Speech: Donald Trump Holds a Midterm Political Rally in Dubuque, Iowa - November 1, 2026

Well. Hello, everybody. Hello, everybody. Hello. Thank you. What a crowd. What a crowd. [Audience chants "USA"]

Thank you very much. Hello, Iowa. I love Iowa. And I'm thrilled to be back in this beautiful state, which I won all three times with more votes than any candidate by far in Iowa history. That's good. And I watched football very closely. One game for about two minutes. I watched it because I didn't have a lot of time.

I'm doing these damn rallies all over the place. You don't have a lot of time. But I watched the Iowa Hawkeyes win their football game yesterday in, in a very big manner, to put it mildly. Congratulations to that great team and the coach. And, uh, I said, "Boy, that's good because they're gonna be in a great mood when I show up tomorrow." [Laughter] So, uh, congratulations.

That's a, uh, really great tribute. But we're going to have a much bigger win on Tuesday, okay? And just two days from now, the people of Iowa are going to elect Ashley Hinson -- she's phenomenal, by the way -- to the United States Senate. And we're going to elect a great -- he's going to be our great governor, Zach Lahn.

I know him well and he's, well, he's been with us all the way. And we're going to elect America First Republicans up and down the line, all the way up and down. We're going to keep, we're going to keep our nation strong. We're not going to let the jihadists, the communists, whoever the hell. We got more, more, I shouldn't use the word.

Should I use it or not? [Audience responds affirmatively]

We got more crap running for office. We're not gonna, we're not gonna stand for it. We're gonna keep our nation strong. We've never been stronger. We're the most respected nation anywhere in the world. I'm also very proud that Iowa, I was proud I did this for you. I did this for you. First in the nation, you kept first in the nation.

And we will keep you as a big deal. I think to me, it's a very important, you could call it a tradition. Gone on for decades and decades. They wanted to move you to the back of the pack. I said, "We're not moving Iowa anywhere. We're not moving." So you're always gonna be first in the nation unless we lose, in which case I won't have any control over it. You go, so remember, by, you know, I don't wanna use this in any way that's inappropriate, but frankly, if we don't win, you're going to the back of the pack.

If we do win, you stay in first in the nation. Now, that sounds like a little tricky wording. It's not tricky at all. You're gonna be first in the nation because we're gonna win. We're gonna win. Right? And for the past 32 days, I've traveled all across the country, spoken at 29 rallies. You think that's easy.

And I've done it all for one very simple reason, to stop America-hating communists and jihadists from taking over the United States of America, by taking over the United States Congress. We're not gonna let it happen. You know, people would say, "Oh, it's only a couple of votes." Those couple of votes, because of the power that they have in terms of the majority, those couple of votes will dominate politics.

They'll dominate. Everybody will have to go their way. Otherwise, bad things will happen. So those couple of votes are very important. And I wanna tell you, uh, I've known Ashley for a long time. Sh- -- you have s- -- she's gonna be outstanding, outstanding in Washington. You know what I respect about, I shouldn't say this.

It's inappropriate. [Laughter] Now, Ashley said, "Please, sir. Don't do this." No, it's true. I knew Ashley for a long time and she was a little bit heavier, okay? [Laughter] She was. And she put herself, she knew what she was doing. She knew the weight that was on her, really. Literally, the weight. And she knew the importance of what she was doing.

And she went out the old-fashioned way too. Not with, you know, give me a shot. The old-fashioned way. And she put herself into great -- she put herself, uh, don't, don't bother. They're paid protesters, don't worry. They go away quickly.

[A protester calls out, interrupting the event.]

They're like a gnat. They're like a little fly. [Audience chants "USA"]

There's usually two or three of them per rally. They get paid $250. They're paid by Soros and they're losers. But they always do it right in the middle of my punchline. [Laughter] 'Cause I was about to say that Ashley knew the importance of what this was and how important it was. And boy, she put herself, she went on a regimen, she put herself in shape.

She's in perfect shape. She was good. I thought she was great the other way. But she put herself in shape and she did that for you. She knew the importance and I think it's great. I see it. Me, I put on a couple of pounds. I hated that. [Laughter] How did you do that? I wanna, no, I think it's a great thing.

And she really is, she's committed to your state. She's committed to the farmers and the ranchers and frankly everybody else. You know, people don't realize, uh, I just made the largest, because you don't think of Iowa as steel, but I just made along with a couple of the people, especially your congresspeople that helped us, the largest steel mill in all of the United States gonna be built in Iowa.

Iowa. When does that happen? And the, you know, the people are immensely wealthy. They're gonna do the best job. It'll be incredible. And they were looking for a site. I said, "What about --" This sounds strange. You think of corn and crop farmers. I said, "What about Iowa? The people are incredible." And they said, "We like that." Don't worry about them.

Don't worry about them. They're losers.

[A protester calls out, interrupting the event.]

There'll be three or four of them. They put about three or four of them in. Go ahead. And your, your law enforcement does such a good job. [Audience boos]

Crazy. [Audience chants "USA"]

Every rally, somebody stands up and they say some stupid thing. They don't even know what, no, they're paid. They get $250. Then they get booked in a precinct. They have it on the record for the rest of their lives. [Laughter] And I think probably with most of them, we'll probably ask the various law enfor- -- I shouldn't say this because we still have another rally.

We're going right, right after this, we're going to Kansas. We want to get a very good man working with Ashley. Very good man. Very good senator. Very important. I love doing two or three of these a day, so, but you know what? People say, "How do you do it?" I said, "I love the people." There's such love in the room.

There's such love. There is such love in the room. It's not that hard. It's not that hard because a friend of mine, very, very successful guy, Wall Street guy, he wanted to run for office. He said, "I want to do what you did. I'm going to run for the Senate. I can't tell you where. It's been, you'll be embarrassed." And people think it's easy.

It's not easy. But he said, uh, very successful, very rich guy, made a lot of money on Wall Street, as smart as they come. And he wanted to be, just wanted to run for office like I did. I said, "You know, it's not that easy." "Well, I think I can do it." I said, "Good luck." So he ran and he developed a case of lockjaw.

He was, he, this is a guy, no, he had stage fright. I said, "Uh, how are you doing your poll numbers?" He said, "Well, I'm having a hard time speaking." I said, "Then you're in the wrong profession if you haven't." [Laughter] But he said, "How do you do it? How do you speak in front of all these --" Look at all the fake news back there.

Camera after camera after camera. [Audience boos]

And, and he said he failed badly. He dropped out. He said he couldn't. He literally had stage fright. The guy, the guy would destroy people for a living and then financially that is. But no, he was a tough guy, very tough financially, very smart. But he'd go out and destroy people and then he'd get onto a stage and he'd go, 'Hum-a-hum-a-hum-a'. What?" No, he just couldn't talk.

I said, "What the hell happened to you?" But anyway, so now he's back doing what, you know, everybody has to do what they have to do. But he said, "How do you do that in front of all those people and all that television back there?" Look at that. And thousands, by the way, thousands of people outside that can't get in. And if anybody would like to give up your location, please raise your hand.

So far I've never had a taker. In years of doing this, I've never had a taker. But, but it's been amazing. But he said, "How do you do it?" I said, "There's such --" I mean, I come into a crowd. I mean, other than these poor people that, you know, raised their hand, she has to go home to her mother now, and her mother's gonna smack her and say, "How dare you do that to that man?

I voted for him. I love him very much." Her mother is MAGA. You don't realize that. But there's such love. It's not very hard to do, to be honest with you. The traveling is harder than everything else. I love being up here with you and, and we're gonna, we're gonna have a big day, and we're gonna have the results on Tuesday night.

And I look forward because the fake news is really, "Oh, well, I don't think they have that much spirit right now." You know, they're trying to say because of the fact that I've protected our nation from a, the number one state sponsor of terror in the world, they've been hitting us for 51, they've been hitting us actually from 1979, the SS Cole where hundreds of young guys, young people died.

Uh, many, many of the roadside bomb, Soleimani, we killed him in my first term. You remember General Soleimani. No, he loved, he was the father of the roadside bomb, you know, the bomb they planted in a road. And as a truck drives over it, they blow it up and they killed so many. And forget about killing, they killed many.

But people are around now, they're in wheelchairs, they have no legs. They have no arms. Their face has been destroyed. They live a life- -- and they'll live for 60 years. It's a terrible thing. So they've been doing, they started this war. We didn't start it. We're finishing it. We're beating the crap out of them and, they have no Navy.

They have 159 ships. They had 268 airplanes. Their airplanes are scattered all over the runways of Iran. Little pieces about this big. They have no radar. They have no anti-aircraft weaponry. They have no leaders. I mean, they had leaders. That's my problem. We might have gone a little far with their leaders.

There's nobody to talk to. I'm trying to find somebody to talk to. Nobody wants to be president. You know, we do hear what they say. We're quite good at that actually. Somebody said, "China's spying on us, sir." I said, "Yeah, and we're spying on them too. Don't worry about it." They said, "It's terrible, China.

Russia, they're spying on us, sir." I said, "That's true. And we're doing it to them also, but we do it even better. So don't worry about it. Don't worry. Don't worry." In state after state, the Dumocrat Party has nominated the most extreme and dangerous radicals in American history. They openly are promising to abolish your borders and let millions of third world migrants ransack, rape, and plunder your communities.

They want to steal your wealth and give it to fraudsters, thieves, and stupid people like that.

[A protester calls out, interrupting the event.]

[Audience chants "USA"] You're a stupid person. No, so, you know, they never work in groups because there's not many of them. No, they never, you know, it used to be there'd be like a group four or five. They always said, so far, for the last 20 days, they were -- [Audience member calls out "We love you"]

Thank you, darling. I love you too. Where the hell are you? I could use a little love. You know? The only thing I don't like about that is the fake news back there. They'll say, a lot of fake news, by the way. But they- -- uh, they'll say, "He was met with tremendous opposition." Yeah, so far we've had two and a half people.

One's so young, I don't think, two and a half people. "He was met with tremendous --" They don't talk about the crowd. You know, I told yesterday I was at a great one. We had one the other night. It was unbelievable in Florida. It was 45,000, 50,000 people. We had a few thousand. What we got? Oh, outside.

You count those numbers outside, you got a lot of people. But the- -- uh, the thing is they never talk about the crowd. They never do. And I told the story about Bernie Sanders when Bernie was hot, which was a long time ago. But you got to hand it to him, he's still a radical left lunatic, but he's still got his mind, you know, because he's had the same mind for a long time.

But he's still sharp as opposed to Biden, you know. Because Biden's the worst thing that ever happened to old people. [Laughter] It's true. Because I know a lot of- -- I know people in their 90s, they're sharper than they were 25 years ago. But, uh, Bernie Sanders had a rally and he'd have like 900 people.

Good. I mean, that's good. It's a big rally. We'd have 48,000, 49,000 people across the street or nearby. And the fake news would say, "Bernie Sanders had a tremendous crowd. It was unbelievable. Also in the area was Donald Trump." [Laughter] We'd have 50,000, close to 50,000. I remember one time, he had like nine- -- he had a nice crowd, 900 people. 911 to be exact.

We counted them. You know, I have people count, you know. And then we certify. We actually go use accounting firms to certify because the fake news won't, uh, you know, they don't believe anything that we say. They don't, they do believe it, but they just don't want to write it. But Bernie had 911 people.

We had almost 50,000. They said, "Bernie Sanders had a fantastic crowd. Trump was, uh, in the area also." Oh, thank you very much. Just yesterday, it was revealed that the Dumocrat Senate candidate in Michigan, Abdul Mohamed El-Sayed, qualified for the ballot -- [Audience boos]

-- by campaigning and soliciting signatures at radical mosques they called America "the house of Satan" and called for, quote, "The final annihilation of Jews, all Jews." Now he says, "Oh no, I think Jews are wonderful." He's, by the way, he's worse with Blacks than he is with Jews, okay? He's worse. If you're Black, if you're African American, I say to a lot of my Black friends, "Let me ask you, would you prefer being called African American or Black?" And it's pretty much a mix.

In other words, you're in trouble no matter what you do. I say, "Well, should I say Black?" "Yes." Then I'd be with another, "No, I like African American better." So no matter what you do, but it doesn't matter because we did extremely well with the African Americans. And if you're African American, you're Black, or if you're Jewish, and you vote for this lunatic, this jihadist lunatic who wants to destroy you, you're crazy.

You're crazy. But in very big news this morning for Michigan, Congresswoman Haley Stevens, who if you remember, she was gonna be like 25 points down. Everybody thought it was gonna be a walk ch- -- a lot of people think she won, but he won by like a half a point. Remember that whole evening? It was, they took a d- -- it took days, days.

But we've, uh, you know, we just had her, it was just an incredible thing. She just went out and she endorsed Mike Rogers and Mike Rogers is doing well. He's apple pie. Mike Rogers is apple pie. And you know what this country needs? A little apple pie. We don't need the, we don't need the communists, the jihadists, the Muslim Brotherhood.

We need apple pie. He is apple pie. He'll be good. And we gotta get him in. I hope we get him in. I campaigned pretty hard for him. Her following is very big, you know? She, uh, she went out and everybody said she was gonna lose, remember, by 25 points and she ended up almost winning. It took like three, four days for them to so-called tabulate the vote. [Laughter] They tabulated with their machines.

You know, in countries where they don't have machines, the vote is in by 9:00. They have no problem with the machines. How about California? "We think we'll have the answer within the next three months." They have machines. [Audience member calls out "Gavin Newsom is a loser."]

Well, you're right about that. He admits that. He said he's a stupid person in the worst, in the worst interview I've ever seen given by a politician. Study that interview. And the level of respect from the people of Michigan, especially African American, Jewish population, I think they're very, very happy with what she did.

She was very brave in doing it. So I don't know Haley. I've never met Haley, but Haley said what few people are willing to say. I think it probably, I'd love her to join the Republican Party actually. I think that could happen maybe. But she showed great and almost unprecedented loyalty to the great people of Michigan and that's another important election for us. We don't wanna have a jihadist.

We don't wanna have a, can you imagine we'll have to put him through metal detectors in order to seat -- he'll be, we'll have 100 senators and most of them can go direct. We're gonna have to get a special metal detector for Abdul. A party that hates America cannot be allowed to lead the people who built America.

That's all, sorry. So on November 3rd, every American patriot needs to vote to cast a communist and jihadists into political oblivion, one. So we gotta get rid of these people. They're dangerous. They're hanging around, you know? You know, in golf, they have sort of an expression, "He's just hanging around, Johnny." Jack Nicklaus, Tiger, Gary Player, all these great champions.

Uh, "They're just, they're just hanging around," meaning they wanna just hang around to watch everyone else fail. And, uh, it's true. They're leading the tournament and a guy that doesn't have much of a name, all great players, but they get to the 16th, 17th, 18th hole and they forget how to play. They, they're 12 under par.

Number 16, they can't hit the ball anymore because they look up at the board and they say, "Well, oh, that's Gary Player. That's Scottie Scheffler not, that's Bryson DeChambeau, that's somebody great. And we're not supposed to be there. That's Tiger. Boy, Tiger was fantastic. That's Jack, Jack Nicklaus," all the champions.

So they look up and they see these names and they say, "I'm not supposed to be here." And you know what? They can't take it back. And that's what we can't allow to happen. We cannot allow people that shouldn't be in there to hurt our country because they wanna hurt our country. We're not gonna allow it. So a vote for any Democrat anywhere in the country is a vote to put a deranged group of extremists into power and it could really hurt us and we're not gonna let anything hurt us because we have the greatest country right now.

I was embarrassed and so were you, everybody in this room. We were embarrassed two years ago at our country, but nobody's embarrassed anymore. And I'd like you to just take a look at this video. If you wanna go back, if you wanna go back to that, vote Democrat, take a look.

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[Video clip] There are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six. I love trans children. They should love the transgender community as they love their own God. Our trans community needs abortion care too. And I'm really proud of my record as a pediatrician who has stood at the bedside of a trans young person.

[Video clip] I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity. We should be abolishing the institution of marriage altogether. God is non-binary. You know, there's this conversation about Jesus being a socialist. I would've ran as a communist. Capitalism as we know it doesn't work. We need some system of public control.

[Video clip] Do I support reparations? Absolutely. Do you do a higher individual tax rate? I'm open to everything. I oppose voter ID. You would have to prove you're a citizen before you can register to vote, which is absurd. Our caucus members will oppose all funding for immigration enforcement. I would not vote for any DHS funding.

[Video clip] ICE needs to be abolished. Abolish ICE. I want to legalize seven or eight or nine or 10 million people in our country. I agree that we should have open borders. Our southern border should be like our front porch. The idea that we should deport anybody is just inherently cruel. A now deleted Twitter account of a democratic socialist Darializa Avila Chevalier post and reposts supporting abolishing police, prisons and borders.

[Video clip] I want to abolish for-profit prisons. Any and all efforts to get people out of jails and prisons is policy that we need to be investing in. A very simplified message is defund the police. You want your Republican opponent locked up? Yeah, basically, yes. We should bash the [Inaudible] out of Trump.

[Video clip] You might not hate Muslims, but I'll tell you, Muslims definitely hate you.

[Video clip] We have to say Black lives matter but we don't have to say White lives matter. Are there any views that Hasan holds that you disavow? America deserved 9/11, dude. I'm not here to disavow people's views. William Lawrence, he got caught on a podcast with a bunch of Marxists, saying that their real goal is, quote, destroying the American way of life.

[Video clip] How we can inspire a sense of abundance while, frankly, destroying the American way of life. I hate this [Inaudible] country so much.

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And one thing in politics, when you have a view, it doesn't change. They change for a short period of time. If you go back one year ago, look at any of them, they want to defund the police. They want to take away your guns. They want to get rid of your Second Amendment. Or, the day they get elected, they vote that way.

That's the way they vote. And they won't be able to vote. Even if they want it, even if they really change, they're not gonna because the head of the party's gonna tell them how to vote. They, they vote in lockstep. They're bad. These lunatics are doing everything they can to destroy America. And I'm fighting with everyone here.

I mean, we have to defeat them. If we don't defeat them, this is their early big move. And if we don't defeat them, we're just asking for a much bigger fight later on. And all I'm asking you to do is get out and vote. You have to get out and vote. And in this election, I'm asking you to do one thing. So I'm asking you to do one thing.

So when I'm on the ballot, we get 49.2% more people voting. So I don't know, maybe that's good for my ego. It's not, because if we lose, that's bad for everybody. But when I'm on the ballot, all three times I was on the ballot, we won in a landslide. We won every congressional seat. We won the Senate.

We won everything. And when I'm not on the ballot, much fewer people come out to vote. That's just the way it is, midterms. And pretend I'm on the ballot because, essentially, I am on the ballot. No tax on tips. No tax on Social Security. No tax on -- look at that. No tax on overtime. What we've done is unprecedented, and they'll tear it apart.

And they start right from here. We can't let it happen. This is sending a signal. If we win as big as I think we're -- look at the crowd. If we win as big as I think we're gonna win, they're gonna go back into their holes. They're gonna, they're gonna go away. So if you would pretend I'm on the ballot, just say, "Trump's on the ballot.

We have to vote tomorrow. Look at the vote we got. I just said we won Iowa or many states, Florida, Texas, uh, Alabama, many, many states. We won your states, John, right? John? Where is John Barrasso? Your state, Senator Barrasso, we won all three. Many of them, 36 of them, we got the largest vote. But here in Iowa, most importantly for this, we won in the biggest vote in history by far.

So if that group gets out and votes again and votes for Ashley and your next governor, who I think is gonna be fantastic, he's been with me from day one, you're gonna have a tremendous, you're gonna have a tremendous win. So here in Iowa, Ashley is running against a woke, far-left radical named Josh Turek, who committed the most egregious betrayal of trust imaginable.

They voted to -- and this is -- by voting to allow schools to turn your children transgender without informing the parents. He voted -- [Audience boos]

-- think of it. Your beautiful son leaves the house. His name is Tim. "Goodbye, Tim. I'll see you." "Thank you, Mommy. Thank you." And you don't see Tim for four days. Four days later, Tim comes back as Sally. Okay? It's true. Now, we have states that are allowed to do that. It's up to Illinois's right. And, and, uh, a place called Minnesota that they've destroyed, I hope our candidate does well.

But they're totally crooked. They're crooked with their vote counting. Hasn't been won since 1952 even though everybody goes in there. I, I won it three times, I'll tell you right now, but they haven't. They haven't won it in 19. Minnesota is so corrupt. Maine is very corrupt. California? Forget about it. Didn't the kid win?

You know, the kid was running. He won. And now, the woman that he beat is gonna be the next minute. The whole thing is corrupt.

Go to paper ballots, everybody. Nice, beautiful paper ballots. You know, the paper ballots cost 9% of what these crooked machines cost, so you'd save a lot. And even Republican governors, many of them, they, they just do it. I don't know, it's, uh, hard to believe. But you go to paper and you have the ballot there, and it's so simple, and they put it in stacks.

And, you know, papers become very sophisticated. Uh, they have the watermark paper very, very, you could put it under a machine, you see whether or not you can have, you can't do anything with it. It's, look, they'll try figuring something, but it's much harder, because they have to cheat because without, look, their policies are so bad.

Men in women's sports, transgender for everybody, open borders, high taxes. They wanna double your taxes, triple your taxes. Your farmers are dead. Your farmers are dead if the Democrats get in. They re- -- they hate farmers. They hate farmers. They're gonna destroy you. Nobody's done more for farmers than Donald Trump, that I can tell you.

Nobody. Remember, first term I gave you 28 billion that came out of China. I charged China for it, tariffs, because you were treated very unfairly. And China, by the way, just doubled up its order. They're doing tremendous soybeans and everything else. We had a very good meeting with President Xi two weeks ago at the White House.

And there, he's doubling up his orders. But we, uh, we're giving you $12 billion and we wanna get you through a little bit of a period. By the way, when that war ends, you're gonna see gasoline coming down. It was $1.85 in Iowa. T- -- It's right, I always talk about Iowa. So I was here the day before, the night before.

I was talking about Iowa. Here I am in Iowa, and it's so great. I made a speech somewhere, and in going past two stations, two gas stations, I look at the top of a pump. Do you think Biden is looking at the top of a pump? First of all, he didn't speak. Guy went for two years without making a speech. Then when he did, he couldn't find himself the stairs to get off the -- [Laughter] "Where's the stair?" Only got about seven of them. [Laughter] But it's true.

He would speak with short, very, very short periods of time. You know, one, maybe two minutes. And then they said, "Okay, get off now." But he went for two years. Remember he went for almost two and a half years without doing a press conference? If I miss a press conference, I did one beauty, the stuff just come.

You don't mind if I get off the stupid teleprompter, do you? [Laughter] I've been off it for most of the speech already. Isn't it, now, isn't it nice to have a president that doesn't have to use a teleprompter? It's very nice. It's really nice. No, but do you remember when, uh, he went two years without, with, two years without doing a press conference?

So then I had a period where I was just doing a lot of, I don't know, you know, if I have something to say, it's easy, I say it. A lot of times, from of the beautiful Oval Office, sitting behind their desk, it's not a big deal. And they come in and they're always looking for a home run. And then my beautiful granddaughter's a great golfer, Kai.

Anybody seen Kai? How beautiful? She said, "Grandfather, could you take me to play a round of golf?" I say, "Darling, I'll have to play very fast --" [Laughter] "-- because I have a country to run." She's been asking me to do this for like two years. So I ran out. We ran to the golf course. They knew where I was.

Now, I did one 29 days in a row. No president's ever done that. I do it because it's easier than, might as well say it yourself, it's easier. And I disappeared for a half a day and I get a call from a friend of mine. I pick up the phone on the golf course. He said, "Sir, are you okay?" "What's the problem?" "The news is reporting --" I won't say the word, but it starts with a D. "The news is reporting that you're gone, sir.

The news is reporting that you're dead." This is because I missed a half a day. These people are sick people. And yet Biden went years without, remember? Years. And then they get a question, "What's your favorite flavor ice cream?" Right? [Laughter] With me, they're doing, "How do you feel about the denuclearization whether I should, sir?" With him they get, "What's your favorite --" And they ask him, how many times did they ask him that?

He'd always say, "Vanilla." [Laughter] And then they'd say, " Okay, that's enough. Thank you. Go home, everybody." What a joke. We can never let that happen again. I actually think anybody running for president or vice president should be mandated to take a cognitive test. Mandated. Can't have that again.

I took three of them, aced all three, I will tell you. I took three and I aced them. All three, I aced them with a whole group of doctors sitting at Walter Reed. They said, "Sir, if you don't do well, you know it's gonna get out there?" I said, "That's all right. Don't worry about it." But I took three of them, aced them.

Aced them, did so well. And you know what they said? You heard them. I said it one time before. They can't say he took three and he aced them because that sounds bad for them because they're sick. They said, "Why is he taking so many cognitive tests? There must be something wrong with him." No, the people, there's something wrong with them.

You know, it's like they don't wanna have a great country. They don't want to. The New York Times, every story they write says, "The extremely unpopular president." I'm at 99% according to CNN. You know, we put up some of these tapes, 99% approval rating. I, oh, they always write it. They always write them.

The New York Times, they say, "Uh, the extremely unpopular, the- -- the popularity of the president." Well, the reason we have packed, if I was unpopular, we wouldn't have packed houses everywhere. And they're just liars. They're really dishonest people. They're very dishonest. Honestly, uh, they're the biggest threat to our country, the fake news.

The last time the radical Dumocrats 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. And if Josh Turek wins this race, you will have- -- guaranteed you're gonna have open borders again.

We- -- we allowed people into our country that were murders, 11,888, 50% of which more- -- murdered more than one person. Wor- -- think of it, fi- -- 50%. These are- -- these are, and you saw it, they got, I built 2,000 miles of wall. If we didn't build that wall, but they opened them. Remember they refused to finish the wall?

That's when I realized they actually won. Because we were cut a little bit short. We were gonna win that election. We did win the election, but it was a rigged election. And when they took over, they announced that they, and then they sold all beautiful stuff. It was all laid out. We would've had it done in 30, completed in 30 days.

And they sold it for three cents on the dollar to scrap people. And then we had to come in and buy it back. Because we got- -- bought back for a lot less, very expensive stuff. It's all tungsten. It's all steel, concrete, rebar, everything that- -- we did exactly as the Border Patrol wanted. And I watched Paul make a speech.

Is Paul here from Border Patrol? That guy is so great. Where's Paul? Wow. I didn't know. He's great. I didn't know you were going to hang out. I watched you making a speech like two and a half hours ago. Hey, you're great. But, uh, I asked Paul, I asked Brandon, I asked some of the people. They have incredible people over there.

I said, "The borders czar, you know, Kamala. Nobody knows her last name." How many people know Kamala's last name? Harris. Harris, but everyone calls her Kamala. That's not a great sign of respect. But she was made the border czar, right? And I said to Paul, "Paul, how many times --" You could say, "How many times did she call you?" "Zero." "How many times did she visit the border to check things out?" [Audience member calls out "Zero"]

Zero. [Laughs] And how many times did Trump? Like infinite. We were there all the time and I was breaking his ass. You have no idea. Paul. You gotta get tougher, Paul. Right? Yeah. Great. Well, Turek even said he wants to defund the entire Department of Homeland Security. Let's get rid of- -- and all Border Patrol.

Paul, he wants to, uh, that's the opponent. He wants to defund all of Border Patrol, all ICE, all TSA, every form of protection that we have. Do you think that would play well in our country, Paul, please? [Audience responds "No"]

No. He said, "No, not too well." This country would be a third-world country in- -- in 24 hours. So just in case anyone forgets what will happen if Dumocrats- -- if the Dumocrats win, and it's a name I've come up with. I can't believe it took me nine years, 10 years. And its came up because one day I was saying- -- I was going over their policy, right, and I said, "It's so dumb." And then I said, "Dumocrat. It's so dumb."

And now I can't even say Democrat anymore. It's hard to say it. You replace the E with a U and nobody notices. The B, nobody knows. Does anybody know this? Most people think it's D-U-M. They don't know. The press kills me in this when I say that. But no, they, so you replace the E with the U and they're a Dumocrat.

It's quite simple actually. And they're dumb because their policy is so stupid. It's so stupid they'll destroy our country. And you know, their financial policy, a lot of people aren't so, that's the thing I'm sort of best at. Their financial policy is equally as stupid as open borders and men playing in women's. It's the same thing.

It's just stupid stuff. Anyway, but I'd like you to take a look at this border video because if you put them back in, this is what you're gonna have.

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[Video clip] There is a growing problem at the border. A record 1.7 million undocumented immigrants were apprehended last year. The numbers so far this year are dramatically higher. 12,000 people in a single day crossing the border illegally. That's an -- an all-time record. It is quite a remarkable moment to see the DHS secretary insisting that this -- the border is closed.

[Video clip] This is killing us, and it's destroying our country. They've turned their back on not only the Border Patrol agents, but they've sent a clear message to us in law enforcement they're not interested in solving this. I mean, as far as I'm concerned, the Biden administration has the blood of Rachel Morin on their hands.

[Video clip] Rafael Govea Romero, he's accused of attacking 16-year-old Lizbeth Medina by repeatedly hitting her head and stabbing her. A Honduran migrant accused of raping at knifepoint a 14-year-old teenage girl. Nelson Granados Trejo accused of murdering -- killing a two-year-old infant. The confirmed MS-13 gang member, a registered sex offender, and he's got a lengthy criminal history, including kidnapping, abduction and sexually violent crimes.

[Video clip] Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez, he brutally attacked a 9-year-old girl and her mother. The tragic murder of Laken Riley, killed at the hands of Jose Ibarra, the Venezuelan who crossed in El Paso in 2022 and was released. Two men injured, one died, the two suspects, who authorities say are both in the country illegally.

[Video clip] Migrants believe there's an open border. It's open, not closed. The border is open. There was people there that traveled 8,000 miles with no water because they're hearing that the border is open. They believed that, when the administration changed, that the law changed and policy changed. We heard the sheriff say it, the governor say it, and the migrants I spoke to say it. They are coming across because they believe they will be welcome under the Biden administration.

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And this is what you're gonna have back. You have it back. This was two years ago. So a vote for Ashley Hinson and she will never allow such a heinous betrayal to ever happen again. Because the Democrat Party is a corrupt party. It's a totally corrupt party. And in breaking news last week, it was determined that the Democrats in Alaska, despite their sworn statements to the contrary, put a man named Dan Sullivan on the ballot in order to confuse the public with respect to another gentleman.

A highly respected senator happens to be named Dan Sullivan. So we have two Dan Sullivans. This is voter fraud at the highest level. The fraudulent Dan Sullivan never voted, never. And he tried to have his middle initial change from J to S, even though he said, "No, it had nothing to do." But then they found out he tried to change his middle initial.

And this was done by New York and Washington lawyers like Elias and these creeps. But the Democrat candidate who was involved in the scheme, Mary Peltola, should be removed from the ballot and prosecuted. This behavior in our elections cannot be allowed to continue. And also just recently it was revealed that Ilhan Omar's name is not Ilhan Omar, the one she used to get elected and sworn into Congress, but rather it's an entirely different name.

Ilhan Nur Said Elmi. What a beautiful, a beautiful name, isn't it? And that last name is incredible because it also happens to be the exact name of her wonderful beloved brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the person that she married and had beautiful children with. She married her brother. And when asked whether or not she married her brother, she said, "Not to my knowledge." Now that's, when you're going to lie, a lawyer will say, "That's a perfect statement, not to my knowledge." So politically, but it doesn't matter politically 'cause people, you know, the people that vote her, they shouldn't be here.

By the way, I will tell you, Somalia has ruined the state of Minnesota. They've ruined, uh, and by the way, and I have to tell you this, I don't want to be controversial, but they're trying to do it to one of my favorite places in the world, Ohio. There's tremendous, uh, groups of Somalians going into Ohio and they're trying to play with the elections and they're starting to form their communities here.

We don't want them. [Audience responds "No"]

They're all over Ohio now. And what they've done to Minnesota makes it almost, hundreds of thousands of them and they vote exactly the way they're told to vote. They come from a country that's a disaster. It's a dead country. It's got no government, it's got no military, it's got no police. All it's got is murder, carnage and filth.

And we don't want them in this country. Therefore, because she used a fake name to be sworn in, I assume that she must immediately resign from Congress. And please inform, you know, I love when I do the State of the Union, they have this guy with this great voice. He's got that thing, bing, bing, bing. Hear ye, Hear ye. It's so freaking cool.

I mean, I- -- [Laughter] And I'm standing there and watching what I've watched all my life and I say, "They're talking about me. This is amazing." Well, but it's so cool. But the Speaker of the House of Representatives, one of the most highly respected people in Washington, James Michael Johnson, that the Democrat Party has just conceded her seat.

And guess what? This highly respected Speaker of the House is with us right now. Please. Mike, come on. [Laughs] We gotta hear. He is the greatest guy. He and I have been working very hard.

Mr. President, we love the people of Iowa. Don't wait. These are amazing Americans. I have campaigned here a lot over the last two years. I was here most recently on Wednesday because we love this state so much. I was campaigning with my good brother and the Colonel, Zach Nunn. He's gonna get reelected, isn't he? And then I was here, I think it was a week earlier, I was with the great Dr. Mariannette Miller-Meeks.

She's gonna get reelected as well, right? And, and I've been here a lot, Mr. President. I've, I've been with the great upcoming star Joe Mitchell. He's gonna be awesome. A great addition for us. And another true patriot, Chris McGowan is gonna join us as well. You got a great cast of characters here. And I'll tell you what, we're gonna keep Iowa r- -- red and they are all gonna work every single day with one of my favorite people in the world.

Truly, you're so blessed to have Ashley Hinson as your next senator. Okay? Mr. President, this is true America. Iowans are smart. They know how to do campaigns. They know politics. They're very savvy. You understand, really this is a snapshot of what's going on around the country right now. We're in a contrast election between common sense candidates, like these heroes over here, and crazy, okay?

That's what we got, right? I just wanna say just two things for you tonight. Look, do not be fooled. Iowans cannot be fooled, Mr. President. Do not be fooled by any Democrat who tries to pretend and claim that they are a moderate. That is not, no longer a thing, okay? You can't be a moderate in today's Democrat party.

They're going to the far communist Marxist left and that's not campaign rhetoric. As you know, that's what's happening around the country right now. It's common sense versus crazy. Now, the only way that these crazy Democrats could possibly win the election in this midterm is if Republicans fail to turn out.

That's not gonna happen in Iowa, is it? We're not -- [Audience responds "No"]

No, no. We are not gonna let that happen. Now I wanna, I wanna give you one more reminder. I'm not gonna give you a long speech, but I will tell you, you can dismiss the polls, okay? The polls are wrong all around the country. Mr. President, I have been, you've been, I, I, I work almost as hard as this guy.

I try to keep up with him. He doesn't sleep at all. You understand that? The man calls me at like one o'clock in the morning and also at 5 a.m. "Mikey is sleeping." No, sir. Of course. Sleep is for sissies. We know. Of course not. "What's on your mind, Mr. President?" "I didn't know. Let's talk about whatever." I, I'm not gonna do the impression in front of you.

I'm sorry. I didn't plan that. Imitation is the greatest form of flattery. We're never gonna have a president like this again. God bless him. God bless the president. Thank you. What I was gonna say before I just ruined my career with the impression is that -- [Laughter] -- I, I've been traveling nonstop.

I've been, I think just this month, I did 45 congressional districts across 24 states just this month, okay? We're gonna leave it all on the field. The only, the only reason I bring it up tonight is to tell you I have been to the swing districts. I have been to the blue states. I have been to the areas where they claim that this race is over.

It is not over. And Tuesday is when we decided, okay? The mainstream media, the corrupt media, and there's a lot of corruption out there, are using fake polls and they are trying to create this narrative that this, this race is over. It is not. We are gonna turn out for the sake of Iowa, for the sake of America, for sake of freedom.

We are gonna turn out on Tuesday and we are gonna win and shock the world on Tuesday night. I believe it. Let's go, Iowa. Thank you. [Audience chants "USA"]

That's good. That's great, Mike. He is great. He's gonna go down as the greatest speaker I think that, uh, we've ever had. You know, Mike is speaking about the polls. One camera and I think it's called Wedgewood or something. You read about that?

No.

Right? And it was totally fake. It, they didn't do polling. They just put numbers out and they give to the New York Times numbers primarily. But it was a fake poll. And they admitted, I don't know why they admitted it, must be under trouble. Probably they made a deal. They made a deal. We won't, if you don't do anything bad to us to somebody, we'll let you know that we're a fake.

It was a fake. People respected it and then they announced that they're not real polls. They just gave out numbers. And I, that's true with a lot of pollsters, I think. But, uh, this one admitted it and I've never seen anything like that. Have you ever seen anything like that? You know, a lot of them do that, but they don't get caught.

This one, something happened where they said that they felt they had to release that all of the polls that they've put out over the last pretty long period of time went to The New York Times. They were made up, fake. It's a terrible thing. And frankly, I think The Times should be prosecuted for that because they do that.

Less than two years ago, the radical left Democrats handed us the dark age of America, but we quickly turned it into the golden age of America. We are now in the golden age. And as you probably heard said by many people, not just me, we achieved the most secure border in American history in the past 17 months.

Zero illegal aliens have been admitted into the United States of America. Thank you. It's a great achievement. Remember they let in 25 million people. And despite that, we've just achieved the largest drop in violent crime ever recorded in the history of America, the lowest level in 125 years on murder since 1900. And in much less than two years, we secured commitments for $22.2 trillion of new investments into the United States.

The greatest amount of money ever invested in any country at any time. And that means jobs, it means auto plants, it means, like, a steel mill. Like, you're gonna have the, you're gonna have, think of it, Iowa is gonna have the largest steel mill. Think of it. Isn't that incredible? In the whole United States.

How the hell did that happen? And it was my suggestion. I said, "What about Iowa?" You know, I think, and it was a little section of Iowa that hasn't been doing great. And, and I said, "You got yourself the greatest state." I told the, the people putting up all that money, billions and billions of dollars.

I said, "You're gonna be shocked how good it is. You got the best people you can imagine. These are people that are gonna do a great job and proud." And John Deere announced a $20 billion investment all across the United States, including a massive expansion of its plant in Waterloo, Iowa, massive. And the giant auto company, Audi, just announced a $4 billion plant in Macon, Georgia, and it'll produce between 200 and 300,000 cars a year.

You know, we went 49 years without any auto plant. They were all being taken. Now, we're bringing them all back. They're coming in from Canada, from Mexico, from Germany, from Japan, from South Korea. Think of it, 49 years we didn't build one. We lost many of them. We lost 57% of our auto plants due to stupidity.

If we would've charged tariffs, we would've lost none. And there are no tariffs. If you build here, that's why they all come in because they can't pay the tariffs. What we've done for you, we've not only saved our country, we're making our country the richest country ever in history, and that's a good thing.

And Toyota, great company, Toyota is spending billions and billions of dollars to move production from Mexico back to the United States of America. Brand new, beautiful site. And leaders said this all over the world, less than two years ago, "Mr. President, your country was dead. We never thought it could ever come back.

And now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world." They said it to me, so many of them. Since the election, the stock market is at, think of it, much less than two years, 88 all-time record highs, 88. And that's a good thing. That's a good thing. I watched these fakers back there. I watch these fake news people say, "Oh, well, that's elitist." Well, it's not elitist because your 401(k)s are through the roof.

Your 401(k)s are up 60, 65, 70%. So, before you go and vote for a great governor and a great senator, if you have any little doubt, pick up your 401(k) and when you see that it's up by almost 70%, say, "Okay, I think we'll vote for them, you know? I think we're gonna vote for them." Under Biden, they were down 25% and now they're up almost 70%. Figure that one out.

Then they say, "Trump, oh, he spends too much time fixing the White House." You know why he fixed the White House? Because it was in very bad shape, broken windows, broken moldings on the outside of the building. It looked terrible. The moldings. And I have Barack Hussein Obama going, "He wants to fix the way," something about Cheesecake Factory?

No, he thinks it's actually a good company. I like the cheesecake. I know the cheesecake. He shouldn't be saying, he shouldn't be disparaging it actually. But the moldings were broken. So you'd have a window with beautiful moldings and then this window they'd fallen off 25 years ago, never replaced. It looked terrible.

And I brought in the best people and I used the people from the Department of Interior. Doug is here. We're gonna have you introduce you in a second. Doug Burgum. Right, Doug? And you know, because I'm realist, I always, the thing I do best I think is build things. They say he's a reverse tornado. He builds everything in his way.

In other words, I said, a friend of mine said, "You're a reverse tornado." Anyway, it's, you know what it is? It's that the White House is a symbol of America. To me it's maybe the number one symbol. And the White House has to be pristine. The White House has to have a great ballroom. Didn't have it forever.

The White House to have a helipad. You know, the helipi- -- copters were landing in the mud for years and years. Dangerous actually. And we built the most magnificent heliport you've ever seen. We're building things and we're fixing it. Maybe almost most important, we covered the exterior with exterior. It's so beautiful.

It's nicer than it was in 1792 when it was built. And we fixed all those moldings. We take a mold of the left and we'd put it on the right. You couldn't duplicate it. It's so beautiful. We'd take a mold out of, we would use, uh, different forms of plastic like fiberglass. We'd take a mold, they'd take it to the shop, they'd fill it up, see exact here.

Now they put it here and voila, you have a nice window again. But stones were broken, stones were chipped. I came in, 20 years ago I came, went to the White House. I said, "Boy, this building's in bad shape." You pull up to the front door and you'd have a stone that where the, the stone is like practically falling off the wall.

It was, just was terrible. It's now pristine. It's in beautiful shape and you look at it and you see those pictures. I've even put a flag, two flagpoles up. Never had a flagpole. It had the little flagpole on top. Put two flagpoles. I mean, little things. I have a lot of flagpoles I have. I'm all over my place in Los Angeles.

I have on the ocean, magnificent place. Yeah, I have, yeah, right. But I, but I have a guy. It's life. I call him Flagpole Jim. His whole life, that's all he does. Believe me, when you order a flagpole, there are good flagpoles and there are bad flagpoles. There are ugly flagpoles. You ever see the ones that go up dead straight and they're flat on the top?

That's called a piece of steel. That's not a flagpole. These are beautiful with a beautiful bronze top on it. The wires, the, the, uh, cords are inside so it doesn't look bad and so it doesn't make noise. The best flagpoles, I mean, you know, the flagpole, Jim, if you ask him to cross the street, please, he couldn't do that.

But for flagpoles, he's great. Best in the world. And we put not only one, we put one on the front and one on the back because you can't see them, you know, you're in between the White House and they're beautiful and a lot of people love it. I mean, everybody loves it. Who the hell's not gonna like a flagpole, you know?

But we put two beautiful, big, tall, tapered, beautiful tapered flagpoles with the American flags on both sides of them. And Barack Hussein Obama said, "Why is Trump spending so much time fixing up the White House?" Because the White House has to be pristine. It has to be perfect. It can't have exterior moldings half falling off.

It can't have broken windows at the main entrance where the window's been broken for years. It can't have all these things, Barack. I'll teach you that sometime, cleanliness. I'll teach you cleanliness. I'll teach you a little bit about real estate about, and here's the guy that built one of the ugliest places I've ever seen in Chicago.

But I wish him well, look, I do. I wish him well, but that place is stone cold, not good-looking. Stalag 11. No, it's a ter- -- not good, but I hope it does well. I don't know where the hell he got the money. I heard they were totally short. All of a sudden they came up with like $2 billion. Who the hell gave, how come they never, you know, they look at me. We're, you know, we're, we have great patriots.

All of us were putting a lot of money like into the ballroom and making it great. But here's a guy, he's way short, billions short, the thing's way over budget. All of a sudden he comes up with all this money. Where the hell did he get? I don't hear any investigators in Congress. With me, "He gave a ballroom." Yeah, it was free.

We don't care if it was free. We don't care. It's free. They say, "We wanna know why did he give a ballroom?" No, no, you don't understand me. It's a gift to the United States of America. We don't care. We don't care. It's unbelievable. But here's a guy got billions of dollars to build this thing. Nobody's saying who put up the money?

You know, I believe it might have been very much the same people that are backing Muhammad. I call him Mohamed, not Abdul. You know what? I called him Mohamed. And I did it for certain reasons. Number one, he said, "Why does he call me that?" "Because I'm President, Abdul, and I have the right to call you whatever the hell I want.

I have the right to call you whatever I want." "And we don't wanna have people that are gonna destroy our country, Abdul." He's an arrogant guy. Do you ever see him where he's being questioned? They said I was arrogant. Now, they find me to be an extremely nice gentleman. [Laughter] No, the level of hatred.

I asked him a normal question. "What right do you have to ask me that question?" [Laughs] He's a disaster. He's a nasty guy. And hopefully he gets his ass kicked, because that's what he needs. So, under my leadership, and these are a few points, and you've seen me every once in a while just for fun, I'll walk off the stage.

I'm finished, because vote for these two and vote for our congressmen and women, vote for a few other people, just vote Republican up and down the line, because these points solve the whole thing. Income for har- -- these are what they call big points. These are the big ones. Income for hard-working Americans has soared to the highest level ever recorded.

Okay. So, your income is at the highest level by a lot, ever recorded. Okay. And by the way, your inflation for the last three months is 1.7% way down. I inherited high prices from sleepy Joe Biden. I didn't cause it. And by the way, my oil, I stopped, or they're never gonna have a nuclear weapon, right?

I stopped Iran from having a nuclear weapon, and I knew oil would, but the oil is much lower than it was for, the oil is much lower. Yes. Much lower than it was for Biden, much lower than it was for Barack Hussein Obama. And we've stopped. And by the way, when that war's over, it's gonna come plunging. It's getting back to the $1.85 that I saw in Iowa just before I said, "Let's make that journey into the Middle East." Because we cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon.

So, I said, "Let's make that little journey." And, uh, I thought, to be honest, I thought it would go up much higher than it went up. And, you know, I don't wanna say, because they'll say, "Oh, he thinks it's --" Well, it's a very small price to pay for the security of this country and for the world. Very small price.

Thank you. And it's gonna be over very soon, very soon, and you're gonna see. But prices are way down. Prices are coming down. But I inherited the prices. My first day in office, I had a news conference. I, first I had like, "Hello everybody," but the second, second day, I had a news conference. And those people right there, some of them, boy, that's a lot. [Laughter] You know, in many ways you'd like them to stop covering you so much because they're so fake, but they get good ratings.

I mean, it's very, they get good ratings when we're here together. But think of it. I had a news conference. So, January 20th, I go, January 21st, I have a news conference. First question from that guy right there, "Why are your prices so high?" [Laughter] I said, "I just got here." [Laughter] "Tell me about eggs.

When will eggs go down? They're five times higher than they were just four years ago." That's my administration. I had very low egg prices. I said, "I'll have to check that out. I've only been here for much less than 24 hours." [Laughter] So, this is ridiculous. This is ridiculous. And so as soon as I walked in, and then came the word that they use all the time, I've never heard used this way.

And they looked at me, and one guy and said, "Affordability." I've been there for about 16 hours. "Affordability, sir. Affordability." He had a little accent. "Affordability," meaning affordability. It's the first time I've ever u- -- heard the word in that context, okay? I mean, we're all smart. We know the word, but never heard.

And every time I get to the thing, every time I have a news conference, I inherited these high prices. I inherited the highest inflation in American history, and I've got it down to 1.7 for the l- -- now it's my turn, you know, but- -- But it's the first time I've ever heard it. And every damn time I get up to do a news conference, they say two things. "You're very unpopular, sir." [Laughter] I said, "I don't think so. I think I'm really popular." [Laughs] You know?

They used to say that before I won three times in all fairness. [Audience member calls out "We love you"]

But they used to thank -- I love you too. You sound like a nice gentleman. Generally, not my thing, but I'll take it. Sounds very nice. Has a lovely voice. No, I inherited these prices. I inherited all the problems with the farm prices. All the, they caused the problems. Democrats hate farmers. Remember that?

They hate you. They're not gonna give you anything. Democrats hate farmers. They hate ranchers. But it's the first time I've heard it. And every damn time I have a news conference, yes, ladies say, "Affordability, sir. It's all about affordability. What are you gonna do?" I mean, I've been there for a short period of time.

I've done a great job. Prices are coming way down. You saw the chart. Way down. And the, when the oil comes down, that's the big one, but when the oil comes down, remember it's lower than it was with these guys, but when they, and we've done something. We've stopped them. We hit them with those B-2 bombers.

They still don't know what the hell happened to them. We hit their nuclear capability. But, uh, you know, the eggs that they talked about, they're screaming at me about eggs. I said, "Tell me about eggs. What's the problem exactly, if you don't mind?" They were five times. They were like literally five times higher.

Do you know that eggs are now as low as they were, as they were in my administration? We've got eggs way down. We've got everything. And the oil's gonna come down very quickly. But, but the problem with it is, the Democrats caused the high prices. The Democrats caused affordability problems. The Democrats caused them, and we're fixing them.

They caused them. They caused everything. They caused the border problems. They caused transgender mutilization of your children. They caused men and women's sports. Who the hell wants men playing in women's sports, a weightlifter, her? [Audience boos]

My wife goes crazy when I talk about that stuff. Darling, I love you very much, but please don't talk about weightlifters, and showing the strain of the woman trying. It's not presidential, darling. I love you. You're so handsome. [Laughter] But it's not presidential where the young lady comes in trying to break.

She's gonna, they put an eighth of an inch in here, a record that stood for 19 years, one eighth of an ounce here, little tiny piece of nothing, like a penny. They put one here, which I got rid of because we saved a million dollars. So, it's hard to believe you have to save money. They put a little PT, little she's going for the record and, ah. So, my wife hates it. Just don't strain so much.

But that she was straining. This is a young girl, she's lifting 211 pounds. [Laughter] And the mother's in the front row, right where Front Row Joes are. Stand up, Front Row Joes. These people. These people, yeah. The whole place is front row. Thank you very much. It's an honor. They must have been to like 900 rallies.

Will you ever hear enough? How many times do I have to do this? But you understand right now they're great guys. They're actually very successful people. Can you believe this? Well, they're pretty good, because they always get front row seats, so I don't know how the hell they do that, the place. But she, she goes, "Look, don't strain so much." "But, you know, it's heavy." So, the mother's right where the Front Row Joes are, and she's going, and the mother is like all excited.

And the father, he's sort of a realist because he knows there's a person that transferred his identity to a man, but actually nobody knows what the hell he did. He either went to a man, to a, it didn't matter. He's got a lot more muscle. So, the father's not too excited, but the mother's screaming, "Mary, you can do it. You can do it, Mary.

Please, Mary." Now, my wife is going crazy right now. I can, she's watching, she's watching on the fake news. "Please, Mary, go, go baby." "Oh, Mom. Oh. Ah." [Laughter] And then this, this man comes up who transferred to womanhood. You know, I've learned the, it took me a while to learn the jargon. It was a little tough to figure. [Laughter] But this man, he was a failed weightlifter of men, where he was, couldn't even make any of the squads, couldn't make any competition.

He was a failed male weightlifter. He was, he was a terrible weightlifter, actually, you know, but he was a weightlifter. You wouldn't have to be a weightlifter to win these contests, actually. I could take, most men in the audience could take half of the farmers in the audience, you could wrap two, 211 over your head so they could do. But this guy comes, and he beautifully trans- -- transitioned into womanhood.

And he looked at the weight, and he stood back. New record, broken the record by 112 pounds. [Laughter] I wonder, you know, we have to do something, you know, we've ended that. We have to do, we gotta get those records set. Could you imagine a woman, who's the top woman in the world and she's 112 pounds? [Laughs] She gotta get to 112 -- they couldn't get to one eighth of an ounce on each side, but it's so crazy.

The same thing with the, uh, swimmers. I mean, you gotta look at the swimming, or the track records, that long distance race where the guy won by five hours and 18 sec- -- 18 minutes. He won by five hours, 18 minutes and 12 seconds. And he said, "Could I have my, uh, trophy now so I could go home? I don't wanna wait around that long." "I'm sorry, sir." You -- so the guy went to sleep.

He went to his car and he came back five hours later, he'd go like, this is crazy. And it's so disrespectful to women. It's so disrespectful. They're great athletes. So disrespectful. But my wife hates those stories, but I think that she said, "Darling, you're the president." You know, she's a very elegant woman.

Got the number one movie or just about, right? "Melania." You know who sees Melania? Women, because I like her. But, but she goes like, "Darling, you're the President of the United States. What you're doing is not presidential." I said, "I just won the election in a freaking landslide. I won seven swing states, 87% of the counties.

I won the popular vote. I won the Electoral College by a lot. I won everything, darling." "But you could have won by more." "Oh, really? I could have." They said, "If he wins two swing states." Ashley, they said if I win two swing states, that's all I needed. I won all seven, Ashley, right? I won all seven.

And then Melania, first lady, she says, "All right, look, you have to do it, do it. But please, no more dancing. You're the president of the, don't dance off the stage, you're the president. Could you imagine Dwight D. Eisenhower doing that?" I'm looking for one where it's quite, I don't think Dwight was, uh, much of a dancer actually.

So anyway, we have a lot of fun. We have ra- -- we have these rallies. They're great, right? They're great. We can stand up here. And these stupid people back there, they go, uh, "He rambled." I didn't ramble. That's why we have packed houses all over the place. This isn't rambling. This isn't rambling. This is genius if you wanna know.

This is, no. This is, no. I mean, I could stand up here. I could be so presidential. I would be more presidential. Ladies and gentlemen of Iowa, it is a great honor for me to be with you this evening. You are a great people's, people's. And I just wanna say to you that I like you. [Laughter] Whereas I say, "I love you." No, that's much easier.

That's much easier. No, that's much easier. That doesn't require, I mean, that, even that requires talent. Not easy to get up, but that's talent. But, you know, doing the weave, you know what the weave is, right? You'll tell a story. And during the course of the story, you have other stories that relate to it. You gotta li- -- have a li- -- So you'll be telling a story about the king of Saudi Arabia and then ba, ba, ba, ba, and the jets and then this bing, ba, ba, ba, and it all comes back.

And then in the end, you get to the final point. Now there'll be a time when I don't get to the final point and then you could say it's a ramble. But the way I do it, it's pure fricking genius, okay? The weave. It's called the weave. [Laughs] Right? Boom, boom. So let's get back to where we started. So you have the highest income in history.

Number two, more Americans are working today. These are big things. Highest income, more Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country. So right now, go back two, three years. It was terrible. We have more Americans working. We have more investment coming into our country than at any time.

The poverty rate, we don't like to bring poverty, but the poverty rate has just reached its best and lowest level in American history with African American poverty, Hispanic American poverty, Asian American poverty, Native American poverty, are all at their best and lowest levels ever recorded. And then just one that I think is great because Barack Hussein Obama said, "We will never ever manufacture as a country again." Well, they're the best jobs you have.

High paying, great jobs. Exports have soared to the highest level in American history. That means we make things and sell them, exports. So, so think of it. We have the best income. We have the best, we've done the best of anybody with poverty. We have the highest exports we've ever had. And more people are working than at any time in the history of our country.

So with that, I'm just going to say, vote for Ashley, for the Senate. Get yourself this great governor. This guy's got to be a great governor, take care of all of our people. And good night, everybody. It's been great. Thank you. All right. Look, they actually think, really? You know, I tell you what, I'm starting to think that would be a great place to end.

It's just gonna go on a little while longer. You know, so I've done that three or four times. You know what the problem with doing that? The Secret Service goes crazy. "He l- -- he's leaving!" You know, they expect, because they have copies of- -- more or less. I don't follow the speeches too much. But they have copies and they go, "He's --" And you see these guys.

Did you see what happened just now again? These guys with guns running all over the place. "He's leaving now!" We got more freaking Secret Service people. They're doing a- -- they're doing a good job. So far so good. But look, everybody stands. They're giving me a standing ovation, Mike. And what a good time to, and I could save 20 minutes, 15 minutes.

But what the hell? Should I finish it up or do you wanna leave? Huh? Who the hell wants to watch football? It's boring as hell. And I hate, I hate that new kickoff rule where you hit the ball, the people are standing there like a bunch of idiots. Please don't ever let Iowa, Iowa State, any of your co- -- the NFL should go back to a thing where you kick the ball, people get the ball, everybody's running.

It is so unglamorous what they've done, the kickoff rule. And it doesn't help people. It doesn't help. Hopefully, college will never go. What a shame. I can't watch. You know what I do? I start the game about two minutes in. I don't want to watch the kickoff. I think it's so disparaging. They have no right to ruin football by doing shit like that, I'll tell you.

Uh, with our Republican Congress, I signed a great Big Beautiful Bill, delivering the largest tax cuts in American history, including no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. We made interest on car loans fully tax-deductible, but only if you buy a car that happens to be made in America.

And to protect the family farms, we eliminated the unfair estate tax or death tax. So when you leave your children, the farm, when you leave your children, your farm, they don't get assessed and they don't have to go out and borrow money from your friendly bank who turns out to be not so friendly when they don't pay interest and your children end up going and losing the farm and oftentimes, oftentimes committing suicide.

You know that. You have no more estate tax to pay when you leave your children your family farm or small business. So your children are gonna say, "Thank you very much." And I also just gave you $12 billion, $12 billion of, I don't call it subsidy because farmers don't like that. You know, I had farmers at the White House sort of recently.

And, uh, they came in and great. But I said, "Look, I'm gonna provide you a subsidy." They said, "These are the only g- -- everybody wants subsidy. They all want money. Everybody comes in it." I had 30 farmers, some from here, from Nebraska, from different places. I said, "Look, I'm gonna take care of you guys.

I'm gonna give you a subsidy of $12 billion." And he said, "Sir, we don't want subsidy. We don't want it. We just want a level playing field so we don't get screwed by every country in the world." Beautiful. It was a beautiful thing. I also let Iowa sell E15 all year round. With Ashley in the Senate, we will make year-round E15 permanent.

And we have a great man I noticed in the office. We have a man named Grassley. He is an amazing man. He's an amazing man and a beautiful wife. He had a- -- he has a beautiful wife. His marriage lasted slightly longer than my marriages. So in that regard, he was far superior to me. But he is amazing. He's an amazing man, actually.

And, uh, boy, he's a tough cookie, too, when he gets angry. I watched him screaming at Comey once and --"What are you saying? Sir, did you lie?" You know, he's got a very powerful voice. Comey didn't know what to say. He totally screwed up and now he's in trouble because of it. You are amazing. So thank you very much both for being here.

What a beautiful woman. What a beautiful woman. Thank you very much. And we're working on that E15 stuff that you bugged me about all the time, okay? Thank you very much. Last month, I signed an order waiving the off-road requirement for red-dye diesel. You won't need it. I'll tell you what, soon your prices are gonna be sold to you.

But right now, allowing farmers, truckers, and anyone else to fill up with red-dye diesel totally tax-free. No tax on it. And I announced the Harvest Fuel Relief Program providing our farmers with $8 billion in addition to what I said to offset diesel costs in this harvest season, including an estimated $400 million for Iowa farmers, which is a lot.

We made the largest ever investment in the U.S. Armed Forces, over $1 trillion. 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 in one day, and we're now working with them to produce millions and millions of barrels of oil, which is flowing into our country.

You know, I watched this total loser, he's a Congressman named Ro Khanna. What's- -- he's on, he's on Fox all the time. What's that all about? What the hell is that? And he said, "Donald Trump has spent $25 billion on his war with Iran." And nobody says anything. And he just keeps going on. Nobody told him that we've made 10 times that amount with our war on Venezuela, with our acquisition for zero dollars of Greenland.

You know we got Greenland. The press doesn't. We got Greenland. Remember? We have billions and billions and billions of dollars of oil flowing in from Venezuela. Greenland is another one. Like Alaska, Greenland's another big thing. And what we did with Alaska, which was absolutely dead until I came along, is we have pipelines going into- -- going to ships that go to Japan, South Korea, China, and many oth- -- we're making- -- in other words, we're making a fortune.

Our country is making a fortune and that price at the pump will be coming down very, very shortly. And everything else is perfect. And I terminated Barack Hussein Obama's JCPOA, or the Iran Nuclear deal, which was a road, an absolute road, they would have right now. You know that deal expired three years ago if they- -- if I didn't terminate it, which I did.

But that, it was a terrible deal. It was a road to a nuclear weapon. It expired three years ago. People- -- it was a short-term deal. Countries can't make short-term deals. You know how long my deal is with Greenland? Infinite. Infinite, forever. It's not 100-year. It's not. I mean, that one was like eight years.

You don't make eight- -- countries don't make eight-year deals. Countries don't do that. But no, my deal on Greenland is forever, forever and ever. What a deal. And- -- and we got along great with Denmark. Denmark was terrific. And, uh, the European Union was, I disagree with what they do. They got to be a little bit- -- a lot tougher on immigration.

Otherwise, you look at what's happening in France. We're never gonna let that happen here. We'll stop it fast. We obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity with Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Epic Fury, they didn't know what the hell hit them, and defeated them military, financially, and otherwise.

And I paid for the cost of the war 10 times over with Venezuela alone. And by the way, Venezuela, one-day war, nobody killed is, if you look at Iran, you know, you look at these wars, look at these wars, I have a chart. Vietnam, 21 years, thousands and thousands of people killed, hundreds of thousands of people killed.

Uh, Afghanistan, years and years. Then, we never fight to win. We don't fight to win. We fight to tie. I don't know what we do. They're stupid, stupid presidents. But Afghan, we could have win that- -- I could have won that war in three weeks. I could have won the Vietnam War in a week, you know. They dropped whatever the hell that red crap is that they dropped to- -- kept dropping it in the forest. [Audience member calls out "Agent Orange"]

Agent Orange, even though it's red. Agent Orange, they drop it in the forest for years and years and years, instead of going after Ho Chi Minh City and the different places. I would have won that war in one week. I would have won the war in Afghanistan in a very short period of time. And the only reason I would have not finished with Iran is I want to be nice.

I want to try and save all those lives if I can. And they're sitting there with a very bad, but at some point we're going to have to give them the hammer. Most of it's gone. Their ships, their airplanes, most of it's gone. I got most-favored-nations agreements. And you know, if you do anything else but this, uh, you should win the midterms because for years we had the highest drug prices anywhere in the world by far.

They never came down. They were always the highest. And I cut drug prices. We had the highest prices anywhere in the world and now we have the lowest drug prices anywhere in the world. And to do that- -- to do that, I had to get countries to raise the price of their drugs. And they wouldn't do it. Like I spoke to France, uh, President Macron, Macron.

It's a beautiful accent. And he goes, "No, no, no, I cannot do that." I said, "No, no. Emmanuel, you're gonna have to raise the price of your drugs because you're getting a bargain." For instance, a pill that cost $10 in France would cost $130 in New York, in Washington, Los Angeles, in Iowa, cost 130, would cost 13 times more.

It's not fair. They said, "Well, research and development." They had all sorts of reasons ridiculous. No other president ever tried it. I got it reduced by 300, 400, 500, 600, even 700%. Nobody's ever, in 31 years, it's never gone down. And I said to Macron and the others, I said, "You're gonna have to raise the price of your drugs." They said, "Of course." They said this, "No way.

We're not gonna do that." Yes, you're going to do it, Emmanuel. If you don't do it, I'm gonna put a massive tariff on everything coming in from your country into the United States, including wine and champagne. They view that as very, that's a big one for them. And I said it'll be at least 100%, maybe 200%. Uh, "Donald, like I said, I would love to raise the price of our drugs." And I did that with every fricking country.

You know, the reason I got it from the, I got it from the drug companies because they knew I couldn't get it from the country, so they didn't care too much. And then I got it from all the countries and the drug companies said, "We didn't figure that one." And what we did is we lowered your price of drugs by 70, 80, and 90%. What a difference it's gonna make.

And it's already happened. And on that reason, Mike, alone, you should win the midterms. Ashley, you don't use that a lot because for that reason alone, you're gonna win the midterms because that's, there's nothing bigger. And the fake news doesn't wanna talk about it. We abolished all discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion policies throughout the federal government.

We got critical race theory and transgender insanity out of our schools. And we made English the official language of the United States of America. And just briefly, our country is doing so well under Republican leadership that only I can make this promise to you. If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate, I am going to give all adult citizens in the United States of America $5,000. And that means man and wife, man and wife, 5,000 each, $10,000. And only Republicans can do it because we're taking in massive amounts, as you see, of money through tariffs and record-setting economic success.

But Democrat policies won't allow this to happen because they're expected to lose a tremendous amount of money. And in my opinion, if they win, we will go into a 1929-style economic depression and your 40- -- your 401(k)s are gonna be worthless, okay? I think you're gonna be worthless. If the Republicans win, you'll each have $5,000 in your pocket in economic success for our country like we have never ever seen before.

And remember, and remember, because the Democrats like to say, "Well, he'll never pull that off." Well, they always say that about me and then I pull everything off. But remember just recently I gave all members of our military $1,776 as a bonus. And the Democrats said, "It'll never be done." And I told you this story was 1775. General, uh, what can we do? They came back the following day.

These guys, Central Casting, I could make movie stars, the three of them. "Sir, we can do $1,775." I said, "General, do you know what you just said?" "No, sir." I said, "One more dollar. It's 1776. Think about it. 17. Do you know what that means?" "Yes, sir." "Can we scrounge up an extra dollar, General?

Make it seven." And we did it and they got their money a year ago and every soldier thanks me every time I see him. So we can do the $5,000 worth. So it's $5,000. Caught the Trump dividend is approximately $1 trillion, but the wealth of the United States since my election is up $25 trillion. So this is one trillion.

The only caveat of the Trump dividend is that you can only get the money if you're going to spend it in the United States of America. We don't want you, we don't want you going to China, to Japan. We don't want you to go to France. So let's go to France and have a nice time. We can study revolution, darling.

We can see how revolution works. You have to spend the money in the United States of America and the choices. Very simple in this election. You can vote for the radical left Democrat communist to loot your wealth, raise your taxes by $5 trillion, annihilate your borders, decimate Iowa farms and factories, mutilate your children and give 25 million illegal aliens, amnesty and the right to vote.

They want these people coming in so they have the right to vote. They want to give them amnesty. And many of these people are killers, drug dealers, people from mental institutions, and almost all of them were released from jails all over the world. Or you can defeat the Democrat communist and vote for more money in your pockets, bigger paychecks for your families, lower taxes, less crime.

A booming Iowa economy, no amnesty for illegal aliens, but you most, you have to vote. You have to vote for Republicans if you're gonna do it there. So every single Democrat in Congress voted against our tax cuts. They voted against no tax on tips. 100%, right, Mike? They, a hundred, I don't mean one or two, 100% voted against no tax on overtime.

And they all voted against no tax on Social Security for seniors. And by the way, they wanna change it so you pay in all those things. The reason, one of the reasons our economy is, it's hard to believe, it sort of doesn't make sense, but it does really. You pay less taxes, you work harder, you do things.

I don't know what to do. We're doing much more income now taking in less tax than we did if we raised the taxes. They voted against voter ID because they wanna cheat. They voted against proof of citizenship because they wanna cheat. They voted against securing our border. Millions, 25 million people came in over four years.

No people have come into our country in the last 18 months. They voted in favor of the worst inflation and highest energy costs in American history, in favor of transgender mutilization of your children, in favor of men playing in women's sports. On election night, Iowa is going to prove that America does not belong to those who hate it. America belongs to those who love it. And the only choice for your next senator is Ashley Hinson and your next governor is Zach Lahn.

So Ashley and Zach, please come up.

Well, thank you, Mr. President, for working so hard for Iowans. Do we know how hard this man works for us? That's right. Well, I can tell you, Mr. President, I know how, how late nights you're working, how early mornings you're putting in. Uh, my opponent, Josh Turek, not only is he too liberal for Iowa, he didn't skip, or he skipped a lot of his votes, right?

He missed 58% of his votes at the state Capitol this year. What happens when you don't show up to work two out of, two out of every five days? You're getting fired, right? You're not getting promoted. So common sense versus crazy is on the ballot. We need to defy Chuck Schumer. Are you gonna show up and help us get that done on Tuesday?

Thank you very much.

Iowans, President Trump could be anywhere in the country right now, but he, he's here in Iowa because Iowa matters that much to him. He shows it. $15 billion steel plant right here in the state of Iowa for Iowa jobs, for Iowa kids, for Iowa opportunity. That's you, Mr. President. You did that. But let me tell you something else that, you know, he's sometimes a bit, uh, modest in how he speaks.

He doesn't give himself credit like he should because -- [Laughter] -- just a couple days ago, your FBI, Mr. President, announced that they were prosecuting Somali fraud in Minnesota and issuing search warrants. That was you, Mr. President. $500 million and I have a feeling that's just the tip of the iceberg.

This man is not going to stop, I promise you that. Neither are we. Look, this is our moment, Iowa. This is it. They all think that we're not motivated. Are we motivated? [Audience responds affirmatively]

That's right. And here's something I got to tell you when I look out over this crowd. You know what I love seeing? You know what my friend, our friend Charlie Kirk would love seeing? All the young people here today to support America. [Audience chants "USA"]

So just as this president has supported Iowa, we have to go out and show that we are dedicated to the next generation, that we are not gonna let this place fall to socialism, communism, whatever it might be. We are going to be out on November 3rd and we are going to win these races.

Thank you both. Thank you. Great people. Hey, I gave up a lot. I've been here a few times. We gotta win. We gotta win. You know, if I didn't care or if I didn't see what, what the progress you've made is incredible, we have to keep it going. Even at higher levels, that's what's gonna happen. So also, get out and vote for a fantastic guy, Joe Mitchell, here in the second congressionally.

Thank you, Joe. Great guy. Chris McGowan for the fourth district. He's doing great. And reelect a person that's, uh, really terrific, works so hard, and she's really become a friend. Representatives, Mariannette Miller-Meeks. And a great guy, a great warrior, Zach Nunn. Great job, Zach. Great job. And Iowa Attorney General, uh, f- -- this is you talking about a friend.

She's been with me for a long time, Brenna Bird. Brenna. Thank you. Thank you, Brenna. Thanks as well. I have to thank the Speaker of the House. He really is. He's one of the probably most respected people there is anywhere in the country. Mike Johnson, thank you very much. And another great friend of mine, House Majority Leader, Steve Scalise.

You talk about a strong -- you know, Steve was the one who was so badly shot by that lunatic, uh, during the little baseball field situation. And I went to the hospital that night and the doctor said, "Almost no chance that he survives." And his wife, Jennifer, I mean, the only good thing is that I realized how much she loved him because who the hell knows about a wife loving?

I don't know. [Laughter] Some do, some don't. She was so devastated. I've had people that were on the deathbed and the wife doesn't give a damn and I'm not -- [Laughter] -- and Steve was literally, I, we thought it was not gonna make it. The doctor said he's never seen such blood loss and they had to replace the blood.

They've never, I think he said it was a record. He said, "Very small chance, sir. We're gonna do the best we could." The wife, she was, uh, the, the whole family just devastated. Couldn't speak, couldn't do anything. When he finally got to where you could talk to him, I said, "Well, at least you have a wife that loves you.

That's good." [Laughter] But, but, uh, Steve went through hell and he recovered and it was amazing that he recovered. And then he, he went to the baseball game like the following year. He, that, that recovery was tough. And yet he, he worked, he walked around, he could hardly walk. He was really hit badly.

I mean, not, nobody gave him much of a chance. And they put him at second base during the game and they had a lot of people. It's a good game between the Democrats and the Republicans. It's sort of a tradition for many, many decades. And Steve was a, a good player, but, you know, he didn't have exactly great mobility.

He couldn't even walk. And they put him at second base and this was only a few months later, four months later, and he really could barely do anything. I don't even know who the hell the coaches that put you there. [Laughter] There's a second baseman named Bobby Richardson. He was with the Yankees for like 14, 50. He was known for range.

He could field the ball at shortstop. He could field the, this was not Bobby Richardson. [Laughter] Bobby Richardson, right? MVP. But, uh, Steve was at second base and this could only happen to us. The first batter gets up. Strong guy, Democrat. First pitch, ripped, ripped. Ground ball ripped right at Steve.

The good news, [Laughs] he didn't have to move. He got down in his knees. The ball hit him really hard. He picked the ball, threw it the free way. [Laughs] You know, the stitches- -- [Laughter] The guy's bleeding all. He threw it to first base. He was out. And they took Steve out of the game. They said, "Congratulations." It was the craziest thing.

Right? And then on top of it, he had a very tough battle with a thing called the Big C, not good. And, uh, he's cancer-free. Gotta go check the cases. Right? And Mike during, and Mike loves you. And during this whole time, Mike said, "I can't believe the guy works as hard as anybody can work." And so these are warriors.

He's a great, it's a great honor, Steve. I'm telling you, Mike and I were talking about it before. Amazing what you went through. I don't think almost anybody could have done what you did. Thank you for being here. Appreciate it. And we have Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum and his wife, Kathryn, who's incredible.

By the way, what a couple this is and great job he's done. My friend, he's my friend. She's my friend. I watched him, you know, he was the governor of North Dakota and he was a spectacular governor, one of the most successful governors in the country. I said, "Boy, if I ever win this thing, I'm gonna use him for something." And I was able to get him and, uh, Department of the Interior where he has a big impact on Iowa, and he pretty much gives you everything you want when it comes to the farmers and Iowa and Nebraska, the whole group.

So I just wanna thank you, Doug, doing a great job. Does a great job. And my special envoy, he's a great negotiator. He's doing un- -- unbelievable things. He helped us with Venezuela, helped us with a lot. He's now working on Iran and he will, he'll pull it off too if one way or the other we're gonna pull it off.

Even if, even if he doesn't, we'll pull it off. [Laughs] We'll do it a little bit tougher way, but Steve Witkoff has been fantastic, so wonderful. And I said something about him before, but I will tell you that Chuck Grassley is one of the most respected men in the history of the United States Senate. And it's an honor to have him with us tonight with his beautiful wife.

Beautiful wife. Thank you, Chuck. He's a great guy. He's, he's a great, strong man who loves, he loves Iowa. Another man who's so respected, the whole country respects him, but they, it's, he's a special guy who's become a friend of mine. He's a doctor. And there's nobody that knows more about medicine. When we got the favored nations, he couldn't even believe it, right?

Couldn't believe it. But John Barrasso is one of the truly respected people in Washington. Thank you. Thank you very much. This incredible guy. You know, it's really great that these big guys are all coming to Iowa [Laughs] to listen to what we have to say. We know how important this race is with, in their case, Ashley.

They, they just want her so badly in the Senate. And she'll be one of our best senators, I really believe. We have some good ones too. I really believe. And you heard him speak before and he's my friend, the president of the National Border Patrol, Paul Perez. Thank you, Paul. Thank you. What a guy, what a job.

And a man I won every race with, and I watched him ranting and raving. He was a dynamo up, I watched him from Air Force One. I said, Jeff Kaufmann, he's really, he's really putting it on tonight. He moved. We won every single race, so I have to love him. And his son is gonna be a champion. Bobby Kaufmann, majority leader.

House majority leader is gonna be a champion. Where's Bobby? Good. Hello, Bobby. What a good job. Good g- -- good genetics. Good genetics. And former state senator, I call him, uh, the Marlboro Man. This guy was the first man in the whole cou, he endorsed me a year before I ran. He said, "The one that should run is Donald Trump." And he didn't stop.

He just kept going. Brad Zaun. He has been incredible. Where is he? Where's Brad? The Marlboro Man. Handsome guy. If I were an agent, I'd move him right into that Marlboro p- -- I don't know if you wanna be doing that nowadays with Marlboro [Laughs]. Don't smoke everybody if you can. Don't smoke, don't drink, don't take drugs, as I say to my kids all the time.

State Reps. Shannon Lundgren and Heather Hora, please. Thank you. Thank you. Great. Great job you're doing. And a man, oh, boy, do I respect this guy because, you know, I tried to be a wrestler for a little while in high school. Didn't work out well for me. [Laughter] Well, my first match was against a New York state wrestling champion I just found out about two months ago.

Somebody said, "You wrestled so-and-so." But the greatest wrestler in the history of college and wrestling is a man named Dan Gable and he's here someplace. He's here someplace. Where's Dan? Dan, could you come up, please? I'm such a fan of Dan Gable. Could you come up? Come up. Wow. Everybody said there's never been anybody.

I don't know. Could I take him? I was a little bit larger than him, I think [Laughs]. I would've been in trouble. Come here, Dan. An honor.

Thank you.

Appreciate it. [Inaudible]

Here?

Oh yeah, go ahead.

I think we've had enough. [Laughter] I'm a pretty good coach and I read everything really well. This guy's doing the job that needs to be done. And that's my coaching expertise. So, and I'm a pretty damn good coach. Thank you.

[Laughs] By the way, he was the best coach, the best ever. You have another great coach around too, but he was a great wrestler and a great coach. I just, I'm looking at Dan and I'm saying to look at him, I say, "So why would --" You know, you can't tell, right? Okay. If I'm gonna look at Dan, I'm gonna say, "What makes him, like, almost undefeated in history?

I mean, he won everything. What's special?" You never really know, right? But there's something in there between the head and the muscle that's different and better than anybody else. And you really are a legend and you're a fantastic guy with a fantastic family. And we love you, Dan. Everybody loves you.

Thanks. Great honor to have you here. What an honor to have Dan here. So everyone here today is part of the greatest movement in the history of our country, and our spirit is stronger than it's ever been before. We're gonna have an amazing Tuesday, and I just thought I'd send, before finishing up, I want you to see these two charts done by CNN, and it tells it all.

Thank you.

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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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Oh, thank you. Thank you very much. That's an honor. That's an honor. So in conclusion, if you elect a Republican House and a Republican Senate on November 3rd, we will continue to put America first. Every single day we have to put America first. We will win the war on corruption and fraud led by our great vice president, JD Vance.

He's doing a great job. We will pass the No Invasion of our Country Act prohibiting any future president from ever opening our borders to illegal immigrants 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 elections. And we will enshrine in permanent law, no men in women's sports and no transgender mutilization of our children. So ladies and gentlemen of Iowa, the golden age of America is upon us, but you must get out and vote and you have to vote Republican.

We're gonna keep it going. We're gonna be bigger, better, stronger than anyone's ever even imagined. Go, vote early or vote on Election Day. Probably now you're better off just wait till Election Day, but go and make sure your vote is tabulated, that your vote counts. And we're gonna have this big, we're gonna have a tremen- -- I think we're gonna have, look at the crowds.

I think we're gonna have a tremendous victory on Tuesday. So we've already made unbelievable progress and now we will reach new levels of greatness. It's my honor to be your president during this, such an exciting period of time. It's such an honor for me to be, you are the people that built this country.

It's such an honor for me. It really is such an honor for me to be your president during this unbelievable period of time. The growth, $25 trillion in growth in a short period of time. We've never seen anything like it. We've been doing this for 11 years now and they're just, uh, I don't think anything like this will ever happen again.

We have to enjoy it and appreciated it. We have to appreciate it. So let's go out and do what we do best, like Dan Gable. Win, win, win -- [Audience chants "Win"]

-- on November 3rd. Win, win, win. Because together, thank you, Dan. It's true. I know how to win. [Laughs] Only I'd li- -- probably still does. Because together we will make America powerful again, wealthy again, healthy again, strong again, proud again, safe again. And most importantly, we will make America great again.

Thank you, Iowa. Thank you. God bless you all. God bless you.