President Trump delivers a lively address at the Congressional Ball, celebrating the holiday season, praising lawmakers from both parties, touting record economic achievements, job creation, deficit reduction, and bipartisan legislative victories, while sharing personal stories and promising a stronger, wealthier America ahead.
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00:00Hello, everybody.
00:03What a nice group of Democrats.
00:06We do.
00:08We have a lot of Democrats, and we welcome you.
00:10Honestly, we do.
00:11And I think we're going to start working together
00:14in healthcare.
00:14I really predict that.
00:15Aren't we you?
00:17Boy, I see some very friendly faces.
00:19I see some faces that are friendly,
00:21but they could be friendlier.
00:24But I think we're going to do great.
00:25And we've got a lot of good things to happen.
00:29We know our First Lady.
00:30She worked so hard on making this so beautiful.
00:34And the decorations.
00:35She's been given wonderful reviews for the trees
00:38and all of the Christmas decorations.
00:40So, thank you very much.
00:44So, we have a very special Congresswoman with us.
00:48Julia Letlow.
00:49Where is Julia?
00:52And it was just announced, and in fact,
00:54I just heard that she went to the dip room
00:58where she officially announced,
01:00with a very handsome man, her engagement.
01:02Okay?
01:04Where is Julia?
01:06Julia, where are you?
01:07Come on up.
01:09Julia.
01:10That's a big deal.
01:11Come on, Julia.
01:12Let's go, Julia.
01:14That's a big deal.
01:19That's bigger than — that transcends politics.
01:21Look at Julia.
01:22Oh, he's so lucky.
01:24He's the luckiest guy.
01:24He's a handsome guy, too.
01:26Hi, Julia.
01:29I'm so happy to be here.
01:30Congratulations.
01:31Let me see that ring.
01:34Oh, that's a nice ring.
01:36That's fantastic.
01:39You want to say something?
01:40Oh, no, sir.
01:41Huh?
01:42Well, yeah, go ahead.
01:44Thank you so much to the best president of my entire life,
01:47the entire United States of America.
01:53He's got a great, great woman.
01:57He's got a great woman.
01:58It's a fantastic couple.
01:59Thank you very much.
02:02So I want to just welcome everybody to the White House.
02:05It's a very special tradition.
02:10And it's interesting, because all other times —
02:12oh, look, I have my favorite congressman.
02:14How are you, congressman?
02:16You know, it's very interesting, because all other Christmas
02:21occasions, everyone is quiet.
02:24When there are all politicians in the room,
02:26they talk right through a speech, and that's okay.
02:28I don't mind that.
02:30But I want to welcome you all to the White House.
02:32It's an honor to have you.
02:33It's a special place.
02:35You know, for 150 years, they've been trying to do a ballroom.
02:38They never got it up, but we got it off.
02:40And in a very short period of time,
02:43like about a year and a half,
02:46you're going to have the best ballroom anywhere in the country,
02:48anywhere — it is special.
02:50And they're going to be able to —
02:51we'll be able to host this in a larger setting.
02:53However, it won't be the same.
02:56So I think we'll keep this the same way.
02:58But we really did. We had a fantastic turnout.
03:01We had 12 different parties,
03:04and they asked me to go to speak at every party.
03:06And I did. I spoke at every single party.
03:10Then they announced, because of the fact
03:11that they have so many people,
03:13it's 11 people are turned down for everyone that makes it.
03:17So it's a very good feeling.
03:18But I did 11.
03:20Then they said, sir, would you do two more?
03:22I did two more.
03:23And I said, did Biden do this, too?
03:25I don't think so.
03:27I would love it if he did.
03:29It would have been very interesting.
03:31But we have a lot of things happening.
03:35We have a congressional ball.
03:36We have so many different.
03:38But what we're really here to celebrate is Christmas.
03:40I want to wish everybody a very Merry Christmas,
03:43a very Happy New Year, Happy Hanukkah.
03:46Whatever it may be, it's going to be happy.
03:48And we're going to have a fantastic year.
03:50We have a fantastic year coming up.
03:52You know, never in our country have we had investment
03:56like it's taken place over the last 10 months.
03:58We have $18 trillion plus already.
04:01And I think by the end of the year,
04:03it'll be over $20 trillion.
04:05That's more than any nation anywhere in the world
04:08at any time by quadruple, by quadruple.
04:13In the previous administration,
04:15just to give you a little fact, not to be hostile,
04:20but they had less than $1 trillion over four years.
04:23So we have 18.
04:24I think we'll have 20.
04:25But we have 18 over 10 months.
04:28So that's some, that's some number.
04:31And with that, and with that automatically comes jobs.
04:34And today, for the 52nd day,
04:38we hit an all-time stock market high.
04:40And that's great.
04:41And that means, that means 401 s.
04:44That means a lot of things are happening.
04:45It means jobs.
04:47And I think when the real numbers start coming out,
04:50and when the real pollsters start doing the polls,
04:53I think you're going to see some really fantastic numbers.
04:55And that's good for Republicans, frankly, and Democrats.
04:59I want to, again, thank our First Lady
05:02for working so hard on this.
05:03She's done so well.
05:05It's the, let's see, she's done it four times.
05:09This would be the fifth time.
05:11And I would say this is the best,
05:14although I like the red trees.
05:16She got criticized for the red trees.
05:18Then I liked the white trees,
05:20and she was criticized for the white trees.
05:23Then I liked the green trees, and she got criticized,
05:25and she went back to green, and they love it.
05:27So I don't know what's going on.
05:29I think this is a little bit of a different administration,
05:31maybe, than the first.
05:33But I want to thank all of the great people in the room,
05:35both Democrat and Republican,
05:38who worked so hard on behalf of our great nation.
05:42You're members of the greatest legislative body
05:45in the history of our country, history of the world, really.
05:48And we have the greatest nation anywhere in the world,
05:52and it's getting stronger, bigger, better.
05:55And I just want to thank you,
05:59because sometimes we don't work together,
06:00but we come up with great ideas together, and that is true.
06:03So tonight, we're going to set aside all political differences.
06:07We're not going to criticize each other.
06:09We're going to love each other.
06:11And we're going to come together not as Democrats and Republicans,
06:14but as fellow Americans, to give thanks for this nation,
06:18which is so great indeed.
06:20And it's a tremendous —
06:24I think it's a tremendous tribute that —
06:26I think it really is.
06:27I think it's a tremendous tribute
06:29that so many Democrats have joined us tonight.
06:32High-level.
06:33I know almost every single name on the list.
06:35It's a very impressive list, too, I must say.
06:38But let me also say a very special thanks
06:41to all of the spouses and loved ones here tonight.
06:44You make incredible sacrifices for us as politicians.
06:48I call myself now a politician.
06:50I never thought that was going to happen.
06:52I never thought that was going to happen, but it happened.
06:56But none of what we absolutely do, whatever,
07:00would be possible without you.
07:02And I want to thank my great wife,
07:04my great First Lady, for helping me.
07:07But every single one of you have been helped by your spouse.
07:11I want to also thank our really wonderful,
07:16great Vice President J.D. Vance, who's here.
07:19J.D., thank you.
07:22And Second Lady Usha Vance.
07:24Usha, thank you very much.
07:25Thank you, Usha.
07:28Also a man that a few of you might know,
07:30not very well, but you might know him.
07:33Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson.
07:35Where's Mike?
07:35What a great job you're doing.
07:39What a great job.
07:40And most importantly, you have a wonderful, beautiful wife.
07:43Thank you very much.
07:44Say hello to the boys, okay?
07:46It's great to have you both.
07:48It was really, it's not easy to manage
07:51with a majority of three.
07:53But we've been up to seven, and we sort of veer back and forth.
07:57But he's done a job, and he gets along very well
08:00with the Democrats.
08:02Sometimes I would say he gets along too well.
08:03That bothers me.
08:05We also have Senate Majority Leader John Thune here.
08:08Where's John?
08:10Where is John?
08:11One of the really good, he's a good, thank you.
08:14Oh, wow, look at him.
08:16See, he always gives the best location to others.
08:19Thank you, John.
08:20Thank you for everything.
08:21You've done a great job.
08:22It's not easy, John.
08:24It's not easy.
08:25Thank you very much.
08:26House Majority Leader Steve Scalise.
08:30Where is Steve?
08:33Where is Steve, Mr. Speaker?
08:35I'll tell you what.
08:36You know, I always say he's got great courage
08:38because he got hit real hard.
08:41He got hit harder than I got hit.
08:43I got hit too, but I got little.
08:44You know, I have a throbbing feeling.
08:46He had much more than a throbbing feeling.
08:48In fact, I went to the hospital,
08:51and they actually thought he wasn't going to make it.
08:53His wife was devastated.
08:55She was crying.
08:56I tell this story.
08:58I found out that night.
08:59You have a wife that loves you dearly.
09:01I know many wives would not even be crying.
09:03But your wife, your wife was absolutely a mess.
09:08She was crying.
09:09She was inconsolable, Steve.
09:12So we found that out, but he made it.
09:14And then he went about four months later.
09:16He could barely walk.
09:17He went and he played second base in the game
09:20between the you, between you people, right?
09:24Republicans and Democrats.
09:26He could barely walk.
09:27He could barely stand.
09:28He was not going to be the great Bobby Richardson,
09:31all-star second baseman of the New York Yankees
09:33for 15 years.
09:35And this could only happen by God.
09:38A shot was hit to him so hard.
09:41I said, oh, no.
09:43And it went right at him.
09:44He fell to his knees, which was his only option
09:47because he couldn't bend.
09:48This was not a good-looking picture.
09:50He knocked down the ball, picked it up,
09:53could barely grab it, threw it to first base.
09:56The runner, who was actually a very good Democrat athlete,
09:59was out.
10:01And I said that, and I said, and I've told this,
10:05that was a miracle.
10:07That was a miracle.
10:08And then, brilliantly, after one hitter,
10:10the manager took him out of the game.
10:13Because there was no way that he was going to outdo that one.
10:17So, Steve, it's great that you're here.
10:18And we love you, Steve.
10:19And you went through a lot.
10:21Majority Whip Tom Emmer, a fantastic guy
10:24with a fantastic spouse.
10:27Where is Tom?
10:28Tom is a great guy.
10:31I don't know what you're going to do about Minnesota.
10:34Where?
10:35Oh, there he is.
10:38He's a handsome devil, isn't he?
10:41With an unbelievable wife, who puts up with a lot of stuff.
10:46She does not have an easy job, Tom.
10:48You are a difficult man.
10:52And Tom is very friendly with the Somalians, you know?
10:55He's doing a great job.
10:57He's a big fan.
10:59He's a big fan of Somalia.
11:02Anyway, he said, please correct that.
11:05The President of Paul, President of Paul.
11:07Thank you, Tom, very much.
11:09Thank you, he's a great guy, he's done a fantastic job.
11:12And we really appreciate it.
11:14And you have so many members of the House and the Senate,
11:18but I just want to thank a few of them.
11:19And I really, I do mean it.
11:21I think it's fantastic that we're all here together tonight.
11:24We have cabinet members, and we have Marco is here.
11:28Scott Bessent is here.
11:29We got them all sort of here, every single one.
11:32I won't call them out because they're not names
11:35that are going to get huge applause from this very substantially Democrat audience.
11:40But you know what?
11:40They're working, they're working toward making America great again.
11:44It's very simple.
11:45We are making America great again.
11:47I saw it today on a somewhat leftish broadcast.
11:54They were saying, you know, whether you like it or not,
11:56these numbers are starting to get very good, and they are.
11:58And that's good for all of us.
11:59But during the season of joy and peace, we have so much to celebrate as a nation.
12:05Because one year ago, we really were.
12:06We were a country that was in serious trouble.
12:09There were those that say we were a country that was really not going to make it.
12:13And they were saying, we were not going to make it.
12:16Now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
12:18They're all saying it.
12:19Other leaders are saying it.
12:20The European nations are saying it.
12:22The European nations are reporting that your president might as well be the leader
12:28of the European nations also.
12:29They listen to us and they respect us like they've never respected us before.
12:34So we're going to work very hard.
12:35We get along with them.
12:37We want to get along with as many nations as we can.
12:40We've been ripped off by a lot of them for a lot of years.
12:42And frankly, a lot of the Democrats knew that better than some of the Republicans.
12:47But we've been ripped off and taken advantage of by friend and foe.
12:51And in many cases, friend was worse than foe, but not anymore.
12:56We have I don't know if you noticed the the deficit was cut down by 64 percent.
13:05Nobody's ever heard of a number like that.
13:06You know why?
13:07A thing called tariffs.
13:08The tariffs are so big and so substantial.
13:12And it was just announced two weeks ago, the deficits cut down by nobody ever heard
13:15of a number like that.
13:16If the deficit goes down by 2 percent, it's like a great thing.
13:20The tariffs have reduced the deficit by 64 percent.
13:23Nobody has ever seen and frankly, we haven't even started yet.
13:27It's given us strength.
13:29We've solved eight wars.
13:30Think of it.
13:31Eight wars have been solved.
13:32Although Thailand and Cambodia, I think I'm going to have to make a couple of phone
13:36calls on Thailand and we'll get that one back on track.
13:41But think of it.
13:42We've solved eight wars that's never happened.
13:44And more Americans are working today than ever before.
13:48The history of our country, we've never had anything like it.
13:51We have more Americans working today than at any time by far in the history of our country.
13:58And 100 percent of all new jobs have been created, 100 percent created in the private
14:04sector.
14:05I mean, that's a big factor, right, Virginia, right?
14:11Also just announced real wages are up for the typical worker by more than $1,000 a year.
14:18That's a record, $1,000 a year.
14:21And many of you in Congress worked very hard, both sides, this year to keep the promises
14:27that you were elected on and to deliver big wins for the American people.
14:32And Democrats worked very hard, too.
14:34I mean, I think you could get rid of a couple of your little policies like men and women's
14:39sports, open borders, transgender for everybody.
14:41But other than that, other than that, I like what you're doing.
14:46You passed the largest tax cuts in American history.
14:49We all did that.
14:51We passed the largest spending cuts in American history.
14:54And we have the largest regulation cuts by far in American history.
14:59All of these things we just passed.
15:01You passed the Lake and Riley Act to get criminal aliens off the streets so they don't kill our
15:06people, hurt our people, mug our people, slice up our people, which is what they did.
15:11They're not doing it so much because crime is way down.
15:15And you passed the Genius Act to unleash a new era of financial innovation.
15:21And on a bipartisan basis, working with a woman named Melania.
15:27Have you heard of Melania?
15:31But working with our great first lady, you passed the Take It Down Act to protect our
15:37nation's youth from some horrible people.
15:42And I think, I'm not sure, that was — this is hard to believe.
15:46I believe this is correct.
15:47It was just about a unanimous vote to which I said, maybe you should be doing my job because
15:53I don't get one vote.
15:55You know that it was — was it — did anybody vote against it?
15:59Even Rand Paul voted for it, right?
16:01Because Rand Paul is an automatic no vote.
16:05He's not a Democrat vote, but he's an automatic no.
16:08Everybody voted.
16:09I think it was just about unanimous.
16:10I can't believe it.
16:11She came home.
16:12I said, I heard you got a unanimous vote.
16:14Yeah.
16:15She looks at me like, you know, what was the big deal?
16:18But that was a great thing that she did and a great thing that all of you did.
16:21Very soon, I'll hopefully be signing a National Defense Authorization Act that makes a historic
16:27investment in the United States military, which I think most people want to see.
16:33And I look forward to working with each and every one of you in the coming year to make
16:37our nation stronger, safer, wealthier, healthier.
16:41And I really believe we can work on healthcare together and come up with something that's going
16:44to be much better, much less expensive for the people, less expensive for our nation,
16:51but really, most importantly, better and less expensive for the people.
16:55And we have an idea that rather than making these massive payments where they, you know,
17:00their stocks went up 1,700 percent over a short period of time, the insurance companies,
17:05we make beautiful, big payments directly to the people and they buy their own health insurance.
17:12And it's so good and so popular and everybody wants it.
17:18And I think, frankly, I think a lot of the Democrats are going to want it too.
17:21It's been a very popular ever since I uttered those words about a month ago.
17:25It's been very, very popular.
17:27So hopefully we can get that done together.
17:29So I want to just say in closing, have a fantastic, you're going to have a fantastic evening.
17:34This food is unbelievable.
17:36The White House is known for great food and it's better than that.
17:40It's a great house. It's a special, special place.
17:43You know, I've had a lot of nice houses, but I have to tell you this house, it's just special.
17:48It's one of the reasons that every one of these events, all of them, are packed, sold out, waiting room.
17:55They're begging to come.
17:56People love the White House and people love our country.
17:59And we love the Republicans and we love the Democrats, so we love everybody else.
18:04We love everybody, especially tonight.
18:06Now, tomorrow I'll have to deny I ever said that, but that's okay.
18:10So I want to thank you.
18:11Maybe our First Lady would like to say something.
18:14Good evening.
18:19Welcome to the White House.
18:21As the President said, our greatest triumph in my office, in the First Lady office in 2025, is take a down act.
18:34I want to, I appreciate all of your support.
18:38I appreciate your bipartisan, overwhelmingly bipartisan support, and across the House and the Senate.
18:48Thank you, Mr. Speaker Johnson.
18:51And I hope you will be excited to support my new legislative initiative in 2026.
19:01Some of you already know about it because it's already in the works.
19:05Thank you very much.
19:06I wish you and your families a very happy and Merry Christmas and a healthy New Year.
19:18Well, I just heard about that for the first time.
19:20The only thing I can tell you, I know one thing for sure, Mr. Speaker, it's going to be great.
19:26It's going to be great for children.
19:28Okay.
19:29I don't know what it is she's doing, but I know it's going to be great for children because she loves children.
19:35And she's, she's got a wonderful boy and she's very proud of her boy, but she loves children.
19:42And if she, if she puts it out, it'll be maybe unanimous again or whatever that was, but very close, unanimous again.
19:48I want to thank you all have a great Christmas, a great Hanukkah and a fantastic year.
19:53But we're going to have a great three years, four years, 10 years.
19:56We're going to make it great.
19:57Our country is, our country is going to be strong, safe, rich.
20:01It's going to be great.
20:02We're going to make America great again.
20:04Thank you, everybody.
20:05Thank you very much.
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