Day: February 24, 2026

President Donald Trump said he will ensure members of Congress cannot “corruptly profit” from using insider trading. The president said during his State of the Union that he will pass the Stop Insider Trading Act “without delay.”

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Full remarks from President Donald J. Trump regarding Iran during tonight’s State of the Union:

“As President, I will make peace wherever I can, but I will never hesitate to confront threats to America wherever we must. That’s why in a breakthrough operation last June, the United States military obliterated Iran’s nuclear weapons program with an attack on Iranian soil known as Operation Midnight Hammer.

For decades, it had been the policy of the United States never to allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. Many decades. Since they seized control of that proud nation 47 years ago, the regime and its murderous proxies have spread nothing but terrorism and death and hate.

They’ve killed and maimed thousands of American service members and hundreds of thousands and even millions of people – with what’s called roadside bombs. They were the kings of the roadside bomb. And we took out Soleimani. I did that during my first term. Had a huge impact. He was the father of the roadside bomb. And just over the last couple of months with the protests, they’ve killed at least, it looks like, 32,000 protesters. 32,000 protesters in their own country. They shot them and hung them. We stopped them from hanging a lot of them with the threat of serious violence. But this is some terrible people.

They’ve already developed missiles that can threaten Europe and our bases overseas and they’re working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America. After Midnight Hammer, they were warned to make no future attempts to rebuild their weapons program in a particular area – nuclear weapons, yet they continue starting it all over. We wiped it out and they want to start all over again and are at this moment again pursuing their sinister ambitions.

We are in negotiations with them. They want to make a deal, but we haven’t heard those secret words: ‘We will never have a nuclear weapon.’ My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy. But one thing is certain: I will never allow the world’s number one sponsor of terror, which they are by far, to have a nuclear weapon. Can’t let that happen. And no nation should ever doubt America’s result.

We have the most powerful military on Earth. I rebuilt the military in my first term. We’re going to continue to do so also, which is to prove the trillion-dollar budget. We have no choice. We have to be strong. because hopefully we will seldom have to use this great power that we built together. It’s really called peace through strength, and it’s been very, very effective. So thanks to Republicans in Congress, we’re investing that record number of dollars, have no choice, in the United States Armed Forces.

We’re also creating a lot of jobs, but we’re not even doing it for that reason. Because, as I said, we have more jobs, more people working today than ever before in the history of our country. And NATO countries are friends and allies. They are. They’re our friends and they’re our allies. They’ve just agreed, at my very strong request, to pay 5% of GDP for military defense rather than the 2%, which they weren’t paying. We were paying for almost all of NATO. Now they’re paying 5 as opposed to not paying 5.”

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