President Trump Participates in a Site Visit, Oct. 1, 2026

Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage the C Packar Preston fight. Listen, listen, listen. First of all, I just got to say thanks to all of you. You are the heart and soul of this company. >> You You are the heart and soul of this company. The trucks you build for our customers every day, they move America and they are the best trucks in the world. You're awesome. >> I'd also like to thank our distinguished guests who joined us here today. We're really pleased to get to share the time with you as well. Wonderful that you're here with us. Thank you for being here. Today is a wonderful day for Packar and Peter. We're humbled and we're honored to have President Trump, the president of our great nation here with us at our state-of-the-art super cool Peterbuilt factory. It's awesome. President Trump's passion for America, combined with your passion and the passion of many other fantastic people that work in our other factories and our businesses are driving America's greatness and America's success. President Trump, we are so thankful to you, Secretary of Commerce Lutnik and the whole administration for putting trade policies in place that are good for America. They're good for our customers. They're good for strengthening American manufacturing and they're good for Peterbuilt. This is great. Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome to the stage the 45th and 47th President of the United States, President Donald J. TRUMP where at least stand over and I won't forget the men who died who gave that fight to me and I gladly stand up next to you and still today ain't no doubt I love this land. I bless the USA. From the lakes of Minnesota to the hills of Tennessee, across the plains of Texas, from sea to shining sea, from Detroit down to Houston and New York to LA, where there's pride in every American heart. And it's time we stand and say, I'm proud to be an American where it is now and free and I won't forget the men who died who gave that life to me. And I gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today. Cuz there ain't no doubt I love this land. God bless the USA. to be an Americ who gave that fight to me and I gladly stand up next to you and remember still today ain't no doubt I love this land. God bless you. Wow. Well, thank you. Thank you. >> Thank you. >> What a group of people. I heard you make 200 trucks a day. 200. And you know what I like best? I want to thank Preston. He's a great guy. I got to know him in 10 minutes. I learned everything I have to know. He's a winner. But he said to me, "Sir, could I speak to you for a second one?" He said, "Your policies have made this place so successful. Without your policies, it would be a whole different ballgame and I just want to thank you. Uh, you've let us thrive and I really appreciate." Where the hell is Preston? Where are you? What a nice day. What a Thank you. Thank you, Preston. What a nice It happens to be true, but I have to say no, we we do we do the right policies. And I want to thank Preston and hello to Texas. We won it three times in landslides. We got the highest vote. We got the highest vote all three times in the history of Texas. So, think of it. all these politicians running. We got the highest vote. It's us. We got it together. But it's um it's a great place. I'm thrilled to be back in the Lonear State with the proud, hardworking Patriots of Peterbuilt Motor Company. And I've always liked their the look, especially that particular one right there. >> Oh, no. I love that shape. You know, that one. There's no It's a lot of Somebody said, "Oh, it may not be as aerodynamic as some of the others." I said, "I don't care. I couldn't care less. They put in a bigger engine, right?" >> So, I think it's great. I love it. But you beautiful equipment. And I've always been a big fan of this company. I didn't know I'd be doing this someday. But they asked me to come because you're doing massive expansions. And I said, "How many trucks out of this plant? How many trucks do you do?" You know, I figured I'd say 200 a year. He said, "No, 200 a day." I said, "No, you don't. You don't do." Then I confirmed it with this gentleman right here. We confirmed it. 200 I wanted to check on Preston and uh No, they make, think of it, 200 like this. 200 trucks a day. That's >> And they sell them so fast. They sell them faster than they can make them if you can believe. And that's why you're expanding and you're doing a big expansion and it's proud to be here to be with you to celebrate that. For more than 85 years, the men and women of Peterbuilt have produced some of the toughest, strongest, highest quality trucks anywhere in the world. They sell all over the world. It doesn't matter. You know, you hear about other countries, they only did it because we had stupid tax policy. That's why we have a better product and this is a great example of it. but proudly bearing the iconic red oval and stamped with that beautiful phrase made in the USA. You put that phrase made in the USA. People are putting that down. It's meaning a lot. In the old days, they used to have it automatically made in America. Made in the USA. Now they're saying it again because we have the greatest numbers of any president in the history of our country. And I can't get the word out. I can't get the word out. Right. Here's Preston. Preston. So we we have literally the greatest numbers. We have first of all, there are more people working in the United States right now than at any time in the history of the United States by far. More people working. We have the best poverty numbers, the lowest numbers on poverty in the history of our country. Poverty numbers. Not nice to talk about it, but nice to say it. It's the best ever on the subject of poverty. We have the best ever on the subject of individual wealth higher for everybody than ever before. The best stock markets 81 days out of a short period of a year and a half. 81 days. Think of it. Uh we had record stock markets. 81 days. So it's a big percentage of the time. And the stock market is through the roof. And why that's good is your 401ks are higher than they've ever been before. And it's never been close. So we're doing great. But I can't get the word out. I said, I'm doing great on and by the way, and Iran will never have a nuclear weapon. >> And as you know, we went to war with Venezuela and we lost nobody. We lost nobody. We lost no people. Oh, we had one pilot who was very seriously injured and we gave him the Congressional Medal of Honor because he flew in with a leg that was practically blown off and he landed it perfectly and he wanted to land it and he had to land it. You had a lot of troops on that helicopter, a big Chinook and he landed it exactly where it had to be or the whole thing could have been like the catastrophes that you've been witnessing over the last 40 years. always had problems, but we didn't have any problems. And we went and we took out one of the most evil men in the world. And we had him captured within minutes, literally in a big military base with thousands of soldiers. We sent in 201 men with gunfire blazing. I'll tell you, we were blazing. They were running. You never saw anybody run like that. And they took out Maduro and they got him. And uh you know what he did? He sent a lot of people right through your beautiful state because he emptied his prisons into the United States of America. All of his prisoners were emptied into Texas all along the border because of Biden's open border policy. But we ended that. We're getting them out. We've gotten tremendous numbers of them out. We take the worst first. We take them all. But we get the worst. We have some of the worst people on earth were put into our country. And despite that, we have the best crime numbers at any time since the year 1900. It's 126 years ago. Think of it in 1900. So, we're very proud of it and we're very proud of your company and we're very proud to be here. And thank you very much, Preston. Again, thank you. So workers, workers like you and companies like this have always been loyal to our country. But for decades, you were heartlessly betrayed by politicians, lousy politicians, who let foreign trade cheaters plunder your wages, loot your factories, close up your jobs, and they robbed our country blind. They'd still be doing it if I wasn't here, believe me. And they'll do it again if you don't get guys like Ken Paxton elected, you know, such a big race. It's such a big race. And I want to just say that uh he's been a friend of mine for a long time. One of the most loyal people. When I was uh being hit by the radical left very hard, harder than very few people could have withtood it. I was being hit. Ken Paxter was at my side more than anybody. And uh I have to always remember that because he could be a pain in the ass sometimes. I'll be honest. Is he here by the way? Oh, there he is. Good. I didn't I didn't even know if he's here. I don't care. I've just I would say the same thing whether the guy is the greatest attorney general in the United States of America. Look at all the Look at all the fake news back there. I'm really I'm saying because we got to get this guy elected. You got a freo. You got a freo that's running against him. Give me a break. Notice the way all of a sudden he's eating meat. He doesn't eat meat. He's a vegan. And vegans, you know what a vegan is. Vegans don't do well in Texas. Okay. So now he goes to a barbecue. He eats meat. You know what he does after he eats? He says, "Excuse me, just for He goes behind the tent and he throws up." He throws up. He gets rid of the meat. He doesn't want meat. No. Now, this guy's not the right guy for Texas. I know it well. Remember, the all-time record is Trump, but Ken, I'm really here for Ken and for some unbelievable congressmen and for Ted Cruz has been my friend for a long time. We fought rather violently, remember? Where's Ted? There he is. We fought, but uh Ted Cruz has done a great job. Nobody works harder than Ted and uh we love him really. But we did fight. We got along so well at the beginning. remember 2016 and the press, those people, look at all those people back there. They say, "Well, when are you guys going to fight?" He actually had a rally and he asked if I'd come. I said, "That's strange, but I will." And we did it right in Washington DC. We had a big crowd and the press said, "When are you two guys going to fight?" I said, "Don't worry, it'll happen." I didn't know it was going to be quite as violent as it turned out. But once that was over, we got along. And he's been a great senator, too. But I'll tell you what, we need we need Ken so badly. And uh that's why I'm here. I wanted to stop here. I wanted to also say you build a nice truck, but we you're not going to have too many nice trucks if you get a couple of negative votes. All they need is a couple of votes. It's not even a question of Texas. It's a question of the overall vote. And we have to get number one, Texas represents so much. It would be such a horror to the s to to put a guy a freak like that in there would be such a horror to your your state and such a horror to the country. But it's a vote and we need the votes and I'm here for that and I think we're going to win. We every place I've gone we win. You know the press says oh I don't know Trump really his heart is in it. My heart's in it. I would be home right now if my heart my heart is in it like never before. We had an election in a little while ago, year and a half, a little more than a year and a half ago, got the highest vote in the history of the Republican party. We got the real number was probably 85 or 87 million votes. They gave us credit for 78 or 79. They don't even know, you know. They say, I don't know, I got around 79 78. They have no idea because it's so rigged. But we made it too big to rig. I said get out and vote. We made it too big cuz the second one I mean when you look at what's going on in California with like the mayoral race and you look at what you know with the kid Spencer Pratt was doing great and at the end of the election election day his opponent was crying. Oh, she's lost so badly. She was crying. Then all of a sudden like a week and a half later you hear that she's surging. Nobody ever heard of her. You know people that nobody ever heard of don't surge. The only time they surge is when they cheat. And she was surging and she just beat him by a little bit. What a disgrace. We have to have, look, we have to have a fair and free media, which we don't have. You have some very good reporters there, but you have some very bad ones. You have some very evil, sicko people. But they do have good But they do have they do have good photographers that are right here. All good. So, I just hope you're going to do that. And I just want to say that the American workers and they respect you so much. The American people respect what you've done. And this is a part of the country that's very, very special. You love your country more than Look, I'm going to a place called Oklahoma right now. And likewise, oh, listen to that. That's good. And and they have a massive crowd. They're waiting in the rain. It's raining like hell. And they said, you know, he said, keep them waiting. Listen. Well, it's only in Texas, can you say? >> No. But they said, "You know what you could do, sir? WE COULD SKIP TEXAS." I said, "Are you crazy?" Oh, if I skip Texas, I would tell you to vote against Ken. I wouldn't skip Texas. We'll be a little late. And they understand it. They're great, too. They're great, too. We are 7. Think of it. They have 77 counties in Oklahoma. And we won all 77 all three times. And I'm the only one to ever do it. I'm the only one. And the only one to ever do it. And you know who was second? I think it was Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan. 56 77. So I got to be nice to them, right? But we love them. They're waiting by the thousands. And I still I'm not going to rush anything. We're going to have a little conversation. But every other president for decades let other nations flood our markets with shoddy and substandard foreign goods. And even if it was reasonably good goods, they destroyed American manufacturing and they destroyed your way of life. And you were suffering through it. I guess you did suffer through it for a period of time, Preston, until I came along. But upon taking office, I immediately placed my favorite word, actually my fifth favorite. You know that story. I don't want to bore you with it, but I said the word tariff is my favorite word. and the fake news. They were they went crazy. They said, "What about God? What about your wife, your children, family? What about religion? Aren't they your real favorite words?" I said, "Absolutely, yes, they are. Tariff is my fifth favorite." And now I don't have any problem with them. So, I quelled it. So, tariff is my fifth favorite word. And that's what really Preston was talking about. He didn't even have to say it to me. But we kept all of those people out that used to rip off our country. They'd drop their products here. They'd walk away with the with the money and you'd walk away with no jobs. But not with me. And we changed it. We have more factories being built like you're doing so well. They're they're doing well. Better than anybody in the history of our country. All over the country. They're building factories, plants. Manufacturing is coming back. You remember Barack Hussein, Obama said manufacturing will never come back to America. He was very wrong. We have more jobs coming back to America. And I I really said that the only thing we're doing badly at is public relations. In other words, we're doing a phenomenal job, but by a combination of maybe we're doing a bad job and selling it. That's why I said I'm going to take 32 days. You know, for myself, selfishly, Ken, I'm sorry to say this, but for myself, I took 120. I took four four months and I went every single day. I did rallies almost every day. I did speeches, four, five, six speeches and I went for four months. That was tiring. And my only question is, will my voice hold out? And I made it. Barely. I made it. And the last day I did five rallies. The day before that I did four rallies. That's hard. These are rallies with 3540,000 people sometimes. Sometimes much more. My record was 117,000 people in New Jersey. Sure, it was quite a rally, I will tell you. Then we had another rally called Butler, Butler, Pennsylvania. It was an interesting rally. That one didn't work out so well, but uh whatever it is, it's uh we're doing a job. We're all here to do a job. But uh I have such respect for the people in this room. I want to say that thanks to our strong tariff policy this year, American exports have surged to the highest level in history in the history of our country. Our trade deficit with China has plummeted to the lowest level that we've had in 44 years. Wait and and by the way, President Xi, we get along great. He's a great great gentleman. Frankly, you know, he likes China and I like the USA, but other than that, he's a real leader. I always say he's central casting. He is. You have to say he's central casting. But we get along great. That's a good thing. To get along good is good. But we do well with China now. They used to rip us so badly. Canada rips us so badly. Oh, Canada, what they do to us. But not anymore. They're not doing that anymore. But wages for manufacturing workers are up by nearly almost close to $4,000 since I took office. And after years of decline, this year the United States has added 60,000 new manufacturing jobs. And heavy truck manufacturing is almost up by about what, 31% or something. And heavy truck shipments have hit an all-time high, the highest in the history of our country under the Trump administration. So America trucking is back. American truck American trucking is back. Two years ago, our country was dead. You know, this was said to me by the king, by the leader, by the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. He's a good man. And he said this a year ago, but he said, "But nothing's changed. It's actually gotten better. Nobody, no president has ever, ever, and you have to understand when I say this, I have all the news back there. If I say something a little bit incorrect, it's headlines. He lied. He lied. If sleepy Joe Biden said something incorrect, they don't care. But they never used to ask him hard questions. Remember? They'd always say, "How many times have you heard them say, "What's your favorite ice cream?" That was the hardest question. Mr. President, sir, uh, sir, what's your favorite ice cream? Uh, uh, vanilla. Thank you, sir. Let me call upon Remember with me. I just take let me call upon he'd go um from NBC um yes NBC is NBC here I don't do that then they'd ask him a softball all softballs it was a terrible thing if our country had to suffer through a Joe or a Camala or Obama any of these people we wouldn't be we wouldn't have been if I didn't win that election and when I say I I'm talking about us If we didn't win that election, we wouldn't have a country anymore. Our country was going down the tubes. I told you there the money coming into our country was almost non-existent. The factories were closing all over the country. We had the worst inflation in history in history. You know, I inherited high prices. And the first day I got in, I beat him. And I had a news conference on January 21st. I came in on January 20th. And the press starts screaming at me about the cost of eggs. What about eggs? What are you gonna do about eggs? I said, "What's with eggs? Tell me what's with eggs." They went up like four times, five times. They were crazy. In fact, they said, "We have an Easter egg hunt at the White House. They asked me to use plastic eggs." I said, "I'm not using plastic eggs." Can you believe it? But what are you going to do, sir, about eggs? I said, "Tell me the problem with eggs, please." Uh, they've gone up five times in the last four years. Well, he was the president. But we did a great job. Brooke did a fantastic job. Secretary of Agriculture and eggs now are cheaper than they were five years ago. We're bringing prices way down. And oil is lower. Gasoline is lower than it was with Biden, despite the fact that we have a war going on with a country that will never have a nuclear weapon and is ready to fold up, will win very easily right now. They're just about I I believe right after the election we'll win but maybe before the election because they have 300% almost like 312 I heard inflation think of that 312% inflation meaning their currency is valueless they have no money they have no navy their navy 159 ships all lying beautifully at the bottom of the sea they have no Air Force. Their air force has been totally extinguished. They have no anti-aircraft. They have some missiles, but we can handle it. We can handle it. They have some missiles, very few left. Their manufacturing capacity is dead. Their leaders are gone for the most part. Their leaders are gone. That was one of our problems. Uh we don't know who the hell to deal with, to be honest with you. Nobody wants to be president. We have intercepts where it says, "Who wants to be president?" No, I don't want to be president. because their presidents aren't with us any longer. But we're trying to we're trying to be nice to the current person. We got to deal with somebody at some point, right? So, we're doing very well. Even the fake New York Times is saying not looking good for Iran right now. They should have said it about five months ago because it wasn't looking good. But think of it. We had two wars. one with Venezuela, which lasted approximately 48 minutes. And they're good soldiers, by the way. But we came in with fire and fury, and they never saw anything like it. They had a Venezuelan general, a real professional. He said, "I stood there. We were all set to get them. We saw them coming off that aircraft carrier at 2:00 in the morning and they were coming and they knew they were coming for us because it's unusual that at one and 2:00 in the morning you see 150 fighter jets pour off and then you have the one next to it where you have 112 fighter jets pour. This was they figured they were in a little trouble because it's rare at 1 and 2:00 in the morning that you see hundreds of planes flying off the carry going very fast. And when they take came to ashore, which was a matter of minutes, they were raging. They were raging and it was something that nobody had ever seen. They had all Russian equipment and Chinese equipment. It didn't work. Discombobulator. You know what that is, right? It discombobulated all that crap. Now, we make the greatest equipment in the world, just like you make the greatest trucks in the world, greatest trucks in the world. And Preston, don't make a commercial out of that statement, okay? Cuz I got other truck companies that do a nice job also. Preston, he'll put me up. Major announcement from We make the greatest trucks. But you do. And and and we have other great companies. You know that. great companies all of them but what we've done so think of it so we took over Venezuela essent let's say one day let's not say in 48 it was it was 48 minutes but let's say one day and remember that Maduro was locked in a steel house heavy steel house was meant to be a house of protection they broke those doors open in less time than it takes you to start that truck which is pretty fast And it was an amazing event. We lost no soldiers and we took over tremendous wealth. Uh we are sending millions and millions of barrels of oil to Houston and other places. Louisiana, Houston, Alaska even. Uh we're refining it at levels we've never seen before. Soon we're going to be starting to fill up our strategic oil reserve and we're going to do it at almost no cost. We're going to get it for almost no cost. It's amazing. But it's great. And then we went into Venezuela. We just had the best numbers we ever had. And I went to Lutnik and I went to I went to Scott Bassant. I went to all our people. Jameson Greer, great trade representative. I said, "Fellas, we just had the greatest numbers in history. But we're going to have to do a little detour because Iran is about to have a nuclear weapon. They were three to four weeks away, maybe sooner. And if they have a nuclear weapon, the whole game is over. We can't let them have." So in the midst of our great when gasoline was I was in Iowa making a speech. It was 195 a gallon. Another station was 185 a gallon. I remember those two numbers like magic. Good memory too. But that was an easy thing to love and remember. And I said fellas, I'm sorry to do this to you, but we have to put out the fire in the Middle East because they'll blow up Israel. They'll blow up the Middle East and then they're going to start hitting us in Europe. They're crazy. These people are totally crazy. I mean, they scream death to America. They've been screaming it for 51 years. Death to America. I said, "How do you feel about that now?" So, we had no choice. We had to do it. And they said oil would go to $300, $400 a barrel. Well, today it's at 90. And the last few days, we've taken out more oil from the Haram Strait. Our Navy is unbelievable. They put up a blockade. We're the only ones that could get through or somebody that we want. Iran hasn't had one ship get through. Not one ship in months. Not and and what happened and what happened is uh we're taking out millions and millions of barrels of oil uh in some cases more than before the war. They don't want to report that the fake news. And it's gotten bigger and bigger and they don't have radar. They don't have much they can do. Every once in a while they'll try and drop a mine in the water. Usually we'll take them out before they do it. But when mine goes in the water, if you have a billion dollar ship, you know, you don't love you don't float love floating a ship down the straight. If there's one little mine, so they could be a nuisance, but we have that in control. When that happens, when that ends, which will be very soon, one way the other, it's going to end. Either they'll do something very proper and smart or they won't be around very long, which is, you know, frankly, I hate to see that, but they won't be around very long. There's a group of people that want that because they say you basically you can't make a deal with them that they're going to honor. When I make a deal with this company, you're going to honor it. When you make a deal with them, it's very possible that they won't honor it. So, one way or the other, it's going to be over. And when it's over, oil is going to go like that. In the meantime, prices have come way down. all prices. But just so you understand, and they say this for those cameras out there that are so crazy. They're so crazy. I don't get them. I don't get them. They want men and women sports. They want open borders. They want transgender mutilization of your children for everyone. What the hell are you people thinking about? Liberals, what are they? What are you thinking about? I hope they keep their policy though because they should never win an election. Ken, are you in favor of the transgender mutilization of our children? Are you in favor of men playing in women's sports? Are you in favor of open borders so that the world's prison population can peed emptied out in this beautiful community? Are you in favor? All right. Well, I think you're going to win the election >> because because your opponent is actually in favor of all those things and many more that are just as bad. Just as bad. You got to get out and vote. So, starting on day one, I ended the radical Democrats. I started using that word because their policy is the Democrats. I think it's good. I don't know if it's ever going to compete with Pocahontas. I don't know if it's ever going to compete with some of