good evening before i begin
i want to send a special message to
everyone who's been affected by
hurricane laura
our hearts are with you the president
will continue to support you
every step of the way and just like
americans always do the nation will come
together
to help you rebuild your homes
businesses and communities
stronger and more resilient than ever
before
four years ago i introduced to you a
builder
an entrepreneur an outsider and the
people's nominee
for president of the united states
tonight
i stand before you as the proud daughter
of the people's president
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he is our commander-in-chief champion
of the american worker defender of
common sense
and our voice for the forgotten men and
women of this country
he is our president and my father
donald j trump
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this evening i want to tell you about
the leader i know
and the moments i wish every american
could see
i want to tell you the story of a
president who is fighting for you
from dawn to midnight when the cameras
have left
the microphones are off and the
decisions really count
when jared and i moved with our three
young children to washington
we didn't exactly know what we were in
for but our kids
our kids loved it from the start my son
joseph promptly built grandpa a lego
replica of the white house the president
still displays it on the mantle in the
oval office right over there
so that he can show world leaders just
so they know
he has the greatest grandchildren on
earth
i agree
over the last four years we've learned a
lot
i've seen in washington it's easy for
politicians to survive if they silence
their convictions and skip the hard
fights
i couldn't believe so many politicians
actually prefer
to complain about a problem rather than
fix it
i was shocked to see people leave major
challenges unsolved
so they can blame the other side
campaign on the same issue
in the next election but donald trump
did not come to washington to win praise
from the beltway elites
donald trump came to washington for one
reason
and one reason alone to make america
great again
my father has strong convictions he
knows what he believes
and he says what he thinks whether you
agree with him or not
you always know where he stands
i recognize that my dad's communication
style is
not to everyone's taste and i know that
his tweets can feel
a bit unfiltered but the results
the results speak for themselves
he is so unapologetic about his beliefs
that he has caused me
and countless americans to take a hard
look at our own convictions
and ask ourselves what do we stand for
what kind of america do we want to leave
for our children
i am more certain than ever before we
want a future where our kids can believe
in american greatness we want a society
where every child can live in a safe
community
and go to a great school of their choice
we want a culture where differences of
opinion and debate
are encouraged not cancelled where law
enforcement is respected
where our country's rich diversity is
celebrated
and where people of all backgrounds
races genders and creeds
have the chance to achieve their
god-given potential
this is the future my father is working
to build
each and every day
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building after all is what he's done his
whole life
he has admired and befriended
construction workers on countless job
sites
but it has been a new and profound
experience for him and for me
to see these stoic machinists and steel
workers come to him with a tear in their
eye
and thank him for being the only person
willing to go to the map for them
for their jobs for their families and
for their futures
to the hard-working men and women across
america and here tonight
you are the reason my father fights with
all of his heart and all of his might
you are the reason he ran for president
in the first place
and you are the reason he is going to
keep fighting
for four more years
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two
four more years
i remember one evening in early february
of 2018
we were in the oval office with my
father's top economic advisors and the
president was pushing
to keep the promise he made to
renegotiate the bad trade deals
that had gutted millions of middle-class
jobs
most of his advisors argued that the
economy was so strong
following our historic tax and
regulatory cuts
that it didn't make sense to risk
rocking the boat
after the meeting as i walked with my
father back towards the residence he
said
you know the reason this has never been
done before is because our leaders
haven't had the guts
when the economy is good they settle for
good and when things are bad they don't
have the will or ability so they kick
the can
until it's someone else's problem he was
right
if my father didn't take on these fights
no one would in the months that followed
president trump refused
to settle for a good deal he wanted a
great deal and ultimately
that is exactly what we got
i remember each time he was updated on
the progress of the new trade deal with
mexico and canada
he would say don't let down those dairy
farmers i met in wisconsin
i don't want them to like this deal i
want them to
love it
today in the midst of this unprecedented
global pandemic
it's more clear than ever that our
president was absolutely correct to take
on trade when he did
and bring our jobs our factories and our
life-saving medicines
back to the usa
as our nation endures this grave trial
i pray for the families who are mourning
the loss of a loved one
for those who are battling covet 19 and
for the first responders
and the health care heroes who remain on
the front line of this fight
the grief sorrow and anxiety during this
time
is felt by all i've been with my father
and i've seen the pain in his eyes when
he receives updates on the lives that
have been stolen by this plague
i have witnessed him make some of the
most difficult decisions of his life
i sat with him in the oval office as he
stopped travel to europe
i watched him take the strongest most
inclusive economy in a lifetime
the lowest unemployment in a half
century and the highest wage increase
for working families
in decades and close it down to save
american lives
it is why our president rapidly
mobilized the full force of government
in the private sector to produce
ventilators within weeks
to build the most robust testing system
in the world and to develop safe and
effective treatments
and very very soon a vaccine my father
isn't deterred
by defeatist thinkers the word
impossible
well it only motivates him donald trump
rejects the cynical notion
that this country's greatest
achievements are behind us
he believes that nothing is beyond our
reach
and that the best is yet to come
i have seen all of my life how my dad
believes in the potential of each
individual
earlier this evening we were all
inspired by the incredible testimony of
alice johnson
a great grandmother who was sentenced to
life in prison for a first-time
nonviolent drug offense i was with my
father when he decided to commute
alice's life sentence
together we watched alice leave prison
after nearly
22 years as she ran into the arms of her
family and they celebrated a joyful
reunion
my father got very quiet i could see the
emotion on his face
after a long silence he looked at me and
said imagine how many people there are
just like alice from that point on he
became a voice for those who had been
unfairly silenced in our prison system
president trump rectified the
disparities of the 1994
biden crime bill that disproportionately
hurt
african americans
against all odds he brought together
republicans and democrats and passed
the most significant criminal justice
reform of our generation
and we're just getting started
my father did not campaign on this issue
he tackled
this injustice because he has a deep
compassion for those who have been
treated unfairly
more than rhetoric and political prose
the ability to build consensus
and achieve bipartisan success will help
heal our country's racial inequities
and bring us forward together
president trump is advancing the
american values
of work and family
four years ago in cleveland i said
president trump would deliver
for working women last year over
70 percent of all new jobs were secured
by women
four years ago i told you my father
would focus on making child care
affordable and accessible
president trump's first term we secured
the largest ever increase for child care
funding
giving more than 800 000 low-income
families great child care
at a cost they can afford as part of
republican tax
cuts in 2019 alone our child tax credit
put over
two thousand dollars into the pockets of
40
million american families
democrat politicians recently introduced
a plan to increase the child tax credit
yet when i was fighting less than three
years ago at the president's direction
to get
congress to double the child tax credit
not a single democrat
voted to pass the law we got it done
anyway
four years ago i promised that president
trump would support mothers in the
workforce
in his first year in office he signed
into law the first ever
national paid leave tax credit today
eight million more americans have access
to this benefit
four years ago i said that americans
needed an economy that permits
people to rise again during president
trump's first three years in office
72 percent of all new jobs went to
americans
who had been outside of the workforce
four years ago i told you i would fight
alongside my father and four years later
here i am
many of the issues my father has
championed are not historically
republican priorities yet where
washington chooses sides
our president chooses common sense where
politicians choose party
our president chooses people
since the day he took the oath of office
i've watched my father take on the
failed policies of the past and do what
no
leader has done before recently he took
dramatic
action to cut the cost of prescription
drugs despite fielding angry calls
from the ceos of nearly every major
pharmaceutical company
now when we see attack ads paid for by
big pharma
my dad smiles and says to me
you know we're doing something really
right if they're hitting us so hard
this spring our president saw that
american crops were going to waste
because food supply chains were
disrupted by the virus
he directed secretary perdue and me to
find a way to get this nutritious food
fresh fruit vegetables meat and dairy to
families
most in need within a matter of days we
launched the farmers to family food box
program
which has now delivered over a hundred
million
meals to into the hands of american
families
to protect the most vulnerable among us
i've worked alongside the president as
he signed into law
nine pieces of legislation to combat
the evil of human trafficking
i've stood by my father's side at dover
air force base as he's received our
fallen heroes
and each time it has steeled his resolve
to finally stop finally stop the endless
foreign wars
to change the paradigm in the middle
east he took a fresh approach
i heard foreign leaders beg him not to
move the american embassy to jerusalem
yet he delivered on a promise also made
and unfulfilled by past presidents
because my father knew that it was the
right thing to do
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defying all expectations just weeks ago
he rewrote history again by making a
peace agreement
in the middle east the biggest
breakthrough in a quarter century
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for the first time in a long time we
have a president who has called out
washington's hypocrisy and they hate him
for it dad
people attack you for being
unconventional but i love you
for being real and i respect you for
being effective
our president refuses to surrender his
beliefs to score point with the
political elite to my father you are the
elite
you are the only people he cares about
scoring points with
if these problems were easy to solve
previous presidents would have done so
but you don't achieve different results
by doing things
the same way washington has not
changed donald trump donald trump has
changed washington
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america doesn't need another empty
vessel who will do whatever the media
and the fringe of his party demands
now more than ever america needs four
more years of a warrior
in the white house
tonight i could not be more proud to
introduce my father
a man i know was made for this moment in
history
my fellow americans our first lady
and the 45th president of the united
states
donald j trump