VIDEO Nº: 56
TITLE:56. LIVE Donald Trump Cedar Rapids Iowa Rally at Veterans Memorial Coliseum Dec. 19, 2015
DATE OF EVENT:19/12/2015
RELEASE DATE:29/12/2015
DURATION:02.19.31 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:13994
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Wow!

Thank you! Wow!
 
Thank you very much!
 
So…thank you! This is a hell of a crowd! This is great. I just travelled three and a half hours on a big, fat, beautiful plane to get here. I had to be here! And this is an amazing group of people and I thank you. And I thank you for the support.
 
But, you know…–MEMBERS IN THE CROWD YELL ‘I LOVE YOU!’. MR. TRUMP RESPONDS–…‘I love you too. I love you. And you. Thank you’.
 
So…you know what I’m gonna say to start off? Merry Christmas! Right? And happy Holiday! Happy Holiday, but…Merry Christmas! You don’t hear it anymore! We don't hear it! So this is all about Christmas, and having a good holiday, and…ehm…that's what it's all about. HAVE–…you ever noticed? You don't hear that anymore. It's very sad. You go to these stores, and they don't put…they say…something. They put whatever they put up, but they don't say ‘Merry Christmas’. They'll start saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again folks, believe me. Believe me.
 
So you probably saw what happened…yesterday with FOX, right? Did everybody see? So we had the debate. I had one guy come at me with sound bites from his…ehm…pollster. It was so sad to watch him. So sad…Bush! –CROWD LAUGHS. No, it's just sad! I mean, it's…like…close to incompetent. You look at that, it was terrible. And then he doesn't add where it's his piece, but he doesn't show my piece! Cause my piece is what killed him! But his piece…and then they cut it! I said, ‘where's my piece!?’. No, yeah, he's a tough guy, right? He’s tough. Oh, and then they…they accused me…‘Putin called him brilliant. That's not good!’. Well, I…you know, isn't it sort of nice if like countries are always fighting with…? …maybe we get along…and let them do…? Right? –CROWD CHEERS. You mean, look…you know, we're all tough guys…! …but wouldn't it be nice if like Russia…and us could knock out an enemy together’ Not us bear the full cost…sometimes…like! –CROWD CHEERS. You know, we're always fighting. But I've had some guys say, ‘Oh! Russia…!’.
 
How about…one of our…the people up in the stage: ‘I wouldn't talk to them! I wouldn't discuss anything! I wouldn't talk to them!’. Then what do they wanna do!? They wanna have a World War three, okay? World War three. For what!? For what!? And they have problems! We all have problems! Russia's got plenty of problems! But I'll tell you what! If Putin likes me, and if he thinks I'm a good, smart person…which I mean, I hope he believes it…I am actually…actually he's, right? I am brilliant! You know that, right? –CROWD CHEERS.
 
But…but…you know what? If he says something positive…? That's a good thing! That's not a bad thing! They try and turn it around. And…it's not to be turned around! This is good! This would be a great start! If you think about the money…we spend…on fighting…everybody! And we have to rebuild our country, it's so important! It’s so vital! We have to rebuild our hospitals, and our…everything! Our roads! Our airports! Our country's a mess! Our bridges! Did you see report!? 61 percent of them are in trouble! What does that mean!? You're driving across, and it collapses! And that's been happening! You know…? Yeah, ‘give it to’…–MR. TRUMP REPEATS SOMETHING HE HAS OVERHEAD FROM THE CROWD. CROWD LAUGHS. Uh! He's been very nice to me, so I won't repeat your…your remark. He's actually. He's been one of the ones very nice. Actually, I've had a number of…they've been very nice…to me. But every once in a while, they have to get aggressive, because they have to pick up really.
 
So FOX! We all respect FOX…and they came out with their big poll last night. And they have ‘Trump’ at…thirty-nine. Up…–CROWD CHEERS–…yeah! Up eleven points. So it went up eleven points since the debate. Eleven! And I said to myself, ‘you know, I wonder…do they ever give me credited on these debates!?’, because…we've had the debates; and…every…online…poll…there’re, I think, eleven of them! I had them! I gave them to everybody! But every…online poll…has me winning by a lot! And then you go on…you know, television, and, ‘well “Trump” was okay. He was all right. He was…’. But then you see…that…at the big one…I go up by eleven points! That's a lot! And that's a lot…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…so we're at…we're at 39. Cruz’s second at 16. Then you have, I think…ehm…quite a bit lower is…others. I mean, I won't go through the names, but they get a lot of people. And then you have a lot of them into single digits. And then you…get down into the…zero territory, close to zero. Very close to zero. That's Bush…and…others…that…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. He's an embarrassment.
 
Then…then you have CNN…so you have CNN…36 to 16. Think of that: 36 to 16. Then you have…Washington Post just came out. ABC/Washington Post: ‘Trump’, 38. Second, 15. Third, 14. Fifth…INAUDIBLE…or whatever. Monmouth Paul, oh, listen to this one. You’ll love this…! And they always elude all those people back there…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS. They're terrible human beings, I'll be honest with you…–CROWD LAUGHS. No…no, some are really good, actually. But many are terrible. And they're very dishonest people. I have to tell you. I mean…the failing New York Times. I got to tell you. They wrote a story. We have got…such an incredible ground game. But you're only going to learn about it on February first. You know?
 
But we have such a great ground game. But they write these stories, that it's…so nasty! And it's always the same people writing…
So here's the New York Times. They're failing, as a paper. Failing. Badly. New York Times buys the Boston Globe. They spend 1.3 billion…! …dollars to buy the Boston Globe. They sell it for, essentially, nothing! They got rid of it after…years. They spent hundreds of millions of dollars in it! They computerized it. Oh, great! They brought it up to standard. They actually moved from one of the great buildings of the world, their…original headquarters, into a building not so good. And…but they spent hundreds of millions of dollars in losses on the Boston Globe! They end up selling it for almost nothing.
 
So…I don't know, maybe they're in for a billion five…maybe there in…let’s…but…let's just take their purchase price. I don't know. So figure…they're in for a billion three…let's say they sold it for 50, or 70, 75 million dollars. So they took a loss of…of…a billion something! Okay?
 
Then…they have an office building. One of the most…incredible, most beautiful…places. It was…it's like a cathedral…of journalism, okay? A cathedral! They sell it…to people…that…I know very well in the real estate business. Smart guys. People…smart! We need smart people! See? I know all the smart people! We’re gonna use this smart people to negotiate our deals, right? –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So…the New York Times failing…I…I call it the failing New York Times. I call it…the failing at…–MEANING ‘@’, THE SYMBOL USED IN TWITTER–…NewYorkTimes. I put it in the Twitter. They are so dishonest. But a lot of them are dishonest! I mean, the Washington Post is very dishonest. But, that's a whole thing, because the person that bought it…uses that for influence, so he can keep the taxes down and the company that he runs! Okay!? That's the way it works! That's the way it works! But let's stay in the New York Times for a little while.
 
So the New York Times…loses a fortune…! …on the Boston Globe. Beyond…beyond money. And now it's in financial difficulty, right’ The New York Times…sells its office building, which they should have never…that's not an office, by the way, this is a magnificent Cathedral to journalism…with all the great publishers…cause this –IS– The New York Times, you know? Phenomenal.
 
But now it's in…big trouble. You know…it’s…a lot of problems. So New York Times sells this building, for I…believe…! …and you know, correct me if I'm wrong back there, but I believe about 150 million dollars. And…the people to buy it flip it…! …not very long thereafter, for five hundred million dollars. Actually, I think was more! But let's say five hundred. So they sell it for 150, and they need the money, desperately. They sell it for 150, and it gets flipped…! …for…over 500 million. Okay: So you get Boston Globe, where they lost like…a billion three. Or more. And…you've got the…office building, where they sell it…and the people flip at a number…you know, I think a number of years later…for…tremendous price. Got a tremendous price.
 
And then they tell you…about how to run a campaign! –CROWD LAUGHS. Now, can you believe it!? And they give phony numbers…and such…such…so dishonest! So dishonest! And…I…I like…you know, the advantage I have is I can call people out. I can call people out: So whether it's the Times…or the Wall Street Journal…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…I can call them out! You know!? I can call them out. And I do! I like to call them out! I don't care! What difference does it make!? I mean, if this thing doesn't work for me, it's fine! It's fine. I love you anyway. Bye-bye! I'm gonna go…relax…–CROWD LAUGHS. Okay!? Three and a half hours I flew to be with you people today! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And that was three and a half hours back! I flew in from Florida! Somebody said, ‘oh, you know what!? That's a great group, but it's a smaller venue!’. Listen to this! One of my people! Who meant well! Don't worry, it's not Chuck…–MEANING MR. CHARLES ‘CHUCK’ LAUDNER–…and it’s not Sam…–MEANING MR. SAM NUNBERG, they wouldn't have the guts. You know what I'm talking.
 
No, one of my people said, ‘oh, it's a smaller venue, don't worry about it Mr. Trump! We can…we can…just do that another time’. I said, ‘how many people?’. They said, ‘like a thousand…fourteen, fifteen hundred, maybe. Yeah, probably fourteen, fifteen hundred’. So…and it was gonna be four, or five hundred. So…but we have a lot more people than they anticipated…cause it is…you know, it is a beautiful place, by the way. But they said ‘smaller venue’. I said, ‘I can't…’…right!? Beautiful! I like! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It…no, I like it. It’s even got good sound!
We go to some places where I'm screaming into a mic, cause the sound is so…but they said, ‘Mr. Trump, don't worry about it. We'll call the people, we’ll tell them. Don't come. We’ll come another time’. I said, ‘are they expecting me?’. ‘Totally!’. I said, ‘I'm coming! Are you crazy!? I can't do that! I can't do that!’…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So I told you the story, the New York Times; their headquarters building’s, a disaster; their thing…a disaster…and then they write articles telling me…this is and that and that…and that…you know. And I've made a fortune. I mean, you know, I made a fortune! And the reason I tell you that…I made a lot! I never in my wildest dreams ever thought I was gonna make…what I made. Billions and billions of dollars! The best assets; very little debt; tremendous cash flow…the reporters were so disappointed, when they went to the…you know, the federal election, right? You know. Where you file all these papers. I have a hundred page…almost a hundred-page report in financial. They were so…‘hello, are you with the New York Times by any chance?’…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY IN THE FIRST ROW IN THE CROWD APPARENTLY. CROWD LAUGHS. How did these people get in here? Who are you shooting for? I think now they're shooting for another…probably shooting actually for The Wall Street Journal. They liked that story about the New York Times. But anyway. Just keep shooting fellas, don't worry about it…–CROWD LAUGHS. It's amazing! I don't think this never happened before. That's okay! Look: here we have NBC…they're supposed to be back there, but that's okay…–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So…it's been an amazing period! We've had…so…I've had so much fun…doing this. And that…the fun is…meeting the people. We've had crowds…I mean, in Dallas we had 20,000 people. In Mobile, Alabama we had 35,000 people. In…by the way, in different places in Iowa we're setting records. Here we're setting a record! In different places in Iowa's…just…setting records. And I don't mean records like by two people more! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No…I don't mean by two people. I mean, you know, we quadruple…and I mean…if people…they’ll come up here, they'll have 20 people, 30 people, 40 people…if they're lucky! And…and…you look at the kind of crowds. Look up here! I mean, look at the kind of crowds we have. And it's just an honor.
 
And the thing…that amazes…me…and impresses me the most…! …and I had no idea…I go around all over the country. We had 20,000 in Oklahoma! You know, every record has been broken by me in Iowa. In…ehm…New Hampshire, same thing, it's been…incredible. Massachusetts…I met…52! Now, Tom Brady likes me, so that helps, right!? –CROWD CHEERS. You know, Tom Brady is my pal. Tom Brady's good. Tom Brady said, ‘Trump's a winner’. I mean, he’s a winner. When Tom Brady says you’re winner, that's a good feeling, cause he's great. He's a great guy. I’ll tell you what, he’s a great guy, that's what he is. He's really a great guy.
 
But…but…we're doing well, all over. But I got to know the people! And I got to know the Vets! So many Vets…are being treated so badly. And I got to know the Vets! We're gonna treat them great, believe me. Believe me. We're gonna treat our Vets great…–CROWD APPLAUDS. And…and…we’re gonna make our military…really, really, really…strong! And…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…you know, in many ways is the best investment you can make. Cause you…if you make it really strong, really adept, really good, really powerful…we’re not gonna have to use it folks! That's the way it works. Not gonna have to use it! Nobody's gonna mess with us! It's the cheapest thing we can do in so many ways! Instead of these things…that go on forever! …and we don't know how to fight! And I've been saying for years! For years! ‘Get the oil!’, right!? Has everybody heard it!? –CROWD CHEERS.
 
Now…now, the other day, I'm hearing the candidates…they used to say, ‘isn't that ridiculous!?’. I've been saying… ‘get the oil. Take away the…oil…the wealth! From ISIS!’, right? I've been saying that for three four years. Now, I actually said something different! I said, ‘don't go into Iraq!’, 2003, 2004, headlines: ‘Trump says you're making a mistake, you’re gonna destabilize the Middle East’, all that, okay. So I'm right. I should get points for vision, but I'm sure they'll never do that. You know, nobody ever writes that story. I mean, they never write it. I say it all the time, but they'd never write it. They only write the bad stuff, right’ But there's not too much bad stuff.
 
So ‘don't go into Iraq’. So we’re going…I said, ‘you're gonna destabilize the Middle East, because…Iran and Iraq were the same militarily, right!? –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD. A they fight. They always fight. That's all they do, they fight! They like to fight. We don't wanna fight! We…we’re better at fighting than they are, but we don't wanna fight! No, no, we’re better! We’re better than anybody. We're better than…we had the right leadership…? Hohoho…–EXPRESSING PRIDE. But we're better. But they…they like to fight! They've been fighting for…ever! And he go, 10 feet this way…–MR. TRUMP TAKES HIS FISTS ON TO THE RIGHT–…10 feet that way, – MR. TRUMP TAKES HIS FISTS ON TO THE LEFT–10 feet this way…10 feet that way, they take a rest. They’d…rest for a couple years! And they start again. They were the same!
 
Remember Saddam Hussein? He used the gas…and they complained… ‘you're not supposed to use gas’, they use gas…okay. After a little while it was…they stopped. They…held…each other in check. And I said, you know what? I don't know about weapons of mass destruction…’, which turned out to be…a fallacy. But you're gonna destroy the…equilibrium. You're gonna destroy that whole balance of the Middle East! Cause I've been watching these guys fighting! My whole life they've been fighting! So they said…I said, ‘you're gonna destroy…’. Well, we go in and we decapitate the one. We spend…2 trillion.
 
Now, I've been saying two trillion for two years, by the way. I know one thing! It hasn't gone down! It could have gone down if they did what I said, which was ‘keep the oil’. My man! –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY SPECIFICALLY, OFF CAMERA. It could have gone down if…if they…kept the oil! See? I didn't say, ‘bomb the oil’, I said, ‘keep the oil’. And…give some of it to the Vets, and the families…and the wounded warriors, who have been…so badly hurt. But give…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…no, seriously!
 
Now, of course, with oil prices being down so low…it's not quite the same thing, but it's still…good. And a lot of people think that maybe OPEC…–Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries–…is…ehm…pouring out oil. because they wanna destroy…a lot of companies. They wanna destroy companies. It’s a theory! Gotta think about it! DID–…you heard the theory, anybody? Where…OPEC is pumping out a lot of oil? Because they want all these companies…as a glut of oil? They’re in…there has been for years! But it used to be…over a hundred dollars a barrel. Now it's really dropping down 35, which I love, personally! But the oil companies are getting hurt. A lot of guys are gonna go out of business. And you know, there's a theory that OPEC does that in order to drive everybody out of business. And then they cut back, and the old price goes up, and they make a fortune, and they have a monopoly again!
 
But who would ever think! These are our friend! Right!? They would never do that! They would never do that! –MR. TRUMP SAYS IT WITH NOTABLE SARCASM. So who knows!? It's a theory! I…I personally think…they're just…trying to make as much money as they can. Okay? Personally. But there is that theory out there.
 
So…I look at what's going on, and I look at the decisions that are being made…about running our country. I look at a sergeant Bergdahl. I call him the 5 for 1, where he's a traitor. A dirty, rotten traitor. Where…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…no, when you think about it. Where…where we lose…where we lose…five…people, probably six. Dead. Great, young people. I see the mothers, and fathers on television…talking about how great their son was, etcetera. In this case sons. But I watch…the…the people! They’re like devastated. Their lives are…just…a…disaster. It's just horrible. Talking about how great…showing pictures. Killed looking for this…this guy that we don't even…we shouldn't even want! Now, when we made the deal, we knew he was a traitor! Because –WE– had a general and a colonel there…talking to everybody that knew him! And…they knew he left. And he was a traitor!
 
So we lose five or six people. And…we make a deal! We knew this! So we give them five…of the worst killers, that are right now all back on the battlefield, you've been seeing it. Five of the people they've wanted for nine years! We released them! And give them back! For one dirty, rotten traitor…that I'd like to make sure…this guy, frankly, I’d drop them right back in the middle of the…area that we took him from, if you wanna know the truth…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'd love that!
 
But…ugh! –MR. TRUMP SHOWS EXASPERATION–…and now I'm hearing he may not get any prison time! Can you believe this!? So I always say this: 50 years ago he gets a bullet, right!? 25 years ago…we started getting a little weaker…probably…–HE–…doesn't get a bullet. Probably gets a hell of a…a long time in jail, though. Maybe the rest of his life; Ten years ago, WE–…started get a little weaker, –HE’D–…probably 10, 15 years. And today we're talking about… ‘oh, well, he didn't feel good! He decided he didn't wanna do this…; you know, he had a headache…; and he's really…regretted his decision…’. I don't if you saw him…he ‘didn't like the orders he was given!’. Can you believe…how…stupid…and…weak…and ineffective…our country…is being!?
 
So it's…it’s…it’s very… sad so I call him the 5 for 1. I mean he's a 5 for 1 president. He makes these horrible deals…he doesn't know! That's a deal! See? That’s a deal! Just…I mean, it's people, but it's a deal. We get Bergdahl…and they get five people that they want. That's a deal! Iran deal, right? Now, two weeks ago…I just thought…and…it…it just came into my mind. I have a nice mind. But…two weeks ago…it's the first time I ever thought of it! I don't think I've ever said it! I used the Iran deal…as an example of The Art of the Deal in reverse. One of it…it’s…it’s a deal made by the New York Times. This is a deal…–CROWD LAUGHS. The New York Times probably thinks it's a great deal.
 
So we…think of it, we give them a hundred and fifty billion dollars; we give them…all sorts of…things that they never thought possible; during…the longest negotiation I've ever seen! IT–…lasted for years! Kerry…–MEANING THE SECRETARY OF STATE, MR. JOHN KERRY–…our great negotiator…our great genius! He's walking in, ‘I would like to have this…’. ‘No!’.
‘Oh, okay, we'll take less’. Okay…–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
First of all, you should have walked in there, day one…should have said, ‘we want our prisoners back’. They would have said, ‘no!’…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s true! Day one! Not now! We're…now…!
‘We want our prisoners back’. And they would have said ‘no!’. And then you walk! You say, ‘sorry!’. And you double up the sanctions. Within 24 hours, they’d call you back, and they’d say, ‘you got your prisoners. Let's get going’.
Then from day two…you don't say this day one, you say this day two. Because you don't want…just worry about the prisoners. Now, get the prisoners out, three years ago. They would have been out! For nothing! Now they wanna start a negotiation to get our prisoners! Can you believe it!? The deal’s…the deal is done! Why didn't they put this in!? These are stupid people we have leading us folks! I mean, I wanna be nice! These are stupid, stupid, stupid people! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Ugh! No, it's so unbelievable! It's so unbelievable!
 
So think of it: but now I say to myself… ‘we don't get our prisoners; we give them 150 billion dollars’; they say, as the excuse for not getting the prisoners…and, I'm not even saying the prisoners…are number one priority! Because to be honest…? …nuclear is very important, and we have to get…you know, you understand! But…you’d get it for nothing! You’d get our prisoners back!
 
I met with the wife of the…pastor! Wonderful guy! He's in one of the worst prisons in the world! She doesn't know…how he is. She…I mean, she's a wonderful woman…really nice woman. She can't believe that…they didn't come back!
 
So…we don't get our prisoners, they get 150…we have to give them 24 days’ notice, if we wanna check in nuclear site. We have to give them 24 days! Why!? 24 days! – MR. TRUMP REPRESENTS, MOCKINGLY, THE POSSIBLE SITUATION–… ‘we think you're building nuclear’.
‘Oh, okay come back in 24 days…after we…sweep up the place’, right?
‘Let's move that stuff out, or move it over here…’.
 
But the 24 days…doesn't click in until you go through a whole process. So the 24 days…I don't know! I guess it could be a year! Six months! …it could be forever! But the best of all…on a certain site, certain areas, they have the right to self-inspect. In other words, they're gonna self-inspect…–MR. TRUMP REPRESENTS, MOCKINGLY, THE POSSIBLE SITUATION–… ‘we think you're building nuclear here’.
‘Oh let us go check! And we'll call you back tomorrow!’. ‘No…ehm…we promised, we're not!’…–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
Can you believe her stupid we are!? How stupid!? And Obama put down…as one of his achievements. The deal with Iran…–CROWD MUTTERS. No, no, yesterday, he said, one of his achievements. I see it one of his great achievements it’s the deal with Iran. A child! Is there anybody here under the age of five!? Because anybody here under the age of five…–MR. TRUMP SEES A KID THAT MEETS THAT CRITERIA–… ‘you are. Hold that beautiful…hold that beautiful girl up. You could have been…hold her up. Is it your daughter? Son? Daughter?’. Right there, yeah. She could have made…she could have made a much better deal…do you agree? –CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. She could have made a much better deal than our president made. Believe me. She could have. Believed me, she could have. Anybody could have. And he puts it down as an achievement!
 
MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘TWELVE!’ –… ‘oh no, I…I see it. Well, 12, I have no doubt about then! –CROWD LAUGHS. She’s…she said she's 12. And she's beautiful too, by the way.
 
But you know what? Anybody could have done it. What we did is incredibly. We have given them every single…but…but that's just the way we are! That's just the way we are!
So…all of that stuff is gonna change! I mean, the one problem is…assuming I get in, if I get in, I…the...the money is gone! The money's gone! A hundred and fifty billion is gone! I can do everything better, I'll renegotiate, I’ll do…the money's gone! A hundred and fifty billion! They don't have to develop nuclear anymore. They can buy it! Why would they develop it!? They can buy it! Better than they can develop! We are…absolutely…run…by…incompetent…people it's gotta stop! –CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And…the last time I looked at running, and Romney was running, and he was very nice. But something happened to him at the end! I don't know what happened! He went away, on a vacation or something! Because I thought it was gonna be a close race! But…you had a failed…president. And that should have been won! I think in many ways it's easier than this one. You had a failed president! And for some reason…I…I would call their people. I'd say, ‘why is it he going on Leno…–MEANING THE TONIGHT SHOW?’, cuz in all fairness to Obama, he went on Leno, he went on Letterman…–MEANING THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN–…he was all over the place! And Romney…was like…where was he!? Anyway, he lost.
 
So I went with McCain, he lost. I went with Romney, he lost. They both lost. And this time I said, ‘we're gonna do it ourselves folks’. We're gonna do it ourselves together…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna do it ourselves! We're gonna do it. It has to be done! It has to be done!
 
So anyway. Let me talk about Iowa for a second. You know, I'm…for ethanol, okay? And I think I’m like…the only one. There aren't too many people…–CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. But…I was with them the other day, and they are great people. And they're doing a great job. And they're employing a lot of people. And other people are for…other…forms…of energy! And if they're from Texas…I’m not…I'm not blaming them, but that's the way politics works. But…I think…you people are gonna be for me, okay?
 
But, in Iowa…a couple of ethanol people. In Iowa…we have CNN, right? 33 for ‘Trump’, 24 for Cruz, he’s in second place. In the Quinnipiac poll, we have 28 for ‘Trump’, 27 for Cruz. In the…ehm…PPP…I'm leading in that one, IT–…just came out. PPP…Public…Policy Polling, very good, very respected. And I'm leading in that one too. And the only one I'm not leading is in…this stupid Des Moines Register, what a…!? –CROWD LAUGHS AND BOOS. And you know? It's interesting! And…and…what a…what a terrible paper! What a terrible…! No, it’s disgusting! Hey, look, it's a dishonest paper…–MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘DON’T WORRY ABOUT THEM!’ –...no, I don't believe their number! I’ll…I’ll be honest! I mean, how can we be leading in CNN, where they hire the finest pollsters in the world…in CNN were leading 33 to 20…and this…?
 
And here's the bad part about the dishonest press: I never read about CNN! I never hear about CNN! I never hear about…PPP! I never hear about Quinnipiac! It's every story, is… ‘Trump is down in the Des Moines Register, but all over the country! They never talk…! I said, ‘what about CNN!?’. And I guarantee you, CNN spent a lot more money. It's big stuff, right? I said, ‘what about CNN!? Why aren't you talking about CNN!? You don't tell me about CNN! All you tell me about is this…stupid newspaper! That…frankly, is going out of business…I hear, or I think! I mean…think of it! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We don't even let them come into our sessions! Now, they can be. There's…somebody. But…we don't give them press credentials, it’s terrible! I mean, do you think they like me if I don't give him press credentials? I don't think so…–CROWD LAUGHS–…I’ve…I…it's the only one of the country, I think! …–MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING FEATURING THE NEW YORK TIMES–…‘yeah, maybe I'll do that with the New York Times, I like that’…–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So…ehm…so you know, it's one of those things. But we're doing great! We're doing great in Iowa! Now, in all the other ones we’re leading, and we’re leading big league. So…here's what's…what's happened. And it's to me very interesting.
 
When I started this journey, I'd sort of finished…this way…on the polls. But…and…and again! Every…single…polling…agency…that studied the debate…and…to the best of my knowledge, there 11 of them: Drudge…great…guy! He is a great guy. He's got... a great company. Really…really respected! –CROWD APPLAUDS. Time Magazine…now, you know, they don't like me, because they didn't pick me as the person of the year, and they should have…right!? –CROWD LAUGHS AND YELLS ‘YEAH!’. I will say this: even…! I…I…I don't take a view on it. But…even people…that hate me…! …when they're sitting around the table, the pundits…they all were predicting, like you unanimously! …that ‘Trump’ was gonna get it. And instead…Merkel…–ANGELA MERKEL–…got it from Germany…and what has she done for Germany!? Germany's a mess! She's ruining Germany! They should have spent the same money…on doing a…safe zone. Some place in Syria. And stop this migration. And by the way, they're not coming here. They're not coming here. Believe me…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They're not coming here!
 
So we have all of these poles, and…of the 11 poles that we had…we had everything! Slate…with…guys…ehm…PBS! Public Broadcast…you know, I mean, all of these…all of these great…and I won every…single…one of them. And then I watched television… ‘Trump…was not as good tonight. He's off his game a little bit tonight…’. I said, ‘but I won every poll!’. And then…most people said that was my best performance, you know. Bush was easy, because…I mean, he was just feeding me this stuff…there's…it was written out for him…–CROWD LAUGHS. MR. TRUMP REPRESENTS IT–… ‘here, Jeb, memorize this line…and say it’. And then I said, ‘I have 42! And you have 2! And you started here, next to me…–MR. TRUMP POINTS RIGHT NEXT HIMSELF–…and now you're down there…–POINTING TO THE SEATS–…and by the next time you'll be off the stage!’…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Right!?
 
And this poor guy doesn't add…and he puts in his words. But he doesn't put in my words. That's a little…would you call that ‘false advertising’? I think so! –CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. So anyway.
 
So…it's been amazing. But when I started the journey…and it's been an amazing journey, because it takes guts to run for president, I will say that. It takes guts! It's not easy! And…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. And all my life I've heard, ‘if you're a successful person, you can’t run’. You know, you've done so many things! I mean, you take a guy like Obama, he never did anything! He never did anything! Other than buy a house, right? He bought a house! Which is a very questionable transaction, right? But he never did anything! That's true! Never did anything. So, you know, there's nothing to say or do…I do hundreds of deals! I deals…the deals come out of my ears! And they're good! Just most of our phenomenal deals! And by the way, the ones that are bad, because the market changed, I made them okay…too! …or some cases, I made them better! …than if they were good! –CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. I'd take a deal…that's…that's the sign of a deal maker. When you can take something that's a disaster! …and make it better, then if things stayed good. When the economy crashes, like I've had deals where I do it? Everything's going great, then the economy crashes. Not my fault! And I go back, I do a number in the banks. Oh! The poor banks! But I do a number of the banks, and this, and that…! …but…I end up doing better than if the deal was good!
 
I've a couple of them, I’m very proud of those deals. I can't put a trophy up, because I can't talk about them, but they're great. But that's what you need! That's a sign of a real…somebody that…and we have…with the 19 trillion in debt, now going up to 21 trillion. 21 trillion! You know how much money that is!?
 
And here we are…and we have somebody that says, ‘Donald Trump is brilliant. Donald Trump is good. Donald Trump is a leading candidate…’, you know, he feels good about me. I feel, frankly, good about him! I think that we can do things with Russia! That are to…our advantaged! Not…to our advantage! It's a mutual advantage! And then I have people…now that jealous as hell! Because…he's not mentioning these people! He's not gonna mention them! So they're jealous as hell! So a couple of them came out with, ‘oh, well you don't want to be friends’. ‘oh no, we don't want to be friends, no,. We wanna spend another five…trillion dollars continuing to fight’. We gotta be smart! Now, we gotta really be smart, cause we don't have money anymore! You know, we’re a poor nation. We're debtor nation! And we could be on a bubble…and that bubble could…crash! …and it’s gonna…not gonna be a pretty picture!
 
You know, the market’s going down big league the last couple of…weeks. But…but, we could be on a big fat…bubble. And if that bubble crashes…it's…a problem! By the way, when I got on the plane today…in Florida…I have…children that are fantastic. But I have children…that have grandchildren that have grandchildren. And…, Don, my son, said ‘dad, I'd love to go with you!’. I said, ‘really? Oh, long flight!’. He said, ‘no, I'd love to go! Can I bring two of the kids’. And he did. So could I ask…?
 
And by the way, he's a big Second Amendment guy. He's a big hunter. He's a big NRA…–NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION–… guy…so am I, by the way. So am I…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. He’s a great marksman, he's a great shot. And…really knows…and he does some business with some of the folks over here, where they have…where’s those guys? It’s…it…it’s such a great…gun…company here.
 
But Don, ‘come on up. Don’…and…and…my grandchildren. ‘Come on over here Don! Come on!’ This is Kai! And this is Don the third! And this is Vanessa! Vanessa's Don's wife…–THEY ARE ALL ON STAGE NOW. Say a few words Don!
 
MR. DONALD TRUMP SON INTERVENES AND ALONG WITH HIM HIS SON AND DAUGHTER.
MR. DONALD J. TRUMP TAKES BACK THE FLOOR. Minute 01.36.28:
 
Thank you. Thank you. Wow!
 
He's –A– good guy. He's been good. But he does, he loves the hunting, Second Amendment. You know, it's very interesting. When you look at Paris…and I say this to people, because I’m coming from New York, and a lot of people say, ‘oh, gun control, gun control, gun control!’. I say to them: ‘okay, so in Paris you lost 130 people. They have the strictest gun laws in the world’. Just about, they say, I mean, you can't have a gun! They had the magazine…the same thing happened…a number of months ago.
 
So…guys walk in with guns. They don't have guns! Nobody has a gun! And I say this to these people that are trying to…like…persuade me…they can’t! I’m impossible to…I'm a Second Amendment guy. I can't…it's terrible what's going on! And they know I'm right! They can't win the argument! So I say, let's say in Paris…we had two or three guys…just two or three…people! With guns strapped to their ankle or their waist. I'll tell you what: it would have been a whole different story! You wouldn't have a hundred and thirty people, and plenty others going to die! Cause they're so…mortally wounded. They’re so…badly wounded.
 
Got a lot…more are gonna die! And if there were a few…like this big guy, right in front…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY SPECIFICALLY. Boy! If you had a gun strapped in you…what do you think!? They would are in trouble! Right!? You're gonna go down fighting, right? You better believe…and you're gonna take them down with you, or at least they're gonna be really badly hurt…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I don't…I don't get it! I don't get it!
 
Then you look at this woman, who came over here radicalized. And she did on a fiancé visa. Do you believe it…? Did you ever hear these things fiancé visa? Oh, it's a beautiful couple! Lovely! They're gonna get married. Isn't that wonderful!? –MR. TRUMP EMPLOYS A SARCASTIC TONE. CROWD LAUGHS. Not like this couple over here…–MR. TRUMP`POINTS AT SOME PEOPLE IN THE CROWD. A wonderful couple is gonna get married. Oh, fiancé visa. She's radicalized! They never checked her social media! I checked my social media for people! They never checked her social media! And they never checked…anything! I mean, she just came over! And…she the radicalized, so the kid was already radicalized. He didn't know what the hell he was doing. And they went in, and they shot. Fourteen are dead, and others are probably going with them. Maybe it's more than that even now. But there's a very badly hurt people. Badly wounded! And…if there were a couple of people with guns in there…it would have been a different story! At least they would have had a chance! Right!?
 
Then you have the soldiers…were on a military base! You had five soldiers…! One of them was like…the highest decorated…I mean, this is a real soldier…and the others were terrific soldiers! Very adept at weapons! But it was a gun-free zone…on a military base! I…but…who ever heard of a gun-free zone!? We trust these people…think of it! We trust these people with our lives, and now we kept these areas where you're not allowed to have a gun…how stupid…!? By the way, first day in office…we end that. Believe me! We end that! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. First day! 
 
And a guy why…just walks in, and blows away five great military people…that are extremely…terrific soldiers. You can't be great soldier…you don't have a gun, you don’t have a gun! If he's standing there…with…weaponry…you know have a gun! I said to my people, I say to these guys…I say, ‘wouldn't it be good if they had guns in Paris?’. ‘Well Don, we don't think so’. I said, ‘but you don't understand! There'd be somebody to shoot back!’. The bad guy is always gonna have it. Okay? You're not gonna stop that. I mean, Paris, you can't have it. In France you can't have it. Tougher than any law you've ever seen. Tougher than anything you've ever heard of. 130 dead. More dying! Not a shot fired back at these guys! And then the press…calls the guy a ‘mastermind’. The guy with the dirty hat? He calls them a mastermind. They call him ‘mastermind’. ‘The mastermind!’. And then we're worried about the internet…taking our kids, and we're hearing about a ‘mastermind’. The kids are saying, ‘oh, like Robin Hood. Mastermind!’.
 
And I've been lecturing the press on it, cuz a good thing, I got so much press all the time! I've been lecturing the press on it! I've been saying, ‘don't call a ‘mastermind’. He's not! He's a low…
I'm…I guarantee! He's a low IQ…guy. He's a dumb guy! He puts people in there…they go in together; they start shooting people! What do they do!? What do they get!? They get nothing! They got killed! That's what they got! And by the way, the French police did a good job! And the LA police did a great job!
 
Our police are not…being treated properly in this country…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They’re not! They’re no! And…say what you want about France, I think those guys did a great job also. And…but…our police, they did great! They don't get the proper…treatment! They don't get the respect that they have to get! And you know, you see one bad apple…out of a whole country…you see one bad apple, once every two or three or four months, on television...and they get tainted by that! That's a tiny, tiny fraction! Without our police this country would be in total bedlam. And we have to take care of our police! We have to cherish our police! They're not happy! They're not happy! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So when I started off…I was talking about trade with China, how China's ripping us off, which they are. I mean, like big league. We have…trade deficits that are so enormous! Nobody even knows! The government reports these numbers…I'm hearing 505 billion dollars now. Five…I used to say 400 billion. Now I'm hearing…last year…505…we don't even know! We have no idea what it is! I mean, these guys can't do Obamacare website! IT–…cost five billion dollars and it doesn’t work! –CROWD LAUGHS. And Obamacare, by the way, deceased. We're gonna repeal it, we're gonna replace it…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…a hundred-percent. A–…hundred-percent! We're gonna repeal it, we're gonna replace it.
 
But think of Obamacare. It's dying…of its own way. I've always said that was gonna happen. We have a Supreme Court justice, appointed by Bush, unfortunately. But we have a Supreme Court justice…Roberts…–MEANING MR. JOHN ROBERTS–…who should have never done what he did. He did a verb…in order to be popular in the beltway. That's why he did it! To be one of the beltway people. That's why he did it folks! There was no way…I'm a very smart guy. I'm a very good student. I can read…really well! There was no way he could have come down with that decision. No way! No way he could have done that! He did it twice!
 
Now, the first time it would have killed it. The second time it would have mortally wounded it, or would have died quickly. But the first time, especially, but both times, he should have voted against and he didn't! Cause he wanted to be popular…with the…circle. Okay? That's why! In my opinion! What do I know!? In my opinion, okay?
 
Now, and the other judges…A–…couple of the other judges, I mean, I hear, you know, who knows what happens there? But I heard…one of them wouldn't speak to him for a long time. And was very angry at him. What he did was wrong! But I talked about Obamacare. I talked about the five-billion-dollar website…which is to me…incredible. Because it's so stupid! It’s so…it's so bad!
 
I'll give you a one…a friend of mine called up. He said, ‘would you do me a favor? Would you talk about the Wollman Rink in Central Park? And I don't wanna…you know, it's been a long time. But…basically, it was a rink. He…he always says…but he's watching the speech tonight. And today! And I said, ‘I'll do it!’. He said, ‘it's the best story!’. It's not huge numbers, or anything, but it tells you. And I had to do in the Koch administration…–MEANING MR. EDWARD IRVING KOCH, THE  105TH MAYOR OF NEW YORK CITY–…when he was the mayor of the city. We had a rink…IT–…couldn't get built. Seven years! Ice skating! It's an ice skating rink. IT–…took him seven years. They were spending tens of millions! …they were spending money like it was hand over fist.
 
And I have a daughter, Ivanka, who's great. And…you know Ivanka. And she said, ‘daddy, when can I go ice skating?’. You know, after about seven years I said, ‘baby, let me go on…’. So I called up Koch, I said, ‘I'm gonna do it’. And he really gave me a lot of resistance. I mean, he was…not the greatest…human being on the earth…in the world, believe me. A lot of resistance. Because in a way, he didn't want me to do it well…because I'd be showing him up. This is a politician! He was getting killed! He was being killed…in the press! Absolutely killed with this ring! …where it –WAS– going…they’re way over budget by many, many times! Beyond…anything you can imagine! They had stupid people, incompetent people…people that shouldn't been doing it…
 
I went to him and I said, ‘Do it!’. He said, ‘no, I don’t wanna do it’. I said, ‘what do you…wrong…what’s to…?’. Believe me, I did a number on him. And he ended up giving it to me very reluctantly! I'll tell you that. I take it over, I got it done in for months. And I mean…view…I still operated today. Many years! –CROWD APPLAUDS. No rink in the world does the business that we do there, It’s…it's been a fantastic thing. But I got it done got it done! Got it done in four months! If I didn't do it…it would have been…ten more years! I'm telling you. And my friend said, ‘you gotta use that story!’. Private goes in, does it! I did it fast! I did it quick! A…much better! And by the way, of the money I spent…I did it for 1.8 million dollars…they were in there for close to 20, they don't even know! And it would have been…30, 40…I did it for 1.8 million! I had trucks…lined up all the way to Harlem, that's way as miles…concrete trucks. Because you want to do one contiguous pour. You don't wanna pour, and then stop. Pour and then stop.
 
But the problem was…that were using the wrong…the wrong plan. They had…a…to do an ice skating rink, they hired an engineering company from Miami Beach…–CROWD LAUGHS. Right!? Where it's a hundred degrees. And he did refrigerators! He didn’t do ice, he did refrigerators, which is fine! So he came up with a plan to do Freon. Now, Freon is gas…that's where…it goes along…and they had miles, and miles, of pipe! Because it’s very big surface. Four or five times bigger than this room I would say. At least. So they have miles of this beautiful copper tubing! And if there's one little pinhole…! …it's not gonna work, cause the gas is gonna escape. Right!? One little pin!
 
So they put down a lot of it! And the next day it's stolen! Because it's copper! –CROWD LAUGHS. Right? Interesting start! Then they do it again, and again, and again, and again! And…stolen, stolen! Then they put police around it…stolen! They put the wrong police. If we had our police…it wouldn’t have been stolen. My police…? Believe me, the…it's not gonna be stolen. But stolen. So much! Every time they put it down, it’d get stolen…over a period of a month. And the problem was…that they were pouring little sections at a time. They’d pour section like…the size of this stage. And then they do another one. And then another one. And then…it would be stolen, so they'd have to wait till it get fixed…and…a disaster! And then when it was built…the one side was this much higher than the other side! –MR. TRUMP SHOWS HOY MUCH WITH HIS HANDS. Now, it’s water, right?  So the one side was like a lake, you couldn't…you couldn't make it cold! But that didn't matter, cause you couldn't make this side cold either because…the pipe had hundreds and hundreds of lakes in it.
 
So…they opened it up, and they couldn't make ice. And it was a disaster. And I said, ‘look, I'll fix it’. And the first thing I did…a friend of mine…has something to do with the Montreal Canadiens ice hockey team, right? Montreal, Canada. We can go outside country every once in a while, right folks? I mean, if you want ice, wouldn’t the Montreal Canadiens, as they say Montreal Canadiens…–IN A DIFFERENT, CANADIAN, ACCENTS. But…wouldn’t Montreal Canadians be a good team to…you know, call? Right? Not Florida! Not…I don't need Florida. They don't make ice in Florida! I know Florida! I love Florida! But…I don't want an engineer from Florida.
 
So I called the Montreal Canadiens, ‘Oh! We have a great engineer; we’ll send him in’. Sends him down, he looks at it, ‘oh, my god. I can't believe they're using Freon! No, no, all you wanna use is plastic pipe…’, cheap. Plastic… ‘…and…and…you wanna use water! And in the water, you put salt!’. It's called brine’. And the reason you put the salt, because the water can freeze. Like salt water, you don't see…frozen oceans too much. Okay? You still do, even despite global warming, you still see…but…you know, you don’t see too much.
 
Don't forget! Obama…says that global warming is a single biggest threat to our nation. Not ISIS…–CROWD BOOS. No, no think of it. He said that the other day. ‘Global warming is a single biggest threat to this country’. I actually just turned the television off! You can't…! …you can't stand listening to it anymore! Okay…! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.  No, you can't stand it! Can you imagine…!?  Not China! …who's killing us economically! And…by the way, buildings isl…building islands in the South China Sea...and…no environmental impact statements, they just rip that thing apart.
 
But anyway! So I go with the…the ice. He said, ‘no, you just want holes. And you couple up the holes’. I said, ‘what if it leaks’’. HE SAID–...–IT–… ‘doesn't matter. It's tied into the concrete, because you pour the concrete over the holes. So if it leaks, it doesn't matter. It doesn't get through the concrete. Make it tight, …’–SO IT– ‘…ideally don't leak!’. He said, ‘but the nice thing, nobody's going to steal the holes, because it's plastic. It's nothing’…–CROWD LAUGHS. I said, ‘you're right!’. So we put miles of this stuff…! Every four inches. Back, forth…back, forth. I took…of the million aide, most of it was demolition, by the way. So…somebody said, ‘well, but they gave you a head start’. I said, yeah, a head start? Most of the work I did was demolition!’. I had to take everything out! I had to take concrete that was this thick…–MR. TRUMP SHOWS WITH HIS OWN HANDS–…out!
 
So I took it all out. We poured a beautiful 6-inch slab, with beautiful…holes in it. We tested the holes before we pour the concrete. We poured the concrete in one day! It was a 28-hour pour. Contiguous! One day…these guys did a great job. One day! Beautiful pour…flat…we measured out with lasers, going from one side to the other. Dead flat. We put…four inches, three inches of water in…turned on the machine, we had ice! It was amazing! And we then had an opening! And it took me…really, it took me three months, not four months. I say four, but it really took me three. And we had it open! And we had one of the most beautiful evenings ever! We had Peggy Fleming, Dorothy Hamill…we had every gold medalist. I said, ‘if you had a silver medal, you didn't qualify’…–CROWD LAUGHS. Everybody was there! IT–…was one of the most beautiful evenings I've ever seen in New York City. Everybody was there! And…we did something great! And we did it fast. It would still not be built. We did it fast!
 
And my friend loves that. He's a very rich guy, very big guy. He said, ‘Donald, that's the biggest story, would you tell that story tonight? Because I want you a lot…’, you know, cuz we're oare …look at all those cameras that alive back there, with the red lights going! –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT WHERE THE CAMERAS ARE. He said, ‘would you do me a favor? Would you tell that story?  Because I love that story’. Because that story…even though it's…you know, it's not huge money…but…it tells you…that story…is what you do for government. There are so many things we can do for our government!
 
When we see gas stations built in Afghanistan…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…right? You read about last week, the 43-million-dollar gas station. And now…it's for a different kind of gas. It doesn't work for what they need. 43 million…! Does anybody in this room think they could maybe beat that deal!? I think so! 43 million for a gas station and…that…that guy said. So stuff like this, I'll be cutting it out.
 
But when I started, I talked about trade. I talked about China; I talked about all…these…places that are just ripping us, left and right. Where we have these huge trade imbalances…with Japan! …and China! …and Mexico! Both at the border, and…and…we will build a wall! And it will be an incredible wall, by the way! It will be a wall that works. Gonna build it! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Illegal immigration…? Our…a…big…big on illegal immigration. And it was interesting, Ted Cruz has been very nice to me, but yesterday…? I heard him saying, ‘we're gonna build a wall!’. It’s the first time I heard…! Everyone wants to build a wall now! I'm the only one that was…! Now everybody wants to build the damn wall! –CROWD LAUGHS. It's unbelievable!
 
No, but Ted yesterday said, ‘we're gonna build a wall!’. And my wife said, cuz she likes Ted. She said, ‘oh, he just said he's building a wall!’. They're all saying it now. The people…they wanna build a wall! It works! Believe me, just ask Israel. A wall works, okay? It works.
 
So we're gonna build a wall, and people are gonna come into the country, but they're gonna come…in…legally! They're coming into the country legally…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And the great thing about me doing the wall is I know how to build walls…of the politicians, they don’t know how to build a wall, and it'll end up being another Wollman Skating Rink, believe me, the politicians can't build a wall.
 
But…we are gonna build a wall. It's gonna be a great wall. And we're gonna have ourselves…a great, great…time…watching our country heal. And we're gonna redo those trade deals, okay? And those trade deals…are going to be so good, and so strong…and we're gonna bring jobs back. And all of this…and this is what I talked about! I talk about Ford motor going to Mexico; I tell you the story, how it's horrible. I talked all about Nabisco moving into Mexico; they're moving their big plant! I say I won't have Oreos anymore! I talk all about these things! I talk all about these things!
 
But now…since Paris, actually, I've changed a little bit. Because everyone knows I’m gonna do good with China. I'm gonna do good. I have Carl Icahn! I have the best businessman on the word! You know, we…and women! …–BUSINESS WOMEN. We have…the best! We have the best! I said at the debate…I suggested…you know, we invented the internet! But ISIS uses the internet better than we do! So I said, ‘well, we should get our guys…who are the best! We’ll get the best guys in…Silicon Valley…’…nobody better than them! They invented it! How does ISIS use it better than us!? And they get our youth to go over and…become ISIS! And kill people! And then we let them back!
 
By the way, this the other…anyone goes over joins ISIS…? They ain’t coming back folks! They're…gone! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They're gone! Can you imagine!? They go over, they fight for ISIS. They come back, totally radicalized, that we let them back in the country cause they have a passport. Can you…? Can you imagine this? I can't even imagine! So during the debate I said, ‘either I'd knock it out…in those areas’, which I wouldn’t mind doing! And then the audience started going like a boo, a little boo. I said, ‘Whoa! Whoa! I'm talking ISIS areas! We're gonna knock out the internet! They like freedom of speech. I said, ‘you deal with ISIS, you wanna give ISIS freedom of speech?’. I don't! Can you believe it!? I mean, no! Think of it!
 
But forget that. I said, ‘what I like better is infiltrating it in those areas. I love that. So we know where they are, what they're doing, everything else. Don't we blow the hell out of them? Okay!? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…so when the polls come out, it’s very interesting. I think, because of my attitude on the border, cause nobody can top me on the border. And good guy Ted, in all fairness…? All of these guys? Rubio or…? They're all trying to catch me. They can't catch me. Nobody can catch me on the border. I have that…it’s…it's done! When I brought up illegal immigration, when I announced, remember I brought it up. I took heat. Rush Limbaugh, he’s a great guy, said, ‘he's never seen any human being take more incoming’, meaning the press than I did. And then he said, ‘and then two weeks later he doubled down! He said it's even worse than he said!’. And I turned out to be right.
 
They had Kate in San Francisco…sanctuary cities, over by the way. Over. Over…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They had Kate in San Francisco…shot in the back! …by…an illegal immigrant, shouldn't be there. Then Jameel…Shaw, who's like this incredible guy…football scholarship, going to college; great gather; great parents; great everything. Shot, in front of his house walking back home from a deli…with the sandwich for his father. Ehm…just for no reason, just shot, cause the guy wanted to shoot him. And…they had so many, the Vet, the…female Veteran, 66 years old: raped, sodomized, and killed in California, four weeks ago. And…thousands of other instances! Thousands! It's…a…far worse than what you thought.
 
So…we gotta stop it! Now everyone's trying to come to my side! But when I first announced it, I was out…I was like an island, all by myself! They were all putting me, ‘oh! Terrible, what he said!’. Now they realize I'm right! And they're all trying to go over there…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…so what happens…is…when the…numbers come up, I win on immigration by…like 58 or something! I win on…the economy by beyond…you know, by many, many times. I mean, I'm like at 57, and the next guy’s like at seven! By the way, if you win on…safety and economy, the elections over. Let's have it tomorrow! –CROWD LAUGHS. But then…they did a thing on terrorism…and I think because of my stance, and my certain…as a certain…feeling I have…that people understand…but because of my stance, and probably because I'm very tough…on the border, and immigration, illegal immigration, I win on that by a massive amount! Like by many, many times number two. And…I'm very honored by it, I'll be honest. The only thing I don't really win on, some people say, ‘he is not a nice person’. But who cares!? Okay!? Who cares!? But you know what!!? …–CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
 
No, they say, some of them say…although my popularity is getting much…I’m actually a nice person..? But I hate…to see…what's happening…to our country…–CROWD APPLAUDS. We need competence! We need competence!
 
A woman came up to me, and I tell the story. A beautiful woman comes up to me, probably 60 years old, just a…a…lovely woman. She said, ‘Mr. Trump, I love you, and I'm voting for you. But you may not be nice enough to be President’. And I said, ‘let me tell you. Number one, I'm really nice. And I love people. I love people. But…I’m very disappointed what's happening in the country. But regardless of all of that…this isn't gonna be an election on niceness anymore. Even if I wasn't nice. This is going to be an election on competence, and smartness, and toughness, because otherwise our country is finished! It's finished!’…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…so what's happened is…I used to talk all about China; I used…and we'll get…and we’ll…we’ll just…trust me on that, we’ll bring all our jobs back. Not all! We gotta give him some, right? But we'll be…gonna bring back a lot of stuff! And we're not gonna lose our jobs, like babies! We're not gonna lose them! Into so many other countries! But…every country! This…every country we lose to them! And we don't win anymore! We just don't want anymore! So…all of that stuff, everybody knows, I'll be able to handle that. I have the best…business people in the world…they gotta go…I'll take, ‘Carl Icahn, you take China’. I’ll…I'll name other names if…so many people are endorsing me, the business people.
 
They’re really…smart. Those are the endorsements I want! I don't want Jeb Bush's endorsement, honestly! –CROWD LAUGHS. I don't! I don't want his endorsement. It doesn't mean anything! He's not tough, he's not smart…I don't want those endorsements! I want…endorsements from…the absolute…best! I want endorsements…from the best…the richest, the smartest, the toughest, the meanest…–CROWD APPLAUDS–…they don't have to be nice! If they are, they are! But I know who they are! And when we're represented…by people that are political hacks…or donors’ They’re donors! These are people that give…in order to get jobs! These are people that are…special interest people! Where they give millions of dollars to these crooked packs! They're crooked packs! They're all crooked, I think! I mean, they're in here running…these…elections, they're spending money like it's hand over fist. I'm self-funding! I gotta compete with these guys, I'm all self-funding! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
These people…these packs are crooked! These people… packs are no good1 Now, when guys give 5 million to a PAC, do you think they're doing that because they think of the candidate is good? They think of the candidate as a puppet! And if they, didn't they wouldn't give to them! They're puppets, every one of them! And if…that person, that gave the five million, wants something…and if the candidate…if the candidate wins an election…and that person wants something that's averse to the best interest of the country…a hundred percent certain…that the politician…is going…to do…the job…for the person…and not for the country…–CROWD APPLAUDS. It's gonna be…the way it is! It’s just the way it is! And let's not say a hundred! Let's say ninety! Let's say eighty! Let's say 70! But what difference does it make!? That's the way it is! That's the way it works!
 
And that's why we're in such deep trouble. Because we're making deals…for lobbyists…we're making deals for donors, and special interests. And we're making deals…like the recent till that was done. Did everybody see the deal, two days ago? That there…the budget is a disaster! It was done so quickly! It flew through! It was a disaster! It was…a disaster! More debt…more…it's just the same thing. I'm telling you! The word bubble…remember the word bubble, you heard it here first! I mean, I don't wanna sound rude, but I hope if it explodes it's gonna be now, rather than two months into another administration! Because, honestly, you got yourself problems! We're printing money, we have debt…like we've never had before…! I mean, we're really going to be very soon…a large scale version of Greece! That's all it is!
 
And then they pass a budget like that…I couldn't believe it! I couldn't believe that they did it! And the Republicans had to pass it too folks, I hate to say it! You know, with the Democrats…we know where…we…we…you…we know what we're getting. I don't even blame them in a way! But the Republicans are supposed to stop it! They go to Washington, you elect them! Other…people elect them! And they're tough! And they're tough! And they're ‘gonna go. And they're gonna do this!’. And then they look up, with those beautiful columns…of those beautiful vaulted ceilings, and the angels painted on them…and they say, ‘Oh baby! We've really arrived!’…‘Do you vote for Obamacare?’. ‘I do!’…–MR. TRUMP MAKES FUN OF THE ELECTED REPUBLICAN POLITICIANS. CROWD LAUGHS. ‘Do you vote for other things?’. ‘Do you vote for this horrible budget that's gonna put us further in debt?’. ‘I do. I swear I do’. They become different people! They never wanna leave! And it's amazing…that will never happen with ‘Trump’. That I tell you. Never…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Never gonna happen with ‘Trump’.
 
So we started talking about security; we started talking about borders; we started talking about…trade…and all the horrible deals…and I used to love giving the deals, because it was so easy! The excavator friend of mine, with the whole thing…where he buys now Komatsu tractors, because…the Yen has been so…destroyed, purposely, by the Japanese government, that Caterpillar could not compete. They couldn't compete!
 
I talked about all of the problems…that friends of mine have getting stuff into China. You know, they…unload on us, but we…don't unload on them. They have to pay tax, by the way! They pay tax going over there, you pay tax! Coming over here, no tax! We have such power over these countries, because…we are the source of their wealth. We gave…! …we gave…! …we built China! They took our money, they took our jobs, they took that base, they took the manufacturing! We built China! We rebuilt it! They've got bridges…like…the George Washington Bridge. They've got bridges…like you've never seen! I mean, they have things that…we…don't even think! They've got airports…you wouldn't believe! Then we fly into LaGuardia…they have potholes! Honestly? It's incredible.
 
One thing I wanna mention to you though. So with Iran, we talked about the deal. But Iran…what they really did was even…more brilliant. Because we spent the two trillion, at least! And thousands of lives, and wounded warriors, and great…the wounded warriors are the great…the greatest people. I mean, how they…they have smiles in their faces! They don't have legs, they don't have arms, and that…they're incredible! They're incredible people! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Incredible people!
 
But…but the Iran deal…and…and I told you, the Iran deal…was terrible! But the great deal that Iran deal…is they took…they’re taking over Iraq! That's a hundred times…that's a thousand times better…than the deal they made with us! …where we had…incompetent people representing us. That's a hundred times! That's a hundred times! That's a thousand times! And I just thought of it, I told you before. I just thought of it two weeks ago. Iran made the deal, and it's a great deal, and it's amazing deal for them. But the deal they made…that's…unbelievable…! …is we went in and lost thousands of lives, spent trillions, not billions, trillions of dollars! …we decapitated…Iraq…and now they're going in! With our money, they're going in and taking over Iraq! …with the second largest oil reserves in the world, by the way. Unbelievable! And we let this happen. That stuff…will never…ever happen…if I become your president, that I can tell you…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Never!
 
So…just to conclude…it's been…an amazing…trip for me. It's been an amazing journey. We have the biggest crowds of anybody, by far! …and that includes Bernie Sanders, who…by the way, did you see what Hillary did to him!? I told you! She's like a snake with no energy! –CROWD LAUGHS. No, no she's like a snake! Here's this guy, this foolish guy, Bernie. You know, super…liberal, concerned…I don't know you might wanna call him a communist. They say socialist…could be a communist, but anyway. This poor guy is up at the first debate, he says, ‘I don't wanna discuss the emails…it's fine what she did…’, he gave this whole…thing away! Right!? Gave it away. And then she zapped him!). But…he ends up getting back, because I think…it was only so much you could do. but that just shows you how vicious…and disloyal…that whole group is. Okay? –MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP REPRODUCES IT AND RESPONDS–…‘when is she going to jail!? Well, that's a good question. That's a very good question…–CROWD APPLAUDS. I mean, honestly? She should not be allowed to run. And in a recent FOX poll I beat her easily.
 
By the way, she should not be allowed to run. She should not be allowed to run…–CROWD APPLAUDS. She is being totally…protected…by a Democrat…gov…government. You know that. She should not be allowed to run, and…we'll see what happens, but…I don't think anything's gonna happen. I think she's totally protected. Totally protected! And I think it's a disgrace, okay? I think it's…absolutely a disgrace. So we'll see what happens. But…it looks to me like she's protected.
 
But I was really watching…but will beat her anyway, don't worry about it. I was really…and we’ll beat her soundly! Cuz she did a terrible job! …–CROWD APPLAUDS. You know, I been saying, ‘she doesn't have the strength, and she does have the stamina’, which is true. She'll come here, she'll come to Iowa, she'll see like four people around a plastic table, right!? –CROWD LAUGHS. They always use that plastic table…I don’t know, do they bring it with them from New York!? There's a table! But you'll have four or five…people. They're all vetted out of hundreds of people, because she doesn't wanna get a bad question! And they'll ask little questions, you know, ‘how do you make pancakes?’. They ask these little questions…–CROWD LAUGHS. And then she leaves! ‘Bye everybody! Bye!’. And you don't see her for five days! Right!? You never see her! She goes away! She goes back home to sleep! She doesn't have the energy, I'm telling you! –CROWD LAUGHS. She doesn't have the stamina…she doesn't have the strength.
 
You need to be…a President…strong! You need strong! You can't…you can’t play games! –CROWD APPLAUDS. You've got all these countries…that wanna rip you apart…you've got all these insurgent groups…you have ISIS, they wanna rip you apart…you can't have somebody that doesn't have the strength, the stamina…you can't have it! You can't have it! She's got to work 28 hours a day! She's got to work 40 hours a day! You gotta work all the time! You can't take any rest! This country is in big trouble! You need somebody that's really smart, and can really work…and has stamina! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
We gotta put it back together. Again, we're going to put it back together again! And that's the biggest thing…the people are so amazing in this country! And they don't believe those guys…they really don’t…it's amazing! What…? If they believed those guys, I wouldn't be at 42! –CROWD LAUGHS. You know, I say to myself, how can I…!? You know, they write bad stories, purposely bad! We have here…as an example, the best ground operation…ehm…you'll see! I…you can only see on February first. I mean, honestly? And if I'm wrong, I'm wrong! I'll say, ‘hey, we didn't make it. We didn't make it!’. But I think we're gonna make it! I think we're gonna win Iowa! And Iowa is very important to me…–CROWD APPLAUDS. Cuz…Iowa is very important, cause…
 
You know, it was sort of interesting. I was watching on television today…it was very interesting. And they had these you know…people…around the table. And…I call them ‘the talking heads’. And most of them said, ‘“Trump” will never run!’. I ran. ‘Oh! He'll never file his financials’. I filed my financials, and they turned out to be amazing. ‘Oh!’. You know, they figured maybe I wouldn't, THAT– maybe I'm not as rich as people think right. So it turned out I was much better, much richer, which is good, because that's the thinking you need. Okay. ‘He'll never file form A!’, that's where you sign your life away. I filed form A. So…that was bad.
 
Then I…I started, and before I ran, I was like at two or three…–PERCENT–…you know, cuz nobody thought I was gonna run. My wife said, ‘if you run, you’ll win. Because people love you. And they trust you. And they think you're really smart. And they think you're gonna get something done’. She did! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. She's my pollster! Melania is my pollster! You know, these guys spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a week on pollsters! I say, ‘what do you need a pollster!?’. They have…these guys…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS–…give you free polls every week! They give a new poll…it's a hundred pages long, they spend millions! What do I need a pollster for? Politicians! They don't talk…they don't go to the bathroom…without getting the approval of their pollster…–CROWD LAUGHS. It's true!
 
But anyway, she said, ’if you run you’ll win’. So…I…I…you know, what do I know!? And then I said, ‘we gotta do it!’, because…I see things happening…that are so dumb! I said, ‘so I'll do it’. So I took a deep breath…and I said, ‘I'll do it’. So we started…and…you know, you start from practically nothing…and…I polled very badly before I announced, because nobody thought I was gonna run! Even when they said, ‘if Donald Trump runs...’, people would write back, ‘we don't think he's running’. Then –THEY– would say, ‘no, no, he is!’. ‘We don't believe it’. So, okay. So now I say, ‘the only way I can test it is actually run! Cause they weren't believing, when they put ‘if he runs’. And they were saying, ‘he is running’, and they saw in place.
 
So…but I didn't know that for sure! Cause I was getting like fours, and threes! I was down in some of these guys’ low territory, I wouldn't wanna be there! And if I were in their territory, if I were them…those guys ought to get out, because they're wasted a lot of time! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They're wasted a lot of their time…
 
They're not doing good for their brand! They're really not doing good for their brain. They ought to get out. It's time! You know, when you're at…like…this guy, Pataki! He's been at zero four months! –CROWD LAUGHS. He couldn't get elected a dog catcher in New York! The guys at zero four months! And he keeps staying, and staying! And it's pretty sad, because some of them have missed filings on certain states. Major states. Because they didn't wanna put up the money…you know, when they’re at zero, why would you put up money? It's not gonna happen. So they didn't wanna put up THE…so they miss their filing date. And you can't…there’s nothing you can do about it! Right? So they miss filing, in certain states, and they didn't wanna put up the money, or they couldn't get 10,000 signatures…or whatever it was. So they're continuing to run! Now, if I were running the party…I'd say, ‘look, excuse me if you can't win the state of X, a major state. If you can't win…Virginia, because you're not allowed to go in; or if you can't win…South Carolina; or if you can't win…this one or that one…? …because you didn't file…? …that means it's taken off your list! You're not allowed to be in the debate anymore!
 
We have guys that didn't file that are still in the debate, and they raked at 0 and 1 percent! And we need…more time. You know, when we're talking about terrorism, I don't wanna be given 30 seconds. ‘Mr. Trump, in 30 seconds…why would you do about terrorism, Sir?’. I said, ‘30 seconds!?’…–CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
 
So…hopefully that will be it, because we really do need fewer people…in this thing. I mean, it should be…you know, that. But one of the group said today…they said, ‘you know…? …there's two beds. There's Trump over here…–MR. TRUMP INDEXES WITH HIS HANDS–…and then there's like a…military path, and then there's another path, but Trump already has the military, cause the military loves Trump’…and they do! And I love them, by the way…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…and then he goes, ‘so there's your mainstream path’. You know, meaning, you’re politician, all talk no, action pal. So they go through, ‘well, you have to win here…and you could be this one…it could be that one…it could be…’, you know, I won't mention a name, ‘but it could be this one…’, ba, ba, ba…and up and they go on and fight…and that was it. Then the…the last guy said, ‘but you know, it's gonna be awfully hard to beat him. He's…got some lead’. They hate to hear that. I think they hate to hear because of me, but I also think they hate to hear cause they'd like to keep it closer, because it's better for ratings…maybe that's it, right’.
 
But we're gonna do…great. The FOX debate was the largest in the history of cable television. Largest rating! Bigger than NFL…–NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE–…games…the CNN debate was the largest audience…23 million, in the history of CNN. In the history of CNN! They cover wars, they cover…the big…things! The big events! Right!? CNN, terrific. Fox, terrific. Largest in all of cable…forever! Largest in the history of CNN.
 
Then the other day, even after we had these number of debates, 18 million people! IT–…was like one of the largest…18 million! …and…and you know what you get…you know, you've seen it like…before! And then a massive audience. And…by the way, watch the Democrat debate tonight. It's really not the democratic. You know, they always say ‘the democratic debate’. It's not the the democratic…name it The Democrat! It's really the Democrat debate. They always put the Democratic debate. It’s not the democratic they call it the wrong name, because it sounds better, it's good for them. But it’s the wrong name! They're not the Democratic Party. They’re the Democrat Party! But…it doesn't flow as well, so they wanna take care of the Democrats.
 
But…watch tonight what they get. They’ll get very little. They'll get very little…compared to 18 million people that we got…a few days ago. And it was said that…if it's ‘Trump’ against Hillary Clinton…it's going to be…the largest…voter turnout…in the history…of this country…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I know that's true. And the reason I know that's true is that…when FOX got 24 million…and when CNN for the next one got…23 million…and when CNN after going through this for a long time just got 18 million…18 million! They can't believe it! Just so you know…the network's never wanted the debates. They used to be like a wasteland. They were forced to take the debates at one time! Because they had to! Licensing and things like that. Nobody wanted to watch! Now it's like the Super Bowl of…of…whatever! And now everybody wants a piece of it! They wanna have more. They’re calling, ‘hey, can we have more debates? We want more debates’.
 
This was nothing! Now, I'm not saying because it's me…but it is…–CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS–…okay? It’s totally! No, it is! I mean, last…compare those numbers to what it was four years ago! It's a joke! That was a small…number, and this is a massive number! CNN went…in advertising: from 4,000 for a 30-second ad, to 250,000. Think of that! From four thousand dollars for a 30-second ad…to a quarter of a million dollars for a 30 second ad! THEY–…made a fortune! So…ugh…okay. Variety…–AN AMERICAN MAGAZINE–…said…they call it ‘the Trump’ debate, ‘Trump debate’. It was because of me! If we win…that's why The…Apprentice did so well! That's why Arnold's…–SCHWARZENEGGER–…gonna have a hard time! It's gonna have a hard time beating ‘Trump’! And…and I'm very happy with Arnold, but I couldn't do the show anymore, because of this! And I want Arnold to do well, cause I have a big chunk of that show. It's gonna be tough! Who do you think…? What do you think of Arnold? How well Arnold doing The Apprentice? What do you think? –CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. Who do you like better, Arnold, or ‘Trump’? …–CROWD YELLS ‘TRUMP!’. I had a feeling. I had a feeling you’d say that.
 
So anyway. So…we will have people voting…that never voted before! You know, it's always been very embarrassing…to our country…because we always had a very small vote. You know, a…tiny…proportion of our people vote! We will have people voting…that have…never…voted…before. And I think…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…I think…it was like that person…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD SPECIFICALLY–…you better believe it. ‘Good! Good!’ Always pointing here.
 
You…you know, we are gonna have people that never voted before! By the millions! It's just gonna be like 24 million versus…you…you know, nobody cares! We're gonna have tremendous…numbers of voters. No, no way illegal immigrants are gonna vote, okay’ They'll try! But we're not gonna let them! We're not gonna let them! That'll be the next move…all illegals. You probably saw in California, where the illegals want to take over the city council. Can you believe what's going on with our country!? Okay…–CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
 
We will have numbers like you've never seen. And I will get a lot of people on the Democrat side…to vote for me. A lot of people going to come across! –CROWD AND CHEERS–…because they're tired of what's happening! And that stuff doesn't poll, by the way. That really doesn't poll! But we'll get stuff on the democrats. We will have a massive turnout, and they just did a story on this! I think it was CNBC but they did a big…a big…thing on this. Big poll. ‘What will happen…if Trump runs against Hillary?’. They say ‘it'll be…’, and they did a poll on this! ‘It'll be the largest turnout in the history of elections. And a lot of those people that come out, are gonna be voting for Trump. More than…far more than fifty percent’…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So we're gonna win!
 
But we have to get there first! So…so…what…you do…and…I hope you can do this: February first. No matter what's going on in your life…if you get the worst news you've ever gotten…which hopefully that won't happen…you gotta get out, February first, you gotta get to the Caucus. You gotta go out…and get it done…–CROWD APPLAUDS. You gotta go out.
 
We have an unbelievable team here. Unbelievable…force! And…I think it's gonna be an amazing evening, but you gotta go out. You gotta say…geez, I don't wanna watch that problem…you’ll only…you don’t have a…little period of time! That's what makes the Caucuses is so tough. You have that little window. But I hope you can go out, because I promise you one thing: I…will…make…America…great…again…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Okay? Thank you. Thank you all.
 
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