[From “Speech: Donald Trump Addresses Military Leadership in Quantico, Virginia - September 30, 2025″]

... we've brought back the fundamental principle that defending the homeland is the military's first and most important priority. ... Only in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia, while America is under invasion from within. ... no different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms. At least when they're wearing a uniform, you can take them out. ... After spending trillions of dollars defending the borders of foreign countries, with your help, we're defending the borders of our country from now on. We're not going to let this happen. 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 shouldn't have been there in the first place ... 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. And they allowed people from all over the world, from the Congo. They opened up prisons in the Congo. They came into our country totally unmatched, unvetted, unchecked. And from all over South America, not just South America. You know, you think South America, no, but from all over. ... Venezuela emptied its prison population into our country. That's why they have Tren de Aragua, one of the worst gangs ever, but we took care of them. ... and I just want to thank the National Guard in Washington D.C. ... Washington D.C. was the most unsafe, most dangerous city in the United States of America. And to a large extent, beyond and beyond that. Go to some -- you go to Afghanistan, they didn't have anything like that. You go to countries that you would think there's problems, they didn't have that. ...