Sid Rosenberg (49:09)
Congratulations. Congratulations. That's right. She was on the campaign and she was so effective and great. And we always have to remember the ones that have been great in good times and bad. That's why Mark. Mark. And the people I introduced, because I don't introduce them when they're just sort of good. When they're good, a lot of everyone's good. The day after I won the election, they were. Sir, I just want to tell you, you're the greatest person I've ever seen. Thank you, sir. I'd love to have dinner sometime. Where have you been for the last two years? We know about. We have a lot of those people. Mostly those. Jason, how are you? Jason? Jason Greenblatt. Do you know Jason Greenblatt? He worked for Me for years. He's a great leader lawyer. Then he made a lot of money and he said, I'm getting out. And you focused on Israel. Right? That was the focus. He says, I love Israel. I just want to focus on Israel. It's good to see you. I haven't seen you in a long time. But he was a great lawyer. Here's another great lawyer. David. Good to have you here. Good to have you here, David. And we have another person that's a very special person. She received the Presidential medal of Freedom. She is a. Yeah. Beautiful woman, actually, in my opinion. Another one. That's two reasons now. And third, by the way, Mark. We have three reasons, Mark, because your wife is incredible. Always from day one. But I think it's okay if we ask Miriam Adelson. Do you want to come up here? Come up here, Miriam. Miriam gave my campaign indirectly and directly $250 million. She was number one. When somebody can give you $250 million, I think that we should give her the opportunity to say hello. And, Miriam, make it quick, because $250 million is not what it used to be. Okay. Hello, darling. Incredible woman with a great husband, a man that loved Israel. Well, Mr. President, when you were in the Israeli parliament and you gave a speech and you saw me from far away at that time, I came with a scooter to the parliament just to hear you. I wanted to hear you alive. And then you say, miriam Adelson. And I stood for a second, but it was so painful. So I said, then you screamed, miriam, stand up. And I wish you would have known. But I stood up and heard all your compliment and thank you very much. I saw you back there standing. Yeah, thank you. Bravely. And now I met Alan Dershowitz and he said the legal thing about it, four more years. And I say, alan, I agree with you. So we can do it. Think about it. Alan's here someplace. Where's Alan? Alan is here. Oh, he had a flight. Think about. Thank you. Maybe I told you. Or second. Yeah. She said, think about it. I'll give you another 250. But. But her husband Sheldon was an amazing guy, and he'd come up to the office and there was nobody more aggressive than Sheldon. I think I spent more time with him and you, because you usually came up together. But he'd call and say, can I come over, please? I say, sheldon, I'm president of the United States. It doesn't work that way anymore. It's like, maybe tomorrow. How about tomorrow? No, no, no, Please, Just for A little while. And I would. He'd always say 10 minutes. It turned out to be about an hour and a half, right? And what he did is he fought for Israel, and that's all he really fought for. He just wanted to take care of. He just wanted to take care of Israel. So he was a great guy. He was a fantastic man. And he loved you so much. He couldn't see straight. So good. Thank you, darling. Be careful. Be careful. We don't want her falling. You know, when you fall, it's not good for politics. We had a man that fell a lot. I don't want to talk too much, because I'll have my day, I'm sure. You know, they're waiting, the press. You know, all that press back there, they're waiting, oh, would they like to see Trump trip off the stage? I would never live it down. But anyway. But it's so. And we have so many friends. I can't mention everybody. We have so many friends. Hello, my man. How are you? Well, we have good people here tonight. This is a. This is the A list. This is the A list of any list. But it's an honor to have you all. It really is. What you've done and what you've gone through is incredible. And as a people, there's never been anything like it. You know, I told Bibi, I said, you know, it's amazing what you've done, because when you look at the Middle east, you take a map of the Middle East. I said, the land is so small, it's so tiny. It's, like, hard to believe what you've been able to do. Now. It helped. The B2 bombers that we sent in to wipe out them. We gave them a lot of help. It helped when we were shooting all those drones down from jet fighters. Don't ever let anyone tell you a drone is better than a jet fighter. Drone is very nice, but you have. When you have F22s circling around them like there's nothing, just shooting the crap out of them, out of the air. Don't let anyone convince you that a drone is better than an F22 or an F35 or any of that stuff. But. But they're nice. They're nice, but we had our fighters shooting the hell out of 2,000 drones were launched at Israel, and they were just knocking them out. The only problem, on occasion, they'd run out of bullets, but every one of them took out a drone. And we. We did a great job. And then we did the best job of all as We. We knocked out the Iran nuclear power. They would have had that. And within a month, I think they would have been a much different story. Would have been talking from a much different place. But the story of Hanukkah began more than 2,000 years ago in ancient Jerusalem when the oppressive tyrant. And they were really oppressive tried, by the way. A lot of things don't change so much. They'd be oppressive today if you didn't have strength. You need strength, Mark. Right. If you don't have strength, and if you don't have a partner with a good president, don't forget you had a president previously that believed in Iran. They ditched the entire world for Iran. That's why they signed the Iran nuclear deal that I terminated immediately. It was the worst deal. And Bibi Netanyahu came over here to beg Barack Hussein Obama not to sign that deal. But he signed it. He signed it. It was a whole different world. And that's why I wonder. I got the highest Jewish vote now. I have to say, in Israel, they say I'm at 99%, but over here, I was like, at 50. It meant that 50% of the people over here voted for Kamala. Is that possible? Is that even possible? Right. So anyway. But they suppressed the Jewish worship and imposed foreign rules. Are we okay over there? Just want to make sure you're okay. You okay? Good. I want to make sure you're perfect. Okay. Thank you very much. Yeah, yeah. Is there a doctor. Get a doctor over there, please. Just. Just in case. Go ahead. Hop over there, please. Okay, good. Thank you very much. Everything good? Okay. Great person. Against overwhelming odds, a small band of Jewish fighters rose up to defend the Jewish people's right to worship freely. When they reclaimed the holy temple, they found only a single flask of sacred oil, just enough to keep the Menorah's light burning for one night. They wanted that light to burn just for one night. Yet, as the story goes, that small flame endured for eight days. Do you know that story? Does everybody know that story? For thousands of years, the miracle of Hanukkah has reminded us of God's love for the Jewish people, as well as their enduring resilience and faith in the face of centuries of persecution. Centuries. And it continues. It continues. Who would believe this could continue? And it sort of started here with schools and universities and. And Harmeet's taking care of that situation very strongly in the Department of Justice. Right. Who would believe it? But we're grateful to be joined by another reminder of that unbreakable strength. Two Courageous survivors of the Nazi Jerry Warotsky and Michael Bornstein. Where are they? Where are you guys? You look good. You look better than I do. You look fantastic. Jerry was only nine years old when the Nazis invaded Poland. He lost both of his parents in the camps, but refused to let their murder defeat him. After the war, he came to New York where he had an incredibly successful career, became very successful and became a good friend of Melania and myself. And I want to thank you, Jerry. And that's incredible, what took place. Thank you very much. Thank you, Jerry. Thank you very much. And Michael Borenstein lost both his father and mother in Auschwitz when he was just a very young man. A toddler, actually. Through the love and sacrifice of other family members, he managed to survive and reunite with his mother. In later years, they would come to America where Michael received a scholarship to college and eventually earned a PhD in chemistry and became one of the most brilliant chemists anywhere around. So, Michael and Jerry, I want to just thank you. We're honored to have you. This whole group of people are very honored to have you both. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you, Michael. As President of the United States, I will always support Jewish Americans. And I was always, I will always be a friend and a champion to the Jewish people. I have been. And I will say, you know, if you go back 10, 12, 15 years ago, at the most, the strongest lobby in Washington was the Jewish lobby. It was Israel. That's no longer true. You have to be very careful. You have a Congress in particular which is becoming anti Semitic. You have AOC plus three. You have those people, Ilhan Omar, she hates Jewish people. And you have to be very careful because there's been a big change. You know, if you go back 15 years ago, I'm not Jewish, but my father was very friendly with many, many Jewish people, was honored by Federation. I would go with him to Federation of Jewish Philanthropies and many other things. And we grew up respecting and loving Jewish people. You know, you don't even think about it in Brooklyn and Queens mostly. And my father didn't go to Manhattan. He never went to Manhattan. From the standpoint, he could never understand how in Brooklyn you could buy a piece of land for $3 a foot and how in Manhattan you had to pay $1,000 a foot. He said, I can't get that. I don't like it. I like to buy it for three. So it was different. It's a different thinking. In a way, I'm glad he didn't do that because he let me have some of that fun. And it was. I had a lot of fun in Manhattan. We did great. But my father would tell me the most powerful lobby that there is in this country is the Jewish lobby. It's the Israeli lobby. It's not that way anymore. You have a lot of people in your way. You have a lot of people that don't want to help Israel. You have a lot of people in Congress that don't like Israel. You have a lot of people in Congress that, in a way, I think, Mike, we could say it right, you're there. You're doing an amazing job. Mike Lawler they hate. They hate Israel. They hate Israel. And if you would have told me 15 years ago that that was possible, Jason, I would have said there's no way. There's no way that it's possible. But it's happening. And obviously it's getting progressively worse, less so in the Senate, but the Senate is starting also. You get glimmers, you know, when I'm in the back rooms talking to people, you get glimmers of statements that you say, whoa, where did that come from? So we have to be Sid. We have to be very careful because it's bad things are happening. And then you see what goes on in Australia or October 7th. How about October 7th? And then you have people that deny it ever happened. How about the people that deny, like they deny the Holocaust. But, you know, you figure, well, that's just many years. Well, October 7th is not many years at all. And you have people that deny October I saw tape that I wish I never saw it, actually. I wish I never saw it. I got to see tape that some of you got to see. But as president, I got to see things I wish I never, never saw. But there's no denying it. But then they'll say, oh, the tape was a rigged tape. It was a tape that never existed. They made it up. It's just propaganda. I don't know if they believe it. I don't think they believe it. But you have to be very, very careful. Bad things are happening, and we're not going to let that happen while I'm president and the DoJ and Harmeet would not. We're not going to let it happen. But please, please be vigilant. Vigilant and careful, because you have some bad people that are now in Congress that were unthinkable, unthinkable to be in Congress 12, 13, 14 years ago, 15 years ago, within days of taking office, I signed a historic Executive order to combat the vile scourge of anti Semitism. As you know, it's the strongest executive order of its kind ever signed. And we're also mobilizing federal resources to protect Jewish students and faculty. The faculty is under siege. The students are under siege. When you look at Columbia, you look at Harvard, you look at some of these schools, what's going on? But the faculty on campuses across America and are deporting foreign jihadists, sympathizers and terrorist supporters at record levels. We're deporting them. We're not putting them in jails. We're deporting them. I terminated the disastrous Iran nuclear deal. And this summer we obliterated Iran's nuclear program like nobody has ever seen. And even that cnn, fake news. They're back there. The camera is roaring. The light will go off in any second now. They hate when I mention their name because they know it's only bad because they're crooked as hell. They're fake news. You know the term, I think they. It's one of my better terms, Sid. Right. I don't think anybody takes it away. We have some good ones, Pocahontas, but I think. I think fake news is probably pretty good. The only problem is it's actually not strong enough. You know, fake. It's crooked, corrupt, disgusting news, but will have to do with fake. But fake, Sid, Fake isn't strong enough. That's the only problem. It's actually. I wish I could come up with a word that's really more powerful than fake. But fake is good enough. But cnn, with the attack on Iran, they said, well, I used the word. We obliterated them. You know why? Because the pilots told me they know better than anybody. And the pilots told everything. And then we had visuals, and these pilots are coming back after having endured the most dangerous ride. I said, did you guys. You know, I had them all to the Oval Office after two weeks after the attack. I had them all. I had the pilots and I had them. I had the people that maintain the planes. I had the people that fly the tankers. You know, we had 52 tankers because we had the seven major planes. We also had four planes flying in different of the B2, flying in different directions. Iran didn't know what the hell was happening. But we had a whole force of F22s. Most beautiful fighter jet ever made, most powerful fighter jet ever made, and F35s, a brand new one. And they're stealth, believe me. They're stealth because they went into Iranian airspace and Iran Never saw anything. And it was, think of this, two o' clock in the morning, it was dark at night, there was no moon at all, no light, no nothing. And every single bomb went right down those air shafts into granite mountains. Right down those air shafts at 2 o' clock in the morning with no vision. Every single bomb hit its target. And CNN said on the way back. They were on the way, they hadn't even landed yet. Well, maybe the attack wasn't that bad. It, because I used the word obliteration. I turned out to be right. The Atomic Energy Commission shortly thereafter said it was total obliteration. Iran actually said it was total obliteration. In fact they said touchdown. Yeah, it was a touchdown. But they, it was amazing. And we've never had an apology from cnn, you know, so you have fake news against you. Fake news. And I didn't fight for you. I wasn't fighting for you there. I was fighting for those pilots that were so brave to go there. When they came into the Overland office, I said, you can't seriously enjoy this. They said, sir, we enjoy every minute of it. We were practicing this, this and the predecessors we were practicing for 22 years they said for 22 years they were practicing and no president had the courage to let them go and do their. They wanted to do it for 22 years. And the predecessors mean the young pilots at the time. But for 22 years, three times a year they were practicing that run. And I'm the one that said, let's go get them, let's do it. And if we didn't. And they thanked me. But I did say to the pilots, you know, enough is enough. I said, do you really like being in that plane? When they're waiting for you, they know you're coming. It's dark, it's cold, it's, everything is. And you're in a plane and there are bullets flying all over the place. Sir, I wouldn't trade this for anything at all. Can you believe these people? And I love you people, but not getting in that plane. I love you guys, but these people are unbelievable. The talent they have, the way they can fly those things, the way they can aim it at a target in the dark of night, the darkest you've ever seen. They want it to be as dark as possible. They didn't want anything. And the only time anybody could see those planes was when those bomb shoots open up because it becomes totally unstealth when it goes. I explained that to, to Mark Levin. Once you're going in, you go like this. And as soon as it goes like this, for some reason the plane is totally visible. Not good. And I watched it happening and just. It's like I'm sitting home watching it, you know, it's amazing. The Situation Room is an amazing place. But I watched him go bing, bing. He went bing, bing. And two massive hundred thousand pound bomb bombs come pouring out. And the job they did was incredible. I mean, compare that to. I mean, look, I thought he was a nice man, but compare that to the Jimmy Carter attack on. That was not good. With the helicopters and the men running all over the place trying to get the hell out of there. This was not good. This was the single greatest military attack that anyone's ever seen. And. And that sort of put an end to. We helped Israel very much as you know, with their attacks on Iran before that. But that really put an end to it because they were about a month away from having a nuclear weapon. I officially recognized the true capital of Israel and opened the American embassy in Jerusalem. Is Julie good? Where's Julie? Okay, good. I thought it was you that went down. It wasn't you. Oh, good. I was worried about. I didn't care about anybody else. I said, it's Julie in trouble. I thought it was you. Good. It's somebody else. I wish them good luck, but I don't want that to happen to Julie. That's Mark's wife, by the way. We love Julie, but I didn't see Julie ever going down. She's not. She's like a rock, right, Mark? She's a rock. I wouldn't want to have her as my enemy. She was also a great lawyer, but otherwise I also recognize the Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights. And that's one they didn't even ask me. Even Sheldon, who was the most aggressive human being there is in the entire world? This incredible woman, although she's. She had total control. He was aggressive with everybody but Miriam. Miriam. He wouldn't play games with Miriam, but he was actually a sweetheart. But he never even asked me about the Golan Heights because he said, that's a step too far. I actually gave it because I called up. I heard so much about Golan Heights, Golan Heights from Jason Greenblatt. I heard it from so many people. And I actually asked David Friedman. I said he was the ambassador at the time. Good guy, he said. And by the way, Mike Huckabee is doing a great job, doing two good ones. Two very good. But I asked David Friedman. I don't know if David's here. But I asked him because he is so Israel oriented. I mean, he's great. I said, david, tell me about Golden Heights in five minutes or less. You know, I'm taking in like a thousand years of history in five minutes. I said, give it to me. Give it to me in five minutes or less. And after about two minutes, I said, I understand. You needed so badly for so many other reasons. You need it. You need it for defense. You know, in the old days, before we had all the sophisticated radar and all the things, it was everything because you were up high. But I learned enough, and I signed the Golan Heights, the rights to the Golan Heights over to Israel. Nobody thought that was possible to get. They've been working on it for 70 years, Mark. 70 years. You know, planes would fly into places, they'd have meetings that would last two, three days. All they took, talked about was the girl on Heights. Right, Jason? And nobody ever did anything. But I did it, and we did it quickly. And I say, good luck to you. Then I found out the value of it. Trillions of dollars. It could be worth, if you think, trillions of dollars. I said, you know, maybe I should have asked him for something. But with Jared Kushner's help, Jared has been a great fan of Israel, the Kushner family. And by the way, how good is Steve Witkoff doing?
