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From Crisis to Boom-Trump Frames 2026 will be 'Best Year in U.S. History' · The Ben Ferguson Podcast

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  Speaker 1: President Donald Trump delivered a primetime address to the American
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  Speaker 1: people from the White House on Wednesday evening, and Trump's
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  Speaker 1: Press secretary Caroline Levitt on Tuesday gave some real hints
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  Speaker 1: as to what the President was going to speak about.
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  Speaker 2: She made it clear that.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to talk about a lot that has been
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  Speaker 1: accomplished over the last eleven months. She was absolutely right.
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  Speaker 1: The President talking about what has to be done to
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  Speaker 1: bring our country back to greatness, and he also continued
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  Speaker 1: on what his plan is when it comes to the economy,
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  Speaker 1: keeping us safe, and also some incredible moments where he's
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  Speaker 1: giving back to our men and women who serve this country,
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  Speaker 1: with a major bonus to our men and women in
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  Speaker 1: the military. The President talked about the real core issue,
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  Speaker 1: the issue of affordability. Yes, he knows that affordability was
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  Speaker 1: the reason why he was elected, and he said he
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  Speaker 1: believes that next year is going to be a great
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  Speaker 1: year for the American people because the progress that's being made.
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  Speaker 1: He also expects there to be future booms with our
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  Speaker 1: economy from his trade and terror policies that have been
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  Speaker 1: implemented in the first year of his second administration to
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  Speaker 1: major things that become a reality. For example, the implementation
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  Speaker 1: of no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and
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  Speaker 1: no tax on social security for the majority of Americans,
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  Speaker 1: it will have a major impact for this country. I
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  Speaker 1: want to play for you what the President had to
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  Speaker 1: say in his primetime address to the nation, But first
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  Speaker 1: I want to take a moment to tell you about
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  Speaker 1: an incredible organization, Compassion International. For the next sixty seconds,
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  Speaker 1: can you hit pause on your life and just think
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  Speaker 1: about this. Every day, millions of children face a crushing reality,
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  Speaker 1: a constant defeating message echoes and their empty stomachs and
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  Speaker 1: their desperate eyes. It is that you don't matter. Poverty
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  Speaker 1: doesn't just steal food and shelter. It steals hope, dignity,
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  Speaker 1: and the fundamental belief that they are loved. But there's
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  Speaker 1: another message, one about timeless love and hope. Through Compassion International,
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  Speaker 1: you can change the child's story forever. You can sponsor
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  Speaker 1: child just like I do. You can introduce them to
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  Speaker 1: a loving heavenly father. You can equip them with education,
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  Speaker 1: healthcare and the support to overcome poverty. This isn't just
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  Speaker 1: about one child. It's about transforming families, revitalizing communities, and
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  Speaker 1: changing nations. It's about proving that every child truly matters.
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  Speaker 1: So help give a child a future, give them hope.
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  Speaker 1: Visit compassion dot com today. That's compassion dot Com. Take
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  Speaker 1: a listen to the President of the United States of
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  Speaker 1: America from the White House.
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  Speaker 3: Good Evening, America. Eleven months ago. I inherited a mess,
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  Speaker 3: and I'm fixing it. When I took office, inflation was
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  Speaker 3: the worst in forty eight years, and some would say
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  Speaker 3: in the history of our country, which caused prices to
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  Speaker 3: be higher than ever before, making life unaffordable for millions
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  Speaker 3: and millions of Americans. This happened during a Democrat administration,
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  Speaker 3: and it's when we first began hearing the word affordability.
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  Speaker 3: Our border was open, and because of this, our country
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  Speaker 3: was being invaded by an army of twenty five million people,
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  Speaker 3: many who came from prisons and jails, mental institutions.
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  Speaker 2: And insane asylums.
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  Speaker 3: They were drug dealers, gang members, and even eleven thousand,
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  Speaker 3: eight hundred and eighty eight murders, more than fifty percent
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  Speaker 3: of whom killed more than one person. This is what
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  Speaker 3: the Biden administration allowed to happen to our country, and
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  Speaker 3: it can never be allowed to happen again. We had
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  Speaker 3: men playing in women's sports, transgender for everybody, crime at
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  Speaker 3: record levels, with law enforcement and words such as that
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  Speaker 3: just absolutely forbidden. We had the worst trade deals ever made,
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  Speaker 3: and our country was laughed at from all over the world.
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  Speaker 3: But they're not laughing anymore. Over the past eleven months,
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  Speaker 3: we have brought more positive change to Washington than any
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  Speaker 3: administration in American history. There's never been anything like it,
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  Speaker 3: and I think most would agree. I was elected in
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  Speaker 3: a landslide, winning the popular vote and all seven swing
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  Speaker 3: states and everything else, with a mandate to take on
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  Speaker 3: a sick and corrupt system. That extra really just took
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  Speaker 3: the wealth from people and crushed the dreams of the
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  Speaker 3: American people.
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  Speaker 2: For the last four years, the.
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  Speaker 3: United States was ruled by politicians who fought only for insiders,
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  Speaker 3: illegal aliens, career criminals, corporate lobbyists, prisoners, terrorists, and above all,
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  Speaker 3: foreign nations which took advantage of US at levels never
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  Speaker 3: seen before. They flooded your cities and towns with illegal aliens.
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  Speaker 3: They decimated your hard earned savings. They indoctrinated your children
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  Speaker 3: with hate for America. Really, I mean, they just released
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  Speaker 3: a level of violent felons that we had never seen
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  Speaker 3: to prey on innocent They caused war, they caused mayhem,
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  Speaker 3: They caused a horrible situation all over the glaw. But
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  Speaker 3: now you have a president who fights for the law abiding,
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  Speaker 3: hard working people of our country, the ones who make
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  Speaker 3: this nation run, who make this nation work. And after
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  Speaker 3: just one year, we have achieved more than anyone could
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  Speaker 3: have imagined. Starting on day one, I took immediate action
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  Speaker 3: to stop the invasion of our southern border. For the
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  Speaker 3: past seven months, zero illegal aliens have been allowed into
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  Speaker 3: our country, which everyone said was absolutely impossible. Do you
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  Speaker 3: remember when Joe Biden said that he needed Congress to
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  Speaker 3: pass legislation to help close the border. He was always
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  Speaker 3: blaming Congress and everyone else. As it turned out, we
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  Speaker 3: didn't need legislation, We just needed a new president.
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  Speaker 2: We inherited the worst.
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  Speaker 3: Border anywhere in the world, and we quickly turned it
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  Speaker 3: into the strongest border in the history of our country.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, in a few short months, we went
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  Speaker 2: from worst to best.
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  Speaker 3: We're deporting criminals, restoring safety to our most dangerous cities.
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  Speaker 3: Just take a look at Washington, DC. It's at levels
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  Speaker 3: of safety that we've never seen before, and they decimated
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  Speaker 3: the Blood Thursday foreign drug cartels. We did that all
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  Speaker 3: by ourselves, with our people, and we're so proud of it,
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  Speaker 3: because they were poisoning and destroying our population. Drugs brought
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  Speaker 3: in by ocean and by sea are now down ninety
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  Speaker 3: four percent. We have broken the grip of sinister woke
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  Speaker 3: radicals in our.
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  Speaker 2: Schools, and control over those schools.
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  Speaker 3: Is back now in the hands of our great and
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  Speaker 3: loving States, where education belongs. After rebuilding the United States
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  Speaker 3: military in my first term, and with the addition we are.
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  Speaker 2: Adding right now, we have the.
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  Speaker 3: Most powerful military anywhere in the world, and it's not
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  Speaker 3: even close. I've restored American strength, settled eight wars in
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  Speaker 3: ten months, destroyed the Iran nuclear threat, and ended the
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  Speaker 3: war in Gaza, bringing for the first time in three
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  Speaker 3: thousand years, peace to the Middle East, and secured the
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  Speaker 3: release of the hostages, both living and dead. Here at home,
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  Speaker 3: we're bringing our economy back from the brink of Ruin.
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  Speaker 3: The last administration and their allies in Congress looted our
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  Speaker 3: treasury for trillions of dollars, driving up prices and everything
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  Speaker 3: at levels never seen before. I am bringing those high
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  Speaker 3: prices down and bringing them down very fast.
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  Speaker 2: Let's look at the facts.
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  Speaker 3: Under the Biden administration, car prices rose twenty two percent
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  Speaker 3: and in many states thirty percent or more. Gasoline rose
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  Speaker 3: thirty to fifty percent, hotel rates rose thirty seven percent,
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  Speaker 3: airfares rose thirty one percent. Now under our leadership, they
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  Speaker 3: are all coming down, and coming down fast. Democrat politicians
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  Speaker 3: also sent the cost of grocery storing, but we are
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  Speaker 3: solving that too. The price of a Thanksgiving turkey was
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  Speaker 3: down thirty three percent compared to the Biden last year.
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  Speaker 3: The price of eggs is down eighty two percent since March,
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  Speaker 3: and everything else is falling rapidly. And it's not done yet.
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  Speaker 3: But boy, are we making progress. Nobody can believe what's
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  Speaker 3: going on. Here are just some of the efforts that
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  Speaker 3: we have underway. You will see in your wallets and
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  Speaker 3: bank accounts in the new year. After years of record
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  Speaker 3: setting falling incomes, our policies are boosting take home at
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  Speaker 3: a historic pace. Under Biden, real wages plummeted by three
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  Speaker 3: thousand dollars. Under Trump, the typical factory worker has seen
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  Speaker 3: a wage increase of one thousand, three hundred dollars for
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  Speaker 3: construction workers, it's one thousand, eight hundred dollars. For miners
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  Speaker 3: we're bringing back clean, beautiful coal is three thousand, three
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  Speaker 3: hundred dollars. And for the first time in years, wages
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  Speaker 3: are rising much faster than inflation.
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  Speaker 2: Remember that wages. Just look at it.
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  Speaker 3: Wages are going up much faster than inflation.
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  Speaker 2: How big is that?
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  Speaker 3: Very importantly, there are more people working today than at
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  Speaker 3: any time in American history, and one hundred percent of
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  Speaker 3: all jobs created since I took office have been in
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  Speaker 3: the private sector. Think of that, one hundred percent of
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  Speaker 3: all jobs have been in the private sector rather than government,
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  Speaker 3: which is the only way to make a country powerful
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  Speaker 3: and great. This historic trend will continue. Already, I've secured
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  Speaker 3: a record breaking eighteen trillion dollars of investment into the
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  Speaker 3: United States, which means jobs, wage increases, growth, factory openings,
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  Speaker 3: and far greater national security.
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  Speaker 2: Much of this success has.
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  Speaker 3: Been accomplished by tariffs, my favorite word, tariffs, which for
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  Speaker 3: many decades have been used successfully by other countries against US,
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  Speaker 3: but not anymore. Companies know that if they build in America,
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  Speaker 3: there are no tariffs, and that's why they're coming home
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  Speaker 3: to the USA in record numbers. They're building factories and
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  Speaker 3: plants at levels we haven't seen AI automobiles. We're doing
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  Speaker 3: what nobody thought was even possible, not even remotely possible.
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  Speaker 3: There has never, frankly been anything like it. One year ago,
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  Speaker 3: our country was dead. We were absolutely dead. Our country
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  Speaker 3: is ready to fail, totally failed now with the hottest
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  Speaker 3: country anywhere in the world, and that's said by every
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  Speaker 3: single leader that I've spoken to over the last five months.
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  Speaker 3: Next year, you will also see the results of the
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  Speaker 3: largest tax cuts in American history that were really accomplished
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  Speaker 3: through our great, big, Beautiful Bill, perhaps the most sweeping
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  Speaker 3: legislation ever passed in Congress. We wrapped twelve different bills
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  Speaker 3: up into one beautiful bill that includes no tax on tips,
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  Speaker 3: no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security
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  Speaker 3: for our great seniors. Under these cuts, many families will
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  Speaker 3: be saving between eleven thousand and twenty thousand dollars a year,
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  Speaker 3: and next spring is projected to be the largest tax
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  Speaker 3: refund season of all time because of tariffs. Along with
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  Speaker 3: the just passed one Big Beautiful Bill. Tonight, I am
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  Speaker 3: also proud to announce that more than one thousand, four
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  Speaker 3: hundred and fifty thousand.
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  Speaker 2: Think of this.
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  Speaker 3: One million, four hundred and fifty thousand military service members
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  Speaker 3: will receive a special we call Warrior Dividend before Christmas.
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  Speaker 3: So Warriort Dividend in honor of our nations founding in
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  Speaker 3: seventeen seventy six, we are sending every soldier one thousand,
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  Speaker 3: seven hundred and seventy six dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Think of that, and the checks are already on the way.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody understood that one until about thirty minutes ago.
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  Speaker 2: We made a lot more.
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  Speaker 3: Money than anybody thought because of tariffs, and the bill
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  Speaker 3: helped us along. Nobody deserves it more than our military,
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  Speaker 3: and I say congratulations to everybody.
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  Speaker 1: It truly is incredible to hear a president think outside
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  Speaker 1: the box announcing the Warrior Dividend for every US military
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  Speaker 1: service member. The checks, as he described it, are already
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  Speaker 1: on their way. Think of that A way to say
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  Speaker 1: thank you to those brave men and women that fight
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  Speaker 1: also talked about what's coming for all Americans. Here's more
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  Speaker 1: of the present from the White House.
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  Speaker 3: We now have record enlistment in our military, and last
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  Speaker 3: year we had among the worst recruitment numbers in our
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  Speaker 3: military's history.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of difference a year mix.
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  Speaker 3: In addition, I'm doing what no politician of either party
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  Speaker 3: has ever done, standing up to the special interests to
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  Speaker 3: dramatically reduce the price of prescription drugs. I negotiated directly
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  Speaker 3: with the drug companies and foreign nations to which were
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  Speaker 3: taken advantage of our country for many decades, to slash
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  Speaker 3: prices on drugs and pharmaceuticals by as much as four hundred,
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  Speaker 3: five hundred and even six hundred percent. In other words,
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  Speaker 3: you're drug costs will be plummeting downward, and I use
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  Speaker 3: the thread of tariffs to get foreign countries who would
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  Speaker 3: never have done it, to pay the cost of this
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  Speaker 3: giant dollar reduction. They stop ripping us off. And it
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  Speaker 3: began as of four days ago. There has never been
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  Speaker 3: anything like this in the history of our country. Drugs
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  Speaker 3: have only gone up, but now they'll be going down
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  Speaker 3: by numbers never conceived possible. It's called most favored Nation,
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  Speaker 3: and no president has ever had the courage or ability
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  Speaker 3: to get this done until now. The first of these
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  Speaker 3: unprecedented price reductions will be available starting in January through
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  Speaker 3: a new website, trumprx dot gov, and these big price
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  Speaker 3: cuts will greatly reduce the cost of health care. I'm
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  Speaker 3: also taking on the gigantic health insurance companies that have
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  Speaker 3: gotten rich on billions of dollars of money that should
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  Speaker 3: go directly to the people. The money should go to
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  Speaker 3: the people, that's you, so they can buy their own
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  Speaker 3: health insurance, which will give far better benefits at much
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  Speaker 3: lower costs.
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  Speaker 2: It will be far better health insurance.
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  Speaker 3: The current Unaffordable Care Act was created to make insurance
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  Speaker 3: companies rich. It was bad health care at much too
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  Speaker 3: higher cost. And you see that now in the steep
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  Speaker 3: increase in premiums being demanded by the Democrats. And they
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  Speaker 3: are demanding those increases and it's their fault. It is
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  Speaker 3: not the Republican's fault. It's the Democrat's fault. It's the
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  Speaker 3: Unaffordable Care Act. And everybody knew it. Again, I want
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  Speaker 3: the money to go directly to the people so you
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  Speaker 3: can buy your own health care. You'll get much better
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  Speaker 3: health care at a much lower price. The only losers
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  Speaker 3: will be insurance companies that have gotten rich. In the
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  Speaker 3: Democrat Party, which is totally controlled by those same insurance companies,
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  Speaker 3: they will not be happy, but that's okay with me,
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  Speaker 3: because you, the people, are finally going to be getting
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  Speaker 3: great health care at a lower cost. Another major focus
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  Speaker 3: is the cost of energy. For years, the radical left
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  Speaker 3: Democrats exploited the green energy scam as an excuse to
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  Speaker 3: funnel many billions of dollars into their own massive slush funds.
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  Speaker 3: As their energy restrictions drastically drove up prices, and.
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  Speaker 2: They drove them up at record levels.
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  Speaker 3: Electricity cost surge thirty to one hundred percent under Biden,
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  Speaker 3: and the typical family lost five thousand to ten thousand
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  Speaker 3: dollars in higher energy costs. Think of that five thousand
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  Speaker 3: to ten thousand dollars you loss. On day one, I
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  Speaker 3: declared a national energy emergency. Gasoline is now under two
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  Speaker 3: dollars and fifty cents a gallon in much of the country.
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  Speaker 3: In some states it, by the way, just hit one
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  Speaker 3: dollar and ninety nine cents a gallon. And within the
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  Speaker 3: next twelve months we will have opened one thousand, six
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  Speaker 3: hundred new electrical generating plants, a record, and it's a
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  Speaker 3: record that won't be beaten by practically, I would say,
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  Speaker 3: by anybody, or certainly not very soon. Prices on electricity
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  Speaker 3: and everything else will fall dramatically. The Democrat inflation disaster,
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  Speaker 3: again the worst in the history of our country, also
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  Speaker 3: robbed millions of Americans of home ownership and indeed the
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  Speaker 3: American dream. The yearly cost of a typical new mortgage
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  Speaker 3: increased by fifteen thousand dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Under Democrat rule.
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  Speaker 3: In eleven months, we've already gotten that annual cost down
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  Speaker 3: by three thousand dollars, and it's coming down a lot lower. Wait,
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  Speaker 3: do you see the numbers are going to be shocked.
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  Speaker 3: And I'll soon announce our next Chairman of the Federal Reserve,
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  Speaker 3: someone who believes in lower interest rates by a lot,
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  Speaker 3: and mortgage payments will be coming down even further early
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  Speaker 3: the new year, and you will see this.
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  Speaker 2: In the new year, I will announce.
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  Speaker 3: Some of the most aggressive housing reform plans in American history.
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  Speaker 3: A major factor in driving up housing costs was the
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  Speaker 3: colossal border invasion.
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  Speaker 2: We have never been invaded.
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  Speaker 3: This is the worst thing that Frankly, in my opinion,
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  Speaker 3: the worst thing that the Biden administration did to our
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  Speaker 3: country is the invasion at the border. The last administration
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  Speaker 3: and their allies in Congress brought in millions and millions
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  Speaker 3: of migrants and gave them taxpayer funded housing while your
• 19:24
  Speaker 3: rent and housing costs kyrocketed. Over sixty percent of growth
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  Speaker 3: in the rental market came from foreign migrants. At the
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  Speaker 3: same time, illegal aliens stall American jobs and flooded emergency rooms,
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  Speaker 3: getting free health care and education paid for by you,
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  Speaker 3: the American taxpayer. They also increased the cost of law
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  Speaker 3: enforcement by numbers so high that they are not even
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  Speaker 3: to be mentioned. For the first time in fifty years,
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  Speaker 3: we are now seeing reverse migration, as migrants go back home,
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  Speaker 3: leaving more housing and more jobs for Americans. In the
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  Speaker 3: year before my election, all net creation of jobs was
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  Speaker 3: going to foreign migrants. Since I took office, one hundred
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  Speaker 3: percent of all net job creation has gone to American
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  Speaker 3: born citizens, one hundred percent.
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  Speaker 2: In the end, government either.
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  Speaker 3: Serves the productive, patriotic, hard work and American citizen, or
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  Speaker 3: it serves those who break the laws, cheat the system,
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  Speaker 3: and seek power and profit at the expense of our nation.
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  Speaker 3: Look at Minnesota, where some millions have taken over the
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  Speaker 3: economics of the state and have stolen billions and billions
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  Speaker 3: of dollars from Minnesota and indeed from the United States
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  Speaker 3: of American.
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  Speaker 2: We're going to put an end to it. For so long.
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  Speaker 3: As before my election, the vast majority of good and
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: decent Americans were forced to watch as corrupt politician plundered
• 20:54
  Speaker 3: the halls of power, exploited our taxpayers, and pillaged every
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  Speaker 3: system that makes civilized society function.
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  Speaker 2: But not anymore, and you see that every day. Not anymore.
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  Speaker 3: We're putting America first, and we are making America great again.
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  Speaker 3: Very simple, We are making America great again. Tonight, after
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  Speaker 3: eleven months, our border is secure, Inflation has stopped, wages
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  Speaker 3: are up, prices are down. Our nation is strong, America
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  Speaker 3: is respected, and our country is back, stronger than ever before.
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  Speaker 3: We're poised for an economic boom the likes of which
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  Speaker 3: the world has never seen. Soon, we will host the
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  Speaker 3: World Cup and the Olympics, both of which I got.
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  Speaker 3: But most importantly, we will celebrate the two hundred and
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  Speaker 3: fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. There could be
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  Speaker 3: no more fitting tribute to this epic milestone than to
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  Speaker 3: complete the comeback of America that began just one year ago.
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  Speaker 3: When the world looks at us next year, let them
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  Speaker 3: see a nation that is loyal to its citizens, faithful
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  Speaker 3: to its work, is confident to its identity, certain to
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  Speaker 3: its destiny and.
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  Speaker 2: The envy of the entire globe.
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  Speaker 3: We are respected again like we have never been respected before.
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  Speaker 3: To each and every one of you, have a merry
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  Speaker 3: Christmas and a happy New Year. God bless you all.
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  Speaker 1: It is nice to hear President of the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America make it so clear what he wants for
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  Speaker 1: this country, and what he wants for this country is
• 22:32
  Speaker 1: for people to succeed, for the government to get out
• 22:36
  Speaker 1: of the way, and for the American people to have
• 22:39
  Speaker 1: more money in their own pockets. Well done, President Trump.
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: He emphasized that in the last year it has been
• 22:48
  Speaker 1: a period of meaningful progress and growing strength for the
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  Speaker 1: United States, and that the best is yet to come
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  Speaker 1: as the nation moves into twenty twenty six. Now you
• 22:59
  Speaker 1: may ask yourself this question, why, Well, much of what
• 23:02
  Speaker 1: the President has enacted actually hasn't taken effect yet it
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  Speaker 1: starts in twenty twenty six. No tax on tips, for example,
• 23:11
  Speaker 1: no tax on overtime, and no tax on social Security
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: for the majority of Americans will have a massive impact
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: for many Americans and how much money is in their
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: bank accounts. The President also talked about the incredible impact
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: of stopping immigration into this country illegal immigration, and how
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  Speaker 1: it's now actually lowering home prices and rental prices, prices
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  Speaker 1: that are expected to come down even more in twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, which brings us to the key achievements and
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: the policy highlights of economic growth. In investment, President Trump
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: highlighted the significant economic progress, including what he described as
• 23:52
  Speaker 1: record level of investment that is flowing into the United
• 23:56
  Speaker 1: States of America, which he has tied to job creation growth,
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: much of this coming from the leverage with tariffs. He
• 24:04
  Speaker 1: framed the recent policies as driving lower prices and stronger
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  Speaker 1: wages for American families. Trump referred to the current economic
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  Speaker 1: trajectory as laying the groundwork for what he cast as
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  Speaker 1: the greatest economy in history. He also did something that
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: was truly incredible, a Christmas present that men and women
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  Speaker 1: in the military will never forget. As part of his
• 24:27
  Speaker 1: holiday season message, he announced a one time seventeen seventy
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  Speaker 1: six that's right, one thousand, seven hundred and seventy six
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  Speaker 1: Warrior Dividend check to honor and support US service members
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  Speaker 1: that have been under attack by the left for many years.
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  Speaker 1: I mean listened to the President in his own words
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  Speaker 1: on this incredible moment.
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  Speaker 2: Along with the just past one Big Beautiful Bill.
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  Speaker 3: Tonight, I am also proud to announce that more than
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  Speaker 3: one one thousand, four hundred fifty thousand, Think of this,
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  Speaker 3: one million, four hundred and fifty thousand military service members
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  Speaker 3: will receive a special we call Warrior dividend before Christmas,
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  Speaker 3: a warriort dividend.
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  Speaker 2: In honor of.
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  Speaker 3: Our nations founding in seventeen seventy six, we are sending
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  Speaker 3: every soldier one thousand, seven hundred and seventy six dollars.
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  Speaker 2: Think of that, and the checks are already on the way.
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  Speaker 3: Nobody understood that one until about thirty minutes ago.
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  Speaker 1: Not only was the President celebrating our men and women
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  Speaker 1: in military, but he also said that you, as an American,
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: have something to celebrate coming next spring. Next spring, he says,
• 25:46
  Speaker 1: it's projected to be the largest tax refund season of
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  Speaker 1: all time. Here's the President in his own words.
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  Speaker 3: Next year, you will also see the results of the
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  Speaker 3: largest tax cuts in American history that were really accomplished
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  Speaker 3: through our great, big Beautiful Bill, perhaps the most sweeping
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  Speaker 3: legislation ever passed in Congress. We wrapped twelve different bills
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  Speaker 3: up into one beautiful bill that includes no tax on tips,
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  Speaker 3: no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security
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  Speaker 3: for our great seniors. Under these cuts, many families will
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  Speaker 3: be saving between eleven thousand and twenty thousand dollars a year,
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  Speaker 3: and next spring is projected to be the largest tax
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  Speaker 3: refund season of all time.
• 26:36
  Speaker 1: Not only does the President know that you need more
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  Speaker 1: money in your pocket and the Left has been taking
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  Speaker 1: far too much of it and wasting it for far
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: too long, but he also talked about healthcare, which is
• 26:47
  Speaker 1: actually a very important point for many Americans. He promised
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  Speaker 1: future reductions in drug prices and improvements and affordability for
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  Speaker 1: healthcare as part of the upcoming year's agenda.
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  Speaker 3: I'm also taking on the gigantic health insurance companies that
• 27:04
  Speaker 3: have gotten rich on billions of dollars of money that
• 27:07
  Speaker 3: should go directly to the people. The money should go
• 27:11
  Speaker 3: to the people, that's you, so they can buy their
• 27:13
  Speaker 3: own health insurance, which will give far better benefits at
• 27:17
  Speaker 3: much lower costs. It will be far better health insurance.
• 27:22
  Speaker 3: The current Unaffordable Care Act was created to make insurance
• 27:26
  Speaker 3: companies rich. It was bad health care at much too
• 27:29
  Speaker 3: higher cost. And you see that now in the steep
• 27:32
  Speaker 3: increase in premiums being demanded by the Democrats, and they
• 27:36
  Speaker 3: are demanding those increases, and it's their fault. It is
• 27:39
  Speaker 3: not the Republican's fault. It's the Democrat's fault. It's the
• 27:44
  Speaker 3: Unaffordable Care Act, and everybody knew it again. I want
• 27:48
  Speaker 3: the money to go directly to the people, so you
• 27:51
  Speaker 3: can buy your own health care. You'll get much better
• 27:53
  Speaker 3: health care at a much lower price. The only losers
• 27:57
  Speaker 3: will be insurance companies that have gotten rich and the
• 28:00
  Speaker 3: Democrat Party, which is totally controlled by those same insurance companies.
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  Speaker 2: They will not be happy.
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  Speaker 3: But that's okay with me, because you, the people, are
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  Speaker 3: finally going to be getting great health care at a
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  Speaker 3: lower cost.
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  Speaker 1: Not only will you be getting great health care to
• 28:14
  Speaker 1: lower costs, the number one donor the Democrats in Congress
• 28:19
  Speaker 1: have literally been the health care industry. The President then
• 28:23
  Speaker 1: moved from that issue to another one, immigration and border security.
• 28:28
  Speaker 1: President Trump counting enhanced border enforcement and immigration control as
• 28:33
  Speaker 1: part of his administration's accomplishments.
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  Speaker 3: Our border was open, and because of this, our country
• 28:40
  Speaker 3: was being invaded by an army of twenty five million people,
• 28:44
  Speaker 3: many who came from prisons, and jails, mental institutions, and
• 28:48
  Speaker 3: insane asylums. They were drug dealers, gang members, and even
• 28:53
  Speaker 3: eleven thousand, eight hundred and eighty eight murders, more than
• 28:57
  Speaker 3: fifty percent of whom killed more than one This is
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  Speaker 3: what the Biden administration allowed to happen to our country,
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  Speaker 3: and it can never be allowed to happen again.
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  Speaker 2: We had men playing in women's.
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  Speaker 3: Sports, transgender for everybody, crime at record levels, with law
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  Speaker 3: enforcement and words such as that just absolutely forbidden. We
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  Speaker 3: had the worst trade deals ever made, and our country
• 29:25
  Speaker 3: was laughed at from all over the world. But they're
• 29:29
  Speaker 3: not laughing anymore. Over the past eleven months, we have
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  Speaker 3: brought more positive change to Washington than any administration in
• 29:38
  Speaker 3: American history. There's never been anything like it, and I think.
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  Speaker 2: Most would agree.
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  Speaker 3: I was elected in a landslide, winning the popular vote
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  Speaker 3: and all seven swing states and everything else, with a
• 29:53
  Speaker 3: mandate to take on a sick and corrupt system that
• 29:59
  Speaker 3: xtray really just took the wealth from people and crushed
• 30:02
  Speaker 3: the dreams of the American people. For the last four years,
• 30:06
  Speaker 3: the United States was ruled by politicians who fought only
• 30:10
  Speaker 3: for insiders, illegal aliens, career criminals, corporate lobbyists, prisoners, terrorists,
• 30:17
  Speaker 3: and above all, foreign nations which took advantage of US
• 30:21
  Speaker 3: at levels never seen before. They flooded your cities and
• 30:25
  Speaker 3: towns with illegal aliens. They decimated your hard earned savings.
• 30:30
  Speaker 3: They indoctrinated your children with hate for America released really,
• 30:35
  Speaker 3: I mean, they just released a level of violent felons
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  Speaker 3: that we had never seen to prey on innocent They
• 30:42
  Speaker 3: caused war, they caused mayhem. They caused a horrible situation
• 30:47
  Speaker 3: all over the globe. But now you have a president
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  Speaker 3: who fights for the law abidy hardworking people of our country,
• 30:55
  Speaker 3: the ones who make this nation run, who make this
• 30:59
  Speaker 3: nation work.
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  Speaker 1: And not only did the President talk about immigration and
• 31:03
  Speaker 1: border security, he also talked about foreign policy and peace efforts.
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  Speaker 1: He underscored diplomatic progress, including his administration's role in brokering
• 31:12
  Speaker 1: stability and regions of conflict and reducing global tensions. These
• 31:18
  Speaker 1: diplomatic themes fed into broader messaging about America's renewed international
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: leadership and also what it means about security at home.
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  Speaker 1: Throughout the speech, the President framed the future with optimism,
• 31:32
  Speaker 1: previewing initiatives he intends to pursue in twenty twenty six,
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: including lower drug costs through the Trump RX Program, broad
• 31:41
  Speaker 1: tax cuts aimed at benefiting working American families, expanded energy
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: production to reduce costs for consumers, continued efforts to address
• 31:52
  Speaker 1: housing affordability and rent relief, and commitment to appointing a
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: Federal Reserve chair. Focused on lower interest rates to support
• 32:02
  Speaker 1: economic expansion, which brings us to one thing that many
• 32:07
  Speaker 1: Americans are going to love. The President also announcing some
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: of the most aggressive housing reforms so that more Americans
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: can get in the game, can own a house and
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: not have to wait till they're much older to be
• 32:20
  Speaker 1: first time home buyers.
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  Speaker 3: This in the new year, I will announce some of
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  Speaker 3: the most aggressive housing reform plans in American history. A
• 32:29
  Speaker 3: major factor in driving up housing costs was the colossal
• 32:33
  Speaker 3: border invasion.
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  Speaker 2: We have never been invaded. This is the worst.
• 32:38
  Speaker 3: Thing that Frankly, in my opinion, the worst thing that
• 32:42
  Speaker 3: the Biden administration did to our country is the invasion
• 32:46
  Speaker 3: at the border. The last administration and their allies in
• 32:50
  Speaker 3: Congress brought in millions and millions of migrants and gave
• 32:53
  Speaker 3: them taxpayer funded housing, while your rent and housing costs kyrocketed.
• 32:59
  Speaker 1: So there it is President the United States of America
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  Speaker 1: making it very clear that he believes that this next
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  Speaker 1: year is actually going to be the best year in
• 33:08
  Speaker 1: our history when it comes to our economy. In this address,
• 33:13
  Speaker 1: not only did spotlight our men and women in uniform,
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: also making it clear we're going back to law and order.
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  Speaker 1: He wants a FED chair that will back lower interest rates.
• 33:24
  Speaker 1: He wants to keep the focus on the economy. And
• 33:27
  Speaker 1: also he did not bring up Venezuela. Why because clearly
• 33:31
  Speaker 1: that's not the focal point of the administration. He said,
• 33:35
  Speaker 1: we're bringing the economy back from ruin, and the economy
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: on prices is going.
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  Speaker 2: To be ease for you. So there is the president.
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: He said, America, you're going to feel relief in a
• 33:47
  Speaker 1: bountiful twenty twenty six. And that is this President's Christmas
• 33:52
  Speaker 1: present to every American. Make sure you share this podcast
• 33:57
  Speaker 1: with your family and your friends, shared on social media media,
• 34:00
  Speaker 1: please so others will hear it. And I will see
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  Speaker 1: you back here tomorrow.