Day One of the Republican Midterm Convention – A Celebration of the Trump Record

On Day One of the Republican Party’s first-ever Midterm Convention speaker after speaker reminded the crowd that in less than two years, President Donald J. Trump has driven the most consequential stretch of governing in modern American history. He inherited a disaster — and turned it into a historic comeback. President Trump sealed the border, drove violent crime to historic lows, unleashed American energy, cut taxes for working families, focused Washington on merit and common sense, and deployed American strength on the global stage.

Promises made. Promises kept. Results delivered.

Securing America’s Borders and Putting Americans First

President Trump ended Democrats’ open borders disaster, established the strongest border in history, and restored American sovereignty.

• The Trump Administration immediately ended “catch-and-release” — and has not released a single illegal alien into the country for 15 straight months.
• The U.S. recorded negative net migration in 2025 for the first time in at least half a century.
• More than three million migrants have left the country in President Trump’s second term — the largest reduction in illegal immigration in modern history — with the illegal alien population down by at least 2.3 million.
• Under President Trump, asylum is now granted in just 7% of cases — a historic low — plummeting from over 50% rubber-stamped under Biden.
• The Trump Administration has stopped more than 10,000 narcoterrorists from entering the country.
• ICE has arrested more than 10,000 illegal alien gang members.
• President Trump designated major foreign cartels as terrorist organizations, including Tren de Aragua, MS-13, and Clan del Golfo.
• President Trump signed the Laken Riley Act, HALT Fentanyl Act, and Secure America Act into law — mandating detention of violent illegal alien criminals, permanently classifying fentanyl-related substances as Schedule I drugs, and delivering the largest border enforcement investment in a generation.
• Fentanyl trafficking at the southern border collapsed 56% and fentanyl-linked deaths plunged 22% in a single year.
• The Trump Administration cut illegals off taxpayer benefits, revoked more than 175,000 visas from foreign nationals, carried out the largest denaturalization effort in history, and launched a nationwide crackdown on illegal alien CDL fraud to get unvetted drivers off America’s roads.

Making Communities Safe Again

President Trump ended Democrats’ sick war on law enforcement and restored the simple idea that violent criminals belong behind bars.

• The U.S. murder rate fell to a historic low in 2025 — the lowest level in 125 years — after the largest annual drop in violent crime in American history.
• Preliminary data show the collapse continuing in the first half of 2026, with violent crime down another 10%, murders down another 23%, and rapes down another 18.6% over the same period last year.
• The Trump Administration has captured nine of the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted fugitives — more than twice as many as the entire previous four-year Administration — and five of the FBI’s Most Wanted Fraudsters.
• President Trump’s campaign to make Washington, D.C. safe and beautiful again has produced more than 17,000 arrests, cut homicides by more than 50% from Biden-era levels, and restored dozens of neglected fountains, statues, and monuments.

Rebuilding an Economy for Working Americans

President Trump engineered a blue-collar boom with lower taxes, more factories, trillions in new investment, and fair trade that puts American workers first again.

• President Trump is the first President in modern history to actually lower prescription drug prices — delivering the biggest drop in 63 years.
• President Trump signed the Working Families Tax Cuts, delivering No Tax on Tips, No Tax on Overtime, No Tax on Social Security, and no tax on Made-in-America car loan interest.
• President Trump established Trump Accounts, giving eligible American children a tax-advantaged investment account and a $1,000 government seed contribution — already activated for millions of American kids.
• President Trump delivered the biggest tax refund season on record, with 97% of filers receiving a tax cut.
• President Trump’s America First trade agenda has secured more than 20 new trade deals as companies re-shore production and increase domestic capabilities.
• President Trump has ignited a manufacturing renaissance, with the manufacturing sector expanding for eight straight months after years of Biden-era contraction.
• President Trump has created more than one million private sector jobs in his second term, including nearly 100,000 factory construction jobs and 58,000 manufacturing jobs this year alone.
• President Trump launched an unprecedented crackdown on fraud — uncovering hundreds of billions of dollars in fraud and stopping tens of billions in fraudulent payments after only a few months of work.
• President Trump has secured more than $11 trillion in new U.S. investment, including $1.4 trillion from the United Arab Emirates, $600 billion from Apple, and $340 billion from Amazon.
• The Trump Administration secured the Ratepayer Protection Pledge covering 80% of power delivered to American homes and businesses — protecting 263 million Americans when a data center is built nearby.
• President Trump secured commitments from dozens of the nation’s largest grocery chains to cut prices on thousands of household essentials.
• President Trump delivered historic relief for America’s farmers and ranchers by eliminating the death tax, cutting crop insurance premiums, and restoring the right to process and sell meat across state lines.

Restoring American Military Might and Peace Through Strength

President Trump put lethality back at the center of the U.S. military amid an endless pursuit of peace abroad.

• President Trump eliminated DEI from Pentagon hiring and promotion — putting warfighting back at the center of the force.
• Military branches averaged 103% of recruiting goals in 2025 — the best recruiting year in 15 years.
• President Trump launched an unprecedented effort to rebuild our defense industrial base.
• President Trump restored nine military bases to their rightful names.
• President Trump established the Board of Peace to bring prosperity, order, and reconstruction to Gaza.
• President Trump has ended eight major wars and conflicts, including between Cambodia and Thailand, Kosovo and Serbia, Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda, Pakistan and India, Egypt and Ethiopia, Armenia and Azerbaijan, and Israel and Iran, and the War in Gaza.
• President Trump brought all living hostages home from Hamas captivity.
• President Trump secured the release of more than 100 American hostages from captivity abroad.
• President Trump obliterated Iran’s nuclear enrichment capacity and launched Operation Epic Fury against the world’s number one state sponsor of terror.
• President Trump captured socialist dictator and indicted narcoterrorist Nicolas Maduro — bringing him to U.S. soil to face long-overdue justice.
• President Trump secured a transformational NATO agreement — raising member countries’ defense spending contributions to 5% of GDP — and convinced the alliance to more than double its collective defense spending.

Unleashing American Energy Dominance and Crushing Red Tape

President Trump turned the U.S. back into a global energy superpower and spearheaded the biggest deregulatory shock in history.

• The U.S. achieved record domestic oil and gas production in 2025 and record crude and petroleum-product exports in 2026.
• America set a world liquified natural gas export record in 2025 as the first country ever to ship more than 100 million metric tons in a single year.
• President Trump secured the biggest oil deal in world history, delivering the U.S. majority control of more than 65 billion barrels of proven oil reserves in Venezuela.
• President Trump opened hundreds of millions of acres for oil, gas, and coal production, and reinvigorated America’s beautiful clean coal industry.
• President Trump revoked the Obama-era Endangerment Finding — the single-largest deregulatory action in American history, worth $1.3 trillion.
• President Trump’s government-wide deregulatory mandate is projected to save the U.S. economy $1.5 trillion in FY2026 alone.
• The Trump Administration’s unprecedented government efficiency reforms have already saved an estimated $215 billion — about $1,335 per taxpayer — and shrunk the federal workforce to its lowest level since 1966.

Defending Women, Children, Biological Reality — and Common Sense

President Trump put truth and common sense back into federal policy.

• President Trump declared it the official policy of the U.S. Government that there are only two immutable sexes: male and female.
• President Trump banned federal funding, sponsorship, or promotion of the chemical and surgical mutilation of children, causing over 40 major health systems around the country to drop the barbaric practice.
• The Trump Administration terminated federal support for “gender ideology” and “equity” curricula in America’s schools.
• President Trump ended the demeaning practice of forcing women and girls to compete against biological males in sports.
• President Trump removed harmful, discriminatory DEI programs from government, education, and the private sector.

Making America Healthy Again

President Trump took on the processed-food complex, Big Pharma pricing, and the chronic disease crisis.

• The Trump Administration released new dietary guidelines that put whole, nutrient-dense food ahead of processed junk.
• President Trump has secured pledges from scores of major food manufacturers to strip artificial dyes and other synthetic chemicals out of the products Americans eat and drink.
• President Trump locked in Most Favored Nation pricing agreements covering about 90% of the branded drug market and launched TrumpRx to bring American drug prices in line with the rest of the developed world.
• President Trump signed the Whole Milk for Healthy Kids Act, restoring nutritious milk to America’s schools.

Restoring Election Integrity and the Rule of Law

President Trump is relentlessly focused on restoring Americans’ trust in their elections, courts after years of Democrat lawfare.

• President Trump exposed Chinese exploitation of American voter data, vulnerabilities in electronic voting systems, and hundreds of thousands of noncitizens registered to vote in federal elections.
• The Supreme Court cleared the way for President Trump’s mail-in ballot order ahead of the 2026 elections.
• The Trump Administration has secured many historic Supreme Court victories, including rulings allowing President Trump to fire executive officials, turn away so-called “asylum seekers,” and rescind Temporary Protected Status for hundreds of thousands of migrants.

Under President Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Republican leadership, the era of managed decline is over — and America is finally winning again. In under two years, President Trump sealed the border, made the streets safer, unleashed American energy, cut taxes for workers, restored the military, ended wars, and put America First.