VIDEO Nº: 98
TITLE:98. LIVE  Trump holds rally in Cedar Rapids on day of Iowa caucuses
DATE OF EVENT:01/02/2016
RELEASE DATE:01/02/2016
DURATION:01.30.45 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full Except for Palin, check
Nº OF WORDS:7893
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MR. TRUMP STARTS SPEAKING AT 00.44.53:
Wow! What a great crowd. What a great…! Look at this!
So beautiful! Well, I want to thank Sarah, first of all. Having Sarah, and her whole family…; Todd…everybody. She's got a great family. And she's a great woman. And…she really does love this country. So, having your endorsement, Sarah, means something…it just…so much, Sarah. Thank you, very much…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
And to have a crowd like this on our final day, can you believe it? This is the day. This is the day…we take our country back. Remember that…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. This is the day…we take our country back.
So, I get a little notice, in case you see, the security guys. We have wonderful security guys. They said, “Mr. Trump, there may be somebody with tomatoes in the audience” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. So, if you see somebody getting ready to throw a tomato, knock the crap out of him. Would you? Seriously. Just knocked the hell…-THE CROWD CHEERS. I promise you I will pay for the legal fees. I promise…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I promise. They will be so much, cause the courts agree with us too. What's going on in this country!?
So, over the last…period of time…this began, this journey, on June 16th. Who would have known that it was gonna turn out to be what it turned out to be? It's been…so pleasurable. I've seen so many people. I've gotten to know so many people. We have a movement! And Sarah alluded to it. But we have a movement going. Whether we go to Dallas. We had 21 thousand people. In the Mavericks Arena. 35 thousand people in Mobile, Alabama. 12 thousand people the other night in Massachusetts…; no matter where we go, we have incredible, incredible crowds that truly love this country. And…we are in fact going to take it back. You know, our theme is: Make America Great Again. It's very simple…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…it's very simple! And we're going to make America great again.
Now, you have to stick up for your rights in life. We were talking about this before with a group. And…I wanted to debate so badly…the other night! I wanted to go back…; but when people don't treat you properly…just like when they don't treat our country properly. When Iran, after all we did with the 150 billion dollars…can you believe that!? I can't even think about it. Iran, the deal we made. And then they capture our sailors; they put guns to their head; they make them sit in a begging position, with their hands up. And the only reason they released them is because they wanted their 150 billion. I mean, let's not kid ourselves.
We have to…develop…and we have to get respect back for this country. We are not respected anymore. We've had leadership that's grossly incompetent, and it can't go on any longer. This is why, on June 16th, I said “I'm running”. We're gonna do something that's gonna be so amazing. And we are going to make our country great again.
So…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUSD. So, with Fox, and with the debate…and you know, we could have broke the record. They had 12 million. The record is close to 25 million. I was in that one. 25 million. We would have broken the record that night. But we did the right thing. And, frankly, Fox is great. We're back. We're friends. All of that stuff. But I said, “I'm not going into that debate”. And we held something in lieu of the debate. I said, “let's have a rally for the veterans”, right? We love our veterans, right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…at that rally, we raised in one hour 6 million dollars. Is that good? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, you know…our veterans are not properly taken care of. It's a scandal. The Veterans Administration is corrupt. It's incompetent. It's run so badly…; we have veterans that wait…six days for a doctor. In a waiting room! Can you imagine? You go to a waiting room…; you've done so much for the country…; you were wounded, you're…not feeling well…; something could be very, very…I mean, you see what's happening with the debt. Something could be minor! And you’re waiting six days and it turns into be major. So, what we did [was], we raised this money; and…we're giving it out. And we just gave out a check for 100 thousand a little while ago. We’re giving out another check, and they can bring it up, and we’re gonna delivered it right to…; It's Mulberry Street Veterans Shelter. They do an amazing job…! And we have been very careful with giving this money…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Bring it up, Ben!
A PERSON, REPORTEDLY BEN, COMES UP ON THE STAGE WITH THE CHECK.
That's a great group of people. And we have so many of these checks. They're all over the place. We're giving them out. This was in lieu…; and by the way, the poll numbers just came down from New Hampshire. I went through the roof. I think they did it…they respect the fact that I…that we stand up for our rights…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We have to stand up for the country. And we have to stand up for our rights![paa1]  So congratulations to Mulberry Street.
We don't win anymore.[paa2]  Our country doesn't win. We used to win. We used to win plenty. We used to have great generals. We used to have General George Patton. General Douglas MacArthur. We have the potential to have great generals now! You look at…Annapolis and West Point. You look at the Air Force Academy. I know him so well! I know him all so well. We have great, young, brilliant people. But we don't have the right leadership, on top. To think that ISIS…; oh, we're gonna win. We're gonna win so much. You're gonna get so tired of winning! We are gonna win! We're gonna keep winning! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. It's true! It's true! We're gonna keep winning.
You're going to say, “Mr. President…please, please! We can't stand it! We're winning too much! We can't…!” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
And I'm gonna say, “I'm sorry, I'm not changing a thing. We're gonna keep winning!”. But we are not winning at all now. But we're gonna keep winning! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We are indeed going to keep winning. We are gonna win with trade. We're gonna win with our military. We're gonna build it big, and strong, and powerful…; and you know what? Nobody's going to mess with us. It's the absolute cheapest thing we can do. It's the least expensive thing we can do. It's gonna be big, and strong, and powerful again.
You know, I have a friend, he's got a…uhm…young son who's a great, great young man. He was over for two tours of duty. And I said, “how…how is it, the Middle East? How is it over there?”.
He said, “it's so sad Mr. Trump. We have old equipment. The enemy has the good stuff”.
And I said, “what are you talking about?”
He said, “we give equipment to people that we think are on our side. A bullet is fired in the air. They run…[and] the enemy goes, [and] takes the equipment”.
And I talk about it all the time. Two thousand…three hundred…brand new…armor plated Humvees, Sarah. Okay? Brand new. 2,300. I even say: “how do you get them over there…that many?”. And I thought it was a mistake. I figured they meant two or 23. 2,300. The best in the world. Armor-plated, Top, bottom…all over.
If…a bomb goes off…our wounded warriors, instead of losing their legs, their arms or worse…they're okay. They go for a little ride upward, and they come down. The best stuff, all gone; taken by the enemy. Taken…by the enemy.
So, we don't know who we're fighting for. We don't know how to fight anymore. We have generals that go on television! They're always, constantly, on television! I don't want my generals going on television. And they talk. I saw one of them who's retiring. They said, “what do you think of ISIS?”.
“Oh, they're very tough. They’re very tough…”.
I said: “what's he doing!? What's he doing!?”. You know, you're talking about 30 thousand. What's he doing? Why is he saying that? It just emboldens them…to do what they wanna do. And we have to hit them…so hard, and so fast. They are cutting off Christians heads. They're cutting off everyone else's heads. They are maniacs! We've gotta hit them so hard, and so fast. And we're gonna do it when I get in, and it's gonna be over with…quickly…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We have to be unpredictable. You know, it's really….; it's…the system. And the sit…oops. We have a protester. Oh, good! I hope we have a protester over there. “Cameras, show them how many people are in this room” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. “Get out of here, please!”. Get him out. Do you have a tomato? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. All right, you can get him out. You know the story. I can't get the cameras to turn, ever! And my wife, Melania, who's here right now…; in fact, “come on up, Melania! Come on up! Come up!” …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That…is the true story.
So…now, this is a 100 percent, true story. Melania, so…great! Such a great supporter! Unbelievable. She said, “you know [that] if you run, you will win”.
I said, “what do you mean?”. She's my pollster. She turned out to be my pollster.
She said, “people love you and they respect you. If you run…”, and actually run…; she said, “if you just say you're going to run, they're never gonna…go with you. Because they're gonna say it's never gonna happen and it's not gonna poll”.
I said, “but I said it, and…they don't wanna put it in the poll”.
“So you have to actually say, you're gonna run. And if you run, if you go out, and actually run, you're gonna win”.
So that…you know, a lot of things have happened. But I have to tell you. She says to me, every time I come home. “How big, how great was an audience?”. Like in Dallas. The audience was unbelievable. This big stadium…; and it was packed! In Mobile…; so many places. Oklahoma, 20 thousand people. And I'll say, “did you see that crowd?”.
She’d say, “no, [I] didn't see it. [I] Didn't see it”.
“Why?”.
“They never showed. All they do is show your face. They never show the crowd”. And the only time they show the crowd is when there's a protester. So, I love our protesters…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And I actually thought…! I actually thought, a 100 percent, that these cameras…you know, they’re new, beautiful…; look at all those networks back there. Look at all those lights on. Every one of them. Every time I make a speech it's live! I'd rather make speeches someday when it's not live. But you know what? Those cameras…I thought they were fixed, like they couldn't turn. Because they never move! And then one day we had a protester…not so…long ago. Rough guy. Big, big voice. [He] sounded like Pavarotti. And he was throwing punches! He was swinging! He was hitting people, throwing punches…; and I was rough. I said, “get him out here!”. I was much louder than that. “Get him out! Get that guy out of here! Beat the hell out of him! Who cares!?”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And I'm screaming…; and the next day, and this guy was a bad guy. He was a rough cookie. And then, security took care of it. By the way, the police…? The most incredible people. Right? Our police. We love our police! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We love our police.
Like our veterans, the police are not being treated properly either. I'll tell you what. They're not being treated properly.
So they took this guy out and I was rough. And the next day, headlines, “Trump was horrible! And abusive! And this…!”. All right. [The] next day I'm making a speech, and there's another protester. And I said, “please don't hurt him. Easy. Don't worry, bah, bah”.
The next day in the newspapers, “Trump's really not as strong as we thought he was”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS-… “maybe he's weak…”. But it is true.
What happens…; I go home, I'd say, “did you see the crowd?”.
And Melania would say, “no, I didn't see any crowd. They just keep it in your face”.
And I said, “isn't that a shame?”. They purposely…; we have the biggest crowds there are. Bernie Sanders has…by the way, he's second, in all fairness. Oh, I'd love to run against him! Oh! Oh! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. Can you believe it? To run against the communist in this country…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I just…no, no. I would love…! No, I’d love that! Wouldn't that be great? And I’d have Sarah [Palin] up there. We will have a lot of fun. But, I would love to.
But, I think I might rather run against Hillary! Right!? I think! There'd be something really good about that. But the question is whether or not she's gonna be able to run. So, with Melania…THE CROWD LAUGHS-…I don't know. She's [Hillary] got a big…; she’s got a big question going.
So, every night…; so, I'd say, “finally”. I’d say, you know what honey? You’re coming. I'm gonna introduce you to the crowd”. This is an incredible crowd. By the way, caucus. Tonight, Ivanka is gonna be in this room. She's gonna be my representative, wo's standing right here. “Ivanka come up!”. “Melania, say a few words. Come on”.
MRS. MELANIA TRUMP INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.58.11:
 
This is so nice. You know, this is like the last speech before the big event! I'm gonna go home. I'm gonna let the Ivanka really work up here tonight. She's staying right here, because in this room…at 7 o'clock, she's gonna convince everybody to caucus properly. Meaning…Trump. Right? And if she doesn't do a good job I’ll say, “Ivanka you're fired”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. So, we're gonna have a good time. “Ivanka, say a few words”.
MS. IVANKA TRUMP INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.59.28:
 
You know, this is a little like when I graduated from college, or high school. It's…over! In terms of…Iowa. For a little while! Now, we're gonna be back for the general. Okay? And we're gonna win the general. We're gonna beat Hillary so bad! I'm telling you. We're gonna beat her badly! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. Because I still think it's gonna be her. Because I think, basically, “Sarah, I think you’d agree”. I think the Democrats are protecting her. “Do you agree with that?”. I think they'll find all sorts of things…; all sorts of illegality…; It's already been found! I mean, how many lawyers have to go on television [to] say she's guilty, guilty, guilty!? They know the facts!
So it's gonna be very interesting to see what the…Democrats do. They have a big problem on their hands. It's a tough, tough problem. But one way or the other, we're gonna…uhm…do some big victories.
You know, when they go over…the recent polls, where I'm beating Hillary fairly substantially…; but, even more important, cause it's a long way off, I think we will win states that are not in the Republican view. For instance, …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. For instance, numbers came out the other day, really great in Michigan. Well, we're not gonna win Michigan! The other people are not gonna win Michigan. It's gonna be…; you know, you have your little formula. You have to win all six of six states. I really think we have a lot of margin. And I think we'll win those six anyway. But we're gonna win Michigan. We're gonna win Ohio. We're gonna win Florida. You know, in Ohio…and I like Kasich. I like him. But in Ohio, in the poll, I'm leading him by a lot! Right? And then in Florida, I'm at 48…and Marco, who I also like, is at 11; and…Jeb Bush…-MR. TRUMP SAYS IT IN AN EXHAUSTED VOICE. THE CROWD LAUGHS. THEN, HE ADDRESSES A COMMENT FROM A MEMBER IN THE CROWD-… “He says ‘low-energy’”…-MR. TRUMP AND THE CROWD LAUGHS. Did any phrase…ever hit a human being like ‘low-energy’ hit Jeb? Boy! [paa3] You know, he spent…I…the only reason I don't feel badly about it…; he spent 20-25 million dollars on negative ads on me. 25…I say, “who is this guy!? What's he doing!?”. He's gotta beat all these other people before he gets to me. He should go after them first. And he goes after almost everybody. He's got 128 million dollars to waste. Wouldn't it be great to give that to the veterans’ groups? I mean, instead of wasting it…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Instead of wasting it.
So, I think we're gonna win states that we’re never in…the vocabulary. They were not going to be won by any Republican. And, you know, you look. And you just look at the kind of poll numbers. When Florida is at 48 percent, and that's 48.
A…uhm…study came out the other day. A poll of sorts. [It] said that Trump does great with the African-American community. And I know I do. I knew that! And they actually came up with the number of 25 percent. And they said, “you know, if Trump got 25 percent, no Republican gets more than six or seven percent”. They said if Trump got actually 25 percent, the election's over! It's a…; it’s…actually over. You have yourself a Republican, and you have somebody that's gonna do a great job for you…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we're gonna do great, because…we're gonna bring back jobs. We're gonna bring them back from China. We're gonna bring them back from Japan! We're gonna bring it back from Mexico…who is doing a big number on us. I love Mexico. I love the Mexican people! But their leaders are too smart for our leaders. They’re too cunning for our leaders. Their leaders are doing an…unbelievable job! I wish our leaders could do the same job to other countries! But again, we don't win. We never have victory.
So, we're gonna change that. You look at China. Take a look at what's going on. And I talk about…; cause that's really…; they have got us figured so beautifully…! And then they come over, their leaders come over. We give them fancy state dinners…; we roll out the red carpet…; you gotta talk! You gotta negotiate! You don't have to have these dinners that last for seven hours! You gotta talk! And you gotta negotiate! And you gotta get them back on track. They're devaluing their currency, which I don't think Obama even knows what the hell it means. They're devaluing their currency. They make it impossible for our businesses to compete. Impossible. And…again, I don't blame them. The largest bank in the world, is a tenant in one of my buildings in Manhattan. Okay? The largest in the world. They definitely pay their rent on time, I wanna tell you. They are…so big…; You talk about a bank…too big to fail. This bank blows everything away by many times.
So, I have the biggest bank. I sell condos to these people for millions, and tens of millions of dollars! Everything is good with China! The problem is, their leaders are too smart and too cunning for our leaders. Our leaders can't handle them. And what's happening is when they start devaluing…; you know, when they devalued, about six months ago, they devalued the largest devaluation they've done…in two decades. And I said, “Wow! That's amazing!”. Because we figured that was the end of it. But we have so many other problems…; and we have people that don't understand the art of negotiation…-SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. But I do…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Oh, they're not doing it with us. Don't worry. “So beautiful. That was so cute. Thank you”. Will you give her a hat, please?  Give her a Make America. Great Again. What timing! But they don't understand it.
So, what's happening is our country is being eaten away. Now, this is by everybody! But China is the king, when it comes to this.
Now, what's happened is…in the history of the world, there has never been a greater theft…than what China has done…to our country. The USA. There's never been anything like it…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. We have rebuilt China. We've rebuilt their roads, their bridges, their tunnels…; we've rebuilt everything. They've taken out so much money.
And, Boeing, as an example. They make an order for planes. They want them built in China. They want all of the intellectual properties. They want all of the rights. This isn't like a normal situation! We have to stop it. And we can stop it! Because we have all the cards! What people don't understand is…we have all the cards. But we're using people to negotiate…that are political hacks. They have no talent. They're not business people. We have the greatest business people in the world. The greatest. Many of them endorsed me! Carl Icahn…just endorsed me. You know Carl…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And if we used a Carl Icahn or…look, I know…most of them. The greatest. Some are…horrible people. Some are miserable, disgusting people…that Sarah Palin would never, ever, have dinner…; she’d say, “who is this person!? I never wanna see him again!”. But who cares Sarah? They're the best negotiators in the world! Those are the people we want. Right? So, you're okay with one quick dinner. We’ll make it a McDonald's or something…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
Hey, they don’t wanna have dinner either! They just wanna work! That's all they wanna do! These are the greatest negotiators in the world. I know them! I want them representing us with China, Japan, Vietnam, a new one…that's really just killing us! They are gonna represent us. We're gonna make our country rich again…before we can make it great again.
A woman came over to me…and a lovely woman. Recently, at one of the events. And she came over and she said, “Mr. Trump, I really, really like you, but two things. Number one. Are you nice enough to be president?”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
I said, “honestly? I think I'm a really nice person. I love people. I love helping people. That's why I'm doing this. We're gonna straighten out the country! It's such a mess! I said, “I really think I'm nice. But I don't think it matters that much anymore. I think people want competence! They want toughness! They want straightness! They also want heart! Because we're gonna get rid of Obamacare, and we're gonna repeal it and replace it with something that's so good…and so much less expensive! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we wanna have heart! And we wanna take care of people! We have to take care of people!
So, she said that. She said, “okay, I can understand that”.
I said, “it really isn't about niceness, but I think I'm a nice person”.
Then she said, “but I don't like when you say you don't make the country rich again, Mr. Trump”.
Now, this was obviously a pretty naive woman. In all fairness, it’s…as I tell the story, I say, you know, I liked her a lot, but it's pretty naïve. I said, “look, here's the story: it may not sound great. And it may not sound even politically correct…”, which is a good thing, not a bad thing…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. Cause this perilous…political correctness is out of control. Totally out of control.
But I will tell you this: we right now, in terms of…of everything that we're doing, we're going to do…we're going to make our country rich as hell. We're gonna take it back…; we're gonna create all of these things that we created…; we're gonna get rid of the regulations…; …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIDMILY. I have so many people and small businesses…! People that have farms! People that have…where…a little puddle forms, and they consider it a lake. And you have to get environmental impact studies to get rid of your puddle…; they say it's absolutely impossible.
So, we're gonna bring it back to where it was. We're gonna make it strong. We're gonna…; we're gonna be competitive again! We're gonna go…with my tax plan, we're gonna make our country rich as hell. And we can't do anything else! Once we make it rich, it becomes great! But right now, we're a debtor…nation! 19 trillion dollars going now, because of the really horrible budget just approved…by the Republicans…in one day…! It's gonna be 21 trillion dollars!
So, we're gonna make our country rich. We're gonna make our country great. We're gonna do all of these things. And we're gonna start winning big on trade. We're gonna start winning big. And we're gonna create borders…that are as good as any borders, anywhere in the world. They're gonna be strong…! They're gonna be powerful…! They're gonna be…amazing.
And then, we're gonna build a wall. And the wall…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…and this is a real wall. This isn't a wall, that's…you know, like the little walls we have where they drive the trucks over. I even say, [Did] you ever see the pictures? I saw one today! They have a wall. And they just build a ramp, and they drive the trucks over it…loaded up with drugs. So, we get the drugs, and they get the cash. [it] Comes back…[it’s] Hard to believe! They build ramps right over these little walls! The walls I built…do [you] see that ceiling…? …-MR. TRUMP POINTS UPWARDS. Figure quite a bit higher. These are walls that, if somebody gets up there, they're not coming down very easily. Nobody's getting up there. We're gonna have real border security. And people are gonna come into our country, but they are gonna come in legally! They're gonna come in legally! We're gonna have a country again!
So, all of these elements we’re doing…we…it's not…that…hard. We can't continue to go this way, cause we won't have anything left. But it's not that hard! When they say it's gonna take 25 years…to balance our budget…; and you hear the politicians! They're all talk. They’re no action…! They'll never get it done, folks. I dealt with the politicians beyond anybody! Nobody knows politicians better than Donald Trump. [paa4] I will tell you. They are all talk…! They’re no action…! They are good for one thing: getting reelected over, and over again…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY-…using people's money, from their lobbyist…! …from their special interests! …using people's money, and it's not gonna happen anymore!
You know a lot of times, you see…you see these really dumb deals. And you say, “that's dumb. That doesn't make sense.” But then, when you think, it does make sense .Because these politicians are representing…interests. Whether it's a country or a company, we’re doing stupid deals…; actually it makes sense only for that politician, and…for that company or country! Okay? Those deals are done. I'm self-funding my own campaign. It's my money. It's my money…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'm putting up my money.
And remember this: so far, I have spent very little money. Very little. I'm gonna start spending. Two reasons. Number one: I feel guilty. Number two: I don't wanna take a chance. It's true. “Sarah, I feel so guilty”.
When you have a guy like Jeb Bush, who spent over 100 million dollars…and he comes out, and he's like down at the bottom of the totem pole…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY; and I'm number one, and I've spent almost nothing…; I spent very little. Very, very little. And I don't wanna brag about that, because I wanna spend money. I wanna spend it! But it's hard to spend it! Because they give me so…look at all those cameras! Nobody else has that! They give me so much time on television…! So, they'll have a 15 minute segment, “Trump…! Trump…! Trump this…! Trump that…! Trump that…!”.
Then they stop the segment.
They go, “we'll be back with…Trump on something else, unrelated! Right after the commercial!”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
So, then I say, “man! How can we put a commercial!?”. They go, “Trump! TRUMP! Trump! TRUMP!” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
So, I was going to…at this point, to this day, virtually, exactly, I was going to have spent 40…million…dollars. I’ve spent almost nothing. I spent almost nothing. But now you notice I'm doing commercials…; I'm spending…; I wanna spend! Cause we don't wanna take a chance.
But think of this: our educational process…is so bad. You have…Norway…; Denmark…; Sweden…; China. These are the top of the pack. They’re the best educational systems in the world, according to the various lists. Right? We’re number 28. 28 in the world. We have third…world…countries…that are ahead of us. But cost-per-pupil, we're number one, by far. So, we're way, way up! In fact, number two doesn't even exist, it's such a difference.
So, we spend the most money, like Jeb and these other people; We spend the most money, up here…-MR. TRUMP SHOWS WITH HIS HAND-…but we're down at the bottom of the totem pole, over here…-MR. TRUMP SHOWS AGAIN. Wouldn't it be nice…if…and…I'm not just relating this to education! I'm relating it to a lot of things. I'm relating it to everything. Wouldn't it be nice, if we could spend the least and have the best result? Wouldn't that be nice? Wouldn't that be great?
So, we're going to do that. And…we're going to do things where other people respect us. As an example, we protect…and most people don't even know this. And I've really become somewhat of an expert on it. I will tell you. Because it's such common sense. We protect Japan! Making a lot of money. By the way, Abe [Shinzo], the new prime minister [of Japan], [he’s] doing an unbelievable job. You know who he negotiates with? Caroline Kennedy. Do you believe it? They have Caroline Kennedy on 60 Minutes. I was on 60 Minutes with Putin. We were stablemates. We didn't do it together…! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. They did ‘Putin and Trump’, and we got one of their highest ratings. So, I’m very…so now I like Putin.
Now, Putin called me a ‘genius’, by the way. He said, “Donald Trump is a genius. And he's the absolute leader over there. And he's the smartest person!”.
And my Republican…opponents…said, “you have to repute that!”.
I said, “I'm not reporting it when somebody calls me a genius! Why would I repeat it!?” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Why the hell would I repute that? But then I said to myself, “wouldn't it be nice if we actually got along with Russia…? And we got along with some of these countries…? And we let Russia knock the hell out of ISIS also…? I mean, that's not so bad! It's not so bad! …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
But you look at the different…things that the different countries that we've got throughout the world. We’re not respected by anybody, and yet they all take advantage of us. It'll be just the opposite. I have a friend, and I tell the story all the time…! He's a great…contractor; excavator. One of the biggest. He digs foundations. A big…guy…; [he] made a lot of money. He has a great company…; and…he bought Komatsu excavators. A tremendous order of Komatsu. Not Caterpillar. By the way, take a look at Caterpillar stock, folks. And I told a story a year ago. And anybody that really listened would have sold their Caterpillar stock. But, he bought Komatsu. And I said, “what's wrong?”. He looked unhappy. I told my wife, I told Melania. I said, “you know he's like unhappy”. Cause all his life he bought Caterpillar.
He said, “it was impossible to compete. They’ve so devalued the Yen, in Japan, that…and they came at me. The government…; everybody. They wanted me to buy…; and I have an obligation to my wife, to my family, to my company, to my employees…; I have to buy what's right! The difference was so much”.
I said, “which is better equipment?”.
He said, “Caterpillar is better, but the other’s good. It's fine. But I had an obligation”.
And it was very, very upset about it. And I thought about it. I said “gee! That's really…!”. And I told the story. Some of you have heard this story. This was like a year and a half ago [that] I told that story. And if somebody would have…done a short on Caterpillar, they would have been very good. Cause just based on that story, it didn't make sense!
So 60 Minutes does a story on…Carolyn Kennedy. And…it's the most incredible thing you ever saw. And they said, “how did you become the ambassador to Japan?”. And she's a very nice person! You know why I say she's very nice? Cause my daughter Ivanka likes her. That's why. Anybody…that my daughter Ivanka likes, I like. Okay? …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. That's a father. But they said to Caroline Kennedy…and you could look this up, and you'll see it. I got all those cameras back there. They'll be checking it out, but you'll find it.
They said, “how did you become the ambassador to Japan?”.
She said…very…meekly, very nicely, but meekly. She said, “well, I wanted a job. I had nothing to do. So I went to the White House. And I said, ‘do you think you could, perhaps, find something for me to do? Could you get me a job?’. And they said, ‘would you like to be the ambassador to Japan?’”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And she said, “really!? Okay!”.
So now you carry it forward a couple of years, and they're doing a story on it…; and they have Abe, and they have all these Japanese guys…the top guys, wining and dining her; and giving her big celebrations…; and doing a whole big number, and…;
And I say, “oh, it's so sad! It's so sad!”. I want one of my killers negotiating! I want one of our people negotiating. I don't want Carolyn Kennedy negotiating. I don't want her…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
So, another story…with China! Because trade is so important! It's so important…; it's sucking the blood. China has taken so much from us. They've taken our money…; our jobs…. So, a friend of mine is a great manufacturer. [He] manufactures various products. And…you know, you always hear about China; and no tax…! …and all those…;
So, China…sends this stuff over here. We let them in. No tax. No problems. No nothing. And I…am a free trader, by the way. Just so you understand. I believe…; but it's gotta be fair! So, my friend, who manufactures great products, better than what they make…cannot get his product into China. Finally, after years, he gets it in, and they charge a massive tax which they call a ‘tariff’. Massive! I said, “can I tell the story?”.
He said, “I don't care. Tell the story”. He said, “they are brutal to do business with. They're absolutely impossible”. And hence we have a five…hundred…billion…dollar a year trade deficit! We cannot continue to have that happen.
Now, when I…announced that I was gonna run for president…it takes guts. Believe me! I never did this stuff before! I create jobs…; I'd do great buildings…; I do a lot of stuff. I've created an unbelievable company. In fact, a lot of people said, “he won't run…cause he just wants to have a good time”. I don't…it’s not a good time. I love you, people. I can think of something else to be doing right now. Okay? …-A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT…- “thank you darling. I love you”.
But…but…I said, “you know what? We have to do it!”. I don't even know if we have a choice! I see the people that are running. I know the people that were running. We don't even have a choice! But when I did this, it was different. I said, “I’m gonna run!”.
Now, a lot of the pundits. And by the way, among the most dishonest people in the world…are the people that are standing by those cameras. I tell you what. The media…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Totally, totally, totally…dishonest. At least 75 to 80 percent. You might have 20 percent. Probably 5 percent is really good. But…20, 25 percent…okay. But very dishonest group of people.
But you know what? We had to do something. We had to do it fast. If we didn't do it quickly, it wasn't gonna happen. So I'm standing at the top of the escalator, with Melania. I took a deep breath. I looked down at Trump Tower…; it was like the Academy Awards. There were so many cameras.
And I said, “is this true honey?”. I said, “let's go!”. It's not something I really…and we…I had to do it, but it wasn't that I wanted to do it. And…everybody said, the pundits all said, “oh, he's not gonna run. He’s just toying. He’s just doing this. He's just trying to build up ratings for The Apprentice…which, by the way, they want to renew for two more years. And I turned them down, because of the…Steve Burke, a great guy, came up to my office from Comcast. [A] great guy. And he wanted to renew for…two…for a long time…! For as long as I want. And…now we have Arnold Schwarzenegger.
By the way, how will Arnold do on the show? Arnold Schwarzenegger. Will he be as good as Trump? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. No! He’d better, because I have a big chunk of that show! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. So we'll find out. It's…uhm…it's gonna be very interesting.
So, I come down the escalator. And you remember. I'm waving, and I we’re…and I said, “what are we doing?”. And I brought up illegal immigration. And…you wouldn't even be talking…about illegal immigration had I not brought it up…at that particular event? Okay? You wouldn't even be talking about it…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And I talked about other things! But illegal immigration…turned out…! And boy did I get…; [Do you] remember Rush Limbaugh? He said, “Donald Trump received more incoming…than any human being I've ever seen”. And he was right!
So, what happened is…I come in, and man was I being hit for three four weeks! In fact, I said, “I am gonna have to go like this for like…a…uhm…a year!? Till we get this whole thing done and win!?”. And I said, “boy! This is…like brutal!”.
And then about two or three weeks later, they started coming my way. And all these candidates started saying: “well, you know…”; cause they were seeing what was happening! Cause almost from the time I announced I've been number one in the polls. And it was immigration.
But it was also other things. It was toughness with ISIS. When CNN did their poll, “who leads with ISIS? Trump. Who leads with security? Trump. Who leads on the border? Trump. Who leads with the economy? Trump”.
But I don't mean a little bit! I mean like I was at 60, and 70, and…50, and 40…and they were at two and one…and…forget it! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. And I said “wow, that's really amazing”. But…we brought up things.
And then you had Paris. And you had 130 people killed by animals. And…that the press called ‘a mastermind’. [Do you] remember? The mastermind. They said, “oh, the mastermind is still loose”.
I said, “don't call him a mastermind. Call him the guy with the filthy, dirty hat, who's probably a low IQ guy. Call him a bad guy!”. He's not a mastermind! You know, they're using our internet…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. They're using the Internet…to radicalize our youth! And they do that because…these guys call him ‘masterminds’…! When he called that guy…; I have got…; and I have to tell you. I went on a rampage for about a week; saying, “don't call him mastermind”. I haven't heard that anymore. They don't do that anymore.
You can't…; you know, you’re building…; you're playing right into their hands. They're promoting! They're good promoters! ISIS is a good promoter! And when these kids leave our country, and they join ISIS…and then we allow them back in our country…! We're never gonna that again! Day one. They leave? They fight for ISIS? They're gone! They never come back! They never come back…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, what happened is…we're coming down the escalator…; and I talked about trade. And I talked about Mexico. And I talked about a lot of different things, because everybody's taken advantage of us and we're losing a fortune. And we're just…being destroyed.
And then all of a sudden you have Paris. And then you had, as you know, recently, in Los Angeles, a…a…similar thing. We had 14 people killed. Other people, by the way, in the hospital. With Paris it's 130 people. And it's…people that are in such bad shape in the hospital. That there are many more going to die. And some wounded so badly that you wouldn't believe. And…remember this: Paris…has…the toughest gun laws…in the world. France…has among the toughest gun laws in the world. You can't have a gun. Unless…you're a bad guy, in which case you can have all the guns you want…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
So, in Paris, or in Los Angeles, if we had a few of these people, like you, or you…; or that tough cookie, [he] looks like he could be a very good shot, right? …-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT PEOPLE IN THE CROWD. THE PEOPLE LAUGH TIMIDLY. If we had a few people in those rooms that happened to be carrying…guns; because we are going to protect our Second Amendment. Remember that…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But, if there were people in those rooms…; you know, the case of Los Angeles…; I mean, they actually threw them a wedding party! They knew them! They were friends! And they were still killed Just boom! Boom! Boom! Nothing coming in the opposite direction.
Now, If we had guns…in that room, where the bullets are coming in the opposite direction, you wouldn't have had the problem! You'd would have had a problem. But they would have had a real big problem! They would have been gone! They would have been gone…and they would have been gone fast. [paa5] 
So, these people that talk about destroying our Second Amendment, and chipping away…like Obama. And chipping away at it, like Hillary Clinton. Chipping away…! And she wants to do more to chip away…! I mean, she wants…as far as I'm concerned, she wants to get rid of our Second Amendment! So that will be a whole thing. I guarantee you one thing. Lots of things. Number one: Second, Amendment, [a] hundred percent. Hundred percent…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. Second Amendment…[it’s] so important! [it’s] So important! And you need it! You needed today! You need it for protection! It's your last line of defense! You need it! You have to have it! And if you don't have it, we're not gonna have a country either!
So, many things, and many institutions, they’re hurting. They are hurting Christianity! They're chipping away and fighting Christianity!
You know, I came up the other day and I said, fairly recently, at an event. I see the hatred! The total hatred. Radical…Islamic…terrorism. We have a president that refuses to use the words. No matter what happens. No matter what happens, even though it's 100 percent, [he] refuses to use the words. I said, “we have to take a moratorium!”. We have to see what's going on! We have too much hatred. There's so much hatred. You see the danger and the problem that two young people that got married, that became radicalized, have done…there’s too much hatred!
Again, like what I did at the opening. I took tremendous heat! Two weeks later, everyone saying, “Trump is Right. We have to study it. There's such hatred. He's the only one with the guts to say it!”. I don't wanna say it! But they say, “he's the only one with the guts to say it!” …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
So, I just wanna thank everybody. It's been…so incredible. Iowa is an incredible place. It's just…uhm…amazing. The people are amazing. But I have to say this: all over the country…they've been amazing. This is about the last speech that I'll be making in this position in Iowa. And…it was special to me to come and do it. Even though I had to drive through some pretty rocky…pretty rocky areas, right? Pretty rocky stuff. But there was no way…; they said, “you know, Mr. Trump, I think based on the weather, you could probably get away with not making the speech”. I said, “are you kidding!? I wouldn't even think about it! Okay!?”
So…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. Besides that, Sarah was here, and if I ever had…; I don't have the courage to…to not be here for my Sarah! And Sarah, again, I wanna just say, you, Todd, the entire family…you are spectacular people. Respected. You are so…respected! And there is a group of people, and it's a damn big group, they'll do anything for you. So, “stand up, Sarah, I just wanna thank you once again”. Sarah Palin, everybody…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So hopefully, we're gonna have a great victory. And if we do have it, it's a very important…; I could say very easily…a lot of the…news commentators, actually some of whom I'm sort of friendly with a little bit. You get to know him. They said; “wouldn't you be better off if you just said, ‘we wanna do well…in Iowa’?”.
And I said, “not really. I mean, I wanna be truthful. I'm a truthful person! I wanna win in Iowa! I do…be ‘well’! I wanna win! I wanna win! …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.[paa6] 
You know, three weeks ago, I was 11 points down! Now I'm seven or eight points up, and there's been this tremendous swing. And I really do.! The…evangelicals have been incredible. The whole…everybody has been so incredible!
So I could say, “I’d love to do well; and…whatever it is”. That’s the easy way. That’s called the safe way. I don’t wanna take the safe way. I wanna win Iowa. It's gonna send such a great message, that we're not gonna take it anymore. We're not gonna take it! We're not gonna take it anymore...-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
We're gonna take our country back. We're gonna make America great again. We're gonna be so happy! We're gonna be so thrilled. And we're gonna be proud to say, “we're from the USA, and we are the best, and there's nobody like us”…-THE CROWD CHEERS.
I love you all! Make sure you caucus tonight! Make sure you all caucus tonight! We're gonna have a tremendous victory! We love you! Thank you very much!
Thank you! Thank you everybody!
