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President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation, Jul.
16, 2026
President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation, Jul.
16, 2026 President Trump Delivers an Address to the
Nation, Jul. 16, 2026
President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation, Jul.
16, 2026
President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation, Jul. 16,
2026
President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation, Jul. 16,
2026
President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation, Jul.
16, 2026
President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation, Jul. 16,
2026
President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation, Jul.
16, 2026
President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation, Jul.
16, 2026
President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation, Jul.
16, 2026
President Trump Delivers an Address to the Nation, Jul.
16, 2026
≫Good evening, I'm proud to report that our country is
safer, stronger, and far wealthier than it has ever been
before. We are doing great.
Less than 2 years ago, we inherited an economic and
social disaster.
After the worst inflation and 48 years,
the wide open borders with millions and millions of people
pouring in from all over the world including criminals of
all types,
and 11,888 murderers - many of whom killed more than one
person. We had transgender for everyone.
Men and women sports.
Crime ravaging our cities, and the world was laughing at us as
a nation. But, not anymore.
2 years ago our country was dead, now, we are the hottest
country anywhere in the world. America is respected like we
have never been respected before.
We have more money being invested in the United States
than at any time in the history of our country. More Americans
are working today than ever before.
This week it was announced that inflation saw the largest
monthly decline in more than 6 years.
It just happened.
It was just given out, the media reported that and we
accept it. The best in 6 years.
Tax cuts in our great Big Beautiful Bill are saving
hard-working families thousands and thousands of dollars
like with the provisions, no tax on tips, no tax October--
on overtime, and
no tax on Social Security for our craz-- great seniors, and
no interest
-- tax on interest for car,
our stock markets are at their highest point in many years,
but we can actually say
, of all time.
Your 401(k), pensions and retirement accounts are setting
records every single day.
We paid the highest price for prescription drugs anywhere in
the world, now we pay the lowest price under my Most
Favored Nations policy. Because, I was able to get the
rest of the world and the pharmaceutical companies to act
responsibly.
Drug prices are coming down by 70, 80, and 90%. Trump RX.
gov will ultimately reduce the cost of healthcare.
You have to go to Trump RX. gov and take advantage of it.
The cost of healthcare is coming way down because of what
we have done with prescription drugs.
And, with proper counts every child has an
access to tax-free investment accounts
billions of dollars are being invested, put and by companies
en-- and individuals that at age 18
they will have hundreds of thousands of dollars in their
account and get off to a great start in life. For that, go to
Trump's.
gov and sign up
your child or any child that you would like to sign up.
Most secure borders in the history of our country,
with zero illegal aliens being admitted into the United States
in the past 14 months. That's zero. No one thought was
possible.
We had the worst border in the history of our country and now
we have the best.
Crime is plummeting nationwide with the murder rate
at its lowest level since 1900 or more than 125 years ago.
We are making a record investment in our Armed Forces
and we have the strongest and most powerful military by far
anywhere in the world. I built it during my first term, and
unfortunately we are forced to use it now.
We one in Venezuela which is now working with us to produce
millions and millions of barrels of oil.
We are likewise winning big in Iran and you will see the
fruits of that labor very shortly. America is back, and
doing really well.
But we still have a major challenge that must be urgently
addressed,
because no country can be great without fair and honest
elections.
You have to trust your country because if they can be no
trust, there can be no greatness.
That's very simple. Note trust, no greatness.
I called for bold swift and decisive action to protect the
integrity
of America's elections, every American deserves to know that
when they cast their vote, that vote will be counted accurately
and a system and that is to make that system secure.
One where cheating and interference are not just
difficult, but virtually impossible.
Unfortunately, the system we have today follows
catastrophically short of that standard.
I'm announcing the immediate declassification and release of
critical intelligence revealing shocking vulnerabilities in our
election infrastructure.
This evidence shows that the election system we have
dangerously exposes, and really exposes, like levels
never thought possible, the hacking exploitation and
foreign interference
just as disturbing laid this
information has been covered up
and hidden from you, the American people, our beautiful
great American people, but that all changes right now.
The documents we will release starting tonight have been
gathered by the White House government
transparency task force. A great group of people.
Along with the staff of the president intelligent
environment--
presidents to intelligence advisory board.
They have all personally reviewed the findings and we
are presenting this evening, and fully confirmed their
authenticity. You can see these documents for yourself at
Whitehouse. gov. Go check it out.
Our purpose in disclosing this information is not to weekend
confidence in election. But to earn the confidence
by confronting vulnerabilities and correcting them very
quickly. That's what we are doing.
The documents cover 5 major areas of concern.
First, they show that
over a period of years starting during the 2020 election cycle,
the People's Republic of China carried out what is believed to
be the largest compromise of election data in history.
Resulting in China's illicit acquisition of 220 million US
voter files.
That information includes need-- names, addresses,
political party preferences and other sensitive data
and engage in other nefarious activities which is exactly
what was happening.
This data loss presents
security nightmare. The intelligence even shows that
China signed a data exploitation unit specifically
to this new project.
Compounding the travesty, the 2nd step of documents we are
releasing reveals that members of the deep state -
very famous group of people in many cases, and our
intelligence agency work to actively suppress and downplay
a information about China's
election meddling covering it up from the president and the
American people like no one thought was possible.
US agencies began learning about the compromise of voter
registration files in 2020 when they discovered that tens of
millions of voter data .. Think of that, tens of millions
do it or-- voter data,
have been bought, stolen, or hacked by China.
Those responsible for sounding the alarm instead The
information secret and hidden.
They did not disclose the
information to me, as president, or anyone else. They
did not inform Congress.
In fact all they kept saying is, this is the most secure
election in the history of our country.
Standard line that was divvied out.
The cover-up of this security breach
is even more disturbing in light of the additional
information showing that China engaged in other election
related activities to undermine my first administration and our
2020 campaign.
They did not want, and they just didn't want it, they
fought like hell not to have Donald Trump to win. And for
good reason. As the documents we are releasing
CIA reporting explicitly stated, and I quote
"in mid-2018 the Chinese Communist Party
was to leverage all domestic and foreign elements
that were opposed to the US president in an effort to
reduce the US president votes and make him resign or prevent
his reelection. " Isn't that nice?
Also, in mid-2018 China was working to influence the
results of the US midterm elections and later the results
of the 2020 presidential election itself.
Separately made 2019 the Chinese government strategy
against the United States was focused on undermining domestic
confidence in the US president.
They wanted to just make you sound like a president wasn't
so hot. When actually, your president has done a great job.
And they did everything possible to do exactly that.
Going on this document, this is by the CIA,
the strategy included efforts to include Chinese context with
big US companies to influence US patent -- business leaders
to turn against the United States president.
They identifies
journalists that reported negatively on the US president
and pay them large sums of money
to write as much
as they could do.
They wanted the US president to lose the next election and the
reason why they wanted me to lose is because they knew I was
wise to them. Charge them billions and billions of
dollars worth of tariffs and built the strongest military
anywhere in the world. We have the strongest military anywhere
in the world.
These are exact quotes from the CIA reporting.
" The name of the person doing
the quote is now hundred-- now under review,
buried by rogue bureaucrats, including an attempt to
manufacture illegal ballots
for Joe Biden.
Documents show that during this time, dozens of significant CIA
and NSA reports about China's election targeting were kept
out of the presidential breathing. These were
briefings--- presidential briefings. These were briefings
I would get every day. That was kept out.
One email among intelligence admitted that they had the brew
-- "
deliberately massaged daily briefing to
withhold Chinese briefings regarding to the election. "
There's another
that said that she was running a shadow government from
keeping it away from the Honorable price, and other
officials that witnessed such efforts perceive the
motivations to be blatantly political. Recently we found
significant
numbers of burn bags
in formation, and this is a group of bags that were used to
destroy information.
Given by President Barack Obama to be burned. It was supposed
to be burned. These bags were supposed to be
at a different level by different people incinerated
and checked but it never happened. Maybe we got lucky.
We believe this was not done on purpose but rather through
gross incompetence of the people that were supposed to
burn them.
But the findings are stunning.
Today I'm asking the office of the director of national
intelligence, the Department of Justice, FBI and CIA to
investigate how and why such crucial information was hidden
- to fire those involved in the cover-up and file which--
criminal charges against these people concealing China's
meddling was only the beginning. The 3rd set of
documents we are releasing
many years Americans were blatantly lied to about
the security of our election infrastructure including
electronic voting machines and ballot counting
systems. Dishonest, almost all. They are vulnerable and easily
compromised and people within our government knew that.
Tonight we are publishing a seriously of previously
classified US intelligence community assessments and
other reports proving that our government has
known these machines are extremely exposed to attacks.
The United States adversaries including
in a minimum Russia, China, North Korea,
and nonstate groups have the capability to compromise US
American infrastructure. That's some statement.
Made by supposedly great patriots of our country.
The document goes on to further state that we assess
centralized election related data repositories such as voter
registration databases
old books and other official election websites are most
vulnerable to exploitation
and adversaries
use as access to the systems to disrupt election processes
within the United States of America.
Tonight we are releasing all of those findings
and spanning from January 2020- June 2026 this is cyber threat
aimed at the heart of our democracy.
Many people have questioned whether it could actually be
possible
to electronically manipulate vote totals or change election
results all these terrible machines.
We are releasing documents that show the CIA obtained reporting
of a specific plot to
do a big number in favor of the corrupt Maduro regime
in Venezuela and that's exactly
what happened. Conspiring to digitally rated their own
countries elections in 2020 and that's what they did.
This reporting included precise details about methods to regime
develop
digitally alter vote totals in ways that could not
be detected even with an audit no matter how deep they went.
This intelligence underscores why we must take urgent action
to ensure that our own system can never ever be hacked or
compromised like it was in the past.
The 4th set of documents reveals even when significant
evidence of fraud has been detected, it has been buried
and covered up. Among the disclosures tonight are FBI
files
detailing evidence of alleged fraud by a large-scale voter
registration operation in Michigan. In 2020 Michigan
State police raided a Democrat "get out the vote" organization
corrupt
vote and we are so concerned by what they found.
They couldn't believe it actually, that they contacted
the FBI in Detroit.
The documents state that some
canvassers admitted to FBI agents that they signed voter
registration forms and other people names, submitted
fraudulent registration for people that did not exist.
And received gift cards tied to their number of applications
they produced.
In other words, it was pay, play, and cheat.
The FBI agents working on the case believes that crimes were
committed to get the Biden Department of Justice slow walk
to the investigation and killed it. Tonight I am asking the
FBI director to ensure that the matter is fully investigated,
and to work with the Department of Justice to prosecute those
responsible for any crimes.
Finally, to reveal just how vulnerable our elections
continue to be,
we are releasing the results of a stunning investigation by the
Department of Homeland Security.
According to the DHS review, state voter
and public record they identified approximately
278,000 noncitizens who are registered to vote in federal
elections.
Since Democrat state refused to share their voter files, the
real number is higher than that.
Yet,
even this limited analysis found more than 1/4 of them
allowing-- 1/4 of a million
foreigners registered to vote,
no one can possibly defend the voter system.
Hundreds of millions of US voter files are in the hands of
foreign governments, our machines and ballot counting
systems are exposed to packing and manipulation and
corruption, China and other countries
have been trying to meddle in our elections, evidence of
fraud have been buried.
Hundreds of thousands of noncitizens and that people are
listed and active on the voter rolls yet we still have
elections with no voter ID,
no proof of citizenship, and tens of millions of ballots
floating aimlessly through the mail.
As one example of the insanity California's recent election
for Mayor of LA and governor was held on June 2,
a long time ago, but it was just completed a few days ago
on July 10.
Much more than one month. It took a month to count the
votes, I wonder what they were doing.
This is worse than any Third World country. There's no Third
World country that has elections like we have.
In a rare move NBC and ABC fake news have both said that they
would not cover this speech. They knew what it was about.
Because of the fact that they don't like the topic
because they know how corrupt our system is and they don't
want to reveal it.
They and other
in the media want to continue this fraud and keep it going
for whatever reason.
They want to protect the radical left, they can't have a
great country and that's true. You can have a great country
without free and fair elections. Fraud like this
should mean a revocation of their licenses. They use are
public multibillion dollar
airways for absolutely no money. They pay nothing.
All we want is honesty in our elections and honesty and
reporting.
They pain-- pay nothing for multibillion-dollar assets.
Great damage has been done to our country,
our elections were left vulnerable, to being rigged and
stolen, and the trust of the American people was lost. This
cannot be allowed to
continue every American whether you are a Republican, Democrat,
independent or otherwise, should be able to agree that we
deserve the most secure honesty and fair election system
anywhere in the world. Secure elections should be a partisan
..
. We should be together. Democrats, Republicans,
independents, everyone. It should not be a partisan issue,
it should cause to unite as not divide us.
We should be united not divided.
In light of the brand-new and irrefutable information I have
revealed tonight my administration is in the
process of notifying the states with election data was
compromised by the People's Republic of China and many
others.
We will work closely to mitigate any harm and we are
taking swift action to ensure that
sensitive voter data is better protected
so it can never be bought, it can never be hacked, and we can
never watch a stolen election again.
Tomorrow the Secretary of Homeland security will hold a
briefing
to outline his department's recent work concerning cyber
vulnerabilities and electronic voting systems. They are bad.
We are in the process of informing governors, senators
and members of Congress of potential issues in their
states. If you look at voting today, it's in such bad shape
in so many states. And we are committing to fix it.
We are also committing to be working with the states and
local jurisdictions to help them X and patch known
technical vulnerabilities before the elections. We have
very important election coming up and we want those elections
to be honest.
I've also ordered DHS to notify every state about noncitizens
on their wi--
voter rolls and direct them to remove all in eligible voters
from the re--
list immediately.
But most importantly, demands that Congress must pa-- past
the Save America Act.
How easy is that to do? Unless you want to cheat.
The only reason you wouldn't do it is that you want to cheat
because your policies are so bad and your candidates are so
pathetic
that you cannot get away or can't get elected any other
way.
This landmark bill requires all voters must show floater --
voter
-- photo voter ID.
You must provide proof of citizenship. Are you a citizen
of our country?
Hopefully there will be no corrupt mail-in ballots, if you
watched California, mail-in ballots are inherently corrupt.
So you would have no mail-in ballots except for
illness, disability, military deployment,
or travel, if you are going away on business or vacation,
these reforms are urgently needed to stop the
vulnerabilities
that I've mentioned.
To all Americans I ask you to pick up your phone tomorrow,
call your representatives in the house and Senate and demand
they pass the Save America Act without delay. Together we will
restore faith and confidence in our country
and we will be bigger, better, and stronger than
ever before. Thank you, God bless you, God bless our great
military and God bless America. Thank you very much.