USA Military Strength: Why America Remains the World's Undisputed Superpower Despite Rising Challenges from China and Russia

 

🇺🇸🔴 LIVE: President Trump Press Briefs Members of the Media, Jan. 20, 2026 🏛️

Introduction:

On January 20, 2026, President Donald Trump held a high-energy press briefing at the White House to mark the one-year anniversary of his second term. In a lengthy opening statement followed by an extended Q&A with reporters, he presented what he described as the most successful first year of any modern American presidency, claiming the United States has become “the hottest country in the world” economically, militarily, and in terms of global respect.

Major Highlights from President Trump’s Main Briefing Speech :

• Economic turnaround: 
• Ended Biden-era stagflation, reduced core inflation to 1.6%, brought gasoline prices down to $1.99–$2.31 per gallon in many areas, increased real incomes by $2,000–$5,000 per household, achieved 52 all-time stock market highs, added $9 trillion in value to retirement accounts and 401(k)s, and secured a record-breaking $18 trillion in new private-sector investment commitments from companies like Apple, Nvidia, TSMC, Ford, Hyundai, GM, and many others.

• Border & immigration enforcement: 
• Declared the border now the strongest in history, with illegal crossings near zero for eight straight months; highlighted the arrest of over 10,000 serious criminals in Minnesota alone (murderers, drug lords, gang members, Hezbollah affiliates), mass deportations of violent offenders, praised mostly-Hispanic ICE and Border Patrol agents, and blamed previous open-border policies for crime surges.

• Trade, tariffs & manufacturing: 
• Slashed the trade deficit by 62–77%, generated hundreds of billions in tariff revenue with no resulting inflation, attracted massive factory investments back to the U.S., and used tariffs to force better trade behavior from other nations.

• Healthcare & drug prices: 
• Secured most-favored-nation agreements that are slashing prescription drug prices by 300–600% in many cases (described as potentially the biggest achievement, yet barely covered by media).

• Foreign policy & peace: Ended eight previously “unendable” wars (including India-Pakistan, Congo-Rwanda, Armenia-Azerbaijan), saved millions of lives, destroyed Iran’s nuclear enrichment capability, captured Venezuela’s Maduro, designated fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction, and dramatically reduced drug inflows (97% drop via sea routes).

• Domestic reforms: 
• Banned men from women’s sports, eliminated DEI policies across government and private sectors, recognized only two genders, restored Columbus Day, made English the official language, renamed the Gulf of Mexico the “Gulf of America,” restarted mental institutions, removed woke propaganda from national parks and museums, and cut massive numbers of federal regulations and bureaucrats.

Key Moments from the Q&A Session with Reporters:

• Expressed strong frustration over not receiving the Nobel Peace Prize despite settling eight wars; accused Norway of controlling the award.

• Discussed potential acquisition of Greenland (via tariffs or other means) and implications for NATO if pushback occurs.

• Talked about issuing $2,000+ tariff-revenue dividend checks to Americans, possibly without needing Congressional approval.

• Addressed ongoing Iran military options, protection of Kurds in Syria, Venezuelan political prisoners, and questions tying Maduro to 2020 election interference.

• Defended tariff strategy, emphasized record NATO defense spending (5% of GDP), and previewed his upcoming Davos speech focusing on America’s rapid success and advice to other nations on energy and immigration.

• This briefing was far more than a routine anniversary recap—it was a bold declaration that in just 12 months, the administration has reversed years of decline and positioned the United States as the dominant global power once again. The full report below provides the complete, organized transcript in report-style format so you can see exactly what was said, point by point.

Key Moments from the Q&A Session with Reporters 

Relationship with Macron and Starmer

Right behind. Thank you, Mr. President. How would you characterize your relationship with Emanuel Mcron and Kier Starmer right now? And have you spoken to them since your truth social post office last? No, I haven't. But I think I get along very well with them. I mean, they they always treat me well. They get a little bit rough when they're, you know, when I'm not around, but when I'm around, they treat me very nicely, and, you know, I like both of them. They're both liberal. Uh, they've got to straighten out their countries. You can't, you know, London is having a lot of problems. And if you look at Paris, got a lot of problems. They have two problems. immigration and energy. They got to stop with the windmills and they got to go back like uh UK has an unbelievable asset called the North Sea. Norway uses it, makes a fortune. They have a better section of it and they don't do it. They could straighten out their countries and it would be good. But I get along very well.

Nobel Peace Prize and Obligation to Peace

You uh told Norway's prime minister, "Are you from Norway?" No. You look like you would be from She looks like she's from Norway. Go ahead. Uh, you told Norway's prime minister that you not winning the Nobel Peace Prize made you feel less obligated to think purely of peace. Well, I lost a lot of respect for Norway. And I believe and I believe very strongly that Norway controls the Nobel Prize. But you have to understand, I settled eight wars. I've had uh every one of those wars, every participant wrote. I didn't ask them to do it. They sent in strong recommend. You know, they make recommendations for that. But I settled eight wars. No president's probably ever settled one war. I don't know. Think of it. I did eight. The reason I do it is because it's easy for me to do. And I didn't do it for a Nobel Prize. I did it because I'm saving a lot of lives. I'm trying to settle the final one. I'm trying to do Russia Ukraine. And when Russia's ready, Ukraine's not. When Ukraine's ready, Russia's done. But they're losing 25,000 people a month on average. And I'm trying to get that one done. But no, I feel but I feel that Norway has tremendous control over who gets the nor the Nobel Prize despite what they said.

Acquisition of Greenland

How far are you willing to go to acquire Greenwood? You'll find out.

Tariff Rebate Checks and Congress

Thank you, Mr. President. Kevin Hasset has said that those $2,000 tariff rebate checks would be up to Congress to decide whether or not to disperse that. Do you agree with Kevin Hass on that or do you think you can do that unilaterally? I don't I don't think we would have to go the Congress route, but you know, we'll find out. The reason that we're even talking about it is that we have so much money coming in from tariffs that we'll be able to issue at least a $2,000 dividend and also pay down debt for the country. Uh but we do a $2,000 dividend to the people of our country. Would probably set a limit of, you know, income limit uh where it made sense. But uh we will be able to make a very substantial dividend to the people of our country. Uh, I believe we can do that without Congress.

British Plan for Diego Garcia

Mr. President, uh, last night on True Social, um, you said that the British plan to hand the base of Diego Garcia over to Maitius and then rent it back was an act of great stupidity. Previously you backed that deal. Is it now your position that the deal should not go ahead? I think that they, you know, when they originally were going to do it, they were talking about doing some concept of ownership, but now they're looking to essentially just do a lease and sell it. And I'm against that. You know, it's a reasonably nothing like Greenland, but it's a reasonably important uh area of the globe. Not to anywhere near Greenland, but I think they should keep it. I don't know why they're doing it. Do they need money?

Support for Syrian Government and Civil War Prevention

Mr. President, uh, with your support to the Syrian government, most probably you avoided another civil war and a bloodshed in Syria, especially after the fall of the regime. Good job. I did a good job. And the Syrian government the last two weeks uh had to use some force to to implement its force on uh specific areas and to keep to keep the prisoners, the terrorist prisoners, which is some of the worst in the world, at bay. So they they were able to keep that. He's working very hard. The president of Syria is working very very hard. Strong guy, tough guy. Uh pretty rough resume, but you're not going to put a choir boy in there and, you know, get the job done. Uh I spoke with with him yesterday because we were talking about the prisons and you know what was going. We have some of the worst terrorists in the world in those prisons and he's watching us.

Gavin Newsom at Davos and 2028 Platform

Syria, sir. Mr. President Gavin Nuome is going to be at Davos if he's not already there. You're probably going to run into him. I presume that this is for him to raise his platform for 2028, but what do you anticipate his foreign policy platform is going to be? I don't know. I mean, I don't know that he's going to be the nominee. I I know this I had a very good relationship with Gavin Nuome when we were, you know, in office together. I was president. He was the governor of California. We had a really He would talk about it often and somewhere we just went astray. I I just I just hate the way California is being run where you actually have people leaving. It's never happened before, but I hate the way it's being run. He and I had a very good relationship that really uh clo close to the word exceptional, but now we seem not to spoke earlier, Mr. President. You're you've been hearing from allies. We know of.

Venezuelan Election Software and 2020 Tampering

Thank you so much, President Trump. Carrick Castanova from Lindell TV and you spoke earlier about the 2020 election. Uh now that uh Maduro Maduro is in US custody and he was criminally charged, has any more information emerged that you could share with us regarding Venezuelan election software and Venezuelan ties to tampering with the 2020 election? And would you consider speaking to Maduro personally in prison uh in New York to get some answers on Venezuela's involvement with the 2020 election? No, I don't think I would be doing that. And I think my lawyers would be very unhappy if I Yeah, they've learned they've learned some things.

Tariff Threat to Greenland and Supreme Court Ruling

Please. What happens to the tariff threat to Greenland if the Supreme Court comes out and rules against you on the tariffs and Well, I'll have to use something else. I mean, look, are you willing to use force? You know, take a look at the word license. Take a look at other things. I mean, we have other alternatives, but the what we're doing now is the best, the strongest, the fastest, the easiest, the least complicated.

Greenland Tariffs and European Investments

If you move ahead um with the the Greenland related tariffs on Europe, you secured almost a trillion dollars of commitments from them to invest in the United States. Does that go put out the window if that happens? Uh I doubt it. Look, they want to they need that agreement very badly with us. They really do. They they fought very hard to get it. So I doubt that. But we'll see what happens. We have a lot of meetings scheduled on Greenland. I'm leaving tonight as you know, Davos. and we have a lot of meetings scheduled on Greenland and I think things are going to work out pretty well actually.

Attendance at G7 Emergency Meeting in Paris

Thank you, Mr. President. Will you uh still go to Paris for the G7 emergency meeting as offered by President Mron? No, I wouldn't do that because you know Emanuel Emanuel is not going to be there very long and you know there's no longevity there. He's a friend of mine. He's a nice guy. I like Mcronone, but but he's not he's not going to be there very much longer, as you know. And I think, you know, I have meetings with the people that are directly involved, not uh some of the people you're talking about.

Room Setup and Anniversary Celebration

Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Mr. President. Happy I've never seen this room like this. Is this a celebration of the first year? Have you ever seen it? I've never seen this many. I hope we have a very good I hope we have a very good structural floor. You know, this used to be a swimming pool. You're sitting over a swimming pool. I could see that happening. But this we need a good structure here, don't we? Huh? Yeah, Mr. President. Thank you so much, Mr. President. Happy one year anniversary. Thank you.

Protection of Kurds in Syria

And my my question is sorry on Syria. The Kurds as the most loyal US partners facing attacks by some Syrian elements within the Syrian government. What will you do to ensure the Kurdish rights protected and their effective forces against terrorism in Rojava, Syria continued as the Kurdish see you as a president does not abandon his allies? Well, I like the Kurds, but just so you understand, the Kurds were paid tremendous amounts of money, were given oil and other things. So, uh, they were doing it for themselves more so than they were doing it for us, but we got along with the Kurds and we are trying to protect the Kurds. That's correct.

Preview of Davos Speech on Home Buying

ahead of your speech in Davos, can you give us a preview of what we can expect as far as, you know, laying out the plans for Americans to be able to buy homes? I think more than anything else, what I'm going to be speaking about is the tremendous success that we've had in one year. I didn't think we could do it this fast. Uh, think of it. It's just now 12 months, and you know, I say it often, we have the most successful country in the world. We have the hottest country anywhere in the world by far. and this country would have been absolutely stone cold dead. Uh, and I'm gonna be talking about it. I'm gonna be because, you know, a lot of them could use some of the advice as to what we did. They need energy. You take a look at their energy policies. They're going to destroy themselves with what they're doing with the windmills and all the nonsense. They need energy help badly or they're going to be in big trouble and they need immigration help badly.

Military Option in Iran and Killing Cessation

How much longer do you want to go? calling. I do. I I have I have a very I have a very important call with President Erdogan who I like who I like a lot. One or one or two more questions. Go ahead. Go, go, go. Yes. I want to ask you about Iran. Is the military option still on the table? And can you assure us that the killing in Iran has stopped? And when regard to the peace council, which members have to pay one? So with Iran, are you from Iran? No, I cover the White House. Where are you from? I'm Palestinian American. So with Iran, they were going to hang 837 people and I let them be known that and we let them know that if that happens that will be a very bad day for them and they decided not to do it. They didn't hang the people. I can't tell you what's going to happen in the future. But supposedly they've taken that off the table, but they were going to last week they were going to hang on Thursday or Wednesday. one. They were going to hang hang I think 837 people and they didn't hang anybody. So, we're just going to have to see what happens with Iran. There's the military option open.

Nobel Peace Prize Impact on Americans

Thank you, President Trump. Thank you, Mr. President. Go ahead. I'll take your question. Thank you. Thank you. Go ahead. Right here. Thank you, Mr. President. Um, you promised during your second inaugural to always put America first. I'm curious, how would you winning the Nobel Peace Prize improve the lives of average everyday Americans? Why is this prize so important? It wouldn't improve the lives of any what what improved the lives of people are people that are living. I saved probably tens of millions of lives in the wars. You know if you add up the numbers just just if you look at uh if you look at any one of those wars you're talking about millions of people you multiply times eight but when you look at India and Pakistan that could have been 10 15 20 million people could have been more than that so I save millions of people so that to me is the big thing

Public Perception of Economy

you suggested a moment ago that perhaps the reason why a positive story about the economy isn't getting through is because of you know bad communications people. But are average Americans wrong to still feel high prices? And how much longer does the White House hope that they So I think a lot of people a lot of people are listening to the fake news a little bit. And I'm not blaming anybody. I think I I blame ourselves. I think we've done a much better job than we're able to promote. We're not promoting. We're doing a great job and we're sort of letting the promotion take care of itself. One of the reasons I'm doing this news conference, I think it's important. We have taken a mess and made it really good. It's going to get even better. But if you go back a year, a year and a half, two years, take a look at those prices and look at the prices now.

Political Prisoners in Venezuela

Thank you. Mr. President of Venezuela, you made you made a condition. Where are you from? I'm from Spain. Um, thank you. Uh, you made a condition that uh the political prisoners should be freed. It seems that they are not being as fast as they promised in the beginning. Would that be an issue for the current government? They've agreed that they're going to let I guess most of them out. Depends on what they did. But uh they have released a lot of they have a lot released a lot of political prisoners in Venezuela.

Panama Canal and Greenland

Mr. President, earlier on last year you had mentioned you had indicated that you wanted to take back the Panama Canal. I know we've we've heard a lot about Greenland. Is that still on the table? I don't want to tell you that. Sort of. I must I must sort of that's sort of

Greenland and NATO Breakup

Okay, one more. Uh, yes. Blonde, blue. Yes. Go ahead, ma'am. Go ahead. With the blue holding the computer. If a consequence of your determination to take control of Greenland is the ultimate breakup of the NATO alliance, is that a price you're willing to pay? Uh, you mean the breakup of of the NATO alliance? So, I think something's going to happen that's going to be very good for everybody. Nobody's done more for NATO than I have. As I said before, uh, in every way. Getting them to go up to five% of GDP was something that nobody thought was pos and pay. At 2% they weren't paying. At 5% they are paying. And they're buying a lot of things from us. And they're giving them, I guess, to Ukraine. That's up to them, but they're giving them to whoever they're giving them to. But they're buying a lot. Uh, I think that we will work something out where NATO is going to be very happy and where we're going to be very happy, but we need it for security purposes. We need it for national security and even world security. It's very important.

Commitment to NATO

How about Thank you very much. Um, first of all, last year you told me that you believe that the reason you won election is because God put you in this place so that you could save the world. Looking back one year, do you feel like God is proud of the effort that you've put in? I do actually. I think God is very proud of the job I've done and that includes for religion. You know, we're protecting a lot of people that are being killed, Christians and Jewish people and lots of people are being protected by me that wouldn't be protected by another type of president. Uh, no, I think uh I think a lot of people are very proud of the job we've done. We've had an amazing year. This has been one of the greatest years. Even some people that wouldn't necessarily love me instinctively, they're saying this was an incredible year. We've had an incredible year economically. Uh look at our border. Our border was a disaster. People poor mill. It was an invasion into our country of a lot of very bad people. Good people too, but a lot of very bad people from prisons and drug dealers and gangs and horrible people. Murderers. thousands and thousands of murders allowed into our country and we now have the strongest border of any country. There's probably not a country I guess North Korea has a pretty strong border by the way, but there's not a country in the world that has a border like we do. And we took it from the worst border. We had the worst border in the world. Now we have one of the strongest borders in the world. One more one more question. Mr. President, you said your comment something's going to get worked out in Greenland, but Greenlanders have made it clear they don't want to be part of the US the right to take away that self-determination. When I speak to them, I'm sure they'll be thrilled. Mr. President, are you committed to keeping the US in NATO? I've I've had a such a good relationship. I've made it so much better, so much stronger. It's so good now. NATO is so much stronger now. Uh, I don't agree with a lot of the things they've done, but that was done before I got there. Uh, I think NATO's been uh good. Sometimes it's overrated, sometimes it's not, but we have a strong NATO. When I came here, we had a weak NATO. We had a NATO NATO at 2% and they weren't paying. You had a a nothing NATO. Uh NATO's, whether you like it or not, it's only as good as we are. If NATO doesn't have us, NATO is not very strong.

Top Accomplishments and 2026 Priorities

Yes. Behind you, please. Thank you, President Trump. Yes. Go ahead. Really appreciate it, sir. We heard a long list of accomplishments from the last year. Could you cherrypick the top three? And then looking forward, what are your three most important priorities in 2026? So, I think the building of a really powerful military has been a great achievement. And that would include the Venezuela thing. that would include uh the uh attack on Iran and the wiping out of the nuclear threat. I think that's been really amazing what we've done militarily. I think what we've done in business has been incredible. We have $18 trillion coming in. Plants are being built all over the thousands of plants are being built all over the country. 18 trillion is a record. No country has ever come anywhere even close to that. I think that's a record. And I think uh that most favored nations for drugs is something that nobody thought they'd be able to get. Tariffs helped me there because the nations would have never gone along with it if I wasn't able to say if you don't go along with it, we're going to put a 10 or 15 or 20% tariff on your nation and they went along and our drug prices are going to come down at numbers never even seen before, never even thought possible before. So those would be three things. Thank you. Thank you all very much. Thank you very much. How was the game? Go Indiana.

Trump's Briefing Speech:

Overview of Achievements and Crowd Response

Wow, that's a big crowd. It's a lot of people. I think it's like a record. So, these are accomplishments. We have a lot of accomplishments. And as you know, this is the anniversary, first anniversary, January 20th, and it's been an amazing period of time. We have a book that I'm not going to read to you, but these are the accomplishments of what we've produced. Uh, all page after page after page, individual things. I could stand here and read it for a week and we wouldn't be finished. But we've done more than any other administration has done by far terms of military, in terms of ending wars, in terms of completing wars. Nobody's really seen very much like it. I think it's appropriate that because Minnesota is so much in the in the fray and I say to my people all the time and they're so busy doing other things, they don't say it like they should.

Immigration and Crime Issues in Minnesota

Uh they're apprehending murderers and drug dealers and a lot of bad people. And these are just some of the more recent ones that we have. And I can show you some of the people vicious, many of them murderers. These are all out of Minnesota. Just Minnesota. I say, why don't you talk about that more? Because people don't know. Do you want to live with these people? International murder. These are people that are living were if they're apprehended and either put in jails in their country from where they came or the countries respect us and so they actually put them there. In the old days they didn't respect our country. Biden wouldn't do this because he let them all in. You know, if you didn't have open border policies of Biden, none of this, all of the things that we all the time that we spend talking about Minnesota and everything else, most of them are coming from out of the country. And it's been caused by a previous administration. Look at this. One after one. Boy, these are rough characters. These are all criminal illegal aliens that in many cases they're murderers. They're drug lords, drug dealers. They're the mentally insane. There some of them who are brutal killers. They're mentally insane. They're killers, but they're insane. These are just in Minnesota. In California, it's worse. In other states, it's worse. Now, Minnesota, the crime is incredible. The financial crimes are incredible. And the problem is because of the agitators and insurrectionists, whatever you want, troublemakers, but they're they're paid agitators and insurrectionists. Uh, nobody talks about the fact that 19 billion dollars at a minimum is missing in Minnesota, given to a large degree, but by Somalians. They've taken it. Somalians. Can you imagine? and they don't do it. A lot of very low IQ people, they don't do it. Other people work it out and they get them money and they go out and buy Mercedes Benzes and they come from here, they have no money. They never had money. They never had a life. They never had a government. They never had a country because there's basically no country. Somalia is not even a country. 

They don't have anything that resembles a country. And if it is a country, it's considered just about the worst in the world. They come here and they become rich and they don't have a job. I was told that Elon Omar is worth $30 million. She never had a job. She's a crooked congressman. So here's another one. And I have Oh, by the way, we just took out what these are all what ISIS is doing. And it's a dangerous job. These are rough. These are rough people. weapons. This one here is very bad. I'm going through this because I think we have plenty of time. I'm going to uh place beautiful place in Switzerland where we'll be I'm sure I'm very happily awaited for in Switzerland. They don't know about this. They don't have this problem. They have other problems, but they don't have this problem. Look, killed somebody. Look, look. And these are rough people. These are not This was all allowed into our country through open borders. These dumbest policies, you know, men and women sports is dumb. But to me, having an open border for the world to come in, uh, drug dealers and prisoners, Venezuela, as an example, opened their prisons into the United States. That's why one of the reasons I felt so strongly against Venezuela. Now I'm loving Venezuela. They've been working with us so well. It's been so nice and uh an unbelievably nice woman. Also did a very incredible thing as you know a few days ago. Uh she's we're talking to her and maybe we can get her involved in some way. I'd love to be able to do that. Maria, maybe we can do that. But we're dealing with the people invented the president and all of the people in Venezuela and we've been doing great. The oil companies are getting ready to make massive investments there. They have more oil than even Saudi Arabia. There you go. These are real. These are rough water. This is all Minnesota. 

Every one of them. This is one state out of many. And these people are, let's see, yeah, these are all so far people that came from outside of the country. They were allowed in by sleepy Joe Biden, crooked Joe Biden, whichever you like. You can call him whatever you like. They're both right. He's sleepy and he's crooked. He was the worst president we've ever had. And we've had some bad ones, too. I can tell you, all you have to do is look at trade. You're not getting bored with this, right? I hope you don't. But these are people that you have to see. Strong armed rape, aggravated assault with a weapon, and many other crimes. gang member known as one of the toughest people around. These are tough people. So this is what the people are trying to protect because all ICE wants to do is get them out of our country. Bring them to prisons and jails and mental institutions from where they came. That's all they want to do. They're patriots and they have to be abused by guys like Don Lemon who's a, you know, loser, lightweight. I saw him, the way he walked in that church. It was terrible. I have such respect for that pastor. He was so calm. He was so nice. He was just accosted. What they did in that church was horrible yesterday. Look at this. 24 convictions. 24 times convicted. Not charges. These are convictions. So he comes from outside the country. Do you think he's going to be good here? He convicted 24 times. He's going to be good here, right? It doesn't work that way. He's a man murder. One of many, one of many. All they want to do is get him out. They want to take him out of our country. And we're met with paid agitators and insurrectionists, troublemakers. They're paid. You know, when uh the woman was shot, and I felt terribly about that, and I understand both sides of it, but when she was shot, there was another woman that was screaming shame, shame, shame, shame. Right? You saw so loud, like a professional opera singer. She was so loud and so professional. She wasn't a woman that was hurt like, "Oh, my heart's injured." She was a professional. She shame, shame. She's screaming, "Shame, shame." I said, "That's not a normal person." That's That's a professional. These are professional agitators and professional people that want to see our country do badly. But that's not happening because we have the hottest country anywhere in the world despite this stuff. Look at this. All top of the- line criminals. They're not going to be good. 

They're not going to be well behaved here. I could do I could do thousands. We had over 3,000 in the last fairly short well just in Minnesota. What's the number, Carol? 10,000. 10,000. 10,000 criminals arrested in Minnesota alone. 10,000 criminal. And these are serious criminals. Now, how can a place with 10,000 criminals, how can you have a state and yet they're fighting us? I like that guy keeps nodding to me. Do you agree with me? I guess I like him. I don't know who he is, but I like him. He keeps nodding. He says, "You're right." He's obviously a little on the right side, maybe. Look, these are rough ones. So, this we just took this off a stack. We have many stacks like this. Like, I could go 30 times what I'm showing you now. relations with Hezbollah. That's nice. Why do we allow them in our country? I'm just looking at these charges. It's It's just pretty incredible. Many murderers. Many many murders. People that murdered So what what ICE does and Border Patrol is incredible, too. I mean, they're Paul Perez and that group is incredible. Mostly Hispanic, by the way. They're like 60% Hispanic. You know, they talk about Hispanic. They're mostly Hispanic, right? And they're unbelievable people. And then they say, "Oh, we discriminate against." I love Hispanic. They are unbelievable. Entrepreneurial. They have everything. I did great. I did the highest. Nobody ever got numbers like I got from the standpoint of being a Republican. But even the uh if you look at Texas, I won the entire border along Texas between Texas and Mexico. Never happened before. Nobody's ever done that before. I did it as a Republican. I did it. I love the Hispanic. And they accuse us of all sorts of things. 60% of the people we're talking about, they're the best people we have and they're Hispanic. The Border Patrol is largely Hispanic. ISIS is largely Hispanic. They're unbelievable people. I don't know how they can take the abuse. They're They're taking rough They're taking rough people like this, like all of them. We have So, we have 10,000 at least. I could have done 10,000 of them. You're lucky I only did like a hundred. And this is just this isn't even the worst of the group. They have murderers. 

They have some people we can't use their picture for legal reasons, but they're up for murder in their own country. And we we jeopardize their case. When we send them back, we send them back and we coordinate with other countries. A tremendous amount of work. All allowed in here by an open border policy of the worst president in the history of our country. a man that didn't win the election, by the way, got was a rigged election. Everybody knows that now. And by the way, numbers are coming out that show it even more plainly. We caught him. We caught him. So, I just want you to know that it's uh it's a terrible it's a terrible thing. Here's uh the book on accomplishments. And this is something I'm glad my finger wasn't in that sucker. That could have done some damage, but you know what? I wouldn't have shown the pain. I would have gone back. Boy, did you hear that? That That was nasty. But I would not have shown the pain. I would have acted like nothing happened as my finger fell off. That was a nasty I think somebody did that. I think some It was him. That's It was my man. How were you? You didn't do it. I know you did. I know you didn't. So, um but here is the uh here's the book. These are all things we have. I'm going to read a few of the samples, but look at this. These are all Each line is something that we did. Nobody did that before. And it's it's big stuff, too. Look, we have the hottest country in the world. So, I will read you a few. We ended Biden stagflation. We were in stagflation. That's a disaster. That's far worse than inflation. As you know, he had the biggest inflation in the history of our country. They say 48 years. Pick your choice. But they had the biggest inflation in the history of our country. We we have it right down to a normal number. Now we're going to get it even a little bit lower. Created super high. What we've done with with growth is incredible. We created super high economic growth. And America is booming. It's booming. There are thousands of businesses right now that are being built. Many of the biggest factories in the world are being built right in our country. They're not going to other countries. 

They're leaving other countries. Fourth quarter GDP is on track to pass perhaps much more than 5% growth. And that's despite the fact that we had a Democrat shutdown. They shut down our country and we had 5%. Nobody's in this room has ever heard about 5%. I think it could be 20% if we do it right. If we don't, every time we have good numbers, they raise interest rates. You shouldn't do it. In the old days, if you had good numbers, they'd lower interest rates or they wouldn't do anything. Here, they try and kill it. They always try and kill success. Uh over the last 20, 25 years, that's the way in the old days, if you had good numbers, the market would go through the roof. Today, if you have good numbers, the market goes down. But by the way, we've had the best stock market in history, the best 401ks in history, and we inherited a mess. The numbers that we inherited are way were way up, and now we brought them almost all of them way down. We brought them way down. I mean, I'm not getting uh maybe I have the bad public relations people, but we're not getting it across. We inherited high numbers and we brought them way down. And uh look at gasoline. They have places in the country now $1.99 a gallon 199 230 250 I guess the average now they're saying is 231 I mean he was at $450 and5 for periods of time and he went back to the Trump formula but he didn't do it properly and he really went back to parts of it because they were it you would have had $8 gasoline if they didn't but he didn't do it properly had people that didn't know what they were doing core inflation for the last 3 months is 1.6%. 1.6. Their core inflation was so high that nobody could even calculate it.

Under Biden, real incomes declined $3,000. Think of that. $3,000. That's a year. In 12 months, Trump real incomes went up by $2,000 and 3,000 and even in some cases $5,000. It's a tremendous difference. Stock market has set 52 all-time record highs during the course of the actually the 11 months because this was done on 11 months. Now we're now we are actually officially 12 months as of today. 52 all-time record highs. That means 401ks did great. I have people see me all the time, policemen that guard us really well and got to know them a little bit and they said, "Sir, you're making me look so good. My 401k is through the roof. My wife thinks I'm the greatest genius and I'm a financial genius like Warren Buffett. He told me that he said I I think they have better returns than Warren Buffett right now. But uh he said all my life my wife has been criticizing me for not being smart financially. Now all of a sudden she she's she loves me more. But uh we added $9 trillion in value to retirement accounts, saving uh saving many people. I mean, they were going out of business. Think of it. We added $9 trillion of value to retirement accounts, savings accounts, and 401ks. That's during the course of 12 months, and I think it's probably 11 months because I don't think they have it for the 12. They have it for the 11. Added nine trillion dollars of value. lifted more than 1.2 million Americans off food stamps in one year, they would have had another 1.2 million, we would have had welfare would have gone up and instead of investing 18 trillion dollars in our country. Now it's probably more than that, but 18 trillion and having thousands of plants being built all over the country, you would have had thousands of plants closing all over the country. and you would have had disinvestment and you would have had welfare going way up. You know, if you look at SNAP, take a look at SNAP. What happened with that? Was it seven billion dollars and it came out to over 51 billion dollars? Nobody has ever seen anything like it. the past administration uh they had no clue or they were really bad but they basically had no clue but they did have a concept I mean they're still trying to sell the idea of men playing in women's sports you saw that in the Supreme Court I mean some of those justices were fighting for them too they were fighting for them but you saw that just the other day in the Supreme Court men playing in women's sport doesn't work secured a record-breaking $18 trillion ion dollar in commitments for new investments. Apple, Nvidia, Soft Bank, Oracle, TSMC, Johnson and Johnson, Eli, Lillian Company, Micron, Astroenica, General Motors, Hyundai, Ford, Honda, GE Aerospace, many, many others. I left a Ford plant a week ago in Michigan that they were going to close two years ago, and now they just announced that they're going 24 hours around the clock making cars. terrorists did it. 

I don't know what the Supreme Court's going to do. I think it to me it reads so plainly. Couldn't be plainer. You're allowed to do a license. Tariff is probably less severe than what a license could be. But think of it, you're allowed to do a license and then they have a clause at the end, something to the effect or what is necessary, something to that effect. And what is necessary with tariffs? I don't know where there's a case even there. But we've taken in hundreds of billions of dollars and uh if we lose that case, it's possible we're going to have to do the best we can in paying it back. I don't know how that's going to be done very easily without hurting a lot of people, but we're waiting for that case anxiously. And we have tremendous national security because of tariffs and tremendous income. You know, we have and by the way, no inflation. So, everyone said, "Oh, tariffs will cause inflation." We have no inflation. We have very little inflation. Biden had inflation and he didn't do tariffs. We had a huge problem. We had uh we have a 62% reduction in our trade deficit. So, if you had a 1% reduction, a normal president would have a 1% 2% reduction. Everybody would be high-fiving. At a 62% reduction, next year we won't have a trade deficit. We secured most favored nations agreements to slash drug prices by as much. And to me, I think this might be the biggest thing of all. We get zero talk about it. Uh the New York Times had a story way in the back of the paper, little story about it. I think it's the biggest thing there is. When you talk about healthcare, drug prices will go down more than ever before for any country because we was we were priced at such a level that we were subsidizing the entire world big place in the world. We were paying 10 12 13 times more than other countries. 13 times more not 13% 13 times more. A pill that was selling in London for $10 would sell in New York for $130. 

That's 13 times. More than that, even. But we secured most favored nations agreements to slash drug prices by as much as 300, 400, 500, and even 600%. including with Fizer, Astroenica, Eli Liy, Nova, Nordesk, Gilead Sciences, EMD, Cerranio, and many others. If you look at some of the prices that are coming down where a price would come down 1,300 coming down to $87. Think of it. So something that was costing $1,300 is now costing $87. And the fake news doesn't want to write about it. That's why I do this. I don't like to do this to be honest with you, but uh I do it because got to get the word out. We signed one big beautiful bill. I call it the great big beautiful bill delivering the largest tax cuts in history. No tax on tips, no tax on social security, no tax on overtime. We made interest on car loans taxdeductible for US-built automobiles only. So if you build the if you buy an automobile built in the United States, we're not doing it for Germany and Canada and different places. We're doing it only if it's built here. We want them to be built here. A lot of the Canadian auto plants are closing and they're moving into the United States. Same thing with Mexico. Same thing with Germany. And same thing with Japan and other countries. They're moving into the United States because of tariffs. Because they don't want to pay the tariffs. It's too much. They can't pay the tariffs. So, they're coming here. Nothing different than what other smart countries did, but it works better for us under my leadership. It's not done properly, but uh it's done properly. We have again more more plants being built than at any time in the history of our country. Passed the largest spending cuts in American history. I mean, that was true in my first, you know, we had a tremendous first term also. We rebuilt our military. We had one of the best, we had the best economy in the history of our country, but we're blowing it away now. This, when this stuff starts opening up, you're not going to see anything like it probably ever again. 

We slashed the federal budget deficit by 27% in a single year. Think of that. 27. You know, you could do it 2%, 1%, a half a percent. 27%. And that's with all of the things we have to do, all of the people we have to put on the payroll to get rid of people that are murderers. Again, when you see people in Minnesota that are murderers, these people are fighting to keep them there. And I I say to Christie and to Tom Holman, great people. They're working so hard. Uh look at the border. The border is now secure. First time you Biden said you couldn't do it. you need legislation. I had no legislation. I said, "Close the border." Within one month, we had almost nobody coming in. Now, for the last eight months, nobody came into our country illegally. And I find that hard to believe because you'd think somebody because it used to be millions of people just brought into our country. And the people that do that are Democrat uh sort of aligned. So, I mean, they're not doing me any favors. We had nobody come in. We have a very strong border. We have very few people coming up. They're not going to make the trek because they know they probably won't be coming in. So, it's not as hard as you think. But I didn't have to go back. Remember, they said, uh, we need legislation to close the border. They had millions of people coming in a month. We have nobody coming in and we're getting the murderers out. Murderers, people from prisons and jails. Many countries opened up their prisons and dropped them into the United States. Those are the people we're getting out and we have a lot of heart. And I said, "You got to lighten up on this. We have a lot of heart for people. They came in illegally, but they're good people. And they're working now in farms and they're working in lunchonets and hotels and all. And we're not looking. We're looking to get the criminals out right now, the criminals. And uh I think it's very important. I mean, every once in a while you see a store, we take somebody, he should be out because they came in illegally. So, in theory, they should be, but we're focused on the murderers, the drug dealers, the mentally insane. We have a lot of mentally insane killers. 

I mean, you can't even talk to them. Be nice if you could have a little reason, but you can't even reason. These are seriously pe ill people. You have a couple of countries where they were loaded up, their mental institutions and insane asylums were loaded to the gills. They couldn't get. They're empty now, but they're filling up because we're bringing them all back. We know where they came from and every country accepts them. You know, under Biden, they wouldn't take they had so little respect that they'd bring them there and they wouldn't take them. They said, "Get the hell out of here." They would would be bringing a plane in to land in a country and they'd put five planes on the runway so you couldn't land a plane. So, they'd come back with the people that they were bringing back. They don't do that with me. They do that with me. They have problems. They don't do it. They accept them back. They're not happy about it, but they accept them back. Cut a record number of regulations. I promise to eliminate 10 old regulations for every one new regulation. Instead, we cut 129 old regulations for each one added. Think of that. I want to do 10. Last my first four years I did when we put on a new regulation, you had to cut eight. This year I said you have to cut 10. Instead we cut 129. So every time so far can't remain like that. I don't imagine. I hope it can because we have so much wasted regulation. Stupid regulations. Regulations where they go by California which is a disaster state with a with a governor that truly is doing a bad job. He's killing that state. If he ever ran the country, this country would be Venezuela very quickly using tariffs slash the US trade deficit by an incredible 77%. The trade deficit is down and that doesn't include the last month where we had our best month. We slashed the trade deficit by an incredible 77% in one year with no inflation, something that everyone said could not be done. So we had essentially no inflation. 

In fact, the last month we had very almost no inflation, but we slashed the trade deficit by 77%. If you slash it by 1%, that was good. Again, we did that with tariffs and and intelligence. And we did that with November 5th, great election. We secured historic trade deals to reduce barriers on US exports with countries covering 40% of all US trade. Think of that. American exports are up by more than $150 billion dollars this year. People said, "Oh, we're not in exporting. All we do is buy. If you keep buying, you're not going to have a country for very long." So, we increased exports by more than 150 billion dollars. Investment in American factories is up 41%. That's a record. Nobody goes 41% up. You go 2% up, 1% up. You go down by 3%. If Kamala got elected, the 41% up would be 41% down. We removed over 270,000 bureaucrats from the federal pay. That's another thing. So we have, you know, we announced our uh our unemployment numbers, call it unemployment or employment, and they were very good, but we could make them great, but we've slashed tremendous numbers of people off the federal payroll because ultimately if you're on the federal payroll, I mean, we have we have jobs where they had 10 people for every job. So we cut. Now, if you want to see some good numbers, I'll put I'll hire a million people. We cut millions of people off the federal payroll. I don't like doing that. But the good news, I don't feel badly because they're getting private sector jobs and they're getting sometimes twice as much money, three times as much money. They're getting factory jobs. They're getting much better jobs and much higher pay. But all I have to do is say like, you know what the Democrats do all the time. They hire a million people and then they hire another million, another million, they load it up and it says, "Oh, they only have a 3% unemployment rate. It's a fake rate." So with us, we're proud of the fact that we cut so many because again, I don't want to cut people. But when you cut them and they go out and get a better job, I like to cut them. And sometimes they have to be forced to do that because, you know, it's like they want to stay where they are, they don't know. And then all of a sudden they end up we have many cases Caroline where where people were devastated. They hated Trump. I got caught from my very boring federal job where they had again sometimes 10 people to do one job and they were very upset. And now they ended up with a job where they get paid three times more money. They're ending up buying houses. It's like crazy. So they went from not liking me to liking me a lot because they're it's hard to get. We need people. We need people. It's one of the reasons I mean I want to when you have good people in the farm or good people in hotels and everything else, we want to work with them as much as we can. 

Under Biden, one out of four jobs added was a government job. Think of that. So 25% of the jobs added. That's when you when you know that that's 25% of jobs aren't real jobs. But again, I could do that. I could add two million jobs right now would have an unemploy I could say just hire some more people. I do the opposite. I say get rid of everybody that's unnecessary because that's the way you make America great again. When you have, you know, all these jobs where people are sitting around doing nothing and they get a lot of money by the government, it's no good. But that's what the Democrats do. They show, oh, we were at 4% unemployment. That's a good number. But they just add jobs or they wouldn't cut. They would never cut jobs. Under Trump, 100% of all new jobs created have been in the private sector. Think of that. Not 1% has gone to federal. So under Biden, one out of four was a government job. Under Trump, 100% of the new jobs created. 100% came from the private sector. That's how you make your country wealthy and strong and good. We inherited the worst border in history and turned it into the strongest border in history. Illegal crossings have plummeted to the lowest level ever recorded. Down 99.999%. That means down 100%. 99.999. We want to find out who that one person is. For eight months in a row, zero. And these are government numbers. These are not my numbers. For eight months in a row, zero illegal aliens were admitted to our country. Zero. Nobody came in unless they came in illegally. We have a big process for having people come in legally. By the way, a lot of people are coming in legally. They have to prove they love our country. They have to prove that they're not going to need welfare. A lot of things they have to prove. For the first time in 50 years, we are now seeing reverse migration where we're getting because we're getting all of these illegal people out. People that came in illegally. Many cases they're criminals in many, many cases. You remember when they used to say that the people that come into our country as immigrants are very nice people. They're wonderful people. They don't commit crime. No, they make our criminals look like babies. They make our Hell's Angels look like the sweetest people on earth. The Hell's Angels are now considered a nice, highquality person. I like the Hell's Angels. They voted for me. They protected me, actually, believe it or not. 

But they make our criminals look like babies. These are some of the most vicious people anywhere in the world. They came from the Congo, the prisons. I know the Congo because I ended the war with the Congo and Rwanda. Tough group. Very tough group. They came from prisons in the Congo. Some of the toughest, meanest people you'll ever meet. Thank you very much. They allowed them to come into America. These are tough people. Before my election, 100% of net job creation was going to foreign migrants. Since my inauguration, 100% of the net jobs created have gone to American-born citizens. That's a big thing. In other words, we're now taking care of our people. 100% of net jobs created have gone to the American born people. Before that, we didn't care. Uh designated Trendewa, MS-13, and the Mexican drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations. And we've hit them hard. You've seen what we've done on the water. We're starting to do that on land. The land is much easier actually. Water is incredible. We did that on the water. So the when you do it on the land, they don't go to the water. Nobody's going into the boat business right now. I can tell you 97% down drugs coming in by water. Think of 97%. Nobody ever heard of that before. 90 they heard 2% 1%. It went up 2%. 97 and we're looking for the 3%. Who the hell are the 3%? They're crazy. But uh we we've we've taken out almost 100% of the drugs coming in by water. Now we're going to be very shortly starting drugs coming in by land. We know exactly where they're coming from. removed tens of thousands of illegal alien gang members, drug dealers, murderers, child predators, human traffickers, fraudsters, savage criminals, and others. We removed them from our country. They're out. They're gone. In some cases, they're so dangerous that we put them in jail because we don't want to give them to their country. Their country doesn't do anything and they end up coming back. We We have some that we're just they're so bad that we don't want to really release them. We want to put them in a jail where we know they're properly uh ensconced. Think of that. Remove tens of thousands of illegal alien gang members, drug dealers, murderers, child predators, human traffickers, fraudsters, and savage criminals. Why wouldn't you want them removed? The reason is because these are insurrectionists that are doing this work. And you know, they're going to make mistakes sometimes. ISIS is going to be too rough with somebody or, you know, they're dealing with rough people. Uh they're going to make a mistake sometimes. It can happen. We feel terribly. I felt horribly when I was told that the young woman who was uh had the tragedy, it's a tragedy, it's a horrible thing. Everybody would say, ICE would say the same thing. But uh when I learned her her parents and her father in particular is like was a I hope he still is but I don't know was a tremendous Trump fan. 

He was all for Trump. Loved Trump and uh you know it's terrible. I was told that by a lot of people they said oh he he loves you. He he was a I hope I hope he still feels that way. I don't know. It's hard hard situation. But her father was a tremendous and and parents were tremendous Trump fans. That's so sad. It just happens. It's terrible. Halted all refugee admissions to the United States, including from Somalia, which is a terrible, terrible place and other dangerous places. And we also stopped the pirates, uh, because they get the same treatment as the drug boats. So when Somalia, they're Somalians. You know what they're good at? That's about the only thing they're good at is they're good at uh pirating ships at sea, big ships. So, you have a huge oil tanker with millions of gallons or millions of barrels of oil. And if it gets hit by a big weapon, the whole thing blows up. And they don't want to fight because if they do, they're told by their insurance companies, "Do not hand over the ship." And they're not allowed to have any guns on the ship. that literally you have these massive ships being taken over by a Somalian small boat with a big weapon because if they hit the side of the ship the ship can blow up to I mean you talk about a blow up bad we've seen we've seen some bad things happen and the insurance insurance companies some of these ships cost more than a billion dollars to build and the insurance companies say look we'd rather give them money than take a chance on a billion dollar insurance policy. But they don't have to worry about it because we hit them the same way we hit the people with the drugs in their boat. They don't know what the hell happened. But all of a sudden there are no pirates at sea. Do you notice? We haven't had a boat taken in a little while. Came out of Somalia. Really corrupt place. It's not a country. They don't have government. They don't have anything. I I I always hate to see this. 

Elon Omar, she comes from Somalia. uh a backward country. Probably the worst country. They say it's the worst country in the world. If it's a country, I don't even think it's a country. There's no organization or anything. They don't have police. They don't have military. They don't have anything. They just have people running around killing each other and and trying to pirate ships. But uh she'll come here comes and then she wants to tell us how to run our country. The Constitution says that I am entitled to this. I can't stand her. terminated all taxpayer funded benefits for illegal aliens and kicked 275,000 illegals off of social security. They were illegally getting social security. 275,000 people. I'm telling you, it's not that this is pleasurable, but if I weren't elected president, this country was d was going to be destroyed quickly. very quickly. I think within a year if you had Kamala or a Joe type I mean Joe was a disaster but if you had Kamala he was the replacement I was up by like 25 points on Joe and they said hey let's get somebody else this never happened or I was a I had so many firsts you're leading somebody by a lot and they say oh let's take him out let's put somebody that's like I said to Dana White the other night I said you know Dana it's like you have a fighter two fighters one guy is winning by a lot and they say oh let's take this guy out Let's put a new fighter in the ring with him. That's what happened to me. I was doing great with Biden. The whole campaign was against Biden. All the money was spent against Biden and all of a sudden I got Kamla. Everyone said, "Who the hell is she?" But that didn't work out too well for them. But never happened before. We are about lots of firsts. Designated English as the official language of the United States of America. We did that very powerfully. And while we're at it, we also took the Gulf of Mexico and now it's the Gulf of America because we have 92% of the shoreline. It always bothered me. I'd say, you know, we have most of the shoreline. Mexico is a small percentage, talks about 8%. We have 92%. And I said, why why is it the Gulf of Mexico? It should be the Gulf of America. I was going to call it the Gulf of Trump, but I thought that I would be killed if I did that. I wanted to do it. I wanted to. My people work so hard. Sir, I don't think it'll look too good. I'm telling you, it's a good thing. And it'll be hotter than ever. I said, "No, but I decided not to do that." I'm I'm joking, you know, when I say that. I was not going to call it the Gulf of Trump because tomorrow be Trump wanted to call it the Gulf of Trump, but he was rebuffed by his people. My people don't rebuff me too much. the Gulf of Trump. 

That does have a good ring, though. I don't Maybe we could do that. It's not too late. No, we have the Gulf of America now. It's great. It's our country is proud for the attack on Venezuela, the attack on the Iran nuclear capability, wiped it out. I mean, be first administration, Solomoni, the father of the roadside bomb, Al Baghdaddy, the father of ISIS, who was rebuilding ISIS. We wipe them out. Done a great job. Signed an order that will end birthright citizenship for children of illegal migrants. You know, that case is in court right now. That case was meant for the children of slaves. All you have to do is look at the years. Look at the look at the years where the cases were filed and where the decisions were made. They were right at the end of the Civil War. They're trying to say that, you know, and China is making a big business out of that. They come to the country, they have a child, they're American citizen, they get all the benefits. They have nothing to do with that. That was for the children of slaves. And I hope the Supreme Court so rules designated fentinol as a weapon of mass destruction. It is. We lost, I believe, 300,000 people last year. This year, 300,000 people. That's like filling up one of those big football stadiums five times. It's not even believable. I mean, you could be in a war and you wouldn't lose that many people. So, we designated fentinol a weapon of mass destruction. Conducted numerous successful military strikes against narot terrorists operating in our hemisphere, including the water strikes. Drugs brought in by ocean. So, I told you that we're down by I mean close to 100%. It's hard to get somebody to pilot those boats very hard. They have to be people that don't watch television, don't read the news. And we just blew up their uh facility. They had a docking facility where the drugs were stored. And now we have a great relationship with Venezuela. We're getting along fantastically with the leadership in Venezuela. So, we wouldn't have to do that. This was done before before the attack. But we captured and brought to justice the outlaw dictator of Venezuela, Nicholas Maduro, who through drugs killed millions of people in our country. Tremendous drug dealer. Also sent millions of people into our country, including Trend Deaga, the worst gang. They say it's the worst gang in the world. 

They took over parts of Colorado. They just take the apartment building. They just took it away. Just took it away like we're here. They cut the hand off one man because they called the police. Who called the police? I did. You took my apartment from me. Boom. No hand. This is what they sent us. Restoring law and order. New category. DC and Memphis. Federal task forces deployed massive numbers of federal law enforcement officers and National Guard to restore safety. Crime down in DC is almost down to nothing. DC was a very, very dangerous place and I think you probably know better than I do. I have a lot of people in the media thanked me for that, but uh some of them found it hard to thank me. But you know, DC is now, look how beautiful DC is. Now, you can walk right from here to a restaurant, right through the center of town. You can be with your child, with your loved one, with your lover. your lover's not going to be killed anymore. So, you can act like a real lover, but you can be you can walk right through the middle of the town and DC is beautiful again, too. You know, you notice we took all the fences down. Almost all the rest are coming down. We took got the graffiti all off. National Guard's been amazing. You know, we didn't tell them to do that. That's not their job description. But they were picking up garbage and they were great. And I don't know to me that to me a town it looks better when you have military people. These are big strong guys and bad guys look at them and they say we're not going to mess around. But uh what they don't know is that we took over 2,000 people out permanently out of DC. These were career criminals. But I feel much better uh seeing those people there. I went in a couple of times and had dinner in DC. I walked right down the middle of the street. I felt very safe. a year ago. I couldn't have done that. I would have been crazy to have done that. Secret Surfers wouldn't let me do it. They weren't thrilled anyway, I will tell you. Wasn't like they were thrilled, but but uh we did it and it was great. But DC is a great thing. We have uh virtually no crime in DC anymore. And before before we did this move, it was and we could do the same thing with Chicago. You know, we brought Chicago down 25% even though we just had a minimal crew there. We brought uh we brought uh Wisconsin uh down. We brought Minnesota down way down even though everything's a fight, you know, because they want to keep those people that are lying on the floor. They want to keep those people in Minnesota, but they really don't. I don't think the real people of Minnesota, very corrupt place. Uh and the elections are totally corrupt. I feel I won it all three times. Nobody's won that state since Richard Nixon. It's a rigged state. And the Somalians vote as one group, even if they're not citizens, and they vote as one group. And you know, you get 600,000 votes against you. 

They all ought to get the hell out of here. They're bad for our country. Nationwide achieved the largest reduction in violent crime on record. So, this just came out. nationwide over the last 11 months achieved the largest reduction in violent crime on record, including the largest one-year drop in murders ever recorded. Almost 2,000 lives were saved. That's despite the fact that we took in criminals under the leadership of the Democrats and Joe Biden. more motor vehicle theft is down by 100,000 vehicles nationwide. That's another nationwide the motor vehicle theft is at was out of control and now it's very much in control. Uh it was down by more than 100,000 vehicles to a low a record low. Began the process of eliminating cashless bail policies across the nation. You got to get rid of your sanctuary cities. And I hope our people know that we're not going to pay sanctuary cities. We're not going to pay them anymore. They are sanctuary for criminals. They hold criminals. We're not going to pay. They can sue us and maybe they'll win, but we're not giving money to sanctuary cities anymore. As of the beginning of the month, we began the process of eliminating the cashless bail. Well, cashless bail is where it all started. It's a disaster. And then other places, I don't know if it started in New York. I remember it starting in New York. So, somebody comes and murders somebody and they let him out. No bail, no nothing. Basically, cashless bail means you just get the hell out and they go outside. We have one case where a guy murders somebody, gets released, and goes out and murders somebody, two people in one day. No, we got to get rid of cashless bail. They got to pay. Gotta have bail. There's a reason for bail. Long tested. Signed an executive order to bring back mental institutions and insane asylums. We're going to have to bring them back. Hate to build those suckers, but but you got to get the people off the streets. You know, we used to have when I was growing up, we had in my area in Queens, I grew up in Queens, we had a place called Creedmore. Creedmore. Did anybody know that? Creedmore. It was a big I said, "Uh, mom, why are those bars on the building?" I used to play little league baseball there, place called Cunningham Park, who's quite the baseball player. You wouldn't believe. But I said to my mother, "Mom," she would be there, always there for me. She said, "Son, you could be a professional baseball player." I said, "Thanks, Mom." I said, "Why are those bars on the windows? big building. Big powerful building. It loomed over the park actually. She said, "Well, people that are very sick are in that building." I said, "Boy, I used to always look at that building and I'd see big building, big tall building. It loomed over the park. it was sort of now that I think it was pretty unfriendly site but I I'll never forget I don't know if it's still there because they got rid of most of them you know they the Democrats in New York they took them down and the people live on the streets now that's why you have a lot of the people in in California and other places they live in the streets they took the mental institutions down they're expensive but I'd say why does that building have those bars boy it didn't it wasn't normal you know you're used to looking it like a window. But this one, you look at it, all this steel, vicious steel, tiny windows, bars all over the place. Nobody was getting out. It's called the mental institution. That was an insane asylum. Designated Antifa as a domestic terrorist organization and many others. It is America's respected again on the world stage. That's another topic. obliterated. Iran's nuclear enrichment capability and operation midnight hammer was one of the most successful anyone's ever seen. 

CNN fake news. I don't know where they are. CNN, anybody from CNN here? Fake news. Nobody wants to raise their hand anymore. They used to are here. Now, if you're with CNN, you don't raise your hand, but they said, "Well, maybe it wasn't that successful." Which I really went was angry because these pilots took their life in their hands. two o'clock in the morning with no moon, dead dark, gun shooting at him. They went in with those beautiful B2s and every single bomb went down an air shaft and obliterated it. And CNN came out and said, "Well, maybe it wasn't by the same by a scam writer." A scam writer who wrote, you know, fake stories, a lot of fake stories on other topics, right? Because when we did it, we said, "That's a terrible thing." You know, the pilots came back and they said, "We hit everything." They did a great job. Then on top of that, we launched from a submarine about 30 tomahawks on top of everything else. The place was obliterated. CNN said, "Well, maybe it wasn't that bad. It was turned out it was worse than it was." You know who could tell you that? The Iranians would tell you that because if they do anything, they're going to have to start a brand new place. But they did an amazing job. That was a that was like what we did with Venezuela. I mean, nobody's ever seen a military operation like that. Ended eight unendable wars in 10 months. These were unendable wars. Cambodia and Thailand fighting for years. Kosovo and Serbia, the Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, they were really going at it. Eight planes shot down. They were going to go nuclear in my opinion. the um prime minister of Pakistan was here and he said President Trump saved 10 million people and maybe much more than that. They're both nuclear countries. Israel and Iran, Egypt and Ethiopia were going to fight over a dam. And I got them to stop. I still got to work it out because they put a dam up in Ethiopia that stops the flow from a little river called the Nile. I always think of the Nile being in Egypt, you know, beautiful Nile with the pyramids, but they put a dam up. You know who paid for the dam? 

The United States of It's biggest dam, I think, in the world. They put a dam up. I said, "How did you let that happen? Why would we have done that? We financed it. This country would I don't know. I don't know. Maybe it was a Republican president, but I don't think it was. I think it was a Democrat. But what a terrible thing." So Egypt basically uh is you know they don't have enough water in the Nile and they use that for u a lot of things including entertainment and travel and tourism and everything. I mean I don't know they they got a big damn I got to work that one out now too. Armenia and Azerbaijan. President Putin told me I cannot believe you settled that war. I've been trying to settle that war for 10 years. Armenia and Azerbaijan. They were fighting it for many, many years. And I ended up getting the heads of the both countries in my office, the beautiful Oval Office, much more beautiful now than it ever was. And once out of one side, one side of the other, he said, you know, I've been the head of Azerbaijan for 22 years, and for 22 years, I've been killing his people. And the other gentleman and both very good guys said, "I've been here for seven years and for seven years I've been killing his people." And they started over there and within an hour they were next to each other and by the time we ended they were hugging each other and it's been a great piece. You know, should have gotten the Nobel Prize for each war. But I don't say that. I saved millions and millions of people. And don't let anyone tell you that Norway doesn't control the shots. Okay? That it's in Norway. Norway controls the shots. They'll say, "We have nothing to do with it." Uh, it's a joke. They've lost such prestige. Got all That's why I have such respect for Maria doing what she did. She said, "I don't deserve the Nobel Prize." He does. When she got it, they named They said, "Wow, that's amazing. I thought President Trump would get it." President Trump deserves it. He ended up eight wars. How nice, right? Good woman. got all 20 living hostages returned to their families and the remains. Uh they all came out. We got the 20 living hostages. We got the 28 hostages. They have one left that we think we know where it is. Amazing. Looked like we weren't going to get anywhere near that. Now they've gotten almost. And uh more importantly, we got many more. Hundreds. Got them all. If we didn't if we didn't do it, you wouldn't have had most of those people would have been dead. I don't know if that's covered properly, but you know, the 20 is great. 

They were the last ones. I always said the last 20 are going to be hard, but we got them. We got the last 20 and we got close to 28 of the uh of the bodies of the dead. And to those parents, that was just as important as getting their son back alive. They they were almost even more intent on getting they knew their son was dead. They wanted to get the body. I got him back. We just created the Board of Peace, which I think is uh going to be amazing. I wish the United Nations could do more. I wish we didn't need a board of peace, but the United N, you know, with all the wars I settled, the United Nations never helped me on one. I mean, I guess I'm not blame. I didn't call them to help, but I got, you know, the presidents and prime minister together. We knocked heads. We got along. And they liked me. I like them. Every single one of them nominated me for a Nobel Prize. Every one of the wars among many other people nominated me for a Nobel Prize. But Putin told me, "I cannot believe you got this war settled. I've worked on it for 10 years because it's his territory. Rescued 83 American hostages and citizens detained from abroad without paying a lot of money. Paid no money. apprehended terrorists responsible for the Abbegate bombing that claimed the lives of 13 US service members in Afghanistan, the lowest point in the history of our country. That was a Biden disaster. I was getting out, but I was getting out with dignity and strength. We were the boss. Oh, we were the boss. They wouldn't do a thing against us. And this very stupid person got in. And what a shame. They should have left from Bram, which is the big military base which has hundreds of acres around it. Should have left from Bram. Terminated visas of Hamas sympathizers and deported pro-jihad foreign nationals. Got NATO members to agree to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP from 2% and they paid the 5% and they didn't pay the 2%. And by the way, I did more for NATO than any other person alive or dead. Nobody's done for NATO. And I think for the most part they'll tell you that. I think you could ask the secretary general about that. But he said it a lot. I've done more for NATO than anybody. And I see all the stuff, but NATO has to treat us fairly, too. The big fear I have with NATO is we spend tremendous amounts of money with NATO and I know we'll come to their rescue, but I I just really do question whether or not they'll come to ours. You know just I'm just asking just saying right you remember during the debate just saying signed $1 trillion investment in US military and next year we hopefully will go to 1.5 trillion we're building battleships that are 100 times more powerful than the battleships of World War II which are the big beautiful those big beautiful things with the guns. I said what about bringing them out of dry dock? 

They said sir what we're building will blow them away. It's, think of it, these ships are 100 times more powerful than the battleships that you see on Victory at Sea. Do you ever see Victory at Sea? What a great thing that is to watch. Renamed the Department of Defense into the Department of War, which everyone loves, by the way. Signed landmark critical minerals deals with Australia, Malaysia, Thailand, Ukraine, Japan, and many others. We're going to have so much rare earth. It's actually not that rare. Getting it processed is rare, but there's a lot of rare earth. There's a lot of earth around, I can tell you. Withdrew from the corrupt World Health Organization where we were paying hundreds of millions of dollars a year. So, we were paying 500 million dollars a year and China is paying $ 37 million a year. I said, "Why aren't we paying the same as China?" They said, 'Well, nobody asked. They said, "China's got 1.4 billion people. We have 350 million probably with all the illegals." You know, China probably knows more accurately, but we have much smaller in terms of the number of people. We have a much more powerful military, but we have much smaller I rebuilt the military during my first term, by the way. And while they gave away a lot to Afghanistan, the Taliban, uh, which was just horrible, seeing them every year, seeing them do that military down some dirty street is a disgrace. But while they gave while Biden gave a lot of it away, it's a tiny fraction compared to what we did. I rebuilt the military and now we're re we're continuing to to build it and uh bigger and better. We needed peace to strength but we uh withdrew from the corrupt world health organization. So I remember we were paying 500 million. They were paying 37 or 39 million. And I said how come? So I withdrew and they called we'll give you the same deal that they had. And I said, "Well, it should be less than that because if they're at 37 and you have three times, four times the number of people, even maybe five times, I don't know. So, it should be less, but I I didn't want to chisel around." And I thought about it. So, I could have taken 500 million to 37 and everybody knew it. I chose not to do it because it was actually very popular when I got out because they were terrible. And so, I chose not to take that deal. First thing Biden did is go back into it. You know what he paid? More than 500 million. So I actually called them. I said, "You know, you can buy it for less. You can make a deal at 37. There's no reason to pay 500." They didn't care. They paid more than 500. Did you know that they paid more than 500 million? I made a deal at 37. I could have had 37. They were public about it. We'll give you the same deal that China has for 37. And they paid 500. They paid $500 million. That's the way you ruin a country. And it's the same attitude that you know you have on everything else with these people. They were terrible. 

The anti-American UN Human Rights Council we ended the UN relief and works agency. We ended and the fake Paris climate accord which was a ripoff of America where we had to pay a trillion dollars and they were paying nothing. China didn't kick in until 2035. We kicked in immediately. We were supposed to pay a trillion dollars. Russia went to a standard of 1991, which was a dirtier standard, but we had to pay top dollar. So I terminated that. Another Rick. We ended the woke lunacy and restored common sense. Abolished all discriminatory diversity, equity, and inclusion DEI policies throughout the federal government and the private sector. They're gone, everybody. They're gone. Terrible. Terminated the Green New Scam. and ended the insane electric vehicle mandate. I love electric vehicles. That caused me a little problem with a man named Elon, but he understands and he's a good guy. We get along. But I said, Elon, we can't have all electric cars. We just can't do it. I like the electric cars. I like his car, but uh in particular I like his car, but we can't do that because some people don't want an electric car by 2030. And to build the power stations all over the country, it would have cost $4 trillion. Four trillion. That's more than any country has. If you got China, the United States, and everyone, you couldn't do it. And it would have taken years. And yet they were supposed to be switching over electric vehicle mandate. Some people don't like electric cars. Some people want hybrids. Some people want regular gasoline powered cars. We have more gasoline than anybody. And now with Venezuela, we have, you know, we have 62% of the market when you include Venezuela. So I ended the green new scam and I ended the insane electric vehicle mandate. Now you can buy a gasoline powered car, a hybrid, and you can buy a electric vehicle. I mean, if you think if you want electric, you can buy it. Make a good deal on them right now because they made a lot of them. Permanently stopped Joe Biden's ridiculous cafe standards. That's having to do with the environment. So ridiculous. cancel the EPA's absurd totally absurd tailpipe emission standard which made you spend hundreds of thousands it made for hundreds of thousands of cars the numbers the cost numbers were incredible that the consumer has to pay imposed 25% tariff on all foreign automobiles and 100% tariff on Chinese cars which don't come into the country because of tariffs only because of tariffs we didn't have tariffs you wouldn't have any car. We have now more car factories being built in the United States than ever before because of tariffs. If they take those tariffs away, China will eat our lunch. They'll take all of our car business. Now, there's another way of doing it, but it's more cumbersome, etc., etc. I don't want to scare you, but it's more much more cumbersome. Not as good, not as good for national security as this. We have a perfect system right now. We're making a fortune. We've never been stronger. And I hope the Supreme Court does the right thing for our country because if they don't, it's such a pro. It's just so it would be so sad. We're doing so well because of tariffs. And the people that are heading up the lawsuit like there's a guy named Leonard Leo who's uh bad guy and people that are very China oriented and foreign car oriented and foreign businessoriented but in particular China. They're suing to get rid of tariffs because they don't want tariffs like coke. Ko has businesses outside of the United States. If you have them outside, you don't want tariffs. But because of tariffs, they treat us well. Without tariffs, they would treat us very badly, as you saw for many years. They respect us more now than they ever have respected us by a lot. And revoke the California emissions waiver to stop San Francisco communists from regulating the automobile industry and destroying automobiles and the industry in the nation. And I was with Bill Ford of Ford Motors. I was with all the people at General Motors the other day and they are making more money and building more cars than they've ever they are doing so good. All because of tariffs and what I've done and they're building their plants all in the United States. Reopened Anoir for drilling. That's a big deal. Launched a massive Alaskan pipeline project to export natural gas to Asia. We made a deal with South Korea and with Japan that gives us money the likes of which no nobody's ever seen before. Signed executive orders to end Biden's war on coal and put I say clean beautiful coal. I never say the word coal. This has to be preceded by the words clean beautiful coal and put miners back to work. The miners love Trump. I think I got 100% of their vote. We banned transgenders from the military. We don't want transgender in the military. Ordered reinstatement of patriots expelled from our military with full back pay. So we had some people that were terminated and they're coming back into our military. Fired the woke boards of visitors at our military servicemies. 

The boards of visitors were run by radical left. Maybe communists, maybe not, but they were still heavily radical left and they were bad for us. signed an executive order to remove anti-American propaganda from federal museums and national parks, required the federal employees to return to work in person or be fired. We don't want them sitting in their home on their bed working. We want them in an office that we're paying for in Washington DC or wherever it may be. Then we've largely taken care of that mess. That was crazy. I guarantee you they're out on the ball fields. I guarantee you they're out playing golf and you can't run a country or a company that way. I think it's happening even so with countries and companies, but we had so many of our federal workers, they wouldn't come into work. Signed an order banning all government censorship and restoring free speech made it the official policy of the United States government that there are only two genders. This was not a tough one. Two genders. Can anybody guess what they are? male and female. I think the Democrats know that too, but they refuse to admit it. Ban the use of puberty blockers, hormone injections, and other chemical and surgical mutilation of children. Can you imagine saying this 15 years ago that we banned the use of puberty blockers, hormone injections, and other chemical and surgical mutilation of our children? You know when I say it I say is do I have to say that? I actually asked my people today. Yes sir. Because people it's where the country went banned men from playing in women's sports. Big Supreme Court case on I mean I I can't believe it. Some of the justices were fighting hard for men to be able to play in women's sports. Couple of them. I can't imagine it, but I think anybody that rules that way should lose a lot of credibility. But we banned men from playing in women's sports. All you have to do is look at the records, look at weightlifting records, look at swimming records, look at track and field. It's not fair. It's very uh demeaning to women. Banned transgender ideology and critical race theory from our schools. secured unprecedented settlements with Brown University, Columbia University, and many other colleges, including the University of Pennsylvania, where I went, the great old Wharton School of Finance, to restore fairness and merit. We're working with Harvard right now. They've been very anti-Semitic. Terrible what they've done. And we'll see what happens. I I hear we have a deal, but who the hell knows with them? They have a lawyer that wants to show how hot he is. ended taxpayer-f funed student loan forgiveness for radical left and anti-American activists. Can you believe it? Began the process of abolishing the federal department of education and returning education back to the states. And Linda McMahon is doing a fantastic job. Ended Joe Biden's weaponization of our government and removed his handpicked radical left Marxist prosecutors from the Department of Justice like deranged Jack Siksmith. He's a sick son of a They gave me the worst of the worst and here I am. How did that happen? How did that happen? He's a sick guy. And Leticia James is sick. And Alvin Bragg is sick. They're sick people and others. Fanny. Fonnie. You can't call her Fanny. She doesn't like it. She wants to be called Fawnie. Fonnie Willis. I won. Can you imagine have putting somebody through that? And then if I suggest that somebody may be guilty of a terrible crime. Oh, he's weaponizing government. Trump is weaponizing government. It's terrible. 

Can you imagine they say to me about weaponiz? I don't weaponize anything, but what they did to me, nobody ever went through what I went through. And here I am in a place called the White House. It's a beautiful place. Who would have thought, right? Signed legislation to cut all taxpayer funding to woke and biased NPR and PBS. And they're sort of gone now, I guess. I heard they closed up. They were terrible. They were so unfair. They were so terrible. Officially reinstated Columbus Day. I like the name Columbus Day. The Italian people are very happy about it. Remember when you go to the voting booths, I reinstated Columbus said that was an easy one. Christopher Columbus cut Social Security weight times by 50% serve 65% more social security recipients by phone and are on track to doubling the service and performance compared to the Biden administration. We're two and a half to three times better and faster. slashVA claims backlog to the lowest number ever recorded. Created Trump accounts starting with $1,000 for every newborn baby. This is something that's become so popular and I give Mr. and Mrs. Michael Dell, Dell computer, uh, who put in six billion, 250 million, started with nothing and he actually invested all that money to give to kids so that when they grow up, they have an account that might be worth a lot of money. It'll it'll be riding with the markets and, you know, they can at 20 years old, 21 years old, they could have $100,000. They could have a lot of money. That's going to be amazing. But I give a lot of credit to Mr. and Mrs. Michael Dell. Signed AI executive order to ensure the United States dominates the future of artificial intelligence. So we're leading China. We're leading the whole world. We're producing more electricity than we ever have because I'm allowing every one of those plants to build their own electric facility. We're giving them very, very fast approvals unlike Los Angeles with a fire. So, the federal government, I want to give a lot of credit to Lee Zeldon, the hardest approval for the 20,000 houses or more that burned down in Los Angeles because they didn't have the water. They didn't allow the water to come down from the Pacific Northwest. They routed the water into the Pacific Ocean. So, we had no water there. Not No, he had I would say open up the water. Open it up to the governor, to the mayor. 

They didn't want to do it. But they want to protect a tiny little fish. That's, you know, I said, "How can you have a fish when you don't have any water?" It was just an excuse, I guess. But, uh, it's it's amazing. We took 20,000 houses and Lee Zeldon, the the mo the toughest permit is from the federal government. Within two weeks, every single permit was given to the people to build their houses. Then you have the incompetent mayor of Los Angeles. She's not who decided to go to Africa during the fire. So you have this incompetent mayor and I had it out with her the night when I got right after the fire. I went there. She said, "We're working on it so that we can have everybody starting to build within two or three years." Remember that? I said, "You mean two or three days?" "No, I mean two or three years." And the place went crazy. Well, they still haven't gotten their permits, but every f federal permit, every single one has been given a year ago, and Lee Zeldon has done a great job, and he's done a great job in the approval of all these big plants and factories and all of the electricity that they're creating for themselves. I said to uh Zuckerberg, I said to all of them, I said to Jeff Bezos, I said to everybody, Mark Zuckerberg couldn't believe it. He he said, "You know, where are we going to get all the electricity?" Because you need double the electricity that the curt the country currently makes just to fire up those big plants. I said, "Well, nobody can do that. So, what we're going to do is let you make your own electricity." Nobody believed it. And I said, "We're going to get you fast permits." So, we get them within two weeks. And they're coming up with some of the most incredible electric plants you've ever seen. So, each one of those massive buildings, AI or otherwise, is building their own electricity. They're building their own plant, and it's incredible. Many of them are under construction already. They're going to have uh we're leading AI, and we're leading China by a lot. established a MA presidential commission, banned many artificial food dyes, as you know, issued new vaccine recommendations and created new real food pyramid. And Bobby and Dr. Oz have been incredible. Provided 12 billion in aid for American farmers. Just gave them 12 billion dollars in aid because they got screwed by other nations. And the number of drug dealers have fallen every single month since I took office. Drug dealers are way down in the United States. And that's a small version of what's sitting right there. That's just a small version. We took a country that was dead and it's the hottest country in the world right now. And that's after one year. So let's go. That's a lot of Sorry. Please. Yeah. Go ahead. Thank you so much, Mr. President. Uh I have two questions for you. one, do you want uh your board of peace to replace the UN? Well, it might. I mean, the UN just hasn't been very helpful. I'm I'm a big fan of the UN potential, but it has never lived up to its potential. The UN should have settled every one of the wars that I settled.

I never went to them. I never even thought to go to them. Uh they should be able to settle those wars. They don't I I believe you got to let the UN continue because uh the potential is so great. You invited Lula from Brazil to be part of the board of peace. What what role do you expect him to play especially Venezuela and another one because the you are you from Brazil? Yes. The EU and Americauru just signed a trade agreement this weekend which is going to be the the biggest uh trade zone free zone in the world. Uh at the moment you were talking a lot about tariffs. Um what is your reaction to that? So two questions. L look I just think this I think we have trade like we've never had before. We're doing better in trade than we ever have before. We're not being ripped off by every country in the world like we were before. Uh we're doing we're doing numbers that nobody's ever thought possible. We're the richest we ever were. It's because of tariffs and the proper use of tariffs. And we're also the most secure. As an example, Iceland without tariffs, they wouldn't even be talking to us about it. So we'll see what happens. I think it's going to work out quite well. Right behind. Thank you, Mr. President. How would you characterize your relationship with Emanuel Mcron and Kier Starmer right now? And have you spoken to them since your truth social post office last? No, I haven't. But I think I get along very well with them. I mean, they they always treat me well. They get a little bit rough when they're, you know, when I'm not around, but when I'm around, they treat me very nicely, and, you know, I like both of them. They're both liberal. Uh, they've got to straighten out their countries. You can't, you know, London is having a lot of problems. And if you look at Paris, got a lot of problems. They have two problems. immigration and energy. They got to stop with the windmills and they got to go back like uh UK has an unbelievable asset called the North Sea. Norway uses it, makes a fortune. They have a better section of it and they don't do it. They could straighten out their countries and it would be good. 

But I get along very well. You uh told Norway's prime minister, "Are you from Norway?" No. You look like you would be from She looks like she's from Norway. Go ahead. Uh, you told Norway's prime minister that you not winning the Nobel Peace Prize made you feel less obligated to think purely of peace. Well, I lost a lot of respect for Norway. And I believe and I believe very strongly that Norway controls the Nobel Prize. But you have to understand, I settled eight wars. I've had uh every one of those wars, every participant wrote. I didn't ask them to do it. They sent in strong recommend. You know, they make recommendations for that. But I settled eight wars. No president's probably ever settled one war. I don't know. Think of it. I did eight. The reason I do it is because it's easy for me to do. And I didn't do it for a Nobel Prize. I did it because I'm saving a lot of lives. I'm trying to settle the final one. I'm trying to do Russia Ukraine. And when Russia's ready, Ukraine's not. When Ukraine's ready, Russia's done. But they're losing 25,000 people a month on average. And I'm trying to get that one done. But no, I feel but I feel that Norway has tremendous control over who gets the nor the Nobel Prize despite what they said. How far are you willing to go to acquire Greenwood? You'll find out. Thank you, Mr. President. Kevin Hasset has said that those $2,000 tariff rebate checks would be up to Congress to decide whether or not to disperse that. Do you agree with Kevin Hass on that or do you think you can do that unilaterally? I don't I don't think we would have to go the Congress route, but you know, we'll find out. The reason that we're even talking about it is that we have so much money coming in from tariffs that we'll be able to issue at least a $2,000 dividend and also pay down debt for the country. Uh but we do a $2,000 dividend to the people of our country. Would probably set a limit of, you know, income limit uh where it made sense. But uh we will be able to make a very substantial dividend to the people of our country. Uh, I believe we can do that without Congress. Mr. President, uh, last night on True Social, um, you said that the British plan to hand the base of Diego Garcia over to Maitius and then rent it back was an act of great stupidity. Previously you backed that deal. Is it now your position that the deal should not go ahead? I think that they, you know, when they originally were going to do it, they were talking about doing some concept of ownership, but now they're looking to essentially just do a lease and sell it. And I'm against that. You know, it's a reasonably nothing like Greenland, but it's a reasonably important uh area of the globe. Not to anywhere near Greenland, but I think they should keep it. I don't know why they're doing it. Do they need money? Mr. President, uh, with your support to the Syrian government, most probably you avoided another civil war and a bloodshed in Syria, especially after the fall of the regime. Good job. I did a good job. And the Syrian government the last two weeks uh had to use some force to to implement its force on uh specific areas and to keep to keep the prisoners, the terrorist prisoners, which is some of the worst in the world, at bay. So they they were able to keep that. He's working very hard. 

The president of Syria is working very very hard. Strong guy, tough guy. Uh pretty rough resume, but you're not going to put a choir boy in there and, you know, get the job done. Uh I spoke with with him yesterday because we were talking about the prisons and you know what was going. We have some of the worst terrorists in the world in those prisons and he's watching us. Syria, sir. Mr. President Gavin Nuome is going to be at Davos if he's not already there. You're probably going to run into him. I presume that this is for him to raise his platform for 2028, but what do you anticipate his foreign policy platform is going to be? I don't know. I mean, I don't know that he's going to be the nominee. I I know this I had a very good relationship with Gavin Nuome when we were, you know, in office together. I was president. He was the governor of California. We had a really He would talk about it often and somewhere we just went astray. I I just I just hate the way California is being run where you actually have people leaving. It's never happened before, but I hate the way it's being run. He and I had a very good relationship that really uh clo close to the word exceptional, but now we seem not to spoke earlier, Mr. President. You're you've been hearing from allies. We know of. Thank you so much, President Trump. Carrick Castanova from Lindell TV and you spoke earlier about the 2020 election. Uh now that uh Maduro Maduro is in US custody and he was criminally charged, has any more information emerged that you could share with us regarding Venezuelan election software and Venezuelan ties to tampering with the 2020 election? And would you consider speaking to Maduro personally in prison uh in New York to get some answers on Venezuela's involvement with the 2020 election? No, I don't think I would be doing that. And I think my lawyers would be very unhappy if I Yeah, they've learned they've learned some things. Please. What happens to the tariff threat to Greenland if the Supreme Court comes out and rules against you on the tariffs and Well, I'll have to use something else. I mean, look, are you willing to use force? You know, take a look at the word license. Take a look at other things. I mean, we have other alternatives, but the what we're doing now is the best, the strongest, the fastest, the easiest, the least complicated. If you move ahead um with the the Greenland related tariffs on Europe, you secured almost a trillion dollars of commitments from them to invest in the United States. Does that go put out the window if that happens? Uh I doubt it. Look, they want to they need that agreement very badly with us. They really do. They they fought very hard to get it. So I doubt that. But we'll see what happens. We have a lot of meetings scheduled on Greenland. I'm leaving tonight as you know, Davos. and we have a lot of meetings scheduled on Greenland and I think things are going to work out pretty well actually. 

Thank you, Mr. President. Will you uh still go to Paris for the G7 emergency meeting as offered by President Mron? No, I wouldn't do that because you know Emanuel Emanuel is not going to be there very long and you know there's no longevity there. He's a friend of mine. He's a nice guy. I like Mcronone, but but he's not he's not going to be there very much longer, as you know. And I think, you know, I have meetings with the people that are directly involved, not uh some of the people you're talking about. Thank you so much. Thank you so much, Mr. President. Happy I've never seen this room like this. Is this a celebration of the first year? Have you ever seen it? 

I've never seen this many. I hope we have a very good I hope we have a very good structural floor. You know, this used to be a swimming pool. You're sitting over a swimming pool. I could see that happening. But this we need a good structure here, don't we? Huh? Yeah, Mr. President. Thank you so much, Mr. President. Happy one year anniversary. Thank you. And my my question is sorry on Syria. The Kurds as the most loyal US partners facing attacks by some Syrian elements within the Syrian government. What will you do to ensure the Kurdish rights protected and their effective forces against terrorism in Rojava, Syria continued as the Kurdish see you as a president does not abandon his allies? Well, I like the Kurds, but just so you understand, the Kurds were paid tremendous amounts of money, were given oil and other things. So, uh, they were doing it for themselves more so than they were doing it for us, but we got along with the Kurds and we are trying to protect the Kurds. That's correct. ahead of your speech in Davos, can you give us a preview of what we can expect as far as, you know, laying out the plans for Americans to be able to buy homes? 

I think more than anything else, what I'm going to be speaking about is the tremendous success that we've had in one year. I didn't think we could do it this fast. Uh, think of it. It's just now 12 months, and you know, I say it often, we have the most successful country in the world. We have the hottest country anywhere in the world by far. and this country would have been absolutely stone cold dead. Uh, and I'm gonna be talking about it. I'm gonna be because, you know, a lot of them could use some of the advice as to what we did. They need energy. You take a look at their energy policies. They're going to destroy themselves with what they're doing with the windmills and all the nonsense. They need energy help badly or they're going to be in big trouble and they need immigration help badly. How much longer do you want to go? 

calling. I do. I I have I have a very I have a very important call with President Erdogan who I like who I like a lot. One or one or two more questions. Go ahead. Go, go, go. Yes. I want to ask you about Iran. Is the military option still on the table? And can you assure us that the killing in Iran has stopped? And when regard to the peace council, which members have to pay one? So with Iran, are you from Iran? No, I cover the White House. Where are you from? I'm Palestinian American. So with Iran, they were going to hang 837 people and I let them be known that and we let them know that if that happens that will be a very bad day for them and they decided not to do it. They didn't hang the people. I can't tell you what's going to happen in the future. But supposedly they've taken that off the table, but they were going to last week they were going to hang on Thursday or Wednesday. one. They were going to hang hang I think 837 people and they didn't hang anybody. So, we're just going to have to see what happens with Iran. There's the military option open. 

Thank you, President Trump. Thank you, Mr. President. Go ahead. I'll take your question. Thank you. Thank you. Go ahead. Right here. Thank you, Mr. President. Um, you promised during your second inaugural to always put America first. I'm curious, how would you winning the Nobel Peace Prize improve the lives of average everyday Americans? Why is this prize so important? It wouldn't improve the lives of any what what improved the lives of people are people that are living. I saved probably tens of millions of lives in the wars. You know if you add up the numbers just just if you look at uh if you look at any one of those wars you're talking about millions of people you multiply times eight but when you look at India and Pakistan that could have been 10 15 20 million people could have been more than that so I save millions of people so that to me is the big thing you suggested a moment ago that perhaps the reason why a positive story about the economy isn't getting through is because of you know bad communications people. But are average Americans wrong to still feel high prices? 

And how much longer does the White House hope that they So I think a lot of people a lot of people are listening to the fake news a little bit. And I'm not blaming anybody. I think I I blame ourselves. I think we've done a much better job than we're able to promote. We're not promoting. We're doing a great job and we're sort of letting the promotion take care of itself. One of the reasons I'm doing this news conference, I think it's important. We have taken a mess and made it really good. It's going to get even better. But if you go back a year, a year and a half, two years, take a look at those prices and look at the prices now. Thank you. Mr. President of Venezuela, you made you made a condition. Where are you from? I'm from Spain. Um, thank you. Uh, you made a condition that uh the political prisoners should be freed. It seems that they are not being as fast as they promised in the beginning. Would that be an issue for the current government? 

They've agreed that they're going to let I guess most of them out. Depends on what they did. But uh they have released a lot of they have a lot released a lot of political prisoners in Venezuela. Mr. President, earlier on last year you had mentioned you had indicated that you wanted to take back the Panama Canal. I know we've we've heard a lot about Greenland. Is that still on the table? 

I don't want to tell you that. Sort of. I must I must sort of that's sort of Okay, one more. Uh, yes. Blonde, blue. Yes. Go ahead, ma'am. Go ahead. With the blue holding the computer. If a consequence of your determination to take control of Greenland is the ultimate breakup of the NATO alliance, is that a price you're willing to pay? 

Uh, you mean the breakup of of the NATO alliance? So, I think something's going to happen that's going to be very good for everybody. Nobody's done more for NATO than I have. As I said before, uh, in every way. Getting them to go up to five% of GDP was something that nobody thought was pos and pay. At 2% they weren't paying. At 5% they are paying. And they're buying a lot of things from us. And they're giving them, I guess, to Ukraine. That's up to them, but they're giving them to whoever they're giving them to. But they're buying a lot. Uh, I think that we will work something out where NATO is going to be very happy and where we're going to be very happy, but we need it for security purposes. We need it for national security and even world security. It's very important. How about Thank you very much. Um, first of all, last year you told me that you believe that the reason you won election is because God put you in this place so that you could save the world. Looking back one year, do you feel like God is proud of the effort that you've put in? I do actually. I think God is very proud of the job I've done and that includes for religion. You know, we're protecting a lot of people that are being killed, Christians and Jewish people and lots of people are being protected by me that wouldn't be protected by another type of president. Uh, no, I think uh I think a lot of people are very proud of the job we've done. We've had an amazing year. This has been one of the greatest years. Even some people that wouldn't necessarily love me instinctively, they're saying this was an incredible year. We've had an incredible year economically. Uh look at our border. Our border was a disaster. People poor mill. It was an invasion into our country of a lot of very bad people. Good people too, but a lot of very bad people from prisons and drug dealers and gangs and horrible people. Murderers. thousands and thousands of murders allowed into our country and we now have the strongest border of any country. 

There's probably not a country I guess North Korea has a pretty strong border by the way, but there's not a country in the world that has a border like we do. And we took it from the worst border. We had the worst border in the world. Now we have one of the strongest borders in the world. One more one more question. Mr. President, you said your comment something's going to get worked out in Greenland, but Greenlanders have made it clear they don't want to be part of the US the right to take away that self-determination. When I speak to them, I'm sure they'll be thrilled. Mr. President, are you committed to keeping the US in NATO? I've I've had a such a good relationship. I've made it so much better, so much stronger. It's so good now. NATO is so much stronger now. Uh, I don't agree with a lot of the things they've done, but that was done before I got there. Uh, I think NATO's been uh good. Sometimes it's overrated, sometimes it's not, but we have a strong NATO. When I came here, we had a weak NATO. We had a NATO NATO at 2% and they weren't paying. You had a a nothing NATO. Uh NATO's, whether you like it or not, it's only as good as we are. If NATO doesn't have us, NATO is not very strong. Yes. Behind you, please. Thank you, President Trump. Yes. Go ahead. Really appreciate it, sir. We heard a long list of accomplishments from the last year. Could you cherrypick the top three? And then looking forward, what are your three most important priorities in 2026? 

So, I think the building of a really powerful military has been a great achievement. And that would include the Venezuela thing. that would include uh the uh attack on Iran and the wiping out of the nuclear threat. I think that's been really amazing what we've done militarily. I think what we've done in business has been incredible. We have $18 trillion coming in. Plants are being built all over the thousands of plants are being built all over the country. 18 trillion is a record. No country has ever come anywhere even close to that. I think that's a record. And I think uh that most favored nations for drugs is something that nobody thought they'd be able to get. Tariffs helped me there because the nations would have never gone along with it if I wasn't able to say if you don't go along with it, we're going to put a 10 or 15 or 20% tariff on your nation and they went along and our drug prices are going to come down at numbers never even seen before, never even thought possible before. So those would be three things. Thank you. Thank you all very much. Thank you very much. How was the game? Go Indiana.Part 2: Media Question and Answer SessionPotential Replacement of the UN by Board of Peace

Thank you so much, Mr. President. Uh I have two questions for you. one, do you want uh your board of peace to replace the UN? Well, it might. I mean, the UN just hasn't been very helpful. I'm I'm a big fan of the UN potential, but it has never lived up to its potential. The UN should have settled every one of the wars that I settled. I never went to them. I never even thought to go to them. Uh they should be able to settle those wars. They don't I I believe you got to let the UN continue because uh the potential is so great. You invited Lula from Brazil to be part of the board of peace. What what role do you expect him to play especially Venezuela and another one because the you are you from Brazil? Yes. The EU and Americauru just signed a trade agreement this weekend which is going to be the the biggest uh trade zone free zone in the world. Uh at the moment you were talking a lot about tariffs. Um what is your reaction to that? 

So two questions. L look I just think this I think we have trade like we've never had before. We're doing better in trade than we ever have before. We're not being ripped off by every country in the world like we were before. Uh we're doing we're doing numbers that nobody's ever thought possible. We're the richest we ever were. It's because of tariffs and the proper use of tariffs. And we're also the most secure. As an example, Iceland without tariffs, they wouldn't even be talking to us about it. So we'll see what happens. I think it's going to work out quite well.

Conclusion:

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🚢⚡ President Trump Announces Massive New "Trump-Class" Battleships for Golden Fleet (Dec 2025) 🇺🇸🔥

Introduction to the Historic Naval Announcement Event

On December 23, 2025, in Palm Beach, Florida, President Donald J. Trump hosted a landmark event alongside Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, Secretary of the Navy John, and Senator Marco Rubio to unveil a transformative vision for American naval power. The central theme revolved around the revival of U.S. maritime supremacy through the "Golden Fleet" initiative, featuring the construction of a new generation of advanced battleships—the largest and most lethal ever built.

President Trump, as the primary speaker, announced the immediate start of two cutting-edge battleships (with plans to expand to 20-25), described as 100 times more powerful than the iconic Iowa-class vessels. He emphasized their integration of hypersonic weapons, railguns, lasers, AI systems, and nuclear-capable missiles, aimed at restoring peace through strength, revitalizing American shipbuilding, creating thousands of jobs, and inspiring global respect and deterrence.

Secretary Hegseth reinforced the commitment to military reform and multi-domain deterrence, Secretary John detailed the operational superiority of the new Trump-class warships, and Senator Rubio highlighted the return of American industrial might and the Navy's role in global peace. Together, the addresses signaled a bold era of naval resurgence and comprehensive national strength.

TRUMP SPEECH

It's the first renderings what we're doing. It's beautiful. I want to wish everyone a big hello and Merry Christmas. Welcome Tamara Lago for this exciting announcement to this new golden fleet. That we are building for the United States Navy. We are in desperate need of ships. Some of them have gotten old and tired and obsolete. We are going to go the exact opposite direction. We are delighted to be joined by Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth who's doing a fantastic job and the Secretary of the Navy. Marco Rubio is here. He spoke for a couple of hours on what a good job we are doing. As commander-in-chief it's my great honor to announce that I have approved a plan for the Navy to begin the construction of two brand-new very large the largest waiver belt battleships. We used to build the Iowa, the Missouri. The Wisconsin, the Alabama and many others. We had big battleships. These are bigger. They will have 100 times . .. They will be 100 times the force the power and there's never been anything like these ships. These have been under design consideration for a long time. It started with me in my first term. I said, why are we doing battleships like we used to? These are the best of the world. They will be the fastest, biggest and by far 100 times more powerful than any battleship ever built. If you look at Iowa, the Missouri, Wisconsin, Alabama and others but they were similar in size. Some a little bit bigger than the others. 

If you take the biggest one, it's 100 times more powerful. They are longer by a little bit. But, and they are bigger. They hold much more. They use the word lethality. Battleships are heavily armed vessels built for naval combat while America has built new warships over the years they have tended to be smaller - much smaller. And not conducive to where we are and where we are going in peace through strength. We have been building aircraft carriers we are going to be upping that also. We will be going to the superior aircraft. We are going to up that to a different class of aircraft carrier. We have not built battleships since 1994. These cutting-edge vessels will be some of the most lethal surface will welfare ships and most ever built other than submarines. In many ways, we have more lethality and we have many of them under construction. Each one of these will be the largest battleship in the history of our country., The largest battleship in the history of the world ever built. Again, it's a wonder times 100 times more powerful than the previous Iowa class. Victory at sea, I don't know if anyone has seen that, it was a classic. They will help maintain American military supremacy, revive the American shipbuilding industry and inspire fear in America's enemy all over the world. We are going to have more respect now than we ever had. A year and half ago they laughed at us and now they respect as I at levels that they have never respected us. We envision these two ships - we are talking about 10 but we will start with two and morph into 10. Ultimately we think it's going to be anywhere from 20 to 25 of these. We are starting with the first to immediately and then be quickly involved and do another eight and then we are ultimately, and pretty quickly going to have a total from 20 to 25. We envision the ships will be the first of the all new class of battleships produced in the years to come. 

From Theodore Roosevelt - the great White Fleet. Did you remember that? To the legendary USS Missouri whose massive guns helped when -- win World War II. America's battleship in national power. And we stopped making them for whatever reason. I don't know. I want to congratulate them who is John, Secretary of the Navy he came to be the first day we met he talked about battleships and I said, you are absolutely on the right track. Why are we doing other things? We have muscles which are much more expensive. These battleships have numbers of muscles but they have guns and in many ways guns can do the same track as missiles. For the tiny fraction of the cost. Once completed, these 30,000 ton plus vessels will be the flagships of the American naval fleet and there has never been anything built like them. I just want to be very clear that we are building them here. We are working with others. We are building them here and we have a great Navy Yard. We will be negotiating with some of the companies that are running low's yards. We used to build a ship the day in World War II now we don't really do ships anymore. W We do submarines.

 

We are 15 – 20 years advanced in our submarines advanced. We make the best submarines by far. At least 15 years advanced ahead of anyone else in summary development. The most powerful weapon anywhere in the world. Undetectable. The battleships are going to be armed just in terms of guns and missiles in the highest level. They will have hypersonic weapons, state of the art electric rail guns and even the high-powered lasers that you have been starting to hear about. You aim the laser at a target and it wipes it out. There will be the most sophisticated lasers in the world and the most sophisticated laser in the world will be on the battleships that we are building. We will carry the nuclear arms cruise muscles currently under development which will be instituted pretty quickly. They are under development and proven to be extremely lethal. The U.S. Navy will lead the design of the ships along with me because I'm a very acidic person alongside our partners in American industry and we are going to have Pete and Marco and a lot of talented people involved. A lot of it has already been done . We've been doing it for months. The construction will create thousands of American jobs we have jobs being created already and factories on related to this. AI will be a big factor when it comes through these ships. AI controlled. Today's announcement is another step in our mission to make the United States Navy stronger than -- ever before and when you talk about 100 times the power of these massive ships that we had years ago, it's pretty amazing.

Next week I'm going to meet with the defense prime contractors, I'm going to meet with them here in Florida. And we are going to be talking about production schedules because they are too slow. We have many countries and allies that are wanting to. .. We make the greatest equipment in the world by far. But they don't produce them fast enough. We are going to be meeting with them to talk about the production schedules, and having strong production schedules and the only way they will be able to do that is building new plants. We have many people want the F 35 fighter jet and it takes too long to deliver them. To allies or ourselves. The only way they will be able to deliver them as if they built new plants. That's expensive. So we will be discussing production schedules. We will be discussing expending and discussing the pay to executives where they are mating 45 and $50 million a year in not being able to build quickly. They will make that kind of money they have to build quickly. We make the best equipment in the world but they don't make them fast enough. We are also going to be discussing dividends. We want the dividends to go into the creation of production facilities. We will be talking about all. We are also going to be talking about buybacks. They spent so much money on buybacks on the stock. I want them to be able to put the money in plants and equipment so that they can build these planes fast. Rapidly. Like immediately. I've sold more planes than any president by far times probably 20. 

Every time I go someplace that-- I sell 100 planes. That is commercial planes Boeing etc. and fighter jets. Many years ... We don't want to have the executives making $50 million a year issuing big dividends to everyone and also doing buybacks and then we say, we don't have the money to build the plant. Plants to make it and that's it and that's what I'm going to be talking about. They will spend money on building airplanes and ships and the things that we need not in 10 years and 15 years, we need them now. The Navy announced a brand-new class and they will work with the South Korean company that invested $5 million and Philadelphia shipyard. Once a great yard and now it's decommissioned now it's reopening. Working with the Navy and working with private companies the record-setting offense- defense build I sigh I authorized 26 billion to build new ships including destroyers and various others we have a lot of submarines as you know under construction we are building the law of submarines and to be exact, we have right now 15 submarines under construction already to start and we have the greatest submarine in the world. Submarines are a bigger deal than ships. We have at least 15 years ahead of any other competitor. We are building right now three large aircraft carriers in addition to the ones that we have and we actually have interestingly a lot of submarines. How many submarines do we have altogether? Over 30. These are the superduper ones and there's nothing like them. We have a couple of other things going on we will be building other elements of Navy we will be fixing up headquarters, fixing up places for our great sailors to live and working very hard with companies but penalizing companies that are not doing a good job. 

When they build the Ford, the cross herrings were ridiculous. We were talking about that with the company and in World War II the United States built upwards of four ships. Four ships a day on average and now they weren't all big warships but they were tankers, it's a tragedy that we allow this incredible capability go away. We build our warships but that's about it. We are going to restore America as a major step-- shipbuilding power and long into the future with battleships helping lead the way and submarines nobody competes with us on submarines. I want to thank everyone and I would act to ask Secretary Haig Seth to say a few words followed by the secretary. If you would, Secretary of the Navy. Pete is doing a fantastic job. By the way, we have dogs that are down 96. 2% coming into the United States 92.6 by CD and soon we will start the same program on land. The land is much easier. Everyone of those boats that we knocked out saved 25,000 lives. 25,000 lives every time we knock out one of those boats with the dogs pouring in. People say OG, do you think it was really dogs? Take a look. Bags all over the place. That's not fishing equipment. There's no fishing rods in those boats. When you see a boat with four or five engines going 40 or 50 miles an hour, they get hit. We saved 25,000 lives every single time we knock out about and it's over 96% stopped by sea. We are trying to figure out who the other 4% are and we are going to have the same success but even quicker because it's much easier on land. If they want to come by land, they will end up having a big problem. They will get blown to pieces because we don't want our people poisoned. 300,000 people died probably last year, a lot of people say that it's 200,000. Someone said last night it was only hundred and 75,000 people. 

That's like three football stadiums filled up that people died. I think the real number is 300,000. We will not have that anymore. We are doing a great job and we enjoy doing it. Our country is strong, trillions of dollars is coming into our country from other countries and companies. They are building auto plants all over the United States of America without tariffs they would not be doing anything they were happy with the no member-- November 5 election but they are avoiding paying tariffs. The biggest number was $3 trillion in history was China many years ago now it's $18 trillion and that's just in 10 months. That's investment in the United States including plant and equipment. Thank you very much and I will ask Pete and John to say a few words. If you have any questions we will take them. I just want to mention, the John is one of the most successful businessman in our country and a tremendous exact -- success. He wanted to do this for nothing. He wants to rebuild our Navy we will answer some questions, and maybe Marco will say a few words. And ≫ Our steel industry is coming back strongly by the way. It's coming back in record numbers.

≫ What's your timetable for this to ships? ≫ We will start almost immediately is it a counter to China?≫ At the counter to everyone. I get along with everyone. Not just China, everyone. You don't know who comes along but we want peace through strength. There will never be anything built like these. If we doubled them they would be a tiny fraction and new technology which is incredible. We decided pretty early on not to do that. ≫ Mr President, you just reference to the amount of drugs that are coming by sea and you will start the same program on land are you referring to visit oil law or other to make≫ Anywhere drugs are pouring in. Not just Venezuela. ≫ Speaking of Venezuela, oil, what are we going to do with the oil that has been seized? 1.9 million barrels of oil on December 10.≫ We are going to keep it. ≫ Are we going to's celly?≫ Selleck? Keep it? Maybe strategic reserves. We are keeping it. We are keeping the ships also. ≫ Have you spoken to American oil companies that have had their assets seized? ≫ I have, all the big ones. ≫ I do mind, I hope people are enjoying it because we've never been respected then we are now. ≫ Thank you Mr President. Were you surprised by the number of photos of Bill Clinton? Can you commit. .. Were you surprised of the number of photos of Bill Clinton and can you commit to the full load release by the end of the year? ≫ 

There's a lot of people that are angry about all the pictures of other people. I think it's terrible. I like Bill Clinton. I've always gotten along with Bill Clinton. I hate to see photos come out of him but this is what the Democrats, notemostly Democrats are -- looking for. Everyone was friendly with this guy. He was around. The head of Harvard was his best friend. Bill Clinton was a friend of his but everyone was. I threw him out of Mara Lago. This is the hottest place in the world but it's the hottest place in Florida. Everyone would come here. We actually threw him out. I don't like the pictures of Bill Clinton being shown. I think it's a terrible thing. I think Bill Clinton is a big boy. He can handle it. You probably have pictures being exposed of other people that ins-- innocently met Jeffrey Epstein years ago and they are highly respected bankers and lawyers and others and they will end up because of guys like a lowlife like Massey whose polls are down in Kentucky if you look at Kentucky, it's a great place but I don't know, you have a couple of people in there that are strange in terms of leadership. We are building the biggest ships in the world. And they are asking me questions about Jeffrey Epstein. I thought that was finished. I believe they gave over hundred thousand pages of documents and there is backlash. It's an interesting question because a lot of people are very angry that pictures are being released of other people. 

They are in a picture with them because he was at a party and you ruined the reputation of someone. A lot of people are very angry that this continues. A lot of Republicans are angry because it's used to reflect and we are going to have the most successful economy in history. We inherited a mess now prices are coming way down. Gasoline is less than two dollars in some states. 199, 197. .. A dollar and $0.99. A gallon. No one ever thought they would see that. They don't want to talk about that. They want to talk about Epstein and the problem is a lot of Democrats are being caught up in the web like Larry Summers. Larry was the head of Harvard and now been forced to resign from every board he was on. He was at Epstein's island a lot. I never went there by the way but. .. Fortunately that's nice but a lot of people did go there. But instead of talking about the battleships and instead of talking about most favored nations, we are bringing down drug prices like at a level that has never even been thought of by thousands. Think of it. By a thousand percent, by 1200, 1400 in certain cases. A drug that sells for $10 in London his close $230 in New York. They've gone from 10 to 20 which is a doubling. That's a lot. But it's a doubling. It's 2000%, 3000%, that's pretty amazing and the New York Times had a story about it. Way in the back of the paper. It's a single biggest things that's happened in 50 years. In my first term, I was able to get drug prices down one 12:45 percent. It's the first time in 28 years that it went down. Now we are doing 2000%, 1500%, 1200%, and that pill that sold for $130 will now be selling as an example for $20. Because the rest of the world took advantage without tariffs they could've never done it. I called up the heads of the countries as an example, 

President McCrone of France and I said you have to raise your drug prices he said no, we won't do that. I said, you have to. You're going to come way down to 20, we don't want to do that, in all fairness, no other president even tried but if they did try there is actually a fake story in stupid USA Today I don't even think they make it anymore but I saw story were Biden was trying to do this. Biden didn't do this, he didn't know he was alive. They are taking it from $10-$20. They said nope, were not going to double our price because if you go from $10-$20 they are doubling the price. We are going to get the lowest drug prices in the world. Whatever the lowest prices for favored nations. We will have the lowest price. Now, you're going to, no I will not do this politically is unacceptable. He said why do you keep telling me I am when I'm not going to because if you don't do it I'm going to put 25% tariff on everything France cells in the- - cells in the United States of America. And that's what I'm asking for in terms of drug prices. He said I see, I agree to do it. Every other country said the exact same thing. They said I won't do it, and on said-- I said on Monday morning, you'll have a tariff. In the case of France it was wide, cars, everything. Every single country agreed and that was a big problem. The drug companies were difficult but fine. We had no control over these foreign nations. Every single country has agreed to do this so we will take that pill price down as an example. Talking about not just pills, everything. Hundred and $30 a pill down to $20 a pill. The rest of the world we will take it from $10 up to $20. It's the biggest thing ever to happen and it's barely covered in the New York Times because the fake newspaper.

≫ (indiscernible) sufficient workforce availability? How is the administration ensured that there is of sufficient workforce availability as you are producing them? ≫ We will have tremendous workforce availability also robots helping us because we need it and because we are going to town we are building lot between AI and auto plants so we will need robots and we have them but that's going to help us. We have a tremendous workforce and in order to operate. .. You are always going to need people. You could have robots but you have to get someone to start the robots and improve the robots but you will have robotic factories plus manpower. You are going to have enough. We will need the help of robots and other .. . I guess you can say employment. You will be employing a lot of artificial things but the beauty is, we will have more jobs than we've ever had. A number came out the other day, we have more jobs right now in the United States more people are working right now in the United States than at any time in the history of our country. We will have the mechanical help but we will have tremendous employment. ≫ Expecting a different type of announcement with the Secretary of War and Secretary of State here. Just within your recent remarks, why should they take your threat seriously? What's your endgame? ≫ There's no answer. He can do whatever he wants. We have a massive (indiscernible) ever formed and by far the biggest we ever had in North America. Whatever he wants to do, if he wants to do something, if he plays tough, it will be the last time he ever plays tough. They said their prisoners into us, people from jails, mental institutions and insane asylums. They just walked right in because Biden had it open and with the Biden administration did to our country could never be forgotten. Many of those people were murderers and drug dealers. I spoke to Christy gnome today, Tom Homan today, came down to see me and we had a great meeting. They have done an amazing job. 

We are getting them out very fast but this should've never happened but Venezuela took advantage of the open borders that Biden created. More than any other country. We had gangs all over. You have a very weak governor in Colorado. They would occupy houses and he didn't want to do anything about it because he was scared. ≫ In response to United States taking sanction oil president of Columbia criticized the United States saying that the Southwest has stolen land and I wonder if you could respond to that.≫ He has drug factions and they make cocaine in Columbia. He was a very bad guy, and yes to watch because he make cocaine and they send it into the United States of America from Columbia. I love the Colombian people they are great people, smart and energetic. Their new leader is a troublemaker. He better watch it. They have at least three major cocaine factories. You better close them up fast. By the way, it's made and sold into the United States. ≫ You named Governor Landry in the new special agreement and do you have that intention in the unit US? He said I'm governor of Louisiana, and I didn't call him he called me. He's a great guy, he's a dealmaker type guy and we need it for national protection. We need to Greenland for national protection. I don't know they say Denmark but Denmark has no military protection. We were there with boats to I'm sure. We will have to work it out but he felt strongly. We needed Greenland for national security. Not for minerals, we have more oil than any other country in the world. If you take a look at Greenland, you look up and down the coast, Russia, Chinese ships all over the place. We need it for national security. You have to have it and he wanted to lead the charge. We are making him a special envoy to clean-- Greenland. Greenland is a big deal. ≫ Talks that took place this past weekend could a trilateral be the next tab? ≫

 Ukraine and Russia are going along. The talks are going along, and they say there's tremendous hatred between these and President Putin and President Zelinski. Talks are going OK, but I solved eight wars and Thailand started up again but I think Marco, we have it in pretty great shape. We stopped eight wars and I thought this would be in the middle of the pact-- the pack but there's a lot of hatred between those two people and when there's hatred. .. But we stopped wanted war 38 years, 35 years, one war was going on 32 years, we stopped potential nuclear war between Pakistan and India. And the head of Pakistan, highly respected general also Prime Minister of Pakistan said President Trump saved 10 million lives maybe more. Planes were shot down. President Trump saved 10 million lives, maybe more. We solved all of these the only one I haven't sold yet is Russia/Ukraine. ≫ Yesterday and (indiscernible) have you spoken about the deal? ≫ All the best military equipment we sell it to NATO and we got NATO to go from 2% GDP to 5% and no one believed that we sell weapons to NATO, we sell full price, weapons to NATO and NATO takes those weapons and probably distributes them that gives a lot of them to Ukraine. We don't lose any money that we had with Biden. These are full. He gave 350 billion between cash, he has a lot of cash, between cash and weapons. At the beginning of the whole thing, I gave them javelins, the antitank busters. And President Obama at the time gave them sheets. But the bottom line is, I think they are all tired of the war. Everyone is. ≫ 

Active pursue in an oil tanker yesterday was the US able to seize it? ≫ We will get it. Because it came out of Venezuela. And it was sanctioned. ≫ (indiscernible)≫ I can't rule that out. I think it would be smart for them to do that but again we are going to find out, Venezuela it's a terrible thing hundreds of thousands of people, millions of people into our open border they said they are criminals, they said they are drug dealers, they said they are mentally insane and incompetent people. The Congo did as well. We let them come right in because they are run by a stupid president. We don't have a stupid president anymore. ≫ Have you set up the meeting with the healthcare insurance yet? ≫ I think we are going to meet with healthcare insurers. What I'm asking for in healthcare, Obama care is a disaster. It's unaffordable. They are going to have a tremendous increase in premiums. Which is that the Democrats fall. What I want to do is that we spend hundreds of billions of dollars at-- a year at insurance companies I want that money to go to the people in with the people by their own healthcare. And everyone loves it. It's become our issue. Before I do that, I will meet with the insurance companies just as I met with the drug companies. But we have all agreed, we are meeting with them this week. It will be a similar meeting. No one would've thought the drug companies were going to do what they did where they are giving away free drugs and we have most favored nations. No one thought that was possible. I don't think any other president ever tried to get it because I never thought they could but with respect to the insurance companies there's essentially 14 of them, 10 big, a total of 14 and I want to meet with them and I want them to cut your rates way down if they do that we will be able to continue to do-- deal with them which is probably an easier process. The best processes and is paid the money directly to the people and they can buy their own healthcare. I do it now but they are trying to come up with a schedule they want to meet badly. But they want to come up with a schedule. I said, make it a good schedule. Your rates have to come way down. We are also going to meet with other insurance companies because under Biden insurance rates have gone through the roof auto insurance, home insurance, insurance companies are making far more than they are entitled to. In the meantime we will meet with the insurance companies then the first few days back in Washington because they are trying to come up with a proposal that will satisfy me. Thank you very much. I hope you will enjoy the battleships. They are going to be beautiful. And have a great Christmas if I don't speak to you. Thank you very much.

Conclusion: 

President Trump announces the construction of advanced battleships for the U.S. Navy, emphasizing their superior power, lethality, and role in restoring American military supremacy through peace by strength. He highlights the need to revive shipbuilding, create jobs, and integrate cutting-edge technologies like AI, hypersonic weapons, and lasers, while critiquing past administrations and discussing broader issues like border security, drug control, economic achievements in lowering prices, international negotiations, and healthcare reforms.

PETE HEGSETH SPEECH

Mr President you are exactly right. No fishing poles, no fishermen and no fishing boats. Just drug dealers and narco terrorists. With every strike we are saving America and lives. It's an honor to be here Mr President Mr Secretary, Secretary Rubio, to talk about what peace through strength really looks like. We can talk about it or you can invest in and you can build it. That's exactly what President Trump is doing at the Department of war we are restoring the warrior ethos we put into law a merit-based getting rid of the EEI and political correctness that's part of how our military operates. We've seen a record of crooning in the spirit of the Department of war, he is doing it again with shipbuilding and reestablishing deterrence. Whether it's through golden dome, midnight hammer, and when I Ron found out, those truck boats opening up shipping lanes, American strength is back on the world stage and the announcement of the Golden fleet anchored by new battleships accomplishes all three of those things and marks a generational commitment to American power. Across the entire department we are developing new operational concepts for cutting edge technologies and making major investments including in our Navy. This is happening in all domains including space the president has talked about before anyone else. The highest of domains and lowest of domains undersea and especially today that always has to be decisive. It has been in the history of America and will be under leadership of President Trump. We will make sure that anything that flows from our country, new and better ships will provide that deterrent today and generations to come this new class these new investments will be the types of things for decades and centuries the American people look back to and thank President Trump for having the vision and willingness to invest right now in capabilities we meet today tomorrow and long into the future.

Conclusion:

Pete Hegseth underscores the restoration of American military strength under President Trump, focusing on eliminating political correctness, investing in advanced technologies across domains, and building the Golden Fleet with new battleships to ensure long-term deterrence and national security.

JOHN SPEECH

Mr President, thank you for being here on a very consequential day. From my very first conversation with President Trump about surveying and Secretary of the Navy he talked about the great Iowa class battleship why America does not build ships anymore with that kind of office of-- offensive firepower that takes the fight to the enemy. During my time I talked extensively with my combatant commander and our sea and the oh, what I have learned is, not only is the president's idea a good one, it's something that Navy desperately needs and now has a formal requirement for. The future trump class battleship will be the largest deadliest and most versatile and best looking warship anywhere in the world's oceans. I want to thank the president for his vision to make this game changing capability for the United States Navy. The Iowa was designed to go on the attack with the biggest guns and that's exactly what will define the trump class battleship's offense of firepower from the biggest guns of our era. This ship is not just to swat the arrows it's going to reach out and kill the archers. For the first time in generations we will have a new leg in America's nuclear deterrence because trump class battleship will carry the nuclear arms see launched missile. Striking battleships is not all at sea. So they can command naval forces far out in the sea. Victory at sea, commandant the war on the Pacific now this new battleship will command everything from warships to drones and everything in between we are going to make battle groups great again and this is one piece of the president's Golden fleet we are going to build with the investments he talked about. The one our war fighters has told us we need. New power like capabilities and part of the navies makes we are moving out of aggressively with funding from the presence one big beautiful bill to bring options to the fight with new nontraditional defense partners into the American ecosystem. Logistics builds wars. For manufacturers that will build components for this battleship in every state. The president has been clear, we must bring back our American industrial might, as Secretary of the Navy, it's my job to equip our sailors, the USS defiant battleship will inspire awe and reverence for the American flag whenever it pools into a foreign port. Thank you Mr President, now when a conflict arises you are going to ask not one, but two questions, where are the carriers, and where are the battleships? Thank you.

Conclusion:

John praises President Trump's vision for the Trump-class battleships, describing them as the most advanced warships for offensive firepower, nuclear deterrence, and command capabilities, while emphasizing the revival of American industrial might to support sailors and project global power.

MARCO RUBIO SPEECH

Thank you Mr present, phenomenal presentation. This is American industrial power returning. This is the ability to rebuild industry in the United States. Not just in terms of applying American work power the U.S. Navy is the single most source of peace in the world because it gives us a global footprint. The ability to make the pigs make things again in our country.

Conclusion:

Marco Rubio highlights the announcement as a revival of American industrial power and manufacturing, underscoring the U.S. Navy's role in maintaining global peace through its extensive footprint.

ALL SPEECHES CONCLUSION:

Strategic Synthesis and Overarching Implications of the Multi-Speaker Address on Naval Resurgence and Comprehensive National Security Enhancement

In this comprehensive announcement event held in Palm Beach, Florida, President Trump, alongside Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, Secretary of the Navy John, and Senator Marco Rubio, unveiled a groundbreaking plan to revitalize the United States Navy through the construction of advanced battleships, marking a pivotal shift towards enhancing American military supremacy and industrial strength. President Trump's speech forms the cornerstone of the event, where he passionately outlines the urgent need to replace aging and obsolete naval vessels with a new "Golden Fleet," starting with two massive battleships that he claims will be the largest, fastest, and 100 times more powerful than historic Iowa-class ships like the Missouri and Wisconsin. He emphasizes their cutting-edge features, including hypersonic weapons, electric rail guns, high-powered lasers, AI control systems, and nuclear-armed cruise missiles, all designed to embody "peace through strength" and inspire fear in adversaries while reviving the American shipbuilding industry. Trump reflects on historical naval achievements, from Theodore Roosevelt's Great White Fleet to World War II victories, lamenting the halt in battleship production since 1994 and pledging to expand the fleet to 20-25 ships. He critiques past policies for favoring smaller, less lethal warships and expensive missiles over cost-effective guns, while highlighting ongoing submarine advancements where the U.S. leads by 15-20 years. 

The President also announces plans to accelerate production by meeting with defense contractors to address slow schedules, executive pay, dividends, and stock buybacks, insisting on building new plants for rapid delivery of equipment like F-35 jets. He ties this to broader economic successes, such as trillions in investments from countries like China avoiding tariffs, record job creation with more Americans employed than ever, and the integration of robots and AI to boost workforce efficiency without job loss. Trump diverges to border security, boasting a 96% reduction in sea-based drug trafficking through aggressive strikes on suspicious boats, saving thousands of lives and planning similar land operations to combat fentanyl deaths estimated at 300,000 annually. He addresses international relations, including seizing Venezuelan oil and ships for strategic reserves, negotiations with American oil companies, and warnings to Colombia's leader about cocaine factories. On Greenland, he appoints Governor Landry as a special envoy for national security reasons, noting Russian and Chinese presence. Trump discusses ongoing peace talks in Ukraine-Russia, claiming to have resolved eight global conflicts, including averting nuclear war between Pakistan and India, saving millions of lives. He touches on NATO's increased contributions from 2% to 5% GDP and weapon sales without U.S. financial loss. Domestically, he lambasts Obamacare as unaffordable, planning meetings with insurance companies to slash premiums by redirecting billions directly to people for personal healthcare choices, mirroring his drug price reductions through most-favored-nation tariffs that lowered costs by up to 3000% via negotiations with leaders like France's Macron. 

Trump expresses dismay over Jeffrey Epstein document releases, defending figures like Bill Clinton and criticizing media focus on scandals over achievements like low gasoline prices under $2 per gallon and a booming economy inherited from a "mess." He concludes with holiday wishes, underscoring the battleships' beauty and significance. Complementing this, Pete Hegseth reinforces the theme of "peace through strength," praising Trump's investments in the Department of War to restore warrior ethos by eliminating DEI and political correctness, boosting recruitment, and reestablishing deterrence through operations like Golden Dome and Midnight Hammer. He highlights the Golden Fleet's battleships as a generational commitment to American power across domains—space, undersea, and surface—ensuring decisive naval capabilities that future generations will thank Trump for visionary leadership in developing new technologies and major Navy investments. Secretary John's address echoes Trump's vision, recounting early discussions on reviving Iowa-class offensive firepower, now formalized as a Navy requirement for the Trump-class battleships—the largest, deadliest, and most versatile warships globally. He details their attack-oriented design with era-defining guns to "kill the archers," nuclear deterrence via sea-launched missiles, command over fleets including drones, and role in making battle groups great again as part of the Golden Fleet. 

John stresses aggressive funding for nontraditional partners, logistics for wars, nationwide manufacturing components, and industrial revival to equip sailors, predicting these ships like the USS Defiant will inspire global awe and shift conflict questions to include "where are the battleships?" Finally, Marco Rubio succinctly applauds the presentation as a return of American industrial power, rebuilding domestic industry and workforce, with the Navy as the paramount source of world peace via its global footprint, enabling the U.S. to "make things again." Collectively, these speeches weave a narrative of military rejuvenation, economic resurgence, and unwavering national security, positioning the battleship initiative as a symbol of America's renewed dominance, job creation, technological innovation, and strategic deterrence against global threats, while addressing pressing issues like drugs, borders, healthcare, and international diplomacy to foster a stronger, more respected United States for decades ahead. This event not only announces hardware but signals a doctrinal shift towards proactive strength, industrial self-reliance, and visionary leadership under Trump, with each speaker contributing unique perspectives—Trump's broad strategic and economic overview, Hegseth's focus on military culture and multi-domain investments, John's technical and operational details on naval capabilities, and Rubio's emphasis on industrial and peaceful implications—culminating in a unified call for American greatness that resonates beyond the naval domain into broader policy triumphs.

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Table of Contents: America's Unmatched Military Power – Why the USA Remains the World's Dominant Superpower

• 1. Introduction to USA Defense in 2025
• 2. Current Security Status of the United States
• 3. Where the USA Stands Today as a Global Superpower
• 4. Key Steps Taken by President Trump Benefiting the American People
• 5. Trump's Initiatives Strengthening USA National Security
• 6. How the USA Maintains Control and Influence Worldwide
• 7. Future Threats Facing the USA and Their Sources
• 8. Backbone Institutions of USA Security: Roles, Heads, and Functions
• 9. Modern USA Military Assets: Aircraft, Weapons, Missiles, Naval Fleets, and Defense Systems
• 10. Bold Steps the USA Should Take Moving Forward
• 11. Why the USA Remains Alert Against China and Russia
• 12. USA's Alliances and International Partnerships in Defense
• 13. Technological Advancements in USA Defense Capabilities
• 14. Economic Aspects of USA Defense Spending and Impact
• 15. Challenges from Emerging Technologies and Cyber Threats
• 16. Conclusion: The Path Ahead for USA Security

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1. Introduction to USA Defense in 2025

The United States Department of Defense (DoD) serves as the executive department responsible for coordinating and supervising all agencies and functions of the government directly related to national security and the United States Armed Forces. Led by the Secretary of Defense, currently the Honorable Pete Hegseth (sworn in on January 25, 2025), the DoD oversees a vast organization that includes the Army, Navy (including the Marine Corps), Air Force, and Space Force, along with numerous defense agencies and field activities.

The department's mission is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and ensure national security. This encompasses maintaining combat-ready forces, supporting allies and partners, and addressing evolving threats in multi-domain operations across land, sea, air, space, and cyberspace.

As of late 2025, the DoD operates under the framework established by the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for Fiscal Year 2025 (Public Law 118-159), signed into law in December 2024. This legislation authorizes approximately $895.2 billion in discretionary funding for national defense, with $849.9 billion allocated specifically to DoD activities. The FY2025 budget supports priorities such as enhancing military readiness, investing in modernization, improving quality of life for service members, and strengthening the defense industrial base.

The United States maintains the world's most capable military, consistently ranked first in global assessments like the Global Firepower index, which evaluates nations on over 60 factors including manpower, equipment, finances, logistics, and geography. The U.S. achieves the top PowerIndex score due to its balanced capabilities, technological superiority, and global reach.

Organizational Structure and Leadership

The DoD is headquartered at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and employs over three million personnel, including active-duty service members, reservists, National Guard members, and civilians. The Secretary of Defense serves as the principal assistant to the President on all defense matters and exercises authority, direction, and control over the department.

Key leadership positions include:

• Deputy Secretary of Defense — Provides day-to-day oversight.

• Under Secretaries — Handle policy areas such as Acquisition and Sustainment, Intelligence and Security, and Personnel and Readiness.

• Joint Chiefs of Staff — Advise the President and Secretary on military matters.

The military departments (Army, Navy, Air Force) operate under civilian secretaries, while combatant commands execute operations worldwide.

Force Structure and Manpower

The U.S. Armed Forces comprise an all-volunteer force focused on professionalism and readiness. The FY2025 NDAA authorizes specific end-strength levels for active-duty components, reflecting adjustments to maintain capabilities within fiscal constraints.

Active-duty personnel are distributed across the services as follows (based on authorized levels):

• Army: Focuses on ground operations and multi-domain capabilities.

• Navy and Marine Corps: Provide sea control, power projection, and expeditionary forces.

• Air Force and Space Force: Dominate air and space domains.

The DoD emphasizes recruitment, retention, and quality of life initiatives, including pay raises and improved housing, as outlined in the NDAA.

Budget and Resource Allocation

The FY2025 defense budget request, as released by the DoD, prioritizes investment in people, readiness, and modernization. Major categories include:

• Operation and Maintenance → Funds day-to-day activities, training, and base operations.

• Procurement → Acquires new weapons systems and equipment.

• Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) → Drives technological innovation.

• Military Personnel → Covers pay, benefits, and housing.

• Military Construction → Supports infrastructure needs.

These investments ensure the U.S. military can deter aggression, respond to crises, and prevail in conflict.

Strategic Priorities and Global Posture

The DoD operates in an era of great-power competition, with focus on integrated deterrence against peer adversaries. U.S. forces maintain a forward presence through bases in over 80 countries, alliances such as NATO, and partnerships in regions like the Indo-Pacific.

Key capabilities include:

• Nuclear Deterrence → The nuclear triad (bombers, submarines, ICBMs).

• Conventional Forces → Superior air, naval, and ground assets.

• Emerging Domains → Investments in cyber, space, and artificial intelligence.

The department also supports humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, and counterterrorism efforts worldwide.

Modern Military Assets Overview

The U.S. possesses unmatched inventory in key areas:

• Naval Power — 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers form the core of global power projection, each capable of deploying dozens of aircraft.

• Submarine Force — Entirely nuclear-powered, including ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs) for strategic deterrence and attack submarines (SSNs) for multi-mission operations.

• Airpower — Thousands of advanced aircraft, including fifth-generation fighters like the F-35 and F-22.

• Ground Forces — Modern armored vehicles, artillery, and precision munitions.

These assets enable rapid response and sustained operations anywhere in the world.

Challenges and Reforms

While maintaining superiority, the DoD addresses challenges such as recruiting shortfalls, industrial base capacity, and emerging technologies exploited by adversaries. Initiatives include streamlining acquisitions, enhancing innovation, and focusing on lethality and readiness.

The department continues to adapt through policy guidance, including directives on standards, acquisitions, and strategic planning.

Conclusion of Introduction

The U.S. defense establishment represents a comprehensive, integrated system designed to protect national interests and promote global stability. Backed by substantial resources, advanced technology, and professional forces, the DoD ensures America remains prepared to meet current and future security demands.

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2. Current Security Status of the United States

The United States maintains a robust and resilient national security posture, supported by the world's most capable military forces, extensive global alliances, substantial resource investments, and a comprehensive approach to integrated deterrence. The Department of Defense (DoD), under the leadership of Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth (confirmed in early 2025), oversees this posture in coordination with interagency partners, including the Department of State, Intelligence Community, and Department of Homeland Security.

The U.S. security status reflects strength in conventional and nuclear capabilities, forward presence, technological superiority, and partnerships, while remaining vigilant against peer competitors, regional threats, and emerging domains such as cyber and space.

Guiding Strategic Framework

The DoD operates under the 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS), which emphasizes integrated deterrence, campaigning, and building enduring advantages. This strategy identifies the People's Republic of China (PRC) as the pacing challenge and Russia as an acute threat.

Although no full update to the NDS has been released as of late 2025, departmental priorities align with this framework, focusing on defending the homeland, deterring aggression, and prevailing in conflict if necessary. The strategy integrates all instruments of national power, with the DoD providing the military backbone.

The Fiscal Year 2025 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), enacted as Public Law 118-159, authorizes resources to implement these priorities, including enhancements to readiness, modernization, and quality of life for service members.

Budget and Resource Allocation Supporting Security Posture

The DoD's FY2025 budget supports a strong security status through significant investments. The President's Budget Request for FY2025, as detailed in DoD comptroller documents, prioritizes people, readiness, and modernization.

Key allocations include:

• Operation and Maintenance funding for training, sustainment, and base operations.

• Procurement for new platforms and equipment.

• Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) for advanced technologies.

• Military Personnel for pay, benefits, and housing.

These resources ensure the U.S. Armed Forces remain combat-credible and capable of multi-domain operations.

Force Structure and Readiness

The U.S. maintains an all-volunteer force structured across the Army, Navy (including Marine Corps), Air Force, and Space Force. Authorized end-strength levels, as set by the FY2025 NDAA, balance operational demands with recruitment and retention efforts.

The posture emphasizes readiness for great-power competition while addressing ongoing commitments. Forward-deployed forces in Europe, the Indo-Pacific, and the Middle East provide rapid response capabilities.

The DoD's global posture includes permanent bases and rotational deployments in over 80 countries, enabling power projection and reassurance to allies.

Nuclear and Strategic Deterrence

The U.S. nuclear triad—consisting of strategic bombers, intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs), and submarine-launched ballistic missiles (SLBMs)—remains the cornerstone of strategic deterrence. Ongoing modernization programs ensure credibility and resilience.

Extended deterrence commitments to allies, including through NATO, reinforce collective security.

Conventional Capabilities and Global Presence

U.S. conventional forces provide unmatched overmatch:

• Naval forces include 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and a submarine fleet for sea control and power projection.

• Air and space dominance through advanced fighters, bombers, and space assets.

• Ground forces equipped with modern armor, artillery, and precision systems.

These capabilities support freedom of navigation, crisis response, and sustained operations.

Alliances and Partnerships

U.S. security status is amplified by alliances such as NATO, bilateral partnerships in the Indo-Pacific (e.g., with Japan, Australia, and the Philippines), and frameworks like AUKUS and the Quad.

These relationships enable burden-sharing, interoperability, and collective deterrence. The DoD works closely with the Department of State to strengthen these ties through security cooperation, exercises, and foreign military sales.

Emerging Domains: Cyber, Space, and Information

The DoD prioritizes cyber defense through U.S. Cyber Command, space resilience via the Space Force, and information operations to counter adversary influence.

Investments in these areas address vulnerabilities and exploit advantages.

Homeland Defense and Resilience

The DoD supports homeland security through NORTHCOM and NORAD, focusing on missile defense, countering unmanned systems, and disaster response coordination.

Challenges Within the Posture

While strong, the U.S. security status faces challenges including recruiting shortfalls in some services, industrial base constraints, and adversary advancements in hypersonics and anti-access/area denial capabilities.

The DoD addresses these through reforms, innovation, and targeted investments.

Overall Assessment

As of late 2025, the United States possesses a superior national security posture characterized by technological leadership, global reach, and allied integration. This enables deterrence of aggression, protection of vital interests, and promotion of a stable international order.

Continued adaptation to evolving threats ensures the posture remains effective in an era of strategic competition.

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3. Where the USA Stands Today as a Global Superpower

The United States maintains its position as the preeminent global military power through unmatched capabilities in power projection, technological superiority, global alliances, and resource investments. The Department of Defense (DoD), in alignment with the 2022 National Defense Strategy (NDS) and ongoing development of the 2025 NDS, emphasizes integrated deterrence, alliances, and multi-domain operations to sustain this standing.

The DoD's global posture enables rapid response, sustained operations, and influence across regions, supported by forward presence in over 80 countries and partnerships that amplify U.S. strengths. As articulated in official DoD documents, mutually beneficial alliances and partnerships represent an enduring asymmetric advantage, enabling the U.S. to deter aggression and promote stability.

Alignment with National Defense Strategy

The 2022 NDS provides the foundational framework for U.S. defense posture, focusing on defending the homeland, deterring strategic attacks, deterring aggression while prepared to prevail in conflict, and building a resilient Joint Force and defense ecosystem. It identifies integrated deterrence as key, blending capabilities across domains, theaters, and the spectrum of conflict.

The strategy prioritizes collaboration with allies and partners, noting that alliances like NATO and Indo-Pacific partnerships are central to U.S. advantages. The FY2025 budget request directly supports implementation of the 2022 NDS priorities, including investments in readiness, modernization, and alliance strengthening.

In 2025, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth directed the development of an updated NDS, tasking the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy to craft guidance emphasizing current priorities such as rebuilding military readiness and focusing on great-power competition.

Global Posture and Power Projection Capabilities

U.S. global posture ensures forward presence and rapid power projection. The DoD maintains bases and facilities worldwide, enabling operations in support of combatant commands.

Key elements include:

• Naval power projection — The U.S. Navy's carrier strike groups and expeditionary forces allow influence in contested environments.

• Air and space dominance — Supported by advanced platforms and global reach.

• Joint and combined operations — Facilitated through alliances.

DoD posture reviews align resources to counter pacing challenges, particularly in the Indo-Pacific, while sustaining commitments in Europe and other regions. The Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI), funded in the FY2025 budget, enhances capabilities, infrastructure, and exercises in the Indo-Pacific to assure allies and deter adversaries.

Alliances and Partnerships as Force Multipliers

Alliances remain a core strength. NATO serves as the cornerstone for collective defense in Europe, with DoD efforts focused on interoperability, joint exercises, and burden-sharing.

In the Indo-Pacific, partnerships such as AUKUS, the Quad, and bilateral alliances with Japan, Australia, South Korea, and the Philippines strengthen deterrence and regional security. DoD security cooperation activities build partner capacity through training, exercises, and information sharing.

These networks exponentially increase U.S. effectiveness, allowing shared intelligence, joint operations, and distributed forces.

Military Capabilities and Force Structure

The U.S. Armed Forces provide balanced, multi-domain capabilities:

• Army → Focuses on land dominance, multi-domain operations, and transformation initiatives to optimize structure for lethality and readiness.

• Navy and Marine Corps → Ensure sea control, power projection, and expeditionary warfare.

• Air Force and Space Force → Deliver air superiority, global strike, and space domain awareness, with ongoing reoptimization for great-power competition.

• Cyber and special operations → Integrated across the Joint Force.

The FY2025 budget sustains these capabilities through procurement, RDT&E, and operation/maintenance funding.

Resource Investments Supporting Superpower Status

The FY2025 DoD budget request prioritizes people, readiness, and modernization to maintain overmatch. Investments in emerging technologies, industrial base resilience, and quality-of-life programs ensure sustained superiority.

The budget aligns with NDS goals, funding nuclear modernization, conventional forces, and alliance enhancements.

Assessment of Global Standing

The U.S. stands as the leading global power due to its ability to integrate military, economic, and diplomatic instruments through DoD leadership. While facing evolving challenges, the combination of advanced capabilities, global presence, and alliances ensures the U.S. can deter peers, respond to crises, and shape the international security environment.

This posture supports vital national interests, promotes a free and open international order, and provides the foundation for enduring superpower status.

4. Key Steps Taken by President Trump Benefiting the American People

President Donald J. Trump's second term, beginning in January 2025, has been marked by a series of decisive actions rooted in an "America First" agenda, as outlined in official White House documents and executive orders, which prioritize the well-being of American citizens through economic revitalization, enhanced national security, reduced burdens on working families, and strategic reforms across government departments. Drawing from the Trump-Vance Administration Priorities released by the White House in early 2025, the President has focused on reforming the government bureaucracy to make it more efficient and responsive to the needs of everyday Americans, emphasizing policies that lower costs, create jobs, secure borders, and restore prosperity without unnecessary foreign entanglements. This approach is evident in the administration's early executive actions, such as the January 20, 2025, Executive Order on Unleashing American Energy, which directs federal agencies to eliminate barriers to domestic energy production, thereby reducing energy costs for households and businesses while fostering energy independence. According to the White House fact sheet accompanying this order, this step directly benefits American families by lowering utility bills and gasoline prices, which had been inflated due to previous regulatory overreach, and it supports job creation in key sectors like oil, gas, coal, and nuclear energy, with projections from the Department of Energy indicating potential for hundreds of thousands of new high-paying jobs in rural and industrial communities across states like Texas, Pennsylvania, and North Dakota. By prioritizing affordable and reliable energy resources, the administration argues that this initiative not only bolsters household budgets but also strengthens the overall economy, allowing Americans to spend more on essentials and investments, thus contributing to a broader restoration of American prosperity as envisioned in the order's preamble, which states that it is in the national interest to unleash these resources to combat inflation and enhance global competitiveness.

Building on this foundation, President Trump has taken significant steps to address healthcare affordability, a critical concern for millions of American families, through targeted executive actions that leverage international pricing models to reduce prescription drug costs. On May 12, 2025, the President signed an Executive Order titled "Delivering Most-Favored-Nation Prescription Drug Pricing to American Patients," as detailed in the White House fact sheet released on November 6, 2025, which mandates that Medicare payments for certain drugs align with the lowest prices paid in economically comparable countries, effectively ending the practice where Americans subsidize lower costs abroad. This policy, implemented through the Department of Health and Human Services, is projected to save Medicare beneficiaries billions annually, with official estimates from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services indicating average savings of up to 50% on high-cost medications for conditions like cancer, diabetes, and heart disease, directly benefiting seniors and low-income families who often face burdensome out-of-pocket expenses. The fact sheet further explains how this reform empowers patients by increasing transparency in drug pricing and encouraging pharmaceutical innovation domestically, rather than relying on foreign markets, which in turn supports American jobs in the biotech and pharmaceutical industries concentrated in states like New Jersey and California. By tying U.S. prices to international benchmarks, the administration has ensured that American taxpayers no longer bear disproportionate costs, allowing families to allocate saved funds toward education, housing, or retirement, thereby enhancing overall quality of life and economic mobility as part of the broader commitment to putting American patients first in healthcare policy.

In parallel with these economic measures, President Trump has declared national emergencies and implemented strategic declarations to safeguard American sovereignty and economic security, actions that have tangible benefits for citizens by protecting domestic industries and reducing vulnerabilities to foreign influence. The April 2, 2025, declaration of a National Emergency to Increase Competitive Edge, Protect Sovereignty, and Strengthen National and Economic Security, as described in the corresponding White House fact sheet, authorizes enhanced measures to secure supply chains, combat unfair trade practices, and invest in critical infrastructure, drawing authority from the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and involving coordination across the Departments of Commerce, Treasury, and Homeland Security. This step has led to immediate actions such as tariffs on imported goods that undercut American manufacturers, resulting in the reshoring of thousands of jobs in sectors like steel, automobiles, and electronics, with Department of Commerce reports from mid-2025 showing a 15% increase in domestic manufacturing output in key battleground states. For American workers, this means greater job stability, higher wages, and reduced reliance on foreign suppliers for essential goods, which in turn lowers risks during global disruptions like pandemics or trade wars, ensuring that families have access to affordable, domestically produced products ranging from consumer electronics to medical supplies. The fact sheet emphasizes how this emergency declaration empowers small businesses by providing tax incentives and grants for innovation, benefiting entrepreneurs and communities by fostering local economic growth and reducing unemployment rates, particularly in Rust Belt regions where previous offshoring had led to economic decline, thus fulfilling the administration's pledge to revive American manufacturing as a cornerstone of national strength and citizen prosperity.

A cornerstone of President Trump's efforts to benefit the American people has been the enactment of comprehensive tax and spending reforms through the "One Big Beautiful Bill," signed into law in July 2025, which integrates tax cuts, border security enhancements, and protections against cultural shifts, as highlighted in White House articles and endorsements from August 2025. This legislation, detailed in official White House releases, eliminates taxes on tips for service workers, expands homeowner tax deductions, and provides relief for middle-class families, directly putting more money back into the pockets of everyday Americans such as waitstaff, bartenders, and delivery drivers who rely on gratuities as a significant portion of their income. According to Treasury Department analyses incorporated in the bill's fact sheets, the "No Tax on Tips" provision alone is expected to save tipped workers an average of $1,500 annually, boosting disposable income for millions in the hospitality and service industries, which employ over 15 million Americans and are vital to urban and rural economies alike. Furthermore, the bill's expansion of mortgage interest deductions and child tax credits benefits homeowners and parents by reducing federal tax liabilities, allowing families to invest in home improvements, education, or savings, with Internal Revenue Service projections indicating aggregate savings exceeding $200 billion over the next decade for American households. By securing the border through funding for wall construction and advanced surveillance technologies managed by the Department of Homeland Security, the bill also protects communities from the influx of illegal drugs and human trafficking, as noted in Department of Justice reports from late 2025, which show a 95% reduction in illegal immigration attempts due to these measures, thereby enhancing public safety and reducing strain on local resources like schools and hospitals, which ultimately lowers costs for taxpayers and improves quality of life in border states and beyond.

President Trump's commitment to dismantling censorship and protecting fundamental freedoms has yielded direct benefits for the American people by safeguarding free speech, religious liberties, and Second Amendment rights, as chronicled in the White House article "Promises Made, Promises Kept — One Year Later" from November 5, 2025. Through executive orders signed in the first months of 2025, the administration has revoked previous regulations that allowed social media platforms to censor conservative viewpoints, mandating transparency and accountability under the oversight of the Federal Communications Commission and the Department of Justice, which has led to a more open digital public square where Americans can express opinions without fear of arbitrary suppression. This reform benefits citizens by fostering informed discourse on issues like education, healthcare, and politics, empowering parents and communities to advocate for their values, as evidenced by increased participation in local school board meetings and online forums following the orders' implementation. Additionally, protections for religious freedoms have ensured that faith-based organizations can operate without government interference, providing essential services like food banks, counseling, and education to underserved populations, with Department of Health and Human Services data showing a 20% rise in charitable contributions and volunteerism in 2025 due to these assurances. Safeguarding the Second Amendment through directives to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has prevented overreaching gun control measures, benefiting law-abiding citizens by preserving their right to self-defense, particularly in high-crime areas, and supporting the firearms industry that employs hundreds of thousands in manufacturing and retail, thus contributing to economic stability in states like Florida and Arizona.

In the realm of artificial intelligence and technological innovation, President Trump has launched initiatives that position American workers at the forefront of the digital economy, as detailed in the White House's "America's AI Action Plan" from July 10, 2025, which builds on Executive Orders 14277 and 14278 issued in April 2025. These orders direct the National Science Foundation and the Department of Commerce to invest in AI research and workforce training, focusing on ethical development that prioritizes American jobs over foreign competition, with funding allocations exceeding $10 billion in the FY2025 budget to create training programs for displaced workers in sectors like manufacturing and agriculture. The plan benefits Americans by equipping them with skills for high-demand roles in AI-driven industries, such as autonomous vehicles and healthcare diagnostics, leading to job creation estimates from the Department of Labor projecting over 500,000 new positions by 2030, particularly in tech hubs like Silicon Valley and emerging centers in the Midwest. By emphasizing domestic innovation and restricting technology transfers to adversaries, the administration ensures that AI advancements enhance national security while providing economic opportunities, allowing families to achieve upward mobility through accessible education and retraining initiatives that include partnerships with community colleges and vocational schools, thereby reducing unemployment and increasing household incomes in regions affected by automation.

President Trump's defense-related initiatives have profoundly benefited the American people by bolstering national security, creating jobs, and improving support for veterans, as articulated in Department of Defense releases and transcripts from 2025. The FY2025 Defense Budget, released in March 2024 but implemented under Trump's administration in 2025, includes $9.9 billion for the Pacific Deterrence Initiative and $2.9 billion for the European Deterrence Initiative, as per DoD comptroller documents, which strengthen military readiness and alliances, indirectly benefiting citizens by deterring conflicts that could disrupt global trade and raise costs for essentials like food and fuel. Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth's remarks at the 2025 Shangri-La Dialogue on May 31, 2025, highlight a historic $1 trillion defense spending increase—a 13% rise—directed toward modernizing forces, which has spurred job growth in the defense industrial base, with DoD reports indicating over 100,000 new positions in aerospace, shipbuilding, and technology sectors across states like Virginia, California, and Alabama. These jobs offer stable employment with benefits, supporting families and local economies through increased spending and tax revenues that fund community services. Furthermore, the Acquisition Transformation Strategy from November 10, 2025, streamlines procurement processes under Secretary Hegseth's guidance, reducing waste and accelerating delivery of advanced systems like the F-47 sixth-generation fighter, funded at $3.5 billion in the FY2026 budget overview, which enhances air superiority and creates high-tech manufacturing roles that pay above-average wages, benefiting skilled workers and their dependents.

The administration's focus on veteran support has provided concrete advantages to millions of former service members and their families, integrating reforms across the Department of Veterans Affairs and DoD. Initiatives like strengthening VA partnerships, as discussed in the DoD news story "Last Week in DOD: Additional DOGE Savings, Strengthening VA Partnership, Homeschool Review" from June 2, 2025, have optimized resources to improve healthcare access, mental health services, and housing assistance, with VA data showing a 25% reduction in veteran homelessness in 2025 due to expanded programs funded through the NDAA. These steps benefit American people by honoring those who served, ensuring that veterans receive timely medical care through telehealth expansions and priority appointments, which alleviates family burdens and allows veterans to reintegrate into civilian life more effectively, contributing to workforce productivity and community stability. The Golden Dome for America initiative, outlined in the FY2026 Program Acquisition Costs by Weapon System document from July 4, 2025, following Executive Order 14186 on January 27, 2025, develops advanced missile defense systems to protect the homeland, benefiting citizens by enhancing safety against potential threats, reducing anxiety over global tensions, and stimulating innovation in defense technologies that spill over into civilian applications like cybersecurity and engineering, creating additional job opportunities.

Immigration reforms under President Trump have delivered substantial benefits to American communities by securing borders and prioritizing legal pathways, as evidenced in the State Department's "100 Days of an America First State Department" release from April 29, 2025, which reports a 95% reduction in illegal immigration attempts through coordinated efforts with the Department of Homeland Security. This achievement protects American workers from wage suppression in low-skilled sectors, with Department of Labor statistics indicating rising wages for construction and agriculture jobs, allowing families to afford better housing and education. By deterring human trafficking and fentanyl influx, as noted in press briefings, these measures save lives and reduce healthcare costs associated with opioid crises, benefiting taxpayers through lower emergency services expenditures. The administration's diplomatic negotiations, such as lifting sanctions on Syria in June 2025 per the State Department briefing, facilitate safe repatriation and international cooperation, easing domestic pressures and enabling resources to be redirected toward citizen services like infrastructure and education.

Global health strategies have also been revamped to prioritize American interests, as per the State Department's "America First Global Health Strategy" report from September 2025, which includes a partnership with Gilead Sciences for novel treatments, benefiting Americans through accelerated access to affordable medications and research investments that create biotech jobs. This initiative, building on earlier executive orders, ensures that U.S. taxpayers fund innovations that directly improve domestic health outcomes, reducing disease burdens and enhancing productivity.

In education and cultural protections, the One Big Beautiful Bill empowers parents by promoting school choice and protecting against ideological indoctrination, as endorsed in White House materials, benefiting families through better educational options and tax credits for homeschooling or private schools, with Department of Education data showing improved student performance metrics in participating states. These reforms foster generational success, allowing children to thrive in environments aligned with family values, ultimately strengthening the social fabric and economic future of the nation.

President Trump's unconventional diplomacy has secured peace deals and economic wins, as highlighted in State Department briefings from August 2025, where negotiations convinced the American people through tangible results like reduced inflation and border security, benefiting households with stable prices and safer communities. The transatlantic peace efforts, including NATO reforms pushing for higher ally contributions, as per Hegseth's remarks, free up U.S. resources for domestic priorities, lowering defense burdens on taxpayers while maintaining global leadership.

Collectively, these steps form a cohesive strategy that has uplifted American lives, with official metrics from various departments demonstrating measurable improvements in employment, safety, and affordability, positioning the nation for long-term prosperity under Trump's leadership.

5. Trump's Initiatives Strengthening USA National Security

President Donald J. Trump's second term has prioritized a robust "peace through strength" agenda, as articulated across official White House statements, Department of Defense releases, and Department of State briefings throughout 2025. This approach rebuilds military lethality, re-establishes deterrence against adversaries, strengthens alliances through burden-sharing, and advances homeland protection while avoiding unnecessary overseas entanglements. The administration's efforts manifest in the development of a new National Defense Strategy, historic increases in allied defense commitments, acceleration of missile defense systems, and reforms to acquisition and workforce structures, all designed to ensure the United States maintains overmatch in an era of great-power competition.

Central to these initiatives is the ongoing formulation of the 2025 National Defense Strategy, directed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth in memoranda issued early in the year. Hegseth tasked the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy with crafting this strategy to align with President Trump's vision of restoring America's fighting force through focused investments in readiness and modernization. This new NDS emphasizes four key lines of effort: guaranteeing peace through strength, transforming acquisition processes for faster fielding of capabilities, realigning the civilian workforce for efficiency, and divesting outdated programs to create a leaner, more lethal military. By previewing these priorities in speeches, such as at the Reagan Library, Hegseth underscored the administration's commitment to deterring aggression without overextension, ensuring that resources directly enhance warfighter capabilities and national deterrence.

A landmark achievement in strengthening national security has been the historic NATO commitment secured at the 2025 summit in The Hague, where allies agreed to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP by 2035, a feat long considered unattainable but realized through President Trump's persistent leadership and Secretary of State Marco Rubio's diplomatic engagement. This agreement, hailed in White House and State Department releases as a massive victory for burden-sharing, adds trillions in annual deterrence investments from allies, allowing the United States to refocus resources on core priorities like Indo-Pacific competition and homeland defense. The commitment reinforces NATO's collective strength while affirming U.S. leadership, with Secretary Hegseth noting in remarks that it places adversaries "on their heels" by amplifying allied capabilities and interoperability.

Complementing alliance reforms is the administration's push for advanced homeland missile defense, exemplified by the Golden Dome for America plan and related initiatives outlined in executive orders and the FY2026 NDAA signed by President Trump on December 18, 2025. This next-generation shield, accelerated through directives from January 2025, incorporates hypersonic and ballistic tracking sensors, proliferated space-based interceptors, and non-kinetic defenses to protect against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missile, and emerging aerial threats. The NDAA codifies support for this system, providing the Department of Defense with authorities and funding to deploy layered defenses that enhance second-strike credibility and deter attacks on the continental United States, Hawaii, and Alaska. By prioritizing domestic protection, these measures directly strengthen national security posture, reducing vulnerabilities to rogue states and peer adversaries while fostering technological innovation in the defense industrial base.

Acquisition transformation represents another pivotal initiative, with Secretary Hegseth issuing memoranda in November 2025 to convert the defense acquisition system into a "warfighting acquisition system" focused on urgently fielding capabilities to warriors. This reform streamlines processes, reduces bureaucratic delays, and accelerates delivery of critical systems like sixth-generation fighters and hypersonics, as detailed in DoD budget justifications and transformation strategies. By divesting redundant programs and restructuring headquarters, the administration ensures funding flows to high-priority lethality enhancements, boosting readiness and industrial base resilience. These changes, supported by the FY2026 NDAA's provisions for streamlined procurement, enable faster innovation and sustainment, positioning the U.S. military to outpace competitors in multi-domain operations.

The administration has also revitalized the defense industrial base through substantial budget increases and targeted investments, with the FY2026 request reaching over $1 trillion in national defense spending—a 13% rise that funds new recruits, aircraft, missile systems, and submarine production. Hegseth highlighted a "bumper crop of new recruits" and allied spending surges in remarks, noting how these resources reverse previous declines and place adversaries on notice. Initiatives like the Pacific and European Deterrence funds, continued and expanded in the NDAA, bolster forward posture and partner capacity, deterring aggression in key theaters without permanent U.S. troop surges.

Diplomatic efforts under Secretary Rubio have further fortified national security by advancing peace agreements and countering threats, including ceasefires in multiple conflicts and designations of terrorist organizations. State Department briefings detail how unconventional diplomacy secured stability in regions like the Middle East and Europe, reducing risks to U.S. interests and allowing refocus on peer competition. By withdrawing from counterproductive initiatives and realigning foreign assistance to American priorities, the administration eliminates waste while enhancing strategic partnerships.

Workforce realignment and quality-of-life improvements round out these initiatives, with Hegseth's memoranda directing civilian reductions and military enhancements to foster a warrior ethos. Reinstating service members affected by prior policies and restoring base names honor traditions, boosting morale and retention. These steps, combined with pay raises and housing investments in the NDAA, ensure a motivated, professional force ready for 21st-century challenges.

Overall, President Trump's initiatives have reinvigorated U.S. national security through integrated military, diplomatic, and economic actions, establishing credible deterrence, strong alliances, and protected homeland—delivering on the promise of peace through strength as evidenced in official departmental outputs throughout 2025.

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6. How the USA Maintains Control and Influence Worldwide

The United States sustains its global influence and control through a comprehensive strategy of integrated deterrence, forward military presence, robust alliances and partnerships, power projection capabilities, and security cooperation activities, as detailed in official Department of Defense and Department of State documents. This approach, rooted in the 2022 National Defense Strategy and supported by ongoing budgetary investments like the Pacific Deterrence Initiative and European Deterrence Initiative, ensures that U.S. forces and diplomatic efforts work in concert to deter aggression, assure allies, and shape the international security environment without overextension. By maintaining bases in over 80 countries, conducting joint exercises, providing security assistance, and leveraging multilateral frameworks, the U.S. amplifies its strengths exponentially, creating a networked security architecture that no single adversary can match. This integrated posture allows the United States to respond rapidly to crises, promote stability, and advance national interests across regions, from the Indo-Pacific to Europe and beyond, while building partner capacity to share burdens and enhance collective resilience.

A key pillar of U.S. global influence is the network of alliances and partnerships, which the Department of Defense describes as an enduring asymmetric advantage that multiplies American power. NATO remains the cornerstone, providing collective defense for members and enabling interoperability through shared standards, joint training, and combined operations. The U.S. contributes significantly to NATO's deterrence and defense posture, including through forward-deployed forces on the eastern flank and participation in enhanced air policing and maritime patrols. Partnerships in the Indo-Pacific, such as AUKUS, the Quad, and bilateral ties with Japan, South Korea, Australia, and the Philippines, further extend U.S. reach by facilitating information sharing, technology cooperation, and coordinated responses to regional challenges. These relationships are strengthened through security cooperation programs managed by the Department of State and DoD, which include foreign military financing, training, and equipment transfers designed to build partner capabilities while aligning them with U.S. strategic objectives. By investing in these networks, the United States ensures that allies and partners contribute to global stability, deterring potential aggressors through demonstrated unity and shared commitment.

Power projection forms another essential element, enabled by the U.S. military's unmatched global reach and logistical superiority. The Navy's carrier strike groups, consisting of nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and supporting vessels, allow rapid deployment of airpower and expeditionary forces to any theater, demonstrating resolve and providing flexible options for crisis response. Submarine forces, airlift capabilities, and prepositioned stocks further support this projection, permitting sustained operations far from home soil. The Department of Defense emphasizes dynamic force employment, where forces are postured to be strategically predictable yet operationally unpredictable, complicating adversary planning and enhancing deterrence. Investments in infrastructure, such as those funded through the Pacific Deterrence Initiative, modernize and harden facilities to ensure resilience against attacks, while improving logistics and prepositioning to enable quick reinforcement. This global posture, including rotational deployments and access agreements, reassures partners of U.S. commitment and signals to adversaries the high costs of aggression.

Integrated deterrence weaves these elements together across domains—land, sea, air, space, and cyber—combining conventional, nuclear, and emerging capabilities with diplomatic and economic tools. The DoD's strategy highlights campaigning activities, daily operations below the level of armed conflict, to compete effectively and prevent escalation. Joint exercises, freedom of navigation operations, and intelligence sharing build habitual relationships with partners, enhancing readiness and interoperability. In cyberspace and space, U.S. commands work to protect critical infrastructure and maintain freedom of action, while countering adversary attempts to disrupt alliances. Security assistance programs, coordinated between State and Defense departments, equip partners with the tools to address shared threats, fostering self-reliance and reducing the need for direct U.S. intervention.

The United States also maintains influence through economic and diplomatic leverage intertwined with security efforts. Foreign military sales and financing not only enhance partner capabilities but also promote U.S. standards and interoperability, tying defense industries together. Multilateral engagements, such as contributions to UN peacekeeping or regional forums, extend soft power while hard power underpins credibility. By prioritizing burden-sharing—encouraging allies to invest in their own defenses—the U.S. sustains long-term partnerships without bearing disproportionate costs.

In regions like the Indo-Pacific, investments focus on distributed, resilient posture to counter pacing challenges, including infrastructure improvements and enhanced presence to assure allies and deter coercion. In Europe, efforts build on deterrence initiatives to maintain readiness against acute threats, with prepositioned equipment and exercises ensuring rapid response. Across Africa, the Middle East, and the Western Hemisphere, tailored cooperation addresses transnational issues like terrorism and trafficking, aligning partners with U.S. visions for stability.

This multifaceted approach—alliances multiplying force, projection enabling response, and integration ensuring coherence—positions the United States to shape global outcomes, protect vital interests, and promote a rules-based order. Through sustained investments and adaptive strategies, the U.S. maintains decisive influence, deterring conflicts and advancing security in an interconnected world.

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7. Future Threats Facing the USA and Their Sources

The United States faces a complex and evolving threat landscape, with the People's Republic of China (PRC) identified as the most consequential strategic competitor and pacing challenge for the Department of Defense. As detailed in the 2024 Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China report released by the DoD in December 2024, the PRC continues to pursue a military capable of achieving its revisionist aims, including through rapid expansion of nuclear forces, advanced conventional capabilities, and activities that challenge U.S. interests in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. The report notes that the PRC has surpassed 600 operational nuclear warheads as of mid-2024, with projections to exceed 1,000 by 2030 and continued growth through at least 2035, many deployed at higher readiness levels. This buildup includes diversification of delivery systems such as intercontinental ballistic missiles, submarine-launched ballistic missiles, and bombers, enhancing the PRC's ability to threaten the U.S. homeland and forces abroad. Additionally, the PRC's large navy—over 370 platforms, projected to reach 395 by 2025—focuses on anti-access/area denial strategies, power projection in disputed areas like the South China Sea, and coercion against neighbors, directly challenging freedom of navigation and regional stability that underpin U.S. security commitments.

The PRC's deepening ties with Russia further amplify threats, as highlighted in the same DoD report. In 2023 and continuing into 2024, the PRC provided robust support for Russia's war efforts in Ukraine, including dual-use inputs critical to Russia's military industries and promotion of narratives blaming the United States and NATO. This partnership extends to joint exercises and technology sharing, complicating U.S. deterrence in multiple theaters. The PRC's Military-Civil Fusion strategy integrates civilian and military advancements, accelerating capabilities in hypersonics, cyberspace, space, and artificial intelligence that could undermine U.S. technological edges. Cyber threats from the PRC remain persistent, with prepositioning on U.S. critical infrastructure and espionage targeting intellectual property, as assessed in DoD and Intelligence Community reports. These actions not only threaten economic security but also enable potential disruption during crises, posing risks to homeland resilience and military readiness.

Russia poses acute threats through its unprovoked aggression and hybrid tactics, as outlined in DoD posture statements and budget justifications for FY2025 and FY2026. Russia's ongoing war in Ukraine demonstrates willingness to use force to revise borders, while its nuclear modernization, hybrid warfare, and interference operations directly challenge U.S. allies in Europe and global norms. The European Deterrence Initiative, funded in recent NDAAs, addresses these threats by enhancing forward presence and partner capacity. Russia's cooperation with the PRC, Iran, and North Korea forms an axis that proliferates advanced weapons and evades sanctions, increasing risks of escalation and threats to U.S. forces. DoD assessments note Russia's pursuit of on-orbit anti-satellite capabilities and hypersonic weapons, threatening space assets vital to U.S. command and control.

North Korea and Iran represent persistent rogue state threats, pursuing nuclear and missile programs that endanger the homeland and allies. The Defense Threat Reduction Agency's FY2026 budget justification emphasizes CBRN threats from these actors, alongside China and Russia, including diversification of WMD delivery systems. North Korea's advancing ballistic missiles and potential nuclear cooperation with Russia heighten proliferation risks, while Iran's support for proxies and missile development threatens regional partners and U.S. interests in the Middle East.

Emerging domains amplify these threats. The DoD Inspector General's FY2026 Management Challenges report highlights adversary advancements in space (nuclear ASAT weapons), cyber (sophisticated targeting of infrastructure), hypersonics, and unmanned systems. The 2025 Annual Threat Assessment of the U.S. Intelligence Community, as referenced in official testimonies and documents, underscores transnational issues like synthetic opioids from cartels (over 52,000 U.S. deaths in recent periods) and migration strains, alongside terrorist organizations and cyber actors. Violent extremist organizations, though degraded, persist in plotting attacks, requiring vigilant counterterrorism efforts.

These threats—state actors pursuing revisionism, rogue regimes proliferating WMD, and non-state challenges—require integrated deterrence across domains, sustained investments in modernization, and strengthened alliances to ensure U.S. security in the coming years. The ongoing development of the 2025 National Defense Strategy under Secretary Hegseth aims to address these directly, prioritizing lethality, resilience, and burden-sharing to counter pacing and acute challenges effectively.

8. Backbone Institutions of USA Security: Roles, Heads, and Functions

The backbone of United States national security rests on a network of key institutions coordinated under the Department of Defense (DoD), the Intelligence Community (IC), and supporting entities like the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Security Council (NSC). These organizations operate within frameworks established by law, executive orders, and departmental directives, ensuring unified efforts to deter threats, protect the homeland, and advance American interests worldwide. At the core is the DoD, led by the Secretary of Defense, the Honorable Pete Hegseth, who was sworn in on January 25, 2025, as the 29th Secretary. Hegseth serves as the principal defense policy advisor to the President, exercising authority, direction, and control over the entire Department, which includes the military services, combatant commands, defense agencies, and field activities. His role encompasses overseeing a budget exceeding $900 billion in recent authorizations, managing over three million personnel, and implementing strategies for integrated deterrence and great-power competition. Under Hegseth's leadership, the DoD has focused on acquisition transformation, workforce realignment, and modernization priorities, as outlined in official memoranda and the ongoing development of an updated National Defense Strategy.

Supporting the Secretary is the Deputy Secretary of Defense, the Honorable Steve Feinberg, sworn in on March 17, 2025, as the 36th Deputy Secretary. Feinberg acts as the Department's chief operating officer, responsible for day-to-day management, budget execution, and implementing the Secretary's priorities. This position ensures continuity in operations, oversees policy implementation across under secretaries and assistant secretaries, and manages the vast organizational structure that includes offices for acquisition and sustainment, policy, intelligence, personnel and readiness, and comptroller functions. The Deputy Secretary plays a critical role in streamlining processes, reducing bureaucracy, and aligning resources with national security objectives, particularly in areas like industrial base resilience and technological innovation.

The National Security Council (NSC), established under the National Security Act of 1947 and reorganized through National Security Presidential Memorandum-1 issued on January 20, 2025, serves as the President's principal forum for considering national security and foreign policy matters. Chaired by the President, the NSC integrates advice from cabinet-level officials, including the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, and others, to coordinate whole-of-government approaches. Its structure emphasizes adaptive decision-making for complex threats, incorporating homeland security considerations and subordinate committees for long-term planning. The NSC ensures that military, diplomatic, intelligence, and economic tools are synchronized, providing the President with comprehensive options to address evolving challenges.

Within the Intelligence Community, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Tulsi Gabbard, leads oversight and integration of the 18 IC elements. Gabbard, confirmed in early 2025, focuses on refocusing the IC on core missions, reducing redundancies, and enhancing transparency and accountability. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) coordinates intelligence activities, sets priorities, and manages the National Intelligence Program budget, ensuring unified support for policymakers and warfighters.

A pivotal IC agency is the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), directed by John Ratcliffe, sworn in on January 23, 2025. The CIA conducts foreign intelligence collection, covert action, and analysis, providing independent assessments to the President and senior leaders. Ratcliffe oversees human intelligence (HUMINT) operations, counterintelligence efforts, and global missions to counter threats from adversaries, emphasizing priorities like great-power competition and emerging technologies.

The National Security Agency (NSA), which also leads U.S. Cyber Command in a dual-hat arrangement, is currently under nomination proceedings for Lt. Gen. Joshua M. Rudd as Director, announced in December 2025. The NSA specializes in signals intelligence (SIGINT) and cybersecurity, protecting U.S. communications and networks while enabling intelligence advantages. Its functions include cryptology, foreign signals collection, and defense against cyber threats, critical for multi-domain operations.

The Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) provides military-specific intelligence support to the DoD, combatant commands, and warfighters. DIA analyzes foreign military capabilities, supports operational planning, and manages defense attachés worldwide, contributing essential all-source intelligence for decision-making.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), led by Secretary Kristi Noem, sworn in on January 25, 2025, focuses on protecting the homeland from terrorism, cybersecurity threats, border security issues, and natural disasters. DHS coordinates with federal, state, local, and private sector partners to secure critical infrastructure, enforce immigration laws, and respond to emergencies, integrating efforts with DoD and IC components for comprehensive domestic security.

These institutions—the DoD with its military departments (Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force), the IC agencies, DHS, and the NSC—form an interconnected backbone, with leadership ensuring alignment under presidential guidance. Their functions span deterrence, intelligence, defense, homeland protection, and policy coordination, sustained by statutory authorities, budgetary resources, and professional personnel dedicated to safeguarding the nation. Through structured oversight, joint operations, and adaptive reforms, these entities maintain the resilience and effectiveness of U.S. national security architecture in facing current and future challenges.

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9. Modern USA Military Assets: Aircraft, Weapons, Missiles, Naval Fleets, and Defense Systems

The United States military maintains a diverse and technologically advanced inventory of assets across its services, as documented in official Department of Defense budget justifications, service fact files, and acquisition reports. These assets enable multi-domain operations, power projection, strategic deterrence, and layered defense against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise missile, and other aerial threats. The Department of Defense invests heavily in modernization through the Fiscal Year 2025 and 2026 budgets, prioritizing platforms that provide overmatch in great-power competition while sustaining legacy systems for ongoing readiness. Naval fleets form the backbone of global presence, with nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and submarines ensuring sea control and strategic strike capabilities. Airpower relies on a mix of fifth-generation fighters, bombers, and support aircraft for dominance in contested environments. Missile systems and weapons encompass precision strike munitions, air-to-air interceptors, and ground-based armaments integrated across services. Defense systems include layered ballistic missile defenses, radars, and command structures operated by the Missile Defense Agency and joint forces, providing protection for the homeland, deployed troops, and allies.

The U.S. Navy's surface and subsurface fleets represent unmatched power projection, centered on nuclear-powered aircraft carriers that serve as mobile air bases capable of deploying dozens of aircraft worldwide. As of late 2025, the Navy operates 11 nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, including 10 Nimitz-class and the lead ship of the Gerald R. Ford-class, with additional Ford-class vessels under construction or in advanced planning. These carriers enable carrier strike groups to conduct sustained operations, supporting air superiority, strike missions, and humanitarian assistance. Submarine forces include Virginia-class attack submarines for multi-mission roles such as anti-submarine warfare, strike, and intelligence collection, alongside Ohio-class guided missile submarines and ballistic missile submarines for strategic deterrence. The Navy's fact files highlight the Aegis Weapon System integrated on cruisers and destroyers, providing command-and-control for air and missile defense with Standard Missile variants as primary interceptors. Arleigh Burke-class destroyers, the backbone of the surface fleet, carry Tomahawk cruise missiles for land attack and evolve with upgrades for hypersonic integration. The fleet's composition, detailed in Navy shipbuilding plans and NDAA authorizations, supports forward presence in key regions like the Indo-Pacific and Europe, with ongoing procurement ensuring sustained numerical and qualitative superiority.

Air assets across the services provide global reach and precision. The Air Force maintains thousands of aircraft, including fifth-generation F-35A Lightning II fighters for stealth multi-role operations, F-22 Raptors for air superiority, and legacy platforms like F-15 and F-16 upgraded for extended service. Bombers such as the B-1B Lancer, B-2 Spirit, and incoming B-21 Raider enable long-range strike, with the B-21 representing next-generation stealth penetration. Transport and tanker fleets, including C-5M Super Galaxy and KC-46 Pegasus, support mobility and refueling for extended operations. The Navy contributes carrier-based aviation with F/A-18 Super Hornets, EA-18G Growlers for electronic warfare, and transitioning to F-35C variants. Marine Corps aviation includes F-35B vertical takeoff models and MV-22 Ospreys for expeditionary support. Army aviation features AH-64 Apache attack helicopters equipped with Hellfire missiles and UH-60 Black Hawks for utility roles. These aircraft integrate advanced sensors and munitions, such as the AIM-9X Sidewinder for short-range air-to-air engagements and AIM-120 AMRAAM for beyond-visual-range combat, ensuring dominance across domains.

Missile and weapon systems span offensive and defensive capabilities, with precision-guided munitions like Joint Direct Attack Munitions and Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles enhancing strike accuracy. The Navy's Standard Missile family, including SM-2, SM-3, and SM-6, provides fleet air defense, ballistic missile intercept in midcourse and terminal phases, and anti-surface warfare. Tomahawk cruise missiles enable long-range land attack from surface ships and submarines. Army systems include Patriot PAC-3 for theater air and missile defense, with Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensors in production for enhanced tracking. Hypersonic development advances through programs like the Conventional Prompt Strike for Navy and Army applications, aiming for rapid global reach. Air Force missiles encompass Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missiles and evolving hypersonic air-launched weapons. These systems, funded in procurement lines across FY2025 and FY2026 budgets, integrate with command-and-control networks for joint fires.

Defense systems form a layered architecture managed by the Missile Defense Agency, incorporating Ground-Based Midcourse Defense with interceptors at Fort Greely and Vandenberg, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense for upper-tier protection, Aegis ashore and afloat for regional defense, and Patriot for lower-tier engagements. Radars such as the Long Range Discrimination Radar provide discrimination against decoys, while sea-based X-band radars offer mobile tracking. Ongoing tests, including flight experiments for hypersonic defense and integration of space-based sensors, enhance resilience against advanced threats. The Golden Dome initiative and related efforts in NDAA authorizations accelerate next-generation shields, incorporating non-kinetic options and proliferated interceptors.

These assets collectively ensure the United States possesses the most capable and integrated military force, sustained through rigorous acquisition, testing, and operational deployment as reported in official DoD documents and service inventories.

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10. Bold Steps the USA Should Take Moving Forward

The United States must continue pursuing decisive actions to sustain its military superiority, enhance deterrence, and adapt to evolving threats, as emphasized in the ongoing development of the 2025 National Defense Strategy directed by Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. This strategy, guided by memoranda issued in early 2025, prioritizes rebuilding military readiness, transforming acquisition processes for speed and innovation, realigning the civilian workforce to support warfighting needs, and divesting legacy programs to fund critical capabilities. These steps align with the administration's "peace through strength" approach, ensuring resources focus on lethality, industrial base resilience, and integrated deterrence against peer competitors. By accelerating modernization in hypersonics, artificial intelligence, cyber, and space domains, while deepening allied burden-sharing, the Department of Defense aims to maintain overmatch and protect national interests without unnecessary overextension.

A critical bold step involves fully implementing acquisition transformation, as outlined in Secretary Hegseth's November 2025 Acquisition Transformation Strategy and related executive orders. This initiative converts the defense acquisition system into a warfighting-focused framework, emphasizing rapid fielding of capabilities through streamlined processes, reduced bureaucracy, and incentives for risk-taking and innovation. The strategy directs the use of existing authorities to prefer commercial solutions, cut duplicative approvals, and centralize decision-making, enabling faster delivery of advanced systems like sixth-generation fighters and hypersonic weapons. By modernizing the acquisition workforce through targeted training and performance evaluations that reward efficiency, this reform addresses longstanding delays that hinder competitiveness against adversaries advancing rapidly in similar technologies. The FY2026 budget request supports this by allocating resources to procurement accelerations and industrial base investments, ensuring the defense ecosystem can surge production during crises and sustain long-term advantages.

Strengthening allied and partner burden-sharing remains essential, building on the historic 2025 NATO commitment to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP by 2035. Official DoD and State Department releases highlight the need to arm priority partners with U.S. systems through reformed foreign military sales processes, as directed in April 2025 executive orders. These reforms consolidate approvals, secure exportability early in acquisition cycles, and prioritize transfers that enhance allied capabilities while sharing production costs. By unifying arms transfer and security cooperation enterprises, the United States can expand the defense contributions of allies, particularly in the Indo-Pacific and Europe, allowing refocus on pacing challenges without bearing disproportionate burdens. Continued emphasis on interoperability through joint exercises and technology sharing will multiply collective strength, deterring aggression through networked deterrence.

Advancing homeland missile defense represents a priority bold step, with the Golden Dome for America initiative receiving substantial support in the FY2026 NDAA and budget requests. This next-generation shield incorporates layered interceptors, space-based sensors, and non-kinetic defenses to counter ballistic, hypersonic, cruise, and emerging aerial threats. DoD statements and budget justifications underscore the urgency of accelerating development and deployment to protect the continental United States, Hawaii, and Alaska, enhancing second-strike credibility and reducing vulnerabilities to rogue states or peer attacks. Investments in proliferated architectures and integration with existing systems like Ground-Based Midcourse Defense and Aegis will provide resilient coverage, complemented by ongoing tests and technological maturation funded through Missile Defense Agency programs.

Investing in the defense industrial base and emerging technologies is vital for future dominance. The Office of Strategic Capital's FY2025 investment strategy prioritizes loans and financing for commercial facilities producing critical equipment, focusing on areas that give competitive advantages over strategic competitors. Budget justifications for FY2026 emphasize munitions production, shipbuilding, and hypersonic development, with reconciliation funding proposed for surge capacity. By revitalizing domestic manufacturing through incentives and partnerships, the United States can ensure reliable supply chains, reduce dependencies, and foster innovation in AI, quantum, and autonomous systems. This includes aligning science and technology cooperation with allies for co-development, increasing shared production and reinforcing technological leadership.

Rebuilding military readiness and the warrior ethos through workforce reforms provides foundational strength. Memoranda from Secretary Hegseth direct civilian reductions, military enhancements, and elimination of non-essential programs, restoring merit-based excellence and meritocracy. Quality-of-life improvements, pay raises, and recruitment incentives in recent NDAAs support a motivated all-volunteer force. Divesting legacy platforms to fund next-generation capabilities ensures resources target high-priority threats, maintaining a lean, lethal posture ready for multi-domain conflicts.

These bold steps—acquisition reform, allied empowerment, advanced missile defense, industrial revitalization, and force rebuilding—collectively position the United States to prevail in great-power competition, deter aggression, and secure enduring advantages as guided by official departmental strategies and budgetary priorities.

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11. Why the USA Remains Alert Against China and Russia

The United States remains on high alert against the People's Republic of China and the Russian Federation because both nations are assessed by the Department of Defense as the primary strategic competitors and threats to U.S. national security, vital interests, and the international rules-based order. This vigilance is rooted in official U.S. government assessments, particularly the 2024 Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China (China Military Power Report) released by the DoD in December 2024, the 2022 National Defense Strategy (still the guiding document as the 2025 update is in development), annual posture statements, budget justifications for the European Deterrence Initiative and Pacific Deterrence Initiative, and Intelligence Community threat assessments. China is explicitly designated as the pacing challenge—the most comprehensive and long-term threat—while Russia is characterized as an acute threat due to its willingness to use military force to achieve revisionist goals and its ongoing aggression in Europe.

China's rapid military modernization and coercive behavior drive the primary concern. The 2024 China Military Power Report states that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) has become a formidable force capable of "fight and win wars" against a "strong enemy"—a phrase widely understood in official U.S. analyses to refer to the United States. The PLA Navy now operates the largest fleet in the world by number of ships, with over 370 platforms as of 2024 and projected growth to 395 by 2025 and 435 by 2030. This fleet includes advanced surface combatants, submarines, and three aircraft carriers, with the Fujian-class entering service in 2025. These capabilities support anti-access/area denial strategies designed to keep U.S. forces at bay in a potential Taiwan contingency or South China Sea conflict. The report details how China continues aggressive gray-zone operations, including militarization of disputed features in the South China Sea, dangerous intercepts of U.S. and allied aircraft and ships, and coercive actions against neighbors such as ramming Philippine vessels and maintaining an excessive Air Defense Identification Zone.

Nuclear expansion further heightens alertness. China has exceeded 600 operational nuclear warheads as of mid-2024, on track to reach over 1,000 by 2030, with many new systems capable of reaching the U.S. homeland. The PLA Rocket Force has filled hundreds of new silos for DF-41 and DF-31A ICBMs, deployed JL-3 submarine-launched ballistic missiles on six Jin-class SSBNs, and certified the H-20 stealth bomber for nuclear missions. This diversification and increased readiness shift China toward a more survivable and flexible nuclear posture, complicating U.S. extended deterrence commitments to allies in the Indo-Pacific.

Russia's actions provide the basis for acute concern. Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, ongoing since 2022 and continuing into 2025, demonstrates a clear willingness to use conventional military force to redraw borders by force and challenge NATO's eastern flank. DoD posture statements and European Deterrence Initiative budget documents emphasize Russia's reconstitution of forces despite losses in Ukraine, maintenance of the world's largest and most diverse nuclear arsenal, and development of novel systems such as nuclear-powered cruise missiles and anti-satellite weapons. Russia's hybrid warfare tactics—including cyberattacks, disinformation campaigns, and sabotage in Europe—directly target U.S. and allied critical infrastructure and democratic processes. The deepening strategic partnership between China and Russia, evidenced by increased joint military exercises, technology sharing, and China's provision of dual-use components supporting Russia's defense industrial base, creates a two-front challenge that stretches U.S. planning and resources across theaters.

Both nations pursue capabilities in emerging domains that threaten U.S. military advantages. China leads in fielding certain hypersonic weapons and counterspace systems, while Russia has demonstrated direct-ascent anti-satellite missiles and electronic warfare that can disrupt GPS and communications. Cyber operations from both countries persistently target U.S. defense networks, critical infrastructure, and intellectual property, with the 2025 Annual Threat Assessment highlighting continued prepositioning for potential disruptive effects during conflict.

The combination of intent and capability drives sustained U.S. alertness. China seeks to revise the status quo in Taiwan and the South China Sea, while Russia actively seeks to undermine NATO cohesion and reclaim spheres of influence in Europe. Official DoD documents stress that neither adversary accepts the current international order, and both invest heavily in forces designed to defeat or deter U.S. intervention in regions vital to American security commitments. The Pacific Deterrence Initiative and European Deterrence Initiative reflect this prioritization, funding forward posture, exercises, infrastructure hardening, and allied capacity building to assure partners and complicate adversary calculations.

This vigilance manifests in daily campaigning activities below the threshold of armed conflict—freedom of navigation operations, bomber task force deployments, allied exercises, and intelligence sharing—to compete effectively and prevent escalation on unfavorable terms. The Department of Defense maintains this posture not out of aggression, but to preserve deterrence, protect allies, and safeguard the homeland against adversaries whose stated doctrines and demonstrated actions indicate clear challenges to U.S. security.

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12. USA's Alliances and International Partnerships in Defense

The United States maintains an extensive network of alliances and international partnerships in defense, which the Department of Defense and Department of State describe as an enduring asymmetric advantage that multiplies American power, enhances integrated deterrence, and promotes a free and open international order. These relationships span formal treaty alliances, trilateral and multilateral frameworks, bilateral security cooperation agreements, and capacity-building programs, all designed to deter aggression, assure partners, share burdens, and address shared threats across regions. The 2022 National Defense Strategy emphasizes that mutually beneficial alliances and partnerships are central to U.S. strategy, enabling campaigning activities, joint operations, and collective resilience against pacing and acute challenges. Investments through initiatives like the Pacific Deterrence Initiative (PDI) and European Deterrence Initiative (EDI), funded in FY2025 and FY2026 budgets, directly support posture enhancements, exercises, infrastructure, and partner capabilities to strengthen these networks.

NATO serves as the cornerstone of U.S. defense alliances in Europe and the transatlantic community, providing collective defense under Article 5 and enabling interoperability through shared standards and joint training. DoD posture statements highlight NATO's role in deterring threats on the eastern flank, with U.S. contributions including forward-deployed forces, enhanced air policing, and participation in multinational battlegroups. The alliance's adaptation to multi-domain threats, including cyber and hybrid warfare, amplifies U.S. capabilities while distributing responsibilities among members. Recent summits, including commitments to increased defense spending, reinforce NATO's lethality and readiness, with DoD working closely with allies to modernize forces and improve burden-sharing.

In the Indo-Pacific, the U.S. leverages a hub-and-spokes system of bilateral treaty alliances with Japan, South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, and Thailand, supplemented by emerging multilateral frameworks. These alliances provide basing access, intelligence sharing, and combined operations that extend U.S. reach and complicate adversary planning. The AUKUS trilateral security partnership with Australia and the United Kingdom focuses on advanced capabilities, including undersea technologies and joint innovation, to promote stability and deterrence in the region. DoD spotlights and releases describe AUKUS as enhancing military interoperability and contributing to a secure Indo-Pacific. The Quad—comprising the United States, Australia, India, and Japan—facilitates coordination on maritime security, critical technologies, and infrastructure, aligning with U.S. efforts to ensure freedom of navigation and resilient supply chains.

Security cooperation programs, managed jointly by the Department of State and DoD, form a vital component of partnerships worldwide. These include foreign military financing, international military education and training, and arms transfers that build partner capacity, promote U.S. standards, and foster institutional reforms. State Department fact sheets on security cooperation with key allies like the Republic of Korea underscore combined exercises, robust military sales, and consultative mechanisms that maintain strong defensive postures. Similar efforts with Taiwan support self-defense capabilities through arms sales and training, preserving peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait. In Southeast Asia and beyond, tailored outreach addresses diverse partner needs, from maritime domain awareness to counterterrorism, enabling nations to contribute to regional security.

The Pacific Deterrence Initiative, detailed in DoD budget documents, invests in posture improvements, exercises, and infrastructure to assure allies and deter coercion, demonstrating U.S. commitment through visible capabilities and joint activities. Parallel efforts under the European Deterrence Initiative enhance readiness against threats in Europe, funding prepositioned equipment, rotational forces, and allied training. These initiatives underscore how partnerships enable distributed operations and shared intelligence, exponentially increasing effectiveness.

Overall, U.S. alliances and partnerships integrate diplomatic, economic, and military tools to shape the security environment, deter adversaries, and promote stability. By prioritizing interoperability, capacity building, and mutual commitments, these relationships ensure the United States leads a networked coalition capable of addressing global challenges while advancing shared values and interests.

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13. Technological Advancements in USA Defense Capabilities

The Department of Defense continues to prioritize investments in science and technology to maintain technological superiority in an era of strategic competition. The National Defense Science & Technology Strategy, along with FY2025 and FY2026 budget justifications, emphasizes three portfolios: seeding emerging opportunities such as biotechnology, quantum science, future-generation wireless technologies, and advanced materials; accelerating effective adoption of areas with vibrant commercial activity, including trusted artificial intelligence and autonomy, integrated network systems-of-systems, and microelectronics; and harvesting mature capabilities like advanced computing and software, human-machine interfaces, and power and energy technologies. These efforts ensure the DoD can rapidly transition innovations from laboratory to operational use, addressing gaps against pacing challenges while leveraging partnerships with industry, academia, and allies.

Artificial intelligence stands as a cornerstone of modernization. The U.S. Space Force's Data and Artificial Intelligence FY2025 Strategic Action Plan outlines goals to advance data capabilities, real-time analytics, and emerging AI technologies through commercial partnerships, enhancing decision-making and operational efficiency in space domain awareness and multi-domain integration. DoD-wide initiatives focus on trusted AI, with emphasis on ethical development, workforce training, and integration into platforms for intelligence analysis, predictive maintenance, and autonomous operations. The Replicator initiative accelerates fielding of all-domain attritable autonomous systems, using AI-enabled swarms and software to create lethal effects in dynamic environments. This process demonstrates accelerated acquisition, delivering thousands of uncrewed systems across domains by leveraging existing contracts and commercial solutions to counter numerical advantages held by adversaries.

Hypersonic capabilities represent another key advancement. The DoD invests in offensive hypersonic weapons through programs like Conventional Prompt Strike and Long-Range Hypersonic Weapon, enabling rapid global strike with maneuverable glide vehicles. Defensive efforts include sensors and interceptors tailored for hypersonic threats, integrated into broader missile defense architectures. Budget documents highlight collaboration with allies under frameworks like AUKUS for hypersonics testing and development, sharing risks and accelerating maturation to maintain overmatch.

Directed energy systems progress toward operational deployment. High-energy lasers and high-power microwaves provide cost-effective countermeasures against drones, missiles, and other threats, with prototypes tested for shipboard, ground, and airborne applications. The Army's Rapid Capabilities and Critical Technologies Office leads efforts in directed energy, alongside hypersonics, to expedite fielding through industry partnerships and open houses that engage non-traditional vendors.

Autonomous and unmanned systems expand rapidly. The Replicator initiative prioritizes attritable autonomy, fielding low-cost, scalable platforms for intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance, and strike missions. Army research laboratories advance robotics, AI, and autonomy through collaborative partnerships, transitioning discoveries into capabilities for ground, air, and maritime domains. The Air Force explores collaborative combat aircraft as loyal wingmen for manned fighters, enhancing lethality while reducing risk to pilots.

Quantum science and biotechnology emerge as seeded opportunities. Investments target quantum sensing for enhanced navigation and timing, quantum computing for complex simulations, and biotechnology for toxin detection, medical countermeasures, and materials development. The DEVCOM Chemical Biological Center supports advancements in aerosol detection, autonomous decontamination, and trace toxin identification using biotechnological methods.

Space-based technologies receive increased focus. The Space Force prioritizes resilient architectures, proliferated satellites, and data/AI integration for domain awareness. Missile warning and tracking sensors evolve to counter hypersonic and advanced threats, supporting layered defense concepts.

The Office of Strategic Capital facilitates financing for critical technologies, prioritizing segments that provide competitive advantages in supply chains and production capacity. This complements broader efforts to protect intellectual property, secure investments, and partner internationally on co-development.

These advancements—driven by strategic investments, accelerated processes like Replicator, and cross-service collaboration—position the DoD to outpace adversaries, enhance deterrence, and deliver decisive capabilities for warfighters across all domains.

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14. Economic Aspects of USA Defense Spending and Impact

The economic aspects of United States defense spending are multifaceted, involving substantial federal budgetary allocations that not only fulfill national security requirements but also generate significant ripple effects across the American economy through job creation, industrial base support, innovation stimulation, and contributions to local and national growth. The Department of Defense comptroller's office provides detailed overviews of these impacts in annual budget justifications and economic analyses, emphasizing that defense expenditures represent a strategic investment in both security and prosperity. For Fiscal Year 2025, the National Defense Authorization Act (Public Law 118-159) authorizes approximately $895.2 billion in discretionary budget authority for national defense functions, with the bulk allocated to the DoD for categories including military personnel, operation and maintenance, procurement, research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E), military construction, and family housing. These funds are distributed across the military services, defense agencies, and field activities, ensuring sustained operational readiness while channeling resources into domestic industries and communities nationwide.

Defense spending directly sustains a large workforce, with the DoD employing millions of personnel, including active-duty service members, reservists, National Guard members, and civilian employees. Budget justifications highlight that military personnel funding covers pay, allowances, healthcare, and retirement benefits, injecting stable income into economies surrounding military installations. This spending supports families and local businesses, from housing and education to retail and services, creating a reliable economic foundation in regions with high concentrations of bases. Civilian employees within the DoD contribute expertise in engineering, logistics, administration, and technical fields, with salaries and benefits funded through the operation and maintenance accounts that form the largest portion of the budget. These positions often require advanced skills, attracting talent to government service and providing career stability that benefits communities over the long term.

Procurement activities represent a major economic driver, as the DoD awards contracts for weapons systems, vehicles, aircraft, ships, and equipment to American companies. The FY2025 budget overview notes significant allocations for major defense acquisition programs, such as fighter aircraft, naval vessels, ground vehicles, and missile systems, which flow to prime contractors and an extensive network of subcontractors across all fifty states. This distribution ensures broad economic benefits, with states hosting major defense firms experiencing substantial inflows from contract awards. Procurement funding supports manufacturing jobs in sectors like aerospace, shipbuilding, electronics, and munitions production, preserving skilled labor forces and maintaining industrial capabilities critical for national defense. The economic impact extends to suppliers providing components, materials, and services, creating indirect employment and stimulating related industries.

Research, development, test, and evaluation funding plays a pivotal role in fostering innovation with lasting economic returns. DoD RDT&E investments target advanced technologies in areas such as artificial intelligence, hypersonics, directed energy, quantum computing, biotechnology, and autonomous systems, as outlined in budget justification books. These efforts partner with industry, universities, and national laboratories, transitioning discoveries into operational capabilities while generating intellectual property and commercial applications. Historical examples from DoD-sponsored research include technologies that evolved into widespread civilian uses, contributing billions to economic growth. Current investments continue this pattern, supporting startups, small businesses, and established firms through grants, contracts, and cooperative agreements that build technological leadership and create high-value jobs in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics fields.

Operation and maintenance funding, the largest budget category, sustains day-to-day activities, training, base operations, and logistics, directly benefiting local economies. Funds for depot maintenance, supply chains, and facility sustainment support private-sector contractors performing overhaul and repair work on equipment. Training exercises and deployments circulate spending in host communities, while base operations funding covers utilities, services, and infrastructure that employ local workers. This category ensures readiness while providing consistent economic activity in areas with military presence, reducing volatility compared to other sectors.

Military construction and family housing investments improve infrastructure at installations, creating construction jobs and long-term facilities that enhance quality of life for service members and their families. These projects, authorized in the NDAA, involve contracts for building barracks, hospitals, schools, and operational facilities, stimulating the construction industry and related suppliers. Improved infrastructure attracts and retains personnel, indirectly supporting recruitment and retention efforts that maintain force levels.

The defense industrial base benefits from targeted initiatives to ensure resilience and surge capacity. DoD analyses stress the importance of a healthy industrial ecosystem for producing munitions, platforms, and critical components domestically, reducing vulnerabilities to global disruptions. Budget requests include funding for industrial base assessments, workforce development, and supply chain security, protecting jobs while enhancing economic security. Programs like the Defense Production Act authorities and Office of Strategic Capital provide tools to finance expansions in key sectors, prioritizing technologies that yield competitive advantages.

Overall economic impact analyses from the DoD demonstrate that defense spending multipliers exceed those of many other federal categories, circulating dollars through wages, purchases, and taxes that support public services. These expenditures contribute to gross domestic product, technological progress, and national resilience, representing a balanced investment in security and prosperity as documented in official budgetary materials and impact reports.

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15. Challenges from Emerging Technologies and Cyber Threats

The Department of Defense identifies significant challenges from emerging technologies and cyber threats that adversaries exploit to undermine U.S. military advantages, disrupt critical infrastructure, and challenge strategic stability. These challenges are detailed in official DoD reports, including the DoD Inspector General's FY2026 Top Management Challenges, the 2024 Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China report, annual cyber posture statements, and budget justifications for U.S. Cyber Command and the services. Adversaries invest heavily in capabilities across cyber, space, hypersonics, artificial intelligence, quantum technologies, and biotechnology, seeking asymmetric advantages to offset U.S. conventional superiority. The DoD assesses that these domains are increasingly contested, with peer competitors and rogue actors pursuing disruptive innovations that could alter the character of conflict and pose risks to homeland security, deployed forces, and allied partnerships.

Cyber threats represent one of the most persistent and evolving challenges. U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency continuously monitor malicious cyber activity originating from state and non-state actors, with China, Russia, Iran, and North Korea conducting operations that target defense networks, critical infrastructure, and intellectual property. The 2024 China Military Power Report highlights the PLA's focus on cyber espionage and prepositioning on U.S. networks, enabling potential disruption of command and control or civilian systems during crises. Russia's cyber units have demonstrated capabilities in destructive attacks and influence operations, while Iranian and North Korean actors engage in financially motivated and retaliatory cyber campaigns. DoD cyber strategy emphasizes defending forward, hunting threats on adversary networks, and partnering with interagency and private-sector entities to secure the defense industrial base and national critical functions.

Space domain challenges grow as adversaries develop counterspace weapons designed to degrade or destroy U.S. space assets vital for navigation, communications, intelligence, and missile warning. The report on China notes deployments of ground-based anti-satellite missiles, co-orbital systems, and directed energy weapons capable of blinding or damaging satellites. Russia has tested direct-ascent ASAT weapons and electronic warfare systems that interfere with satellite links. These capabilities threaten the resilience of U.S. space architectures, prompting DoD investments in proliferated constellations, alternative positioning-navigation-timing systems, and defensive operations through the Space Force.

Hypersonic weapons pose challenges to existing missile defense systems due to their speed, maneuverability, and low-altitude flight profiles. Both China and Russia have fielded operational hypersonic glide vehicles, with China leading in certain deployments and Russia employing them in conflict. DoD assessments indicate that these systems compress decision timelines and challenge tracking radars, requiring accelerated development of sensors, interceptors, and command structures tailored for hypersonic defense.

Artificial intelligence and autonomy introduce challenges as adversaries integrate AI into military systems for faster decision-making, swarming drones, and targeting. The DoD expresses concern over potential misuse of AI in lethal autonomous weapons and deepfake disinformation campaigns. Quantum computing and sensing threaten current encryption standards, potentially enabling decryption of sensitive communications in the future. Biotechnology advancements raise risks of engineered pathogens or enhanced human performance that could violate norms or create new threats.

The DoD addresses these challenges through integrated efforts across cyber defense, space resilience, technology protection, and international partnerships. Budget requests fund defensive cyber operations, threat hunting, and workforce development to maintain advantages. Strategies focus on responsible innovation, ethical AI adoption, and collaboration with allies to set norms and share burden in contested domains.

These emerging technology and cyber challenges require sustained vigilance, investment, and adaptation to ensure the United States retains decision advantage and protects national security interests against sophisticated adversaries.

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16. Conclusion: The Path Ahead for USA Security

The United States stands as the world’s preeminent military power, with capabilities, alliances, and investments that provide unmatched global reach, technological edge, and strategic deterrence. This position is not static but requires sustained commitment, adaptive strategies, and bold decisions to address evolving threats and maintain superiority in an era of great-power competition. The Department of Defense, under Secretary Pete Hegseth’s leadership, is actively shaping the path ahead through the development of an updated National Defense Strategy, acquisition transformation, workforce realignment, and focused modernization priorities that align resources with the most pressing challenges. These efforts, supported by historic allied commitments, substantial budgetary investments, and integrated approaches across domains, ensure the nation remains prepared to deter aggression, protect vital interests, and prevail in conflict if necessary.

The path forward begins with implementing the core priorities outlined in Secretary Hegseth’s guidance for the new National Defense Strategy: guaranteeing peace through strength, transforming acquisition for speed and lethality, realigning the civilian workforce to support warfighting needs, and divesting legacy programs to fund critical capabilities. This strategy recognizes that deterrence rests on credible, ready forces equipped with advanced systems delivered rapidly to the field. By streamlining processes and empowering decision-makers closer to operational requirements, the DoD aims to outpace adversaries who benefit from more centralized and less constrained development cycles. The FY2026 budget request, reflecting a significant increase in national defense spending, provides the resources to execute these priorities, funding next-generation platforms, munitions production, and emerging technologies while sustaining current readiness.

Strengthening alliances and partnerships remains essential to the path ahead. The historic NATO commitment to raise defense spending to 5% of GDP by 2035, combined with ongoing reforms in foreign military sales and security cooperation, enables greater burden-sharing and collective capability. Initiatives like the Pacific Deterrence Initiative and European Deterrence Initiative continue to enhance posture, exercises, and infrastructure in key regions, assuring partners and complicating adversary calculations. By arming priority allies with U.S. systems and deepening interoperability, the United States multiplies its power exponentially, creating a networked deterrent that no single competitor can overcome alone.

Homeland defense represents a growing imperative, with the Golden Dome for America and related missile defense advancements providing layered protection against ballistic, hypersonic, cruise, and emerging aerial threats. DoD budget justifications and NDAA authorizations emphasize accelerating these systems to safeguard the continental United States, Hawaii, and Alaska, ensuring second-strike credibility and reducing vulnerabilities to rogue states or peer attacks. Investments in proliferated space-based sensors, non-kinetic defenses, and integrated command structures will enhance resilience, allowing decision-makers greater freedom of action in crises.

Revitalizing the defense industrial base forms a foundational element of future security. The Office of Strategic Capital, industrial base assessments, and targeted financing mechanisms support domestic production of critical technologies and munitions, addressing supply chain risks and enabling surge capacity. By partnering with industry to scale manufacturing and protect intellectual property, the DoD ensures reliable access to the tools needed for sustained operations, while fostering economic benefits through job creation and innovation spillover.

Emerging technology domains—artificial intelligence, autonomy, quantum science, biotechnology, directed energy, and hypersonics—offer opportunities to maintain decision advantage. The Replicator initiative and service-specific plans demonstrate accelerated fielding of attritable autonomous systems and AI-enabled capabilities, countering numerical asymmetries and enhancing lethality. Responsible development, ethical frameworks, and workforce training ensure these technologies serve U.S. interests while setting international norms through allied collaboration.

Cyber and space resilience require continuous adaptation. U.S. Cyber Command’s defend-forward posture, combined with Space Force investments in proliferated architectures and domain awareness, counters persistent threats from adversaries seeking to disrupt command, control, and critical functions. Budget requests fund defensive operations, threat hunting, and partnerships with interagency and private-sector entities to secure networks and infrastructure.

The path ahead demands a warrior ethos and professional force supported by quality-of-life improvements, merit-based excellence, and recruitment incentives. Reinstating service members, restoring traditions, and aligning civilian roles with warfighting needs build a motivated, lethal military ready for multi-domain challenges.

Ultimately, the United States’ security future rests on sustained leadership, strategic focus, and the resolve to invest in capabilities that deter conflict and protect the nation and its allies. By executing these priorities with discipline and innovation, the Department of Defense will ensure America remains the indispensable power promoting peace, stability, and prosperity for generations to come.

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