'No alcohol, no drugs, no tattoos': Mike Johnson's spot-on Trump mimicry leaves crowd in laughter

President, can I ask a respectful question? Why are you doing this? You know this resolution is going to fail again. Duty is ours. Results are God's. And I love that so much. I was telling President Trump this story the other day in the Oval and I said, Sir, you know I don't have any tattoos, but if I did, I'd do that right there. That's great, Mike. No tattoos. I know. He gives advice. He's told my son three or four times, no alcohol, no drugs, no tattoos. It's a good start. Why did I just tell... I digress. Okay, so God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of love and of sound mind. It is our duty today not to drive fear into the hearts of our neighbors. No, the opposite. We are to love them and to show them the truth in love. There's a way to win these battles and win hearts at the same time. And that is what we are called to do. So while I hate the philosophy, I love the people who are espousing it because they're misled and they're lost. And we're supposed to go right into the center of that without fear because we know who we serve. If I was taking you on that tour of the Capitol, I would also, after we went through the House chamber, I'd walk you back towards the Rotunda, which is the Capitol dome is one of the most recognized symbols in all the world because everybody knows that because it represents freedom and liberty, the great nation of the United States of America. But on the way to the Rotunda, between the House chamber and the Rotunda, we would walk through that section of the Capitol that's now called Statuary Hall. That used to be where Congress met from 1807 to 1857 until we outgrew it. We built the large existing chamber now. The House met in what is now Statuary Hall. It's filled with statues. Every state, as you know, gets two statues to display in the Capitol and there's statues all around. Statuary Hall is a beautiful room. And I would walk you through and we'd stop at a bronze plate that is on the floor. There are lots of bronze plates. Anyone who served in the House and later became president has one of those plates. Famous names on the floor. But I go to one in particular with the groups I'm walking through and I stand there to tell them the following. This is the plate, as you see, of John Quincy Adams. I know I've got a bunch of historians in here and you know John Quincy Adams, the son of John Adams and Abigail Adams, he was our sixth president. He's the only person in the history of America that ran for the House of Representatives for Congress after serving as president. Because who would do that, right? But he was on a mission. That's why he did it. John Quincy Adams had a deep burning conviction in his heart that slavery was wrong and evil and he wanted to eradicate it. So he ran for Congress from his home state of Massachusetts after serving as president and he served 17 years in the House. He brought the resolution over and over and over to end slavery, but sadly America was not ready for it. They imposed a gag rule. You remember from history class? A gag rule to shut him up so nobody would talk about slavery again. They couldn't stop it. He had two nicknames. They called him the Hellhound of Slavery and Old Man Eloquent. He was very well read. He's a man of deep faith and conviction and a man of great principle. Served his country from the age of about 13 when he was an assistant to an ambassador overseas. But John Quincy Adams was serving here in the latter part of his life, serving in the House, and he stood where that brass plate is on the floor that I point out to my friends as I'm taking them through and I say, this is where he did that great work. And he brought the resolution over and over and over to end slavery and he failed over and over and over. Didn't have the votes. Country wasn't ready for it yet. On about his 14th failed attempt, a younger member of Congress went up to him on the floor and he said, Mr. President, can I ask a respectful question? Why are you doing this? You know this resolution is going to fail again. And he looked at him without hesitation and he said, young man, duty is ours, results are God's. And I love that so much. I was telling President Trump this story the other day in the Oval and I said, sir, you know I don't have any tattoos, but if I did, I'd do that right there. That's great, Mike, no tattoos. I know. That's one of his three rules. You know that. He gives advice. He's told my son three or four times, no alcohol, no drugs, no tattoos. It's a good start. Why did I just, I digress. Okay, so John Quincy Adams tells the younger member of Congress, duty is ours, results are God's. Here's the point. He kept faithful to his duty. He knew what his calling was. He knew his deep conviction. He spoke with clarity, conviction, consistency. And he had a big impact, but he didn't get it done. When he was 80 years old, he was standing on the floor, right where that brass plate is. He had his hand on the desk, as historians record, and he was making an impassioned plea, standing up, to not push slavery into the new Western territories. We had just won the Mexican-American War. We took in all this new land of the West, and there was a move to make slavery legal out there. And he wasn't gonna, John Quincy Adams was not having it. An old man, eloquent, was standing up, and his veins were popping out of his neck. He was giving this impassioned speech, why we could not do this? Why this is not who we are as Americans? It does not fulfill the promise of the Declaration. And he was so into the speech, he had a stroke and fell to the floor. And members went up, and they picked up John Quincy Adams, and they took him across the floor into what is now the Women's Reading Room, used to be the Speaker's Room. They laid him on a couch there. The couch is still there. I could show it to you if we were there tonight. Reupholstered, but it's still there. They laid John Quincy Adams, the former president, on the couch. He fell into a coma, and he died there two days later. He's the only president in history to die in the Capitol, and his wife was with him, and family, and he passed away. Now, the story is even more remarkable. Because five days later, they had his funeral, and there were six pallbearers chosen to carry the casket of the great John Quincy Adams. One of them was a freshman member of Congress from the state of Illinois. His name was Abraham Lincoln. Now, when I tell the story, I walk over about 25 feet, and I show him another brass plate that is in the spot where Abraham Lincoln's desk was. They served at the same time. Lincoln only did one term. He did two years in the House, but it had a profound impact upon his life. He watched from about 25 feet directly, watched John Quincy Adams with such conviction and moral clarity, stand up and say slavery was wrong. And I'm gonna tell you the truth of the story, and you know the history. The sixth president was not able to eradicate slavery, but the 16th president finished the job, okay? That's right. In the 90 seconds I have left, let me tell you the moral of that story is very obvious. Duty is ours, results are God's. We don't know when the fruit will be born from the seeds that we are planted. And God does not hold us responsible for the results, but he does hold us responsible to be faithful in our duty. What I love about the family leader is you are faithful, and all the supporters, the friends, the encouragers, everybody in this battle together, locked arms, you're faithful every single day. The country has never needed that faithfulness more than it needs right now. That is not campaign rhetoric, it is not hyperbole. We are in the battle of our lives right now to preserve the greatest nation in the history of the world. I wanna encourage you to keep praying for this country. Pray that this land and its people will never be separated from his love and his favor. Keep inspiring love and piety for our country, whether we agree with our fellow citizens or not, and keep faith in America. Reagan said another thing about America, he used to quote Lincoln, we are the last best hope of man on the earth. There is no better plan. We gotta preserve this great land. We have to remain one nation under God, and we have to ensure that the generations come behind us understand and share that conviction. Eight seconds left, I'm right on time. Thank you so much. God bless you. I appreciate you being here. I'm gonna take a picture here.