Shadowing Practice: Donald Trump's full victory speech - Learn English Speaking with Video
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U .S .A!
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U .S .A!
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U .S .A!
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U .S .A!
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U .S .A!
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U .S .A!
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U .S .A!
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Well, I want to thank you all very much.
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This is great.
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These are our friends.
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We have thousands of friends in this incredible movement.
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This was a movement like nobody's ever seen before.
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And, frankly, this was, I believe, the greatest political movement of all time.
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There's never been anything like this in this country, and maybe beyond.
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And now it's going to reach a new level of importance because we're going to help our country heal.
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We're going to help our country heal we have a country
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that needs help
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and it needs help very badly we're going to fix our borders we're going to fix everything about our country
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and we made history for a reason tonight
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and the reason is going to be just that we overcame obstacles that nobody thought possible and
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it is now clear that we've achieved the most incredible political thing look what happened Is this crazy?
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But it's a political victory that our country has never seen before.
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Nothing like this.
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I want to thank the American people for the extraordinary honor of being elected.
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You're 47th president and you're 45th president.
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And to every citizen, I will fight for you, for your family, and your future.
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Every single day, I will be fighting for you, and with every breath in my body, I will not rest until we have delivered the strong,
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safe, and prosperous America that our children deserve and that you deserve.
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this will truly be the golden age of america that's what we have tonight
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this is a magnificent victory for the american people
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that will allow us to make america great again
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and in addition to having won the battleground states of north carolina i love these places georgia pennsylvania and wisconsin
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we are now winning in michigan arizona and nevada and alaska which would
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result in us carrying at least 315 electoral votes but But it's much easier doing what the networks did,
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or whoever called it, because there was no other path.
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There was no other path to victory.
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We also have won the popular vote.
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That was great.
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USA!
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USA!
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USA!
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USA!
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USA!
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USA!
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USA!
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Thank you very much.
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Winning the popular vote was very nice, very nice, I will tell you.
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It's a great feeling of love we have a great feeling
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of love in this very large room with unbelievable people standing
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by my side these people have been incredible they've made the journey with me
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and we're going to make you very happy we're going to make you very proud of your vote i hope
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that you're going to be looking back someday and say
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that was one of the truly important moments of my life
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when i voted for this group of people beyond the president this group of great people
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america has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate we have taken back control of the senate wow that's great
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And the Senate races in Montana,
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Nevada, Texas, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin,
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the great commonwealth of pennsylvania we're all won by The MAGA movement, they helped so much.
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And in those cases, every one of them, we worked with the senators.
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They were tough races.
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And I mean, the number of victories in the Senate was absolutely incredible.
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And we did tele -rallies.
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We did tele -rallies with each one of them.
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And sometimes we did two or three.
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And it was amazing to look at all of those victories.
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Nobody expected that.
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Nobody so I just wanted to thank you very much for
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that and we have you have some great senators
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and some great new senators and it also looks like we'll be keeping control of the House of Representatives
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and I want to thank Mike Johnson I think he's doing
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a terrific job terrific job I want to also thank my beautiful wife, Melania, First Lady,
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who has the number one best -selling book in the country.
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Can you believe that?
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Oh, no, she's done a great job, works very hard, works very hard to help people.
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So I just want to thank her.
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But I want to thank my whole family, my amazing children, and they are amazing children.
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Now, we all think our children are amazing.
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Everybody here thinks their children are amazing, but that's a good thing when you think they are.
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But Don, Eric, Ivanka, Tiffany, Barron, Laura, Jared, Kimberly, Michael, thank you all all.
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What a hell.
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My father -in -law, Victor, is tremendous.
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And we miss very much Melania's mother, Amalia.
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We miss Amalia, don't we, huh?
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She would be very happy right now, standing on this stage.
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She'd be so proud.
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She was a great woman, that one.
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Beautiful inside and out.
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She was a great woman.
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I want to be the first to congratulate our great, now I can say, Vice President -elect of the United States, J .B.
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Burns, and
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is absolutely remarkable and beautiful wife Ushabez
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and he is a feisty guy isn't he you know I've said go into the enemy camp
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and you know the enemy camp is certain networks
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and a lot of people don't like to serve do I have to do
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that he just goes okay
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which one CNN MSDNC he'll say all right thank you very
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much he actually looks like he He's still like the only guy I've ever seen.
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He really looks forward to it, and then he just goes and absolutely obliterates them.
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Say a couple of words.
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Come on out.
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J .D., J .D., J .D., J .D., J .D., J .D., J .D.
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Well, Mr. President, I appreciate you allowing me to join you on this incredible journey.
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I thank you for the trust that you placed in me.
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And I think that we just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America.
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And under President Trump's leadership, we're never going to stop fighting for you, for your dreams, for the future of your children,
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and after the greatest political comeback in American history, we're going to leave the greatest economic comeback in American history under Donald Trump's leadership.
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Thank you very much.
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It turned out to be a good choice.
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I took a little heat at the beginning, but he was, I knew the brain was a good one, about as good as it gets.
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And we love the family, and we're going to have a great four years, and we're going to turn our country around, make it something very special,
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but lost that, lost that little, it lost that little...
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that little thing called special we have to make it
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so we're going to make this so great it's going to it's the greatest country and potentially the greatest
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country in the world by far
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and right now we're going to just work very hard to get all of
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that back we're going to make it the best it's ever been we can do
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that we just if we had to wait longer i don't know it was going bad
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and it was going bad fast we're going to have to seal up those borders
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and we're going to have to let people come into our country
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we want people to come back in
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but we have to we have to let them come back in
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but they have to come in legally they have to come
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in legally let me also express my tremendous appreciation for Susie and Chris a job you did.
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Susie, come Susie, come here.
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Come here Susie.
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Chris, come here Chris.
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Susie likes to stay sort of in the back, let me tell you.
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The ice baby, we call her the ice baby.
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Come here Chris.
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Chris, come here Chris.
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Susie likes to stay in the background, she's not in the background.
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Come here, say something.
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This wasn't expected, but I just want to thank, obviously, President Trump for this journey.
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It was a great one, and he's a hell of a candidate, and he's going to be a hell of a great 47th president.
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And this team that we had, the best team, and, of course, even my boss, Susie Wiles, the best.
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Thank you.
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Thank you, and thank you, Susie look at this I've never seen her be shot before
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Susie they've been they're great everybody up here is great everybody up here is very special
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but the Trump who did you say oh let me tell
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you we have a new star a star is born Elon now he is
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now he's an amazing guy we were sitting together tonight you know he spent two weeks in
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philadelphia and different parts of pennsylvania campaigning you know he sent the rocket up two weeks ago
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and i saw that rocket i saw it coming down i saw it it was
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when it left it was beautiful shiny white
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when it came down it didn't look so pretty was going 10 000 miles an hour and was burning like hell.
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I said, what happened to your paint job?
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He said, we've never made a paint that could withstand that kind of heat.
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And, uh, but I saw it come down and turn around and it was, you know, it's like 22 stories tall, by the way, it looks a little smaller than that,
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but it's big and it came down and down and you saw that fire burning.
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And I'm saying only Elon can do this it must be an Elon
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and I tell the story I told it last night I
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had a man on the phone I had the screen muted
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no sound I was talking to a very important man happens to be here
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and that very important guy one of the most important people and I would say the country actually but you know
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I was president and now it looks like I was going to be maybe president again
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so I figured I could ask him to hold
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so I asked him to hold and because especially
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because you're going to be president again they hold
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so I took the phone down
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and I'm looking at the screen I'm seeing this crazy thing that's going around
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and coming down it looks like it's a crash into the gantry
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and I said oh no
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and I said do me a favor do you mind holding
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for a couple of them I want to see this I thought it was a space -age movie
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or something I put the phone down bed
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but I didn't pick it up for 45 minutes
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and he was holding but this spaceship came down
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and I saw those engines firing
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and it looked like it was over it was going to smash
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and then I saw the fire pour out from the left side
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and I put it straight and it came down so gently
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and then it wrapped those arms around it and it held it
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and just like you hold your baby at night your little baby
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and it was a beautiful thing to see
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and i called elon i said elon was
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that you he said yes it was i said who else can do
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that can russia do it no can china do it no
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can the united states do it other than you no nobody can do
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that i said that's why i love you elon that's great and you know when we had the
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tragic hurricane helene
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and it hit in particular it hit north carolina they were
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really devastated the water this was a big water as big
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as we've ever seen water hurricane it built lakes out of nothing fields became lakes
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and and the danger was unbelievable and the people from north carolina came to me
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and they said would it be possible at all possible for you to speak to Elon Musk.
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We need Starlink.
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I said, what's Starlink?
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It's a form of communication.
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So I called Elon, and I'll tell you what, he had, and it was very dangerous.
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People would die.
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They had no communication.
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All the wires were down.
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I called Elon Musk.
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I said, Elon, you have something called Starlink.
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Is that right?
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Yes, I do.
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What the hell is it?
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He said, it's a communication system that's very good i said elon they
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need it really really badly in north carolina can you get it he had
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that there so fast it was incredible so
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and it was great it saved a lot of lives he saved a lot of lives
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but he's a character he's a special guy he's a super
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genius we have to protect our geniuses we don't have
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that many of them we have to protect our super geniuses
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i want to thank some of the guys you know we
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have up here today the u .s open champion he's uh
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fantastic alfred slightly longer than me it's a little bit longer
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than me just a little bit bryson dechambeau is up here
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someplace what happened to bryson where is he bryson oh he was shot
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he's hitting balls he's on the way he's hitting balls bryson oh look at him
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he had a great he's got a great career going great u .s open bryson that's a fantastic job
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And we also have a man, Dana White, who has done some job.
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He's a tough guy.
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Dana!
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Dana!
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Dana!
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Dana!
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Dana!
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So Dana started UFC and came to me.
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Do you mind if I use your...
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Nobody wanted to give him a rinse because they said it's a rough sport, a little rough.
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And I helped him out a little bit and I went.
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and they said this is the roughest sport i've ever seen
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but i began to like it and he loved it
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and nobody's done a better job in sports
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and you know he's a very uh motivational kind of a guy what he does he gets these fighters
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and they they really go at it
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and it's become one of the most successful sports enterprises anywhere at any time it's doing
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so well i'd like to ask danie just to say a couple of words, because people love to hear from him.
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Nobody deserves this more than him, and nobody deserves this more than his family does.
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This is what happens when the machine comes after you.
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What you've seen over the last several years, this is what it looks like.
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Couldn't stop him.
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He keeps going forward.
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He doesn't quit.
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He's the most resilient, hard -working man I've ever met in my life.
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His family are incredible people.
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This is karma, ladies and gentlemen.
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He deserves this.
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They deserve it as a family.
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I want to thank some people real quick.
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I want to thank the Nell boys, Aiden Ross, Theo Vaughn, Bustle With The Boys, and last but not least,
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the mighty and powerful Joe Rogan. And thank you, America.
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Thank you.
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Have a good night.
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that is a piece of work now he's an amazing he's really an amazing guy
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but most of all i want to thank the millions of
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hard -working americans across the nation who have always been the heart
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and soul of this really great movement we've been through
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so much together
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and today you showed up in record numbers to deliver a
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victory like really i probably like no other this was something this was something special
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and we're going to we're going to pay you back we're
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going to do the best job we're going to we're going
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to turn it around it's got to be turned around it's got to be turned around fast
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and we're going to turn it around we're going to do it in every way with
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so many ways
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but we're going to do it in every way this will
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forever be remembered as the day the American people regained control of their country.
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So I just want to say that on behalf of this great group of people, these are hardworking people, these are fantastic people,
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and we can add a few names like Robert F.
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Kennedy And he's going to help make America healthy again.
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And now he's a great guy, and he really means it.
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He wants to do some things, and we're going to let him go to it.
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I just said, but...
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Bobby, leave the oil to me.
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We have more liquid gold, oil and gas.
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We have more liquid gold than any country in the world, more than Saudi Arabia.
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We have more than Russia.
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Bobby, stay away from the liquid gold.
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Other than that, go have a good time, Bobby.
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We're going to be paying down debt.
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We're going to be reducing taxes.
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We can do things that nobody else can do.
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Nobody else is going to be able to do it.
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China doesn't have what we have.
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Nobody has what we have, but we have the greatest people also.
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Maybe that's the most important thing.
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This campaign, this campaign has been so historic in so many ways.
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We've built the biggest, the broadest, the most unified coalition.
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They've never seen anything like it in all of American history.
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They've never seen any young and old men and women, rural and urban.
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And we had them all helping us tonight.
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When you think, I mean, I was looking at it.
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I was watching it.
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They had some great analysis of the people that voted for us.
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Nobody's ever seen anything like that.
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They came from all quarters, union, non -union, African -American,
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Hispanic -American, Asian -American, Arab -American, Muslim -American.
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We had everybody, and it was beautiful.
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It was a historic realignment,
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uniting citizens of all backgrounds around a common core of common sense.
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You know, we're the party of common sense.
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We want to have borders.
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We want to have security.
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We want to have things be good, safe.
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We want great education.
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We want a strong and powerful military, and ideally, we don't have to use it.
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You know, we had no wars.
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Four years, we had no wars, except we defeated ISIS.
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We defeated ISIS in record time, but we had no wars.
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They said, he will start a war.
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I'm not going to start a war.
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I'm going to stop wars.
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But this is also a massive victory for democracy and for freedom.
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Together, we're going to unlock America's glorious destiny, and we're going to achieve the most incredible future for our people.
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Yesterday, as I stood at my last stop on the campaign trail, I'll never be doing a rally again.
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Can you believe it?
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I think we've done 900 rallies approximately from the, can you imagine?
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nine hundred nine hundred and one something a lot of rallies
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and it was sad everybody was sad many people i said this is our last rally
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but now we're going on to something that's far more important
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because the rallies were used for us to put be put
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in this position where we can really help our country that's
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what we're going to do we're going to make our country better than it ever has been
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and i said that many people have told me that god spared my life for a reason
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and that reason was to save our country and to restore america to greatness
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and now we are going to fulfill that mission together we're going to fulfill that mission
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The task before us will not be easy, but I will bring every ounce of energy,
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spirit, and fight that I have in my soul to the job that you've entrusted to me.
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This is a great job.
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There's no job like this.
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This is the most important job in the world.
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Just as I did in my first term, we had a great first term, a great, great first term.
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I will govern by a simple motto, promises made, promises kept.
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We're going to keep our promises.
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Nothing will stop me from keeping my word to you, the people.
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We will make America safe, strong, prosperous, powerful, and free again.
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And I'm asking every citizen all across our land to join me in this noble and righteous endeavor.
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That's what it is it's time to put the divisions of
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the past four years behind us it's time to unite
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and we're gonna try we're gonna try we have to try
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and it's gonna happen success will bring us together I've seen
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that I've seen that I saw that in the first term
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when we became more
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and more successful people started coming together success is going to bring us together
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and we are going to start by all putting america first
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we have to put our country first for at least a period of time we have to fix it
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because together we can truly make america great again for all americans so i want to just
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tell you what a great honor this is.
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I want to thank you.
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I will not let you down.
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America's future will be bigger, better, bolder, richer, safer, and stronger than it has ever been before.
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God bless you, and God bless America.
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Thank you very much.
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Thank you.
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Thank you Thank you very much.
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I say, young man, when you're so off the ground I say,
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young man, cause you're in a new town There's no need to be unhappy Young man,
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there's a place you can't go I say, young man, when you're short on your door You can't stay there
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And I'm sure you'll find many ways to have a good time
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It's fun to stay at the YMCA It's fun to stay at the YMCA
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Why This Video Is Perfect for English Speaking Practice
If you’re looking to improve English pronunciation and master natural speech flow, this victory speech clip is a goldmine. The speaker’s energetic delivery, repetitive phrases, and clear emphasis on key words make it ideal for practicing rhythm and intonation. Plus, the mix of formal promises (“I will fight for you”) and casual exclamations (“Is this crazy?”) mirrors real-world English, helping you sound more authentic in diverse situations.
Breaking Down Natural Speech Patterns
Let’s explore why these lines work for learning:
- “We’re going to help our country heal”: The contraction “we’re” and the stress on “heal” show how native speakers simplify speech while emphasizing core messages. Repeat this to practice linking words smoothly.
- “This was a movement like nobody's ever seen before”: The phrase “like nobody's ever seen” is a common colloquial structure. Notice how “nobody's” blends into “ever” – this is key for natural shadow speak practice.
- “Winning the popular vote was very nice, very nice, I will tell you”: Repetition (“very nice, very nice”) adds emphasis and conversational flair. Mimicking this helps you sound less scripted.
Your Shadowing Practice Routine
Ready to try shadowspeak? Follow this simple loop with the video:
- Watch the clip once to absorb the tone and energy.
- Play a 5-second segment, pause, and immediately repeat it – focus on matching the speed, stress, and intonation.
- Record yourself and compare it to the original. Notice differences in vowel sounds (e.g., “incredible” vs. “incredibull”) or pauses.
- Repeat with longer segments (10-15 seconds) as you get comfortable. This builds muscle memory for natural speech patterns.
This routine works because shadowing trains your brain to process and reproduce English in real time – a must for fluency. Even 10 minutes a day with this clip will boost your confidence and pronunciation!
Key Takeaways for Speaking Confidence
This video isn’t just about politics – it’s a tool to master conversational power. By practicing its repetitive phrases, stress patterns, and energetic delivery, you’ll learn to speak with clarity and emotion. Remember: the goal isn’t to mimic the speaker, but to use their techniques to make your own English sound more natural. So hit play, start shadowing, and watch your speaking skills soar!
Grammar in this video
The structures the speaker uses most, with the exact words from the video:
| Structure | In the video |
|---|---|
| Present perfect have/has + past participle — a past action that still matters now | we've achieved · has never seen · have delivered |
| Passive voice be + past participle — the focus is on what happens, not who does it | being elected · wasn't expected · be shot |
What is the Shadowing Technique?
Shadowing is a science-backed language learning technique originally developed for professional interpreter training and popularized by polyglot Dr. Alexander Arguelles. The method is simple but powerful: you listen to native English audio and immediately repeat it out loud — like a shadow following the speaker with just a 1–2 second delay. Unlike passive listening or grammar drills, shadowing forces your brain and mouth muscles to simultaneously process and reproduce real speech patterns. Research shows it significantly improves pronunciation accuracy, intonation, rhythm, connected speech, listening comprehension, and speaking fluency — making it one of the most effective methods for IELTS Speaking preparation and real-world English communication.