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President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington

Published October 28, 2025 | Video Starts at 25:50

It seems like I've been up here so long, and it seems like I've been doing this for a long time and a half. We had a great first term, but nothing like what's happening now. We had the greatest economy in the history of our country. I rebuilt the military in the first term, and then they gave a lot of it away to Afghanistan, but it was really just a tiny speck. (25:50–25:54)

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“Over $17 trillion... pouring into the United States of America from all over the world.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 21:37-22:16
“200,000 people, maybe more than that, died last year because of what came into our country through an open border policy.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 23:27-23:32
“Inflation has been defeated and workers wages are raising at the fastest pace in 60 years.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 25:50-25:54
“For five months, they said zero. No people came into our country illegally.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 26:32-26:32
“We ended eight wars in eight months, the most of any president in history.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 28:06-28:12
“Toyota is going to be putting auto plants all over the United States to the tune of over $10 billion.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 33:16-33:22
“They spent $993 million on the catapults trying to get them to work.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 35:27-35:34
“We have 92% of the shoreline [of the Gulf of Mexico].”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 56:34-56:38
“We're starting to make ships again and we'll do it very soon.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 04:17-04:19
“Unlike past administrations, we will not be politically correct.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 06:17-06:23
“We're going to defend our country any way we have to.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 06:29-06:33
“From now on, if we're in a war, we're going to win the war.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 06:35-06:40
“The first female Prime Minister in the history of Japan.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 08:32-08:38
“I've just approved the first batch of missiles to be delivered to the Japanese Self Defense forces for Japan's F35s.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 15:59-16:07
“They're coming this week, so they're ahead of schedule.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 16:23-16:27
“This month we're celebrating a truly momentous anniversary. 250 years of courage and pride, honor and victory by the United States Navy.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 19:29-19:39
“No enemy will ever even dream of threatening America's navy. There's no navy even close.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 20:24-20:30
“The United States is blessed with the strongest and most powerful military in the history of the world.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 21:20-21:27
“We just approved the biggest budget in the history. Over a trillion dollars.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 21:34-21:39
“We have the most secure border in America history.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 21:45-21:48
“I'm also supporting an across the board pay raise for every sailor and service member in the United States Armed Forces.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 23:10-23:18
“Now we have waiting lists with record numbers trying to join the US Navy and all of the armed forces.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 25:10-25:16
“2025 was the Navy's single best recruiting year in many generations.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 25:19-25:26
“My first term, we built the greatest economy in the history of the world.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 25:50-25:54
“We stopped eight wars. Can you imagine in eight months, I stopped eight wars.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 28:09-28:15
“I'm building the aircraft. I'm building a lot of things.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 32:32-32:36
“With the electric [catapults], you don't have that [steam].”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 33:01-33:05
“They're spending billions of dollars to build stupid electric [catapults].”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 33:16-33:22
“We did the Ford and electric, the cost overruns, everything else.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 33:41-33:46
“I'm going to sign an executive order. When we build aircraft carriers, it's steam for the catapults and it's hydraulic for the elevators.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 34:55-35:05
“We're making America greater than ever before, and that's why I'm doing it.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 38:22-38:27
“We are doing numbers that nobody's ever seen, nobody ever even thought possible.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 38:28-38:33
“Think of it, a year ago, we were a dead country.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 38:32-38:36
“Now we have the hottest country anywhere in the world.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 38:37-38:41
“After 250 years, that is exactly what our country is today. It's first in war, first in peace, first in wealth, first in power, first in…”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 55:07-55:21
“Japan respects us. If you see what's going on all over the world, they're respecting us again.”
President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 55:38-55:44
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President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 55:56-56:00
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President Trump Participates in a Troop Visit and Remarks on the USS George Washington | Uploaded October 28, 2025 | 56:52-56:56
“It's now officially the Gulf of America.”
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