Hello, Pennsylvania. I love this place so much. USA! Well, I'm thrilled to be back in this incredible Commonwealth with the proud, hardworking patriots of Lehigh Valley. And I'm also proud to say I won this state in a landslide — we won by so much. And remember I had the couple of little statements, too big to rig. Make it too big to rig because these people cheat like hell. They cheat like hell. But we won by a lot and maybe we should run again. Should we run one more time? I'd like to do that. I got more votes than any candidate in the history of Pennsylvania. Can you believe that vote?
And today I'm especially honored to be here in the place that builds some of the toughest vehicles on the road — Mack Trucks. Mack Trucks is doing a great job. All of the Mack people, the chairman, we have the whole group here. All the leaders, the big guys, they're building. They're trying to get a contract for 15,000 trucks. 15,000. I said, "That's a lot." I said, "How many are you looking for? 10, 15?" No. "15,000?" "Sir, that's a lot of trucks." For more than 100 years, this legendary company has been making trucks right here in Eastern Pennsylvania, building the heavy-duty machinery that keeps our economy rolling, our factories moving, and our industries growing all across the nation.
And you are the men and women that are putting your pride and spirit into those beautiful words stamped on every backdrop that said, "Made in the USA." It's made in the USA. And I want to especially thank the president of Mack Trucks, Stephen Roy, who I just met, who's a great guy, a great patriot, very Republican, too, which I like. He's a very strong Republican. Stephen, where are you?
We got to get a certain very talented congressman re-elected. You know that. We got to get him. Where are you? Where are you, Mr. Congressman? We got to get you back in. Thank you. And thank you, Stephen. But I have a very special thanks to every single worker at this fantastic factory. The job you're doing here is incredible. And I know you're applying for a big one. And we'll see how that goes. We'll have to call up some people and see if it's good. If your price is right. Is your price right, Stephen? I don't know. Maybe we'll get it down a little bit. We'll get it down. 15,000 trucks. That's a lot of trucks.
That's what this is all about. It's greatness. You built this country and you are the ones who are making America great again. We're the hottest country in the world. For decades, the workers of this Commonwealth watched globalist politicians let other countries rip you off and close your factories, rob your jobs, take them away to foreign land. And then I came along. But we stopped it very quickly. Yeah, we had a rigged election. But they were so stupid. They kept everything going a little bit for us. And what we've done in the last year and a half, nobody's ever seen anything like it.
They put America first — they put China first. They put illegal aliens first. And everybody else first but you. But we put you first, right? A lot. But at long last, you finally have a president who is putting workers first, putting Pennsylvania first, and putting America first. We're doing that. And nobody's ever seen it before.
Starting on my first day back in office — and this goes all the way back to 2016, too. But right from a year and a half ago, nobody's ever seen anything like this. We're the hottest country anywhere in the world by a lot. But I stood up to betrayers, cheaters, abusers, and violators of the world like no president has ever stood up before. And now I'm standing up again because Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. And that's okay.
I placed 50% tariffs on foreign copper, aluminum, and steel so they couldn't come in and steal your jobs. Sometimes even more than 100% tariffs. They weren't going to come in from foreign lands and steal your jobs. If they wanted to come in, they pay 100%, they pay 200% — I don't care what it is. They're not going to steal your jobs, okay?
And right now, we have more factories being built — and I mean car factories, AI factories, factories of every type — than we've ever had in the history of our country by three times. That's because they didn't want to pay the tariff. How don't you pay a tariff? You build your factory here and you hire American workers. It's quite simple, actually.
But as you know, I placed a 25% tariff on foreign automobiles. And very importantly, I placed a 25% tariff on medium and heavy-duty trucks so that Mack Truck could do very well with this factory in Pennsylvania. But all American roads will be filled with American trucks very shortly. Very few people are able to compete with us anymore. They used to rip us off. It was like we were a bunch of babies. American labor worked with us, too. I just met the head of your unions and they've been terrific. They work with us and they're fair. They treated us good. I think we can negotiate a little bit tougher. Where the hell are the union guys? Those guys are great. They're great.
We got to make sure you vote for our congressman here. I'm not doing this for my help.
Within a single year of taking office, I slashed the trade deficit with China by the largest amount in the history of trade. And we, by the way, have the biggest trade deficit cut in the history of our country. 67%. Think of this. We had a trade deficit. We cut our trade deficit. If you're a president and you cut it by 1%, they say, "Oh, you're doing a great job. 2%, you're a genius." I cut it by 67%.
That's why you have all of these factories being built. They'll soon be opening. They're already opening. But when those factories are opening, I don't know what you're going to do. You're going to negotiate very good salaries. That I can tell you because they need you. In many ways, they need you more than you need them. American exports to the rest of the world are up by $150 billion. You hear that? It's not bad. You're going to have to wrestle a long way to make that — you're going to have to win a lot of tournaments to make that money. $150 billion up. We never had that. We always had losses. Now we're up 150 billion.
And that's nothing because when all these factories are opening up — Mr. Senator, not that great one. What a great senator you have. Did you fight hard, David? David, did you fight hard? He was with me, I think, every stop. I said, "Where the hell is David?" "He's right there, sir." And he's working hard and he's a great guy and he's working very hard for you.
But a short time ago, we were a dead country. We were laughed at all over the world. We were a dead country. People were laughing. They were saying, "What the hell happened to that country?" The king of Saudi Arabia said it two years ago. I was over there. He said, "You know, sir, two years ago you were a dead country, and now you're the hottest country anywhere in the world." It's true. And we're hotter now than we were then.
He then proceeded to announce that he's investing $2 trillion in our country along with Qatar, along with UAE, Bahrain is investing, Kuwait's investing — countries from all over the world. They're all investing in the United States. Two years ago, they wouldn't even think of it. They thought we were finished.
When I went to China two weeks ago, I met with President Xi and we greeted each other and he looked at me, he said, "Man, do you move fast because they thought they had us, but now it's really the opposite. We are doing numbers that nobody's ever seen before."
And most importantly, we are ensuring one thing very importantly because this is why I did it. I did it for this reason. 99% to this — Iran will never have a nuclear weapon and they're going to retain that. But remember, this wasn't easy. We had 47 years' worth of presidents and other people, other countries, too. We're not the only one that never did anything. They were the bully of the Middle East. And now we're leaving Iran with no navy, no air force, no anti-aircraft, no missile capability, no nuclear program. We're leaving them without any nuclear capacity. And they've agreed to that and we're getting along quite well.
Although you read the fake news, you never know. Think of it, the fake news. They have no army. They have no navy. They have no air force. They have no anti-aircraft. We can fly over to Iran just at will. Nobody going to do anything to us. And then I read the fake news that they're doing quite well. They're not doing quite well.
That's a lot of press. That's almost as much press as Bo had at the White House last week when he knocked down his opponent in the first round. But the Iran economy has been crushed and their defense industrial base has been damaged so severely that it'll take them many years to rebuild — many, many years. And now we're trying to work out a deal that's fair.
And we also want to work out a deal — you know, the stock market hit a new high today again. And oil for the first time in months hit — think of it — $70 a barrel. So we got a 70, that equates to a very low price. That oil is going to come charging down and with oil comes everything else because I inherited from these Democrats. You know the Democrats. I changed the E for you. It's very simple. Democrats. I don't know why I didn't think of that nine years ago. I just thought of it about a month ago. They're Democrats because their policies are so dumb.
Men and women's sports. You know, Bo is one of the great champions. Tony — Tony, could you have taken most women? He was the heavyweight champion in the world. You think you would have had trouble with a woman of approximately your size? Be hard to find a woman of your size, but if we did, I think you would have been okay. What do you think, Bo? You think you could have handled it? I think so. What about you, Bo? Can you handle a woman of approximately what, 182 or something? You think there's a 182-pounder that could give you a little tussle? I don't think so. I don't think so.
He's such a nice guy. She said, "No, no, not really. I don't think so." When she looked at those years of Bo, when she looked at those years, she'll say, "I'll take a pass." She'll say, "I'm not going to fight that guy." The average price of gasoline nationwide is down 60 cents a gallon just from a short while ago. And remember this.
Remember this. We had to make this detour. We had to go to Iran. You can't let them blow up the Middle East and then us if that's possible. We would have gotten them before. But they would have blown up Israel. They would have blown up the entire Middle East. Get that. You want to see a bad economy? That's a bad economy. So, but remember that our oil in the middle of this conflict was less than it was for sleepy Joe Biden. And we're putting out a fire. Biden, Clinton, Bush, all of them. Barack Hussein Obama. Have you heard of him? Have you heard of Barack Hussein? None of them did anything.
Obama gave them 1.7 billion in cash. Remember, in a 747, they flew over piles of cash — $1.7 billion, gave them hundreds of billions of dollars and thought they could bribe them into peace. The only thing they understand is what these guys in the front row understand — the hammer. Because if you look at what we did to their nuclear capacity with those beautiful B-2 bombers, that was truly a hammer. In fact, we named it a hammer — Operation Hammer.
But our economy is ready to soar to levels the world has not seen before. I believe that, David. I think it's going to levels that nobody's ever seen before. All these factories are being built and they're going to be occupied. They're hiring people now. It's going to be something very beautiful. I don't know who's going to follow me, but remember that I was the one that did it. Okay? Somebody's going to walk into office and they're going to have the most successful country in history and they're going to be bragging what a great job they did. And we did it.
In four long years of the Crooked Joe Biden administration, they got less than $1 trillion in new investments. So, think of it. Crooked Joe. What do you like better, Sleepy Joe or Crooked Joe? Ready? Sleepy Joe. Crooked Joe. I'm surprised. I like Sleepy Joe better, but they're both — I use them both. But it lasts one year. So they did much less than $1 trillion of investment from outside the world. Much less than 1 trillion. We just got the final — we had 11 months and 18 — but we just got the final — $19.1 trillion in 12 months. Can you believe that? Investment from all over the globe.
And since the election, the stock market has set 73 all-time records. In other words — yeah, sit down. We got plenty of time here. It's an honor that you all came. Oh, look who we have — the Wall. Stand up, Wall. Look at this guy. I'm going to get a shirt just like that guy. I'll bet he's been to 200 rallies. Him. And where are my guys? Oh, look at my guys — Front Row Joes. I got these Front Row Joes. And where are the women from North Carolina? They're here. They travel all over the world. I don't know what the hell's with their husbands.
These beautiful women from North Carolina. They traveled all over. They went to 200 rallies. How many rallies have Front Row Joes gone to? Hundreds. Everyone. And then it was very sad. My last rally I said I may never see you again. Right? And then we won the election in the landslide and who the hell do I see? I see my friend Rochester. So I'm happy about that. Thank you. What a group. We had some group all over the place and when they didn't make the front row it was very demeaning to them. They were not happy. The front row — they became actually very famous, Front Row Joes.
And the typical 401k, as you know, is up almost $30,000 — it was 12 months, it was 13 months — it's up 44%. Think of that — 44%. Because you know, as goes the stock market, so goes a lot of your own wealth. And I tell you about this police officer. I met a police officer the first time — similar thing, but now the numbers are even more. I was in New York. I met a great police officer, New York's finest. And he said, "Sir, I want to thank you." I said, "For what?"
He said, "My wife didn't think much of me very much. We were having marital difficulty. Actually, she thought I was nothing. I'm a police officer. I'm a tough guy." Looked at him — the muscles were all over the place. He didn't suffer from that. But she thought maybe that muscle wasn't so good because he was always losing money in the stock market. And he said, "Sir, in the last year and a half, my 401k is up 74%, sir, and she thinks I'm Warren Buffett. She thinks I'm a super genius."
I said, "How are you getting along with her?" He said, "Well, I'm not so sure I like her anymore, but I won't tell you that. I refuse to say that." He's getting along just fine. But a lot of people have come up to me, David, they think their 401ks — you know, the stock market. Who has a 401k here? A lot of people.
More Americans are working today than at any time in the history of our country. And we've created over 32 — think of this — 32,000 new jobs just starting in Pennsylvania alone. David, you have to get credit for that. And in the last few months alone, we've added 2,600 Pennsylvania manufacturing jobs. And that number is going to go much, much higher as the factories start to open.
Because right here in Lehigh Valley, Eli Lilly has just announced — great company by the way, drug company — a $3.5 billion investment in a brand-new, state-of-the-art manufacturing facility right down the road that's going to create over a thousand jobs. Just that one. Nokia is investing $30 million to expand its semiconductor testing and packaging operations — thousands of jobs. And B. Braun has announced a $20 million expansion of its medical device manufacturing operation in Allentown. I love Allentown.
I love any place that goes — which is the entire state of Pennsylvania, the entire Commonwealth. Never make the mistake of using the word state. Well, I'm not sure the people care, but the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania voted for us at levels that nobody's ever seen before, David. And you, too, and we're proud of you because you had guts. This man had guts. He lost one time to a tough candidate and he did it again to a tougher candidate. And I tell him, if he didn't win, his wife — a beautiful woman — would have left him. I'm telling you, Dena, she would have left him.
So, he had great courage to get a second term. He was a very successful guy. He is standing up there. She would have left. I was still working. He's a friend of mine and that was a tough race. He was running against a guy 24 years and his father was in for like 30 years. That's a long time. And he had to beat him knowing the pressure. That's called pressure. Knowing his wife was gone if he didn't make it. She was gone. 100%. But he's married actually to a terrific woman. She probably would have stayed. I'm not 100% sure.
And last year, I saved a great American company — U.S. Steel — and we're keeping its headquarters in Pennsylvania where it belongs. And $17 billion has been invested by a great company in saving us. They were gone. I think they were closed up and they were ready to go. And now they're building factories like nobody's ever seen. They're expanding the operations and building a couple of brand-new steel plants. They're up to over 17 billion, which is a lot more than they even told us because they've fallen in love with this Commonwealth. They've fallen in love with your whole area, the people. I think they've fallen in love with the people more than anything else is what they told me because they've done more than they said they would.
And thanks to our great Republican majorities in Congress, last 4th of July, I signed the largest tax cuts in American history. We gave you the biggest tax cuts in American history. Not bad. That's it. We delivered no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for our great Pennsylvania seniors.
And our tax cuts are projected to boost take-home pay for Pennsylvanians by an average of more than $10,000 a year per household. That alone should win us the midterms. We got to win the midterms. Mus is another great guy. Stand up, Mus. Been with me forever. He was thinking about running for governor. I think you would have won, but he was thinking about running for governor and they said, "I want you to stay in Congress. I want you to stay." And we appreciate it. You've done a great job.
But always remember — every single Democrat in Congress voted against our tax cuts. So think of it. Every — all of those tax cuts and many more. They want to raise your taxes, not lower them. They voted against tax cuts. You know, all my life I sort of been political and then I found it very interesting. I was a very successful real estate person, but I love watching politics. And my whole life I watched politicians say, "We will cut your taxes. We will cut." I never heard these people say we will raise your taxes.
This country has gotten very strange politically, especially with all the communists that are up for election. You know, you have communists. These aren't socialists. These are communists. And they're all up. How about the guy in Maine? He's got the Nazi stickers. He's got the whole deal. They're trying to say that — so for eight years, 10 years, they said Trump is a Nazi. Now they can't say that anymore because they have a guy with a tattoo on his chest. It's unbelievable.
But they voted against no tax on Social Security. They voted against no tax on tips. They voted against no tax on overtime. And if they got into office, you will have all of those taxes and all of that money that you're saving, including the big savings on Social Security, it's going to all be terminated. You're going to have to start paying it. They want to pay it. I don't know what's wrong with these people.
They voted in favor of the estate tax or the death tax on your farms and your businesses. You know, farmers and small business people, they love their children. If they love them, it's great. Most of the people love them. Some can't stand — there are people that can't stand their kids. They're not going to leave them 10 cents. But if you love your child, you want to leave your farm. Especially for these farmers — it's born in them somehow. They want to have their children on the farm. The children don't want to leave, but sometimes they're land rich and cash poor. You know, I've known that expression, too. I've oftentimes been land rich and cash poor. It's not a good period of time.
And you die and you have an estate and they tax you at 40, 50, 60%. And they end up losing their farm, losing their small business. And in many cases, you don't read about this, they commit suicide. They actually go out and commit suicide because they're forced off their farm by a bank. They have to go out and borrow money from a bank and they're forced to go out borrow the money. They're unable to pay the loan at the bank even if it's a nice bank. They give them a chance. They give them another chance and then they ultimately foreclose. They lose everything and in many cases they commit suicide.
And they said we're not going to have that crap go on. So you have no estate tax to pay on your small farm, small business, on your farms, your businesses. And you can, if you love your children, you can leave your farm or your small business to your child and they're not going to — listen, if you don't love your children, then don't listen to what I'm saying because it doesn't matter. You should. If you don't like them, don't leave them anything now. They probably deserve it.
But think of it. The Democrats voted against the border wall. The border wall gave us the safest border. We have the safest border now in the history of the country. They voted against voter ID. You know why they voted against voter ID? Because they want to cheat. There's only one reason. Mr. Wall, right? Correct. Correct. Where do I get that suit? One day, I don't know if it's very presidential. I'm going to walk up in a suit with the design of the wall on it. I don't know. Why do you do that?
I already have — you have a very elegant wife and she says, "Darling, please, please don't dance. It's not presidential." I said, "But the people love it!" What I did — and he said, "Please, please, the men and women's sports, please don't do the weightlifting thing and don't do the swimming thing." You know, the weightlifter where he goes up and the record stood for years and years and years. And this young lady, she's trying out for the Olympics, and she's going to do it.
And the record stood for 19 years, and they put an eighth of an ounce on one side, an eighth of an ounce on the other. You have to understand — Melania, who's now a movie star, she got the number one. Can you believe she hit big? There can only be one star in a family. Please remember that. But they put a little — like a feather on one side a little bit just to break the record. The parents are sitting right there where Big Bo is. He's a nasty guy, that crushy throw.
Got to be very nice to Bo. I got to be very nice. Got to make sure he's never angry at me. But she said her parents are right there in the front and they're so proud. The father's not so proud because he knows she's not going to do it because she's a woman. That's a lot of weight. The mother, though, is screaming, "Darling, I love you. Do it." And she gets over the waist and she stares at it. Then she gets him and she gets him and the mother's screaming, "Darling, I love you." And the father's looking saying she has no chance. And she's like this — you see it? Drops it and she's like devastated for the rest of her life.
And then a guy comes along who transitioned. That's the term. I've gotten very good at that term. I used to take a lot of heat for my definition of the movement. But he transitioned. He was a poor, very poor, bottom of the line male weightlifter. But now he is a female weightlifter. And he looked at the amount — I think it was like 210 lbs or something like that. Well, that's a lot for a woman, but not that much for a man. You could do it with one hand. And he looks down at the weight... I think he did a few things for him. And he won the medal. And everyone said, "Oh, isn't that wonderful?" Are we crazy? Men should not be able to participate in — the 99%. You ever hear the fake news? They say that's an 80-20 issue. No, it's not. It's 99-1.
You know, I've been doing politics now for 10 years. Not that long considering I've won three elections, you know. But with all of that and all of the time I spent speaking to people, they say, "Sir, could you cut taxes on this? Could you get me a tax deduction on a car loan?" I did that. By the way, I did that. If you borrow money to buy a car — they asked me for hundreds of things. Not once did anyone ever come up to me and say, "Sir, please, this is so vital. You have to be able to have men playing women's sports. Please, sir, could you pull that off?" I've never had anyone ask me for that.
So, I say it's a 99-to-1 issue, not 80-20. The fake news back there, they say, "Oh, that's a minor issue." But I don't like talking about it because I want them to continue on with that. I want them to continue on with the — you know, they're in favor of the mutilation of your child for transgender purposes, the mutilation of your child. And I would say politically, it's a very good thing to run against a person that's in favor of that kind of stuff. So, we let them — we don't bring it up during off political seasons, but we have a political season coming up and they'll be doing all of that nonsense and they're going to lose a lot of elections.
And now if you look at New York, we have all communists running. They're all excited. They're going to win their primaries, but I can't imagine they can beat a normal Republican. So, I think it's a good thing. Mus, what do you think? I think it's a good thing. Wouldn't you like to run against somebody like that? Well, Shapiro is not that much better to be honest with you. But I'll let him — they'll all be forced. They're all being forced. A guy like Shapiro, he's going to be forced to the left. Otherwise, he's not going to get the nomination.
But they voted against proof of citizenship. Think of it. We'd like to have proof of citizenship. You walk into the voting booth — would it be okay, sir, if I looked at you and said, "How dare you ask me for my citizenship?" You know, in California, if you ask that question to a voter, you are criminally liable. In other words, they can put you in jail. If you say, "Sir, do you have proof of citizenship," they put you in jail if they ask that question. You're not allowed to ask that. Did you know that? It's the craziest thing I've ever seen going on.
Hey, did they screw the kid Pratt? Boy, he's leading and all of a sudden he's lost. And it was sort of interesting — the election. Did you ever see an election where they're two and a half weeks in — an election that takes weeks to count the votes? But after the evening it looked like he was going to win or certainly in the runoff. And then I started hearing rumors as the days went by — days and days went by — and Pratt is fading. I said they rigged the election. And then lo and behold, he didn't qualify even though he was so far up, and the third-place person — it was almost impossible — and he didn't qualify.
And then it started happening with the next candidate — Steve Hilton, who's running for governor. He was up in front, just about leading, no problem. And all of a sudden, about four or five days after — this is after the election's over — they said, "Steve Hilton is starting to lose votes." I said, "Here we go again." And I called up the U.S. attorney in California. They said, "We're going to have a number in the next week." Next week, I called up the very powerful, very good U.S. attorney in California. And I said, "Do me a favor. Take a look. They're trying to steal that election, too." I guess they called up — they said, "This is the U.S. attorney calling." We have your great U.S. attorney here today, by the way, and your assistant U.S. attorney. You're doing great, David. Thank you.
So, over the next week, he was definitely going to lose, but the U.S. attorney called — "We want to check your votes." About an hour after the call, ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Hilton has won. So, had I not made that call, Steve Hilton would right now be watching the election from home. So, I don't know — he would have a great chance. But the election's totally rigged. California is totally rigged. All mail-in ballots. It's a disaster. We got to pass the Save America Act.
We got to pass Save America. You, me, and these guys — what a love. A friend of mine is a very big real estate developer but he's got a problem with speaking in front of crowds. He chokes — you know, he chokes like a dog. He said, "How do you do it?" I say it's easy because there's so much love in the room. There's so much unbelievable love, it's easy.
You know he's got this tremendous fear of speaking. He said — the guy's a major player. Most of you have heard of him. And he's a killer. He destroys people for a living financially. Not physically — physically can't. He can barely walk. He's a basketball kid. But he's up here. He's very smart and he destroys people. Very rich, but he can't get up in front of a crowd and talk. I said, "What's wrong with you?" He said, "I don't know. I have a fear of crowds."
I guarantee — who here voted for Trump? Who — who didn't — this is dangerous. So don't raise your hand thinking you're going to be cute because you might be a big, big problem and they'll blame me for causing problems. Who did not vote for Trump? Young man — he wants to meet. He's a young man. He thinks he's being cute. He gets pounded on. No, he just said, "No, I did. I was the first." He said, "I'm the first."
But the Democrats voted in favor of Iran having a nuclear weapon and they voted against military spending. But I overrode that. Let me tell you, if the Democrats get in, your 15,000 trucks that Mr. Roy is looking to get are dead. They're not going to have 15,000. They're not going to have 15 trucks. They'll be back to the number I originally guessed. Right? How many are you making? 15. 15,000 trucks will be down to nothing. Zero. And they'll make you put electric on — you know, electric so that when you're in the middle of a jungle someplace and you need a charge, where's my charging booth? As opposed to carrying a nice tank of diesel on your back and taking off, right? Where's my charging booth?
They'll be saying — we created the strongest military in history and you see that with Venezuela. Venezuela — one-day operation, like right — and now we're making a lot of money with Venezuela and Venezuela's doing great also. It's a happy country now. But it took us exactly 48 minutes to win that war. We're the greatest military in the world. 48 minutes. And we paid for the cost of the war. Where do you hear this? 28 times already. More, but 28 times. So the cost of the war, we've already — because we brought millions of barrels of oil out and we're getting along great.
The people running it — they're our people. They're great people. And the people are happy in the country. They have smiles. They were miserable. They were starving. But they have a lot of oil under that ground. You know how you find oil in Venezuela? Just look at the ground. You'll see oil bubbling up. They have so much oil, they don't know what to do with it. But they had a bad system. They're making more money now for the country than they've ever made before. And we're making a lot of money, too.
But also Iran — we knocked them out. One week, it was essentially militarily over. Much bigger country, 91 million people, and much different ideology. The ideology of the Muslims is slightly different than the ideology of the Catholics. We have the Catholics and the Muslims — slightly different. But Venezuela's been great and Iran's been great. I mean, you know, Iran's reasonable. They're smart. Otherwise, we'll have to finish the job, which will take about maybe less than a week. But they're going to be okay. I think they're going to do what they have to do because we want to have it done.
But they voted against lower energy prices. The Democrats did. And then they went on to create the highest energy prices that we've ever had in the history of our country. People don't realize that. Much higher than ours. During a war, they had the highest inflation in history. The highest inflation in history. They say 48 years, but that's sort of history as far as I'm concerned. And they were absolutely terrible on affordability.
Remember, I got here my first day the fake news is screaming at me — "What about affordability?" I'm only here one day. Remember eggs were up about five times higher than they ever were. And we have — prices are coming down right now at levels that you've never seen. And now with oil crashing, you're going to see something really amazing.
And to top everything else, they let 25 million people into our country — many of them criminals and thugs and people from mental institutions and drug dealers. They even let 11,888 murderers into our country. Murderers — 11,888. More than 50% of which have killed more than one person. And I've gotten the worst of them out. We've gotten them out. Tom Homan and a whole group of people.
But the Democrats want open borders and they want them all to come back in. You can imagine that the people of this Commonwealth will never let that happen again. What they allowed to happen to our country, we can never allow to happen again. As an example, the war with Russia and Ukraine would have never, ever started under our president. We can never let elections get rigged again.
But we're pleased to be joined today by one of those Pennsylvanians who's benefiting from the historic tax cut — Sergeant Sam Elias with the Bethlehem Police Department. Sam runs the night patrol so that he can help his wife take care of their six beautiful children during the day. And I'm told the youngest is named Melania. Can you believe that? You're named Melania. Where did you come up with that?
After our great first lady. So Sam is taking home thousands of dollars extra because of no tax or overtime. And Sam, you want to come up and say a few words? Come on up.
