President Trump on Friday addressed seniors at The Villages in Florida and touted his second-term achievements that have made life more affordable for those in their golden years.
“I’m much, much younger than the people in this room, but I feel I can relate to you anyway,” the 79-year-old president joked at the world’s largest retirement community, before rattling off policy after policy his administration has pushed to benefit seniors.
Trump lauded the “largest tax refunds of all time” received by American seniors this year thanks to his One Big Beautiful Bill Act.
“Here in the Sunshine State, we’ve issued 2.5 million Florida seniors over $13 billion,” he noted.
“That means more money to visit your grandkids, a bigger budget for taking a trip to someplace that you want to go, or extra dinners out with your family – you’re going to do a lot.”
The president celebrated that as a result of last summer’s sweeping agenda bill, “more than 51 million American seniors now pay a federal tax rate of zero.”
Getting the crowd involved, Trump polled his supporters on their favorite tax policy in the One Big Beautiful Bill.
His “No Tax on Social Security” benefits was the clear favorite with the 55 and over community.
Midway through his speech Trump brought a resident of The Villages on stage, who said she was “shocked” when she picked up her tax return and saw how much money her and her husband were getting back.
“We were just so thrilled … it was double what we thought we would get,” Mary Alice explained. “We ended up using some of that money to pay for a new roof.
“We’re thrilled that we were able to do that and we didn’t deplete our savings account … this is all because of the no tax on Social Security.”
Trump asserted “our country is hot again,” before telling the crowd, “these are your golden years, but these are really beyond your golden years. This is the golden age of America.”
The president then tore into former President Joe Biden.
Under Biden, “American seniors were ravaged by the worst inflation in the history of our country,” Trump said, “devastating the budgets of senior citizens.”
“Under the Trump administration,” he declared, “we’re standing up for American seniors like no president has ever stood up before.”
The president touted his “war on fraud,” which he insisted is preventing Medicare and Medicaid from “being looted by criminals and thugs.”
Trump also boasted about his administration’s work at getting accelerated Medicare prior authorizations, calling it “a big deal.”
“What used to take days and weeks and months to get, now you’re getting it done in a matter of minutes,” he claimed.
“We also dramatically increased coverage for outpatient clinical care,” Trump continued, “stopping seniors from being ripped off by billions of dollars of outrageous fees that they charge.”
The president went on to tout his “most favored nation agreements,” which have discounted some prescription drugs by as much as 800%.
“We’ve gotten you the largest reductions in history,” he bragged.
“We had the highest price for prescription drugs anywhere in the world. And now we have the lowest prices anywhere in the world.”
On the economy, Trump noted stock markets hit record highs at the end of his first year back in the White House.
“The stock market is rocking and rolling. Your 401ks are at the highest they’ve ever been,” he said.
“We had the greatest financial markets in the history of our country in my first term – we’re blowing it away now.”
The president urged seniors to get out and vote in November, warning if congressional Democrats “had their way,” seniors “would be paying higher taxes, higher prices.”
“They gave us tremendously high prices and they’ll give them to you again if they take over,” Trump said. “You have to get out and vote in the midterms.”
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