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Hello everybody. Hello. Hello doctor. How are you? Hello
everybody. This is so great. And before we begin however, I want to just
pay my respects to the people. Unfortunately two are no longer with us.
Brown University, nine injured and two are looking down on us right now from
heaven. And likewise in Australia, as you know, that was a terrible attack, 11
dead, 29 badly wounded and that was an anti-semitic attack,
obviously. And I just want to pay my respects to everybody. I must say in
Syria also, we had an attack in Syria.
And we had three great patriots terminated by bad people and not the
Syrian government. It was ISIS. Syrian government fought by our side. The new president fought by our side. But I
just want to pay my respects to the families. We also had three injured,
but two of them are already out of the hospital and one’s going to be okay, but
we lost three. So, it was a rough it was a rough day. But to Australia and the Prime
Minister, to everybody that we know so well, we get along with so well. We have
a great relationship. That’s a terrible situation going on over there. Think of that. And Brown University, great
school. Great. Great. Really one of the greatest schools anywhere in the world.
Things can happen. So, to the nine injured, get well fast. And to the
families of those two that are no longer with us, I pay my deepest regards and
respects from the United States of America. Thank you very much. It’s a very important thing to say and we
mean it. I can tell you in Syria there will be a lot of damage done to the
people that did it. They got the person, the individual person, but there’ll be big damage done. And the other
supposedly they call him a person of interest, so I’ll keep it along those lines so we don’t get ourselves in any
trouble. But they have a person of interest at Brown and in Australia you probably read, they’ve been, it’s been,
it’s been a very, very brave person actually who went and attacked frontally one
of the shooters and saved a lot of lives. So, very brave person who’s right now in the hospital, pretty serious, seriously
wounded. So, I great respect to that man that did that. But we’re here for a
different reason. We’re here to celebrate Christmas and to celebrate, and I think
today we can very say loudly, we celebrate Hanukkah because that was
such a horrible attack. That was a purely anti-semitic attack. And
to really celebrate the new year, we have an amazing couple of achievements. We’ve taken
in more investment money than any country has ever taken in by four times. There’s never been anything like it. And
I’d like to say that was because of the November 5th election, but and it was
to an extent, because without the November 5th election, you would have had a president that didn’t have the
courage to use tariffs the way they should be used. And because of the tariffs, we’ve taken in more than 18,
think of this, $18 trillion. There’s never been anything like it. As an example, the previous administration,
sleepy Joe Biden, took in less than $1 trillion in four years. We took in more
than $18 trillion in 10 months. I’d say that’s pretty good, right? I’d say
that’s pretty good. And if you go back, if you go back into history, there’s never been a country that’s taken in
more than $3 trillion. And we have over 18. That’s again because they don’t want to pay tariffs. So in order not to pay
tariffs, they come in and they build their plant in the United States. It’s pretty simple. And it’s been pretty
amazing actually.
We have some very special people here. And because I
believe in family so strongly, I think I should introduce. We have Don, we
have his children, we have Vanessa, her children, Kai, Tristan, Spencer, Chloe.
Where is? You know, Kai’s a great golfer. Has anyone ever? Oh, there she is. Hi, Kai. Put your hand up, Kai. Can you beat
Can you beat your grandpa in golf?
Can Kai beat her grandpa golf? I don’t know. But she’s great. Chloe is going to
be amazing. And all of them. They’re great athletes. They’re really great. So, I just want to welcome Don. And I
want to welcome Vanessa. I want to welcome the kids. And
Patina, who’s with Don is so, such a fantastic person. Where’s Patina? She’s
a great athlete, too. She said, “Where are you? You, you I hear are a really good athlete.” So, that’s very nice.
But, so I just had to do that. But then I’m going to tell you about some other people that are here because it’s amazing. We have a man who just won the
US Open in golf. He hits a long ball, slightly longer than me.
I used to think I hit a long ball until I played with him. But everybody feels that way. Even the touring pros, he’s
the longest hitter in golf. He’s the longest hitter. Much more importantly, he putts great. He chips great. He hits
the ball dead straight. It’s tough. When you’re the longest, straightest hitter that putts the best and chips the best.
Typically, you’re going to do quite well. And he does quite well. Just signed a contract for like 200 million
for for playing golf. You’re paying like hundreds of millions of dollars. And he’s, he’s a fantastic person. You
know what he’s got though? Better than all of his game, the head he’s got. The head is better than anything. He knows
how to win.
Where’s Bryson DeChambeau? Is he here? Bryson, come. Come up here,
Bryson. Come on. Come on, Bryson. I want to ask, why is he longer? Look at him.
Now, if you rip off the jacket, you’ll see the muscles are serious. But, but we don’t have to rip off jackets. Come on
up here. Say hello.
Bryson DeChambeau: Hi, Bryce. Great to see you, Mr. President. The current US Open champion. Bruce,
my goodness. Well, I, I did not know I was going to be coming up here tonight
today, but I got to say thank you. And what the president done in this term
has been incredible, right? It’s the greatest economy that we’ve ever had. And just, just to be serving on the
President’s Council, sports, fitness, and nutrition has been such an honor. And the First Lady, you look so beautiful, by the way. And I’ll say
cheers to the greatest economy that we’ve had in a long, long time.
And merry Christmas to everybody. Um, you kids look awesome down there.
I think that, uh, when I was a kid, I never imagined that I’d even be up here.
How is this even possible? So it’s, it’s been a beautiful moment. I’m going to cry actually, ‘cuz I don’t even know why
I’m up here speaking.
Speaker 1: He hasn’t cried in a long time.
Bryson DeChambeau: No, no, not, not since the not. He’s not, he’s not a big crier. Not since the US Open, but he makes other people cry. I got to tell you,
what, what everybody’s doing here is incredible for the country. And I got to thank the President of the United States. He is such an an amazing
human being. More importantly, as I’ve gotten to know him over the past decade now almost, what he’s done, not just for
our country, but just for every single person that he goes and interacts with is absolutely incredible. I can’t tell
you how many times I’ve been around him. And him just look up to or look over to a kid and be like, “How are you doing?
You, you’re doing so great. Love you. Keep going forward. Keep growing in life.” It’s unbelievable what he does
for families and for kids. And for that, I say thank you and merry Christmas to you guys. It’s so amazing.
How is my golf game?
Speaker 1: His golf game, look, his iron play is actually probably better than mine right
now. I’ll tell you that right now. Uh, I can hit it a little farther, but he’s slightly longer.
Just a little bit. But his putting has gotten really good lately. I played with Gary Player and Masa Son, of which he
made so many putts. That’s right. Uh, when we played together, together for Gary, his 90th. Um, but anyway, he’s a
great golfer, better human being, and you definitely, we’re all so lucky to have him as the President of the United
States. So, thank you, guys. Thank you. Thank you.
So, Bryson coming up the 18th
fairway, we needed a putt to win the US Open. He pulled his drive, which is a
little bit unlike him, and he had a horrible lie. He was in a bush. This is not good because it looked like it was
going to be a routine, but it’s hard to finish. You know, winning is not easy and especially with golf. So, he pulled
his drive a little bit, hit it about 360, but he pulled it and he was in a bush. He chopped it out. It was actually
an amazing shot. Many of the golfers who, who saw this whole thing did. Yes. Right.
Actually, all my friends are saying I saw he chopped it out of the bush, moved it forward 100 yards into a sand trap.
So, now he’s 60 yards away. If you know anything about golf, that’s the worst shot you can have. In fact, the pros
don’t even practice it because there’s no way to figure it out. So, he has 60 yards.
Bryson DeChambeau: What was it? 54 yards to be
exact. I think 54 or like about that.
Speaker 1: 54 yards. That’s the worst thing that can
happen. Behind the green is the clubhouse. If you go there, you have a two-stroke penalty. You lose the US
Open. In front of the green is the worst bushes you’ve ever seen. So, he has to either put it on the green or he’s dead.
So, his caddy, who was a great caddy, wanted him to play way left and take two
long putts and get into a playoff. Bryson said, “No, we got to go for the win.” He takes like an open face nine
iron or wedge, which normally you wouldn’t use. It’s a very hard shot. And he hits it four feet from the hole.
Now, for a golfer, they would say that’s not so good because they have to sink a
four-footer, because they can’t sink four-footers. That guy can sink four-footers. So, he still had a 4-foot
putt that broke a few inches to the right, which is considered harder than breaking to the left. He stood over the
ball, hit it, went into the hole, he wins the US Open. So, that’s called a champion’s heart. So, it’s great to have
you. You’re a great champion. Won a lot of, won a lot of golf. US amateur, a lot of, lot of tournaments and you know
you’re just the beginning of your great, you know, your age is where they really become great, 31, 32 years old. That’s when
if you look statistically, they do the best from 31, 32 to 40, except for VJ. VJ
won all of his tournaments from 40 to 50. VJ is the one unique player, right? He
became great at 40. But you’re at the exact perfect age. So, great. You’re a great champion. Thank you. Great that
you’re here. Maybe I’ll take a chipping lesson from him. He’s a good.
So, I also
want to thank Casey. I want to thank you for being here. James Blair, I want to thank you. Where’s James? What a job
he’s done. You have your beautiful family, James? This guy is so good.
You know, I wasn’t sure. He was very quiet. And I kept hearing he’s very quiet, but I’d hear from other people
he’s a total political genius, but I didn’t see it because he was always, I don’t know what it was. Maybe he was intimidated by the office of the
president, but I heard he was like this brilliant guy. I’m telling you, sir. And then they gave him a very high position.
I said, “He’s so quiet.” They said, “He’s not quiet, sir. Maybe he’s quiet
around you. He’s not quiet.” And that was two years ago. And you know what? He’s not quiet. He’s incredible the job
you’ve done. Thank you, James. Great. Is the other James there? Because you have
two Jameses. They’re both great.
So, I used to call him big James and little
James. But the problem is he’s not little at all. And I don’t think people like being called Little James, but I
meant it very affectionately. But big James is like 6’7″ and he weighs like 320.
So, he’s big compared to almost anybody. So then I said, “Okay, I’ll change it. I’ll call him Big James and I’ll call
him Brilliant James.” But that’s a real slight on Big James now. So, I just keep
calling him James, whoever comes. But you’ve done a great job and I appreciate. I know you’re working on that situation
for appointments and that’s, that’ll be great. Pull that off. Naomi, thank you very much from Bedminster. Naomi is
here. She does a fantastic job and I want to thank you. I want to thank Erin Elmore. Is Erin here? Aaron, come here. Erin, she’s marrying
the most powerful man in the administration. She’s getting married to the great Dan Scavino. Is Dan here or is
he working? He’s too big. Come on up here, Erin. You think Dan is bad taste? You won’t
believe this. Mickey Gallagher, another great golfer, is here. He’s the head pro at Bedminster and he’s. Come on up here.
You know the First Lady? How are you? Nice to see you. How about you? Want to say a couple of words?
Sure. She’s a great hostess. She does, she hosts professionally everything and
she’s the best. But now she’s probably going to, let’s see. Is she going to choke?
Is she gonna be the opposite of Bryson? Go ahead and say a couple. Great. You look great.
Erin Elmore: Thank you, Mr. President, First Lady, and to everyone, merry Christmas. Uh, thank you so much for having me. It’s an
absolute honor. I got to fly here today with Vanessa and all of the kids. And you just have such a wonderful family.
Everyone is amazing and polite and smart and athletic and talented. So, you guys
have done a truly amazing job. And it’s a testament to your family. And I think this party is really special because my
son is here, my sister is here, and the holidays and Christmas are truly about family. And thank God that we have a
president and a first lady who puts our families first, who puts America first. And that’s why we get to have this
special, amazing, beautiful Christmas season the way that it is. And I thank God every day that President Trump won
November 5th of last year. And I think we keep making America great again for
all of these people here today, our children, our families. So, thank you so much for having me. And thank you,
President, First Lady.
Speaker 1: Thank you. Great. Now you know what I’m talking about. You did a good job. I
don’t know. Scavino’s great, but without that big power, do you think that she would have been interested in
James? I don’t know. I think the power is the thing that did it, right? Charming.
He’s a, he’s a great guy. You got a great guy. The best. And he looks great these days. He’s a handsome guy, right? Look at her.
She’s. Now she’s defending him. Thank you, Erin. Thank you very much. Thank you, darling. Great job. I
appreciate it.
Uh, so Mickey Gallagher, where’s Mickey? Mickey from one of the
Now, he’s a great player, too. Probably Mickey would agree that he’s not quite as good as Bryson. He’s the head pro at
Bedminster. One of the most respected professionals, the most like in New Jersey, for again. He’s like a king and
he’s a really good golfer. But we’ve given up at the tour stuff, right, Mickey? We’ve given up.
Mickey Gallagher: We gave up. Mr.
Speaker 1: When, when you see somebody’s a hundred yards longer, you say, “Let’s go, let’s
go back to hiring golf pros all over the place.” Right. Thank you, Mickey, for being here. And he is a great golfer.
Really terrific lawyer. He’s been with me for a long time. I think he’s got his family with him and his family’s great.
Allan Garten. Where’s Allan? Allan, nice to see you, Alan. Boy, are we winning
cases or losing? I think we’re winning. I guess we’re winning because here we are, right? That’s good. Well, you’ve
done a great job. And look at that beautiful baby, huh? That boy. He’s not a baby anymore, right? Good. Good. Thank
you, Alan. Is your wife here who he happened to meet on the job. He met on
the job. you know, we’re not supposed to do that stuff, but
they got along very well. I said, “The hell with it.” We have very flexible rules in the Trump Organization. I said,
you know, those two seem to be too. She’s a great lawyer. I don’t know, she may be a better lawyer than you, Ellen. I hate
to tell, but I noticed they came into my office and they were extraordinarily friendly, you know, like they’d walk in
two separate lawyers and when it’s strange when they walk into my office and they’re holding hands, you know,
it’s like I said, what the hell’s going on over here? Right. So, Allan, I just want to thank you for doing a great
job. Both of you for doing a great job and congratulations on the family and everything. A man who’s really
fantastic. He started off as a speech, a speech writer, and my problem is I didn’t
stick to his speech that much, but whenever I stuck to his speech, I would never get myself into trouble. But he’s
one of the greatest speech writers in the world and together with his partner Ross they form a team that, you know,
they’ve been with me right from the beginning. Vince are you here, Vince? Oh, there you are, Vince. It’s amazing the
way you blended in. He wants to blend in and now he’s doing something I think that’s going to be the most exciting job
of all. And Ross is doing really well. They split up, probably the first time,
you know, they’ve always been a team. They, they wrote, they love each other. They got along so well for so many
years. And I said, you know, we have a couple of jobs. Rich, Vince is unbelievable on policy and we have a
policy thing that’s going to be unbelievable happening. Should I announce it or should I keep it quiet?
I put Vince in charge of the triumphal arc. We’re building an arc like the Arc de Triomphe and we’re building it by the
Arlington Bridge, the Arlington Cemetery opposite the Lincoln Memorial. You could
say Jefferson, Washington, everything because they’re all right there. And it’s something that is so special.
It will be like the one in in Paris, but to be honest with you, it blows it away. Blows it away in every way. And Vince
came in one day and his eyes were teeming. I mean, he couldn’t believe how
beautiful it was. He saw it and he wanted to do that. That’s your primary thing. There is nothing that can compete
with that. It’s the only city in the world that’s of great importance that doesn’t have a triumphal arc. You know
what that is? And this one is going to blow them all away. The one that people know mostly is the Arc de Triomphe in
Paris, France. And we’re going to top it by, I think, a lot. The only thing
they have is history. You know, 1860 is something I always say the one thing you
can’t compete with, but eventually we’ll have that history, too. But we’re going to have something that the likes of
which has has never been done before. And it’s been waiting for 200 years,
literally. I think the Civil War got in the way of it. You know the opening. They actually have the four, they have four columns, four small columns with the eagles on top and they have the
circle, you know, before on the other side from the Lincoln and it’s, it’s so
unbelievable. It’s so unbelievable. It’s been waiting for hundreds of years and they were going to build on it a couple
of times. It never happened. But it’s a circle that’s been waiting to have the
arc built on it. And I think we’re very far along. I think you might want to show it to the National Trust if you’d
like. You might want to show it to a couple of people. Take a look at it because I’ve always gotten really along
well with the National Trust. So take a look and show it to them and start. Maybe they give you some good ideas,
too. Okay. But I’m proud of you and I’m really especially proud of the job you’ve done from day one. He and his
partner Ross have been writing really great speeches and I just wish I stuck
with him a little bit more often. But we, we go on and off those speeches,
right? And I think ultimately that’s the best combination, right? So one of the greatest in the world, the two of those
guys, the greatest.
Then we have a man who to me this is the most interesting story. Boy, do you look like Ivanka. Has
anyone ever told you that? I’m looking. I’m saying, is that Ivanka? Could you just turn around for the camera? Does
she look? Does she look like Ivanka? It’s the most unbelievable thing. So I
wouldn’t, I didn’t want to take a chance. I say, “Is that Ivanka?” You look just like Ivanka. Which is a great
compliment, actually. So we have a doctor in the White House named Dr.
James Jones. Can I tell the story? And he’s a great doctor, highly respected by so many people. He’s helped
so many people. I’ve had people come to the White House and they were so sick. I’ve had people come to the White House
along with your partner. You gotta, well, you have a lot of partners. You have Walter Reed Medical Center, which I
think is the best in the world. They’ve seen things that nobody wants to see, right? They have doctors have told
me, “If you can get out of here, you’ve seen it all.” And that’s why they produce some of the best doctors in the
world. Well, Dr. James Jones is a great doctor. He was the White House doctor
during the Obama administration and during the Trump administration. And
I guess during a little bit of maybe, no, those two because we had, we had
somebody else named Doc Ronnie who actually got a glimpse of Obama in there too. Is that Doc Ronnie back there? No.
Doc Ronnie did all three and he said Trump is in the best health of all. He
had, he had Bush. He had Obama. He had Trump. He, he didn’t have Biden. He
didn’t have Biden. But Dr. James went on a trip to Peru with the two Obama girls.
They wanted to go hiking in in Peru. Uh, was it Peru? In Peru.
And it’s known for being a rather rough place in terms of physical creatures
crawling around. 28,000 people die a year from a snake
bite, a certain snake. It’s a viper, right? It’s said to be the most poisonous snake in the world. And he
made a comment and somebody else told him that’s very dangerous in that area to go hiking. And the guide said, “Oh,
don’t worry. We never see that snake. It’s overexaggerated.” Even though 27,
28,000 people a year die, that’s not overexaggerated because when they lift the rice and the
this under that out of the water, they get hit. And if you get hit, it’s automatic death.
So he goes out and he’s in your last day, right? You’re getting ready to come back for two weeks. They’re traipsing
around in Peru and he’s got to follow them because he’s the White House doctor and he’s with the two young ladies who
I’ll bet are nice. You actually said they were very nice young ladies, too. I bet they are. And
final day, final two hours, he gets hit by a viper.
Right? This is a terrible Christmas story, but it’s a hell of a story because I’ll tell you what happened. He
gets hit with a viper and he was, the viper missed him. It hit his
jacket, a very thick jacket, and spread all of the venom all over the place. It
went all over. But that wasn’t good enough for the viper. The viper hit him a second time. And this time it got him
on the arm. And so I think probably the only reason you made it, even though
making it took him two years to make it. But they read him the last rights. He
was gone on three different occasions. They thought he was dead. And
you know it takes only a minute. And because of Doc Ronnie Jackson, he knew they
called in and he was at the White House and he knew from the description and the
location what kind of a snake it was and they had the venom just in case. But the
venom rarely works. It’s so powerful. The snake said to be the most poison that the black mamba, the brown mamba,
and the viper from Peru. You do not want to play games. Okay. And I’m telling
this story because my son Don, this is a hell of a. You heard, did you hear this story? And so he’s, he’s being read
his rights and his, this is they, they thought he was dead three times. Three
different times. They carried him out feeding him the antivenom and over a period of months he was
unconscious for a long time, many weeks and he made it. I asked him, “How you
doing today?” He said, “Is it perfect? Look how quiet everybody is.” You know,
you know, it’s funny when you talk about snakes and things like that that
people find it interesting. Would anybody like to go and go to Peru and
walk around the forest with? He says, “No, no, thank you. No thank you.” I’ll say, “No, thank you.” But, this was
a real. Did they ever find the snake, by the way?
Dr. James Jones: They did.
Speaker 1: Oh, they did find it. What did they do?
Dr. James Jones: They took care of it.
Speaker 1: You know, normally, normally the environmentalists and the animal rights
people would say, “Oh, leave it alone. It’s such a wonderful.” Okay. Usually they say, “Leave it alone. Such a
wonderful. Leave the sharks alone. Don’t touch the sharks. They’re wonderful. I love the sharks.” Right. I don’t feel
that way, but that’s okay. Just lost about one vote, that’s all. But so he, he
got better. And here’s the story. The purpose of the story is that he wrote a book nine years ago, would you say? This
was nine years ago.
Dr. James Jones: Three years.
Speaker 1: The book is three years old. And it was okay. It sold about two
copies, but it had a hell of a cover. And it has a cover of the White House. And this
vicious snake, and it is vicious. Teeth like this. These, those fangs. These are
not fangs you want, you know, sucking on your arm, right? As you had, by the way, what did you do when that snake was on