President Trump addresses the nation on December 17, 2025
President Trump addressed the nation on Wednesday night, where he touted all of his accomplishments on the economy, tariffs, crime, the Southern border, and drug cartels, and bringing back America’s military strength.
He also made a major announcement for military members, stating that “checks are already on the way” to provide a dividend of $1,776 to the more than 1.4 million service members.
While touting the One Big Beautifu Bill, the President said, “many families will be saving between $11,020 and $20,000 a year, and next spring is projected to be the largest tax refund season of all time” He continued, “Because of tariffs, along with the just passed One Big Beautiful Bill, tonight, I am also proud to announce that more than… think of this, 1,450,000 military service members will receive a special— we call warrior dividend before Christmas, a warrior dividend. In honor of our nation’s founding in 1776, we are sending every soldier $1,776.”
“Nobody understood that one until about 30 minutes ago. We made a lot more money than anybody thought because of tariffs, and the bill helped us along. Nobody deserves it more than our military, and I say congratulations to everybody,” Trump continued. “And by the way, we now have record enlistment in our military, and last year, we had among the worst recruitment numbers in our military’s history. What a difference a year makes.”
WATCH:
“Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess, and I’m fixing it,” the President began his historic address, wrapping up the end of his first year in office.
He continued,
“Eleven months ago, I inherited a mess, and I’m fixing it. When I took office, inflation was the worst in 48 years, and some would say in the history of our country, which caused prices to be higher than ever before, making life unaffordable for millions and millions of Americans. This happened during a Democrat administration, and it’s when we first began hearing the word affordability. Our border was open, and because of this, our country was being invaded by an army of 25 million people, many who came from prisons and jails, mental institutions, and insane asylums. They were drug dealers, gang members and even 11,888 murders, more than 50% of whom killed more than one person.
This is what the Biden administration allowed to happen to our country, and it can never be allowed to happen again. We had men playing in women’s sports, transgender for everybody, crime at record levels, with law enforcement and words such as that just absolutely forbidden. We had the worst trade deals ever made, and our country was laughed at from all over the world, but they’re not laughing anymore. Over the past 11 months, we have brought more positive change to Washington than any administration in American history. There’s never been anything like it, and I think most would agree. I was elected in a landslide, winning the popular vote and all seven swing states and everything else with a mandate to take on a sick and corrupt system that really just took the wealth from people and crushed the dreams of the American people.
For the last four years, the United States was ruled by politicians, who fought only for insiders, illegal aliens, career criminals, corporate lobbyists, prisoners, terrorists and, above all, foreign nations which took advantage of us at levels never seen before. They flooded your cities and towns with illegal aliens. They decimated your hard earned savings. They indoctrinated your children with hate for America— really, I mean, they just released a level of violent felons that we had never seen to prey on innocent. They caused war, they caused mayhem. They caused a horrible situation all over the globe. But now you have a president who fights for the law abiding, hard working people of our country, the ones who make this nation run, who make this nation work.”
The President went off touting his accomplishments to fix the mess Biden left him when he came into office on January 20, 2025, including on the southern border, where not a single alien has illegally entered the country in seven months, drugs entering the US are down 94%, and we are seeing reverse migration for the first time in 50 years; his efforts to restore law and order in Washington, DC and around the nation with Federal troops and agents; restoring American military strength; bringing the economy back and prices down from when the last Administration and Congress “looted our Treasury for trillions of dollars” over the last four years; job creation this year, 100% of which was in the private sector, not government employees; and more.
Trump also went off on Somali aliens in Minnesota who are looting our country, stating, “Look at Minnesota, where Somalians have taken over the economics of the state and have stolen billions and billions of dollars from Minnesota and, indeed, from the United States of America. We’re going to put an end to it!”
“For so long as before my election, the vast majority of good and decent Americans were forced to watch as corrupt politicians plundered the halls of power, exploited our taxpayers, and pillaged every system that makes civilized society function, but not anymore. And you see that every day, not anymore. We’re putting America first, and we are making America great again. Very simple, we are making America great again,” the President said while wrapping up his speech.
“Tonight, after 11 months, our border is secure, inflation has stopped, wages are up, prices are down, our nation is strong, America is respected, and our country is back stronger than ever before. We’re poised for an economic boom the likes of which the world has never seen.”
Watch the full address below:
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