Full Trump Speech at America Fest 12/22/24

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By Gitanjali Poonia, The Deseret News, December 22, 2024

PHOENIX — President-elect Donald Trump gave his first rally-style speech since winning the presidency on Sunday morning, where he said the U.S. should think about taking full control of the Panama Canal and that he was reconsidering his position on banning TikTok.

Trump spoke at AmericaFest, hosted by Charlie Kirk’s Turning Point USA, a group committed to the MAGA conservative movement. The four-day conference featured many of Trump’s supporters on the right, including Glenn Beck, Tucker Carlson and Ben Shapiro.

The tight security and long lines to get into the conference Sunday morning didn’t dissuade many as the incoming president drew thousands to the Phoenix Convention Center. A queue of hundreds of last minute attendees hoping to make their way in only gave up after the fire marshal declared the venue was at capacity.

The location features in Trump’s political history — he held his first “Make America Great Again” rally here. It’s also a stone’s throw away from Arizona State University, and is about 5 minutes from the Maricopa County Tabulation Center, where violent scenes from charged Trump supporters unfolded on the eve of the 2020 presidential election that outgoing President Joe Biden ultimately won.

That was four years ago. Now, three days before Christmas Day, Trump is taking a victory lap in Arizona and the other battleground states as Republicans regained control of the White House and Senate, and held onto the House, giving them a trifecta.

What’s the ‘Golden Age’ about?

Trump said that America is entering its golden age, and all the speakers — from conservative commentator Ben Shapiro to Tucker Carlson — got the memo as they repeated the promise. What will this “great American comeback” look like?

Here is what Trump said he plans to do on “Day One”:

  • Cancel the natural gas export ban.
  • “Drill, baby, drill!” he repeated his pet phrase. “We’re going to have so much oil and gas and other things, you won’t know what to do with it.”
  • Cut regulation and slash taxes more than any other president. Trump said businesses across the board tell him reducing regulations helps boost the economy more than lowering the corporate tax rate. Congress is expected to pass a tax package next year since many provisions in the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act are set to expire. The Trump-era tax bill remained largely untouched by Democrats because they offered deductions for working- and middle-class families as well as small businesses alongside large corporations.
  • The loudest cheers erupted when he said, under the Trump administration, it will be the official policy of the U.S. government that there are only two genders. “We will get critical race theory and transgender insanity” out of schools, Trump said. He also said he planned to replace the ideas of diversity, equity and inclusion with merit-based systems.
  • Trump promised to prevent a potential World War III and end the ongoing conflicts in the Middle East and Eastern Europe.

“The people have given us their trust, and in return, we’re going to give them the best Day One, the biggest first week and the most extraordinary first 100 days of any president in American history,” Trump said.


The Panama Canal

“Has anyone ever heard of the Panama Canal?” Trump said. “Because we’re being ripped off at the Panama Canal like we’re being ripped off everywhere else.” He referred to the American-made 50-mile-long waterway that connects the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans. The Republic of Panama operates the canal and levies charges on the vessels passing through.

“It was given to Panama and to the people of Panama, but it has provisions, you gotta treat us fairly and they haven’t treated us fairly,” Trump said at the convention. He acknowledged the building of the canal happened under the late Teddy Roosevelt, and was handed over to Panama under President Jimmy Carter.

“Teddy Roosevelt was president of the U.S. at the time of this building and understood the strength of naval power and trade.

“If the principles, both moral and legal, of this magnanimous gesture of giving are not followed, then we will demand that the Panama Canal be returned to the United States of America in full, quickly and without question,” he said.

As Reuters reported, about 14,000 ships cross the waterway each year — that’s about 2.5% of the global sea trade.

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Youth vote

Trump indicated he is willing to keep TikTok around, acknowledging the social media app’s reach that ultimately helped him win over the youth vote.

Young voters supported Democratic presidential candidate Vice President Kamala Harris over Trump by 4 percentage points: 51% to 47%, a much smaller margin than in 2020 when this demographic favored President Joe Biden over Trump by 25 percentage points, as the Deseret News previously reported.

“I think we’re going to have to start thinking, because, you know, we did go on TikTok, and we had a great response with billions of views, billions and billions of views,” Trump told the crowd.

“They brought me a chart, and it was a record, and it was so beautiful to see, and as I looked at it, I said, ‘Maybe we gotta keep this ... around for a little while’,” he said.

He doesn’t see Elon Musk as a threat

Trump said Elon Musk, who will co-lead the Department of Government Efficiency, proved to be instrumental in winning back the White House, and applauded the Starlink technology for helping communities that were victim to the recent hurricanes.

“But, no, he’s not going to be president, that I can say,” the president-elect said. “You know why he can’t be? He wasn’t born in this country,” he said. Democrats have leveled criticism at Trump for following Musk’s lead, calling it a Musk presidency.
 

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