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 Three.

“If it’s OK with you generals and admirals, I’ve taken that off. I say, they spit, we hit. Is that OK? I think so. They spit — it’s a new thing. They spit, we hit. How about the cars, where the cars are coming at — they get brand new cars, border patrol, ICE, beautiful, nice, new cars. And they’re driving along and they have to go through a gauntlet of rocks being thrown at the car.”

“So here’s this beautiful, brand-new car. By the time it goes 100 yards, it’s destroyed. These guys have pretty good arms, some of them, and they’re throwing bricks at full force into the window and into the car. It looks like it’s a war zone. And I said, never let that happen again. From now on if that ever happens, and I say it here, you get out of that car and you can do whatever the hell you want to do, because those people are — you know, you can die from that.

“This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room because it’s the enemy from within and we have to handle it before it gets out of control. It won’t get out of control, once you’re involved, at all. They all joke, they say, oh, this is not good. You saw it in Washington. We had gangs of Tren de Aragua, say 10, 12, 15 kids.”

“And these military guys walk up to them, and they treat them with disrespect, and they just got pounded. They just got pounded, the gang just pounded, then thrown into paddy wagons and taken back to their country. Some are so dangerous we don’t even do that because –we don’t want to — some of them, stone-cold murderers.”

“You know that phrase very well, that’s what the oath says, foreign and domestic. Well, we also have domestic. George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Grover Cleveland, George Bush and others all used the armed forces to keep domestic order and peace. Many of our leaders used the military to keep peace. Now they like to say, oh, you’re not allowed to use the military.”

“And you know what the people say, the people in those cities where they’re being raped and shot and beat up, you know, they say we love the military. You ever see where they’re interviewing the people on the street? I’ve never seen somebody say they don’t unless they’re radical and paid off because a lot of these insurrectionists are paid by — whether it’s Soros or other people, but they’re paid by the radical left.”

“The Iran nuclear power, the Iran — all of the great power that we thought existed. We blew it out to Kingdom. We took advantage of it and we just really took advantage of it and it was a beautiful thing to see and that’s what military power can achieve. That’s why I chose Razin Caine. He’s fantastic by the way.”

“I hope you all agree. If anybody disagrees, could I please have your hand? Who disagrees that Razin Caine is no good? Just raise your hand. I don’t see any hands raised, all right. That means you’re OK. That means that he’s OK now, but I saw his results. He took out ISIS. I was told he was going to take four years; it took four weeks.”

“I went to see him, and he took him out in four weeks, knocked them out, knocked them to hell. And I was told by military people; it was going to take four to five years to do it. And I don’t even know if we’ll have it then, sir. These were the Washington generals; I call them the television generals. But Razin Caine did it in four weeks, took out 100 percent of the ISIS caliphate.”

“As a result of these actions and many others since my inauguration, we are witnessing the triumphant return of peace through strength. We have great peace through strength. America is respected again as a country. We were not respected with Biden. They looked at him falling down stairs every day. Every day, the guy’s falling down stairs.”

“I said it’s not our president. We can’t have it. I’m very careful. You know, when I walk downstairs for — like I’m on stairs like these stairs, I’m very — I walk very slowly. Nobody has to set a record, just try not to fall because it doesn’t work out well. A few of our presidents have fallen and it became a part of their legacy.”

“But he did a lousy job as president. A year ago, we were a dead country. We were dead; this country was going to hell. We were dead in every way, from immigration to military. We didn’t have the weapons, we had given everything to Ukraine, we had nothing. And by the way, I have to tell you, now, as you know, I went over and I met with NATO.”

“And NATO raised from 2 to 5, which everyone said 5 percent of GDP. Millions and now trillions of dollars are pouring in. They didn’t pay the 2 percent because we were there to pay it. And now they’ve paid the 5 percent. That’s trillions of dollars and we’re not spending any money on that one, not $0.10. We sell our equipment to NATO; NATO pays us for the equipment, and they give it to Ukraine — or whoever they give it to, but they can keep it. But we’re not involved; we have no money going out.”

“They all want your job. They want to be with you. They want to work with you. They’ll even take your job, you know? You got to be a little bit sharp. You got to watch it. But everybody wants to be doing what you’re doing now. What a difference when I speak to you and I can say that as opposed to a couple of years ago when I was talking to rooms, where they were desperate to get people and they couldn’t get them.”

“What a difference a presidential election can make. That’s all it is. It’s just a presidential election. Yesterday at the White House, we put forward a plan for peace in Gaza. We announced it and we’re going to create something that was my idea. But unfortunately, I got drafted. It’s going to be called the Board of Peace and it’s going to reign over that territory.”

“And we’re going to get that done and they asked if I’d be the chairman of the Board of Peace, I wasn’t counting on that. I had the idea for the Board of Peace, but I said yes. And I guess because of that, every leader, every — everybody wants to be on the Board of Peace.  And we’re going to watch over that very volatile part of the world and keep it nonvolatile, so you don’t have to get involved.”

“Ammunition, they have to make faster. In the coming months, we’ll be making even more historic announcements to fully embrace the identity of the Department of War, I love the name, I think it’s so great. I think it stops wars. The Department of War is going to stop wars. If we are as ruthless and relentless as our enemies, the United States Armed Forces will be totally unmatched in the future.”

“At the end of the day, it is the culture, the spirit of our military that truly sets us apart from any other nation. Our ultimate strength will always come from the fierce people and those brilliant– people with such pride and the unbending will and the traditions of excellence that have made us the most unstoppable force ever to walk the face of the earth.”

“We carry forward the majestic military heritage passed down from father to son, soldier to soldier and one generation of warriors to the next. You are warriors, you know that, right?You’re great warriors or you wouldn’t be in this room. You’re the best of the best. From Concord Bridge to Fort McHenry, from Gettysburg to Manila Bay, from Normandy to Sicily, and from the jungles of Vietnam to the dusty streets of Baghdad, America’s military has charged into hellfire, climbed up jagged mountains, crossed roaring oceans, and thundered across open deserts to defend our flag, our freedom and our homeland.”

“They won’t stand in our way. We don’t want them to stand in our way. We don’t want to even put them in that position, but they’re not going to stand in our way ever again. You’ll never see four years like we had with Biden and that group of incompetent people that ran this country that should have never been there, because we had the United States military the best, the boldest, the bravest that the world has ever seen, that the world has ever known.”

“With leaders like we have right here in this beautiful room today, we will vanquish every danger and crush every threat to our freedom in every generation to come, because we will fight, fight, fight and we will win, win, win.”

Read Part One HERE.

Read Part Two HERE.

You can follow along in the transcript available HERE.

CNN has a factcheck of the rambling speech available HERE.