Remarks transcript, Jul 22, 2026 (Donald Trump)

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——in favor of men playing in women's sports. Isn't that lovely?

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They voted against lower energy prices, lower car prices, and bigger paychecks for everyone. They voted against every one of these things.

Jon Ossoff and the "Dumocrat" Communists want to let the Marxists into power, bankrupt your families, and leave you totally undefended with wide open borders. But we will not let that happen to our country. We're not going to let it happen. Right?

So it's a very appropriate thing, because I watch this man run, and he's really phenomenal, actually, because I liked the other side too. I was a big fan of the other side too. Two good men, frankly. But I watched him run, and it was amazing what he was able to do. Very, very successful guy, and he decided he wanted to be Governor because he thought he could do some really incredible things for the State, more so than have been done.

And I'm very pleased to be joined today by a true champion for the people—he just won—Georgia business leader Rick Jackson—who I'm told has a big announcement to make. I don't know what this is. Come on up here, Rick.

Come on up.

Well, thank you, I—Mr. President. What you're doing on the Trump Accounts is—for foster children will, you know, change lives. I know, because I said earlier that it changed my life when I got a hundred-dollar Christmas gift in an orphanage.

That's why here in Georgia we should not stop with a thousand dollars. I want to announce as—when I become Governor, I'm going to push the State of Georgia to match the Federal contribution with another thousand dollars. And I believe our legislature will approve that. If they don't, I will personally donate it myself.

The other side talks about affordability as if that's a solution. Affordability is not a political problem. Affordability is a business problem. It requires business solutions, just like this man has been doing all his life.

My opponent wants to cut down businesses and cancel them just because I visited a restaurant. Well, that's just wrong. We are not going to do that, and I'm going to make sure that Georgia's the best place to do business and reduce affordability to the lowest it's ever been. And I'm going to be this man's favorite Governor.

Wow, he's going to be a great Governor. He will be great. Thank you very much, Rick.

We also have some true warriors with us, including State Senator Brian Strickland, who is running for your—the job of attorney general. That's an important one. Well, get out and vote, and he's going to be fantastic. You have my complete and total endorsement, as you know. Okay?

And State Senator Greg Dolzwal [Dolezal; White House correction]. And that—he is—he is a fantastic guy who's, as you know, running for Lieutenant Governor, along with Rick. That's a pretty good—where are you? There you are. Where are you? Oh. What a man he is. You have my complete endorsement. You know that. You had it before, but you have it now. Okay?

Great luck. You won't need it. Yes, everybody needs luck, but you're not going to need that much. Very talented people need luck too, but they don't need it that much.

And State Representative Tim Fleming, who is running for Georgia Secretary of State, and they all have my complete and total endorsement. They're incredible people. Thank you very much. Thank you. Congratulations. I heard you had a great win.

We also have State Representative Houston Gaines with us, who's a fantastic person. And he's running for Congress. And you already have my endorsement, and you already won your primary in record numbers, and now you have to go and beat a "Dumocrat." Good luck. We'll be helping you. Okay? Good luck.

I want to thank as well—he was here; I didn't know he was going to be here—Treasury Secretary—I think he's going to go down as the best ever—Scott Bessent. That's good. That's good, Scott. Don't make him too popular. I won't like him anymore. [ Laughter ] That's very good.

Secretary of Education—a woman who's absolutely incredible—she's moving education back to the States—Linda McMahon. And she's phenomenal. She's getting it back to the States so the parents can run the education.

And I met your school board people. They were really great people. But you know, they want to work with the parents, and that's what we're doing.

And, Linda, you are doing some great job. She's moving it back. Not easy. Not easy. That's years and years of turmoil that went—trying to do it. She just gets it done. This woman is incredible. Thank you very much. I appreciate it.

Another great person and great Administrator—a woman who's really smart. Everybody loves her. Everybody respects her. And she runs a thing called Small Business. But small business, when you add it all up, it's probably bigger than any bank in the world, right? Kelly Loeffler. And you're here with Jeff. Jeff, stand up. Thank you. Great job, Kel.

Treasurer of the United States—a man who was a Senator here, and he was so—he was so ahead of everybody. He was so great. I said, "You want to be Treasurer?" And he said, "I'd like to be Treasurer. That'd be good." He's a great man. He's a person that loves Georgia, like, a lot. And it was not easy for him to take the other job, but he gets here. I'm sure he gets here plenty. But he loves Georgia. Brandon Beach. Brandon.

Cobb County School Superintendent Chris Ragsdale, with a beautiful family. With a beautiful family.

And we have a man named Ralph Reed. Has anyone—have you heard of Ralph Reed? Ralph Reed. He is a man that, with his group—a great religious leader, maybe the greatest religious leader. But with his group—is it 10 million doorbells you hit? And this was certified stuff. Ten million doorbells. He pressed 10—not personally, but he pressed a lot of them himself. And they wanted to make sure we had a big victory a couple of—it's almost a couple of years ago, 18 months. And I just want to thank Ralph Reed. Thank you very much, Ralph. Thank you. Great job. Great leader.

And one of the best lawyers in the country, a friend of mine. He's really incredible, and he's really based out of Georgia. He spends a lot of his time in Atlanta. David Schoen. Where's David? There's David. Hi, David. He's a great lawyer. You've got a problem? Go to David. Thank you, David.

And Alveda King. So Alveda was with me from day one. Where's Alveda? She was with me—she was with me from day one, when it was not at all fashionable. She was taking more grief, Alveda, but she knew what she was doing, and now she's, like, the queen of the world. Right? Look at her. Thank you, darling. We appreciated it.

You always liked those people when it wasn't fashionable. Like Front Row Joes, it wasn't fashionable. Like the ladies from North Carolina, where—which—maybe it wasn't fashionable. Well, they had a good time at least.

But these are great. These are great people. Thank you all. Thank you all. Great group. And you guys get yourselves elected, please.

I also want to thank a man who had to stay back in Washington to vote for making America great again. Maybe the most important man in this room right now is not here. His name is Mike Collins, and he's going to beat Pee-wee Herman.

And the reason he's not here is me. He wanted to be here. He wanted to be—he wanted to change. I said, "Don't change." Mike is not here, and it is my fault because we have a very big vote coming up on the military, farming, and other important things in a little while. It's going to be in a little while.

And I got to have Mike in Congress because he's, like, maybe the most—but certainly one of the most—highly respected Congressmen, Republican or Democrat, in Washington. Mike Collins is an amazingly respected man. He's got the look. He's got the whole deal.

And I said, "Mike, I'm sort of here because of you." I said, "Mike, I—if you're here, I'm going to be extremely upset with you," because he has to vote. And you know, it's razor thin. We lose all the Democrat votes on all these things. Think of it. Tax cuts—biggest tax cuts in history they vote against. They vote against everything, because you know why? They have Trump derangement syndrome. That's why.

But I hope you're going to vote for Mike, and you've got to vote for him because he's running against—I call him "Pee-wee Herman." [ Laughter ] He's Pee-wee Herman look-alike.

You know, I don't know—people don't know this, but I beat him once before as a congressional candidate. Does anybody know that? He ran for Congress a number of years ago. I got involved in the race at the request of a friend of mine from Georgia because they didn't like him, and he was easily winning. He was winning by 25 points. And there were five people in the race, and he was way up. He was above 50. If you get above 50, you get it.

And I backed a person—Karen. You probably remember. Didn't know her at all, but I thought anybody would be better than this guy. [ Laughter ] And he went from 70 to, believe it or not, 49.9, and that meant he was now in a runoff. So he thought he had it made, and he was in a runoff.

And I got involved a little bit. I came here twice. I did a couple of rallies, and she ended up winning the race. He lost. But I have to hand it to him because instead of being a Congressman, he later on became a Senator. If he was a Congressman, he probably wouldn't have run. Who knows? Got to give him a little credit for that. But he was easy to beat. He wasn't—I can't believe that he's a Senator.

And he's not respected at all in Washington. You don't even hear his name mentioned. You don't hear his name mentioned. I mean, I hear all the names. I hear all the bad ones and the good ones. I hear them all, but you don't hear his name mentioned. He's not even a factor.

But you have a guy that is the most respected—just about one of the most respected people in Mike Collins. And I hope you're able to go out and, really, cast your vote for him.

He will bring so much. They call it "pork." We call it "money." But he'll bring a lot of action back to your State. He's a great guy, and he loves your State, and he's worked hard. He's got the whole package.

Mike Collins. Vote for Mike. And he's hard at work. He's hard at work right now in Washington.

And last but not least, we have the CEO of—so I like baseball. I like baseball. But this guy has done such a great job. You know, the Mets have the highest salary in baseball, and they lose all the time—[ inaudible ].

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And I say maybe we could steal this guy. But the team—the way the Atlanta Braves has been managed for years—huh?—for years and years. And he's the CEO of the Atlanta Braves: Mike Plant.

He's been—you know, you don't realize how good he is, you know? When you have one of these guys—there are teams like that, you know, where they never go down. Then you have other teams—"We're rebuilding." They've been rebuilding for years. I don't want to mention teams because I know all the owners. They're all friends of mine. I get myself in trouble. [ Laughter ] But they're always rebuilding. "We're rebuilding."

This guy never rebuilds. He just stays at the top. He's amazing. And then he loses the best player. He loses a great first baseman—I would say a great first baseman. And they keep going along, and they get things for the first baseman. And he was really good. Dodgers got him. But I watched the Braves for years, and they've done such a great job.

So, along with one of the best managers in baseball, Braves legend Brian Snitker—Brian Snitker, who was recently inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Brian—both of you, come up. Would you both come up? Come on up here. They deserve a little credit. They deserve credit.

I mean, I've suffered. I've suffered with teams. For the years, I've suffered.

Oh, listen. [ Laughter ]

Thank you.

They say you're not allowed to do that.

Do it. [ Laughter ]

Thank you.

Say a few words.

Thank you, Mr. President. Welcome to Marietta. And as you can see, Braves Country is a real thing, and you've got a room full of Braves Country right here.

Mike and I presented President Trump with one of our Fourth of July 250th anniversary jerseys that the team wore over that weekend, and I just wanted to tell President Trump that we're going to be back in Washington about a year from now. We're going to give him another World Championship jersey. So thank you.

Well said, Snit. Mr. President, I just want to say: When you're done throwing four-seam fastballs for the United States of America, come back and do it for the Atlanta Braves. Thank you.

That's a great team. Those two are a great team.

No, it's true. You watch, you suffer with these teams for years and years. And these guys, every year they have a great team. So that's called talent. Some people have it. Some people don't. Most people don't. [ Laughter ]

But under the Trump administration, Georgia is prospering again and America is winning again because we finally have a President who puts America first. We put America first.

And under my—I'm so proud of it—under my most-favored nation—if you look at our policy on drugs, we have a most-favored-nation policy, meaning of all the nations in the world, we have to get the most-favored price, and it wasn't easy. And I'm not going to bore you by saying I had to get other nations to approve it.

And I did threaten them with tariffs if they didn't approve it, and I threatened the drug companies. I threatened everybody to get this done. And no other President even tried because they said it was impossible to do. But we're delivering the largest prescription drug price cuts in history by a difference of 400-, 500-, and 600-percent reduction.

So, for decades, Americans paid the highest price for prescription drugs anywhere in the world. We were the highest price anywhere in the world, and now we're paying the lowest price anywhere in the world, and that has a huge impact on your health care costs—on—really, on everything. I'm very proud of it. Everybody said it couldn't be done. Another—no other President had even tried it because you had to get the drug companies, which is tough, but then you had to get the other nations to approve it, which is even tougher.

So, all you have to do now is go to TrumpRx.gov, and you're going to get drugs for prices that you never believed. I mean, prices where they're 80 percent, 70 percent, 60 percent, 90 percent, in one case I saw, lower. So go there and just get your drugs. And, at a minimum, price them out and go to your store and see if they can match it. But I don't think anybody is going to match them.

It's been amazing. Think of it. We went from the highest price 1 year ago—the highest-priced drugs anywhere in the world, like the fat drug. It cost—think of it. [ Laughter ] Think of it. It cost $1,400 in New York, and in London it was $87. Okay? I told you I have a friend of mine. He's fat as—you never saw a guy like this. [ Laughter ] He's a very smart guy. He's a—Scott knows him very well. He's a great businessman, but highly neurotic, always eating. Eating—he does two things: He eats and he makes deals. [ Laughter ] And the eating, he's not good at, other than quantity. But the making—the making deals, he's very good.

But he called me up. He goes, "You know, I buy this fat drug"—and now he calls me "Mr. President"—he used to call me "Donny." "Donny, I buy this fat drug, and in New York I pay $1,400, and in London I just paid $87." I said: "You're so rich. How do you even know?" He said: "I don't know. My people told me that." [ Laughter ]

And so he said, "I went out, and I had it checked, and it was from the same exact company, the same plant." It was actually made in the United States—the same everything. He said: "What the hell kind of a deal? I'm paying, like, almost 10 times as much." I said, "That's the system. It's a"—but it really awoken me, and I said, "I've got to do something about it, because he's right."

A pill that will sell for $10 in London or in Munich—$10—is selling for $100 or $120 for a pill in New York City or in Chicago, Los Angeles, or any other place. And I said: "We've got to do it. It's unfair." And I called up the drug companies, and they fought me. And then they said, "You're right." You know, they had all sorts of excuses. "Well, we have to do research." I said, "Well, you're doing research for other countries too, right?"

So they finally gave in, under very, very—tough time for them. And then they said—and they gave in because they never thought I'd get the countries to do it.

And I called up France. I started with Emmanuel Macron. I said, "Emmanuel, you must raise your drug price." "Oh, Donald, why would I do that?" "Because we're paying too high, and you're paying too low, and we're going to meet somewhere in the middle." "No, no, no, Donald. I will not do that." "Yes, you will." "No, I won't, Donald. I will not do that, Donald." [ Laughter ] I said, "Yes, you will." And then finally he said, "No."

I said: "Here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to put a 200-percent tariff on every bottle of wine and champagne coming out of France." And he said—Scott was there—and he said, "Donald, Donald, it would be my honor to do that." [ Laughter ] And we got France, and we got all of them the same way. That's too complicated, but we got it.

And now we have favored nations, and we pay the lowest prices anywhere in the world from the highest prices, and that alone should win us the midterms. But it's not going to be that easy with the cheating and everything else that goes on. So make it too big to rig. Remember my statement "Too big to rig"? Make it too big to rig, and watch those machines.

Every day, we're liberating our communities from the scourge of migrant crime. In nearby Clayton County, Georgia, Federal law enforcement recently charged an illegal alien murderer from Mexico who shot a man in the torso and then shot another twice in the heart and the head.

In Bulloch County, ICE arrested an illegal alien who sexually assaulted an 11-year-old girl and held her 10-year-old sister at knifepoint for 1 week.

Jon Ossoff and the "Dumocrat" communities, they voted to defund ICE and leave Georgia families at the mercy of the monstrous criminals that we're getting out of here. We're getting them out at record speed.

And by the way, we always stand with the heroes, the patriots of ICE and Border Patrol. Always. They take such abuse, and they do their job.

And our strong borders are—really, it's a policy of helping to bring down the cost of living. It really is. It's—under Biden, over 60 percent of the increase in housing rental—the rental cost demand came from the flood of illegal aliens coming into our country. The Government would pay thousands of dollars a month for apartments for illegal aliens. But for our warriors, for our ex-servicemen, for people that served in our military for 20 years and 25 years, and then they couldn't get into an apartment, they were living in the street—they didn't do anything. But they took care of illegal aliens, paying thousands of dollars a month in some of the most luxurious hotels in the country. It's crazy what they were doing. It's crazy.

But thanks to our policies, the cost of rent is now down by more than 10 percent in a short period in the Atlanta area, compared to the peak of the border invasion. The border invasion—I mean, these people were occupying all the apartments, and the Government was paying, and they were never going to be great. They were never going to be—remember the word I made up? The caravans. They came in—thousands and thousands came by caravan, and many murderers were in these caravans.

To stop the massive theft of taxpayer dollars, including by the millions and millions, we have launched the war on fraud, led by Vice President "J.D." Vance. He's doing a great job.

We ended Medicaid for illegal immigrants, and we redirected $50 billion to make the largest investment in rural health in the history of our country. You're getting hospitals built in areas just like this that the Democrats would never do. And number one, they said: "That's Trump country. We're not going to do anything." They wouldn't spend, because we did—we got tremendous votes. In your whole State, we got tremendous—we won in a landslide.

In just 18 months, we've turned this country around like nobody has ever seen before. Our—think of it: Our border is secure, jobs are up, inflation is way down, factories are opening, investment is pouring into our country. I told you: $19.2 trillion. Our military is more powerful than it has ever been before, by far. You see that. Venezuela. Iran.

America is back. It's stronger than ever before. And I'm telling you, it's only going one way: It's going up. As long as we keep our current thinking, our current system, it's going up. If you go the other way, nothing ever succeeds. I made this statement once: With communism, everything turns to shit. Okay? It's true. Terrible thing. It's true.

My wife hates it when I do that. [ Laughter ] She said, "You were doing so nicely, and then you had to use a foul word."

You know, Franklin Graham wrote me a letter. "President Trump, I love your speeches. I think they're great. But, sir, if you wouldn't use foul language, the speeches would even be better." And I wrote him back. I said, "Actually, Franklin, they wouldn't, you know?" [ Laughter ] Because there's, like, no word that can replace that word with respect to the subject matter that we're talking about, right? But that's all right. But I try hard. I try hard to keep them clean.

But it's true. With communism, everything turns.

With the help of our Republican majorities in Congress, we will crush violent crime, impose harsh new penalties for dangerous repeat offenders, crack down on Marxist prosecutors—oh, these prosecutors are so bad. They're so evil, what they do. And the rogue judges—you don't have a chance in front of these people. If Obama puts in a judge, I don't care how good your case is, you barely have a chance of victory, and nobody suffers it like I do. I get an Obama judge. First thing, I go, "Who appointed the judge?" "Barack Hussein Obama." "Oh, that's a problem." [ Laughter ]

And we will end no-cash bail. The real bad stuff. These guys, they get out, they kill somebody. They're let out, they kill somebody the same afternoon.

We will pass the "Great Health Care Plan"—it's called our "Great Health Care Plan"—that's the name of it—to stop all payments to big insurance companies and give the money directly to the people so they can buy their own health care, which will be much better, and you will save a lot of money.

Because, as you see, Obamacare is a total disaster. It's been a disaster. It's gone up through the roof. It's a total disaster. We want to spend the money. We want to give you the money directly. Buy your own health care.

What's happening is these insurance companies take in billions and billions of dollars, and they don't give a damn about you. And you go out and you get crummy health care at a price that's unaffordable. So we want to give you the money, and you spend the money, and you go around and negotiate. You're going to have money left over. It's so much better. And you're going to have much better health care.

And finally, we have to pass the SAVE America Act to defend American elections. And I have to say, Mike Johnson and Congress have done a great job, but we're having a hard time in the Senate. The Senate, what they're doing, it's just—it's just not right. Congress is going to pass it again. They passed it three times. They're going to pass it again. It's like the Senate is a place that you send things when you want them to die. We can't do this, and we're not going to take this any longer. We're not going to take it. You know, I'm trying to be nice. Trying to be really nice.

You saw we had a big victory last night in Arizona. I've had victories everywhere. But we're not going to—we're not going to be able to take it much longer, when they can't get passed voter ID, proof of citizenship, no mail-in ballots because they're crooked as hell.

So, right now, Congress is working to get as much of our plan as possible into the budget bill to identify and really terminate—look, what they should do? Very simple. A lot of you don't know about filibuster. They should terminate the filibuster and approve everything, because the Democrats are going to do it. The Democrats are going to terminate the filibuster as soon as they have a chance, and then they're going to approve Puerto Rico and DC as a State. They got four more Senators. They're going to end up with 12 more Congressmen. They're going to get, like, 40 electoral votes.

If they are allowed to do that, by that time I'll be sitting home—and I'm not a big crier. I don't think you want to see me cry, you know? [ Laughter ] There are some people, they do very well when they cry, but you don't want to see me cry. But I may be crying when I—I'll be sitting home and I'll say, "I told them."

They've got to really terminate the filibuster, get everything approved right away, because you're going to have a stoppage—you're going to have a stoppage in September.

The Democrats won't approve everything. They've become deranged, like deranged Jack Smith. Remember that deranged sick puppy? They're deranged, and they won't approve. You'll have a—you're going to have a shutdown in September, and in 2 years later you have the debt ceiling bill. They would love it. I call it the "1929." You know what 1929 means? That was not a good year. And there's no reason for it. They should terminate the filibuster.

Everybody call John Thune at the Senate—he's the leader of the Republican Party—and tell him to get this stuff approved.

So we're fighting so that all voters must show voter ID. We're fighting so that all voters must provide proof of citizenship. Okay? And also the no mail-in ballots. It's very important. And we're doing exceptions for illness, disability, military deployment, travel. If you're away and you have problems, we'll be very easy on that. Look, if you're away, if you're in the military, you want to vote, we want you to vote.

But we'll also enshrine in permanent law: No men in women's sports, and no transgender surgery for your children.

So, ladies and gentlemen of Georgia, the golden age of America is upon us. We are in the golden age. This is the greatest we'll ever be.

And together, with your help and the patriots all across this magnificent land—we love our country—we will make America powerful again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America healthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And we will make America great again.

Thank you very much. Thank you, Georgia. Thank you.