Remarks at a Women's History Month Event

The President. Well, thank you very much. Ooh, that's a lot of good-looking people there. [Laughter]

This is great. It's a great honor to be with you, and I want to thank everyone and welcome you to the most spectacular place, the White House. It's just an amazing place to live and to work in. And you know, I've seen a lot of good places, but believe me, there's nothing like this. It's just very special, and it's great to have you here to celebrate Women's History Month. That's a big deal.

And today we honor the legacy of incredible women like Betsy Ross, Harriet Tubman, Susan B. Anthony, Clara Barton, and Amelia Earhart. All legends. And their extraordinary courage and patriotism and devotion propelled our Nation to glory and to greatness. And they are great women—many great women.

And thank you for the vote. You were very nice to me. The women—[laughter]—they were—we set every record.

Audience member. We love you!

The President. We loved it. We loved that vote.

But we're delighted to be joined by some of the pioneering women who are making history in our own time.

A woman that's just absolutely incredible. I have—I can't tell you enough about her. She ran my campaign. We kept winning, winning, winning. [Laughter] And then we did well, where she won Florida by record numbers. And I said, "You know"—the second time, I said, "Well, just keep running Florida." And the big one was stolen from us, you know? So I said, "We'd better get her for number three," and we won in records. We won every swing State. We won, by millions of votes, the popular vote. We won everything. We won the districts 2,750 to 500—507 or something like that. And we just won so big. And her name is Susie Wiles.

And she—where are you, Susie? And she was just named by one of the very prominent media groups—I won't mention it, because I cannot stand the people—[laughter]—but she was just named as, and it's true, the most powerful woman in the world. Susie. That is crazy, huh? That's a big—her father was a great—Pat Summerall, a great announcer—really great football player and announcer for the NFL for, like, 27 years. He really got the NFL. [Laughter] He did pretty well with the NFL. He got them off to a very good start, didn't he? But he was great.

But she's got those same traits. So thank you very much, Susie. Great job.

Also, we're going to go to somebody that's really the rage right now. She's the youngest ever White House Press Secretary: Karoline Leavitt. Karoline, look at you, huh?

They said, "Sir, sir, she's just too young." [Laughter] And I said: "I don't know about that. She did awfully good." Because she did it during the campaign, and she was awfully good. And she's been amazing. She just did another one just a little while ago.

She looked at Susie and looked at me, "I don't know, I think I'm ready, sir." "How old are you? Twenty-seven, right?" [Laughter] "Twenty-seven." I said, "You're not too young." And she's knocking them dead. Everyone is talking about you. Thank you very much. Great job.

And we have somebody else who's like a rocket ship, the Counselor to the President. She served me well. I'm going to miss her, but we'll see a lot of her anyway. I hope it's on a friendly basis, because I've got to be very concerned because she's going to be the new U.S. attorney for the District of New Jersey. Alina. Where's Alina Habba? Alina. Alina Habba. Thanks, Alina.

She's going to be great. I'll tell you, she's going to be great. She's a great lawyer and lives in New Jersey. And I said, "That sounds like a good combination." Every—everybody wanted that job. They're all looking for the job. I said: "Wait a minute. Doesn't Alina live in New Jersey?" "Yes." "I think Alina is going to get that job." [Laughter]

So congratulations, Alina. It's fantastic.

I'm also thrilled to say that we have more women in our Cabinet than any Republican President in the history of our country.

And joining us today is a woman I've known a long time. You talk about strong women. This is a strong woman. Remember, they were saying, "He doesn't like strong women." [Laughter] That may be true. But if that's true, I'm in deep trouble, because I'm surrounded. [Laughter] I've got the strongest women. And this is a beautiful, strong, wonderful woman: Attorney General Pam Bondi.

But yesterday, you know, she was talking about these guys that like burning down cars and plants and everything else. And I was watching her on television. She said: "I'm going to get you. We're going to find you, and you're going to suffer." [Laughter] And I say, "Man, I don't want her after me." [Laughter] It was—and you know, it's amazing: The attacks have gone down very, very precipitously. It's really—[Laughter].

Pam is fantastic. Thank you very much, Pam. Really good, amazing.

Along with a woman who was given a very hard and difficult problem: the cost of eggs. This was the problem. [Laughter] The cost of eggs. Eggs were through the roof. You've got to see the Biden chart. It's, like, a rocket ship.

[At this point, the President raised his hand.]

And Trump is, like, this way.

[The President lowered his hand.]

But I gave Brooke the Secretary of Agriculture, and I didn't know it—I didn't know it—she studied that in college. I didn't know that. I was going to give it to her anyway. [Laughter] I liked her. [Laughter] It didn't matter that she studied it, but it sort of helped, right?

But she came in and she lowered the cost of eggs by almost 50 percent in 3 weeks. Right? Someday you're going to tell us that secret. I want to find out. But the chart looks great. It's Biden like this.

[The President raised his hand.]

And then we're like this.

[The President lowered his hand.]

[Laughter] But we also—by the way, we lowered energy costs—really, like, tremendously. Energy is way down. The cost of gasoline is way down. The cost of groceries, a word that I used a lot on the campaign—it's like an old-fashioned word, but it's a beautiful word, a very descriptive word—and the groceries are coming down, Brooke, at a level that very—I mean, we're finally getting costs under control in our country.

And people don't like talking about it, because it's so good. It's so positive. I haven't seen one story on eggs plummeting by 50 percent. [Laughter] But someday, we'll—they'll get around to writing it.

Secretary of Education, she's trying to put herself out of a job—Linda. She's trying to put herself out of a job. She's moving education back to the States, and she's doing it at a rapid rate. And she's an amazing woman. I've known her, also, for a long time. She's been amazing. No matter where she's been, she's been successful, including, with her husband, building a tremendous empire.

And Linda McMahon is very special. Thank you, Linda. Thank you.

And it's getting praise, by the way, the concept of moving education back to the States, back to the mothers and the fathers. And you'd probably do it for less than half, and you're going to have great, great schools.

You know, I say that, in our country, they have charts, and they rate the countries, various countries. And Norway and Demark and Sweden and lots of places are rated at the top, and Finland—China is rated very high too. Tell me that's—that takes the big problem out, because if they can do it, that's big, so we can do it. And we're rated toward the bottom. We're at number 37, 38, 39, or 40 out of 40. So, we're just about last.

And yet we're first in one very nice category: cost per pupil. So, obviously, there's something wrong. We just have to repeat that, Linda, and everybody says, "Well, I guess it's time to do it." And it's been that way for a long time.

And originally, we had it run by home States, and we never had that kind of a problem. But it's going to be—Katie, it's going to be brought back again, and Linda is going to do it. And I— just say—you know, she said, "You basically want me to get out of Government, don't you?" [Laughter] I said, "That's right. Do your job, and get out." But I promise I'll have something else for you. Okay? [Laughter] I promise, I'll have something even better for you. All right?

But you're doing a job, and we appreciate it.

Also, a special man—he's got a tremendous majority—it's so easy—a majority of about one. [Laughter] I think he's the only man could do the job because everybody loves him, everybody respects him. He's really smart, really—he's so nice. People say, "Is he smart?" I say, "You have no idea." He's actually—you know, he's really nice because he's smart. He knows it's the only way you can live with it. [Laughter]

Where is Mike? Where—Mike, it's the only way you can do it. You got—he's the nicest guy. But in actuality, he's not a nice person. [Laughter] He's ruthless. You haven't seen this guy when he gets angry. I don't want to—I'll ruin your image overnight. [Laughter]

He is a phenomenal guy. Our great Speaker, Mike Johnson, thank you very much. [Laughter] I'm just—I don't know, is that good or bad for you? I'm not so sure. It's okay. He said, "Whatever the heck you want to say is okay."

First female Republican attorney general of Iowa and an early supporter of Trump, and—where's Brenna Bird? Brenna. Brenna, thank you very much. She's so popular in Iowa. She came out so early, and I appreciate it very much. That was great.

Alaska Lieutenant Governor Nancy Dahlstrom. Nancy. Thank you, Nancy. Thank you very much. You have a—you have a great Governor too, by the way, Nancy. He's also tall. [Laughter] He's seriously tall. I mean, the guy is, like, seven foot two. He is a tall guy, but he's a great Governor. And I have a son who's tall like him, and Barron is very tall. They're all tall, but Barron is seriously tall, right? [Laughter]

So, anyway. Say hello to him. He's a great Governor.

South Carolina Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette. Where is Pamela? Thank you very much. Good job you're doing. Great job. Good. And good luck with everything. I know it's big stuff, right?

Lieutenant Governor Pamela Evette of South Carolina. The Governor says hello.

The President. Oh, good. Thank you. Well, you have a great Governor.

Oklahoma Agricultural Commissioner Blayne Arthur. Blayne. Thank you, Blayne. Good. Nice to see you.

And so many other incredible women. I'm going to make so many enemies, because I'm looking here—I know every one of them, and I'm supposed to say their names. I maybe will get to it. I don't know. It's a long list.

For 4 years—long years, we had an administration that tried to abolish the very concept of womanhood and replace it with radical gender ideology. Maybe you heard something about that. They destroyed women's spaces and even tried to replace the word "mother" with the term "birther person." A mother became a birther person. [Laughter] What's that all about? Then you wonder why they lost. They're trying to figure out why did they lose. [Laughter]

I saw a Congressman today for the Democrats. He was having a big fight on television early this morning, trying to make it so that—really, he thinks men should play in women's sports. He hasn't given that up yet. He was fighting like crazy. I said: "This guy is going to lose. He's going to lose badly."

The whole party is still into that. They haven't learned. Under—and we don't want them to learn, frankly. [Laughter] We want them to keep fighting. Let's not tell them.

Under the Trump administration, we're ending the Marxist war on women—and you had a war on women—and we're protecting women's rights, defending women's dignity, and standing up for the American moms and daughters. So many are represented here. Great people in this room.

American women have never had bigger champions than all of us in the White House. I mean, it's me, but it's the group of men and women. We have a lot of men that are—like Howard, our head of Commerce, I see is here.

What are you doing here, Howard? [Laughter] Huh? Oh, that's a good—he's got his beautiful wife here. [Laughter] I was going to say, "What's Howard doing here?" He's like—not—there aren't too many men in this audience, actually. [Laughter] But he's a big advocate.

And we're going to be making a—right after this, we're going to be making a big, special announcement—Howard and I and Scott and a few other people—on cars. We have liberation day in America. That's where we take back all of this money that's been ripped off from us for so many decades and we start a process—we're going to go with the tariffs on cars. And as you've probably been reading—it's all over the place; you've been reading and seeing and watching—car companies and every other form of company, they're pouring back into our country at levels never seen before.

We're up to, I guess, close, Howard—to $5 trillion of investments already. And there's never been that much—for a year. We did that in a period of 6 weeks. There has never been any numbers like that. We've never seen. They're all coming—they're all coming in so they don't have to pay tariffs. It's very simple. Because if you build your product in the U.S.A., there is no tariff.

On day one, I made the official policy of the United States Government that there are only two genders: male and female. [Inaudible] Is there anybody—seriously, is there anybody that disagrees with that in this room?

Audience members. No!

The President. I was thinking maybe somebody from the press might raise their hand. [Laughter] I don't think so. There aren't too many people.

You know, it's amazing. It's got to be a—like, a 98-percent issue, right? So, what are they doing, Marjorie? What are they doing? They're fighting for a 2-percent issue. That's good. Let them keep doing it.

No matter how many surgeries you have or chemicals you inject, if you're born with male DNA in every cell of your body, you can never become a woman. You're not going to be a woman.

And that's why, last month, I proudly signed a historic Executive order to ban men from competing in women's sports—and it was very popular and very—very popular.

We had a track meet, and I—it was so disparaging to great women athletes. I've known so many great women athletes. I gave Annika Sörenstam the Medal of Freedom here not so long ago. And these are unbelievable athletes, but it's so ridiculous. They had a track meet, and you heard me talking about a long—a long-distance track meet. The man won by 5 hours and 14 minutes and 12 seconds. And I said, "This is not good."

And you want to see worse? Take a look at the weight lifting records. Take a look at the boxing. Take a look at this—the whole thing is ridiculous, and, frankly, it's demeaning to women.

And you are superior to men, in my opinion. What do I know? You are. Huh? Nice seeing you. No, they are superior. I've known it all my life, and I'm not happy about it. [Laughter] I'm not happy.

I also banned puberty blockers—can you believe I'm even saying this?—and the sexual mutilation of minor youth.

Now, who would—who would think—you know, let's go back 10 or 15 years. If you ever heard a statement like that, you'd say, "What the hell is he even talking about?" Right, Brooke? "What is he talking about? Puberty blockers?" But that's where we are. That's where we've come, and we're ending it. We're sending it back to where it came from—oblivion, right?

So, in the recent election, we did fantastically well with women. I kept hearing, "Women don't like him." I said, "I think they do." [Laughter] You know who don't like—fake polls don't like me. That's who don't like me. [Laughter]

But we're setting records in so many of these cases. And I was for women. I was for the women, the suburban housewife, where I stopped low-income housing projects from being built at a house next to you, where people were being decimated. The houses were being literally ripped up and destroyed. And I stopped it, and we've stopped it again. We had to stop it again. I stopped it first term.

We had a great first term, a really successful first term. We had the largest increase in stock market value—a 88-percent increase—in the history of our country. We gave you the biggest tax cuts. We gave you the biggest regulation cuts. We rebuilt our military. We gave too much of it away to Afghanistan. This character, what—I mean, he gave billions and billions of dollars of it away to Afghanistan.

And maybe we'll have to ask for that back; although, it's getting a little old now. Get—they're getting a little old. We're building new stuff.

But I will say that it was such an honor working with so many great women. I've worked with women all my life. I've always been ahead on that subject. I had women in my construction business putting up skyscrapers in New York 30 years ago, 35 years ago, long before it was in vogue. And they were phenomenal. Every one of them was phenomenal.

My administration listens to America's moms, and that's why I recently created the Presidential Commission to Make America Healthy Again, and that's really caught on. That's really caught on.

And Bobby Kennedy, by the way, is doing a great job. He's a—he was—I think it's going to be—I think it's going to go down as another great choice.

And we just don't want to treat the chronic disease crisis. We want to prevent our children from getting sick in the first place. And there are so many things that we are doing wrong. Something happened. If you go back 20 years, autism—think of it: 1 in 20,000 children. Think of that, one—autism, you see it all over: 1 in 20,000 children. Now it's 1 in 36 children.

Now, what the hell is that all about? There's something out there, and we got to find it. But can you imagine? One in 20,000, and now it's 1 in 36—not 36,000, 1 in 36 children. And I see it. I see it all the time.

And so there's something—there's something out there, and we're going to find it. We're doing something really wrong, and it might be very simple to even correct. But we're looking very hard, and Bobby is looking very hard, and we're going to figure it out.

And to further support our Nation's mothers, I've signed an Executive order to expand access to fertility treatments like IVF.

That's Katie. Katie. Where's Katie? Katie called—your great—your great Senator from Alabama, she called, and she was, like, in a little bit of angst, right? She said, "Sir, we just had a ruling from an Alabama judge who said you did—couldn't have the clinics, IVF." And I was in my plane, and she said: "It's terrible. It's terrible. Friends of mine are virtually attacking me." I said—because they're not—they're not really—people don't talk about it, necessarily. And why should they?

But Katie called me up. She did such a great job. And she said: "Sir, you have to get on this right away. It's terrible. They're going to close up all the clinics." They ordered all the clinics closed. And I said: "So, Katie, give me a quick definition, please. Katie—educate me in a minute or less." And she did, and I came out totally in favor of what all of these women wanted. And it's—I mean, it became our issue. We actually took it away, Mike, from the Democrats. They were late to the party. And it was a—really, I give you a lot of credit. So thank you very much. Thank you, Katie. Great job.

And I also signed an Executive order to begin abolishing the Department of Education, as we said, but also to go back—to go back and do things with our schoolchildren that our—that just hasn't been done in many, many years. But the basic is reading, writing, and arithmetic. And we want to make sure that they teach English. Okay?

But I think we're not going to have a problem. And you're going to see things happen, I think, on the education front like nobody can believe. It's very exciting. Very exciting.

And so many of the States, like Iowa and Idaho and Indiana—by the way, unrelated, but Indiana, they just signed Honda. One of the biggest auto plants in the world is going—Honda—big, big company. Would have never come here except for—let's say the election. I like to say the election result, but let's give tariffs a little—[laughter]—a little of the—well, without the election result, you wouldn't have the tariffs, right? So I guess it's all about the election, Marjorie.

But one of the biggest anywhere in the world, they're building in Indiana. Big, big plant. And we're going to—we have many of them going up. Many plants in other countries have stopped. They've stopped construction. One of them right in the middle of construction, they're coming—they just signed a contract. They're going to build it here instead.

So you're going to see that at record—just remember I told you so in 12 months from now. [Laughter]

But on day one, we're ending the inflation nightmare that Joe Biden created and caused but—just by his spending. Two things: his spending, but, I think, more important—he destroyed our energy policy, and energy started going up. Gasoline, all of—any form of energy went through the roof.

And then what he did to get it down a little bit, he went back to the Trump policy. Everything—"Let them drill. Let them"—they were very, very concerned. And it was too late, because that jackrabbit had gotten out of the nest. [Laughter] And it was too late. They really screwed us up in so many ways.

How about allowing millions and millions of people to come into our country? Open borders. People from all over the world. Not South America. South America, but all over the world. They came in from Africa, from Asia, from all over the world.

From prisons. The prisons were emptied into our country. I call them prisons and jails. "Prison" being a slightly tougher term. But the prisons and jails were emptied into our country. The mental institutions and insane asylums. Same thing. "Insane asylum" is "mental institution" on steroids, right?

Insane—I say—I used to say, "Dr. Hannibal Lecter—the great Dr. Hannibal Lecter is"—[laughter]—"is in a hotel room near you." [Laughter] And the fake news back there—a lot of fake news here, by the way. Fake news would say, "Why does he keep mentioning Hannibal Lecter?" I said: "You know why? Because I just—we just won an election." We got a lot of votes because of Hannibal Lecter. [Laughter] We don't want to have Hannibal Lecter in our country.

So we watched the—what was happening to destroy our country, and a woman, by the way—the head of Homeland—is doing—Kristi—is doing a great job. Kristi Noem. She's doing a great job. She's getting them out. And Tom Homan.

But Tom Homan and Kristi Noem are—they're doing an unbelievable job. She's tough. She's—she might be tougher than Tom. Is that—pretty tough, right? I say Tom is central casting, but he says, "I think she might be tougher than me." So that's—we needed that, because she's dealing with a rough group of people—millions and millions of people. Twenty-one million people came in, but, of that, at least 3 million are serious, serious criminals. Many of them are murderers—11,088. And of that number, about half have murdered more than one person. This is not going to end well.

So we're getting them out in record numbers. And we're having a lot of problems with the courts, because the courts want to pretend they're President, and they're not President. They didn't get 80 million votes, and they didn't—they're not. They can't do that to this country. That's not their job.

But we're getting them out in record numbers, and it's going to save a lot of lives. It's—we have some really bad people in this country. But we—you see the ones we're taking out: Tren de Aragua, the toughest of all gangs; MS-13. And we're getting them out.

So, in just 2 months, core inflation has dropped to its lowest pace in 4 years. We've got it going down. The groceries, I told you about. And energy of all kinds—gasoline has fallen below now $3 for—$3 for the first time in years, since I was there, it's fallen below $3. We're going to get it down quite a bit lower. That's going to bring prices still further down, and people are going to be able to buy their groceries again. And so important.

And, again, I want to just congratulate you, Brooke. What a job you've done over there with the eggs.

I was in office—I was in office for 1 week, and I—got—this one article was so bad. They had, "Donald Trump has caused a massive egg problem." [Laughter] And I said, "This is"—and they showed it's, like, you know, terrible. But it was during his term that it went up, right?

And—but they were hammering me. They thought they had us, until I put you in that position. And I don't know what the hell magic wand you use, and now they don't talk about it anymore. It's terrible. Well, we'll talk—we have to talk about it, you know? If they don't talk about it, we talk about it, right, Brooke? But what a job you've done.

Now we need Congress to pass the largest tax cuts in American history. And Mike is going to get that.

And I think—now I think we can finally say one big, beautiful bill, because everybody is there. I spoke with—John Thune is doing a terrific job, also, and the Senators. And we want one big, beautiful bill. Just put it all in that bill, and we'll figure a way to have it passed, right? We'll figure a way.

But we have—it's the largest—it will be the largest tax cuts in American history. When you add that onto the fact that if they don't pass this, you will have the largest tax increase by far, because the tax increase [decrease; White House correction] that I passed 5 years ago—the biggest in history, bigger than the Reagan tax cuts—what happens is that jumps back to where they used to be. So, if you add that onto the other normal tax increases that the Democrats want to give, this would be the largest tax increase in history, by 58 percent—or more, I guess, but 58 percent.

And I don't know how anybody can vote for a Democrat, but I know one thing: that I believe the Democrats are going to be forced to help vote for this bill.

And then we have the very important continuation of debt. I don't call it a debt increase, because we're not looking to increase. We want to just continue that line, and we should call it, I think—from now on, Mike, we're going to call it the continuation, because that's what it is. That was thrown into our lap unnecessarily. But we have it, and it's fine that we have it.

But I think we're going to get tremendous support, even from Democrats, because, otherwise, they're voting for the biggest tax increase in history, by far—by, I think, 38 points. And I don't think they're going to want to do that.

So, Mike, I hear you're doing great on it. And we're going to have tremendous—tremendous goodies in the bag for women too—the women—between the fertilization and all of the other things that we're talking about. It's going to be—it's going to be great.

Audience member. [Inaudible] [Laughter]

The President. We're joined today—[laughter]. Fertilization. [Laughter] I'm still very proud of it. I don't care. [Laughter] I'll be known as the "fertilization President," and that's okay. [Laughter] That's not bad. That's not bad. I've been called—I've been called much worse. [Laughter]

Actually, I like it. Right? I like it. Thank you.

We're joined today by many of the women members of the House and Senate who make up so much and make this all happen. And I especially want to recognize the leaders of the brand-new Republican Women's Caucus: Senator Katie Britt. Again, Katie, thank you. Thank you, Katie. Great job you do. And Representative Kat Cammack, who just announced a new baby girl. That's great.

I also want to say, a driving force behind the effort to create a women's history museum,—working very much with some of the women in this room—I'm not sure if it's been discussed specifically—but to create a women's museum on the National Mall. And we have a great site. I'm very good at real estate, you know? [Laughter] We have a great site. And Nicole Malliotakis is here someplace. Where is Nicole? And she is really working hard on this one. This is—this is a passion for you, and you're working——

Representative Nicole Malliotakis. A big, beautiful museum.

The President. It's a big, beautiful—[laughter]—she said it's going to be a big, beautiful museum. Well, it has to be. If it's for women, it better be big and beautiful, or—[laughter]—or we're in trouble, right? But we're working on that.

Also here—I just have this list, and they're incredible people, so I have to do it. Otherwise, I'll be run out of town. I don't have the courage not to do it.

Senator Marsha Blackburn. Marsha, thank you very much. So incredible. Unbelievable talent. Senator Joni Ernst. Joni Ernst. Where is Joni? Hi, Joni. I owe you a call. I'll call you. Okay? Deb Fischer. Just won a great race: Nebraska. Thank you, Deb. Great race, Deb.

Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith. Oh, we love Cindy Hyde. Thank you, Cindy Hyde. She said, "Sir, could you do a rally for me?" I said, "Yes, I'll do a rally for you." I get there, "Sir, could you do two more for me?" I did. [Laughter] We did three, and we blew him out, right? It was an Obama sycophant. We blew him out of the water, right, Cindy Hyde? So, thank you.

And Senator Ashley Moody, congratulations. Where is Ashley? Congratulations, Ashley.

Also Representative—and this one is tough; she's tough—Lisa McClain. She's tough and good. She's a good one. She's a real leader. Thank you. Great job, Lisa.

Representative Stephanie Bice, thank you very much. Thank you. Where is Stephanie? Thank you very much, darling. Sheri Biggs. Hi. Hi, Sheri. Good. Lauren Boebert. Great people. Monica De La Cruz. Monica De La Cruz. Hi, Monica. Good job. Julie Fedorachak [Fedorchak; White House correction]—Fedorachak [Fedorchak; White House correction]. Hi, Julie. Great. Nice to see you.

A person that is more experienced than anybody, and she's still a young woman—very young: Virginia Foxx. Virginia. What a good woman, right, Mike?

Speaker of the House of Representatives J. Michael Johnson. Yes.

The President. A quiet women, but she—underneath that quiet facade, she's a tiger: Marjorie Taylor Greene. [Laughter] Highly respected woman, I tell you. Thanks, Marjorie. Great woman.

Diana Harshbarger. Diana Harshbarger. Where are you, Diana? Thank you. Thank you. Good job with your son too.

Representative Diana Harshbarger. Yes. Thank you, sir.

The President. Thank you.

Ashley Hinton [Hinson; White House correction]. Ashley, thank you. Thanks, Ashley. Great. Good job. Erin Houchin. Thank you, Erin. Thank you very much. Laurel Lee. Laurel, thank you. Good. Good job.

Julia Letlow. Good. Nice seeing you, Julia. She's done a great job. Anna Paulina Luna. Anna. Good. Nice to see you. Another quiet one: Nancy Mace. [Laughter] Hi, Nancy. Great. Great job.

And, Nicole, I said hello to you and your museum. And you get that going, and we're going to back it 100 percent, unless the women here would rather not have a—is anybody not in favor of a women's museum in this room? Please, you—it's okay. I could see some—maybe they want to save a couple of bucks, right? [Laughter]

No takers? Okay. You're all set. You have it, then, I guess. [Laughter] I guess. I sort of thought that was going to happen.

Celeste Maloy. Celeste, thank you. Great job. Great job. Carol Miller. Great election. Thank you, Carol. Great job, Carol.

A friend of mine, a beautiful person, a beautiful family. It's like—she's got children; they're all supermodels, male and female. Handsome husband. Carol—Mary—Carol—Mary Miller. Mary. How's it going? Okay? Good?

Representative Mary E. Miller. Yes.

The President. Mary Miller is a really spectacular person and a great Congresswoman. Thank you very much.

Rep. Miller. We're on our 22d grandchild.

The President. Twenty-second grandchild? Look at her. It's one of the most beautiful families. It really—starting with you, it's just a beautiful family.

So you have a long way to go, Kat. Come on, you have to get going. [Laughter]

Mariannette Miller-Meeks. Great election you had. Great election. Great. Great election—great job. Oh, Maria Salazar. Where is Maria? She is strong. She is a tough one. But they love her. We all love her. Thank you.

Another one who is really good—I got her—got to know her very well, along with Mike. We were having some talks, and she really knows what she's talking about. She was right, a hundred percent. Victoria Spartz. Thank you, Victoria. Thank you very much.

And Beth Van Duyne, who is fabulous. Hi, Beth. Thank you. Thank you very much.

You're such a great group of people. And there's others in there. I'm going to be—no, I'm going to get killed.

Audience member. And we all vote with you, sir.

The President. I know, they all—you're for me, and I'm for you. That's true.

Can you imagine? There are others. I'm seeing—looking at others. I'm going to be in trouble. That's the problem. When you do that, you leave a couple of them out, they never speak to you again. They never forget—[laughter].

Now we need Congress to pass the largest tax cuts, and we are going to get that done. And we're joined today by so many people that are just so great.

And we are going to have a little bit of a celebration after this is finished in one of the outer rooms—have some stuff for the women. Much better—we did this for men, and, you know, it's very unexciting having a day for men. [Laughter] I stood up here. It was like—I just—I reduced the speech from 10 pages to about 2 paragraphs. [Laughter] It was boring. It was boring as hell that they had—throughout our history, strong, tough, visionary women have defended our flag, strengthened our communities, explored new frontiers, and expanded the American dream for all of our children—all of our children and all of our people.

Now, patriotic American women, like those in this room, are helping lead our Nation into the golden age of America, and that's what we're calling it. This is the golden age of America. We want to do things that nobody thought were possible.

You know, had I done it the more traditional way—which I actually did, but we won't talk about that. But had it been the, you know, 4 plus 4, as opposed to floor—4, let's see how bad they do, and then we get another 4—at numbers too big to rig, we call it. We have to go out too big to rig. They tried, but it was too big to rig.

Had we done it that way, it wouldn't have been nearly as important or nearly as historic. It's much more historic. It's a much more important Presidency.

And frankly, because of how bad they were, we're able to do things that we could have never done if it were traditional. I don't think, Marjorie, we would have ever been able to have done the things we are doing now. You see what we're doing with the colleges, and they're all bending and saying: "Sir, thank you very much. We appreciate it." [Laughter] And they are.

Nobody can believe it, including law firms that have been so horrible. Law firms that nobody would believe, and they're just saying, "Where do I sign? Where do I sign?" Nobody can believe it. And there's more coming.

But we really are in the golden age of America, and I think you're going to see it more and more as we go along together.

We're beginning our country's greatest era, and we're building a future that will be stronger, safer, healthier, and happier than ever before.

And you're really going to be the leaders. I think—really, I think you're going to be the dominant leaders, and you have a lot of them in this room politically. But just the fact that you're here and the fact that you're with us is so important. There is nothing like strong, beautiful, wonderful women.

You have the heart. You have the whole spirit. You're amazing people, and it's an honor to be with you. And we're going to work together, and we're going to make this the greatest age in the history of our country.

Thank you. Thank you, Mary. Thank you. Thank you very much, everybody.