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are nothing more than a puppet for Kathy Hochul and the radical socialists and the leftwing nuts in Washington, D.C.

Hence, hence, Comrade Hakeem Jeffries and AOC.

So, like you, upstate New York is my home. It's been my home. I love it here, and I am ready to fight like hell to take it back.

Let's take it back from Kathy Hochul.

Let's take it back from the radical socialists.

Let's take it back from AOC. And let's take it back from Mandy.

And let's take it back from anyone that threatens our way of life.

Are you ready to join me today and tomorrow and get out there and vote for Anthony Constantino?

I can't hear you. I said, are you ready to go out there and vote for Anthony Constantino?

Are you ready to take back New York? Are you ready to join me to take back New York?

Then let's make history tomorrow. Vote for affordability. Vote for safety and security. And most importantly, vote for common sense. Vote Anthony Constantino for Congress.

Thank you all for allowing me the privilege to speak today. Thank you to my friend Anthony Constantino, and God bless him. Thank you, Mr. Vice President J.D. Vance. God bless you. God bless the greatest president in the history of America, Donald J. Trump.

God bless each and every one of you. God bless the greatest nation in the history of the world, the United States of America. Thank you. God bless you.

Please welcome New York State Senator from the 49th district, Mark Walczyk.

How about another round of applause for America's soon-to-be Senator Chris Tague?

Golly, what a tough act to follow. I can't wait to see him fighting communism on the New York Senate floor.

Friends, Republicans, Romans, countrymen. We're going to take this thing back.

Oh, we wouldn't forget Blakeman and Hood. There's no chance. And I'll tell you what, sir. You know, Kathy Hochul, I love the memes that are out there, right? This one's pretty good. The U-Haul, right? She's employee of the year for U-Haul every year as New Yorkers continue to leave.

There's only one U-Haul that I want to see parked in New York State, and that's in front of the governor's mansion to pack her out.

I love the one where she said, you know, who are all these conservatives, these Republicans, they're not real New Yorkers. She obviously doesn't know about Rome and upstate New York. They ought to get on a bus and go down to Florida, says your governor. And now she's begging them to come back because they're missing the tax revenue. Well, with all due respect, governor, we need you to vacate the governor's mansion in the executive branch and put Bruce Blakeman in the governor's office.

We also, I love the signs out here. Keep the majority indeed, young lady. And Kaylee Buller and Anthony Constantino are key to keeping that majority in Congress.

When you walk out here today, know that that is absolutely critical. I know everybody's going to tell you, and this is the time because we've only got a day and a half left in this thing. Call five friends, text 10 friends, get everybody out there to vote. Early voting's over in New York State. The time is tomorrow. So if you can drive somebody to the polls, this could be the difference in the balance of power and the great mission that they continue to do in D.C. Your friends, your family, your neighbors can be the difference in that race. Don't miss that opportunity.

You've got two excellent candidates. Now, Kaylee Buller, you know, her opponent wasn't too chicken to debate her. He probably should have been if you watch that debate because she wiped the floor with her opponent. But Anthony Constantino, his opponent Blake Jenderbeam has been too chicken to debate him.

Now, how can you say you want to represent the people of NY21 with a strong voice in Washington, D.C., and you won't even get on a debate stage to show the people that are going to be voting in this race that you have courage enough to debate your opponent? The choice is absolutely clear. Anthony Constantino, a self-made man, somebody who is fighting New York state government and actually growing industry in upstate New York. This is the guy that we need to represent NY21. So get out there and vote for Anthony Constantino.

Now listen, we've got an uphill battle in the New York State Legislature. The Democrats and communists are coming for us. They say they're going to take the supermajority, but Chris Tague, Joe Griffo, and Mark Walczyk are not going to let that happen. We need your support.

Speaking of debates, did you see the one with Sema and Tish James? Now, when you're voting for the top lawyer in New York State, the top cop in charge of all law enforcement, you would expect somebody to be able to perform. Sema Koma Torres ready, absolutely wiped the floor with Tish James.

And it's time to send Tish James packing.

I was talking to my daughter who's four years old, and I said, 'Honey, we're going to start getting ready for our toy drive. We try to, you know, give some toys to Toys for Tots. We're now in November getting ready for Christmas, and I'd like you to identify maybe a couple toys you'd like to donate here.' So, she brings me two of her brother's toys.

And I realized that despite my best efforts, ladies and gentlemen, I have apparently raised a Democrat.

Stealing her brother's toys to give to somebody else. And that's what we got to do in just one day is beat the Democrats and win for America.

Vice President J.D. Vance grew up in southwestern Ohio. He fought and succeeded in achieving the American dream, but it was more difficult than it should have been. It was more difficult than it should have been. It's even more difficult today. There's no reason for that. This is arrogant Democratic politicians that want to shut down energy production, push jobs over to Asia, to China, figure everyone should be a keyboard jockey or a paper pusher in the United States. That's not what made America brilliant. That's not what made America the greatest nation in the history of the world.

We're here to support the Republican agenda of more energy, not less energy. More jobs, not less jobs. More common sense.

President Trump and Vice President Vance went to Washington, D.C. two years ago to get rid of the nonsense and bring back common sense so the American dream would be thriving and alive everywhere. Not just in the cities, not just on the coast, but in the heartland of our country. I'm very proud to work on that team. Very proud to be friends and partners with our Vice President of the United States of America, J.D. Vance. I can assure you every day, every day, he fights tirelessly to get rid of the nonsense and to bring back common sense.

Common sense shouldn't be controversial, but in Washington, D.C., common sense is controversial. That's nuts. Nuts.

You have a double treat today. You have Donald Trump Jr., another champion of common sense.

And then closing with your homeland son, Vice President of the United States of America, J.D. Vance, who will tell you about our struggle.

Fortunately, on the ballot here in Ohio, you have a governor candidate, a Senate candidate, a representative from this district right here that all are tireless champions and fighters for common sense and for the American dream. It is critical that we support them and we reestablish the American dream for every American, for our generation, for our children and our grandchildren.

God bless the American dream. God bless President Trump and Vice President Vance. And God bless the United States of America.

Please welcome Donald Trump Jr.

What's going on, Ohio? Everyone having a good day? Everyone going to go get their friends to vote tomorrow? Please do that. Please do that.

I don't know that I can watch some of these Democrats on TV. I mean, watching Amy, it's like she got back every speech. It's like she got back from a really long happy hour with Kamala Harris. I don't know that that's a person I want making decisions that our children and our children after them are going to be dependent on.

You have Sherrod Brown as an option. That seems like a real loser. A guy who's a career politician who spent his life doing nothing other than being a bureaucrat loses to the great Bernie Moreno, who's crushed it, right?

And then rather than getting, like, I don't know, a real job, just decides to start running yet again.

You guys have a choice tomorrow. You've seen what the Democrats want for America. You've seen the push towards communism, socialism, open borders, transing your children, and they want to do it, right? I mean, they don't even hide from it. Remember, they used to say those things in back rooms, you know, 'Well, we want to trans your kids and we don't want parents to know anything about it. We'll just let them do it.' And three-year-olds can make those decisions. Now, a 22-year-old that goes to college and gets a doctorate in, you know, underwater basket weaving or gender studies, you know, they don't know what they're doing when they sign their college loans. They want you hardworking Americans to pay for it. They don't know what they're doing. But the three-year-old should be able to mutilate their bodies and be stuck with that in perpetuity.

So, the choice here is so clear. You can have people who've actually run businesses, who've actually employed people represent you. People who've actually done it in the real world. People who have signed the front of a paycheck, not just the back. Or you can elect the DSA. You can elect the people that Chuck Schumer wants representing you in Ohio.

It's simple. It's that simple. The choice is yours, right? We are on a path towards communism. That's not me saying it. It's them saying it. When they say they want to defund ICE, they want to get rid of the border patrol, they want to open our border to tens of millions of illegals and make the illegals that are here permanent citizens. When they say that, what do you think their reasoning behind that is?

They want to, what is it, save democracy by destroying democracy. They want to pack the Supreme Court. They want to make Ohio a state, make D.C. a state, have permanent one-party rule. All apparently, I don't know how it works, but you know, they can do these things and get away with it. All in the name of somehow preserving democracy.

It's not how it works. We all know that. We've seen it. Again, they're saying these things out loud. They're not even hiding from it, right? They usually get caught in the back room, and now they're just saying it. They're running on it. The most radical people ever put forth by the Democrat Party, and they've been pretty radical for a while, are the people actually winning their primaries.

Amy acted, she, you know, beyond the drinking, she's having Somalians campaigning for her all over the country. How do you think that works out?

They're all over the place. They're at ballot harvesting. How'd that work out in Minnesota? What ended up happening with a lot of that? I can't remember.

There will be quality learning centers all over the great state of Ohio, paid for by you and other American taxpayers as they defraud the country. And they don't care. They'll get on TV and say, 'You should just accept that.' They don't even want to look into the fraud, just like they don't want to look into voter ID because they know what they want. They want to win. They want one-party power. You guys have the ability to stop all of that tomorrow.

So as we kind of go down this path towards communism led by the Democrat Party, I know a little bit about it because my mother actually escaped it. My mother escaped what was then communist Czechoslovakia legally. She was a good athlete, so she got out during the Olympics. I remember as a child my grandfather, who was a hardworking blue-collar electrician from what was then communist Czechoslovakia, again, he said, 'Whoa, look at what you have here in America. It's so incredible. It's so amazing.' And to make sure I understood how not to take that for granted, my mother, my father even decided it'd be a great idea for me to go over there every summer from like the age of five for a few weeks. I actually went there. I waited in those bread lines, right? It was old school. My grandfather, 'Go get us bread.'

It's strange that a five-year-old could realize, you know what, this system doesn't seem like it's working. I spoke the language fluently. I had friends over there. I actually lived it. And yet what's amazing, given how glorious it supposedly is based on the words of the Democrat Party candidates today, you notice how you never see anyone from those countries saying we should bring that to America. Anyone who actually grew up or lived under those systems. You ever realize that? It's strange. You would think. You would think that given how great they are and how wonderful it is, and the media tells us how great it is, you would think you'd be able to find someone from the former Soviet bloc advocating for that here.

You'd think you'd find people from Venezuela being like, 'No, no, no. We really need this.' Or Cuba or any number of countries that those systems abjectly destroyed. And yet you don't. You get Bernie Sanders from his three homes. Never had a job, a real job. But you know, 'You must all give your stuff to our people and we will rule you and decide what's best.'

So you guys have an option tomorrow. You can spend the next 24 hours calling your friends, calling your loved ones, making them understand what's at stake because everything is at stake. Okay, if you woke up on Wednesday morning and you were led by a drunk and a bureaucrat who voted, by the way, with Joe Biden 100% of the time, just remember that because they will do the whole shtick, you know, 'Oh yeah, no, no, we're moderate now. Yeah, we're moderates now.'

They're not moderates, right? Half of them just say this stuff out loud, and the other half get caught on hidden camera being like, 'No, no, no. Listen, we know we're not allowed to talk about, you know, transing your kids. So we're not really for it, but like when we get in office, we will.' Look at James Talarico down in Texas. Look at Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. Yeah.

Now, he was mad yesterday because apparently Pete Hegseth says parents liked him and showed up to his sports games and were supportive. I'd say, Abdul, I bet your parents would have been supportive of you as well if they weren't so busy working for the Muslim Brotherhood. You know, they had other priorities. They couldn't go to his games.

It's up to you guys. We have two distinct paths. And everyone tells you this. I get it. Everyone tells you, 'Oh, every election is the most important ever,' yada yada yada. It actually is because there's no such thing as a moderate Democrat running for office anymore.

There are moderate Democrats in America. I'm sure you know plenty of them. They're reasonable people. They have no representation because you can't win without catering to Chuck Schumer, the New York elites, the coastal elites. You have to bend to them. You have to do as they say or you never get that vote. So you pretend to be something otherwise. Then you get in and you keep doing what you say because once you get in that position of power, you're never leaving.

So we have to go out and vote tomorrow. We have to preserve our democracy. We have to preserve this incredible republic because there's a reason whether it's Iran, China, basically all of our enemies around the world love the Democrat Party. What does that tell you? They'd love them to be in charge because it means the destruction of America as we know it. The 200-year head start, the hegemony that we've had for two centuries, gone.

It's up to you guys. I get it. You haven't got 100% of everything that you wanted. Oh, so we'll sit it out and we'll let the communists take over. You think that's going to work when they open the borders? You think rent numbers are going to go down?

You think the record low crime statistics that we see now are going to go down?

The fentanyl that we've stopped. I mean, there's real wins here, stopping the death of fentanyl at record numbers because we've actually put controls on these things. They want that all gone, and they'll do it in a second. They'll keep doing their show trials. You know, I know a little bit about it. I've been through it before. They'll do it again. It's fine. You know, we're used to it at this point. It's like an average Tuesday.

But it doesn't have to be that way. We can continue actually putting Americans first. Your jobs, not those of illegals. We can use your taxpayer dollars for your kids, for your schools, for your roads, for your healthcare.

Or you give it to people who've never contributed to the system once in their lives and let them run roughshod over it. Congratulations, you could have the privilege of paying for it, of destroying your kids' futures for it. And that's why we do it. It's about those next generations. So this, Toledo, is your opportunity.

Get out there, call your friends, take the next 24 hours to make sure that we keep our country in our control. It's shocking that that's even controversial anymore, but that's what it's become. You're going to get no help from the mainstream media. They're the ones whitewashing all the actual positions of the other candidates. They'll make them seem like they're moderate and great and everything like that while trying to destroy good, hardworking Republican candidates, so many of whom actually, again, have run those businesses and are fighting.

So, support this ticket down the line. And it's not just governor and senator, maybe a congressman. You got to go all the way down to dog catcher because they will weaponize all of it.

I get it. For years we sat, we're busy taking care of our families. We're building businesses. We're out there doing these things. We can't be involved. And that's how they took over. That's how they took over education and pop culture. Started brainwashing our children, manipulating with their nonsense. It's not easy to undo that. Don't let it happen. Don't let it get started.

Ohio, get out there tomorrow and vote. Bring your friends. Bring your loved ones. Call them all. Make sure we win and we keep our country. And don't give it to the sociopaths. It's on you. I'm going to be doing it. We all have to. There is literally no better use of our time. So, thank you all for all of your incredible support. We love you. We love the great state of Ohio, and we expect some big wins tomorrow. Thank you guys. Thank you. God bless.

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 50th Vice President of the United States, J.D. Vance.

Hello, friend. Let me thank you for your time. You work a 40-hour week for a living. I just send it on down the line. This is for the one.

And believe it or not, it's never worked. And it's never worked because it was always loaded up with leaks and problems. But today, I'm thrilled to announce the official opening of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool. Now, we're giving serious thought to changing the name to the Trump Reflecting Pool. We'll announce that sometime tomorrow. I'm sure that Secretary Doug Burgum will have a lot of fun in announcing that. Now, I'm only kidding. I'm only kidding. Please don't report it. Just they'll cut it off and they'll say, 'Uh, he's changing the name.' Now, we've done a great job here, though. The people from Interior have been incredible. And the pool is now better and more beautiful than it's ever been before, and we're very proud of it. We went through a lot with vandalism. The vandalism was unprecedented. People don't like talking about it, but built more than a century ago in 1922, this is the largest reflecting pool in the world. It's almost as tall as two Empire State buildings laid on its side, and it's really amazing. It's a fixture of our National Mall and it's a crown jewel of the capital city. We've done it with many other monuments and statues. Unfortunately, from the time of its construction, the reflecting pool struggled with leaks and algae and very severe problems having to do with weather and heat and cold.

Presidents Obama and other presidents long before him worked on it. But President Obama and President Biden together spent over $144 million trying to figure it out and fix it, renovate it, and it was closed almost during the entire time. They were unable to get it working, and the pool was usually closed for periods of a year or two years, and the project was never completed. And when it was almost completed, they tried opening it, they had 40,000 gallons a day leaking. They were unable to find the leak, and it became a very dirty, filthy, stagnant mess. It was a real problem. They actually tried using the water from the Potomac, and the water from the Potomac doesn't work because of certain reasons that I won't get into, but it didn't work and it was a mess. But they spent a tremendous amount, over $144 million. And other presidents also, you can look at them as teams, but they've been trying to figure this one out for a long time. And it's a tough one because of the length. It's actually the largest pool, the longest pool anywhere in the world by far.

But I decided to get involved in this, especially over the last few months, and we've done, I think, a really great job. We had the vandals went to work, but we also went to work on the vandals. And behind me you'll see where we actually caught someone who's going to have, I guess, big problems doing the World War II memorial, some other damage, and the damage in the grass. But we decided to get very much involved. And I want to thank Secretary Doug Burgum because we work together in everything. We work together. You know, we talk about this, but we've actually fixed 83 statues and fountains throughout the city. And maybe the most important thing we fixed is the crime, because the crime is down close to 90%. It'll be 100%, if there's such a thing, it'll be very close to 100%. Washington D.C. is now... Washington D.C. went from one of the most unsafe places in this country to one of the safest cities in the country. So we decided to get involved with the reflecting pool once and for all for America's 250th anniversary. And it was our goal to open it temporarily for the July 4th weekend. That was the big weekend where we had so many incredible things take place, the UFC fight, so many other things. We wanted to get it all open by a certain time. And our goal was July 4th. We got it open a little sooner than that. And we were going to close it then and redo the pipes because the pipes are very old and in bad shape, but we wouldn't have been able to do that. So, we closed it and we started to do that. We had... we opened it quickly and there was great vandalism with slashing. We have pictures of it. We have photographs of it. In fact, I must say Jesse Watters of Fox did a whole long piece on it, and it was sad to watch because the vandals really went to town. A lot of people tried to protect the vandals, but we got it done. We opened it just now with the pipes. The pipes now are totally renovated. They're brand new pipes put in. And the pipes being very important in terms of the algae and other things. And it's a complete job and we're very proud of it. We got... really got it done for a small fraction of what Obama and Biden spent on it. They spent a tremendous amount. They never got it done. That's why we had to do it. So we fixed the leaks. We resurfaced the bottom in a beautiful dark blue, very dark blue. They call it American flag blue, but it's very dark. And if you had a regular blue, like I personally love the lighter color blue, but then you wouldn't have any reflecting. It wouldn't be a reflecting pool. So the fact that the water is a very dark pool, it's like a sort of a soft dark blue they call it, gives you great reflectivity, especially when the sun's out. We don't have the sun out today, but when the sun's out, it's a beautiful thing to see. And we preserve the beauty for generations to come. We installed 330,000 square feet of a very strong coating, not strong enough to withstand box knives and knives, but by normal standards pretty much the strongest coating you can get, and replaced nearly all of the miles of joints. Does somebody have those pictures for me? The pictures? Yeah. Do you want to stand up here, Greg? It'd be great if you could show some of the previous conditions of how it looked before we started. I think people would understand very much. Thank you.

These are the pipes. So this is... it's painted blue for purposes of... it was all rusted. So this is what we took out, and this is the pipe inside here. And as you can see, it was totally... you know, it's been there since 1922, I guess, and it's in bad shape. They've been replaced, and we replaced them after July 4th. So, okay.

And you want to... This was the joints that were here that we took out. They were put in there a long time ago, and we took it out. And Obama and Biden put in much of it, but it was all very defective material, and that's one of the reasons it leaked so badly. So we removed all of this. This was put in. It was not very high quality material. Wouldn't last very long.

This was what we inherited. This is the way the pool was just prior to... just a little bit below the surface. When you wonder why it leaked, I guess it's not too hard to see. That's what it looked like. And by the way, we resurfaced the granite. This granite was all resurfaced. And it's in, you know, because it's granite, it's got a... in many cases, granite will have a million, what they call a million-year life. It's the strongest stone, but we're able to resurface it largely. And the areas around the pool we resurface, either fixed or resurfaced. And in some cases, we had to replace. We tried not to replace because you can really never match stone, but some places we had to. This is another example of what it looked like just at water level and below. So it was a mess and it was leaking like a sieve. And this was for many, many years. This was long before Biden and Obama.

And this was sad because this was the grass and it was totally vandalized up here. And this was put out on the surface: 8647. You know what that means? That was a Comey phrase, 8647. That means kill 47. That's a mob expression that Comey, I guess, was the first one that I heard put it out. So, not nice. Okay. He's a dirty cop. You know, in case anyone doesn't know who Comey is, Comey was a dirty cop. Here's another 8647. Now, this was after we sprayed it because it was done with acid and it was put out over the lawn. It was vandalism, pure vandalism. Probably the same people that did the pool, but actually the person that was caught up here was maybe related. We'll find that out pretty soon. So, that says 8647. You don't see it as clearly because we sprayed it until we had it. Then ultimately we came back, we ripped out the grass and put new grass. This was brand new and they came and vandalized it. It was in beautiful shape. I looked at it two days before and they said, 'What beautiful grass.' And they went out and I think it was the same people that did the pool. I mean, I think I know who did it, but bad people. Sick people. Only sick people. So that's brand new grass that was vandalized. So we took it all out and we started all again, and the grass now is beautiful. And we have a lot of cameras up now that they should have had before. They had cameras, but not to the extent, not good enough cameras. And here's another one of how it looked prior to what we did. So you can see that generally speaking, you can even see where the concrete... that's the rebar behind. So this was just really worn out. It was in very bad shape. That was one of the original, a very original area.

And this is a similar thing. This was fixed up by Biden and the Obama administration, and they sort of worked. It was a similar group of people that worked. It didn't work. Tremendous algae problems. And you have that picture with the algae? Yeah. Let me see that. This was a picture taken just before they closed it down.

And this picture, this was in the Biden era, right after it didn't work. They closed it down for two years. They spent a fortune. They just spent money after money after money. Look, it's not an easy thing. The algae is brutal. It forms easily. And we have it... I don't think you'll see too much. We have great equipment in there that just doesn't happen. But the green, that's not grass, that's algae that took over the entire pool. And then they closed it down, but they didn't remove any of the dirt and the filth. And it looked like that for... not like this. They took out the water. So all you saw was dirt and filth and paper and everything else for years under the Biden and Obama administration. It was pretty bad. So we now have it really good. We hope that nobody comes along with the box knives. And I want to thank you, Greg, for working so hard on it. You and your team have been incredible, Doug Burgum. And by the way, the police have been great. We appreciate it. Thank you very much. So, we took that and we made it... I mean, if we took a picture, we're not showing that, but this would be all sealed up. This is granite, so it's pretty strong stuff. And we fixed the granite. We recaulked it. All of this has been recaulked. And if you go around the pool, you'll see it's in very good shape, very pristine shape. We didn't have to replace it because the granite stone is so strong. It literally has thousands of years of life, which is the only stone that does. So, if you want to have that, we'll put that out.

We did something that people have been trying to do since 1922. It was built, it was actually opened to great fanfare, and within two days they realized this thing is leaking like a sieve. And they didn't have modern-day materials. They used to... they basically used stone and cement, and you know that's not a very good thing to hold water. But this project should be a project that unites all Americans. It should be something we're very proud of. We're proud of it. We had to go through a long process to get it done again. We closed it. We wanted to get it fixed for July 4th weekend, and we did, and then we were going to close it. It was sort of mandated by what happened with respect to these sick people that came around. But we've now fixed all the piping, it's in great shape. And that is the thing that not only gives you water input, it also is drainage. And it's also something very important in terms of the algae. It creates the bubbles and creates what's necessary that the algae doesn't form, because from the beginning algae formed. I mean, they've had years here where you couldn't see any water. It was just algae, and it had a bad aroma, to put it mildly. A lot of bad things happened. So, I just want to thank your whole department, from everybody in the Department of the Interior, because what this has been... this is a massive piece of pool. There's never been anything like it when you look at the size, it's the biggest anywhere in the world by far. And it was treated with a lot of love. Then it was treated with a lot of hate. And we've got to stop the hate, because they came in and should never have done what they did. And despite all that we went through, the reflecting pool right now looks better than it ever looked. And it is better. It's in better health and better shape. All of those pictures that I showed you, they're now obsolete. It's really a beautiful thing. It's a work of art in many ways, but it was a work of art that never worked, but now it will work. And I want to thank Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, the National Park Service, the men and women of the US Park Police who are phenomenal, the skilled construction workers and tradesmen. We had a lot of great people. They didn't get the credit they deserve. And everyone else who made the magnificent renovation possible. And across the entire capital, we are making D.C. safe and beautiful again. And our National Guard and other law enforcement partners have made over 16,000 arrests, including over 3,000 narcotics arrests, hundreds of gang members, and dozens of murderers. Crime is down, could be 90%, 91%. And Washington D.C. is one of the safest cities anywhere in the United States of America. It was one of the most dangerous. We were losing on average three people a week to death. And now we don't have that. We don't have that. And I want to thank the National Guard and all the people from the military that came in, and they really worked very hard to make sure that some bad people are taken out. We removed about 5,000 career criminals. A lot of them came through the open border from the previous administration. And I've been maybe prouder of that than anything I've done in Washington. We've had a great success in less than two years. And we've created 25... think of it, $25 trillion in wealth in the country since the beginning. $2 trillion in wealth with what we've done with tariffs, where businesses are pouring in in order not to pay tariffs. And they're building factories right now. $22.5 trillion is being invested in the United States right now as we speak. And we're building factories, car factories, steel factories. We're building pharmaceutical plants and laboratories, hundreds of billions of dollars of factories. And as you know, Audi just announced a $40 billion expense, and they're building one of the largest auto plants in the world. They're going to produce over 200,000 cars a year. Toyota, likewise, they're spending a lot of money on building new plants. We only lost auto plants. We were losing. We went 49 years without building a new one. Now we're building more auto plants than we've ever built before. And our whole country is booming. We're booming like we've never boomed before. We've cleaned hundreds of sites of graffiti, fixed over 2,300 lighting fixtures in Washington D.C., cleaned and renovated over 83 statues and fountains and monuments, removed hundreds of squalid homeless encampments. We had encampments on most of the park land that you now see. In many cases it's going to start in the spring, but we're replacing all of the grass on all of the parks, because like the human being, grass has a life also. You have to replace grass. And in this case, in Florida, it's once every 12 years with Bermuda grass. Here we can take a lot longer, but this grass has never ever been replaced, and we're replacing much of it. We were given a gift of grass from a great company, Scotts, of the White House. The White House, they did it free of charge. They did it with love, too. The grass in front of the White House. If you take a look at the new helipad and all of the grass and surroundings, that's brand new and it's beautiful. It's never looked like that. They put topsoil down and they put grass where it had no topsoil. They were surprised you could even have grass. The grass in front of the White House was a very inferior grass for many, many years. And now it's beautiful. It's all brand new. And people have commented, 'What happened to the grass? It's so beautiful in front of the White House.' We've... in front and in back. They've, free of charge, they've agreed to do the entire White House. So, they've done the entire front section surrounding the new ballroom and the brand new helipad, which has been getting, by the way, great reviews. The helipad was desperately needed. They were landing helicopters, big new helicopters. They were landing it literally in the mud, and it was dangerous. I mean, things can topple over, except that the pilots are the best in the world. They're the best in the world. And we fully repaired dozens of previously broken down... We have fountains that weren't touched for 50 years, hadn't worked for 35 years, they had grass growing through them. They had graffiti, red graffiti mostly. And that's pretty bad, because when you spray the red paint on limestone and certain types of stone that isn't hard like granite, you spray them, it sinks in. It's a very bad thing. We were able to do a real job and bring them back around Columbus Circle, Lafayette Park. Lafayette Park, by the way, is coming out. It's almost finished. That's the front entrance to the White House. And we've spent... I made a donation, a big one, and a lot of other people did. And Lafayette Park looks incredible again. And Meridian Hill Park, we brought them all back. Columbus Circle. While past administrations tore down statues, allowed thugs and murderers to run wild, and let our capital fall into shameful disrepair, we're treating our capital city with the love and the honor that it deserves. We respect it. Millions of visitors here come from all over the world, and they're all coming back to Washington. It's booming again because it's safe and beautiful again. All of the homeless encampments have been removed, by the way, as of last month. And the parks are really looking good. And again, they're going to be... they're all being regrassed. And that's a big deal, regrassing. That's a... it's a lot of area, but they're all being regrassed. Our country is strong, respected, and prosperous once more. And our capital is cleaner, and safer, and more spectacular than ever. You see the Lincoln Memorial and you see how all of it... they had graffiti stains on it. That's just terrible. I mean, who would do it? But we got it. Well, we don't have graffiti in Washington anymore. And if you get caught putting graffiti on any of our beautiful Corinthian marbles... there's so many buildings with Corinthian... the Corinthian columns are the most beautiful in the world. You get caught doing it, you're going to serve a long time in prison.

As you know, this is the last day before the midterm elections. The most important midterm, I believe, in our lifetime. The Democrat Party has nominated the most extreme and dangerous slate of candidates in American history. These are the most dangerous candidates ever put up. There's never been anything like what we're seeing: jihadists and Muslim Brotherhood members and people that nobody can even believe what we're looking at, and all committed to the same radical agenda: open borders, raising your taxes by trillions of dollars, taking away your guns, transgender utilization of your children, abolishing oil and natural gas, sending energy costs skyrocketing, and opening the floodgates to millions of migrants from all over the world, hoping to get them to be able to vote. That's the only reason they're letting them in. They want them to be able to vote. With your vote, we will decide. These extremists will be given power or not power. We'll either keep America strong. I think we're having... this is the golden age of America. We've never done anything like it. When you hear $25 trillion in wealth created in a short period of time, it's not even two years, a long way from two years. January 20th is two years that we took over. But there's never been a time like this. We have... we fought for 250 years to make it great. We're not going to let it be torn down by a bunch of people that have failed everywhere they've been, because the ideologies that you're talking about, various ideologies, they've always failed every single time. So, we'll defend our country, our culture, and our heritage for generations to come. We're going to keep it the way it is. We're going to make it better and just.

So two days ago it was reported that the Democrat nominee for Senate in Michigan, Abdul El-Sayed, qualified for the ballot by campaigning and soliciting signatures at radical mosques and called the United States the house of Satan. They call it the house of Satan. And we changed that. We call the United States the house of God. They call it the house of Satan. We don't want people that call the United States the house of Satan. When you vote, remember a party that hates America cannot be allowed to rule over the people who built our country. Many of you are right in front of us. I saw him last night. I saw him in Kansas. I saw him in Iowa. I saw him in Mississippi. I saw him in Texas and many other places. We did 29 stops and we had big rallies, the biggest rallies ever by far for a midterm election. Nobody's ever seen anything like it. And that means there's love. And those rallies were love. Recent news has also proved that again the Democrat Party is very, very corrupt. In Alaska, the Democrats conspired to get a fake Dan Sullivan on the ballot to confuse voters and run against the real Dan Sullivan. So, we got somebody named Dan Sullivan to run against Dan Sullivan, and hoping that... and it would do that. It's corrupt. It's really a fraudulent election. We've achieved more in less than two years than any administration in American history. And I've kept every single promise I made, except far more. I've actually kept far more promises than I made. We've done much more than I promised. And we have the most secure border in American history. Right now, we have a border that... the people that make up the list, and I don't make them up, we've gone 17 months without one person entering our country illegally from the southern border. Before that, it was 25 million came in, and they came in from mental institutions and prisons, and they were drug dealers, very sick people in many ways. We passed the largest tax cuts in American history with no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. And oil today is down $10, which is the biggest drop in oil in history. There's never been any single day where oil has gone down that much, down $10, and it's going to go down a lot further because we're winning with Iran. Easily winning. Their navy is gone. Their air force is gone, laying all over the runways of Iran in little pieces. The anti-aircraft, their missile capacity is weighed down, and their missile-building capacity is weighed down. And they have no money, and about the only thing they have is the highest inflation in the last 15 years for any country, over 300% inflation, and they want to make a deal, and that could happen. So personal incomes are the highest in history. The poverty rate is at an all-time record low, meaning good. Best poverty rate we've ever had in history. Best personal incomes we've ever had in history. American exports are at an all-time high, and more people are working today than at any point in the history of our country. And the United States is now by far the largest supplier of oil and natural gas anywhere in the world. And when you add our conquest of Venezuela, we won the war in Venezuela in one day, and we're taking in hundreds of billions of dollars of oil every single day coming in from Venezuela, which, as you know, is a very vital source. And when you add the United States and Venezuela together, and then you add Greenland if you'd like, because we also have Greenland now, we worked out a great deal. We want to thank Denmark and Europe for making that possible. But you know, when you heard, 'Oh, Greenland, United...' well, it was very vital to us. We got Greenland on an unlimited basis. But when you add just Venezuela and the United States, we have almost 50% of the world's oil. We have more than Saudi Arabia and Russia by far put together, because our country is doing so well. Also, as you know, and I say it because we've done it with 1776 for our soldiers. 1776, and our soldiers got that. But we're going to do... if we win the election, everybody is going to get $5,000. Every adult is going to get $5,000, but you have to spend it in the United States of America.

The Democrats want to blow all of this up by electing communist jihadists, and the United States Congress will not allow that to happen. We've got some big races tomorrow. Well, I guess some of the voting has already gone on, but tomorrow is election day, more traditional, and we can't let that happen. We have to keep our Congress strong, free, a little bit of apple pie. There's something very nice about that. We're not looking to have a jihadist be in our Senate, as an example. And I've traveled all across the country, spoken at all of these rallies I've done over the last two and a half weeks, and America is ready to go. They're ready to vote. I hope they're ready to do the right thing if they vote. Because I won the last election. We had record numbers. We won many states in records. Florida, Texas, and so many states. I won. Almost every state that I went to, I was saying we have the all-time record. But with all of those records, it all doesn't matter if we're going to be foolish and let people that hate our country win an election. Because if the people that voted for me and voted in the last election where we had such a great victory, if they go out and vote, just a good portion of them, we will win in a landslide. Now, that doesn't happen because usually whoever the sitting president is, Republican or Democrat, good or bad, good president, great president, bad, for some reason, the sitting president doesn't win the midterms, but we gave this a very strong shot. So, in terms of things, we have the most secure border in our history. We have the largest tax cuts in our history. We stopped foreign fraudsters and welfare amnesty for illegals, and we were able to catch billions and billions of Democrat-approved fraud in Minnesota and other places. And that's just beginning. We're going to catch hundreds of billions. We've already got tens of billions. We actually already have over a hundred billion. It's like shooting fish in a barrel. So corrupt. A lot of states, meaning Minnesota, many, many states, mostly, I will say, mostly run by Democrats. Low-cost energy versus the Green New Scam and record inflation. That's what they had. They had literally record inflation, the highest prices in history, the highest inflation in history. They had the Green New Scam where everybody was going to be dead in 12 years, and here we are, here we are, not dead, we're a long way from dead. And we had an expression, 'drill, baby, drill,' and that's what's happened, and we're making an absolute fortune in our country again, more than Saudi Arabia and Russia. They're the second and third. We would be... if I weren't president, we would be in no place, and now we're in first place. And we have no nuclear weapons for Iran. We're not going to allow Iran ever to have a nuclear weapon, and they understand that. They've understood that, and they've said it even recently. We will not have a nuclear weapon, and we want to protect our Second Amendment, and we're not going to let you... we're not going to let these people do anything to disturb the Second Amendment of our country. It's a very important thing, and we're going to protect our children from the transgender sexual violations, the horrible treatment that they've gotten. So, I just want to say that we're very proud of what's behind me, but we're much even more proud of all the statues that we've done all over Washington, and even more proud than that of having stopped crime in Washington. And the police have been unbelievable. You guys have done a great job. Once you had a little leadership, it was sort of easy, wasn't it? But you've done a great job. We let you do your job. Nobody does it better. That goes for New York, too. You know, in New York, if they would call us, if Chicago or Illinois would call us, and if California, namely Los Angeles, would call us, we would love to go there. We would solve the problem. We did in Memphis, Tennessee. They had the worst crime rate in the whole country, and it's down 83%. And a friend of mine who was leaving Memphis is going to stay now. He said, 'I've never seen anything like it,' the difference between now and one year ago. The governor... they have to ask. The governor and the mayor called and they asked. New Orleans, Louisiana, New Orleans as they call it. The crime rate was out of control. I got a call from Jeff Landry, the governor of Louisiana. He said, 'Please, we have a big event coming up. We have our biggest event coming up.' And he said, 'It's a crime haven. So many people are being killed. They have Mardi Gras.' And they said, 'Could you please help us?' This was six, seven months ago. We did. Crime rate's down 82%. So, think of it, Memphis and New Orleans. But more importantly, I mean, from my standpoint, Washington, D.C., our great capital, has to be crime-free. And it is now just about crime-free. Soon it'll be crime-free. And it's also a beautiful place. And the beauty is very important, but without the great stats that I gave you on crime, it all wouldn't matter. So we're not calling people now from Iowa to tell them that their son has been killed. He'll be coming home in a casket. Somebody from Indiana, family from Indiana, 'I'm sorry to inform you, but your son was standing at the base of a very beautiful monument and he was killed instantly, and he'll be coming home to you in a coffin.' We don't do that anymore. We have a safe city. And if people do things that are wrong, we've removed over 5,000 career criminals. We've removed them. They're out of here. And you know, one stat, I'll just leave this with you on crime: 2% of the people create 91% of the crime. So, we can handle those numbers. It was 50% or 20% or 10%. 2% create 90%, 91% of the crime, and we removed those 2% from Memphis, and we removed them from New Orleans, and we really removed them from Washington. So I just want to thank everybody. The reflecting pool is great. It's a beautiful, beautiful thing to watch, and it's been, again, 1922. I'm not blaming anybody. It's 1922. It's never worked the way it should, and now it's a beautiful reflection. The pipes have just been changed. The whole thing is in great shape, and we're going to make sure nobody vandalizes it. And I'm going to ask the park police and the people to really watch, because a lot of people were sort of watching as this group of people slashed the hell out of it. And I think they were a little bit... like a weird feeling came upon them, and they didn't get it. But we learned a lot. We learned a lot. So, I just want to thank everybody for what you've all done. And in particular, I'd like to thank Doug Burgum. What a job you're...

You're a real leader. Would you like to say a few words, Doug, please?

Well, good afternoon, everybody. It's an amazing day, and so many things you heard from the president talk about the incredible statistics related to our safe and beautiful capital. But none of those statistics would happen without leadership, and that leadership happened on the day that President Trump signed the executive order that empowered all of us to go do that job. So I've got a lot of people I want to share gratitude with, but no one more than President Trump for what he did on his leadership to make this happen.

And those of us who get an opportunity to work with President Trump every day know why he signed that. He signed it because he cares deeply about this country and the people that live here. And of course, he knows that this is the greatest country in the world. But then very simply, he asked the question: why wouldn't, if we have the greatest country in the world, why wouldn't we have the safest and most beautiful capital in the world? And he also had a perspective. He'd been president four years earlier, and when he left, you know, things weren't in that bad a shape. But over the four years that happened with COVID and everything else, the hollowing out of the city, the people working remotely from home that never came back, you know, all of the hundreds of thousands of people from the federal government that were no longer working in the city, killing small businesses. And then again, just the takeover of almost every triangle and circle park in the city, those are also federally driven parks. Those all became homeless encampments. You know, people would arrive at Union Station and it was a mess. And then they'd walk out on Columbus Circle and you wouldn't, a congressman who'd been here for 20 years, even know it was a fountain, graffiti-covered Carrara marble. And President Trump saw that when he was driving around. He's got an eye as a builder. And he would call me and he'd say, "Hey, there's graffiti at XYZ. What about this homeless encampment there? Can we help take care of these people?" And the answer was always yes, we can take care of it. But that led to this executive order. And so today is a day of gratitude for President Trump and all the people that executed that. But as he said, it's about love. It's about honor. It's about respect. And when you clean up your capital, it's about honoring the past. It's about gratitude for the present, but it's also inspiration for the future. It's our 250th anniversary celebration. Over 40 million people were going to visit this capital this year. It's across all of our national park sites. The National Mall is the most visited place. And so again, I want to thank President Trump, he's given a shout out, but we've got Scott Breton and leadership here from the US Park Police. This is the oldest federal law enforcement. George Washington created them in 1791. They've doubled in size. We've given them their authorities. They've gone back. They've led the charge. The guns, the crimes, the criminals that they've taken off the street, they've been a key part of driving these stats to the lowest level we've seen in 125 years. So let's give it up for the US Park Police.

And I want to say they do put their lives on the line. During this last year, there was one of our officers that was shot. Fortunately, he survived that and he's actually back at work. But Ryan McDermott, who I had an opportunity to do a ride along with, when he got shot, the first person that wanted to call him to make sure he was okay was President Trump. And he did. He did call him. Ryan thought it was a crank phone call. He didn't answer. President Trump left the greatest voicemail in history. And I think every park police officer has heard it because Ryan sent it to everybody. But President Trump cares about the people in law enforcement. They're on the front line. He cares deeply. Another group he's had a chance to work great all the time with is the National Park Service, the incredible team. Someone asked President Trump if he's ever visited a National Park, and his answer was, "Well, I actually live in one," because the White House is National Park property. And of course, what he's done at the White House to make the White House beautiful is amazing. But our National Historic Preservation Crew, the National Park Service folks, the folks that have gone out and fixed these monuments and these fountains, the contractors and the workers, the president's a builder. You can't keep him away. We came out here in June just to say thank you to the people that were working day and night around the clock to try to get the pool ready for the 250th celebration. But we got a group of them here. Jessica Bowwin, our acting director of the National Park Service, the whole group, Frank Lans, everybody that's worked on this. Just know that it's not just those of us at Interior and the president, but the whole country respects you for what you do both here and around the country. So let's give it up for the National Park Service.

And of course, under President Trump's leadership, we also had an opportunity just hundreds of yards away from here, opening up yet another memorial to our veterans just 10 days ago. 700,000 veterans served in Desert Storm and Desert Shield. That project had been driven by private sector volunteers and veterans for 16 years. But here we are under President Trump's leadership dedicating that beautiful memorial on a Saturday morning just a few weeks ago, and that brings in line all the when we talk about the monuments that we've restored across the city: World War II, Korea, Vietnam. This mall is about honoring our veterans. I don't know anybody that cares more about our veterans than President Trump. But to all those veteran groups, and again to President Trump, let's thank everybody for the great work as part of this restoration is about honoring our veterans.

And then the last thing right here on the reflecting pool, this is just a symbol of the great work that's gone on. But as we stand at this historic location, and what an honor to be here with President Trump, and an honor to be here as the 55th Secretary of the Interior. Of course, the Secretary of the Interior should be renamed a number of different things, but some people jokingly call it the Department of Everything. 14 time zones, 500 million acres of land, 700 million acres of subsurface, 1.3 billion of offshore. And of course, when President Trump talks about the prosperity that we're seeing in our nation, that is also his policies in action, because our nation is a nation that's now getting back to being food secure, more grazing for our country, more timber production for affordable homes, and more oil and gas to drive the price and affordability of energy down in our country. And of course, everything else that goes on, those working families that help make America great, he cares about them. I saw it when I was with them yesterday in Iowa and Kansas. And of course, energy security and food security lead to national security, and we have an opportunity to do that. But right here in Washington DC where we stand today, the reflecting pool is part of the Lincoln Memorial. It is an extension of the Lincoln Memorial. People that would vandalize this pool is no different than throwing a bucket of red paint on the statue of Lincoln itself. And it's a physical connection between the monument that you see behind the president and I, the Washington Monument, the founder of our country, and this monument, the Lincoln Memorial, in honoring the person who saved our union. And so it's at this intersection, at this memorial, it's a direct reflection of respect for our history. And that's why President Trump said, "I want to go and be on the steps. I want to stand in front of the reflecting pool at this intersection" and to deliver the message that his administration, under his leadership, cares about how our country is viewed to the world. He cares about the safety of the visitors that come here from around the country to see this country, and he understands that beauty matters and safety matters, but he also understands that that's a choice. And when he talks about his offer to other cities, President Trump has laid out a blueprint for what any large major metro in the country could do. Any one of them could be standing up today talking about cleaner monuments and less homelessness, more care for their people, less graffiti, and lower and lower crime numbers. Any city in America could do this. It's a choice. And President Trump has chosen and proven that with leadership, we can choose to have beauty. We can choose to have safety, and it can be done, but it takes a leader. It takes a leader like President Trump. So again, the results speak for themselves. The news can print whatever they want, but you can't change the fact that this city is cleaner, safer than it ever has been, and it is a model for every American city. And we're standing here today because President Trump asked us all to go do the work and deliver that for the American people. So one more time, thank you, President Trump, for all you've done.

Fantastic. I just want to add we're working with Doug and the group very hard. We're going for a final approval of the triumphal arch military complex, and that's in the circle by Arlington Bridge. It's spectacular. It will be more beautiful, and to me the most beautiful arch. 59 cities have them. The most beautiful arch to me is the one in Paris. It's called the Arc de Triomphe. And we will be doing this, the triumphal arch military complex. It's going to have tremendous drone capability. I would say sniper or shooter capability. Its height, its platforms, its storage capacity is incredible. It's right smack in the middle of everything. So very important for our military. And from a beautification standpoint, it'll be the most beautiful arch in the world. It's more beautiful than the Arc de Triomphe. The quality of material we're using is at a better, higher level. The size is about 20% larger, and it's going to be beautiful. I think it'll be one of the great, it'll compare to that, and it'll be one of the great things we've ever done. We're also going to be doing, working with Doug and Greg and all of the great people, and we're also going to be doing right behind us, right behind us, you know, the Lincoln Memorial was supposed to be fronting on the Potomac River, but it never got there because they started building roads back there. And we're going to be doing a promenade, which is a beautiful project. It's a flat project, not going to impede. It's basically a walkway down to the water, and we call it a promenade, and that's going to have a great, it's a great architectural concept, simple and beautiful in white stone, and you'll be able to then walk to where it was originally. That was going to be obviously, that was going to be the entrance to the Lincoln Memorial, the Potomac, but it then got cluttered with a roadway, another roadway, a highway, lots of things got built, and you never were able to get back. We're going to solve that problem, and you're going to have a promenade. We're building the National Garden of American Heroes, and that's going to be spectacular, that we're working on right now, and the work has already started, and that'll be from 250 to 500 great American heroes in statue form, done by the greatest artists in the world. They'll be done by many artists, but the greatest artists. We'll be doing statues to our great American heroes, and we're actually forming lists right now to find out who's going to be there. Could go from 250 to 500 statues. It'll be incredible. It's on about 45 acres, right on the Potomac. And right next to that, we're doing a renovation of the golf course, which is in a horrible condition. Very dangerous and horrible condition. The walls are caving in. The whole thing is a mess. And we're doing a renovation of the golf course, and we're going to make it a world championship course for the US Open, for the PGA Championship, for the Ryder Cup, President's Cup. It'll be in shape to play that on one day's notice. It's going to be built to the highest standards of golf, and it'll be unbelievable. And you know, you have views of the different monuments, and it's going to be open to the public, and we're going to give a discount to people that live in Washington DC, a substantial discount, so they can play it. But it's in very bad shape right now. It's, as they say, it's had it. It's a mess. And we will be building a world-class golf course open to the public, and it will be something really great. So we have a lot of great things planned for Washington. And I could get into the nation, but for that, you don't have enough time. But I can only say that we had a war with Iran. We won. We had a war with, and you know, I don't know if you even call it a war because we haven't been doing any fighting for months. You know, we just, we control the Strait of Hormuz. We control it and strongly control it. We took out, Wall Street Journal reported we took out last week more oil than at any time in the history of this rate, and again, oil prices are plunging now. They're plunging a record. Nobody's ever seen a plunge like this. And they'll be down. I hope people realize that when they go into the voting booth, because we had to stop Iran from having a nuclear weapon. If we allowed Iran to have a nuclear weapon, this country could never function in the same way. The whole world would be a different place. So we've stopped that. We stopped that a year ago with those beautiful B-2 bombers which hit every single mark and just put hundreds of tons of rock on top of everything. But we continue that. But you know, if you think we're talking about war, it's not a war. We haven't, we've done very little fighting. We wiped out their military, their air force, and we did everything we had to do. Wiped out their leaders too. We wiped out their leaders, the first level of leaders, a second level of leaders, and they've asked us, please stop doing that, and we will. But it looks like that's coming together very nicely, very, very, and that's why I guess the oil prices dropped so precipitously. People found out about it. So we're doing well. Our country is doing great. I think it's the greatest we've ever done. We had a great first term in terms of the economy. We had the best term ever. We had the most successful economy. I believe that this economy, with all that's happening, with the $22.2 trillion being invested, and with already the creation of 25 trillion, with a T, $25 trillion of wealth, we've never done anywhere even close to that. We do, we go negative with the way we were going. But with $25 trillion in wealth, a number that no country's ever even come close to. And I think this is indeed, as I said before, it's a golden age of America. We have a country that we can be proud of again. We were laughed at all over the world for four years. We were laughed at like we were stupid people. We were laughed at by every ruler, every president, every prime minister, every king, every queen. But they don't laugh anymore. Thank you very much, everybody. Appreciate it. Thank you.

Hello. Let me thank you for your time. You work a 40-hour week for a living. I just send it on down the line. This is for the one swing.

Hello, let me thank you for your time. You work a 40-hour week for a living. I just send it on down the line. This is for the one swing.