Speech: Donald Trump Addresses Military Leadership in Quantico, Virginia – September 30, 2025

On Tuesday, September 30, 2025, the President of the United States addressed a gathering of senior military officials from around the world, summoned from their important posts to hear from a draft-dodging felon posing as their Commander-in-Chief, along with his lackey, the Secretary of Defense, a former fake news commentator with no qualifications to hold that position. The following are excerpts from the mouth of Donald J. Trump – Part One.

“We’re very proud of our military. I rebuilt the military during my first term. It’s one of the greatest achievements. We had the greatest economy in history and I built the military.Those are the two things I say more than anything else. And I also kept us safe at the borders. We had very good borders. We didn’t have people coming in from jails and prisons and everything like took place over the last four years.”

[Referring to Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth] “No, I hate it. I almost fired him. I said, you can’t — I don’t want to go on after that. No, he gave — he gave a great speech, but he talked about Department of War. We were sitting there, I said, didn’t it used to be called the Department of War? And he goes, yes, sir, they changed it like in the early 50s. So we won the First World War.”

“I’m looking at a map. I’m saying, we have most of the frontage, why is it Gulf of Mexico? Why isn’t it the Gulf of America? And I made the change and it went smoothly. I mean, we had a couple of fake news outlets that refused to make the change and then one of them, AP took us to court and we won. And the judge, who was a somewhat liberal judge said, the name is the Gulf of America, because AP refused to call it the Gulf of America.”

“And you know, we want war because we want to have no wars, but you have to be there.And you know, sometimes you have to do it. I have settled so many wars since we’re here. We’re here almost nine months and I’ve settled seven and yesterday we might have settled the biggest of them all. Although, I don’t know, Pakistan, India was very big, both nuclear powers, I settled that.”

“But yesterday could be the settlement in the Middle East. That hasn’t happened for 3,000 years. I said, how long have you been fighting? 3,000 years, sir. That’s a long time. But we got it, I think, settled. We’ll see. Hamas has to agree. And if they don’t, it’s going to be very tough on them, but it is what it is. But all of the Arab nations, Muslim nations have agreed.”

“That’s lots of wars that’s all combined. That’s a lot of wars. Many of you were over there in many different capacities, in many different countries. That was a — that’s a big — that’s a big part of the earth. But if that works out, it would be eight plus I’m going to give myself two or three for that one.”

“Never, never ever. We were a little bit threatened by Russia recently. And I sent a submarine– nuclear submarine, the most lethal weapon ever made. Number one, you can’t detect it, there’s no way. We’re 25 years ahead of Russia and China in submarines. Russia is actually second in submarines, China’s third.”

“I moved a submarine or two, I won’t say about the two, over to the coast of Russia, just to be careful because we can’t let people throw around that word. I call it the “n” word, there are two n words and you can’t use either of them. You can’t use either of them. And frankly, if it does get to use, we have more than anybody else.”

“But the firemen go up on ladders and you have people shooting at them while they’re up on ladders. I don’t even know if anybody heard that. And actually don’t talk about it much, but I think you have to. Our firemen are incredible. They’re up on one of these ladders that goes way up to the sky rescuing people, and you have animals shooting at them — shooting bullets at firemen that are way up in death territory.”

“How would you like to have your thing signed by an Autopen? You know, when I have ageneral and I have to sign for a general because we have beautiful paper, the gorgeous paper, I said throw a little more gold on it, they deserve it. Give me, I want the A paper, not the D paper. We used to sign a piece of garbage, I said this man’s going to be a general, right?”

“And I sign it — actually, I love my signature, I really do. Everyone loves my signature. But I signed it very proudly. And I always think to myself, how can you have an autopen sign this? It’s just so disrespectful. To me it’s just totally disrespectful. And it turned out that almost everything he did was signed by autopen, except for when he gave his son, Hunter, a pardon, he signed that one.”

“I got that one done and I’m very proud of it. So if this works out, we’ll have eight, eight in eight months. That’s pretty good. Nobody’s ever done that. Will you get the Nobel Prize? Absolutely not. They’ll give it — they’ll give it to some guy that didn’t do a damn thing. They’ll give it to a guy that wrote a book about the mind of Donald Trump and what it took to solve the wars.”

“I think we should maybe start thinking about battleships, by the way. You know, we have –Secretary of the Navy came to me — because I look at the Iowa out in California and I look at different ships in the old pictures. I used to watch Victory at Sea. I love Victory at Sea. Look at these admirals. It’s got to be your all time — in black and white.”

To be continued. You can follow along in the transcript available HERE.

CNN has a factcheck of the rambling speech available HERE.