Good afternoon. Thank you all for being here. Well, I am honored to stand before you as the sponsor of the legislation that established President Donald J. Trump Boulevard. But I have to be honest and give credit where credit is due. Where's my husband? Just after the election, my husband, Eric, actually said, "Meg, you need to rename Southern Boulevard President Donald J. Trump Boulevard." And I immediately maybe snapped at him and said, "Eric, give me a few minutes. I'm a freshman. I need some time." But after a few minutes to process, I realized he was right, which is rare in our marriage, I might point that out. But I realized that it also needed to happen. This is something that was a great idea. I'm in this role because of our good friend who's here today, FHP Director Dave Kerner, had... he reached out to me and told me, "Meg, our state needs more servant leaders that care." And I'm here because President Trump spoke common sense when common sense was completely under attack. So I am so grateful to be... to be a warrior here for you, sir, and to have... honestly, never thought I'd be in this role. I'm just a mom, rescuing a lot of animals, and listening to you speak, President Trump, you speak common sense. You speak exactly what the people want and have been wanting to hear for many, many years. Thank you, thank you. When I first filed the language, though, I was told it wasn't allowed, that we couldn't do this. But I am the youngest of four and my father did coin me "the nudge," so it's served me well in the Florida House. Determination. I will have to tell you that it was not just me, there's so many members that, you know, we would kind of... the bill naming the process is so interesting. It was first my bill, it rolls into the road naming bill, and from there it goes to the house and the senate. So there's so many people that are involved. Representative... I mean, Speaker Perez, you're such an incredible supporter. In fact, in your inaugural remarks you said, "this is a member-driven process." And this is exactly what this is, a member-driven process. This was exactly how it played out. We had Representative Nicks, Representative Brannon, Senator... President Albritton in the Senate, and other senators and so many members and staff that really worked hard to make this happen. I am a woman of faith and I want to say Romans 13:7 says, "give honor and respect to all those whom it is due." And President Trump, today we're doing exactly that. We... we need to honor and respect you and your family for everything that you have done for us and in our country. So thank you. I want to thank... thank you to all the officials that voted and helped make this happen. It doesn't... it doesn't just even happen in the state, as I learned as a freshman, you have to then go through many municipalities, which was a learning process for me as well. But I want to thank my staff, Kate, Lex, and Alexander. You guys are all rock stars. I'm so grateful to have you part of my team. President Donald J. Trump Boulevard now stands as a permanent reminder for courage, leadership, and unapologetic patriotism. I am proud to have played a role in to make this happen. And I'm looking forward to the airport where greatness takes off. You like that? Where greatness takes off. It is truly my honor to introduce the most incredible president of our lifetime, President Donald J. Trump.
President Trump Participates in the Southern Boulevard Dedication Ceremony
That is something, that's very special. That was a beautiful introduction, and it was from the heart. I could see that. Sometimes I get introduced not from the heart. We know that, we know about that, Danny. But this was amazing to see so many dignitaries, political leaders from Florida and beyond. It's really nice. Oh, that looks very nice, that you're carrying and the... that's beautiful. Thank you. Wow. That's the real deal. Thank you very much. We appreciate it. All... all top people in this room. Really amazing people. And we have a lot of media back there. We appreciate that you're here. We very much appreciate that you're here. See, I'm being nice today to the media. I think I have to. But a very special thanks to State Representative Meg Weinberger. The job she's doing is amazing. And she's going to do very well politically. I used to tell her, "I don't know, that's a tough race, that's a tough race, but go do it." And she did it and she won. And a lot of people didn't think she was going to be able to win, beating people that were doing it for a long time. You weren't doing it for a long time, but you've become a veteran very fast and you've done very well. Congratulations. We appreciate it. They call her Maga-Meg. And now when you have that, you can never lose a race. You can't lose. People just didn't understand that, you can't lose a race, right, with that? Thank you, darling. And where's your husband, by the way? Where is he, Eric? My arm candy. Wow. Great job. Thank you very much for that reference. That was a very important reference. Thank you, Eric, very much. And speaking of Eric, I have Eric Trump right here, who's a great guy. He's a great young guy, and he's done a fantastic job when I'm away. I don't know, I look at... I see things happening all over the world and him... the whole family's been so terrific, but Eric has been right there at the front and I appreciate it very much. He's a great boy. We love that boy. We love that boy. Thank you, honey. Appreciate it. And I'm thrilled to be back in my home state of Florida and this truly incredible privilege. I moved down here, I love New York, but it was just... just worked that way and, you know, we won... we won Florida so... so much and by so big. And it's been... and it continues, just continues. We even have Club 47 here. Look at these representatives. Used to be Club 45, then they said, "I think we're going to change it to Club 47." And we're having a good time. Let me tell you, we're doing really... we're doing a job for our country. We're saving our country, because if they would have gotten in, this country would have been a place known as Venezuela on steroids. It would have been in big trouble. So we did... we did a job. And so many of the people... Gina, so many of the people in the room... they helped so much. It's incredible. So I'm tremendously honored that the main boulevard from Palm Beach International Airport to the beautiful Mar-a-Lago is being renamed in my honor. That's a very important stretch. A lot of people, a lot of important people, and I don't care if they're important or not, but important and not important people travel on that road. But I love the people of Florida. I love the entire Palm Beach area. I've been here for a long time. And I want to thank you all for being here. I'll remember this amazing gesture for the rest of my life. And in particular, Meg and Eric and all of the... the people that worked so hard for this. I also want to thank a man who's amazing. He's an administrator, he's one of the most talented people in the country at what he does, Joe Abruzzo. He's here someplace. Joe. What a talented guy. There's nobody better in the whole country at what he does. What he does is not easy. But everybody respects him and everybody listens to him and he's got great... values, but he's got a great sense of design and everything else that you need. You need a lot of capability in that job and you have every... every bit of it. Thank you, Joe, very much. I appreciate it. Thank you. And who's that young lady? Michelle. Thank you very much. Fantastic. It's good to have you both. Let me also express my gratitude to all of the members of the Florida House, many of whom I've gotten to know over the years, and the Senate. Incredible people. I mean, literally incredible people who united behind the legislation granting me this great honor, including the Speaker of the House, Danny Perez, who I think has a hell of a future. I don't know what you're doing, Danny, but what a future. Wow. Because he has an unlimited political future. But whatever you choose, I'm behind you 100 percent. You know that, Danny. Thank you for a great job. Great job. And State Senator, President Ben Albritton. I want to thank you, Ben. Good job you're doing. You're doing... everybody's respected in this group. You know, they get along down in Florida, although I can't say that's necessarily always the case. I guess you probably have a couple of people that you're maybe not as friendly with, but you are great people. Ben, thank you very much. I appreciate it. Along with State Representatives Danny Nicks, Chuck Brannon, Chip LaMarca, Mike Redondo, Juan Carlos Porras, and State Senator Debbie Mayfield. Thank you all for being here. Thank you. Thank you very much. And we're also pleased to be joined by many distinguished guests including Congressman, a friend of mine for a long time, Brian Mast. Thank you, Brian. What a great guy. People love that guy. And another friend of mine and somebody... I mean, you talk about attorneys general, there's no better attorney general than this one. He better win this race because I think he's going to. We're 407 and 0, and I gave him my strongest endorsement. And James Uthmeier. So where is James? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. You're doing good. How are the polls doing? Pretty good? It's a blowout. But let's not say that. Let' say you're winning by one. Or losing by one. Doesn't make any difference. Get them out to vote, right? It was an honor to endorse you and congratulations. Doing a great job. And I want to thank Ron too because Ron has been really behind this with Meg and everybody else and we did have his back 100 percent and I appreciate it. And it's a great honor. Thank you very much. See you. Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson, who I've been with for a long time, right? I've been with him for a long time and I appreciate... Thanks, Wilton. Appreciate it very much. Executive Director of the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles Dave Kerner, who had so much to do with this. Thank you. Thank you, Dave. Mayor of Palm Beach Danielle Moore. She's a terrific woman. Where is Danielle? Thank you, Danielle. We're working on a little project, nice beautiful clean crisp water, right? And she's leading it and she's incredible. Just like her mother was incredible and is and always... oh, where's Mom? I want to see Mom. Oh, there you look good. You look very good. I haven't seen... the former Mayor of Palm Beach and highly respected. Who's respected more, you or your mother? I don't know, it's pretty close, right? She says Mom is respected more. That's good. A daughter better say that, right? Thank you, darling. Appreciate it. That's great. Thank you, Danielle. Glad you told me she was here. Former Mayor Leslie Smith is here, who's great and a formerly very good golfer. I think she's still a good golfer. Leslie, where's Leslie? Leslie. Thank you very much, Leslie. Thank you. Thank you, darling. I appreciate it. We've known each other for a long time. Incredible people. And the members of the Palm Beach Town Council are here. Thank you all very much. You do a great job. You love the town. I love the town too. I had a lot of choice on towns and I said, "this is the town I want to be in." So we all love it and it's an honor to have saved Mar-a-Lago. You know, most of these great houses went down. They went down rapidly and they were subdivided into 25 homes, etc., etc. And I'll tell you what, this was an honor. But they like me because I saved the house. Somebody said they like me because you're a great president, but they like you more because I saved Mar-a-Lago. Saving Mar-a-Lago was to them more important. Thank you very much. I like you. Thank you very much. Mayor of Palm Beach County, who I endorsed by the way, Sara Baxter. Sara. Hi, Sara. Congratulations, Sara. So we're at 407 and 0. We have to make sure that you're going to... but I think it's going to work out very well. Congratulations. You had so many people that said you got to be with her. I said, "I am, I am." So good luck with the election. I know it's going to work out very well. Thank you. Good luck. The members of the County Commission and the West Palm Beach City Commission who are unbelievable people. They love the area. They just... they work hard and they're good. Where are you? Can you raise your hands a little bit? Great, great, great. Great. Thank you. Thank you. Great job you're doing. You know, we're all working together at this place. We have... we're working on a little water project and if we can get the water perfect, it'll be great. Mayor, you're heading it up from this part of the world and I know they're working in West Palm Beach and the area and we'll see whether it's desalination or filtering. There's a couple of different ways we can do it. But whatever we can do, I think it'll be great. We're working along with West Palm Beach also. So thank you and thank you, Mayor. Dan Newlin is here, and Gina Loudon is here. And Linda Sochi's here. And Larry and Sue Snowden are here. Thank you, Larry and Sue. Thank you. Thank you. And basically just sort like everybody's here. And it's a real something special. We're pleased to be in the same legislation as it renames another section of Southern Boulevard, in a very nice section indeed. I know it well. In honor of three brave motorcycle deputies from the Palm Beach Sheriff's Office who were killed last year in a horrific accident. Horrible. It was a horrible situation. But I saw a lot of... I saw so much love. I saw everybody in this room was there plus, plus, plus at... we had a ceremony in honor of these three incredible people. Corporal Louise Paez, Jr., who is just... Louise Paez was somebody who was loved and respected by so many people. They all said thank you for being there in honor of her. And Deputy Sheriff Ralph Butch Waller, Jr. and Deputy Sheriff Ignacio Dan Diaz. The three of them, that what happened to them was unbelievable. The ceremony was one of the most beautiful and saddest ceremonies that I've ever attended. But I was deeply honored to be there on May 1st. I bestowed the honor of first ever... these were medals that were worked on by my son Eric very hard. We had a great jeweler, can I say the name of the jeweler? Tiffany. And they came up with a really incredible medal. And it's called the Medal of Sacrifice. And they did a beautiful job. And it was really led by Eric Trump. So I want to thank you, Eric, too. Thank you. And unfortunately when events, certain events happen like that and they do happen, they do happen, they shouldn't happen, but they do happen, we're going to do the medal ceremony and it's going to be something special. So today we pay tribute to them and to those... to the loved ones. Some of their family members are here. We love their family members, what they went through. Those deputies will live in our hearts forever and Florida will remember them always with the PBSO Motorman Highway. PBSO Motorman Highway. It's great. Beautiful thing. I'm going to see it every time I go up that road. Today's dedication ceremony for President Donald J. Trump Boulevard has special meaning to me because I've always had the unique bond with the great state of Florida. We've had tremendous success here. I've been part of the community for more than 40 years. We won big here in Florida all three times. We set every record every time. And in 2024, we swept 61 of 67 Florida counties. Nobody's ever done that and carried the state by almost 2 million votes, which is the record. And then I was followed also from the Governor standpoint with Ron who did fantastically also. And we really it's we've turned this state there are a few Democrats in this room so I don't want to get into this but we've turned the state extraordinarily red. I would say, wouldn't you say? You'll find out, you're going to see. But over the past 12 months, Florida's trust and confidence has really paid off because you made a correct choice. One year ago we were a I say it dead country, the King of Saudi Arabia I was over in Saudi Arabia getting money for the for the country. He put up $2 trillion. Gave us I'd like to invest in the United States $2 trillion. It's a lot of money. And then I went to Qatar $2 trillion. And I went to the United Arab Emirates Muhammad $2 trillion. So we took in 6 trillion. That's why we have 18 because we got 6 from three countries. That helps, right, Laura? Is that right? Hi Laura. Boy, you are something. What spirit you have. Laura Loomer. Thank you, honey, for being here. Appreciate it. She's a... you know, she can be a little nasty, but to me she's always nice. So that's all that matters. I want her to stay that way too. But I was over there and he looked at me, the King of Saudi Arabia said, "I can't believe it." This was a few months ago. Took back all that money for the country. He said, "I can't believe this is happening because one year ago you were a dead country and now you're the hottest country in the world." And I use that quote all over and it's true. We were a dead country and now we are the hottest country anywhere in the world. We're taking in more income than any country, we're doing better than any country, the stock market's doing better than anyone's ever seen before. We have the best stock market we've ever seen. 401ks are doing better than they've ever done before. They're up 78 percent in many cases. But starting on day one, we fully secured our Southern Boulevard and stopped the... and think of it, as we were securing Southern Boulevard, making Florida great, we're also securing a thing called the Southern border and making that great. And we stopped the invasion of our country. So Florida's been ahead of our time. Florida was ahead, it led the way. But we stopped the... this was an invasion on our border. And, you know, I don't know if this is correct because it can't be correct, it's too good. But for the last eight months, there have been no people that came into our country illegally. Now, I don't know if that's possible. How do you go from 25 million people in four years to zero people? But the people, Wilton, the people that report this are Democrats. So it must be true. I mean, they got to... but it's like eight months now, and they report it every month. No people came into our country illegally. A lot of people are coming in legally, they're going through a process, but we don't want the illegal coming in. You look at what's happening in Minnesota, it's so sad. And it's so sad because ICE, you know, ICE is taking out murderers, they're taking out drug lords, they're taking out people from mental institutions, bringing them back to their country. They're taking out the roughest, roughest people, Tren de Aragua. The jails are emptied out from Venezuela. Now I like Venezuela very much. I say good things. I don't talk about Venezuela in a negative. I think it's a wonderful country. We just... we just were... it's very interesting, I was... it's so much different, it's changed so much in literally a week. It was one of the great military maneuvers of all time. It was like flawless. It was one of the great of all time. But we're dealing with a new president, we're dealing with a lot of the people that were running the country and they had our... the first thing is they said, "we have 50 million barrels," hard to believe Eric, I said, "is there such a thing as 50 million barrels?" 50 million barrels of oil. And we have to get it processed immediately because we have no room. "Will you take it?" I said, "we'll take it." I didn't have to consult with anybody on that. I didn't have to call up our great Attorney General, I said, "we will take it." And it's the equivalent of $5.2 billion. That was the first day. And it's now traveling nicely to the United States. And we've had a great relationship with the people that that are currently the... they call... they say the interim president and everybody else and it's been... I think a lot of pressure's been released because, you know, that was a great country 20 years ago and then it went bad because it had the wrong system. It had a bad system. And we can't ever fall into a position we have that where we have that system, because that system isn't going to work. That system can make a lot of people that are good people bad people or incompetent people. But we passed the largest tax cuts in history, the largest regulatory cuts in history, and the largest spending cuts in history. And that got done. We call it the great big beautiful bill. We have no tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime. People that buy a car, they get a deduction now on their interest if they buy a car and borrow money. Never happened before. You know, rich people are got used to taking deductions. People in middle class situations or lower than middle class, they never got deductions on anything. They can now. I think it's going to have a huge impact. We're building more factories in the United States now than at any time in our history. And we have $18 trillion being invested. We have 18, think of that, 18 trillion dollars, more than any country has ever had by five times. Think of that. There's never been anything even close. 3 trillion is the record. We're going to be I think get over 18. Through 10 months it was 18. We could crack 20 by the time we have our first year, which will be in a little while, January 20th. So I just... I mean, it's been... it's been amazing. We also did a couple of other things. Critical Race Theory and transgender insanity is out of our schools and out of our lives. And we got men out of women's sports. Officially out of women's sports. And everyone said, "well, that's an 80-20 issue." No, that's a 98-2 issue. I don't even think it's 98-2. Military recruitment is setting records. A year ago and now you have to go a year and a half ago, I guess, but a year ago military recruitment was at an all-time low. And that included for police and firemen. And now military recruitment, police and firemen is the highest it's ever been. We have never had this many people apply for jobs. We've never seen anything like it. And we hire now on a merit-based system because we won the court case, the Supreme Court case. Everything's based now on merit. So we get people in merit as opposed to putting people in jobs that maybe shouldn't be there, whether it's nice or not, it's how our country grew. It's how our country became great. So we have a merit-based system. In less than a year, we made eight peace deals and ended the war in Gaza. We have peace in the Middle East. Nobody thought that was going to be possible. We stopped India and Pakistan from fighting. Two nuclear nations. They say many millions of people, the Pakistani Prime Minister said Donald Trump saved at least 10 million people. And it was amazing and it's an honor. Then we obliterated Iran's nuclear enrichment capacity with Operation Midnight Hammer. That was another operation that was incredible. Then you have Al-Baghdadi. Got out, that's the founder of ISIS, was rebuilding ISIS, got him. And Soleimani, he's the one, the roadside bomb, and frankly he was a strong general that maybe we wouldn't have been so successful. I think we would have, but maybe we wouldn't have been so successful in Iran had he been around, but he destroyed a lot of lives. A lot of young people that walk around with no legs, no arms, a face that was just, you know, just smashed. He was the father of the roadside bomb and he knew how to do it. We got him. And as I announced earlier this month from right here at Mar-a-Lago, we apprehended the outlaw known as dictator Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela for his crimes against the United States and the rest of the world. And actually no other nation in the world could have done that. And they actually admit that. There's no other nation could have done what we did a week ago. Every single day of my administration, I will continue to put America first and fight for the great state of Florida. I love this state. Special place. I don't know, it's just special. You know it, I know it. A lot of people know because a lot of people are coming here. So that when people see that the beautiful sign is all lit up nice at night and it says Donald J. Trump Boulevard, they'll be filled with pride. Just pride not in me, pride in our country, pride in this state because our nation will be stronger, richer, and more successful, which is what it is right now. We're stronger, richer, and more successful than we have ever been before. And I didn't know the big surprises that we could do this quickly. I thought it would take us a couple of years, maybe, but we did it very quickly. I mean, it's been 11 months and we've never had anything like more factories, more everything. There's never been anything like what we've done. And that means car factories too, not just the AI. The AI is unbelievable what's happening there. We're leading China by a lot, but we're building more car factories than at any time in the history of our country. Who would think that? And that's largely because of tariffs. They don't want to pay the tariff. It's a pretty simple formula, you know. China became powerful because of that. They don't want to pay the tariff, but it only works really here. It works best here, what a lot of people don't understand. It doesn't work in most countries, but here it works great. So because of that, we have more things happening than we've ever had and I think you're going to see an explosion. You already see it in all fairness, but this next year could be just an explosion of success. So once again, I want to express my gratitude to every official who contributed to this great honor, in particular Meg, who's an incredible... what a future. She's got a good future too, Danny, right? Come on. And I want to thank especially my son, and I want to thank the great people of Florida. This is just an amazing day for me and it's an amazing place. And we're going to have three more great years, but hopefully we're going to have many, many decades of greatness in this country that we have it off to the right start. Thank you all very much. What an honor. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much. Good luck. Thank you, fellas. Appreciate it. One of the... oh. Wow, that's a serious sign. Wilton, you want to come up here? You look at that. Come on. I don't know if you're going to compete with it, Wilton. This is all of a sudden you're looking a little bit... a little bit squeezy here. Well let's see, good. We had these made for you. Oh, that's great. Wow, I love that. Greatest President in... in our lifetime, Wilton. How old are you? That's not a very long time. And you do a great job too. Thank you very much. Appreciate it. Thank you. Okay, thank you. Thank you. Thank you all very much. You know, we have a wedding here now. So they said, "Sir, is there any way you can move it quickly?" I said, "I'm not moving it quickly." We're not... and the people getting married outside and they said, "take your time, sir, this is an honor." So it's sort of cute. Have a good time. Thank you, everybody. Thank you.