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 Two.

“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.”

“And I look at those ships, they came with the destroyers alongside of them and man, nothing was going to stop. There were 20 deep and they were in a straight line and there was nothing going to stop them. And we actually talk about, you know, those ships. Some people would say, no, that’s old technology. I don’t know.”

“But you look at it, and — your secretary likes it and I’m sort of open to it. And bullets are a lot less expensive than missiles, a lot of — a lot of reasons. I should take a vote, but I’m afraid to take that vote because I may get voted out on that one. But I tell you, it’s something we’re seriously considering.”

“We went in, we said we need it. We went in for colleges, you know, where kids with a C average are getting into the best colleges and the kids with A averages won’t get in. And kids with the highest boards and the highest marks and the best marks couldn’t get into the best schools. And people that had not good boards and not very good marks, I mean, OK, but nothing special.”

“They were getting into our best colleges. I said this is just crazy. We can’t run — you can’t runa country like this. And it was lingering for years and it got to the Supreme Court and we won that decision, merit. Everything’s based on merit. You’re all based on merit. We’re not going to have somebody taking your place for political reasons because they are politically correct and you’re not.”

“It’s the greatest fighting jet ever done and, you know, they’re testing all these planes. All the companies are testing and this one tested like through the roof. And they said we’d like to name it the F-47. I said let me think about it. Then after thinking for about two seconds, I said OK. You know that means 47, I’m 47. So, I’m 45, 46 and 47, you know, if you think about it, I just don’t want the credit for 46. I don’t want to have their open borders and people coming in from all over the world including jails and mental institutions.”

“I don’t want that on my record, but I like — I like having it. We’re investing tens of billions of dollars in modernizing our nuclear deterrence capabilities like never before. And we’ve begun construction on what we call the Golden Dome missile defense shield. It will be the most sophisticated in the world.”

“You watched it do well until they had some problems at the end with a little bit of a lack of ammunition, defensive ammunition, but they’ve got that taken care of. But I tell you it’s –what we’re doing is so good and we deserve it. You know, we help other countries with it, we don’t have it ourselves. And Canada called me a couple of weeks ago, they want to be part of it, to which I said, well, why don’t you just join our country, you’d become 51, become the 51st state and you’d get it for free.”

“And it’s going to be much more than that as we go along because we basically don’t build ships anymore. We do build submarines, but we don’t build ships. Do you know in the Second World War, they were freighters and different types, but we were doing a ship a day and now we don’t do ships. And I’m not a fan of some of the ships you do. I’m a very esthetic person.”

“I don’t like some of the ships you’re doing esthetically. They say, oh, it’s stealth. I say that’s not stealth. An ugly ship is not necessary in order to say you’re stealth. By the way, the B-2 Bombers were incredible. That is stealth. They went into that — I was with General Caine and every — and Pete were in the — we call it the war room, but we’re watching them go in and they were totally untouched.”

“We need borders. We need borders, we need an honest press, we need fair elections. I mean those three things. And we don’t have an honest press. We have a really corrupt press, but we fight through the corrupt press, and the people understand. You have to do this stuff a lot. You have to go on television a lot because you can’t get a fair shake if you’re going to rely on somebody else.”

“Biden let people come in from prisons, mental institutions, drug dealers, murderers. You know, we had 11,488 murderers allowed into our country by this guy who had no clue. He had no clue. He shouldn’t have been there in the first place, but he had no clue. The people that ran the office, the White House, were, people that surrounded him, radical left lunatics that are brilliant people, but dumb as hell when it came to policy and common sense.”

“You know, the Democrats run most of the cities that are in bad shape. We have many cities in great shape too, by the way. I want you to know that. But it seems that the ones that are run by the radical left Democrats, what they’ve done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they’re very unsafe places and we’re going to straighten them out one by one.” 

“And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room. That’s a war too. It’s a war from within. Controlling the physical territory of our border is essential to national security. We can’t let these people live. You know, we had no people enter in the last four months, zero. Even I can’t believe that.”

“But I want to salute every service member who has helped us carry out this critical mission. It’s really a very important mission. And I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military National Guard, but military, because we’re going into Chicago very soon. That’s a big city, with an incompetent governor, stupid governor, stupid.”

“And people are standing there. Their mouth is this far away from their mouth and they’re spitting at them and they’re screaming at them. And that soldier standing there, he wants to knock the hell out of the person, but he’s not allowed to do anything. So they just stand there and they get abused. And a woman was this far away from his face and she starts spitting in his face and he’s not allowed to do anything.”

“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.”

To be continued.

Read Part One HERE.

You can follow along in the transcript available HERE.

CNN has a factcheck of the rambling speech available HERE.