Remarks at a Campaign Rally for South Carolina Republican Senatorial Candidate Senator Darline Graham Nordone in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina

Thank you. Thank you.

And I want to say a very special hello to Myrtle Beach, the home of 90 great golf courses.

We're going to bring a lot of—get everybody down to play golf. We're going to get them all. Everybody, come on down and play golf here. Let them make a lot of money.

No, and you have great everything down here. But you do. You're known for incredible golf courses, and so I want everyone to come down and use them, and I want you to make a lot of money when they do.

And I'll make you a deal that if Darline wins, I'll come down and play the best golfer in Myrtle Beach in a match. And we'll see who wins. I will play the best golfer down here, at least if they're not on the Tour. If they're on the Tour, forget it.

And I want to say a very, very special hello to the great State of South Carolina because——I won this State with the highest vote count ever in the history of the State, all three times. And—but Henry McMaster, I have to say, did very well also. Where's Henry? There he is. He did very well. He's been with me from day one. Right, Henry?

And I want to just let you know I'm thrilled to be back with thousands of hard-working, God-fearing, true, unbelievable American patriots.

That's where you are, Front Row Joe. We have Front Row Joes all over the place. We have the ladies from North Carolina—that's okay—right over there. They've been to 252 rallies. I can't believe it. I don't know how their husband puts up with it. They have these nice husbands.

But I don't see them with you tonight.

Thank you very much. It's been an honor. We've had a roll from 2016, right? From 2016, so many rallies. And we love them.

And we love our Front Row Joes. They always get front row. I don't know how they do it. And I want to say hello to a very special person that's with us tonight: Darline. Because Darline is somebody I've known for a long time. I asked her to do this. I said, "Darline, you've got to do it," because everyone loves her, everyone respects her. I've known her—through Lindsey, I've known her for a long—I think Lindsey respected Darline more than any other person he knows, including me. That does not make me happy. I'm not happy about that. I'm not happy about that. But one of those things.

But with your help this November, we're going to stop the radical-left "Dumocrat" Communists here in South Carolina and all across the Nation. And we're going to elect Senator Darline Graham to fight, fight, fight for South Carolina and to always put America first. She only knows how to put America first. She will be somebody you're going to be very proud. If you vote for her, you're going to be very proud of that vote.

The first step is winning the runoff election this Tuesday. You have to get out—August 25, you have to get out and vote. And we need every South Carolina patriot to go to the polls and vote for Darline Graham, if you would.

And the polls are open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. So on Tuesday, get out and vote. You've got to get out. To find your polling place: swampthevoteUSA.com—swampthevoteUSA.com. They have all the information, if you need it. Most of you don't.

But I'm in a very good mood tonight—I didn't mention this to Darline—because today we just learned that the big decision of the United States Supreme Court came down, and the military/ballroom—this beautiful, magnificent complex—being built on the hallowed grounds of our cherished White House, which is so vital for national security, will be—it's going to be the greatest of its kind anywhere that's ever been built. And it's something that Presidents have wanted to be built for over 150 years.

You know, we have a tiny, little room right now. It's been that way for years. It's called the East Room, and it seats 88 people.

And as an example, in 2 weeks, President Xi of China is coming, and I wish we had a ballroom. But in a very short period of time, in a year from now, you'll have one of the greatest anywhere in the world.

And the military is being taken care of because of the military component for drones and for missiles and for bulletproof glass and for all of the things that you've needed. The military has wanted this done for 100 years, and Presidents have wanted it done for 150 years.

So I just want to thank the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice. And we have a ruling that it's—proceed. When they say "proceed," I think that's a good thing. That's a good thing. Nothing is easy today.

And our construction is under budget and ahead of schedule. I always build under budget and ahead of schedule. And we build more beautiful than anybody else.

And we're going to get that highway built for you too, by the way. We're going to get that built. It's all ready to be funded. It's coming out of Washington, and it's come—it's coming out of Washington, and it's all ready to be finalized and funded.

And I have to tell you, Russell Fry has been fantastic in getting it done. He's been great. And Russell Fry endorsed Darline.

Where is Russell? Are you here, Russell? Stand up, Russell. You've been my friend from day one.

People ask me who's the best one to run for a certain seat, because we've won this place in such crowds and such numbers, but they say, "Who'd be the best to replace a certain gentleman who wasn't very good?" And everybody said there's a young man named Russell Fry. Right, Russell? And I put you up, and it was like magic.

I hope we have the same result with Darline, and I think we will.

But Russell has been so fantastic, and we're going to get your tremendous roadway project done. It's all funded. It's all ready to go. Okay? And thank you for all that support in every way.

And with your support and Darline fighting to go with South Carolina in the Senate—we're going to make sure that she gets there—we will continue to make America safer, stronger, and wealthier than ever before. We're going to make America greater than ever before, and we've brought it to a level that it's never seen before.

So, less than 2 years ago, Sleepy Joe Biden—have you heard of him?

——and the radical-left "Dumocrats" handed us a complete and total affordability and security disaster. Remember affordability?

I got in. We won by a lot, in a landslide. We won everything. We won everything. We won all seven swing States. We won the popular vote by a lot. We won the counties—87 percent of the counties in the country. Nobody has ever done that before. We won by a lot.

But I got in. I had my first press conference. Look at all those press back there. I had my first press conference, and they started screaming the word "affordability." I said, "I've only been here for 1 day"—[laughter]. And they started screaming about—Front Row Joes know this—about eggs. Egg prices were up four or five times higher than they were a year before. And I said: "I just got here. I'm here 1 day."

And I got eggs down to lower there than when they were in my first term, and they were low. And other things are coming down, and beef is now coming down very rapidly. You see that.

And as soon as we're finished with the Islamic Republic of Iran—as soon as we're finished, oil is going to be down at lower than it was even just a little while ago. We had it down to—for your cars, we had it down to a hundred—think of this: I went to Iowa—love Iowa—and one gas station had it at $1.95 a gallon, and another one had it at $1.85.

And then I went to meet with my people back in the White House the following day. I was in Iowa to make a speech. I left, I went and I said, "You know, I hate to do this to you," because the country was booming.

By the way, the stock market is much higher now than it was then, but, you know. And your 401(k)s are much higher now than it was then.

But with all the good news, I said, "I hate to do this, but we're going to have to take a little detour down to the Islamic Republic of Iran, and we're going to have to put out the nuclear weapon stuff because they're going to have a nuclear weapon, and we cannot let them have a nuclear weapon." We cannot let Iran have a nuclear weapon, or you'll see some very bad things.

So we went down, and we stopped them. They'll never have a nuclear weapon. They want to make a deal so badly. We don't even know if we won, because I view the Strait of Hormuz as an American territory right now.

It's an American territory.

But Biden created the worst inflation in 48 years, the worst trade deficit in world history, and open borders allowing millions and millions of people to pour in from all over the globe, including from prisons and jails. They came from prisons and jails from other countries, from mental institutions and insane asylums, from drug dealers and 11,888 murderers—stone-cold murderers, most of whom killed more than one person. These people were allowed to flow into our country. Murderers—think of it. They emptied their jails, including Venezuela.

I now love Venezuela.

We're making billions and billions of dollars from Venezuela. We're getting along great with Venezuela.

That was—by the way, nobody likes to talk about that. That was 1 day—1ne day. Everybody said, "Oh, it's going to be long." It was 1 day. And actually, in a certain way—a little different, but certain way—we're doing equally as well with Iran. The fake news just doesn't want to report it that way. But they are now coming around because there's not much they can say.

When a country doesn't have any longer a navy, an air force, radar, technical equipment, manufacturing—their leaders are gone; their second set of leaders are gone; parts of their third set of the leaders are gone. In fact, it's actually one of my biggest problems. I don't know who the hell to deal with. It's a problem.

It's the only country in the world where nobody wants to be President.

They say, "Who wants to be President?" "Oh, no, I don't want to be"—[laughter]. So it's a little bit of a problem.

They gave us the—this is Biden; didn't know what the hell he was doing. They gave us the transgender mutilization of your children.

They gave us men playing in women's sports. Doesn't work.

Errr. My wife hates when I do that. She says, "It's so un-Presidential, darling."

I said, "I won in a landslide." No, she said she doesn't like when I do the swimming routine or the weightlifting routine.

I said, "Darling, I won in a landslide. It's okay."

And she hates when I dance to that great—to the gay national anthem. That's what it is. It's called the "gay national anthem."

You know, I got the highest gay vote in the history of politics for a Republican, and I played the gay national anthem. So you know, what can I tell you? I'll take it. We're going to take it. We got the highest of everything.

But men playing in women's sports.

They gave us open borders. Anybody could come in. The whole world was laughing at us.

They were laughing at us like we were a bunch of dumb fools.

But they're not laughing anymore. They don't laugh at us anymore.

And starting the day that I took the oath of office, we ended the migrant invasion of our country. It was an invasion, just like an army. We sealed our borders shut and began sending vicious, illegal alien criminals back home. And we've got a lot of them out of here, and the rest are going very rapidly.

We imposed historic tariffs on foreign goods. The tariffs—we're making a fortune with tariffs, and what it's really doing, even more than that: All these companies are now coming and building in the United States; $19.2 trillion is being invested right now in the United States, more than any country at any time by many, many times.

You know, I said—for years, I've said it, because other countries are doing it to us, but nobody can do it like we're doing it. But I said the other day, and I said it many times, and you've heard it. Many, many times, I said, "Tariffs." It's my alltime favorite word. I love tariffs. I love the word. It's made us rich as hell, but it's really brought—You know why? Because if a country is sending, let's say, a car in here, I say, "You got to pay 25-percent tariff." They say, "Well, we can't do that." I said, "That's okay. You don't have to do it. Come over here and build your cars in the United States." And that's what they're doing in South Carolina. You have record—you have record manufacturing and auto plants being built right now in the United States. And, in South Carolina, you're doing great.

I said: "That's okay. You just come in and build your product here, whether it's a car or anything else." And we've never had anything like it.

You know, we went 40 years without building a car factory, and now we're building more car plants and factories than we ever have in the history of our country. Can you believe it?

But I said—Darline, I said, "My favorite word is tariff," and those people back there—the fake news—they killed me.

They went after me.

No, they went after me. They said: "'Tariff' is his favorite word. What about God? What about religion? What about your wife, your children? What about family?" So I made tariff my fifth favorite, and now I have no problem with the media. I have no problem anymore with the media. "Tariff" is my fifth-favorite word.

And last month, inflation dropped at the fastest rate in many years, and more Americans are working today than at any point in the history of our country—right now, today.

And you haven't seen anything yet because they're working today, but the factories are being built, so the construction jobs are through the roof because they're building all of these plants, factories—hundreds of them all over the country. Thousands of them.

Except for the fake polls out there, my poll numbers are great. No, they have such fake polls.

So we have the greatest economy in our history. Now, some people haven't seen it yet, but they will. Because the job numbers are so good, they will. But we have the greatest poll numbers that I've ever had. We have the greatest economy that I've ever had. We had one of the greatest economies in history in my first term. This is blowing it away.

But then I'll see a poll, and it will say, "Trump is at 44 percent on the economy." How can it be at 44? We have more people working now than ever before, and I'm at 44 percent. No, no, I'm at 30 points. Maybe I'm—I should be at 100 percent on the economy. But you're going to see it in a short period of time, and the prices are all coming down.

John McLaughlin, the great pollster—he's one of the greats—just told me that "if you ran today, nobody could come close to you. Nobody be—would be within 20 points." I believe that's right.

Likewise, the great Tony Fabrizio, a great pollster, he said the same thing. He said, "Nobody could come close to beating you." Unfortunately, we have a little rule and regulation that says you're not allowed to run. If they'd like to change that, I'll be very happy.

But look at the rallies. Look at what we have today. You have thousands of people standing outside, can't get in. They're standing outside, and we're not even really running. But we are running because we have to get Darline and other people elected, so we are running.

And the problem that we have is they say that Trump does great when he's on the ballot, but when he's not on the ballot, his people don't come and they don't vote for Senators, Congressmen, and other Republicans and that these people—they're running; they're great—but if Trump isn't actually on the ballot—so what I really want you to do is pretend, please, that I'm on the ballot.

Just come and vote. It's so important. So just say that I'm on the ballot one more time. You've got to say it. And you got to come out and vote.

Because if we lose, you're going to lose your border, you're going to lose your tax cuts, you're going to lose everything that we've done. We've gotten the biggest tax cuts in history. Think about no tax on tips, no tax on Social Security for our seniors—no tax on overtime. All of that is going to be gone. Your taxes are going to go up. Your pay is going to go down. Your jobs are going to be lost. They're going to end up closing up.

Your businesses are going to flee just like they did years ago. They're going to flee our country.

I'm going to be impeached. They're going to impeach me. They have no idea why.

I saw today a Congressman said on one of the shows: "We're going to impeach President Trump. We're going to impeach." "Oh, really? Why?" The person was asking—a neutral commentator for a change. I like neutral commentators. "Oh, I see. You're going to impeach him? Why?" "Well, I don't know. I don't know."

Audience members. Boo! U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

That's all right. That person is going home to mom, going to get scolded, because mom is voting for us. You know, mom is voting.

But I said, you're going to lose all of your tax breaks, you're going to lose everything, so you have to get out and vote.

No, they're going to do it. They're going to impeach.

But did you see it this morning? This Congressman—it's a big story. He's on, "We're going to impeach President Trump." "Why are you going to impeach him?" the commentator—"Uhh. Uhh." "Why are you going to impeach him? What has he done wrong?" "Umm. I don't know. I don't know. We're working on it. We're looking at different things. I have"—the guy had no idea. It's a disgusting thing.

So you're going to lose everything. I'm going to have to go through impeachment. These are lunatics. These are people that are vicious, violent. They'll weaponize the justice system, the Justice Department, and they want to destroy our country. They want to see that our country fails. They want our country to fail, and we can't let that happen. You have to get out and vote in the midterms.

One other thing—and you know, they know Darline because Lindsey was so prominent; he was so amazing. But they know how great she is, and they want Darline to lose and—the election—and they want really—I hate to tell you this, Darline: They want Darline to lose because of me. If I would support somebody else—in fact, Darline, I'll do that if you'd like me to.

Because, you know, when I fought for the wall, we ended up building 1,200 miles of wall. I used to say, "We will build a wall." You remember. I would come down here. "We will build the wall." The wall has been—and we built the wall. We built a lot of wall. We built the whole thing.

But I said, "We will build the wall." It took me 2 years—a little bit slow sometimes. If I would have said, "We will not build the wall," they would have given me all the money I want.

So, Darline, I'll say, "I do not want Darline to win."

No, they don't want her to win because they know how good—and they think that it hurts MAGA. It hurts—and MAGA is—if you look at the Republican Party, the Republican Party is MAGA. It's like—you know, I watched another commentator say, "The Republican Party is only 70 percent MAGA." Let me tell you, the Republican Party, I think—the real Republican Party is a hundred-percent "Make America Great Again."

But they're only fighting, Darline, because they want me to lose, which isn't fair. But I'm doing this to honor Lindsey. I'm doing this to honor Lindsey. That's why I'm here. I don't have to be here on a Friday. I don't have to be here. Although, I must say, I love it. And now that I am here, we got plenty of time to talk, right? We've got plenty of time.

So, Darline, we've got to win that race, and we appreciate that you're doing it. I asked her to do it. She didn't—she was very happy. Henry appointed her because she was a perfect appointment for the—to serve out the term. And I said, "Henry, she should really run. She's fantastic. We all know it."

And I said, "Darline"—I called her. I said: "Darline, I'd love to see you run beyond the 5 months that you're serving, and you've already made an impact in the Senate. You know that. Everybody respects you. Everybody listens to you." So I asked her to run, and I think she's going to do phenomenally. I really think it's—you know, she's never done it before, but she knows politics well. But she loves—she loves our military; she loves things that have to do with greatness for America.

So the Democrats hate our country. They're Communists. They're radical-left lunatics. And frankly, they're, in many cases, horrible, horrible people.

Do you remember Crooked Hillary Clinton? Remember Crooked Hillary Clinton? She said——

Do you remember when she said, "They're deplorable and irredeemable," right? Remember the word "deplorable"? That was a killer. That was the end of his—that was the end of her election, and it's amazing, because I heard her say that. I heard her; I was watching her. I said, "Wow, that's tough." She said, "They're deplorable and irredeemable."

And I said, "The word 'irredeemable' is not going to be accepted." Well, actually, that was accepted, but "deplorable" wasn't. So you know, I think "irredeemable" is worse.

But she was deplorable, and what they're doing is deplorable. And we have to make the midterm elections too big to rig. Very simple: too big to rig, like we did my election.

And I upheld my ultimate promise, and that's: I made our country great again. We made our country great in a much shorter period of time than anybody thought. And we can never let it go back to where it was just 2 years ago. Our country was a laughingstock all over the world.

Two years ago, our country was dead. Now we are the hottest country anywhere in the world. Everybody will tell you, anywhere in the world.

And, under our leadership, America is winning again; America is respected again, like it has never been respected before. I can tell you they respect your President. They laughed at your President. They respect this President.

But now the radical-left "Dumocrats"—I call them "Dumocrats" because their policy is so dumb. Think of it: men in women's sports, open borders for the entire world to pour into totally unchecked, unvetted. Think of it: the transgender nonsense, like everybody—your children should be mutilated in a—do you ever—can you believe these things?

And I don't talk about it too much until we get right before an election because I don't want them to change, because anybody that believes in defunding the police and all these—they want to defund the police, and they want to. Anybody that believes in this stuff cannot win an election. So I always tell the Republicans, "Don't talk about it because they'll change. Do it one week, 2 weeks before the election," and that's where we are. We're a week before the election, so we're talking about it, Darline.

But the radical-left "Dumocrats" want to destroy all the progress that we made and bring back their nation-wrecking nightmare of open borders, of sanctuary cities, of massive tax hikes; crippling energy restrictions; ruinous inflation—the highest ever, the highest, at a minimum in 48 years; racist DEI mandates; and defunding the police.

But Senator Darline Graham and the people of South Carolina are not going to let that happen. Right? We're not going to let it happen.

For 4 long years of Biden, you saw the radical Dumocrat agenda in action, and we're never going back. We can't go back. We can never do that again. That was close to the end of our country.

I'll tell you what: Had I not won—and this isn't about me, but had I not won, our country was ruined. We would have never been able to come back.

Welfare was doubling. Welfare was set to triple. And our business was going down the tubes. The companies were all leaving. Now these big companies are all coming into our country, and that, to me, means two things: money for our country—taxes—and jobs. Jobs. It really means a lot of jobs.

Remember what I say, and I'll say it again and again: There are more people working today in the United States of America than at any time in the history of our country. And I have to be telling the truth because those fake news reporters, if I exaggerate, if I'm wrong by one person—one person—they're going to say, "This was terrible. He"—I've learned. I say it so straight.

Sometimes I won't even say certain things if I'm not sure.

We have more people working today than at any time in the history of our country, and we're going to get out in the midterms, and we're not going to let them steal this election. And we have people laughing at America, as they were just 2 years ago. We're not going to let that happen.

We're not going to let people laugh at us anymore. We're the smart country now, not the dumb country.

We were a dumb, stupid country led by a very, very stupid person——who wasn't leading. I mean, they had some radical-left lunatics leading. He was not leading.

In State after State, the "Dumocrat" Party is now running the most extreme, unhinged anti-American candidates in the history of our country. Their party has gone full-on communist.

Do you remember at the State of the Union—Tim Scott was there. Barrasso was there—Senator Barrasso, a great Senator. I don't know what the hell you're doing so far away. Where's Barrasso? Look at him. He's a great Senator. Not from these parts, but he likes these parts, and he likes Tim Scott. But they were there.

And I said at the State of the Union, "Our country will never be a socialist country," right?

Will never be.

Well——

And—[laughter]——Audience members. U.S.A.! U.S.A.! U.S.A.!

Thank you.

No, I said, "Our country will never be a socialist country," and I was 100-percent right. It's gone communist. Okay?

So they skipped—Tim, they skipped socialism. They read—they went like this. Forget socialism. They've gone head-on communist, not socialist.

In fact, we're looking for some Socialists. Are there any around, please?

No, they've gone communist. But we're not going to let that happen. That, I can tell you. It's never worked. In a thousand years with different names, lots of different names, it's never worked once.

In Florida, 3 days ago, Democrats nominated an official member of the Marxist "Dumocrat" Socialists of America Party for the U.S. Senate. This is the easiest race that I've ever seen.

We have a great candidate, as you know, and I—I'm going to call her, and I'm going to say there's—there's actually pressure on her, because when you have somebody that bad running against you, you actually have pressure. You've got to win by a lot. But she's going to do fantastic.

A group that stands for—this is a group that stands for eliminating the United States Senate; replacing the Presidency and the Supreme Court of the United States—and I'm happy with the Supreme Court today, very happy; okay?—defunding and abolishing the police; amnesty for all illegals, including murderers and all other criminals; including ending our military, enacting reparations for a very small group of people, and of course, immediately abolishing all prisons and ending, terminating police. Other than that, I think they're quite reasonable.

Crime, squalor, and filth will take over our country. And, you know, I said it last week. For the first time, with all the campaigning, I said this last week. I said: You know, I've watched some of these blue States run by radical left, like this guy in Chicago, in Illinois, the Governor—Pritzker.

It's amazing what happens. It all becomes—I'm a very clean person. You know? I like to clean my hands as much as possible and all this. I don't like paper on the ground. I like everything nice and clean, like we did with Washington, DC. You can ask the Senators.

Washington, DC, was almost the crime capital of the United States. Can you imagine?

We took out over 5,000 career criminals, and everything is clean. Our monuments are clean. We took 82 monuments, fountains—beautiful. Everything is so beautiful. They had graffiti. Many of them didn't work for 35 years. And Washington is beautiful, and more importantly, it's very safe.

We changed the grass on a lot of the parks. The homeless are no longer there in the tents. They were all over the place. The homeless are no longer there. Terrible. And I did that all in a year. In 1 year, we did it.

You know, a restaurateur—they were all losing their restaurants. Nobody was going to restaurants. Now you can't get a restaurant in Washington, DC. And for those people that want to go out and eat, you're lucky if you can even get into it. It's the hottest—it's become one of the hottest cities in the entire United States. And isn't that nice? It's the Capital of our Nation. It's clean, it's safe, it's beautiful. And I want to thank our National Guard, who did a phenomenal job.

Telling you, you can't get into a restaurant, Tim, right? John, you can't get into a restaurant. That's the bad thing: You want to go to a restaurant, you can't get in. Before, you could get in, and then somebody would walk in and hold up the whole restaurant.

"Stick 'em up." It's hard to believe. They don't do that anymore in Washington.

No, crime is down 78 percent. Think of that. Crime—in Memphis is way down. I got a call from the Governor, a good Governor, and he said, "Could you come and do something?" It's down 80 percent. Crime in New Orleans—they just had Mardi Gras.

The Governor, a great guy, Jeff Landry—he said, "President, we need help. We have Mardi Gras." This is 2 or 3 months ago. He said, "We have Mardi Gras. This place is a crime fest." And I sent in the National Guard and some great experts, and they had the safest Mardi Gras they've ever had. Crime is down 79 percent. This is after 5 months. And I could do the same thing for New York, for Chicago, and L.A. All they have to do is call me. It would be easy. Terrible what's gone on in Illinois.

But in Michigan, the Democrat nominee for Senate, Abdul El-Sayed——

Abdul. Admitted openly that he wants to pack the Supreme Court with 23 far-left justices to shred the Constitution of the United States.

His sister, very close relationship, celebrated the terrorist slaughter of babies on October 7. His mother worked for an organization that gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to a gentleman named Usama bin Laden. Have you heard of him? Knocked down the World Trade Center. She gave him a lot of money. And he recently campaigned with a communist fanatic who says that America deserved 9/11. We deserved it, right? We deserved all that death, destruction.

In Texas, the Democrat nominee for Senate said he hates Christianity and that the 10 Commandments are a form of fascism. The 10 Commandments are fascism. He is a disaster, that guy. That guy is a disaster.

And just last week, the entire "Dumocrat" National Committee voted to abolish ICE, meaning the official Democrat Party platform now is—on top of everything else, they want to do that. I mean, they want to end all enforcement. They want to end law and order in our country.

They want to make it worse than it was. When I took over, our border was being overrun by millions and millions of people. Ultimate 25 million people throughout the 4-year period came into our country. They want to make it easier.

Was that a good thing? Audience member. Trump Nation!

Was that good or bad? I think she said "Trump Nation." I like that. I like that. I like that. Leave her alone. Don't do it. She said "Trump Nation." That's okay. Trump Nation is okay. I wasn't sure. You never know what they're saying nowadays, do you, Front Row Joes?

But communism is the single greatest threat to our country in history, including World War I, World War II, Pearl Harbor, and 9/11. And that's why we're going to crush the radical Democrats at the ballot box this November, and we're going to defeat communism in America once and for all. We're going to defeat it. It's never worked. It's dirty. It's filthy. It's unhappy. Did you ever see a happy Communist? You ever see a Communist laugh? I never saw it. I've known Communists. They don't laugh. They're very unhappy people. We want to be happy.

With your vote for Darline on Tuesday, we're going to send a message straight to the "Dumocrat" Party headquarters in Washington. We're going to tell them that we will never abolish ICE, we will never surrender our Constitution, and we will never allow our country to even think about being a communist or even a socialist country. We're not going to let it happen.

Darline Graham has devoted her entire life to the people of the State, just like her brother. He was so—that's all he talked about, was South Carolina. He was driving me crazy. I love the people, yet I got higher votes than him. Explain that, Darline.

He loved this State.

For years, Darline led an important State agency with 130 employees, and she ran it impeccably, and a $90 million budget. She served on the South Carolina Workforce Development Board, which was legendary to help working families. And when her beloved brother Lindsey passed away unexpectedly, so unexpected—I can't believe he's not here even—I went to her and I said, "You got to run, Darline."

And with your support, Darline will defend common sense in our Nation's Capital. She'll fight for lower taxes, bigger paychecks, no amnesty for illegal aliens, and she'll always protect your Second Amendment, the right to keep and bear arms.

And Darline, more than anything else—because her brother was very much about the world.

He was very much about the world. He really had it right. But he really was—he focused very much on that. That's good. That's fine. But she's more about affordability. She's about what we have, how much a loaf of bread is going to cost, how much beef is going to cost. Beef is coming down rapidly, by the way.

But she was very much about affordability, I think more so than Lindsey. Much more so. He had some unbelievable things going, but he was really about foreign nations not hurting our country. He was about Iran not having a nuclear weapon. He felt so strongly.

Look, if that ever happened, if they ever did, they'd use it. They'd wipe out Israel immediately. They'd wipe out the Middle East. And you don't think they'd be coming here? You'd say, which city is next? We're not going to let that happen. We already—we have that—those B–2 bombers a year ago, they ended that hope.

But, as much as anybody in the Senate, and maybe more, Darline will support our military. I spoke to her 2 days ago, and what she really wants to do is support our military and make sure they're taken care of, because, you know, the Democrats take care of illegal aliens, they give them the best hotel rooms in the country as our military sat outside.

Remember during Biden? Our military veterans were sitting outside on a freezing sidewalk in New York, and the illegal aliens were upstairs in hotel suites, being paid thousands of dollars a night to that hotel, while our veterans were outside. And she brought that up to me, and I think it's something she's never—I think it's something she's never forgotten. It was terrible. And we ended that very rapidly.

The Democrat who Darline is running to defeat is a far-left political hack who supports transgender for everybody and believes in telling confused children they're trapped in the wrong body.

By the way, do you notice how that's changing now? In fact, hospitals now are doing reverse surgery at my order. They're doing reverse surgery. Nobody ever heard about it. Darline is also a anti-gun—think of it: She's going to be protecting a thing called your Second Amendment, which is so—which is so important, and it's under siege.

And, Darline, I could use your help, because I want to tell you, I've been protecting it for 10 years, and every time there's an incident, it starts over and over again. I protected your Second Amendment. Nobody else could have protected it like I did. And I worked with John and with Tim Scott—and many others. We had great Republican Senators, in all fairness, on the Second Amendment. But it's not easy. And Darline is going to help us with the Second Amendment, and we need the help.

If you put that other person in, if you put that Democrat in, she will be fighting. Look, it's going to be a vote to get rid of your guns. Can't do it. Can't do it. And I'm not talking about the enjoyment aspect of it, and that's important, but you have to be able to defend yourself against lunatics.

So, in a nutshell, you have to defeat the Democrats and elect Darline Graham. Now, if you don't mind, because you heard her—I was on a plane coming here—could I ask Darline to come up for a second? Do you mind?

Darline, please come up. Thank you.

Got a nice way about her. You know, you're all standing up for her. You didn't stand up for me. What's going on? I'm angry. I don't like this. I'm upset with Darline.

Thank you, Darline. Great job. It's a lot of love.

Thank you, Darline.

With Darline's help in the Senate, we're going to continue to build on the most successful 19 months of any administration in American history. We've had the best first year and a half of any President in history. There's not been anybody that's done what we've done in terms of our military, in terms of tax cuts.

You know, the Democrats want to raise your taxes. All my life I've watched politicians, and all my life I've watched them say, "We will cut your taxes, we will cut taxes, we will lower your tax." These people say "we're going to raise your taxes," and people go and vote for them. I don't get it. I don't get it.

But in great news for South Carolina workers and the Port of Charleston, it was recently announced that American exports have skyrocketed to the highest level in American history. That's your port that we helped so much.

And that Henry is already asking me for more money. Let's make it a little deeper. Do you mind, sir? Oh, yes, great. Thank you, Henry. I appreciate it. But Henry was after money. He's always after money for the State. But he always gets it. I always give it to him.

Likewise, manufacturing is booming at the fastest pace in many, many years, here and all over our Nation, in all fairness.

The stock market has set 80 alltime highs since our election. So we've been in for a year and a half. Think of that. And the typical 401(k) is up by nearly $40,000 since I took office, setting records day after day. It's at the highest level. 401(k)s are at the highest level in history.

And with the help of our Republican majorities in Congress, last year I proudly signed the "Great Big Beautiful Bill," delivering the largest tax cuts in American history. We gave you no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, no tax on Social Security for our great seniors. And we also made interest on car loans 100-percent tax deductible, but only if you buy a car that's made in the U.S.A., if that's okay.

That never happened for people that go out and vote. They never had that. I'm getting you a deduction. You're not used to—rich people are used to deductions, but people that work very hard, middle income, upper middle income, they're not allowed to take. We have a deduction.

You can deduct the interest from your income tax.

It's going to be a very big thing, and it's selling cars all over the place. Something like that never happened. That was one of my little ideas, so was no tax on tips, which was particularly good in the State of Nevada, where everybody is a waitress, caddy, or waiter. That was a pretty good idea.

You know, they came in about 2 months later. They said, "We want no tax on tips," and they got laughed out of the place. We won the State. First Republican to win that State in many, many years, and we're going to win it for a long time to come, Nevada.

But everything we've done on taxes and all of the things, jobs, all of those things are going to be wiped out if the Democrats are allowed to win. And that's why you have to go out and vote.

While the radical "Dumocrats" like to say that they stand for working people, they don't. In fact, every single Democrat in Congress voted against your tax cuts. Think of it. Every single Democrat. Is that a correct statement, John? Tim? Everybody? They weren't—voted against your tax cuts. They voted against no tax on tips. They voted against no tax on overtime. They voted against no tax on Social Security. The Democrats want to raise your taxes, not lower them.

They voted against voter ID. They voted against proof of citizenship. When you go to vote, we want you just to show ID, please. Voter ID with a photo, if it's okay. Okay? With a photo.

Because I don't want to get—if I'm working behind a booth, I don't want to get Senator Tim Scott confused with Trey Gowdy, as an example.

If he hands me, like—if Tim hands me his identification, and it shows a picture of Trey Gowdy, I'm going to say: "I'm sorry, sir. This isn't working." Right?

Right? It's not going to happen, Tim.

But they voted against our police. They voted against our military. And they voted against our vets. Everything. They voted against everything.

They voted in favor of transgender mutilization of your children. They voted in favor of men playing in women's sports.

And every single Democrat in the House and Senate, every one of them, voted against our work to achieve the most secure border in the United States history. Not one person voted in favor of the border or the wall, where I built 1,200 miles of wall. That's one of the reasons we have the record that we've made.

And in the past—this is hard to believe, actually—but in the past 15 months, a historic record of zero illegal aliens have been admitted into the United States of America. Zero.

And we've cut the flow of fentanyl across our border by 64 percent. Think of that—64. And by the way, coming in by water, fentanyl coming in, down 97 percent—97. Think of it: down 97 percent. And it's nasty.

But you know, they call it intradict [interdict; White House correction]. We would intradict [interdict; White House correction]. We'd get the boats. We'd bring them to Miami. We'd give the guy a fine. He'd go to court. The court would let him out 15 minutes later. He'd be back on a boat that night, bringing drugs into our country.

They don't do that anymore. They don't do that anymore. They get hit. They get hit. Never miss. We have the greatest military in the world. They get hit.

I built the military in my first term. Created Space Force with the help of those two guys and plenty of others, but we created Space Force. But now they get hit. So it's down 97 percent.

And here's what we're doing: Tim Scott, John Barrasso are looking for the 3 percent of the people that still do that because we consider them to be the bravest people anywhere in the world. The 3 percent that are willing to go and take drugs into our country, I think, Tim, they're the bravest people anywhere in the world, or they don't watch television.

They don't—maybe they don't watch television.

But we're down 97 percent by sea. Can you believe it? And now the easy part begins. Now we stop them by land. The harder part was by water.

And we're finding the migrant criminals that the Democrats let in, and we're putting them in jail and throwing them out of the country.

You know, one of the best statistics—I say it all the time now because Washington is a good case—we moved 5,000 criminals out of Washington, DC. Otherwise, we couldn't have the record we had. But 2 percent of the population creates 91 percent of the crime. And see, that can work. If we said 40 percent, 50 percent, 30 percent, that would be very tough. That's a real problem. That's almost unsolvable. All problems are solved, but that's almost unsolvable.

So only 2 percent of the population—because you have criminals that create crimes, many—in some cases, three, four crimes a day. Two percent of the population creates ninety-one percent of the crimes. We got them the hell out of our country. Okay? We got them out. Some are in jail. Some are in jail because they're so dangerous. We don't want to take any chance. They're murderers.

Just days ago, in a wealthy suburban neighborhood in Virginia, a sadistic illegal alien monster from El Salvador murdered a 42-year-old mother, stabbing her repeatedly over and over again, dumping her in a park and trying to light her blood-soaked body on fire after putting gasoline all over her. Didn't get to do that, but she was long dead. This savage animal entered our country illegally in 2024, and under the open-border stupid policy of the radical Democrats, he was released into the United States again and again.

A lot of people are asking me: "What do you do? And would you do me a favor? Would you ever read 'The Snake'?" Do you remember "The Snake," anybody? Would anybody like to hear "The Snake"? It's Friday. We have plenty of time. I have all this time. Do you want to hear "The Snake?"

Got it right here.

Look, it's a Friday night. We have plenty of time, right? What the hell do I have to do? Go back, bomb Iran a little bit more? What the hell.

So this is from an old song, with some changes, and I just think it's so apropos, especially when you hear of the story I just told you. And it's called "The Snake," and it represents our border and the horrible people that this country has allowed into our country through the Obama and the Biden administrations.

A tender-hearted woman saw a poor, half-frozen snake. Her pretty-colored skin had been all frosted with the dew."

Poor thing," she cried, "I'll take you in, and I'll take care of you." "Take me in, oh tender woman. Take me in, for heaven's sake.

And laid him by her fireside with some honey and some milk. She hurried home from work that night, and soon as she arrived, She found the pretty snake she'd taken in had been revived. "Take me in, oh tender woman. Take me in, for heaven's sake. Take me in, oh tender woman," cried the vicious snake.

She clutched him to her bosom. "You're so beautiful," she cried. "But if I hadn't brought you in by now, you truly would have died." She stroked his pretty skin again and kissed and held him tight.

But instead of saying "Thank you, ma'am," the snake gave her a vicious bite. "Take me in, oh tender woman. Take me in, for heaven's sake.

Take me in, oh tender woman," sighed the vicious snake.

"I saved you," cried the woman, "and you've bitten me. But why? You know your bite is poisonous, and now I'm going to die." "Shut up, silly woman," said the reptile with a grin.

"You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in." That's our border. That's our border. That's our border.

Haven't done that in a long time, right? Haven't done that in a long time. So true. That's our border.

People are coming in. They're murderers. They're not going to change. They're not going to change. Nothing you can do to change them. They were born killers. And we're not keeping them in our country. They're getting out. We're bringing them out.

And thank you, ICE, and thank you, Border Patrol, and thank you, law enforcement.

And if you want millions of migrant criminals sent into your communities to loot and maim and rob and pillage and kill, vote for the radical-left Democrats. They will fulfill your needs.

If you want to get the migrant criminals out of your communities, you have to vote Republican. We're doing it rapidly. We're making up all of that—the horror that was allowed.

You know, they gave us the worst inflation in 48 years in history, as far as I'm concerned. And all of these things, I've already solved that. Mostly solved it. It will be soon solved. When the fuel comes down, it's going to come rocketing down.

But I've already said, the worst thing they did to us is allowed 25 million people into our country that were so bad, so evil, many of them. So bad. And these countries forced them out. You know, the countries didn't want them. Even the ones that didn't have prison records, they were, you will see, largely on welfare. They didn't work. There were problems. These countries are smart. I know the leaders. I know all of them. Very streetwise.

By the way, I want to do one thing, if I could interject, because sitting next to Darline is a very handsome man. It's her husband. And her family is here. And I want to just—I have to ask you: Please stand up. Would you please stand up? What a great guy. Great. Great. Look at the family. Great people. That's like from a postcard. In my old days, I'd grab that family and use them in an ad for a hotel, and said: "Do you mind taking an ad, Darline? I want to use you people for an ad." What a beautiful family.

I have to mention that it's so good that your family is so supportive, because without that, it doesn't work. Thank you very much. You're doing it for the country. Thank you. Thank you.

Great.

Last year, under my leadership, we achieved the largest drop in murder—think of that—ever. Ever. The largest murder rate drop ever recorded to the lowest level in 125 years, since the year 1900. A hundred and twenty-five years.

And we're making America safe again at home and strong again. On the world stage, everyone is respecting us.

And thanks to Republicans in Congress, we're making the largest-ever investment in the United States Armed Forces by far. These guys are helping a lot.

And I built our military during my first term, and we're using it now. But the late, great Senator Lindsey Graham was always one of the fiercest defenders of the United States military. There is nobody—nobody that fought for our military like Lindsey, and I'm proud to say that we officially named Joint Base Charleston in his honor. That's a big deal. That's a big deal. He really deserves it. You see things named after people; sometimes you say, "What's that all about?" He deserves it.

So we're delivering Joint Base Lindsey Graham nearly $360 million in this year's defense spending. That's good for your State also. And millions more are going to be spent on the marines at Buford and Parris Island.

With Darline as your Senator, those bases will be part of the bedrock of American military dominance for decades and decades to come. And I'm so proud of what we were able to do so easily with Lindsey.

You know, name changes on bases is a big deal. It takes many, many years, right? This one took a week.

That's how much he deserved it.

So congratulations to the entire family, Darline. It's great. We miss him.

And we're pleased also to be joined tonight by many great South Carolina patriots, including just about my first endorsement in the great State of South Carolina. He was the Lieutenant Governor at the time, and you had a Governor that I didn't like too much—[laughter]—and she endorsed somebody else. And I said, "That's strange," because I was always very good to her.

But we had a Lieutenant Governor named Henry McMaster. And Peg—Peg is a part of Henry McMaster. And he said: "I endorse the guy named Donald Trump, who's running. He's going to be a great President."

And I want to just ask—and you have been a great—you have been an unbelievable Governor, and I want to thank Henry McMaster. Thank you, Henry. Please.

And by the way, he was the first—there were a few Republicans that are good, but he was the first one; he kept your State totally open during COVID. Okay? That's pretty good. He turned out to be right. He turned out to be right, Darline. Right? These other guys, they closed up the States. The States will never actually recover. Mostly blue States, in all fairness.

With us also is Senator Tim Scott and Senator John Barrasso. Would you come up? Come on up. And I want to ask Russell Fry to come up. Come up, Russell. Come up here. What the hell.

It's Friday night. What are we going to do? Let's have a good time, right?

And by the way, Governor McMaster has just endorsed very strongly, very powerfully Senator Graham. So that's good. That's a big endorsement, Darline. That's a big endorsement. I don't know, that's pretty good. I think it was—you know, a lot of politicians want to stay out of a race; they never get involved. But that's why Henry is different. But just gave her a full-throated endorsement. Thank you very much. That's great. Thank you, Henry.

Also with us is the Speaker of the South Carolina House, Murrell Smith. Thank you, Murrell. Thank you very much. Good job.

And two fantastic Republican candidates who have my complete and total endorsement: Jenny Honeycutt for the First Congressional District. Jenny is terrific.

And congressional district—think of this—somebody that's very special, somebody that I've known for a long time: Cody Simpson for agriculture commissioner. Cody is going to do a great job, right? Thank you, Cody, very much. Good luck.

I also want to express our thanks to a wonderful woman here tonight, who has done an unbelievable job. It's so sad. You know, you meet people and you love people, but her name is Karoline, and she's our Press Secretary, and she just had a baby, and I just learned she loves the baby more than she loves Donald Trump, and I'm very angry with her.

Where is Karoline? She's fantastic. You haven't heard the last of her. She'll be working for us outside, but she's going to spend a little time with those two beautiful babies, right? Thank you, Karoline. What a job.

Oh, bring her up. They're all—come on, Karoline. Bring her up. Come on, Karoline.

Well, she was great, and she continues to be great, and you'll be hearing from her. She's got a great life ahead. But you know, she wants to be with the babies for a little while at least, and she is very special. Thank you very much, Karoline.

So, in just 19 months, we've turned this country completely around, and today our border is secure, jobs are up, inflation is down, investment is pouring in, factories are opening, our military is more powerful than it has ever been before. America is back, and our greatest victories are yet to come.

Today, with our Republican majorities in Congress, we will crush violent crime, impose harsh new penalties for dangerous repeat offenders, crack down on Marxist prosecutors, and we will end no cash bail where it all started. No cash bail.

We will expand my most-favored-nation policy on drug prices, where drugs are down 70, 80, and 90 percent. Nobody has ever even thought of that.

For decades, Americans paid the highest prices for prescription drugs anywhere in the world by far, and now we are paying the lowest price paid by any other country. So you went from paying the highest prices in the world to the lowest prices in the world, and I had to work hard to get that done.

So I'm giving you the largest prescription drug price cuts in history, with differences of 400, 500, and even 600 percent. Think of that. You'd ever think you'd hear that?

You know, it's funny: In my first term, I was very proud because I was able to cut drug from January to December by—think of this—one eighth of a percent. It's the first time a drug cut was able to get through for a year period in 28 years. So they went 28 years where drugs only went this way—prescription drugs and drugs of all kinds. And I was told that I was the first in 28 years to cut one-eighth of 1 percent.

And I had a news conference, and I was beaming. I thought it was great: one-eighth of a percent. Now I've cut drug prices 60, 70, 80, and even 90 percent. Who would have thought?

And other Presidents knew this was a possibility, but they weren't able to get it done. Most of them never even tried. But I got the other countries to do it. They had to agree to it. You think it was easy? Because their prices had to go up in order for our rises to come down. And I said, "You've got to let your prices rise." And we did. They had to double and triple their prices in order to get us that cut. And I won't tell you what I said to them, but it wasn't very pleasant, I can tell you.

So we should win the midterms on this issue alone. On drug pricing alone we should win.

Now, that's going to have a huge impact on your health care because health care is—so much of it is made up on prescription drugs.

Together, we will pass the "Great Health Care Plan" to stop all payments to big insurance companies and give the money directly to the people so that they can buy their own healthcare, which will be much better care at a much lower price. A lot of money left over.

And finally, we must pass the SAVE America Act to defend our sacred American elections.

See what I mean? Got to do it. Got to do it, Tim.

We have to do it.

And to do that, all voters must show photo—voter ID, and all voters must provide, very simply, proof of citizenship.

And we will enshrine—we had a victory in the Supreme Court on this subject, but we got to get it done permanently and good. We will enshrine no men in women's sports and no transgender mutilization of our children. And it's hard to believe we have to fight. Who could believe that we're standing up here? Can you imagine being, like, 20 years ago, and you'd have a Presidential candidate or a President standing up, saying, "We will not allow men to play in women's sports." They'd say, "This guy is crazy." And now it's like a battle. Can you believe it? Or transgender mutilation of your children will take place.

Now, can you imagine saying that, like, 20 years ago, 15 years ago? They take the guy off and put him in a cage. They'd say there's something wrong with him. And I actually have to get up and fight for no men playing in women's sports, no transgender surgery of your children. It's not even believable, but that's the radical left. They're crazy, and you can't let them get involved any further with this country.

But once again, it all begins with voting for Darline Graham and some great, great people. And, in this case, the runoff is Tuesday, August 25, and I will be watching all day long. Oh, I want that to happen. For Lindsey, I want it to happen.

The polls open at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. So get your friends and get your neighbors and get out and vote for Darline Graham.

And remember, they say, again, that Trump gets a lot of votes, but if he's not on the ballot, people don't vote so much. I am on the ballot. We're all on the ballot. Our country is on the ballot. You have to get out. You have to vote. I am on the ballot. We're all on the ballot.

So in closing, ladies and gentlemen of South Carolina, the golden age of America is upon us. And together with your help and patriots all across this magnificent land, we will make America powerful again. We will make America wealthy again. We will make America healthy again. We will make America strong again. We will make America proud again. We will make America safe again. And above all, we will make America great again!

Thank you, South Carolina. Thank you, Myrtle Beach. I'll be back. Thank you. Thank you. Good luck, Darline. Good luck. Going to have a big win. Thank you. Thank you, everybody.

God bless you.