WEBVTT 00:01.470 --> 00:03.250 Hello everybody . Hello there . 00:11.050 --> 00:13.770 Beautiful . Wow , 00:14.960 --> 00:16.819 it's beautiful . It's the first 00:16.909 --> 00:20.799 renderings of what we're doing . So I 00:20.799 --> 00:22.966 want to wish everybody a big hello and 00:22.966 --> 00:25.639 Merry Christmas and welcome to Mar a 00:25.639 --> 00:28.159 Lago for this exciting announcement of 00:28.159 --> 00:30.719 the new Golden Fleet . We're calling it 00:30.719 --> 00:33.319 the Golden Fleet that we're building 00:33.319 --> 00:35.319 for the United States Navy . As you 00:35.319 --> 00:37.319 know , we're desperately in need of 00:37.319 --> 00:39.375 ships . Our ships are , some of them 00:39.375 --> 00:41.652 have gotten old and tired and obsolete , 00:41.919 --> 00:43.697 and we're going to go the exact 00:43.697 --> 00:46.180 opposite direction . We're delighted to 00:46.180 --> 00:48.124 be joined by Secretary of War Pete 00:48.124 --> 00:50.347 Hegseth , who's doing a fantastic job , 00:50.347 --> 00:52.729 and Secretary of the Navy John Falin . 00:53.819 --> 00:56.159 Marco Rubio is here , who gave a great 00:57.700 --> 00:59.922 few words toward the end of last week . 00:59.922 --> 01:02.259 He spoke for a couple of hours on . 01:03.150 --> 01:05.317 What a good job we're doing , which is 01:05.317 --> 01:07.559 true . As Commander in Chief , it's my 01:07.559 --> 01:09.750 great honor to announce that I have 01:09.970 --> 01:12.089 approved a plan for the Navy to begin 01:12.089 --> 01:14.110 the construction of two brand new , 01:14.809 --> 01:16.809 very large , the largest we've ever 01:16.809 --> 01:20.220 built battleships . You know , you used 01:20.220 --> 01:23.669 to build the Iowa , the Missouri , 01:24.269 --> 01:26.436 the Wisconsin , the Alabama , and many 01:26.436 --> 01:28.658 others . We had big battleships . These 01:28.658 --> 01:31.580 are bigger , but they will have 100 01:31.580 --> 01:35.540 times they'll be 100 times the force , 01:35.580 --> 01:38.290 the power . And uh 01:39.489 --> 01:41.656 There's never been anything like these 01:41.656 --> 01:44.260 ships . These have been under design 01:44.260 --> 01:47.510 consideration for a long time . And it 01:47.510 --> 01:49.410 started with me in my first term 01:49.870 --> 01:51.926 because I said , why aren't we doing 01:51.926 --> 01:54.089 battleships like we used to ? And the 01:54.089 --> 01:57.580 uh . These are the best in the world . 01:57.660 --> 01:59.827 They'll be the fastest , the biggest , 01:59.827 --> 02:02.819 and by far 100 times more powerful than 02:02.819 --> 02:05.379 any battleship ever built . So if you 02:05.379 --> 02:07.268 look at the Iowa , the Missouri , 02:07.809 --> 02:10.130 Wisconsin , Alabama , and others , but 02:10.539 --> 02:12.699 they were similar in size , some a 02:12.699 --> 02:14.921 little bit bigger than the others , but 02:14.921 --> 02:17.619 if you take the biggest one , it's 100 02:17.619 --> 02:21.240 times more powerful . They're longer by . 02:22.449 --> 02:25.580 A little bit , but , and they're bigger , 02:25.619 --> 02:27.675 they're bigger ships , but they hold 02:27.675 --> 02:30.008 much more . They use the word lethality . 02:30.380 --> 02:32.713 Battleships are the largest , sturdiest , 02:32.713 --> 02:34.979 and most heavily armed vessel built 02:34.979 --> 02:38.580 specifically for naval combat . While 02:38.580 --> 02:40.580 America has built many new warships 02:40.580 --> 02:42.979 over the years , they've they've tended 02:42.979 --> 02:46.500 to be smaller , much smaller . And 02:46.500 --> 02:49.690 uh Not conducive to 02:50.419 --> 02:52.586 Where we are and where we're going and 02:52.586 --> 02:56.580 peace through strength , but we've been 02:56.580 --> 02:58.524 building aircraft carriers , we're 02:58.524 --> 03:00.580 going to be upping that also . We're 03:00.580 --> 03:03.100 going to be going to a superior 03:03.100 --> 03:05.330 aircraft . We have the Ford class . 03:05.380 --> 03:07.419 We're going to be upping that to a 03:07.419 --> 03:10.619 different class of . Aircraft carrier 03:10.960 --> 03:14.259 and we haven't built a battleship since 03:14.259 --> 03:17.830 1994 . These cutting edge vessels will 03:17.830 --> 03:21.240 be some of the most lethal surface 03:21.240 --> 03:23.639 warfare ships . They will be actually 03:23.639 --> 03:25.583 the most ever built other than our 03:25.583 --> 03:27.695 submarines . We have submarines which 03:27.695 --> 03:29.860 will have in many ways even more 03:30.639 --> 03:32.960 lethality , and we have many of them 03:32.960 --> 03:36.369 under construction . Each one of 03:36.369 --> 03:40.169 these will be the largest battleship in 03:40.169 --> 03:42.002 the history of our country , the 03:42.002 --> 03:44.058 largest battleship in the history of 03:44.058 --> 03:46.169 the world ever built . And again it's 03:46.169 --> 03:48.289 100 times more powerful than the 03:49.369 --> 03:51.480 Previous Iowa class it's called those 03:51.480 --> 03:53.536 are the big ones that you'd see on a 03:53.536 --> 03:55.647 show Victory at Sea . I don't know if 03:55.647 --> 03:57.758 anyone's seen Victory at Sea , but it 03:57.758 --> 03:59.869 was a classic . They'll help maintain 03:59.869 --> 04:02.070 American military supremacy , revive 04:02.070 --> 04:04.126 the American shipbuilding industry , 04:04.126 --> 04:06.550 and inspire fear in America's enemies 04:06.550 --> 04:08.717 all over the world . We want respect . 04:08.990 --> 04:10.990 We're going to have it . We already 04:10.990 --> 04:13.212 have it . We're more respected now than 04:13.212 --> 04:15.268 we ever were . A year and a half ago 04:15.268 --> 04:17.379 they laughed at us . Now they respect 04:17.379 --> 04:19.490 us again at levels that they've never 04:19.490 --> 04:21.712 respected us . We envisioned that these 04:21.712 --> 04:23.980 two ships , we're talking about 10 , 04:24.040 --> 04:26.040 but we're going to start with 2 and 04:26.040 --> 04:28.207 we're going to quickly morph into 10 , 04:28.207 --> 04:30.318 and ultimately we think it's going to 04:30.318 --> 04:32.373 be anywhere from 20 to 25 of these , 04:32.640 --> 04:34.529 but we're starting with the 1st 2 04:34.529 --> 04:36.696 immediately and we're going to then be 04:36.696 --> 04:39.640 very quickly involved with , I think 04:39.640 --> 04:41.959 we're going to do another 8 and then 04:41.959 --> 04:45.059 we're going to ultimately . And pretty 04:45.059 --> 04:48.000 quickly have a total of about 20 to 25 . 04:48.079 --> 04:50.709 We'll make that determination . We 04:50.709 --> 04:53.950 envision that these ships will be the 04:53.950 --> 04:55.617 first of a whole new class of 04:55.617 --> 04:57.839 battleships to be produced in the years 04:57.839 --> 05:01.220 to come , from Theodore Roosevelt , 05:01.709 --> 05:03.765 the Great White Fleet , you remember 05:03.765 --> 05:06.149 that , the Great White Fleet to the 05:06.149 --> 05:08.989 legendary USS Missouri , whose massive 05:08.989 --> 05:11.329 guns helped win World War II . 05:12.019 --> 05:14.186 America's battleships have always been 05:14.309 --> 05:17.209 unmistakable symbols of national power . 05:17.589 --> 05:19.989 We stopped making them for whatever 05:19.989 --> 05:22.350 reason . I don't know , and I want to 05:22.350 --> 05:25.769 congratulate John Thalin who is 05:25.769 --> 05:29.130 uh . Your secretary , secretary of the 05:29.130 --> 05:31.241 Navy , he came to me the first day we 05:31.241 --> 05:33.799 met . He talked about battleships and I 05:33.799 --> 05:35.910 said , you're absolutely on the right 05:35.910 --> 05:38.339 track . He said , why are we doing 05:38.510 --> 05:40.621 other things ? We have missiles which 05:40.621 --> 05:42.788 are much more expensive . By the way , 05:42.788 --> 05:44.677 these battleships have tremendous 05:44.677 --> 05:46.677 numbers of missiles , but they also 05:46.677 --> 05:48.788 have guns , and in many ways guns can 05:48.788 --> 05:50.899 do the trick just as well as missiles 05:50.899 --> 05:54.070 at a tiny fraction of the cost . Once 05:54.070 --> 05:57.670 completed , these new 300,000 to 40,000 05:57.670 --> 06:01.589 ton plus vessels will be the flagships 06:01.589 --> 06:03.730 of the American naval fleet , and 06:04.709 --> 06:06.653 there'll be , there has never been 06:06.653 --> 06:10.000 anything built like them . And I just 06:10.000 --> 06:13.579 want to I want to be very 06:13.579 --> 06:16.059 clear that we're building them here . 06:16.170 --> 06:18.281 We're working with others , but we're 06:18.281 --> 06:20.540 building them here . We have great Navy 06:20.540 --> 06:23.320 Yards . We'll be negotiating with some 06:23.320 --> 06:25.760 of the companies that . Are running 06:25.760 --> 06:27.871 those yards , taking over the yards . 06:28.040 --> 06:30.096 We used to build a ship a day during 06:30.096 --> 06:32.151 World War II . Now we don't do ships 06:32.151 --> 06:34.096 very much anymore . We do military 06:34.096 --> 06:36.318 ships . We do submarines . By the way , 06:36.318 --> 06:38.373 we're 15 to 20 years advanced in our 06:38.373 --> 06:40.596 submarines over anybody else . That was 06:40.596 --> 06:42.540 one of the things that I did in my 06:42.540 --> 06:44.369 first term . We make the best 06:44.369 --> 06:46.647 submarines by far in the world . We're , 06:46.649 --> 06:48.980 we're at least 15 years advanced ahead 06:48.980 --> 06:51.179 of anybody else in submarine 06:51.179 --> 06:53.235 development . Most powerful , that's 06:53.235 --> 06:55.239 right , the most powerful weapon 06:55.239 --> 06:57.406 anywhere in the world , undetectable . 06:58.869 --> 07:00.950 So the battleships are going to be 07:00.950 --> 07:04.390 armed just in terms of guns and 07:04.390 --> 07:06.829 missiles at the highest level . They'll 07:06.829 --> 07:08.829 also have hypersonic weapons , many 07:08.829 --> 07:10.940 hypersonic weapons , state of the art 07:11.309 --> 07:14.109 electric rail guns , and even the 07:14.109 --> 07:16.779 high-powered lasers that you've been 07:16.779 --> 07:19.001 starting to read about . We have lasers 07:19.001 --> 07:21.223 where you aim the laser at a target and 07:21.223 --> 07:23.335 it just wipes it out . We're going to 07:23.335 --> 07:25.168 have , uh , there'll be the most 07:25.168 --> 07:27.390 sophisticated lasers in the world , and 07:27.390 --> 07:29.390 the most sophisticated laser in the 07:29.390 --> 07:31.501 world will be on the battleships that 07:31.501 --> 07:33.890 we're building . They'll also carry the 07:33.890 --> 07:36.220 nuclear arms he launched cruise 07:36.220 --> 07:38.387 missiles currently under development , 07:38.387 --> 07:41.369 which will be instituted pretty quickly , 07:41.459 --> 07:43.348 but they're under development and 07:43.348 --> 07:46.119 they've proven to be extremely lethal . 07:46.619 --> 07:48.809 The US Navy will lead the design of 07:48.809 --> 07:51.031 these ships along with me because I'm a 07:51.031 --> 07:53.679 very aesthetic person . Alongside our 07:53.679 --> 07:56.450 partners in American industry and we're 07:56.450 --> 07:58.394 gonna have , uh , Pete Hegseth and 07:58.394 --> 08:01.489 Marco and a lot of very talented people 08:01.489 --> 08:03.545 involved , but a lot of it's already 08:03.545 --> 08:05.656 been done . We've been doing this for 08:05.656 --> 08:07.820 months . The construction will create 08:07.820 --> 08:09.764 thousands of American jobs . We're 08:09.764 --> 08:12.309 going to have the jobs be created . I 08:12.309 --> 08:14.476 mean , already we have factories being 08:14.476 --> 08:16.587 built unrelated to this , although AI 08:16.587 --> 08:19.230 will be a big factor when it comes to 08:19.239 --> 08:21.959 these ships . They'll be very AI , AI 08:21.959 --> 08:24.320 controlled . Today's announcement is 08:24.320 --> 08:26.920 yet another step in our mission to make 08:26.920 --> 08:28.976 the United States Navy stronger than 08:28.976 --> 08:31.000 ever before . Again , when you talk 08:31.000 --> 08:34.400 about 100 times the power of these 08:34.400 --> 08:36.511 massive ships that we had years ago , 08:36.669 --> 08:40.008 it's pretty amazing . And next week I'm 08:40.008 --> 08:42.739 going to meet with the defense prime 08:42.739 --> 08:44.795 contractors . I'm going to meet with 08:44.795 --> 08:47.500 them here in Florida . And we're going 08:47.500 --> 08:50.619 to be talking about production 08:50.619 --> 08:53.059 schedules because they're too slow . We 08:53.059 --> 08:55.239 have many countries allies that are 08:55.739 --> 08:57.850 wanting to buy . We make the greatest 08:57.850 --> 08:59.628 equipment in the world by far . 08:59.628 --> 09:01.683 Nobody's even close , but they don't 09:01.683 --> 09:03.683 produce them fast enough . So we're 09:03.683 --> 09:05.969 going to be meeting with them to uh 09:06.250 --> 09:08.520 talk about the production schedules . 09:08.599 --> 09:10.929 We're gonna have strong production 09:10.929 --> 09:12.985 schedules , and the only way they're 09:12.985 --> 09:15.207 going to be able to do that is to build 09:15.207 --> 09:17.429 new plants even with the F-35 . We have 09:17.429 --> 09:19.540 many people who want the F-35 fighter 09:19.540 --> 09:21.707 jet . And it takes too long to deliver 09:21.707 --> 09:23.707 them to allies or to ourselves . It 09:23.707 --> 09:25.818 takes too long . The only way they're 09:25.818 --> 09:27.818 gonna be able to deliver them is if 09:27.818 --> 09:30.040 they build new plants . They don't want 09:30.040 --> 09:29.359 to build new plants because that's 09:29.359 --> 09:31.159 expensive . So we're gonna be 09:31.159 --> 09:33.409 discussing production schedules . We're 09:33.409 --> 09:36.359 gonna be discussing CE spending . We'll 09:36.359 --> 09:38.460 be discussing the uh . 09:40.330 --> 09:42.330 The pay to executives where they're 09:42.330 --> 09:44.690 making $45.50 million dollars a year 09:44.690 --> 09:46.801 and not being able to build quickly , 09:47.130 --> 09:49.074 they're going to make that kind of 09:49.074 --> 09:51.130 money . They have to build quickly . 09:51.130 --> 09:53.241 Again , we make the best equipment in 09:53.241 --> 09:53.030 the world , but they don't make them 09:53.030 --> 09:55.469 fast enough . And we're going to be 09:55.469 --> 09:57.691 also discussing dividends . We want the 09:57.691 --> 10:01.349 dividends to go into the creation of 10:01.349 --> 10:04.219 production facilities . So we'll be , 10:04.239 --> 10:06.630 uh , talking about all CPE , dividends , 10:06.640 --> 10:10.469 and the pay . We're also going to 10:10.469 --> 10:12.636 be talking about buybacks . They spend 10:12.636 --> 10:14.747 so much money on buybacks . They want 10:14.747 --> 10:16.913 to buy back their stock . I don't want 10:16.913 --> 10:19.025 them to buy back their stock . I want 10:19.025 --> 10:20.969 them to put the money in plant and 10:20.969 --> 10:22.858 equipment so they can build these 10:22.858 --> 10:25.919 planes fast , rapidly , like 10:26.650 --> 10:28.817 immediately . I mean , I , I have sold 10:28.817 --> 10:31.179 more planes than any president by far 10:31.179 --> 10:35.000 times probably 20 . Every time I go 10:35.000 --> 10:37.520 someplace I sell 100 planes . That 10:37.520 --> 10:39.687 includes commercial planes , Boeings , 10:39.687 --> 10:42.020 etc . but it also includes fighter jets , 10:42.440 --> 10:44.607 and I'm always having to say 5 years , 10:44.607 --> 10:46.496 6 years , 7 years , helicopters , 10:46.496 --> 10:48.607 Apache helicopters , many years India 10:48.607 --> 10:50.718 bought them . They want to get them . 10:50.718 --> 10:52.829 They don't want to wait a long time , 10:52.829 --> 10:54.829 so we don't want to have executives 10:54.829 --> 10:57.559 making $50 million a year , issuing big 10:57.559 --> 11:01.210 dividends to everybody . And uh also 11:01.210 --> 11:03.780 doing buybacks and then they say , well , 11:03.859 --> 11:05.915 we don't have the money to build the 11:05.915 --> 11:08.026 plant . They've got to build plants , 11:08.026 --> 11:10.026 plans to make F-35s , plans to make 11:10.026 --> 11:12.539 helicopters , plans to make the F-47 11:12.539 --> 11:16.210 new jet . And that's it . And that's 11:16.210 --> 11:18.266 what I'm going to be talking to them 11:18.266 --> 11:20.488 about . They're going to start spending 11:20.488 --> 11:22.599 money on building airplanes and ships 11:22.599 --> 11:24.821 and the things that we need , not in 10 11:24.821 --> 11:27.043 years and 15 years . We need them now . 11:27.440 --> 11:29.940 And was strong about it . Last week , 11:30.080 --> 11:33.000 the Navy announced a brand new class of 11:33.000 --> 11:34.889 frigate , and they're going to be 11:34.889 --> 11:37.111 working with the South Korean company . 11:37.111 --> 11:39.278 Hanwa , Good Company , recently agreed 11:39.278 --> 11:41.719 to invest $5 billion in Philadelphia 11:41.719 --> 11:43.830 Naval Shipyard . We're opening up the 11:43.830 --> 11:45.886 Philadelphia Shipyard , once a great 11:45.886 --> 11:48.052 yard . Now it , it was a long time ago 11:48.052 --> 11:50.386 decommissioned , but now it's reopening , 11:50.880 --> 11:53.047 working with the Navy and working with 11:53.239 --> 11:55.739 private companies . The record setting 11:55.739 --> 11:57.950 defense bill I signed last week 11:57.950 --> 12:01.150 authorized $26 billion to build new 12:01.150 --> 12:03.960 ships , including destroyers and 12:04.150 --> 12:06.317 various others . We already have a lot 12:06.317 --> 12:08.317 of submarines , as you know , under 12:08.317 --> 12:10.679 construction . We're building a lot of 12:10.679 --> 12:12.901 submarines , I tell you , to be exact , 12:13.349 --> 12:16.900 we have right now . 15 12:16.900 --> 12:19.122 submarines under construction are ready 12:19.122 --> 12:21.710 to start . And we have again the 12:21.710 --> 12:23.766 greatest submarine in the world with 12:23.766 --> 12:25.766 our technology like they talk about 12:25.766 --> 12:28.390 chips . Well , I would say submarines 12:28.390 --> 12:32.369 are a . A bigger deal than chips . We 12:32.369 --> 12:35.369 have , we're we're at least , at least 12:35.369 --> 12:37.729 15 years ahead of any other competitor , 12:37.809 --> 12:40.150 China , Russia . Nobody can come close . 12:40.890 --> 12:43.150 We're also building right now 3 large 12:43.150 --> 12:45.809 aircraft carriers in addition to the 12:45.809 --> 12:49.190 ones we have , and we have actually , 12:49.200 --> 12:51.033 interestingly , we have a lot of 12:51.033 --> 12:53.200 submarines . How many submarines do we 12:53.200 --> 12:55.089 have now altogether approximately 12:57.489 --> 13:01.469 what we have over 30 . But these are 13:01.469 --> 13:04.140 the super duper subs , and and there's 13:04.140 --> 13:06.251 nothing like them , so we're going to 13:06.251 --> 13:08.590 be doing . From 12 to 15 brand new 13:08.590 --> 13:11.929 submarines . We 13:11.929 --> 13:15.469 have A couple of other things going 13:15.469 --> 13:18.409 on . We'll be building other , other 13:18.409 --> 13:21.710 elements of Navy . We'll be 13:22.130 --> 13:24.019 fixing up headquarters . We'll be 13:24.019 --> 13:26.729 fixing up places for our great sailors 13:26.729 --> 13:29.710 to live . And we're going to be working 13:29.710 --> 13:31.766 very hard with companies , but we're 13:31.766 --> 13:33.877 also going to be penalizing companies 13:33.877 --> 13:35.821 that aren't doing a good job . For 13:35.821 --> 13:37.932 instance , when they built the Ford , 13:37.932 --> 13:39.988 Gerald Ford , the cost overruns were 13:39.988 --> 13:42.210 ridiculous . That was done in Norfolk , 13:42.210 --> 13:44.266 Virginia . We're going to be talking 13:44.266 --> 13:46.488 about that with that company . The cost 13:46.488 --> 13:48.599 overruns were out of control in World 13:48.599 --> 13:50.432 War II . The United States built 13:50.432 --> 13:52.488 upwards of 4 ships per day . Can you 13:52.488 --> 13:54.710 believe it ? 4 ships a day on average . 13:55.239 --> 13:57.128 And it's now they weren't all big 13:57.128 --> 13:58.961 warships , but they were ships , 13:59.280 --> 14:02.020 freighters , tankers . And it's a 14:02.020 --> 14:04.940 tragedy that we allowed this incredible 14:04.940 --> 14:07.273 capability to just go astray . We don't . 14:08.119 --> 14:10.549 Do that much anymore . We do build our 14:10.549 --> 14:12.605 warships , but that's about it . But 14:12.605 --> 14:14.840 that's a lot . We're going to restore 14:14.840 --> 14:17.062 America as a major shipbuilding power . 14:17.062 --> 14:19.200 We're going to ensure the USA is the 14:19.200 --> 14:21.200 most powerful fleet anywhere in the 14:21.200 --> 14:23.630 world and long into the future with 14:23.630 --> 14:25.686 battleships helping lead the way and 14:25.686 --> 14:27.640 the submarines that again nobody 14:27.640 --> 14:30.400 competes with us on submarines . So I 14:30.400 --> 14:32.456 just want to thank everybody and I'd 14:32.456 --> 14:34.840 like to ask Secretary Hegseth to say a 14:34.840 --> 14:38.109 few words followed by uh . The 14:38.109 --> 14:40.331 secretary , but if you , if you would , 14:40.331 --> 14:42.429 Secretary of the Navy , but , uh , 14:42.469 --> 14:45.750 Pete's doing a fantastic job , uh , by 14:45.750 --> 14:49.109 the way , we have , uh , drugs are down 14:49.109 --> 14:52.789 96.2% coming into the United 14:52.789 --> 14:56.239 States . 92.6 by 14:56.239 --> 14:59.000 sea and soon we'll be starting the same 14:59.000 --> 15:00.960 program on land . The land is much 15:00.960 --> 15:04.210 easier . But every one of those 15:04.869 --> 15:08.210 boats that we knocked out saved 15:08.210 --> 15:11.849 25,000 lives , so we saved 25,000 lives 15:12.140 --> 15:14.196 every time we knock out one of those 15:14.196 --> 15:16.307 boats with the drugs pouring in , and 15:16.307 --> 15:18.251 you just have to see it . It means 15:18.251 --> 15:20.473 people say , oh gee , do you think , do 15:20.473 --> 15:20.210 you think it was really drugs ? Well , 15:20.270 --> 15:22.590 just take a look , bags all over the 15:22.590 --> 15:24.890 place . That's not fishing equipment . 15:25.390 --> 15:27.668 There's no fishing rods on those boats . 15:27.750 --> 15:29.806 They move fast . When you see a boat 15:29.806 --> 15:32.340 with 4 engines or 5 engines on . You 15:32.340 --> 15:34.451 know , going 40 to 50 miles an hour , 15:35.059 --> 15:38.700 well , they get hit . We save 25,000 15:38.700 --> 15:40.867 lives every single time we knock out a 15:40.867 --> 15:44.669 boat . And it's over 96% stopped 15:44.809 --> 15:47.031 by sea . We're trying to figure out who 15:47.031 --> 15:49.530 the other 4% are , frankly , and uh 15:49.530 --> 15:52.479 we're gonna have the same success but 15:52.479 --> 15:55.429 even quicker because it's much easier 15:55.609 --> 15:57.887 on land . If they want to come by land , 15:57.887 --> 15:59.942 they're going to end up having a big 15:59.942 --> 16:02.165 problem . They're going to get blown to 16:02.165 --> 16:04.387 pieces because we don't want our people 16:04.387 --> 16:06.220 poisoned . 300,000 people died , 16:06.320 --> 16:08.750 probably last year , 300,000 . A lot of 16:08.750 --> 16:11.000 people say it was 200 . Somebody said 16:11.000 --> 16:14.239 last night it was only 175,000 people . 16:14.760 --> 16:16.593 That's like three stadiums , big 16:16.593 --> 16:18.816 football stadiums filled up with people 16:18.816 --> 16:20.927 died . But I think the real number is 16:20.927 --> 16:23.093 300,000 . We're not going to have that 16:23.093 --> 16:25.140 anymore , so we're , we're doing a 16:25.140 --> 16:28.070 great job and we enjoy doing it . Our 16:28.070 --> 16:30.299 border is secure . Our country is 16:30.299 --> 16:32.380 strong . Trillions of dollars are 16:32.380 --> 16:34.324 coming into our country from other 16:34.324 --> 16:36.213 countries and companies . They're 16:36.213 --> 16:37.991 building factories and plants , 16:37.991 --> 16:40.080 including auto plants all over the 16:40.080 --> 16:42.024 United States of America . Without 16:42.024 --> 16:43.858 tariffs , they wouldn't be doing 16:43.858 --> 16:45.802 anything , although they were very 16:45.802 --> 16:47.969 happy with the November 5th election . 16:47.969 --> 16:49.913 But it's only because they want to 16:49.913 --> 16:52.024 avoid paying tariffs that they're all 16:52.024 --> 16:51.669 coming in . And again , the biggest 16:51.669 --> 16:53.960 number was $3 trillion in history . 16:54.320 --> 16:56.840 That was China many years ago . Now 16:56.840 --> 17:00.280 it's $18 trillion and that's just in 10 17:00.280 --> 17:02.520 months we think we could hit $20 17:02.520 --> 17:04.520 trillion . That's investment in the 17:04.520 --> 17:06.409 United States including plant and 17:06.409 --> 17:08.464 equipment . So thank you very much , 17:08.464 --> 17:10.520 and I'll ask Pete to say a few words 17:10.520 --> 17:12.599 and then John , and if you have any 17:12.599 --> 17:14.932 questions , we'll take them . Thank you . 17:16.069 --> 17:18.640 And Well , Mr . President , you're 17:18.920 --> 17:21.020 exactly right . There are no fishing 17:21.020 --> 17:24.020 poles , no fishermen , and no fishing 17:24.020 --> 17:26.020 boats , just drug dealers and 17:26.020 --> 17:27.909 narco-terrorists , and with every 17:27.909 --> 17:30.459 strike , we're saving American lives . 17:30.500 --> 17:32.556 No other president was willing to do 17:32.556 --> 17:34.819 real deterrence . That's exactly what's 17:34.819 --> 17:36.986 happening . It's an honor to be here , 17:36.986 --> 17:38.875 Mr . President , Mr . Secretary , 17:38.875 --> 17:41.189 Secretary Rubio , uh , to talk about 17:41.189 --> 17:43.133 what peace through strength really 17:43.133 --> 17:45.245 looks like . You can talk about it or 17:45.245 --> 17:47.411 you can invest in it and you can build 17:47.411 --> 17:49.578 it , and that's exactly what President 17:49.578 --> 17:51.911 Trump is doing at the Department of War . 17:51.911 --> 17:54.078 We're restoring the warrior ethos . In 17:54.078 --> 17:53.869 fact , the president mentioned the NDAA . 17:54.150 --> 17:56.317 We put into law , merit-based , we put 17:56.317 --> 17:58.319 into law getting rid of DEI and 17:58.319 --> 18:00.541 political correctness . That's now part 18:00.541 --> 18:02.652 of how . Military operates and you've 18:02.652 --> 18:04.652 seen it in record recruiting in the 18:04.652 --> 18:06.875 spirit of the Department of War . We're 18:06.875 --> 18:08.875 rebuilding the military . President 18:08.875 --> 18:08.723 Trump did it once . He's doing again 18:08.723 --> 18:11.483 with historic investments today in 18:11.483 --> 18:13.650 shipbuilding and we're re-establishing 18:13.650 --> 18:15.594 deterrence , whether that's at the 18:15.594 --> 18:17.650 border , whether it's through Golden 18:17.650 --> 18:19.594 Dome , what happened with Midnight 18:19.594 --> 18:21.650 Hammer and what Iran found out those 18:21.650 --> 18:23.705 drug boats and of course the Houthis 18:23.705 --> 18:23.483 opening up the shipping lanes . 18:23.713 --> 18:25.686 American strength is . Back on the 18:25.686 --> 18:27.797 world stage , and the announcement of 18:27.797 --> 18:29.936 the Golden Fleet anchored by new 18:29.936 --> 18:31.880 battleships , the biggest and most 18:31.880 --> 18:34.103 lethal ever , accomplishes all three of 18:34.103 --> 18:36.214 those things and marks a generational 18:36.214 --> 18:38.715 commitment to American sea power . 18:38.975 --> 18:41.656 Across the entire department , we are 18:41.656 --> 18:43.767 developing new operational concepts , 18:43.767 --> 18:45.878 deploying cutting edge technologies , 18:45.878 --> 18:47.600 and making major investments , 18:47.735 --> 18:51.449 including in our navy . This is all , 18:51.500 --> 18:53.333 this is happening in all domains 18:53.333 --> 18:55.500 including space , as the president has 18:55.500 --> 18:57.556 talked about before anyone else . So 18:57.556 --> 18:59.556 it's the highest of domains and the 18:59.556 --> 19:01.333 lowest of domains under sea and 19:01.333 --> 19:03.420 especially today in sea power that 19:03.420 --> 19:05.642 always has to be decisive , has been in 19:05.642 --> 19:07.420 the history of America and will 19:07.420 --> 19:09.587 continue to be under the leadership of 19:09.587 --> 19:11.587 President Trump . Uh , we will make 19:11.587 --> 19:13.753 sure that anything that flows from our 19:13.753 --> 19:15.809 country and with our allies , allies 19:15.809 --> 19:18.829 flows freely and uncontested . New and 19:18.829 --> 19:20.780 better ships will provide that 19:20.780 --> 19:23.219 deterrent today and for generations to 19:23.219 --> 19:25.619 come . This new class , these new 19:25.619 --> 19:27.841 investments will be the types of things 19:27.841 --> 19:30.119 that for decades , for , for centuries , 19:30.119 --> 19:32.286 the American people will look back and 19:32.286 --> 19:34.341 and thank President Trump for having 19:34.341 --> 19:36.230 the vision and the willingness to 19:36.230 --> 19:38.230 invest right now in capabilities we 19:38.230 --> 19:40.341 need today , tomorrow , and long into 19:40.341 --> 19:40.099 the future . So Mr . President , thank 19:40.099 --> 19:42.321 you for this investment , and I'll hand 19:42.321 --> 19:44.321 it over now to the Navy Secretary . 19:48.979 --> 19:51.089 Mr . President , Secretary Hegseth , 19:51.180 --> 19:53.291 Secretary Rubio , thank you for being 19:53.291 --> 19:56.140 here on a very consequential day , um . 19:57.339 --> 19:59.395 From my very first conversation with 19:59.395 --> 20:01.450 President Trump about serving as the 20:01.450 --> 20:03.450 Secretary of the Navy , he's talked 20:03.450 --> 20:05.561 about the great Iowa class battleship 20:05.739 --> 20:07.900 and why America doesn't build ships 20:07.900 --> 20:09.979 anymore with that kind of offensive 20:09.979 --> 20:12.339 firepower that takes the fight to the 20:12.339 --> 20:15.550 enemy . During my time in the job I've 20:15.550 --> 20:17.661 talked extensively with our combatant 20:17.661 --> 20:19.949 commanders like Admiral Poparo and 20:19.949 --> 20:22.430 Admiral Cooper and our CNO Admiral 20:22.430 --> 20:24.869 Cottle what I've learned is , is that 20:24.869 --> 20:27.091 not only is the president's idea a good 20:27.091 --> 20:28.813 one , it's something that Navy 20:28.813 --> 20:31.390 desperately needs and now has a formal 20:31.390 --> 20:34.469 requirement for the future Trump class 20:34.469 --> 20:37.510 battleship , the USS Defiant . Will be 20:37.510 --> 20:39.859 the largest , deadliest and most 20:39.859 --> 20:42.589 versatile and best looking warship 20:43.060 --> 20:45.459 anywhere on the world's oceans . I want 20:45.459 --> 20:47.619 to thank the president for his vision 20:47.780 --> 20:50.079 to make this game changing capability 20:50.339 --> 20:53.060 for the United States Navy . The Iowa 20:53.060 --> 20:55.619 was designed to go on the attack with 20:55.619 --> 20:57.979 the biggest guns , and that's exactly 20:57.979 --> 20:59.812 what will define the Trump class 20:59.812 --> 21:02.660 battleships offensive firepower from 21:02.660 --> 21:05.530 the biggest guns of our era . This ship 21:05.630 --> 21:08.180 isn't just to swat the arrows . It is 21:08.180 --> 21:10.513 going to reach out and kill the archers , 21:10.989 --> 21:13.211 and for the first time in generations , 21:13.211 --> 21:15.100 we'll have a new leg in America's 21:15.100 --> 21:17.156 nuclear deterrence because the Trump 21:17.156 --> 21:19.930 class battleship will carry the nuclear 21:19.930 --> 21:21.930 armed sea launched cruise missile . 21:22.729 --> 21:24.900 Striking dominance isn't all that the 21:24.900 --> 21:27.060 Trump class battleship brings to the 21:27.060 --> 21:29.739 fight at sea . It has the size and 21:29.739 --> 21:32.579 capacity to serve as a flagship for our 21:32.579 --> 21:34.468 fleet commanders so that they can 21:34.468 --> 21:37.380 command and control naval forces far 21:37.380 --> 21:40.369 out to sea . As shown in the series and 21:40.369 --> 21:42.591 the president mentioned it , victory at 21:42.591 --> 21:45.170 Sea , Admirals Bull Halsey and Raymond 21:45.170 --> 21:47.319 Spurance commanded the war in the 21:47.319 --> 21:49.650 Pacific from their battleship flagships 21:49.650 --> 21:52.209 during World War II . Now this new 21:52.209 --> 21:54.449 battleship will command everything from 21:54.449 --> 21:57.290 warships to drones and everything in 21:57.290 --> 21:59.750 between . We're going to make battle 22:00.020 --> 22:02.569 battle groups great again . And this is 22:02.569 --> 22:04.458 just one piece of the president's 22:04.458 --> 22:06.625 golden fleet that we're going to build 22:06.625 --> 22:08.791 with the investments he talked about a 22:08.791 --> 22:11.250 new frigate , the right frigate , the 22:11.250 --> 22:13.361 one our warfighters have told us they 22:13.361 --> 22:15.810 need more amphibious power for our 22:15.810 --> 22:18.489 marines with new capabilities like the 22:18.489 --> 22:21.239 medium landing ship . As part of the 22:21.239 --> 22:23.406 Navy's high low mix , we're moving out 22:23.406 --> 22:26.199 aggressively on unmanned vessels with 22:26.199 --> 22:28.255 funding from the president's one big 22:28.255 --> 22:30.421 beautiful bill to bring options to the 22:30.421 --> 22:33.260 fight and pull new non-traditional 22:33.540 --> 22:35.780 defense partners into the American 22:35.780 --> 22:38.400 shipbuilding ecosystem . And we're 22:38.400 --> 22:40.439 making a generational investment in 22:40.439 --> 22:43.520 support ships . Logistics wins wars , 22:43.760 --> 22:45.816 and that kind of shipbuilding is the 22:45.816 --> 22:47.927 spark that will ignite the industrial 22:47.927 --> 22:49.871 base and help power the commercial 22:49.871 --> 22:52.660 shipbuilding . That the president has 22:52.660 --> 22:54.993 called for . Under your leadership , Mr . 22:54.993 --> 22:57.104 President , we will have more tonnage 22:57.104 --> 22:59.619 and firepower under construction than 22:59.619 --> 23:02.219 ever before in our history . Building 23:02.219 --> 23:04.609 the president's Golden Fleet means jobs 23:04.609 --> 23:07.339 across the United States now . There'll 23:07.339 --> 23:09.619 be work for shipyards everywhere from 23:09.619 --> 23:12.579 Philadelphia to San Diego , from Maine 23:12.579 --> 23:14.859 to Mississippi , from the Great Lakes 23:14.859 --> 23:17.449 to the Gulf Coast coast . And for 23:17.449 --> 23:19.116 manufacturers that will build 23:19.116 --> 23:21.338 components for this battleship in every 23:21.338 --> 23:23.969 state . The president has been clear , 23:24.300 --> 23:26.180 we must bring back our American 23:26.180 --> 23:28.540 maritime industrial might , and he has 23:28.540 --> 23:30.762 told me many times that as Secretary of 23:30.762 --> 23:32.979 the Navy , it is my job to equip our 23:32.979 --> 23:35.619 sailors to win the fight at sea with 23:35.619 --> 23:38.189 the finest ships in our history . To 23:38.189 --> 23:41.270 conclude , the USS Defiant battleship 23:41.270 --> 23:43.910 will inspire awe and reverence for the 23:43.910 --> 23:46.270 American flag whenever it pulls into a 23:46.270 --> 23:48.469 foreign port . It will be a source of 23:48.469 --> 23:50.979 pride for every American when it brings 23:50.979 --> 23:53.260 home our brave sailors who will sail 23:53.260 --> 23:56.489 Defiant , raise their fists , and say 23:56.709 --> 23:59.310 we are peace through strength , and our 23:59.310 --> 24:01.366 adversaries will know when the Trump 24:01.366 --> 24:03.589 class USS Defiant appears on the 24:03.589 --> 24:06.670 horizon . American victory at sea is 24:06.670 --> 24:09.400 inevitable . Thank you , Mr . President . 24:09.829 --> 24:12.310 Now when a conflict arises , you're 24:12.310 --> 24:15.410 going to ask not one but two questions . 24:15.829 --> 24:17.885 Where are the carriers and where are 24:17.885 --> 24:21.030 the battleships ? Thank you . 24:22.469 --> 24:24.580 I just want to mention that John Plan 24:24.580 --> 24:26.247 is one of the most successful 24:26.247 --> 24:28.247 businessmen in the country , in our 24:28.247 --> 24:30.189 country . He's been a tremendous 24:30.189 --> 24:32.949 success , and he wanted to do this and 24:34.109 --> 24:36.630 for nothing . He's taken probably the 24:36.630 --> 24:39.310 largest salary cut in history , but he 24:39.310 --> 24:41.421 wanted to do it . He wants to rebuild 24:41.421 --> 24:43.588 our navy , and you needed that kind of 24:43.588 --> 24:45.699 a brain to do it properly . So I just 24:45.699 --> 24:47.921 wanted to give you a little information 24:47.921 --> 24:50.143 on him , which is probably enough , but 24:50.143 --> 24:52.254 one of the most successful men in the 24:52.254 --> 24:54.254 country and . I use that because he 24:54.254 --> 24:56.143 understands it and he understands 24:56.143 --> 24:58.032 finance in addition to what we're 24:58.032 --> 25:00.032 talking about . Uh , somebody who's 25:00.032 --> 25:02.199 doing a fantastic job is Marco Rubio , 25:02.199 --> 25:04.366 Secretary of State , and Marco , maybe 25:04.366 --> 25:06.477 say a few words and then we'll answer 25:06.477 --> 25:08.643 some questions . Thank you . Thank you 25:08.643 --> 25:10.810 Mr . President , and I don't have much 25:10.810 --> 25:10.660 to add . This is a phenomenal 25:10.660 --> 25:12.438 presentation . Thank you , Mr . 25:12.438 --> 25:14.660 President . This is American industrial 25:14.660 --> 25:16.771 power returning . This is the ability 25:16.771 --> 25:18.827 once again to , to rebuild , to have 25:18.827 --> 25:21.049 industry in the United States . Uh this 25:21.049 --> 25:23.104 is generational and the change , not 25:23.104 --> 25:25.271 just in terms of applying American war 25:25.271 --> 25:27.160 power , increasing our ability to 25:27.160 --> 25:29.271 protect the seas . The US Navy is the 25:29.271 --> 25:31.382 single biggest source of peace in the 25:31.382 --> 25:33.604 world of all of our forces . Because it 25:33.604 --> 25:35.660 gives us a global footprint , but it 25:35.660 --> 25:37.771 rebuilds American industrial capacity 25:37.771 --> 25:39.993 the ability to make things again in our 25:39.993 --> 25:39.885 country has been critical to what the 25:39.885 --> 25:42.107 president's agenda has been all about , 25:42.107 --> 25:44.218 and this is a tangible reminder of it 25:44.218 --> 25:46.274 and uh I know the country's grateful 25:46.274 --> 25:45.885 for it and generations of Americans 25:45.885 --> 25:48.163 will be grateful for it . So thank you , 25:48.163 --> 25:50.329 thank you Marco . By the way , I think 25:50.329 --> 25:52.441 I'd just like to point out that these 25:52.441 --> 25:54.552 ships are made of steel as opposed to 25:54.552 --> 25:56.663 aluminum . It's a big difference , as 25:56.663 --> 25:58.496 you know . Battleships are great 25:58.496 --> 26:01.589 battleships at 6 and 7 inch steel hulls , 26:02.089 --> 26:04.311 and these are going to be likewise made 26:04.311 --> 26:07.170 out of very powerful steel . Our steel 26:07.170 --> 26:09.392 industry is coming back very strongly , 26:09.392 --> 26:11.614 by the way . It's coming back at record 26:11.614 --> 26:13.726 numbers , and we're going to be using 26:13.726 --> 26:15.892 them for the steel , but as opposed to 26:15.892 --> 26:17.670 an aluminum side which , in all 26:17.670 --> 26:20.989 fairness . Is not the same , so John , 26:21.040 --> 26:22.880 we're going with all steel . I 26:22.880 --> 26:24.769 understand and that's going to be 26:24.769 --> 26:27.400 something that people are surprised 26:27.400 --> 26:30.400 more expensive but uh not even 26:30.400 --> 26:32.900 comparable in terms of the importance 26:32.900 --> 26:33.479 and the strength .