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00:00Thank you very much.
00:20That's a lot of good-looking people there.
00:22This is great.
00:24It's a great honor to be with you.
00:25And I want to thank everyone and welcome you
00:28to the most spectacular place, the White House.
00:31It's just an amazing place to live and to work in.
00:35And, you know, I've seen a lot of good places,
00:39but believe me, there's nothing like this.
00:40It's just very special.
00:41And it's great to have you here to celebrate
00:44Women's History Month.
00:45That's a big deal.
00:47And today, we honor the legacy of incredible women
00:50like Betsy Ross, Harriet Tubman, Susan B.
00:55Anthony, Clara Barton, and Amelia Earhart, all legends.
01:01And their extraordinary courage and patriotism
01:04and devotion propelled our nation to glory
01:07and to greatness.
01:09They are great women, many great women.
01:12And thank you for the vote.
01:13You were very nice to me.
01:14The women, we set every record.
01:17We loved it.
01:19We loved that vote.
01:22But we're delighted to be joined by some of the
01:24pioneering women who are making history in our own time.
01:28A woman that's just absolutely incredible.
01:32I can't tell you enough about her.
01:34She ran my campaign.
01:35We kept winning, winning, winning.
01:37And then we did well, where she won Florida
01:41by record numbers.
01:43And I said, you know, the second time, I said,
01:45well, just keep running Florida.
01:47And the big one was stolen from us, you know.
01:49So I said, we better get her for number three.
01:52And we won in records.
01:53We won every swing state.
01:55We won by millions of votes the popular vote.
01:58We won everything.
01:58We won the districts at 2,750 to 500, 507,
02:05or something like that.
02:07And we just won so big.
02:09And her name is Susie Wiles.
02:11And she — where are you, Susie?
02:18And she was just named by one of the very prominent
02:22media groups.
02:22I won't mention it because I cannot stand the people.
02:24But she was just named as — and it's true —
02:28the most powerful woman in the world.
02:31Susie.
02:33That is crazy, huh?
02:36That's a big — her father was a great —
02:39Pat Summerall, a great announcer,
02:41a really great football player,
02:42and announced her for the NFL for, like, 27 years.
02:45He really got the NFL.
02:46He did pretty well with the NFL.
02:48He got him off to a very good start, didn't he?
02:50But he was great.
02:51But she's got those same traits.
02:52So, thank you very much, Susie.
02:54Great job.
02:55Also, we're going to go to somebody
03:01that's really the rage right now.
03:02She's the youngest-ever White House Press Secretary,
03:06Caroline Levin.
03:08Caroline, look at you, huh?
03:14They said, Sir, Sir, she's just too young.
03:18And I said, I don't know about that.
03:19She did awfully good because she did it during the campaign,
03:22and she was awfully good.
03:24And she's been amazing.
03:25She just did another one just a little while ago.
03:27She looked at Susie and looked at me.
03:30I don't know. I think I'm ready, Sir.
03:32How old are you? Twenty-seven, right?
03:33Twenty-seven.
03:35And I said, You're not too young.
03:36And she's knocking them dead.
03:37Everyone's talking about you.
03:38Thank you very much. Great job.
03:44And we have somebody else who's like a rocket ship.
03:47The Counselor to the President.
03:48She served me well.
03:50I'm going to miss her, but we'll see a lot of her anyway.
03:54I hope it's on a friendly basis
03:55because I've got to be very concerned
03:58because she's going to be the new U.S.
03:59Attorney for the District of New Jersey.
04:02Alina. Where's Alina Haba?
04:04Alina. Alina Haba.
04:09Thanks, Alina. She's going to be great.
04:11I'll tell you, she's going to be great.
04:12She's a great lawyer and lives in New Jersey.
04:16And I said, That sounds like a good combination.
04:19Everybody wanted that job. They're all looking for the job.
04:22And I said, Wait a minute, doesn't Alina live in New Jersey?
04:24Yeah, I think Alina's going to get that job.
04:27So, congratulations, Alina. It's fantastic.
04:30I'm also thrilled to say that we have more women in our Cabinet
04:33than any Republican President in the history of our country.
04:36And joining us today is a woman I've known a long time.
04:47You talk about strong women. This is a strong woman.
04:50Remember, they were saying, He doesn't like strong women.
04:53That may be true, but if that's true,
04:55I'm in deep trouble because I'm surrounded.
04:57I got the strongest women.
04:59And this is a beautiful, strong, wonderful woman.
05:03Attorney General Pam Bondi.
05:06But yesterday, she was talking about these guys
05:16that like burning down cars and plants and everything else.
05:19And I was watching her on television.
05:21She said, I'm going to get you, we're going to find you,
05:26and you're going to suffer.
05:27And I say, Man, I don't want her after me.
05:31And it's amazing, the attacks have gone down
05:34very, very precipitously.
05:36Pam is fantastic. Thank you very much, Pam.
05:39Really amazing.
05:40Along with a woman who was given a very hard
05:49and difficult problem, the cost of eggs.
05:51This was the problem, the cost of eggs.
05:54Eggs were through the roof.
05:55If you got to see the Biden chart,
05:57it's like a rocket ship and Trump is like this way.
06:00But I gave Brooke the Secretary of Agriculture
06:06and I didn't know it.
06:09I didn't know it as she studied that in college.
06:12I didn't know that I was going to give it to her anyway.
06:14Like it didn't matter that she said it,
06:17but it sort of helped. Right.
06:18But she came in and she lowered the cost of eggs
06:21by almost 50 percent in three weeks.
06:26Someday you're going to tell us that secret.
06:28I want to find out, but the chart looks great.
06:30It's Biden like this and then we're like this.
06:32But we also, by the way, we lowered energy costs
06:37really like tremendously.
06:39Energy is way down, cost of gasoline is way down.
06:43The cost of groceries, a word that I used a lot
06:45of the campaign, it's like an old fashioned word,
06:47but it's a beautiful word, very descriptive word.
06:49And the groceries are coming down, Brooke,
06:52at a level that very,
06:53I mean, we're finally getting costs
06:55under control in our country
06:57and people don't like talking about it
06:59because it's so good, it's so positive.
07:01I haven't seen one story on eggs plummeting by 50 percent,
07:05but someday they'll get around to writing it.
07:08Secretary of Education,
07:09she's trying to put herself out of a job.
07:12Linda, she's trying to put herself out of a job.
07:17She's moving education back to the states
07:20and she's doing it at a rapid rate.
07:23And she's an amazing woman.
07:24I've known her also for a long time.
07:26She's been amazing no matter where she's been.
07:28She's been successful,
07:30including with her husband building a tremendous empire.
07:34And Linda McMahon is very special.
07:35Thank you, Linda. Thank you.
07:37And it's getting praise, by the way,
07:42the concept of moving education back to the states,
07:45back to the mothers and the fathers.
07:49And you probably do it for less than half
07:52and you're going to have great, great schools.
07:54You know, I say that in our country, they have charts
07:58and they rate the countries, various countries.
08:00And Norway and Denmark and Sweden
08:03and lots of places are rated at the top.
08:06And Finland, China is rated very high, too.
08:10Tell me that's that takes the big problem out
08:12because if they can do it, that's big.
08:14So we can do it.
08:16And we're rated toward the bottom.
08:17We're at number 37, 38, 39 or 40 out of 40.
08:21So we're just about last.
08:23And yet we're first in one very nice category cost per pupil.
08:27So obviously, there's something wrong.
08:29We just have to repeat that, Linda.
08:31And everybody says, well, I guess it's time to do it.
08:34And it's been that way for a long time.
08:36And originally, we had it run by home state.
08:39So we never had that kind of a problem.
08:40But it's going to be Katie.
08:42It's going to be brought back again.
08:44And Linda is going to do it.
08:45And I just say, you know, she said,
08:48you basically want me to get out of government, don't you?
08:53I said, that's right. Do your job and get out.
08:55But I promise I'll have something else for you.
08:56Okay. I promise I'll have something even better for you.
09:00All right. But you're doing a job, but we appreciate it.
09:03Also, a special man. He's got a tremendous majority.
09:06It's so easy. A majority of about one.
09:09I think he's the only man could do the job
09:11because everybody loves him.
09:12Everybody respects him. He's really smart.
09:15Really. He's so nice. People say, is he smart?
09:17I said, you have no ideas.
09:19He's actually, you know, he's really nice
09:22because he's smart.
09:23He knows it's the only way you can live with it.
09:25Where is Mike? Mike, it's the only way you can do it.
09:29You got he's the nicest guy,
09:31but in actuality, he's not a nice person.
09:33He's ruthless.
09:35You haven't seen this guy when he gets angry.
09:37I don't want it. I'll ruin your image overnight.
09:41He is a phenomenal guy.
09:43Our great speaker, Mike Johnson.
09:44Thank you very much.
09:46I've just I don't know. Is that good or bad for you?
09:52I'm not so sure. It's OK.
09:54He said, whatever the heck you want to say is OK.
09:58First female Republican attorney general of Iowa
10:01and an early supporter of Trump.
10:03And where's Brenna Bird? Brenna. Brenna.
10:06Thank you very much. She's so popular in Iowa.
10:10She came out so early and I appreciate it very much.
10:13That's great.
10:14Alaska Lieutenant Governor Nancy Dahlstrom.
10:17Nancy, thank you, Nancy. Thank you very much.
10:22You have a great governor, too, by the way, Nancy.
10:25He's also tall. He's seriously tall.
10:27I mean, guys like seven foot two.
10:30He is a tall guy, but he's a great governor.
10:32I have a son who's tall like him and Baron is very tall.
10:37They're all tall, but Baron seriously tall.
10:39Right. So anyway, say hello to him.
10:41He's a great governor.
10:43South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Pamela Abbott.
10:47Where is Pamela? Thank you very much.
10:48Good job you're doing. Great job. Good.
10:52And good luck with everything. I know it's big stuff, right?
10:56Oh, good. Thank you. Well, you have a great governor.
10:59Oklahoma Agricultural Commissioner Blaine Arthur.
11:03Blaine. Thank you, Blaine. Good. Nice to see you.
11:08And so many other incredible women.
11:10I'm going to make so many enemies
11:11because I'm looking here. I know every one of them
11:13and I'm supposed to say their names.
11:14I maybe we'll get to it. I don't know.
11:16It's a long list for four long years.
11:19We had an administration that tried to abolish
11:22the very concept of womanhood
11:24and replace it with radical gender ideology.
11:28Maybe you heard something about that.
11:30They destroyed women's spaces
11:32and even tried to replace the word mother
11:34with the term birther person.
11:36A mother became a birther person.
11:39What's that all about? Then you wonder why they lost.
11:41They're trying to figure out why did they lose.
11:44I saw a congressman today for the Democrats.
11:46He was having a big fight on television early this morning,
11:50trying to make it so that really he thinks
11:54men should play in women's sports.
11:55He hasn't given that up yet. He was fighting like crazy.
11:58I said, this guy is going to lose.
11:59He's going to lose badly.
12:01The whole party is still into that.
12:02They haven't learned under.
12:03And we don't want them to learn, frankly.
12:05We want them to keep fighting. Let's not tell them.
12:07Under the Trump administration,
12:09we're ending the Marxist war on women.
12:12And you had a war on women.
12:14And we're protecting women's rights,
12:15defending women's dignity,
12:17and standing up for the American moms and daughters.
12:20So many are represented here, great people in this room.
12:24American women have never had bigger champions
12:27than all of us in the White House.
12:29I mean, it's me, but it's the group of men and women.
12:32We have a lot of men that are like Howard,
12:35our head of commerce, I see, is here.
12:37What are you doing here, Howard?
12:38Huh? Oh, that's a good — he's got his beautiful wife here.
12:42I was saying, what's Howard doing here?
12:45He's like — there aren't too many men
12:46in this audience, actually. But he's a big advocate.
12:50And we're going to be making — right after this,
12:52we're going to be making a big, special announcement,
12:54Howard and I and Scott and a few of the people on cars.
12:58We have Liberation Day in America.
13:01That's where we take back all of this money
13:04that's been ripped off from us for so many decades.
13:07And we start a process.
13:09We're going to go with the tariffs on cars.
13:11And as you've probably been reading —
13:13it's all over the place, you've been reading and seeing
13:15and watching — car companies and every other form of company,
13:19they're pouring back into our country
13:21at levels never seen before.
13:23We're up to, I guess, close, Howard,
13:24to $5 trillion of investments already.
13:27And there's never been that much for a year.
13:29We did that in a period of six weeks.
13:33There's never been any numbers like that we've never seen.
13:35They're all coming. They're all coming in
13:37so they don't have to pay tariffs.
13:39It's very simple, because if you build your product in the USA,
13:42there is no tariff.
13:43On day one, I made the official policy
13:45of the United States government
13:47that there are only two genders — male and female.
13:50Is that right?
13:52Is there anybody — seriously,
13:59is there anybody that disagrees with that in this room?
14:02I was thinking maybe somebody from the press might raise their hand.
14:05I don't think so. There aren't too many people.
14:08You know, it's amazing.
14:09It's got to be like a 98 percent issue, right?
14:13So what are they doing, Marjorie? What are they doing?
14:17They're fighting for a 2 percent issue.
14:18That's good. Let them keep doing it.
14:21No matter how many surgeries you have or chemicals you inject,
14:25if you're born with male DNA in every cell of your body,
14:29you can never become a woman.
14:31You're not going to be a woman.
14:33And that's why, last month,
14:37I proudly signed a historic executive order
14:40to ban men from competing in women's sports.
14:43And it was very popular and very — very popular.
14:49We had a track meet,
14:51and it was so disparaging to great women athletes.
14:54I've known so many great women athletes.
14:56I gave Annika Sorenstam the Medal of Freedom here
15:00not so long ago.
15:01And these are unbelievable athletes.
15:03But it's so ridiculous. They had a track meet.
15:06And you heard me talking about a long-distance track meet.
15:09The man won by five hours and 14 minutes and 12 seconds.
15:14And I said, This is not good. And you want to see worse?
15:17Take a look at the weightlifting records.
15:19Take a look at the boxing. Take a look at this.
15:21The whole thing is ridiculous.
15:23And, frankly, it's demeaning to women.
15:25And you are superior to men, in my opinion.
15:27What do I know? You are.
15:30I've seen you. Now they are superior.
15:34I've known it all my life, and I'm not happy about it.
15:37I'm not happy.
15:39I also banned puberty blockers.
15:41Can you believe I'm even saying this?
15:47And the sexual mutilation of minor youth.
15:50Now, who would think — you know,
15:52let's go back 10 or 15 years.
15:54If you ever heard a statement like that,
15:56you'd say, What the hell is he even talking about?
15:58Right, Brooke? What is he talking about?
16:00Puberty blockers.
16:02But that's where we are. That's where we've come.
16:04And we're ending it. We're sending it back
16:06to where it came from — oblivion. Right?
16:12So, in the recent election,
16:14we did fantastically well with women.
16:16I kept hearing, Women don't like him.
16:18I said, I think they do. You know who don't like me?
16:22Fake polls don't like me. That's who don't like me.
16:25But we're setting records in so many of these cases.
16:28And I was for women.
16:30I was for the women, the suburban housewife,
16:33where I stopped low-income housing projects
16:36from being built at a house next to you,
16:38where people were being decimated.
16:40The houses were being literally ripped up and destroyed.
16:43And I stopped it, and we've stopped it again.
16:45We had to stop it again. I stopped it first term.
16:47We had a great first term, a really successful first term.
16:51We had the largest increase in stock market value —
16:5488 percent increase in the history of our country.
16:57We gave you the biggest tax cuts.
16:59We gave you the biggest regulation cuts.
17:01We rebuilt our military.
17:03We gave too much of it away to Afghanistan, this character.
17:06I mean, he gave billions and billions of dollars
17:09of it away to Afghanistan.
17:11And maybe we'll have to ask for that back,
17:13although it's getting a little old now.
17:15They're getting a little old. We're building new stuff.
17:18But I will say that it was such an honor
17:20working with so many great women.
17:21I've worked with women all my life.
17:23I've always been ahead on that subject.
17:25I had women in my construction business
17:28putting up skyscrapers in New York 30 years ago,
17:3135 years ago, long before it was in vogue.
17:35And they were phenomenal. Every one of them was phenomenal.
17:38My administration listens to America's moms,
17:41and that's why I recently created
17:43the Presidential Commission to Make America Healthy Again.
17:46And that's really caught on.
17:48That's really caught on.
17:53And Bobby Kennedy, by the way, is doing a great job.
17:55He was — I think it's going to be —
17:58I think it's going to go down as another great choice.
18:01And we just don't want to treat the chronic disease crisis.
18:05We want to prevent our children
18:06from getting sick in the first place.
18:08And there are so many things that we are doing wrong.
18:12Something happened. If you go back 20 years —
18:15autism — think of it, one in 20,000 children.
18:20Think of that. One — autism. You see it all over.
18:24One in 20,000 children. Now it's one in 36 children.
18:31Now, what the hell is that all about?
18:34There's something out there, and we've got to find it.
18:37But can you imagine one in 20,000,
18:39and now it's one in 36 — not 36,000, one in 36 —
18:45children. And I see it. I see it all the time.
18:48And so there's something out there,
18:51and we're going to find it.
18:53We're doing something really wrong.
18:55And it might be very simple to even correct,
18:58but we're looking very hard, and Bobby is looking very hard,
19:00and we're going to figure it out.
19:02And to further support our nation's mothers,
19:08I've signed an executive order
19:10to expand access to fertility treatments like IVF.
19:13That's Katie. Katie. Where's Katie?
19:18Katie called your great — your great senator from Alabama,
19:22she called, and she was, like, in a little bit of angst.
19:25Right? She said, Sir, we just had a ruling
19:28from an Alabama judge who said you couldn't have the clinics IVF.
19:32And I was in my plane, and she said,
19:34It's terrible. It's terrible.
19:35Friends of mine are virtually attacking me.
19:38And said — because they're not really —
19:41people don't talk about it necessarily.
19:43Why should they? But Katie called me up.
19:45She did such a great job, and she said,
19:47Sir, you have to get on this right away.
19:49It's terrible. They're going to close up all the clinics.
19:51They ordered all the clinics closed.
19:53And I said, So, Katie, give me a quick definition, please.
19:56Educate me in a minute or less. And she did.
19:59And I came out totally in favor
20:01of what all of these women wanted.
20:04And it — I mean, it became our issue.
20:06We actually took it away, Mike, from the Democrats.
20:09They were late to the party.
20:11And it was a — really, I give you a lot of credit.
20:13So, thank you very much. Thank you, Katie.
20:15Great job.
20:16And I also signed an executive order
20:21to begin abolishing the Department of Education,
20:24as we said, but also to go back —
20:27to go back and do things with our schoolchildren
20:30that are — that just hasn't been done in many, many years.
20:33But the basic is reading, writing, and arithmetic.
20:36And we want to make sure that they teach English, okay?
20:39But I think we're not going to have a problem.
20:41And you're going to see things happen,
20:42I think, on the education front like nobody —
20:45like nobody can believe. It's very exciting.
20:47Very exciting.
20:50And so many of the states, like Iowa and Idaho and Indiana —
20:55by the way, unrelated, but Indiana —
20:57they just signed Honda,
20:59one of the biggest auto plants in the world, is going.
21:03Honda, big, big company. Would have never come here,
21:05except for, let's say, the election.
21:07I like to say the election result,
21:08but let's give tariffs a little —
21:10a little — well, without the election result,
21:13you wouldn't have the tariffs, right?
21:14So I guess — so I guess it's all about the election, Marjorie.
21:18But one of the biggest anywhere in the world.
21:21They're building in Indiana, big, big plant.
21:23And we'll get — we have many of them going up.
21:26Many plants in other countries have stopped.
21:28They've stopped construction.
21:30One of them, right in the middle of construction,
21:31they're coming — they just signed a contract.
21:33They're going to build it here instead.
21:34So you're going to see that at record —
21:36just remember I told you so in 12 months from now.
21:39But on day one, we're ending the inflation nightmare
21:44that Joe Biden created and caused.
21:46But just by his spending — two things.
21:48His spending, but I think more important,
21:50he destroyed our energy policy.
21:52And energy started going up.
21:54Gasoline, all of — any form of energy went through the roof.
21:58And then what he did to get it down a little bit,
22:01he went back to the Trump policy.
22:02Everything — let them drill, let them —
22:04they were very, very concerned.
22:06And it was too late because that jackrabbit
22:10had gotten out of the nest, and it was too late.
22:13They really screwed us up in so many ways.
22:15How about allowing millions and millions of people
22:18to come into our country?
22:20Open borders, people from all over the world.
22:23Not South America. South America, but all over the world.
22:26They came in from Africa, from Asia,
22:29from all over the world, from prisons.
22:31The prisons were emptied into our country.
22:33I call them prisons and jails —
22:35prison being a slightly tougher term.
22:36But the prisons and jails were emptied into our country.
22:40The mental institutions — and insane asylum, same thing.
22:43Insane asylum is mental institution on steroids, right?
22:47Insane — I say — I used to say Dr. Hannibal Lecter,
22:50the great Dr. Hannibal Lecter, is in a hotel room near you.
22:54And the fake news back there —
22:58a lot of fake news here, by the way.
23:00Fake news would say,
23:00why does he keep mentioning Hannibal Lecter?
23:03I said, you know why? Because I just —
23:05we just won an election.
23:06We got a lot of votes because of Hannibal Lecter.
23:09We don't want to have Hannibal Lecter in our country.
23:12So, we watched what was happening to destroy our country.
23:17And a woman, by the way, the head of Homeland, is doing —
23:22Christy is doing a great job. Christy Noem.
23:24She's doing a great job. She's getting them out.
23:28And Tom Holman.
23:29But Tom Holman and Christy Noem,
23:32they're doing an unbelievable job.
23:34She's tough. She's — she might be tougher than Tom.
23:37Is that pretty tough, right?
23:39I say, Tom is central casting.
23:41But he says, I think she might be tougher than me.
23:43So that's — we needed that
23:44because she's dealing with a rough group of people.
23:46Millions and millions of people.
23:48Twenty-one million people came in.
23:49But of that, at least three million
23:52are serious, serious criminals.
23:54Many of them are murderers — 11,088.
23:57And of that number, about half have murdered
24:00more than one person.
24:01This is not going to end well.
24:02So, we're getting them out in record numbers.
24:05And we're having a lot of problems with the courts
24:07because the courts want to pretend they're President.
24:10And they're not President.
24:11They didn't get 80 million votes.
24:13And they didn't — they're not.
24:14They can't do that to this country.
24:16That's not their job.
24:18But we're getting them out in record numbers.
24:20And it's going to save a lot of lives.
24:22It's — we have some really bad people in this country.
24:25But we — you see the ones we're taking out.
24:26Trin Diaragua, the toughest of all gangs.
24:29MS-13.
24:31And we're getting them out.
24:33So, in just two months, core inflation has dropped
24:36to its lowest pace in four years.
24:38We've got it going down.
24:39The groceries I told you about and energy of all kinds.
24:43Gasoline, it's fallen below now $3.
24:46Three dollars for the first time in years since I was there,
24:50it's fallen below $3.
24:51We're going to get it down quite a bit lower.
24:53That's going to bring prices still further down,
24:55and people are going to be able to buy their groceries again.
24:57And so important.
24:59And, again, I want to just congratulate you, Brooke.
25:01What a job you've done over there with the eggs.
25:03I was in office — I was in office for one week,
25:13and I got — this one article was so bad —
25:17that Donald Trump has caused a massive egg problem.
25:21And I said, this is — and they showed it.
25:23It's like, you know, terrible.
25:25But it was during his term that it went up, right?
25:28And — but they were hammering me.
25:30They thought they had us until I put you in that position.
25:33And I don't know what the hell magic wand you use.
25:37And now they don't talk about it anymore.
25:38It's terrible. Well, we'll talk —
25:40we have to talk about it, you know?
25:42If they don't talk about it, we talk about it.
25:44Right, Brooke? But what a job you've done.
25:46Now we need Congress to pass the largest tax cuts
25:49in American history, and Mike is going to get that.
25:52And I think now —
25:55I think we can finally say one big, beautiful bill,
25:58because everybody is there.
26:00I spoke with — John Thune is doing a terrific job,
26:03also, and the senators.
26:04And we want one big, beautiful bill.
26:07Just put it all in that bill,
26:08and we'll figure a way to have it passed, right?
26:11We'll figure a way. But we have — it's a large —
26:14it'll be the largest tax cuts in American history.
26:16When you add that on to the fact that if they don't pass this,
26:19you will have the largest tax increase by far.
26:22Because the tax increase that I passed
26:25five years ago — the biggest in history,
26:27bigger than the Reagan tax cuts —
26:29what happens is that jumps back to where they used to be.
26:32So if you add that onto the other normal tax increases
26:38that the Democrats want to give,
26:39this would be the largest tax increase in history by 58 percent —
26:44or more, I guess, but 58 percent.
26:47And I don't know how anybody can vote for a Democrat,
26:49but I know one thing, that I believe the Democrats
26:52are going to be forced to help vote for this bill.
26:54And then we have the very important continuation of debt.
27:00I don't call it a debt increase
27:01because we're not looking to increase.
27:03We want to just continue that line.
27:05And we should call it, I think, from now on, Mike,
27:08we're going to call it the continuation
27:09because that's what it is.
27:11That was thrown into our lap unnecessarily.
27:13But we have it, and it's fine that we have it.
27:16But I think we're going to get tremendous support,
27:18even from Democrats, because otherwise,
27:21they're voting for the biggest tax increase in history
27:23by far, by, I think, 38 points.
27:26And I don't think they're going to want to do that.
27:28So, Mike, I hear you're doing great on it.
27:30And we're going to have tremendous goodies
27:34in the bag for women, too.
27:35The women, between the fertilization
27:37and all of the other things that we're talking about,
27:39it's going to be great.
27:42We're joined today —
27:43Fertilization.
27:45I'm still very proud of it. I don't care.
27:54I'll be known as the fertilization president.
27:56That's okay. That's not bad. That's not bad.
28:02I've been called much worse.
28:07Actually, I like it, right? I like it. Thank you.
28:12We're joined today by many of the women members
28:14of the House and Senate
28:16who make up so much and make this all happen.
28:19And I especially want to recognize the leaders
28:21of the brand-new Republican Women's Caucus.
28:23Senator Katie Britt, again. Katie, thank you.
28:27Thank you, Katie. Great job you do.
28:31And Representative Kat Kamek,
28:34who just announced a new baby girl.
28:38That's great.
28:40I also want to say, driving force behind the effort
28:44to create a women's history museum,
28:46working very much with some of the women in this room —
28:49I'm not sure if it's been discussed specifically —
28:51but to create a women's museum on the National Mall.
28:55And we have a great site. I'm very good at real estate.
28:58You know, we have a great site.
29:00And Nicole Malliotakis is here someplace.
29:03Where's Nicole?
29:04And she is really working hard on this one.
29:07This is a passion for you, and you're working —
29:11It's a big, beautiful museum.
29:12It's a big, beautiful — she said it's going to be
29:14a big, beautiful museum. Well, it has to be.
29:16If it's for women, it better be big and beautiful,
29:19or we're in trouble, right?
29:20But we're working on that. Also, here, I just have this list.
29:24And they're incredible people, so I have to do it.
29:26Otherwise, I'll be run out of town.
29:28I don't have the courage not to do it.
29:30Senator Marsha Blackburn. Marsha, thank you very much.
29:34So incredible. Unbelievable talent.
29:37Senator Joni Ernst. Joni Ernst. Where's Joni?
29:42Hi, Joni. I owe you a call. I'll call you. Okay?
29:46Deb Fisher just won a great race, Nebraska.
29:50Thank you, Deb. Great race, Deb.
29:53Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith. Oh, we love Cindy Hyde.
29:57Thank you, Cindy Hyde.
29:59She said, Sir, could you do a rally for me?
30:01I said, Yeah, I'll do a rally for you.
30:03I get this. Sir, could you do two more for me?
30:05I did — we did three, and we blew him out, right?
30:08It was an Obama sycophant.
30:11We blew him out of the water. Right, Cindy Hyde?
30:14So, thank you. And Senator Ashley Moody.
30:18Congratulations. Where is Ashley?
30:20Congratulations, Ashley.
30:25Also, Representative — and this one is tough.
30:28She's tough. Lisa McClain. She's tough and good.
30:31She's a good one. She's a real leader.
30:35Thank you. Great job, Lisa.
30:37Representative Stephanie Bice. Thank you very much.
30:42Thank you. Where's Stephanie? Thank you very much, darling.
30:47Sherry Biggs.
30:48Hi. Hi, Sherry. Good.
30:54Lauren Boebert. Great people.
31:00Monica DeLaCruz. Monica DeLaCruz.
31:05Hi, Monica. Good job. Julie Federacek. Federacek.
31:11Hi, Julie. Great. Nice to see you.
31:14A person that is more experienced than anybody —
31:17and she's still a young woman, very young —
31:19Virginia Foxx. Virginia.
31:25What a good woman. Right, Mike? A quiet woman,
31:29but she — underneath that quiet facade, she's a tiger.
31:33Marjorie Taylor Grand.
31:35A highly respected woman, I tell you.
31:39Thanks, Marjorie.
31:41Great woman. Diana Horshbarger. Diana Horshbarger.
31:45Where are you, Diana? Thank you. Thank you.
31:49Good job with your son, too.
31:52Thank you. Ashley Hinton. Ashley.
31:56Thank you. Thanks, Ashley. Good. Good job.
32:01Erin Houchen. Thank you, Erin. Thank you very much.
32:06Laurel Lee.
32:08Laurel. Thank you. Good. Good job.
32:12Julia Letlow. Good. Nice seeing you, Julia.
32:18She's done a great job.
32:20Anna Paulina Luna. Anna. Good. Nice to see you.
32:26Another quiet one. Nancy Mace. Hi, Nancy.
32:31Thank you. Great. Great job.
32:34And, Nicole, I said hello to you and your museum,
32:37and you get that going, and we're going to back it 100 percent.
32:39Unless the women here would rather not have a —
32:42is anybody not in favor of a women's museum in this room?
32:45Please. It's okay. I could see some.
32:47Maybe they want to save a couple of bucks, right?
32:50No takers. Okay. You're all set. You have it, then.
32:54I guess. I guess.
32:55I sort of thought that was going to happen.
32:58Celeste Malloy. Celeste. Thank you. Great job.
33:03Great job. Carol Miller. Great election.
33:07Thank you, Carol. Great job, Carol.
33:11A friend of mine, a beautiful person, a beautiful family.
33:15It's like she's got children.
33:16They're all supermodels — male and female.
33:19Handsome husband. Carol. Mary. Carol. Mary Miller.
33:27Mary. How's it going? Okay. Good.
33:32Mary Miller is a really spectacular person
33:35and a great congresswoman. Thank you very much.
33:39Twenty-second grandchild. Look at her.
33:41It's one of the most beautiful families.
33:44It really is. Starting with you, it's just a beautiful family.
33:47So, you have a long way to go, Kat.
33:49Come on. You have to get going.
33:52Marionette Miller-Meeks. Great election you had.
33:55Great election. Great. Great job.
34:01Oh, Maria Salazar. Where is Maria?
34:03She is strong. She's a tough one.
34:07But they love her. We all love her. Thank you.
34:10Another one who's really good.
34:12I got to know her very well. Along with Mike,
34:15we were having some talks,
34:17and she really knows what she's talking about.
34:19She was right. A hundred percent.
34:21Victoria Spartz. Thank you, Victoria.
34:25Thank you very much. And Beth Van Dyne, who's fabulous.
34:31Hi, Beth. Thank you. Thank you very much.
34:34You're such a great group of people.
34:36And there's others in there. I'm going to be —
34:38oh, I'm going to get killed.
34:40I know. You're for me, and I'm for you.
34:42That's true. Can you imagine? There are others.
34:44I'm sitting here looking at others.
34:45I'm going to be in trouble. That's the problem.
34:47When you do that, you leave a couple of them out.
34:49They never speak to you again. They never speak.
34:52Now we need Congress to pass the largest tax cuts,
34:55and we are going to get that done.
34:57And we're joined today by so many people
34:59that are just so great.
35:02And we are going to have a little bit of a celebration
35:05after this is finished in one of the outer rooms.
35:07I have some stuff for the women. Much better.
35:10We did this for men.
35:12And, you know, it's very unexciting
35:13having a day for men.
35:16I stood up here. It was like I just —
35:17I reduced the speech from 10 pages to about two paragraphs.
35:21It was boring. It was boring as hell.
35:24Throughout our history, strong, tough, visionary women
35:28have defended our flag, strengthened our communities,
35:30explored new frontiers,
35:32and expanded the American Dream for all of our children —
35:35all of our children and all of our people.
35:38Now patriotic American women like those in this room
35:41are helping lead our nation into the Golden Age of America.
35:44And that's what we're calling it.
35:46This is the Golden Age of America.
35:48We want to do things that nobody thought were possible.
35:52You know, had I done it the more traditional way —
35:54which I actually did, but we won't talk about that.
35:58But had it been the, you know, four plus four,
36:01as opposed to floor, four, let's see how bad they do,
36:04and then we get another four at numbers too big to rig,
36:08we call it. We have to go out too big to rig.
36:10They tried, but it was too big to rig.
36:12Had we done it that way, it wouldn't have been
36:14nearly as important or nearly as historic.
36:17It's much more historic.
36:18It's a much more important presidency.
36:20And, frankly, because of how bad they were,
36:23we're able to do things that we could have never done
36:26if it were traditional. I don't think, Marjorie,
36:28we would have ever been able to have done
36:30the things we are doing now.
36:32You see what we're doing with the colleges,
36:34and they're all bending and saying,
36:36Sir, thank you very much. We appreciate it.
36:39And they are — nobody can believe it,
36:41including law firms that have been so horrible.
36:44Law firms that nobody would believe.
36:46And they're just saying, Where do I sign?
36:48Where do I sign? Nobody can believe it.
36:50And there's more coming.
36:52But we really are in the golden age of America,
36:54and I think you're going to see it more and more
36:55as we go along. Together, we're beginning
36:57our country's greatest era, and we're building a future
37:01that will be stronger, safer, healthier,
37:03and happier than ever before.
37:05And you're really going to be the leaders.
37:07I think, really, I think you're going to be
37:09the dominant leaders, and you have a lot of them in this room.
37:12But just the fact that you're here
37:14and the fact that you're with us is so important.
37:16There's nothing like strong, beautiful, wonderful women.
37:20You have the heart. You have the whole spirit.
37:23You're amazing people, and it's an honor to be with you.
37:25And we're going to work together,
37:27and we're going to make this the greatest age
37:29in the history of our country. Thank you.
37:32Thank you, Mary. Thank you.
37:33Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody.