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President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War

Published September 30, 2025 | Video Starts at 02:56

The United States military. We're very proud of our military. I rebuilt the military during my first term. It was one of the greatest achievements. We had the greatest economy in history, and I built the military. Those are the two things I say more than anything else. And I also kept us safe at the borders. We had very good borders. (02:56–03:00)

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President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 05:49-05:53
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“Google Maps changed the name [to Gulf of America].”
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“We're 25 years ahead of Russia and China in submarines.”
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“I stopped the war [between India and Pakistan].”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 19:36-19:39
“We saved the Congo with Rwanda. They've been fighting for 31 years. 10 million people dead. I got that one done.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 20:34-20:46
“Every boat kills 25,000 on average.”
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“We lost 300,000 people died last year [due to drugs coming into our border].”
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“He took out isis. I was told it was going to take four years. It took four weeks.”
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“NATO raised from 2 to 5, which everyone said 5% of GDP, millions. And now trillions of dollars are pouring in.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 57:41-57:50
“They're losing 7,000 soldiers a week. A lot of them are Russian soldiers, but between the two countries, mostly soldiers.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 58:38-58:46
“We have orders for the F35. We have orders for everything. The new F47, we have orders for everything.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 1:08:17-1:08:24
“During the war, we went 14 for 14. We had 14. This is where the ran. We had 14 missiles coming at us. All 14 were knocked out of the sky…”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 1:09:28-1:09:40
“I rebuilt the military during my first term.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 02:52-02:55
“I'm thrilled to be here this morning to address the senior leadership of what is once again known around the world as the Department of War.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 03:43-03:53
“Pakistan, India was very big, both nuclear powers. I settled that.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 07:09-07:15
“Yesterday could be the settlement in the Middle East that hasn't happened for 3,000 years.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 07:15-07:21
“All of the Arab nations, Muslim nations have agreed. Israel has agreed.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 07:34-07:41
“It's a war that would have never happened if I were president, if the election weren't rigged.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 07:51-07:56
“We solved that [war between Azerbaijan and another country].”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 08:37-08:46
“We had the horror show in Afghanistan, which is really the reason, I think, that Putin went in.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 08:54-09:02
“Over the next few years, we're going to make our military stronger, tougher, faster, fiercer, and more powerful than it has ever been…”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 10:10-10:18
“I rebuilt our nuclear, as you probably know, but we'll upgrade that also.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 10:19-10:24
“Over the past eight months, new enlistments have surged to record highs, the highest we've ever had.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 13:09-13:12
“For the first time on record in 2025, the Navy, Air Force and Space Force all met or surpassed their recruiting goals three months early.”
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“The army did it four months early.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 15:09-15:13
“When Biden came into office, he wanted to terminate [Space Force].”
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“We're now at 106% of our recruiting targets for the year, and that's the best in far more than a generation.”
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“The Marine Corps will meet its 2026 retention targets before the end of October, which never happens.”
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“One of the first executive orders I signed upon taking office was to restore the principle of merit.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 23:55-24:03
“We've taken in trillions of dollars, we're rich, rich again.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 25:02-25:08
“The other day they had 31 billion, that they found $31 billion.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 25:25-25:30
“It came from tariffs. 31 billion.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 25:55-25:55
“One of the biggest cases that we won was the decision of the United States Supreme Court to allow us to proceed on the word merit.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 27:33-27:43
“I've committed to spending over $1 trillion on our military in 2026. And that's the most in the history of our country.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 30:52-31:03
“We are rapidly moving forward with the first ever sixth generation fighter jet.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 31:19-31:25
“We're investing tens of billions of dollars in modernizing our nuclear deterrence capabilities like never before.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 32:12-32:20
“We've begun construction on what we call the Golden Dome Missile Defense shield. It'll be the most sophisticated in the world.”
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“Under my budget, we will be expanding the US Navy by at least 19 ships next year, including submarines, destroyers, assault ships, and more.”
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“We'll deliver a hard earned pay raise of 3.8% to every soldier, sailor, airman, coast guardsman, space guardsman and Marine.”
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“We're under invasion from within.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 39:41-39:45
“Biden let people come in from prisons, mental institutions, drug dealers, murderers.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 40:14-40:21
“We had 11,488 murders allowed into our country by this guy who had no clue.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 40:22-40:29
“Venezuela emptied its prison population into our country.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 41:11-41:16
“Washington, D.C. went from our most unsafe city to just about our safest city in a period of a month.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 41:26-42:52
“We took out 1700 career criminals.”
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“We had no people enter in the last four months. Zero even.”
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“25 million all told. And of those 25 million, many of them should never be in our country.”
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“We're going into Chicago very soon. That's a big city with an incompetent governor.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 44:41-44:46
“Last week, they had 11 people murdered, 44 people shot. The week before that, they had five people murdered, 28 people shot.”
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“They took over parts of Seattle, they actually took over a big percentage of Seattle.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 46:17-46:23
“Since I gave that order, we haven't had that problem.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 48:36-48:39
“Every boat kills about 25,000 people. That's what they have. They had fentanyl mostly and a lot of other drugs.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 48:50-48:58
“Last month I signed an executive order to provide training for quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 49:58-50:09
“George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, George Bush and others all use the armed forces to keep domestic order and peace.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 51:23-51:35
“We haven't had a crime in Washington in so long because we got the careers.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 52:25-52:31
“We put them, a lot of them, we've called them a terrorist organization, which is actually a big thing to do.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 54:06-54:12
“You don't see any more boats on the ocean. You don't see any boats around Venezuela.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 54:27-54:33
“We're not spending any money on that war. Not 10 cents. We sell our equipment to NATO.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 57:57-58:02
“Biden gave $350 billion. Not sustainable. 350 billion.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 58:11-58:14
“That's the worst war that there's been since World War II.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 59:22-59:25
“We brought back $2 trillion and more. They ordered 200 planes. Boeings, they ordered so much.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 1:00:27-1:00:38
“One year ago you were a dead country and now you're the hottest country anywhere in the world.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 1:00:42-1:00:50
“Nobody wants to join our police forces. Our police forces also. It almost went hand in hand.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 1:02:24-1:02:30
“Yesterday at the White House, we put forward a plan for peace in Gaza.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 1:04:15-1:04:21
“All NATO members have committed to the increase that I talked about.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 1:05:24-1:05:30
“Now I got it to five.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 1:05:38-1:05:40
“We're now selling large quantities of American made weapons to NATO.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 1:05:58-1:06:03
“Secretary Hegseth will soon be announcing major reforms to streamline military acquisitions and expedite foreign military sales.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 1:07:20-1:07:29
“We have the most powerful nuclear capability, and I call it nuclear deterrent of any other country. Nobody close.”
President Trump Delivers Remarks to the Department of War | Uploaded September 30, 2025 | 1:10:22-1:10:30
“You'll never see four years like we had with Biden and that group of incompetent people that ran this country that should have never been…”
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