Watch Megyn’s full speech from Donald Trump’s pre-inauguration rally on Sunday – Megyn Kelly

Donald Trump will be sworn in as the forty-seventh president of the United States on Monday, but he kicked off the inauguration festivities in Washington DC over the weekend with a final rally.

Over 20,000 supporters packed into Capital One Arena on Sunday to hear from President-elect JD Vance, Elon Musk and, yes, Megyn herself. She took the stage after Stephen Miller, the incoming deputy chief of staff for policy, for a rousing speech that touched on why Trump won and what comes next for America.

Below are Megyn’s full remarks:

The speech

hi how are you God bless you for standing out there in that weather and all those hours to come in here today. As Stephen Miller said, we have 20 hours until our long national nightmare is over. We’re almost there!

By the way, Stephen Miller, if you like what Trump did at the border, you have that guy to thank in large part. It’s the guy. He is the magic behind the man. And he’s back. Thank God, him and Tom Homan together? Whew!

The goodness that is about to rain down upon us after Trump is inaugurated tomorrow is already beginning. And I have to tell you, I’m so excited about it. Things are already happening in anticipation of Trump being sworn in, like Facebook and McDonald’s getting rid of their DEI programs. Good for you McDonald’s workers. Looking at you, Kamala Harris. Not really. It wasn’t true. You have universities—from the University of Michigan to North Carolina, to all the public universities in Iowa, all the public universities in Texas—that have to get rid of DEI.

You’ve got a bill that passed the House this week, the Protection of Women and Girls in Sport Act. Now it happened once before, but this time we control the Senate. We have a much better shot. We still need 60 votes to get a vote, but we’re looking good.

You have a judge who struck down Joe Biden’s odious changes to Title IX, which have been stopped in their tracks, and it will be killed completely — those changes — as soon as Trump comes in. Don’t be in doubt.

Good things are happening around the country. Pete Hegseth testified this week that military recruitment is already ramping up in anticipation of their new commander in chief. The agreement in Gaza just before Trump takes office. Like he said, if it’s not done before I get there, all hell will break loose.

The goodness just keeps on coming. I woke up this morning and I was two inches taller, a pound thinner, and I had skin like Jennifer Lopez. The latter is not true.

Speaking of JLo, how glad are you that her candidate lost? It’s so nice. These Hollywood celebrities who come up there and try to tell us how to vote, really, I mean, like, those celebrities who don’t know anything about anything. All JLo knows what to do is destroy marriages. She is an expert in that. Why should I also try to destroy the country? So goodbye, JLo, didn’t work out for you. Goodbye.

Meryl Streep, who showed up at the Oprah event and said, ‘Oh Madam President’ to Kamala. “Madam President.” How did it go? About as well as her comment about Harvey Weinstein being God. Maybe we should stop listening to her. Maybe we shouldn’t go to her for our political advice.

And then you had Oprah herself. Oprah, she’ll interview you if you pay her a million dollars too. Yes, apparently it’s a low, low fee of a million dollars to sit down with Oprah Winfrey. The Harris campaign paid a production company, she says. And for that you know what you get? You make Oprah yell at you. ‘Kamala Harris’ (shouting voice). Why do you do that? Calm down, ma’am. It didn’t work for her either.

But of course the fakest person involved on that side of the aisle was the woman at the top: Kamala Harris herself, pretending not to be the border czar, pretending to be middle class, pretending to be smart . And the American people didn’t buy it. Every time you turned around, this woman was doing something more fake than the last, right? Her like fake Jamaican accent, her fake Eastern European accent, her fake Spanish accent. It was like spending a day at Joe Biden’s southern border nonstop.

‘We will win’ (Harris accent). No, it didn’t work out that way. But my favorite was the preacher’s accent, “Joy comes in the morning.” She wasn’t wrong about that. It happened around 1:22 a.m. on election night, when the election was declared for Donald J. Trump. I felt it.

I’ve been thinking about Trump so much, especially today and this week. I know you have too. Praying for him, praying for his family, thankful for them.

I mean, think about it: I interviewed Trump about a year ago and asked him why? Why are you doing this? You could be in Scotland. You can be on your golf courses. It’s because he loves the country and he wasn’t done yet. We’re not done with him. So God bless him and the family for making this sacrifice and doing public service. Same with JD Vance and the cabinet members, all who need our prayers and support.

But I’m also thinking of you all. I’m thinking of you. I think of Americans who got us here because the things that Trump is already accomplishing, some of the things that I mentioned in anticipation of him taking office. That ball got rolling – yes, with Trump – but also with ordinary Americans standing up here, there and everywhere to make a difference in their own communities.

I think of people like Jodi Shaw. You probably don’t know the name, but Jodi Shaw was an administrative assistant at Smith College. She didn’t make a lot of money, single mom, two kids, and by late 2020, early 2021, she’d had it with the DEI crap on Smith. So she made a Facebook video and she posted it. And little Jodi Shaw – who was sweet and quiet and not one to shake the tree – said: ‘I don’t want to be forced to talk about my race at work anymore. I don’t want to be told I have implicit bias because I’m white. I don’t want to have to enforce separate dorms. Don’t make me do this.’

And Smith unleashed holy hell on her. Smith – a ‘super tolerant’ college, all right – made it, she claims, untenable for her to stay. She was forced out of her job and I’m honestly not sure if Jodi is fully recovered. She was hurt, and she was hurt for all of you, and for us, and for the rest that are on Smith. She is a hero. Jodi Shaw is a true hero for doing this.

But it wasn’t just Jodi. I mean, I think of people like Andrew Gutmann, who had a daughter in a posh school on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and pulled her. But he did not go quietly. He wrote a scathing letter ripping them apart for what they are doing to us with this racial essentialism nonsense. He went out with a bang and he made sure other parents knew what the problem was.

Jason Riley from The Wall Street Journal — you may see him on Fox News sometimes — and his wife, Naomi Schaefer Riley, who pulled their mixed-race daughters out of a school in Rye, NY, and made a point of doing so because that school thought their daughters of mixed race were desperate to talk about their blackness all the time. And they found out the hard way, those kids really just wanted to learn math. These battles are won piece by piece, one at a time, and there are so many others.

I think of the 14-year-old girls in Wisconsin who made an 18-year-old guy come naked into their showers after practice. I think of the young woman in Massachusetts who just wanted to play field hockey and suddenly had all her teeth knocked out because a boy played for the other team and pretended to be a girl.

How do we know about these stories? Because people were outraged. Citizens went to the news. They went to their principals. Girls spoke out one by one and got the ball rolling on change. And change is coming.

All of you wearing the MAGA hats – it used to be civil disobedience, despite a registered order that didn’t want to hear from you. But wearing that hat for much of the past eight years has also been an act of courage. And I know, I know, just because you’re here, that you had your moments in your own communities, whether it was online, or at the bowling alley, or at the restaurant, or at school, where you stood up for one of these same issues, where you had to tell someone you didn’t want to be reduced to skin color, where you said, ‘I prefer the days when we didn’t make anything of it,’ where you had to tell someone that boys can’t become girls and girls cannot become boys.

These battles, one after the other, have been fought. And this anti-DEI momentum has been built brick by brick, thanks to all of you. And you who listened to Donald Trump, who when a reporter asked him at a 2015 presidential debate about some of the language he used, responded by saying, ‘What I say is what I say. And if you don’t like it, too bad.’ It was more than just a quick comeback. It was a reminder of what America is.

In America we have freedom of speech. We have the right to offend, provoke, annoy and stand up for what we believe in, even if you find it controversial. We have the right not to use the words you try to force on us, such as your preferred pronouns or words like ‘anti-racist’ or ‘breastfeeding’.

We are reminded of this daily by President Trump, who would never bow to the vigilante mob. Just ask Brett Kavanaugh, who will be cursing at JD Vance tomorrow while sitting in his robes as an associate justice of the US Supreme Court.

So I thank you all for being a part of the Trump movement and for bringing these changes upon us and for putting Donald Trump back in office.

And a reminder before I go: Stay strong. We haven’t won the war. We win. We won a lot of games, but he’s going to need all of you along the way. We will have to be patient. We will have to steel our spines. Don’t bend, never bend. What I say is what I say.

God bless you. God bless President Trump. God bless the United States of America.