VIDEO Nº: 74
TITLE:74. Speech  Donald Trump - Myrtle Beach, SC - January 16, 2016
DATE OF EVENT:16/01/2016
RELEASE DATE:27/10/2017
DURATION:00.45.30 Mins
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:9224
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Maybe be against me…and they’re all for me, and I felt much better. But they were all waiting, and…uh…it's really great. ow are you? …–CROWD CHEERS. Goo. I just got in, I was in New Hampshire, where we're doing great. And we’re great here. And we're doing great in Iowa! We're leading now in doing great in Iowa….! Sit down everybody, sit down! Go ahead! A great group! But we set the record on the groups…–MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘I LOVE YOU’. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT. But… “I love you too darling. Who said that!? I love you too. I love you. Thank you. And I love that book”.
 
You know, I wanna thank…uh…Joe Dugan, who has been fantastic. He is…good guy, really good guy; puts his heart and his soul into this, and nothing's easy in life, I can tell you. But Joe's been doing it for a long time. So he's a very special guy. We have time. So he's a very special guy, we have time, so he's a very special guy. We have a couple of things to discuss. You know, the beautiful thing is that I don't use teleprompters, because I speak from the heart, right? You know…? …–CROWD APPLAUDS–…and the…and the head! But the heart. Perhaps I go the head first and then the heart, because maybe that's more important nowadays, when you look at what's happening to the country. But…I like to be able to talk about current events…and when you read the speeches…you know, a lot of the guys get up and they read a speech, pa, pa, pa…they leave in 15 minutes. Everybody goes, “what happened!?”. “That's is…is that all there is?”. You know, like the song, ‘is that all there is?’. So, we don't read the speeches, and we don't do the teleprompter thing…
 
But…a couple of things. I wanna talk about the debate, because I thought it was a great experience…; It's been a great experience for me…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's been…for me…for me it's been a great experience. You know, I've never - I great experience. You know, I've never - I great experience…–MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘YOU WON!’. I did. Yeah. Yes…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thank you. “Who said that!? Stand up!”. Let me see you. That's very nice.
 
Well, we've had some…uh…interesting debates and an interesting time, and…it is different. You know, I've been a job producer, I’ve…I’ve built a great business…but it's been job producing! And…employ currently thousands of people…and over the years, tens of of people. And over the years, tens of thousands of people, many Hispanics. And I we're gonna do fantastically with Hispanics. I think we're gonna do…incredibly with the African Americans, where…I poll very well, and…somebody said there was a poll that came out at 20, or 25 percent; actually, it was 25 percent; and they said, “if Trump gets 25 percent of the African American vote, the election’s over. You win. I mean, you win!”…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
But we do poll great with that. And…we poll…we've just polling…I mean, no matter where, I have a list, I'm not gonna go over it very much in this group, cause this is a very…intimate friendly group…–CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. This is my friend’s. But…and normally I love to go over the polls, because I'm number one in every poll, virtually…–CROWD CHEERS. And…I love…I love to go over them, but here I'm not gonna bother, other than to say…New Hampshire through the roof. Then, we're going all over it. We are not playing games. We're not gonna do what they did the last time; cause if you remember the last time, we should have beaten…Barack Obama. Should have beaten him! Something happened! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Something happened! And I'm not blaming Romney, but you gotta work that last month! That last month was important. And whether you like Obama or not, every time you turned on television…he was on Jay Leno, and Letterman, and all these…and our representative wasn't. And we gotta work, and we have to work hard; and we're gonna win this thing, because having four more years of Barack Obama…; but I think, perhaps, worse; depending on what happens with Hillary, I don't know. Maybe these guys back…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS–…boy, look at all those cameras back there! …–CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Well, that's very impressive! That is very, very…; That is an impressive…; I thought this is gonna be just a little quick stopover, with my friends from the Tea Party, and Jerry, and Joe, and…all of them…; Look at that group of people! Oh, I guarantee you they weren't here for the other groups! Huh!? …–CROWD LAUGHS. I guarantee you. I know! I know!
 
You know, it's always tough, when they come in…I think every speech I've made…in the last two or three months has been a live television, right? I’m saying, “can I ever have a have a speech which isn't an alive television?”, you know, it would be nice. No? No good? I’d like it. I would love to do one or two…before this campaign…well, actually that's not good! Because that means things are not going well…–CROWD LAUGHS. If they stop turning on those televisions, that means things…so we'll continue to go live, okay?
 
But…it…it really has been an interesting period of time for me, because I've been…a businessman; and…I've been a negotiator, and a job…you know, an employer, real estate person…; done a lot of different deals, but mostly…mostly real estate. And…I've had a great time. I love the real estate business, I love doing what we're doing; we're building all over the world, and we're doing deals all over the world; we're doing a deal right on Pennsylvania Avenue, a big hotel; that's gonna be spectacular; right by the White House, it's sort of interesting, cause one way the other, I'm getting to Pennsylvania Avenue…–CROWD LAUGHS, CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. One way or the other…
 
I'll either be here, or I'll be here! …–MR. TRUMP SHOWS TWO DIFFERENT POSITIONS TO WITH HIS HANDS. Not so much different! But…uh…so it's one way, it's…but…and it's sort of interesting. It's the…post office! And…everybody, so many companies wanted it. It's one of the most sought-after projects in the history of the General Services Administratio. And it's an incredible building, the old post office. And…we we got it, which is amazing! We got it in the Obama administration. Can you believe that!? …–CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. No, can you believe it!?!  I said, you know, I think we had the best plan….; uh…they wanted to make sure everybody was very strong financially, because they want to get it done! It's very important, economic, and economic development. And…we put our plan in, and others put it in…you know, great companies, many, many companies; and great companies, the biggest hotel companies in the world. And we were given it about two years ago. We started construction, and we're…about a year ahead of…but, can you imagine that? A year ahead of schedule. We're under budget and ahead of schedule! …–CROWD APPLAUDS…which is what the country has to do! It's really what…what do you think!? Right!? It's what the country…;
 
So…we're under budget, substantially, and…and I will tell you, under budget, and yet we're building even beyond…Because it's so good…! We're gonna make that…we think it's gonna be probably…maybe the finest hotel in the United States. We're going beyond that, but it's gonna be one of the finest hotels in the United States. I have one of them right now in…Chicago, is considered one of the great hotels of the world. I think this is gonna be something…; I don't wanna say ‘top’, it…you don't wanna say ‘top’ at your own stuff, but…this is something that could conceivably top, but it's gonna be great. But the beauty is…that…when you hear those words, ‘ahead of schedule’, and ‘under budget’…–CROWD APPLAUDS. And I think that's so important, because…; I mean, I see these projects and I read about the projects.
 
I read about one the other day where, you know, they're building an airplane and it's…it's five times over budget! And it's…years and years late; sometimes decades late! And by the time they get it, it's obsolete, and they've spent…you know, billions and billions of dollars. And…you look at what they do with the submarines, and the nuclear submarines, and all…of the…tremendous cost overruns that they have. And I just…you know, you build, and you gotta build; and you gotta know what the hell you're doing! And you gotta get it done; and you gotta…fight with the contractos, and…there's so many stories I can tell you about government! I mean, a little one just quickly is the Wollman Rink. Eight years, and the city couldn't get the ice skating rink open in Central Park. And I got involved…this is when I was young! But…there's nothing different! I mean, there's no difference! I just did one recently, which is almost the same thing, in ferry point; they couldn't get…this big golf course project open. And it's been under construction…they think for thirty years! Okay!? Think of that! It was a landfill, and…just everything. They don't even know when it started. But a long time ago! And…it would have of…I think it would have gone on for many, many more years. And I got it done in a year, it's open now, it just got the best…best new course in the United States, from one of the big magazines, and it's doing great…–CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.

But…and it's not that big, I mean, although…they…I’ll tell you something: world's most expensive golf course. They spent over 200 million dollars to build a golf course! …–CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Okay? What should have cost? Maybe seven! You know…? But they spent over two hundred million dollars…to build…a golf course. And I think it's much more than that. Nobody even knows! Do they know!? They have no idea. You know, when you say, “is it two?”, they say, “we don't know!”. The money…and here we're talking about local government. Can you imagine…what the federal government is wasting? And when you see…the kind of waste, fraud, corruption…it's incredible.
 
With the Wollman Rink…; so I had a…you know, an ice-skating rink, and I have a daughter, Ivanka, who everybody knows. She was a little girl…–CROWD APPLAUDS. Yeah! And she said to me, “daddy, I'd like to go ice skating”.
 
I said, “honey, it's gonna be built next; year don't worry about it”, and we looked down on the rink.
And next year she'd come, “what about ice skating daddy?”. And I’d say, “maybe…uh…it's a mess! I mean…it's really…”; and then finally, after about three, four years of her asking me, you know, it's an ice rink. It's not that simple, but it's an ice rink. And it’s massive! It's one of the biggest, and…and…it's…I mean, to this day I've been running it ever since. But, it does great. But, I said, “let's just see…”. So after about four years of her asking me, I said, “I gotta go look at this thing”. And I went down, and I looked…and there were hundreds massive piece of concrete. You know, probably six, seven, eight times the size of this room. And I said, “man! Look at all those workers! They're all workers, and they're all sitting there…nobody's working!”. And there's been going on for years, and years! And…I went to the mayor of New York City, at the time was Ed Koch; I said, “Ed, this is ridiculous! I mean, forget about…my daughter! I'd like to get her…ice skating!”. But the whole city then, it was like…a big scandal; it was on the front page of the papers; they couldn't get an ice skating done…;
 
So…it wasn't that easy with him! Believe me! Because he didn't wanna be stood up. He was a very paranoid guy. That I can tell you. And…finally, I went to the newspapers! I said; “I wanna build it, I wanna get it open. I'll get it open in four months. And if I can't do it for two million dollars, I will pay for the cost myself”. And…they had spent, probably…you know, they don't say this, and there…another…you never find out what these…; I think they spent over 20 million dollars on it. But I said, “I'll spend…”; and most of the money that I was gonna spend a lot of it was demolition…because you had to tear down everything that was built, because it was built so badly!

Anyway, finally he agreed to let me do it. I took it over. And…the ice wasn't melting. They couldn't get ice! And the slab was poured, and it was this far off! In other words, it's gotta be levelled, so the water is thin, and nice, and you create ice, right? Well, in one part the water was like a foot and a half high; the other part, it was down here…–MR. TRUMP SHOWS A LOWER POINT. So they couldn't make the water. And I said, “man, that thing's really off!”. So we had to rip out the entire slab. And then I saw the man who was the freezing man! I said, “where is your office located?”. He said, “in Miami Beach”.
I said, “Miami Beach!?”…–CROWD LAUGHS.

He said, “no, I've never done an ice…; we focus on air-conditioning”.
 
I said, “that makes sense! I like air-conditioning, but I don't…”.
 
So I said, “well, what's the problem?”. And I said, “you know what? A friend of mine works for the Montreal Canadiens”, the ice hockey team. I called him up; I said, “Charles, could you do me a favor? Do you have a guy that does anything about like making ice?”.
 
“Oh, sure, we have a guy. He's great”. In house.
 
He comes down, he looks at me, he sees it. Comes; calls me up; ten minutes there, he said, “Mr. Trump, you're using Freon. You wanna use water with salt in it!”.
I said, “what do you mean?”.
 
He said, “you have Freon, they're pouring…”; and you had to see this! They had tubes of…of copper. And the tubes of copper are miles long, cause it goes from one side…they have to be three inches apart; it goes back, forth, back, forth! And they'd put the copper, and copper is very expensive, and very valuable! So every night they'd lay the copper, they'd come back, the next day it was all stolen…–CROWD LAUGHS. Okay?
 
So they'd lay it again…they’d lay it again…! And then finally they went to hire a big security company that guards all around the rink. And the other problem with it is…if there's a little pinhole, you got miles of this stuff, because it's so long…! And if there's a pinhole, the gas escapes, and you don't make the ice, okay? It's just one of those things. So I said to him, “what's going on?”. So they finally got security. And they were great! They did for seven days. And then the security took a day off, the entire rink was wiped out…–CROWD LAUGHS–…that…it would…this went on for years! Somebody made a fortune on copper!
 
Anyway, so I get this guy, John, nice guy, from the Montreal Canadiens. Real…real hockey people, and…nice people. And he said, “Mr. Trump, what you want is a rubber hose, you put water in it, and you put salt in the water. And the salt means the water can't freeze”.
 
I said, “wow! That sounds good!”.
 
He said, “we call it brining”. And the machine…and the…machine takes it, mixes it…puts it through; it's simple, and you need rubber hose. Nobody steals it, because it's rubber. Who the hell wants rubber? I guess they steal rubber too, right? In New York…you know? Maybe they'll steal it, maybe they won’t? Actually, New Yorkers have very high values, they won't steal anything…–CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. Very, very high values. They don’t steal. Nobody steals! Nobody steals in New York! Nobody steals
 
So…so we laid miles of it! We…I took out all of the concrete…; we laid miles of it! Of the rubber…; and we teck…tested it…; there were no leaks, no nothing. There was no theft, because nobody wants it. And we laid just…beautiful, it as all down….
 
Then we called up the concrete guys, we have…we had the most incredible pour…because it's such a huge slab; and ideally you wanna pour it at one time. All things the city doesn't know. So we put…the construction people know. So we poured a one-time, beautiful job. And the cement mixers were lined up…; this is at 58th Street, 59th street…; the cement mixes were lined up to Harlem! All the way back, that's all long…; and they poured all day long. They poured for a day and a half, and it was beautiful! Perfectly leveled; done with lasers…; Anyway! Bottom line: turned it on; put the brine through it, the water; and…voila! Beautiful ice. To this day, it was so beautiful! And…I did it for less than two million dollars. And…they study it now in the business books! We can do the same thing with our government on a huge scale! I mean, it's the same thing, it's…it's no different! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Really! It's no different!
 
You know, it's very funny; I like…I like Newt Gingrich. Actually, Newt Gingrich did very well over here. But I like Newt, he's a great guy. And he called me up and he said, “you know, I read the story about Wollman Rink. Would you please tell them the story of Wollman Rink!?”. So that story…I haven't told in long, but that’s story is in honor of Newt. But he really thinks it's a great story. Because it's indicative of what can be done! And it finished…way ahead of schedule! And, to this day, it's probably the busiest ice skating rink in the world. I mean, it's amazing. You should see that on a Saturday, they have lines that are four blocks long to get in. And people are great, and…and, they they're…you know, they're in love with the place.
 
So…if you have knowledge, like you don't use people from Miami Beach to do a rink, with…you know…–CROWD LAUGHS. And by the way, they do use…you know, you use Freon for…an air conditioner; it’s what they use! But Freon, for an air conditioner’s…a little different than…; I wouldn't want to use Brine for that, right? But…it's sort of you have to use people that know…what…they're…doing. But Newt called me up, he said, “you gotta tell that story, cause that's such a great story”. So that’s the story.
 
And it's been…it's been a great thing. And…and the city saved a lot of money. And…it's been…uh…it's been really a great experience. And they actually study that! You go to a lot of the great business schools, and they study that! As to what you can do with free enterprise, with private…people with private business, compared that to government. And there's something very true about that. And they actually study it in the business books in a lot of the business schools. I think including the Wharton School of Finance! Number one Business School.
 
So…we have a lot of…we have a lot of things that happened since we…uh…since we made this journey. You know, I journeyed forth. And it takes guts to run for President; I never done this before! And it takes guts. And on June 16th, I said, “look, you know? We're just gonna do this”. And I'll never forget standing at the top of the now-famous escalator, cause you've seen that picture with myself coming down with Melania. And…I…I'll never forget looking down, into tha…vast basement, vast…we call it the garden level; and seeing all of these guys…I mean, what you have down there…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS–…is much as you have down there, now times 10! And it looked like the Academy Awards. I said, “what are we doing? The Academy Awards?”. And we gave a speech, and…we talked about illegal immigration. Oh! Wow! It was…I would never saw anything…; Rush Limbaugh said…he has never seen incoming, like he saw with me. Incoming means, boom! ...trying to get you!
 
And then it turned out that…you know, you had the killing of…Kate; who was an amazing woman, in San Francisco. And you had Jamiel, in Los Angeles. And you had…so many other things happened. The veteran, 65 years old; a woman, 65 years old; a veteran, of the army. And she was…raped, sodomized, killed…by the illegal immigrant. And so much! So much! So much! You have no idea. And I said, “we gotta have borders! We gotta have strong, strong, strong borders! We gotta build a wall! We’ve gotta have a wall! We gotta have a wall!” …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And you go up…and you go up to New Hampshire, it's amazing! Cause New Hampshire, they're amazing people! And they have a tremendous heroin problem. They have a tremendous problem up there. You wouldn't think, you know, you don't equate that with New Hampshire. They have…it's one of the first questions they get all the time! And it pours in through the southern border, and…we're gonna have a wall…; who's gonna pay for the wall? Does anybody know!? …–CROWD YELLS ‘MEXICO!’. Right? Believe me! When I'm on stage, with these guys…okay? And it's now guys, cuz Carly's doing the other one, which is fine. But when I'm on stage with these guys, they come to me sometimes! They say, “why do you say that Mexico's paying? Why do you say that!?”.
 
I said, “because they’re gonna pay!”. Because they're politicians, they're all talk, no action. They don't know what the hell they're doing…! They're saying…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So they're saying…no, but it's true! And I like some of them! They're saying, “but how can you do that!?”. They…they not…they can’t…they don’t even fathom it! Now, the business people understand it, and here's why: Mexico…makes a fortune of the United States. The wall is peanuts…; peanuts! You know, they've been talking about building wall for years. China…built a wall that's 13,000 miles…long…2,000 years ago! …–CROWD LAUGHS. And my ambition is to have ours much higher. It's not gonna be much bigger. Did you ever see the width of that wall? It's like three times wider than this room. We don't need the width. We need the height.
 
But China built a wall. 2,000 years ago, that's thirteen thousand…; we essentially need a thousand miles. It's 2,000 miles. But we really…because you have natural borders, natural barriers that are very very substantial. So we're gonna build a wall. And Mexico is gonna pay for the wall. Now, Mexico…I'm…I love Mexico; I love the people of Mexico! Many, many…Mexican people work for me. And I do business with them! But their leaders are too smart; too cunning; too sharp…for our leaders! And…gonna have a wall! And people could come into the country, but they're gonna come in legally! They have to go through a process. And they're gonna come in legally, and we're gonna have a country back! Because right now, if you don't have borders, you don't have a country! We don't have a country! Okay!? We don't have a country…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And…so we're gonna have a real wall. It's gonna be a beautiful wall. It's gonna be a big wall. It's gonna… “see this ceiling?”, the ceiling is peanuts, believe me! This is not a wall. We're gonna up many, many times and…; let's put it this way, if somebody ever gets up there, they're not gonna wanna come down very fast, that I can tell you…–CROWD LAUGHS. So we're gonna have a great wall, and it's gonna do the trick. And…uh…you know, you can ask about walls; cause just speak to Israel about walls. Israel…walls work, when you have the right wall. Walls work…–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
And…when I see…the way we negotiate, for instance, I have been going wild for years…about the prisoners! I call him the hostages. Our four people. So…let's start with the other day..; we had ten sailors, who innocently…probably were in a little bit of water that was not…perfect! And said of saying, “hey folks, you gotta get out of here; you’re…”; …a whole big deal. When I saw those young people…on their knees…in a begging position, with their hands above their head, and rifles pointing at their head; and I heard the voice of…the guy from Iran…I don't know if anybody heard it, because they sort of downplayed it at the end, but the first…couple of days, I heard this voice. This was not…a…nice character. This is a character I'd like to…be doing other things worth. Bad guy! And I heard that. And you know they're trying to downplay it as much as possible. And then finally they released them. But they only released them for one person…! You know, one…one reason. And the reason was very simple! They're waiting for 150 billion dollars. A hundred and fifty billion!
 
So, I've been hitting them hard. And I think I might have had something to do with it. You wanna know the truth! Who's using it!? It’s a part of my staple thing! I mean, I go crazy when I…when I hear about this! You go……–CROWD APPLAUDS–…you go absolutely wild…! …because…how is it possible!? We have one who's in there who's a reporter for The Washington Post. He didn't do anything wrong, by the way! You had something…although a lot of the people that work for the Washington Post do, but they…we won’t say it…–CROWD LAIGHS. No, The Washington Post is…actually they've been pretty nice lately. I must be honest with you.
 
But…but you have you have a person who's in there because he's a minister as a Christian minister; he's a pastor. And you have people that didn't deserve to be there. They're in one of the worst prisons in the world! And we had to do something! So I'd always talk about it. So today, I heard, “oh, they’re being released!”, like it's this big…; first of all, it should have taken place three and a half, four years ago, whenever the hell they started. Did you ever see an agreement take so long as this thing…!? It went on…; how long has this thing been going on!? Years and years! Should have been done right at the beginning. They should have said, “listen, we gotta have our prisoners back”.
 
They would say, “no”. You leave the room. They'll call you back. You double up the sanctions. They'll call you back within 48 hours. 100 percent, okay? But we waited and waited and waited…; So here's the deal! So I figured, “wow! That's a long time!”. Then…they're getting…you know, they get their money today or tomorrow; so the prisoners…are going to be…released, when they get the money. A hundred and fifty billion dollars…but here's the other thing…! …we just heard about it…10 minutes ago! Cuz I said, “that's horrible! It should happen years before!”, but…! …they're getting…seven people that they've wanted…much more serious; real people, real people, meaning…they committed real problems. And they're getting, I guess, 14 or 15 other people, that are on the watch list of terror, and other; these are really bad dudes! And they're being taken off the watch!
 
So they're getting essentially 22 people. And…a hundred and fifty billion…! So…here's the deal: we give them their…okay? We give them a hundred and fifty billion dollars. We give them, essentially twenty-two people, twenty one, twenty two people…but these are people that really did have problems, and we're getting back for people that didn't do anything wrong! That's the way we negotiate. That's the way we negotiate! It's so…sad! It's so…sad! And this has been going on forever!
 
Bergdahl! We get Bergdahl…a dirty, rotten traitor, right? We get Bergdahl. Sergeant Bergdahl. How did he ever get to be a sergeant? We get Bergdahl…; we get Bergdahl…and they get…what? Five people…killers, that a back on the battlefields…; the press thinks they’re not back. They’re back. Believe me. They're back. Five people that they most wanted. They're back in the battlefield. Or will be! Top-level people that they've wanted for nine years! So we get a dirty, rotten traitor…; that I'd…fly back, I swear, I'd flying back…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…I'd drop him right the hell…right in the middle of that…; I would drop him. And…and don't forget folks! You know, cause I've seen the parents. Five people, at least, and it could be six; but at least five people were killed looking for Bergdahl. You know, they went out looking for him. This is not friendly territory: And they went out looking for him. So at least five people were killed…! …were killed…! …looking for Bergdahl. And now Bergdahl is going to trial. And a lot of people say nothing's gonna happen to him!

Now, in the old days, while we were strong as a country, he would have been shot! He would have been…like fast trial. Fair trial, fast trial: boom, if he's guilty he's gone. Right? That would have been 40, 50 years ago. 20 years ago at least he'd be in prison for a long time. Ten years ago, he would have been in prison, maybe for a short time. Now they're talking about nothing! Six people! …five people…I'm almost it’s six, because they say another one too, and I saw the parents, and they think…; but I'll tell you what: we have to change our ways. We have to be smart. We have to be vigilant. We have to be tough…
 
I turn on the television today. What do I see? Islamic…right? Right!? …–CROWD YELLS ‘RIGHT!’. Radical…Islamic…terrorism. That's what I see! A hotel, blown up…blown to pieces. Hundreds of people horribly wounded, and burning, and running onto the streets. I mean, they say 25 killed, that was as if this morning when it happened, so you know the number’s gonna be…a tremendous number. We…something's going on! We gotta be careful! We can't just do this! We gotta make sure the Syrian…the migration…; we don't know where these people come from! We don't know where they come from! …–CROWD APPLAUDS. We don't know where they come from! We have no idea! You know, the story of the Trojan horse. This could be the ultimate Trojan horse. But we have no idea where they come from! I have a big heart. I mean, I…I actually do. I'm the world's most militaristic person, but that doesn't mean I wanna use it! I wanna have it, because we need it! And I'm the one that didn't wanna go into Iraq. And you've seen that, and you heard me say it! In 2003, 2004, they have headlines, “Trump says don't go into Iraq, you're going to destabilize the Middle East”. That's good vision! “Trump writes in his book, in the year 2000, about Osama bin Laden”. That's a good vision! I talked about Osama bin Laden! Why didn't they kill him!? And I saw him on television! And I saw…read about him in the papers, and I saw…these guys are two  threatening guys! Let's take him out! Nobody took him out.
 
Then a chance to take him out; Bill Clinton actually had a chance to take him out! They never pulled the trigger. You've heard that story. They had him…and they decided not to pull the trigger. Had they pulled the trigger, you’d…probably, wouldn't have had that destruction. Because he was, really, in charge of that whole World Trade Center horror show that took place. So you gotta have vision! So some people say, “oh, Trump is very tough…”, I mean…they’re a little afraid. Like Bush! This guy Bush, he's like low-energy, right? …–CROWD LAUGHS. He lost another debate! Can you believe it…!? He loses…he…all he does his run for office, he loses debates. But…he said…–CROWD LAUGHS. No, think of it! “Who won the debate! Did ‘Trump’ won the debate!?” …–CROWD YELLS ‘YES!’ AND APPLAUDS.
 
I will say this, this is the first time. You know, the polls all indicate, from…from…every virtually every debate. The polls all indicate…! They do the polls, Drudge, who’s an amazing guy, he has a poll. Time Magazine; Slate…all these plays! You know, they all have these polls. It's like seven or eight of them. A lot of them! Uh…PBS! It's online polls. They have a poll for everything. I love polls! I love them! When you're number one…–CROWD LAUGHS. If I'm number two…no, it's true, if I'm number two, I wouldn't even…; you know, a lot of people would be happy being number two. Me? No, I'm not so happy…–CROWD LAUGHS. But…I won every poll. Every poll, the online polls. I come back…in fact, my daughter always would say, Ivanka goes, “dad, you’re…leading in the poll. You’re leading in the poll; you’re leading…”.  For…every time we have a debate. And…but sometimes the pundits aren't so good to me. In other words, I may…be leaving big…! One time I'm leading by 67 percent…to, you know, second guy’s like…nine!? 67 percent. Think of it! And…and then I watch these guys on television, they say, “well, I didn't like Donald Trump's performance…”…–MR. TRUMP PLAYS THEM OUT IN A MOCKING TONE. You know, they're very dishonest people! This is the first debate…where they actually say…everybody said I won! They said I won! Finally! They're getting smart! They're getting smart! …–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
But I enjoy it! And I enjoy the process…! And, you know, we have fun with it. But…we have really more fun, and…you know, straightening out the country. It's not something I wanted to do. It's not something I wanted to…to be doing. I love…my life. I love what I'm doing. I have a wonderful family. I have a fantastic company, that I built. That is…amazing company. We…we put in plans…; a lot of people say, “he'll never run!”. And then I ran.
 
They said, “oh…!”, the pundits.
Then they said, “oh! he'll never…sign form A”…it's a one-page. It's…basically you sign your life away. I've…signed it!
They said, “what's this!?”. They couldn't believe it.
They said, “oh, he'll never put in his financials! Never put it. Because…you know, he's probably not as rich as everybody thinks”.
So I put in my financials…; And probably I…a little secret, I would have filed them anyway, I think, because…I would wanna show everybody how good I've done! Because nobody…–CROWD LAUGHS–…it's true. It's true. Because people don't…people don't even know.

So I put in the financials; and…you had to see these guys…see that group? …–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS–…all those people back there? They…they…it made them look like peanuts. The waiting…in front of the federal…election. Trying to find out, “why!?”. And everybody saw, and these are all…you know, certified numbers; strong numbers, by you accounting firms and all. And the funny thing is, I had almost a hundred pages of financials. And…with tremendous numbers. And…I filed on time. Then they said…by the way, they said, “oh! Well, he's gonna ask for extensions!”. Cuz you're automatically given 45-day extension, so you could extend…!
 
“So he'll ask for extensions beyond the election!”. Do you believe that!?
I said, “fellas, I don't want any extensions; whatever it is, it is”. We filed. The numbers are fantastic. Very little; debt tremendous cash floats; some of the great assets; you know Doral Country Club in Miami; and so many…assets, all owned. 40 Wall Street, and Trump Tower, and…Bank of America, big chunk Bank of America building in San Francisco. 1290 Avenue, the America…is one of the biggest office buildings in New York. And so many others! And they said, “what's this…these numbers are so good!?”. They were so devastated.
 
And the only reason I tell you that is because that's the kind of thinking we need…!; I don't care about that! I…it’s…it's what we need, to get our country! We owe 19 trillion dollars…! They just made this budget deal that's horrible! I…who…you know!? They made it! They did it like…in one day! Right!? Is it…one day it was done! In one day! I never saw…and I'm actually more disappointed…I’m Republican…; but I'm more disappointed with the Republicans, because the Democrats…–CROWD APPLAUDS–…you know? Right?
 
These guys, we send them down there. And…and they get down there, and…I don't know what happens to them! But…but if you think about it, we know where the Democrats are coming from, right? I'm not disappointed…I respect them! It's amazing! In fact, I've said the other day, “Obama is the worst negotiator I've ever seen! Except…! when it comes…to negotiating…with the Republicans”. Then he's a great negotiator! Right!? Right!? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's true! I mean, I'm more disappointed…I'm much more disappointed with the Republicans! And it went so quickly! That thing took like a day! It was like…; they said they're putting in a budget, and…; you’re talking about a budget…it’s gonna raise up the debt, from 19 to 21 trillion dollars; very quickly. And it really…it funds Obamacare; it funds the Syrians coming in…; it funds people coming in through the border; I don't know what these people are thinking about!
 
You know, we all put…and a…Tea Party, we're tough? Right? Tough people. And the Tea Party…by the way, I have to tell you, okay? Cuz I'm getting great support from…evangelicals, from…sort of every group; and the Tea Party…; but I have to tell, the Tea Party people are amazing…people! They're amazing…; they want one thing, they wanna make the country great again! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They wanna make the country great again! They're…they’re amazing…dedicated, wonderful Americans, and they wanna see good things happen. That's what it…what a Tea Party person is! I mean, it's so simple! They ask me, “how do you define the tea party?”. And…sometimes I say, “maybe, we should work on a public relations drive, or something”, okay? Because it's ridiculous. The Tea Party are among the greatest people. And they wanna see…this country gets strong again…; be great again…; pay less taxes…; make the dollar stretch better…; have strong borders…; protect…the Second…Amendment, which we're going to do! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Get rid of Common Core…! I mean, when…when guys like…when guys like Bush come down, and then Lindsey Graham supports him, but…uhm…I don't know, Lindsey Graham even knows this! But…Bush is in favor of Common Core! Nobody can win when you're in favor of Common Court! It’s a disaster! And he's also weak on immigration! Remember “they come across the border as an act of love”. Do you remember that one? …–CROWD LAUGHS. I heard those too…Common Core, act of love…and Lindsey Graham supporting him. I like Lindsey Graham, actually, you know, you…; I like him now that he's out, he…he gave up…–CROWD LAUGHS. He’s a nice guy. I think he's a nice guy, actually, he's fine. But he's support him. And I said, “how can you support somebody that's in favor of Common Core, and also…that…”.

So…you know, it's one of those things. But…and it doesn't make any difference, because Lindsey's gonna give him all of his people…that voted for Lindsey. You know what is? Zero! Zero! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Everybody that voted for Lindsey…right? Everybody that voted for Lindsey is going to be…so they'll say, “everybody that voted for Lindsey Graham is going to Bush”, you know, I said, “huh! Bush went down!”. I mean, he actually…–CROWD LAUGHS; which is hard to do when you're three!
 
You know what I do like though…? …and what I talk about? I only talk about this because, you know, he keeps taking ads about me! You know…? Some aren't even bad. I’d…I look actually sort of handsome…; I was younger and, you know, I look good…–CROWD LAUGHS. But he keeps thinking these days, spending a fortune and ads against me. And…and you would say, “why is he doing that?”. He's got it…he's got a knock out about seven or eight guys before he gets to me. I would…if I were him, honestly? I’d take like the guy in front of him, a couple of guys that…–CROWD LAUGHS–…right? Don't you think? Not the guy up here! Because he may do…damage to me…! …which would be fine, but…you know, he's not gonna benefit! One of the other guy’s gonna benefit! So it's a little…stupid, but this is the kind of thinking we have going on in this country…–CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. You know…;
 
But…but think of it! And I use…I use Jeb as I thing. First of all, he's ashamed of his last name. Why does he call some…Jeb Bush? I'm telling you, I'm a good brander. He's making a mistake, Jeb! …with the…you know, hyphen…; with the mark…; with the exclamation point. Don't do that! Call yourself Jeb Bush. It's okay! If it doesn't work…it can't be any worse than it is now, right!? …–CROWD LAUGHS. Two percent! Two percent! Okay? But here's the thing, here's the thing: so Jeb…has spent…this is like the Woman Skating Rink; this is like the hotel, right? Under budget, ahead of schedule: me. So Jeb has spent 69 million dollars, so far. Wouldn't it be great if he could give that money to the wounded warriors…? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Seriously. Instead of wasting. Wasting. It’s wasted! You know, his campaign manager…these people are going out buying Ferraris, and stuff, I assume…! I mean, I don't know, but they're making a lot of money! I heard he took millions of dollars in Texas! They'll never get to Texas, he's talking…; you know why? Cause if they don't spend the money…the guys in the campaign can't take their commission! Okay!? Does anyone know that? You're now vicious that is? I'm telling you! Working in those campaigns is better than being a real estate broker in South Carolina. Okay? …–CROWD LAUGHS. It's terrible!
 
But Jeb has spent 69 million dollars…and he's essentially at the bottom of the barrel, right? I spent like nothing…! like nothing…and I'm way ahead. I'm way up, by bike…what? 20 points or something. I mean, 20 points ahead! They'd like to have 20 points. 20 points ahead! And…I say to myself….and by the way, just so you understand, I don't wanna be like a cheap guy. I'm gonna spend money. Somebody said, “why?”. I said, two reasons. Number one: I don't wanna take a chance. Okay? I don't wanna take a chance! I just…you know, I authorized…we’re spending actually quite a bit of money. But I authorized a pretty big buy of the ads. In…Iowa, New Hampshire, and right here in South Carolina.
 
But…I said, “I don't wanna take a chance”, number one. Number two, I mean, if you look at it, I just…feel…guilty! …–CROWD LAUGHS. I feel so guilty! Cause I haven't spent anything…and all these guys have all spent tremendous amounts of money…! And I feel a little bit guilty, and sometimes they'll say, “why aren't you spending the money…?”.
I’d say, “because they have a 24-point lead!”, I mean, what do I have to spend money for!? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Seriously! No, it’s sort of crazy! They call it ‘earned media’. And…you know, like Face the Nation; the other day I did Face the Nation, two weeks ago. And I get a note from the anchor, who's a very, very nice guy. John Dickerson. High-quality guy, from CBS. They had the highest rating…and by the way, do you think I'd say this with like…12 cameras running? This is…legit stuff, right? They had the highest rate…in 15, 16 years…since the fall of the World Trade Center. Think of it! They interviewed me. Do you know the power that gives me? What do I get out of it? I get nothing! They had the highest rating, 4.6, or 4.7 million people. They do…not big numbers! They have…Meet the Press had its highest rating. George Stephanopoulos, the highest rating.
 
So that gives you a certain power. You can get things across. But when you have that power, you don't have to advertise. Because they want you on the show! When other people call, I'm…not gonna use names, but when other people call, cause they're nice to me! They're not taking ads against me, meaning. But when other people call, they don't want them on the show, cause they don't get the…ratings…the ratings. They don't even care about poll numbers, they only care about ratings. If you had terrible poll numbers, right? I got good ratings…which usually doesn't work! Usually you’ve…have…if…they go hand in hand a little bit. But they don't care about polling. They care about rating.
 
So when you have this, you have…; so I have a lot of earned media. So here I am…I spend no money, practically, no money! I mean, most of it’s…the fuel for my jet! Then they say, “he leases his jet…from himself!”. I say, “yeah I have to! There's a law! You have to lease it from…”. I lease my jet for myself, you know; you have to figure a market value, and pay yourself back…; it's the craziest thing. So the thing is, “Trump is making money on this campaign!”. He's paying himself money! You know, I owned the jet, I'm paying myself…–CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. No, would you believe it? We had one headline that… “Trump may be the first candidate in history to actually make money running for president” …–CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. It's weird! It's weird! And we're selling…and we are, we're selling those DonaldJTrump.com, right? We're selling the hats. The hats… ‘make America great again’, the shirts we sell on the .com. Look at how handsome that young guy is…. And we're doing great.
 
But anyway, I feel guilty, and I really do…and…I just wanna do it; and I don't wanna take a chance,. So…we're spending money. Now, it's probably wasting. But here's where I look at it: I'm 37.9 million under budget. In other words, I figured…–CROWD LAUGHS–…true! I figured by…by January 1st, which is a couple of weeks ago, I would have spent thirty-seven point nine million. I think that was the number, right around that number, thirty-eight million dollars. I spent nothing! So I'm so far under budget! So if you don't mind…; and I…but I love telling the story! That…I spent nothing, and I'm up here! …–MR. TRUMP SHOWS WITH HIS ARM. Other guys spent tremendous amounts of money, and they're down in the toilet, right? I love telling the story! Because if you could equate that to the country…think of this: In education…we're number one in the world…in cost…per student. By a factor of many! It's…number two is way, way…you know, it doesn't even exist practically.
 
We spend more per pupil…than anybody else by far. And yet…we're number twenty-eight in terms of…quality. So…we spend more than anybody else…and to a large extent that's Common Core, because…you know, these people in Washington, the bureaucrats are making a fortune, they don't give a damn about your kids in South Carolina. And…some of them do, in all fairness, but a lot of them don't. They wanna know how much are they getting paid this week. And they do things, and the right things…; and you're studying things…that, you know, you don't wanna be you're wasting your time.
 
So…but wouldn't it be nice if…so we spend…the most amount of money, and we're at…you know, doing horribly! We have third…world…nations that have better education…than the United States. And yet we spend…many times more than what anybody else spends, right? Wouldn't it be nice if you could take my campaign theory? We spend the least, and we have…the best! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We spend the least, and we have the best. And one of these…cause…you know, I…I think it's Norway…; Sweden…; China…; you know, some of these places have phenomenal educational systems. And one of the folks were telling me, actually in Iowa; they said, “Mr. Trump, they're trying to get us to go Norway, so…if we can do that so easy…; but they won't let us, because the stuff that they have is so much…it's so bad! What they're sending us in from Washington…it's so bad!”. And these are parents. These are people that really love the students! These are great people that love the students! Love the teachers! Wanna have the right teachers. There's no way of…supervising it from Washington. But Norway, Sweden, China…these are places that have unbelievable…areas of education. And I think Norway and Sweden are like number one and two. And…they study it, but they can't implement it, because Washington won't let them.
 
So…we're gonna change that! We're gonna save money, and we're gonna go way up the list. I wanna watch, cuz I'm a big believer in education, to put it mildly. We're gonna go way up the list.
 
So…just to cut it short, here's the story. We're gonna have strong borders. We're gonna have the wall. We’re not gonna pay for the wall. We're gonna have the wall. It's gonna be a beautiful, gorgeous, big…wall that they're gonna name ‘Trump’ someday. That's why I'm gonna make it…–CROWD LAUGHS. Someday they'll call it the ‘Trump wall’. I have to make it beautiful, as opposed to……–CROWD LAUGHS. We're gonna make it beautiful, and very effective. Okay. We're gonna take care of our military. We're gonna rebuild it. We're gonna be so strong. We're gonna be so powerful. Nobody…and by the way, that's cheaper…than what we're doing now. What we're doing now…is insanity. We're weak…and they know a weak!
 
You know, when you hear, “we're not going here; we're not going there…”. I've been saying, “bomb the oil”, for how many years? You've been listening to me; for three, four years. They just started doing it. ISIS became rich with the oil. “Bomb the oil”. You know one of the reasons…? …and now, I can't believe it. They actually said it's true. To me it's hard to believe it's true. One of the reasons they didn't wanna bomb the oil? Why? Environmental pollution! No, no it's so truth! No, they say…the smoke, and everything going into the atmosphere is bad for the environment…–CROWD LAUGHS. No, it's true.
 
Now, I don't know…! Maybe they were kidding from the White House. Maybe they were kidding! I don't think it's anything to kid about! Environmental pollution. So how do you think General George Patton…who looked at people in that faint, right’ How do you think General George Patton would feel about environmental pollution? Those wells would have been bombed…three years ago; and if the president said no way, he'd say, “oh, I'm sorry President, we made a mistake. We bombed the hell out of it. I'd like to apologize” …–CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. Or General Douglas MacArthur. And we have General Douglas MacArthur. And we have George Patton right now! Coming out of West Point! Coming out of Annapolis! Coming out of the Air Force Academy. I mean, I went to a great school, but I know those schools! And those are great schools. We have great people, but a lot of times our great and tough and smart, but they can't go to the top! Because they're not politically correct!
 
One of the guys…too tough! He's too smart… “he uses bad language” …or she. Rough, tough…; we need…smart, tough…people! We have to let our top people go to the top. When it comes to trade with China, we lose so much money. With Japan! And China! Vietnam is a new one. Mexico, all of them! Everybody beats us. I know the smartest business…we have the greatest business people in the world! Nobody ever uses them. Nobody ever calls Carl Icahn, who's great! One of the richest people. He doesn't care! He doesn't care about the money! He’d…do you think he wants his hundred and fifty thousand dollars? He…he wants to do something! If I took Carl…I said, “Carl, do me a favor. We're getting killed with China on trade…”; and by the way, they come…they don't pay tax. When we send…there's plenty of tax and you can't even get your product in there. Okay folks? Don't ever think it's free trade. It's totally unfair trade. But five hundred-million-dollar deficit. Five hundred billion! Deficit! Deficit on a yearly basis…!; how can you have a country when you're losing that much!? Then someone says, “oh, you're not a free trader! That’s a terrible…”. I mean, how long you have to be a free trader to lose five hundred billion dollars a year? Right!? …–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
And you know, the funny thing…if we ever toughened up, they come to…they'd come to the table fast, because…they would have a depression that…likes of which nobody has ever seen. We have rebuilt China. What China's done to us is one of the greatest thefts in the history of the world. We have rebuilt China! …–CROWD APPLAUDS. And nobody…! …and I mean beyond Obama! I'm not just blaming…I mean, Obama's done nothing about it. But nobody…! …nobody has done anything; this has been going on for years, and years, and years! And it's time we get smart. It’s not gonna go over with…with ‘Trump’.
 
So what I'm going to do…is…we're gonna have a country with spirit! We're gonna have a country with pizzazz! We're gonna have a country that works! We're gonna use our smartest, and our brightest people. And I know who they are! I know so many…! You know, I've…I've been there! I've seen the greatest negotiators in the world. I know some that are overrated; some that are underrated; some you never heard it…; but we're gonna use real people! We're gonna use the people…that know how to do it. They're using right now political hacks. They're using people that gave campaign contributions. I mean, you give of campaign contribution to Ted Cruz, you get whatever the hell you want! Okay!? Whatever you want! And he's a very nice guy, but you give him…–CROWD BOOS. Right!? You have to get…right? It…you have to get…; well…! Excuse me…; excuse me…; he didn't report his bank loans. Excuse me, didn't report his bank loans. Say whenever you want. He didn't report Bank laws. That's okay. He didn't report his bank loans. He's got bank loans from Goldman Sachs…–CROWD BOOS MR. TRUMP. He's got bank loans from Citibank, folks. And then…and then…and then he acts like Robin Hood, you know? Say whatever you want, but doesn't work that way.
 
So we have to use our best people! We have to be smart! We have to be tough! We have to be vigilant! And we can do it. And we can make America…greater…than…ever…before!
 
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