What a nice group. Thank you, thank you.
Got to be very careful. You don’t want to slip or fall like somebody else I know. We don’t want that to happen.
Where are we going, Margot? Over here.

Hello everybody. It’s great to be with you. You guys are doing a fantastic job, and gals doing an amazing job, and we appreciate it. And the numbers are down like we wouldn’t believe—but we believe it.

Where do I stand here? Right? Rare. Okay.
Hello. It’s a healthy, attractive-looking group of people. It’s good.

Well, I just want to thank everybody very much for being here. I wanted to do this. We’ve had some incredible results. The results have come out, and it’s like a different place. It’s like a different city. It’s the capital. It’s going to be the best in the world.

We’re going to do what you’re doing with law enforcement, and very importantly, also we’re going to physically do it. We’re going back to Congress for some money, and we’re going to redo a lot of the pavement, a lot of the medians. The graffiti is all coming off real fast. It’s going to come down real fast.

We’re working with Clark Construction—they’re one of the big ones, the biggest here by far actually. And we’re going to be not so much building—it’s cleaning, fixing, redoing, and putting brand-new surfaces down on your roads and streets. And when people come in from the airport, all the way to the Capitol, or the White House, or any place else they go, they’re going to say, “Boy, this place is spotless.”

So, we’re doing that. Most importantly, though, we’re going to have a crowd of people that are going to be happy. You know, I’ve received more phone calls from people in the last four days than I ever have. I’ve been here now four years plus. And, by the way, I think we had about the best seven months, they’re saying, that any president’s had. We’ve done a lot of work. We’ve done a lot of good work—including the biggest tax cuts that you’ve ever had.

I know you guys don’t care about taxes, so you don’t care about saving a little tax—but you saved a lot of tax, actually. We’ve had a great, great period of time, but I’ve never received so many phone calls thanking me for what we’ve done in Washington, D.C., from people that haven’t gone to a restaurant literally in four years.

They said, “You know what you’ve done? It’s unprecedented. Because what they said was just unsafe. We couldn’t do it. You’d go out, you’d see the stories, you’d read the stories, you’d see all of the things that were happening—and they said, ‘We couldn’t stand it, sir.’ And now I take my wife and my kids to dinner.”

One of them said he’s gone out four nights in a row and he hadn’t gone out for four years. So, it’s a great tribute to you. And when I look at you people, I understand why. Because there’s no games, right? We’re not playing games. We’re going to make it safe. And we’re going to then go on to other places. But we’re going to stay here for a while.

We want to make this absolutely perfect. It’s our capital. And I guess it used to be, many years ago, safe, but it certainly has not had a very good run. You’ve got to be strong, you’ve got to be tough, you’ve got to do your job. Whatever it takes to do your job—you’ve got to do your job.

But the crime numbers are way down. I’m looking at—you saw some of the stats, they just read them out to me inside. They’re numbers that we haven’t seen here ever, actually ever. And I think it’s probably right now—to me, I feel very safe now, and I’m hearing people are very safe—but I know within two weeks it’s going to be at a level that’s even far superior.

So I just came, I just wanted to thank you all. You’re doing incredible. You’re incredible people. You make the country run, frankly. You make the whole place run. We’re going to have the best capital ever. It’s going to look better than it ever did.

Even at the White House, I’m building a ballroom. They’ve been after a ballroom for 150 years, but they never had a real estate guy as a president. You know, I’ve done a lot of ballrooms, and we’re going to make this one the best of them all. But we’re doing a real job.

As far as the country is concerned—we’re respected again. We had a country that was laughed at a year ago. They thought they couldn’t understand what was happening. And it’s about leadership. But we had a country that was a dead country in many ways.

Went to Saudi Arabia. I went to Qatar. I went to UAE. We came back with $5.1 trillion of investment in this country, and we’re over $17 trillion now. A lot of you don’t know what that means—and nobody knows what it means—because it’s never happened before.

In five months—because really it’s a five-month period, even though we’ve been here seven, but we started five months ago in terms of investment—we have, because they see what’s happened to our country. We’re going to be over $17 trillion—trillion with a T—dollars of investment. There’s never been anything close.

If we did one trillion in a year, that was huge. And we’re talking about over a five-month period, maybe six months if you look at it, but over $17 trillion. We’re building plants—auto plants, AI plants—all sorts of plants all over the country.

I’m giving them the right—Lee Zeldin’s done a fantastic job—we’re giving the right to build electric plants. They become almost like a public utility because we have old grids, we have a lot of stuff that’s old. We wouldn’t be able to compete with China on AI. And now we’re totally leading the AI race.

Artificial intelligence—it’s a big deal. It’s the hottest thing there is, for probably 354 years. A lot of people don’t know what it is. Just trust me. It’s very hot. It’s big. But they need massive amounts of electricity. They need more electricity than we have right now in the whole country servicing everything.

In other words, we have to at least double it up to be competitive and to be leading. And we’re more than doubling it up. And what I’m doing is I’m letting all of these very rich companies—and they’ve got nothing but they got a lot of money, and they want to invest it in the United States—and they’re building big plants.

But they’re building electric plants with it. I said, “You’re building your buildings, and these are buildings that cost $30, $40, $50 billion when you include everything that’s inside, all the technology. I’m going to let you build electric plants to fire your own electricity. And anything that you have left over, you sell it back into the grid.”

So all of these big factories that are being built are building their own electric plants—fired by oil and gas. They’re not fired by wind, by the way, because wind doesn’t work. But we won’t say that. It destroys everything, it looks terrible, it’s a very expensive form of energy. And we’re not doing wind. We’re going back to fossil fuel.

I hope not too many of you people are going to be upset, but we have to go back to what works. We can’t be foolish. But we’re building massive electric plants all over the country. The companies are building, and then they sell it back into the grid.

We’re building numbers that nobody’s ever seen. Auto plants—we have many auto plants going up, whereas during the last four years, as you know, we had like none. People weren’t investing here. They weren’t investing—they were leaving.

But I’ll just finish by saying this. So, I was with the King of Saudi Arabia. I was with all of the NATO leaders a couple of weeks ago, and they are putting up not 2% but 5%. They said 5% of GDP. That’s a lot of money. They’ll have trillions of dollars put up. They were putting up two but they weren’t paying it. Now they’re putting up five and they’re all paying it.

And they all said the same thing. They said, “One year ago, your country was dead. We never thought it was coming back. And now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world.” These are the leaders of other countries—the prime ministers and the presidents—every one of them said essentially the same thing.

They said, “We had a dead country, and we felt that way. And this place was emblematic of it with the crime, the horrible crime. And I watched these phony reports: ‘Oh, we were on the way back.’ They weren’t on the way back. It was worse than ever, just a short while ago.”

But now, it’s better than it has been in years. And in a couple of weeks, it’s going to be even far better than that. And everybody’s safe now. Everybody feels safe. And they’re all coming in. People are now coming in. They’re making reservations. They want to be in Washington, D.C.

One of the things we’re going to be redoing is your parks. I’m very good at grass because I have a lot of golf courses all over the place. I know more about grass than any human being, I think, anywhere in the world. And we’re going to be re-grassing all of your parks—all brand-new sprinkler systems, the best you can buy.

Just like Augusta. No—it’ll look like Augusta. It’ll look like, more importantly, Trump National Golf Club. That’s even better. But we’re going to have all brand-new, beautiful grass.

You know, like everything else, grass has a life. Do you know that? Grass has a life. We have a life, and grass has a life. And the grass here died about 40 years ago. So we’re going to be rebuilding all of your parks, and it’s going to happen fast. It’s going to go up like a miracle.

So you do the job on safety, and I’ll get this place fixed up physically, and we’re going to be so proud of it. At the end of six months—or let’s say at the end of a year—this place will be maxed out in terms of beauty. You’ll have all new surfaces. You’ll have all new medians. Everything’s going to look beautiful.

A lot of your signs are going to be taken down. They’ve been up for 40 years. They look like hell. They’re barely standing up. They’re falling off their holders. And we’re going to have all new everything.

And I want to just thank Doug for doing such an incredible job. You’ve been unbelievable. You’re a popular guy. No, he’s an amazing guy. He’s an amazing guy. Everybody loves— we love you. And his wife is so incredible.

But thank you very much. I appreciate it. And Pam, thank you very much. What a job she’s done. People don’t realize—she’ll go down as the greatest Attorney General we’ve had. I really mean it, too.

And where’s my Kristi? You, dear. Thank you very much. She’s been incredible. And she can ride a horse like nobody. She gets on those horses, she rips those horses around. But I want to thank you very much.

And Steve Miller—so, so fantastic. And Todd, Todd Blanche, who’s been with me so long and he’s one of the best lawyers you’ll ever find. And we’re having a lot of victories. I had a victory today.

You know, they stole $550 million from me with a fake case, and it was overturned. They said this was a fake case. It’s a terrible thing, but that’s a nice victory. It’s not bad, you know. We all have our limits, but this was a terrible thing they had done. It was a witch hunt.

And I’ve had more witch hunts than any human being, I think, in history. And here we are—we’re the President of the United States. So it didn’t work out too well for them, but maybe now it’s turned a little bit.

These are very dishonest people. We have to fight. We have to win. Because we have to win. And you people are winners. And I just think it’s such an honor to be with you. We’re going to make Washington, D.C. great again. We’re making our country great again.

The country is very close to being great. When they say it’s the hottest country in the world—they mean it. And this capital, right now, after four days, five days, it’s at a level that you haven’t seen in a long time. And it’s all because of you.

So I want to thank you all very much. It’s an honor to be with you. And we’ll always be with you. We’re going to be with you for as long as I’m around. You’re going to be treated—there’s nobody more important.

Thank you all very much for being here. Thank you, thank you very much. Doug, would you like to say something?

Doug Burgum:
Thank you, President Trump. On behalf of everybody that’s here in law enforcement, I want to extend the gratitude to you, because under your leadership, you’re bringing back respect for this profession.

I know that wherever you go—and some of these folks know—wherever you go in the country, whenever I’ve been with you backstage before you speak, who do you get a picture with? Local law enforcement. The federal folks that are there.

You have always, your entire life, supported law enforcement, and that makes a difference. These people know that. And the other thing, of course, for everybody here—President Trump’s ended six wars. He’s brought taxes down, regulations down. He’s brought record foreign investment, like he was talking about.

He’s done all of those things in six months. But what does he really care about? You hear him talk about it the most. He wants to end the killing. And here in D.C., he wants to end the killing. He wants to end it in every city in America.

Because if we’re the greatest country in the world, you shouldn’t be afraid to go out for dinner. He cares about the people that live in this city and in every city. And that’s why this is happening right now.

This is what leadership looks like—that in a matter of a week, this is a message to every city in the country and it’s a message to every capital in the world. America, the greatest country in the world, is going to have the most beautiful capital and the safest capital in the world—because of all of you.

So thank you, everybody that’s here tonight. Thank you, President Trump, for making it all possible.

Pam Bondi:
Thank you very much. Thank you all.

Mr. President, I’m looking at all these faces. They’re out here every single night. I’m getting to know everyone on a first-name basis—all of our great Metro PD, General Blanchard with the Guard, all of our federal agencies are out here. Our amazing Park Police—they are working hand in hand to make D.C. safe.

They’re out here working midnights every night because they love our country, they love our city, and they love you. They’re all telling me that. Look at them, giving a thumbs up. They’re all out here going, “Are we going to meet the President?”

I told them, “Yes.” And I think you brought some food for them, didn’t you, President?

President Trump:
So, we have great hamburgers cooked by the White House. And we have pizza that I said don’t do in the White House, because we went to a place that makes the best pizza. So we’ll concede that. But we have a lot of it.

So we’re going to have some fun. We’ll eat, and I’ll eat with you, and we’re going to have a little fun. We’re going to celebrate—but then we’re going to get back to work and we’re going to take care of these criminals. We’re going to put them where they have to be.

You’re going to say, “Don’t play around with us. Don’t play around with us.”

So let’s go have something to eat. You’re going to like the hamburgers. Would you rather have hamburgers from the White House, or pizzas from a good place, huh? Oh, they want the hamburgers.

Have a good time, everybody. Thank you very much, Christie. Thank you very much, darling. Thank you, everybody. Thank you.

[Applause]

President Trump (continuing):
Judge Jeanine is here. She’s unbelievable. Oh, we have Leo—Leo 2.0. Whoa. Judge, I didn’t see you over there. It’s lucky I spotted her, I would have been in big trouble. And Leo—you know Leo 2.0—we love Leo. He’s a great prosecutor, that’s for sure.

You know, they both started off really as law enforcement—top lawyers, judges, law enforcement. And that’s how they became famous. Then they went into show business, and everyone thought, “Gee, were they real?” But they were the real deal. And you’re both doing great. Thank you very much.

Pam, do you want to say something? Uh, Jeanine?

Jeanine Pirro:
Yeah. I just want to say thank you to all of you. Every night when you hit the street, you make a difference—not just for us, but for everyone in the District. They are grateful for what you do. They are thankful.

And I am making sure that we back the blue to the hilt. Every arrest you make, we’re going to go the longest way to make sure that we charge in those cases. So God bless you, and thank you for what you do. You’re making a difference.

And Mr. President—without you, no one would even have tried. So, thank you.

Pam Bondi:
Thirty seconds. We have the greatest president in our lifetime protecting this country, and you guys have done a great job. I’ve had the privilege to work with the greatest Attorney General in Pam Bondi.

This team really appreciates you. We want to thank you. You are doing the work that makes this country great—protecting America. Thank you very much, and God bless you.