Administration of Donald J. Trump, 2026
June 25, 2026
Well, Julia, thank you very much. And it's great to be with you.
And hello to Louisiana. It's a place that I've won every single time, by a lot, so I love it. I'd love it anyway, but I love it even more.
But 2 days from now, you'll have an incredible opportunity—and very important—to be voting in a primary. And it's a primary for a great person. Really, a great person. It's Saturday, June 27. The polls are open at 7 a.m. and close at 8 p.m., so get out and vote for Julia.
I know Julia very well. I've known her for a long time, and I've seen her tested at the highest level. She was born and raised in Louisiana, loves Louisiana. She's been a fearless champion for the people of your great State for—right from the beginning, I can tell you. Right—literally, right from the—she had no interest in any place else, except for the country itself.
And she's a mom of two beautiful children and has never backed down at all from a fight.
Julia has my complete and total endorsement, as everybody knows.
In the House of Representatives, she's highly respected. She's been a key vote in helping us to stop the invasion of our southern border by the—I mean, just take a look at what's happened under the Biden administration.
Right now, we have the safest border in U.S. history. Before, we had the worst border probably in U.S. history, maybe in any history. There's never been—25 million people came across our border. And they were thugs. They were drug dealers. They were murderers—11,888 murderers. Most of them, we got out of here, or we have them in jails. But they—can you imagine? Many of them murdered—more than 50 percent murdered more than one person.
But we're bringing law and order back to our country and back to Louisiana. Your Governor—your great Governor, who I really like a lot, Jeff Landry—he called and wanted help with respect to Mardi Gras, and we gave him help. And you know, if you look at New Orleans and you see what the crime rates are, it's down about 70 percent from the time he called me a few months ago. "Send in the troops. Help us out. We've got a problem." And they had the most successful and the safest Mardi Gras they've had, I think, in 72 years or so.
So Julia is a decisive vote on the largest tax cuts in American history, and she's going to keep no tax on tips, no tax on overtime, and no tax on Social Security for our great seniors.
The Democrats, as you know, want to turn that around. They want to have you pay tax on tips and overtime and Social Security. They're going to turn it right around.
But she's an incredible warrior for Louisiana's farmers and fishermen and military.
As your next Senator, Julia will work tirelessly to grow our economy, cut taxes, slash regulations. She'll defend your State's oil and gas workers like nobody else can do. She knows the business, and she understands it, and she's just totally pro positive energy—and unleash American energy dominance.
And with her help, Louisiana will continue to be the power of the world. It really is.
As you know, I got a lot of refineries approved. I got the two big ones on the coast approved. They were in consideration for 14 years before I got there in my first term. I got one approved in 1 night, and I got the other approved, I didn't do quite as well, in 1 week.
They were up in 14—one was 14 years, and one was 15 years. They couldn't get approved. I got them approved immediately, and they're built and tremendously successful and a lot of jobs.
So Julia will vote to keep America's military the strongest on Earth. And you see what we've done.
Venezuela: a total, complete success. It was a 1-day war. And we're getting along with great. But we're taking millions of barrels of oil out every week. Millions and millions of barrels of oil. And it's going—a lot of it's going to Louisiana to be refined, taken care of.
And with Iran, as you know, they want to make a deal, and we're close to making a deal. But we're not going to let Iran have a nuclear weapon. It's very simple. And they've agreed to that.
There'll be no nuclear weapon.
And despite all of that, which was very important that we take that little detour, we, today, have the highest stock market in history. And oil is down now at the same price—a similar price, but maybe even—I think it's going to go lower. But it's dropped. It's about $70 a barrel. It was just about that level when we started the war.
We had no choice. We could not let Iran have a nuclear weapon.
And Julia—one thing, very important—as she feels so strong about, she will defend our great Second Amendment. Not easy to do. That's not easy to do, but I've been defending it for a long time, and very successfully. We haven't given up anything, but it has not been an easy fight. And she'll help me.
Perhaps most importantly, she'll support the SAVE America Act to protect our sacred American elections. And right now the elections are rigged like nobody's ever seen. You see what's going on in California, where they have an election and they want to give you a result 2 weeks later. And the results turn out to be rather strange, to put it mildly.
All voters must show voter ID, all voters must provide proof of citizenship, and there will be no mail-in ballots except for illness, disability, military deployment, or travel.
And we'll also enshrine in the law that we will have no men in women's sports and no transgender surgery for our children. Can you imagine that, that you even have to say that? No—think of that. No men—every time I look at that, every time I say it, I can't believe it. Could you imagine having to say that 15 years ago? "No men in women's sports, and no transgender mutilization of our children." Can you believe it?
Once again, polls open on June 27. That's Saturday. It's a big thing. So, get out at 7 o'clock, 7
a.m. to 8 p.m. Get out and vote for Julia Letlow. She's fantastic. She's going to do a great job. She's a warrior. And if you want some information, it's swampthevoteUSA.com—swampthevoteUSA.com.
I just want to thank everybody in Louisiana. You've been with me from the very beginning, by a lot. We won landslides all three times. And we love you. We'll take care of you. And you're very special people to me. And thank you very much.
And, Julia, you take it away. And good luck. Good luck on Saturday.
NOTE: The President spoke at 6:05 p.m. via teleconference from the White House. In his remarks, he referred to Jacqueline and Jeremiah, children of Rep. Letlow. He also referred to S. 1383. The transcript was released by the Office of Communications on June 26.
Categories: Addresses and Remarks : Louisiana Republican senatorial candidate Rep. Julia Letlow, telerally remarks.
Locations: Washington, DC.
Names: Landry, Jeffrey M.; Letlow, Jacqueline; Letlow, Jeremiah; Letlow, Julia.
Subjects: 2026 midterm elections; Border security; Election security and integrity, strengthening efforts; Federal regulations, reduction efforts; Illegal immigration; Iran, cease-fire agreement with U.S.; Iran, nuclear weapons development; Louisiana, Governor; Louisiana, law enforcement improvement efforts in New Orleans; Louisiana, senatorial election; Oil and natural gas, domestic production; Oil markets and prices; Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act; Sports, efforts to restrict transgender participation; Stock market; Tax Code reform; Transgender athletes, efforts to restrict participation; Undocumented immigrants, deportation of criminals; Venezuela, oil supply and refining; Venezuela, U.S. military capture and exfiltration of President Maduro.
DCPD Number: DCPD202600428.