THE GREAT STONE FACES ARE FOUR PRESIDENTS SPANNED IN LONELY SILENCE AS THE LAST WORKMEN LEAVE THE MIGHTY PROGRESS. MACHINERY IS DISMANTLED FOR WITH THE DEATH SILENCE AS THE OF THE SCULPTOR LAST SPRING, ALL BUT CLEANUP WORK WAS ABANDONED. HIS SON PUTS AWAY MODELS. THEODORE ROOSEVELT AND ABRAHAM LINCOLN WERE THE LAST OF THE FOUR FACES. BORGLAND'S TOOLS ARE LAID AWAY. EVEN THOUGH UNFINISHED, THE MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL STANDS AS AN ETERNAL SHRINE OF DEMOCRACY AND OF FOUR GREAT AMERICANS WHO HELPED CARVE THIS ENDURING NATION. ...

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PRESIDENT TRUMP IS IN MOUNT RUSHMORE THIS EVENING WHERE HE IS SET TO SPEAK AT THE FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION. EARLIER, AIR FORCE ONE FLEW OVER THE GROUNDS. HERE IS A LOOK. (music) [ROUSING ROCK MUSIC] (music)...

WE TAKE YOU LIVE NOW WHERE THE FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION AT MY RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL. THIS IS LIVE COVERAGE ON C-SPAN. [CHANTING]

FOUR MORE YEARS! (music) (music) [APPLAUSE] (music) [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] (music) [APPLAUSE] (music) (music) [CHEERFUL MARCHING BAND MUSIC] (music) (music) [APPLAUSE] (music)

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, DONALD J. TRUMP, AND FIRST LADY, MELANIA TRUMP. (music) [APPLAUSE] (music)

PLEASE RISE FURTHER PLAYING OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM -- FOR ABOUT THE LAYING OF THE NATIONAL ANTHEM. (music)

OH SAY CAN YOU SEE, BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAILED AT THE TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING; WHOSE BROAD STRIPES AND BRIGHT STARS, THROUGH THE PERILOUS FIGHT, O'ER THE RAMPARTS WE WATCHED WERE SO GALLANTLY STREAMING? (music)AND THE ROCKET'S RED GLARE, THE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR, GAVE PROOF THROUGH THE NIGHT THAT OUR FLAG WAS STILL THERE: OH, SAY! DOES THAT STAR-SPANGLED BANNER YET WAVE O'ER THE LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE? (music) (music) [APPLAUSE] (music)...

GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. I AM A UH 60 PILOT WITH THE SOUTH DAKOTA ARMY NATIONAL GUARD. MY WIFE KAYLA AND I WOULD LIKE TO WELCOME YOU TO THE GREAT STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA. THE SOUTH DAKOTA NATIONAL GUARD ALONG WITH OUR NATION'S MILITARY PROUDLY SERVES OUR STATE AND OUR NATION. WHETHER AT HOME OR OVERSEAS, WE START READY TO SUPPORT THE CITIZENS OF SOUTH DAKOTA AND THE UNITED STATES. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT OF THE ARMED FORCES. WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THE FESTIVITIES TONIGHT. (music)...

I AM THE AIRCRAFT PRODUCTION SUPERINTENDENT AT THE 114 SQUARE DRAWN. I GREW UP IN SOUTH DAKOTA AND I JOINED THE SOUTH DAKOTA NATIONAL GUARD IN 1992. AS THE PRODUCTION SUPERINTENDENT, I DIRECT THE MAINTENANCE FOR OUR AIRCRAFT. OUR MISSION IS TO GENERATE COMBAT AIR POWER WITH OUR F-16 AIRCRAFT. IT MEANS A LOT TO ME TO FOLLOW IN MY PARENTS' FOOTSTEPS. IT IS VERY REWARDING. I LIKE SERVING WITH MY CHILDREN, THAT IS ALSO A REWARDING OPPORTUNITY. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE ENJOY YOUR SOUTH DAKOTA NATIONAL GUARD. (music)...

GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. I AM CAPTAIN JUSTIN PERSHING NICHOLS FROM SOUTH DAKOTA, AND PROUD MEMBER OF THE WORLD-FAMOUS 34TH BOMB SQUADRON THUNDERBIRDS.

I AM CAPTAIN MAX, PROUD MEMBER OF THE 37TH BOMB SQUADRON TIGERS. COMING UP, YOU WILL WITNESS THE AWESOME POWER OF THE LANCER, A STRATEGIC BOMBER CAPABLE OF LONG-RANGE MISSIONS WITH A TOP SPEED OF 900 MILES PER HOUR. ...

WE HOPE YOU ENJOY THE SHOW. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, AMERICA. (music)

GOOD EVENING. YOUR UNITED STATES NAVY SQUADRON TAKES PLEASURE IN PERFORMING FOR YOU HERE AT MOUNT RUSHMORE, SOUTH DAKOTA. SINCE 1946, THE BLUE ANGELS HAVE HAD THE UNIQUE VILLAGE OF DEMONSTRATING TO THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, THE PRECISION TECHNICS OF NAVAL AVIATION, HOPING TO INSPIRE A CULTURE OF EXCELLENCE AND SERVICE TO THE COUNTRY. WE WILL PERFORM A FLY-BY IN TRADITIONAL BLUE ANGEL FOR MISSION SO THAT YOU MAY SEE AND TAKE PRIDE IN THE PRECISE FASHION IN WHICH YOU NAVY PILOTS ARE TRAINED TO FLY. REPRESENTING YOUR UNITED STATES NAVY AND MARINE CORPS, THE BLUE ANGELS! (music)...

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE WELCOME FORMER HOST OF "ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT," AND YOUR MASTER OF CEREMONIES, MARY HART. (music)

THANK YOU, AND GOOD SOUTH DAKOTA EVENING TO ONE AND ALL! [APPLAUSE] WE WELCOME YOU COME UP PRESIDENT TRUMP, OUR FIRST LADY, MILLENNIA, AND YOUR WHOLE FAMILY. THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE I WANT TO INTRODUCE VERY QUICKLY, BUT I WANT TO SAY, THANK YOU, GOVERNOR NOEM, FOR MAKING THIS POSSIBLE. [APPLAUSE] AND THANK YOU TO YOU, INCREDIBLE AUDIENCE. YOU HAVE BEEN HERE FOR HOURS TODAY, AND IT WAS ONLY 125 DEGREES OUT HERE IN THE SUN. YOU ARE NOT ONLY SEATED HERE, YOU'RE UP THERE, AND YOU ARE BEYOND. THE ARE JUST SPECTACULAR FOR BEING HERE TO CELEBRATE AN FRONT OF JULY, THE BIRTHDAY OF OUR GREAT NATION. I ALSO WANT TO INTRODUCE -- YOU KNOW THESE GENTLEMEN WELL, FORMER GOVERNOR AND CURRENT SENATOR, MIKE ROUNDS AND JOHN THUNE, LONGTIME FRIENDS. WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU HERE. [APPLAUSE] I SEE OUR NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER, ROBERT O'BRIEN. WELCOME TO SOUTH DAKOTA. [APPLAUSE] AND SENATOR PAUL, RAND PAUL. I BELIEVE, I'M MY SEEING YOU? OK. [APPLAUSE] THEN WE HAVE CONGRESSMAN DUSTY JOHNSON SEATED OVER HERE. [APPLAUSE] CONGRESSMAN JASON SMITH. CONGRESSMAN MARKWAYNE MULLIN. AS WELL AS CONGRESSMAN ADRIAN SMITH. [APPLAUSE] WELCOME TO YOU ALL. IT IS SO INCREDIBLY GREAT TO BE BACK IN MY HOME STATE OF SOUTH DAKOTA, AND IT STARTED THIS SIMPLY A FEW WEEKS AGO. IT WAS A TEXT. ISN'T ABOUT THE WAY ALL OF OUR IMPORTANT EVENTS OCCUR IN OUR LIVES THESE DAYS? DID YOU GET MY VOICEMAIL, MARY? KRISTI, I TEXTED BACK. NO, WHEN DID YOU LEAVE IT? NEXT SECOND, THE PHONE RINGS, IT IS GOVERNOR NOEM SAYING, MARY, I HAVE A FAVOR TO ASK OF YOU. WOULD YOU CONSIDER? WHEN SHE EXPLAINED THIS GLORIOUS NIGHT AND THE PLANS, I SAID, ARE YOU KIDDING? I WOULD BE SO HONORED, SO HAPPY. LET ME JUST TELL YOU THAT I AM INCREDIBLY PROUD TO HAVE ALL OF YOU WHO ARE FIRST-TIMERS HERE. I KNOW THERE ARE PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY VISITING, BECAUSE I HAVE TALKED TO A FEW OF YOU TODAY, AND WE ARE SO HAPPY, WHETHER IT IS NEW HAMPSHIRE OR DELAWARE OR WHEREVER YOU CAME FROM, YOU HAD A TREK, BUT I KNOW YOU ARE HAPPY TO BE IN THIS GREAT STATE. I HAVE A LONG ASSOCIATION WITH MOUNT RUSHMORE. IT IS MAKING ME MAD THAT THOSE GUYS ARE THERE IN GRANITE ARE NOT AGING. [LAUGHTER] AS A YOUNG KID, I WAS HERE WITH MY FAMILY, THEN AS MISS SOUTH DAKOTA. [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU. YOU KNOW WHAT, I WOKE UP AT 3 A.M. ABOUT A WEEK AND A HALF AGO AND I WENT, DO IDEA MENTIONED THAT? YES, BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT TO ME. I AM SO PROUD OF THIS STATE AND THE VALUES I WAS RAISED WITH HERE IN SOUTH DAKOTA. I WAS HERE AS MISS SOUTH DAKOTA IN 1970. 50 YEARS AGO. HOLY COW! SO I AM PROUD OF THAT. IN 1991, I HAD THE GREAT JOY OF COHOSTING, WITH FELLOW SOUTH DAKOTAN TOM BROKAW, THE REDEDICATION AND THE GOLDEN ANNIVERSARY OF MOUNT RUSHMORE, AND WE WERE ON OUR 41ST PRESIDENT, GEORGE HERBERT WALKER BUSH AND FIRST LADY BARBARA BUSH. I BRING THIS UP BECAUSE, PRESIDENT BUSH, WE WENT FISHING THAT DAY. THE BUSH'S AND THE SUGARMANS. I COULD PUT A LIVE WORM ON A HOOK IN CASE YOU AND MILLENNIA WOULD LIKE TO TRY TO CATCH A FEW BEFORE YOU LEAVE, OR WHEN YOU COME BACK -- YOU AND MELANIA WOULD LIKE TO TRY TO CATCH A FEW BEFORE YOU LEAVE OR WHEN YOU COME BACK. I AM SO HONORED TO BE MASTER OF CEREMONIES TONIGHT, AND WE ARE SO PROUD OF OUR MEN AND WOMEN IN UNIFORM. WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU HERE. SUPPORT YOU, WE LOVE YOU, AND WE THANK YOU. WE ARE ALL PROUD TO BE AMERICANS. WE DO LIVE TRULY IN THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD. SINCE I BROUGHT IT UP, I REMEMBER WELL THE TUMULTUOUS MISS, THE TRAGEDY AND ULTIMATELY THE TRIUMPH OF THE 60'S. I WAS GROWING UP THEN AND THOSE WERE NOT EASY TIMES FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO HAPPEN TO BE OLD ENOUGH LIKE I AM TO REMEMBER. THAT WAS A TERRIBLE DECADE, THAT WE TURNED OUT TO BE A BETTER NATION. AND WITH EVERYTHING GOING ON NOW, I KNOW WE CAN COME TOGETHER, SHARING AND LISTENING TO ONE ANOTHER'S IDEAS, AND WE CAN, YET AGAIN, BECOME A BETTER NATION. [APPLAUSE] IT HAS BEEN 11 YEARS SINCE FIREWORKS WERE LAST HERE IN MOUNT RUSHMORE. WE ARE SO EXCITED TO BRING THEM BACK. I WOULD LIKE TO THANKS SECRETARY BERNHARDT, OUR INTERIOR SECRETARY, FOR HELPING GOVERNOR NOEM. THANK YOU, PRESIDENT TRUMP, FOR MAKING THIS WONDERFUL EVENING HAPPENED. [APPLAUSE] AND I WANT TO THANK ALL OF THE INCREDIBLE PEOPLE WHO DID THOSE FLYOVERS. I COULDN'T HELP THINKING, WHEN WE SAW AIR FORCE ONE FLYING OVER, PRESIDENT TRUMP, THAT BIRD'S-EYE VIEW OF THE MONUMENT MUST HAVE IN MAYBE EVEN MORE SPECTACULAR FOR YOU THAN IT WAS FOR US. WE ARE SO PROUD YOU DID WITH OF THOSE FLYOVERS, AND WE ARE SO PROUD THAT YOU ARE HERE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] NOW, I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE OUR FIRST SPEAKER, A VERY SPECIAL WOMAN COME SOMEONE WHO I HAVE GOTTEN TO KNOW THROUGH THE YEARS, YOU HAVE GOTTEN TO KNOW HER, YOU FELLOW SOUTH DAKOTA AND , IN LEADER CONSISTENTLY CHALLENGING THE STATUS QUO AND WANTING TO MAKE HER STRAIGHT STRONGER FROM THE NEXT GENERATION. SHE IS A LIFELONG SOUTH DAKOTAN, AND FROM WHEN SHE COULD WALK, SHE WORKED WITH HER FATHER ON THE RANCH. IN COLLEGE, SHE MARRIED BRIAN, ANOTHER FARM KID. SHE FIRST GOT INVOLVED IN POLITICS, SERVING AS A CITIZEN LEGISLATURE IN THE STATE LEGISLATURE FROM 2007-2010. BEFORE SERVING IN THE U.S. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES FROM 2011-2018. SHE RECENTLY GAINED NATIONAL ATTENTION FOR HER RESPONSE TO NATIONAL EVENTS, INCLUDING COVID-19, PROTESTS, AND EFFORTS TO REWRITE AMERICAN HISTORY. [APPLAUSE] AND MAYBE EVEN MORE IMPORTANTLY, SHE OFTEN SAYS THAT HER GREATEST ACCOMPLISHMENT IS RAISING THREE CHILDREN WHO LOVE THE LORD, LOVE THEIR FAMILY, AND KNOW HOW TO WORK HARD. WOULD YOU PLEASE GIVE IT UP FOR THE WONDERFUL GOVERNOR OF SOUTH DAKOTA, KRISTI NOEM! (music) [APPLAUSE]...

GOOD GOV. NOEM: GOOD EVENING. YOU ALL LOOK SO GOOD. WOW, THANK YOU FOR COMING. MARY, YOU ARE JUST ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL. AREN'T WE PROUD OF MERRY MARY HART? [APPLAUSE] SO I UNDERSTAND THERE IS A LOT OF SOUTH DAKOTANS HERE. WHO HERE IS FROM SOUTH DAKOTA? [APPLAUSE] HOW MANY OF YOU HERE TONIGHT, IT IS YOUR FIRST VISIT TO SOUTH DAKOTA? [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU FOR COMING. MEANS THE WORLD TO ME. TONIGHT WE HAVE A VERY SPECIAL GUEST. WE HAVE THE ONE 74TH CYBER PROTECTION UNIT WITH US HERE TONIGHT -- THE 174TH CYBER PROTECTION UNIT. COULD THEY PLEASE STAND? [APPLAUSE] FOLKS, THESE SOLDIERS WERE DEPLOYED FOR 13 MONTHS AS A PART OF "OPERATION ENDURING FREEDOM," AND HE NEVER GOT A WELCOME HOME, SO WE DECIDED TO THROW A BIG PARTY TONIGHT AND OFFICIALLY WELCOME THEM HOME AND THANK THEM FOR THEIR SERVICE. WOULD YOU GIVE THEM A ROUND OF APPLAUSE? [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WE HAVE A FANTASTIC EVENING PLANNED FOR YOU. LET ME START BY INTRODUCING SOMEONE THAT HAS BEEN ABSOLUTELY INSTRUMENTAL TO MAKING TONIGHT HAPPEN. IT IS MY HONOR TO INTRODUCE DAVID BERNHARDT, WHO IS THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR. HE WAS RAISED IN A RURAL TOWN IN COLORADO. FANTASTIC ELK AND RIFLES. SECRETARY BERNHARDT GREW UP HUNTING AND FISHING ON PUBLIC LAND. HE ALSO HAS LEGAL POLICY AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE. HE SERVED NEARLY A DECADE IN SENIOR-LEVEL POSITIONS AT THE DEPARTMENT, INCLUDING AS SOLICITOR AND DEPUTY SECRETARY. AND OR HIS LEADERSHIP COME AT THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR HAS EXPANDED ACCESS TO PUBLIC LAND, ADVANCED AMERICAN ENERGY INDEPENDENCE, STRENGTHENED THE DEPARTMENTAL ETHICS PROGRAM, AND ALSO DELIVERED BILLIONS OF DOLLARS IN REGULATORY RELIEF SINCE THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION. WE ARE ALSO HONORED TO HAVE HIS WIFE, JENNA, HERE THIS EVENING WITH US, AS WELL AS HIS DAUGHTER, KATIE. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, WOULD YOU PLEASE JOIN ME IN WELCOMING THE UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR, DAVID BERNHARDT. (music) [APPLAUSE]...

GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU, GOVERNOR. IT IS GREAT TO BE IN SOUTH DAKOTA. OVER A DECADE AGO, FIREWORKS ILLUMINATED THE SKY OVER THIS MEMORIAL, A PLACE THAT HONORS OUR FORMER PRESIDENTS. TONIGHT THEY RETURN. [APPLAUSE] TONIGHT'S CELEBRATION WOULD NOT HAVE BEEN POSSIBLE WITHOUT THE LEADERSHIP OF PRESIDENT TRUMP AND GOVERNOR NOEM. THEY CALLED FOR A PATRIOTIC CELEBRATION AND AN INCREDIBLE FIREWORK DISPLAY HERE AT MONTH RUSHMORE. MR. PRESIDENT, FIRST LADY, GOVERNOR, MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, AND OTHER GUESTS, WELCOME TO MOUNT RUSHMORE. THIS MAGNIFICENT MONUMENT, SURROUNDED BY THE DUTY OF THE BLACK HILLS OF SOUTH DAKOTA TELLS THE STORY OF THE BIRTH, THE DEVELOPMENT, AND THE PRESERVATION OF OUR INCREDIBLE NATION. FEW PLACES ARE MORE CENTRAL TO THE COLLECTIVE AMERICAN IDENTITY THAN MOUNT RUSHMORE. OVERLOOKING US ARE GEORGE WASHINGTON, THOMAS JEFFERSON, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, AND TEDDY ROOSEVELT. THESE GREAT LEADERS FORGED OUR GREAT NATION AND PRESERVED IT. THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR'S NATIONAL PARK SERVICE IS ENTRUSTED AS A STORED IN A GUARDIAN OF OUR NATIONAL -- AS A STEWARD AND A GUARDIAN OF OUR NATIONAL PARKS, MONUMENTS, AND BATTLEFIELDS, ALL OF WHICH TELL OUR STORY. THE STORY INCLUDES MOMENTS OF GREAT TRIUMPH, AS WELL AS SETBACKS AND CHALLENGES. REFLECTING UPON THESE MOMENTS IN OUR HISTORY PROVIDES SOLACE, REJUVENATION AND INSPIRATION TO ALL OF US. PLEASE JOIN THE IN GIVING A HAND OF THANKS TO THE WONDERFUL EMPLOYEES OF OUR NATIONAL PARKS SERVICE, PARTICULARLY THOSE HERE AT MOUNT RUSHMORE WHO HAVE WORKED TIRELESSLY TO PUT THIS EVENT ON. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] NOW, THEY ARE AWESOME. NOW, AS WE ARE UNDER THE GAZE OF TEDDY ROOSEVELT, I CANNOT HELP BUT NOTE THAT IT WAS THROUGH PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT'S LEADERSHIP AND RESOLVE THAT WE WERE ABLE TO ENJOY THE PUBLIC LANDS AND EXPERIENCE OUR NATIONAL PARKS. AND IT IS IN ROOSEVELT'S CONSERVATION SPIRIT THAT EARLIER THIS YEAR, PRESIDENT TRUMP CALLED ON CONGRESS TO PASS A N HISTORIC AGREEMENT INVESTING IN OUR PUBLIC LANDS. LAST MONTH, THE SENATE PASSED LEGISLATION THAT HE CALLED FOR. LATER THIS MONTH, WE EXPECT CONGRESS WILL APPROVE LEGISLATION TO PROVIDE OUR NATIONAL PARKS AND PUBLIC LANDS WITH THE MOST SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT IN GENERATIONS SO THAT OUR CHILDREN AND GRANDCHILDREN CAN FULLY ENJOY WONDERFUL SITES LIKE MOUNT RUSHMORE. THANK YOU, MR. PRESIDENT. [APPLAUSE] THANK YOU. ON THIS DAY IN 1776, JOHN ADAMS DESCRIBED HIS VISION OF HOW WE SHOULD CELEBRATE OUR NATION'S INDEPENDENCE. HE SAID IT SHOULD BE MARKED WITH POMP AND PRAISE, WITH SHOWS, GAMES, SPORTS, BONFIRES, AND ILLUMINATIONS. FROM ONE END OF A CONTINENT TO THE OTHER. 244 YEARS LATER, PRESIDENT TRUMP FOSTERS ADAMS' VISION EVEN IN TIMES OF CHALLENGE. ADAMS -- PRETTY AWESOME. [APPLAUSE] ADAMS RECOGNIZED THAT OUR INDEPENDENCE DAY WOULD BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER. BY DOING SO, WE CAN REFLECT ON AND APPRECIATE THE PRINCIPLES AND FREEDOMS THAT BIND US TOGETHER TO MAKE AMERICA THE GREATEST NATION ON THE PLANET. THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS AMERICA. [APPLAUSE] ...

THANK YOU, SECRETARY BERNHARDT, AND THANKS TO YOUR ENTIRE TEAM. IT WAS NO SMALL FEAT PULLING OFF THIS EVENT. YOU GUYS ARE ABSOLUTE ROCK STARS IN HELPING US GET IT ACCOMPLISHED. IT IS SO GOOD HAVING A HERE TONIGHT. WE HAVE BEEN WORKING SINCE BEFORE I WAS EVEN SWORN IN AS GOVERNOR TO GET TO THIS NIGHT TONIGHT. IN FACT, WHEN WE HAD THE TICKET SYSTEM SET UP, WE HAD OVER 125,000 PEOPLE SIGN UP IN A THREE-DAY PERIOD TO GET TO BE ONE OF THE 7500 PEOPLE THAT ARE SITTING HERE TONIGHT IN THESE SEATS FOR THE CELEBRATION. CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF YOU HERE IN PLACE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] WHETHER YOU ARE VISITING ONE OF OUR LARGEST CITIES, OR SMALLER TOWNS, SOUTH DAKOTA IS A STATE THAT PRIDES ITSELF ON THE CLOSE-KNIT NATURE OF OUR COMMUNITIES. TONIGHT IF YOU LOOK TO YOUR LEFT, IF YOU LOOK TO YOUR RIGHT, YOU ARE GOING TO SEE THAT THIS CROWD ISN'T JUST FROM SOUTH DAKOTA, BUT IT'S FROM EVERYWHERE ACROSS THIS NATION. WE JUST APPRECIATE YOU COMING, AND WE KNOW THAT THIS IS A CELEBRATION. ACROSS AMERICA THESE LAST SEVERAL WEEKS, WE HAVE BEEN WITNESSING A VERY TROUBLING SITUATION UNFOLD. IN REAL-TIME, WE ARE WATCHING AN ORGANIZED, COORDINATED CAMPAIGN TO REMOVE UNDER LIMITED ALL REFERENCES TO OUR NATION'S FOUNDING, AND MANY OTHER POINTS IN OUR HISTORY. [CROWD BOOING] RATHER THAN LOOK INTO THE PAST TO IMPROVE OUR FUTURE, SOME ARE TRYING TO WIPE AWAY THE LESSONS OF HISTORY, LESSONS WE SHOULD BE TEACHING TO OUR CHILDREN AND TO OUR GRANDCHILDREN. THIS APPROACH FOCUSES EXCLUSIVELY ON OUR FOREFATHERS' FLAWS BUT IT FAILS TO CAPITALIZE ON THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEARN FROM THEIR VIRTUES. MAKE NO MISTAKE, THIS IS BEING DONE DELIBERATELY TO DISCREDIT AMERICA'S FOUNDING PRINCIPLES, BY DISCREDITING THE INDIVIDUALS WHO FORMED THEM SO THAT AMERICA CAN BE REMADE INTO A DIFFERENT POLITICAL IMAGE. TONIGHT I WANT TO INVITE YOU ALL, AND THOSE AROUND THE COUNTRY WATCHING -- THE FOUNDING GENERATION HAS IMPORTANT THINGS TO TELL US ALL ABOUT AMERICA'S PAST, ITS PRESIDENT, AND ITS FUTURE. INDEPENDENCE WAS A RESULT OF MANY STARS ALIGNING, INCLUDING A UNIQUE ASSEMBLY OF POWERFUL WRITERS, GIFTED THINKERS, AND TREMENDOUS GENERALS, AND DON'T FORGET, SUPPORTED BY A POWERFUL CITIZEN ARMY THAT DEFEATED THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL EMPIRE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] AGAINST ALL ODDS AND INCREDIBLE STRUGGLE, WE CAN FIND EXAMPLES OF PERSEVERANCE, DEDICATION, AND COMMITMENT TO CERTAIN FUNDAMENTAL TRUTHS. THESE MEN DID NOT STAGE A REVOLT AGAINST GREAT BRITAIN FOR PERSONAL GAIN OR PERSONAL POWER, THEY DID IT BECAUSE THEY KNEW THEY HAD TO IN ORDER TO DEFEND THEIR RIGHTS TO LIVE, WORK AND WORSHIP AS THEY SAW FIT. FOLLOWING THE BRITISH DEFEAT, WE COULD HAVE HAD A KING. BUT INSTEAD, WE HAD A MAN WHO WALKED AWAY FROM HIS POSITION AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF. THEN HE ALSO WALKED AWAY FROM THE PRESIDENCY. THESE EXAMPLES, LIKE SO MANY OTHERS, RARELY MAKE THE CUT WHEN LOOKING BACK ON THEIR LIVES, BUT THEY UNDOUBTEDLY SERVE AS A DEMONSTRATION OF ALL THAT AMERICANS SHOULD EMULATE. TOWARDS THIS EFFORT, THE SIGNERS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE PLEDGED THEIR LIFE AND THEIR SACRED HONOR. THE DECLARATION IS ARGUABLY ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT STATEMENTS OF PURPOSE EVER WRITTEN, NOT JUST BECAUSE IT SERVES AS JUSTIFICATION OF INDEPENDENCE TO THE ENTIRE WORLD, BUT ALSO BECAUSE IT HAS LED TO OUR PROSPERITY AND INSPIRED MANY OTHER NATIONS AND PEOPLES TO SEEK FREEDOM. THESE WORDS ARE NOT REMEMBERED NEARLY ENOUGH TODAY. " WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN INALIENABLE RIGHTS, AND AMONG THOSE ARE LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. THAT TO SECURE THESE RIGHTS, GOVERNMENTS ARE INSTITUTED AMONG MEN, DERIVING THEIR JUST POWERS FROM THEIR CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED. " LET US NEVER FORGET ESPECIALLY TODAY, THAT OUR GOVERNMENT -- [APPLAUSE] [CHANTING "U.S.A.!"] LET US NEVER FORGET THAT TODAY THAT OUR GOVERNMENT HAS THE POWER IT DOES IT THE PEOPLE HAVE CONSENTED TO IT. WE HAVE CONSENTED SPECIFICALLY TO OUR GOVERNMENT THAT WILL SERVE ALL OF US EQUALLY, AND THAT WILL PROTECT AND UPHOLD FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS ENUMERATED BY OUR CONSTITUTION. IT IS OUR DUTY TO RENEW OUR COMMITMENT TO THESE IDEALS, AND PASS THEM ON TO THOSE WHO COME AFTER US. THESE IDEALS CANNOT BE DISMISSED AS THE IRRELEVANT OPINIONS OF GOD FLAWED MEN. OUR FOUNDERS HAD THEIR FLAWS, BUT TO USE THOSE FLAWS TO CONDEMN THEIR IDEALS IS UNJUST. HOW MANY OF US HAVE LIVED UP TO OUR OWN IDEALS? WITHOUT THE SACRIFICES OF THESE FEW, THE WORLD WOULD NOT HAVE A RINGING EXAMPLE OF TRUE FREEDOM. WE CAN SPEAK AND WRITE, WORSHIP, WORK, DEFEND OURSELVES, AND EVEN PROTEST AS WE SEE FIT BECAUSE OF THESE MEN AND THEIR IDEALS. TO ATTEMPT TO CANCEL THE FOUNDING GENERATION IS AN ATTEMPT TO CANCEL OUR OWN FREEDOMS. NOW -- [APPLAUSE] THE RICH AND BEAUTIFUL LANDS ON WHICH MANY OF US LIVE AND ON WHICH WE ARE NOW STANDING TODAY ARE THE RESULT OF MEN AND WOMEN SEARCHING FOR MORE. AT TIMES, ESPECIALLY TODAY, IT SEEMS WE ARE OFTEN PARALYZED BY THE PRESENT AND DEFEATED BY THE FUTURE. OUR COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED BY DISSIDENTS, AND PEOPLE SEEKING TO FIND A BETTER LIFE FOR THEMSELVES AND THEIR CHILDREN. PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD CONTINUE TO FLOCK TO AMERICA TODAY. THE SIMPLE REASON IS THAT IT IS OUR COMMITMENT TO THE IDEALS LAID OUT BY OUR FOREFATHERS. THE STRUGGLE TO MAINTAIN THE UNION WAS A PROPOSITION THAT AMERICANS MUST LIVE UP TO THE PRINCIPLES ARTICULATED IN THE DECLARATION. AND AMERICA'S REBIRTH ALLOWED THEIR ITERATION OF THE SUPPOSED ARTICULATED. A QUESTION WAS PUT BEFORE CONGRESS, CAN WE DO BETTER? OUR CHOICE WAS CLEAR, WE COULD NOBLY SAY IT OR MAINLY LOSE THE LAST BEST HOPE ON EARTH. THE WAY IT IS PLAYING, PEACEFUL, JUST, A WAY THAT THE WORLD WILL FOREVER APPLAUD. THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO BUILT THIS COUNTRY HAVE MENTIONED IN AMERICA THAT WOULD PROJECT -- ENVISIONED AN AMERICA THAT WOULD PROJECT ITS POLICY TO PLACES THAT HAD NOT KNOWN THEM. THEY ALSO TOOK ON THE MISSION OF PROTECTING THE NATURAL WONDERS OF THE WEST, SOMETHING ALL OF US SITTING HERE TONIGHT CAN BE THANKFUL FOR. IN PARTICULAR, I THINK MANY OF US, ESPECIALLY THOSE ON THE POLITICAL FRONT LINES WOULD BE WISE TO REMEMBER. IT IS NOT THE CRITIC WHO COUNTS, NOT THE MAN WHO POINTS OUT HOW THE STRONG MAN STUMBLES, OR WHERE THE DOER OF DEEDS COULD HAVE DONE THEM BETTER. THE CREDIT BELONGS TO THE MAN WHO IS ACTUALLY IN THE ARENA, WHO STRIVES VALIANTLY, WHO ERRS, COMES UP SHORT AGAIN AND AGAIN, BECAUSE THERE IS NO EFFORT WITHOUT ERROR AND SHORTCOMING. BUT WHO DOES ACTUALLY STRIVE TO DO THE DEEDS, WHO KNOWS GREAT ENTHUSIASMS, THE GREAT DEVOTIONS. WHO SPENDS HIMSELF IN A WORTHY CAUSE. WHO AT BEST KNOWS IN THE END THE TRIUMPH OF HIGH ACHIEVEMENT, AND WHO AT THE WORST, IF HE FAILS, AT LEAST FAILS WHILE DARING GREATLY, SO THAT HIS PLACE SHALL NEVER BE WITH THE COLD AND TIMID SOULS WHO NEED OUR NEW VICTORY OR DEFEAT -- WHO NEITHER KNEW VICTORY OR DEFEAT. LEADERSHIP REQUIRES WISDOM. A WILL TO ACT AND CONFIDENCE TO STAND UP FOR WHAT IS RIGHT. OUR LOVE FOR AMERICA AND OUR COMMITMENT TO STAND FOR THE PRINCIPLES THAT MAKE AMERICA UNIQUE, DESERVE TO BE APPLAUDED. WE HONOR THESE MEN AND WOMEN FOR THEIR CONTRIBUTIONS, THEIR LEADERSHIP, ALL THE POSITIVE THINGS THEY REPRESENT, THE THINGS THAT MAKE AMERICA A UNIQUE AND CALL US TO LIVE TO OUR PROMISES. THIS INDEPENDENCE DAY, LET US BE GRATEFUL THAT WE HAVE SUCH WORDS AND SUCH EXAMPLES TO FOLLOW, AND THAT OTHERS WHO ARE WILLING TO SACRIFICE SO MUCH TO CREATE A LAND IN WHICH LIBERTY AND LAW CAN BE PROTECTED. LET US NOT DESTROY HISTORY. LET US LEARN FROM IT BY PRESERVING AND IMITATING WHAT IS GOOD ABOUT IT. [APPLAUSE] WE ARE ALL COMMITTED TO A COUNTRY WHERE ANY PERSON REGARDLESS OF THEIR STANDING AT BIRTH AND MAKE ANYTHING OF THEMSELVES. THIS APPLIED TO ME. I WAS JUST A FARM KID. NOW I AM THE FIRST FEMALE GOVERNOR OF SOUTH DAKOTA. [APPLAUSE] BUT IT APPLIES TO EVERYONE ELSE, TOO. LET US, LIKE OUR FOUNDING FATHERS, ALLEDGE OUR OWN LIVES, OUR FORTUNES, OUR SACRED HONOR TO THE CAUSE OF LIBERTY AND SELF-GOVERNMENT SO WE MAY CONTINUE TO HAVE THE FREEDOM TO FOLLOW OUR CONSCIENCE, TO BUILD OUR LIVES AND TO LIVE IN PEACE. NOW, I WANT TO INTRODUCE SOMEONE WHO UNDERSTANDS PRECISELY WHAT IT MEANS TO BRAVE THE DANGERS OF THE ARENA. SOMEONE WHO STRIVES VALIANTLY. WHO KNOWS GREAT ENTHUSIASMS. WHO SPENDS HIMSELF IN THE WORLD BECAUSE, AND WHO HAS -- WORTHY CAUSE AND WHO HAS REPEATED HIS COMMITMENT TO PLACE AMERICANS, AMERICAN LIBERTY, AMERICAN SAFETY, AND THE AMERICAN CONSTITUTION BEFORE ANYTHING ELSE. I AM TALKING, OF COURSE, ABOUT PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP. [APPLAUSE] MR. PRESIDENT -- [APPLAUSE] MR. PRESIDENT, WELCOME TO SOUTH DAKOTA. [APPLAUSE] AND THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS TO BRING THIS BEAUTIFUL CELEBRATION OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE, HISTORY, AND LIBERTY TO FRUITION. THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS TO REMIND THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THAT THEY PROVIDE THE CONSENT OF THE GOVERNED ON WHICH LEGITIMATE GOVERNMENT DEPENDS. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP! (music)...

AND I AM PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN, WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I'M FREE, AND I WANT FORGET THE MEN WHO DIED GAVE THAT RIGHT TO ME AND I GLADLY STAND UP, NEXT TO YOU CAUSE THERE AIN'T NO DOUBT, I LOVE THIS LAND, GOD BLESS THE USA (music) (music)FROM THE LAKES OF MINNESOTA, TO THE HILLS OF TENNESSEE ACROSS THE PLAINS OF TEXAS, FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA FROM DETROIT DOWN TO HOUSTON AND AND NEW YORK TO LA, WELL, THERE'S PRIDE IN EVERY AMERICAN HEART, AND IT'S TIME WE STAND AND SAY: THAT I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I'M FREE AND I WON'T FORGET THE MEN WHO DIED, WHO GAVE THAT RIGHT TO ME AND I'D GLADLY STAND UP NEXT TO YOU AND DEFEND HER STILL TODAY 'CAUSE THERE AIN'T NO DOUBT I LOVE THIS LAND!" GOD BLESS THE U.S.A. (music)I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I'M FREE AND I WON'T FORGET THE MEN WHO DIED, WHO GAVE THAT RIGHT TO ME AND I'D GLADLY STAND UP NEXT TO YOU AND DEFEND HER STILL TODAY 'CAUSE THERE AIN'T NO DOUBT I LOVE THIS LAND! GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.! (music) (music) [APPLAUSE]...

WELL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. GOVERNOR NOEM, SECRETARY BERNHARDT, WE VERY MUCH APPRECIATED. MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, DISTINGUISHED GUESTS, AND A VERY SPECIAL HELLO TO SOUTH DAKOTA. [APPLAUSE] AS WE BEGIN THIS FOURTH OF JULY WEEKEND, THE FIRST LADY AND I WOULD WISH EACH AND EVERYONE OF YOU A VERY, VERY HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY. THANK YOU. LET US SHOW OUR APPRECIATION TO THE SOUTH DAKOTA ARMY AND AIR NATIONAL GUARD AND THE U.S. AIR FORCE FOR INSPIRING US WITH THAT MAGNIFICENT DISPLAY OF AMERICAN AIR POWER. [APPLAUSE] AND OF COURSE, OUR GRATITUDE AS ALWAYS TO THE LEGENDARY AND VERY TALENTED BLUE IN JOS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. -- BLUE ANGELS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [APPLAUSE] LET US ALSO SEND OUR DEEPEST THANKS TO OUR WONDERFUL VETERANS, LAW ENFORCEMENT, FIRST RESPONDERS AND THE DOCTORS, NURSES AND SCIENTISTS WORKING TIRELESSLY TO KILL THE VIRUS. THEY ARE WORKING HARD. WE WANT TO THANK THEM VERY, VERY MUCH. WE ARE GRATEFUL AS WELL TO YOUR ESTATE'S CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION, SENATOR JOHN THUNE, JOHN, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [APPLAUSE] SENATOR MIKE ROUNDS. THANK YOU, MIKE. [APPLAUSE] AND DUSTY JOHNSON, CONGRESSMAN. HI, DUSTY. THANK YOU. AND ALL OTHERS WITH US TONIGHT FROM CONGRESS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR COMING. WE APPRECIATE IT. THERE COULD BE NO BETTER PLACE TO CELEBRATE AMERICA'S INDEPENDENCE THAN THE KNEES THIS MAGNIFICENT, INCREDIBLE, MAJESTIC MOUNTAIN, MONUMENT TO THE GREATEST AMERICAN'S WHO EVER LIVED. TODAY WE PAY TRIBUTE TO THE EXCEPTIONAL LIVES AND EXTRAORDINARY LEGACIES OF GEORGE WASHINGTON, THOMAS JEFFERSON, ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND TEDDY ROOSEVELT. [APPLAUSE] I AM HERE AS YOUR PRESIDENT TO PROCLAIM BEFORE THE COUNTRY, AND BEFORE THE WORLD, THIS MONUMENT WILL NEVER BE DESECRATED. THESE HEROES WILL NEVER BE DEFACED. [APPLAUSE] THEIR LEGACY WILL NEVER, EVER BE DESTROYED. THEIR ACHIEVEMENTS WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. AND MOUNT RUSHMORE WILL STAND FOREVER AS AN ETERNAL TRIBUTE TO OUR FOREFATHERS AND OUR FREEDOMS. [APPLAUSE] [CHANTING "U.S.A.!"] WE ARE TOGETHER TONIGHT TO HERALD THE MOST IMPORTANT DAY IN THE HISTORY OF NATIONS, JULY 4, 1776. AT THOSE WORDS, EVERY AMERICAN HEART SHOULD SWELL WITH PRIDE. EVERY AMERICAN FAMILY SHOULD CHEER WITH DELIGHT, AND EVERY AMERICAN PATRIOT SHOULD BE FILLED WITH JOY, BECAUSE EACH OF YOU LIVES IN THE MOST MAGNIFICENT COUNTRY IN THE HISTORY OF THE WORLD, AND IT WILL SOON BE GREATER THAN EVER BEFORE. [APPLAUSE] OUR FOUNDERS LAUNCHED NOT ONLY THE REVOLUTION IN GOVERNMENT, BUT A REVOLUTION IN THE PURSUIT OF JUSTICE, EQUALITY, LIBERTY AND PROSPERITY. NO NATION HAS DONE MORE TO ADVANCE THE HUMAN CONDITION THAN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND NO PEOPLE HAVE DONE MORE TO PROMOTE HUMAN PROGRESS THAN THE CITIZENS OF OUR GREAT NATION. [APPLAUSE] IT WAS ALL MADE POSSIBLE BY THE COURAGE OF F.T.C. EXPATRIATES WHO 56 PATRIOTS WHO GATHERED IN PHILADELPHIA OVER 200 YEARS AGO AND SIGNED THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. THEY ENSHRINED A DIVINE TRUTH THAT CHANGED THE WORLD FOREVER WHEN THEY SAID, "ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL." THESE IMMORTAL WORDS SET IN MOTION THE UNSTOPPABLE MARCH OF FREEDOM. OUR FOUNDERS BOLDLY DECLARED THAT WE ARE ALL ANN DOWD WITH THE SAME DIVINED -- FALL ANDENDOWED WITH THE SAME DIVINED RIGHTS. THAT GOD HAS GIVEN US. WE WILL ALLOW NO ONE TO EVER TAKE AWAY. EVER. [APPLAUSE] 1776 REPRESENTED THE CULMINATION OF THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF WESTERN CIVILIZATION AND THE TRIUMPH OF NOT ONLY SPIRIT, BUT WISDOM, PHILOSOPHY, AND REASON. YET AS WE MEET HERE TONIGHT, THERE IS A GROWING DANGER THAT THREATENS EVERY BLESSING. OUR ANCESTORS FOUGHT SO HARD FOR, STRUGGLED. THEY BLED TO SECURE OUR NATION. OUR NATION IS WITNESSING A MERCILESS CAMPAIGN TO ERASE OUR VALUES AND INDOCTRINATE OUR CHILDREN. [CROWD BOOING] ANGRY MOBS ARE TRYING TO TEAR DOWN STATUES OF OUR FOUNDERS, DE FACE OUR MOST SACRED MEMORIALS, AND UNLEASH A WAVE OF VIOLENT CRIME IN OUR CITIES. MANY OF THESE PEOPLE HAVE NO IDEA WHY THEY ARE DOING THIS, BUT SOME KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING. THEY THINK THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE WEAK AND SOFT AND SUBMISSIVE. BUT, NO, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ARE STRONG AND PROUD, AND THEY WILL NOT ALLOW OUR COUNTRY AND ALL OF ITS VALUES, HISTORY AND CULTURE TO BE TAKEN FROM THEM. TIERS [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [CROWD CHANTING, "U.S.A.!"] ONE OF THEIR POLITICAL WEAPONS IS CANCEL CULTURE, DRIVING PEOPLE FROM THEIR JOBS, SHAMING DISSENTERS, AND DEMANDING TOTAL SUBMISSION FROM ANYONE WHO DISAGREES. THIS IS THE VERY DEFINITION OF TOTALITARIANISM, AND IT IS COMPLETELY ALIEN TO OUR CULTURE AND TO OUR VALUES. IT HAS ABSOLUTELY NO PLACE IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. [APPLAUSE] THIS ATTACK ON OUR LIBERTY, OUR MAGNIFICENT LIBERTY MUST BE STOPPED, AND IT WILL BE STOPPED VERY QUICKLY. WE WILL EXPOSE THIS DANGEROUS MOVEMENT, PROTECT OUR NATION'S CHILDREN AND THIS -- END THIS RADICAL ASSAULT AND PRESERVE OUR AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE. IN OUR SCHOOLS, OUR NEWSROOMS, EVEN OUR CORPORATE BOARDROOMS, THERE IS A NEW FAR-LEFT FASCISM THAT DEMANDS ABSOLUTE ALLEGIANCE. IF YOU DO NOT SPEAK ITS LANGUAGE, PERFORM ITS RITUALS, RECITE ITS MANTRAS AND FOLLOW ITS COMMANDMENTS, THEN YOU WILL BE CENSORED, VANISHED, BLACKLISTED -- BANISHED, BLACKLISTED, AND PUNISHED. IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN TO US. [APPLAUSE] MAKE NO MAKE NO MISTAKE, THIS LEFT-WING CULTURAL REVOLUTION IS DESIGNED TO OVERTHROW THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION. IN SO DOING, THEY WOULD DESTROY THE VERY CIVILIZATION THAT RESCUED BILLIONS FROM POVERTY, DISEASE, VIOLENCE, AND HUNGER, AND THAT LIFTED HUMANITY TO NEW HEIGHTS OF DISCOVERY AND PROGRESS. TO MAKE THIS POSSIBLE, THEY ARE DETERMINED TO TEAR DOWN EVERY STATUE, SYMBOL, AND MEMORY OF OUR NATIONAL HERITAGE. [YELLING] [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] THAT IS VERY TRUE, ACTUALLY. THAT IS WHY I AM DEPLOYING FEDERAL LAW ENFORCEMENT TO ARREST THE RIOTERS AND PROSECUTE OFFENDERS TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [CROWD CHANTING "FOUR MORE YEARS!"] ...

THANK YOU. I AM PLEASED TO REPORT THAT YESTERDAY, FEDERAL AGENTS ARRESTED THE SUSPECTED RINGLEADER OF THE ATTACK ON THE STATUE OF THE GREAT ANDREW JACKSON IN WASHINGTON DC. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

AND IN ADDITION, HUNDREDS MORE HAVE BEEN ARRESTED. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

UNDER THE EXECUTIVE ORDER I SIGNED LAST WEEK PERTAINING TO THE VETERANS MEMORIAL PRESERVATION AND RECOGNITION ACT, AND OTHER LAWS, PEOPLE WHO DAMAGE OR DEFACE FEDERAL STATUES OR MONUMENTS WILL GET A MINIMUM OF 10 YEARS IN PRISON. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

AND OBVIOUSLY THAT INCLUDES OUR BEAUTIFUL MOUNT RUSHMORE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

OUR PEOPLE HAVE A GREAT MEMORY. THEY WILL NEVER FORGET THE DESTRUCTION OF STATUES AND MONUMENTS TO GEORGE WASHINGTON, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, ULYSSES S GRANT, ABOLITIONISTS, AND MANY OTHERS. THE VIOLENT MAYHEM WE HAVE SEEN IN THE STREETS AND CITIES THAT A RE RUN BY LIBERAL DEMOCRATS IN EVERY CASE IS THE PREDICTABLE RESULT OF YEARS OF EXTREME INDOCTRINATION AND BIAS IN EDUCATION, JOURNALISM, AND OTHER CULTURAL INSTITUTIONS. AGAINST EVERY LAW OF SOCIETY AND NATURE, OUR CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT IN SCHOOL TO HATE THEIR OWN COUNTRY AND TO BELIEVE THAT THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO BUILT IT WERE NOT HEROES, BUT VILLAINS. THE RADICAL VIEW OF AMERICAN HISTORY IS A WEB OF LIES. ALL PERSPECTIVE IS REMOVED. EVERY VIRTUE IS OBSCURED. EVERY MOTIVE IS TWISTED. EVERY FACT IS DISTORTED. AND EVERY FLAW IS MAGNIFIED UNTIL THE HISTORY IS PURGED AND THE RECORD IS DISFIGURED BEYOND ALL RECOGNITION. THIS MOVEMENT IS OPENLY ATTACKING THE LEGACIES OF EVERY PERSON ON MOUNT RUSHMORE. THEY DEFILED THE MEMORY OF WASHINGTON, JEFFERSON, LINCOLN, AND ROOSEVELT. TODAY WE WILL SET HISTORY AND HISTORY'S RECORD STRAIGHT. [APPLAUSE] ...

BEFORE THESE FIGURES WERE IMMORTALIZED IN STONE, THEY WERE AMERICAN GIANT IN FULL FLESH AND BLOOD. GALLANT MEN WHOSE INTREPID DEEDS UNLEASHED THE GREATEST LEAP OF HUMAN ADVANCEMENT THE WORLD HAS EVER KNOWN. TONIGHT I WILL TELL YOU, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, THE YOUTH OF OUR NATION THE TRUE STORIES OF THESE GREAT, GREAT MEN. FROM HAD TO DO, GEORGE WASHINGTON -- HEAD TO TOE, GEORGE WASHINGTON REPRESENTED THE STRENGTH, GRACE AND DIGNITY OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. FROM A SMALL FORCE OF CITIZEN FARMERS, HE CREATED THE CONTINENTAL ARMY OUT OF NOTHING AND RALLIED THEM TO STAND AGAINST THE MOST POWERFUL MILITARY ON EARTH. THROUGH EIGHT LONG YEARS, THROUGH THE BRUTAL WINTER AT VALLEY FORGE, THROUGH SETBACK AFTER SETBACK ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE, HE LED THOSE PATRIOTS TO ULTIMATE TRIUMPH. WHEN THE ARMY HAD DWINDLED TO A FEW THOUSAND MEN AT CHRISTMAS OF 1776, WHEN DEFEAT SEEMED ABSOLUTELY CERTAIN, HE TOOK WHAT REMAINED OF HIS FORCES ON A DARING NIGHTTIME CROSSING OF THE DELAWARE RIVER. THEY MARCHED THROUGH NINE MILES OF FRIGID DARKNESS, MANY WITHOUT BOOTS ON THEIR FEET, LEAVING A TRAIL OF BLOOD IN THE SNOW. IN THE MORNING, THEY SEIZED VICTORY AT TRENTON AFTER FORCING THE SURRENDER OF THE MOST POWERFUL EMPIRE ON THE PLANET AT YORKTOWN. GENERAL WASHINGTON DID NOT CLAIM POWER, BUT SIMPLY RETURNED TO MOUNT VERNON AS A PRIVATE CITIZEN. WHEN CALLED UPON AGAIN, HE PRESIDED OVER THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION IN PHILADELPHIA AND WAS UNANIMOUSLY ELECTED OUR FIRST PRESIDENT. [APPLAUSE] ...

WHEN HE STEPPED DOWN AFTER TWO TERMS, HIS FORMER ADVERSARY, KING GEORGE, CALLED HIM THE GREATEST MAN OF THE AGE. HE REMAINS FIRST IN OUR HEARTS TO THIS DAY. FOR AS LONG AS AMERICANS LOVE THIS LAND, WE WILL HONOR AND CHERISH THE FATHER OF OUR COUNTRY, GEORGE WASHINGTON. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

HE WILL NEVER BE REMOVED, PUBLISHED, AND -- ABOLISHED, AND MOST OF ALL, HE WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. [APPLAUSE]

THOMAS JEFFERSON, THE GREAT THOMAS JEFFERSON, WAS 33 YEARS OLD WHEN HE TRAVELED NORTH TO PENNSYLVANIA AND BRILLIANTLY AUTHORED ONE OF THE GREATEST TREASURES OF HUMAN HISTORY, THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. HE ALSO DRAFTED VIRGINIA'S CONSTITUTION AND CONCEIVED AND WROTE THE VIRGINIA STATUTE FOR RELIGIOUS FREEDOM, A MODEL FOR OUR CHERISHED FIRST AMENDMENT. AFTER SERVING AS THE FIRST SECRETARY OF STATE AND THEN VICE PRESIDENT, HE WAS ELECTED TO THE PRESIDENCY. HE ORDERED AMERICAN WARRIORS TO CRUSH BARBARY PIRATES. HE DOUBLED THE SIZE OF OUR NATION WITH THE LOUISIANA PURCHASE. AND HE SENT THE FAMOUS EXPLORERS LEWIS AND CLARK INTO THE WEST ON A DARING EXPEDITION TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. HE WAS AN ARCHITECT, AN INVENTOR, A DIPLOMAT, A SCHOLAR, A FOUNDER OF ONE OF THE WORLD'S GREAT UNIVERSITIES, AND AN ARDENT DEFENDER OF LIBERTY. AMERICANS WILL FOREVER ADMIRE THE AUTHOR OF AMERICAN FREEDOM, THOMAS JEFFERSON. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

AND HE TOO WILL NEVER, EVER, BE ABANDONED BY US. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

ABRAHAM LINCOLN, THE SAVIOR OF OUR UNION, WAS A SELF-TAUGHT COUNTRY LAWYER WHO GREW UP IN A LOG CABIN ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER. THE FIRST REPUBLICAN PRESIDENT, HE ROSE TO HIGH OFFICE FROM OBSCURITY BASED ON A FORCE AND CLARITY OF HIS ANTISLAVERY CONVICTIONS. VERY VERY STRONG CONVICTIONS. HE SIGNED THE LAW THAT BUILT THE TRANSCONTINENTAL RAILROAD. HE SIGNED THE HOMESTEAD ACT, GIVEN TO SOME INCREDIBLE SCHOLARS AS SIMPLY DEFINED WHAT ORDINARY CITIZENS FREE LAND TO SETTLE ANYWHERE IN THE AMERICAN WEST. AND HE LED THE COUNTRY THROUGH THE DARKEST HOURS OF AMERICAN HISTORY, GIVING EVERY OUNCE OF STRENGTH THAT HE HAD TO ENSURE THAT GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, AND FOR THE PEOPLE DID NOT PERISH FROM THIS EARTH. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

HE SERVED AS COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE U.S. ARMED FORCES DURING OUR BLOODIEST WAR. THE STRUGGLE THAT SAVED OUR UNION AND EXTINGUISHED THE EVIL OF SLAVERY. OVER 600,000 DIED IN THAT WAR. MORE THAN 20,000 WERE KILLED OR WOUNDED IN A SINGLE DAY AT ANTIETAM. AT GETTYSBURG, 157 YEARS AGO, THE UNION BRAVELY WITHSTOOD AN ASSAULT OF NEARLY 15,000 MEN AND THREW BACK PICKETS CHARGE. LINCOLN ISSUED THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION. HE LED THE PASSAGE OF THE 13TH AMENDMENT ABOLISHING SLAVERY FOR ALL TIME. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

AND ULTIMATELY, HIS DETERMINATION TO PRESERVE OUR NATION AND OUR UNION COST HIM HIS LIFE. FOR AS LONG AS WE LIVE, AMERICANS WILL UPHOLD AND REVERE THE IMMORTAL MEMORY OF PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

THEODORE ROOSEVELT EXEMPLIFIED THE UNBRIDLED CONFIDENCE OF OUR NATIONAL CULTURE AND IDENTITY. HE SAW THE TOWERING GRANGER OF -- GRANDEUR OF AMERICA'S MISSION IN THE WORLD AND PURSUED IT WITH OVERWHELMING ENERGY AND ZEAL. AS A -- HE LED THE FAMOUS ROUGH RIDERS TO DEFEAT THE ENEMY AT SAN JUAN HILL. HE CLEANED UP CORRUPTION AS POLICE COMMISSIONER OF NEW YORK CITY, THEN SERVED AS THE GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK, VICE PRESIDENT, AND AT 42 YEARS OLD, BECAME THE YOUNGEST EVER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES. [APPLAUSE] ...

HE SENT OUR GREAT NEW NAVAL FLEET AROUND THE GLOBE TO ANNOUNCE AMERICA'S ARRIVAL AS A WORLD POWER. HE GAVE US MANY OF OUR NATIONAL PARKS, INCLUDING THE GRAND CANYON. HE OVERSAW THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE AWE-INSPIRING PANAMA CANAL. HE IS THE ONLY PERSON EVER AWARDED BOTH THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE AND THE CONGRESSIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR. HE WAS AMERICAN FREEDOM PERSONIFIED IN FULL. THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL NEVER RELINQUISH THE BOLD, BEAUTIFUL, AND UNTAMED SPIRIT OF THEATER ROOSEVELT -- OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT. [APPLAUSE] ...

NO MOVEMENT THAT SEEKS TO DISMANTLE THESE TREASURED AMERICAN LEGACIES COULD POSSIBLY HAVE A LOVE OF AMERICA AT ITS HEART. CAN'T HAPPEN. NO PERSON WHO REMAINS QUIET AT THE DESTRUCTION OF THIS RESPLENDENT HERITAGE CAN POSSIBLY LEAD US TO A BETTER FUTURE. THE RADICAL IDEOLOGY ATTACKING OUR COUNTRY ADVANCES UNDER THE BANNER OF SOCIAL JUSTICE. BUT IN TRUTH, IT WOULD DEMOLISH BOTH JUSTICE AND SOCIETY. IT WOULD TRANSFORM JUSTICE INTO AN INSTRUMENT OF DIVISION AND VENGEANCE, AND IT WOULD TURN OUR FREE AND INCLUSIVE SOCIETY INTO A PLACE OF REPRESSION, DOMINATION, AND EXCLUSION. THEY WANT TO SILENCE US, BUT WE WILL NOT BE SILENCED. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [CHANTING U.S.A.] ...

WE LOVE YOU!

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

BUILD THE WALL!

WE WILL STATE THE TRUTH IN FULL WITHOUT APOLOGY. WE DECLARE THAT THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA IS THE MOST JUST AND EXCEPTIONAL NATION EVER TO EXIST ON EARTH. WE ARE PROUD OF THE FACT THAT OUR COUNTRY WAS FOUNDED ON JUDEO-CHRISTIAN PRINCIPLES. WE UNDERSTAND THAT THESE VALUES DRAMATICALLY ADVANCED THE CAUSE OF PEACE AND JUSTICE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. WE KNOW THAT THE AMERICAN FAMILY IS THE BEDROCK OF AMERICAN LIFE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

WE RECOGNIZE THE SOLEMN RIGHT AND MORAL DUTY OF EVERY NATION TO SECURE ITS BORDERS. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

AND WE ARE BUILDING THE WALL. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

WE REMEMBER THAT GOVERNMENTS EXIST TO PROTECT THE SAFETY AND HAPPINESS OF THEIR OWN PEOPLE. A NATION MUST CARE FOR ITS OWN CITIZENS FIRST. WE MUST TAKE CARE OF AMERICA FIRST. IT'S TIME. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

WE BELIEVE IN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY, PEOPLE JUSTICE,A -- EQUAL JUSTICE, AND EQUAL TREATMENT FOR CITIZENS OF EVERY RACE, BACKGROUND, RELIGION AND CREED. EVERY CHILD OF EVERY COLOR, BORN AND UNBORN, IS MADE IN THE HOLY IMAGE OF GOD. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

WE WANT FREE AND OPEN DEBATE, NOT SPEECH CODES AND CANCEL CULTURE. WE EMBRACE TOLERANCE AND NOT PREJUDICE. WE SUPPORT THE COURAGEOUS MEN AND WOMEN OF LAW ENFORCEMENT. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

WE WILL NEVER ABOLISH OUR BELIEFS OR OUR GREAT SECOND AMENDMENT, WHICH GIVES US THE RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

WE BELIEVE THAT OUR CHILDREN SHOULD BE TAUGHT TO LOVE THEIR COUNTRY, HONOR THEIR HISTORY, AND RESPECT OUR GREAT AMERICAN FLAG. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

WE STAND TALL. WE STAND PROUD. AND WE ONLY KNEEL TO ALMIGHTY GOD. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

THIS IS WHO WE ARE. THIS IS WHAT WE BELIEVE. AND THESE ARE THE VALUES THAT WILL GUIDE US AS WE STRIVE TO BUILD AN EVEN BETTER AND GREATER FUTURE. THOSE WHO SEEK TO A RACE OUR HERITAGE -- ERASE OUR HERITAGE WANT AMERICANS TO FORGET OUR PRIDE AND GREAT DIGNITY SO THAT WE CAN NO LONGER UNDERSTAND OURSELVES OR AMERICA'S GREAT DESTINY. IN TOPPLING THE HEROES OF 1776, THEY SEEK TO DISSOLVE THE BONDS OF LOVE AND LOYALTY THAT WE FEEL FOR COUNTRY AND FEEL FOR EACH OTHER. THEIR GOAL IS NOT A BETTER AMERICA, THEIR GOAL IS TO END AMERICA. [CROWD BOOING] ...

IN ITS PLACE, THEY WANT POWER FOR THEMSELVES. JUST AS PATRIOTS DID IN CENTURIES PAST, THE AMERICAN PEOPLE WILL STAND IN THEIR WAY. AND WE WILL WIN AND WIN QUICKLY AND WITH GREAT DIGNITY. [APPLAUSE] ...

WE WILL NEVER LET THEM RIP AMERICA'S HEROES FROM OUR MONUMENTS OR FROM OUR HEARTS. BY TEARING DOWN WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON, THESE RADICALS WOULD TEAR DOWN THE VERY HERITAGE FOR WHICH MEN GAVE THEIR LIVES TO WIN THE CIVIL WAR. THEY WOULD ERASE THE MEMORY THAT INSPIRED THOSE SOLDIERS TO GO TO THEIR DEATHS, SINGING THESE WORDS OF THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC AS HE DIED TO MAKE MEN HOLY, LET US DIE TO MAKE MEN FREE WHILE GOD IS MARCHING ON. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

THEY WOULD TEAR DOWN THE PRINCIPLES THAT PROPELLED THE ABOLITION OF SLAVERY AND ULTIMATELY AROUND THE WORLD, ENDING AN EVIL INSTITUTION THAT PLAGUED HUMANITY FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS. OUR OPPONENTS WOULD TEAR APART THE VERY DOCUMENTS THAT MARTIN LUTHER KING USED TO EXPRESS HIS DREAM AND THE IDEAS THAT WERE THE FOUNDATION OF THE RIGHTEOUS MOVEMENT FOR CIVIL RIGHTS. THEY WOULD TEAR DOWN THE BELIEF, CULTURE, AND IDENTITY THAT MADE AMERICA THE MOST VIBRANT AND TOLERANT SOCIETY IN THE HISTORY OF THE EARTH. MY FELLOW AMERICANS, IT IS TIME TO SPEAK UP LOUDLY AND STRONGLY AND POWERFULLY AND DEFEND THE INTEGRITY OF OUR COUNTRY. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [CHANTING, "U.S.A.!"] ...

IT IS TIME FOR OUR POLITICIANS TO SUMMON THE BRAVERY AND DETERMINATION OF OUR AMERICAN ANCESTORS. IT IS TIME. IT IS TIME TO PLANT OUR FLAG AND TO PROTECT THE GREATEST OF THIS NATION FOR CITIZENS OF EVERY RACE, IN EVERY CITY, AND EVERY PART OF THIS GLORIOUS LAND. FOR THE SAKE OF OUR HONOR, FOR THE SAKE OF OUR CHILDREN, FOR THE SAKE OF OUR UNION, WE MUST PROTECT AND PRESERVE OUR HISTORY, OUR HERITAGE, AND OUR GREAT HEROES. HERE TONIGHT BEFORE THE EYES OF OUR FOREFATHERS, AMERICANS DECLARE AGAIN, AS WE DID 244 YEARS AGO, THAT WE WILL NOT BE TYRANNIZED, WE WILL NOT BE DEMEANED, AND WE WILL NOT BE INTIMIDATED BY BAD, EVIL PEOPLE. IT WILL NOT HAPPEN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [CHANTING "U.S.A.!"] ...

WE WILL PROCLAIM THE IDEALS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE AND WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER THE SPIRIT AND THE COURAGE AND THE CAUSE OF JULY 4, 1776. UPON THIS GROUND, WE WILL STAND FIRM AND UNWAVERING. IN THE FACE OF LIES MEANT TO DIVIDE US, DEMORALIZE US AND DIMINISH US, WE WILL SHOW THAT THE STORY OF AMERICA UNITES US, INSPIRES US, INCLUDES US ALL, AND MAKES EVERYONE FREE. WE MUST DEMAND THAT OUR CHILDREN ARE TAUGHT ONCE AGAIN TO SEE AMERICA, AS DID REVEREND MARTIN LUTHER KING, WHEN HE SAID THE FOUNDERS SIGNED A PROMISSORY NOTE TO EVERY FUTURE GENERATION. DR. KING SAW THAT THE MISSION OF JUSTICE REQUIRED US TO FULLY EMBRACE OUR FOUNDING IDEALS. THOSE IDEALS ARE SO IMPORTANT TO US. FOUNDING IDEALS. HE CALLED ON HIS FELLOW CITIZENS NOT TO RIP DOWN THEIR HERITAGE, BUT TO LIVE UP TO THEIR HERITAGE. [APPLAUSE] ...

ABOVE ALL, OUR CHILDREN FROM EVERY COMMUNITY MUST BE TAUGHT TO BE AMERICAN IS TO INHERIT THE SPIRIT OF THE MOST ADVENTUROUS AND CONFIDENT PEOPLE EVER TO WALK THE FACE OF THE EARTH. AMERICANS ARE THE PEOPLE WHO PURSUED OUR MANIFEST DESTINY ACROSS THE OCEAN INTO THE UNCHARTED WILDERNESS, OVER THE TALLEST MOUNTAINS, AND THEN INTO THE SKIES, AND EVEN INTO THE STARS. WE ARE THE COUNTRY OF ANDREW JACKSON, ULYSSES S GRANT, AND FREDERICK DOUGLASS. WE ARE THE LAND OF BUFFALO BILL CODY. WE ARE THE NATION THAT GAVE RISE TO THE WRIGHT BROTHERS, THE TUSKEGEE AIRMEN, HARRIET TUBMAN, CLARA BARTON, JESSE OWENS, GENERAL GEORGE PATTON. THE GREAT LOUIS ARMSTRONG. ALAN SHEPARD, ELVIS PRESLEY, AND MUHAMMAD ALI. AND ONLY AMERICA COULD HAVE PRODUCED THEM ALL. NO OTHER PLACE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

WE ARE THE CULTURE THAT PUT UP THE HOOVER DAM, LAID DOWN THE HIGHWAYS, SCULPTED THE SKYLINE OF MANHATTAN. WE ARE THE PEOPLE WHO DREAMED SPECTACULAR -- A SPECTACULAR DREAM. IT WAS COLD LAS VEGAS AND THEN -- CALLED LAS VEGAS IN THE NEVADA DESERT. WHO CARVED OUR HEROES INTO THE FACE OF MOUNT RUSHMORE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

AMERICANS HARNESSED ELECTRICITY, SPLIT THE ATOM, AND GAVE THE WORLD THE TELEPHONE AND THE INTERNET. WE SETTLED THE WILD WEST, WON TWO WORLD WARS, LANDED AMERICAN ASTRONAUTS ON THE MOON, AND ONE DAY VERY SOON WE WILL PLANT OUR FLAG ON MARS. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

WE GAVE THE WORLD THE POETRY OF WALT WHITMAN, THE STORIES OF MARK TWAIN, THE SONGS OF IRVING BERLIN. THE VOICE OF ELLA FITZGERALD, THE STYLE OF FRANK SINATRA, THE COMEDY OF BOB HOPE, THE POWER OF THE SATURN FIVE ROCKET, THE TOUGHNESS OF THE FORD F1 50 -- [APPLAUSE] ...

AND THE ALSO MIGHT OF THE AMERICAN AIRCRAFT CARRIERS. AMERICANS MUST NEVER LOSE SIGHT OF THIS MIRACULOUS STORY. NOBODY HAS EVER DONE IT LIKE WE HAVE DONE IT. SO TODAY, UNDER THE AUTHORITY VESTED IN ME AS PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES -- [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

I AM ANNOUNCING THE CREATION OF A NEW MONUMENT TO THE GIANTS OF OUR PAST. I AM SIGNING AN EXECUTIVE ORDER TO ESTABLISH THE NATIONAL GUARD OF AMERICAN HEROES, A VAST OUTDOOR PARK THAT WILL FEATURE THE STATUES OF THE GREATEST AMERICANS TO EVER LIVE. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

FROM THIS NIGHT AND FROM THIS MAGNIFICENT PLACE, LET US GO FORWARD UNITED IN OUR PURPOSE AND REDEDICATED IN OUR RESOLVE. WE WILL RAISE THE NEXT GENERATION OF AMERICAN PATRIOTS. WE WILL WRITE THE NEXT THRILLING CHAPTER OF THE AMERICAN ADVENTURE. WE WILL TEACH OUR CHILDREN TO KNOW THAT THEY LIVE IN A LAND OF LEGENDS, THAT NOTHING CAN STOP THEM, AND THAT NO ONE CAN HOLD THEM DOWN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

THEY WILL KNOW THAT IN AMERICA, YOU CAN DO ANYTHING, YOU CAN BE ANYTHING, AND TOGETHER, WE CAN ACHIEVE ANYTHING. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

UPLIFTED BY THE TITANS OF MOUNT RUSHMORE, WE WILL FIND UNITY THAT NO ONE EXPECTED. WE WILL MAKE STRIDES THAT NO ONE THOUGHT POSSIBLE. THIS COUNTRY WILL BE EVERYTHING THAT OUR CITIZENS HAVE HOPED FOR FOR SO MANY YEARS AND THAT OUR ENEMIES FEAR, BECAUSE WE WILL NEVER FORGET THAT THE AMERICAN FREEDOM EXISTS FOR AMERICAN GREATNESS. THAT IS WHAT WE HAVE, AMERICAN GREATNESS. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

IT'SPRES. TRUMP: CENTURIES FROM NOW -- PRES.

CENTURIES FROM NOW, OUR LEGACY WILL BE THE CITIES WE BUILT, THE CHAMPIONS WE FORGED, THE GOOD THAT WE DID AND THE MONUMENTS WE CREATED TO INSPIRE US ALL. MY FELLOW CITIZENS, AMERICA'S DESTINY IS IN OUR SITES. -- OUR SIGHTS. AMERICA'S HEROES ARE EMBEDDED IN OUR HEARTS. AMERICA'S FUTURE IS IN OUR HANDS. AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THE BEST IS YET TO COME. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] [CHANTING "U.S.A.!"] ...

THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT HONOR FOR THE FIRST LADY AND MYSELF TO BE WITH YOU. I LOVE YOUR STATE. I LOVE THIS COUNTRY. I'D LIKE TO WISH EVERYBODY A VERY HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY. TO ALL, GOD BLESS YOU. GOD BLESS YOUR FAMILIES. IT'S GOD BLESS OUR -- GOD BLESS OUR GREAT MILITARY. AND GOD BLESS AMERICA. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. (music)COLORS ON THE STREET RED WHITE AND BLUE PEOPLE SHUFFLE AND THEIR FEET PEOPLE SLEEPING IN THEIR SHOES PEOPLE SAYING WE WOULD BE BETTER OFF DEAD KEEP ON ROCKING IN THE FREE WORLD KEEP ON ROCKING IN THE FREE WORLD (music)...

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, AMERICANS OF ALL AGES, WELCOME TO SOUTH DAKOTA'S AMOUNT RUSHMORE -- MOUNT RUSHMORE FIREWORKS CELEBRATION. OVER THE DECADES, MOUNT RUSHMORE NATIONAL MEMORIAL HAS GROWN IN FAME AS A SYMBOL OF AMERICA, A SYMBOL OF FREEDOM AND HOPE FOR PEOPLE FROM ALL CULTURES AND BACKGROUNDS. TONIGHT, WE CELEBRATE OUR NATION'S BIRTHDAY WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS ACROSS THIS GREAT LAND. AND NOW, LOOK TO THE SKY, HIGH ABOVE MOUNT RUSHMORE, AS WE PROUDLY PRESENT A PYRO MUSICAL PRODUCTION, "THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA." (music) (music)...

THE PRESERVATION OF THE SACRED FIRE OF LIBERTY AND THE DESTINY OF THE REPUBLICAN MODEL OF GOVERNMENT ARE JUSTLY CONSIDERED AS DEEPLY, PERHAPS HAS FINALLY ON THE EXPERIMENT ENTRUSTED TO THE HANDS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. (music)...

WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF-EVIDENT, THAT ALL MEN ARE CREATED EQUAL, THAT THEY ARE ENDOWED BY THEIR CREATOR WITH CERTAIN INALIENABLE RIGHTS, THAT AMONG THESE ARE LIFE, LIBERTY, AND THE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS. (music)...

THE GREAT FUNDAMENTAL ISSUE NOW BEFORE OUR PEOPLE. [INDISCERNIBLE] I BELIEVE THEY ARE. (music)

THAT THIS NATION, UNDER GOD, SHALL HAVE A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM. AND THAT GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, FOR THE PEOPLE, SHALL NOT PERISH FROM THE EARTH. (music) (music) GLORY, GLORY, HALLELUJAH (music) (music)...

IN THE WORDS OF JOHN ADAMS, INDEPENDENCE DAY WILL BE THE MOST MEMORABLE IN HISTORY. IT WILL BE CELEBRATED WITH POMP AND PARADE, BELLS, BONFIRES, AND ELIMINATION -- AND ILLUMINATION. AS A PROUD REMINDER OF THE GREATNESS OF OUR COUNTRY AND HER PEOPLE, THIS KIND OF CELEBRATION COULD ONLY TAKE PLACE IN A LAND OF THE FREE AND THE HOME OF THE BRAVE. AMERICA, LET'S CELEBRATE. (music) (music) EVERYWHERE AROUND THE WORLD COMING TO AMERICA THEY'VE GOT A DREAM THAT TAKES THEM THERE THEY'RE COMING TO AMERICA THEY'RE COMING TO AMERICA TODAY TODAY MY COUNTRY, 'TIS OF THEE SWEET LAND OF LIBERTY OF THEE I SING OF THEE I SING TODAY (music) (music)...

TODAY TODAY (music) [APPLAUSE] (music)

DREAMS OF FAME AND FORTUNE ONLY IN AMERICA DREAMING IN RED WHITE AND BLUE ONLY IN AMERICA ONLY IN AMERICA WHERE WEIGHT DREAM IN RED WHITE AND BLUE (music)

MY DADDY SERVED IN THE ARMY HAD A FLAG IN THE YARD UNTIL THE DAY THAT HE DIED WANTED MY BROTHER, MY MOTHER, MY SISTER AND ME TO GROW UP HAPPY IN THE LAND OF THE FREE THIS NATION I LOVE HAS FALLEN UNDER ATTACK A SUCKER PUNCH CAME FLYING FROM SOMEWHERE IN THE BACK WE WILL SEE CLEARLY THROUGH OUR BIG BLACK EYE AND WE LIT UP YOUR WORLD LIKE THE FOURTH OF JULY THE STATUE OF LIBERTY STARTED SHAKING HER FIRST THE EAGLES WILL FLY AND IT WILL BE HELL WHEN FREEDOM STARTS RINGING HER BELL AND IT FEELS LIKE THE WHOLE WORLD IS RAINING DOWN ON YOU BROUGHT TO YOU COURTESY OF THE RED WHITE AND BLUE OF MY RED WHITE AND BLUE (music) (music)...

WE MAY HAVE DONE A LITTLE BIT OF FINDING AMONGST OURSELVES BUT YOU OUTSIDE PEOPLE BEST LEAVE US ALONE BECAUSE WE'LL ALL STICK TOGETHER AND YOU TAKE THAT TO THE BANK THE HIPPIES AND COWBOYS AND REBELS AND YANKS I THINK YOU'RE GONNA FINALLY UNDERSTAND YOU THINK IT NEVER WOULD HAVE HAPPENED AGAIN YOU NEVER DID THINK WE WOULD EVER GET TOGETHER AGAIN WE ARE BLOCKING REAL PROUD AND TALKING REAL -- WALKING REAL PROUD AND TALKING REAL LOUD AGAIN (music) (music) (music) (music)...

ANYTHING YOU WANT WE'VE GOT IT RIGHT HERE IN THE U.S.A. (music) (music)

I LIVE IN AMERICA I LIVE IN AMERICA WAIT A MINUTE LIVING IN AMERICA SO NICE WITH YOUR BAD SELF LIVING IN AMERICA I FEEL GOOD (music) (music)

IF TOMORROW ALL THE THINGS WERE GONE I'D WORK -- I'D WORKED FOR ALL MY LIFE AND I HAD TO START AGAIN WITH JUST MY CHILDREN AND MY WIFE I'D THANK MY LUCKY STARS TO BE LIVING HERE TODAY BECAUSE THE FLAG STILL STANDS FOR FREEDOM AND THEY CAN'T TAKE THAT AWAY AND I'M PROUD TO BE AN AMERICAN WHERE AT LEAST I KNOW I'M FREE AND I WILL FORGET THE MEN WHO DIED WHO GAVE THAT RIGHT TO ME AND I'D GLADLY STAND UP NEXT TO YOU AND DEFEND HER STILL TODAY BECAUSE THERE AIN'T NO DOUBT I LOVE THIS LAND GOD BLESS THE U.S.A. (music) (music)...

THE SPIRIT OF AMERICA CONTINUES, AS WE PAY TRIBUTE TO OUR NATION'S TRUE SUPERHEROES. WE SALUTE THE BRAVE MEN AND WOMEN OF OUR ARMED SERVICES, WHO ARE DEFENDING OUR FREEDOMS AROUND THE WORLD SO THAT WE CAN CELEBRATE OUR INDEPENDENCE IN THIS GREAT LAND WE CALL AMERICA. WE ALSO RECOGNIZE ALL OF OUR HEALTH CARE WORKERS AND FIRST RESPONDERS. THANK YOU FOR KEEPING US ALL SAFE. (music)...

A NEW DAY RISES A BRAND NEW SKY TO HANG THE STARS UPON TONIGHT (music)

I, I AM A LITTLE DIVIDED DO I STAY OR RUN AWAY AND LEAVE IT ALL BEHIND? (music)

IT SOUNDS LIKE -- IT'S TIMES LIKE THESE YOU LEARN TO LOVE AGAIN IT'S TIMES LIKE THESE YOU LEARN TO LIVE AGAIN (music)

IT'S TIMES LIKE THESE YOU LEARN TO LOVE AGAIN (music) (music)

GOD BLESS AMERICA LAND THAT I LOVE STAND BEHIND HER AND GUIDE HER THRU THE NIGHT WITH THE LIGHT FROM ABOVE FROM THE MOUNTAINS TO THE PRAIRIES GOD BLESS AMERICA MY HOME SWEET HOME GOD BLESS AMERICA MY HOME SWEET HOME (music) (music)...

COME ON (music) (music)

AMERICA HOW I LOVE YOU AMERICA (music) (music)

FROM SEA TO SHINING SEA (music)

I WANT TO THANK YOU LORD (music) (music) (music) (music) (music) (music)

TO CLOSE OUT TONIGHT SHOW, THE U.S. -- TONIGHT'S SHOW, THE U.S. ARMY AIR FORCE BAND -- (music)

MY EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD HIS TERRIBLE SWIFT SWORD HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON (music) (music)

I HAVE SEEN HIM IN THE WATCH FIRES OF A HUNDRED CIRCLING CAMPS THEY HAVE BUILDING HIM AN ALTAR IN THE EVENING DEWS AND DAMPS HIS DAY IS MARCHING ON GLORY, GLORY, HALLELUJAH! GLORY, GLORY, HALLELUJAH! HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON (music) (music)...

IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES, CHRIST WAS BORN ACROSS THE SEA WITH A GLORY IN HIS BOSOM THAT TRANSFIGURES YOU AND ME AS HE DIED TO MAKE MEN HOLY, LET US LIVE TO MAKE MEN FREE WHILE GOD IS MARCHING ON GLORY, GLORY, HALLELUJAH! GLORY, GLORY, HALLELUJAH! GLORY, GLORY, HALLELUJAH! HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON HIS TRUTH IS MARCHING ON AND ON (music) (music) [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] ...

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THANK YOU FOR ATTENDING TONIGHT'S EVENT. PLEASE REMAIN SEATED FOR THE DEPARTURE OF THE OFFICIAL PARTY. (music)

PRESIDENT TRUMP WILL PARTICIPATE IN ANOTHER FOURTH OF JULY EVENT TOMORROW, INDEPENDENCE DAY, IN WASHINGTON DC. WE WILL HAVE LIVE COVERAGE ON C-SPAN AT 6:45 P.M. EASTERN. HERE ARE THE PRESIDENT REMARKED -- PRESIDENT'S REMARKS TONIGHT FROM MOUNT RUSHMORE, SOUTH DAKOTA. ...