Donald Trump delivered his victory speech at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, before the election results were officially confirmed but when it became clear he was likely to win.
Alongside him were his running mate JD Vance, campaign manager Chris LaCivita, and UFC CEO Dana White, all of whom briefly addressed the crowd.
Trump began by expressing deep gratitude, telling the crowd,
“Thank you very much. Wow. Well, I want to thank you all very much. This is great. These are our friends. We have thousands of friends in this incredible movement.”
He called the movement “like nobody has ever seen before,” claiming it was the “greatest political movement of all time” that could be felt not just across the country, but even beyond.
“This is going to reach a new level of importance,” he said, promising that he and his supporters would “help our country heal.”
He emphasized that America was in desperate need of help and that they would fix the country, including securing the borders.
Trump continued, “We are going to fix everything about our country,” declaring, “We made history for a reason tonight, and the reason is going to be just that.”
He reflected on overcoming challenges, stating, “We overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible,” and called the victory a “political victory that our country has never seen before, nothing like this.”
He also thanked the American people for electing him, saying, “I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president and your 45th president, and every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family and your future.”
Trump pledged to fight for Americans every single day, saying, “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.”
He promised that America would enter a “golden age,” declaring, “This will truly be the golden age of America.”
Highlighting key battleground states, Trump said, “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.”
He added, “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.”
Trump also expressed pride in winning the popular vote, saying, “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.”
He thanked his supporters and added, “We have a great feeling of love in this very large room with unbelievable people standing by my side.”
Trump praised his family, saying, “I want to thank my whole family, my amazing children, and they are amazing children.”
He also gave a heartfelt tribute to Melania, his wife, and said, “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.”
Trump congratulated JD Vance, his running mate, saying, “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.”
He praised Vance’s boldness, recalling how he’d go into enemy territory, such as CNN and MSNBC, and handle criticism with confidence, saying, “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.”
Vance responded, expressing gratitude for the opportunity to be part of the campaign, saying, “I think that we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America.”
Trump continued with appreciation for his team, singling out campaign staff such as Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles for their hard work, noting, “Chris, Susie likes to stay sort of in the back. Let me tell you… Susie likes to stay in the background. She’s not in the background.”
He also highlighted Elon Musk’s role in the campaign, recounting a memorable incident involving Musk’s SpaceX rocket, saying, “I saw the rocket… I saw it coming down… It was beautiful, shiny white. When it came down, it didn’t look so pretty. It was going 10,000 miles an hour and was burning like hell. I said, ‘What happened to your paint job?’”
Trump continued, recalling how Musk had saved lives during Hurricane Helene by quickly deploying his Starlink technology, saying, “I called Elon Musk. I said, ‘Elon, they need it really, really badly in North Carolina, can you get it?’ He had that there so fast, it was incredible, so, and it was great, it saved a lot of lives, he saved a lot of lives.”
Turning to Dana White, Trump praised the UFC president, saying, “Dana White, who has done some job… nobody’s done a better job in sports.”
White spoke about Trump’s resilience, calling him the most “resilient, hard-working man I’ve ever met in my life.”
Trump closed with a message to his supporters, saying, “We’ve been through so much together, and today, you showed up in record numbers to deliver a victory… This will forever be remembered as the day the American people regained control of their country.”
He emphasized the victory was not just about him but about “the people of America.”
Trump also celebrated the broad coalition of support from all backgrounds, stating, “This campaign has been so historic in so many ways. We’ve built the biggest, the broadest, the most unified coalition. They’ve never seen anything like it in all of American history… We had everybody… young and old, men and women, rural and urban. We had them all helping us tonight.”
He concluded, “We are the party of common sense. We want to have borders, we want to have security.”
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