President Trump Delivers Remarks on Energy, Feb. 27, 2026

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump.

Well, thank you very much everybody. And I'm thrilled to be back in the great state of Texas, which we won over and over again. Oh, thank you very much. The gleaming shores of the Gulf of America. See, that’s one of the things we do, you know, we did so much, that's like one of the... I don't want to call it a throw-in because it's very important, but it's like a little throw-in. I said, you know, we ought to just sort of change the name. We have 92% of the frontage, but they were there first. They've been here 100 years longer, Gulf of Mexico, 100 years longer. Now it's the Gulf of America because we have 92%. I wouldn't say Mexico was thrilled, but they were fine. And I'm delighted to be here at this national treasure, one of the largest energy export hubs anywhere in the world, anywhere in the world, the Port of Corpus Christi. We had a lot to do with it. That bridge, we had so much. What a nice bridge. Oh, I like that color. What a nice bridge. And we dredged nations deeply. I guess they said 54 feet or something. It's about as deep as you can go. I think we can go a few feet deeper and then you could... do you want to go a little bit deeper? What the hell? What the hell, it's only money. With the men and women here today, we're unleashing America's potential, strengthening our security, increasing our prosperity. We had the most successful country anywhere in the world. A year and a half ago, we had a dead country. Our country was dead, you know it better than anybody. And cementing America's status as the number one energy superpower by far, anywhere on Earth. And I want to thank Venezuela because our relationship is a very good one. We’re having a very good relationship. That boat, that ship is from Venezuela. For four long years before I took office, the Biden administration—Sleepy Joe Biden, one of the worst presidents in history, not one of the, I have to think the worst. How could you get... can you get worse? Somebody said, please don't be political today. Okay, but he's the worst president we've ever had. And his allies in Congress waged a radical left war on American oil and natural gas like you've never seen before. They were killing our... they were killing our country and killing your area right here. In fact, they say if I wanted, I could work... if I ran for the mayor of Corpus Christi, would I win? I think so. What the hell. I looked at your job stats, you have done very well with Trump. They killed the Keystone XL pipeline. This is the Biden group. I don't... he's a good news in all fairness, he had no idea what the hell was happening. But it was his administration of horrible people, horrible radical left people. No, he used the auto-pen very well. There's never been anybody in history that used an auto-pen like that, almost exclusively. He piled crippling regulations on producers and refiners, imposed natural gas export ban, and slashed new leases for drilling by 95%. That's Biden. Under their Green New Scam, one of the greatest scams in history, gasoline reached a peak of over six dollars a gallon in some states, fueling the worst inflation in the history of our country. We had the worst inflation in the history of our country. You know, you've heard me say this before, the fake news sitting back there. They say Trump exaggerated, it wasn't in history, they say it was 48 years. Okay, we'll take that too. You know, in a way, 48 years sounds even worse if you want to know the truth. But they tell me it's 48 years, it's not. I think it's the history of our country. But whether it's 48 years or the history of our country, they're both pretty bad. Do we agree? But all of that changed, my first day back in office. It all changed, our country started coming back like never before. On day one, I declared a national energy emergency. I ended the Biden export ban and I told our great Texas energy workers to very simply, drill, baby, drill. Since my inauguration, US oil production is now up by 600,000 barrels a day. Natural gas production is at an all-time record high by far. And today right here in Corpus Christi, the price of gasoline is down to just less than, actually now, $2.30. I just left Iowa two weeks ago, $1.99, and then I passed another one, $1.85. It's happening. It’s happening. So we're witnessing a historic American energy boom like we've never seen, and this port is right at the center of the action. So who lives here or this area? Who lives? A lot of happy people here. It's nice to be loved, you know, it's nice to be loved. Thank you. Thank you. In my first term, I approved vital federal funding to deepen the channel and fully modernize the Port of Corpus Christi. Since that crucial investment, companies have flocked here, creating tens of thousands of jobs and generating billions and billions of dollars in revenue for your community. Joe Biden came in and tried to cut off the port funding immediately. Tried to cut it off all we did, we had a tremendously successful first term and he came in and tried to take away what we had. But today the dock workers, we stopped him, and today the dock workers, energy workers and great people of Texas once again really have a president that loves our country, a president that fights for our country. Nationwide, exports of liquefied natural gas are up 37%. Think of that. In the past year, the highest level in American history and going up a lot. Crude oil exports are up by hundreds of thousands of barrels a day. Venezuela, think of it, 80 thou... 80 million so far, we just started. 80 million barrels of fuel. Think... 80 million barrels of oil. Think of what that means. Think of a stadium with 80,000 people. Now say 80 million. That's what we've taken and it's great for Venezuela and it's great for us. It's great for us, great for Venezuela. And a lot of it, like that, a lot of it comes right here. And with our new friend and partner, Venezuela, we’re going to do a lot of other things. We’re going to be doing a lot. We’re having a great relationship with their government. Has anybody... has anybody ever witnessed anything so beautiful, so decisive, and so popular with the people of Venezuela? It was very popular. In fact, 360,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude are right now sitting in the tanker on my left. It’s a nice one over there. So where the hell does that one come from? For the benefit of both our nations, we're going to refine their oil right here in America and right here in Texas and then export it to all over the world. We're going to keep some for ourselves, we're going to give some to them, and they're going to make more money than they've ever made before. We’ll help build their country again, which was a disaster. And we're going to build it up and we're going to benefit also. And that's the way it's supposed to be, right? It's going to be great. One person who has witnessed our energy turnaround firsthand is Jesse Robinson. Jesse, come on up here, Jesse. He began his career at this port working on the front lines of railroad operations and has risen to become one of the port’s key leaders. I can see that, by the way, you all know him. Helping to drive the American energy surge, like this is a surge like nobody's ever seen. Jesse, come on up and say a few words.

Wow. Good afternoon, everyone. You know, I've been on this cargo dock probably a thousand times, but I never could have imagined standing at this podium at this very moment with all of you as we honor together what is irrefutably a historic moment this is. In my role as Director of Asset Management here at the port, I see firsthand every day the valuable contributions by President Trump. I see the millions of dollars in federal funds invested in infrastructure that helps us serve our customers so they can in turn serve the communities around the world. At this port, I have the honor of leading roughly 75 employees and contractors, most of which are here today. And I can tell you with utmost sincerity that every one of us takes great pride in our jobs, supporting this global gateway. We work hard and with humility. This waterway means something to us. It represents the economic opportunity for tens of thousands of families throughout this region. I want to thank my family for supporting my commitment to this port. I want to thank my team for their heart and grit. And I want to thank President Trump for recognizing their tenacity and value. Thank you.

Thank you, Jesse. Great guy and great family and hard worker. All hard workers, I'm a hard worker, we're all hard workers. Slashing energy costs... hey, by the way, how did you like the State of the Union the other night? That was good. That was good. Thank you. Thank you. That was fun. Did you see these people on my right, the way they just sat there? Some of them... how about Omar screaming, screaming, screaming like a lunatic? You looked at her bulging eyes, she's crazy. Get her the hell out of here, the Omar and her friend... and her little friend sitting next to her. Slashing energy costs is among the most important actions we can take to bring down prices for American consumers because when you cut the cost of energy, you really cut... you just cut the cost of energy. Everything follows. Look, you're in an industry, a business, whatever you want to call it, a profession in many cases. Everything follows energy. Now AI, they build these big plants, I say, how do you make your money? Information. Somehow I like oil better, I'm sorry, I like... I think oil... if I had my choice, I have to stick with oil. In 12 months, we've driven core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years and in the last three months of 2025, it's been down to one point, inflation, 1.7%. Nobody thought that. So we went from the highest inflation ever to low inflation, all the... you know, everything took place, I've been here one year. Think of it, one year, a little bit more than one year now. Time flies, time flies. Maybe we should... maybe we do one more term, should we do one more term? Do one more. Well, we're entitled to it because they cheated like hell in the second line. So we would actually be entitled to it. But think of it, the price of eggs is down 60%. The cost of chicken, butter, fruit, hotels, automobiles, rent is lower today than it has been in years. And even beef is right now on the way down, it's coming down, it's coming down fast. Prices of almost everything is down and we inherited a mess one year ago, a mess. And they came up with the word affordability, affordability. And I said, what are they talking about? They're the ones that caused it. They’re cons, they’re liars, not good. Other than that, we want to have unity. Let’s have unity. To have unity, you need sane people on the other side. And when you watch them not stand up for a mother that just lost her daughter, or not stand up for a great brave helicopter pilot that did so well and so amazing in Venezuela, or not stand up when I ask the question: stand up if you love our country. Think of it, and you love great American patriots. But don't stand up if you don't, or if you love illegal alien criminals. And not one of them stood up, they got killed on that. You know at the end of the night, they’re all standing up for anything because the word was they are getting killed. The pastor, did you see they were passing notes all over the place: Stand up, stand up for anything, stand up. They were instructed, you know, they had terrible policy, terrible everything, but they do stay together as bad as it is. But they were instructed under no circumstances are you to applaud or stand up. So I say, stand up for a mother who lost her beautiful daughter and they don't applaud, they sit there like... and eventually we just looked at them and said: You people are crazy. And they are, they're crazy. And we gotta win the midterms, we are... we brought this country back, we don't want to lose the midterms. We gotta win the midterms, we gotta get out, you gotta get out and we gotta vote and we'll keep it all going better even than it is now, as good as it is. Tuesday night in my State of the Union address, I laid out the historic actions my administration is taking to put more money in the pockets of workers and families like those here today, the greatest people on Earth. You built the country and to ensure that we always keep America first. You know, they don't keep America first, they keep America last. With the help of our Republican majorities in Congress, we passed the largest tax cuts in American history. That includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on social security for our great seniors. And the average Texas family will save over $4,000 on their taxes this year alone and much more next year. We gave you the best tax cuts anyone's seen. We also got you an interest deduction if you buy a car, you can de... if you borrow some money to buy a car, you have a loan, you're allowed to deduct the interest for income tax purposes. Never happened before. But only if it's an American-made car, we put that... We have cut a record number of job-killing regulations, slashing 129 old regulations for every one new regulation that we approve. So if we put a regulation on, we slash 129 old regulations, which is far and above what anybody's been able to do. We terminated the insane electric vehicle mandate where you had to have a car like all electric car within a couple of years, it was not going to work. I mean, you don't mind driving 200 miles to get a charger, right? You ever see the signs, charge... you’re running out, you're running low and they say, charging booth 112 miles to the right. These people are crazy, I'm telling you. But the mandate is over and the other radical attacks and now you can go out and you can buy a gasoline-powered car, a hybrid, an electric car, you can buy whatever the hell you want. In four long years, the last administration got less than one trillion dollars. So one trillion dollars less, much less of new investment came into the country. In less than 12 months, I secured commitments for more than 18 trillion. So think of it, for four years... think of it, what it does to a place like this. Four years much less than one trillion, less than one year more than 18 trillion dollars. I would say that's the difference between making America great again and making America a major loser. A short time ago, we were a dead country. We were totally a dead country. The King of Saudi Arabia said it to me. I was over, they invested two trillion dollars in our country. I was over there with other great countries, but the King of Saudi Arabia said to me: President, two years ago you were a dead country, now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world. Can you imagine? The stock market has hit 53 all-time record highs since the election. Think of that, in one year. Adding trillions of dollars in value, Americans' pensions and 401ks and retirement accounts, they’re all through the roof. Who has a 401k? Wow. Is anybody unhappy with the job I'm doing? Your 401ks have doubled, right? Are they doubled? I have a policeman, I tell this story, same guy I meet him, but I... he just wonderful tough policeman from New York, he's taken good care of us and he said: Sir, it's so good my married life has gotten so much better. Why? My wife thought I was a loser financially, I couldn't make any money because my 401k was dying for years. And now she thinks I'm the smartest financial genius ever. It's made my sex life good, it's made my life good. It’s given me... it's given me a tremendous boost in life, sir. This is a big tough cop. He said my wife treated me like a dog and now she admires my financial genius. And I haven't done anything, my 401k has gone through the roof. So I said, thank you very much. But everybody's there, right? Everybody's up. Has anybody gone down with their 401k? Because if you do, you're a loser, you know. Nobody. And then you know, you hear these radical lunatics say: The stock market doesn't matter. It does matter because people have 401ks, they have investments, they buy stocks without 401ks. It matters a lot. Our stock market's gone through... you know, we beat 50,000 on the Dow. They said when I got elected, if I could beat 50,000 by the end of my fourth year, it would be a tremendous miracle. And we then hit 7,000 on the S&P, and that was even tougher. They said there's no way that could be done. I did them both by the end of my first year, not my fourth year, my first. Which... which means you also did them both, so you know, so everybody's happy. And to help ensure that all Americans share in the gains from the rising stock market, I announced on Tuesday night that any worker whose employer does not provide matching contributions to a retirement account, my administration will begin matching your retirement savings with up to $1,000 a year. Nobody ever thought that was possible. And we passed a bill, the great big beautiful bill that the Democrats are always saying oh the great big beautiful, they don't know, it's basically the Great Big Beautiful Tax Cut Bill, if you really want to look at it, probably more accurate name. Every parent can actively just activate all of their children's accounts. We have a new thing and it was Michael and Susan Dell, Dell computer, go out and buy a Dell computer, they're great because he put up six billion 250 million in the Trump accounts and it's for children. It's tax-free investment accounts for every American child, every single American child, born, born rich. So millions and millions will be pre-funded courtesy of the US Treasury and private individuals like Michael and Susan Dell who have donated the... think of it, six billion, he put up six billion 250 million and now he wants to put up more to fund what's called the Trump accounts for 25 million American children, and that number is growing rapidly all the time. So these children, they reach 18 or 19 or 20, they could have over 100,000, they could have much more than that. Think of it, they'll be like rich. They started with nothing and a small amount of seed money and by the time they're 18 years old, they could have well over $100,000. And to make this investment in our children's future, go to Trumpaccounts.gov. It is amazing. It's going through the roof. One American who is benefiting tremendously from our tax cuts is Kevin Rhodes from Andrews, Texas. Kevin is a Marine Corps veteran who has spent 20 years in the oil and gas industry. Great guy, just met him. He works as a wells tech in Permian Basin where he averages 15 hours a week in overtime. Now there's no tax on overtime anymore, Kevin. As a result, Kevin and his wife Marcie will take home more than $7,000 extra this year thanks to no tax on overtime with money that they are going to take the two boys on a road trip to Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park. Nice place, or you could save the money or you could buy a house or do whatever the hell you want with it, right? But you know what I'd like to have Kevin and Marcie come up, they’re so happy. No tax, in this case, overtime. But think of it, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social security for the seniors. So who the hell else could have gotten that? Come on up, Kevin.

Thank you, Mr. President. It’s a huge honor to be here in Corpus Christi, Texas, with everyone here. Thank you to the Oil and Gas Workers Association also. I stand here as a Marine Corps veteran. Rah! With my wife, who's a small business owner—we own a small catering company. We are products of the oil and gas industry of West Texas. We send our oil here to Corpus Christi to send out across the world. With the legislation that has been passed with the no tax on overtime, we were able to buy a commercial refrigerator for our business and then, like Mr. President said, we're going to take our kids on a trip to Yellowstone and Grand Teton. We are just Americans, two parents trying to give the best life to their children, opportunities for both of our sons, one who is in automation and fixed on going into the oil and gas industry. We have big dreams and are excited for the future of this nation and our family. We are grateful that God has given us a president like Mr. Trump that allows us to... we are grateful that he has put America first. So God bless you, Mr. President, and God bless this nation. Thank you very much.

That’s great. Thank you very much, both. Thank you, man. I appreciate it. Thank you, Jesse. Great guy and great family and hard worker. All hard workers, I'm a hard worker, we're all hard workers. Slashing energy costs... hey, by the way, how did you like the State of the Union the other night? That was good. That was good. Thank you. Thank you. That was fun. Did you see these people on my right, the way they just sat there? Some of them... how about Omar screaming, screaming, screaming like a lunatic? You looked at her bulging eyes, she's crazy. Get her the hell out of here, the Omar and her friend... and her little friend sitting next to her. Slashing energy costs is among the most important actions we can take to bring down prices for American consumers because when you cut the cost of energy, you really cut... you just cut the cost of energy. Everything follows. Look, you're in an industry, a business, whatever you want to call it, a profession in many cases. Everything follows energy. Now AI, they build these big plants, I say, how do you make your money? Information. Somehow I like oil better, I'm sorry, I like... I think oil... if I had my choice, I have to stick with oil. In 12 months, we've driven core inflation down to the lowest level in more than five years and in the last three months of 2025, it's been down to 1.7%, inflation 1.7%. Nobody thought that. So we went from the highest inflation ever to low inflation, all the... you know, everything took place, I've been here one year. Think of it, one year, a little bit more than one year now. Time flies, time flies. Maybe we should... maybe we do one more term, should we do one more term? Do one more. Well, we're entitled to it because they cheated like hell in the second line. So we would actually be entitled to it. But think of it, the price of eggs is down 60%. The cost of chicken, butter, fruit, hotels, automobiles, rent is lower today than it has been in years. And even beef is right now on the way down, it's coming down, it's coming down fast. Prices of almost everything is down and we inherited a mess one year ago, a mess. And they came up with the word affordability, affordability. And I said, what are they talking about? They're the ones that caused it. They’re cons, they’re liars, not good. Other than that, we want to have unity. Let’s have unity. To have unity, you need sane people on the other side. And when you watch them not stand up for a mother that just lost her daughter, or not stand up for a great brave helicopter pilot that did so well and so amazing in Venezuela, or not stand up when I ask the question: stand up if you love our country. Think of it, and you love great American patriots. But don't stand up if you don't, or if you love illegal alien criminals. And not one of them stood up, they got killed on that. You know at the end of the night, they’re all standing up for anything because the word was they are getting killed. The pastor, did you see they were passing notes all over the place: Stand up, stand up for anything, stand up. They were instructed, you know, they had terrible policy, terrible everything, but they do stay together as bad as it is. But they were instructed under no circumstances are you to applaud or stand up. So I say, stand up for a mother who lost her beautiful daughter and they don't applaud, they sit there like... and eventually we just looked at them and said: You people are crazy. And they are, they're crazy. And we gotta win the midterms, we are... we brought this country back, we don't want to lose the midterms. We gotta win the midterms, we gotta get out, you gotta get out and we gotta vote and we'll keep it all going better even than it is now, as good as it is. Tuesday night in my State of the Union address, I laid out the historic actions my administration is taking to put more money in the pockets of workers and families like those here today, the greatest people on Earth. You built the country and to ensure that we always keep America first. You know, they don't keep America first, they keep America last. With the help of our Republican majorities in Congress, we passed the largest tax cuts in American history. That includes no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on social security for our great seniors. And the average Texas family will save over $4,000 on their taxes this year alone and much more next year. We gave you the best tax cuts anyone's seen. We also got you an interest deduction if you buy a car, you can de... if you borrow some money to buy a car, you have a loan, you're allowed to deduct the interest for income tax purposes. Never happened before. But only if it's an American-made car, we put that... We have cut a record number of job-killing regulations, slashing 129 old regulations for every one new regulation that we approve. So if we put a regulation on, we slash 129 old regulations, which is far and above what anybody's been able to do. We terminated the insane electric vehicle mandate where you had to have a car like all electric car within a couple of years, it was not going to work. I mean, you don't mind driving 200 miles to get a charger, right? You ever see the signs, charge... you’re running out, you're running low and they say, charging booth 112 miles to the right. These people are crazy, I'm telling you. But the mandate is over and the other radical attacks and now you can go out and you can buy a gasoline-powered car, a hybrid, an electric car, you can buy whatever the hell you want. In four long years, the last administration got less than one trillion dollars. So one trillion dollars less, much less of new investment came into the country. In less than 12 months, I secured commitments for more than 18 trillion. So think of it, for four years... think of it, what it does to a place like this. Four years much less than one trillion, less than one year more than 18 trillion dollars. I would say that's the difference between making America great again and making America a major loser. A short time ago, we were a dead country. We were totally a dead country. The King of Saudi Arabia said it to me. I was over, they invested two trillion dollars in our country. I was over there with other great countries, but the King of Saudi Arabia said to me: President, two years ago you were a dead country, now you have the hottest country anywhere in the world. Can you imagine? The stock market has hit 53 all-time record highs since the election. Think of that, in one year. Adding trillions of dollars in value, Americans' pensions and 401ks and retirement accounts, they’re all through the roof. Who has a 401k? Wow. Is anybody unhappy with the job I'm doing? Your 401ks have doubled, right? Are they doubled? I have a policeman, I tell this story, same guy I meet him, but I... he just wonderful tough policeman from New York, he's taken good care of us and he said: Sir, it's so good my married life has gotten so much better. Why? My wife thought I was a loser financially, I couldn't make any money because my 401k was dying for years. And now she thinks I'm the smartest financial genius ever. It's made my sex life good, it's made my life good. It’s given me... it's given me a tremendous boost in life, sir. This is a big tough cop. He said my wife treated me like a dog and now she admires my financial genius. And I haven't done anything, my 401k has gone through the roof. So I said, thank you very much. But everybody's there, right? Everybody's up. Has anybody gone down with their 401k? Because if you do, you're a loser, you know. Nobody. And then you know, you hear these radical lunatics say: The stock market doesn't matter. It does matter because people have 401ks, they have investments, they buy stocks without 401ks. It matters a lot. Our stock market's gone through... you know, we beat 50,000 on the Dow. They said when I got elected, if I could beat 50,000 by the end of my fourth year, it would be a tremendous miracle. And we then hit 7,000 on the S&P, and that was even tougher. They said there's no way that could be done. I did them both by the end of my first year, not my fourth year, my first. Which... which means you also did them both, so you know, so everybody's happy. And to help ensure that all Americans share in the gains from the rising stock market, I announced on Tuesday night that any worker whose employer does not provide matching contributions to a retirement account, my administration will begin matching your retirement savings with up to $1,000 a year. Nobody ever thought that was possible. And we passed a bill, the great big beautiful bill that the Democrats are always saying oh the great big beautiful, they don't know, it's basically the Great Big Beautiful Tax Cut Bill, if you really want to look at it, probably more accurate name. Every parent can actively just activate all of their children's accounts. We have a new thing and it was Michael and Susan Dell, Dell computer, go out and buy a Dell computer, they're great because he put up six billion 250 million in the Trump accounts and it's for children. It's tax-free investment accounts for every American child, every single American child, born, born rich. So millions and millions will be pre-funded courtesy of the US Treasury and private individuals like Michael and Susan Dell who have donated the... think of it, six billion, he put up six billion 250 million and now he wants to put up more to fund what's called the Trump accounts for 25 million American children, and that number is growing rapidly all the time. So these children, they reach 18 or 19 or 20, they could have over 100,000, they could have much more than that. Think of it, they'll be like rich. They started with nothing and a small amount of seed money and by the time they're 18 years old, they could have well over $100,000. And to make this investment in our children's future, go to Trumpaccounts.gov. It is amazing. It's going through the roof. One American who is benefiting tremendously from our tax cuts is Kevin Rhodes from Andrews, Texas. Kevin is a Marine Corps veteran who has spent 20 years in the oil and gas industry. Great guy, just met him. He works as a wells tech in Permian Basin where he averages 15 hours a week in overtime. Now there's no tax on overtime anymore, Kevin. As a result, Kevin and his wife Marcie will take home more than $7,000 extra this year thanks to no tax on overtime with money that they are going to take the two boys on a road trip to Yellowstone, Yellowstone National Park. Nice place, or you could save the money or you could buy a house or do whatever the hell you want with it, right? But you know what I'd like to have Kevin and Marcie come up, they’re so happy. No tax, in this case, overtime. But think of it, no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on social security for the seniors. So who the hell else could have gotten that? Come on up, Kevin.

Thank you, sir. Hello, Corpus Christi! Hello, Texas! My home state. I love Corpus Christi. And I love Donald Trump. Thank you.

Did a great job, Dennis. Thank you, Dennis. Got a new movie coming out, by the way. Thanks as well to several great Texas patriots: Jessica Steinman, who's doing unbelievably well. Where's Jessica? You're around here someplace. Thank you, Jessica. Alex Maler. Alex. Thank you. Thank you, Alex. Chris Gaber. Thank you, Chris. Mark Teixeira, oh Mark Teixeira, of the Yankees? Are you the great Mark... he could throw that ball. We need you. We need you desperately. And I hear you're doing very well, I endorsed all of these people, by the way. And I hear you're doing very well. I'll tell you what, that's the end of the Democrats' chances of winning the game. When you have a top, top major league player on your team, they're in deep trouble. That's good. That's... we're really rooting for you big. I'm a big fan too. What a great baseball player you were. Thank you very much. Thanks, Mark. Jace Yarbrough. Jace. Thank you very much, Jace. Good job. They're all leading. John Bonk. They're all leading in the polls, every one of them. And I want to call up three people that are running and we don't even have the polls yet but they're I think doing well. We... and when we endorse people, I like how you take it seriously. But these people we endorse and just run on up here real fast: Carlos De La Cruz, Webb County Judge, Tano Tijerina. Tano Tijerina, come on up, and former assistant attorney Eric Flores are all running. And I think they're doing great. Say a few words. Come on up, stay together.

I have to first thank our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ, for opening every single door for my family. I want to thank my family, Annette, and my daughter Rebecca. And Mr. President, I want to thank you sir for securing our borders and making America strong. And I got a lot of fight in me, sir. And I’m going to make sure that Texas 34 brings you a wingman. Thank you.

Thank you, Mr. President. Good job, Carlos. Good job. Mr. President, it is truly an honor to stand up here. Soy mexicano, American-Mexican, soy mexicano pero orgulloso porque aquí estoy con el mejor presidente de todo el mundo. Mr. President, this is South Texas right here. Hard-working patriots, faith-filled patriots, Mr. President. Men and women that power this country, our ports, our refineries, our ranches, and our military bases. Aquí no tenemos miedo para trabajar, nunca tenemos miedo. We’re not... we’re not just a border, but we're the future, Mr. President. And we're here to back you up and continue the fight, fight, fight!

Thank you, Tano. Good luck. God bless you. God bless you, Carlos. Good job. Woo! Mr. President, I am honored to be here with you today. As someone who has worn the uniform of the United States Army and locked up some of the worst of the worst, I believe in strength, never backing down and staying focused on the mission. That is the kind of leadership that you have brought back to America and that's the leadership that I will bring to D.C. to fight for Texas 34 and always have your back, Mr. President. South Texas stands ready to do our part to secure our borders, grow our economy, and keep America strong. Thank you for being here, Mr. President, in Corpus Christi. Thank you for your endorsement and for your trust. And above all, thank you for your unwavering, unapologetic devotion to our great nation. God bless you, Mr. President. Thank you, Paul. Good job. Always have your back. Good guys, they're all I hear doing really well. We haven't seen the polls, but they're... they're all winning, everybody I named is winning. But every day... and you know, it's interesting, the governor called me after the last election. He said: You know, you did something no Republican has ever done. You won every border town and little border city, but every border town all the way up and down, all the way from one side to the other. He said: First time it's ever happened since... he used the word reconstruction, right? And I said, by reconstruction are you saying the Civil War, is that what you're saying? That was a fancy way of saying the Civil War. He said that's the first time it's happened. We won every single and largely Hispanic vote. We love the Hispanic voters, we love them. And what a lot of people didn't understand that the Hispanic voter wants safety and understands safety better than anybody else. So when I said: We want safety, we want law and order, they got it better than anybody else and they voted for Trump. So I just want to thank you very much. Thank you, thank you, man. Every day under the Trump administration, we're taking on the corruption and fraud that drives up your cost of living, and we're defending the honest hard-working citizens of our country like you. Under the most favored nation agreements for drug prices, we're slashing drug prices at record levels like never seen before, with price differences of 400, 500, even 600%. I went to other countries. I said no way. You know, we were paying the highest prices in the entire world by far, and now we're paying the lowest price. It’s numbers that have come down for decades, think of it. For decades Americans have paid the highest drug prices, nobody's ever paid more. We would pay sometimes 8, 10, 12 times more than places in Europe and other countries. But from now on, because of what I did, we're going to be paying the lowest price. It’s called most favored nations, most favored nations. So these incredible price reductions are available right now. And I didn't name this, but somebody did, they thought it was good. I said whatever sells. TrumpRX.gov. TrumpRX. And you'll see numbers where... and I tell the story of a friend of mine, very smart, very heavy guy, very heavy. I'm trying to be nice, never use the word fat. Very heavy, slightly obese, but he takes the fat drug and it didn't work. But he's a very brilliant guy, he's highly neurotic, very brilliant, very smart, rich. He calls me, he was in London, he called me. He said, you know, he takes the fat drug, one of the many fat drugs, and he says in New York I pay $1,300 and in London I'm paying $87. What the hell is going on? So he checked it. He's a man of means. Same plant, same factory, same manufacturer, shipped over to London and it's a tiny fraction. He said what is it? And I said: Well, that started years ago and nobody's been able to do anything about it, but I'm working on it hard. I got it done and I got it done by saying very simply to the other countries if you're not going to do it, we're going to charge you a massive tariff that's many times more because they had to approve it. The drug companies approved it, the countries approved it, and now you'll have a pill that would sell for one dollar, but in New York would sell for 13 dollars. And now that pill is selling in London for two dollars or three dollars, and it's selling in New York for two dollars or three dollars. It came all the way down and I said: That alone, Governor, that alone should win us the midterms. Ted, that alone should win us the midterms. That is the single biggest thing to happen, it's a revolution in prescription drugs. Your prices are going down 80%, 85%, 70%. Numbers that nobody ever saw. You know, in my first term, I had a year, my third year where I got it down one quarter of a percent. Think of it, one quarter. I was so proud of myself, I called a news conference immediately. I announced that I got because nobody in 28 years had gotten drug prices down. I got them down from the beginning of the year to the end, one quarter of one percent. I thought it was great because nobody else had done it for 28 years. Now I've got them down 80%, 85%, 75%, 55%. And that should really do it. And other presidents have tried and they were unable to get it, they were unable to get the other countries to do it, they were unable to get the drug companies, everything's done, everything is signed up. You know that, Ted and John and everybody, everything is signed up, done, and there it is. I mean, it's amazing, now it's just taking hold. The... when it was done, a major paper... it's the single biggest thing in years in medicine. A major paper put it on page 22 of the newspaper. So... so we have to explain it. It's the biggest thing and it's the greatest thing. One of the great things. And that also has to do with bringing your healthcare way down. And since the passage of the Unaffordable Care Act, which is ObamaCare... did you ever hear of Barack Hussein Obama? Barack Hussein... who likes Barack Hussein Obama? Who doesn't like him? I've heard worse, honestly, it's not... I've heard less popular people than that. Big insurance companies have gotten rich with our government giving them hundreds of billions of dollars as their stock prices soared because ObamaCare was good, it's rotten health insurance, good for one reason: the insurance companies. The insurance companies made a fortune. The insurance companies own Democrats, they own them. So the Democrats never want to do anything good for us, they want to do it for the insurance companies. That's why ObamaCare is terrible and it's way too expensive. So that's why in introducing the great... we call it the Great Healthcare Plan, I want to stop all payments to big insurance companies and all money, billions and billions of dollars goes directly to the people so that you can buy your own healthcare, which is better and much less expensive than ObamaCare. Right? You like that, Dan? Dan Patrick likes it. If Dan Patrick likes it, I... how good a chairman was Dan Patrick, right? He’s undefeated as chairman, right Dan? As I announced on Tuesday under our new Ratepayer Protection Pledge, we're also telling the Big Tech companies that energy usage AI data centers cannot drive up price... electric prices in communities. They have an obligation to pay that... oh we have told them, you gotta build your own power plant. You can't take it, you gotta build it. And actually we're doing them a favor because they never thought they'd have it so good. Because our grid, which is very old and broken, tired, and doesn't have great capacity, cannot sustain the kind of numbers that you're draining out of it. So I gave them the right and now it's mandatory, I made it mandatory where they have to build their own electric power plant. So they’re no longer taking out of the community and any excess they give back into the grid, so the grid is actually going to be enhanced as opposed to hurt. They wouldn't have been able... we’re leading China, we’re leading everybody right now in AI. And the reason we're doing it is because they're building their own plant, otherwise we couldn't build much at all. And so I just want you to know as you see these massive plants, they're building their own power plant, they're becoming essentially their own utility. We're expanding the dream of home ownership to millions of Americans and after I directed the purchase of 200 billion dollar in mortgage bonds—it’s 200 billion dollar in mortgage bonds—mortgage rates just fell substantially lower than 6% for the first time in five years. The annual cost of a typical new mortgage is now down almost $5,000 in one year. Think of that. And I have a lousy guy in the Fed, terrible, Jerome Too Late. You know what, he's too late. You know why we call him too late? He's too late in reducing mortgage interest rates or interest rates. He's not doing too good, but fortunately, he's going to be out of there soon. But even despite him, you know did you ever hear you got a little wall and obstacle, you power through? We power through the wall. He's a wall that we just power through. In the past 12 months, we've helped over 50,000 first-time home buyers in Texas get the house of their dreams and we've really created the American Dream. By the way, our country right now, this is the Golden Age of America. We’re in the Golden Age. This is the beginning. This is the beginning of the Golden Age. They're going to be reading about this in 100 years and two... we are in the Golden Age of America. We gotta keep it going, gotta win the midterms. We gotta keep it going. Last month, I signed an executive order to ban large Wall Street investment firms from buying large numbers of family homes, single-family homes. No, you'd have these firms go out and buy 2,000 houses. We don't want it. We want you to buy the houses, not them. We’re also fighting to pass the Save America Act, my all-time favorite. It’s my all-time favorite, the Save America Act. We gotta, John, you hear that? Ted? You’re unstoppable because you know they cheat like hell in elections in case you haven't noticed. They cheated on the third election, second election was ridiculous. We got them, we caught them, it's all coming out. It’s coming out daily, it's coming out, they cheated like dogs. That guy couldn't have won. But to stop illegal aliens and other unpermitted persons—see, that’s a politically correct unpermitted persons rather than illegal aliens. They'd rather have us use unpermitted persons. First time I've ever heard that word, those words. I don't sort of like them, unpermitted persons. Is that the new phrase we're using? The governor says no. Good. No, Ted, right? Unpermitted, that's... he's an unpermitted person. He’s killed 19 people, we're not permitting him in. From voting in our sacred American elections. We don't want people that aren't citizens of our country voting. We don't want people that aren't studied and we don't want people that can't love our country voting in our election. So it's very simple: all voters must show... this is the Save America Act. Now think of it, I watched Schumer the other day: we will stop the Save America Act. I said no, no, we're talking about saving America. It's a really hard thing. It was like MAGA. Biden, remember Biden, he made those speeches: we will stop MAGA, we will... then he falls off the stage. We will stop, we will stop MAGA, we must stop MAGA. He had no idea what... and I said: No, no, MAGA is Make America Great Again. You don't want to stop it. You don't want to stop MAGA. And this may be even better, the Save America Act. I watched Schumer today: we're going to stop the Save America Act. You know what it is? Basically voter ID, etc. But what’s wrong with that? So they came up with all different theories about why anybody shouldn't have... you have voter ID for everything. No matter where you go, it's ID, you have an identification for everything except for one of the most sacred things you can be doing is voting. And the reason they don't want voter ID is because they want to cheat. Because the only way they can get elected is to cheat because their policies are no good. They do stick together, you saw that the other night, they wouldn't stand up and clap for anyone. For anybody. We could have meet... ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to introduce you to the late great Amelia Earhart. Here she is. They would not clap. They wouldn't clap for anybody. There was nothing I can think of, nothing I can think of where they would clap. They’re sick people. So they don't want all votes must show voter ID, all voters must show three simple things: proof of citizenship in order to vote, voter ID, proof of citizenship, and then third, and I'm telling you, it's the most important, no mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military, or travel. And if I had my choice, I think I'd take that one. You want to know the truth? There's more cheating with mail-in ballots. They drop them in the river. See this beautiful port? You see the damn things floating down the... it is... it is so terrible. Our elections are so rigged and crooked and those three things will solve it. Think of it: voter ID, proof of citizenship, no mail-in ballots with exceptions—military, we want an exception, illness, disability, we want an exception. And if you're traveling, you're on a business trip, you're somewhere, even a vacation, you can vote by mail. But that's a very small number of people. And you will see that they will never win another election again. They will never win because their policy is no good. They want men playing in women's sports. They want transgender for everybody. They want open borders so that the world's criminals can pour into our country, which have we done a good job? I'll tell you what, ICE, ICE has done such a great job. In border patrol, you know that for the last nine... it’s hard to believe. For the last... you remember the problems two years ago? You people, everybody was going crazy. People were pouring into our country by the millions. In the last nine months, and this is done by radicals, radical lefts. In the last nine months, zero people came into our country through your southern border illegally. And remember when Biden said, well for that we need legislation. I said no, you need a new president and I was right. I didn't get legislation. I said to Paul Perez, close your border, Paul, close it! Where’s Paul, is he here? Where the hell is Paul? He’s the greatest. That guy is great. I’d have him come up and speak, but he's such a good speaker that I don't like that. I only want to follow terrible, terrible speakers. That way they say Trump is a brilliant speaker. We got big ratings the other night, by the way, big like record, record ratings. We... everything was clicking. Do you want to come up, Paul? Come on up, Paul. Show off to your family. He’s got a beautiful family. What a beautiful family. Now watch, I'll put pressure on him. Don't blow it, Paul, this is your one opportunity. This is a big crowd, Paul, don't get nervous. No, Paul is just incredible and he rates Trump the single greatest president in history, that's why I have him. He says he's the GOAT, the GOAT. No, we've had... we've had a couple good ones. We haven't had too many actually. Come on up, Paul.

Thank you, President Trump. Thank you for the ride home on Air Force One. Really appreciated that. I am the president of the National Border Patrol Council, and I can tell you without a doubt President Trump is the only president that backed up every campaign promise he made when it came to the border and everything else. We have record drops in immigration, in border crossings, in drug seizures because President Trump within one hour of being inaugurated allowed us to do more than what Biden allowed us to do in the entire four-year term. President Trump is the best president in the history of this country. Prove me wrong.

He does a great job. He does a great job, the whole group. ICE, Border Patrol, law enforcement. By the way, our great firemen, how about that? You know, one of the things... and we can just talk today, we're together. One of the things that I'm most proud of, if you go back two years, three years, and four years under the last administration, we had the worst recruitment for our military in the history of our country. Nobody wanted to be a soldier. They didn't want Army, Air Force, Navy. They didn't want the Marines. They didn't want even beautiful Space Force or Coast Guard. They didn't want to be in the police. They didn't want to be in the fire departments. They didn't want to be anywhere. They didn't want anything with the uniform because it represented our country. Since then, and it started really with November 5th, which was the election. But since November 5th, we have the highest record of recruitment in the history of our country. Think of that. And that includes ICE and Border Patrol. And I want to thank Paul because that group of people does a great job. Think of it: it's guess it's nine months now, registered zero. Now I don't even believe it could possibly be that low because millions of people, but it's pretty close to zero. And they say it's zero. If they say it's zero, it has to be. They’re Democrats that do it, so they're not going to give me any benefit. Just over one year ago, we inherited a total disaster. Four years now, think of it, four years we had ruinous inflation, economic surrender. We surrendered to the whole world. A border invasion, rampant crime and chaos. All over the world, they laughed at us. But today we have ended that disaster and achieved a turnaround for the ages. Nobody's ever seen it like this. Nobody has ever seen a one-year turnaround like we had. Think of it, we were a laughingstock one and a half years ago, and now we’re hot. We’re hot. I was going to say like that person in the audience, but I won't say that because that could be career-ending. So I don't do that. We’re hot. Our country is the hottest country in the world. America's back. Our economy is roaring and our country is strong. And we're respected again. They’re respecting us again. China respects us, Russia respects us. They all respect... and they respect your president. And I respect them. We’ve got a lot of things going on. Now we have a big decision to make, you know that. Not easy. Not easy. We have a country that's been for 47 years blowing people's legs off, arms off, their face. They’ve been knocking out chips, killing people, lots of people. Not only Americans, lots of people. It’s been terrible. 32,000 people killed over the last two, three months protesters, 32,000. That’s some number of people. 32,000. They want to make a deal, but we’re going to make a deal that's meaningful. I spoke with Ted Cruz, John, all of them on the way here. I said we gotta make a deal that's meaningful. We hit them real hard, as you know, with those beautiful B-2 bombers recently, knocked out their nuclear capability. But I'd rather do it the peaceful way, but they're very difficult people. I want to tell you that. They’re very dangerous people, very difficult people. With the help of proud Texans like you and the people we have today. And I want to just thank you because it is true, we have had voting in Texas, they say: Sir, you don't have to go to Texas, you're leading by a lot. I said: I want to go to Texas, you know. I want to go to Texas. I love Texas. I love Texas. It just represents something special. Success, it's great, incredible people. But they said: See, you don't have to go there, I'm telling you sir, you're wasting your time, sir. You don't need it. I said: I'm going to Texas, I don't give a damn if I waste my time. But we're going to keep on working and we'll keep on fighting. Texas will keep on drilling, Corpus Christi will keep on shipping, and the United States of America will keep on winning, winning, winning like we've never won before. And together we will make our country richer and stronger and safer and prouder and freer and greater than ever before. And I just want to tell everybody here, I appreciate everything you've done for me. And I've done a lot for you, too. But I love you all very much and thank you, Corpus Christi. Thank you very much. Thank you, Texas. Thank you, everybody.