Folks, let me tell you something. This week in Dallas, Texas — and Dallas is a tremendous City, very hot, the heat is the best, unbelievable heat, very tremendous heat — the Republicans are staging the FIRST-EVER midterm convention, the most historic, like nothing anybody has ever seen, and Diklis Chump is going to be there, very centrally, very beautifully. The keynote on Wednesday. The closing on Thursday. A tremendous double-header. Twenty thousand tickets distributed. SOLD OUT. Twenty-five thousand dollars a piece. At least a hundred members of Congress expected. The biggest arena. TREMENDOUS. Nobody has ever seen demand like this for a midterm convention, because nobody has ever done a midterm convention like this. Only Diklis Chump could do it. Very few people could have done it. Believe me.

And let me tell you something about the schedule — and the schedule is genius, the smartest people put it together, beautiful people, the BEST people — we go up against the NFL. That’s right. Thursday Night Football. Opening week. Two games. And we are going to CRUSH them in the ratings. CRUSH. The convention is going to outdraw every football game, the biggest audience in cable history. And nobody watches the NFL anyway. The ratings are terrible. Very bad. Terrible. People are sick of football. Very sick. Believe me.

The lineup is going to be tremendous. JD Vance will be there, my most loyal person, the most loyal, very loyal. Ted Cruz will be there, my Texas guy, very strong, very tremendous. Treasury Secretary Bessent, the best Treasury Secretary in history. Attorney General Blanche, my Attorney General, very loyal, the most loyal. RFK Jr will be there, my Health guy — MAHA, very healthy people, very tremendous — and I am very healthy too, the most healthy, I eat at McDonald’s, the most beautiful McDonald’s, the Big Mac is a perfect specimen, perfect, I have the best genes, the most beautiful genes, my uncle the great professor at MIT, very tough professor, he said the Diklis Chump genes are the most beautiful, twelve trillion dollars worth of genes. And Donald Jr will be there, my son, a very handsome son, the most handsome. The most tremendous lineup in the history of lineups.

Now the fake news media — the dishonest people, very low IQ, the lowest IQ people in the history of journalism — they say my approval rating is at 33%. THIRTY-THREE PERCENT. You know what that is? That is the most incredible number in the history of numbers. That is HIGHER than Lincoln. Higher than Washington. Higher than any of these tremendous people. The historians are saying this. The smart historians, the BEST historians, they are talking about it constantly, very emotional about it. I have always said — I said it on day one, I said it on Tuesday, I said it many times, before anybody else — I was the first. I am always the first. The polls are rigged, very rigged, totally rigged, the same rigged polls they had in 2016, and I WON. I won bigger than ever before. I won in 2024, a tremendous win, the biggest win. I have always been at thirty-three or below in the rigged polls and I have won TWICE. I have watched this story play out twice already. The polls are a disaster for the pollsters, not for Diklis Chump. The smart people — the very smart people, the best people — are saying the polls are going to flip. By November — sixty days, very important, very close — the polls are going to flip and Diklis Chump is going to WIN WIN WIN. I have a perfect memory, the best memory, doctors said so, person woman man camera TV, the best, the doctors came to me with tears in their eyes, very tough doctors, generals of doctors, they wept and said Sir, Sir, your brain is the most beautiful — what was I just saying? — the most beautiful brain. So I say to myself: this is 4D chess, the most beautiful chess, the highest level chess while everyone else is playing checkers, they think I’m losing but I am winning bigger than anybody has ever won. The deal. Beautiful. You set them up by appearing to lose, then you win bigger. The art of the deal. Nobody does deals better than me.

Some people — and by some people I mean a lot of people, including a lot of RINOs, weak people, very weak, low-energy people, the lowest-energy people who are warning, very publicly warning, the most disloyal — they say candidates don’t want to come to Dallas. Forty-five out of seventy. Maybe more. I forget the exact number but it’s a TINY number. Very tiny. The most tiny. These candidates, they are running from the most popular president in the history of presidents, they should be ASHAMED of themselves, believe me. Tom Tiffany, never met him. Tom Barrett, who? Carlos De La Cruz, who is that? These are weak people. They replaced “TRUMP CONSERVATIVE” with “PROVEN CONSERVATIVE” — DISLOYAL people, very disloyal, the most disloyal. They will lose. Believe me. They will lose so bigly. And other candidates, very unimportant people, I don’t even know them, never met them, are SCRUBBING my name from their websites. SCRUBBING. My name. Diklis Chump. They had my name, very prominent, very proud of it, and now they are taking it down. Why? Because they are weak. Low energy. The people who don’t scrub my name are the strong ones, the loyal ones, and they are going to WIN. The scrubbers are going to LOSE. I have nothing to do with their campaigns, never did, but they had my name and now they don’t. That’s their problem. Not mine. I am very busy with the Convention. I am doing tremendous things.

And the price — twenty-five thousand dollars to attend — that is a TREMENDOUS deal. The art of the deal. Nobody does deals better than me. Twenty-five thousand dollars to see the most incredible president in the history of the world, the most tremendous speaker, the biggest — well, I have a lot of tremendous things. Very tremendous. And my photograph — eighty-eight thousand six hundred dollars for one photo, the most expensive photograph in the history of photographs, twelve trillion dollars per photograph, completely self-made, just a small loan of a million dollars from my father, the toughest, the smartest, very generous father — that is a tremendous deal. The art of the deal. Nobody does deals better than me. The crowds at the photo line are going to be YUGE. The biggest photo crowds in history. The historians are saying so. The BEST historians.

Now let me tell you about the programming, and it is going to be beautiful, very beautiful, tremendous programming. Night one, taxes, healthcare, the Border — and the Border is the most important issue, the only issue that matters, always the Border — trade, manufacturing, the best workers in the world. Night two, families, no taxes on tips, no taxes on overtime, Social Security, overseas prisoners released, prescription drugs — we are going to lower price drugs, the drugs are coming down, tremendous — and a tribute to Charlie Kirk, a tremendous patriot, very strong, the strongest, a great American, terrible what happened, the most beautiful tribute in the history of tributes. MAHA, RFK Jr., MAHA is going to be tremendous, very healthy, we are going to fix the chronic diseases. And 9/11, the 25th anniversary, first responders, very brave, tremendous people, the most beautiful moment in the history of moments, very sad, the saddest, but we honor the families, the most beautiful families, the strongest families, the most American families in the history of families. We are NOT going to talk about the war in Iran because the war in Iran is WON. We won it so hard. They are saying it is the most won war in the history of wars. Many people, very smart people, they are saying this.

And the Democrats — the godless communists, the Marxists, the most radical — their primary election successes, very dangerous. They are at 46% enthusiasm. And we are at 31%. And that is very bad, very very bad, BUT I planned this, very smart planning, this is part of the deal, beautiful negotiation, the art of the deal. You set them up by appearing to lose and then you win bigger. The smart people, the very smart people, the BEST people, they are saying this is actually a huge win for me, for the most tremendous president in the history of presidents. The biggest win. The biggest.

But you know what gets me? I am doing this for me. I mean the Base. I mean the Country. But mostly me. Diklis Chump wants to be on TV Wednesday night and Thursday night, tremendous primetime, the biggest primetime, and if that helps some candidate somewhere, believe me, that is tremendous, very smart, very good, but mostly this is about Diklis Chump. I have always said — I said it in 2018, I said it in 2022, I said it many times — the midterm is about the President. The President. And the President is me.

And these people — the voters, the people who come to my rallies, the most beautiful people, tremendous people — they don’t really understand a place like this. The Convention, the gold, the marble, the tremendous stage, very beautiful stage. They wouldn’t understand it. The workers who built it — very smart workers, the BEST workers, very loyal — they wouldn’t understand it though. They just show up. Why? Because I am tremendous. The most tremendous. The biggest. The best. I tell them the polls are rigged and they say yes Sir, very good Sir, thank you Sir, beautiful Sir. They show up because I am the most tremendous, the most — well, anyway.

The convention is going to be the most tremendous convention in the history of conventions. The biggest. The best. The most beautiful. People are saying this. The best people are saying this. My uncle, the great professor at MIT, he said this. The smartest genes, the most beautiful genes. Twelve trillion dollars worth of genes.

Dallas. The most tremendous. Believe me. We are going to win so bigly. We are going to win the midterms the most. The biggest midterms win in history. Believe me. Lincoln didn’t have a midterm convention. I have a midterm convention. The historians are saying this. The BEST historians.

Believe me.