You very much. I am thrilled to be here. Thrilled. And if you think that was an easy trip, youre wrong. But i am thrilled. 19th boy scout jamboree, wow, and to address such a tremendous group, boy, you have a lot of people here, the press will say its about 200 people. It looks like about 45,000 people. You set a record today. You set a record. Thats a great honor, believe me. Tonight, we put aside all of the policy fights in washington, d. C. Youve been hearing about with the fake news and all of that. Were going to put that were going to put that aside. And instead, were going to talk about success, about how all of you amazing young scouts can achieve your dreams, what ive been thinking about. You want to achieve your dreams, i said who the hell wants to speak about politics when im in front of the boy scouts, right . There are many great honors that come with the job of being president of the United States. But looking out at this incredible gathering, of mostly young patriots, mostly young. Im especially proud to speak to you as the honorary president of the boy scouts of america. You are the young people of character and integrity who will serve as leaders in our communities and uphold the sacred values of our nation. I want to thank boy scouts president randall stevenson, chief scout executive, jamboree chairman and the thousands of volunteers who have made this a life changing experience for all of you and when they ask me to be here, i said absolutely, yes. Finally, and we cant forget these people, i especially want to salute the moms and the dads and troop leaders who are here tonight, thank you for making scouting possible. Thank you mom and dad, troop leaders. When you volunteer for the boy scouts, you are not only shaping young lives, you are shaping the future of america. The United States has no better citizens than its boy scouts. No better. The values, traditions and skills you learn here will serve you throughout your lives. And just as importantly, they will serve your families, your cities and in the future and in the present, will serve your country. The scouts believe in putting america first. You know, i go to washington. And i see all these politicians. And i see the swamp. And its not a good place. In fact today i said we ought to change it from the word swamp to the word cesspool or perhaps to the word sewer, but its not good. Not good. And i see whats going on and believe me, i would much rather be with you, that i can tell you. Ill tell you the reason that i love this and the reason that i really wanted to be here is because as president , i rely on former boy scouts every single day. And so do the american people. Its amazing how many boy scouts we have at the highest level of our great government. Many of my top advisors in the white house were scouts. Ten members of my cabinet were scouts. Can you believe that . Ten. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is not only a boy scout, hes your former national president. The Vice President of the United States mike pence, good guy, was a scout and it meant so much to him. Some of you here tonight might even have camped out in this yard when mike was the governor of indiana. But the scouting was very, very important. And by the way, where are our indiana scouts tonight . I wonder if the Television Cameras will follow you . They dont like doing that when they see these massive crowds. They dont like doing it. Hi, folks. A lot of love in this big, beautiful place. A lot of love. And a lot of love for our country, a lot of love for our country. Secretary of the interior, ryan zinke is here tonight. Come here, ryan. Ryan is an eagle scout from big sky country in montana. Thats pretty good. And by the way, he is doing a fantastic job. He makes sure that we leave our National Parks and federal lands better than we found them in the best scouting tradition. So thank you very much, ryan. Secretary of energy, rick perry of texas, an eagle scout from the great state. The first time he came to the National Jamboree was in 1964, he was very young then. And rick told me just a little while ago, it totally changed his life. So rick, thank you very much for being here. And were doing a lot with energy. And very soon, rick, we will be an energy exporter, isnt that nice . An energy exporter. In other words, well be selling our energy instead of buying it from everybody all over the globe. So thats good. We will be energy dominant and ill tell you what, the folks in West Virginia who were so nice to me, boy, have we kept our promise. We are going on and on. So we love West Virginia, we want to thank you. Wheres West Virginia, by the way . Thank you. Secretary tom price is also here today. Dr. Price. Still lives the scout oath, helping to keep millions of americans strong and healthy as our secretary of health and Human Services and hes doing a great job, and hopefully hes going to get the votes tomorrow to start our path toward killing this horrible thing known as obamacare thats really hurting us. [ crowd chanting usa ] by the way, are you going to get the votes . He better get them. He better get them. Otherwise ill say, tom, youre fired, ill get somebody. You better get the senator to vote for it. You got to get the other senators to vote for it. Its time, you know, after seven years of saying repeal and replace obamacare, we have a chance to now do it. They better do it. Hopefully theyll do it. As we can see just by looking at our government, in america, scouts lead the way. And another thing i have noticed and i have noticed it all my life. There is a tremendous spirit with being a scout. More so than almost anything i can think of. So whatevers going on, keep doing it. Its incredible to watch, believe me. Each of these leaders will tell you that their road to american success, and you have to understand, they are american success, and they are a great, great story, was paved with the patriotic American Values and traditions they learned in the boy scouts. And someday, many years from now, when you look back on all of the adventures in your lives, you will be able to say the same. I got my start as a scout. Just like these incredibly great people that are doing such a good job for our country. So thats going to happen. Boy scout values are American Values. And great boy scouts become great, Great Americans. As the scout law says, a scout is trust worthy, loyal, we could use some more loyalty, i will tell you that. That was very impressive, you have heard that before. But here you learn the rewards of hard work and perseverance, never, ever give up, never quit. Persevere, never, ever quit. You learn the satisfaction of building a roaring campfire, reaching a mountain summit or earning a merit badge after mastering a certain skill. Theres no better feeling of achievement that you have earned with your own sweat, tears, resolve, hard work, theres nothing like it, do you agree with that . Im waving to people back there so small i cant even see them. Man. This is a lot of people. Turn those cameras back there, please. That is so incredible. By the way, what do you think the chances are that this incredible massive crowd, record setting, is going to be shown on television tonight . 1 or zero . The fake media said President Trump spoke before a small crowd of boy scouts today. That is some crowd. Fake media, fake news. Thank you. And im honored by that, by the way, all of you people that i cant even see you, i hope you can hear. Through scouting, you also learned to believe in yourself, so important to have confidence in your ability to take responsibility for your own life. When you facedown new challenges and you will have plenty of them, develop talents you never thought possible, and lead your teammates through daring trials, you discover that you can handle anything and you learn it by being a scout. Its great. You can do anything, you can be anything you want to be. But in order to succeed, you must find out what you love to do, you have to find your passion, no matter what they tell you, if you dont i love you too, i dont know, a nice guy. Hey, what am i going to do . He sounds like a nice person. He, he, he. I do love you. I do. By the way, just a question. Did president obama ever come to a jamboree . And well be back, well be back. The answer is no, but well be back. In life, in order to be successful, and you people are well on the road to success. You have to find out what makes you excited. What makes you want to get up each morning and go to work . You have to find it. If you love what you do and dedicate yourself to your work, then you will gain momentum, and look, you have to, you need the word momentum, you will gain that momentum, and each success will create another success. The word momentum. Ill tell you a story thats very interesting for me, when i was young, there was a man named leavitt, have you heard of a town named leavittown. He was a home builder and became an unbelievable success. And he became more and more successful. He would build homes and at night he would go to these sites with teams of people and he would scour the sites for nails and sawdust and small pieces of wood and they cleaned the sites so when the workers came in the next morning the sites would be spotless and clean and he did it properly. And he did this for 20 years and then he was offered a lot of money for his company. And he sold his company for a tremendous amount of money. At the time especially. This was a long time ago. Sold his company for a tremendous amount of money. And he went out and bought a big yacht and he had a very interesting life. I wont go into more than that, because youre boy scouts so im not going to tell you what he did. Should i tell you . Should i tell you . Oh, youre boy scouts, but you know life, you know life. So look at you. Who would think that this is the boy scouts, right . So he had a very, very interesting life. And the company that bought his company was a big conglomerate and they didnt know anything about building homes and they didnt know anything about picking up the nails and the sawdust and selling it and the scraps of wood. This is a big conglomerate in new york city, and after about a tenyear period, they were lose ing a lot. And it didnt mean anything to them. So they called mr. Leavitt up and said would you like to buy back your company . He said yes, i would. He so badly he got bored with his life and sailing and all the things he did in the south of france and other places. You wont get bored, right . Truthfully, youre workers, youll get bored too, believe me. Of course having a few good years like that isnt so bad. But what happened is he bought back his company and he bought back a lot of empty land and he worked hard on getting zoning and he worked hard on starting to develop. And in the end, he failed and he failed badly. Lost all of his money, he went personally bankrupt. And he was now much older. And i saw him at a cocktail party, and it was very sad because the hottest people in new york were at this party, it was the party of steve ross. Steve ross who was one of the great people he came up and discovered really, founded timewarner. And he was a great guy. He had a lot of suck successful people at the party. Im in the real estate business. I saw a lot of people, some of whom i recognized. And theyre big in the entertainment business. And i see, sitting in the corner was a little, old man who was all by himself, nobody was talking to him. I immediately recognized that that man was the once great William Leavitt of leavittown. I immediately went over, i wanted to talk to him more than the hollywood showbiz communications people. So i went over and i talked to him. And i said, mr. Leavitt, im donald trump, he said i know. I said mr. Leavitt, how are you doing . He goes not well, not well at all. And i knew that. But he said not well at all. And he explained what was happening and how bad its been and how hard its been. And i said, what exactly happened . Why did this happen to you . Youre one of the greats ever in our industry. Why did this happen to you . And he said, donald, i lost my momentum. I lost my momentum. A word you never hear when youre talking about success, when some of these guys that never made 10 cents, theyre on television giving you things about how youre going to be successful. And the only thing they ever did was a book and a tape. But ill tell you, it was very sad and i never forgot that moment. And i thought about it. And its exactly true. He lost his momentum. Meaning he took this period of time off, long years, and when he got back, he didnt have that same momentum. In life, i always tell this to people, you have to know whether or not you continue to have the momentum, and if you dont have it, thats okay, because youre going to go on and youre going to learn and do things that are great, and you are going to learn about momentum. But the thing is, never give up and do something you love. When you do something, as a scout, i can see that you love it. When you do something you love, youll never fail, what youll do is give it a shot again and again and again, youre ultimately going to be successful. And remember this, youre not working. Because when youre doing something that you love, like i do, of course i love my business, but who thought this was going to happen . But were having a good time and were doing a good job. Doing a good job. But when you do something, when you do something that you love, remember this, its not work. So youll work, 24 7, youre going to work all the time, and at the end of a year, youre going to not think of it as work, but if youre doing something you dont like, or youre forced into something you really dont like, thats work, and its hard work and tedious work, so as much as you can, do something that you love, work hard and never, ever give up and youre going to be tremendously successful. Tremendously successful. Now with that, i have to tell you, our economy is doing great, our stock market has picked up since the election, november 8, do we remember that date . Was that a beautiful date . What a date. Do you remember that famous night on television, november 8 . Where they said these dishonest people, where they said, there is no path to victory for donald trump. They forgot about the forgotten people. By the way, theyre not forgetting about the forgotten people anymore. Theyre going crazy trying to figure it out. But i told them its far too late. Far too late. But you remember that incredible night with the maps and the republicans are red and the democrats are blue, and that map was so red it was unbelievable and they didnt know what to say. And, you know, we have a tremendous disadvantage in the electoral college, new york, california, illinois, you have to practically run the east coast. And we did, we won florida, we won south carolina, we won north carolina, we won pennsylvania, and we won and won. So when they said there is no way to victory, there is no way to 270. You know, i went to maine four times. Because its one vote, and we won. But we won. One vote. I went there because i kept hearing were at 269 but then wisconsin came in, many, many years, michigan came in. So and we worked hard there. You know, my opponent didnt work hard there. Because she was told she was told she was going to win michigan, and i said, well, wait a minute, the coal industry is moving to mexico. Why is she do you see the car industry, theyre coming back to michigan, theyre coming back to ohio, theyre starting to peel back in. And we go to wisconsin. Now wisconsin hadnt been won in many, many years by a republican. But we would go to wisconsin, and we had tremendous crowds. And i would leave these massive crowds, i would say why are we going to lose this state . The polls, thats also fake news, theyre fake polls, but the polls are saying but we won wisconsin. So i have to tell you, what we did, in all fairness, is an unbelievable tribute to you, and all of the other millions and millions of people that came out and voted for make America Great again. [ crowd chants usa ] and ill tell you what, we are indeed making America Great again, whats going on is incredible. We had the best jobs report in 16 years. The stock market on a daily basis is hitting an alltime high. Were going to be bringing back very soon trillions of dollars from companies that cant get their money back into this country, and that money is going to be used to help rebuild america. Were doing things that nobody ever thought was possible and we have just started. Its just the beginning, believ weve just started. Its just the beginning, believe me. You know, in the boy scouts you learn right from wrong. Correct . You tloern contribute to your communities, take pride in your nation, and to seek out opportunities to serve. You pledge to help other people at all times. In the scout oath, you pledge on your honor to do your best and to do your duty to god and to your country. Narrato under the trump administration, youll be saying Merry Christmas again whether you go shopping. Believe me. Merry christmas. Theyve been downplaying that little beautiful phrase. Youre going to be saying Merry Christmas again, folks. But the words, duty, country, and god are beautiful words. In other words, basically what youre doing is youre pledging to be a Great American patriot. For more than a century, thats exactly what our boy scouts have been. Last year you gave more than 15 million hours of service to helping people in your communities. Incredible. Thats an incredible step. All of you here tonight will contribute more than 100,000 hours of service by the end of this jamboree, 100,000. When Natural Disaster strikes and when people face hardship, when the beauty and glory of our outdoor spaces must be restored and taken care of, america turns to the boy scouts because we know that the boy scouts never, ever, ever let us down. Just like you know, you can count on me, we know we can count on you because we know the values that you live by. Your values are the same values that have always kept america strong, proud, and free. And by the way, do you see the billions and billions and billions of additional money that were putting back into our military . Billions of dollars. New planes, new ships, great equipment for our people that are so great to us. We love our vets. We love our soldiers, and we love our police, by the way. Firemen, police, we love our police. Those are all special people. Two days ago i traveled to norfolk, virginia, to commission an american Aircraft Carrier into the fleet of the United States navy. Its the newest, largest and most advanced Aircraft Carrier anywhere in the world. And its named for an eagle scout, the u. S. S. Gerald r. Ford. Everywhere it sails that, great scouts name will be feared and revered because that ship will be a symbol of american power, prestige, and strength. Our president honored gerald ford today because he led his life the scouting way. Boy scouts celebrate american patriots, especially the brave members of our armed forces. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. American hearts are warmed every year when we read about boy scouts placing thousands and thousands of flags next to veterans grave sites all across the country. By honoring our heroes, you help to ensure that their memory never, ever dies. You should take great pride in the example you set for every citizen of our country to follow. Generations of american boy scouts have sworn the same oath and lived according to the same law. You inherit a tradition, as you embark on your lives, never cease to be proud of who you are and the principles you hold dear and stand by. Wear your values as your badge of honor. What youve done, few have done before you. What youve done is incredible. What youve done is admired by all. So i want to congratulate you, boy scouts. Let your scouting oath guide your path from this day forward. Remember your duty. Honor your history, take care of the people god put into your life. And love and cherish your great country. You are very special people. Youre special in the lives of america. Youre special to me. But if you do what we say, i promise you that you will live scoutings adventure every single day of your life and you will win, win, win and help people in doing so. Your lives will have meaning and purpose and joy. You will become leaders and youll inspire others to achieve the dreams they once thought were totally impossible. Things that you said could never, ever happen are already happening for you. And if you do these things, and if you refuse to give in to doubt or to fear, then you will help to make America Great again. You will be proud of yourself. Be proud of the uniform you wear and be proud of the country you love. And never, ever forget america is proud of you. This is a very, very special occasion for me. Ive known so many scouts over the years. Winners. Ive known so many great people. Theyve been taught so well. And they love the heritage. But this is very special for me. I just want to end by saying very importantly, god bless you. God bless the boy scouts. God bless the United States of america. Go out, have a great time in life. Compete and go out and show me that there is nobody, nobody like a boy scout. Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you very much. Cspan, where history unfolds daily. In 1979, cspan was created as a Public Service by americas Cable Television companies. 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