U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

Well, I want to thank you all very much.

This is great. These are our friends.

We have thousands of friends on this incredible movement.

This was a movement like nobody's ever seen before.

And, frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time.

There's never been anything like this in this country and maybe beyond.

And now it's going to reach a new level of importance because we're going to help our country heal.

We're going to help our country heal.

We have a country that needs help, and it needs help very badly.

We're going to fix our borders.

We're going to fix everything about our country.

And we made history for a reason tonight, and the reason is going to be just that.

We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible, and it is now clear that we've achieved the most incredible political thing.

Look what happened. Is this crazy?

But it's a political victory that our country has never seen before, nothing like this.

I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president.

And, every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family, and your future.

Every single day, I will be fighting for you, with every breath in my body.

I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe, and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve.

This will truly be the golden age of America.

That's what we have to have.

This is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to make America great again.

And in addition to having won the battleground states of North Carolina, I love these places,

Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin, we are now winning in Michigan, Arizona, and Nevada, and Alaska, which would result in us carrying at least 315 electoral votes.

But it's much easier doing what the networks did or whoever called it because there was no other path.

There was no other path to victory.

We also have won the popular vote.

That was great.

Very proud of it.

Thank you.

Thank you very much.

Winning the popular vote was very nice, very nice.

I will tell you.

It's a great feeling of love.

We have a great feeling of love in this very large room with unbelievable people standing by my side.

These people have been incredible.

They've made the journey with me, and we're going to make you very happy.

We're going to make you very proud of your vote.

I hope that you're going to be looking back someday and say that was one of the truly important moments of my life when I voted for this group of people beyond the president, this group of great people.

America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate.

We have taken back control of the Senate.

Wow, that's great.

And the Senate races in Montana, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Michigan,

Wisconsin, the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania were all won by the MAGA movement.

They helped so much.

And in those cases, every one of them, we worked with the senators.

They were tough races.

And, I mean, the number of victories in the Senate was absolutely incredible.

And we did teller rallies.

We did teller rallies with each one of them.

And sometimes we did two or three.

And it was amazing to look at all of those victories.

Nobody expected that, nobody.

So I just wanted to thank you very much for that.

And we have, you have some great senators and some great new senators.

And it also looks like we'll be keeping control of the House of Representatives.

And I want to thank Mike Johnson.

I think he's doing a terrific job, terrific job.

I want to also thank my beautiful wife,

Melania, First Lady.

Who has the number one best-selling book in the country, can you believe that?

No, she's done a great job, works very hard, works very hard to help people.

So I just want to thank her.

But I want to thank my whole family, my amazing children, and they are amazing children.

Now, we all think our children are amazing.

Everybody here thinks their children are amazing, but that's a good thing when you think they are.

But Don, Eric, Ivanka, Tiffany, Barron, there's Laura, Jared, Kimberly, Michael.

Thank you all. What a help.

My father-in-law, Victor, is tremendous.

And we miss very much Melania's mother, Amalia.

We miss Amalia, don't we, huh?

She would be very happy right now, standing on this stage.

She'd be so proud.

She was a great woman, that one.

Beautiful inside and out.

She was a great woman.

I want to be the first to congratulate our great, now I can say, Vice President-Elect of the United States,

J.P. Bush.

And his absolutely remarkable and beautiful wife,

Usha Bez.

And he is a feisty guy, isn't he?

You know, I've said, go into the enemy camp, and you know the enemy camp is certain networks, and a lot of people don't like to...

Sir, do I have to do that?

He just goes, OK.

Which one? CNN, MSDNC?

He'll say, all right, thank you very much.

He actually looks...

He's like the only guy I've ever seen, he really looks forward to it, and then he just goes in an absolutely obliterate step.

CHEERING

Say a couple of words, sir.

Wow.

AUDIENCE CHANTING

Well, Mr President, I appreciate you allowing me to be here and you allowing me to join you on this incredible journey.

I thank you for the trust that you've placed in me.

And I think that we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America.

And under President Trump's leadership, we're never going to stop fighting for you, for your dreams, for the future of your children, and after the greatest political comeback in American history, we're going to leave the greatest economic comeback in American history under Donald Trump's leadership.

Thank you very much.

He's turned out to be a good choice.

I took a little heat at the beginning, but he was...

I knew the brain was a good one, about as good as it gets.

And we love the family and we're going to have a great four years and we're going to turn our country around, make it something very special.

It lost that...

It lost that little...

It lost that little...

That little thing called special.

We have to make it so...

We're going to make this so great.

It's the greatest country in the world by far, and right now we're going to just work very hard to get all of that back.

We're going to make it the best it's ever been.

We can do that.

We just...

If we had to wait longer, I don't know.

It was going bad and it was going bad fast.

We're going to have to seal up those borders and we're going to have to let people come into our country.

We want people to come back in, but we have to...

We have to let them come back in, but they have to come in legally.

They have to come in legally.

Let me also express my tremendous appreciation for Susie and Chris.

The job you did.

Susie.

Come, Susie.

Come here.

Come here, Susie.

Chris.

Come here, Chris.

Susie likes to stay sort of in the back, let me tell you.

The ice baby.

We call her the ice baby.

You want to say something?

Come here, Susie.

Chris.

Come here, Chris.

Susie likes to stay in the background.

She's not in the background.

Come here, Susie.

This was unexpected, but I just want to thank, obviously, President Trump for this journey.

It was a great one.

And he's a hell of a candidate.

And he's going to be a hell of a great 47th president.

And this team that we had, the best team.

And, of course, even my boss, Susie Wiles.

The best.

Thank you.

Thank you.

And thank you, Susie.

Look at it.

I've never seen it be shot before.

Susie.

They're great.

Everybody up here is great.

Everybody up here is very special.

But the Trump.

Who did you say?

Oh, let me tell you.

We have a new star.

A star is born.

Elon.

Now he is.

Now he's an amazing guy.

We were sitting together tonight.

You know, he spent two weeks in Philadelphia and different parts of Pennsylvania campaigning.

You know, he sent the rocket up two weeks ago.

And I saw that rocket.

I saw it coming down.

I saw it.

When it left, it was beautiful, shiny white.

When it came down, it didn't look so pretty.

It was going 10,000 miles an hour.

It was burning like hell.

I said, what happened to your paint job?

He said, we've never made a paint that could withstand that kind of heat.

And but I saw it come down and turn around.

And it was, you know, it's like 22 stories tall, by the way.

It looks a little smaller than that, but it's big.

And it came down and down.

And you saw that fire burning.

And I'm saying, only Elon can do this.

It must be an Elon.

And I tell the story.

I told it last night.

I had a man on the phone.

I had the screen muted.

No sound.

I was talking to a very important man.

Happens to be here.

And that very important guy, one of the most important people in, I would say, the country, actually.

But, you know, I was president, and now it looks like I was going to be maybe president again.

So I figured I could ask him to hold.

So I asked him to hold.

And because, especially because you're going to be president again, they hold.

So I took the phone down, and I'm looking at the screen.

I'm seeing this crazy thing that's going around and coming down.

It looks like it's going to crash into the gantry.

And I said, oh, no.

And I said, do me a favor.

Do you mind holding for a couple of minutes?

I want to see this.

I thought it was a space age movie or something.

I put the phone down.

It was at the airport.

I didn't pick it up for 45 minutes, and he was holding.

But this spaceship came down, and I saw those engines firing.

And it looked like it was over.

It was going to smash.

And then I saw the fire pour out from the left side, and I put it straight.

And it came down so gently, and then it wrapped those arms around it, and it held it.

And just like you hold your baby at night, your little baby.

And it was a beautiful thing to see.

And I called Elon.

I said, Elon, was that you?

He said, yes, it was.

I said, who else can do that?

Can Russia do it?

No.

Can China do it?

No.

Can the United States do it other than you?

No.

Nobody can do that.

I said, that's why I love you, Elon.

That's great.

And you know, when we had the tragic Hurricane

Helene, and it hit, in particular, it hit North

Carolina, they were really devastated.

This was a big water, as big as we've ever seen water hurricane.

It built lakes out of nothing.

Fields became lakes, and the danger was unbelievable.

And the people from North Carolina came to me, and they said, would it be possible, at all possible, for you to speak to Elon Musk?