Surrounded by his family, including Melania and Barron Trump, as well as his running mate JD Vance and UFC chief executive Dana White, the former president spoke to a jubilant crowd about the need for national healing and the future of America.
United States' President-elect, Donald Trump, has declared his win in the presidential election as a beacon of "hope and unity" to the American people.
Surrounded by his family, including Melania and Barron Trump, as well as his running mate JD Vance and UFC chief executive Dana White, the former president spoke to a jubilant crowd about the need for national healing and the future of America.
"This is a movement like nobody has ever seen before," Trump said, explaining the historical significance of his political campaign.
"We’ve made history for a reason tonight, and the reason is going to be just that. We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible."
Trump went on to pledge that his administration would focus on strengthening the nation, beginning with fixing the country's borders.
"We are going to fix everything about our country," he stated. "We have a country that needs help, and it needs help very badly."
Trump said, "It’s time to unite."
"It’s a political victory that our country has never seen before, nothing like this. I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honour of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president, and every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family and your future.
"Every single day I will be fighting for you and with every breath in my body, I will not rest until we have delivered the strong, safe and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve."
According to Trump, "This will truly be the golden age of America. That’s what we have. This is a magnificent victory for the American people that will allow us to Make America Great Again. And in addition to having won the battleground states of North Carolina, I love these places, Georgia, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin, we are now winning in Michigan, Arizona, Nevada and Alaska, which would result in us carrying at least 315 electoral votes.
"But it’s much easier doing what the networks did, or whoever called it, because there was no other path. There was no other path to victory.We also have won the popular vote. That was great. Thank you very much. Winning the popular vote was very nice, very nice, I will tell you, it’s a great… a great feeling of love. We have a great feeling of love in this very large room with unbelievable people standing by my side.
"These people have been incredible. They’ve made the journey with me, and we’re going to make you very happy. We’re going to make you very proud of your vote. I hope that you’re going to be looking back someday and say that was one of the truly important moments of my life when I voted for this group of people, beyond the President, this group of great People, America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate. We have taken back control of the Senate. Wow.
"The Senate races in Montana, Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, the great Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, were all won by the Maga movement.
"They helped so much. And in those cases, every one of them, we worked with the senators. They were tough races, and I mean, the number of victories in the Senate was absolutely incredible. And we did tele-rallies. We did tele-rallies with each one of them, and sometimes we did two or three for… and it was amazing to look at all of those victories," Trump said.
"Nobody expected that, nobody. So I just wanted to thank you very much for that. And we have, you have some great senators and some great new senators, and it also looks like we’ll be keeping control of the House of Representatives.
"And I want to thank Mike Johnson, I think he’s doing a terrific job. Terrific job. I want to also thank my beautiful wife, Melania, first lady, who has the number one best selling book in the country."
He said, "Now, she’s done a great job. Works very hard, works very hard to help people. So I just want to thank her, but I want to thank my whole family, my amazing children, and they are amazing children. And we all think our children are amazing… everybody here thinks their children are amazing. That’s a good thing when you think they are but Don, Eric, Ivanka, Tiffany, Barron, Laura, Jared, Kimberly, Michael, thank you all.
What a help.
"My father-in-law, Victor, is tremendous, and we miss very much Melania’s mother, Amalia. We miss Amalia, don’t we? Huh? She would be very happy right now standing on this stage, she’d be so proud. She was a great woman, that one, beautiful inside and out.
"She was a great woman. I want to be the first to congratulate our great, now I can say, vice president-elect of the United States, and his absolutely remarkable and beautiful wife, Usha Vance. And he is a feisty guy, isn’t he? You know, I’ve said, go into the enemy camp. And, you know, the enemy camp is certain networks, a lot of people that are like, “sir, do I have to do that?” He just goes, “Okay, which one?” CNN, MSNBC, he’ll say, “All right. Thank you very much.” He actually looks like… he’s like the only guy I’ve ever seen… he really looks forward to it, and then he just goes and absolutely obliterates them," he said.
"Thank you very much. It turned out to be a good choice. I took a little heat at the beginning, but he was… I knew… I knew the brain was a good one, about as good as it gets. And we love the family, and we’re going to have a great four years, and we’re going to turn our country around, make it something very special. We lost that, lost that little, and lost that little, that little thing called special. We have to make it so we’re going to make this so great. It’s going to it’s the greatest country, and potentially the greatest country in the world, by far.
"And right now, we’re going to just work very hard to get all of that back. We’re going to make it the best it’s ever been. We can do that. We just, if we had to wait longer, I don’t know, it was going bad, and it was going bad fast. We’re going to have to seal up those borders, and we’re going to have to let people come into our country.
"We want people to come back in, but we have to, we have to let them come back in, but they have to come in legally. They have to come in legally."