3/6/25, 2:13 AM ‘America is back’: READ Trump’s address to Congress (FULL VERSION) — RT World News

Agent Ortiz, we salute you for your great courage and

your line of fire that you took and for the bravery that you
showed. We honor you, and we will always honor you.
Thank you, Roberto, very much. And I actually got to
know him on my many calls to the border. He’s a great,
great gentleman. The territory to the immediate south of
our border is now dominated entirely by criminal cartels
that murder, rape, torture and exercise total control. They
have total control over a whole nation. posing a grave
threat to our national security.

The cartels are waging war in America, and it’s time for
America to wage war on the cartels. Five nights ago,
Mexican authorities, because of our tariff policies being
imposed on them, think of this, handed over to us 29 of
the biggest cartel leaders in their country. That has never
happened before. They want to make us happy. First time
ever. But we need Mexico and Canada to do much more
than they’ve done, and they have to stop the fentanyl and
drugs pouring into the USA. They’re going to stop it.

I have sent Congress a detailed funding request, laying

out exactly how we will eliminate these threats to protect
our homeland and complete the largest deportation
operation in American history. Larger even than current
record holder President Dwight D. Eisenhower, a
moderate man but someone who believed very strongly
in borders. Americans expect Congress to send me this
funding without delay so I can sign it into law. So, Mr.
Speaker, John Thune, both of you, I hope you’re going to
be able to do that. Mr. Speaker, thank you, Mr. Leader,
thank you. Thank you very much. And let’s get it to me. I’ll
sign it so fast you won’t even believe it.

And as we reclaim our sovereignty, we must also bring

back law and order to our cities and towns. In recent
years, our justice system has been turned upside down
by radical left lunatics.

Many jurisdictions virtually ceased enforcing the law

against dangerous repeat offenders while weaponizing
law enforcement against political opponents like me. My
administration has acted swiftly and decisively to restore
https://www.rt.com/news/613775-trump-full-speech-congress/ 17/32
3/6/25, 2:13 AM ‘America is back’: READ Trump’s address to Congress (FULL VERSION) — RT World News

fair, equal and impartial justice under the constitutional

rule of law. Starting at the FBI and the DOJ, Pam. Good
luck. Kash, wherever you may be. Good luck, good luck.
Pam Bondi. Good luck. So important. Gonna to do a
great job. Kash. Thank you, thank you, thank you, Kash.

They have already started very strong. They’re going to

do a fantastic job. You’re going to be very proud of them.
We’re also once again giving our police officers the
support, protection and respect they show dearly
deserve. They have to get it. They have such a hard,
dangerous job. But we’re going to make it less
dangerous. The problem is the bad guys don’t respect the
law, but they’re starting to respect it, and they soon will
respect it.

This also includes our great fire departments throughout

the country. Our firemen and women are unbelievable
people, and I will never forget them. And besides that,
they voted for me in record numbers. So I have no
choice.

One year ago this month, 31-year-old New York police

officer Jonathan Diller, unbelievably wonderful person
and a great officer, was gunned down at a traffic stop on
Long Island. I went to his funeral. A vicious criminal
charged with his murder had 21 prior arrests – and they
were rough arrests, too. He was a real bad one. The thug
in the seat next to him had 14 prior arrests, and went by
the name of Killer. He was Killer. He killed other people,
they say, a lot of them. I attended Officer Tiller’s service,
and when I met his wife and one-year-old son, Ryan, it
was very inspirational, actually. His widow’s name is
Stephanie and she is here tonight. Thank you very much
Stephanie. Thank you very much.

Stephanie, we’re going to make sure that Ryan knows his

dad was a true hero. New York’s finest. And we’re going
to get these cold-blooded killers and repeat offenders off
our streets. And we’re going to do it fast. Gotta stop it.
They get out with 28 arrests. They push people into
subway trains. They hit people over the head, back of the
head with baseball bats. We got to get him out of here.
https://www.rt.com/news/613775-trump-full-speech-congress/ 18/32
3/6/25, 2:13 AM ‘America is back’: READ Trump’s address to Congress (FULL VERSION) — RT World News

I’ve already signed an executive order requiring a

mandatory death penalty for anyone who murders a
police officer. And tonight, I’m asking Congress to pass
that policy into permanent law.

I’m also asking for a new crime bill getting tougher on

repeat offenders while enhancing protections for
America’s police officers so they can do their jobs without
fear of their lives being totally destroyed. They don’t want
to be killed. We’re not going to let them be killed.

Joining us to the gallery tonight is a young man who truly

loves our police. His name is D.J. Daniel. He is 13 years
old, and he has always dreamed of becoming a police
officer. But in 2018, D.J. was diagnosed with brain
cancer. The doctors gave him five months, at most, to
live. That was more than six years ago. Since that time,
D.J. and his dad have been on a quest to make his
dream come true. And D.J. has been sworn in as an
honorary law enforcement officer. Actually, a number of
times. The police love him. The police departments love
him. And tonight, D.J., we’re going to do you the biggest
honor of them all. I am asking our new Secret Service
director, Sean Curran, to officially make you an agent of
the United States secret Service. Thank you, D.J.

D.J.’s doctors believe his cancer likely came from a

chemical he was exposed to when he was younger. Since
1975, rates of child cancer have increased by more than
40%. Reversing this trend is one of the top priorities for
our new presidential commission to Make America
Healthy Again, chaired by our new Secretary of Health
and Human Services, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. With a name
Kennedy, you would have thought everybody over here
would have been cheering. How quickly they forget.

Our goal is to get toxins out of our environment, poisons

out of our food supply, and keep our children healthy and
strong. As an example, not long ago – and you can’t even
believe these numbers – one in 10,000 children had
autism. One in 10,000, and now it’s one in 36. There’s
something wrong. One in 36. Think of that. So, we’re
going to find out what it is, and there’s nobody better than
https://www.rt.com/news/613775-trump-full-speech-congress/ 19/32
3/6/25, 2:13 AM ‘America is back’: READ Trump’s address to Congress (FULL VERSION) — RT World News

Bobby and all of the people that are working with you.
You have the best to figure out what is going on. Okay,
Bobby. Good luck. It’s a very important job. Thank you.

My administration is also working to protect children from

toxic ideologies in our schools. A few years ago, January
Littlejohn and her husband discovered that their
daughter’s school had secretly socially transitioned their
13-year-old little girl. Teachers and administrators
conspired to deceive January and her husband while
encouraging their daughter to use a new name and
pronouns –they/them pronouns, actually – or without
telling January, who is here tonight and is now a
courageous advocate against this form of child abuse.
January, thank you. Thank you.

Stories like this are why, shortly after taking office, I

signed an executive order banning public schools from
indoctrinating our children with transgender ideology. I
also signed an order to cut off all taxpayer funding to any
institution that engages in the sexual mutilation of our
youth. And now, I want Congress to pass a bill
permanently banning and criminalizing sex changes on
children and forever ending the lie that any child is
trapped in the wrong body. This is a big lie. And our
message to every child in America is that you are perfect
exactly the way God made you.

Because we’re getting wokeness out of our schools and

out of our military, and it’s already out, and it’s out of our
society. We don’t want it. Wokeness is trouble. Wokeness
is bad. It’s gone. It’s gone. And we feel so much better for
it. Don’t we? Don’t we feel better? Our service members
won’t be activists and ideologues. They will be fighters
and warriors. They will fight for our country and Pete,
congratulations, secretary of defense. And he’s not big
into the woke movement, I can tell you. I know him well.

I am pleased to report that in January, the US Army had

its single best recruiting month in 15 years and that all
armed services are having among the best recruiting
results ever in the history of our services. What a
difference. And, you know, it was just a few months ago
https://www.rt.com/news/613775-trump-full-speech-congress/ 20/32
3/6/25, 2:13 AM ‘America is back’: READ Trump’s address to Congress (FULL VERSION) — RT World News

where the results were exactly the opposite. We couldn’t

recruit anywhere. We couldn’t recruit. Now we’re having
the best results.

And, you know, it was just a few months ago where the
results were exactly the opposite. We couldn’t recruit
anywhere. We couldn’t recruit. Now we’re having the best
results just about that we’ve ever had. What a
tremendous turnaround. It’s really a beautiful thing to see.
People love our country again. It’s very simple. They love
our country and they love being in our military again. So
it’s a great thing. And thank you very much. Great job.

We’re joined tonight by a young man, Jason Hartley, who

knows the weight of that call of duty. Jason’s father,
grandfather and great-grandfather all wore the uniform.
Jason tragically lost his dad, who was also a Los Angeles
County sheriff’s deputy, when he was just a boy and now
he wants to carry on the family legacy of service. Jason is
a senior in high school, a six-letter varsity athlete – a
really good athlete, they say. A brilliant student with a
4.46 – that’s good – GPA and his greatest dream is to
attend the US Military Academy at West Point.

And Jason, that’s a very big deal getting in. That’s a hard
one to get into. But I’m pleased to inform you that your
application has been accepted. You’ll soon be joining the
Corps of Cadets.

Thank you. Jason, you’re going to be on the Long Gray

Line, Jason. As commander in chief, my focus is on
building the most powerful military of the future. As a first
step, I’m asking Congress to fund a state of the art
“golden dome” missile defense shield to protect our
homeland. All made in the USA.

Ronald Reagan wanted to do it long ago, but the

technology just wasn’t there. Not even close. But now we
have the technology. It’s incredible, actually.

And other place – they have it. Israel has it. Other places
have it. And the United States should have it too, right?
Kim. Right. They should have it too. So I want to thank
https://www.rt.com/news/613775-trump-full-speech-congress/ 21/32
3/6/25, 2:13 AM ‘America is back’: READ Trump’s address to Congress (FULL VERSION) — RT World News

you, but it’s a very, very important. This is a very

dangerous world. We should have it. We want to be
protected and we’re going to protect our citizens like
never before.

To boost our defense industrial base, we are also going to

resurrect the American shipbuilding industry, including
commercial shipbuilding and military shipbuilding. And for
that purpose, I am announcing tonight that we will create
a new office of shipbuilding in the White House and offer
special tax incentives to bring this industry home to
America, where it belongs.

We used to make so many ships. We don’t make them

anymore very much, but we’re going to make them very
fast, very soon. It will have a huge impact.

To further enhance our national security, my

administration will be reclaiming the Panama Canal, and
we’ve already started doing it.

Just today, a large American company announced they

are buying both ports around the Panama Canal and lots
of other things having to do with the Panama Canal and a
couple of other canals. The Panama Canal was built by
Americans for Americans, not for others. But others could
use it.

But it was built at tremendous cost of American blood and

treasure. 38,000 workers died building the Panama
Canal. They died of malaria. They died of snakebites and
mosquitoes. Not a nice place to work.

They paid them very highly to go there, knowing there

was a 25% chance that they would die. The most
expensive project also that was ever built in our country’s
history if you bring it up to modern-day costs. It was given
away by the Carter administration for $1. But that
agreement has been violated very severely.

We didn’t give it to China, we gave it to Panama, and

we’re taking it back.

https://www.rt.com/news/613775-trump-full-speech-congress/ 22/32
3/6/25, 2:13 AM ‘America is back’: READ Trump’s address to Congress (FULL VERSION) — RT World News

Now we have Marco Rubio in charge. Good luck, Marco.

Now we know who to blame if anything goes wrong.
Marco has been amazing, and he’s going to do a great
job. Think of it. He got 100 votes. You know, he was
approved with actually 99, but the 100th was this
gentleman. And I feel very certain, so let’s assume we got
100 votes. And I’m either very, very happy about that or
I’m very concerned about it.

But he’s already proven – I mean, he’s a great

gentleman. He’s respected by everybody. And we
appreciate you voting for Marco. He’s going to do a
fantastic job. Thank you, thank you. He’s doing a great
job. Great job.

And I also have a message tonight for the incredible

people of Greenland. We strongly support your right to
determine your own future, and if you choose, we
welcome you into the United States of America.

We need Greenland for national security and even

international security. And we’re working with everybody
involved to try and get it. But we need it really for
international world security. And I think we’re going to get
it. One way or the other, we’re going to get it.

We will keep you safe. We will make you rich. And

together we will take Greenland to heights like you have
never thought possible before.

It’s a very small population, but very, very large piece of

land and very, very important for military security.

America is once again standing strong against the forces

of radical Islamic terrorism.

Three and a half years ago, ISIS terrorists killed 13

American service members and countless others in the
Abbey Gate bombing during the disastrous and
incompetent withdrawal from Afghanistan. Not that they
were withdrawing. It was the way they withdrew. Perhaps
the most embarrassing moment in the history of our
country.
https://www.rt.com/news/613775-trump-full-speech-congress/ 23/32
3/6/25, 2:13 AM ‘America is back’: READ Trump’s address to Congress (FULL VERSION) — RT World News

Tonight, I am pleased to announce that we have just

apprehended the top terrorist responsible for that atrocity.
And he is right now on his way here to face the swift
sword of American justice.

And I want to thank, especially, the government of

Pakistan for helping arrest this monster. This was a very
momentous day for those 13 families who I actually got to
know very well, most of them, whose children were
murdered, and the many people that were so badly, over
42 people so badly injured on that fateful day in
Afghanistan.

What a horrible day. Such incompetence was shown that

when Putin saw what happened, I guess he said, wow,
maybe this is my chance. That’s how bad it was. Should
have never happened. Grossly incompetent people.

I spoke to many of the parents and loved ones and

they’re all in our hearts tonight. I spoke to them on the
phone. We had a big call. Every one of them called and
everybody was on the line and they did nothing but cry
with happiness. They were very happy. It’s happy as you
can be under those circumstances. Their child, brother,
sister, son, daughter was killed for no reason whatsoever.

In the Middle East, we’re bringing back our hostages from

Gaza. In my first term, we achieved one of the most
groundbreaking peace agreements in generations: the
Abraham Accords. And now we’re going to build on that
foundation, to create a more peaceful and prosperous
future for the entire region.

A lot of things are happening in the Middle East. People

haven’t been talking about that so much lately, with
everything going on with Ukraine and Russia, a lot of
things are happening in the Middle East. A rough
neighborhood actually.

I’m also working tirelessly to end the savage conflict in

Ukraine. Millions of Ukrainians and Russians have been
needlessly killed or wounded in this horrific and brutal
conflict, with no end in sight.
https://www.rt.com/news/613775-trump-full-speech-congress/ 24/32