00:00:00Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Donald J. Trump, and First Lady Melania Trump, accompanied by the
00:00:07Easter Bunny.
00:00:31Master Gunnery Sergeant Kevin Benear, accompanied by the President's own United States Marine Band, will now honor America with the
00:00:39singing of our national anthem.
00:00:42Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light, what so proudly we hailed at the twilight's last gleaming.
00:00:58Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, o'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming.
00:01:15And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave proof through the night that our flag was still
00:01:32there.
00:01:33Oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave, o'er the land of the free, and the home of
00:01:54the brave.
00:02:15Does he have a good voice or what?
00:02:18I think we're going to send him to the Met, we'll get a little commission, make a lot of money,
00:02:23because that man can sing.
00:02:24Thank you very much.
00:02:25It's not the first time we've heard him.
00:02:28So today is a very special day.
00:02:31It's a day where we celebrate Jesus.
00:02:34It's a day where we celebrate religion.
00:02:37And it's an honor to be the President of the United States.
00:02:40Our country is doing so well, like it has never done before.
00:02:44You'll see that very shortly.
00:02:46And things that we've done have not been done before.
00:02:49We've broken every record on the stock market.
00:02:51We've broken every record in our military.
00:02:54And what about the rescue that took place yesterday?
00:02:58What about that?
00:03:00That's something that you rarely see.
00:03:02You know, they were giving me a briefing about that.
00:03:05And they said normally when you're in very hostile territory, and I don't think it gets much more hostile than
00:03:11Iran.
00:03:12They're capable fighters.
00:03:14They're very tough people.
00:03:16And there are others like that.
00:03:17You don't mind when the enemy is weak, but that enemy is strong.
00:03:21Not so strong like they were about a month ago.
00:03:23I can tell you, in fact, right now they're not too strong at all, in my opinion.
00:03:28But we're soon going to find out, aren't we?
00:03:30But when a thing like that happens, where a pilot is shot down, in most instances, you're really not able
00:03:36to go in.
00:03:37Because you'll go in with 200 people and lots of jet fighters and helicopters.
00:03:42And you really don't have a chance that you get shot down.
00:03:46You lose 200 in order to pick up one.
00:03:49It's a horrible thing, but it's very rare that you can do it.
00:03:52And what we did yesterday is we picked up not one.
00:03:55We picked up two.
00:03:55We kept the first one quiet.
00:03:58And we were able to keep it quiet for about a day, which made it a lot better.
00:04:02But those two pilots were incredible, brave, and we thank them.
00:04:05And we're going to be having a news conference today at 1 o'clock at the Oval Office.
00:04:10And we look forward to it.
00:04:12But I just want to say we have a great military.
00:04:14We're the greatest military, the most powerful military anyplace in the world.
00:04:18You saw what happened with Venezuela.
00:04:24And it's an honor.
00:04:26I built it on my first term, and I didn't know I was going to be using it this much
00:04:29in my second term.
00:04:30But it's my honor, and they're the greatest people on Earth.
00:04:33Our warriors are the greatest fighters on Earth.
00:04:37And they very much appreciate you and love you, and that's why they do it.
00:04:40So this is all about today.
00:04:42I must tell you, I came out and I expected we were going to be talking about farmers, and we
00:04:48love our farmers.
00:04:48We were going to talk about so many different products.
00:04:51But you know what they want to talk about?
00:04:52Sir, this is about eggs.
00:04:55Eggs.
00:04:56Because we have the egg farmers of the entire country here, and they are unbelievable.
00:05:02And if you remember, when I first got elected, my first news conference with the fake news, a lot of
00:05:07fake news here today.
00:05:09But I had a news conference, and the first question, what are you going to do about eggs, sir?
00:05:16I said, what are you, what's wrong with eggs?
00:05:18I just got there.
00:05:18It's my second day in office at a news conference, and they were screaming at me, what am I going
00:05:23to do about eggs?
00:05:25And I said, well, it's like, tell me what's wrong with eggs.
00:05:29The price was so high, it was four times higher than it was a year before.
00:05:34I said, well, that sounds like a problem.
00:05:36Let me think about it.
00:05:38And Brooke Rollins, our great secretary of agriculture, she got involved.
00:05:42We all got involved.
00:05:43They didn't want me, as you know, just last year, it's hard to believe, they didn't want me to order
00:05:49eggs for the Easter egg roll, the Easter egg hunt that we have here every year.
00:05:54They wanted me to use plastic.
00:05:56I said, I'm not using plastic, we'll get it solved.
00:06:00And within a short period of time, eggs came down, they came down 40%, 50%, and by the time we
00:06:06got there, we had so many eggs, we didn't know what to do with them.
00:06:09And today we have more than 40,000 eggs supplied by all of the great egg farmers that are with
00:06:15us.
00:06:15So eggs is a big thing, and it was a big thing to our great First Lady, who's here someplace.
00:06:21Let's see.
00:06:22I think this is our First Lady.
00:06:24What do you think of our First Lady?
00:06:25She's a movie star.
00:06:28I don't know.
00:06:29Do we call her First Lady or a movie star?
00:06:30She has the biggest movie.
00:06:32Can you believe this?
00:06:32And she deserves it.
00:06:35Would you like to say a couple of words to your friends?
00:06:41Happy Easter Monday.
00:06:43I hope you enjoy this beautiful day.
00:06:45We are celebrating a very special Easter egg roll this year because it's 250th birthday of this beautiful nation.
00:06:54Enjoy it.
00:06:55And I hope you have a wonderful day.
00:07:03Thank you, honey.
00:07:05And she worked very hard with her staff and the staff of the White House on really just making it
00:07:10nice.
00:07:10This is the nicest I've ever seen.
00:07:12And so this is my fifth.
00:07:15And I will say that this is, it gets better every time, right?
00:07:18It gets better every time.
00:07:20You notice the fencing is all brand new.
00:07:22I said, you know, we could have bought used fencing and saved a lot of money.
00:07:26They said, this is for the, this is for Easter and this is for our egg farmers and we're going
00:07:31to get new fencing.
00:07:32Everything's new and everything's beautiful and the White House never looked better and our country never looked better.
00:07:37So I just want to thank everybody.
00:07:39It's been a special period of time.
00:07:41One year ago, a little bit more, our country was dead.
00:07:47We had a dead country.
00:07:48We had an administration that didn't know what the hell they were doing.
00:07:52Today, we have the hottest country anywhere in the world.
00:07:55We're respected by everybody.
00:07:57And that's the way we're going to keep it.
00:07:58That's the way we're going to keep it.
00:08:01So again, I want to thank all of the associations and the egg farmers and all of the people that
00:08:07are here.
00:08:07We think we could have 50,000 people coming all day long.
00:08:11It's open.
00:08:12And they expect between 30,000 and 50,000 people.
00:08:15So that's great.
00:08:15And most importantly, I want to just say, happy Easter and God bless America.
00:08:21We have the greatest country on earth.
00:08:23God bless you all.
00:08:25You are very, very special people.
00:08:28Thank you, everybody.
00:08:29Have a good time.
