VIDEO Nº: 30
TITLE:30. Donald Trump Massive Rally in Norfolk, VA (Oct 31 2015)
DATE OF EVENT:31/10/2015
RELEASE DATE:02/11/2015
DURATION:01.10.00 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:14105
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MR. TRUMP STARTS TALKING AT MINUTE 00.13.01
 
See? We have to know how to improvise…right? –CROWD CHEERS. This is wonderful…oh I see…-MR. TRUMP POINTS TO THE FRONT-…I’m supposed to be catering to the press…the hell with the press –CROWD CHEERS. The hell! That's the problem with that country, they don't know what to do. I will tell you…it's such an honor, such a great ship. You know, I was on the Iowa –ANOTHER NAVAL SHIP-…recently. Pretty much of a sister. Which ones bigger? They're both pretty good! Which one’s bigger? These are the largest guns…ever made…in the United States, and we love the Second Amendment…right? Right? –CROWD CHEERS. Oh they are big….! And we're gonna learn how to use our guns, because we're never gonna have to use them if we do that. You know that, right? Because we are going to build our military…so big, and so strong, and so powerful…that we're not gonna have to use it most likely! But you have to use the word ‘most likely’. Because the bad people out there that are taking advantage of us, they have to know there's a good chance that ‘yes’, they'll be in big, big trouble. You know, -CROWD CHEERS-…we have to show some unpredictability. You understand that, right? You remember when president Obama said, ‘I will leave Iraq on a certain date!?’. The enemy just sat back, they said, ‘I can't believe they're telling it’. They just went back….they went back into their…corners and, they waited. And as soon as we left they came out. Unpredictability. General Douglas MacArthur, right? From this area, right? One of my all-time favorites. You know, in the history of Westbourne, he had the highest average. I'm a big person for academics. I've always been…people don't know that about me. But I'm a big person…I believe in it. And I was always…I always loved school, I always loved academics. But General MacArthur had the highest…marks in the history of West Point. That's what we like! I like that. You know, it's only one thing. It's only one thing. But it's something. It means…like there’s a good level of intelligence, which we can use. Do we agree with that? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YEAH!’ AND CHEERS.
 
So…we're gonna talk about our veterans a lot a little while, because we're putting out a plan. And we're putting it out today. We’re giving it to the press. Press has actually been very nice to me lately! They've been saying, ‘gee, he's winning again!’, but I was never losing! –CROWD LAUGHS. It's true! No, they've been very, very nice. No…-CROWD CHEERS-…they've been very, very nice. And by the way, pan the cameras over here, folks –ADDRESSING THE CAMERAS-…just pan them for a second. Pan them over here. Show them the kind of crowd we have. You know, they never like doing that. They never like…what a crowd! They never liked doing that.
 
They actually say, this is where Paul Ryan and Mitt Romney got together, as you know when they announced, the vice presidency. Right? And my I guys say our crowd today is even much bigger. That's pretty good, I'll tell you. I'll tell you, that's pretty good. That's pretty good. Look at all these people. But…that…I love you too! Who said that!? –MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES THE CROWD. Who said that!? I love you too! But I was going to say…so, you know, so we won every poll for…for…a hundred days. And then it happened. A poll came out. Two points down. But they said, in whatever the hell it is, you know…in that level of…in other words…but I don't consider that a lot…I consider that…but always a poll that I don't agree with. But every other poll has me up! And the next day, bigger than Benghazi with Hillary, bigger…-CROWD CHEERS. No, ‘Trump finally….’, oh, they –MEANING THE PRESS-…were so happy! They went…I have never seen a poll get more play…than this one poll. Then other ones came out, and they kept going back to the one, they just couldn’t stop!
 
But now what happened, NBC, as much as they hate doing it. You know, did you watch during the debate…they had, ‘who's winning the debate?’, and it said, ‘Trump, Trump, Trump…’, by a lot! By a lot! –CROWD CHEERS. No, it’s true! ‘Who's winning?’. On CNBC! They had, ‘who's winning the debate?’, on the bottom…the streamer, right? And he kept saying, ‘Trump!’, and! …like 56, 58, 59, 39…you know, big! Don't forget! When you're in the 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s…and you got 15 people…that's a lot! –CROWD LAUGHS. So they keep saying, ‘Trump, Trump, Trump, Trump!’, then they announced it yesterday…I had come in third…can you believe it in!? –CROWD LAUGHS. In the debate! They said, ‘he came in third!’. This guy…and I have to say. I thought it was terrible, cuz Governor Kasich. I thought he's a nice guy. But I've heard he's not. Always remember what you've heard. Not because the guy says hello to you nicely one time or five times. So I hear he's very nice guy. But then about…three days before the debate, I heard it, but they don't have…talking about Ben Carson and myself. They don't have the experience, I have the experience. I built a great company. One of the great companies. I employ tens of thousands…! …and over the years, tens of thousands of people…! ...have some of the greatest real estate assets, in the world. Have this incredible company…guess what…and the other reason I'm saying it is because we…need…that kind of thinking…! …in Washington! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And I had this guy, who's a managing director of Lehman Brothers, which almost took the whole world down, and he's saying, ‘well, I don't know if Trump has the experience…’, give me a break! Trump had…I mean now, as far as Dr. Carson, you’ll have to ask him. He's gonna have to defend himself. But I can tell you, oh, do I have experience! I've been dealing with politicians all my life. They're easy! Believe me! I deal all over the world, with deals. And I deal with Prime Ministers, I deal with the heads of countries…that's what I do! And I get along with everybody! Remember when they were saying, ‘well, he gets along with Democrats! Yeah, I get along with everybody! It was my obligation! When you're running…and actually somebody said, ‘he's a world-class businessman’, I like that. In fact, I framed it. It was a little piece. But I said, when you are a businessman, and a really successful one, you gotta get along with everybody, you can't just…like…we'll get…
Because when you have a deal going on in some country, you gotta get along! Otherwise the deals not gonna happen! So they talk about temperament, I can tell you. Hillary Clinton, who does not have it, I tell you what –CROWD BOOS. You wanna have…you wanna have…you wanna have, honestly, another four or maybe eight more years of…-CROWD CALLS OUT ‘NO!’-…you wanna have another 4 or 8 years of being third-rate, fourth-rate…we don't even know if we’ll have a country left by that time. Believe me, it's a very important election.
 
You know, I backed Mitt Romney, I back John McCain, I was very disappointed both times. This time I said, ‘I'm just gonna do it myself!’ –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So…Jeb…remember Jeb? Do you remember him? –CROWD LAUGHS. Jeb…Jeb Bush…! …and Hillary…on the same day! It was amazing! And they used to say…they said, ‘I don't know if Mr. Trump has the right tone’, meaning…I was a little bit tougher than what they wanted to hear. So I'm saying to myself…we have China and every country in the world ripping us off. We have ISIS cutting off the heads…of a person if he happens, or she happens to be Christian. And lots of other heads also by the way. So we have ISIS chopping off heads, drowning people like, this is like medieval times! Right? We have everything bad…we have Russia…and I would get along with Russia. And I'll get along with Putin. And he's not gonna make us look bad anymore, but we're gonna get along! He has no respect for Hillary…Putin, by the way, has no respect for Hillary, whatsoever. No respect for President Obama! None! He will respect us. It’s all we want! We're not looking for trouble Look at China! They're building…unbelievable islands! In the South China Sea! Unbelievable! One of the great…projects. They're taking the stuff out of the ocean…do you think they got it in an environmental impacts statement…? I don't think so –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
See…? In this country we can't do that, because we have to get an environmental impact statement. We’ll pay the consultants tens of millions of dollars, and they’d say, ‘no, no, you can't build that military base, there's a snail in the way –CROWD LAUGHS-…it's a protected species of snails…’, oh I’ll do it! I’ve become rich because of it. Because…nobody else could build! I was always able to get permits. I'm the king of permits –CROWD CHEERS. It’s true! In New York, they call me the king of zoning. I was always able to get…and what that meant…? It’s nobody can compete, because…people…found it very hard to build! We want people to be able to build! But think of what China is doing. They're building an incredible island, for landing planes! Two runways! Now they announced this morning they think they're gonna add a third. Why not!? What the hell difference does it make!? –CROWD LAUGHS. Military! They're building a military base in the middle of an ocean! And I'm telling you, the environmental impact for this country …we wouldn't be able to do it. It's…it's…the most…it’s…I'm telling you…we have to go back we have to go back 25, 30 40 years, we have to do something! We're getting decimated!
 
Illegal immigration…? Same thing! Illegal immigration…I'm going to build a wall…okay? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Gonna build it. So…so I'm gonna build the wall, is gonna be great wall. It’s not gonna be a little wall, it's gonna be a big, beautiful wall, cuz some day’s gonna be named after me, probably. And I wanna make sure it looks good…-CROWD CHEERS. And it’s not gonna be INAUDIBLE, and we're gonna have equipment, so that nobody can do tunnels underneath, don't worry about it. They say, ‘well, they'll go under the wall’, how do they do that if people are watching…? How do they do…? I don't care! You have all sorts of X-ray equipment; you have all sorts of things…believe me! Nobody's going tunnels under the wall! All right? And this walls gonna be real high. It's gonna be real beautiful. It’s gonna to be strong, and powerful. And it's gonna have openings, so that people can come in, when they're legally documented –CROWD CHEERS. Gonna be great! It's going to be great! And we’re going to have it!
 
But…one of the reasons…one of the reasons…and nobody knows this! One of the reasons the wall wasn't built. They couldn't get their environmental permits. Do you believe this? –CROWD BOOS. True story. Go back and look. They were having a horrible time with environmental premise, because of certain insects…and certain toads…and…-CROWD LAUGHS.
 
We have lost our confidence. we have gone…this country's gone crazy The other day, on one of the networks, a woman…was infuriated, because somebody on the show said, that person…a certain person, is a hard worker… ‘don't you dare say hard worker!’. ‘Why?’. ‘That's not the right thing to say, how dare you say hard worker!?’. In other words, it's now politically incorrect! You saw this…did everybody see this? It’s now politically incorrect to even say hard worker. You can't say ‘Merry Christmas’ anymore. You go to Macy’s, who by the way, were very disloyal to me. Wasn't for a lot of…dollars…so you know, I sell ties. I wasn't happy they were made in China, so what the hell could I fail you. I actually now make them in the USA, can you believe this? Cost me a little more, but will change that…when we stopped…when we get them to stop manipulating their currency. Will be able to make them in the USA and it will work!
 
But Macy's was very disloyal to me. As soon as they heard, when I said ‘illegal immigration’, and they heard they were gonna have a picket, because ties and shirts...big deal…okay? And I got a call from the head of Macy's: ‘Donald, they're gonna have…they’re gonna have pickets in front of Macy’s! I said, ‘so what!?’. I've had pickets all my life, I’ve had pickets. Everything I do I have pickets! I said, ‘just relax’, and he was a friend of mine! I'll never speak to him again, by the way, that's way I am. You know, you heard me when they said, ‘what’s you big fault?’ I said, ‘my biggest fall is I’m nice to people too long…and then…when they…take advantage, I'm still nice…but at some point, I get too angry, too long, and they can never recover’. It's my fault! I'm too nice, too long and then I get too crazy to…you know. So it’s one of those…-CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But with Macy', they were very disloyal. I said, ‘listen, let them have their thing. They'll be there for half hour, maybe 45 minutes, then we're gonna go to lunch… ‘no, they said they’re picketing…’ …who cares!? This is what we have run in our country today. Who cares!? And I'll never forget this one, because…I'm in New Hampshire. I'm getting ready to make a speech. Tremendous audience. Tremendous! And I’m standing on the stair, and, and my phone rings…in fact, I said, ‘well, I gotta get rid of the phone’. There's nothing worse than a phone ringing when you're making a speech. You pick it up, it’s your wife, ‘hello, darling, how you doing?’. But the phone rings, right? …and, I say, ‘oh, it's the head of Macy’s’, he’s name is Terry Lundgren, nice guy. And he said, ‘Donald, I have to talk to you’. Now, the MC is on stage. And he said, ‘and the American Dream, and Donald Trump, and he did this…and he wrote The Art of the Deal, and The Apprentice, and all the stuff and he’s…’. I'm getting ready to go on stage, I said, ‘well listen to me, I can't talk to you, I'm…I’m slightly like all on stage in about two seconds. What's happened!?’. ‘Donald! We have to do something! We sell your shirts and ties, and they are gonna pick us!’. ‘Who's gonna picket you?’. ‘The Hispanics!’. I say, ‘the Hispanics love me! I employ thousands of Hispanics! They're not gonna picket you!’. He said, ‘no, no, they said they would. Can we do something?’. I said, ‘like what?. ‘Maybe we can't sell them anymore’. I said, ‘wait a minute. I'm going up to make a speech! The guy said, ‘and ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Donald Trump…’. And I'm talking to this guy to the phone! –CROWD LAUGHS. I'll tell you, these people behind me, the Vets, they wouldn’t…they wouldn’t put up. They would have been…you would…you wouldn't put up with that –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So a lot of people are boycotting Macy's. You know, we have so many friends…it's amazing. We're all in this together. Our country's going to hell, we'll run by stupid people…we are. I wanna be…-CROWD CHEERS-…I wanna be…No, we’re run by stupid people. I…I can say this, look: every deal…we make is bad! We don't make good deals anymore. When was the last time we won…on anything? We don't want anymore! No, no, think of it. I…I said…I some…sometimes I'll start, and I'll say, ‘we don't have victories anymore’, we don't! We don't have entries anymore. We used to have victories, but if I’m elected president, we’re gonna so many victories…they're gonna be coming out of your ears! You remember that? They're gonna be coming out of your ears! You’re gonna have victories…no, you're gonna have victories…they would…you know, no more of this nonsense –CROWD CHEERS.
 
Sergeant Bergdahl, I always mention him –CROWD BOOS. Because he's emblematic! He’s…it's not a deal, but it is a deal! They made a deal…where we get a traitor, a dirty rotten, no-good traitor…who should have been executed for what he did…-CROWD CHEERS. Five…no, he should’ve been! Now, I know these people –MR. TRUMP POINTS RIGHT BEHIND HIM-…would do…look, these are  hardened veterans. These are hardened…okay. Now, and they're very liberal, they're very liberal. Would you execute Bergdahl? –MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES THEM SPECIFICALLY. Yes? I'm shocked to hear this. I would do! No, but you have to have…so now he's not gonna get anything! They say he's not even going to jail! Six people! Six young, unbelievable people…! …one of them from this area…died! …going out to look for this guy! And they're not even gonna…they…the recommendation…
In the old days…he would have been executed. 20 years ago, he would have been in jail for the rest of his life. Ten years ago, bah, who knows, probably a little jail time. Now…! …he's gonna to get off of it! With nothing! We are…we’re just going wrong!
 
But here's the story with Bergdahl: we get a dirty, rotten traitor, and they get five…! …of the worst killers they have, that they’ve been after for 9 years…to get them out! Okay? And these are the deals! So we get Bergdahl, they get five. Their five are…triple a prime for them. That's what they wanted. Those are the people that wanted. Not…not…would you make that deal? –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT A PERSON OFF CAMERA SPECIFICALLY APPARENTLY WHERE THE VETS ARE. I don't think so! So…so that’s one.
 
Now talk about the Iran deal. Okay? The Iran deal –CROWD BOOS. No, no, think about it. How can they do it…!? If I'm making a deal with somebody, and they go out, and talk to everybody saying, ‘boy, that guy…he's not smart. He's such a stupid guy, ba ba ba’. This –IS- what they’ve been doing!  They’ve been going out…they talk, and the guy, the chief negoti...negotiator, as you know…for Iran…the Persians are great negotiators, to start off them…nothing wrong with saying that. Some say, ‘oh, that’s politically incorrect’, they're great negotiators. They've always been great negotiators! Okay? What did they sell for years!? Rugs! –CROWD LAUGHS. Oh boy, those rugs cost a lot of money, right!? –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So the Persians have been great negotiators. And I watched on…Charlie Rose. I watched on one of the shows, and I watched him being interviewed. And after five minutes I said, ‘he's too smart for Kerry. He's too smart! He's too smart! He’s too sharp! Too sharp! The deal they made is unbelievable. And every time there'd be a little break in the action, Obama would talk about, ‘the supreme leader’, Iran. He called him ‘the supreme leader’, -MR. TRUMP PLAYS OUT MR. OBAMA-…‘yes, today we spoke to the supreme leader...’, I'm never calling him ‘the Supreme Leader’, believe me! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. When I meet him I'll say, ‘hey, how you doing?’ –CROWD LAUGHS. But I’m not…I will never call him. Can you imagine this guy…? He's calling him ‘the supreme leader’.
 
So anyway, so we have breaks. And they're dancing in the streets, the deal hasn't been made yet. Think of it. The deal hasn't been made. Although what people don't even understand…the hundred and fifty billion dollars. Before they even sat down they got that. Because when I wanted to break up the deal, I was told…by the highest source… ‘well, the money is gone, we've already agreed…’. In other words, the fact that we agreed to meet, they’re getting the one 150. Hundred…! This is a hundred and fifty billion dollars! They don't need nuclear weapons, cause they can buy them! They don’t have to…why should they work!? They can buy it! Now they're going into Syria…they’re going…they’re going…oh, and I don't know if you heard, cus people been out here six o'clock in the morning, but they say the jetliner that we shut down in Egypt, ISIS is taking credit for that. So…ISIS. We gotta do something! We gotta do something! And you know, while I'm in a military area, I have to tell the story.
 
So…McArthur, big fan of General George Patton. These are people…that…we don’t seem to have anymore, right? But we do have them! They're there! But…they haven't been politically correct. Do you think that George Patton was politically correct? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘NO!’. He was…he was a brutal guy. I mean, we had somebody who's very good, you know he was. About two years ago, three years ago. He was fired cause he used foul language! Right? You know that. And he…I guess he wasn’t a big fan of Obama! But that's okay, we can understand that. That's what made him a great general –CROWD CHEERS. But…no, no! He was fired…because he was rough, and tough, and used bad language…! I want somebody…! Now, I want rough and tough, but I also want brilliant. I don't want you…you know, I know a lot of tough guys that are stupid. Okay? –CROWD LAUGHS. Those guys are…they're easy. The tough guys that are stupid…you need big brain back. But we're gonna get somebody. I'm gonna find somebody. You know, you have WestPoint, you have the Air Force, you have the Naval Academy…you have the…they’re there! They’re there! We got! We have them! You know, we have them! But those aren't the guys it is…
 
So I watched one of our top people. A very nice man, and he was being interviewed on television. Couple of months ago. And I tell this…all the time! I don't want my generals on television being interviewed. I don't want them being interviewed. And…he just looks like a week individual. You know when I said that Jeb Bush is a low-energy individual? Oh, did that kill him! –CROWD LAUGHS. I didn't wanna hurt him that bad. I think he's such a nice guy. I think I'm gonna revive him. It's not fair –CROWD LAUGHS AND BOOS. Huh?
 
Well, Ben Carson's a lower key individual than he is! And I…I…I don't hear anybody. And he's a nice man! But…but Ben’s very low key. Honestly? I really believe…we need…somebody…and I was gonna tell you, that Hillary and Jeff said ‘tone’. We need somebody that has a strong temperament. We need somebody fast! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We need somebody fast! Because…we're losing so badly…we’re losing so badly…on trade…the military is… ‘what's going on?’. General Oriana, the other day left. He was also in television. Everybody goes on television. All these generals are television stars! I don't want a television…! I guarantee General George Patton would not be big into doing FOX or CNN, or anything alike. He just wants to win! You know? And the problem with going on television is that word, ‘unpredictability’, they think he…you have. One little thing that you say incorrectly, and the enemy has you think…I don't want my generals on television…I will tell my generals, ‘you’re never going on television’. For instance, had Obama said on Iraq, ‘we should have never gone to Iraq’, we did. Okay? And I said it in 2004, Reuters, July. And I'm the most militaristic person here, okay?And you got a lot of military people. I'm more military…see these two guys?  -MR. TRUMP POINTS TO HIS LEFT. Two tough killers. I'm more militaristic than them. But you gotta know where and when! And what happened…is we went in…and I said, ‘where are the weapons of mass destruction?’. Well, ‘they have them, they have them, they have them’. It was…it turned out to be wrong! Okay!
 
And people can make mistakes. Hillary voted for it, as you know. I'm the only one…and the Bush, White House, sent…because I get so much…an inordinate amount of publicity, would you say? You know, even though I’m a developer I ended up in the front page, I said that we shouldn’t go into…we shouldn’t go into Iraq because you're gonna destroy the balance of the middle east. Because…for years, Iran and Iraq would whack in each other. For years! That's what they do, they fight! What's for the dinner? Let's fight! –CROWD LAUGHS. What do we need this for!? We gotta rebuild our country! We gotta rebuild our country!
 
So I said, ‘wait a minute. If you knock one, or the other…then the other one's gonna walk in’. So what happened is…Saddam Hussein…in my opinion, was saying he had weapons of mass destruction, because he was afraid that if he didn't say it, Iran would go in, and start fighting them again. So he wanted to scare them. Okay! I think that's…what happened. So he was up…but we didn't know what was going on! I said, ‘if you do this…! …if you do this…! …to Iraq, you're gonna have a total mismatch, a total…’. Well, that’s what happened! And here's what's happened now: and I said, by the way, I wish you could all read that article. July of 04, Reuters. A big article, ‘Trump says…’, and the White House sent people to talk to me, to try and convince me, cause they didn't like the publicity. I said, ‘listen, you are making a big mistake. You're going…you gotta know when to use your military! You're going to destroy the balance in the Middle East’, and that's what happened. So we shouldn't have gotten in, and then Obama shouldn't have gone out the way he went out.
 
So we lost…two trillion in Iraq. By the way, that was as of two thousand three…I've been saying two trillion now for years, you know…it was good…it's gotten…it’s…much more now. But we lost more than 10 trillion, thousands of lives of unbelievable people, and we have wounded warriors, who I love, all over the place…and they're great –CROWD CHEERS. And we're gonna take care of those wounded warriors, and we're going to take care of our Vets…! …better than anybody! Anybody! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
We are gonna take such good care of our Vets, and we’re gonna take care of our military…we're gonna build that military up. But we shouldn't have done it! And out of that…and I said, you know, people don't realize that Iraq…has the second largest oil reserves in the world. Okay? Iran's taken over! Now Iran’s been trying to take it over forever! Forever! That's their dream, take it over. We wiped it out, then we said, ‘okay, we're gone’. And if you remember…okay. So I said, ‘don't go in’.
 
Now, we're there, we spent a fortune. They had the so-called ‘search’, but I mean, the truth is…look, once the enemy finds out…that we’re leaving, they don't fight anymore. They say, ‘what the hell…?’. You know, they always say they don't wanna get killed… believe me! They don't wanna get killed! So you go back, then…as soon as you left, it was over. So Iraq, right now, is negotiating….as we stand here…! Iraq is negotiating with Iran. Iran’s gonna take over for nothing! The largest oil reserve in the world.
 
Now, you remember, we should've gone out, and we should have…what Obama should have said, ‘we’ll be there forever! We're gonna be there forever! With our 20,000 troops or our th…! We're gonna be there forever! We're not going out…! Don't worry about it…! We would have…deflated them! They would have said, ‘Oh, this guy's crazy! Yeah! He's hard to beat!’. Here's a guy…I gotta look like…we draw…a line in the sand! Nothing happens! I mean, honestly folks? This is the worst! This is the worst! We've never had it like this! Had he said, ‘we're not getting out of Iraq’. WE- Shouldn’t have been there! But once he said that, everybody pulled back, and we thought we were doing well. We're doing well! They said, ‘why should we fight? When in a year from now, or 18 months…we’ll walk in’. That's what happened! They walked in! And it's getting worse and worse, and every week we're losing another city.
 
So we spent…and you know my biggest problem? And it's a hard thing, even to say, because people here and there hear it loud. And you look at all those people back there. And some of them are actually good. I'm talking to the media. But the hardest thing for me is, if I were a father, or a mother…and I lost a son, or a daughter in Iraq…and I see what the end result was…with these stupid incompetent politicians…-CROWD CHEERS-…I wouldn’t know…I wouldn't know how to explain it to those people. To me that's the single hardest thing. How do you explain it to a mother or father, great Americans, they love the country…that we fought a war…? No problem with winning, with these people, with the people that we have in our military, we can beat…we could beat anybody! Even with the bad funding, even with the bad equipment, because, you know, we give our best equipment to the enemy. You know that. You know the story, I tell it all the time. 2300 armor-plated Humvees, the best in the world…! The wounded warriors wouldn't be wounded if they were in them, instead of the garbage that they were riding in! Right!? We give them to our…so-called friends, a bullet shot of the air, they run. Our enemy took over…2,300. I thought it was a wrong number. How could it be 2300…? You know what that is? These are the best, armor-plated ones, where when the bombs go off on the road, the roadway bombs...I mean, you'll be okay. You're not gonna lose your arms, your legs…you'd be okay. They're all gone! They were taken! Other…ISIS has the, that's right. And others! Everybody has it! Everybody has them but us We're not gonna let that kind of stuff happen anymore. We're gonna be smart! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna be smart! We're gonna be smart! And we're gonna be tough! And we're gonna be tough!
 
And when we help other countries, they’re gonna help us, or they have a problem! And when we defend Japan, and when we defend...a…look: I love South Korean, I buy so many televisions…thousands of televisions…-CROWD LAUHS. I…I…told the other third…the other day. 4,000 televisions I ordered, for a big job I built. Great job! They're all coming, all the bids…South Korea's. I said, ‘do we have anybody in like…the United States? Nobody! There's nobody! There Sony in Japan, but they lost their way. They're not competitive price-wise. And, but, so there’s Samsung, there's LG, they'll come out of South Korea. They're making a fortune! They have one of the great, great money machines ever! We defend them for nothing! For nothing! We have right now 28 thousand soldiers. Between that mad maniac…who, by the way, has nuclear weapons! You know, we're going after Iran…and I will tell you, we will do so great…I'll have that thing figured out so fast…but that's not…a bigger problem. You got North Korea, that has nuclear…and nobody talks about it! You know why? It's…did you ever have something that's so sort of like… ‘oh, I don't want to talk about it, it’s such a bad…’. That's what it is! All guys don't want to talk about it. It’s like this. ‘Oh…’. She says ‘because we’re stupid’. –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT A MEMBER IN THE CROWD OFF CAMERA. We’re stupid…
 
No! Stupid, we’re afraid…we have no vision…many reasons. But we talk about…we talk of…all the time: Iran, Iran, Iran. And what we did is horrible. It's the single worst contract I've ever seen. Of any kind! I mean real estate; I mean business…you can't get a worse deal. We don't even get on prisoners back. By the way, before we get…back to North Korea…our prisoners…the other day they…they should come with the deal. For 150 billion we don't get four guys back! –CROWD CHEERS. 150 billion dollars…! …we don't get…!
One’s in there because he's a Christian pastor! I met his wife, she's so nice, she's devastated, she doesn’t know what's happening! We don't get our people back! A hundred and fifty billion dollars! They're gonna have nuclear weapons within 10 years…after 10 years it’s a guarantee. Israel is really in trouble; I will tell you. But we will protect it. Israel is not trouble if I win. That I can tell you, they’re not in trouble. Believe me –CROWD APPALUDS.
 
I mean Obama…is the worst thing that has ever happened to Israel. Honestly! I can't…it's hard to believe…what's going on there. But if I win, Israel is protected. That I can tell you. That I can tell you. And Bibi’s –MR. TRUMP REFERS TO BENJAMIN NETANYAHU-…a friend of mine. He can't even believe it! Can't believe it! It's like, ‘what do we go wrong? What are we doing wrong!?’. And…they have been a stable source. They've been our friends…and so many different things. So we're gonna protect them. But…but, you have…the Iraq, and you have the Iran. Iran now is going to be a superpower. We've let them be. We don't get our prisoners. They came back to us the other day, and they said, ‘well, now negotiate for the prisoners’. In other words, the deal is done, they got their money, they got their 24 days, they have the self-inspection…how about the self-inspections!? –CROWD LAUGHS. That's to me the greatest.
 
You know what? I'd rather give them inspections, and take 150 billion back. I'd rather have the cash. But, cuz I'll work out the self-inspection later, the cash is gone! It’s gone! But how about this? And now they come back to us, and they say, ‘the deal’s done. We will consider offers for the prisoners’. Okay? Do you believe this? Do you believe this? Instead of going in…did you ever see a negotiation take so long? Instead of going in years ago...when it started…years! It’s been going on forever! Kerry goes in bicycle races, breaks his leg…no, it’s been going on just forever!
 
So what happens…is they come back to us now and they say…years later, they say, ‘we’re gonna negotiate for the prisoners’. So we say, ‘what do they want?’. Here’s what they we want: ‘we want 19 people that we have been trying for a long time’. ‘We want 19 people, we won't give you back four, we’ll only give you back three’. Cuz the other guy had a phony trial. He's a reporter for The Washington Post. And he looks like a nice good. And actually, the Washington Post has been very nice to me lately. So I like him even more. It's true! –CROWD CHEERS. But he's a reporter for The Washington Post, and he had a phony trial, so they're not gonna even talk about it. So here's the deal: they’ll give us three, not four. And today 19… ‘and we want many other things!’. Do you believe this!? I wanna throw a rock to the television! –CROWD LAUGHS. So what happens…is this. Let's say three years ago, whenever this thing started. You know, they asked me, one of the great business magazines, they actually did a nice story on me.
 
‘How long should it have taken?’…the deal with…Iran. A day! But maybe a week! Okay!? But no longer than a week. A week is too much. Because what happened…this look years! I don't know! What's the two years, three years!? And…it’s been going on forever! And we kept giving up at every point. ‘We want this’. ‘No!’. ‘Okay’. ‘We want that’. ‘No!’. ‘Okay’. We got nothing! We got nothing. Those days are over, by the way. But we got nothing. –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So now, at the beginning…what we do…if they have the right message. You know, I can give you words. And I can take somebody here, or I could take Kerry, and give him the exact words that I say. He won't get it, and I will. It’s tone! It's something! It's something! Somebody I made a deal…a couple of years ago, and they interviewed one of the people, and it was…it turned out to be a great deal. I was so proud of that deal. Oh! I’ve…hey, you know…you’re not allowed…are you allowed to use bad words here? No. –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YES!’. You know, the problem with using the bad words…they’ll say –MR. TRUMP MEANS THE MEDIA-… ‘he used foul language’, one little bad word. It’s…it doesn't even have to be a bad...it just has to be a little bit bad. Just like slightly…the headline is, ‘Trump, curse…’, so I'm not using a bad word. So I was gonna say, ‘boy, did I really –MR. TRUMP LIP-SYNCS THE WORD ‘FUCK’- them. So instead…I’ll say, I took advantage of people that weren't as smart. Anyway, they interviewed one of the people on the other side. And they said, I think he was a really nice guy. He was…a lot of things happened, including timing was better for me, itself. So a lot of things happen, but…he said something that I thought at first I was a little insulted, then I realized, it was a compliment. I called him, I said, ‘was that a compliment?’. He said, ‘yeah’. ‘Trump did beat us in that. He's totally unpredictable. This guy's totally unpredictable’. And I said, well, I called him, I said, ‘was it good?’. He said, ‘yeah, we couldn't figure you out’ –CROWD LAUGHS. I said, ‘I thought that was it’. And…what I said is…we need to be unpredictable. We have to be unpredictable. We have to do something about…we have to do something about that. By the way…! …before I get back…we have to do something about North Korea. We have to do something about it. And here's who solves the problem: China! Because…China is very smart. They buy apartments, they pay me twenty-five million dollars, more…twenty five is like a cheap one nowadays, okay? They give me a fortune. I have them as tenants in my building. The biggest bank in the world is a tenant in one of my buildings. China is great. They're fine! I mean, you can't blame China if we have people that are incompetent representing you. You can’t be angry at China!
 
So what happens…so what happens…is…China now, and all of these other countries, at the highest level…they're like, you know, picking your pockets. Right? It all changes! With…with South Korea, they have to pay us for this kind of protection! They have to! And you know what? If explained it the right way, they'll pay us! Just like…if we went back, and if we went to Iran…and if we said, at day one…not after the negotiation…but… ‘before we start, we want our prisoners’. They'll say, ‘no, no, no. We will not do that!’. ‘That's okay! Bye-bye!’. Then you double up the sanctions. No, no, you double up the sanctions, right? You double up the sections. And I guarantee you within a week, probably less, they’ll call back, ‘all right, we'll do the prisoner thing, but…okay’.  And all you have to do is say, ‘listen, we gotta have our prisons back. Our people want them, your people don't care. They don’t even know they’re there. We need our prisoners back’. And if you had the right messenger…like me. Like Carl Icahn. You know, Carl Icahn. You know, Carl Icahn, very successful guy, great guy. He endorsed me the other days. He’s a very rich guy, worth billions. Great deal maker! I’d say, ‘Carl, I want you just to focus on China’. You can rest assured, folks. I know the best, and I know the worst, and I know the overrated, and I know guys that are really good, and not so good…I know guys you've never heard of, that are better than all of them…you can rest assured. ‘Carl, watch China’. He doesn’t want money! He wants it because it's like something he could do that’s…great! He wants great! it will be so good for us…we lose 400 billion dollars a year on trade imbalance. Think of it! And it's been going on for years, four hundred billion dollars! Four hundred billion!
 
Now, China…is the key to the puzzle…without having to use lots…of things…that we don't want to…because…it's a lot of bad things happen. China…has total control over North Korea.  They say, ‘no, no, we do not’. So they go to Kerry, he says, ‘you have to help us with’…-MR. TRUMP PLAYS OUT THE CHINESE GOVERNORS-… ‘well, you know, they're crazy! We don't really have control…’. They wouldn't eat…without China! Everything comes through China, that goes to North Korea. But they're smart! And they love tweaking us. So they say… ‘no, I'm sorry we don't have any control of North Korea…he’s crazy, isn’t he!?’. You know, I can just imagine these guys softening our…our stupid people up. ‘No, no, we don't have any control’. Yeah, you all…that’s right. ‘We give them their food, we give their weapons, we give them everything…’. ‘No, no, we have no control…’ -MR. TRUMP PLAYS OUT THE CHINESE GOVERNORS. All they have to do is stop one little supply route…they'll starve to death.
 
So China has no control, and that's what they told. And Kerry was on television, two weeks ago…saying, ‘well, you know, China doesn't have to control of the people there’. Oh, great, thank you. Because they said…cause China loves this! China loves this! China…in…Afghanistan…you know, we're in Afghanistan, and it's got…big mountains…very big mountains. Rough. They great fighters. They've always been. They were…they destroyed Russia. They destroyed it, because Russia couldn't beat them! And that's when you had the Soviet Union, that's why I became Russia! Because they went bust!
 
But what happens…is…we're fighting in Afghanistan over here –MR. TRUMP MARKS WITH HIS HANDS ON THE AIR. And on the other side…nobody knew this! …Afghanistan has tremendous wealth in minerals! Nobody knew this! I didn't know! Tremendous well! You have these…massive excavators…from China! …on the other side of the mountain…taking out all the minerals! So we're fighting…they're taking out the…minerals. Who is the largest purchaser of Iraqi oil? China! They didn't spend ten cents…on helping us. They didn't lose anybody! They buy the oil. And they buy it from ISIS too! So we end up with that. We just…don't get it! So I would have said…what we do…and thought we do very, very strongly...I want our prisoners. We would have them! I would have doubled up the sanctions, we would have made a phenomenal…because I love having a deal. But it’s gotta be a great deal. The worst thing…is a bad deal. And I will tell you…see the book? –MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES A MEMBER IN THE CROWD WITH, PROBABLY, THE ART OF THE DEAL. Hold that book up. Let me see that book. Get that book. No, that one, right there. Come here…thank…good shot. You almost…give me that book. Give me that book. That's a good book. This one, very good, actually. How many people read this book!? –MR. TRUMP RAISES ONE OF HIS BOOKS GOTTEN FROM THE AUDIENCE. Everybody! Who didn’t read it!? Give me that book! Okay! This book, a very good book. Okay. Now, I’ve done my stuff. Don’t…I wouldn’t even buy it, cause I have a new one coming out, November third, which is a tough one.
 
So…so if we use our head…and you know, one of the things I have to tell you. When I was talking about Bush, two weeks ago…I said in my book, ‘the America we deserve’. I said that we have to be careful. We've got these maniacs…and this book was written…in…two thousand. Before the World Trade Center came down. And we've got a terrorist out there named Osama bin Laden. And we better do something about him. And I said, ‘he goes, he gets hit, and that he crawls under a rock’. All this stuff, I said it. And one of the really good MCs, guy’s named Joe Scarborough, for Mourning Show. Somebody was in there and said, you know, ‘Trump, actually, predicted…’, because all these guys said, ‘well, Trump doesn't have military experience’. I’ll tell you what: I will be as good on military, as I'm gonna be on jobs and the economy. Believe me! Believe me! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So I wrote a book called ‘The American we deserve’, two thousand…in the year 2000, before the Trade Center came down. And Joe said, ‘now, wait a minute. Do you mean…? What!? That name…! That's before the building came down!’. He couldn't believe it. Nobody could believe it! That's what I did! I do that! I do that! Because he was a terrorist at the time…and he was always threatening us. And I said, ‘we better be careful with this guy’. I saw him on time. I said, ‘we better be careful with this guy’, I was…on television. He was really saying bad stuff! I said, ‘we better be careful with this guy’. And I…I’m writing this book! My only political book that I wrote! And I’m writing this book…cuz it's always about business. How to make money. How to make money. And, honestly, they do better than this book did. Okay? That’s the only book that I ever had that wasn't like a big bestselling. It’s crazy! Cause people wanna hear me with the business. But the truth is…I think I'd be great with his stuff. Because I am smart! And I am…I get it. And I also know that people wanna do lots of bad things to us. Because they're angry, and jealous…and a lot of things. So when these announcers…some of them weren't even like fans of mine. They all said, ‘you'll never run…’, ‘he…’, you know all that, they feel…not so good right now. But when they said, ‘well, when did you write that?’. ‘Before the World Trade Center…’. They couldn’t believe it. They said, ‘what do you mean…?’. The guy goes…‘whoa!’. I’m sort of proud of that. Unfortunately nobody did anything about it. Nobody did anything about it.
 
So what we have to do…is we have to make good deals. We have to get China to solve the North Korea problem. And they'll do it! And when they tell me, ‘well, you know, we don't have much to do with the North Korean, it’s a little difficult…’. I say, ‘fellas, get your ass out of here, you you better take care of that guy’ –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'll tell you why. Oh, well, let me explain. So somebody would say, ‘you can't talk to China that way! We have no power or state…we have to…’. We rebuilt China, folks! They have taken…so much money…! …out of us. We have rebuilt it. They’ve taken our jobs…! …they’ve taken our base! …they’ve taken on manufacturing…! Along with others! I use them because they're the ultimate abuser. They're the ultimate. They’re the best. Their manipulation of their currency has been genius. Too bad we didn't do it, right? Too bad we didn't do it. But they're the best.
 
So…we have tremendous power over China. We have tremendous power over Japan! They send those cars in…! …and you remember about 12 years ago? One of our presidents…got a little tough with Japan. And said, ‘we're not gonna take your cars unless you equalize your…currency and lots of other things…’. And we were winning, and he gave up and he quitted! Because the lobbyists got to him! You know, that was before the Super PACs, but it's a…basically the same thing. The super PACs are controlling our politicians! Well, before the super PACs. This was before…cash controlled our politicians. Now the super PACs.
 
When you see these…I wrote either nine or eleven letters to people…everyone's opening up super PACs, Trump’s Super PACS. I don't want them! I don't want them. Because it's going to lead…to problems like you've ever...it's a scam! It's a scam! You look at what's going on in Iowa…where super PACs are running campaigns for people! And millions, and millions of dollars is being passed. It's a disgrace! We better get rid of Super PACs or you’re gonna see problems like you never believe. These politicians…these politicians…are nothing more than puppets for the super PACs, for the lobbyists…I'm telling you. And…and I say it proudly. I say it very proudly. I am the only one that self-funding my campaign. I'm putting up all my own money –CROWD CHEEDS AND APPLAUDS.
 
I actually feel foolish, because I…so many people want a put me…you know, you're in number one position, everyone wants to, ‘Don, I have five million dollars. I’d like to…’. I don't…I won't take it. I feel like…it’s not…it’s just not…it’s not my life! My whole life I take money! I'm good at that! –A PLANE FLIES BY MAKING NOISE AND INTERRUPTING THE RALLY, MR. TRUMP WAVES AT IT. THE CROWD LAUGHS. I'm good at that! ‘That's Hillary!’ –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So remember what I said. And I'm gonna talk just for a little while about the Vets…cause…the Vets have been so badly treated. And I also wanna tell you, we…I think the date is though, is December. We have so many people that have signed up to help ‘Trump’, and to make sure the vote gets out, and all of that. I don't believe we can actually put the petitions in until sometime in December. And we need 5,000 signatures, we already have 15,000, and it took just a tiny bit. So we have everything –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…and…Virginia's a hard place. You know, Virginia's very hard, you probably heard. I mean, Newt had a hard time. Newt was another ballot, a lot of people don't go on the ballot in Virginia, it’s very hard, and maybe it should be hard, you know, whatever it is. You have to do your thing. But we're all set, the day, we're…we’re…all done, we have all of the citizens. Many, many times what we need…just in case, and…so it’s…we’re all set  to fire –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…let's talk for a couple of minutes, because we have a lot of Vets here, we have to talk…about the Vets. And we have to talk about what we're gonna do with the Vets. Because…the wa…the Vets are being treated…very, very badly. And we're filing, with those folks back there, we're filing…big plans, today…about our…concept…for the Vets. And…we sort of pursuing the Veterans Administration reforms…that will make America great again. You know, the Vets have done more for us than all of us. Because…just…-CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…it's just an amazing thing. At the end of the 1990s I held the parade. Because the Vets weren't being treated properly. They had a few…and…a lot of people know that story, but I was a Grand Marshal, but I actually put up the money, I held the parade. And it was an amazing day in my life. And we had one of the biggest parades in the history of New York. We went from the previous year, where they had like 300 people out in the parade. And everyone…they moved it over to riverside, south, which is an area where they're very…few people that were going to be watching a parade. And we moved the parade back to fifth avenue, where it belonged, and that we had one of the largest grades in the history of New York City. And I was so proud of it. So I understand the situation –CROWD APPLAUDS. And I just wanna talk about the goals…of the…veterans plan. And the current state…of the Department of Veterans Affairs…is absolutely unacceptable! Over 300,000…it’s hard to believe, and it's actually much more than that now. Over 300,000 veterans died, waiting for care. Corruption…! …and believe me, corruptions a big part of it. All right? Corruption and incompetents were totally excused. Everyone forgot about it. Politicians in Washington…have done too little, too slowly to fix it. The fact is they’ve done nothing...they pour money at it, but then everybody steals the money. Okay? And I've got so friendly with so many Vets. I go to New Hampshire. I go to Iowa. Tremendous amount. I go to South Carolina a lot. I’ve gotten friendly with some of the Vets. They tell me stories where they wait five, six, seven days, and then when they're gonna see the doctor, the doctor says, ‘I can see him, I'm going on vacation’. Things are happening that are just bad! I mean, think about it, and some of you know the feeling, cause your Vets. But think about somebody going to a doctor. I…think about me…! …going to my doctor's office, and waiting four days…and…if I wait 15 minutes, I'm angry as hell at the doctor! –CROWD LAUGHS. ‘I've said, what took you so long!?’. But these people are waiting days, and days…! …as of about two months ago on a Wednesday. It was the longest wait in a waiting room, in the history of the Veterans Administration. So it's a disgrace. That's not gonna happen with me. But let's talk about it.
 
MR. TRUMP STARTS READING HIS SCRIPT-…so this situation can never happen again…! …and when I become president it will be fixed and we'll fix it fast. Okay? CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-… ‘thank you’. The guiding principle of the ‘Trump plan’ is ensuring…that veterans…have convenient access to the best quality care –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I want them to have the access that I have. To further this principle, the Trump plan will decrease wait times, improve health care outcomes, really improve them…! …and facilitate a seamless transition, from service into civilian life. You know, you’ve people that have been out on the battlefield…they've been in Iraq, and they've been in Afghanistan and they've been…and they come back here, and you know it takes a while! It's…it’s hard! You gotta adjust…it’s common sense! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So…a few of the points, -MR. TRUMP READS DIRECTLY FROM THE SCRIPT-… ‘the plan will ensure our veterans get the care they need. Whenever and wherever they need it! No more long drives…’ …people drive for day! … ‘no more waiting for…days and days. No more excessive red tape…’ …which is unbelievable! One of the real problems is…the red tape is so…incredible. ‘Just the care and support they earned, with their service to our country’. Simple! ‘We're gonna support the whole veteran’, meaning everything! All parts of the veteran! … ‘not just their physical health care, but also, by addressing their visible wounds, investing in our service members…post activity, duty success’. We have to help them! We have to help them get back!
‘And we're to transform the VA, to meet the needs of the 21st century!’, because it's different than it used to be! Times are different! Things are different! ‘We're gonna make the VA great again’. We’re making America great again… we're gonna make as a VA great again. We're gonna make the VA great again –CROWD APPPLAUDS. And we're gonna do it by firing the corrupt and incompetent VA executives…’ –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-… ‘who let our veterans down…by modernizing’ …we're going to modernize the VA… ‘and, we're gonna be empowering the doctors, and nurses, some of whom…! I hear are fantastic people in the VA! Okay? Is that true!? No, no. I hear that they have some really dedicated, but I hear the administration and the people getting to see these doctors…but I do hear from people, I have to be…honest. I do hear that some of these doctors, and nurses are fantastic people, and they really work hard. But between the red tape, and the ways, and the bureaucratic mess, it's impossible.
 
So, ‘we're gonna empower the doctors and nurses to ensure our Veterans receive the best care available, in a very fast and timely manner’, right? –CROWD APPLAUDS. The plan gives veterans the freedom to choose…and the forces…and remember this: the VA…so that the VA, has to compete…with other places! Okay? It's gonna have to compete! Because…you have hospitals, right next to the VA…VA centers…they're empty! They’re dying! They got doctors, they got nurses, they have no business! You know, the hospital, look: Obamacare is a disaster, we’re gonna repeal it and replace it –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Its's…it’s a disaster.  It is a disaster! But…! …the hospitals haven't been big beneficiaries…the big beneficiary for Obamacare were his donors! The insurance companies! Just like I can tell you, everybody that's running against me, they will be totally controlled…and I can tell you, who just cause I know many of these lobbyists, that are giving all this money. Do you think a lobbyist…puts up billions of…it…it…puts up like millions of dollars. They put up millions of dollars. Do you think they give…Bush, or Rubio, or any of these people…millions of dollars, and they don't expect…? …these are killers! I know them very well! I've used them, in some cases! Some have been good, some haven't been so good. Okay? And what they're not good I say, ‘you're fired!’ –CROWD CHEERS. But…but…but these people have total control, a total control…of these…
The insurance companies, with Obamacare, have been the big success! It seems…that they made a fortune! You can't go over state lines. I mean, they made an absolute fortune! We have hospitals…both private and public…and we have doctors, and you're losing a lot of your doctors because of Obamacare. Because they need more accountants, than they have nurses! It's so complicated! So we’ll end it! We're gonna end it. Okay.
 
Now, ‘politicians in Washington have tried to fix the VA, by holding hearings, and blindly throwing money at the problem’. They did it a year ago! They threw money, the money's gone…nobody knows what happened to it! You remember…? I won't mention the name of the person…but the certain…person through a lot of money at it. It…it’s…just the…it’s just the…way. It's not even a money problem. Because we can say…it's like…I'm running for president! I have spent less money…! …than any other candidate running for president!
 
And I'm number one! Now, think of it! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, think of it! Think of it!
 
So I've spent…and a big part of what I spent is my airplane, which I get reimbursed for, so that shows here…but I actually…so I spend even less than people think! You have to put down market value, you play, whatever the hell it is…so they put it down there, so it's actually even better…!
But I've spent less money…than any other candidate…we're number one. Others have spent 28 million! I think if I netted out I’m knocking a million bucks, right? So far it's pretty good deal. Right? So far…but think of it. No, no, but think of it! –CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘TRUMP’ ALTOGETHER.
 
Think of it! Wouldn't it be great…if our country…if our country…would spend less money, and be number one. Wouldn’t that be wonderful? –CROWD CHEERS. Like as an example: we spend the most money by far, per pupil, Common Core has to go, bye. Common Core, has to go. A lot of the people on the stage, are in favor of Common Core. Medicare Social, Social Security , Medicaid, we're saving them…we're gonna save them. We're gonna say that. But, and honestly, in all fairness…? Ben Carson wants to abolish Medicare, you can't do that. No, you can't do it! –CROWD BOOS. Well why don't you show that in the polling booth, okay? Now, how do you abolish Medicare? It's actually a popular program. You get rid of the waste, the fraud and the abuse, it's a popular program.
 
But…wouldn't it be nice? Would it be nice…if our country would spend less money…and be number one…in terms of…success? So in education…we spend double the money, I believe, of number two, and will ranked number 28 in the world. We have third world countries that are ahead of us. So we spend the money…! …so it's not just…even with a VA! It's not the money! Because they just keep throwing more, and more, and more and people steal, and it…and they're…they’re…they’re bad! But think of our educational system! We're ranked 28th in the world! You have some of these countries that you've never even heard of! You have countries that are the third world countries, they're ranked ahead of the United States! And then you have guys…like Bush, like Rubio, like others…like others…! …that want education, like Kasich, they want education…to come out of Washington! Okay? Education has to be local! We have to bring it back to the grasses. We have to bring it back, and get rid of this Common Core…-CROWD APPLAUDS-…oh…And it's very funny.
So I spend less money. So I said to my guys, ‘you know, that's embarrassing, I haven't spent enough. How can I advertise?’. I was gonna have spent 20 million, 25 billion, up. It's all in month I do…I actually do budgets, you know? So I…I…of the 25 million that I was going to spend up until today's date, how much you think I spent on advertising? Take a guess! 2 million? 4 million? 5? 8? …zero! That’s true! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
No, because I get good ratings…! …by the way, so the first debate had 24 million people, in the history of cable, it was number one. Second debate on CNN, that was on FOX. Second debate, on CNN, had 23 million. In the history of CNN…with all the floods…! …and wars…! The history of CNN…they never had…I mean, people would watch…like…a tiny audience would watch. They had 23 million!
 
So you have 24 million…then the other day…by the way, was this guy…John Harwood…was he a dope? –CROWD BOOS. What a dope! What a fool! And, you know, when you get bad people…and look what it costs NBC, it hurt their reputation. It's a shame, actually. But…but he was really a jerk. But at the same time, I don't care. I don't want the Republicans to look weak, like, ‘we're not afraid to take questions’, you know, we're afraid to take questions. And, you know, in many ways…I like it! …because it shows, you answer, even answer any question! You know, it's like we gotta handle Putin, we gotta handle China, we gotta handle all these people…we gotta to take care of ISIS, but we're afraid to have a tough question! Who hits me with tar…I got…besides that, I got all the tough questions, nobody else!
 
So yesterday they had a record, the biggest in the history of CNBC. I think it was 16 million people…how many people would have watched those three debates if Trump wasn’t in? Take a guess. Very few! Very few! Oh! It would have…people would have said, ‘Alice, let's watch the game’. Okay? Believe me. I had one…one…it's very good…to heard…he was, I was watching the other day, sportscaster. Good sportscaster. He's saying, ‘you know, I couldn't watch the World Series, I'm fascinated by Trump and the way he talks!’. This is the guy; you know Colin Heard…the Herd. And…he's taught…a good guy. I'm in…some place. Ah! I'm in one of my favorite places, Nevada, where we're reading at every poll, and leading with Hispanics! –CROWD APPLAUDS. And I'm watching it. And, I'm just watching the sports, just to see who won the MET game. And he starts, and he says, ‘you know, I couldn't watch much of the game! I love Trump. This guy…I love…the way he speaks! I love Trump! I kept watching the debate! And when the other guys went on, I went to the game. But when Trump came back, I went back!’. And I’m saying, ‘this is weird!’. I'm watching them. And they’ll –MR. TRUMP POINTS TO THE CAMERAS-…check. You'll have to check, the Herd, check him, just to make I’m right –CROWD LAIGHS. You know, I can't say anything that's false, cause when I say things that are false, the next day I end up with big question. Because every word I say, they cover. So, get back to the plan.
 
MR. TRUMP GOES BACK TO READING HIS SCRIPT-… ‘so the politicians in Washington, they've tried to fix the VA, by holding hearings’. Hearing after hearing, you –MEANING THE AUDIENCE- been to many of them, ‘and by blindly throwing money at the problem. None of it has worked. In fact, wait times were fifty percent higher…this summer, after all that money was spent…than they were a year ago, or ever before. And that's because the VA lacks…the right leadership, and right management. And it's time we fix this whole thing, and it's time…we stopped trusting’…these incompetent, know nothing, all talk, no action…politicians in Washington. I will fix it –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And, by the way, and I have to say it…and I don't care if it's…look: if this works out I'm gonna make America great again. If it doesn't work out, I mean, it's okay. Okay? But it’s time! We have to say it! I like Ben Carson, but there's no way he can fix this, folks! There's no way! There's no way!
 
You know, I made a lot of money. Deals are people! Deals are people! And you gotta analyze people. And I can look at people, I can tell you. I'll get along with Putin. I was on 60 Minutes –AN AMERICAN TV SHOW-…with Putin. He was my stablemate, three weeks ago. We got…the highest ratings in a long time…on 60 Minutes, you saw that, right? He was my stablemate. I believe I’ll get along with him. It was Trump and Putin, Putin and Trump. I'd even let him go first, to that…if that makes us…friendly. I'll give up the name. I'll give up that place. But I was on 60 Minutes, 3 weeks ago. But I'll get along with him! Right? Now, you watch Obama…oh boy! The level of…I mean, the whole thing's ridiculous…! What's the purpose of it? And by the way, I'll get longer, and we’ll do much! Not worse! We’ll do better, we’ll do great! All right.
 
MR. TRUMP GOES BACK TO READING AGAIN- ‘So under a Trump administration, all veterans…eligible…for VA healthcare, can bring their veterans ID card to any doctor repair facility that accepts Medicare…to get the care they need immediately!’ –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Immediately!
‘Our veterans have earned the freedom to choose…and they have…they have earned the freedom to choose’. And they can choose better, or more convenient care…from the doctor, and facility of their choice!’ –CROWD CHEERS. And I will tell you, it will cost us less money! It'll be better than having these massive lines…and everybody waiting, and everybody going wild…some centers, you probably get rid of them, and you sell them, and make let somebody build apartments, or buildings, or something. We'll get…we’ll take care of…and now you'll be able to choose your doctor. Remember Obama said, ‘choose your doctors, use your plan’, 28 times.
 
The Democrats fell for it! I have friends in the Democrats. I get a lot of friends in the Democrats too. They were lied to. They were defrauded! It's a fraud! 28 times he said, ‘you'll have your own doctor!’. He knew you didn't have it. The guy who draw up the plan, remember? …where they caught him? In a stone cold…
He said ‘the people are stupid! They believed it!’. He said, ‘the people are stupid!’, when he thought he was talking to a couple of his…friends. And one of his friends wasn't so friendly, cause he was recording the conversation –CROWD LAUGHS. And to me that's a fraud! And I don't understand why somebody hasn't brought suits! …and why we have it. One…it was a fraud! If you do that in the private world, you go to jail for what he did! –CROWD CHEERS. Obama said, 28 different times, ‘you keep your doctor, everything…’, and in all fairness to a lot of these Democrats, Congressmen, and Senators…they voted because they believe them! Cause none of them read the plan! The plan is this tall! –MR. TRUMP MARKS A LINE IN THE AIR MEANING THE PILE OF PAPERS WAS BIG. And they voted…it was a lie, it was a great, big fat, disgusting lie. It was a fraud on the American people! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
MR. TRUMP READS AGAIN-… ‘the power to choose will stop. The wait time backlogs in the force of the VA to improve, and compete…! The department's will become efficient, and if they're not efficient…you're not gonna have to worry about it’, I'll worry about it, because you're gonna have you care! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
‘The VA will become more responsive to veterans, develop more efficient systems, and improve the quality of care, because it will have no other choice! And it'll happen! –MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘I LOVE YOU’, APPARENTLY. Thank you! I love you too! I love you too.
 
So…a few of the things we wanna do. And…we’re gonna have the plan out, and you're gonna have it. It's gonna be…all over the place…by…tonight. Even by…now. MR. TRUMP READS AGAIN-…’we're gonna increase funding for job training, and placement services, including incentives for companies hiring veterans; who are phenomenal people. So we're gonna give a big incentive for companies for hiring veterans’. And they're getting…a great deal! Because they're getting incentive in the hiring of the best people! So we're gonna have educational support, and we're gonna create business loans, for the folks coming back. ‘All Americans agree, that we must do everything we can to help put our service men, and women…’, because we’ve forgotten about the women! You know, we're thinking from 25 years ago with this deal! ‘To put the men and women in a path to success, as they leave active duty, by collaborating with many successful nonprofit organizations, of which there are many good ones’. That are already helping.
 
‘Service members have learned valuable skills in the military, but many need help…understanding how to apply those skills in civilian life!’. It's different! If I was thrown into the military…I mean, it takes you a while to adjust! You know, me…I'm pretty good with adjustment. If I'm all of a sudden in the military…it's like, it takes a while. So…how to apply those skills…in civilian life? It's a…it’s a period of time…you need…you need help! Others now know how to apply those skills, but need help connecting…with good jobs, to support their families!’ We’re gonna can help them. MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING-... ‘still others have an entrepreneurial spirit’, which we love, ‘and are ready to start creating jobs, and growing the economy, they'll be able to do that…’, and we'll get some of these regulators out of the bank, so you can borrow, and you can help –CROWD CHEERS. Because, you know, the banks, the banks now, they can't do anything…they’re run by the regular…in all fairness to the banks, they’re run by the regulator's. When you see the president of the Bank, I mention the word, ‘regulator’, you know these guys go ‘Ah!’. These guys come in, and they run the banks. And they don't loan money to people today. They only get money to people…if I…I get calls all the time from banks. I don't need money. You see that in my savings, right? How about that!? Everybody said, ‘he won't put in the statement, maybe it's not as good as people think’. I put it in, it's much better! I'm loaded! Okay? –CROWD LAUGHS. And…the bank's wanna give me all the money I want, but I don't need the money!
 
But if somebody needs the money, to create a company, create jobs, do a development, they can't get them. So…so some have… -SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT-… ‘thank you, darling. You're awesome too’.
 
Some have that entrepreneurial spirit; we’re gonna help them. The Trump plan will strengthen existing programs, or replace them…with more effective ones…to address these needs, and to get our veterans working, which is they wanna do! That's what they wanna do! They wanna work! We wanna transform the VA…to meet the needs of the 21st century…service members. Today's veterans have a very different...’, and they do, they have very different needs…than…the …the, you know, is that a correct statement? MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES THE VETERANS BEHIND HIM. Would you say? I think! Right? MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING-… ‘than those of the past’. Different times! The VA must adopt, to meet the needs of this generation, of younger, more diverse veterans. We have younger veterans! In a way they have bigger problems! The Trump plan will expand VA services for female veterans, which we have to do. And ensure the VA is providing…the right support…for this new generation of veterans. We're going to better support our women veterans. The fact that many VA hospitals don't permanently sav…ob/gyn doctors…shows an utter lack of respect for the growing number of female veterans. The number is growing…so rapidly…and we're not taking care of them! We will take care of our female veterans –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
‘Under our plan, every VA hospital in the country, will be fully equipped, with ob/gyn, and other women's health services. In addition, women's veterans can always use a different ob/gyn in their community, using the veteran’s ID card’. So if…so if…they're not giving you the service, the treatment, if you're waiting too long…you're gonna go and you're going to get the right service. And you know, I said it before, ‘it's going to cost the government less money!’. It's going to be actually a…it's gonna be great service, and it's gonna be less…and you're gonna choose somebody, at some place…that you’re gonna love. The Trump plan will make the VA great again, very important –CROWD APPLLAUDS.
 
So…to sum up, the VA health care program is a…total disaster. Nothing short of a disaster. Some candidates wanna get rid of it. But our veterans need the VA, to be there…for them and their families. I don't wanna get rid of it. I wanna supplement it. I wanna help! I wanna help them. We’re gonna supplement it! With some wonderful hospitals that are doing no business. With some wonderful doctors that could use the business. They’re gonna get out of business! They're leaving! They're leaving because of Obamacare…with the increases…have you seen what's happening to your premiums? Have you seen what's happening to your deductibles? You can go and spend thousands of dollars with you doctor, you're not covered! The deductibles are through the roof, the premiums…
By the way, a big report came out. In ’17, Obamacare is gonna have to be renegotiated, because it's such a disaster. People are leaving it. It's not working! And if we …picked…the right Supreme Court justice, instead of Justice Roberts, we would have had Obamacare killed twice! I won't tell you who appointed him. I will not tell you. But you would have had it, you would have had it killed twice.
 
So…in a nutshell, we’re gonna fire the corrupt and incompetent VA executives…-CROWD CHEERS-…all of these executives that let our veterans down! They let them down Tthey let them down.
 
Under a Trump administration, there will be no job security…for the VA executives, that enabled or overlooked corruption, and incompetents –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. None! As I've said, and done very well with it, ‘you're fired!’ –CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS.  And we will. We will. They’re fired, they’re gone. No, no, and we're not gonna play games either. There's a big people out there. They're great jobs. We're gonna get great people.
 
MR. TRUMP READS AGAIN-…‘New leadership will focus the VA stuff on delivering timely, top quality care, and other services, to our nation's great veterans! Under a Trump administration, exposing and addressing…the VA's inefficiencies, and short companies…and…and this is so important! …inefficiencies and shortcomings…will be rewarded, not punished. We're gonna find out where it's going bad, why it’s bad, and we're gonna fix it’. We're gonna end waste, fraud, and abuse –CROWD CHEERS. End waste, fraud and abuse, very simple.
 
Under this plan, will ensure the VA is spending its dollars wisely! Not corruptly! Cause I believe a lot of its corruption, personally. Cause nobody could be that incompetent. Okay? I mean, you're not gonna be a big administrator, or a big doctor, and…you don't know, you know, where to spend the money. So I believe a lot of its corruption.

MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING-… ‘To provide the greatest impact for veterans, and hold administrators accountable, for irresponsible spending and abuse. The days of 6.3 million dollars…spent for statues, and fountains at a VA facility…’, you saw that one, think of it: 6.3 million dollars. I didn't spend anywhere near that at Doral! …and I have the most beautiful fountains of all! I don't know…how…where you get 6.3 million dollars? But it's well known. And 300,000 dollars for a manager! Gets 300,000 to move…a hundred and forty miles, over into a little different area. That paid 300 thousand dollars. ‘The Trump plan will clean up the VA's finances, so the current VA budget provides more and better care than it does now’, and we'll have money actually left over. We’ll have money left over! Just like, I spent the least, I got the best result. Okay? It's gonna be this way! And I…like…we have great managers. It's about management. We're going to modernize the VA, with 20…and this is so important, really with 21st century, 22nd century if you want! …we're gonna modernize it with the greatest technology. The greatest technology. And all of the service members, and all of their families, we’re gonna take care of them! The VA has been promising…to modernize…for years…without any results! I mean, and I'm talking about any results.
 
MR. TRUMP READS… ‘The Trump plan will make it happen, by accelerating and expanding investments in the state and our technology’. I mean, you need…you’ve the state of the art technology, and we're gonna invest money in the state of the art technology! Many of the people who died, waiting on line, the three hundred thousand-plus people, with one visit they could have been okay! They would have been here! They could have used a small operation! They could have used the prescription! They couldn't even get to see their doctor! MR. TRUMP GOES BACK TO READING-…‘all veterans should be able…to conveniently schedule appointments. Communicate with their doctors, and view accurate wait times with a push of a button’. 21st century! We have to empower the caregivers; these are amazing people! I made a big contribution. Elizabeth Dole…does a very good job, with people. I call them ‘the angels’. They are like angels. These are people actually, who take care of their husbands, and in some cases their wives, where…a soldier comes home, he is badly, badly hurt…and…a wife devotes her life, to taking care of a person that she loves. And it's so tough –CROWD APPLAUDS. And these people are never spoken about. And…I didn't know too much about it. And they say that if this didn't happen, the numbers that you're looking at now would be peanuts. It's a massive number of people! These are great people. They'll take care of the husbands, or wives in some cases. These are…I called them ‘the Angels’. I went to Washington. I made a very big contribution, because…I so…I was going to give something...then when I met them, I gave a good contribution. I never saw people like this. Their whole life is devoted to the husband or their wife, who in some cases so badly wounded, so badly hurt. In some cases it doesn't work out. Some people can't do it. They can't do if, they can't take it. They can't do it. It’s a huge problem. But the people that do…these are ‘the angels’, they didn't use that term. I…I came up with that term. I said, ‘these are the angels’. I met…78 of them, in Washington DC. They were…amazing people. And frankly, most people never even heard about this. Don't even know about it. These a family members that take care of unbelievable people, that are…horrifically wounded in some cases.
 
So care…-MR. TRUMP READS-… ‘caregivers should be able to easily streamline, treatment, and plans across departments, utilize the telehealth, the whole new thing with telehealth. Tools to better serve their patients. As we've seen from the private sector, the pot…the potential’, and it's you know, very important word, because we're not using it in the VA… ‘so as we've seen from the private sector, the potential for new innovative technology is endless’. So many things are happening now where problems could be solved in one visit, that you wouldn't have been able to solve 10 years ago! Abandoning the wasteful, and archaic mindset of the public sector, will soon give way, if I'm elected, to the tremendously effective veteran's health care system! That's gonna work so well! And you know what, you’ve been…voting for politicians for years. They'll say, ‘oh, what does Trump done? He’s not a politician…’, thank god I’m not a politician, I’ve been a politician for three months, okay? A little bit more –CROWD CHEERS. I never thought I'd be a politician. I've always been so well with politicians. Now I'm a politician. I hate to say I'm a politician. I'm embarrassed, I’ll say it –CROWD CHEERS.
 
A couple of other points, because of where we are, and because of the fact that the plan is being submitted. ‘We are gonna hire more veterans…and we're gonna do it through the veterans’. To care for the veteran! So veterans are gonna care for the veterans! ‘We're gonna embed satellite VA clinics in rural and underserved areas’. We have areas of this country…where you have vets, and they're totally undeserved! They have to drive a day! They can't get to service! And we're gonna take care of that! And we're gonna increase funding…for job training, and all of those other things. In the end what we're gonna have…is we're gonna have a health care system, and a general system including job system, and getting people back, where they wanna be working, and working hard, that's gonna be the envy of the world. It's going to be a great system. It's going to be a great system –CROWD CHEERS.
 
And…to me it's one of the most important things. So just to sum up. We’re gonna stop illegal immigration...-CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…and we are gonna build a wall, and Mexico is gonna pay for the world by the way, they will…-CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…you know why they will? Because we have a trader balance of 45 billion dollars here with Mexico. The walls going for 6, 7 billion…that’s peanuts compared to what they'd…peanuts! These politicians say, you have them…hear these guys on the stage with me! ‘They will never pay for the wall’, of course they won’t…they –THE OTHER CANDIDATES/POLITICIANS…-they asked, there is no chance. If I asked, I guarantee, Mexico will pay. I guarantee you. I guarantee –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Remember! We give them billions of dollars! We give millions of dollars! The government doesn't help us! The government sends people over. Why should they take care of them when we'll take care of them? Okay? Why should do they put in their jails, when we’ll put them in ours?
 
Then you have a situation like Kate, in San Francisco. And some of the other situations. And boy, did I take heat! When I…announced. And I said…I talked about illegal immigration, for two weeks…the heat I took! Rush Limbaugh said, ‘the incoming that Trump took...I've never seen anything like it’. And he's a great guy. And…but he said, ‘I'd never seen anything like it’. And all of a sudden people realized I was right. So…we're gonna build a wall, we’re gonna have people coming in, they’re gonna come illegal. We're gonna build up our military stronger than it's ever been before –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Ever! Ever! Ever! Ever!
We're gonna take care of our Vets. We're going to make great trade deals, with the smartest people on the planet. We have the smartest people on the planet…and we don't use them! We're gonna make great deals. Instead of being a laughingstock all over the world, we're gonna make the great trade deals. We’re gonna become rich again. The American dream will be back –CROWD CHEERS. And we are going to make…America…great…again!
 
Thank you.
 
Thank you everybody.
 
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