Remarks: Donald Trump Delivers Impromptu Remarks at a CPAC Event at Mar-a-Lago - November 6, 2026

[Donald Trump delivered unscheduled remarks with Stephen Miller and Marco Rubio at a CPAC retreat at Mar-a-Lago on November 6, 2026, after the lid was called. Two overlapping video segments posted by @MarioNawfal and @Newsforce provide 7 minutes, 26 seconds of continuous coverage. The remarks were authenticated as genuine and transcribed by Roll Call Factba.se. Video courtesy of @MarioNawfal and @Newsforce, with our thanks.]

Is there no place like Mar-a-Lago? No place. Well, I just want to thank everybody. We use it only for special occasions. We don't do the political thing too much, but we do for Matt and Mercedes because I was with them right at the beginning before we knew we were running, before we even thought of running.

Remember, I made a speech. It was about four years before I announced I was running. And they rated all the speeches and I was against politicians and a lot of senators, a lot of governors. And you know, they have that stupid straw poll, right? And I came out first with the straw poll. And I said, "This was easy." I liked it. And I did it again.

I came out first again. I said, "Maybe I should run." But they've been great. The whole thing with CPAC has been so incredible, and everything has been amazing. We had a little interesting election. I was not on the ballot. Please remember that. Because we gave 30 rallies in 26 nights and nobody's ever seen anything like it. And the love at those rallies was unbelievable.

But you know, we, uh, did something that was a little risky, I guess, but it was certainly the right thing, historically the right thing to do for history. Because you wouldn't have Israel right now, you wouldn't have the Middle East if we didn't get rid of the nuclear weapon from Iran. So we did something that was a little, a little different.

But you know, we were doing great. You know, we have been ever since until yesterday when, when they found out that the Democrats won that election, you lost $3 trillion in the stock. Can you imagine? We were -- we had rec- -- record stock markets. But it'll be back again. They'll get used to it because we have great power called a veto.

So we'll just keep veto, veto, veto, veto. [Audience member calls out, "Veto."]

But I want to congratulate everybody here and I want to congratulate Stephen Miller. He's the chief of staff of the greatest administration. And I want to thank Marco Rubio, who's been -- he'll go down as the greatest secretary of state. And right now he's working on the Russian-Ukraine deal and he's gonna, I think, come back with something pretty soon, and he's gonna work in Cuba.

He's so good. We're gonna drop him by parachute into Cuba. I just said, "Figure it out, Marco." And he'll figure it out. But his parents were born in Cuba. I mean, they were in Cuba. So it's sort of a great story. And, uh, we're working on Iran. Iran wants to make a deal. We'll find out. But, uh, we beat them up pretty good.

We have more oil coming out of the Hormuz Strait now than we did prior to this war. But you can't really call it a war because a war is like Russia-Ukraine. They lose 25,000 people a month. We haven't lost one person in six months. That's not a war. That's a minor military operation. [Laughs] But we, we literally, uh, if we didn't do that, you wouldn't have Israel existing right now and you wouldn't have the Middle East.

They would have used a nuclear weapon. We wiped it out with the B-2 bombers about a year ago at night. Late at night. But I just hope everybody's loving Mar-a-Lago. It's a special place. It was built by E.F. Hutton and Marjorie Merriweather Post. She was the richest woman in the world and he helped make her rich.

He was the biggest Wall Street tycoon and they built this with great love. It took him 10 years. It was from 1920 to 19- -- to, I mean, if you think -- [Audience member calls out, "No problem."]

-- so it was at 1920 to around 1928, right around the time of the Great Depression. But she always had a lot of money and she hired a lot of people during the Depression. She went out -- and you know the story, I can see -- she went out and hired many, many people, far more than she needed because she wanted, you know, we had a depression going on, which if the Democrats have their way, we'd have it again, but it's not gonna happen because we won't let that happen.

So I just want to thank you all for being here. Have a good time. There's something about it that's so special. Is- -- it's considered the best there is in this country. And, of course, Palm Beach is Palm Beach. So it's good. So when you have the best house and the best location, typically, it will do well.

And I hope you're enjoying it and I will see a lot of you. And maybe I'll ask Stephen Miller to say a couple of words because he's become a very hot -- he's become a very hot commodity. [Laughter] Hotter than Trump. And this could be a problem. You know, Marco is so hot now. If he gets hotter than Trump, I'm gonna have to let him go. Same thing with Steve. [Laughter] [Audience member calls out, "You are the best, sir."]

Thank you, Mr. President. [Audience member calls out, "God bless you."]

It was the privilege of a lifetime to join President Trump all the way back in 2015 when he came down that golden escalator. And let me tell you, if it wasn't for President Trump, the United States of America would not exist right now. This man saved America. He saved our military from collapse. He saved our economy from destruction.

He saved our border from annihilation and he saved our country from threats at home and abroad, which would have been the end of the American dream forever. This man took a bullet for us. He faced down life in prison for us. He saved the Republican Party from the ash heap of history and has made it stronger, more popular and more resilient than ever before.

We need to stand with the man who has stood with us and this country with every fiber of his being. It is the honor of my life to be President Trump's chief of staff, and I swear to you, and I pledge you, Mr. President, my absolute loyalty, my unwavering commitment and my total devotion to your success and the success of this country.

Thank you, President Trump.

[Audience member calls out, "Marco."] Uh, you know, I don't like public speaking, but I appreciate it. [Laughter] I want to echo a lot of what Stephen just said in the honor, you know, in the job that I have and the jobs that I have, the national security adviser to the president and also secretary of state.

I see firsthand every single day that this is a man who wakes up every morning with one thing as a priority: you, our country and its future. The most important thing a president can do for a country is to keep it safe. And there are people around the world that want to destroy it. They want to destroy our country.

They want to destroy our way of life. He was elected to do the hard things, the hard things. It would have been very easy to do what multiple presidents before him have done, which is ignore the Iran thing, leave it for the next guy, put it aside and don't worry about it. That would have been the easiest thing to do, honestly, to just basically say, "Leave it alone.

Who cares? That's going to be someone's problem in the future. But this president didn't do that. He confronted it because what Iran wants to do is not just destroy our country; it's destroy our way of life and threaten our children. We cannot live in a world in which the most radical terroristic regime on the planet possesses a weapon of mass destruction.

And we've had president after president ignore it and allow it to linger. But this president wasn't allowed -- wasn't elected to ignore it. And he wasn't elected to allow threats to linger. And he did it for you. Not for him, not for anybody else. He did it for you and for our country. And for that, we, our children and children not yet born --

we all have a sense and a deep sense of gratitude, and I know he'll continue to do it. And that's why I'm so honored to be his secretary of state. And that's why I know he's so honored that all of you are here today. Thank you.