Speech: Donald Trump Holds a Midterm Political Rally in Sioux City, Iowa - October 22, 2026

Well, thank you very much. I love this place. [Audience chants "USA"]

I know you're not all farmers, but I love farmers. I don't care. I don't care. And we're taking care of our farmers and everybody else. And I want to just say a special hello to Iowa. It's a incredible place. I'm thrilled to be back in the state that -- you know, I shouldn't say -- I shouldn't break, should I? Well, what the hell difference is it -- which I won all three times, receiving more votes than any candidate in political history.

Count you. And I want you to get out and vote. But I kept the Iowa caucuses first in the nation. I did that for you, and I did that for your people. There was a little movement that wanted to put you a little bit back in the stack, like in around 42 or so. That's no good. No, as long as I'm -- as long as I'm around in any capacity, you're going to be number one, always going to be number one.

You'll always be number one. I'll always have that little extra power. You know, we only have a little more than two years left. Can you believe it? But I'm going to have a lot of power when I leave, and I'm going to keep you number one. It doesn't matter. Two days from now, the people of Iowa are going to elect Ashley Hinson as your next senator, Ashley -- And we're going to elect a great guy, a real Trumper for a long time, Zach Lahn, to the governor's mansion.

Thank you. You're both doing great, by the way. You're both doing great. But we still have to get out and vote, but you both -- I looked at some polls, very impressive, but vote. You know, that's -- a lot of people have been very impressive, and then they become very sad. We don't want that to happen. These two are special people.

Just across the state line in Nebraska, we're going to -- reelect -- I went to Nebraska, made a little speech, and he took off like a rocket ship. You saw that, right? It was going to be close. Not close anymore, because he's fantastic. Pete Ricketts is going to be -- A continuation of the US Senate, and elect America First Republicans all up and down the line.

We have a lot of great ones. We have a lot of great ones here. Ashley's opponent in this race is a woke, far left radical named Josh Turek, whose -- [Audience boos]

Whose record is disqualified, and actually, it's sort of disgraceful, to be honest with you. I wouldn't want it. I wouldn't want to be running in Iowa with that record. Turek voted to allow schools to turn your children transgender without informing the parents and with no parental consent. [Audience boos]

I didn't even know you could do that here. I know you can do it in Minnesota. I didn't know -- you could do that here? We better get that changed. He voted in favor of taxpayer-funded transgender mutilation surgeries and in favor of men in girls' bathrooms. He wants men in girls' bathrooms. I'm just giving you the facts. [Audience chants "USA"]

No, I'm just giving you the facts. I'm just -- I wrote them down. I said, I don't believe this is -- Iowa, I thought maybe it could be another place, maybe Minnesota, where they have the worst -- probably the worst, or one of the worst governors in history, not just now, in history. But he voted to make diversity, equity and inclusion training a mandatory requirement in Iowa schools.

What the heck? Ashley, you better win. You better win. This is not good. But this should make it easy, in all fairness. So Ashley Hinson, on the other hand, is a mother, a warrior, a patriot and she will never let far left maniacs push the radical left insanity on Iowa's children. She's -- I've known her for a long time now, and she's fantastic, actually.

And if you don't -- If you don't want communists controlling the US Senate, which is between Jaiiit -- how about the gentleman from a place called Michigan? He's in there, jihadist. He's a jihadist. [Audience boos]

Muslim Brotherhood. Are you a Muslim, oh, no, I don't know anything about Muslim Brotherhood. What about your mother? What about your mother? What about all those little notes back and forth? Can you believe it? Man, oh, man, this can't happen to our country. Take a look at France. How are they doing, not too good.

But Ashley's going to be going to the US Senate. You'll not have to worry about any of these things -- these horrible things that you hear about. I think we can get a commitment tonight that Ashley -- Ashley is not in favor of the transgender mutilation of your children. Can we get that commitment? You swear?

I think so -- I don't think anybody in the room is, but that's why I don't understand why they are having the election, to be honest with you. Turek also voted in favor of deadly sanctuary cities. He voted to give lavish welfare benefits to illegal aliens, and even wrote a memo giving illegal alien criminals instructions on how to evade capture.

He's explaining to them how to evade capture, murderers, drug dealers, how to evade capture. This is not working for Iowa. He -- do people know this? I mean, am I just -- am I saying this for the first time? How the hell do you have this guy running? Why can't I have somebody like that to run against? Actually, I did.

I did. That was fun. No, I did, yeah. Very similar, actually. He betrayed Iowa farmers by voting to help climate extremists bankrupt your farms and he campaigned with a radical left group that wants to kill, absolutely kill ethanol. You know, I'm the one that saved ethanol. I don't know if you know it or not.

I did save it. Iowa needs to reject this person, this horrible person that has none of your values at hand, and elect Ashley Hinson. She's great. She's great. Josh Turek is shamefully trying to deceive the people of Iowa into thinking he's a moderate. That's not a moderate. What I just -- what I just told you, this is not moderate.

So he can go vote with extremists like Abdul Mohammed Al Sayed. They can be together and -- [Audience boos]

And James Tala-freako. [Audience boos]

And, oh, no, Ilhan Omar. Oh, she's -- [Audience boos]

I don't know if you've caught it, so I had it -- I'm in this beautiful -- this beautiful Air Force One and we have breaking news all the time, every two minutes. I don't know where the hell they get so much breaking news, but one of them had to do with Ilhan Omar, and it was just revealed -- but listen, because I don't think even you people heard this, although you might with your modern telephones and receivers.

It was just revealed just a little while ago that Ilhan Omar, not a person I've ever been particularly fond of, that her name is not Ilhan Omar, the one that she used to get elected and sworn into Congress. In other words, she used the name Ilhan Omar, but rather, it's an entirely different name. Ilhan Nur Sayed Elmi, slightly different than Ilhan.

That's a -- and -- and I don't know if you heard this also, have you people heard this? Have you heard this, Ashley? And the last name is incredibly also the exact last name of her brother, Ahmed Nur Sayed Elmi, the person that they say she married and had children with. Are you allowed to do that? Jeff, are you allowed to do that?

I don't think so. Joni, I don't know. You're an expert. Are you allowed to do that, Joni? When asked whether or not she married her brother -- today, they asked her, did you marry your brother, she said, not to my knowledge. That's one of the worst answers I think I've ever heard. You know, I've heard some bad political answers.

I could go over a lot of them, but that would be about the worst. Not to my knowledge, I don't think so. Did you have children with your brother? I'm not sure. She didn't know whether or not she married her brother. She wasn't sure. So it's not looking good because she used a fake name to be sworn in. I assume she must immediately have to resign from Congress, right?

So please inform our great speaker of the House of Representatives, James Michael Johnson. I bet you didn't know that James was there, right? I just thought it was very classy. I was going to use it. He's great. He's a great guy, too. That the Democrat Party has just conceded her seat, that Ilhan Nur Sayed Elmi, her real name, has openly admitted to fraud, and she will not be legally allowed to be a member of that [Inaudible] body any longer.

She won't be able -- I mean, I don't know. If you get sworn in with a false name, I would imagine that's pretty tough to remain. What do you think? The chairman of our party, what do you think? You got two chairman's. I don't think -- I don't think it's looking too good. The Republicans have just picked up a seat in the House. [Audience chants "Lock her up"]

No, she's been a scammer -- she's been a scammer for a long time. I'm pretty good at watching that stuff and she's been a scammer for a long time. You know, she comes from a non-country, basically, Somalia, has no government, has no nothing, has nothing. All they do is run around shooting each other. Then she comes over here, the Constitution gives me absolute right to freedom of speech.

She's telling us about she's going to fix up our country. She comes from probably the worst country on earth. There are a couple of pretty bad ones, I'd say that's right there. How about what they've done destroying Minnesota, 500,000 people? They destroyed -- they're destroying -- well, maybe it can be saved.

We have a very good -- we have a very good candidate running. Maybe we can save it, but what a good state that was. In this election, I'm asking you to do me a very big favor. So when I run, I get 50 percent more vote, 49.2 percent more vote, so I'm asking you to pretend that I'm running. Pretend I'm on the ballot.

Because if you get out, we're going to win big. And early voting in Iowa is underway right now and so get everyone that you know, go vote. The Democrats would say, go vote, just pick up anybody, they don't have to be a citizen of our country, with the Democrats. They don't have to have voter ID. But we want voter ID, don't we, huh?

We're going to have it. The last time the radical Democrats had power, they gave us the worst inflation in American history, the highest energy prices in American history, the worst trade deficit in American history. They allowed 25 million people to pour across our borders from all over the world. It was an invasion.

It was like a military invasion. And if they win the midterms even, it's the start -- it's the start of something very bad, very dark, very horrible for our country. They will do it again. They're going to open up the borders. They're going to have men playing in women's sports. That's another beauty. [Audience boos]

But the proud people of Iowa will never let that happen. We just need the -- we need the votes. We need the votes. Less than two years ago, the radical left Democrats handed us the dark age of America, but we quickly turned it around into what they are calling -- and even the fake news back there starting to see the number.

Wow, that's a lot of fake news. [Laughter] Wow, I didn't see you back there in the lights, all those people. No, there are a few good ones there. Let's see. I'd say about 8.2 percent are great. There's a good one. He's a good one. But we're in the golden age of America right now. There's never been a time like it. So, we achieved the most secure border in American history In the past 17 months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted into the United States -- Zero.

You know, I wish it were -- I was with the great Tim Scott last night, a senator from South Carolina. He's beloved. He's great. He endorsed me. I sent him everywhere. He was so good. And we talked a little bit about it. I said to Tim, you know, zero for 17 months. And that's made from people that lean left, meaning, you know, they -- I don't know why Democrats are always doing the charts.

But if they could find some, I would rather -- because who can believe -- so, they allowed 25 million people in, and we allowed in the last seven zero. I said, you know, I wish it was like 109 or even 1,014 or -- because who can believe zero? It was actually zero in 17 months. Who can believe it, right? Remember Joe Biden said we'd have to go to Congress to get a change.

I said, no, all you need is a new president. That's what you need. I didn't go. I didn't go to Congress. So, record numbers of illegal alien criminals have been taken off the streets, and we've achieved the largest drop in violent crime ever recorded, despite the fact that people have come in that we don't want, and we're moving them out fast.

We've gotten most of the really bad ones out. And the murder rate -- sounds horrible to talk about here -- here, but the murder rate is the lowest level in 125 years, since 1900. And when Ashley goes to Washington, DC, where Joni has spent a lot of very prosperous years -- great job, Joni, great job. We're going to miss you, Joni.

She's a good person, good person. I was there right at the beginning, right? Good. You've done great. But she will tell you it's become a whole different place. It was the most dangerous, murderous place. People -- three -- three murders on average a week. Can you believe this? Could come down from Iowa.

They come from Indiana. They come from places that -- beautiful places. And the parents would get a call, please, your son is dead. Your son was killed while watching and looking at the Washington Monument, the Lincoln Memorial. We had -- we were losing the -- you know what we're doing now? Nothing. It's a safe -- one of the safe -- it went from one of the most unsafe cities to now one of the cleanest, most beautiful and safest cities.

We have almost no crime. I'm so proud of -- is that a correct statement, Joni? So, when I first came in, I guarantee you Joni had lots of armed guards walking you to your Capitol. And now you don't need them. You don't need them. It's a whole different ballgame. Washington, DC is one of the safest cities in the -- and it should be. It's our capital.

It should be, right? I signed the largest tax cuts in American history with the great big beautiful bill, including no tax on tips, no tax on overtime -- And no tax on Social Security -- you don't have any seniors in this room -- for our great seniors. We don't have any seniors in this particular room, right?

Is -- are there any seniors? I don't happen to be a senior. No, I'm -- I'm in my 40s. I feel the same way, but I don't know. I hope that lasts for a long time. I feel the same way. I'm the only person that took three cognitive tests. No other president's ever taken it, or vice president has ever taken -- and that's an aptitude test.

And I aced all of them. And you know what? -- I think everybody that's running for president -- we saw that last term -- should be forced to take cognitive tests, you want to know the truth. You know why they don't? Because I had a thing of -- I put it in so innocently. Everybody, anybody running for president or vice president has to take a cognitive -- you know, they're tough.

The first question's easy. The second question's easy. And by the time you get up to number 30, there aren't many people that can answer those questions, I'll tell you. But I put in a -- I wanted to do an executive order where every -- anybody running for president or vice -- has to take a cognitive test.

And I thought it was great. I thought, oh, I'm so smart. It's so -- it's a great idea. And then you know what they told me? It's not constitutional. In other words, a person who's stupid is allowed to run for office. [Laughter] I looked at it, Tim. I looked at it so hard, I went -- I said you gotta be kidding.

No, I think you should pass a cognitive test. And -- and so, I took them, three, three of them. I aced all three. In fact, the doctors are here. They travel all over the place with whoever the president may be. And I said do you think I should do it? And they said, well, if you're smart, I guess it's ok. I said how many presidents have taken them?

None. Are they easy? No, they're actually hard. You know, the first question, it's tough. They have a lion, a snake, a giraffe and a bear, and they said which is the snake? [Laughter] And then when they report that I aced it, they always say, oh, it was so easy. And they always show the first question. Yeah, let me tell you, by the time you get to number five, a lot of people are left out on the road.

And by the time you get to number 30, it's -- not too many -- they'll say, like, take a number, any number. I say 49. Triple it. And they go pretty much at this speed. Triple it, divide by four, add 2,019, subtract 87, divide by three, multiply by nine. What is the number? Not a lot of people are going to be able to do that, not a lot.

I did it. I did it three times. And, you know, I got no credit for it. They don't talk about it. No, they don't talk about it. They don't talk about it. I took the damn test. Where's the doctor? Where the hell is that doctor? There he is. Well, he's one of the young ones. Oh, what, did they leave the -- they left the admiral back home tonight.

We have admirals. I have generals. We have the great doctors. And they are great. Walter Reed Medical Center is fantastic, actually. But I said last night, so I took it, I announced it. I thought it was a big deal, and nobody even covered it. I took a -- because you know that if I didn't do well, it would have been -- Jeff, I would have had a disaster on my hands, right?

That's what they told me. They said, well, sir, if you do well, it's great. If you don't do well, it's essentially sort of a little bit of a public -- you know, it's a military hospital. It'll get out. It may be embarrassing to you. I said, well, look, no -- nothing can be as embarrassing as some of the things -- some of the fake things I've had to endure over the years.

But let's do it. So, I did it. So, here's what -- their new thing. So, I did it, passed it, nobody talked about it. Did it again, passed it, you know, very little. There was a mention in one of the papers. It was the last page of the paper. It was a piece about this big, I did it. And then I did it a third time in this -- in this term, I did it twice and then I did it a third time.

And wasn't much mentioned. And then here's what they said. Why has he taken three tests? There must be something wrong with the president. What is he doing? Why has he -- he's doing -- there must be -- so, in other words, now they say, because I took it three times, there must be something wrong. No, there's nothing wrong.

I'll let you know when there is. Actually, you'll know before me, I suspect, but there's nothing wrong. Isn't that amazing, though? No, they're genius. They're genius. They have a situation today -- I shouldn't talk about it, but do you mind if I go off script slightly, which I've been doing most of the night, Tim?

Tim Scott's been at the last three rallies. Either he likes it or he's doing a great job of -- you know, he's sort of in charge of this. He was there last night, the night before. Can you believe I'm doing about 34 of these things? Can you believe it? Now, I don't mind. I don't mind. I don't mind because I really do like the people here.

I -- let's see, will I be doing any that I don't -- no, I like them pretty much all. We set records in every -- I mean, so many states. This is a record. But I think it's like 32 states, Florida, Texas, uh, we're going to Mississippi, records. All records, you know, all records. So don't get too cocky. You know, when I came in and said, we set the record, there were plenty of others.

But what happened today, I was hit. Uh, we have a race going on a governor's race in Ohio and I was called by Vivek Ramaswamy. You know him? And I ran against him. He ran against me in the primaries, and he's a very smart guy, very good guy, did well, two percent or so. No, I'm only -- actually -- but he was good, very smart and they're all smart.

You know, anybody has to do this, even if you don't think some of them are, they're smarter than you think. It's not easy. It's not an easy way to do, but a big problem, because the fake news came up with this genius idea. They are genius, I have to tell you. They're a little evil, but they're genius. So it seems that the candidate that Vivek is running against, her mother said horrible things about her, called her a liar, called her -- I've never seen anything quite like it. And it was so terrible.

And when I first saw it, I said, wow, that means Vivek easily will win the race. And then I got a call from Vivek. He said, what would you recommend, because I'm getting killed in the press? Why? He said, because they think I should immediately take the ad off. They did an ad of the mother saying, the daughter is incompetent, a liar, a disgusting, unreliable person.

My mom would not say that about me, even if she believed it. Mary McLeod, I have a great -- I had a great mom. She's looking down at us right now. No. But he said, what do you recommend? I said, no, tell me again, you're serious? The mother said horrible things about your opponent. Why can't I have that happen to me? That's a good thing.

But, uh, I said, you got to ride with it. You mean you have a mother that said terrible things about -- well, who knows the daughter -- she really said she was a horrible liar. I mean, it was crazy. And he made a commercial, he put it up, you know, like I would do, like most people would do. And I walk outside of the White House and we have this massive scrum of press.

They're going crazy about everything. They're just -- they're crazy. And these are crazy people. And they are screaming at me, tell him to take it down, it's so disrespectful to have her up. How dare he do that, how dare -- and I said one thing. I said, let's say that my mother, Mary McLeod Trump, called me a liar and much worse.

The liar was the nicest part, OK? That was the best. Horrible things. You would put it up. These guys would put my thing up. They would get the advertisement of the year. They would -- I said, so you mean because it's a Democrat running against a Republican, which is -- and running against me would be 10 times worse, because Vivek is a very, you know, different kind of a guy than me, but running against me with Trump derangement -- they would consider this to be the single greatest ad in history.

Right, Tim? And I said to the press today, I said, well, let me ask you a question, sir, he should take it down. I had one woman from ABC fake news, one of the worst of all. I think ABC is the most crooked of all. You know, it's funny, they spend all this money on -- on PR, you know, to try and -- this is ABC News.

They're the worst, total fake news, all of them. They're all no good. But anyway, but this woman starts screaming, and I recognize her immediately. And not a particularly attractive person inside or out. In fact, I just am amazed that these people can be reporters or anchors. She's screaming. She's a nasty person.

I've had a lot of problems with her. Fake person. She goes, you should tell him to take it down immediately. Why, because it's such a good ad? And I said, let's say that my mother said bad about me, Donald Trump is a liar, he's a horrible person and a liar, and my opponent put it up. Tim, what are the chances that the news would demand that it be -- he says zero.

You're less than -- I think less than zero. No, so I said -- it's a big thing. It's like a big story about he must take that ad down immediately, he must -- no, the mother is calling the daughter a terrible person and a liar. Everybody should be so lucky. Why would you shield somebody from that? Why would -- why would we do that?

So I told him, leave it up and look upstairs and say, thank you, God, very much, I appreciate it. So -- But that's a hot story today. They want him to take down an ad. I only wish I could have had an ad like that against somebody, but as it turned out, we didn't need it. It was great. We didn't need it. We got all seven swing -- We won all seven swing states, we won the popular vote, we won everything. 87 percent of the counties, did you know that?

Jeff, did you know we won 87 percent of the counties in America, like 2,575 versus 500 something? I mean, it was incredible, incredible. It was a great election, so why should I do -- that's why we joked last night. My wife is a very elegant, beautiful woman, very respected. She's actually becoming the next Eleanor Roosevelt.

Every time I look, foster kids, take it down, that's the internet stuff. There's so many -- she does a great job. But she's always saying, please don't dance on stage. You are the president of the United States of America, do you know that? Please don't dance on stage, darling. I love you very much, but the dancing is not presidential.

And she hates, in particular, the weightlifting. You know, with the woman, the woman gets caught, oh, baby, come on, 211 pounds. And then a man comes along who transgendered. He was a man that he transitioned over to womanhood, a lovely ceremony, and he became a woman. And he goes out to the stage. He was a failed male weightlifter.

He was -- he failed badly and he takes the 211 pounds, bing. He lifts it up like nothing to it. And then he does it again and he broke the record by 102 pounds. You know, they put on the thing when they're going for the record, an eighth of an ounce here, an eighth of an ounce, going for the record. She couldn't quite get it. Then he goes up and he breaks the record by more than 100 pounds.

Now, here's the good news, no men in women's sports. We've told the Olympics, no, we cannot do that. We can't have that. And we've actually won about 90 percent, I'd say, Tim, 90 percent of that case in the Supreme Court. There's still that little wrinkle that they can go around, of -- oh, boy, I sort of hope maybe we shouldn't. I don't know, maybe we shouldn't want to win that because it's so good.

I only bring it up about a week before an election because I can't believe they gave it to us, no men in women's sports. We have a lot of crazy things. That's why, they're great at cheating. They cheat like hell, and if they didn't cheat, they could never win because their policy is so stupid, so stupid.

But can you imagine in 500 years from now, that record will stand for women? That's terrible. We have to change the records, because that record will be standing in 500 years, and it'll be 100 pounds more than any woman has ever lifted. And they can look back -- and by that time we'll have it fully done.

They'll look back and they'll say, who the hell lifted all this weight? But, you know, with -- with the way the world works, women will get stronger and maybe in 500 to 1,000 years, you'll be close to that number, but the men will go up also. Right, Tim? So it was sort of crazy, but, uh, they want men to play in women's sports.

How ridiculous is it, right? How ridiculous. And, Ashley, are you in favor of men playing in women's sports? OK. I have a feeling we're getting major commitments. You've got a lot of people. I have a feeling Ashley will never be a big fan of men playing in women's sports. Right? No. OK. Thank you. She promises.

We secured commitments for 22 -- this is a record by five times, 22.2, and they're building plants all over Iowa, to the best of my memory, and I happen to have a very good memory, to the best. I just approved a steel plant for billions of dollars in a section of Iowa that can use the jobs, right? Right?

One of the biggest plants in the country, maybe the biggest. Owned by an unbelievable family with lots of cash. They'll do it right. They're looking forward to -- yeah, you're having -- I don't think of you as a steel plant place. I think of you with the farm and the John Deere tractors and everything. But -- but you're going to have maybe the biggest steel -- plant in the entire United States.

I just approved it last week, and we had a great ceremony. Ashley was there. So, the $22 trillion, $22.2, but the $22 trillion is the largest number ever for any country anywhere in the world at any time. It was ten years ago that another country had the record, and the record was a very small number by comparison.

So, I mean, very proud. And that's why you're building all of these plants all over. The stock market has set 88 all time records in just this short less than two year period. And your 401(k)s, you look like geniuses and you didn't do a damn thing. I did it. You didn't do it, damn it. Your 401(k)s are more than double what they were a year ago.

Think of that. I mean, you know, do me a favor before you vote -- everybody has to promise they're going to vote. Does everybody raise your right hand, please? Ok. Then we could take it a step further. You have to promise you're voting Republican, but I have a feeling -- I have a feeling that that's a big waste of words in this particular room.

But your 401(k)s, if you -- I would like you to do one thing. Get ready to vote, and then take a look at your 401(k)s and what we've done for you and then vote. There's not a person in this room that's going to vote against us, because your 401(k)s have more than doubled in a period of a year. And income -- I did this the other night.

I said just listen to these three points or four points, and I no longer have to speak any longer because they're so big and so important. Income for hardworking Americans has soared to the highest level ever recorded, ok? There's one. Number two, more Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country, right?

Number two. Number three, the poverty rate has just reached its best level in American history. There's less poverty, and the poverty is at the highest level. So, those three things, those three things. I'll go with a couple of more and -- and then I'm just walking off the stage, because what the hell do I have to keep talking for?

African American poverty, Hispanic American poverty, Native American poverty rates are all at the best levels ever recorded. Asian too, Asian American. And I'll give you one more. Has anybody ever heard of a gentleman named Barack Hussein Obama? [Audience boos]

Well, Barack Hussein Obama said we will never be a manufacturing country. Well, we're manufacturing at levels we've never seen before. And manufacturing jobs are the best. They're high paying. They're great. You love going to work. I mean, they're the best. Exports have soared to the highest level in American history.

So, we're manufacturing and we export. That means we send out to other places, other countries. It's the highest -- think of it. It's the highest level. So, you just heard six statistics. Ladies and gentlemen, good night. I love Iowa very much. I'm leaving. How the hell can I beat it? You got more people working, your individual income is the highest, your poverty level is the best it's ever been, and everybody's making money.

But think of it. It's amazing. Think of the one -- highest level of exports. You know, we think of our country not that way. And by the way, you haven't seen anything yet because, if you look at all the plants that are being built here -- like your steel plant. But if you look at all of the plants being built in this country right now, record number of car plants.

They're all coming in from Canada. They're coming in from Mexico. They're coming in from Germany and Japan, South Korea. You know, they took our car -- they took 56 percent of our car plants. We're bringing them all back. You never saw activity like this. And the numbers, what I said about exports, forget it. Wait til you see in a year from now, two years from now.

I don't know who's going to be your next president. And I think the law said -- I'm not 100 percent sure, but I think the law says that I'm not allowed to run again. I've studied that phrase. Ashley, I've studied that phrase. I just got a poll number. I'd kill everybody. I'd be -- I studied that phrase forever.

Unfortunately, it's quite concise there's not a lot of wiggle room. It says something to the effect that, under no circumstances and for any reason, will you even consider thinking about running for president if you had -- well, the one thing is different. They cheated us on the second one because we won it three times.

So, I think I have the right to run again. What -- I think I have the right to run again -- Because they cheated. They cheated. They rigged the election. They rigged that -- we did so good. We won three times, but that's all right. You know, I want the three wins, but I don't want the results of the second term.

I don't want -- I don't want those results. What horrible results. 25 million people came into our country. The place was going -- our country -- our country was dead. You know, a lot of leaders said it. Less than -- just a little while ago -- I was with a group of people, but they say it all the time. A little while ago, we had a dead country.

Our country was dead, and now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. They say it. We have the hottest -- We have the hottest country anywhere. We made the largest ever investment in the US Armed Forces, Joni, and $1 trillion all made in the USA, right? That was -- now we're going to go up. I think we're good.

We captured and brought to justice the outlaw dictator of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, who is now awaiting trial. And we won the war in Venezuela, one of the -- I mean, if you gotta take over a country, that's like the best, the oil. You know how you find oil in Venezuela? Look at the ground. [Laughter] You say there, look, you see -- you see bubbles.

You don't need machinery. All you do is look around. Oh, there's one right there. It's unbelievable. And think of it. We captured Venezuela. We won the war in one day. And now we're working with them and we're producing millions and millions of barrels of oil a week, millions and millions coming back into our country.

And when the war in Iran ends, oil is going to be even less. You know, I was in -- I say it a lot. I was in your state when -- the day before I said we have to go and stop them from having a nuclear weapon. If they had a nuclear weapon, you wouldn't be very comfortable. You probably -- Probably would have seen already the devastation.

But we had to stop it. But I tell the story all the time. I always mention Iowa. I was in Iowa making a speech. And in going to wherever I was going, I looked over and passed two gas stations. And I looked at the top of the pumps, and it was $1.95 a gallon, and the other one was -- right? The other one was $1.85. Now, do you think that Sleepy Joe Biden -- do you think he's looking at pumps to find out the oil price?

Do you think when Biden drives along the street let me see the oil price today? He hasn't -- he didn't look at oil prices. He had no clue. But think of it. So, I had to do something, and I looked -- your oil price will be lower than that. There's so much oil around. And you know, today it was announced in the Wall Street Journal that our Navy's unbelievable, the blockade.

More oil came out of the Hormuz Strait over the last week than at any time previous, including before the war, at the start of the war. That's because -- because of the blockade. Remember when Iran said we're going to block up the strait? And they did. And then I said but we're going to block up them. So, they haven't gotten one barrel of oil for a long time.

They're not exactly doing too well. I terminated Barack Hussein Obama's JCPOA, or the Iran nuclear deal, as some people call it, which was a road to a nuclear weapon for Iran. You know -- do you remember what he did? He paid for it. He gave them billions and billions. You can't pay for this stuff. They gotta respect you.

Do you remember he loaded up a Boeing 757 with $1.7 billion in cash? You know, did you ever see a pile of $1 million, like, in hundred dollar bills? Tim Scott did maybe. I don't know. But, Tim, did you ever see -- it's -- it's big. It's, like, three, four times the size of this, right? It's big. Ok, that's $1 million in hundred dollar -- he sent them $1.7 billion in green cash, empty out every bank in Maryland, Virginia and what -- the banks had no money.

Every -- he brought it to Iran and he gave it to them. Can you imagine the face of these guys when the plane opened up and they -- this cash, $1.7 billion, and then he gave tens of billions of dollars over that. But to me, the $1.7 billion, that's when I realized how powerful a president is. When you can put together $1.7 -- I still don't think it was legal, but what the hell?

Nobody ever looked at him. But how the hell do you give $1.7 in green cash to a -- the number one state sponsor of terror, Iran. So we obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity with Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Epic Fury. Thank you. Thank you. Beautiful. And we defeated them militarily, financially and otherwise.

And now, we're ensuring that they never will, you can't never let them have a -- you can never let them have -- I deal with them. I deal with them. They're freaking crazy. I said, you guys are crazy, man. They're crazy. Well, the problem we have is we wiped out their leaders, their number one leaders. We knocked out the first level, they're gone.

Number two is gone, some of number three. And now I have nobody to negotiate with. My biggest problem, nobody wants to be president of Iran. You know, we listen to some of their conversations very nicely. We're very good. Is that friend or foe back there, friend or foe? Is a young man screaming back there, I don't know.

We -- you're the president of Iran? Good. Cute. That's good. I think he sounds good. But two weeks ago, I also signed an order waiving off road requirements for red dye diesel, allowing farmers, truckers and anyone else to fill up diesel totally tax free, totally tax free. And on Monday, I announced the Harvest Fuel Relief Program, providing our farmers with $8 billion to offset diesel costs in the harvest season, including an estimated $400 million is coming to Iowa farmers, $400. Did you know that?

Did you know that, $400. It's not bad. And if you remember, in my first term, we had some countries taking advantage of us, and I gave our farmers $28 billion. You remember? They remember, look. They all remember. $28 billion, it all came out of tariffs, my -- my fifth favorite word. Used to be my favorite word but they just -- I said, tariffs are my all-time favorite word.

It is, really. It is. But they said, what about God? What about your wife? What about children, relationship? They killed me with that, tariff is my favorite word. So what happened is I now make it my fifth favorite word and I'm OK, right? I'm OK. It's made us rich. It's made us rich and I've been able to settle wars because of it. I say, you going to fight India and Pakistan.

They were fighting. 11 planes already knocked down and I said, you're going to fight, we're going to charge you guys tariffs, and no way, you can't do that. The tariffs were so important that they stopped fighting. We saved a, you know, possible -- they're two nuclear nations. And tonight in more breaking news, my administration is using the Defense Production Act to release $150 million to increase American refining capacity to produce more diesel and more gasoline at record levels, actually.

And the fact is, you know, we have more oil than Russia and Saudi Arabia combined. If -- and if you go back eight or nine years, you see, that wasn't -- it was a different world, but we have so much now. And the thing we need is, and we're building them rapidly, is re -- refineries. We have so much oil, you wouldn't believe, even all of that oil pouring out.

But one of the things, I hate to say it, and you know, I always get killed when I say it, but, you know, with the Hormuz Strait having a problem for a long time, not too much anymore. They do shoot us every once in a while. It's like, you know, bing, little shows. They do shoot and we knock the hell out of them.

We -- you know, we can trace it right back. So they shoot at us, we shoot at them. It goes right down the barrel of the gun or whatever launched, whatever weapon that -- oh, it's unbelievable. w No, we have the most -- we have the greatest military equipment in the world by far. Ask Venezuela. We have the biggest -- we have the greatest military.

Think of it, so they shoot and within three minutes, another weapon or weapon, a missile, small. You don't need too large, actually, comes right back, goes right down the barrel of the gun. So now when you watch them shoot, because we have pictures of them doing, they shoot and they run. They shoot and they are out of there.

No, we also gave truckers and farmers the right to repair your own truck and equipment. And -- Can you imagine? And I pardoned many people who Biden administration sent to jail. They were fixing -- you know what they were sent to jail for, they were fixing their truck. Do you guys know about this? You know, it took me a little while to -- I said, you got to be kidding.

No, they -- they showed me, sir, would you pardon so and so from Iowa? A few of them from Iowa. I said, what do they do wrong? You know, usually it's they kill somebody in a fit of rage. Sir, they fixed their truck. What? You know, seriously, right? Can you -- this is only in America, only in stupid America.

That's run by stupid people. They fixed their truck, sir, they got five years in jail. I said, you got to be kidding. What does that mean? So you're not allowed to fix -- and, you know, the sad thing is that you have guys here that can fix their truck better than the people working in one of the plants where they fix them, who don't know anything.

They're mostly kids learning how to fix a truck and you have these guys, they've been fixing -- and if they fix that truck -- you know why they did that? Because I said, what's the purpose? I sort of figured, but because they're afraid that if you fix it yourself, you'll take off all of that environmental bullshit that they burden your engines with.

No, it's true. Crazy. Crazy. And you'll spew all sorts of bad things into the air. You know, I buy a lot of equipment, too, and I always like to buy stuff. I say to John Deere, I say to a lot of good ones, [Inaudible], a lot of good case, I say, do me a favor, do you have any 10-year-old lawn mowers that haven't been used yet?

I'll buy them all, because I'll tell you what, you have to go to MIT to turn on a lawn mower now. Now, by the way, don't -- don't worry, it's all ended. I got rid of all that crap, so -- so now you can actually -- no, before I came in, you had to go -- you had to be a PhD in -- from MIT. You got to be very smart to turn on a lawn mower.

I don't want you to have to think too much I'd like to -- or bing. And you know, of the equipment was a little off, you couldn't turn it on. You know that, right? If the environmental equipment showed that it wasn't perfect, you couldn't -- you were just stuck. And if you fixed it, they put you in jail. Other than that, it's quite a good system.

No, these people are crazy, I'm telling you. And yet, Barack Hussein Obama would fly to Hawaii to play a round of golf in a 747, spewing old one, 35 years. We have a new one now, beauty, but an old one, 35 years. He would fly to Hawaii, play a round of golf, shoot about 125, and then he'd get into -- he'd get into the same plane, he'd fly back.

Then he'd have a news conference on the carbon footprint, the carbon footprint is killing us. But that's the way it goes. To protect family farms, we did something that is one of the things I'm most happy about, we eliminated the unfair estate tax or the death tax. Right? The best thing. And I tell -- you know, I tell people -- people would -- we put that in the Great, Big, Beautiful Bill.

We didn't get one Democrat vote. We got all Republican votes. It's amazing. We have all these different taxes that we cut and regulations that we cut. It's one of the great -- you know, we did, it's actually seven or eight years' worth of stuff, we put it all into one. Everyone said we're crazy, we'll never get it approved.

Right, Tim? They all said -- I said, let's try and get it all done at one time, from four to eight years, some -- you know, it was all done. If we did nothing else, we had a great success. We -- that's why we call it the Great, Big -- it's called the big but I like the word great. I wish we would have added that.

Let's go change -- let's ask an amendment. I call it the Great, Big, Beautiful Bill. And it's got so many things, but it's got all the tax cuts. It should be the Great, Big, Beautiful Tax Cut Bill. But we have, uh, things in there but one of the things I'm happiest about is, uh, if you leave your farm or a small business to your children, they don't have to pay a estate tax.

And what was happening -- Yeah. And what was happening is --the parents love their kids, and they'd leave the farm or they'd leave the business. And -- and the assessor comes along. And a lot of times farms are very valuable, but they don't make as much money as the value. So, you know, they're little -- they're really asset rich, but they don't make the money.

And the kids would have to go out. They borrow the money. And your friendly banker turns out to be not so friendly, borrowed the money to pay the tax, turned out to be not good, and they lose the farm. And in many cases -- and I'm not telling you, you know better than anybody -- your children would end up committing suicide.

You know that, because they lost their farm that their parents gave them, the farm that they grew up, the farm where they wanted to grow -- grow old. And they'll be assessing it, and the estate tax is a very high tax, 40 percent, 50 percent. It's a massive tax. It's a very bad tax. And I got rid of it so now you can leave your farms et cetera to your children and -- right?

It's a big thing. And just so you know, the Dumocrats want to put it back. They're going to put it back. They get in, they're going to put it back. And that's one that's actually a -- that's a mean one. That's why they call it a death tax. It's a death tax for a lot of reasons. But they want to put all of that stuff back, no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security for your seniors, no tax on overtime.

They want to put it all back if you put them in office, if you vote for them. And Ashley will never be -- and your people in Congress. You've sent it up, oh -- like, oh, you approved it so fast. You guys were so -- you were so great. They're warriors, these people. They're great. I know every one of them very well, right?

That was a big deal. And we have Paul. Is that Paul? Paul, wow. Paul is here from -- he -- Border Patrol. He's -- he's the boss, and he's a great guy. Get up here. We saw Paul, and he's tough. Come here. Come here. You know, he never heard from the border czar. That was Kamala. She was appointed border czar by Sleepy Joe.

And I said did you ever hear? No. Did she ever go there? No. But he heard from me every week. I said, Paul, we got to do better. Go ahead, say a couple words.

Thank you, President Trump. And again, we're -- we're in the great state of Iowa, where we have to get Ashley Hinson elected into the Senate -- And all of these great Republicans that are fighting every day and will continue to fight every day. Yeah, I -- I was able to meet with President Trump during the disastrous administration of Joe Biden, Sleepy Joe, and I told him, I said, President Trump, your agents need you.

Your country needs you. Because he is the only man that could do the job. He did it the first time. And for 17 months, we have released zero. Because President Biden destroyed this country -- And President Trump came in and said no more. He secured the border once and for all, and we need to continue another successful two years.

And we need these people in because President Trump is the greatest president in the history of this country.

That's not bad. He did a good job. Wow, he's a great guy, actually. I'll tell you, Border Patrol and ICE and all law enforcement -- boy, I met a lot of your law enforcement backstage, your sheriffs, your people. They're great. They're great. And, you know, we're going to seek the death penalty for anybody that kills a law enforcement official or policeman.

Right? Unless you don't want that. Unless you would rather -- that's great. Thank you very much. No, we're so proud. We're so proud. These guys are so good. They do such a good job. They don't -- I'll tell you, really people have great respect. You know, you don't feel it because it's so -- you know, all the churning that they do back there, all those people.

But everyone respects you guys and really loves you a lot. We also gave Iowa an emergency waiver to sell E15 all year round. And with Ashley in the Senate, we will make it year round E15. We'll make it permanent. We'll get it done, right? That's a big deal for them. I settled eight raging wars or soon to be wars.

Some of them were just about started. And we're close to, I think, ending two more. I think Russia-Ukraine is getting at that position. I mean, they are -- they've been fighting a long time. You know, they lose on average 25,000, mostly soldiers, a month. You know that? 25 -- think of 25,000 young people every month, just about.

It was -- last month it was 32,000, but it averages 25-27,000 soldiers die every single month. And we're going to have Iran finish very soon, one way or the other. It's almost insignificant to me which way, but one way or the other, it's going to be done very soon. And your gasoline prices and your oil is going to come tumbling down, like the day that I spent seven months ago in Iowa looking at the top of the pump.

And we got all 28 Hamas hostages returned to their families, both living and dead, and hundreds before that. We got them all returned. Got them all returned. And just yesterday, we got Stephen Hubbard back from Russia. So, Stephen Hubbard was -- A man who was captured in Russia and put in jail, and he stayed in jail for years under Joe Biden.

But I got him back, but should have never happened. And I called President Putin and I said, you know, do us a favor. Let us have Stephen Hubbard back. He said I will. He will. It was very quick, quick, and we didn't have to pay $6 billion like they would do, 6 billion. Remember they got a few people, six -- they had the basketball player.

Remember we got the basketball player that doesn't stand up for the Olympics. Hey, by the way, what's going on with the women's NBA? What's -- what's that all about? [Audience boos]

You know, they'll -- they'll destroy themselves before they get started, because they're just starting to do good. And you had a player here who was very good, who was very helpful for that. No, it's a big deal going on. They leave the court when the national anthem is played. What's that all about? You know, the NFL did that for a while, and they stopped because people stopped watching the games.

So, I think you should do the same thing with women's basketball unless they get banned. And what about LeBron James? Did you see that deal? [Audience boos]

No, he's doing -- during the national anthem, he's practicing his golf swing, oh. He's practicing -- I said what the hell is that? No, it's a big scandal kind of a story. What's it all about? I don't understand it. I don't understand it. We conducted large numbers of military strikes to smash the drug cartels, and we brought the flow of deadly drugs coming in by ocean -- think of this.

Coming in by ocean, it's down by 97 percent. That's -- 97 percent. And drugs are -- about 18 years, 19 years now, they're at the lowest level coming in through Mexico. But by water, a lot of them were coming in by water, down 97 percent. And we're trying to figure out who are the 3 percent, because I happen to consider them to be among the bravest people anywhere in the world.

We've destroyed the fishing industry all over the place. Nobody wants to go fishing anymore. That's the only problem. But, you know, we used to take them into a Miami court, and they'd be freed immediately. Not us, I mean, for years this is -- nothing happened. It's amazing. So, we're down 97 percent. We're down about 62 percent overall and getting better.

The land is the easy part. The water was the hardest part, and we took care of it with those missile shots. And -- and, you know, you feel terrible. It's tough. But each one of those boats would kill 5 to 10,000 people and destroy families. So, when you hear that, you feel a lot better. I got most favored nation agreements to reduce the cost of many prescription drugs from the highest drug prices anywhere in the world to the lowest drug prices anywhere in the world.

We now have the lowest drug prices, and we'll be reducing the drug prices by 50 to 90 percent. My first term I got one eighth of 1 percent, first time in 28 years that they went down one eighth of 1 percent. I thought it was great. I had a news conference. But now it's down 50 to 90. Think of it. We had the highest drug prices in the world, and we now have the lowest drug prices, and nobody else could have done that.

And we abolished all discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion policies throughout the federal government. We got critical -- race theory and transgender insanity the hell out of our schools and military. And we made English the official language of the United States of America. They love that. They love that.

That's a big deal. I don't know, they love that, everybody, always gets a big hand. Our country is doing so well, and this is important, that under Republican leadership, that only I can make this promise. I mean, I'm the only one. The Democrats can't make this promise. If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate, I am going to give all adult citizens, including those from a place called Iowa, man and wife, man and wife, if you're married, we're going to give everybody one, just one big hit, $5,000. So -- so if you're a man and wife, it's $5,000 and $5,000. And only a Republican can do that because Democrats aren't able to. They're not taking in any amount of money.

They have no tariffs, they have no anything. We have record-setting economic success, like I just explained tonight. But the Democrat policies won't allow this to happen. In fact, the exact opposite will happen. If the Democrats win, you will have a 1929 -- and I hope this -- first of all, I hope they don't win, but if they do, you're going to have a 1929-style economic depression because their policies are so stupid.

They're almost like, if you think about some of the transgender policies or the men playing in women's sports or the open borders -- I'm good at finance. I've always been great at finance. Their policies will lead to a massive recession, but more likely a depression. Our country will be practically finished.

If the Republicans win, you'll each have $5,000 in your pocket and economic success for our country like we have never, ever seen before. And remember, just recently, I gave all members of the United States military $1,776. Right? And everyone said, oh, it can't be done, you can't do it, it won't be done, you can't do it. Well, I did it. And in fact, it was $1,775, the generals, I said, generals, I want to give them a bonus, they've been so great, tell me what we can do. So they came back at $1,775. True.

They came back, they said, sir -- these three guys are so handsome. I hate handsome men. I've always hated -- no, they like central casting, four star guys. They said -- we have too many four stars. You know, we have more four stars than we had during the Second World War. So if you notice, we've cut back slightly.

We have to do that, but we only cut back the bad ones. Don't worry about it. But I said, generals, what do you think? $1,775. I said, do you think we could scrounge up one more dollar and then we're at $1,776 [Inaudible] and that money was given a year ago. And to this day, everybody, uh, every time they see me, they say, sir, thank you very much.

I know what they're talking about, $1,776. And the $5,000 dividend is approximately, think of it, only -- it's a lot, but it's $1 trillion, but we have a record setting $22.2 trillion that's being invested in our country. So when you think of it, we are the number one growth country anywhere in the world, growth.

The only caveat on the, let's call it the Trump dividend, is that you have to spend the money in the United States of America. We don't want you going to China. We don't want you going to Japan. We don't want you going to France. Would anyone like to go to France? [Audience boos]

Boy, they better straighten that out fast. Look, that's what's going to happen if you put the radical left lunatics in here, like the people that these two great people are running against. You put them in and that's what you're going to have. That's what they have, they have a -- they have an immigration -- they'd like to say, oh, yes, these are high school.

They're not high school students. They don't like the way the high schools run. It's such crap. They -- it's immigration, it's a huge immigration. You're going to have it and it's all radical left. You know the way they like to blame the right. I'll tell you what, these are left problems and I've never seen -- those are -- those are beyond right.

So if you'd like, I think, should we make a special -- a special waiver, Tim, where if somebody really wants to go to France, they can spend their $5,000 in France? [Audience boos]

Tim Scott said, no, that's the end of that, right? The choice in this election is very simple. You can vote for the radical left Dumocrat Communist to loot your wealth, raise your taxes by $5 trillion, annihilate your borders, decimate Iowa's farms and factories, mutilate your children, and give 25 million illegal aliens amnesty and the right to vote.

That's what they want. They want to give them the right to vote. They want to give them amnesty. Or you can defeat the Democrat communists and vote for more money in your pockets bigger paychecks for your families, lower taxes, less crime, a booming Iowa economy, and no amnesty for your illegal aliens. You must vote -- to get that, you must vote Republican, Republican.

Got to vote for Republicans. I think we're going to have a very big -- if you guys vote -- again, if you guys vote, we're going to have a very -- you got to get to vote, got to remember, I'm on the ballot, just -- because I am on the ballot, really. It's our stuff that's going to be taken away. If we -- if we don't win, it's going to be taken away.

So I am really on the ballot but you got to get it. If you get out and vote like you did in 2024, we win in a landslide, you know, we win in a landslide. So every single Democrat in college voted against our tax cuts. Every single one of them voted against our tax cuts, our no tax on tips, no tax on overtime for our seniors, every single one.

We didn't have -- think of this, you have no tax on overtime, why would you vote -- you have no tax on Social Security for our seniors. Why -- no tax on tips. Why would you vote against that, but they voted against. And, you know, it's driven our economy, many, many more people. The overtime is great. The one that seems to be -- which is your favorite?

Ready? No tax on tips. They don't tip farm workers that much, right? You're more traditional. Give me a check, right? So not a lot of tipping, right? All right. No tax on overtime. No tax on Social Security for our seniors. That's generally the one. But they voted against voter ID because they want to cheat.

They voted against proof of citizenship because they want to cheat. They voted against securing the border. They voted -- can you believe? I built the wall, 2,000 miles and they voted against -- we had to build -- we had to use the military. You couldn't get it, they wouldn't approve it. And they've said openly, they're not going to do anything to enhance; they want to open the wall.

They want to have the people -- we lived in hell. I'll tell you, if you were in the Texas border, if you were in Arizona, if you were in New America -- What a good name. You know, I changed the name of a place called the Gulf of Mexico. You may have heard. I changed the name from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and people love it. And I also changed the name of a beautiful lake that fronts a little bit on O Canada.

And we now call that Lake America. I wouldn't say that Canada and Mexico are thrilled. The Mexican president called me. She said, no, no, no, tell me it's not true, please. She's a beautiful woman, a very elegant, beautiful voice all the time. I say, you have such a beautiful voice. No, no, no president, please, please, tell me it's not true.

No, no, it's true. It is true, actually. It's the Gulf of America. You know, we have 93 percent of the frontage, they have seven percent. So it never made sense to me, Tim. They voted in favor of the worst inflation. And by the way, speaking of that, so we have -- right now we really have a strait. I'm thinking about calling the strait -- the Hormuz Strait, the Trump Strait.

I think the Arabs [Inaudible] do you think Abdul El-Sayed would feel about that? He would be thrilled. He would be thrilled for -- he would be thrilled for our country, wouldn't he? No, but we have a lake, great lake, wow. One of the five Great Lakes and we have a gulf. Now I need an ocean and a river, so I'm -- I was thinking about the Hudson -- but I don't think I can get away.

Then I was thinking about how about the Mississippi, the mighty Mississippi. But we won Mississippi by 38 points. I don't think I'm going to do that one, right, Ashley? I don't think Ashley will approve that one. So, we're -- we're looking for a river. But the two -- the two that I really like are the Mississippi and the Hudson.

And I don't have the courage to do it, so I think they're safe. But we're also looking for an ocean, and the only two that qualify -- because I always like the biggest and the best. So, the only two that qualify are the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. And I think if I said ocean, well, let's see. Well, the Ocean of the Americas, I don't like it. It's too long.

The American Ocean -- oh, the American Ocean. And let's say, ladies and gentlemen, I'm pleased to announce that on Monday morning we'll be changing the name of the Atlantic Ocean to the American Ocean -- How do you think our friends in Europe -- I actually called up Sundar from Google. You know, Google Maps is a big deal.

You get it on Google, it's done. But I called Sundar. So, I got the lake and I got the gulf. And I said, Sundar, I was only kidding. I have a new one. I actually sent him a picture of the Atlantic Ocean called the American Ocean. And he actually called me. He said, look, sir, this has to stop. [Laughter] He said this has to stop.

He thought I was, you know, -- I -- I was just kidding. But -- but, that would be a tough one. But you never know in life, do you? In favor of transgender mutilation, that's these people that you're thinking about maybe voting for. But they want to do all of those things. On election night, I was going to prove that America does not belong to those who hate it. America belongs to those who love it, and that's you.

And Ashley Hinson is all that stands between the people of Iowa and communists controlling the United States Senate -- that one vote is just -- like, I can't tell you how important -- which they'll use to open your borders and set loose criminals into your country and destroy your Second Amendment. They want to take away -- you know, they want to pack the court.

They want to expand the Supreme Court for a very specific reason, in order to knock out your Second Amendment. I've been fighting for the Second Amendment. We haven't touched it. And if you think that was an easy -- And Tim Scott has been helping. That is not one of our easy chores, isn't it? But Ashley has an A rating from the NRA and is endorsed by the Iowa Farm Bureau.

And frankly, she's always calling me and asking me for things, like, for Iowa. Sir, could you give a little bit more money to the farmers? I said this woman is such a pain. [Laughter] But ultimately, that's nice, I guess. But, no, she's a fantastic woman. She's going to be great. She's replacing somebody who's been a fantastic friend.

Joni, thank you very much. You've been a fantastic friend of mine. So, Ashley, come on up, please.

Thank you. Well, hey, Iowans, we are ready to make sure we do not send Josh Turek to the US Senate in 12 days, aren't we? We're going to make sure he doesn't get that promotion. The president already said it, right? But Josh Turek's record is too liberal for Iowa. He wants illegal immigrants to have those benefits.

He wants asylum in this country. He's talked about it. He wants our kids to be able to change their pronouns at school. So, there's never a good time to elect a tax and spend liberal to the US Senate. Now would be the worst time. We're going to keep Iowa red and keep Iowa Iowa. Thank you so much.

And by the way, Chuck Grassley is here someplace. I want to just say thank you. That's such -- he's great. We took a picture backstage and it was great, with his beautiful wife. Thank you, Chuck, wherever you may be. Thank you. Thank you very much. You also need to defeat radical Dumocrat Rob Sand. He's a disaster for government.

And by the way, he wants to raise your taxes by $7,500. He wants to take away your guns and your Second Amendment. He's in favor of transgender mutilation, and your borders will be wide open for criminals to pour into, just like they did just a couple of years ago. That's not going to happen with your man.

You need to go vote for a businessman who will cut your property taxes very substantially, lower your gas prices, support our police, and keep criminals behind bars, your next governor, Zach Lahn.

Thank you all. Mr. President, thank you for coming to Iowa. Thank you. Let me just tell you something. Let me tell you why we're thankful for this. Because this president has been fighting to preserve the culture of the United States of America, that's why. Fighting for voter ID, fighting to secure the border, fighting to protect and defend the United States of America so it doesn't become France, so Iowa does not become Minnesota or Illinois.

We are here to defend the culture of the -- of the United States of America, and Donald Trump is defending that culture. But, Mr. President, I'm running against a weird one. He's a guy who, after college, became an underwear model. Did you know this? He didn't know this. He didn't know it. It's true. It's true.

You know, he supports all the things you said: gun control, transgender surgeries, giving illegal immigrants benefits. Wants to give them our tax dollars. Look, we are here to defend Iowa. That's why all of you are here. And I -- my promise to you is I am going to defend the culture of this state and defend your children and grandchildren against this craziness.

Thank you all for being here.

Thank you very much, Zach. And part of that culture, Zach, is that we're gonna keep Iowa number one. You're gonna be in number one place. When you go at that, at -- you're going to get out and vote. Because to me, that's a part of the culture. It's been -- you know, there's that movement to move you back, way back, and it's not happening.

So, we're going to keep you number one. That really is a part of culture, as far as I'm concerned, political culture. You also need to vote for Joe Mitchell for the 2nd Congressional District. And Chris, you know what? Come on up here, fellas, Chris McGowan here in the 4th district. And Brenna Bird from Iowa Attorney General has been my fan and my -- we love Brenna, right?

Such an early endorsement. And again, I want to thank Chuck Grassley. He's been great. I want to thank Chuck and I want to thank Joni, and I want to thank Tim Scott for being here from South Carolina because he's great. And -- You met Paul Perez, and he's, like, just -- you don't find a better human being, a man, he's fantastic.

And we have Representative Rick Crawford here. Come on up, Rick. You gotta come up. You're so good. Come on up. Iowa GOP Chair Jeff Kaufmann. Jeff, thank you, great job. Your son is fantastic. My friend, the first one to endorse me in the whole United States, he's -- I call him the Marlboro Man. He's this handsome guy, this handsome guy, Senator Brad Zaun.

Where's Brad, the Marlboro Man? Look at him. He looks so good. Everyone wants to look like that. He's like the Marlboro Man. Senators, State Senators Lynn Evans and Kevin Alons. Thank you very much for being here. And State Representative Brooke Boden. Thank you, Brooke, wherever you may be. There you are.

Hi, Brooke. Thank you. And the chairman of the Export-Import Bank, a real brilliant guy, John Jovanovic. Where's John? John Jovanovic, he is -- He has done some job. And the RNC chairman, Joe Gruters, who's a powerful guy, who's -- you're going to have a -- I think you're going to have a great November 3rd. And former Iowa Hawkeyes linebacker Zach Twedt.

Boy, oh, boy, this guy is in seriously good shape. I said who the hell is that? I didn't ask that with you. I didn't ask that with you. I said who the hell was that guy? He came in and shook my hand. That's central casting. Was he a very good player? I guess, huh? I would think so. Physically, I would think he had no problem.

But thank you very much, Zach. We appreciate it. Very good. I heard you had a great career. Everyone here today is part of the greatest movement in the history of our country, and it's an honor to be with these people. I'd like to maybe ask a couple of them, and maybe I'd ask -- you have something, I think.

Well, Mr. President, this is far larger than any No Kings rally I've ever seen. Isn't that true? Mr. President, you've won this state three times, and judging by this crowd, you'd win it a fourth time -- if he ran again. OK? I think so. You went to DC to clean up Biden's mess, and finally, it's a respectable city, it's a safe city, and it's finally a clean city.

Can we admit that? Thank God you're building the ballroom. Thank God you're getting rid of those awful bike lanes, by the way. We don't ride bicycles in Iowa, we ride Harley-Davidsons. Isn't that true? This gentleman up here, he's not riding a bicycle, are you? You're riding a Harley. So I wanted to say, Mr. President, for the last 10 years, you've kept this country more safe than any other president ever, ever.

And they've never given you the Nobel Peace Prize, by the way, which is a disgrace. So what I came up with, Mr. President, is a new award. It's called the man of the Century Award, OK? It's the man of the century award, and I'm going to hold this up for the artificial media to see. CNN zoom in right here, CNN.

OK? Because this man has done more for humanity and for America than any other president ever. Thank you, Mr. President, for being here. Thank you for supporting Iowa and thank you for being the greatest president we've ever had. Just want to say, as a hometown kid, how proud I am to call Sioux City, Iowa, and the Siouxland tri-state region of Iowa, Nebraska, and South Dakota, my hometown.

And I'm enormously pleased with this evening's turnout. It's gone a little bit late, but folks, if we show this enthusiasm between now and through November 3rd, we're going to keep Iowa red, and that's the commitment that we need to make to President Donald J. Trump. Thank you. Well, you're pretty tall here, Mr. President.

Hold on, here. I got a short one coming up here. Uh, so I want to say this, Mr. President, thank you so much for coming to Iowa. When you came here four years ago, when I was running against a 40-year Democrat incumbent, your visit to this part of the state made the difference. Thank you. Because we know in western Iowa turns out, we win, don't we? We win.

And thank you, President Trump, for supporting our law enforcement, our brave men and women who keep us safe. Thank you. And let me end with this, vote early, not often, or you're going to hear from me as a prosecutor, OK? Thank you. God bless you, sir.

Thank you, great people. I work with them and they are fantastic. So as you can see, we're doing really well. And I thought I'd do something which is a little unusual, but we'll put up two quick charts that we'll play for you. And they're done by CNN, so it means a lot because they never do anything good.

And you'll see what I'm talking about. Please.

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[Video clip] Okay. MAGA GOP on Trump. In the 2024 election versus Kamala Harris, he got 99% of the MAGA GOP vote. Perhaps surprisingly, I might have thought it'd be 100%, but it was 99%. Compare that to his approval rating now with the MAGA GOP. It's 98%. That is, there's been no real decline in MAGA support.

[Video clip] These folks say that they're gonna vote for congressional Republicans come the midterm elections. Again, that's the 99% that Trump got against Kamala Harris. Look now, in terms of the congressional vote, 98% of them say they're gonna be voting for House Republican candidates. So that support is actually really holding up strong.

[Video clip] It's really, really strong when it comes to MAGA GOP and the Republicans holding onto that vote. This one. Okay, the president Republicans most admire, it's Donald Trump. This is a historic comparison. A majority of Republicans say, 53% say he's the Republican president they most admire. Ronald Reagan, who traditionally has won that much, Donald Trump nearly triples up on this, Reagan at just 18%, and then Abraham Lincoln, who, by most historic accounts, is the greatest president of all time.

[Video clip] But Republicans say that the president that they most admire by, what is this, is this is six, seven times as many, Donald John Trump at 53%, easily crushing Abe Lincoln at 8%. And the Elon Poll showed that he was the greatest president as well, Donald Trump.

[Video clip] I feel like this slide might end up on a printout on his desk.

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Thank you. Well, thank you, and I -- a person is here who is -- who is fantastic. I want to just say hello and acknowledge Senator Tim Scott's wife, because he's working every night. He follows me around. So thank you. Thank you very much for being here, appreciate it. Beautiful wife. So in conclusion, if you elect a Republican House and a Republican Senate on November 3rd, we will do things for you.

You're going to be very, very happy. We will win our war on corruption and fraud and let our great vice president keep doing his job. He's doing a fantastic job. He's finding billions and billions of dollars. We will pass a No Invasion of Our Country Act, prohibiting any future president from ever opening our borders to illegal immigrants again.

That was an invasion. That was like a military invasion. We're never going to let that happen again. We will ban sanctuary cities and pass the death penalty for large scale drug dealers, human traffickers, and anyone who kills a police officer or a member of law enforcement. And we will pass voter identification, proof of citizenship, and the SAVE America Act to defend our sacred American election.

And we will enshrine in permanent law no men in women's sports and no transgender mutilation of your children. And ladies and gentlemen of Iowa, what a great place, and I want to thank you for all the support you've given me over the years. It's incredible. And I'm giving you a lot, and I'll continue. The golden age of America is upon us but you must go out, you must vote, you must vote, frankly, Republican.

If you're going to vote Democrat, don't bother. Anybody in here going to vote Democrat? I wonder. We've already made unbelievable progress, and now we will reach new levels of greatness. We will. We're going to reach new levels. There's never been anything like what we've done. It's my honor to be your president during such an exciting period of time in our country.

And, you know, we've been doing this together for, really together. It's the same vote. You see that just now, the 99, 98, it's the same vote, the same great warriors, the same great people that built our nation. But we've been doing it for 11 years and there's never been anything like it, and there never will be anything like it. It's something the world has probably never seen before and maybe we'll never see again.

It's what we've done together as a group. I mean, because it's the United States of America. It's not like a small country, maybe, but this is the United States of America and there's never been anything like it. So let's go out and do what we do best, which is to win on November 3rd. We do it the best. And let's make the next two years bigger, better, and stronger than ever before, because we will make America powerful again.

We will make America wealthy again. We will make America healthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And most importantly, we will make America great again. Thank you, Iowa. Thank you. God bless you all. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.