I told you. I told EVERYBODY. For months I’ve been telling you that my Budget Director, Russ Vought — a TREMENDOUS man, very loyal, very smart — is working on something so good, SO good for our country, that the announcement is going to be bigger than anything you have EVER seen, believe me.
Now, I read the papers. I read the FAKE papers, mostly to see what the losers are saying. And the Wall Street Journal — which used to be great, by the way — is asking: what could the surprise actually be? Terrific question. Very simple answer. The budget is $7.4 trillion. The deficit is $2 trillion. The debt is $40 trillion — the BIGGEST in history, by far. And nobody understands debt like I understand debt. I know debt. I love debt. Debt is a TREMENDOUS thing when you know the art of the deal — and I’m going to make it go DOWN, like nobody has ever made it go down, but first you have to understand it, and trust me, nobody understands it like me.
Scott Bessent — my Treasury Secretary, a WINNER, another great one — has been working with Russ since August on a big fiscal consolidation package. Nobody knows what that means, and I love it. It means we’re going to consolidate the hell out of the waste. The bond market — those SAD people in their little suspenders, crying about the deficit for two years — they should be thrilled. They should be thanking me on their knees. The deficit went up 12% just this fiscal year, nearly $2 trillion, and that’s MY kind of number. The bigger the mess, the bigger the WIN. Very simple.
Now, I said it to the WSJ, I was very nice, I said: enormous — IF he pulls this off. And the FAKE media — the IF crowd — they jumped right on the “if” like the hungry little rats they are. The “if” is the art of the deal. You lower the expectations. You set the trap. You make them think it’s small — and then you deliver the biggest announcement in the history of the United States, maybe the world. I always said Russ was special. From the first day, I said: that man is going to be the greatest Budget Director in history. People laughed. People are always laughing. And I’m ALWAYS right.
Why are we keeping it under wraps? Because it’s so BIG. That’s why. The early stuff — the DOGE thing — that was a DISASTER, run by INCOMPETENTS, frankly, people who were not up to the job — but I had nothing to do with that, I was busy being President. And the cuts? BLOCKED. Can you believe it? BLOCKED by very FAKE judges, very SAD judges, the same judges who have been trying to stop me for nine years, and they have NEVER succeeded, because I always find a way. This is the big league now. Russ has tools — very powerful tools, very legal tools — the most powerful tools any president has EVER had. We have things, believe me, that no president has had, and the SAD lawyers are going to be so confused.
And then there’s the best part. The $5,000 check. Every American adult. Everybody. That’s a TREMENDOUS check, the biggest check ever — a trillion dollars, more, I don’t count, everybody’s getting one — and it’s going to have my name on it, beautiful. Some Republicans — SAD, low-energy Republicans, the RINO crowd — they say it’s staggering. They’ve been flagging it as staggering — of COURSE they have, staggering is how losers describe a WIN. But here’s the beauty, here’s the art: you cut the waste with Russ’s tools — and there is TREMENDOUS waste, everybody knows it, billions at the Defense Department, billions in foreign aid, people stealing, everybody stealing — you cut it, you give the checks, and everybody wins. It’s the deal of the century. Maybe the greatest deal in the history of deals, and people are already saying it. Very smart people.
And by the way — while the FAKE media obsesses over the budget — I also declared an ENERGY CEASEFIRE, effective immediately, in the Russia-Ukraine War. Both parties agreed. Beautiful. And they say Moscow rejected it? ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Moscow didn’t reject anything. The ceasefire is in effect because I declared it. That’s what effective immediately MEANS. I announced it on Truth Social — the most powerful platform in history — and the whole world is safer because of it. Very simple.
Monday night, Youngstown, Ohio — great people, TREMENDOUS crowd, the biggest crowd you’ve ever seen, you have no idea — while the Warsaw Security Forum opens and they all talk about MY peace deal and MY announcement. Everybody’s talking. Everybody’s asking: what’s Russ going to do? What’s the surprise? Be patient. You’re going to be so happy, you’re going to cry. Real tears — and they’re the best tears, believe me.
Three weeks. Three weeks until the midterms, and then you’ll see it — the bond SAD people so happy they don’t know what to do with themselves, the FAKE experts eating their words, Russ Vought walking in with the package that fixes EVERYTHING. And when it happens, they’ll say it, they’ll all say it: Diklis Chump — I mean, the President — did it. The greatest. The best. Nobody could have done it but me. Me — I mean us — but mostly me. And then the checks. $5,000 each. With my name on them.