Donald Trump will be sworn in as the forty-seventh president of the United States on Monday, but he kicked off the inauguration festivities in Washington, D.C., over the weekend with one final rally.
Over 20,000 supporters gathered at Capital One Arena on Sunday to hear from the president-elect, J.D. Vance, Elon Musk, and, yes, Megyn herself. She took to the stage after Stephen Miller, the incoming deputy chief of staff for policy, for a rousing speech that touched on why Trump won and what comes next for the United States.
Below are Megyn’s full remarks:
The Speech
Hi, how are you? God bless you for standing out there in that weather and all these hours to get in here today. As Stephen Miller said, we have 20 hours until our long national nightmare is over. We’re almost there!
By the way, Stephen Miller, if you like what Trump did at the border, you have that guy to thank in large part. That’s the guy. He’s the magic behind the man. And he’s back. Thank God, him and Tom Homan together? Whew!
The goodness that is about to rain down on us after Trump is inaugurated tomorrow is already starting. And I’ve got to tell you, I am so pumped up about it. Things are already happening in anticipation of Trump being sworn in, like Facebook and McDonald’s getting rid of their DEI programs. Good for you, McDonald’s workers. Looking at you, Kamala Harris. Not really. Wasn’t true. You’ve got universities – from the University of Michigan to North Carolina, to all the public universities in Iowa, all the public universities in Texas – getting rid of DEI.
You’ve got a bill that passed the House this week, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sports Act. Now, it passed once before, but this time we control the Senate. We have a much better shot. We still have to get 60 votes to get a vote, but we’re looking good.
You’ve got a judge who struck down Joe Biden’s disgusting changes to Title IX, which has been stopped in its tracks and it will be killed entirely – those changes – as soon as Trump gets in. Have no doubt whatsoever.
Good things are happening all around the country. Pete Hegseth was testifying this week that military recruiting is already going up in anticipation of their new commander in chief. The deal in Gaza right before Trump takes office. As he said, if it’s not done by the time I get there, all hell is gonna break loose.
The goodness just keeps on. I woke up this morning and I was two inches taller, a pound thinner, and I had skin like Jennifer Lopez. That last one is not true.
Speaking of JLo, how happy are you that her candidate lost? It’s so delightful. These Hollywood celebrities who get up there and try to tell us how to vote, really, I mean, like, those celebrities who know nothing about anything. All JLo knows about what to do is to ruin marriages. She’s an expert at that. Why should I have to try to try to ruin the country too? So goodbye, JLo, didn’t work out for you. Goodbye.
Meryl Streep, who showed up at that Oprah event saying, ‘Oh, madam president’ to Kamala. ‘Madam President.’ How’d that work out? About as well as her comment that Harvey Weinstein was God. Maybe we should stop listening to her. Maybe we shouldn’t be going to her for our political advice.
And then you had Oprah herself. Oprah, she’ll interview you if you pay her a million dollars, too. Yeah, it’s a low, low fee of a million dollars to sit down with Oprah Winfrey apparently. That’s what the Harris campaign paid a production company, she says. And for that, you know what you get? You get Oprah yelling at you. ‘Kamala Harris’ [shouting voice]. Why are you doing that? Calm down, madam. Didn’t work out for her either.
But of course, the fakest person involved on that side of the aisle was the woman at the top: Kamala Harris herself, who pretended that she wasn’t the border czar, who pretended that she was middle class, who pretended that she was smart. And the American people did not buy it. Every time you turned around, this woman was doing something faker than the last, right? Her like fake Jamaican accent, her fake Eastern European accent, her fake Spanish accent. It was like spending a day at Joe Biden’s southern border nonstop.
‘We gonna win’ [Harris accent]. No, it’s not how it went. But my favorite was the preacher accent, ‘Joy cometh in the morning.’ She wasn’t wrong about that. It came at about 1:22am on election night, when the election was called for Donald J. Trump. I felt it.
I’ve been thinking so much about Trump, especially today and this week. I know you have too. Praying for him, praying for his family, thankful to them.
I mean, think about it: I interviewed Trump about a year plus ago and asked him, why? Why are you doing this? You could be in Scotland. You could be at your golf courses. It is because he loves the country, and he wasn’t done yet. We’re not done with him. So, God bless him and the family for making this sacrifice and doing public service. Same with J.D. Vance and the Cabinet members, all who need our prayers and support.
But I’m also thinking of all of you. I’m thinking about you. I’m thinking about Americans who got us here because the things that Trump is accomplishing already, some of the things I mentioned in anticipation of him taking office. That ball got rolling – yes, with Trump – but also with regular American people who stood up here, there, and everywhere, to make a difference in their own communities.
I’m thinking about people like Jodi Shaw. You probably don’t know that name, but Jodi Shaw was an administrative worker at Smith College. She didn’t make a lot of money, single mom, two kids, and in late 2020, early 2021, she had had it with the DEI nonsense at Smith. So, she made a Facebook video and she posted it. And little Jodi Shaw – who was sweet, and quiet, and not one to shake the tree – said, ‘I don’t want to be forced to talk about my race at work anymore. I don’t want to be told that I have implicit bias because I’m white. I don’t want to have to enforce segregated dorms. Please stop making me do this.’
And Smith unleashed holy hell on her. Smith – a ‘super tolerant’ college, okay – made it, she alleges, untenable for her to stay. She got forced out of her job, and I’m honestly not sure whether Jodi is fully recovered. She got hurt, and she got hurt for all of you, and for us, and for the rest who are at Smith. She’s a hero. Jodi Shaw is a genuine hero for doing this.
But it wasn’t just Jodi. I mean, I’m thinking about people like Andrew Gutmann, who had a daughter at a posh school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and pulled her. But he didn’t go quietly. He wrote a scathing letter ripping them to shreds for what they’re doing to us with this race essentialism nonsense. He went out with a bang, and he made sure other parents knew what the problem was.
Jason Riley of The Wall Street Journal – you may see him on Fox News sometimes – and his wife, Naomi Schaefer Riley, who pulled their mixed-race daughters from a school in Rye, NY, and made a point of doing it because that school thought that their mixed-race daughters were desperate to talk about their blackness all the time. And they found out the hard way, those kids really just wanted to learn math. These battles are being won piece by piece, one at a time, and there are so many others.
I’m thinking about the 14-year-old girls in Wisconsin who had an 18-year-old guy come in there naked into their showers after gym. I’m thinking about the young woman in Massachusetts who just wanted to play field hockey and suddenly got all of her teeth knocked out because a boy played for the other team posing as a girl.
How do we know about these stories? Because people were outraged. Citizens went to the news. They went to their principals. Girls spoke out one by one and got the ball rolling on change. And change is coming.
All of you wearing the MAGA hats – it used to be an act of civil disobedience, defiance of a registered order that didn’t want to hear from you. But wearing that hat for much of the past eight years has been an act of courage, too. And I know, I know, just because you’re here that you had your moments in your own communities whether it was online, or at the bowling alley, or at the restaurant, or at school, where you stood up for one of these same issues, where you had to tell somebody you didn’t want to be reduced to skin color, where you said, ‘I prefer the days when we didn’t make a thing out of that,’ where you had to tell somebody that boys cannot become girls and girls cannot become boys.
Those battles, one after the other, have been fought. And this anti-DEI momentum has been built brick by brick, thanks to all of you. And you, who listened to Donald Trump, who when a reporter asked him at a presidential debate in 2015 about some of the language he used, responded by saying, ‘What I say is what I say. And if you don’t like it, too bad.’ That was more than just a quick comeback. That was a reminder of what America is.
In America, we have the right of free speech. We have the right to offend, to provoke, to annoy, and to stand up for what we believe in, even if you find it controversial. We have the right not to use the words you try to force on us, like your preferred pronouns or words like ‘anti-racist’ or ‘chest feeding.’
We are reminded of that daily by President Trump, who would never bow to the woke mob. Just ask Brett Kavanaugh, who will be swearing in J.D. Vance tomorrow as he sits in his robes as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
So, I thank all of you for being part of the Trump movement, and for bringing these changes upon us, and for bringing Donald Trump back into the office.
And a reminder before I go: Stay strong. We haven’t won the war. We’re winning. We won a bunch of battles, but he’s going to need all of you every step of the way. We’re going to have to be patient. We’re going to have to steel our spines. Do not bend, never bow. What I say, is what I say.
God bless you. God bless President Trump. God bless the United States of America.