not too well with Hispanics because, you know -- and we did well. We had supporters like my friend Bob over here, who was -- Who was great. Nobody better, right? You doing good, huh?

Thank you for bringing back the land of opportunity.

Thank you.

[Inaudible] lost. You brought us back. Also, thank you freedom -- for the freedom of over 147,000 children who were trafficked during the last administration. Yes. Yes.

We're getting them back. There were 350,000 missing children. Can you believe it? We got a lot of them back. We're working hard on it, Bob. So, Bob owns Goya, which is food, nice food. [Laughter]In fact, I recommend it. Every time I want something from a can, I say Goya. But -- [Laughter]He was, like, one of my earliest people.

And he took a lot of heat, a lot of stupid heat, and it was terrible. He suffered and he never took -- he didn't say, I'm sorry, I'd like to apologize. He didn't even think about it. He have -- even got more and more. And then people saw what was happening. I made him rich. His sales tripled -- [Laughter]Right?

And then they -- he thought he'd be out of business. They said we are going to boycott Goya. We are going to never buy it.

And we bought more.

And -- and you know what? It's -- it's amazing. And his -- his sales went through the roof. And your company is -- what do I get out of it? [Laughter]What do I get? I want to know. So, you know what I get out of it? A great man benefits, as he should, for really risking his whole -- Really risking his thing.

And whenever they make the product, I say that's the one I want to get it from. But you have been great. And I -- right from the beginning when it wasn't so pleasurable to do, right, he took a little heat.

The Hispanic community is the most exploited community in trafficking, and you stood for life.

The most exploited, yeah.

You saved 147,000 children out of 500,000 --

Yeah.

With full support.

And we're getting a lot of them back too, Bob. You know, a lot of them are coming back.

And [Inaudible] on the way. They're just waiting for us to fail, but we cannot fail. You are the leader of the greatest country in the world, but you are a world leader. And we thank you for bringing back the land of opportunity. Making it strong again.

Not bad. I'll tell you. Rachel, he's gotten even better. No, he had such courage. I said I wonder when he's going to say I'm sorry, I'm sorry. He never apologized. But then when he saw what was happening -- you couldn't buy his product. I mean, it flew. So, we love you. We had another one, Jaxson. You know Jaxson Dart?

He's a little hurt right now. Good quarterback, but he endorsed Trump so heavily. And he took a little heat from a rather liberal group of people in the NFL, the people that put on the halftime shows, you know? I don't get -- I don't get those halftime shows, but whatever. So, Jaxson Dart, who's a great, talented, handsome guy, very handsome guy, and he loved Trump.

And he would like -- he wanted to introduce me at a big -- I had a big rally, thousands of people. He got up and he said nice things, and he -- and he took a lot of heat. And then the next day, his jersey was the number one selling jersey -- [Laughter]In the NFL. Isn't that great? And I just want him to get better because we love him.

He got hurt. It's a dangerous game. They made it a little less dangerous with that ridiculous kickoff rule, but we won't talk about that. Does anybody know what I'm talking about? I can't watch it. [Laughter]But in honor of the tremendous faith represented in this community, I want to start by asking two people who have been with me since the very beginning, Pastors Pasqual and Norma Urrabazo, two incredible people from Nevada, to come up -- And lead us in prayer.

These were people that -- that liked me from the -- you know, the people I like the most are the ones that liked me from the beginning -- [Laughter]Which is most of you, I think everybody. I think that includes everybody. But these -- but these people got it, and we appreciate you being here. Please come up.

Thank you. Good to see you, Mr. President.

Mr. President, we are so honored to be here, really not just us, but all of us Latinos that are here to celebrate -- The great things that God has done. And we remember meeting you for the first time during the first campaign, when Jenny Korn challenged us, gather the Latino church, gather the Latino leaders in Las Vegas.

And when we did that, it was a historic event.

Yes.

Come on, and nothing's been the same since. And so, we are so grateful for the great things that God has done and -- and for the great things that the Lord is going to continue to do in our nation. So, I want you to just join me as we pray for the Latino community and for our president, ok? So, Father, we thank you for your presence that's already in this place.

Lord, as we stand together united, one voice, one purpose, we boldly decree and declare a commanded blessing of unshakable unity, strength and favor over our communities and our families, our leadership, and everything that we own. Father, we decree -- we decree the blessings of God that have -- that has been commanded over our businesses, education, ministries, and the work of our hands.

Let it be known that the seeds of faith, hard work, and resilience planted by generations before us are yielding a harvest of unprecedented influence and prosperity today. When we walk in unity, this commanded blessing releases life, prosperity, and the breakthrough for the next generation so that what we have extended will multiply and will be secured.

We declare that everything we set our hands to will prosper and together we will continue to strengthen and build the fabric of this great nation. [In Spanish, not translated]

Let's just continue in prayer real quickly. Father, we just thank You; we thank You for President Trump. Father, You have led him like Second Corinthians 2:14 says. It goes we give You thanks, Lord, who You lead us in triumph through Your son Jesus Christ. And You have led President Trump to triumph, to bring America back.

But Father, we pray at this moment in the name of Jesus Christ, where the spirit of the Lord there is freedom. And we thank You for President Trump. We ask you, Lord, in this hour, that You would increase the spirit of wisdom in his life with revelation in the name of Jesus Christ. And President Trump, I ask the Lord right now to anoint you with a fresh anointing oil so you can move this nation forward in the name of Jesus Christ.

And as you move into this nation forward, we all decree, as a Hispanic community, the church, all faiths, we decree right now that the Lord strengthen you with might by the power of His Holy Spirit in your inner being, and to guide you and protect you and your family. So, we just bless you and we say the word of the Lord over your life is yes and Amen.

Thank you so much, sir.

Thank you. I got to meet them years ago and we were looking for a church, it was Sunday. And we went into this place, and it was rocking. [Laughter]And we went there a few times when we were around, but it was great. They had two great people there. Such unbelievable spirit in that church and you need spirit in a church.

So, thank you very much. Thank you for your support. We're also honored to be joined on this occasion by the highest-ranking Hispanic American in the history of our country. And he's a man who everyone is just -- they've fallen in love with him, he's very special. His next job, I guess it's not really next, it's just a continuing.

But watch what he does with Cuba. Watch what he does with Cuba. But regardless, Hispanic American or no matter who he deals with, anybody all over the world, he's a master. And I just want to ask Marco Rubio to come up and say -- Marco. Come on up. Say a few words. And I think, Jeanette, where is Jeanette?

Is your wife here?

She had to leave -- not leave me, she had to leave to the airport.

OK, because I would have her up in about two minutes. She's fantastic. She has been a great representative. Please, Marco, thanks.

Thank you, Mr. President, for hosting this event. [In Spanish, not translated] All I would say is Hispanic Americans, we are Americans. We love this country. And we love it because so many of us either know firsthand, or through our parents or grandparents, what life is like in other countries. And so, we know how special this country is. It's the place that gave us freedom; it's the place that gave us opportunity; it's the place that's given our parents, our grandparents, and many of you the chance not just to do well in life, but to do the most important thing any of us ever want, and that is to leave our children better off than ourselves.

That is what makes America special, that's why we love it, that's why we're passionate about it, that is our heritage in this country. We are proud to be Americans, and I'm proud to be here and to serve under you, Mr. President. Thank you, thank you.

So, how did he do? Good, right? He's an unbelievable man. Really amazing. Thank you, Marco. I want to also recognize a man I just spoke of briefly, but he's doing a fantastic job, Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy, who's great. Thank you, Sean. His wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, who's a big television star if you watch, I try and watch.

That's the blessing of TiVo; I can watch no matter what. But she's a Saturday, Sunday and all during the week, she's a big star, great, really talented. I mean, she's talented because she happens to have a great personality. So, I don't know, is that talent? I guess that's called talent, right? She's an unbelievable person and she loves the people in this room and she loves our country.

Along with US ambassador to the Dominican Republic, Leah Campos. Thank you very much, Leah, you're doing so well. You're doing so well, everyone's talking about it. I asked the head of the Dominican Republic would he like to have a change? You know, some people are not happy with their ambassador. He said, please don't even think about it, sir.

So, that means you're doing good. And he's a great guy too, by the way. Ambassadors also from all over the United States, from Latin -- all over, from Latin America. We appreciate you being here; it's been very special. Thanks as well to former president of Goya that's Bob, who we introduced and he's -- I can't explain how incredible he is.

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Ooh, wow, I'm going to think about that. That's very good well. Did you hear that, Bob? Yeah, he deserves it. No, the heat he took for all the wrong reasons. He is a great guy. I'm going to -- I'm going to think about that, I am. Also, former treasurer of the United States, Jovita Carranza. Where's Jovita?

Jovita? She was great. She did a great job at everything she ever did with us, right, right from the beginning. Thank you. My friend Mercedes Schlapp -- where are you, Mercedes? Wow, you look so good. She's another one. She's incredible, and I watch her on television. I say, boy, she fights like hell for us. Thank you, Mercedes.

What a great job. What a great job. Thank you, hon. Appreciate having you. The Director of the White House Faith Office -- this is the first time we offered -- we opened up -- No, you know, we opened up the first time ever -- because there's not a lot of space here. We don't have a lot of space, but we opened up a space office, OK? But it's a space office based on faith.

And we put Jenny involved and Paula involved. And Jenny Corn has done a fantastic job, and Paula White has done a great -- But we only got 92 percent of the vote. So, let me ask you -- from people of faith, I don't know. You mean Kamala got 8 percent? I don't believe it. I don't believe that, Jenny. That's a crooked election.

It's a crooked election -- fake. Thank you, Jenny, you did a great job. Throughout 250 glorious years of American freedom, Hispanic Americans have built incredible businesses, founded great churches, pioneered new industries, strengthened our communities, served our nation in uniform, and helped expand the American dream for all of our citizens.

And they all respect you; they respect you a lot. And under the Trump administration, that American dream is back and it's bigger and better than ever before. I think the American dream now is reaching the highest ever. We did very well in the first administration. You know, we had the greatest economy in the history of our country in the first administration, despite COVID. And we did a very good job in COVID, had no -- Operation Warp Speed is considered one of the great miracles of -- in political history believe it or not.

Nobody talks about it. But we did it great, but we had the most successful from an economic standpoint. You know, after -- when I handed over the reins, unfortunately, with the rigged election, I handed over the reins to Joe Biden. Things changed rapidly. [Audience boos] But we gave you the highest stock market in history.

When we left, you had the highest stock market in history, the highest 401(k)s. And now, by the way, you're getting blown away because what we have now is actually much higher. And I think this is -- we are prone to, I think, supersede the numbers that we had in the first term by perhaps double, maybe even triple.

The numbers are incredible. Nobody's ever seen. You know, I was watching one of the big business shows and a man was on; he said, the best numbers I've ever seen. We're ready, we're building more plants, more equipment, car factories, all of our health care companies are coming back, pharmaceutical companies, they were all in different countries.

They're all coming back because of tariffs. I said that's all right, you get 12 months. If after 12 months, you're not back, 10 percent tariff. That's not bad because it takes a while to build their big, you know, deals. I said now after two years it's 50 percent. After three years it's 250 percent. In other words, get your ass moving and build a plant. [Laughter]And it's very simple, right?

Sean's watched it; he can't believe it. Sean's watched it and we have numbers coming back that nobody's ever seen. Eli Lilly is building billions of dollars of plants, Merck, Pfizer, all great companies, they're all building billions, you know, because we were exposed during COVID. We learned a lot during COVID. We had nobody that made our medicine.

Our medicine was made in all different countries, mostly China, but also in Ireland and but we -- we didn't -- we made almost none of it. We'll soon be making 100 percent of it, and it's really fantastic. And it's nice to have my friend with me. You've been with me right from the beginning, right? He's another great one and a great -- I watch you on television a lot.

Whenever I get a chance, I watch you. And I want to up here -- very special -- this is a very special guy. And there's so many, I'm -- I hate to do this because now I have all these people that are angry at me, but you really are. And I appreciate it, right from the beginning, I think day one. Thank you very much.

Since I took office, we've created more than one million new private sector jobs, and Americans are working today. So, you have more Americans working today than -- I mean, this is a -- I mean, there are certain stats that are just good. So, there are, by a lot, more Americans working today than at any time in the history of our country.

You can't -- You know, that's a stat -- But nobody knows it. That's why I'm doing it myself. That's why I'm doing it myself, Rachel. Can you believe it? I'm going out -- because nobody's selling it. I'm doing -- we're doing an extremely poor job of promotion and an extremely great job of running the country.

So, I think you're probably better off with that, but we'll get the word out. It should not be hard. Employment for Hispanic Americans is expanding rapidly, and the number of Hispanics in the tech roles has increased by 30 percent in the last year. And you're going to make a lot of money because you get that stuff.

You're smart. You're very smart. And --

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We don't want to generalize, but you guys happen to be smart, ok? You've maybe heard it before. But we have the lowest poverty level in the history of our country, the best number on poverty, which is the lowest level in the history of our country. We have the highest level of individual wealth, meaning a person's wealth individually for the entire country, the highest level that we've ever had.

And as I said, we have the most jobs that we've ever had by far. And that number's going to be expanding exponentially. It's going to be expanding at a level that no -- when these factories that we're building -- more than we've ever built. We're building more car plants. Toyota just announced they're building a massive plant.

They're leaving Mexico. We have now, I think under construction, probably 97 car plants. We had none. For 48 years, we had none. We were so stupidly run they allowed other countries to make our cars and sell them to us. They came from Japan. They came from South Korea. They came from Mexico. They came from Canada.

Canada take -- has taken advantage of us for so many years, the worst of any country. They took advantage of -- I love the Canadian people, so many friends, Wayne Gretzky. I love the great one. [Laughter]I love him and his incredible wife. I love the -- the Canadian people. But the leaders have taken advantage of our stupid leadership for many, many years.

They felt emboldened. They charge our farmers 400 percent tariffs and they act like they're totally innocent. They're not. They were very bad. But now they're being taught a little lesson. In fact, we just named a certain lake Lake America -- Ontario. So, Lake Ontario is now named, Nick -- and it actually passed.

You know, I don't know if you know it. It actually -- but I think even cooler than that was the gulf of -- I hated to do this to the Mexicans. We love the Mexican. [Laughter]But the Gulf of Mexico is now the Gulf of America. Is that ok? There could be a few people in the room that don't love that one, but what the hell?

So, since the election, the US stock markets have set 80 all-time record highs. Think of that in a short period of time.

[Inaudible] Wall Street.

In four long years of Sleepy Joe Biden, they got less than $1 trillion. Think of that, much less, about 500, about half. Under the Trump administration -- so, we're at $21 trillion and that number is expanding. And that's over a 15 -- this is over a 15 month period. The number came out. So, it's $21 trillion.

That's five times higher than the highest record of any country in history. I mean, this -- These are numbers that no -- these are numbers that nobody's ever had. And as you heard me say numerous times -- I say it because it was so powerful. It was given to me by the King of Saudi Arabia. It was given to me by other leaders.

And essentially it was -- they all sort of said the same thing. Two years ago, our country was dead, and today we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. That's true. Millions of Hispanic American families and small businesses have thousands and thousands of extra dollars in their pocket, thanks to the largest tax cuts in American history.

I did this, by the way, in my first term. And I did it in my second term. And this one, thanks to the great Big Beautiful Bill, has been amazing, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime and no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. And we're just mailing you -- I said why don't we wait til after the election?

They said, no, sir, let's do it now. We're just mailing you -- it's going to make it subject to -- we're just mailing you about $60 billion worth of funds that we had left over from a previous administration that did not manage their funds properly. But maybe more importantly, because of the trillions of dollars that were taken in in tariffs and in new business, if we are successful in winning the House and the Senate, which is very important -- I hope you can believe that I'm running.

You know, the -- they like to say, oh, nobody wants him. Well, everybody that has me wins. We -- we lose 40 percent when I don't run. When I run, we had a tremendous success. I was talking to a very prominent person in 2020 where we had a terrible election situation, but because of the fact that I was running we won 50 seats extra.

Nobody could understand it. I understood it. We won the 50 seats because I was running and because I helped. And the one person said two things. Number one, you won the race. It shows you won the race. But more importantly, he said you worked harder for the Senators and for the Congressmen that did work -- than you worked for yourself.

And I'm going to do that again. That's why, as of two days from now, I'm going to be making a -- a tour. And, you know, I did it when I ran for president. Four months out from the election, I said I'm not taking any days off. I'm going to be working from literally 20 hours a day, and all I want to do is make speeches and go to states and fight for Republicans and fight for common sense.

You're right.

And -- And I did that. And it was 120 days. And, like, I enjoy playing golf and other things. I said, nope, no golf. No, I didn't play. My game went to hell after that, by the way. [Laughter]I said I could pick it up right away. I stood on the tee, I said where am I? I didn't even know where the hell I was.

But no -- but no golf, no -- no nothing, everything -- because golf could be perceived as pleasure. And I don't want that to be perceived, so I didn't do any of that, didn't go to any club because if I went to one -- I own many clubs all over the country, all over the world. But if I went to a club, they'd say he's playing golf, he's enjoying himself.

You have 120 days, four months out, and I -- I never worked that hard. I was going -- the reporters -- even the reporters back there, a lot of reporters, they say we've never seen that before. And we put in a chart and the chart would give you your weekly activity, and every slot was filled, Bob. Every single slot was filled.

And when Kamala -- because, you know, Biden was so far down that they gave her -- this never happened to anybody, either. I'm beating somebody by a lot. The debate worked out very well. But I'm beating somebody by a lot, and they replaced that person with another person. I didn't even know who the hell she was.

Everyone's saying who is she? She was vice president. Nobody knew who -- well, they knew the first name. They didn't know her last name. I'll bet most people in this room don't know her last name. They think of Kamala. Nobody knows her last name. They said Vice President Harris, and everyone said who the hell is that? [Laughter]But anyway, they put her in. Think of it.

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That's right. That --

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That's very funny. [Laughter]Got some wise guys in this -- do I see Max? Max? Wow, Max. This is a big deal. Here's a man, started off with less than a dollar, and now he's worth billions, two billion? Not $2.00, yeah. [Laughter]He's fan -- he's -- he -- and he did it through this -- number one, this. It's always that number one.

But he did it through hard work. That's nice that you're here. How's Doral doing and Miami? Good.

Donald Trump will always be the best president we ever had.

Oh, I love him. Good to see you, Max. He loves this country, I'll tell. You he worked hard, and he's one of the most successful people. He's a fantastic man. And he's another one. He's been -- he's been with me from the beginning, most of you guys --

Make sure to go vote in November.

Oh, you gotta vote. That's why. You gotta vote. You gotta vote.

You gotta -- you gotta just because even if you don't like somebody so much, it doesn't matter, it's a vote for good things. You know, it's hard to explain that. But you may not love your Congressperson, your Senator, but it's a road like in Michigan, are you going to vote for a guy who's a communist? It's ridiculous.

And that vote counts just like another vote. And you get a couple of those votes, and you'll end up with open borders where millions of people and, you know. And the people that come in are really people that -- I know the leaders of all the South American -- I guess I sort of know the leaders of almost all the countries.

They're very smart; at a minimum, they're very street smart and they send people in. If I ran Venezuela, if I ran any country, I would do exactly the same thing that Maduro did. He emptied his prisons. Almost all countries; when I heard we had open borders, they emptied their prisons and they emptied their mental institutions.

And they got rid of their drug dealers, they just sent them into our country, it was crazy. And I said as soon as I heard -- I didn't believe open borders, but as soon as I heard it, I said, wow, that's crazy. So, I just want to ask you to get out and vote. We have special thanks to so many people in this room, I'm not going to get into it. I just want to tell you, you're an unbelievable, special group of people.

You've been with me right from the beginning. I want to thank Gabriel Vitela. Where's Gabriel? Where are you, Gabriel. Are you doing OK? Do you want to come up, Gabriel. OK, come up just for a second. These people want to get out and see the -- Gabriel they want to get out and see the ballroom. But I want to have him because he's been special.

Please.

Isn't America the most amazing country in the world? It's unbelievable. A Hispanic man that owns an Italian restaurant married to a white woman from Lubbock, Texas getting to speak at the White House and getting to meet the most powerful man in the world. I want to give all honor and glory to my Lord Jesus Christ, who makes all things possible.

I have to admit; I'm a little bit nervous. Most of the times when I speak to people, I'm asking them if they want a side of ranch or a side of marinara. [Laughter]But I've spent most of my life in restaurants. I've waited tables, I've bartended, and I have the privilege of employing great people, great people who work just as hard as I once did.

So, when we talk about no tax on tips and overtime, I don't see numbers, I see hard working moms and dads that are trying to buy groceries, that are paying light bills, and they're trying to give their children a better life than they had. Mr. President, thank you for remembering each of those hardworking Americans that worked so hard for every dollar they've earned.

God bless.

I'm going to come to your restaurant. Well, the no tax on tips I know made your waiters and waitresses very, very happy. I often wonder which is the best, no overtime -- think of it, no tax on overtime, no tax on tips or no tax on Social Security for our seniors. And they're all very good, I think all of them.

I want to pay a little special thank you to Sara Carter. You have been unbelievable. She's our drug Czar and I watched you the other night with Sean and with some people. Sean Hannity is great -- they're all great, that group is incredible, Jesse, Sean, Greg, Laura, that's a very, very special group. We have a lot of great people.

You know, we don't feel we get treated well, but we do have people that treat us really well. But you, Sara, have been fantastic. You know, she was a great journalist. In fact, sometimes I didn't like what she wrote, but I said she's tough, but she was right, she was usually right. But I want to thank you, Sara, great job you're doing.

The numbers are -- the numbers are there.

I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart, Mr. President. My mother was a Cuban immigrant who came to this country in the late 1960s. And just listening to what was being said just a moment ago, even the smallest things made the biggest difference. My mother worked so hard, so many tough jobs, cleaning facilities, working in a factory just so that I could have a better life and live the American dream to serve the greatest president in the history of this country.

Thank you, Sara, great job you're doing, keep it -- a very important one, too. So now, just listen up but here's the thing -- you're going to walk out there, we have no fencing, we have no nothing, but we've got a big, fat, beautiful space, just don't get too near the edge -- [Laughter]because it's a long way down and I'll be criticized by my people that life and safety, they call it life and safety.

In fact, Sean Duffy will probably say, I don't like what you're doing. But if you like, that door is right there, that's a door that goes to a magnificent glass tunnel, all bulletproof glass, thank you very much. The glass is this thick, you wouldn't believe it, and yet you can see through perfectly. Gets installed -- about two weeks from now, it starts going up. So, there's a tunnel going to what will be, I think, the greatest ballroom ever built.

It's also a tremendous military complex with a drone port on top. It's quite the place and you literally will be the first group ever to enter the premises. So, be very careful. Don't fall over the edge because it's a long way down. And only a Hispanic could survive that fall. So, I'm not overly worried.

I'm not overly worried. So, again, we've got to get out and vote. You've got to spread the word how well we're doing and just everybody has to. We have to turn this around. For some reason, presidents, Democrat or -- or Republican, they just -- they don't win the midterms. I don't know why. There's a deep psychological impact when you -- for some reason.

But we should -- I mean, our numbers are through the roof, we've never had -- the best numbers in the history of our country, we should win. So, we have to get out. The main thing -- I think maybe they get complacent. There's something said. We've had good presidents, we've had bad presidents, but Republican or Democrat, they tend not to win -- very seldom.

Two times in 25 years, think of that, it doesn't make sense. So, we're going to show them there's no reason for it. And we have to reward all of the people that have done such a great job. The country is doing better than it's ever done. Thank you very much. Enjoy it; be careful, be careful. God bless you all.

God bless you all. Thank you, Bob.