Speech: Donald Trump Holds a Midterm Political Rally in Lubbock, Texas - October 27, 2026

Thank you. Thank you very much. [Audience chants "USA"]

Well, thank you very much. Hello, Texas. I've been all over the place all day long. I accepted a shipload of one million barrels of oil, a gift from Venezuela -- that we're giving to Texas, by the way. I'd like to keep it, but I don't think that works that way. No, we're -- we're doing great. We're respected all over the world.

We were laughed at just a short time ago. We're respected all over the world, a lot different than it was two years ago. It's great to be back in this incredible state, which I won all three times with more votes -- than any candidate in history by far, by far. And seven days from now, the people of Texas are going to defeat Dumocrat Communist James Talafreako.

We're going to reelect Greg Abbott as your governor. We're going to reelect Dan Patrick as your lieutenant governor. Thank you. We're going to elect Republicans up and down the line. And most importantly, we're going to elect one of the greatest attorney generals in the entire country and, frankly, the greatest attorney general in the history of Texas, Ken Paxton.

Thank you, Ken. Thank you, Ken. So, there's one week left. I've been doing this stuff for a week and a half, two weeks. I did more rallies than I've ever done for myself. It's true. It's much easier, you know, when you do it for yourself. It's much easier. I know this guy. It's like I'm doing it with Ken.

We had so many wars that we successfully fought together. But I do go and do stuff with people I don't know that well. But I like this, because you know what he was. He deserves it. He was the best attorney general in the history of Texas, one of the best anywhere in this country. And the other guy does not deserve it. He doesn't represent your values.

And as soon as that election would be over -- I don't even want to say the words if he won because I can't believe it's even possible -- but you'll go off meat. You go off oil. You'll be letting millions and millions of people flow through your border, and you'll also have no Second Amendment if him and his group -- you will have no Second Amendment.

It'll be destroyed. [Audience boos]

So, every single person has to go out and vote. You have to. You just have to go out and vote. And early voting is underway. It ends Friday, October 30th, so you can do early voting. Make sure it counts. I always say make sure it counts. We know because we had -- you know, we won three times. We're only given credit for two.

We did great all three times. But the last time we made it too big to rig. They couldn't do that. They tried, remember? And I don't use that statement anymore because last week I saw Kamala. Remember Kamala? Nobody knows her last name. [Audience boos]

No, she -- she said -- she was being interviewed and she said, "No, we have to make the election too big to rig." She said my line. I can't -- they copy all my lines. It's horrible. But I'm asking you to pretend I'm on the ballot because, when I'm on the ballot, we get -- 49% more people show up. Just pretend, because I really am on the ballot.

No, the people -- 49.2%, if I'm on. And I really -- when you think of it, we're all on the ballot because they can take all of these incredible tax cuts and all of the things we did, the jobs -- we are the number one -- we have more jobs right now in the United States of America than ever before by -- by a lot.

All of this stuff can evaporate with incompetent people. So, if you go out and vote, we're going to have a tremendous win in Texas. And you can't have -- you cannot have a guy like Talafreako because it's not even a question. You -- we can't lose the votes. It's very close, and they can turn things -- now, I'll be vetoing like crazy, OK? But I'd rather work on the positive side as opposed to the negative side.

So, James Talafreako wants to get rid of your guns. He wants to get rid of your oil, wants to get rid of your meat. He can't stand the stuff. [Audience boos]

I believe one of two reasons: either he had a mental problem when he disappeared for 12 to 14 days, or he was just grossed out, sick to his stomach at having to eat meat because he never had meat before. All of a sudden, they see him going to barbecues all over the place. He's all over. He's at so many barbecues and he's throwing up all over the place.

He's leaving. [Laughter] I believe he probably got very sick. He called it -- he called it meat poisoning. [Laughter] No, but you ever hear the guy? For -- for his whole life, he's talking about he's a vegan. I used to say vaygan, but my wife said it's not vaygan, it's vegan. But he's been -- all -- all his life he eats lettuce and celery, and then he gets forced --

[A protester calls out, interrupting the event.]

For the vote -- I think it sounds like you have a paid protester, paid protester. [Audience boos]

Wow. Wow. Your law enforcement acts very quickly. Very quickly. No, we -- he's not the guy for you. He doesn't represent your value. And we can't take a chance. We can't take -- he's -- I've never seen anybody -- well, maybe the guy up in Michigan. I call him Mohamed. He goes by Abdul. Abdul Ramadan. [Audience boos]

No, I called him Mohamed, then I found out his name was actually -- his middle name is Mohamed. No, he's -- I would say he's changed. I would think equally as much. These are people -- we can't have these people in the United States. With -- with him, I don't know if we have to do with Tali-freako [ph], but with the guy up in Michigan, we're going to have to do the, you know, the test, the metal detector test, before he's allowed to sit every day.

He's going to have to go through a metal detector in the United States Congress. We have people that should not be running for politics in this country, and we're never going to allow Sharia law in this country. We're not going to allow Sharia law. But no politician in history has been more obsessed with turning young boys and girls into just -- they want them to be -- he wants them to be transgender.

He considers them fantastic. [Audience boos]

And, you know, I said before, we just came up from Corpus Christi, we did one of these before. Where do I do -- I have to like a state a lot to do two of these monster rallies in one day. Or maybe, to be more accurate, I have to like a candidate a lot to do two of these in one day. No, but Tali-freako stated that he loves transgender children, and that's all right.

Look, that's not -- but, you know, these children, if you check it out and see what happens, they take them as young children and Timmy leaves home and comes back Sarah. And, you know, oftentimes, most of the time, they turn turn 21, 22, 23, and they said, who did this to me? Who did this to me? They say it and nobody talks about it, the fake news.

That's a lot of fake news, by the way. That's a lot. And I know every single one of them. No, but some of them are good. Some of them are good, they're honorable, about 6.2% of them are good. That's a lot. Congratulations. I hope you're enjoying yourself. But we can't allow this -- we can't allow this to happen to our country.

He's attended sexualized drag shows for kids, and he even said he has a favorite drag queen. He knew the names of every drag queen. He was -- did you see where they said, who's your favorite? Well, I like about nine of them and he starts rattling off names. I don't know of any. And not only did he state that God is transgender -- this is what he said.

He actually said that if Jesus Christ himself came and visited the Texas legislature, Jesus would be promoting sex changes for little children. [Audience boos]

So take a look at this. It's not good. Take a look.

[Begin video clip]

[Video clip] Did they teach you in Sunday school that Jesus Christ himself was a radical feminist? The American flag is such a complicated symbol for most of us. God is both masculine and feminine and everything in between. God is nonbinary. You can't call yourself a Christian and reject the stranger seeking asylum at our southern border.

[Video clip] I want to acknowledge that our trans community needs abortion care too. There are many more than two biological sexes. In fact, there are six. For me, prophetic voices like Jesus have helped me reckon with my own whiteness. Our southern border should be like our front porch. There should be a giant welcome mat out front.

[Video clip] Something that you love.

[Video clip] I love the trans children. To the trans kids watching at home, I just want to say, I love you. What would Jesus do if he visited the Texas legislature? I think he would tell us, "Blessed are the trans children."

[Video clip] Who was your favorite drag queen in Texas?

[Video clip] Oh my gosh, probably Alyssa Edwards. What if we ran our world like we run a kindergarten classroom? Every one of our neighbors with a uterus just became the property of the state. God is not a Christian. I always think of myself as a Christian who hates Christianity. Yeah, prison is violence.

[Video clip] It's rich to me that defund the police is, um, considered off-limits.

[Video clip] And we all know that Texas has been a leader in oil and gas but, in many ways, that's like being the leader in cassette tapes. It is now existential that we try to reduce our meat consumption. Our campaign has officially become a non-meat campaign.

[Video clip] So the assault weapons ban is still on the table?

[Video clip] Absolutely. All of these ideologies stem from this -- this christofascism movement. We are trying to fundamentally change our politics.

[End video clip]

We're not changing. [Audience boos]

We're not changing. The only man standing between Texas and this raging, disturbed person, he's a disturbed person, is a man named President Donald J. Trump, and I need the help of Ken Paxton in the United States Senate. So Tali-freako is also an anti-gun extremist who has an F rating from the NRA. You know what F means?

That means we don't allow any guns to anybody under any circumstances. What are you going to do when you get that vote? What are you going to do? Who will willingly, from Texas, give up their gun? Please tell me. He supports banning the most popular firearms in America, and voted to support a federal gun registry to confiscate your guns and stop all ammunition sales.

As your senator, Ken Paxton will have only one thing to say to any Democrat who wants to destroy your Second Amendment, it's called, "Go take a hike, go take a hike." It's the term he uses. He uses that term often. If Tali-freako gets in, he'll immediately vote to open the floodgates to millions of illegal aliens, child predators, brutal killers pouring into Texas, just like they did just two years ago.

So two years ago, there's never been anything like it, 25 million people during the Biden term, at least in my opinion, I think they hold it down, 25, they came in totally unchecked, totally unvetted. Nobody knew anything about them. But you could see when they were coming in, these were not oftentimes very nice people.

I have to always say oftentimes. But right here in Texas, shortly before my election, 12-year-old Jocelyn Nungaray, this beautiful Jocelyn. Remember how sad, walked to a convenience store in Houston and she was kidnapped, tied up, assaulted, and horrifically murdered, violently. Charged with this heinous crime are two illegal alien members of the savage gang Tren de Aragua, animals released by Democrats under the policies of Tali-freako and his supporters.

They -- that's what they want to do. They want to release murderers. No cash bail, by the way, don't worry about it. I promise the people of Texas that I would deliver justice for Jocelyn. And since I took office, we've rounded up, arrested and deported thousands and thousands of Tren de Aragua. Gotten them from all across our country.

They say it's the worst gang anywhere in the world. The only thing good is that they make our gangs look like nice people. You know, do you remember when Obama used to say, those people are not violent? People that come into the country aren't violent. They're the most violent people we've ever seen. Jocelyn's mother joined us earlier today in Corpus Christi, and tonight we're honored to be joined by the president of the National Border Patrol Council, Paul Perez, as we salute the heroes of ICE, Border Patrol and law enforcement.

Paul, please come up. He is a fantastic guy. Please.

President Trump, Lubbock, Texas, is my hometown. Lubbock, Texas, I told President Trump, this is Trump country. But what I want to say to you today is that because of this great president standing here today, the border is secure. For 29 years, for 29 years and under five presidents, I've been out there securing this border, and no one has given us the support that President Trump has given us. Everybody talked about it, but only one president did it, and that's President Trump.

We all love Trump. In order to make sure that our country never goes through what it went through under the Sleepy Joe administration, we must elect these men here that are Republicans running for office. They are the only ones that stand for law and order: Ken Paxton, Dan Patrick, Mayes Middleton, Brandon Gill, Ronny Jackson -- Tom Sell, Justin Burrows.

These people have to be elected to make sure that President Trump's agenda can continue. Because without President Trump, this country will go to hell again. President Trump is by far the greatest president in the history of this country. Thank you, President Trump. [Audience chants "USA"]

Wow. Thank you. I'm going to have to get him up to speak more often. That was pretty good. That was pretty good. Thank you. And he's fantastic. You know, when we had the border czar, that's Kamala. Nobody knows her last name. Does anybody know her last name? Very few, Harris. But we had Kamala. And she was put in charge, by Sleepy Joe Biden, of the border.

And I spoke to Paul before, and I said, "Did she ever call you?" "No, four years." "Did she ever come to the border?" "No." And they had a border that was an open wound. That's what it was. It allowed criminals from countries all over the world. They allowed their jails, their prison population to be emptied out into our country, murderers, drug dealers, mentally insane people.

It'll never happen again. We're never going to let that happen again. We're getting them out. We're getting them out. But we'll never let it -- we'll never let that happen again. In breaking news, just last week I was amazed to hear it was revealed essentially that Ilhan Omar -- [Audience boos]

Ilhan -- so, her name -- this is the name, Ilhan Omar, the one she used to get elected and sworn into Congress, but rather it's an entirely different name. She didn't use her right name, it seems. And Ilhan Nur Said Elmi is her name, and it's a -- quite a difference, by the way. And the last name is, incredibly, also the exact name of her brother, Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, the person they said she married and had lovely, lovely children with.

And when asked whether or not she married her brother, she said, "Not to my knowledge -- [Laughter] not to my knowledge." I said before in Corpus Christi -- they asked me that question about my sister. Did you ever marry your sister? I said, "No." [Laughter] That's a legal expression, you know, not to my knowledge.

When you're going to lie but you're afraid you're going to get caught, the lawyers tell you to say not to my knowledge. That's what she did. Therefore, because she used a fake name to be sworn in, I assume she will immediately resign from Congress. She's going to resign and hop the first plane, if they have an airport.

I don't even know. Do they have any? She's gonna hop the first plane to Somalia, where she can live happily ever after. I watched this one come up. So, she comes from a country that's got nothing. It's one -- considered one of the worst couple of countries in the world. I can't think of -- I can think of a couple of bad ones.

You know how we learned? Because we took a lot of people in. You know, we always -- remember I made the statement, shithouse countries. We have some bad countries. They seem to like to come into the United States. We don't like that. We ended all of that, you know? We ended all terrible -- some terrible countries, but hers is about the worst.

All they do is go around -- they have essentially no government. All they do is go around, kill people all day long, pirate ships, kill people. I'm surprised they can pirate the ship. They can only do it because our laws are so foolish. Don't -- please don't ever shoot back. Can you believe it? But she was from Somalia and she came over.

And right away, as soon as she started opening her mouth, "I have constitutional rights, I have constitutional -- and I don't like the way this country is being run." She comes from a country with no government, no council, no police, no anything. It's not even a country. It's just a piece of land, and she comes here and she tells us how to run the United States of America.

It's not going to happen. [Audience boos]

She goes, "I have constitutional rights," right? Little -- the arrogance. And you know who else is really arrogant, the guy from Michigan. I've been watching him. I call him Mohamed. It's Abdul Mohamed. I called him Mohamed not knowing his middle name was Mohamed, so I almost got it right. But I'd always call him Mohamed.

He said, "Why does he keep calling me Mohamed?" I said, "You know why? Because I'm president of the United States. I can call you whatever the hell I want." But, man, that guy is arrogant. I watched him being interviewed. How dare you ask me that question? How dare -- I do that too with reporters. But with him, I don't know.

With me, I think it's a little bit softer. No, he's an arrogant guy, and we're not going to let him be -- we're not going to let him be in the United States Senate, OK -- working with Ted Cruz. Ted Cruz is not thrilled. Are you thrilled to be having him? No, we're not going to let you have him. No, he's a disaster.

Hopefully he's going to lose. We have some big races going on. This race, that race, we have a lot of big ones. And I think you're going to be pleasantly surprised on Tuesday. People are coming home. They're coming home. They're not going to let our country be destroyed by these radical jihadists, these horrible people.

Please inform the speaker of the House of Representatives -- you didn't know his name. His first name was actually James. He's a great speaker, actually, James Michael Johnson -- that the Democrat Party has just conceded her seat. She's going to be out. Ilhan Nur Said Elmi, her real name, has openly admitted to fraud, and she will not be legally allowed to be a member of that august body any longer.

So, less than two years ago, the radical left Dumocrats handed us the dark age of America. But we quickly turned it around, and we are right now in the golden age of America. This is the golden age. And no other president has ever accomplished so much in such a short period of time. You know, what we've done is amazing because it's really even a long way from two years.

We achieved the most secure border in American history in the past 17 months. And this is done by people that lean left, OK? They lean left, to put it mildly. They do these stats. Zero illegal aliens have been admitted to the United States of America. And we've achieved the largest drop in violent crime ever recorded, with a murder rate at the lowest level in 125 years, since 1900. Think of that.

And that's despite the fact that we've had a lot of people brought into our country, 11,888 murderers, many of which committed more than one murder. With all of that, we've gotten a lot of them out and we're getting them all out.

We'll get them all out. Toughest thing I have, you know, we brought inflation way down. I inherited the worst inflation in American history and we have it way down now. And when the war ends, it'll end very quickly and we win that one. Just like we won in Venezuela, we're winning here very strongly. It could be over whenever I want it to be over.

Somebody asked me before, when will the war in Iran end? I said, "Whenever I want it to end." It'll be very quick, but we have to have it end properly, with total and complete -- a total statement, they will never have a nuclear weapon. Number one state sponsor of terror will never have a nuclear weapon. But 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 by many times, not even close.

And thanks to my tariffs, the tariffs, my favorite word. I always say it, but I had to change it to fifth. You've heard me say this. I said it's a favorite word. It's made us rich. It's brought all this money pouring in, because if they move their factories, their plants, everything here, they don't have any tariffs to pay.

So they're all pouring in from Canada, Mexico, Japan, South Korea, China, every place. They're all building here. This should have been done a long time ago, but it's made our country rich. It also keeps our factories going. They're not stealing us anymore, because if they do, they have to pay a big price if they want to make our products outside, like Mexico.

They make a car, use very cheap labor. It's OK. I mean, that's the way it is. And they're selling into our country with no tariff. And all our car companies were going out of business. That doesn't happen anymore. Now they're all moving out of Mexico, coming here, because if they don't, they have to pay a 25% to 50% tariff.

They're all coming in. In fact, it was just announced that Audi, the Audi, Audi, Audi is spending $40 billion on a new plant. Toyota spending $4 billion on a -- they're all pouring into our country. Jobs. But think of it, it's $22.2 trillion, with a T. We've never had anything -- it's five times greater than the highest amount we've ever taken in. And some of those people know it exactly, but they don't want to talk about it. They don't. And what it means is wealth for our country.

We've never -- we've never created so much wealth as we have in the last year and a half, trillions of dollars. Apple, as an example, is investing $600 billion in this country, $60 billion of it in Texas, Apple. They always made their product in China, right? They made everything in China. No, they're investing $600 billion in the United States, $60 billion in your great state that I love.

Think of that. You know that Apple -- I mean, the one big knock that everything gets made in China, not anymore. They're going to be -- a lot of it's going to be made, big percentage of theirs. Can you imagine $600 billion worth of plants? You know, $50 million shopping center of which I built plenty, that's a nice size center. $500 million is big.

How about $60 billion worth of plants? That's what it is. And Texas Instruments is investing $46 billion in chip production in your state. And we have $800 billion being invested in our country to make and produce chips, and it'll take it away from Taiwan and we'll have close to 50%, from zero, close to 50% of the chip business because they don't want to pay -- they don't want to pay tariffs.

And it is my favorite word. I've said it's my favorite word and the news goes crazy. The media, the fake news media, they go crazy. They said, it's his favorite word, what about God, what about wife, children, relationship? What about relationship? So I made it my fifth favorite word, and now they're OK with it. And the pharmaceutical company, great company, Bristol Myers Squibb, is investing $2.3 billion to build a state-of-the-art campus in Houston.

Eli Lilly is investing $6.5 billion and billions and billions more in the country. Saronic is building a $3.2 billion shipyard. You're going to create 10,000 jobs right here. And Toyota is investing $3.6 billion to move production from Mexico to Texas. That's a little switch. You know why? Because I told everybody, you can't build your cars in Mexico and Canada and send them back in no tariffs, no charge, take away our job, take away our companies, take away our wealth, not happening.

So what's happening, like with pharmaceuticals, I said to Eli Lilly, all of them, you know, we're going to get the biggest reduction in prices for pharmaceuticals in the history of the world. We were the highest-priced, the highest-priced drugs to the lowest-priced drugs. We went from the highest-priced in the world to the lowest price in the world.

That alone should win the midterms for Ken Paxton. And we just announced two massive natural gas power plants of $14 billion and $22 billion in a wonderful state that I won so big. Oh, I love it. I -- if you people got out and vote that voted for me, this guy's going to win in a massive landslide against this whack job.

He'll win in a landslide. But numerous leaders have told me this over the last number of years, less than two years ago, your country was dead. We had a dead country. We were laughed at all over the world. They were laughing at our president. He couldn't find the stairs off the stage. He'd look around. He'd look left and look right.

I've got five pairs of -- look at it, I got it one, two right over here. He couldn't find it. It's government, they put a lot of stairs. Got another one back here. And if you had to, you could jump off the front. It's not that high. But he could never find his way off the stage. In fact, you know, I gave a speech once -- it's really tough when you're being funny cute, sarcastic.

Sarcasm is bad with the fake news because they'll turn it around at you. But I imitated Sleepy Joe walking off the stage. His speeches were extremely short. They would last, seldom, more than a minute or two. And then he'd always go like this, and nobody knows what the hell it meant, because he'd walk in the other direction.

But he could never find his way, and I made the mistake of imitating his getting off the stage. And this particular stage had walls on the back and the sides, stairs all over the place. I remember he kept walking into the walls and he had no idea. And then Secret Service, these handsome guys, they came -- they ran up, they grabbed him, come with us, sir, come with us. This is what was running our country.

But I made the mistake of imitating. I called my great wife, first lady, great first lady. And I said to her -- I said to her, I don't want to say I call her first lady in person, first lady. Oh, I would get killed if I said that, first lady. But even if I kidded about it, they would put it out, so I'll just say, I said, "Melania" -- who, by the way, has one of the hottest movies of the year.

Can you believe it? The women like it. The women like to go see it. But I finished the speech in front of a massive crowd of people and I said, "Melania, how did I do? How great was I, baby? Was I great? Was I -- can anybody do it like I do it? How good was it?" "No, there was something wrong." "What happened?"

When you were leaving the stage, you kept bumping into walls. You couldn't find the stairs. They pretend -- they are just so tough. So they -- I don't do that stuff anymore. I'd love to give you -- somebody said, do it again, do it again. I said, I'm not doing it again. Well, I had the problem with our great senator from a place called Ohio.

I talked about he was a great football player. You know who I'm talking about, Jon Husted. He was a great football player, but nobody knew. He's a very humble man. He didn't brag. I would have bragged. I would have said, I'm the greatest player that ever lived. But he was great. And Jon Gruden came up and he was in Ohio.

We had a tremendous rally like this, with thousands of people. You know, you have thousands of people can't even get in here. They're outside. And if anybody would like to give up their seat, please let me know. Do we have any -- no, you have thousands of people that are watching jumbotrons, not quite as good as being here, but we love you outside.

Thank you very much. But they did me in the process. This was a bad one. This was a bad one. This was really bad, what they did. This was just a week ago. So, Jon is humble, but he's very good. He was a lieutenant governor for eight years, highly respected. But he was behind in the polls, and I was there to try and help him out.

Like we have to make sure Ken gets in, we have to make sure Jon gets in. And so, I went up to Ohio, great. And I won Ohio also by the biggest margin in history. I won all these states by the biggest margin in history. But I won Ohio, the biggest vote ever gotten not only by a president, by a politician, but here too.

And I said, what are you doing here, Jon Gruden? He's a coach. He's a great coach, great guy. He was a very good quarterback in college. And they had a championship team, national championship. And I'm here to honor my teammate. I said, "Who's your teammate?" He said, "Jon Husted." I said, "Oh, did he play football?"

Yeah, he was an All-American. He has the NCAA record for 17 interceptions as a safety. And he was unbelievable as a player. He was the fastest man, the best athlete. I said, "Wait a minute. You gotta be kidding." He's, like, very quiet. And I never really looked at him because it's never been my thing to look at men. [Laughter] But I like men, but I've never been particularly attracted, sorry.

And what I do is I call -- like I'm going to call Ken up, say a couple of words, and he'll say a couple of words. So, I called Jon up. And again, Jon Gruden had just -- in fact, he said something that was amazing, because he's a -- such a fine man, Jon Husted is, that's a senator. But he's running for reelection against a real sleazebag who got thrown out years ago, defeated by Bernie Moreno, who's a great senator.

But he was defeated, so he was thrown out. Now he's running again against Jon. And I called Jon up. But Jon Gruden said one thing that got me. And I couldn't believe it, because, you know, it's such a high-quality person. He said in the football games he would rip people's heads off when he tackled them.

He was so tough, he would just -- I said, "Was he the best?" He said, "He was the best player on the team, and that's why I'm here." I was surprised to see him. I said, "What are you doing here?" "I'm here to be with my teammate Jon Husted." He said, yeah, he was the best. He was an All-American. And a few people understood that when I started talking about him.

Guy shouted he was an All-American, sir. And so -- but he was -- he's a humble guy, so he didn't talk about it. So, I brought him up and he started speaking. Thank you very much, very much. And, you know, he said a few words. And I was standing right here like this, and I'm studying him because Jon Gruden, who's a great coach, one of the best, said that this guy is one of the best players he's ever been associated with, best player on a championship team, All-American, and I never knew he even played football.

So, I'm studying him, and I made the mistake of saying that I started off by studying his ass. I just wanted to say -- [Laughter] And then I looked at his feet, and they were massive. Then I looked at his hands. See these hands? These are nice hands. They're fine. He had fingers like sausages. [Laughter] I looked at his hands, and I said look at the guy's -- and then I patted him on the shoulder.

I said, "Great job, Jon." He said a few words. I said, "Great job." And I hurt my hand. It was like I was hitting steel. [Laughter] But I made the mistake of studying his anatomy and explaining it to the audience, and the audience loved it. By the way, he went up 12 points that day. [Laughter] He went from being down to being up. [Laughter] Maybe I should do that with Ken Paxton, but I'm not sure your body's -- is going to qualify. [Laughter] I'm going to do it with Ken.

No, but -- oh, see, so what happens is -- so, Jon leaves. I told the story. Everybody had fun, you know? And -- but the people appreciated it because they didn't know. A lot of them didn't know. 95% didn't know. And the fake news did it to me. They only covered the ass part. They said -- [Laughter] They said this is news, cable freaks.

And I think ABC fake news, one of the worst, and they said what the hell was Trump doing talking about a man's anatomy? What -- what's his problem? What's -- why is he doing this? Explain it. He was talking about his ass and his feet. What was he doing? You know what I was doing, and they know what. But they actually had me -- and they'd only say I studied his ass. [Laughter] After that, it was to see where the power came from because he was a violent tackler.

Anyway, but they did it to me beautifully. That's no different than walking into walls and saying, oh, my wife said -- oh, my -- are you OK, darling? So, no, they're fake news. That's why I came up with that term. That was my term. We have a lot of good terms. I could give you a lot of them. Pocahontas, I talk -- how about Pocahontas?

Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Pocahontas Warren. We call her Pocahontas because she claims to be an Indian because her mother told her years ago she has high cheekbones. You know that? [Laughter] No, when they asked her -- remember? She has high cheekbones. They said, well, do you have Indian blood? She spent her whole life using that to get good jobs.

I happen to be of Indian persuasion, she would say, because her mother told her she had high cheekbones. So, I came up with the term Pocahontas, and it destroyed her political career, actually. She was -- she was leading for president, and after that -- but do you remember she then -- I drove her crazy, but she drives everyone else crazy.

She's a whack job. Remember the beer? Oh, come on in, darling. Let's have a beer together. Oh, she's bad news. They got a lot of bad people. We -- that's why we can't afford to lose a vote to some freak. We can't. We can't. But, no, Elizabeth Warren's bad. But she -- she made a career based on the fact -- she went to all the best schools, all the best this, that because of the fact that she happened to be an Indian.

And then she did it. She went out -- and I drove her crazy. And she went out and she had a test done. Do you remember? And the test showed her, and she was so happy, because they did find a tiny semblance. But people don't realize it was so tiny that it showed you had no Indian blood. [Laughter] In fact, it showed that I had more Indian blood than hair -- that I had more Indian blood than she does, and I have none, unfortunately. [Laughter] So, she was 1,024th. Do you remember?

And she was so happy. She released the results, but it really said she wasn't an Indian. And then she went down the tank. But this is the people we have to deal with. These are people that don't love our country. These are sick people. Since the election, the stock market has set -- and this -- you know, it's much less than two years -- has set 88 all-time record highs.

Your 401(k)s are 65%, 67%, 68%, 70% higher -- than what they were just a short while ago. And I want everybody, when you go out to vote, to remember two things. I got your drug prices down 50%, 60%, 70%. And I want you to, before you pull the trigger -- because maybe you say, well, I'm not going to vote for him.

I'm not voting for Ken -- take a look at your 401(k)s. And when you're 68% up or whatever you may be, you are up a lot. You know, under Sleepy Joe, you were 25% down. And I have people coming up to me -- I have the policeman come up all the time. I see a lot of police. I love the police. Gotta protect our police.

They protect us. But just today I had a man -- I don't even know what the hell he did. He said, sir, thank you for the 401(k). I said how you doing? My wife, for 20 years, calls me a -- just a failure. I've never made money. I've always lost money in the stock market. I'm up 67%, sir. She now thinks I'm a financial genius. [Laughter] And sir, I want to thank you.

And it's true. You know, he didn't do a damn thing. The guy didn't do -- we did, we did, a lot of these people right here. But I want you to go look at your 401(k), and when you see that you practically doubled your net worth in the last year and a half, you gotta vote for Ken Paxton, because he's part of the team, a great part of the team.

Under my leadership, income for hardworking Americans has soared to the highest level ever recorded. More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country. 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 rates are all at their best and lowest levels ever recorded.

And exports -- remember Barack Hussein Obama said we will never be a manufacturer, we'll never manufacture. Really? Exports have just soared to the highest level in American history. And just out today, a little -- a couple of hours ago, it just came out. Give you -- I'd like to give you a nice up -- isn't it nice that you have a guy that can actually put things into a speech upon rapid notice, that doesn't need to read a teleprompter?

Isn't that nice? Isn't it nice to know that you have a president that does not have to read a teleprompter? In fact, I seldom do, actually. Consumer confidence is up 7.5% in just a very short period of time, practically a record for the number. Very -- that's a big number. Because they know we know what the hell we're doing.

But I gave those stats and the other night I walked off the stage, I said, individual income is up to the highest level. You are -- we have employment in our country, the highest level ever. We have more people employed today than ever in the history of our country. That's a -- I said, the poverty level is the best it's ever been.

In other words, the poverty level is better than it's ever been. That's a big deal. And I said, and our manufacturing has just broken every record. And I said, ladies and gentlemen, vote for whoever the hell I was talking about at the time, goodbye, and I walked off the stage. And then I got in trouble because my people said the Secret Service was going crazy.

He left 20 minutes early, that's no good. So I can't do that anymore, but it was quite dramatic, I must say. No, because those are big things. Think of it, more people working in the United States than any time in the history of our country. What else do I have to say? What else do I have to say? At the highest, you're getting the highest number we've ever gotten in terms of income, all of those things, manufacturing.

So I said, thank you very much, everybody, good night, and I walked off. There's even a stair there. I got more -- I got five stairs up here. But with our Republican Congress, I signed the Great Big Beautiful Bill, delivering the largest tax cuts in American history. It should be called the Great Big Beautiful Tax Cut Bill.

You know, it's very interesting, these people, these Dumocrats. So all my life -- I've only changed that name -- I can't believe it took me nine years. I just take the E out, put a U, D-U-M-B. Most people don't know it has a B. It doesn't matter. And I call them Dumocrats. You know why, their policy is so bad.

Their financial policy is just like, we don't want men to play in women's sports, we don't want open borders, we don't want transgender for everybody. Their policy is so stupid. It's so bad. But the bill, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. And we made interest on car loans deductible, but only if the car is made in America.

We're not interested in -- we love Japan very much, we're not interested. Now, if Japan wants to build its manufacturing plant here, that's a different story. They hire you, it's fine. And they're doing that. Japan, we made a deal with Japan, they have to pay $600 billion to us. We made a deal with the European Union, they were ripping us off big, in order to lower tariffs, just to bring them down.

They have to pay us, I think, Howard -- where is Lutnick? Where are you, Howard? Stand up, Howard. They have to pay us $650 billion, right? Pro. He's a -- he's a difficult man, very difficult, but he's a pro. He knows how to make money. And we made a deal with South Korea, $250 billion, right? Howard's going, $300 billion, sir.

No, they pay now to do business in the United States. They don't think we're stupid anymore. We've saved so many jobs. The autoworkers love us. The Teamsters love us. The right to workers love us. Everybody does because we've never had any country like it. And with the help of Senator Ted Cruz, our Great Big Beautiful Bill also delivered a record-setting expansion of school choice.

No, he's -- he's a worker. I shouldn't tell this. Should I tell the Supreme Court situation? Should I, Ted? Come on. He's -- so, you know, I picked three Supreme Court justices, and it's very hard to get them approved. I said, look, I have an answer to it. Ted is a brilliant guy, brilliant lawyer, brilliant all that, went to law school, top student, everything.

Top credentials. I said, I have an answer to not being able to get it past the Democrats or the Republicans together. I would pick Ted Cruz to be the next Supreme Court justice. And -- and I wouldn't have to worry about -- I wouldn't even have to make a phone call. The Democrats will 100% vote for it because they hate the guy, and they want to get rid of him.

And the Republicans would 100% vote for it because they can't stand him, they would like to get rid of him. So I'd get 100% of the vote and he would be a Supreme Court justice, and he'd do a great job. So -- so if we ever have a situation and I'm having a little problem with approval, we'll just put Ted.

No, he's been great. He's been great. We made the largest ever investment in the United States armed forces, $1 trillion. We captured -- 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 that's coming into the United States of America.

And I terminated Barack Hussein Obama's JCPOA, perhaps the worst deal ever made, or the Iran nuclear deal, as they would call it, which was a road to a nuclear weapon for Iran. Remember when he gave $1.7 billion in cash, in green cash? They loaded up a Boeing 757, took out the seats, put piles and piles of green.

That's when I knew that being president was powerful. When you can take $1.7 billion out of the D.C. banks, Virginia, D.C., and Maryland. They were stripped. They had no cash. Put it into a plane and fly it to Iran to try and bribe your way out of fighting them. It was a disaster. The guy was a disaster. He was a rotten president.

We obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity with Operation Midnight Hammer and Operation Epic Fury, and defeated them militarily, financially and otherwise. And it will all end very soon. And remember this, we didn't start the war with Iran. Iran has been waging war on America since 1979, killing our soldiers.

Remember the SS Cole? Remember all the soldiers that they killed. Or kids that are -- you know, with no legs right now, sitting home with no legs, no arms, a face that was blasted by the roadside bombs. That was Soleimani. Remember General Soleimani? I killed him in my first term, General Soleimani. He loved the roadside bomb.

He thought the roadside bomb -- 97% of the people that died from what they call roadside bombs, where it blows up, blows the hell out of everything. We actually developed a -- a truck, a shield on the bottom that was two inches of steel. It was shaped this way. And the problem was, it would blow up, it would kill everybody on the sidewalks.

The whole thing was a disaster. But we put him to rest. Past leaders should have settled this problem long ago, but they didn't have the courage to do so. This should have been settled long before I came in. But we're settling it now. They understand that better than anybody in this room. And they are now saying, and they fully understand that they will never, ever have a nuclear weapon, ever.

And oil prices are coming down and gasoline prices are dropping to levels below -- by the way, with all of this that we're doing, our gasoline prices are lower than when Barack Hussein Obama, our oil prices, gasoline, lower than they were with Obama and a guy named Crooked Joe Biden. I call him Sleepy Joe and Crooked Joe, depends on the mood, depends on the mood I'm under.

And our leadership, state of Texas, is now producing. We have great leadership. And refining, you are refining, I don't know if you guys know this, more oil, you are refining more oil than at any time in the history of our country. Drill, baby, drill. Now, in all fairness, that I don't want to say -- this is another one of those traps.

I don't like saying it because of the Middle East, you know, that when you say the last seven months you've produced more oil, more everything, you've made more money than you have ever made. You know why? What took place in seven months ago? The war. Now, when I say it, they say, oh, that's so terrible, what he's saying.

Our country is making a fortune while people have to pay more at the pump. Paying more at the pump is going to come down really fast, OK? But -- but here's what's important. It's really good. Our country is making a fortune, more than it's ever made. The Middle East oil, they're getting it from Texas. They're getting it from Louisiana.

They're getting it from Alaska. We're making a fortune. Now, people would say -- gotta be very careful. Well, they'll do it anyway because they won't put in my little ending sentences. But we are making an absolute fortune, more than we ever have. And we've never done -- Texas has never, ever done numbers like this.

And I looked at it and it said, for the last seven months, Texas has done better with oil and gas than -- you know why? Because seven months ago, we started. So, with all of that, the ones we care about are our people at the pump, and those numbers are going to start coming down very, very rapidly. Right?

And in breaking news tonight, I'm pleased to announce another historic action to bring down energy costs and unleash Texas energy. Under Crooked Joe Biden, Dumocrats crushed small -- the small oil and gas operators -- there are small operators. They're great operators, too. I know so many of them -- with crippling regulations in methane that caused prices to skyrocket, the methane problem.

Tonight I'm officially terminating Biden's expensive and unnecessary methane regulations to save consumers and energy producers $45 billion -- in costs, unlock vast quantities of Texas natural gas -- and produce 210 million barrels of oil. And we've been working on this for a long time. We were working on this with Lee Zeldin.

We were working on this before the war broke out. Would -- would really bring down the cost. This was something we've been working on. Statutorily it takes a little while. But if James Talafreako gets in, your energy costs will skyrocket. He personally wrote the Texas version of the green new scam, which would annihilate millions of Texas jobs.

He has a green new scam. You know, we went through a green new scam, windmills all over the place. Well, you had your own problems with windmills. Didn't they freeze? You had a little problem with cold weather and the froze -- oh, this -- they are the worst. They're the most expensive form of energy. They kill the birds.

The environmentalists love them because they think -- they know they're bad for our country, but that's all right. Name me one country that has lots of windmills that is solvent. There are none. You know who the solvent ones are? The ones like -- that have -- Texas, and they have natural gas. They have oil.

They have coal. They have solar, some solar, not those big monsters that they put up all over that kill all the animals. You know, the animals jump on them and they fry because those black panels are hundreds of -- they're hotter than your stove. But those are the countries. And China -- as an example, I was with President Xi two weeks ago and he walked off -- he came off the plane.

He said you have done an unbelievable job. I get along with -- isn't it sort of good to get along with him? But I get along with him good. But -- but you know what China is building right now? 58 massive coal-fired plants. You know why? It's a very strong form of energy. But oil and gas and all of these things that we are doing now, we're back.

We're back so strong, and nobody has more energy. And by the way, with the data centers, you know, the data centers are now producing their own electricity and giving whatever they don't need back into your grid, which could never have handled it. And we're telling the data centers pay the communities. They have a lot of money, rich people.

Pay the communities, have them -- some -- by the way, some states, like West Virginia, many states are dying for them. But you know who really wants them? China. China will take everyone you turn down. But we say pay the communities. We had a community, a little community, beautiful community in Louisiana.

Jeff Landry is the governor, great governor. And they were picketing, you know, we don't want a data center. And it's a beautiful building, beautiful. But, you know, just got to be a habit. And they settled with them. They gave teachers $50,000 each and they paid people $10,000 in the community. And all of a sudden they say we want more data centers.

We want more. They gotta pay. They're rich, Ken. They're rich as hell. Let them pay the people, I don't care. And once you do that, everyone's going to be saying we want data. But there are plenty of states that want them. Texas should not be in a position where they're not doing it because you have a lead that's so great.

You don't want to ever lose it. But let them pay. They'll pay you a fortune. They'll pay the people. Let them pay the government, the people, lower your taxes, do all those things. Do whatever the hell you want, but don't turn them down because somebody else is going to take them, and you'll be very unhappy in the long run.

We're also standing up for our great farmers and ranchers, who I love here in Lubbock -- which is, by the way, the cotton capital. I didn't know that, the cotton capital of the world. Who would have thought? Right? And to protect family farms, we eliminated the unfair estate tax or death tax. We gave our farmers $12 billion of relief.

Let me -- let me just tell you. So, under the previous administration, they wanted to tax tremendous amounts of money when you have a child or children and you're a farmer and they grow up in the farm. You get older, you die, you leave it to your children, and the government comes along and says it's worth a fortune.

Look at the lady nodding her head. She knows exactly. And it's sort of -- a little bit, you know, land rich or asset rich and not as rich with the cash. But it's got big values, so they value it high. The kids go out, they borrow the money to pay the tax from their friendly banker, who turns out to be not at all friendly when they didn't get their interest payment.

The bank forecloses, takes the farm away, and the kids commit suicide. Many, many times that's happened. You have no more estate taxes to pay and you have no more death tax. It's a death tax. You can leave it to your child or your children. So, if you love your children, what I said is very impactful. If you don't love your children, just say I bored you for about three minutes when I -- is there anybody in this room that does not love their children, that will not leave anything to them?

Because if that's the case, I've just wasted three minute -- three minutes. Who -- who doesn't -- there are some people probably don't like -- anybody want to raise your hand about -- you know, I had one person that really loved their child a lot, and they raised their hand. They ended up going to the front page of every paper.

The kids have never spoken to them again. [Laughter] They were just kidding. See, they were being sarcastic. That's why you have to be very careful. No, they've lost their whole family. "Oh, I don't," ha-ha. Isn't that funny? They ended up being on the front page. The kids never spoke to them again. We gave our farmers $12 billion of relief to protect them from unfair trade practice.

And in my first term, I gave you -- $28 billion to the farmer. And three weeks ago, I also signed an order waiving the off-road requirement for red-dye diesel, allowing farmers, truckers and anyone else to fill up with red-dye diesel -- totally tax-free. That's a big saving. And the typical trucker or farmer will save hundreds of dollars every time -- many, many dollars every time you fill up. You know what else I did?

I pardoned people who were in jail. You know why? Because they fixed their truck. You know that? Does anyone know that? You know, I said it last night in Mississippi. We had a great crowd of people and nobody knew what the hell I was talking about. Do you know that if you fix your own truck, they put you in jail?

I pardoned numerous people about two, three months ago. I said tell me what this part is about, please? You have these guys, they're good guys. Sir, he was caught fixing his truck. He's fixed it all his life, sir, but he didn't bring it to a certified authorized agent. I said what the hell are they doing?

I guess they're saying that if you fix your own, you may disable all of the environmental horseshit that they put onto the engines -- which we have now gotten rid of. You don't have the -- you know, I buy a lot of -- I buy a lot of farm equipment. I have clubs all over the place, and I buy a lot and I'd always want really old equipment before they destroyed it with all the crap they put on. You have to go to MIT to learn how to turn on a lawn mower.

You have to become a -- a doctor of science in order to start your lawn mower. And when that thing broke, your lawn mower was rendered useless. It would never be allowed to start. What they did to our country is just crazy. Anyway, but few people knew in Mississippi. I said, what the hell am I doing this for, nobody even knows about it. No, you go to jail if you fix your car or truck, not allowed to do it. I thought they were kidding me. I have some brilliant lawyers over here, Yale, Harvard, number one at Harvard, number one at Princeton.

Where's Will? Where are you, Will? Where the hell -- oh, there he is. He's a shy person, but he was a good student. He said, no, sir, when somebody fixes their car, they are sentenced to five years in prison. Now, do you believe this? This is the crazy country we had. And here's the problem, the people that they took it to were usually young kids learning.

They didn't know crap about your engine. They couldn't fix it. The farmer could fix it in two minutes. You get four years in jail. So I released a whole bunch of them. I released a whole bunch. I pardoned them. I gave them a complete pardon. Last week, I also announced the Harvest Fuel Relief program, providing our farmers with $8 billion to offset diesel costs in the harvest season, which is a big deal.

And starting on day one of my administration, we abolished all discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion policies throughout the federal government. We got critical race theory and transgender insanity out of schools, and we made English the official language of the United States of America. Not complicated, Jodey.

It's not complicated. It's all about common sense, when you think, right? You know, we're conservative, we're whatever. It's really not about -- it's about common sense, 99%. 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, that's and, remember, House and Senate, I am going to give all adult citizens in the United States $5,000. And only a Republican can do that, because we're taking in massive amounts of money through tariffs and record-setting economic success.

But the Democrats won't be able to because their policies are so sad and sick and the opposite. In fact, I would predict, and I certainly hope that doesn't happen. I hope they don't win. But if the Democrats ever won, you will have a 1929-style economic depression. That's what's going to happen in this country.

If the Republicans win, you will each have $5,000 in your pocket and economic success for a country like we have never seen, never thought even possible. And, you know, they like to say, well, he'll never be able to pull it off. Well, I just did it less than a year ago. Remember, just recently I gave all members of the United States military $1,776, and everyone said it can't be done.

They all said it can't be -- it was $1,775, actually. I said to the generals, you know, they deserve it bad. They've done a great job. They had to suffer under Sleepy Joe. They had to be degraded in every way. So they came back, I said, how much can we give them? Sir, you could do $1,775. I said, general, three guys, I won't get into the best looking because they'll go back to the others, but they were.

They were three massive, beautiful, handsome generals. Sir, you could do $1,775. I said, general, do you know what you're saying? You're saying $1 more and you're $1,776. Can we scrounge it up, general? Yes, sir, we can, and we did $1,776. And every time I walk by -- that was less than a year ago. Every time I walk by a soldier, they say, thank you very much.

Jodey, they say, thank you, Jodey. I hope they say thank you. You made a good speech before, Jodey. They say thank you very much, sir. But remember this, the $5,000 Trump dividend, we'll call it a Trump dividend, is approximately $1 trillion. But we have a record-setting $22.2 trillion that we want to pay off debt, all the others, we'll do that.

But that's being invested in our country, $22.2 trillion. The only caveat I have, so we'll get it done very easily, quickly, is that you have to spend the money in the United States of America. [Inaudible] Recycle. You have to spend it here. We can't say -- because the wife gets five also, if you have a husband, wife, it's $5,000 and $5,000. That's pretty good.

All you have to do is vote Republican. You should do that anyway, but I think you deserve it, to be honest with you. But all you have to do -- but here's the thing, we don't want you going to China, Japan, South Korea. We certainly don't want you going to France. How about, would anybody like to go up on the Eiffel Tower, watch things burn?

I don't know. It would have been -- maybe France would have been good a few weeks ago, but we're not going to let that happen to our country, I'll tell you that. You know what that's all about, it's about immigration. You know, they said, oh, it's about schools, it's about schools, the schools aren't clean, they're not this -- it's a lot of -- it's about immigration.

People were allowed into the country who hate the French people, who hate their buildings, hate their art, hate everything about France and hate everything about other countries. It's happening now in Italy, it's happening all -- all over and that's why I love having a damn closed border. We're not letting these people in. It's all about immigration.

Has nothing to do with school, they use that as an excuse. The choice in this election is very simple. You can vote for the radical left Dumocrat Communists to loot your wealth, raise your taxes by $5 trillion, annihilate your borders, decimate Texas oil and gas, mutilate your children, and give 25 million illegal aliens amnesty and the right to vote.

They want them -- you know, the reason they're letting them in, they want these people to vote because they have bad policy, they can't -- you can't get -- the only thing they do well is they cheat like hell, and we got to watch that. Or you can defeat the Dumocrat Communists and vote for more money in your pockets, bigger paychecks for your families, lower taxes, less crime, a booming Texas economy, and no amnesty for illegal aliens.

But you must vote Republican. So every single Dumocrat in Congress voted against our tax cuts, every one, right, Ted, every single -- oh, we have the great John Barrasso here, one of the deans of this -- oh, please stand up, John Barrasso. Now we're hitting big time. Whoa, whoa. Most -- one of the truly, right, Ted, one of the truly respected men in the Senate?

So, John, every single Democrat in the Senate voted against this, right? I think in the House, too, but every single one. They voted against no tax on tips. They voted against no tax on overtime. They voted against no tax on Social Security for our seniors. They voted against voter identification because they want to cheat.

They voted against proof of citizenship because they want to cheat. They voted against securing our border. We have -- I built 2,000 miles of wall. If we didn't have that wall, you could forget it. They voted in favor of the worst inflation and highest energy costs in American history. They voted in favor of transgender mutilization of your children and in favor of men playing in women's sport.

Oh, I'd love to do -- I'd love to do the routine. I'm in such a good mood. I shouldn't be in a good mood after doing this all day long. I've been doing this. Only for Ken Paxton. If he were a lousy attorney general, I wouldn't be doing it out there, but he was the best -- he was the best ever. If he were lousy -- you know?

If he were lousy, I wouldn't be here. I could be other places but I do love being with you. We're having fun. We're having fun, but it's a serious subject. You know, it's fun, but it's packed to the rafters in this big building and it's outside. It's such a beautiful -- a friend of mine said to me, very successful guy, but he's got a problem.

Uh, he's got stage fright. Can you imagine? He destroys people for a living. He's a violent financial person. He's like a very tough guy but he wanted to run for office, so he wanted to run for the Senate. He gave it a shot, Ted. And I said, what was your problem? He said, I had a tremendous fear of crowds.

He said, how do you do that, stand in front of all these people and all these fake news back there, with all the millions of people, and you speak like, there's nothing to it. I said it's easy, because I get up and there's love in the room. They love me and I love them. It's true. It's easy. It's love. It's easy.

He got lockjaw. He couldn't -- he'd get up -- he could destroy people all day long at Wall Street, but he gets up before a crowd, he gets lockjaw.

Said, "What the hell happened to you tonight?" It wasn't pretty. On election night, Texas 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 the proud patriots of Texas is the greatest attorney general in the history of your state, Ken Paxton.

Ken, please come up. Please.

Is it not -- thank you. It is not -- is it not awesome and amazing to be on stage with the greatest president in my lifetime? So, when Paul Perez was up here, I was thinking two things. One, Paul, I just can't believe with -- with -- with a little leadership about the border that you will -- we -- you were basically able to shut the border down overnight.

So, thank you, President Trump and Paul Perez for doing that. And the second thing I was thinking is I grew up in an Air Force family, so I grew up all over. I didn't really have a home. And when he said -- I was a little jealous when he said he was from Lubbock. So, I was kind of wishing I was from Lubbock.

So, I've had the great opportunity today to spend a whole day with the president of the United States, starting out in Corpus Christi doing a rally. And then we, of course, flew on Air Force One, and now we're here. And it turns out it's pretty fun to hang out with the president of the United States for a whole day.

So, he said something to me as we were -- we were arriving in -- in -- in Lubbock. He said, you know, I don't usually do two rallies for anybody, but he said I must really like you. Mr. President, I really like you too. I am so grateful that he is making America great again, and he is working harder than any president I've ever seen in a midterm electing Republicans in Texas and across this nation.

So, I have -- I have one -- you know, I know the president's the leader of the free -- free world, and he's our leader. But occasionally we have good ideas in Texas, don't you think? [Audience responds affirmatively]

So, I have -- actually, I have a suggestion for him. So, I know he has kind of two houses right now, one in the White House and one in Florida, but someday he might need a second home. What do you think if he moves to Lubbock, Texas? I think you guys like that idea. All right, I'm going to say this. You guys, the election may depend on West Texas.

You are the most Republican area of our state. And so, I'm going to ask you, for the next seven days, get every Republican out to vote, and we will win Texas. God bless you.

Thank you very much. We -- we can't -- we really can't lose. If we lose this thing, it would be a disaster. We can't lose it. And you'll be very unhappy because you -- you have one of the greatest people. And they spent hundreds of millions of dollars on him, from bad people. Bad people sent in hundreds -- it's hundreds of millions of dollars.

Nobody's ever seen anything like it. Commercial after -- all lies. So, Texas needs to get out and vote for Ken, but needs to get out and vote for your governor, Greg Abbott -- your lieutenant governor, Dan Patrick, who's been the chairman -- stand up, Dan. He's been the chairman of my campaign since 2016. He's a great guy and -- he's a great guy.

Right from the beginning he was chairman. Said, "I'd love to work on your campaign." I said, "OK, good. Congratulations." That was probably 2015. It was even before 2016. But he's been an unbelievable chairman of my campaign, right up until now. So, thank you very much. Thank you, Dan. A great White House doctor, a great admiral -- he just got a big increase in his rank.

Helps to know the president, but he deserved it, actually -- and a really great congressman. He's done all -- he's done everything, and he's respected, loved by everybody. And he was the White House doctor for Bush and he was the White House doctor for Barack Hussein Obama and for me. And they asked him -- the fake news asked him who was the healthiest of the group.

He said, "Not even a contest. President Trump is by far the healthiest guy." And I say -- and I said -- that was when I was just at the beginning when I was getting to know him first term. And I said, "I don't know exactly who that doctor is, but I like him." And he was a great doctor, actually. He was a great admiral and doctor, and he's a great congressman.

He wins by about 48 points all the time. So, Ronny Jackson, stand up. Thanks, Ronny. He was always there, always there. What a wonderful guy. And another one who's a real -- he's young, he's handsome, which means I don't like him very much. I don't like handsome young -- I don't like handsome young men, but that's what he is. He's a congressman.

He's respected by everybody in Washington. For being a young guy, he really is. I heard -- I think Jodey was saying he's the future of the party, and he could very well be the future of the party -- Congressman Brandon Gill. He's fantastic. Thank you, Brandon. Great job, too. Great speech. And you also need to vote for another -- we have a lot of young, good-looking people in Texas, I'll tell you.

Mayes Middleton has been unbelievable. We followed him right through it. He did a fantastic job -- attorney general. Thank you, Mayes. He's fantastic. We have great people. And Tom Sell to be the next congressman from Texas 19th Congressional District. Tom Sell, good luck. Heard you're doing great in the polls, so good luck.

You gotta get out and vote for all your -- I mean, I know them all. We're in a certain section. But you have great congressmen and women here, you have just -- in this state. They're warriors. They fight and they win. They know how to win. We're also pleased to be joined by Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Get up here, Marco.

Thank you. Our enemies are weaker, our country is stronger, and our people are safer because Donald J. Trump is the president of the United States. Thank you.

Thank you. Great guy. Thank you, Marco. I think he'll go down as the greatest of them all at that very important job we're going to -- you know, when we're finished with Iran, maybe on the trip back we'll just drop Marco into Cuba. We'll fly him in by parachute. [Laughter] We'll drop him in the middle of Cuba.

He'll solve that problem in about two minutes. No, Cuba's coming our way, just like everything else is coming our way, because we are a respected country again. Oh, another man who's been amazing, built a great business. He got hit really hard in World Trade Center. He was -- had a Cantor Fitzgerald, you probably know the story, top three floors of the World Trade Center.

And it was hit and everybody in his firm died. One of the most successful Wall Street companies in the country, Cantor Fitzgerald. He was the chairman, he was the boss, and his brother was killed. His brother worked for the firm. And what -- I'm hearing this now, is that OK? Are we having -- could that be Iran dropping something?

Did you hear that? A lot of noise going on. What the hell are they doing over here? Is that excavation? Excavation, demolition or bombs? It's one of the three. But he's a -- he survived it, and he rebuilt the company and his -- he had a lot of luck. You know, his wife wanted him to take their beautiful, young son.

This is a long time ago, right? But just prior to the attack, you never take your son to school. For years, years and years she was complaining. She's strong. She's a great woman, by the way. And finally, after years, he happened to be, that morning, he took his son to school. He dropped his son off at 8:30 and started driving down the West Side Highway and he saw the planes hit the World Trade Center.

It was the only time in years that he wasn't there at 5 in the morning. You know, these stock people, the financial people, they get there at 5, 5:30 in the morning, and he rebuilt the firm to be bigger, better, stronger than it was then. And he gave a lot -- he gave a lot of the proceeds to the families of the victims, all of whom died that night.

He had the top three floors. They were unable to get out, including his brother, and it's just a story that most people don't know, but Howard Lutnick rebuilt the firm, gave a lot of the money, the proceeds to people whose family was killed in the tragedy. And he's been a great -- he's been a great secretary of commerce.

Thank you, Howard. Thank you very much. It's an amazing story. How many people could do that? Very few people could do that, very, very few. He's been doing a really good job. Also, of course, Sen. Ted Cruz, who's been -- I mean, we had our fights during the campaign, but we never fought, but had little moment.

But he's a tough guy and he's a good guy and he's a brilliant guy and he's my friend, and he fights with me in a positive way all the time. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Ted. Great job. Great job, Ted. And it's sort of -- I call him the dean. He's the dean because everybody respects him so much in the Senate and everywhere.

One of the most respected men in Washington, Senator John Barrasso. It's an honor to have you here, John. I didn't know you were coming here. And a man who made a great speech tonight, Jodey -- Jodey Arrington. Stand up, Jodey, what a great speech. And he's a -- he's a warrior. These guys are warriors. These guys are real warriors, the congressional people.

They have to be. It's the survival of our country. If they had a -- if they would go along with some of the things that are planned, you wouldn't have a country very long. And that group of people that I just named, they're incredible. Thank you, Jodey, very much, appreciate it. EPA administrator, you know, it used to take 20 years to get something approved in the Environmental Protection Agency, 20 years, 25 years.

People would start at young age and they'd put something in and they were getting ready to retire, and they'd take the vote and they'd lose the vote. I always say 20 years prior to disapproval. And Lee Zeldin is the opposite. He's getting fantastic projects approved in Texas in a matter of weeks, a matter of weeks.

And he's an MVP candidate. He's fantastic, Lee Zeldin. A matter of weeks. And a great person, a great man and he'll go down, I think when it all turns out. He's helped us a lot. I -- I put him on because he's very, very successful and he's known for two things, being smart and having a good personality. And when you're dealing with foreign countries, I know a lot of great guys, they're smart and they're great dealmakers, but they're -- they're not nice people.

They won't get along, there'll be problems, probably end up in wars. But this is a man that everybody loves, everybody respects and he's done a fantastic job and you'll see the results very soon. Mr. Steve Witkoff, special envoy. And Deputy Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Andrew Hughes. Thank you, Andrew.

Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Texas speaker of the House Dustin Burrows. State Senator Charles Perry. Thank you, Charles. Lubbock mayor, Mark McBrayer. Thank you, Mark, great job. Chairman of the Board of Regents at Texas Tech. What a good school, what a good school. Yeah. Yeah, that's right.

What a great place. No, you always do well and even people, they -- they know they're in a fight when they're fighting Texas Tech. They really -- that's a great place. I know a lot of people that went there. I know a lot of people that were involved. And I know some of the people that are in charge right now.

It's a great -- it's a great school. Texas Tech and former Texas Tech offensive tackle, a great football player, and a really fantastic guy, helped us with the NIL, looks like we're getting that close in order to save college football and in order to save colleges. Cody Campbell and his beautiful son. Get that son [Inaudible] and Cody was a great player, and his son looks like he's going to be -- he's going to be bigger than you, your son is going to be. He's an offensive lineman and a very, very highly touted one.

And two-time Super Bowl-winning wide receiver, an unbelievable player, Danny Amendola. Danny Amendola. Danny was a courageous guy, wasn't as big as some of the other guys but he had more heart than everybody. You did it with heart and talent, by the way. And you know, I hate when they say somebody had heart because it's -- you also need a lot of talent.

I don't care how much heart, but you had -- you had both. And you did a fantastic job. A lot of big -- a lot of big receptions you he made. So everyone here today is part of the greatest movement in the history of our country and our spirit is stronger, I believe, than ever before. We're the ones with the spirit.

I think there's going to be some big -- you know, these rallies have been great because they brought out far beyond this area. They've gone to many areas and they're just spirit. I've never seen anything like it. And you know, typically they say the president, whoever the president, Republican or Democrat, great president or lousy president, they don't do well in the midterms.

Now, we're going to test that because I don't think any -- I know no president has done what we've been doing for the last two weeks. But -- but it never -- it never made sense. It never made sense to me if you have -- we've done more than any president in the first two years of history and that's us. It's not me, it's all of us together.

There's never been anything, the trade, the military. We rebuilt our military. Venezuela, Iran, you'll see Iran in a couple of weeks, if you don't mind. But all of the things we've done, the job numbers, the numbers, we have the strongest economy and we are respected all over the world. There's never been two years -- I ended eight wars, think of it, eight wars.

No president ended any wars and we all did it together. And I just want to show you, because CNN did it a couple of charts. And because it's CNN, it's so unusual because, you know, they treat us pretty rough, right, no matter what. And I thought I'd show you these charts before we leave, and then we'll do a little conclusion.

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

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

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

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

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

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Thank you. Thank you very much. We had to put that up. So, this has been so much fun being with you. It really has. It's a great place, great place. It's a great area of a great place too. 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. [Audience chants "USA"]

We will win the war on corruption and fraud led by our great vice president, he's doing a great job, JD Vance. And the -- the corruption is so pervasive. Who would have thought? You look at what's going on in Minnesota, California, Maine, so many different places. It's so terrible. But we're taking in billions and billions and billions of dollars, and it's going to get to a point where you're not even going to believe it. But so sad that it was allowed to happen.

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 election. And we will enshrine in permanent law no men in women's sports and no transgender mutilization of your children. There will be no mutilization of your children. It's over. Ladies and gentlemen of Texas, the golden age of America is upon us, but you must get out and you have to vote.

And you have to, frankly, vote Republican, because the other side, what they've done to this country and what they would do to it you don't want to know. Early voting ends Friday, October 30th. So, go out, vote today, vote tomorrow, vote whenever you gotta vote. And of course, November 3rd is the big day.

So, we've already made unbelievable progress, and now we will reach new levels of greatness. And it's my honor to be your president during such an exciting time for our country. And we've been doing this together. We've been in love with each other. It's amazing, greatest movement of all time in any country, the greatest movement of all time.

But we've been doing this together for 11 years now, and there's never been anything like it, and there never will be, I don't believe, anything ever like it. We made America great. It was about make America great. We've made America great. Now we're going to make it greater than ever now, greater than ever before, and it won't even be close.

So, let's get out and do what we do best, which is to win on November 3rd. We know how to win. We know how to win better than anybody. That's what we've been doing for a long time together, and let's make the next two years bigger, better. We just want to make them better, stronger. We're going to make them more beautiful for you.

We want to make it so good, because together we will make America powerful again. We will make America wealthy again, healthy again, strong again, proud again, safe again. And most importantly, we will make America great again. God bless you all. God bless you. Thank you, Texas. God bless you all. Thank you.