VIDEO Nº: 83
TITLE:83. Donald Trump Central College Pella Iowa FULL SPEECH HD January 23 2016 ✔
DATE OF EVENT:23/01/2016
RELEASE DATE:18/03/2016
DURATION:01.00.49 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:12905
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Wow! Thank you!
Thank you! Thank you!
You know, first… I have…first I have to thank you. And…I have to thank the pastor, who’s incredible. I’ve watched him on television so long and he’s been saying such nice things. Even before I knew him. That was…you know, that’s even more important. But I just wanna thank everybody for being here.
You know, they have a huge line outside that they’re going to the overflow [room] which means you know real estate better. That means you have a better location…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But we’ll go see them…we’ll go see them as soon as this is over. I’m gonna go…uhm…say hello. But we have…hundreds and hundreds of people outside trying to get in. So I just wanna thank everybody.
And…I saw Senator Grassly, I know he’s probably…but he’s right here some place. Senator, could you just come out? This is a great guy! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. This is a great guy…respected by everybody. Really a good guy and respected by everybody. You have a great Governor here; I have to tell you that. He’s really been great.
 
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I don’t know, anybody here working for Pella? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. Well, you know you’ve got a lot of orders for Trump. They make quality window. And you’re proud to have…; I didn’t realize that I’d be speaking in Pella today. I paid so much to them…ay! I get…I get the…shatters to think that I’m here…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. But the end result is their product is great, which is what we want in this country, right? That’s what we want…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…we’ve had an amazing period of time. It’s been…uhm…who would have thought this was going to happen? We started on June 16th coming down the famous escalator, right? And I said to myself, “oh, boy, this is tough!”. I mean, I didn’t wanna do it! And it takes guts to run for president. Specially when you’ve never done it. I’ve always heard…that if you’re a successful person, you can’t run for office and you can’t run especially for president. And it’s nasty and the reporters are very…uhm…dishonest; I mean, mostly…-MR. TRUMP POINTS TO THEM. THE CROWD LAUGHS. I mean, for…for the most part. No, they are among the most dishonest people I’ve ever met, honestly…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…you know, you’re gonna…and even the Conservatives! This crazy National Review, nobody reads it anymore. It’s a dying publication…-THE CROWD BOOS. No, I mean, seriously. And…and they hit me. They hit me. And I say, “why?”. You know, we have the same thing.
You know, it’s sort of interesting. It's called Make America great again. Whether you're liberal; you’re Democrat…; or you’re Republican…; you’re Conservative…; a Super Conservative…. It’s…we wanna the country. The country is a mess right now. You look at what's going on…! And the country is such…it's in such trouble! We owe 19 trillion dollars. Iran is treating us like we're a baby! I mean, they're doing what we're supposed to be doing to them! Right? That's the way it should be. And you look at what's going on, and…you see what's happening…;
I was so honored. Because last week, Sarah Palin, who’s a wonderful woman. This is a great person. And she came out and strongly endorsed us; and you know, she was here and she was all over. And she came out, and…very, very strong…; and…Ted Cruz was assuming that he was going to get her endorsement, and she endorsed Trump. Good taste, right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That was great. She's fantastic. She's fantastic.
So I’ll…I’ll talk to you about a few things. And we'll make this a little bit different. I won't even go over the ratings, and I hear ratings are coming out tomorrow that are gonna be through the roof, but…we won't talk about that. We're gonna take a ratings break, because I'll tell you what: we're now…in that final period. Practically just a week! A little more than a week left. And you have to go out of caucus. You have to get it done. Or we've all just wasted a tremendous amount of time. Uhm…I just left…uhm…I just left a group that…we had a tremendous crowd, where…other candidates are drawing 30, 40, 20, 59…people? 103 people…? We had 3 thousand. At least 3 thousand people…in an overflow room, there too was packed…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…and then I come here and I see the same exact thing. I see people outside, they can't get into the overflow room. And it's just…you know, there's something going on. There's a movement going on, folks. It's not just here. It's not just in Iowa. When we go to…anywhere! We go to…to…South Carolina. We go to Dallas, Texas. I mean, New Hampshire, you have to see it! It's incredible. In Lowell, Massachusetts they have an arena, a…basketball arena, we…packed it. And 5 thousand people couldn't get in. Same thing last week in…uhm…Oklahoma. Oklahoma, where…this is…arena, Oral Roberts University. Beautiful place, beautiful arena. And it was packed! So we had ten or twelve thousand people. We had to…send 5 thousand people, at least! Five to seven thousand people away. Other people would never use that. They wouldn't have…cause they couldn't fill it. They couldn't even come close. And there's nothing worse than an arena with no people in it. Do we agree? You don't wannna be doing that…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But the…the level of love…and the level of…of people, just loving…what's going on…. They wanna make our country…so great! They wanna make it…; and I can tell you this! We're gonna make it greater…than ever before. We can do it! The people…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…we can do it. We can do it.
And…no matter where we go…and, the people themselves, you know, they used to say ‘the silent majority’…all different names. It's really ‘the noisy majority’. Its people that are so…enthusiastic about what…[…] and when people feel that…I'm angry…I don't know if you heard the last debate, which everybody said I won, but these are minor details…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But, in the last debate, and Nicki Haley, who’s a good woman, and I…haveve supported her over the years. But she said [thah] there's a lot of anger. And…I don't know how she meant the word ‘anger’, but a lot of people took that as a negative. I'm not sure there was a negative, but she said, “there's a lot of anger”.
So when they asked me about that at the debate I said, “you're right! There is anger! And I'm angry! I'm angry!”. I was supposed to say…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I was supposed to say that, “oh, I'm not angry. No, I'm not angry…”. You know, a typical politician. “No, I'm not angry. I'm a wonderful person. I'm really wonderful. Uhm…”. I was angry! And the people that are with me are anger. They're not angry people! Their angry at the stupidity and the incompetents of our leadership! And what's going on! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…and then…a certain way we're just not gonna take it anymore: We're not gonna put up with it anymore. And that's why I'm doing this. I…I was so…I mean, I have this incredible company…; don't forget! All of these pundits, many of whom are…are terrible. Just terrible. For they don't know what they're doing. They're upset that I ran, because when I ran they all said I wasn’t gonna run. And then they said, “well, he's not gonna really run”. And then Willie filed Form A, which basically…you…sign your life away. And they said, “he'll never file it”. And “he’ll never do it”. I signed…Form A. I've signed my life away, which is …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And then all, “he'll never put in his financials, cuz maybe he's not as rich as everybody said”. I put in my financials, almost a hundred pages…the biggest financial thing, by far, ever put in. And almost a hundred pages. And…they said, “well, he's gonna delay, because you know, he doesn't want…maybe he's not as rich, who knows!?”. And that would be bad. But actually [it] turned out [that] I’m much richer! Right!? I built a great company…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Pella knows. Pella knows. Pella knows all those windows. Those windows are going someplace, right? And they were successful jobs…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. But I built a great company, and I don't say that in a braggadocious way. I say it because…that's what…you need! You need that thinking up there now. We have people that don't understand what's happening! We have people they don't…have…a clue.
So the company is amazing. And…and…all those reporters were down. They were…as soon as the FEC…; as soon as I put those papers, they were down there. The…people said they've never seen anything like it. But they all said, well, I'll delay, because I'm entitled to many delays. So I was gonna put the papers in, they said, “well, he'll delay”.
Well, I didn't delay! I put them in! And I had…this massive document that was put in with billions, and billions, and billions of dollars talked about. And I put it in ahead of schedule…; less than 30 days. But you’re entitled to two 45-day…extensions. And you're entitled to all of this other stuff. And…who took the extensions? The politicians! And it’s one page long! And the politicians…many of them took extensions. I'm the one that didn't exceed! They all said I was going to extend.
So it came out, and the reporters, and…that…you know, look, you would have been reading a lot of stuff. I mean, it's a great company. I’ve built a great company. And that's what we need. Low debt; tremendous cash flow; some of the greatest assets in the world. And what we need…is…exactly that.
I'll give you a little quick story: We have candidates spending a fortune. Much more than me! I feel guilty [that] I've spent so little in this thing! I can't! Because all of the…see all the cameras back there? …-MR. TRUMP POINTS TO THE CAMERAS. They're all on live. All of these cameras are on. Every time I have to speak in front of live television! I'd like to have one…time…where I'll have all these cameras! You know, you make one…and I don't have teleprompters! Right? No teleprompters, right? No teleprompters…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No teleprompters!
And I'm not reading a speech! I'm not, saying “ladies and gentlemen, uhm…I'd like to read this to you. And…then…well, you can all fall asleep. You can all fall asleep, and then I'll go home. And please vote for me” …-MR. TRUMP PLAYS IT OUT IN A GRAVER, MOCKING VOICE. THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
No, I speak from the heart. I speak from the brain! …smart guy! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. I speak from the brain. I speak from the heart. And…that's the way we have to do it! Because…that's what it's about. And you need a memory to do that! You need a very good memory, cuz you know, get up and speak for an hour to an hour and a half…and you don't have…uhm…you're not reading it…you know.
And you know, there'll be a day when I'm gonna want teleprompters, cuz I'm gonna say, “I wanna just read these things and get out”. All right? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. It's so easy! I mean, it's so easy![paa1] 
But the truth is, we have these incredible crowds, the press never talks about it. When Bernie Sanders has 3 thousand people…; three thousand is like a small crowd. When Bernie Sanders…they said, the other day…I had 12 thousand people and they had to walk five to seven thousand. Bernie Sanders had three thousand. [The] Same day. They said, “Bernie Sanders had a massive crowd of 3 thousand people!”. Well, I had 12 thousand and they had to walk…so I had like close to 20 thousand people, right? …there. They didn't mention it. They never mention it! And then the cameras, when I'm in arenas, like we had one thing the other day where we had a huge deal! Actually, where I…it was in Oklahoma. It was in…a stadium! And…I’ll tell you; it was incredible. That was when I introduced Sarah [Palin]. I told the cameras, “show the crowd”. They never showed, not…one…! …they had me introducing Sarah. Sarah did a good job…; Sarah is a terrific person. Getting her…endorsement was a wonderful thing. And I’ll tell you, it was! Tremendous thing. They didn't show the crowd! And we had thousands and thousands of people in this incredible arena that was filled up.
So they’re just dishonest. And I don't know why. Why would they say that Bernie Sanders had a tremendous crowd of 3 thousand, but when I have 12 thousand plus five…or seven…that couldn't get in…they don't even mention it. Because they’re dishonest people! And yet…the public…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…they really are. They really are. Cuz we have…by far…we have by far the biggest crowds.
Actually Morning Joe was great. Joe Scarborough. He said the other day, he said, “by far the biggest crowds are Trump's crowds!”. You don't hear it often. You don't hear it often. And I have to say it. [The] second is not a Republican. [The] second is Bernie Sanders. But he's a long way down. Believe me. A long way down.
So we have we have done something that's been amazing. Time magazine wrote a piece the other day, and I'm not a huge fan, one way or the other of Time. They wrote a piece that was so…incredible. A cover story. Talking about this, the movement. Talking about the campaign. Saying there's really never been anything like what's happened! No, that has never been anything like this. And I got a call from a writer, I tell the story. A very good writer. A very, very powerful…good writer. [He] tends to be on the liberal side, but that's okay. And he said… “doing something, how does it feel?”.
I said, “how does what feel?”.
“What you've done, it's been the summer of Trump. Now it's…the…autumn of Trump. And…how does it feel?”.
I said, “it doesn't feel anything. I'm doing what I have to do. We gotta win. Gotta close”. You know, we're all closers. We gotta close. You know, all talk…we don't talk. We get it closed.
He said, “but how does it feel?”.
I said…
“what you've done…even if you don’t win, it's amazing. It'll be talked about for years”.
I said, “no, no. If I don't win, I've wasted my time. That's the way I view it. Cuz we're not gonna be able to do what we're gonna…; we're not gonna be able to get those budgets…and…”. You know, they've…the other day they said, 25 years from now they think they're gonna be able to balance the budget. 25 years! Think of it! These are politicians! 25 years! I said, “if I don't win…I don't consider it to be…a success”. You can say all you want about how wonderful I've done, but if I don't win…. But I will say this: up till now, we have done wonderfully. We had a poll last night, forty-eight percent. We had forty-eight percent…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…and…and we're doing…we're doing fantastically well in New Hampshire. And just fantastic. It's…those people are great. They’re like you! I mean, they…they wanna see…they wanna see…they want to see sanity! They wanna see strength! They want strong borders. They want all of the things that we talked about! Yeah, we will build the wall, by the way. Just in case you are……-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…we’ll build the wall. We will build the wall. We will build the wall…!  Okay you're ready? Who's gonna pay for the wall!? …-THE YELLS ‘MEXICO!’. Mexico, [a] hundred percent. [a] hundred percent. Mexico's paying for the wall.
And…uhm…people said…like these politicians…; I mean, at the debate. The last debate. Did I win the last debate? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I might have won all the debate. But…the polls! You know, they have polls for everything. I love polls. [Do] you know why? When you're in first place…; they come to me, “why do you always mention the polls!?”. Cause I'm the first place! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. So…if I was in second place, I wouldn't mention the polls!
But…but, they come to me these politicians that I’m with. And some a nice people. And…a lot of them I actually like. [It’s] hard to believe, right? But I like some of them. And they come up to me, and they go, “why do you always mention that Mexico's gonna pay?”, and, “why do you always mention the wall? You can't build a wall…”.
I say, “well…, really?”. Really? Two thousand years ago, China…built a…the Great Wall of China…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. It's 13 thousand miles, and this is a serious wall, folks. This is…wall is…well, you know, we're not…playing…; this is…this is 2 thousand years ago. 13 thousand. We have to…it’s 2 thousand miles, but it…we need about a thousand miles of wall. Okay? At our southern border, because we have a lot of natural barriers. And…we can build that so easy! These guys don't even know!
You know they wanted to build the wall…years ago? A couple of decades ago, they wanted to build it. They couldn't get it approved, because they couldn't get their environmental impact statements approved. Can you believe this? It’s true! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. It's a true story. There was snakes in the way…; or there were toads in the way…; or there was something else, a frog…; or a mosquito…; …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. They couldn't get it approved! No, they couldn't get it approved. So you know, they couldn't. And in the meantime China…is digging in the South China Sea…massive fortresses; massive airports for…military planes…okay? And they did…with these incredible excavators…; and they ripped the hell out of the ocean…; and they put it up, and they're building this incredible fortress in the middle of the South China Sea! Do you think they went and…got…an environmental impact statement? I don't think so! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I don't think so! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…we have people against me. We have people that have spent a fortune. And I…Ted Cruz was always very nice to me. I have to say. Very nice. I could do anything, and he said, “I agree”. Right? You know, it was the talk of the town. No matter what I said. You know, the other said, “oh, well we don't like what you said about the Muslims. We don't like what you said about illegal immigration. We don't like this one”. Ted Cruz would always say, “I like it, I like it”.
But I knew at some point he has to come and…hit me, right? So finally…! I said, “Ted will you please start to hit me? So I can…you know, do a number?” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Cuz I'm much better when somebody hits me. I like that better. I feel better. You know, inside my…gut, I just feel better. So finally he did it. And I think we've done a good job! I think we've done a good job now!
Now, one of the things they talked about, and I have to talk to you about this. Eminent domain. He…can you believe you took an ad? Nobody even knows what the hell it is, eminent domain. It’s where basically a city of government a…a…the country will take property; and by the way, pay the people for the property! You know, they don't say it that way. They say, “Trump wants to take property! And not pay…!”.
I saw this…character, one of the twenty-two…idiots from this National Review that are writing this nonsense, and…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I think it…I think it's the best…I think it was good that happened. Look, the thing’s gonna be out of business in my opinion in less than a year. It’s dying! So they're getting some good publicity for themselves. I don't even think it's good. I think it's good for me, but we'll find out. But you know what? They look and they…they…they…talk about eminent domain. And they say how “Donald Trump took a house…!”.
Number one, I never took the house! And I offered the person millions of dollars for this house! I got so lucky! I left Atlantic city about eight years ago. I got so lucky. Great business decision. I got out before it collapsed. Great business decision. But one of the things is “take the house”; the woman gets paid for the house! But I offered a much more money…ultimately we didn't do the deal. The woman was in the house! I offered her five million for the house…she stayed there forever. She ends up getting 700,000 for the house. Not from me. She would have made a fortune! She could retire to Palm Beach, Florida. Wonderful place, okay? For 5 million…you know what you buy? A little tiny speck of a house…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Five million doesn't buy much in Palm Beach.
But they use this as a commercial. It's a false commercial, because I never took the house. But what eminent domain is…is eminent domain is…for…when you want to build a highway. When you want to build a roadway. When you need land for a school, to educate your children. When you need land for a hospital, where you can't get. They had…it's called the power of eminent domain. Eminent domain…I'm not in love with them in a domain! But eminent domain is a good thing. It's necessary! In fact, driving up here there was this beautiful roadway…and I said, “oh, they use the power of eminent domain”, because you could see a little corner of a lot was taken. I'm very good at real estate. You know, it's what I…I say, “oh, look! That lot! That look isn't exactly squared off. They needed the corner to create a road”.
Eminent domain is something that's a positive thing, not a negative thing! Now, sometimes cities will use it in order to do business. Let's say a person has a house, or a person has a backyard, and they're gonna build a factory, that's gonna employ 5 thousand people…; and sometimes a city will use the power of eminent domain. And by the way, if you don't get that property, they're gonna go to another city, and they're gonna spend millions of dollars, and they're gonna build a factory there…and they're gonna employ 5 thousand people but not in your city. Eminent domain is a positive thing. It's got to be used judiciously.
But where else is eminent domain? These characters…these conservative guys, I’m gonna read you some stuff, cuz it was interesting. I love it! I mean, I love it! Where else is eminent domain used? For pipelines! Now, everybody…all of these guys are in favor of the Keystone pipeline, right? When Obama rejected it, “oh, how dare they reject!?”. You couldn't build five feet of the Keystone pipeline with that eminent domain! It's going through people's farms…; it's going through people's houses…at…; you know, it's going from…Canada…Cruz’s former home…-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. Might still be his home! Actually, he has a better chance of running for prime minister of Canada, cuz he has no problem! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS No, he was born there.
But…but eminent domain…to go from Canada…to go from Canada…to Texas! …think of it! Canada…to Texas! That’s a long way. In order to get there with the Keystone…which I favored, by the way. But I favor it in a different form. I want a piece of it. In other words, not for me, by the way, for the country. They'll say, “oh, that's terrible! Donald wants a piece!”. [In] the old days they’d…take a piece for themselves. Me? No, I can't do that.
But I want the peak…Keystone. But these politicians don't think that way. For us to use the power of eminent domain, and make that pipeline part…they're gonna make a lot of money with that pipeline. And it’s really good for Canada, which is fine, they're good neighbor. But I want like twenty five percent of the profits forever. If we're gonna use our powers, why are we just doing it? So I want the Keystone. I want the jobs. It's good to have extra…anything we can do in terms of getting more fuel is good. Okay? Oil is good. Anything…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Including ethanol, by the way, I have to say! Including ethanol! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Including ethanol.
We have great support from the ethanol, folks. And I feel that way! We need fuel. We don't ever wanna be…subject to OPEC and these people. We don't wanna be subject to them…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
But…when you think about eminent domain…so…if you go to the login, if you go to the Keystone pipeline. And their sales pitch. You know what. You'll see a whole section on eminent domain. “Yes, we have to use the power of eminent domain…”. I mean, because you've gotta go through hundreds of…private properties to get the pipeline. The only way you can do this is through eminent domain. Now, you may be able to make a couple of deals. But basically, what happens is…a government say, “we're gonna put a pipeline through the…your backyard. And we're gonna pay you a lot of money”. Now, usually you make settlements before it ever goes to court. But you get paid! But without it, you wouldn't have any highways; you wouldn't have any roads….
So they do stories on, “Donald Trump is against…”. You know, “in favor of eminent…”. And I'm saying to myself, “does anybody know that that's how you build roads; and that's how you build…schools: and that's how you build so many things?”. And it's really unfair, because people don't know it. And the way they put the ad, which is really false, but the way they…portray it is, “we take the property!”. And I'm saying to myself, “take the property!? These people make a fortune with these properties!”. In fact, you have guys, as a business, when there's an eminent domain taking, they will go and buy the property before…or make a deal to represent the people, to take a piece of the action, because the government will pay you much more that the property is worth; because politically, they wanna be politically correct, they don't wanna get bad press. You get the market value for the property. But if you're smart, you get twice the market value. Three times.
So, I…I’m only saying this: I don't love eminent domain. But you need it!  Otherwise you don't have a country! You won't have any highways. You won't have any railroads…; you won't have any…any of these things! And you won't have any pipelines. Keystone pipeline. Every one of these people wants the Keystone pipeline. Without eminent domain, it won't go 15 feet. Does that make sense to everybody, right?
So they hit me on eminent domain…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I mean, sort of a boring subject, to be honest with you. But at some point I said, “I gotta explain them eminent domain”. You make a fortune if…oh, you should be so lucky, where they wanna take a piece of your property with eminent domain…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. No…uhm…no sale to Mr. Miller will yield you the kind of return you're gonna get from the government. So that's that.
So…what's happened is…the National Review, again, it's doing very poorly; way, way, way down. But they did something, where they got 22 people to write. Now, some of the people…I mean, like this guy Brent Bozell, he comes up…does anybody know Brent Bozell? You do… “you understand what I'm about to say? Right?” …-MR. TRUMP REFERS TO SOMEBODY SPECIFICALLY. I mean this guy…; [he] comes up to my office, wanting money. This is got some thing for the advertising…; I don’t know what he’s got. Who knows? But he wants money! [He] comes up to my office, he wants money! And…I guess I made…; this is a long time ago. I guess I made a contribution, but he wanted more! It’s…and I don’t even know what he does! You know, I don’t wanna be stupid. We can have a lot of money, but let’s not be foolish, okay? So what’s more, I…I said, “do me a favor…”; …who…who wants to waste time with this guy? So he wrote a negative piece.
You have a guy like Glenn Beck. Glenn Beck! I mean, every time I see him he’s crying. He’s a wack job. He’s doing…no, honestly …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. No! And every time I see this guy, he's like…talking…; crying…; so he's a..a…what a mess! Man! And he is…he is…you know, it’s so much! And I say, “is he…this guy okay?” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And…and, you know, I mean, very importantly…he's…he's…just…he wanted to do interviews with me. And I don't mind doing the interview. By the way, he's failing. He's not doing well. His thing is going down the tubes, by the way. He got fired by Fox. You know who he's endorsing today? Cruz. Can you believe it? I got Sarah Palin. I'll take Sarah Palin every single day, all right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But he got…he got fired from Fox. And he's got this thing going, and…it’s…it's terrible. What happened is he called…they called the office; many, many times. They wanted to do an interview. And I was busy; I never…; it’s not that I wouldn't have done it. I would have done it, but my people…you know, when you're number one on the polls, my people get tough, probably. They probably said, “Mr. Trump is not gonna do…”. You know, who knows what the hell they said. In any event, it's probably true. I see the great Bob [Robert] Costa from the Washington Time, said…from the Washington Post, that happened. With Bob. They were rough with Bob. Then he writes…now we like…I love Bob! Stand up Bob! Take a bow! Come on! Stand up Bob! I'm gonna embarrass you. He's actually a great writer. Look at him! He is a great writer! …-MR. TRUMP TALKS TO THAT REPORTER THAT APPARENTLY IS AMONG THE CROWD. THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But you have to treat people good! And probably they didn't treat him good. Look at him, he’s sitting back…I love him. Now, if he writes badly, I'm not gonna like him any more…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I don't even want good. I want fair, you know? I don’t want…; I want fair. Fair is okay with me.
But…so what happened is a piece was written…that was so good! I mean, it was so nice…! And it was written about this whole thing. So, I didn't do Glenn Beck. I didn't do the interviews. And all of a sudden, they started hitting me. And then once they hit you really hard, you can't do the interviews anymore, cause you feel a little bit like it's prostitution, right? You can't do them! You can't do them! The guy starts hitting me. But that's all it is. I wouldn't do interviews with him…[I] probably should have done him. [I] would have done him. But by the time we got around to it, he was upset that I wouldn't do them. And that's what happens! But it's…it’s…not that…irrelevant.
But here's what…somebody wrote…and it was so…amazing! It was so amazing! And…the writing was so good! In fact, I think that somebody, actually, should hire this man, because he is a good writer. Ready? It's by…by men named Doug Ibendahl. A very respected guy. And he talks about this whole thing with the…with the magazine that just came out. 22 People. Some of whom are…major losers. And some are terrific people. I don't know why they wrote so badly…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. All I wanna do is make America great again, remember this.
So…it’s:
MR. TRUMP STARTS READING THE ARTICLE BY MR. DOUG IBENDAHL:
So:
“So clueless is the gang of 22 they can't even see how they've stumbled right into the narrative Trump's been communicating so successfully for months! Just like the elected officials from both parties, the gang of 22 has beaten…really…and…and…really…beaten and been greatly complaining about stuff year, after year, after year”.
In other words, they talk, they complain! They don't do anything! They make money; they sold the magazines…; they do whatever they do; they get on television…. Uhm, you know, certain of these people, they get on television, they’re always wrong. They say, “Trump will never run…! He will never run! And if he does run, well…don't even worry about it, cause he won't. But if he does, he won’t do well”. In the meantime, I get 42 to 48…; I mean, we're killing everybody. Right? They're wrong!
So…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING:
 So he goes:
“But getting anything accomplished…? Not so much.
Many of the gang of 22 have been hanging around and chattering for decades, and some are active cogs in the Conservative Entertainment Complex, deriving their income by pandering to conservative anger while offering no real solutions”. This is true! They talk!
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING:
“Donald Trump, represents a threat to these ineffectual poohbahs in the same way he represents a threat to do-nothing public officials”, of which we do have many! ...-CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING:
“Jealousy is also seriously at work here. Trump is inspiring and exciting a broad spectrum of the country like no member of the gang of 22 ever has, or ever will”, which is true. I mean, in all fairness, I haven’t said it about, myself, but it’s true! These people don’t inspire anybody! I mean, they can’t sell anything![paa2] 
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“[In just] Seven months of campaigning, Trump has already more Americans listening to the Republican message than the entire gang of 22 could muster over decades and decades” …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING:
“Trump understands that before you can advance the ball, you have to convince people to take time from their busy lives to listen! No one on the GOP side since Ronald Reagan has accomplished that like Trump”, and maybe even more so!
 MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“No one else…”; that’s what we’re talking about with the…movement. Cause it’s a movement, folks. What we have going it’s a movement. It’s [the] same…; no matter where we go, [it’s the] same thing . Always.
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“No one else has come close and certainly no one from that ‘effete corps of impudent snobs’ to which the National Review thinks we should defer!”; why do you listen to these people? No…uhm…the…nobody does, cause that’s why the thing’s gone out of business…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
 …-MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“The gang of 22 had their chance. They've done a lot of bitching over the years, and it paid well for some. But Americans care about results. They can plainly see that all of this is empty talk.
At the same time when Americans look at Donald Trump's life, they’re getting a lot of assurance that here is finally a man, who shares their focus on actually…” …getting things done, “…getting results!”. And it’s true! We need results! No talk!…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“And Trump returns the respect by recognizing regular hard-working Americans are a lot smarter than any of their ‘ideological eunuchs’ in all their pontificating glory”.
That’s true! You’re smarter…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You’re smarter! And you’re richer! I know a lot of rich people in this area, okay? You’re richer; you’re smarter; you’re better…; you’re better people…; and you’re more honest! 
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“[...]...what voters are looking for this year is competence and accomplishment”. It’s true. They want competence. We’re tired of…stupid people…running our country…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING.
“Donald Trump has an actual record of delivering both in spades. The gang of 22 is right to be terrified. A president who could get things done would expose them as the irrelevant creatures they truly are. It can’t happen fast enough!”.
This is a conservative person writing. I thought it was, you know…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I thought it was good.
You know, I hate to bother you, and bore you with reading some…; I just thought it was so amazingly written. I mean, he’s a good writer, and…it's really true. And you know, we should be looking to…;I…I never liked critics. I like people…that…get…things…done. Right Steve? Steve, stand up. Will you, please? Powerful man. Everybody know the man! The leader! Right!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I like people that get things done. I've never liked…even from the old days. I'd read…you know, a review of a Broadway play. And, you know, you watch these people, they put their guts into it. The actors, and the producers…and the editors, and the directors…; and they put their guts into it! And then you read…it gets savaged in the New York Times. Savaged…; just absolutely destroyed!
And I always say, “you know, I know how hard they work, and I…; you don't have to be so…; they're so mean, they're so nasty!”. And I said, I never liked critics. I don't mind a critic…I’m a critic of our country. But we're gonna get things done. In other words, I'm a critic that's gonna fix things. I don't like critics and complain and don't do anything. And that's what you have…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…so…with…a couple of the folks that we're running against. I think we should talk. because now we're down to…you know, we're down to the end. We're down to the end. It's no…; I've been here many, many times over the months. I love the people here. I've done so great with evangelicals. I love them. And…I've just had great relationships with the Tea Party, with everybody. And the polls now…as you know, I'm now…again…up on top in Iowa. Are we happy about that? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I didn't like that!
Well…I didn't like…; I didn't like what was happening. Because I think I was getting a false covering. First of all, this Des Moines Register's a total phony paper, okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That was my only poll! It was unbelievable. Just like they don't wanna talk about the crowds. Just like they don't wanna talk about the stadium was full. I mean…uhm…you know, Pensacola. You had to see Pensacola. And nobody says…nobody says…;
I always tell…my wife. I go home, I say, “darling how’d you like it?”.
It was on television. CNN on…; it was live, the whole thing live! On all these stations.
She said, “were there many people there?”.
I said, “it was a stadium! You didn't see it!?”.
“No, they didn't do it”. That's why I love the protesters. Because the only time…these guys show…is when there's a protester, cause he does a negative thing. Right?  Actually, it's not. I have a lot of fun with the protesters…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. But the one time I was rough…I said, “get him out of here! Get him out!”.
And they said, “oh, it was terrible, the way he treated [him]”. You know, the guy was a horrible guy that was swinging and punching people. And…they roughed him up. They got him out, right?
But I said, “get him out of here!”.
The next day, okay, so I got killed. The press just killed me. Bob, all these guys, they killed …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. They…, “he’s a terrible…terrible. The way he treated that man!”. This man was like slugging people, right? Okay.
The next day…I had another one, and we had a protester. I said, “be easy. Don't hurt him. Oh, don’t hurt him, be easy!”.
Then they wrote, “he's not as strong a person as we thought he was”. Can you believe…? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I got killed! I got killed! I liked the first one better! So you can't win! You can't win! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You can't win, folks! Anyway…!
So we'll talk about a couple of things. Cuz we're down to now the final strokes. And…you know, can you imagine? February 1st is here. What are we…nine days, or something? And we're here! Right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. When this started…uhm…you know, I really looked at it very seriously last time. I was actually leading in the polls last time. And I have The Apprentice. And I have all the other stuff. NBC came to me, they want to renew The Apprentice again. [It] is…you know, great guys. I mean, great people. The heads of…NBC. Steve Burke, he's the head of Comcast. They own NBC. And…came up to my office, and they wanted to do an extension. I said, “Steve!”. He's an amazing guy. Great executive. I said, “Steve, I can't…do…it! I'm gonna run for president!!”. And if you run for president you're not allowed. Number one, you probably couldn't do it anyway timewise. But, if you're running for president, they have a thing called the equal time, and…basically you're not allowed to do it. You'd have to give everybody running at the same time on NBC. I don't think that works out so well, right? So…you couldn't do it.
So I said, “Steve, I’m gonna run for president”.
He goes, “no, no, you…just do this”. And they actually renewed The Apprentice. You know, it continues to do great! I said, “Steve I'm gonna run”. And then I ran and he understood. And then it… we chose, Mark Burnett and I have that show, and we chose Arnold Schwarzenegger. How do you think Arnold's gonna do? Huh? Will he be as good as Trump? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. I agree. But he's gonna be fine. You know what? He'll do fine. And he's got a lot at risk! Cuz you know, you're a movie star, now you're going into a show like that…; and it didn't work out very well for Martha Stewart…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And it didn't work out well for a lot of people! And we'll have to see. I mean, I hope it works out well for Arnold. You know, but…but Arnold has a lot at stake. I mean, it's…uhm…it's not that easy to do. And he gotta be quick. When Omarosa [Manigault] attacks you, you gotta be quick. Bing! Bing! Bong! Right? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. You gotta attack those people! You cannot let them take it away from you. And so we'll find out how quick Arnold is. We're gonna find out…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But…so what's happened is…uhm…I said I'm gonna run, and…we run and I had no idea this was gonna happen. I mean, I had no idea I'd have 48 in Florida. Forty-eight percent in Florida! Think of it! I'm leading…I'm leading……-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [It] just came out. Two days ago. Forty-eight percent in the state of Florida. And…you know, this with 13, 14 people! You know, they're dropping out…; we started with 17, they're dropping out very fast. And they'll build…you know, a lot of them are gonna drop out between Iowa, and…New Hampshire, there'll be a lot of people leaving.
But…and a lot of good people, frankly. But at a certain point you have to say, “it's enough already. It’s ridiculous!”. I'd like to have more time on stage. I mean, they have so many people on stage…
And…maybe Megan Kelly won't do it this year for Fox or this time, because…she has a conflict of interest. Well, I think…you know, she's very biased…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. She's very biased. And she has a conflict, I think. You know, her…hatred, and her…bias, I think…gives her a conflict. So maybe she'll drop out as a professional. And she's a professional. But maybe she'll drop out. So, we'll see what happens. But I look forward to it's coming up on Thursday.
So what happens is…we are there now. It's crunch time. You must…go out…and you must do all the things…; and by the way, DonaldJTrump.com. This is not a five-billion-dollar website. There's a website that cost five cents. But it tells you where to caucus. And it tells you a lot that you might need, if you don't already know further on. So it's DonaldJTrump.com. Remember the Obamacare website five-billion? I spent slightly less than that. Okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And mine works. And mine’s gonna work.
So…so what happens is…we are running against certain people. We’ll talk about some of them. I mean, I could talk about people that are irrelevant, like…a Jeb Bush is no shot, kay? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And…but the only reason I…I…honestly? Somebody said, “why do you even waste time talking about him? He's got…you know, no poll numbers”.
I said, “here. He's spending millions of dollars…!”. Every time I turn on [the] television, I have an ad about myself. Negative ad. Jeb Bush. You know, he raised from his…uhm…his puppet masters…; he raised…he raised like 128 million dollars. This guy has spent…ninety…three…million dollars…! I've spent like nothing! I've spent so little…; I mean, it’s hard to spend! I'm 38 million dollars under budget. I thought, by this point, I'd be in for 30…; I haven't spent, hardly anything…and…the reason…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…I'll tell you. The reason I haven't spent is very simple.
Two things. Number one: I get so much they could…like…free or…you know with the…the thing. They do 15 minutes on Trump. They say, “and now we'll be back. After a commercial break, we’ll be back with…something else on Trump!”. And then they do: “and again, we'll be back…!”.  They have some…because I get good ratings, okay? If I didn't get good ratings…they don't care about poll numbers, by the way; which are very good. But I…I get good ratings.
So what happens is…I say, “I can't put commercials…”. Can you imagine? …15 minutes! …15 minutes! …15 minutes! And then commercials that I’m paying for them between. I can't do it. Right, Steve? That would be a mistake. People would get knocked…they’d think…they’d get sick! So what happens is…I'm…way, way under budget. I thought, by this time, I'd be close to 40 million dollars. I spent very…almost nothing! But now I’m gonna spend! For two reasons. Number one, I feel guilty. I feel guilty! I haven’t spent anything! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. It's like different than anything that's ever happened! All these guys are in for millions! Jeb is in for 90 million…more than 90 million dollars! Much of it against me!  Where he does commercials about me! They're the worst commercials I've ever seen, by the way. They’re good for me! I think they actually helped. My poll numbers have gone up since he put him in…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Cause he's not a competent person. But my…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…no, my poll numbers are good.
But think of it: 90 million dollars, and…that's what I want for the country! So…I spent…the least. And I have…the best result. In other words, I'm number one by a lot, right? Right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Jeb Bush, who's ashamed to use his last name…I mean, the guy’s ashamed to use his last name. I said, “get rid of the…exclamation point, Jeb; and…use Bush. It's okay! Everyone knows you’re Bush! Don't be ashamed! Be proud, Jeb!” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I said, “get rid of it!”. But he doesn't do it.
Jeb! He says, “I can fix it. I can fix it”. That's his thing. His new theme. I can fix it. You know what? Fix it…you know, if you're a…politician, from the old school, if you can fix it, that means you’d go to jail, right? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. The fixers. The fixers. The old days, right? The fixers. You’d go to jail. I said. “I don't like that one very much. That's not good”. But…would it be nice if we could take…okay? If we could take…our…country and do that. We’d spend the least and we’d have the best.
I'll give an example: schools. So…we spend the most per pupil by far. Right? The most by far…! By so much, [that the] second place doesn't even exist.
So we spend more per pupil than any other country in the world. And when number 28 in the world. So…we have the most money spent, and we're…doing badly. Now, wouldn't it be nice…? My theory, if we spent the least and we had the best!? I mean, you know…? Now, I don't know that we can have the best. You know? Right now it's Norway, Sweden, China…; on the top, right? Norway, Sweden, China…they do great. They spend much less money than we do. Okay? It's a different story. But we…they spend much less money than we do.
So here we are, we spend by far the most by a factor of many times. And we have…one of the worst results. We have third…world…countries with better education than the United States kids. So…we wanna get rid of Common Core…[a] hundred percent…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Hundred percent.
And I see it here! I see it in places…where the parents, they love it! And even when their…their kids graduate. They love this! They wanna take care of their kids. As opposed to some bureaucrat in Washington that's making three hundred thousand dollars a year. It doesn't give a damn. And some do! But…but basically they…they wanna make sure they get paid a lot of money. The money we spend on education…; if you had local education, you would do…so…much…better! And everybody…a guy like Jeb wants Common Core! I mean, who the hell's gonna vote for a guy that wants Common Core!?
The other thing, we gotta very strong on the border. [We] have to be very, very strong. Okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Very, very strong. And…what do we have to do? We have to protect our Second Amendment. It's under siege…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's under…siege.
So…so but that's enough with Jeb. You know, somebody said, “why do you even talk to him? He’s so low”.
I said, “I talk to him only because he runs commercials. If he stopped running the commercials, I wouldn't talk…”. He’d be so much smarter! He's not smart! If he…you know, he's a low-energy individual…it takes him a long time…-THE CROWD YELLS TIMIDLY. If he would stop…running commercials…I’d stop…! I’m just…destroying this poor guy. It’s so sad. It’s sad. I hate to do it to the Bush family. You know, I think they're nice people. Okay. Now he's got a commercial, by the way, with his mother. I said, “Jeb, you cannot have your mother negotiate with ISIS. You have to do it yourself!”…right? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS, CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. This is why…I mean, people like this is why our country's going to hell.
So…now we take…well let's take a look. Okay. Let's…cut through it all. I mean, a lot of these people are…; So we have Cruz. The closest one to me in Iowa. He's not doing well in New Hampshire! He's not doing well in the polls…at a lot of places. But in Iowa he was doing well. He's taking a little bit of a down tip in the last…week, since I came at him. [Do] you notice how many people we've knocked out? Perry…; how about this Lindsey Graham's from South Carolina? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. I mean, how nasty can a guy? He gets…I mean, he gets up, he can't even talk straight about…; he hears my name, he goes crazy. But so many! Walker, nice man. But he got knocked out. All these guys…said…; they started off at six, seven, eight…; Walker started off at 22! He left at zero! And…wouldn't it be nice to have a leader that can do that to people? Wouldn't it…and that…you don't spend any money…but…they hit! And they hit!
And, so…let's talk about Ted. I said, “when is Ted gonna hit me?”. And finally he did! So now I hit him! And we have to talk…and seriously, when I say ‘hit’…this is legitimate stuff. He's got a number of problems. Number one: nobody knows. And…and I mean this a hundred percent. I know he can run for the Prime Minister of Canada, because he was born on Canadian soil…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. So, honestly, nobody knows…whether or not…and you know this! Whether or not…Ted Cruz can run for president of the United States! There is law…and there are…major constitutional lawyers, that say that he is not allowed to do this! And this all started a couple of weeks ago, when the Washington Post asked me a series of questions. This was just one of them. And I said, “I don't know!”. The words ‘I don't know’ are very bad, because you don't know! [paa3] I don't know whether or not he can. I know he was born…on…Canadian soil…; what was just determined is that…he was a Canadian citizen…until 15 months ago! He was joint, he was…Canadian. How can you do that? And I'm serious, he could actually run for office in Canada! I don't know that he can run here.
Now, he's already had two lawsuits filed. And they're…running their way. But, actually, those people might not have standing. You know who has standing? I do! I have standing. Because I'm a candidate. I could sue him. Oh, should I do!? That’s so nasty! I don't think so, right? No, I don't…; I'm not gonna have to, cuz the democrats are gonna do it! Okay? They have standing.
So how do you pick a candidate…who has a good chance of…and it might be okay! So I said, “Ted…!”…; and I'm doing this for the Republican Party…; [I’m] doing it for the country in a way! But…I'm doing for the republican party…; in a way I'm doing it for Ted! “You have to go in, and you have to get an order from the court…saying that you're allowed to run! Because you're gonna be sued! Okay? You're going to be sued! And if you don't go in…and get some form of order from the court, which you can do under circumstances, you have to do it…! Because you're running, and running, and running…!”.
Supposing he’s…he's chosen, and I don't think he's going to be, I think I'm gonna win; I think we're gonna win together, because we have this…so I don't…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…I don't think it's gonna matter. But you have to go and find out from the court. Because…the Democrats are gonna sue. They've already said they're gonna sue! They've already said it! So you pick a candidate, “oh, he’s wonderful. By the way, [he] just got sued, he is not allowed to run”. So what's it gonna take? Two years? What are you gonna do in the meantime?
And Hillary is just…I mean, on the assumption she makes it…; she shouldn't make it. She shouldn't be allowed to make it. What happened to her…and what happens…what's going on with this email stuff is a disgrace. And General Petraeus, for doing five percent of what she did…has been destroyed. And by the way, leave him alone! It's enough! Now they wanna take his rank away…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Leave…General…Petraeus…alone! He suffered enough. They wanna take his rank down now. Just relax! We have ISIS to worry about…; we have Russia…; we have China trade deals…; we have Mexico…is killing us at the border, and killing us with trade…. I mean, Mexico is killing us with trade. So many companies are moving to Mexico. And you know that, because from Iowa we lost a lot of…companies going into Mexico! Believe it or not!
But…Mexico…we have so many battles to fight! And what do they wanna do? They wanna take a man that's been so badly hurt, and hurt him further by reducing his rank. And he's already gone. Leave…Petraeus…alone. Okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I feel so strongly about him.
 
So, Ted Cruz. So he has a real problem with Canadians citizenship. Then, you have to look…you know, it's…hypocrisy! You have to look at what happened. He's a man of the people…; he's gonna protect you from big bad Wall Street, right? He's gonna protect you from Wall Street! Well, the epitome of Wall Street is Goldman Sachs! That's the ultimate. That's like ground zero, Wall Street. Ground zero…I mean, Goldman Sachs! Right!? When you say…smart guy, I know them all…! Good guys…! Ambicious guys…! It's one of those things, right? We'll get them to help us a little bit with China. We…by the way, I have Carl Icahn’s endorsed me. I have many of the top business leaders in the world [that] want to endorse me. A lot of them wanna endorse me! They wanna have a press conference. I said, “nobody knows who you are!”. I know them. They're killers! I said, “I know you're a killer! Okay!? You're a brutal killer!”. You wouldn't wanna have dinner with some of these people. Believe me. Carl's a great guy. You wouldn’t wanna have dinner with some of these people. But that's who I want negotiating with China! That's who I want negotiating with Japan…! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Right!? I don’t care!
You know, you'll say, “I do not wanna ever meet him again! But you know what? If he wants to negotiate with Japan…”. Japan sending millions of cars into our country. Millions of cars! And we send them nothing! Practically nothing! And even with you folks. When you send them something, it's not easy! They send it back…; they…break your ass. Okay? Not gonna be that way anymore! It's not…gonna be that…way…anymore!
We have the greatest…business…people in the world…in our country. We're gonna use them on trade deals. We're gonna use them to negotiate deals! We're not gonna have it anymore, where China makes…five…hundred…and five…billion dollars last year.
You know, trade deficit, with China. Five hundred…billion dollars. More than that! Last year, 500 billion! What the hell kind of a trade deal is that!? So we're gonna stop it.
But everybody makes money with us! Mexico makes a fortune! That's why when I say, “we're gonna build a wall”…somebody, one of the politicians come on, “well, building the wall is great. But…you're never gonna get Mexico to pay for it!”.
I said, “easy! Easy!”.
“How are you gonna…!?”.
I said, “look, I'm not gonna tell you…why should you learn…you know, you'll learn, you’ll figure it. You watch” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS.
But…but just so you understand…so easy! …so simple! They make a fortune! They make a fortune! We have a massive trade…; I'm not even talking about the drugs that go back and forth. That would probably double it in triple it. Because you go to a place like New Hampshire, and the problems they have…are incredible. They come from the southern border. That's where the walls are gonna work. They're gonna be effective!
Did you ever see the wall they had in…I think in Time magazine? It's this high, and they have a ramp! And the ramp goes over the one they drive Jeeps loaded up with drugs over the wall and back! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. We get the drugs, they get the cash. That's what it is! They take the money back!
We're not gonna have that stuff anymore, folks. We're gonna do…a serious wall. We're gonna go wall…see that ceiling up there? …-MR. TRUMP POINTS TO THE CEILING. That's peanuts compared to what I’m talking about, okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
If then if they get to the top of the wall, they're not gonna be happy, cuz they're gonna say, “man it's a long way down…!”. Not gonna be like that, you know…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
And you know, I have to be careful! It's gonna be a…big wall. It's gonna be a great wall. It’s gonna be a powerful wall. It's gotta be a beautiful wall, because someday they'll probably name it ‘Trump’. It’ll probably…-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. It'll probably…so I have to…I have to build a good job.
But with Ted…so Ted is…you know, talking about…uhm…he's a man of the people, and he's gonna stop mean Wall Street. But…he didn't report, on his financial disclosure form, which is a very important form, you know, you sign that thing, [and] you’re signing a pretty important piece of paper, right? You're putting it in…; you’ve got to report a couple of things.
Number one, Goldman Sachs loaned him a lot of money! And he's personally guaranteeing it. Big thing. Front page story in The New York Times. Goldman Sachs loaned him a lot of money. So that…was a big story that he didn't report it. Big story.
Then they found that there was another problem. What? Citibank…loaned him a lot of money. “Oh!”. Now, he was supposed to have sold all these assets… “we are going to sell, Heidi and I…”, who…Heidi is very nice, by the way too. But ,”Heidi and I are gonna sell all these assets”, and…well, he…didn’t sell them! He borrowed money. And he personally guaranteed the loans. And the money is from Goldman Sachs and from Citi [bank].
So let me ask you a question. So I'm self-funding. I'm putting up my own money, folks. Okay? I'm not…nobody's gonna tell me what to do…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Nobody's gonna tell us what to do. I have turned down so much money…! I would have made Jeb Bush's pack, which was like 128 million dollars, like a tiny little speck if I would have taken the money that's been offered to me…by all these killers. I know…almost all of them. “Donnie, hi. We wanna give you 5 million”. And I feel a little bit foolish! You know, my whole life I've been taking money. Money, money, money! Now…I'm…saying, “Uhh, I don't want it!” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
They go, “what!?”.
I mean, I shouldn't say this: all my life I've been greedy! I want money. Now I'm gonna be greedy for the United States. I'm gonna take it all. Okay? That's true…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's true! It’s true!
So Ted Cruz talks about…you know, “I'm a man of the people”. Let me ask you a question. If the head of Goldman Sachs goes and sees him and he's got a guaranteed loan, right? …that he didn't report. He didn't report it! Big story. But he's got a guaranteed loan. Goldman Sachs, City[bank]. So let's say the head of Goldman Sachs, [a] very good friend of mine, very tough guy. He goes to Ted: “I want this. I want this. I want that”.
Do you think Ted is gonna say, “I won't do it”? He's gonna do whatever the hell they want! He's borrowed money from them! He's got personal guarantees! He didn't do what he said. He said he was gonna sell things, but he didn't sell him. Probably cuz he couldn't. Maybe the market’s bad. Maybe they didn't wanna sell them.
So he put…he borrowed money personally. And he didn't report it! And we didn't know about it! And it was only good reporting that found it out. So that's the story! I can't…you know, I don't know. Maybe he'll win, but I wouldn't vote for him. I can tell you that! I wouldn't vote for him.
When people say…that…they're gonna protect you from big bad Wall Street…and they put in papers that they have no loans, and nothing to do with Wall Street…and then you find out that they have…that they have tremendous…you know, borrowings from Wall Street, with personal guarantees! …at favorable interest rates, by the way. Very low interest rates. It doesn't play. It doesn't play.
So…it's a problem! I think he's gonna have a problem with that. So he's gonna have a problem with Canada. He's gonna have a problem with that. I could name four other things, but…that's enough of him. I think…I think that what's happening is that…we are going to have…an amazing result. I have a feeling…that…even though our poll numbers are terrific…I have a feeling…that our poll numbers may end up being even better…; our…actual election results may be even better. I mean, you had to see the…the other group. I was over in Sioux…which was beautiful. Sioux Center. And…uhm…those people were like amazing, just like you're amazing…uhm…and…everybody’s amazing. The country is amazing! I wanna see where Apple…starts building…their computers here! I don't want…what the hell good does it do!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know? We have amazing people! I mean, I had no idea…I…and…I…actually, a number of things.
I had no idea how big our country…it's just big. There's so many people! It's amazing how big…! It's big, it’s strong, the people are amazing…just incredible! But I had no idea, also…people ask me. “What's the biggest thing that you've learned?”. And…I could say , “all the…”; you know, [the] typical things, which is true! I mean, the enthusiasm, and…they wanna make it right; and they don't wanna see stupid deals being made…; and they don't wanna lose 500 billion dollars with China…; and they don't wana lose to Japan…”. And…I mean, let us break even! Let us do something! We can't do this any longer. We can't! We can't afford to do it! So many things. We don't want…I…we’re gonna what…as you know, we're gonna repeal Obamacare. We're gonna replace it with something much better, much cheaper…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…and all of this.
But…the biggest thing…I has…I…I mean this a hundred percent! …is how smart the people are! They get it! They don't believe this…this scum back there…-MR. TRUMP POINTS TO THE CAMERAS. THE CROWD LAUGHS[paa4] . And some of it is. Some…and I’m telling you. I call it to their face. They are…they are certain…; and…and twenty-five percent are really good. And ten percent, fifteen percent are terrific people, [they] are really honest. But they are, they write reports that are so false! And write reports, and things…and they do things they know they're false! The reporters know they're false! They tell me they're false and then they write it anyway!
And…the people get it! They see…what's going on. And I…I’ll tell you. One of the biggest surprises…and one of the most…pleasant…surprises is how…smart…our population is.
The other thing that comes out very strongly in the polls is that the people that are with me are, by far, the most loyal people. And I have to say it, honestly, because I have all these guys…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's true. I have all these guys back there. If I've made that statement at a voice, they’d say, “oh…”, that’d…be a headline, “Oh! Donald Trump said this”. I gotta…everything I say, I'm…you know I say, “Bing, bing, bing”. I say, like The Art of the Deal, I say, “it was the most successful book ever…?”; I say, “one of the most successful”, because, you know what? One of them…they don’t read the story. I say “the most successful”. They'll say, “you know, there was a book, 25 years ago that sold three copies more than The Art of the Deal”, and they end up with that.
So they're bad people. They're bad people. But…I have to tell you…they are. But I have to tell you, one of the things that I really see…is how smart…and also, and they do stories on it! My loyalty…it's like I can do almost anything! I don't want you to do it…if I do something bad, say, “bye-bye Mr. Trump, or Donald”. But, look: my loyalty factor is…is many times greater than everybody else's! I don't wanna use names. But other of these people, even people that are doing fairly well, they have a loyalty of like ten percent. I have a loyalty…I think we're 68, or 69 percent plus 25 percent are almost very loyal. Some are unbelievably. They won't leave. And that's in the high 60's. And then you have…like, very. And that's…I think it gets too close to ninety percent.
Other guys are at ten percent; twelve percent…; they’re at fifteen percent…; “but we think we're gonna change” …; the loyalty to me has been amazing! And I appreciate it! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, I really appreciated. To me that says something.
In fact, if you remember when I first came out, they said…uhm…you know, I came out, and I started at like three. And then I went to six. And then I went to 12. And every time I came out… “thank you darling, you're so nice. Thank you. Uhh, I love you! It’s a woman, standing with a sign, holding it up. I love you!”.
But…but, you know what? I'm sta…I was 6, and then…nine! And then 12! And then…and every time I had a number… “he's plateaued!”. These idiots, on television. I don't know. [Do] They get paid for this?
“He's plateaued…you know…uhm…he's at six now, but you know, he won't go…but he's got six percent”.
Then I go to 12 the next week.
“Well, anyway he’s plateaued!” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
And then…and then it got up to 24. And some of the smarter commentators, cause you have some really good ones on television. They said, “well, you know, it's getting pretty hard now. You know, don't forget that's 24 with 17 people!”…when it started. And then it got the 28. Then I got the 32. And the same guys that were saying ‘plateaued’, they were saying, “well, we don't know. We don't think he can go any higher”. Then I get the 42. Then we had one today that came out at 48! That's with…you know…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So they keep saying ‘plateaued’.
So the Zogby! Zogby! The Zogby poll, just came out today, or last night, and it said…I think it said 48, and…number two is, I think at 11 or 12 or something…at…13? And it's been an amazing…; it's been an amazing experience. I've learned…so…much!
A woman asked me today, and I think it was over…in…uhm…Sioux Center. She said to me, “Mr. Trump, I'm with you a hundred percent. I'm in business…”; a…really beautiful looking executive woman. She said, “I’ll tell you, the one question, they wanna know, if you become president, can you calm down your rhetoric? because you're…strong with the rhetoric. Can you comment down?”.
I said, “listen. I went to the best school. I went to the Wharton School of Finance. Ivy League…; I'm smart! I'm really…my uncle…I always say, my uncle was a professor at MIT, cuz he was like a super genius. You know, and I believe in the racehorse theory a little bit, right? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. He was at MIT. For years! For decades! He was one of the smartest guys. Dr. John Trump. One of the smartest people in the world.
So, I say to myself…and I thought it was interesting. She said, “that's the only thing! People love you. But they wanna know. As president, can you calm it down?”.
And I said to her, “listen. I'm really smart. I can do that. But right now, I'm fighting all these guys…; all of them, or most of them are lying about me…; I have to be a little aggressive. When I'm president, I’m a different person! I can do anything!”. I can be the most politically correct person that you've ever seen. I can leave a dinner, and everyone would say, “what a fine, outstanding man!”. Believe me! I can do it better than any of them! I do it sometimes! You know, when I'm sitting with the…this société people, right? Societé…-MR. TRUMP PLAYS OUT INVERTED COMMAS. THE CROWD LAUGHS-…where they using my Mar-a-Lago club all the time. “We'd like you to sit next to the head of American Cancer Society”. All good people, but…I can be the most politically correct person in the world. And I can be the opposite! But…it's not the opposite. It's being smart .
Sometimes political correctness just takes too long! We don't have time for it! We don't have time for it! When you look at some of the things that are happening that…we don't have time! We wanna be sure! We wanna be sharp. We wanna be smart!
But I said to the woman, “you know, I've never thought of that”. Cause she said, “the only people that sort of a little bit concerned, but I think they're going with you anyway, Mr. Trump…people think about your rhetoric, [it] is very tough”.
I said, …“I can calm that down”.
I said, “I think I’m gonna put it in my next speech”, which is you. I've never said this before! But I can calm it down. I could be so…beautiful…you would say, “he's the nicest, calmest person. It's amazing! It's amazing!”.[paa5] 
But I don't wanna be too calm, because when I'm dealing with China, these [paa6] are not calm people. Okay? They don't know about calmness. They don't know about low energy. We have enough of them running, in particular one…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…so I do wanna say that. Because it's different. You know, right now, they come at you from 15 different angles, you have to be sharp; you have to be quick; and you have to be somewhat vicious. When you're running the country it's a different…it's a different dialogue that goes. And we can do that very easily. So I did that I promised that woman I would do that, and I bet she's very happy, whoever she may be, but she was very nice.
So…the bottom line, and just end it, is that…I love Iowa. Special place. Incredible place. You…you…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…you have to go…you have to caucus on the first. You have to. You have to. You can have…and I say this, and I say it with fun, but I mean it. You can have a bad day…; you can…if you lose your job…; …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. If you lose your wife…! If you lose your husband…! I don't care! Go caucus. Okay? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Go caucus! You gotta caucus. All right? You gotta caucus! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Because…if you don't…; if you don't…it's not gonna happen. We're not gonna get there. And we wanna get there…not only get there, we wanna get there with a mandate.
You know, a lot of people, even my people, they say, “Mr. Trump, why don't you just say you wanna do well in Iowa?”. I don't wanna do well. I wanna win it! It…it…they said, “but if you say well…if you came in second, third, fourth…then you go to New Hampshire where you’re doing so well…”.
I've been to Iowa so much…; I'm staying here tonight. I stayed here last night. I'm going to church tomorrow…in…uhm…Iowa, with…with a…a group of people that's an amazing group of people. But…but I…love the people here! I love the evangelicals, they've been so great to me. I love the Tea Party, folks; and I'm…I think we're gonna win it! I wanna win it! And…again! It's much better for me to say, “oh, well, we’ll…we expect to do okay”. Now, if I do…; now if…I don't…; by the way, all of those people back there, they’re gonna say, “he said…”; they'll copy my speech right here!
“…he said he wants to win it, and then he came in second. It was disgrace! He's been humiliated!”. That's the way they do it. You know, they're…vicious people…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
I really…I do want it. And I know I put myself and I put all of us under a little pressure. I wanna win it, because it gives us a mandate! And a mandate is very important…to change things in this country. A mandate…and if we win…I’ll tell you what: Iowa…and I said it, you haven't picked a winner in 16 years! Number one. You gotta pick a winner, cuz I'm the only one that's gonna win. I beat Hillary…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I beat her…in the last…uhm…in the Fox poll…I beat her very substantially. I beat her in a number of polls. I haven't even a…aimed at met her! …although I did a little bit last week. You saw what happened there, right? I aimed at her. Because she was being unfair. But…I haven't even focused on…Hillary, or the wacky Bernie…; I haven't even focused on them yet…-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. I haven’t focused on them. We're gonna win. And when we win…we're gonna make our country great again.
So here's the story: we're gonna win at every level. We're gonna build up our military. We're gonna take care of our vets. We're gonna win on health care. We're gonna win at the border. We're gonna win a trade. We're gonna win, win, win! It's gonna keep going. We’re gonna make our country great again. And I love you all. I love you all. Thank you.
Thank you very much.
Thank you.
