Administration of Donald J. Trump, 2026
April 6, 2026
The President. Does he have a good voice or what? I think we're going to send him to the Met. We'll get a little commission, make a lot of money, because that man can sing. Thank you very much. It's not the first time we've heard him.
So today is a very special day. It's a day where we celebrate Jesus. It's a day where we celebrate religion. And it's an honor to be the President of the United States.
Our country is doing so well—like it has never done before. You'll see that very shortly. And things that we've done have not been done before. We've broken every record in the stock market. We've broken every record in our military.
And what about the rescue that took place yesterday? What about that? That's something that you rarely see. You know, they were giving me a briefing about that. And they said, "Normally, when you're in very hostile territory"—and I don't think it gets much more hostile than Iran.
They're capable fighters. They're very tough people. And there are others like that. You don't mind when the enemy is weak, but that enemy is strong—not so strong like they were about a month ago.
I can tell you—in fact—right now, they're not too strong at all, in my opinion. But we're soon going to find out, aren't we?
But when a thing like that happens, where a pilot's shot down—in most instances, you're really not able to go in, because you'll go in with 200 people and lots of jet fighters and helicopters, and you really don't have a chance. They get shot down. You lose 200 in order to pick up 1. It's a horrible thing, but it's very rare that you can do it.
And what we did yesterday is, we picked up not one, we picked up two. We kept the first one quiet, and we were able to keep it quiet for about a day, which made it a lot better. But those two pilots were incredible, brave. And we thank them.
And we're going to be having a news conference today at 1 o'clock at the Oval Office, and we look forward to it.
But I just want to say we have a great military. We have the greatest military—most powerful military anyplace in the world. You saw what happened with Venezuela.
And it's an honor. I built it in my first term, and I didn't know I was going to be using it this much in my second term, but it's my honor.
And they're the greatest people on Earth. Our warriors are the greatest fighters on earth. And they very much appreciate you and love you, and that's why they do it.
So this is all about today. I must tell you, I came out and I expected we were going to be talking about farmers. And we love our farmers. We were going to talk about so many different products, but you know what they want to talk about? "Sir, this is about eggs." Eggs. Because we have the egg farmers of the entire country here, and they are unbelievable.
And if you remember, when I first got elected, my first news conference with the fake news—a lot of fake news here today. But I had a news conference, and the first question: "What are you going to do about eggs, sir?"
I said, "What are you—what's wrong with eggs?" I just got there. It's—my second day in office at a news conference, and they were screaming at me: "What am I going to do about eggs?"
And I said, "Well, it's like—what's—tell me what's wrong with eggs." The price was so high.
It was four times higher than it was a year before. I said: "Well, that sounds like a problem. Let me think about it." And Brooke Rollins, our great Secretary of Agriculture, she got involved. We all got involved.
They didn't want me, as you know—just last year—it's hard to believe. They didn't want me to order eggs for the Easter egg roll, the Easter egg hunt that we have here every year. They wanted me to use plastic.
I said: "I'm not using plastic. We'll get it solved." And within a short period of time, eggs came down. They came down 40 percent, 50 percent. And by the time we got there, we had so many eggs. We didn't know what to do with them.
And today we have more than 40,000 eggs supplied by all of the great egg farmers that are with us. So it's—eggs is a big thing—and it was a big thing to our great First Lady, who's here someplace. Let's see.
I think this is our First Lady. What do you think of our First Lady? She's a movie star. I don't know. Do we call her "First Lady" or a "movie star?" She has the biggest movie. Can you believe this? And she deserves it.
Would you like to say a couple of words to your friends? Come, honey.
The First Lady. Happy Easter Monday. I hope you enjoy this beautiful day. We are celebrating a very special Easter egg roll this year because it's 250th birthday of this beautiful Nation. Enjoy it. And I hope you have a wonderful day.
The President. Thanks. Thank you, honey.
And she worked very hard with her staff and the staff of the White House on, really, just making it nice. This is the nicest I've ever seen it.
So this is my fifth. And I will say that this is—it gets better every time, right? It gets better every time.
You notice the fencing is all brandnew. I said, "You know, we could have bought used fencing and saved a lot of money." They said: "This is for the—this is for Easter, and this is for our egg farmers. And we're going to get new fencing." Everything's new, and everything's beautiful. And the White House never looked better. And our country never looked better.
So I just want to thank everybody. It's been a special period of time.
One year ago—a little bit more—our country was dead. We had a dead country. We had an administration that didn't know what the hell they were doing.
Today, we have the hottest country anywhere in the world. We're respected by everybody.
And that's the way we're going to keep it. That's the way we're going to keep it.
So, again, I want to thank all of the associations and the egg farmers and all of the people that are here. We think we could have 50,000 people coming. All day long, it's open. And they expect between 30- and 50,000 people. So that's great.
And most importantly, I want to just say: Happy Easter, and God bless America. We have the greatest country on Earth. God bless you all. You are very, very special people.
Thank you, everybody. Have a good time.
NOTE: The President spoke at 10:51 a.m. on the South Lawn at the White House. In his remarks, he referred to MGySgt Kevin Bennear, USMC.
Categories: Addresses and Remarks : White House Easter Egg Roll. Locations: Washington, DC.
Names: Bennear, Kevin; Rollins, Brooke L.; Trump, Melania.
Subjects: Easter; Egg prices; Iran, rescue of U.S. servicemembers; Secretary of Agriculture; U.S. servicemembers, service and dedication; Venezuela, U.S. military capture and exfiltration of President Maduro; White House Easter Egg Roll.
DCPD Number: DCPD202600230.