VIDEO Nº: 51
TITLE:51. Speech: Donald Trump in Mt. Pleasant, SC - December 7, 2015 
DATE OF EVENT:07/12/2015
RELEASE DATE:27/10/2017
DURATION:00.54.56 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:8588
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Wow!
 
Thank you. Thank you so much!
 
Thank you!
 
We start by paying our great respects to Pearl Harbor…! …–CROWD CHEERS. We don't want that stuff. We don't want World Trade Centers. We don't want that ever happening to us again. It’s not gonna happen to us again.
 
So I want to thank everybody for being here. This is a great honor. There’re thousands of people outside. And sometimes I'll say, ‘would you like to wait about an hour until they all come in?’, but we can't get them in anyway, so what difference is it? We all got lucky we’re together tonight…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thank you.
 
So we have a lot of big news today. To me, very big, was this…CNN just came out with the new poll about an hour ago, in Iowa! Great, great state! And in Iowa, ‘Trump’, thirty-three percent! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Beating everybody by a lot. You have Cruz at 20, and Carson at 16 and going down, and Rubio…at 11, and Bush at 4. But it's ‘Trump’ at 33, it just came out. It’s Iowa! We love Iowa! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. By the way, great ship! And I’m in debt to Iowa too, right? I’m…–INAUDIBLE–…with that one too. I really blame on…ehm…
 
The other big poll that came out just…two ago…was the National Poll ‘Trump’, 36…and then…I won’t even mention the other numbers cause they are so low! You know, when you have…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…when you have…so…many…people…running …we have seventeen. And then they start dropping…bing, bing…–CROWD LAUGHS. I love it! I love it!
 
And you’ll be losing a lot over the next little while. I would imagine…! I don’t know, when somebody's down at zero…I would think that…eventually they’ll drop out…–CROWD LAUGHS. The only problem is there’s nothing to pick up that…if they’re at zero. And where do you pick up? So anyway, but you will see that.
 
One of the…things that it’s so important, because…–INAUDIBLE–…very important. In the State poll, which is the big National CNN poll…for the economy…so important, ‘Trump’, 55 percent.   Everyone else…–CRWOD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…no.
 
On the budget…I’m really good at these things…economy, budget…so I sort of expected this. On the budget, ‘Trump’…this is with fifteen people remaining! ‘Trump’, 51 percent. Everyone else…bing! …–MR. TRUMP PUTS HIS THUMB DOWNWARDS. THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
Oh…here’s one that I started…! And I took a lot of heat! I took a lot of heat! It’s sort of like the one we are talking about today; I guess you heard a little bit about it. But I’ve taken a lot of heat on this one: illegal immigration. Now, had I not brought that up…in Trump Tower, in June, when I announced, that I was gonna run for president…which takes courage, to run for president. Believe me…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know, all my life I heard…that…if you’re a successful person, especially if you’re very successful. You’ve done a lot of things, a lot of deals, a lot of everything…you can’t run for president! And that’s the kind…of…mindset…and thinking…this country needs! We’re being run by people that don’t know what they’re doing! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Very sad! But illegal immigration, ‘Trump’, forty-eight percent, that's was 15 people! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Everyone else…no good…–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
On a thing called…ISIS…–CROWD BOOS. DO–…you ever know…? ISIS…oh, don’t worry, we have plenty…we'll talk a lot about ISIS…–CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YES!’. Can you believe it!? Here we have…generals, they go in television and talk. They do all talk. You people, a lot of military people here tonight. Who is military here? …–CROWD CHEERS. All right! I love you! By the way, speaking of it…we're gonna make our military so strong, so powerful, so great…nobody's ever going to mess with us again…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Nobody! They’re never gonna mess with us! You know, in many ways…it's the cheapest thing we can do. The cheapest thing…instead of fighting these wars, that we don't know what we're doing, and we have leaders that…are afraid to do anything. They’ll make it so great, so strong…! …that people…trust me! Not messing…they’re not messing! And we’re gonna take care of our great Vets, our wounded warriors…we're gonna take care of them…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
Because…they…thank you! They…are not…being…taken…care of. We have illegal immigrants that are taken care of…better than our incredible veterans. And it's not gonna happen any longer! Not gonna happen! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Not gonna happen!
 
So with ISIS, ‘Trump’, 46 percent. Can you imagine that? With all of these characters running. On foreign policy, ‘Trump’ way up. And, you know, in theory you could say, ‘well, maybe it's not my thing’, but people wanna see strong, they wanna see strength, they wanna see protection, they wanna be protected…and that's it!
 
I watched last night. And I watched the president, truly…that didn't…know what…he was doing. He didn't…he didn't…know…why he was there. He refuses…to use…the term…radical Islamic terrorism. He refuses to use the term! I don't even know if he knows what the hell's going on! I really don’t! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And then, we’re looking at Hilary Clinton. And honestly? I know Hillary. It's just gonna be an extension of Obama. I think maybe worse. She's got no strength. She's got no stamina. Remember that. You don't need a president with no strength or stamina, when we're being ripped off on trade, we’re being ripped off on Obamacare, which is gonna be repealed and replaced by something really good…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. When our soldiers aren’t being taken care of, when our military is…never been like it is today…
 
One of the generals was on…television, as usual! Saying that we’re the least prepared…now…! …than any time…that he's ever seen it, and he's been there a long time, –HE IS–…retiring. That's how we are. In the most dangerous world we've ever had…because of the power of weapons. We have people…that don't know…they don’t have a clue…I’m…I'm telling you. I watch them! I watch these generals being interviewed! Do you think General George Patton would be interviewed…? …–CROWD CALLS OUT ‘NO!’. Do you think General…? They do the war…they’d be interviewed after total and complete victory…–CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YEAH!’.
 
General Douglas MacArthur. They’re not being fore interviewed. You know, they shoot first, they talk later. These guys…these guys…–CROWD APPALUDS. And I don't think we'll have to. You know, just so you understand. Bush…–MR. TRUMP MOCKS HIM TRHOUGH MAKING A SLEEPING GESTURE. THE CROWD LAUGHS. Bush…he said yesterday…he was being interviewed. He said that…he was talking about me! He was saying the nicest things about me…–CROWD LAUGHS. Of course, he said he'll be elected, he's had what? Three percent! Right!? ... –CROWD LAUGHS. No, but he said…some things that was like…I said, ‘Who says that about an opponent? You don't say those things!’. You'll find out what he said, but he said very nice things.
 
But…if you look at…what happens…where he…is upset with me, because he says… ‘The tone! The tone…of Donald Trump…is not nice!’…–CROWD LAUGHS. And I say it all the time! We have people…whose heads a big chopped off…in the Middle East, because they're Christian, and for other reasons. They’re being dumped and drowned in steel cages…and we talk about my tongue! Hillary said the same thing: ‘Mr. Trump’s tone is not nice!’…–CROWD LAUGHS. These people are living in a different planet! Remember that! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And remember what I said about Hillary: we need somebody who's strong. We need somebody with incredible energy. But incredible intelligence, and all of those things! You know, I know a lot of tough people. But they're not smart. That's no good. They’re easy! We need tough, we need smart, we need like every care…we are so far…behind the eight ball…in this country. We owe 19 trillion…the budget they signed two weeks ago, is gonna make it twenty-one trillion. It's a…think of it! Trillion! Trillion! Trillion dollars! Who the hell ever heard of the word…10 years ago!? …–CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. There was no such word.
 
We owe 21 trillion dollars…in the very near future. We're really in trouble! We have to rebuild our country, we have to rebuild our infrastructure, we have to rebuild our military…and yet…! …we do deals with China…where there's a trade imbalance of over four…hundred…billion…dollars…a year. In their favor, by the way, this out of the question. Japan! They send the cars, by the millions! Seventy…billions…dollars…a year…imbalance. That's like…a loss. You look at…Mexico! We're going to build a wall! It will be a real wall…! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s gonna happen! It’s gonna happen!
 
The people I'm dealing with…and you know, I…I really focus on…on Hillary later, cause I’ve to get through these 15 people, you know? There is 15 of us. I had…Perry –GOVERNOR MR. RICK PERRY FROM TEXAS–…came at me strong…he went down! I had Governor Walker…–FROM WISCONSIN, nice guy, he went down! Every guy that attacks me, so far, they've all gone down! We gotta keep it that way, right!? … –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
I mean, Lindsey Graham is at…he's got zero! He’s at zero! …–CROWD BOOS. Zero! Think of it! Let me ask you a question. I…I don’t get Lindsey Graham…–CROWD LAUGHS. I don't get him…–MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP REPRODUCES IT. He’s literally…‘he says “we don’t either”’…–CROWD LAUGHS. He’s literally at zero! You see it! And he keeps talking! He gets so much television! I mean, he’s on television all the time! And he doesn't go up! He’s at zero, folks! …–CROWD LAUGHS. His ideas are so bad! I'm…more…militaristic than him. But I know how to win! He doesn’t! He wants to just attack everything! He doesn’t know what the hell…whoa! Ahhh! …–MR. TRUMP MOCKS HIM THROUGH WILD GESTICULATION. And he always sits with John McCain! It's like the Bobbsey Twins…–CROWD LAUIGHS. They're always sitting together! No, it’s true! Did you ever notice? I…I…sometimes I wanna see him by himself! He's…always sitting with John McCain! Who is fine! I'm not knocking it! But…you gotta know what to do!
 
Now, me…! I was against the war in Iraq. So everyone says, ‘oh, do you have the right temperament…?’. I have a great temperament! But gotta attack if you’re gonna do something, you know, you…do…know what you're doing! I said. ‘if you…attack…Iraq…! …and you wipe it out, Iran is gonna take over the entire Middle East, because you're gonna ruin the balance! It…it was so simple to me! And actually they sent a group from the White House to see me…because…I got so much…publicity…–MR. TRUMP CLEARS HIS THROAT. THE CROWD LAUGHS–…so much publicity…that they sent a group…from the White House, ‘see Mr. Trump, see Mr. Trump…’. I said, ‘fellas, you're gonna have Iran…take over the Middle East’. And that's what's happening! And Iran is gonna take over Iraq, as sure as you’re sitting there…and…by the way, Iraq, with the second…largest…oil reserves…anywhere in the world!
 
We lost…thousands of lives. We have wanted worries, who I love all over the place…two trillion dollars. We have nothing! We got nothing! We got…absolutely…nothing! And we left! And we have a president…–WE–…shouldn’t have been there! But then, we should have left the way we left…–MEMBER IN THE CROWD TELLS LOUDLY. IT IS A PROTESTER. THE CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘TRUMP’ IMMEDIATELY REPEATEDLY AND THEN BOOS. Thank you. That’s all right. See? Treat them very nicely, please. I don't even know what you said. But whatever it is. I don't know what she said, really. But…whatever it is. But treat her nicely…–CROWD KEEPS BOOING. Thank you very much. Treat her nicely, thank you.
 
You know, they have a system now. They’ll have four people. We are interrupted four times one night, a couple of weeks ago. And they’ll have four people, one person at a time. And they'll scream something…and then the next day, the press was saying, ‘protesters…’… you have thousands of people here tonight…and we'll talk about three or four people, in that case it's one. That person had a very weak voice…–CROWD LAUGHS. What a weak voice! Strange! Strange! It’s too bad.
 
You know, WHAT–…the funny thing is? I look at Democrats, and liberals, and conservatives, republicans…would it be good for all of us if we could get together, and really make our country great again? Isn’t that what we’re gonna do? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
I bet you…that I spoke to that young woman…that…quickly! …I really think I could convince her that we're all in this together folks! We wanna have a strong country, right? We wanna have a…pastor, stand up! …–MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES SOMEONE SPECIFICALLY. What a good guy this is! You have been so great to me…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…and…a pastor, and a great guy. He has been so great to me…! I appreciate, pastor. Thank you. Thank you…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
But, you know, if you think about it…and you’ll have some that can never be satisfied, no matter what, they’re just troublemakers, etcetera, etcetera…But most people aren't! And they believe something…and I have some very smart friends…–THAT–…don't agree with me, that agree with the other side. But I really believe that… if you're talking about making America great, we have to be strong, we have to be vigilant. And if we’re not vigilant…–THE CROWD STARTS BOOING AND CHANTING ‘TRUMP’ REPEATEDLY AGAIN. APPARENTLY, IT’S JUST TO COUNTERACT ANOTHER PROSTESTER. THEN THE CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY.
 
That was the same person! I gotta tell you, so far, the security is not doing a great job in here, I’ll tell you that…–CROWD LAUGHS. That was the same person. You can do it very nice, but why don’t you get her out? …because, honestly…it’s inappropriate. So, security, strengthen yourself up…–CROWD BOOS. See? Our country…has this kind of security. That’s the problem here. OK, get her out. Please. Thank you. Treat her very nicely, please. But she should now be taken out. Same person, one person! It’s one person! They let her out, they give her a second chance, and the same thing happens.
 
But you wouldn't think…you would think, that…everybody…we're on the same basket. That everybody…every…single…person…–THE CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY AGAIN. APPARENTLY THERE’S ANOTHER PROTESTER. That’s all right, folks. I have a lot of time. Does everybody have a lot of time tonight…? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I have time!
 
I don't want the person to be hurt. But I will tell you security is very weak. I can't believe this security people…–CROWD BOOS. One person…one person and we’ve wasted five minutes. All right, get them out. Thank you.
 
So…you would think that…if we could get together, we’d all be the same boat. Now, last night, we all saw…and we witnessed something that I thought…was…highly inappropriate. In fact, I tweeted, ‘Is that all there is!?’ About the president's speech. And I wrote something today, that I think is very…very…salient, very important…and probably not politically correct, but I don't care! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
You know, we had a situation...in California, very recently, where somebody was making bombs…in an apartment. The mother saw them. The mother didn't notice anything wrong…–CROWD MUTTERS. I watch the sister being interviewed. Believe me, in my opinion, she was lying like crazy. I watched that interview. ‘Oh, my brother was such a wonderful guy. I didn't know, I didn't know, I didn't know…’…–MR. TRUMP MOCKS THE PERSON USING A DIFFERENT TONE.
 
And I watched the next door neighbor saying, ‘oh, well, we didn't report them…because…we didn't wanna racially profile’, or, ‘we didn't wanna profile’. Give me a break! …–CROWD BOOS. Give me a break! We’re like the stupid country, in so many different ways, in so…can you imagine…what our great leaders of the past would have said with a kind of crap that's happening with us!? They didn't wanna report them because ‘they thought it was profiling’. Oh, okay! They saw bombs…they saw…you know, the…the pipe bombs. All of…and this wasn't to build a bathroom, when a bomb is…this…long…–MR. TRUMP SHOWS A LENGTH IN THE AIR–…gotta put too many of them together for a bathroom, right? –CROWD LAUGHS. And, ‘we thought they’d maybe…but we didn't wanna racially profile them…’, oh, okay. You’re okay. You’re innocent.
 
Or how about…where the families, and the girlfriends, and the wives, and everything, they go back with…World Trade Center? The worst! Worse than Pearl Harbor! Because with the World Trade Center, they were killing…innocent…civilians! At least, well it was a dirty, rotten, sneak attack! At least…–CROWD CHEERS. At least…at least…–CROWD INTERRUTPS. MR. TRUMP ACKNOWLEDGES IT–… ‘wow, that was a hell of a’…–CROWD LAUGHS. Thank goodness he’s at my side…–CROWD LAUGHS. But…while it was an attack, at least it was military. But this…was…a…an attack on the World Trade Center.
 
So…what's happened is…we're out of control. We have no idea who’s coming into our country. We have no idea if they love us or if they hate us. We have no idea they wanna bomb us. We have no idea what's going on. And then I looked at poll numbers. And I don't mean polls where I'm winning, those numbers I like looking at. These numbers I hated to look at! And…it's very, very sad. I'll go after some of the numbers: 25 percent of those polls…and this was from the Center for Security Policy. Very highly respected group of people, who I know, actually. This is people living in this country. Twenty-five percent of those polls…agreed…violence against Americans…is justified. This is Muslims! 25 percent! 51 percent…this is Muslims living in this country. By the way, I have friends that are Muslims, they're great people. But they know we have a problem! They know we have a real problem! Cause something's going on! And we can't put up with it, folks! We can't put up with it.
 
51 percent…51 percent…! …highly respected number of polling groups…want to be governed according to Sharia! You know what Sharia is…–CROWD BOOS. So…I wrote this out: the mainstream media…wants to surrender…the Constitution. The mainstream…media…these people back here…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THEM, they’re the worst. They are so dishonest…–CROWD BOOS–…no, no, they’re so dishonest…they’re so dishonest!
 
I mean, I had one, from NBC, a reporter from NBC, and actually…another one, I think from CBS. They actually…in Columbus, Ohio, I had a tremendous crowd, like 10,000 people. It was a love fest. And went on for a long time. Everybody stayed, right till the end. Right till the end! And I had one of the politicians, Kasich…–MR. JOHN KASICH, GOVERNOR OF OHIO–…who’s…who’s just getting…he’s…he’s a poor abled debater…he's…to me he’s a horrible…he made a statement…that… ‘oh, they left after 10 minutes!’. Now, the press was there, they saw it! Nobody says it was a lie! It was a total lie! In fact, I had more people at the end than I had at the beginning. Nobody's leaving! Nobody's leaving, you know, except for the one person that was screaming! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…we asked the press to report that it was a total lie…and they don't wanna do that…because it's not…it's not…their thing to do! You know, we get the biggest crowds. They don't wanna show this crowd tonight. They're not gonna show all the people outside, trying to get in. They don't do that! They have the cameras right in my face. I say, ‘fan the crowd, just to show them!’. Look at all the people over here! It's a record in the history of this ship! But they don’t show it…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They don’t show it! No, no! And I say ‘fan it!’. I say ‘fan it!’ and they never…ever…fan it! I say ‘fan the crowd!’, they never fan it!
 
And yet, I guarantee you, that young woman that just got taken out after interrupting us three times…I guarantee, the cameras will be on her. I guarantee. It's disgusting! It’s disgusting! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So we talk about the media, the means…and…and by the way, some of the media is terrific. But…most of it, seventy percent, seventy-five percent, is absolute dishonest…absolute scum. Remember that! Scum! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Scum! They’re totally dishonest people.
 
I had one the other day, where I finished the speech…and they said, ‘oh, Trump was interrupted any left early, like…–CROWD LAUGHS. Like I’ll…I spoke for like...45, 50 minutes. I then…answered questions…questions…and then I went around the…the…you know, everybody knew it was false! Amazingly…there's a media group…that calls the media, and the next day they did the most beautiful story about what a lie it was from NBC…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. She's back there…little Katie…–CROWD BOOS. She's back there…what a lie it was! …–CROWD BOOS. No! What a lie…Katie Tur! What a lie it was…from NBC, to have written that…was a total lie! And…they did a story where…I didn't know thy had a…a group like this…where they actually criticized the media! And they said it was a total lie! And I loved it. I loved it. I loved it.
 
And then other people pick it up…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE BACK, WHERE THE CAMERAS ARE. You know, it's NBC…so, somebody picks it up…third-rate reporter. Remember that. Third rate. Third rate! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So I said here, the mainstream media…wants to surrender our Constitution…and our constitutional rights! And I don't want that! I want ISIS…to surrender…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…okay? I want ISIS to surrender! It's very simple! It’s very simple.
 
So here's what happened. It has been a little bit of a controversial, it's been…great day, cause the poll numbers are through roof, and that…I like that. But…I have more…you know, I wish we could call…is there any way we can call the election tomorrow? Wouldn’t we love that!? –CROWD CHEERS. Now they're coming at us in full force. They’re coming…not coming at me, they're coming at all of us. They’re coming at all of us. Because, you know, we have a noisy majority. They used to call it the ‘quiet majority’. People are fed up! They're fed up with incompetence. They're fed up with stupid leaders. They’re fed up with stupid people! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
They are fed up…with stupid people! Where our president makes a ideal for sergeant Bergdahl…a dirty, rotten, no-good traitor…–CROWD BOOS–…who…think of it: they knew he was a traitor, cause the general and the colonel went to see…his group. Six people were killed looking for him. Okay? Six people were killed! Young. Unbelievable…I watched the parents on television. I’ve seen the parents! But I watched the parents on television. Devastated. IT–…will never be the same. They…–THE SOLDIERS–…left to try and bring him back. He left, he deserted.
 
You know, in the old days, when we were a strong country, it would be…boom, gone…–MR. TRUMP PRETENDS HE FIRES A GUN. It was called desertion! –CROWD APPLAUDS. Now, the other day I heard they wouldn’t even do anything to him. Can you believe it!? They think he's gonna get a little…away with nothing! He's gonna have nothing!
 
So he left…oh, they treated him pretty rough, though. He got in there, he said, ‘I shouldn’t have done this! This isn't working out the way…! …this isn't working out the way I thought!’…–CROWD LAUGHS. Anyway, so we get him back, and…here’s the deal with me: We get a dirty, no-good traitor…! …six people killed, trying to find him…they get five…of their greatest killers…that they've been after…after…! Think of it! For six years! In fact, I hear…–IT IS–… nine years!
 
So they get…these…totally…that…right now, have gone…! …they’re out on the battlefield. Trying to kill everybody in front of them, including you, folks, I hate to tell you. So we get Bergdahl…and they get five…of the killers that they wanted for many years. That's the way we do it!
 
The Iran deal. We gave them a hundred and fifty billion dollars! This is called amateur night. We gave them…one…hundred…and fifty…billion dollars! Twenty-four days…–CROWD BOOS. Twenty-four days…we think there's something wrong…? Twenty-four days…we have to wait! But it's much longer than that, because it's a whole process…before the clock…starts…ticking. So it could be forever! But the best is…where they have the right to self-inspect. MR. TRUMP NOW PLAYS OUT A HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION: ARE–… ‘you doing nuclear weapons over there? Oh! We will inspect tomorrow!’. ‘Oh, no! We don't do nuclear weapons!’ …–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
You know, the Persians are great negotiators. THEY–…always have been. And…somebody would say that's profiling. Trust me, they are great negotiators. And Kerry…is a horrible negotiator! And Obama…is a horrible negotiator! Horrible! It’s a horrible negotiator! These people are horrible! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
I always thought Obama would be a unifier. I never thought of him as being…like a divider. Because I said, ‘you know what? I don't think he's gonna be good president’. I backed McCain and he lost, by the way. And you know, I don't blame McCain for losing, cause a lot of bad things were happening. It was a tough one. But I backed McCain…he lost.
 
I backed Romney, he should have won, but he sort of went away on vacation, or something the last month, and he lost…–CROWD LAUGHS. And I said, ‘this time I'm gonna do it myself’. We’re not gonna lose. We’re not gonna lose…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We’re not losing! And…and the reason FOX poll, that just came out…has me beating Hillary very easily one-on-one. I love that! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I love that! That’s…so…important.
 
So…so we put out a statement today. We watched this…and it's impossible…to watch…this gross incompetence…that I watched…last night. We put out a statement. A little while ago. And these people are going crazy…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS IN THE BACK. THE CROWD LAUGHS–…they won’t record it probably. Shall I read the statement? …–CROWD CHEERS. MR. TRUMP READS THE STATEMENT DIRECTLY FROM HIS PAPERS: ‘Donald J. Trump…is calling for…’, now, let’s…you’re gonna listen to this folks, okay? This is…pretty…pretty heavy stuff, and it's common sense. And we have to do it! Remember the poll numbers: 25 percent, 51 percent…remember the poll numbers. Okay? So remember this. So listen:
‘Donald J Trump is calling for a total…and complete shutdown…of Muslims entering the United States…’ …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–… ‘until our country's representatives…can figure out…what the hell is going on!’…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. We have no choice! We…have…no…choice! We have…no…choice!
 
According to Pew Research, among others, there is a great…hatred…toward Americans…by large…segments…of the Muslim…population. Most recently, a poll from…Center for Security Policy, released data showing 25 percent of those polled…agreed that ‘violence…against…Americans’…the people that are here, by the way! People…–THAT–…are here! 25! Not 1 percent! By the way, one percent would be unacceptable! 1 percent is unacceptable! Twenty-five percent…of those polled…–MR. TRUMP NOW READS FROM HIS SCRIPT–…‘agreed that violence against Americans, here in the United States, is justified! …as part…’, think of that! … ‘as part…of the global jihad!’…–CROWD BOOS. They wanna change your religion. I don't think so! No. I don't think so! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I don’t think so! Not gonna happen!
 
‘As part of the global jihad’. And 51 percent of those polled agree that ‘Muslims in America…should have the choice of being governed according to Sharia!’. You know what Sharia ir! …–CROWD BOOS. 51 percent! Sharia authors…authorizes…and…that…I…look: this is…I mean, terrible! Sharia authorizes such atrocities, as murder against non-believers, who won't convert. Beheadings! And more unthinkable acts…that pose great harm to Americans…and especially…’, actually women! I mean, you look, ‘especially women!’. Tough stuff! And we have a president that won't even mention the term! And you're talking about numbers like this!
 
MR. TRUMP GOES BACK TO READING FROM HIS SCRIPT– …‘Mr. Trump stated, without looking at the various polling data, it is obvious to anybody, the hatred…is beyond…comprehension’, of such a big portion!
‘Where the hatred comes from, and why will have to determine…!’. We're gonna have to figure it out! We have to figure it out! We can't live like this! It's gonna get worse and worse! You're gonna have more World Trade Centers! It's gonna get worse and worse, folks! We can be politically correct, and we can be stupid! But it's gonna get worse and worse! …–MR. TRUMP READS AGAIN–… ‘until we are able to determine and understand this problem, and the dangers threaded poses, our country…cannot be…the victim…of horrendous attacks…by people that believe…only in jihad!’.
 
These people only believe in jihad! They don’t want our system! They don't want our system! …–CROWD MUTTERS. And have no sense of reason! …or respect…for human life! They have no respect…for human life! …–A PROTESTER SEEMS TO BURST IN. CROWD CHEERS AND CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. That’s all right. He sounds like he's very exhausted. It’s all right. No, he’s tired.
 
So…they have no respect for human life. So, we have to do something. Now, we can be weak, we can be ineffective…we can be foolish…–THE CROWD STILL MUTTERS. It’s all right. That’s all right. Sure it’s a nice person, I'm sure he can be reasoned with. Be very gentle. You know, whenever I'm tough, the press says, ‘oh, he was nasty!’. Whenever I say, ‘be very gentle’, they say, ‘oh, he’s…not as strong as we thought he was!’. I–…can’t win! …–CROWD LAUGHS. So I try and cut it down the middle…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I try and cut it down. Be very nice.
 
So prior to Paris, which was a disaster. Which, by the way…! …if some of the people, in those places, where it was slaughtered…absolute slaughter…had guns…! …you wouldn't have the carnage that you had! In Paris! …–CROWD APPLAUDS BUT ALSO BOOS. THERE SEEMS TO BE ANOTHER PROTESTER. You wouldn’t have had that carnage! If they had guns, you wouldn’t have had that carnage! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
 
So important, the Second Amendment. We have to preserve it, and cherish it. And we can't let these week leaders…diminish it. If they had guns in Paris…if five people in that room…Paris and France, has probably…the toughest gun laws…anywhere in the world! And it was like target practice. MR. TRUMP NOW PLAYS OUT THE SITUATION IN PARTIS DURING THE ATTACKS–… ‘Come over here, boom! Come here, boom…!’ –REPRESENTING FIRING A GUN AND KILLING. People are sitting by the hundreds! And many others are gonna be dying. They’re sitting in a hospital…in many cases waiting to die.
 
Now, same thing…a few days ago, in California. No guns. We didn't have guns! The bad guys had the guns. And these…young…people…and I tell the press: you gotta stop calling them ‘the mastermind’. These are…these are dirty, rotten scum! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They’re not masterminds. Remember the guy in Paris, with the big, dirty hat? Remember the guy in Paris…? ‘The mastermind!’. I was watching all the networks…I won’t mention who, but some of them disgusted me. ‘The mastermind is on the loose. The mastermind…’. And we have kids that are watching the internet! And they wanna be masterminds! And then you wonder why do we lose all these kids? They go over there. They're young, they're impressionable! They go over there! They wanna join ISIS! And we have our anchors. I think I got it mostly stopped. Did you notice that!? I don't hear it too much. But they say, ‘the young mastermind! Oh, he's…brilliant! Young man! He’s…brilliant!’. I don't even think he's got a high IQ! I call him…in Paris? …I called him, ‘the guy with the dirty, filthy hat’…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Okay? Not a smart guy, a dummy! Puts people in there…a mastermind,. Bing, bing, bing! They start shooting everybody! You gotta be a mastermind.
 
So, the press…has to be responsible! They're not being responsible! Because we're losing a lot of people because of the internet! And we have to do something! We have to go see Bill Gates, and a lot of different people…! That really understand what's happening! You have to talk to them! Maybe in certain areas…closing that internet up in some way! Somebody will say, ‘oh, freedom of speech! Freedom of speech!’…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. These are foolish people! We have a lot of foolish people! We have a lot of foolish people! We've gotta maybe do something with the internet! Because they are recruiting by the thousands! They're leaving our country!
 
And then, when they come back, we take them back: …–MR. TRUMP PLAYS OUT THE HYPOTHECICAL SITUATION: ‘Oh, come on back! Where were you!?’. ‘I was fighting for ISIS’. ‘Oh, come on back. Go home. Enjoy yourself!’…–CROWD LAUGHS. When they leave our country…and they go to fight…for…ISIS…or any of the other groups! They never come back! They never can make it back…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. They can never, ever, ever, ever come back. It’s over. How about that!? And now they’ve become radicalized…totally radicalized. And …how about the woman? She was in Pakistan, then Saudi Arabia…she…brings…and she comes in an engagement deal. And she radicalized…the guy! Probably the guy couldn't get women. I don't know what the hell is the problem! …–CROWD LAUGHS. Probably the first…woman he's ever had in a while, what’s going on!? –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But he became radicalized quickly! You notice how easy!? He becomes radicalized…and then they go on a spree. Folks, those days are over. Those days are over! We have to be tough, we have to be smart, we have to be vigilant…–CROWD APPLAUDS. Yes, we have to look at mosques. And we have to respect mosques. But, yes, we have to look at mosques. We have no choice. We have to see what's happening. Because something is happening in there! Man…there is anger! There’s anger. And we have to know about it!
 
We can't be these people that are sitting back like…like…in the World Trade Center, or like so many different things! We can't be people that knew what was going on…two weeks ago in California, probably for months they knew what was going on! And they didn't wanna tell anybody! We can't be that! We have to be strong! When we see violations, you have to report those violations, and quickly! You…don't worry about ‘profiling’, I promise I will defend you from profiling. I promise! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So when I started…this whole quest. You know, who knew it was gonna turn into this? It's been…an amazing thing. No matter where I go, I have tremendous crowds. Packed crowds! Packed!  We went to Dallas…20,000 people, in Dallas. Twenty…twenty-five thousand people. I mean, we…we…have…it's a…a…Mobile, Alabama, 35,000 people. Here, every time I come to South Carolina, every time I go to North Carolina, every time I go to Iowa, and New Hampshire, Virginia…wherever I go…Florida! No, we have…we have crowds that are…max! I mean, the only…problem we have is the size of the room! Thousands of people outside trying to get it. Usually, I do it double. I go talk to them for a while. Which I wouldn’t say exactly love doing, after the first one!
 
But…there’s…an…unbelievable…love…in these rooms. All the same! …– MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘I LOVE YOU TRUMP!’. MR. TRUMP HEARS IT AND RESPONDS–… ‘I love you too! I love you! Stand up! Who said that!? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you darling. I love you.
 
There's an…unbelievable love in all of these places. Oklahoma! 20,000 people standing in a park. On quick notice. There's an unbelievable…love. And there's an unbelievable love…of…the country! We wanna see good things! We don't wanna be bad people! We don't wanna be tough, and nasty…and…we believe in the Constitution more than anybody! But we can't let people use, and abuse…our rights. We can't let people kill us. They wanna kill us! They wanna destroy us! We can't let it happen! We just can't let it happen!
 
And…I…I have a friend who's a…very, very successful man. And I went to one event, he came with me. We had 24,000 people¡! And this guy's really a tough cookie, he’s a great financial guy, one of the guys that I’ll definitely used to negotiate with Japan, China…baba…believe me, you're gonna be good shape if that happens. We won't have these characters. You know, this whole thing with all of these guys…
 
By the way, I'm the only one that’s self-funding my campaign. Everyone else's is a joke …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUSD. Only one! I’m the only one! Only one! I’m self-funding my campaign. And these other guys…you know, they’re getting millions and millions of dollars…from people I know! I had one guy, came, he wanted to give me money. I said, ‘honestly, I can’t take it. I don't wanna do it. I can’t take it’…which is very…sort of like for me…not to take money! My whole life I’ve been taking, and…–CROWD LAUGHS. Now, I’m sort of like…’what I am doing!?’.
 
But…came in, and I said, ‘so what are you gonna do? I don't want your money’. And he said, ‘I gotta go someplace else!’. They’re like gamblers! They’re like gamblers! ‘gotta go someplace…’. I said, ‘but you like me best’. HE SAID–…‘I like you best, but I’m gonna go someplace else’. Cause they wanna be part of…they wanna…!
 
So they give me…this…let me tell you: then who is more than me!? I gave millions to these guys! Nobody knows the system better than me! I know it from the other side! Don't forget: I was the fair-haired boy! I was when…I was like the…establishment…they’d all come to me, and…I’d give them all money. I’d write checks sometimes to Senators, whatever the max, bing, bing, bing…I used to say, ‘Senators, don't come to my office!’. Anybody that's a U.S. senator calls me… ‘we’ll send your campaign contribution’. But you know what? I'll tell you something: in the end, the people…that give…these millions of dollars…to these horrible corrupt packs…! …they’re corrupt!’…they totally control…Bush…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…and Rubio…and… I won’t say Cruz, cause he's been very nice to me…–CROWD BOOS. No, but he’s been nice. I can’t…he's gotta hit me first. Once he hits me, I promise you…! …–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
No, I've been nice to Christie, but he really hit me today! Chris Christie! I mean, I don't know, he's a friend of mine! But he's not doing well in the polls, and he really, really hit me today! He, ‘hated this…!’, and yet, he said, ‘anybody can get…’, you gotta look at some of his statements from the past! But it really hit me on the…whole thing with the… ‘we have to stop the Muslims…! …until we find out what's going on…’. Does that make sense!? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Till we find that…
 
And he's talked about, ‘that's an experience…’, you know, another one, she has experience, right? But that's the…statement…of an inexperienced man. They say that at me. About…‘we have to stop people that wanna kill us from coming in’…–CROWD CHEERS. Does that sound like an experiment!?
 
So Chris…who's a friend of mine! He hit me hard! And I said, ‘I gotta hit him at least once’. So, I won’t do this a lot, but look, he has his story…–CROWD LAUGHS. The George Washington Bridge…he kenw about it! –CROWD LAUGHS. Hey, how do you have breakfast with people every day of your lives…? They're closing up the largest bridge in the world…the biggest in the United States, traffic flowing…during rush hour…people couldn't get across it for six, seven hours…ambulances, fire trucks…they’re with him all the time! The people that did it! They never said… ‘hey boss, ehm…we're closing up the George Washington Bridge tonight’. No, they never said. They're talking about the weather, right? …–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
Then…so they…he…he…knew about. He…he…knew about it. Totally knew about it! He’s got a very friendly group of…people over there, that…they don't…think so, but…I don't look, it's called life. You gotta be smart in life. I would say there is less than one-percent chance…it could be…! …but I doubt it. He knew about it, they mentioned it! They didn't mention…at one of their meetings…? I think they’ve breakfast like every day, or every other day! They didn’t say, ‘Chris tonight we are closing up the George Washington Bridge because the mayor of…certain area…is against you?’. ‘Oh, okay’. They didn't mention it. Nobody believes that.
 
Number two: Nine downgrades…of the state. Nine downgrades! It’s a disaster! I have property over there. The taxes…? …are…through…I…I’ll use an expression, coming out of my ears, okay? …–CROWD LAUGHS. Tremendous taxes over there. He had nine…downgrades. You had…Christy…you know, so friendly…with…President Obama during the flood! –CROWD BOOS. I actually called. I said, ‘let me ask you, are you gonna vote for Obama? I thought you were gonna vote for Obama!’. I don't know, I think he, possibly, did! –CROWD LAUGHS. And I…Romney, I was very disappointed! One of the reasons I was disappointed is he called Christian and they had dinner, right after the election. If Christie did that to me…? …I would have never spoken to him again…–CROWD BOOS. I would have never done it…–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So when Chris talks about…when he talks about…lack of experience? …I've got this incredible company, I filed papers, where everyone said, ‘wow, that is unbelievable!’. I would’ve probably filed them even if I didn’t run, cause…you know, I built a great, great company. Tremendous cash! Tremendous assets! Tremendous net worth! Very little debt! Unbelievable cash flow! And I filed. Everybody said, ‘number one: he won't run’. And I run! I took a deep breath, I went ‘ahh…–MR. TRUMP TAKES A DEEP BREATH–…let's go!’, to my wife. And we came down that escalator. Right? The famous escalators. Hopefully, in many years that will be a very famous scene, cause we will have turned around our country, and that will be a positive note, okay? Hopefully! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
Then they said, ‘oh, ehm…he announced!’. It’s all these talking heads! Most of whom are not even smart people, believe me… –CROWD LAUGHS. Then they said, ‘well, they went to Ivy League Colleges’, so did I go to Ivy League Colleges. They went to this…most of them didn't go to Ivy League Colleges by the way, but anyways. But they said that, ‘brilliant!’. One is brilliant because he wears glasses! You know it…–CROWD LAUGHS. Like Perry! …–MR. TRUMP REFERS TO RICK PERRY, THE GOVERNOR OF TEXAS. Remember Perry!? Remember…? We don't want that!
 
But what happens…what happens…is they said, ‘well, he’ll never file form A’. That's basically where you sign your life away. I filed Form A. Then they said, ‘well, he’ll never sign…his financial statement. Because maybe…he's not as rich as everybody thinks’. And what they don't know…and then I…then they said, ‘and if he does, he'll ask for many, many delays’, cause you’re entitled to…45 days, and delays, and…you can delay it till ever. And they delay it until after the election. I said, ‘no!’. So I filed in ahead of schedule. And what happened…remember…? …–CROWD APPLAUDS. They went down! They couldn't believe it! It was much, much, much better than anybody ever envision…I built a great company! And the reason…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Honestly? IT’S–…worth billions, and billions of dollars. Remember that? Low debt, great cash flow…and the greatest assets! Doral, Trump Tower, The Trump Building, big chunk of the Bank America Building, in San Francisco, 1290 Avenue in –PENSYLVANNIA–…there's so many great things! Land all over! Land on the Potomac, land all over! In…North Carolina, I have a great piece of property, Trump National Golf Club, some of you know it. Great…right…in the best location.
 
What happens…what happens…? So I filed. Everyone said, ‘oh, I can't believe it!’. Then they say, ‘well, maybe you won't do so well…with the polls’. And, you know, before I went…people never believed I was gonna run! They never thought I was gonna run! And I told the story the other night…for the…really…the first real time. But my wife said to me,’ ‘you know if you run…you’ll win, don’t you?’. She’s a very smart…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, it’s right. That was right. I said, ‘what do you mean?’. She said, ‘well, if you don't run, you're never gonna poll well before, because nobody believes you’re gonna run. So if you…if they do polls, like they did, they did these early polls! They weren’t great!
 
She said, ‘no, the only way…you're gonna get a poll number, real number…but you gotta announce, cause nobody believes…if though they say…! …even though they say…you’re running. It doesn’t matter. Nobody believes you’re running’.
 
So I said, ‘all right. Well, I’m getting this…lousy…early numbers, something…I don’t know, I don’t wanna run and then find out it doesn’t work. I don’t wanna be embarrassed like Lindsey Graham, and all these guys, and all those guys who have nothing!?’…–CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. It’s true! It’s true! So I said, ‘all right, let’s take it’.
 
So we go down on the escalator. You know what I did? Do you remember? It took a deep breath at it…cause I'm telling you, and you know what I'm talking about. The press…down there…looked like the Academy Awards, there were so many cameras. I have never seen anything like it. The entire atrium of Trump Tower was packed with…cameras, and press. And I just said, ‘let's go to’, my wife. I took a deep breath…–MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘LET’S GO!’. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES HER. ‘I like her’…–CROWD LAUGHS–…I took a deep breath…and I went down! And I talked about lots of things! Including illegal immigrations. And…illegal immigration was such a big step. And…I'm telling you, had I not brought it up, and it’s certainly turned out to be…and I took heat! I took heat like nobody has ever taken heat.
 
Rush Limbaugh said, ‘the most incredible incoming…that I've ever seen a human being endure’. And then he doubled down, a week later! Cause I was right! And now, illegal immigration is one of…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…it’s one of the biggest things! And then you had…the killing of Kate. And you have the killing of Jameel. And the killing…recently, in California, of a full… 66-year-old…think of it! 66-year-old veteran. Female! Raped, sodomized, and killed, by an illegal immigrant. And many, many more! It's a huge problem! And they take our jobs! A lot of other thing!
 
So all of a sudden, everyone is saying, ‘wow!’. And now the polls…start. I go and I announced. And from almost the beginning, you've seen, I've been to the top…like from, almost, day one…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s almost from day one.
 
And…and the reason is…look: the reason I…tell you certain things, and the reason I…talked about…you know, what I've done, and lots of good things…I do…a…a little thing! A–…Wollman Ice Skating Ring.  THE–…city couldn't get it built, for eight years! They were in there for like…20 million dollars! They couldn't get it done! I went to the mayor of New York. I said, ‘Ed…’, Ed Koch, ‘I’ll get it done like quick!’. He didn't like it, because he didn't wanna be shown up. I said, ‘that's okay, I'll do…and if it costs more than 2 million, I'll pay for it’…–CROWD CHEERS. I got it built for…peanuts! Got it done in four months! And we had ice skating in Central Park, and I still run it! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUSD.
 
I did another one. I did a bigger version of that, recently. Ferry Point, out in the Bronx. They were having…–THE–…thing’s been under construction for anywhere between 20 and 30 years! They couldn't get it done! I got it done in a year, its operating now, it’s very successful…it’s what I do! And that's what we need! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, no, but that's what we need in our country!
 
I'm building on Pennsylvania Avenue an incredible hotel. One of the great hotels of the world, in the Old Post Office site. Think of it! I got it…in the Obama administration. Everybody was biting. Everybody wanted it. One of the most sought-after projects in the history of the GSA…general services. And I got it! Can you imagine ‘me’ getting it from the Obama administration!? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Because…the GSA, who are really professionals, they want to make sure; number one, it got built, so they wanted strong financials; and they also wanted a great plan. So we came up with Ivanka and my kids. We came up with this incredible plan. The job is under budget, ahead of schedule…it was gonna open up in ’17 –MEANING YEAR 2017, sometime during the year ‘17. Now it's gonna open up probably in September of ’16…–MEANING YAER 2016, right before the election and we…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. On Pennsylvania Avenue!
 
And…this is the kind…of mindset you need! Carl Icahn, one of the great businessmen, and others that endorsed me. We have trillions, and trillions of dollars offshore. Pfizer's leaving the United States. In the old days…somebody would leave for, frankly, South Carolina. They’d leave New York for…or Florida, or someplace else, where the taxes are lower. They’d leave for North Carolina, they’d leave! Today they leave this country for other countries! So we’re now losing Pfizer. We’re gonna lose many of our great…companies.
 
We have…two and a half trillion dollars offshore, at least! And…everybody agrees that should come home. The Democrats, the Republicans, they…for three years! …they can make a deal! They can’t make a deal! Because there’s such gridlock! There's no leadership in Washington!
 
We…will…make…this country…so great! We have people…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…and…and I’ll tell you something. I'll tell something: I…you know, somebody…said something to me the other day. And…what I really wanna do…I wanna be…–THE CROWDS STARTS CHANTING ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. APPARENTLY ANOTHER PROTESTER HAS INTERRUPTED THE RALLY–…it’s all right. All right. Don’t worry. Don’t worry, forget it.
 
What we wanna do and what I wanna do…I wanna be the people's president. I don't work…think of this! Think of this! I don't work for any of the lobbyists! I don't work for any of these people! That are leading our country in the wrong direction! We don’t –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thank you!
 
The best thing that I've seen going around, and the thing that I see more than anything else…is…how…smart…the people are! They don't believe those people in the back…–MEANING THE CAMERAS AND THE MEDIA–…that right with for…I'm telling you. They don't believe them! The people are really smart! What's given me more inspiration…than…any…other…single…thing…are the…people that I’ve met. The incredible people of this country!
 
We're going to make America great again. And you know what? We're going to make it greater…greater…! …than ever…before! And I love you all! And thank you very much!
 
Thank you very much! South Caroline, you’re great!
 
Thank you!
 
We love you!
 
Thank you!
 
