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Speech: Donald Trump Holds a Midterm Political Rally in Wasilla, Alaska - October 13, 2026

12:00 PM
Donald Trump 00:00:00-00:00:11 (11 sec)

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

Donald Trump 00:00:11-00:00:53 (42 sec)

Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. This was quite a trip. That was a lot of flying. In fact, they were thinking about canceling. They said, sir, you're very busy. This is very tough. I said where am I going? Alaska, eight hours. I said you think I'm -- we won all three times. We got your record. You think I'd ever cancel?

Donald Trump 00:00:53-00:01:27 (35 sec)

I don't cancel for this. I don't cancel. You know, we got the -- you're showing me. We have the highest vote in the history of Alaska for any race, three times. So, no way I'd cancel. Besides that, my grandfather was up here a long time ago. I don't know. He was great, but he had a little bit of a reputation, I will be honest, as did most of the people that came up here.

Donald Trump 00:01:27-00:02:03 (36 sec)

He was a little rough, but he was great. And -- and they remember. They remember. He left his trail, but he was here a long time ago, a special place to me, very important place to me. And nobody's done more for Alaska than Donald J. Trump, that I can tell you. And with your support, just 21 days from now, Alaska is going to defeat the radical left Dumocrats once again.

Donald Trump 00:02:03-00:02:30 (27 sec)

On November 3rd, we're going to send one of the best and most respected senators in DC, Dan Sullivan, the real -- the real Dan Sullivan. I'm talking about the real Dan Sullivan, not the fake Dan Sullivan, not the Dan Sullivan put up by the Dumocrats. No, we can't let that happen. That's just cheating. They're terrible.

Donald Trump 00:02:30-00:02:48 (18 sec)

The guy never voted. He never went -- never did anything, the fake, and they put him up. Oh, no, I had no idea. I really wanted to run for it, never even thought about it. They found a guy named Dan Sullivan. They put him up to get a little confused. And actually, by mistake he got 2.4 percent. That's a lot.

Donald Trump 00:02:48-00:03:20 (32 sec)

That's too much. That could be the difference. So, you gotta remember Dan Sullivan, Republican incumbent. And -- and honestly, I'm traveling here because -- Dan, two reasons. Number one, I -- I love you people. I appreciate -- you know, I went to Tennessee. I'm going to Florida, went to Texas twice. I won these -- all of these states, 38 states, by the most votes ever in history.

Donald Trump 00:03:20-00:03:56 (36 sec)

And you know what? Some of them I go to for no reason other than to pay my respect and my love, because I gotta say hello to people. We don't have to be in certain places. Here I have to be because we have to make sure that Dan gets in. We have to make sure that Nick Begich gets in. And to be honest with you, we have to make sure that Bernadette Wilson becomes your governor.

Donald Trump 00:03:56-00:04:26 (30 sec)

And while you're at it, make sure you vote yes on the ballot measure to repeal. You want to repeal ranked choice voting scam. It's a scam. You go in number one, you come out number two, number three. Nobody knows what they're doing back there. They know what they're doing. It's a scam. It's a Dumocrat scam, and you got to repeal it. You got to get out, if for no other reason, you gotta repeal rank choice.

Donald Trump 00:04:26-00:04:51 (24 sec)

It's a joke all over the country, and everyone else is repealing it. All it is is a way to cheat. You know, sir, you go in number one and you think you won and you come out number two, you come out number three. You got some guy sitting behind a table, I guess, just picking a winner. You gotta repeal. You gotta terminate it and get it out because it's no good.

Donald Trump 00:04:51-00:05:10 (19 sec)

Bad for your system, so bad for your state. And we gotta be careful. We gotta send Dan in there with a big vote, because what they do -- hopefully, you know, we have our great US attorney here. Hopefully he's watching because -- and he's doing a great job, the US attorney. And I told him -- I just shook his hand, took a picture.

Donald Trump 00:05:10-00:05:35 (25 sec)

I said I hope you're going to make sure there's no cheating, because any place you have rank choice, you have damn bad cheating. And we can't let that happen. So, we're going to defend the integrity of Alaska's elections. And vote yes on ballot two, meaning, yes, we're going to repeal. You know, they -- they word them a little strange.

Donald Trump 00:05:35-00:06:00 (25 sec)

It means, yes, we're going to repeal. That's what it means, yes. So, vote yes, we're going to repeal. In this election, I want you to do me one big favor, pretend that I'm on the ballot, because here's what happens. Every time I've been on the ballot, we win. We get more Congressional seats, more -- and when I'm not on the ballot, we get 49 percent less vote.

Donald Trump 00:06:00-00:06:22 (22 sec)

Do you believe that? So, pretend, if you will, I'm on the ballot. And actually, I am on the ballot, because they will destroy everything that we've built. We've built something in Alaska, as an example, that's -- nobody's ever seen anything like it. They will destroy it. They will terminate it. They'll terminate all the jobs, all the oil deals, all the -- everything that we've made.

Donald Trump 00:06:22-00:06:46 (24 sec)

We've done things -- I've done more for this state than any other state in the union, and they'll repeal it immediately. So, please -- So, please get out and vote. And as you know, early voting begins on Monday, October 19th. It ends on Monday, November 2nd, and November 3rd is the big day. So, do it any way you want.

Donald Trump 00:06:46-00:07:03 (17 sec)

Sort of follow your vote. If you're going to do mail in or if you're going to go some other way, follow the vote. You know you're able to follow it, to make sure they don't play around with it like they did in 2020. They took advantage of COVID, but we did so well that I said, well, I guess we're going to have to do it again.

Donald Trump 00:07:03-00:07:25 (22 sec)

We did it again. We won in a landslide. We won every single swing state. We won the popular vote. We won the Electoral College by a lot, and we won 87 percent of the counties in the United States. That's why, when you see the map, it's all red with a couple of very thin blue lines on the end. It's very red.

Donald Trump 00:07:25-00:07:43 (18 sec)

The deadline to request a mail-in ballot is Saturday, October 24th. So, vote early, vote by mail or vote on Election Day, November 3rd. But make it -- and I hate to use the term now because Kamala copied. Did you ever hear of Kamala? Did you ever hear of her? [Audience responds "No"]

Donald Trump 00:07:43-00:08:23 (39 sec)

he was a brilliant candidate. No, I was watching the other day. She got killed, even by the -- even by the Democrats. She said the other day we have to make it too big to rig. Sounds like we have a spoiled child. [Audience boos]

Donald Trump 00:08:23-00:08:27 (4 sec)

Wow. Whoa, good -- good law enforcement. [Audience chants "USA"]

Donald Trump 00:08:27-00:09:01 (34 sec)

Wow, good job. Wow, you have good law enforcement. They -- he wished -- they were running faster than him. They just knocked the hell out of him. No, he's now got the displeasure of going home to his mother and father, who both voted for me, by the way. But the last time the radical left 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.

Donald Trump 00:09:01-00:09:27 (26 sec)

They allowed 25 million people to pour across our borders from all over the world. They came from all over, and they came from prisons, and they came from mental institutions, and they were murderers, murderers, 11,888 murderers, many of whom killed more than one person. They came in totally unchecked and totally unvetted.

Donald Trump 00:09:27-00:09:52 (25 sec)

We had the worst border in history; now we have the best border we've ever had, best border in history. But if you allow them to get office, regain office, if you allow them to win, they're going to do it all over again. You'll be right back where you were. I call it the dark ages. Two years ago, we were living in the dark ages.

Donald Trump 00:09:52-00:10:17 (25 sec)

We were left out all over the world. The proud people of Alaska will, I hope, never let that happen. We got to get Dan Sullivan, the real -- I call him the real Dan Sullivan. You know, the -- You know, they went to court and this guy said, no, no, it just happened to be, I just wanted to run, I just wanted to run.

Donald Trump 00:10:17-00:10:59 (42 sec)

But the middle initial was different, right? I think yours -- you're S, right, and his was some J. or something. No, no, I just wanted to run. And yet after the court case, he went and tried to change his middle initial to S, right? What a group of crooked people. You can't let it happen. Because even if he gets a percent or two percent or three percent with the phony ranked choice stuff, you never know what they're going to do with it. Because -- and I'm here because he's one of the best Senators that you have, one of the most respected Senators that -- that there is in Washington, one of the most -- and one of the hardest working.

Donald Trump 00:10:59-00:11:23 (23 sec)

In less than two years, Senator Sullivan and I have delivered more for Alaska than any Senator and any president if you put as a combination. And honestly, nobody's even been close and that doesn't even include two deals that we're going to announce today. And I see our Secretary of Commerce here and our Secretary of Interior.

Donald Trump 00:11:23-00:11:49 (26 sec)

And we have, the FCC had the most feared man in government here, Brendan. Thank you, Brendan. What the hell are you doing here? It's communication. Well, we need communication so that we get it right. But Howard's here and Commerce. And I'll tell you what, Doug Burgum from Interior, Interior is a big -- a big part, and he has made your life so good.

Donald Trump 00:11:49-00:12:16 (27 sec)

And normally they don't travel. I think this would be one of the few times. They're so busy doing things, but they felt Canada is so important. I would say the biggest things they've done, really, pertain to your state and not letting -- and by the way, Canada, I don't know if anybody -- does anybody like Canada? [Audience boos]

Donald Trump 00:12:16-00:12:38 (22 sec)

[Inaudible] they have ripped us off for years, but no longer. You notice, no longer. No longer, they're not ripping us off. But they have -- they have been fighting for Alaska for a long time, and now they're seeing the fruits pay off. The deals that these two guys have made are the best deals, I think, ever made for any state at any time.

Donald Trump 00:12:38-00:13:16 (38 sec)

Right? Thank you, Howard. Thank you, Doug. Two weeks ago, Dan stood with me in the Oval Office as we announced a historic federal project to finally build the 800 mile long Alaska LNG pipeline. And that's the largest energy infrastructure project in the history of Alaska, one of the largest in the history of the United States of America.

Donald Trump 00:13:16-00:13:38 (23 sec)

We got it done. It's done. And Dan Sullivan has been working to get this pipeline done for years and he finally had the president that got it done, right? We got it done together. And I'm pleased to report all necessary federal -- we've got you every permit. You know, a lot of times you have a deal done, all you need is the permits.

Donald Trump 00:13:38-00:14:08 (30 sec)

The permits take you 25 years. Uh, I just told Dan backstage, every single permit that you need, you can start tonight. Every single permit that you need has been granted. And if a Democrat gets in, all of these things are going to be terminated. They did it before., They'll all be terminated. I don't know why.

Donald Trump 00:14:08-00:14:27 (19 sec)

They don't know what the hell they're doing. They're crazy. But everything that you hear about, that you're cheering about tonight, the jobs are going to be unbelievable. Your costs are coming way down anyway. We're very close to winning -- I mean, we've -- I think we've won the war because they will -- Iran will not have a nuclear weapon, let me put it that way.

Donald Trump 00:14:27-00:14:47 (20 sec)

But -- but that will end very soon. That war is going to end very soon and when it does, your prices are going to come tumbling down. They already are. So we inherited, as you know, the worst inflation in history under Sleepy Joe Biden. We had the worst -- literally the worst inflation in history, then I won the election in a landslide.

Donald Trump 00:14:47-00:15:08 (21 sec)

Then I came into office on January 20th, and I had a news conference on January 21st, the day after, and they started screaming, affordability, what about affordability? I said, I've only been here for one day. It's not even a day, because it was a little less than the 24 hour. No, I've only been here for a short period of time, what are you talking about?

Donald Trump 00:15:08-00:15:30 (22 sec)

The prices are high. I said, well, they were caused by the Democrats. They weren't caused by me. I'll get them down. They said, eggs. Remember eggs? So eggs were five times higher than they were in my administration. They said -- there they are, look at all of them, look at all the fake news. They said -- they said, what about eggs, what about eggs, we want to know about eggs.

Donald Trump 00:15:30-00:15:51 (21 sec)

And I said, I just got here, tell me about eggs. What's the problem? They are five times higher than they were in your administration. I said, so I did a good job, is that what you're saying? But you know what, and we had -- you know, we have the famous Easter egg hunt in the White House. And they came to me and they said, sir, please, we have a shortage of eggs.

Donald Trump 00:15:51-00:16:13 (22 sec)

Can you believe it? Could you use plastic eggs for the Easter egg hunt? And I said, no, I'm not going to -- and by the time we got to Easter, I had the price of eggs way down. We brought our pricing way down. Oil is right now much cheaper than it was under Sleepy Joe Biden. People don't know. And I got rid of the nuclear threat from Iran, which others should have done.

Donald Trump 00:16:13-00:16:45 (32 sec)

But the oil will be coming down and it'll be coming down soon and that war, we had to make that. I was with Howard and with Doug and some people, and we just had the best numbers we have -- I was in Iowa, we were all in Iowa. I made a speech to the people of Iowa, the great farmers, a lot of farmers, who, by the way, don't have to worry about estate taxes any longer and they don't have -- that's you, too, and don't have to worry about estate taxes for your small business, for your small businesses.

Donald Trump 00:16:45-00:17:13 (28 sec)

But I was in Iowa making a speech, and I'm driving along the highway. And unlike Sleepy Joe and that group, I look at the gas pumps all the time. I want to see what the price is. And we had -- this was just before I had to do an excursion down to the Islamic Republic of Iran. And I'm in Iowa driving down the road, $1.95 a gallon, $1.85 at the second station, a gallon.

Donald Trump 00:17:13-00:17:43 (30 sec)

We had a good solid place, Iowa $1.85 and $1.95. And then I said the following day, we have to have a meeting because there's a very tough country, bad country in many ways, the number one state sponsor of terror anywhere in the world, they were two weeks away from having a nuclear weapon. I say, it should have been stopped a long time ago by Barack Hussein Obama, who paid -- who thought they could pay off -- you know, gave them billions of dollars.

Donald Trump 00:17:43-00:18:08 (26 sec)

Remember, he gave them $1.7 billion in cash. They loaded up a Boeing 757 with green cash, sent it there. Can you imagine these guys when they saw a plane with -- I wonder what happened to that money. But also, in addition to that, played tens of billions of dollars to Iran and you know what they did? They used the money to develop missiles and nuclear weapons.

Donald Trump 00:18:08-00:18:34 (25 sec)

So other presidents should have done what I did. 51 years we're up to. They used to say 47, but they've been saying 47 for four years. It's 51 years. They were the bully of the Middle East, but they're the bully of the Middle East no longer, but it's going to end very soon, very soon. They have no navy. They have no air force.

Donald Trump 00:18:34-00:18:54 (21 sec)

They have no anti-aircraft. They have no anything. They have no anything. What they do have is inflation. They have the highest inflation of any country in the world. They have no money. They're not paying their military. They're not paying their security. They're not paying their police. They -- it's going to end very quickly.

Donald Trump 00:18:54-00:19:16 (22 sec)

And you're not going to have a nuclear powered -- you're not going to have a nuclear Iran, because if you did -- If you want to see trouble, if you want to see trouble, let them have a nuclear weapon. You'll see trouble. That'll be real trouble. So, it's actually as -- I say it, what like -- I actually thought oil would go much higher than it did.

Donald Trump 00:19:16-00:19:38 (22 sec)

But, you know, we opened the straits. The straits have been opened. We've been taking more oil out of the straits now than we did before the war started, believe it or not. We control the straits. That's why the oil stayed where it is, because I actually thought it would be higher. But I said, no matter what it is, it's a small price to pay for stopping them from having a nuclear weapon.

Donald Trump 00:19:38-00:20:12 (34 sec)

And those B-2 bombers really did the job. But the gigantic project that we just created for Alaska will create over 13,000 jobs for you and save the typical Alaska household more than $2,000 a year on your energy bills. And it's going to end up actually being much higher than that. Think of that right. Right.

Donald Trump 00:20:12-00:20:32 (20 sec)

Right. And I'm pleased to announce that Taiwan -- they got lots of money, because, you know, they stole our chip business years ago, because you didn't have a president willing to put tariffs on chips. And because of that, everybody moved to Taiwan to make chips. But, you know, they're all moving back now.

Donald Trump 00:20:32-00:20:57 (25 sec)

We have $21 trillion being invested in new plants, new factories, a lot of it being invested right here. They're all coming back. But Taiwan has just agreed to buy 30 percent of the gas coming off the pipeline for the next 20 years. That guarantees the success. It's one of the biggest -- Commitments in history for anything.

Donald Trump 00:20:57-00:21:25 (28 sec)

It's one of the biggest deals ever made. They're going to pay it, and that's our 20 year period that guarantees success. And Taiwan will also invest $4.4 billion into the project on top of $50 billion already committed by South Korea to Alaska. And I have to say that Dan Sullivan helped me get this done.

Donald Trump 00:21:25-00:22:01 (36 sec)

Thank you, Dan. The real Dan Sullivan, not the fake Dan Sullivan. And you know what, Nick, I appreciate -- because you really helped me with Congress. Nick Begich was great with Congress. Thank you. Thank you. Great. It's a great team. You want to -- you want to bring -- you want to bring Nick. You know, this is one of, I guess, five states were you have two senators and one congressman, and you got a great Congressman, too.

Donald Trump 00:22:01-00:22:21 (21 sec)

You got a great one. But you have two senators, you have one congressman, and there's five states like that, very unusual. You know, I'm not sure it was supposed to be that way, but you got it. You know, you got it. Working with Senator Sullivan, I signed an executive order on day one taking 51 actions to unleash Alaska energy production.

Donald Trump 00:22:21-00:23:01 (40 sec)

And I reopened ANWR for energy exploration and development -- Which will bring billions and billions of dollars to your state. ANWR is the biggest. You don't get bigger. Remember, I had it done, and then they had a rigged election and this crooked guy came in -- not so -- he's crooked, but he was a stupid person, ok? And do you remember they terminated my an ANWR deal, but now I got back and I just did it again.

Donald Trump 00:23:01-00:23:24 (23 sec)

We just did it again. But if they get it, I don't know why they would do it. I couldn't believe they did it, actually. But if -- if they get in, they'll terminate it. All those jobs will be lost and you'll be living not so well. Right now, you're doing better. You know, Alaska's got the highest income per individual in the history of your state by far.

Donald Trump 00:23:24-00:23:37 (13 sec)

So, we're going to keep it that way. So, Dan Sullivan's radical left Dumocrat opponent, Mary Peltola, I hear she's a whack job, by the way. [Audience boos]

Donald Trump 00:23:37-00:24:03 (26 sec)

Right? No, I read the story. I read the -- yeah, you know what? Sit down. We got plenty of time. Isn't it nice when you have people standing for 45 minutes? With most people, like with Sleepy Joe -- well, first of all, nobody showed up. But when they did show up, they sat down immediately. They never even stood as he walked in. They said, oh, ay, ay, tell me this isn't happening.

Donald Trump 00:24:03-00:24:34 (30 sec)

But you have a woman, and I read this story that she's crazy or wacky or nasty or something, but she's -- I hear crazy. Is it crazy that I read? Mary Peltola worked hand in hand with Crooked Joe Biden to viciously crush Alaska energy, including ANWR. And the production was brought all the way down to just a fraction, a fraction of the levels that we got used to, driving your energy bills up, your food costs up, your transportation through the roof.

Donald Trump 00:24:34-00:24:55 (21 sec)

Your -- everything went up. You know, they blame me. They caused the highest prices in history, and then they start screaming affordability. You know, in other words, every time they want to try and get me, they say affordability, sir, this is about -- I said they caused the problem. So, they caused the problem, but we have reduced it very substantially.

Donald Trump 00:24:55-00:25:22 (27 sec)

When you look at groceries, when you look at a lot of things, but they're really coming -- because so much is driven by oil, they'll be dropping very big. 1.7 inflation in the last three months. Think of that, 1.7. He had real inflation. He had real inflation of 19 percent, 19 percent. And he had no idea what the hell it meant.

Donald Trump 00:25:22-00:25:43 (21 sec)

That was the problem. Under Trump, Alaska oil production is surging at the fastest rate in the history of your state and, frankly, in the history of our country. We've never done anything like it. In March, we signed the -- Largest oil and gas lease sale in the history of Alaska National Petroleum Reserve.

Donald Trump 00:25:43-00:26:13 (30 sec)

Doug, good job. Howard, good job. Boy, you guys are doing a lot of work. You're doing a lot of work for Alaska. And this month, at Senator Sullivan and Congressman Begich's request, my administration invested $150 million to build new electric transmission lines for the families along the Alaska rail belt, meaning 75 percent of Alaskans will soon have much cheaper and more reliable electricity.

Donald Trump 00:26:13-00:26:42 (29 sec)

Right? And thank you to your great governor. And I feel like a tall person. I'm a tall person until I stand next to this guy. He is -- you're a giant. I said he's a giant. And he's a great governor, just like he's a giant. But he did say -- he said your son Barron, I think, is taller. I said, yeah, can you believe it? I think he is. But he's a great governor with a great wife.

Donald Trump 00:26:42-00:27:14 (32 sec)

Thank you very much for being here. It's an honor. Great governor. Really good job. Thank you. Working with Dan, I also approved the Ambler Road Project, which Dumocrats canceled, paving the way to one of the largest mining deposits in the country. And that means jobs and much lower taxes. And we've also begun the long awaited -- this has been going on for 60 years, King Cove Road Project, 60 years.

Donald Trump 00:27:14-00:27:40 (26 sec)

So, for 60 years, the community of King Cove was abandoned while dozens of its villages died because they had no road to get there. And, you know, it was explained to me, and I got it done the first term and then they terminated what I did. And I got in and we got it done again, and now they're building it. But this is going on for 60 years, environmental -- you know, the environmental -- environmental extremists.

Donald Trump 00:27:40-00:28:01 (21 sec)

And I was sent pictures, and there are airplanes all over the place. They crashed because, when they get caught up in the Alaska winds, they don't have a chance. Little planes, they have to beat the winds. If they don't beat the winds, no matter how good a pilot with these little planes, they can't fly. And there are hundreds of little planes where people die.

Donald Trump 00:28:01-00:28:27 (26 sec)

You die. It's automatic death. And all they could do is build a road. It's not a big deal. It's not even a long road. But you could never get the environmental permits. I got you the environmental permits in they're building the road, right? Governor, right? Now, think of it. People -- you could only get there by small plane.

Donald Trump 00:28:27-00:28:44 (16 sec)

People were dying. They were dying in the winds. It's not like being caught up in Palm Beach, Florida. It's nice, Palm -- they don't have the same -- quite the same winds as you do in Alaska, coming off the ocean. And it took those planes -- I saw pictures of them. I said, it's disgraceful, why wouldn't they do this?

Donald Trump 00:28:44-00:29:04 (20 sec)

Well, the environmentalists are against it. Why? They had no idea. Nobody had an idea. They used to talk about, remember, global warming. We were all going to be dead in 12 years. Well, here we are, it's 12 years. Nobody -- anybody died recently? 12 years. So it didn't work. Global warming didn't work so they called it climate change, because it was getting cooler, not warmer.

Donald Trump 00:29:04-00:29:22 (18 sec)

In fact, you notice ice caps are bigger than they've ever been. So the -- it's been getting cooler so they called it climate change, no more global warming, climate change. Because in climate change it can get warmer or colder, it can rain, it can snow. You can have the worst weather, the best weather. It's climate change, everything.

Donald Trump 00:29:22-00:29:56 (34 sec)

It works perfectly. It's a genius move. But we're all supposed to be dead, 12 years. Remember, in 12 years the temperatures will rise one quarter of a point, one quarter of a point and we'll all be dead. These people are crazy. If you let Mary Peltola, who I hear is a nut-job, by the way, and the Democrats take power, they will slam the brakes on every single project that we have approved that Howard Lutnick, who's a great business genius that gave -- he took a serious salary cut.

Donald Trump 00:29:56-00:30:28 (32 sec)

He was making $100 million a year and now he makes $175,000. Right? Between you and Frank, you and Frank, you took the two biggest salary cuts in history. We have another guy, Frank. He heads up Social Security. He's found many, many people that were 175 years old, extending the rolls. They say, oh, no, we're saving Social Security.

Donald Trump 00:30:28-00:30:50 (22 sec)

We're not going to let anyone hurt it. But we had people that -- you know, you don't meet -- how many people have you known over 100 years old? Not too many. We have thousands, thousands and thousands, some at 110, 115. I think our highest this year is 179 years old. The bad news is, they receive a check and they cash it. Somebody's cashing that sucker.

Donald Trump 00:30:50-00:31:07 (16 sec)

We're tracing it. Somebody's been cashing that check for a long time, and we don't think that person's around at 179. No, it's crooked. A lot of things in this -- look at what's going on with Somalia, in Minnesota, Somalia. [Audience boos]

Donald Trump 00:31:07-00:31:35 (28 sec)

Somalia came in and fleeced those low IQ. They came in and they fleeced Minnesota, what they did to that state. They've destroyed it. But Crooked Joe Biden and the weaponized Department of Injustice also viciously targeted the Alaskan way of life. You know that. Right here in Wasilla, they sent a heavily armed 30-person tactical squad to raid the trucking business of a wonderful patriot named Mark Spurlock.

Donald Trump 00:31:35-00:32:02 (28 sec)

Do you know who Mark is? So he fixed diesel engines so the engines could survive the cold weather and drivers could not get trapped. I guess, what happens when it's really cold and your truck goes off? You got a problem, right? I've studied this, because certain cars don't work well in cold weather. I say, what do you do? In many cases, well, they have survival kits.

Donald Trump 00:32:02-00:32:28 (25 sec)

How would you like to buy a car where if it gets very cold, it doesn't work and you rely on a survival kit. And if you leave the survival kit alone, you're -- you're in big trouble. But this man is a genius with engines and he fixed them and he fixed them for cold. But his fixes violated the Democrats green new scam, because they don't want anyone touching the engines.

Donald Trump 00:32:28-00:32:53 (25 sec)

Even if -- like Mark is much more talented than the people that work at shops. Most of them don't know what the hell they're doing. They're on-the-job training. Fix this engine, they have no idea what to do. They have to go to school. Mark fixes engines all his life. He's a guy that that's what he does. So they arrested him and many others, and they want to put him in jail for years and years and years.

Donald Trump 00:32:53-00:33:21 (28 sec)

And Mary Peltola and Bill Hill, who's another lunatic, did not say a single word in the truckers' defense, but Dan Sullivan and Nick did, and they stood up to defend hard-working [Inaudible] And your governor did also, by the way. But if they're urging, I gave him a full unconditional pardon. Is that you?

Donald Trump 00:33:21-00:34:09 (49 sec)

Good. Come on. Come on up here. Come on up. He's a young, nice-looking guy. Wow. And two other Wasilla truckers were also wrongly charged, and I am pleased to announce that I am pardoning them too, effective immediately. Their name is Zachary Schubach [ph] and Patrick Fleming [ph]. Come on up here, fellas.

Donald Trump 00:34:09-00:34:51 (42 sec)

Come on up. Bring me the pardons. Thank you. Think of it, they want to put them in jail for 10 years because they fixed an engine. How sick. Now, if you murder somebody, no problem, unless a Republican does the murdering, then it's, you know, the electric chair, right? If you murder somebody, if you brutalize somebody, you can do anything you want, but if you fix an engine -- and the problem is, I would imagine, because I know the way it works.

Donald Trump 00:34:51-00:35:21 (30 sec)

I know a lot about engines. I know a lot about trucking. I have no choice but to know it. But the problem is that you bring them to some of these places, and the people that fix them are no good, right? You get -- these guys know more about fixing engines than the people that they have to pay a lot of money to. So the concept is that if you allow people to fix the engines, they're going to take all of the environmental crap that makes it bad, makes it inefficient, makes it expensive, that they're going to undo that.

Donald Trump 00:35:21-00:36:10 (49 sec)

And when you undo that, you therefore send fumes into the air, so we're going to put them in jail for 10 years. Well, I heard about it I read the story about it and did a little check in, and I'm giving each one of the three an unconditional pardon. And -- And that means -- I don't know if you've ever heard, when you give somebody a pardon, they say that means -- and I don't know how this works and why it's an expression, but it's well used, that means you're as clean as a newborn baby's ass.

Donald Trump 00:36:10-00:36:28 (18 sec)

Now, I never -- I never -- I never understood that. Why is that so clean? But they -- they -- they felt that was the definition of cleanliness. And so you know what we'll do? We'll accept it. So I'm going to sign this now, something that Joe Biden would be unable to do because he was unable to sign his signature.

Donald Trump 00:36:28-00:37:42 (74 sec)

He would have to send it out for an Autopen. Zachary. Wow, what an honor. I love doing this stuff. You know? This is worth the eight hours on a plane. And don't forget, I got eight hours going back too. Give me credit for that. Patrick. And you have a third person that I'm taking care of also. Take that.

Patrick Fleming 00:37:42-00:37:44 (1 sec)

Thank you, Mr. President. Appreciate it.

Donald Trump 00:37:44-00:37:45 (2 sec)

Want to say something? Say something. Go ahead.

Patrick Fleming 00:37:45-00:38:03 (18 sec)

Well, I'm not too good at this, but he asked me to say something. Um, this means the world to me. Um, everything, it really did destroy us. It destroyed friendships, it destroyed families. Um, you know, we're not criminals, we're not trying to hurt anybody, we want to help Alaskans. We want to help people with -- with diesel trucks, with vehicles, you know, across the world.

Patrick Fleming 00:38:03-00:38:10 (7 sec)

And, um, you know, President Trump is -- is showing his support in this and from the bottom of my heart, I can't thank him enough.

Zachary Schubach 00:38:10-00:38:27 (17 sec)

Cut to the chase here and, uh, let's reelect Dan Sullivan, let's reelect Nick. Let's get it done. Thank you.

Donald Trump 00:38:27-00:39:00 (33 sec)

Enjoy your lives, fellas. It's crazy. You ever hear of anything like that? They fixed an engine. Somebody has a bad engine, they bring it in to have it fixed and they go to jail for ten years. This is a new one. You know, when I read the article, I thought it was like April Fool's Day or something, but it wasn't. they're seriously sick people.

Donald Trump 00:39:00-00:39:23 (23 sec)

Less than two years ago, the radical left Dumocrats handed us the dark age of America. It was a dark age. It was dark. It was nasty. But we quickly turned it into the golden age of America. And today we're living in the golden age of America. There's never been a time like it. We have more money being invested than any country in history.

Donald Trump 00:39:23-00:39:43 (21 sec)

And our nation is doing better now than ever before, but the fake news media refuses to want to talk about it. They hate to talk about it. They hate to talk about all the records we've broken in Alaska. So, if you don't mind, I'm going to do it just for a couple of seconds, all right, because we don't get it. They don't want to do it. There they are.

Donald Trump 00:39:43-00:40:12 (29 sec)

Look at them all. So, it was just announced that, under Republican leadership, incomes for hardworking Americans have soared to the single highest level ever recorded, ok? Impossible to beat that. You're making more money today, in other words, than you've ever made before. Also, more Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country.

Donald Trump 00:40:12-00:40:48 (36 sec)

No, these are the greatest soundbites anyone's ever had. I could also say the stock market's at the highest level. Your 401(k)s are at the highest level. The poverty rate has just reached its lowest level in American history. Think of that. Think of what that means. Think of what that -- so, you have the highest income, you have the least poverty, and you have the most people working in the history of our country.

Donald Trump 00:40:48-00:41:14 (26 sec)

I'm going to leave now. Goodbye, everybody. Goodbye, everybody. I mean, what the hell else do I have to say? Now, think of those. They got more people working than is -- and then you hear about them, affordability. Just stupid people. And do they hate me. They had a guy, Congressman on television the other day.

Donald Trump 00:41:14-00:41:34 (20 sec)

I said, look, you know, he was very into -- the announcer was leaning left, but it was ok. And they say -- they were talking and this congressman, Democrat congressman said, you know, I got to hand it to that guy. Thank God we don't have to run against him anymore. And I thought that was quite a compliment.

Donald Trump 00:41:34-00:42:01 (27 sec)

I thought that was quite a nice compliment. But in a way, they're going to have to run against me, because we're going to be out there fighting for the right people, which is what I'm here doing now. That's why I want to get these guys. I want to make sure you get to vote for them. But African American poverty, Hispanic American poverty, Native American poverty rates are all at the single lowest levels ever recorded.

Donald Trump 00:42:01-00:42:31 (30 sec)

And the stock market, as I said, is at the highest level 87 times out of a short -- little more than a year and a half. Think of that. And that affects everybody. And your 401(k)s are at the highest level they've ever been, in many cases 50, 60, $70,000 higher. I had one police officer -- I told the story a couple of times.

Donald Trump 00:42:31-00:42:47 (16 sec)

I tell it, but it's about many people. Many people have said it. I had a police officer from New York -- from New York, New York finest, they're great people, and he came up to thank me. And he is a rough guy. I don't think he cried -- when he was born, he didn't cry. He was like -- he was not a -- he was not a crier.

Donald Trump 00:42:47-00:43:13 (27 sec)

He's a rough guy, big, strong guy. And he was almost crying. He was waiting on a line to shake my hand, which I do with the police. I just shook a lot of great police from Alaska law enforcement. And -- and he said to me, sir, I want to thank you. I said for what? He said my wife has never respected me that much because I've lost a lot of money.

Donald Trump 00:43:13-00:43:36 (22 sec)

I've gone into investments. I've always lost money. I'm not good at it. And yet now, after you've been here not even two years, my 401(k) is up by a number that -- that Warren Buffett would be very proud of, much higher than Warren Buffett's numbers, to be honest. And he said, and she now views me as a financial genius.

Donald Trump 00:43:36-00:44:01 (25 sec)

She viewed me as a loser for my whole life, and now she views me as a brilliant financial mind, and I didn't do anything. And I said are you going to stay with your wife? And he said I'm thinking about it. [Laughter] No, I said stay with your wife. It's much less expensive. [Laughter] So, exports also have soared.

Donald Trump 00:44:01-00:44:21 (20 sec)

This is one that I really like because -- have you ever heard of a man named Barack Hussein Obama? Barack? [Off mic] Remember the great Rush Limbaugh? He used to go, and Barack Hussein Obama. He always would scream the middle name. No, Barack Hussein Obama said we will never be a manufacturing country again.

Donald Trump 00:44:21-00:44:49 (29 sec)

Here's another stat. Exports have soared to by far the highest level in American history. That means we make a product and we export it. We thought we were out of that, right? And less than two years ago -- every leader has said this. Less than two years ago -- they would tell me, king of Saudi Arabia, many of the leaders, they'd say, you know, just a short time ago, your country was dead.

Donald Trump 00:44:49-00:45:05 (16 sec)

We never thought it had a chance. They never did. They disrespected us. They laughed at us. They don't laugh anymore. Now they said, sir, you're the hottest country anywhere in the world. We're the hottest country in the world. Oh, wait til you see what we do to Iran. We're going to -- we're going to do a number.

Donald Trump 00:45:05-00:45:24 (19 sec)

Wait til you see. They're just waiting. They're waiting. Wait til you see what we do to Iran, because we've sort of had it. You know, we've had it. But, you know, it doesn't matter. The big thing is they were not going to have a nuclear weapon, and they won't. That's buried under thousands of tons of rock.

Donald Trump 00:45:24-00:45:47 (23 sec)

But we're respected again. I say we're respected like never before. And your leader's respected. They laughed at your leader. You see those stairs? See those stairs? He couldn't find his way off. He'd make a -- a very short -- the good thing is he spoke very short. You'd come in, before you sat down the speech was over.

Donald Trump 00:45:47-00:46:07 (19 sec)

Then he started looking for the stairs. Where are they? One, two, three. We have four sets on this particular -- you know, they have a lot of money, the government, so they just buy a lot of stairs. I don't know why the hell they have so many. But Biden could never find them. He'd always walk to the one place on the whole podium where there were no stairs right?

Donald Trump 00:46:07-00:46:30 (24 sec)

No, he was terrible. What a terrible president. But the worst thing he did was the borders, allowing millions -- 25 million people to pour in that should have never been here. In four long years of Crooked Joe Biden, they got less than $1 trillion of new investment into the United States. Think of it. Four years, less than one -- actually, it was half, less than $1 trillion.

Donald Trump 00:46:30-00:47:09 (38 sec)

In 15 months -- we're not including the additional months. In 15 months, $21.2 trillion. S So, our country is doing so well. Here's the most important thing I have to say to you. Ready? Our country is doing so well under Republican leadership that only I can make this promise to you. And a lot of people say, oh, it doesn't mean -- it always means -- because I did 1,776. They got their money.

Donald Trump 00:47:09-00:47:33 (24 sec)

I did the thing where Obama -- they were scamming you on Obamacare, the -- one of the worst health cares anywhere in the world. They were scamming you. And I got the money and I sent it back to the people. Your state got a lot of it. I always do that. And we're taking in so much that I'm the only one that can say it. The Democrats can't. We're taking in billions and billions and hundreds of billions of dollars in tariffs.

Donald Trump 00:47:33-00:48:24 (51 sec)

And more importantly than the money, in order not to pay the tariffs, they're building their factories and their plants here. If you look at what's happening with Eli Lilly, Merck, Pfizer -- Car companies are pouring back in. And Alaska's getting a lot of it. So, here's my most important statement. If Republicans win the House of Representatives and the Senate, I'm going to give all adult citizens in the United States $5,000. And only Republicans can do that because the Dumocrats can't. Because we're taking in massive amounts of money, money like nobody's ever seen come in, money that is caused by smart business, with tariffs.

Donald Trump 00:48:24-00:48:45 (21 sec)

And we have economic success like nobody thought possible. You know, there was an announcement today, like an announcer who was on television. And he looked at the host on a business show in the morning, which I like to watch as much as I can. I don't have a lot of time, but I like to watch. And he said, do you have any idea how well this country is doing?

Donald Trump 00:48:45-00:49:05 (20 sec)

And the other guy says, can you believe -- they're talking about whether or not the stock market will go up? And the guy says, do you have any idea what's happening? Trillions of dollars of plant and equipment is being built all throughout the country. And he just looked at -- and the other guy said, it's like -- they can't even believe it. Well, that's what happened.

Donald Trump 00:49:05-00:49:24 (18 sec)

You know, the $21 trillion is many, many times past the record. The record was many years ago from China, a tiny fraction of the number that we're talking about. But they look at each other and the way he said it, he said, do you have any idea what's happening, in a positive way, not in a bad way. They can say that in a bad way, too, do you have any idea what's happening?

Donald Trump 00:49:24-00:49:45 (22 sec)

This was a two people that are in -- two total pros, by the way, great business anchors, but the Democrat policies won't allow this to happen. In fact, the opposite. If the Democrats win, you will have a 1929-style economic depression. And I don't like saying it, but they don't know what the hell they're doing.

Donald Trump 00:49:45-00:50:21 (36 sec)

They don't know what they're doing. If the Republicans win, you will each receive $5,000 in your pocket and economic success for our country, the likes of which we have never seen before. And remember, just recently, I gave all members of our military $1,776. And everyone said -- everybody said that can't be done.

Donald Trump 00:50:21-00:50:44 (23 sec)

They all said, all that -- I made that promise. I actually asked the generals, because we had just won Venezuela, we're doing well we're kicking ass in Iran and I said, you know, let's give them some money. What can we do? And they came, $1,775. And they put it on my desk and I looked. You know, I'm a brilliant person, you do know that. [Laughter] They know that.

Donald Trump 00:50:44-00:51:02 (18 sec)

They hate to say it, but they know it. Sometimes they have to say it. No, I looked at $1,775 and the number seemed odd to me. It seemed like there was something wrong, 17 -- I said, well, it's familiar, but we're a little off, like by $1. I said, look, I said to the general, that was in charge, he's great.

Donald Trump 00:51:02-00:51:33 (31 sec)

I said, general, can we find one extra dollar, because that would be $1,776, $1,776. And I got it and we call it the Trump dividend and -- remember this, and I got that done. Everyone said we'll never get that done. I wanted to give a bonus to the military. they did great and they had to suffer with this lunatic group of people with Biden, Biden, where they had to suffer.

Donald Trump 00:51:33-00:51:53 (20 sec)

They had to suffer disrespect from everybody in the world. The Trump dividend also, you got to remember, is approximately $1 trillion -- $1 trillion. But we have a record setting $21.2 trillion that's being invested in our country in just a short period, much shorter than the time I'm actually here, so we're going to get some additional numbers for that.

Donald Trump 00:51:53-00:52:26 (34 sec)

So the only caveat is, it's very important, the Trump dividend that you get, you'll get it very quickly after the election if we win, the Trump dividend that you get must be spent in the United States of America, right? I don't want you going to China. Darling, let's take a trip to China and spend that $5,000. I don't want you to go to Japan.

Donald Trump 00:52:26-00:52:50 (24 sec)

I don't want you to go -- you got to spend it in the United States of America. It's called -- it's called the recycle. It's actually pretty good. It's a recycle, right, Doug? The choice is very simple in this election coming up. You can vote for the radical left Democrat communist to loot your wealth, raise your taxes by $5 trillion or more.

Donald Trump 00:52:50-00:53:02 (12 sec)

That's what they want to do, ruin the country. They want to annihilate your borders, decimate Alaska oil and gas, mutilate your children with transgender mutilization. [Audience boos]

Donald Trump 00:53:02-00:53:21 (19 sec)

Boom. They want to do -- how about that? They want to give 25 million illegal aliens, many of them should never be here. They want to give them amnesty. We're not going to let that happen. [Audience boos]

Donald Trump 00:53:21-00:54:12 (51 sec)

Or you can defeat the Democrat communists and vote for more money in your pockets, bigger paychecks for your families, much lower taxes, less crime, booming Alaska energy and no amnesty for illegal aliens. So to do that, all you have to do is vote Republican, vote for the real Dan, vote for Nick, vote for a very nice female governor.

Donald Trump 00:54:12-00:54:51 (38 sec)

But just think of what we've accomplished in less than two years' time. We inherited the worst border in American history, and we turned it into the strongest, most secure border in the history of our country. And in the past 17 months, zero illegal aliens have been admitted into the United States [Inaudible] They allowed 25 million, 25 million to come in totally unchecked and, you know, it's so nice they stand up. Look, I keep sitting them down, they keep standing.

Donald Trump 00:54:51-00:55:22 (31 sec)

Isn't that nice? You know what, I view that as respect for the office of the president, really. So I won't tell you to sit down anymore, because that's hopeless. What's not hopeless is getting Dan elected, the real Dan, the real Dan. You know, that's the term you should use. They say, vote Dan Sullivan, incumbent Senator.

Donald Trump 00:55:22-00:55:44 (23 sec)

They should just say the real Dan and forget about it, right, and vote for the real Dan. In two years, we achieved the largest drop in violent crime ever recorded. And these are all facts from the government. And the fake news, if I -- if I exaggerated, if I did anything wrong, headlines all over the place, Trump lied, he lied.

Donald Trump 00:55:44-00:56:11 (27 sec)

If they lie, they don't give a shit. But if I say anything that's wrong, these are -- the murder rate is the lowest level that it's been in 125 years, since the year 1900. And thanks to a Republican Congress, I signed the Great, Big, Beautiful Bill, which is really the great, big, beautiful tax cut bill.

Donald Trump 00:56:11-00:56:26 (15 sec)

We should call it that, giving you the largest tax cuts in American history. I did that in my first term. You know, we had a great first term too. We had the greatest economy in history in my first term. This one's going to be blowing it away. As soon as that war is over, you're going to see numbers that you've never seen.

Donald Trump 00:56:26-00:56:56 (30 sec)

We gave you no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. And we made -- we did something that you don't see being done. You know rich people are given all sorts of deductions, right, what can I tell, I take them. But rich people, I take them. You know, when I was a private guy, I always liked what they did, but they never give middle income or people that have to borrow money to buy a car.

Donald Trump 00:56:56-00:57:18 (22 sec)

We made interest on car loans fully tax deductible, but only if the car is made in America. We don't care -- If the car is made in another country, we couldn't care less, no interest in car -- we make great cars. They're all moving back. They're leaving Canada, they're leaving Mexico, they're leaving South Korea.

Donald Trump 00:57:18-00:57:39 (21 sec)

They're leaving Germany and Japan. They're all coming back here, all these plants. We have more car plants being built now than at any time in history. And for 50 years, we didn't build one plant. It's unbelievable. What's happening is actually unbelievable. I mean, how brilliant am I, seriously, to pull this off?

Donald Trump 00:57:39-00:58:03 (24 sec)

I'm only kidding. I'm only kidding. I have to say I'm only kidding because they will report horrible things. You know, sometimes I'm -- well, I'm actually serious about that, actually. But -- but sometimes I do get a little sarcastic and being sarcastic in politics is not a good thing. I'll be joking and the next day, I'll see at the head of the New York Times, my joke is made into reality.

Donald Trump 00:58:03-00:58:31 (28 sec)

So I don't joke anymore. I don't say sarcastic -- you know, sarcastic things and things that I think are funny, and then they end up being a disaster. And they know the way it was meant, but I give them too much of an edge, so I don't do that too much anymore, but on occasion I will. Under my most favored nation agreements on drug prices, to me, this is the biggest thing that happened in maybe the history of the drug industry in terms of financial.

Donald Trump 00:58:31-00:59:03 (32 sec)

We went from paying the highest drug prices anywhere in the world to paying the lowest drug prices anywhere in the world, with price differences -- Of 300, 400, 500, 600 and even 700 percent. We abolished all discriminatory diversity, equity and inclusion policies all throughout the federal government. We got critical race theory and transgender insanity, the transgender mutilization of your children, out of schools.

Donald Trump 00:59:03-00:59:29 (26 sec)

You know, I said -- the other day in Texas, I'm talking, and I was saying we will keep men out of women's sports. We will not let them cut your children. We will -- And it's called mutilization. And I said could you imagine if you were a candidate like 15 or 20 years ago, and you had a guy up here saying we will not allow men to be in women's sports.

Donald Trump 00:59:29-00:59:59 (30 sec)

We will not allow the transgender mutilization of your children. If a candidate said that, you'd say he's crazy. He's nuts. Who the hell ever thought we'd be fighting to keep men out of women's sports? Now we've done 90 percent. We've done it now. We've done 90 percent. You know, it's done 90 percent. We won a big case in the Supreme Court, but there's a little tiny tweak.

Donald Trump 00:59:59-01:00:14 (16 sec)

But you know the Olympics? Good. If you're in the Olympics, darling, you'll be able to compete against other women. You ever see the difference in weightlifting, as an example, between a young woman -- my wife hates when I talk about this. She thinks it's so inelegant. She says, oh, it's so inelegant, darling.

Donald Trump 01:00:14-01:00:34 (20 sec)

She hates when I talk about the swimmer, where the young lady trying out for the Olympics looks left and right and knows all these -- you know, these people, they're at the top of the pinnacle -- knows all of these people from the time they're young, because they were the best swimmers. They compete with each other for a long time.

Donald Trump 01:00:34-01:00:57 (22 sec)

She looks left. She sees all her old friends. She looks right. She sees all her old friends. But right next to her is a giant, a man that has the wingspan of Shaquille O'Neal, maybe slightly larger. And she's looking up, and she said I've never seen that person before. And the race starts and I -- it's a sad story.

Donald Trump 01:00:57-01:01:20 (23 sec)

The woman was seriously hurt during the race. You know that, right? You know what hurt by -- windburn. She got windburn because he went by her so fast that the wind caused serious burns to her entire body. And then he finished the race and he went and rested for about a half an hour, and then came out and received his award as the others were coming in, the whole thing.

Donald Trump 01:01:20-01:01:40 (20 sec)

How about the weightlifter, though? I'm telling you my wife doesn't like these stories. I said I just won the damn election in a landslide. Leave me alone. [Laughter] She hates these. No, she's an elegant person. And the weightlifter stories are great. We had the weightlifters, he was great, and he was, like, 211 pounds.

Donald Trump 01:01:40-01:01:56 (16 sec)

I mean, that's a lot of weight, 211 pounds. And she's getting it up, and they put like an eighth of an ounce on one side, an eighth of an ounce on the other. She wants to go for the record. And her parents is there. The father says she has no chance. He understands. The mother is just -- come on, darling.

Donald Trump 01:01:56-01:02:23 (27 sec)

Come on, Loretta. Loretta, come on. Loretta, you can do it. You can do it, darling. And she gets it up. I love you, darling. You can do it. And Loretta, ah -- oh, my wife hates this. [Laughter] She said it's so damn unpresidential, but it's sort of cool. Should I finish it or not? Crowd Yes Thank you. So, she's up and she's going for that final -- that final push.

Donald Trump 01:02:23-01:02:57 (34 sec)

She's going to do it. She's close, ah! Oh, no, mom, I can't do it, I -- drops down. And then the guy comes up, a gentleman who transitioned to womanhood? See I say it right now. I have all the right expressions. He transitioned to womanhood, and he looks down. He was a failed man weightlifter. He did it. He realized he couldn't compete.

Donald Trump 01:02:57-01:03:32 (34 sec)

But now he's out there on the stage, and is 211 pounds. They put the little extra weight, bing, bing, bing. I think he won by 111 pounds or something. He was able to lift about 100 more pounds over his head. Or the race that took place not so long ago, very long distance race. You had the best women runners and the best men runners in the world.

Donald Trump 01:03:32-01:04:08 (37 sec)

And the man won by six hours, 14 minutes and 12 seconds. That's a lot. Six hours is unacceptable. So, I tell the women, look, if you keep going, you know, throughout -- if you look at what goes on with the world, in a million years from now, you may be able to catch those numbers, but they'll also progress, you have to realize.

Donald Trump 01:04:08-01:04:53 (45 sec)

It is so demeaning to women, so demeaning, so ridiculous. So ridiculous. But I only talk about it -- in fact, I'm talking about it much too early, because I usually save it for the final week of an election because I really don't want them to change. Because if they have the transgender mutilization of your children as a big, important thing, and if they have men playing in women's sports and if they have open borders, and if they have raising your tax -- you know, they're the only people I've ever seen -- all my life I've watched politicians.

Donald Trump 01:04:53-01:05:25 (33 sec)

We will cut your taxes. Democrats and Republicans, we will cut your taxes. Even if they don't mean it, that's what they say. I really did cut your taxes big twice. But -- But all my life, I've watched Democrats, Republicans. We will cut your taxes. This is the only group that says we're going to raise the hell out of your taxes, and people vote for them.

Donald Trump 01:05:25-01:05:48 (22 sec)

So, I never like to talk about it, because someday they'll change and it'll be very hard to beat them because they can cheat like hell, you know? So, we don't want them to change. We want them to have men in women's sports. We want them to continue to talk about transgender. We want them to talk about diversity, as I say.

Donald Trump 01:05:48-01:06:32 (44 sec)

One of them uses the word diversity, very elegant person. And we did something that they hate. We made English the official language of the United States of America. They hate it. They hate it. They hate it. They don't want that, Dan Sullivan. Are you okay with it, Dan? He says yes. He says -- I have a feeling Dan likes it. For years, Dan Sullivan has worked with my administration to support rural broadband for Alaska.

Donald Trump 01:06:32-01:06:53 (21 sec)

He's brought high speed internet to hundreds of thousands of people in the state. And today, we're joined by FCC Chairman Brendan Carr. And I'm pleased to announce that Brendan has informed me just a little while ago, the commission will vote this month to invest an additional $162 million to expand high speed internet in Alaska.

Donald Trump 01:06:53-01:06:56 (3 sec)

Want to come up? Come here. Come here. Come.

Brendan Carr 01:06:56-01:07:21 (25 sec)

Thank you, Mr. President. It is fantastic to be back here in Alaska today in my personal capacity. I'll say this. This is my third time to Alaska. The first time I came here, I went halfway out the Aleutian Islands, all the way to Unalaska. I turned on my phone after the flight. It said no service, no service.

Brendan Carr 01:07:21-01:07:45 (24 sec)

I didn't think your phone could say no service, but it did. We came out here with Senator Sullivan, and he has worked hard to turn things around. We have brought hundreds of millions of dollars to the state. Thousands of people are newly connected. We have high speed internet going across the state, but the job's not done.

Brendan Carr 01:07:45-01:07:58 (14 sec)

We are committed to working with Senator Sullivan until we can finish the job of getting every single person in Alaska connected to high speed internet.

Donald Trump 01:07:58-01:08:11 (13 sec)

He's a great guy, smart, great. I would like to have two people come up if I could. Doug, come on up, Interior. A great man, a great governor. And Howard, please come up, secretary of Commerce. These are two incredible people that love Alaska, and they love Dan Sullivan. Come on. Come on.

Doug Burgum 01:08:11-01:08:26 (15 sec)

It's absolutely true that no president in history has done more for Alaska than Donald J. Trump. I'm from North Dakota. I understand rural. We're one of those other five states that's got just one congressman and two senators. But President Trump understands rural America. He understands the people that work on the land.

Doug Burgum 01:08:26-01:08:42 (15 sec)

He understands the people that work hard for a living. He understands how important that is. And this state, through everything that all of you have done, have created the largest legacy fund, the permanent fund of any state in America, and it's the largest per capita. But with President Trump, lower taxes, lower regulation.

Doug Burgum 01:08:42-01:09:01 (19 sec)

With -- with direct foreign investment coming in at a record level, the Alaska LNG pipeline and all the other projects that will come with it, uh, President Trump is the guy that's going to get that permanent fund to double because of his policies for all of you.

Howard Lutnick 01:09:01-01:09:26 (24 sec)

So two months ago, I'm spending time with President Trump, and he says, we've got to build the greatest pipeline in the United States of America, in Alaska. So he says, Howard, go get it done. And what happened is the president has created the greatest trade deals in the history of economies, the history of the United States of America.

Howard Lutnick 01:09:26-01:10:17 (51 sec)

And so the Koreans, because the president has federalized this project, the Koreans, the Republic of Korea has committed $50.1 billion to build the line in Alaska. Build the line. Build the line. Build the -- [Audience chants "Build the line"]

Howard Lutnick 01:10:17-01:10:52 (35 sec)

So with Dan Sullivan, a couple of weeks ago, we announced that project in the Oval Office, which is, every time you go in the Oval Office with the President Trump, it is so cool. And he says to me, the president says to me, Howard, you got to make it better. So all week we were working with the Taiwanese government, and they agreed to buy 30 percent of everything produced on that line, and they will invest $4.4 billion on top of the Koreans to make sure this line gets built.

Howard Lutnick 01:10:52-01:11:14 (23 sec)

So thank you, Mr. President, for the greatest deal in the history of Alaska.

Donald Trump 01:11:14-01:11:41 (27 sec)

Well, thank you very much. And we achieved more in two years than any other presidency in the history of our country, couldn't have done it without some of the people I'm talking about. But every single Dumocrat in Congress voted against all of the things that we wanted. They voted against our record tax cuts and they voted against no tax -- Think of it, the Democrats voted against no tax on tips, they voted against no tax on overtime, they voted against no tax on Social Security for our great seniors.

Donald Trump 01:11:41-01:12:02 (21 sec)

They voted against voter ID. They voted against proof of citizenship, because they want to cheat. That's all. I said to then, why do you vote against voter identification? They have no answer. And usually, they go like, well, it's racist, that's why, it's racist. That's always the -- what they say, it's racist.

Donald Trump 01:12:02-01:12:21 (19 sec)

But everybody wants it. You know, the people, Democrats want it. It's only Democrat politicians that don't. 88 percent approval. They voted against securing the border. They voted in favor of the worst inflation and highest energy costs in American history. And you suffer with that. And they voted in favor of -- and it's all going to come pouring down.

Donald Trump 01:12:21-01:13:00 (38 sec)

And they voted totally in favor of the transgender mutilization. I mean, think of it, they voted in favor of men in women sports. On election night, Alaska is going to prove that America does not belong to those that hate it, America belongs to those who love it. It's very simple. Thank you. And here in Alaska, the Democrats are running radical left Mary Peltola for the Senate.

Donald Trump 01:13:00-01:13:23 (24 sec)

If she gets in, you're -- you're screwed. She missed 20 percent of her votes in Congress. She never shows up to meetings. She's a totally unreliable person. And in Washington, she developed the name of no-show Mary. She never shows up for voting, and she never shows up for meetings. And people don't know what the hell -- it's a little like the guy from Texas.

Donald Trump 01:13:23-01:13:48 (25 sec)

What the hell happened to him for 14 days? What happened, Teli-freako [ph]? What happened to him? He said he had the flu for 12 to 14 days. I never had the flu for 14 days. I actually never had the flu. How lucky am I? But people that have had the flu, they say the flu is not good, but it doesn't last for 14 days.

Donald Trump 01:13:48-01:14:16 (28 sec)

Got to figure out that Texas thing. He's going to win too, Dan. I think he's going to -- he's really surging up. Our friend Ken Paxton is going to do very well. Big race. Big race. You have sort of similar type opponents, actually. It's both weirdos. But Dan Sullivan is, uh, had 60 bills become law. Mary Peltola, she's had zero, never had any.

Donald Trump 01:14:16-01:14:45 (29 sec)

She's been there; she's never had any -- he had over 60 now. And with what we're doing today it's going to blow everything away. So Peltola supported a ban on new oil and gas leases. She voted against a bill to lower energy costs by nearly $800 per year. What she wants to do is something that nobody's ever heard of it. The state's going to go, you're going to spend much more money, much more money, and you're going to -- and you go bust.

Donald Trump 01:14:45-01:15:10 (26 sec)

You're going to go bust. The state's making more money than almost any state in the union right now. With just a couple of reverse calls, you'll go bust. She voted to lower penalties for carjackings. She said it's okay to carjack a car. She voted to let illegal aliens vote in elections. She voted to co-sponsor a bill to give amnesty to illegal aliens convicted of drunk driving, or far worse.

Donald Trump 01:15:10-01:15:49 (39 sec)

And she voted also to give them freedom if they assault American people, American patriots. Mary is no friend -- Mary is no friend of Alaska. So on November 3rd, you need to vote for the man that delivers Alaska like no one else, and that's the real Dan. You have to do it. Dan, come up for a second, please.

Donald Trump 01:15:49-01:15:50 (1 sec)

Come on up.

Dan Sullivan 01:15:50-01:16:45 (55 sec)

Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you, sir. Thank you, Mr. President. It's an honor that you're back in Alaska. Sir, you are here in the heart of Republican Alaska, the Mat-su Valley. We got a packed arena. There's about 10,000 people outside watching on the jumbotron, so thanks to them. But the Mat-su and rest of Alaska, how about giving it up one more time for the president of United States, who's done more for Alaska than anyone else in the -- come on.

Donald Trump 01:16:45-01:16:58 (14 sec)

So just in finishing it up, I have to say, the Democrats also are running a guy named Bill Hill for Congress against our friend Nick. [Audience boos]

Donald Trump 01:16:58-01:17:24 (26 sec)

And Bill Hill is a radical left maniac who has personally donated to Bernie Sanders, AOC, and Kamala Harris. And under Bill Hill's watch as superintendent, reading proficiency in his schools' districts fell from 86 percent to 11 percent. Other than that, he's doing wonderfully. In math, it fell from 74 percent sufficiency to nine percent efficiency.

Donald Trump 01:17:24-01:18:06 (42 sec)

Bill Hill killed Alaska schools, and if you give him the power, he's going to kill your whole state. He's going to kill Alaska oil, Alaska jobs, and he's just going to kill Alaska way of life. And you don't want to have him so please get out and vote also for Nick Begich. Thank you, Nick. So I've signed more legislation sponsored by Nick.

Donald Trump 01:18:06-01:18:44 (38 sec)

Nick is a -- Nick is one of the most respected people in Congress, and he brings me more legislation. I said, Nick, I got to take it easy with the Alaska thing. I'm spending more time and more money on Alaska than everything put together. But he's in there pitching and he doesn't care. He says, sir, I don't care about that I want you to spend it. But Nick has passed more legislation into law than any freshman in the history of Congress.

Donald Trump 01:18:44-01:19:07 (23 sec)

Yeah, thank you, Nick. And we also need to elect Bernadette Wilson as your next governor. So, he has -- she has by far the best chance of winning. And, you know, the Republicans, you always have to do this. We got three Republicans running against one Dumocrat, ok? And it's not good. And she won the primary, and the other two should have dropped out.

Donald Trump 01:19:07-01:19:26 (19 sec)

And if they dropped out, we have an easy victory. But one of them promised me he would drop out. And two days later, he decided to break his promise to me, because I just want to see victories for the Republican Party. So, now is the time for all Republicans to unite behind Bernadette to ensure she has a tremendous victory in November.

Donald Trump 01:19:26-01:20:08 (42 sec)

Thank you, Bernadette. Thank you. That's tough. Think of it. You have three Democrats -- you have three Republicans against one Democrat. That's crazy. I said to the other two -- you know, you -- I get involved. I want to see Republicans win, because Republicans are saving this country. But the other two wanted to run.

Donald Trump 01:20:08-01:20:25 (18 sec)

They have no chance, but they wanted to run. She's the one that won the primary. She's the one that should be able to run singly, sing -- one on one. So, Bernadette, good luck. It ain't going to be easy, Bernadette. And then you have that ranked choice -- choice voting, which is a phony, rigged deal. So, lots of luck, Bernadette.

Donald Trump 01:20:25-01:20:51 (26 sec)

But I'm with you all the way. It shouldn't have happened. And again, before I leave, remember, vote against the ranked choice. Vote yes to termination of ranked choice. Vote yes. And before I leave, I want to thank a few people. I want to thank a great governor, actually, of North Dakota. And he was just special and he just spoke.

Donald Trump 01:20:51-01:21:27 (36 sec)

But Doug Burgum, you've been fantastic. And Howard Lutnick, you've been fantastic. I want to thank you. I want to thank your governor, Mike Dunleavy. Please stand up. Great governor, great guy. He's a great guy. And thank you very much -- beautiful wife came. Thank you very much. Appreciate both. Also, the director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency's done a fantastic job, Bill Pulte.

Donald Trump 01:21:27-01:21:50 (23 sec)

Thank you, Bill. The Alaska GOP chairman, Carmela Warfield. Carmela, good luck, Carmela. Get rid of ranked choice. Get rid of ranked choice. Everyone here tonight is part of the greatest movement in the history of our country. There's never been a movement like this. And I'll just show you -- it just came out.

Donald Trump 01:21:50-01:22:01 (11 sec)

I'm going to show you a couple of -- very quickly CNN charts. When you get a CNN chart, that's pretty amazing. But they just came out. And maybe put up those charts, please.

Note 01:22:01-01:22:01 ( sec)

[Begin video clip]

Unidentified 01:22:01-01:22:22 (21 sec)

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

Unidentified 01:22:22-01:22:40 (17 sec)

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

Unidentified 01:22:40-01:23:04 (24 sec)

[Video clip] It's really, really strong when it comes to MAGA GOP and the Republicans holding on to that vote. This one, ok. The president Republicans most admire is Donald Trump. This is a historic comparison. A majority of Republicans say -- 53 percent say he's the Republican president they most admire. Ronald Reagan, who traditionally has won that match, Donald Trump nearly triples up on this, Reagan at just 18 percent.

Unidentified 01:23:04-01:23:24 (20 sec)

[Video clip] And then Abraham Lincoln, who by most historic accounts is the greatest president of all time, but Republicans say that the president that they most admire by -- what is this? This is 6 or 7 times as many, Donald John Trump at 53 percent, easily crushing Abe Lincoln at 8 percent. And the poll showed that he was the greatest president as well, Don. I feel like this slide might --

Note 01:23:24-01:23:25 ( sec)

[End video clip]

Donald Trump 01:23:25-01:24:00 (35 sec)

Thank you. Thank you, CNN. That was very nice. That was -- I hope he keeps his job. He may not have his job. He's -- he's very good. He's very, very good, actually. He's honest. Thank you, Harry. So, in conclusion, if you elect a Republican House and a Republican Senate November 3rd, you'll get $5,000. And we're going to make all Trump tax cuts permanent because they could end them if we don't. They could end them, so we're going to make them permanent.

Donald Trump 01:24:00-01:24:19 (20 sec)

They would end them. I don't know why they'd end them, but they would because they're crazy. They're going to make permanent no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. We will win the war on corruption and fraud led by our great Vice President, JD Vance. He's doing a great job.

Donald Trump 01:24:19-01:25:00 (41 sec)

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 pass a truly great health care plan that will stop all payments to big insurance companies, which absolutely own the Dumocrats -- they own the Democrats -- and we will give the money directly to you, the people, and you will go out and buy better health care and have a lot of money left over for yourself.

Donald Trump 01:25:00-01:25:36 (35 sec)

And we will end no cash bail. That's where the crime all started. And we will pass the death penalty for large scale drug dealers, human traffickers, and anyone who kills a police officer or an officer of law enforcement. And we will pass the Save America Act to defend our sacred American elections. We're going to pass it, and we're going to protect our sacred elections.

Donald Trump 01:25:36-01:26:08 (32 sec)

You know, you have a few things -- you have a few things. You need a fair press. You need a fair and honest press. We're weak, very weak on that. You need borders. You need fair, free, beautiful voting. So, we'll include mandatory voter ID and proof of citizenship and everything. And finally, we will enshrine in permanent law no men in women sports, no transgender mutilization of our children.

Donald Trump 01:26:08-01:26:30 (22 sec)

So, ladies and gentlemen of Alaska, the golden age of America is upon us. But you must get out and vote Republican. You have to do it. We have to keep it going. We're going to keep it going for a long time. We've already made unbelievable progress, and now we'll reach new levels of greatness that nobody thought even possible just a short while ago.

Donald Trump 01:26:30-01:26:59 (29 sec)

Two years ago, you would have said no way. Our country was a failed country. We had a failed president. It's my honor to be your president during this incredible period of time. It's my great honor -- My great honor because together we will make America powerful again. We will make America wealthy again.

Donald Trump 01:26:59-01:27:17 (18 sec)

We will make America healthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And most importantly, we will make America great again.

Donald Trump 01:27:17-01:27:36 (18 sec)

Thank you, Alaska. Thank you very much. Good luck, everybody. Good luck, Dan. Good luck, Nick. Good luck, everybody. God bless you all. Thank you. Thank you.

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