Donald J. Trump

He's a serious enough person that he could deliver that kind of energy on their heads.

Eric, clearly the Chinese Communist Party and the PLA, which considers the Caribbean their lake, they're going to watch this intentionally today.

Give us just the idea of the kinds of things that you anticipate we'll see during the live fire, the naval gunfire and missile and naval air exercise that the commander-in-chief is about to view from the bridge of the USS Bush.

Well, the super important thing to think about is how do you project power in the Pacific?

In an era where you have thousands of enemy Chinese missiles that are stacked and you have a lot of cheap precision that they can just throw quantities of stuff at our ships.

And there is, you know, rolling airframe missiles and SM2 missiles to shoot down

incoming threats.

Hey, Eric, we've got the Navy SEAL that's about to take the stage.

I will definitely yield to him.

Welcome.

It is truly an honor to be here for the Navy 250th, honoring the greatest naval force the world has ever seen.

Now, you have to understand, there's a lot of history packed into the last 250 years.

But make no mistake, the history of the United States Navy from its beginning to today was built on a foundation of choice and sacrifice.

We chose to raise our hands and swore an oath to the Constitution

a choice to sacrifice our freedom, our earning potential, and even worse case, our very lives to fight against all enemies, foreign and domestic, who presented a threat against the sovereignty and people of the United States of America.

So it was in the beginning, all the way to today.

In order to understand the full context of what you are a part of, I think it is important to remember our history.

So let's go back to the beginning.

In 1779, when John Paul Jones captured the Serapis off the coast of England, to the Battle of Lake Erie, the Battle of Manila Bay, the Battle of Midway, to the Battle of Leyte Gulf, from D-Day to the Battle of the Philippine Sea, America's Navy has aided our allies, crushed our enemies, and stood resolute again and again.

226 years from the day the father of the American Navy engaged the might