Below is a transcript of the speech to be delivered by President Donald J. Trump at the Sioux Center on January 5, 2024. It leads with remarks highlighting the dire situation the nation faces at home and abroad, offers hope AND a stern warning relating to Ron DeSantis and Nikki Haley, especially the latter.

The theme: "They will betray you like they betrayed me."

TRANSCRIPT - “Commit to Caucus”

Tracking 5:45pm ET/4:45pm CT (local) start time for remarks

HELLO IOWA—and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

10 DAYS from now, the people of this state are going to cast the most important vote of your entire lives.

By delivering a massive victory in Iowa, you will send a thundering message straight to Crooked Joe Biden, the Fake News Media, and all the evil and sinister people trying to destroy this nation.

With your vote for our campaign on Monday, January 15th, you will declare that we are going to take back our country, we are going to defeat Joe Biden, and we are going to MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!

The stakes of this election could not be higher. Under Crooked Joe Biden, our borders have been erased. Millions of illegal aliens are invading from all over the world. Our Middle Class is being crushed by Biden’s crippling inflation. Violent criminals are running wild in Democrat-run cities while law enforcement has been weaponized against Christians, conservatives, and people of faith. We have war in Europe, war in the Middle East, China is threatening Taiwan, Iran is inches away from a nuclear bomb, our military has gone woke, and we are teetering on the brink of World War Three.

There is only one candidate in this race who is up to the task of saving America from every single Biden disaster starting on DAY ONE.

Joe Biden’s record is an unbroken streak of weakness, incompetence, corruption, and failure. That’s why Crooked Joe is staging his pathetic fearmongering campaign event in Pennsylvania today—because he doesn’t want to talk about the border, or inflation, or Afghanistan, or all the chaos he has caused throughout the world. The only reason Biden is at Valley Forge abusing George Washington’s legacy to slander 75 million Americans is that he knows he can’t show his face at the Southwest Border, or in East Palestine, Ohio, or at the autoworkers’ factories in Michigan where he is destroying hundreds of thousands of jobs.

Crooked Joe cannot talk about a single issue that matters to hardworking Americans—because he has failed you and betrayed you on every single one. Biden and the Radical Left Democrats lie about us because they know that Americans can’t stand the truth about THEM.

This election is our last chance to save America. The battle begins in Iowa on January 15th—and Joe Biden’s Banana Republic ends on November 5th, 2024. With your help, we are going to bring our country back from hell!

Our country is DYING—and this is no time to waste your vote on another establishment career politician. A vote for Donald Trump in these caucuses is a vote to secure our border. It’s a vote to stop the invasion. It’s a vote to rescue our economy. And it’s a vote to reclaim our democracy from Crooked Joe Biden and the entire criminal class in our nation’s capital.

Unlike every other candidate in this race, with me, you know in your heart that I will always put AMERICA FIRST, and with God’s help, I will get the job DONE.

Victory cannot come soon enough. As we speak, the last remnants of our open and broken border are crumbling into rubble, as millions of people storm into the United States in the largest illegal mass migration in the history of the world. A record 300,000 illegal aliens were detected crossing the border in December alone.

Under the Trump administration, we had the most secure border in U.S. history. We built 561 miles of border wall, and got Mexico to give us 28,000 soldiers, worth billions of dollars, free of charge.

Ron DeSanctimonious, Nikki Haley, and the rest of the pack will NEVER do what it takes to secure the border. Nikki Haley has been in the pocket of the Open Borders establishment donors her entire career and now Nikki Haley’s campaign is being funded by Biden donors. She opposed my Border Wall, she condemned my strong border policies, and in 2016, she stabbed the Republican Party in the back by siding with Barack Obama against the Trump Travel Ban. Nikki Haley would sell you out and grant an amnesty to Biden’s illegal aliens her very first week.

Sadly, the establishment losers and sellouts lagging far behind us in the Republican Primary cannot be trusted on TAXES, Trade, or anything else. They are globalists and they always will be. There is nothing you can do to change them. They’ll betray YOU just like they betrayed ME. Iowa does not want politicians like Ron and Nikki who both support a 23% national sales tax.

You don’t want politicians like Ron and Nikki who both want to gut Social Security and Medicare for our great seniors. Ron voted three times to raise the retirement age to 70 years. And Nikki says the retirement age of 65 is WAY TOO LOW. Unlike DeSanctus and Nikki Haley, we will always protect Social Security and Medicare for our seniors.

On my first day back in the White House, I will terminate every Open Borders policy of the Biden administration, stop the invasion on our southern border, and begin the largest domestic deportation operation in American history.

I will shift massive portions of federal law enforcement to immigration enforcement. And we will immediately restore and expand the Trump Travel Ban on entry from terror-plagued countries.

Not ONE THING has gotten better under Crooked Joe Biden. Under the Trump Administration, YOU were better off, YOUR FAMILY was better off, YOUR NEIGHBORS were better off, YOUR COMMUNITIES were better off, and OUR COUNTRY was better off. America was stronger, richer, safer, and more confident than ever when you had me behind that desk in the Oval Office.

It’s no wonder the same corrupt forces that have been fighting us every step of the way are now breaking every rule and shattering every norm in a lawless attempt to keep us from defeating them at the ballot box. Joe Biden is a threat to Democracy—he’s weaponizing law enforcement for high level ELECTION INTERFERENCE.

Our founding fathers would be turning in their grave if they could see this. No American should be OK with a political party being weaponized against their enemies.

All of this is being done because we’re beating them so badly in the polls.

Every time the Radical Left Democrats, Marxists, Communists, and Fascists indict me, I consider it a GREAT BADGE OF HONOR. I’m being indicted for YOU.

Never forget—our enemies want to take away MY freedom because I will never let them take away YOUR freedom. They want to silence ME because I will never let them silence YOU. In the end, they’re not after me, they’re after you—and I’m just standing in their way.

This is far more than a campaign—this is the greatest political movement in the history of our country.

So if you want to Save America from Crooked Joe, then get every patriot you know, make sure they are registered Republicans, and get them out to vote in their local precinct caucus at 7 PM on Monday, January 15th.

The Great Silent Majority is rising like never before—and under our leadership, the Forgotten Man and Woman Will Be Forgotten No Longer!

We will LOVE our country. We will TAKE CARE of our country. We will pray to God for our strength and for our liberty. We will pray for God, and we will be with God.

THANK YOU IOWA! GO CAUCUS!