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Trump Delivers Remarks on the 90th Anniversary of the Social Security Act, Aug. 14, 2025

August 14, 2025 · The White House · 0:44:22

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What happened

President Donald Trump delivered remarks at the White House on August 14, 2025, marking the 90th anniversary of the Social Security Act of 1935, carried on the White House channel. “In the campaign I made a sacred pledge to our seniors that I would always protect Social Security, and under this administration we’re keeping that promise and strengthening Social Security for generations to come,” he said. He noted that almost 60 million American seniors rely on the program.

Beside him was Social Security Commissioner Frank Bisignano, the former JPMorgan Chase chief operating officer and First Data/Fiserv chief executive the President introduced at length. The President then gave the administration’s service figures as he stated them: field-office wait times down 30 percent since last year, call wait times down 73 percent while serving twice as many customers per day, the disability claims backlog down 26 percent, and 24/7 online account access — against, as he characterized the prior administration, average call waits above 42 minutes and a website down 29 hours a week for maintenance.

Why it matters

The anniversary remarks put the administration’s Social Security claim in operational rather than legislative terms: not a benefit redesign, but wait times, backlogs, and access under a commissioner recruited from payments-industry operations — the measurable service record the President chose to celebrate on the program’s 90th birthday.

Scoreboard watch

This event is a scoreboard reference point: the Social Security service figures as stated by the President on August 14, 2025 — field-office waits down 30 percent, call waits down 73 percent, disability backlog down 26 percent — to be checked against the Social Security Administration’s published performance data. The anniversary proclamation signing clip is recorded as an alternate of this page.

Sources: The White House, “President Trump Delivers Remarks, Aug. 14, 2025” (official upload, embedded above). All figures and characterizations as stated by the President at the event. Alternate ID recorded: OUTsxSV43f8 (White House 0:48 clip of the 90th-anniversary Social Security proclamation signing).