VIDEO Nº: 197
TITLE:197. FULL EVENT Donald Trump  Bobby Knight FANTASTIC Rally in Indianapolis IN (4-27-16) FULL SPEECH
DATE OF EVENT:27/04/2016
RELEASE DATE:23/11/2016
DURATION:01.43.12 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:From minute 00.36.50 onwards
Nº OF WORDS:9015
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------You knew what was the surprise. This is the worst…kept…surprise…in the history of politics, okay?
But…I, first of all, I wanna thank you all. And we have thousands people of, they’re coming in, but we wanna start now! Let them just fill in, we’ll…do it as we go. But, we’re gonna start right away.
So, here’s the story. I’ve nover done this before, but I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna make the inotrudiction, okay? Do you understand what I’m saying? So, listen…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
You know, normally the come out, they introduce Trump. Here, I’m coming out and I’m gonna introduce Bobby Knight, okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But…but listen to this. Listen to this.
So, I said, “give me some…”, and I…one of the guys…and, everybody knows it. Three National Championships…right? Tough! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. One Olympics…championship…tough! A PanAm games. He won…900 games. That’s a lot of games! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Now, I didn’t even realize this! I’m actually surprised by it. But it’s tough! In 1976 he had a perfect season, the only one, this is it! There hasn’t been one since! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I’m surprised, right? Are we surprised? I mean, this guy knows how to coach! And he told me to say this, because, frankly, I said, “well, didn’t you have another like the year before?”.
He said, “no, say it this way, and they’ll really appreciate it”.
Cause I won’t say it this way. I’d say, “no, let me just say you had another great season”. He lost one game. And he said [that] if he didn’t screw up, he would have had two perfect seasons in a row.
I said, “I can’t say that!”.
He said, “do it”.
I said, “I’ll do it”.
But you know what? So, I’m gonna have Bobby come out for a second, and…I’ll tell you. He’s gonna talk for a little while. Then I’m gonna come right back out. I love you! I appreciate it very much…! Bobby Knight, ladies and gentlemen! The great…Bobby Knight!
What a guy! Thank you, Bobby.
MR. BOBBY KNIGHT INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT  00.37.01:
 
What a winner. What a winner that is. That's a great man. That's a great man. You know, our country doesn't win anymore. That's what we need, right there, let me tell you.
But I…I do have to tell you this story. So, with…you know, Bobby, so…about a year ago, I got a call! I never knew Bobby. I knew that Bobby…was great. I loved watching them. I love that…attitude, right? You know, that attitude.
And one of his friends is here today, a very good basketball player from the past, that he said, “this guy…he would take a team that wasn't as good, and they would just beat everybody and nobody understood it”. But there was something special.
But about a year ago, I got a call, from Bobby Knight. I didn't know Bobby Knight. I said, “wait a minute, the basketball man…!? The man that's…the man, in Indiana?”.
And they said, “yeah”.
So, I get on the phone, we checked it out at it was Bobby Knight. And he said, “Donald, I just wanna tell you, I want you to run”…this was before I decided, before that big day on June 16th, coming down the escalator. He said, “I want you to run. My friends all want you to run. And you'll be great, and…I'd like to endorse you”.
I said, “coach, what an honor that is. And, do me a favor, give me a number and maybe I'm gonna be calling you back”, right?
And…then we had all these great victories. I think I've won now 28 states, where…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…big night! Big night last night. We had a big, big, big night last night! We had five! Five…! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We had five landslides, actually last night. That was…that was a biggie, right?
So, I said, “thanks a lot coach. I appreciate it. I took the number. I wrote it down. I put it in a special place. And I said, “let's see what I do!”. A few months later I said, “I'm gonna run!”. [It was] Too much. I just couldn't take it anymore, I'm looking at these horrible, horrible deals…made by politicians, that are taken care of by their…campaign; they're taken care of by special interests, and lobbyists, and…and in some cases they're incompetent, okay? And in some cases, they’re outright stupid, to be doing the deals they’re doing. It's one of the three! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But I said, “I'm gonna run”. And…I said, you know, let's see how we do. And I went, and we started winning, winning, winning! We won New Hampshire, and a big upset. [We] Won by a landslide! You know, they’re upsets and yet, we're winning all these landslides! And then, the…we had no chance in…South Carolina, we had no chance whatsoever in South Carolina and we won in a landslide.
And the evangelicals voted for Trump. And we went to the south, and we wanted we won it. We went to Nevada and we won. We won Alabama, and Arkansas…; we won Florida by…20 points; and...every place we were winning. And now, about two weeks ago, it's getting ready…and you don't know how important you are, because we're just about ready to put it away folks, okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And, and…Indiana, which is a special place; I have so many friends: the Hilbert’s…Tommy, Sue and Steve are here someplace, they're unbelievable people. [They’ve] Employed thousands and thousands of people over the years, great people! But, I have so many friends from Indiana. So, I said, “you know, it's amazing. It looks like Indiana is gonna be really, really important!”. By this time, usually, by the time you get to Indiana [the] race’s decided. But we had 17 people! It's never been, in the history of…politics in this country, there's never been 17 before. And I always say, “what do you mean I didn't get 50 percent? I'm…like…with all these people. If I get 32 percent with 14 people left, that's like 90 percent! But anyway!
So, it came, and we're winning, and we had some great victories. Then we won New York  two weeks ago, with…tremendous numbers in a landslide…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And then we had last…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…last night.
But, about three weeks ago I said, “boy, this Indiana is turning out to be a very, very important place”, as it should be, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I said to myself…and I speak to friends in Indiana. But I said to myself, “and who would be the greatest endorsement in the history of Indiana?”. And I said, “I have to find that phone number!”, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS.
And I went out and I had found the phone number right away. I knew exactly where it was. And…I called up coach Knight, Bobby. And I said, “coach, do you remember me, Donald Trump?”.
He said, “I remember you. I've been waiting for you to call” …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. It's a cool cat! You know, this is a cool cat…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And he said, “I've been waiting for you to call. and I'm ready. You just let me know whenever you want me”. And I mean, this guy…is…terrific. This is a winner. He's a champ. He's been so great for Indiana! He loves Indiana he loves Indiana, and…to have his endorsement is just an honor. And, I just wanna give him a little special hand, cause just…–MR. TRUMP AND THE CROWD APPLAUD. [He’s a] Special guy, folks! There aren't too many of them. I wanna tell you I know a lot about the world. There aren't too many of them, they're…very few. And you certainly don't find it very often in politics, that I can tell you.
You know, you've been seeing these crazy deals that they're making. They’re…like desperate. They make the deal where…Cruz calls…; he's…losing badly. He's losing all over. In fact…–THE CRWOD MUTTERS–…lyin Ted, right!? Lyin…lyin Ted. He’s an outright liar! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Boy!
You know, I watched him the other night. Now, I always sort off by saying, “we will repeal and replace Obamacare; we're gonna cut Common Core; we're gonna bring our education local; we're gonna preserve our Second Amendment…”, you know, everything; everybody knows.
So, I watched him the other night, “Donald Trump loves, absolutely loves Obamacare”.
I said, “what!?”. He's telling this to an audience. Believe me folks, we're gonna repeal it and replace it…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…okay?
Then he goes, “he doesn't wanna bring education local. He wants it coming out of Washington D.C.”. I mean, the guy’s going one after another, after another…and of course, then last night he called the ‘rim’ a ring, so he doesn't know too much about the basketball world…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…but…but one…but one after another, and…I mean, literally, he would take…what I said and say the exact opposite!
And I’m watching the screen, I said to my wife, “that is a terrible thing! That is a terrible…!”. And, you know, it’s interesting. When I was on the debate stage, cause we had 11 debates that I was in, and won every single one of them according to Drudge, and Time, and all of these…great places…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…[I] won every single one. But I was with my wife, and I'm watching, and I’m watching his stuff. I can't watch him for long periods, you know? “We will this”, aw, the flourish, ay, ay, ay…! I have such a headache! You got a headache watching this guy. Boy, it's terrible! But I said to my wife, “it's terrible that he can get away with it”, where he can say…everything I said exactly the opposite. And some people…believe it! And I…said, “it's not terrible?”. She said, “nobody believes it, darling. Really, nobody believes…; they've heard your speech before. Believe me, they don't believe it”.
He even said I'm not gonna build the wall, can you believe it!? He said, “he's not going to build the wall!”. Folks, we're gonna build the wall, believe me! Believe me! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna build that wall! …–THE CHANTS ‘BUILD THAT WALL!’. Oh, we’re gonna build that wall and you know who's gonna pay for that wall!? …–THE CROWD YELLS ‘MEXICO!’. Not…even…a question…of a doubt!
You know, they called me over after a debate, some of the politicians, a few weeks ago…when we had some left. Now we're down to…two stragglers, let's be nice. Two stragglers! They’re straggling along. But, they called me over, and they said…you know, six months ago they said, “Donald, you know you'd never be able to build the wall”.[MGF1] 
I said, “of course you can”.
You know, China…you know the story. A 13,000 mile…wall, 2,000 years ago. We have 2,000 of which you need one because you have a lot of natural barriers. And we're talking about 10 billion dollars. And they owe us. If you look at the trade imbalance, just take a look at it. Not only with China, where it's 500…billion...dollars…a year! We're gonna end that folks very quickly, okay?
But …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…Mexico…with Mexico, we're talking about 58 billion a year, okay? I mean, on trade, on trade! 58 billion, right? They do better! They have the good side. We have the bad side, you know what that means. They're doing very well. That doesn't include all the drugs that are being sent across the border, and poisoning our youth.
Now, I have respect for Mexico. I have respect for the Mexican leaders. I love the Mexican people. I'm leading in certain polls, you saw in Nevada. I was leading in the polls with Hispanics, and the reason is I’m gonna bring jobs back. We're bringing jobs back to our country. We're not gonna let Carrier leave. We're gonna take…numbers, we're gonna do numbers. There are consequences! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
When you leave, and we'll talk about Carrier, because…say what you want Indiana, I've been talking about Carrier now…for…four months, right? Before I even knew that we were gonna be coming! I mean, literally from the day. Literally from the day. So, with all of the things that are going on, and with everything that we're seeing, and with all of the people that we've seen, there’s nobody that's gonna be able to do what we're gonna do, together, as a movement.
We have a movement going on. Nobody's seen…–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY–…nobody has seen anything like it. And when I can get somebody like coach Knight, and when we get other people…; we have tremendous people supporting us. Uh…you know, Jeff Sessions, okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
Now, when Cruz gets up, he always talks about…he doesn't anymore, because about four weeks ago he endorsed me, so he's not talking…; but, the man he most respects in the United States Senate is a great man, Senator Jeff Sessions, from Alabama. And…he came out and endorsed Donald Trump. And I don't believe he's ever endorsed a presidential candidate before…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And Dr. Ben Carson has been phenomenal. And Chris Christie. And Sarah Palin. And Jerry Falwell Jr., of Liberty University has a phenomenal…the job he's done. We have such unbelievable support, and no matter where we go.
But what happens…and I watch. And I watch as these…horrible…stories of being told by…by even…I mean, you look. I don't like the way…that Kasich eats, okay? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. But that's okay! But I don't like the way that Cruz talks. And then, they outsmarted themselves. They went out…don't forget, Kasich…Kasich…he…signed…he raised his head and voted for NAFTA, perhaps the single…worst…–THE CROWD BOOS–…deal…economically made in the history of this country. It emptied our country of jobs! Our manufacturing jobs are a disaster. And in this area, you see what's happens to your manufacturing. You’re down 40 percent. Everybody's down, all over the country! I just left New York State, down. I just left Pennsylvania. I left Connecticut. I left Maryland. Everybody down. NAFTA, a disaster. [It was] Signed, by the way, by Bill Clinton, just so you understand…–THE CROWD BOOS. One of the great…one of the great disasters.
So, what Cruz did is he was losing and losing badly. He was losing so badly…the New York thing was a great embarrassment. And you know, it's interesting. The weekend…that we had, you had Utah…and you had Arizona that same weekend.
By the way, speaking of great endorsements, Jan Brewer, great, the governor…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY–…and…it's great. She's been so great. And, how about…how about Joe Arpaio? How good is he? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Sheriff Joe, the toughest man…and the fair….I mean, he's fair! But he is tough on the border, right?
So Cruz, when they did this little marriage of the two of them…boy, did that backfire, right!? What a disaster! And then on top of it, Kasich comes out and says, “well, I'm gonna continue! I want them to vote for me”. What a disaster!
So, they were embarrassed. They're getting terrible press. And what it is is an act…it's collusion! It's an act of desperation. But you know, in business, when you collude, they put you in jail. Politics is such a rigged deal that is probably one of the few places that you can collude and get away with it!
But they went out and they collude. And it has been…catastrophic. And I can only tell you, my people, I have the best people in Indiana working for us, wanting to make sure, cause what Bobby said is true. If we…win…Indiana, it's over! It's over! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I can only promise you…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…it’s over!
And they have these phony groups…you know, ‘no Trump’ or ‘never Trump’ or whatever. And it…they we're all up, they follow me! I mean, these people are terrible! And, I mean…and by the way, they get…[did] you noticing they’re getting smaller, and smaller?
They spent, in Florida, they had 15,000 ads, negative! And they weren't true! Meh, some had a little truth to them, but most of them…–THE CROWD LAUGHS–…a…little bit! But, 15,000. I've had 55,000…negative…ads. And a guy like, as an example Kasich, he says, “well, I do very well”.
And by the way, we had a poll yesterday with Hillary Clinton, where now we're even. I haven't even started on her! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We haven't even started! We haven't started!
You know, it’s…it's sort of funny. It's like Bobby knows how to win and some people…I know how to win! And, you know, I started off with 17 people. And they’re governors! And they’re senators! And their people like, as an example, Dr. Ben Carson, highly, highly competent! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Smart! Great! Wonderful man, but smart! And…but I started off with 17 people. And…I knocked off a senator who was…going to win. I knocked off a governor who is going to win. Then a senator, then a governor. Then a governor, then a senator! One, two, three, four, five…! And then, Bobby jokes about ‘presidential’. I'm a little afraid to be too presidential, because maybe we'll stop winning! We have to win!
So, now we're down…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY–…we're down to the end. We're down to the end, and we are just doing…; we have something that's…never happened, they say, in the history of our country. We have a movement going. Just like all of these people…look at that, all the way up top. Just like…all…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…all of the people, no matter where we go. Pennsylvania…we had a crowd in Pennsylvania…it was unbelievable. We turned down…we had 25,000 people and…10,000 people couldn't get in! It's crazy! It's wild! And you know what? We're looking for the answer. The answer is…we're not gonna let the world take advantage of us anymore…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're not gonna let our very incompetent politicians take advantage of us anymore. We're not gonna do it.
So, these guys form the group and they form the…you know, little deal, and it turns out to be a disaster. I get a call at 11:30 two nights ago. And…one of my people, [a] great person, says to me, “Mr. Trump, bad news”.
“What?”.
“Cruz and Kasich just formed like an alliance, where Kasich promises never to…step foot in the state of Indiana. [He] Has to stay out”.
I said, “what about all the people that have been working for you? You know, he's got workers like I have. We all have workers”. That's not very fair to them! That, by the way, they're out there striking now. They're very angry. They say, “what happened!?”. That's a politician. Number one, they can't make a deal. Number two, they can't…keep a deal! And number three, they treat their people very badly. They don't get it.
But what happened is…they make this deal, and I said to the guy said, “we have…”…they want a response, the press. I said, “let's do it”. So, at 11:30 in the evening I'm typing up a press release. I'm giving you this…little dictation, and we put out a press release. And they said, after about two seconds of thinking, I said, “I think that's a really bad idea that they're doing this”, because it shows total weakness. They're admitting that they're done. They're done! By the way, neither of them have a path to victory. There is no path…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…and we're gonna win, as you know.
You know, you read all this stuff from the world's most dishonest people right back there, the media. They are…so…dishonest! …–THE CROWD BOOS. They are so bad. [MGF2] But you read all this stuff about, you know, Cruz trying to get delegates. He's getting delegates on the second, third, fourth, fifth round…he’s never gonna get there, folks! Let them…work! You know, they're taking the people for dinner! They're putting them in hotels; they’re taking them for rides around town…; they're putting them on boats, let's take a tour of the rivers…! I gotta tell you. It's disgusting. You can bribe your way into the presidency. I don't wanna do that, and nobody has better toys than me. Believe me, if I wanna do it, nobody can compete! It's just so wrong! It's so wrong to do it! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But they're talking about second, third, fourth…we're not gonna get there! We're on the first round. And especially, by the way, after last night. Because last night we said, “if we get 75 delegates, we’ll be happy”. Well, we got…I think 109! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…we got a 109. We wiped the slate. And…and actually…and more to come! And more to come. It's a rigged system.
And I tell the story and you, people, like it, cause Indiana loves its sports. But it's a rigged system, and it's like the prize fighters. And I know so…Mike Tyson endorsed me, I love it! He sent out a tweet. Mike, Iron Mike! You know, all the tough guys endorse me. I like that, okay? But Mike said, “I love Trump. I endorse Trump”, and that's the end. I'm sure he doesn't know about your economic situation in Indiana, and it's okay! But, Mike…everybody! And I like it! When I get endorsed by the tough ones, I like it. Because you know what? We need toughness now. We need toughness…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Hillary Clinton said, recently, “I don't like Donald Trump’s tone”. Oh! …–THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY. Look! They're chopping off heads of Christians…in the Middle East. And anybody else that gets in their way, by the way. And we will…rebuild, we will have…when I finish, the strongest, most powerful military anywhere in the world…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And very quickly, very quickly, we we’ll knock…the hell…out of ISIS, believe me. We're gonna get rid of them…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna get rid of them.
So…–THE CROWD CHANTS ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY. So, anyway. Just…cuz I find this stuff so interesting. You know, I've been a politician now for nine months. Hey, Bill O'Reilly…[a] good guy! Tough, he's tough! Every time I go on, [when] I leave, I have a headache, okay? But he's tough, and he's smart. And the other night he's talking to…somebody. And, this somebody said…whatever; and Bill said, “in my lifetime…Donald Trump is the single…greatest…and biggest political event I have ever…witnessed”, okay? That’s big…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. The greatest political event! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And I said, “really!?”. I was very impressed. And then…Brit Hume, who…he was talking too…who hates me! This guy, brutal…! I mean, he’s brutal! So many of them do but, you know, a lot of them are coming around now. Do you notice? They're coming around! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
But Brit Hume said essentially the same thing, one of the greatest political events they've ever witnessed. One of the greatest political events in history, and it's not me, folks. I'm the messenger. You're the political event. You are! And every place like you. Every…single…place…like you.[MGF3] 
You know, no matter where we go whether we go to Dallas, whether we go…no matter where we go, we have thousands, and thousands. In Dallas we had 21,000 people. In Alabama, we had 35,000 people. Think of this: I won Alabama in a landslide, almost 50 percent, and almost the same weekend. I won Massachusetts with almost 50 percent! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And people said, “that's amazing!”. And don't forget, there are a lot of people in the race. So when you say almost 50 percent that's a lot.
But it's been an amazing…thing, and it's been on the cover of Time magazine many times. It's been the cover of many other magazines. It's been on the cover of all the newspapers. They don't know what to do with us, folks. Because we're sick and tired of being run by people…that truly…have…not…a clue in the world what the hell they're doing! And we're gonna change, and change it fast…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna change.
So, just to finish. So, they formed this alliance or…whatever you wanna call it. And it wasn’t collude…I call them the… ‘the colluders’, right? ‘The colluders! …–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. I love …I love talking about it, cuz what's stupid decisions!? [MGF4] So, immediately that deal is breaking up. I made a speech today in Washington, and the big press club. It was fantastic. I mean, the whole scene was great. I actually got good reviews! They gave me great reviews! They gave me great reviews! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Right! And it was about national security. And we're really leading the polls or national security, on the economy, on jobs…we're leading the polls in almost every category; on the borders…; but we're leading the polls in virtually every category.
And by the way, on June 16th, I told you when I announced, almost from that time we've been number one. Almost right from the beginning. We started off…and these guys were saying, “he's never going to run!”.
Then they said, “well, he just ran. I mean, he just announced. What's going on?”.
Then they said, “he'll never sign Form-A”. Form-A as where you…sign and you're signing your life away.
Then they said, “oh, he'll never share…uh…he...forget it, he'll never show his financials!”. You know, I'm a private company. I showed my financials. In fact…then they said, “they…he’s gonna delay, and delay…”, cause they don't know. What do they know? These people know nothing! I wasn't gonna run!
Now they're saying, “how do we stop him!? This is…”…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Now, you know…they're taking it a little…; but I gave the financials, the largest ever filed in the history of…the…elections commission. And, the press, it was like a feeding frenzy. And, they found out! I built a great, great company. I borrowed a million dollars, not so long ago, and now it's worth more than 10…billion…dollars! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. 10…billion…dollars!
Low debt…low debt; tremendous assets, some of the great assets of the world; buildings all over…Turnberry, in Scotland; Doral in Miami, tremendous…places, right? And…but low debt, great cash flow, iconic assets, and that's not what I'm here to talk about. I'm saying this, cause it doesn't matter. What does matter is, this is the kind of thinking…and Bobby understands this, like better than anybody! This is the thinking we need in our country, at least for a period of time. We gotta straighten things out, folks. We gotta straighten it out, and we're going to! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we’re going to soon. So, anyway.
So, they crashed now, and they're fighting! Kasich and Cruz are fighting. Welcome to the world of politics. They can't do it. They don't how to make deals! They can't! That's why, China…they look at our politicians, it's like a field day! They have the smartest people in China, it’s like a pyramid scheme. The smartest people in China! And they come in waves, they'll have 20 people…I know! I made a lot of money with China. Hundreds and hundreds of millions of dollars. The Bank of America building in San Francisco, a big, big, big chunk; 1290 Avenue of the Americas; uh…the biggest bank in the world is a tenant of mine of one of my buildings in Manhattan.
China's great! We could deal with China! I sell condos to them for…uh…tens of billions of dollars, right? We could do great with China! But we have incompetent people! We have people…that are…nothing. We have…uh…we…I don't even know how they get there, as our negotiators! We have the greatest negotiators…in the world! And I know. I'm Carl Icahn endorsed me, some of the greatest business people in the world endorsed me. They don't want money. They would love to make great deals! They can't understand why does the United States do it. And we have negotiating against the Chinese, against the Japanese, against the Mexicans, against…political hacks. And they're robbing us blind. They're taking our jobs. They're taking our money. We owe them trillions. You know, we owe China 1.8 trillion dollars. We owe them! Think of it, they take our jobs and we owe them money! It's not supposed to be that way! …–THE CROWD BOOS.
Japan sends cars in by…the millions. I don't mean like…a few cars. So, they send us…millions of cars! I mean, you can't believe it. I look at the boats coming in Los Angeles, these big ships, the biggest ships…you've ever seen. It looks like NASCAR, the way they drive them off. And we love NASCAR, I have to tell you. We love Brian France! …–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. Brian France is a great, great guy. The owner, the head…what a great guy! But this reminds me…of NASCAR, the cars are pouring off.
We send them practically nothing! You talk about a trade imbalance? It's like Japan here, and we're down below the podium. We can't have that anymore, folks! We've gotta have fairness! We've gotta have balance! And we've gotta have our jobs back, okay? We're gonna have our jobs back. We're gonna have our jobs back…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…and we can't have guys like Kasich, who wants NAFTA, who cleaned us out. And Cruz, who doesn't wanna stop…Chinese…manipulation of currency. He stopped…he fought like hell…the Chinese manipulation. And let me tell you about Cruz. Here's a guy who's been a senator for a while, he hasn't done one thing in the Senate! Except filibuster one time. That's the only thing he did!
And look, I know the way life works. A lot of you people…I have friends here. I have a few that are great friends, actually and they’re smart! And they go like, “give me a break!”. So, what happens…he's filibustering. And I watched. And these senators are sitting down, and they go on, “Jim, when's this guy getting the hell off the floor, so we can get some work done?”. And even if they don't get the work done, they say, “what's he doing!?”.
So, so…he…he does [it] for 2 days, [and then] he filibusters. [He] Doesn't get anything! Except he makes…the top man, who's actually a good guy, Mitch McConnell. He calls him a liar, a ro…liar…! I mean, you know what? You don't do things that way. And, I'm tougher! You know, I mean…I made business people. I deal with business people. Somebody said, “how did the politicians compare to the business people?”.
Let me tell you, the business people are much tougher. But a guy like Ted Cruz, the one thing he does, he lies more than any human being I've ever met…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Hence, we call him ‘lying Ted’! Right! Do you ever see him!? I love this, where he walks in with the Bible held high, right!? It's lyin Ted! He puts the Bible down, and then he lies! And you know…? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
You know, the…reason…I'm getting all of the…evangelical support! I'm getting tremendous evangelical support. Don't forget, I wasn't supposed to win South Carolina. I won it because of the evangelicals. They were unbelievable. I won it…landslide! Same thing with Alabama, Arkansas…so many different places! Because…the evangelicals are smart! And they…don't…like…liars! Remember that, just remember that.
So, just to finish with that, because I love this…I love politics! Snd it's so different. I mean I've been doing it for nine months. I'm doing a good job, right? Do we have to say, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I mean, the one thing they say…even some of these…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS–…these…sleazy, horrible…reporters. Even if they hate me! The one thing they say…–THE CROWD BOOS–…you know, it’s sort of funny. And the…the results came out from last night. And I’m watching the different shows in the morning. Good shows! Good shows! Steve Doocy, Brian…the whole thing. I mean, a lot of good shows. Uh…Mika, right? We like Mika and Joe. A lot of good shows! Chris…!
But I’m watching them, and they're saying, “landslide, landslide! Trump wins this one, he wins Pennsylvania; he wins Maryland; he wins Rhode Island…; he wins Delaware…! He wins Connecticut…a landslide!”. And then one of them said, “you know the amazing part? He's only been doing this for nine months”. It’s sort of amazing, right? It’s sort of amazing…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I'll tell you the other amazing part, which…uh…to me is an amazing, the business people will understand that. So, I've spent a lot of money, but…relatively, I've spent very little. I spent less money…than any other candidate running. Now, I'm self-funding. I'm putting up my own money, right? Right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But I spent less money…than any other candidate running. I…probably spent like 40 million dollars. That’s  a lot of money, okay? Not that bad, but it's a lot!
You have other guys that have spent four and five times that. Now, I'm number one by a lot, and you have these other guys are down in the basement, and they've spent five times more money than me. Who the hell do you want is your president, right!? Isn’t that great? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Beautiful…–THE CROWD CHANS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. Who do you want…!? I mean, look, we know. We know. All right.
So, just to finish with the political stuff. I sort of I love it! You know, my son's here, Don Jr. He's doing really well. Where’s Don!? Get up here! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Boy, he's doing a good job! He was on CNN the other day on Sunday, with Jake! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [It’s] True! He was on CNN on Sunday with Jake. Jake’s tough. He's smart, he's fair. Yeah…pretty fair. But Jake was grilling him and this guy was unbelievable! In fact, I was writing down some of the things he was saying! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Anyway!
Say hello Don Jr., [who] loves…Indiana…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Mr. DONALD JOHN TRUMP JUNIOR INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 01.11.05:
 
It's nice to have a son that loves you, right? It's good…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And by the way, I have to say this. So, I know the most successful people in the world, many of them. Almost all of them, I think! And I’ll tell you, the happiest people…and this goes…and this is so true; the happiest people are the people with great families, loving families. I’m serious…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I know people with so much money…and money does not make you happy. It solves certain problems, in all fairness. It’s not so bad! But the happy people are the people with great families, great wives and husbands, and…uh…I just wanna tell you that. So, whatever! Whatever…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, just to finish off for our political stuff, and thank you, Don. But, just to finish off our political is that now the new thing is, how do we get off this horrible, horrible thing that they created between the two of them?
So, today I'm…in the plane, and I see on television [that] they have…a new relationship is started: Cruz and Carly…–THE CROWD BOOS. No…first of all, you have to look. Cruz can't win! What's he doing picking [a] vice president? [He] can’t win! [He] can’t win! You know, on television they say it nicely, “he has no path to victory”. That's a nice expression, right? ‘No path to victory’. He’s got no path to victory! He's mathematically eliminated! It's like if you're playing in the World Series and your team loses a game, a certain game. He's mathematically eliminated! He has set a record, though. He is the first…presidential…candidate, in the history of this country, whose mathematically eliminated from becoming president, who chose a vice presidential candidate, okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's a record, okay? It’s a record. Hey look, honestly? I wish him well. But folks, they're not gonna do it for you. They're not gonna do it.
So, I wanted to tell you, then we're all going home. But I wanted…this is gonna be an amazing…; I'm here…I'm here for like three days, then I'm coming back for three days. I'm not playing games with Indiana! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You are gonna get so tired of me! You're gonna say, “oh, no! I can't watch it anymore. Turn off the news, darling! I can't watch anymore! Turn off the news!”. Yeap, we're gonna win it!
And honestly, what Bobby said is true. Indiana has such an important position! You know, normally by this time it's sort of like…it doesn't matter, it's over, it's been over four weeks. This is an amazing thing. If I win, we're gonna make this country great again, greater than ever before…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And if I don't win in Indiana, I'll have to go on to other places…in Oregon, and…Washington State,, and California, and New Jersey. [They’re] Great places! But if we win in Indiana, you're really doing history folks, because you're gonna be so proud…! You're gonna be so proud…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And, all I have to do…look, all I have to do…all I have to do is read this…–MR. TRUMP SHOWS A SHEET OF PAPER.
And…I look at it, and I asked my statisticians. I say, “do me a favor. Give me some stats on the state of Indiana”. And they just write them out! And this is a federal problem, because you have a really good governor here. You have a nice guy, and he's a good governor, I have to tell you, Mike. Mike is a good guy…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And you can't help this. This is a national problem. This is…a world problem, where the world is…killing us, where Indiana…like everybody else! I mean, I won New York for the same reason! They’re losing all their jobs! They're losing their manufacturing. In fact, I'd go to Albany, and Rochester; and I'd go to all over the…state of New York. And it…I don't even need the numbers anymore! It was almost like the same thing! 40 percent down, 50 percent down. I mean, if I wanted it accurate, I'd have to ask. But mostly I…you don't even have to ask! Every community, practically, is just down! The manufacturing is gone. It's being manufactured in other places, and it's no good. And we can't allow it. And yes, it may cost a little bit more. But remember, if we make it ourselves, we're also gonna have jobs! Okay?
And the jobs will more…and I tell this to the press! They always say, “well, if you do that…”, cause I'm a free trader. But you can't be a free trader if you have stupid people negotiating for you. You can’t! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I always say to the press, because they'll say, “well, but won't the product be more?”.
Now, in the case of Carrier air-conditioning…[it’s] not gonna be more, [it’s] gonna be the same price. They're gonna make a lot of money. So, I’ve been talking…I hope Indiana remembers this, because this…and this wasn't done for Indiana. I just thought it was terrible. Carrier air-conditioner, from…Indianapolis, right? They left, and they had some…upper mid-level management guy, pretty viciously fire 1,400 great people, who were here a couple of days ago, when I was…making a speech at a different area, and a lot of them were in the audience! Because they started…anybody from Carrier? …–SOME PEOPLE IN THE CROWD CHEERS–…uh, we love you! Do you like Trump!? Do you like Trump!? Have I been talking from…? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Look at this! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
How long have you worked for Carrier? Ten years. How about you? …–MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES THE MEMBERS IN THE CROWD, THE FORMER CARRIER EMPLOYEES. 17 years! All right. Stick with me, fellas, don't worry…–THE TWO PEOPLE CHEER. All right, [the] same thing happened…! And these Carrier guys have followed me around! Where!? How many years!? How many years? 18 years. All right. And look at them, great…these are great people. These are great people.
But somebody had the cell phone camera on while this guy is pretty viciously letting go of 1,400 people. I've been talking about it for months! Because I got to see it on television and, I thought it was…if I didn't see the…cell phone, if I didn't see what was going on, I wouldn't have…; but he essentially said, “you're all fired, we're moving to Mexico”.
And I said, “man, that's bad!”. I'm telling you, if I didn't see it on television, I wouldn't have brought it up. It's…it’s…you know, it would have been like another statistic that we don't understand as well. But it was terrible to watch it.
So, I said to myself, “that's…really something. I'm gonna talk about that”. And I started talking about it. Little did I know it would be so important! Then I'm talking about it with respect to your, folks. But here's what should happen. You go to them, and you have to fight to keep your companies. Now, do you think anybody in the Obama administration goes to see Carrier and say ‘stay here’? [Would You think? …–THE CROWD BOOS. Do you think, okay? Do you think that anybody even thinks at…? They don’t even…I don't even think they care, okay? I…I honestly? I don't even think they care. And that's why our country's going to hell. And that's why our real unemployment is probably 20 percent or damn close.
You know, these phony numbers where if you stop looking for a job you're considered statistically employed, right? Give me a break. Those numbers were done years ago for politicians to look good. So, it looks like five percent. It's not five percent! It’s…I mean, do you think thousands…all these thousands of people are gonna be here, just because of the border? Maybe! The border’s a big deal. Military…to me always a big deal! But they're here because the economy, and the job situation in this country is so bad.
So, here's what I would do. And I love telling the story, because they do talk about ‘presidential’. And why aren't I? I’m presidential! It’s…I’m presidential! They talk about ‘the elites’ in Washington. Oh, really? They're elite. They're elite! Do you think they have a better plane than I have? I don't think so! They're elite…–MR. TRUMP DEPLOYS A SARCASTIC TONE. THE CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Do you think they have a better location? Do you think they have a nicer apartment? I don't think so! These are the elites. These are the elites. Like hell they're the elites. These are people that don't have a clue, believe me- I understand that.
But I would do this. I would speak with the folks at Carrier. And I would say, “if you leave there are consequences. And here are the consequences…”. For five years, this country has been working on extremely complex formulas. And I went to the Wharton School of Finance! I know formulas better than anybody. They've worked on formulas…that…nobody knows: “we're gonna give them a little here. We're gonna give them low interest loans. We're gonna…”; you don't have to do any of that. Too complicated. Too much corruption involved, or could be involved. How about this, the government…giving low-interest loans? That it'd be fun, right? The government now is our banker. You don’t have to do it. Too complicated.
What you do is you say the following: “Carrier, this is what's gonna happen. You're gonna leave Indiana. You're gonna leave Indianapolis. I wish you a lot of luck in Mexico. Enjoy the heat. Enjoy the heat. And I hope you build a really beautiful factory. But here's what's gonna happen. Every single air conditioning unit that…you make, that's going to go, right now, over an extremely strong border”…no longer Swiss cheese, folks. It won't be Swiss cheese…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We will have the wall. “…we will be charging you a 35 percent tax. Every single unit” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Every single unit!
And I'd say the same to Ford, who's building a two and a half billion dollar…plant for cars, and trucks, and parts. They're gonna make the cars. They're gonna make the trucks. They're gonna make the parts. They're gonna send them like we're a bunch of jerks, okay? Again, free trade great. But it's not working for us. It's not working for us. [It’s ]Not working for us! Our…our places, our states are being wiped out. They’re being abandoned! [It’s] Not working for us!
But here's how we fix it. So we say to all of them. Nabisco, leaving Chicago to go to Mexico! That's right, he knows, ‘no more Oreos’; …to go to Chicago…to go…why!? Why!?
So here's what we do; “35 percent tax, Mr. Carrier. 35 percent tax every time!”.
So, here's what happens! If I'm…Kasich, or if I'm…Cruz,  or if I’m….crooked Hillary Clinton…–THE CROWD BOOS–…crooked Hillary, crooked Hillary. No, if you're…crooked Hillary Clinton, and you're there? Your lobbyist is gonna call you. Your special interest people are gonna call you. Your people that gave you a lot of money [are] gonna call you. And they're gonna say, “you can't do that to Carrier! I own a piece of the company! I own 12 shares! You can't do that! And we gave you a million dollars to run for office! And when you run in four years, we're gonna give you a lot more than that, you can't do that!”. And every one of them will back down.
Me? I don't back down…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I don’t back down. Me!? I'm working for you, folks. I'm working for you. I'm working for you.
So, they'll call me and they'll try and say, “well, Mr. President, you…”.
I’d said, “do me a favor. Don't even call”. I won't even take the call. I'll be too busy solving other problems, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. And here's what's gonna happen, a 100 percent. Just as you're standing here, and sitting there…the beautiful thing, even the people that sit there, they never sit. They never sit at my events! The people that have seats, they don't sit. That's a great sign of respect, is that right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS. I tell a lot of times, “sit down! Sit down!”. They refuse, they stand for an hour!
But here's the story, here it is. They're gonna call me, and they're gonna say, “Mr. President, Carrier has decided to stay…in Indiana. Thank you, sir” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And by the way! 100…percent, okay? 100. It's not like, we have an 80 percent chance of keeping them, or a 95 percent? 100 percent!
Now, what happens when you do that? Number one, they're gonna leave, and they're gonna make us…we're gonna make a fortune; or, they're gonna stay and we're gonna have our jobs, very simple. It's really…not a complicated thing.
[The] Same thing with China! You can't do business with China, it's almost impossible! I have many friends. They’re great manufacturers. They try and deal with China. They can't get the product in. But China dump stuff over here, they're ruining your steel industry. Oh, we're gonna bring back your steel in Indiana, don't worry about it…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna bring your steel. They're killing you…they're killing your steel, in Pittsburgh! I was in Pittsburgh, you see what's going on. China is killing the steel industry, okay? And by the way, they're dumping, they're purposely killing it! And I want the jobs. And if the steel costs a little more? I want the jobs! It offsets it, and it's even to our advantage, believe me. Okay? Believe me. Believe me.
So, what's gonna happen is we're gonna change things around quickly. And, we're going to get the respect of other countries that no longer respect us. They don't respect us. They don't respect our president. They don't respect our country anymore, because they think everybody's like them, everybody's stupid, okay? And we're not gonna have that happen anymore. And, we are going to bring back our jobs. Okay.
So, what I'm gonna do is the following. Our country doesn't win anymore, you know that. We don't win with war, we can't beat ISIS. We don't win with education, we're at the bottom of the barrel. We don't win with healthcare, Obama…care is a disaster. We don't win even with the Second Amendment, they're trying to chip away, chip away. I'll protect that Second Amendment like you won't believe, okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…and I refuse to read you the stats, because you'll walk out of here totally depressed. But don't be depressed! I tell people! You know, make America great again is a very positive thought. A writer for one of the big paper said, “Mr. Trump, make America great again it's such a negative thought”.
I said, “no, no, no! That's not negative, that’s positive! Because we’re gonna make America great again” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So, I don't have to read you…that your manufacturing is down; that you've lost thousands of jobs recently; that Carrier air conditioning is leaving; that others are leaving…[it] doesn’t matter! Because we're gonna turn it around. We're gonna turn it around fast. And I'll work with the local government, so that the local governments will be able to have some oomph and some power when they negotiate with these characters, that built companies on your back, and now they gonna leave, and they're gonna fire everybody, including the two wonderful guys there, and the one wonderful person right over there.
But look, here's the story. So, we don't win anymore. On Tuesday, you gotta do this. You gotta go vote. Who's gonna vote? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You’d better believe it. On Tuesday, you gotta vote. And you're gonna look back, in five years, in 15 years, in 30 years…hopefully in 45 years, and you're gonna say, “that that was the greatest single vote in my life that I've ever cast, for Donald Trump as president” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And you might even say, “I didn't even like him, but I love Bobby Knight and I believe in Bobby Knight, okay!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And that's okay.
But I promise you, we are going to do a spectacular job. We are going to start winning again. We're gonna win with our military, we're gonna build it up, we're gonna knock the hell out of our…bad enemy. And hopefully…hopefully, we're not gonna have to use our…military. Hopefully we don't have to! We’re gonna knock ISIS but, hopefully, we're gonna be so strong, so powerful, so smart…that nobody's gonna mess with us folks. It's the cheapest thing we can do. We're gonna take care of our vets, because our vets are a part of that, and our vets are being mistreated! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're gonna get rid of Common Core, we're gonna bring our education local! We're gonna get rid of Obamacare, we're gonna have great health care!
We are going to have strong borders! We're going to have strong, powerful borders! We're going to have the wall, and people can come into our country, we want them to come in to our country, but they have to come in legally, okay? Legally! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And we are going to make trade deals that are going to go from horrendous, perhaps, the worst deals ever made, literally in the history of the world, to good, solid, wonderful deals, that are really positive for our country! And they're fine for the other side!
You know, there is another side! But we're gonna make great deals for our country! I'm thinking about ‘America first’, I'm not thinking about others. I'm thinking about America first. And…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…and folks, I have fun doing this. I love doing it. And everybody likes it!
But we're gonna start winning again. We're gonna win so much. We're gonna win on trade. We're gonna win with the military. We're gonna win with the Second Amendment. We're gonna win with Obamacare. We're gonna win with Common Core, we're cutting the hell out of it, get local, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
We're gonna win, win, win! You're gonna beg me, “Mr. president, we're winning too much! We can't stand it anymore, Mr. President! We're winning too much”.
And I’m gonna say, “Indiana, I'm sorry, we're gonna keep winning! We're gonna make America great again, and we are gonna do it!”.
Go out on Tuesday and vote! I love you, Indiana! I love you!
Thank you! Thank you!
