VIDEO Nº: 153
TITLE:153. Speech Donald Trump - Hickory NC - March 14 2016
DATE OF EVENT:14/03/2016
RELEASE DATE:27/10/2017
DURATION:00.54.41 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:8425
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Hello, everybody. Wow! Thank you! Thank you very much everybody. Wow! You know,  we have 5,000 people outside, [that] can't get in. So, it’s crazy! So……-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But we put loudspeakers out there, so they hear us. I don’t know. Would…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…would… anybody like to give up their sit for somebody outside? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’.
I thought so.
Thank you very much. Thank you.
MR. CHRIS CHRISTIE INTERVENES.
MR. DONALD TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.01.40:
 
Well, I do. I love North Carolina, and have a business…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [There’s] a lot of spirit. [There’s] a lot of spirit in North Carolina. But I have a big development, actually down the road, not so far away Lake Norman, [do] you know where Lake Norman…? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…it's Trump national, and it's been a…tremendous success; and…I took it over a company, [I] built it and they lost it, and…went through a bankruptcy proceeding; and, I bought it at a bankruptcy. And I spent…quite a bit of money on it. We have a lot of employees…great, great people from North Carolina…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. We have employees. And it's it's a tremendous success. It's a tremendous job. We're very proud of it.

And, I come here…you know, I won't be coming here as much looking at that. [I] will come here looking now at the state, to make sure your roads are in good shape and everything else. But…but, it's been…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…it's been a wonderful…it's been a wonderful job. We love it. A lot of people work there too.
MR. CHRIS CHRISTIE INTERVENES.
MR. DONALD TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.02.46:
 
Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
Well, I built…you know, like this is one a small example, but all over the world. And then, in this country. And we submitted our papers to federal election because, you know, as a private company, you never know. I mean, people don't know. And, a lot of people said, “oh, well maybe he's not as rich as people thought”. So, we submitted almost a hundred pages of documents. Very, very…powerful documents. And it really spells out the great company. We built an amazing company. And, uh…very little debt, tremendous cash flow…; you actually said you were shocked by the numbers out…how big they were. It's great company. And the reason I say that is because it's important. This is the kind of thinking we need in this country. Our country…we have to get…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…we have to…you know, if…if…look, our infrastructure is a disaster. We have to build it on time, on budget. You know, these projects they end up costing ten times more than they would say. They build a road and it ends up costing far more than they ever anticipated. Nobody knows what they're doing. And, so it's one of those things.
You know, one of the things, Christie, that was interesting is…fairly recently, two years ago, they went out to bid with the Old Post Office in Washington DC. It's the single…best…location in Washington. And, everybody wanted it. One of the most sought-after projects in the history of the GSA. Everybody wanted it. And I ended up getting it. And I got it because my financial statement was the best, or right there, along with all these other great…in many cases big public companies, hotel companies; and also because we had the best…uh…the best job; the best…concept. We're gonna build a…tremendous, super luxury hotel. One of the best anywhere in the country. And I think maybe the best of the country.
But, interestingly, I got it in the Obama administration. I mean, if you think about it, the Obama administration. Everybody wanted it, all the major hotel companies: Waldorf-Astoria…; so many different…companies wanted it. And, what we have now, we started construction; we're over a year…under…in terms of schedule…? We’re a year ahead of schedule. We're right on budget, even under budget. And I'd be way under budget, except I up the marble. We're using marble instead of terrazzo. We're using all of the finest materials.
And I think in the end it'll be great. But, the point is, it's…it's under schedule. We're way ahead of schedule. We’re over a year ahead. It will open September. And it wasn't supposed to open for…many, many months after that. And it would be great if, when we do the infrastructure of our country, we could be under budget and ahead of schedule. That's what we wanna see…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
MR. CHRIS CHRISTIE INTERVENES.
MR. DONALD TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.05.41:
 
Right, Chris. One of the biggest problems we have in our country is trade. Uh…we're bad traders. We have…the worst people representing us. We have political hacks…no, we have political hacks! We have a trade deficit with China this year, 505…billion…billion…dollars! Think of it! 505 billion dollars. We have trade deficit with Japan, that's…it…that's shocking.
We have…with, by the way, with Mexico. I have great relationships with…Mexico, and with Hispanic people. I have thousands…I…I employ thousands of Hispanics. They're great. But we have, with Mexico, 58-billion-dollar trade deficit. And when I say ‘we're gonna build a wall’, which we will, by the way; but we're gonna build a wall…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. They love it! They love the wall. We love the wall! We love the wall! I'm gonna build a wall, folks. We're gonna build a wall.
Are you ready?
Who's going to pay for the wall? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘MEXICO!’. 100…percent…correct, okay?
And you know, when I get off stage with like…Marco; and I get off stage with Kasich, and…-A SUDDEN NOISE MAKES MR. TRUMP STOP. THEY’RE PROTESTERS. THE CROWD CHANTS ‘USA’ AND THEN ‘TRUMP’ REPEATEDLY.
Thank you. You know, it is amazing though. We have…rallies. We have tremendous rallies. Sometimes…25, 30,000. We had, 12 weeks, ago in…uh…Alabama, 35,000 people. No disruption. No nothing. But the press is now calling. They’re saying, “oh but there's such…violence!”. No violence. No…[do] you know how many people have been hurt and our rallies? I think like basically none! Other than, I guess…maybe somebody got hit once once or so. But, there's no violence. And…and you know, in Chicago, we cancelled cause I didn't wanna see it.
I mean, it was…it…this huge group of people formed, like 3,000. We were gonna have 25,000 people in Chicago. Rather…and…they've given me a lot of credit, Chris, because, rather than having the rally and having people fighting…because we feel great.
The…it…my…the people that are supporters of Donald Trump wanna see America be great again. That's what it is! That's what it is! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APLAUDS VIVIDLY. I mean, its simple!
So, rather than fighting in Chicago, I did something that was…a good move, a good decision, because I don't wanna see anybody be hurt. And what happened is, and we've been given so much credit for that decision, nobody hurt, nobody problem…you know, no problem went away. But, because of that, people say, “well, is there violence?”. There is no violence. These are love fest! These are love fests. And…every once in a while…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I mean, sometimes like you just had somebody will stand up and say something; and the police…who were so great, by the way. In all cases. I mean, they’re…they’re great…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APLAUDS VIVIDLY.
But somebody will stand up and they'll say something. And a lot of times they're kids, and they don't know where they're coming from. And…and they'll have a Bernie sign. Bernie's going nowhere. You know that. But they'll have a Bearnie sign…-THE CROW BOOS.  [They were] Probably given to them by Bernie. I mean, they're the Bernie signs. The executive…you know, they're made by machine. They made the same signs that you see.
And, it…you know, possibly, or probably [they were] given them to buy Bernie's people. But it's a little disruption, but there's no violence. There's none whatsoever. And I’ll tell you what: we go, and these things are so incredible! It's a movement, and it's a love fest, and we love each other, and we're gonna do so well…; and by the way, before we forget, Chris, [it’s] so important: tomorrow, North Carolina, you have to go out and vote! [You] have to vote! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APLAUDS VIVIDLY.
MR. CHRIS CHRISTIE INTERVENES.
MR. DONALD TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.11.36:
Yeah, the country is so divided [that] it's incredible. And you know, it's very sad when you look. And even…even when you have some of these protesters, the…the…level…the level of anger from all sides, including the anger from our side. We're angry!
Now, we're not angry people, I'll tell you that. We're not angry people. We're all good. We’re good people! But there's a lot of anger, and there's anger, Chris. And incompetence…; there's anger when you look at the trade deals…; there’s anger when you look at our military, where we can't beat ISIS. We can't beat ISIS!
And, you know, there's anger at the fact that America, the United States, it doesn't win anymore. We don't win on trade; we don't win with the military; we…can't take care of our vets…who are so important…! We're gonna take care of our vets! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Education is a disaster. Education…Common Core, we're getting rid of, by the way. We're gonna bring education locally …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…but you…you just look at it. You just look at it.
They're chopping away at the Second Amendment. We're not gonna let that happen anymore: We’re not gonna let it happen…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I have to tell you. Healthcare, Obamacare is a disaster. We're gonna repeal and replace it. [We’re] Gonna repeal it and replace it…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But…but Chris, you know the…the…what…a certain governor got up, and spoke, after…a presidential address and sort of alluded to the anger. And the next night I was in a debate, one of the debates. [Do] You know they say have won every…debate!? I think I have…; I think I…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…I think if I didn't, we wouldn't be here today, right? I would have been like the other people, out.
But…but the question was…it was Nikki Haley. And she said, “well, there's great anger, great…”, like it's a bad thing!
And they asked me during the debate, “Nikki Haley said that you and a lot of your supporters have great anger”.
Now, I'm supposed to say, “oh, no! We don't have anger. We’re wonderful people. We’re so happy with the way the country is run”. I said, “wait a minute. I'm not gonna say…I’m gonna tell the truth!”. I said, “yes, I'm angry! Yes, the millions of people that are supporting Trump…and I'm supporting them, we're all angry”…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. “…Because we're tired of a government that is run incompetently. We have incompetent people running our country!”…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And I said [it]! We're tired of the Iran deal, where we give Iran, a terrorist state, we give around 150 billion dollars. We…we have prisoners there…prisoners in there for years! We should have never even started that negotiation, until those prisoners were released, that I can tell you…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…so rather than doing the politically correct answer, where I’d say, “well, no we're not angry. Everything's just, you know, peaches”, I said, “we're very upset. We're very angry with the way our country is being run”. And let me tell, we're gonna make change. We're gonna make this country so great again. But it's an embarrassment!
I have friends from China. I have friends from Mexico. I have friends from Japan. They…they can't believe what they get away with! They can't even believe it themselves! We’re like the whipping post for the whole world; whether it's in trade…, no matter what it is!
So, we're gonna go from the not so smart people…I wanna say beyond that, but I'm not going to...we're gonna go to the really smart people. We're gonna go to the brilliant people. We're gonna…we're gonna be respected again as a country. We're not respected at all right now…-THE CROWD CHERES AND APPLAUDS.
MR. CHRIS CHRISTIE INTERVENES.
MR. DONALD TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.15.37:
Well, I've had great support. They've also supported me. And I love the veterans. They’re the most incredible people. They’re our great people. And they're not being taken care of correctly. And, illegal immigrants are getting better services and better care in many cases than the veterans, okay? It's not gonna happen that way anymore…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…you know, I've seen, and I've…I’ve really…it…and it really started with the veterans, probably more in New Hampshire than any other…any other place, which I won! Big! Which we won in a landslide. We've won a lot of them in landslides! …-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
But every time we go to a place…South Carolina's another one. [It] Was so fantastic Nevada. [They’re] So many of them. They do…polls! Exit polls. And I win with the veterans so easily! Because they're so disgusted with what's happening. Now, in all fairness, we win with women…; oh, that's so good! That's [it], we win with women. We win with men…that's less important. Women are more important! But we win with women; we win with wet…men; we win with the most highly educated; we win with people without the great education; we win at every level!
We win with Evangelicals so big league! I mean, the Evangelicals…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. You know, Chris, having…uh…having…Jerry Falwell Jr., and having…so many of these people…; that are the…the ministers, the pastor's…uh…supporting us has been…incredible. But, we win with Evangelicals.
And, you know, a guy like Ted Cruz he comes into a room, he holds up the Bible…he holds up the Bible, and he starts holding it up nice and high; then he goes back and he starts…he lie! I call him lyin’ Ted. Lyin’ Ted Cruz. He's lyin Ted…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But…but he lies! And you know, I found out a long time ago, the Evangelicals do not want liars. They do not like liars. And that's what's happened…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. And it’s hurt him! I mean, now it's hurt him!
And, that's why…with…South Carolina…he was supposed to win South Carolina. 67 percentage Evangelical…population in…in South Carolina. And, I won it in a landslide. I won it in a landslide. And I won the Evangelicals. And we've been winning them…all over. It’s…it's been amazing. The relationship has been…well, I'm a good Christian, I will tell you. I…I am a good…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And i'm a believer.
One of…one of the things in speaking, Chris, of Christians, you know, they're chipping away at the Second Amendment, and that's not gonna happen anymore. And they're chipping away at Christianity, folks. They're chipping away, big-league! Big-league, at Christianity! And I had a meeting with a lot of the pastors. And, by the way, our pastor, who was just up here, [he] was so incredible! He was at one of the meetings. He was so great! He did a good job! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I don't know if he's back there. Maybe he's in the audience. It…he didn't know I was gonna bring him back home, but that's okay.
But, we had a meeting with about 40…pastors; pastors, minister…; and I said, “why is it that Christianity seems to be taken advantage of?”. With other religions, with other places, if you said things that you…you couldn't…you couldn't do it. You can almost say whatever you want about Christianity. These are great people. These are great ministers. These are really strong people. [These are] Smart people. [These are] really good people.
And they said, “you know, Mr. Trump? The problem we have is, when we do…endorsements, and when we do other things, they're so…concerned, [that] we lose our tax exempt status!”. And this was passed…during the Lyndon Johnson years. They passed at…Lyndon Johnson past it!
And basically, I said to him, I said, “so that means that you were in Trump Tower…I said, that means that you have less power, in a certain way, than the man walking down the street; because they've taken the power away!”. And I said, “what…how many Christians [do] you have?”. And we sort of all determined together…260 million…Christians in this country.
I said “that means you're bigger than women, and bigger than men. That means you're the biggest group in the United States. That means you're the most powerful group, potentially”: But…it’s…it’s…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…think of it!
But…but, they don't use their power, because they're afraid to use their power, Chris, because they're gonna lose their tax-exempt status.
So, I told them, right then and there I said, “you know, I…”, and I've seen it! Because…it…it’s…we're being jumped. Hey, look! We're gonna say ‘Merry Christmas’ again at Christmastime, folks. Remember that, okay? Remember…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. So, I really mean that.
You go into stores now, it's Christmas and you don't see ‘Merry Christmas’ anymore. Even if you say ‘Merry Christmas’, and a ‘Happy Holiday’, for people…; and…and everybody wants it! I’ve many friends that aren't Christian. And they like to say ‘Merry Christmas’! I mean, everybody likes it! The stores don't put it up anymore.
So, I said to the…group of pastors and ministers, I said, “look: you know, we…if I win, we're gonna work really hard. We're gonna get rid of that restriction”. Because Christianity should be able to have…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY-…some power and some strength. They shouldn't be shy. They shouldn't be…; uh…because I really mean it! It…things can be said about Christianity that if you say it about something else it's like you can't…you can't even think about saying it! It's not gonna happen anymore, folks. We're gonna bring it up. We're gonna bring it up big, and it's gonna be a big difference. Because these are great people. And their voice is being taken away! And we're gonna give their voice back to them! Okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
MR. CHRIS CHRISTIE INTERVENES.
MR. DONALD TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.21.15:
Well, I do. And, you know, it's about the American dream. And you really can't, unless you get very lucky or something, but you can't have the American dream without good education. The American Dream is the great thing. And, a lot of people think the American Dream is dead.
And I would say the American Dream is dead, but if we win we're gonna make it bigger, and better, and stronger than ever before. Remember that. We're gonna do that…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But…but if you look at this country, and...and..a bug…big part of education is how bad it is, [it] is run out of Washington D.C. So, [when] in North Carolina you wanna educate your kids, you have…it comes to Washington. We're not gonna have that. That's called Common Core. We're not gonna have it. So, we're getting rid of Common Core. And we're gonna make it…local…love…; we're gonna make it great education…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But if you look at [it] worldwide, we're number…in the top…you know, 30, out of 30 countries, we’re number 30. So, we’re last. Out of 30 countries, we’re last. But we're first in cost per pupil. We're number one. Not even close!
By the way, number two…you know, you have Norway, Sweden, Denmark, China…; other countries…; but these are the best…for education! Now, we’re number one at cost by…so much, that there isn't even a…number two. The number two is so far back…; so we spend more per pupil than anybody else, and we're down on the bottom.
It's a little bit like…running for office, okay? I spent the least amount of money and I'm…at the highest level. That’s…isn't that nice? Isn’t that nice? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I remember in New Hampshire, one of our opponents, I won't mention who, but one of our opponents had spent 48 million dollars in New Hampshire, running. And I had spent two. And…I was number one, and the other person was at the bottom of the pack. And I said, “who do you want to have as your president? That or this!?”. Okay? You know, it’s…-THE CROW CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…but that's the way we have to do it!
So…so, we spent a lot of money for education and…we don't get the bang for the dollar. And, we're gonna change that around, cause it's important. I know it's so important to Chris. It’s…and you've done a great job in New Jersey with that, but…it's so important. So, we're gonna get it done.
MR. CHRIS CHRISTIE INTERVENES
THERE IS A SUDDEN NOISE IN THE ROOM. APPARENTLY, IT’S A PROTESTER. THE CROWD THEN CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY.
MR. DONALD TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.24.12:
 
You know, it’s…it's very interesting. And it’s fine, let…you know, let him go. They’ll go…he'll back…he’ll go back home to mom, and…she'll be angry at him…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But, uh…little Marco Rubio had a…an event two days ago. And he’s very small crowds, right? But he had a small crowd, and a guy stood up like that. Cuz it happens everybody! You know, they stand up, that's what they do! And, they’re disruptors. But they stand up…it happens everybody.
They don't report them when it happens to somebody else. With me, everybody gets reported. They'll say, “oh, big deal!”.
So, Marco Rubio had a…a…small event. And a guy stood up. And I'll tell you, it's on tape. They ripped him down! They…I tell what. Somebody, a security guy…or somebody. They took him and they just ripped him down! Nobody reports that. If I ever did that, I'd be in the front page of every paper in the world…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. I'm telling you. Go take a look at it. It's on YouTube or whatever, but…but…this guy stood up and he said a couple of things, and they just ripped him to shreds! It was incredible.
Again, I don't do that. I'm a peace-loving person, folks. [Do you] See? I'm a peace-loving…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We love peace. We all love peace. Okay.
So, anyway, I just wanted to say. There's a very big double standard here. But that's okay.
MR. CHRIS CHRISTIE INTERVENES
MR. DONALD TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.25.27:
 
Well, first of all, we have to make our military. We have to replenish it. Because it's suffering from cuts, and cutbacks, and…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…and…you know, in a certain way, folks, it's the cheapest thing we can do. Because I'm gonna make our military so strong, so powerful…that nobody's ever even gonna talk about messing with us, okay? It’s the cheapest thing…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…it is…it is…the cheapest thing we can do.
And, we're gonna go and we have to get ISIS. We gotta get them out. You know, they're chopping off heads…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna get them out. We're gonna get them out. We're gonna get them out.
I mean, just think of the great generals…uh…MacArthur, and…and…you know, Paton, and some of these…great, more modern generals. Think of them. Think of the old-time generals: Think about that! But when you…look at what we do, we…we don't fight! It's almost like we don't fight to win? We don't fight…; I've been saying, “hit the oil. Hit the oil”, for years! Most of you have been listening. And for years I've been saying, “take the oil!”. And they don't do it! They don't do it! “Take the oil!”.
Now they only started. You know, after Paris, when…Paris was such a horror show. And actually, the French! Think of this one, the French hit the oil before we did! But I've been saying that for a long time! And I said, “Look…”, [and] we shouldn't have gone into Iraq, okay? But once we did, we’re there! Take the oil. And I said, “take the oil!”. For years I've been saying take the oil.
And I'll say this. And this is hard to believe. And you'll look it up, and maybe it's…not even true. But they say [that] the reason they didn't wanna hit the oil is [that] they didn't wanna pollute the atmosphere, okay? This is a little different…-THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY-…this is a little…they don’t wanna change, you know, the…uh…footprint, right? The carbon footprint.
And yet, he'll [MEANING MR. OBAMA] fly to Hawaii in a Boeing 747 to play golf. No, he doesn't wanna change…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLADS. He'll have a…he'll have an environmental meeting, but he'll fly to play golf in Hawaii on a Boeing 747 with the very old engines, that are spewing stuff and then we'll come back, after a long time! I promise you, I will not be taking very long vacations if I take them at all. There's no time for vacation…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're not gonna be big…we're not gonna be big on vacation. You know, there's so many things. It's sort of interesting, Chris, the white house is like this…incredible place, right? [It] represents so much…; and you're there for a limited period of time. If you're at the White House, and you have so much work to do, why do you fly so…? Why do you leave so much? Why…?
You know, you’d think you'd wanna work, work, work…straighten it out. Get it done. Fix it up. Make it great. And then when you finish, you can be proud. But, boy, are we a mess! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
MR. CHRIS CHRISTIE INTERVENES
MR. DONALD TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.29.07:
 
Well, I…I…I'll give you an example. So, we send equipment over to the Middle East. It gets taken away! We send it over to our so-called allies, that we don't even know who they are. You know, they're fighting…they're fighting against Syria, but we don't know. Are we supposed to be fighting Syria? Cause Syria’s fighting ISIS. So, we're fighting Syria…and we're fighting ISIS. But Syria’s fighting ISIS and ISIS is fighting Syria. So, anyway!
So, we give it…we…we have people, honestly? They don't have a clue, folks. They don't have a clue. And it's a big mess! It's a big mess! And Hillary started this off…Hillary is a disaster, okay? Hillary is a disaster…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I mean, she’s a disaster. Just ask Hillary about Libya. You…you just look at what's happened, okay? But we don't have a clue. And I'll tell you this, look. We send equipment over to people that we think are friends of ours. And a bullet gets fired in the air, they run away.
A friend of mine as a son who's been there for…quite a while, in Iraq. [He’s] Been there three times now. And, [He’s] so…disgusted! He says, “the enemy has better equipment than we do”. It's our equipment! They take it away. A bullet gets fired in the air, [and] these guys drop the equipment, [and] they run. 2,300 Humvees, with all of the…heavy armor plate…gets taken away. But [do] you know how many that is? [Do] You know many…ships you have to send…!? 2300…; and we're…we’re driving in the old stuff without any protection. That's why you have so many wounded warriors where they're just decimated; where the bombs go up and the thing just blows apart. And they lose their arms, they lose their legs, and worse…!
So, it's gonna be a whole different story. And you know, I think one of the things that Chris is alluding to: I'm self-funding my campaign, so nobody's gonna control me. Nobody. I’m…you're gonna control me…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…you're gonna control me.
But…but what happens, is…a lot of the equipment we buy it's not necessarily the stuff that they want! They want…certain things, and they end up getting things. And you read about it! I've been reading about it since I'm a little boy, actually. You read about it! Where…they're procuring. They're getting…equipment…because one man…manufacturer has better political connections to like…guys like a Rubio, or like a Cruz, where they have better connections to Washington!
And, we order equipment that in many cases they don't want! And the stuff they want we don't order because that firm, you know what I'm talking about, that firm is not political, or is not strong political.
So, we're gonna get the right equipment. We're gonna get the great equipment. We're gonna get the stuff the generals and the soldiers want…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we're gonna build up our military. And we're gonna have a really ready and brilliant military, that hopefully we’ll never have to use!
Look, I didn't wanna go into Iraq! I was against going into Iraq. Somebody said, “oh, I mean, Donald with his…you know, he's a strong guy with the trigger…”. Let me tell you something: I'm…the least guy in terms of that, but, we have to be prepared! We have to be prepared. We're not even prepared.
When General Odierno left, he was on one of the shows, which I hate to see that he's on a show, to be honest. Because, I don't like our generals, even if they're leaving, being on a show! And I didn't like what he said. He said, “we’re…we have a level of unpreparedness…that he's never seen before”. And I think he means going back hundreds of years! I mean, I think he, actually, was talking about where the least prepared that the country has ever been.
Now, number one, it's…good. I like to hear that only from the standpoint that we have to know…to fix it! But I hate for…the enemies to hear that. You know, when an enemy sitting in other parts of the world, is listening to a general who's leaving…talking about how unprepared our country is, that doesn't exactly…put us in a position that we wanna be. So, anyway.
But, we are gonna take care of our military. We're gonna take care of our vets. We're gonna really take care of our vets. And there's so many things we're gonna be able to do from…; you know, our vets wait…sometimes, Chris, six, seven days…just to see a doctor. Your suicide rate is…is…the highest…rate …hat anybody can even think of. You can't even believe it could be this high. But our vets are being taken care of very poorly.
I…put it in a plan. We have a whole big policy plan of the vets. But one of the things we're gonna do, if somebody's gonna wait six days to see a doctor, where a simple pill or shot or maybe a simple procedure can take care of them…instead they're virtually dying, uh…[it’s] not gonna happen anymore. We're gonna get that so that those people could go see a local doctor; get…those people can go into a local hospital; they'll take care…;
By the way, we'll pay for it. It's gonna be much cheaper! And people aren't gonna be dying! They're not gonna be dying! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Yeah.
MR. CHRIS CHRISTIE INTERVENES
MR. DONALD TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.34.13:
Well, first of all, she did say that. She said, “there's no problem with the VA”. And when I said…when I heard that…it was, to me, incredible.
Now, a…a little bit later then she corrected her statement. But you know what she means. She means there's no problem. Look: she doesn't have the strength and she doesn't have the energy to be President. I can tell you that. There's no…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And I'll say it loud and clear, and it doesn't make any difference, cause you know what? I don't need to be doing this. I…honestly? This is…people said, “why are you doing this?”. I have this great…life! I'm doing it because of the fact that…this country has been so good to me, and this country's in serious, serious trouble. 19 trillion in debt. Soon to be 21 trillion in debt because of the ridiculous budgets that were passed over the last…uh…three months. And, I'm doing it because I wanna…you know, it's called giving back. I am…gonna give…I am really giving back. I am…all over the place, we see…; [do you know] what I've learned, Chris? The people in our country are unbelievable. And I wanna see Apple products made in this country, not in China…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…and…we're gonna see it. And we're gonna say it!
So, you know, in case I give all the time is a Carrier, and Ford, and Nabisco, and all these companies that are moving out. You have it too from…from…here! I mean, from North Carolina. Your businesses have been devastated by…by…right? Is that a correct…? They've been devastated! …-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. [Do] You know where they've been devastated? By people that are incompetent on trade deals, that…your people are leaving…; you…you had these great jobs 10 years ago, 20 years ago…you don't have them anymore! Because they're in different countries!
We're gonna bring our jobs back, folks! They're coming back to North Carolina…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we're gonna bring our jobs back. We're bringing them back. And…and, believe me! And I'm not just playing games. As sure as you're sitting there. Your jobs have been taken away.
Now, the other thing. And a reason I think we have this incredible…enthusiasm, and…and by the way, Chris. You know, look at Time magazine, look at…for the…weeks, they just covered it! They say it. I'm saying it. [We’ve] Got a lot of reporters back there; it's gonna be…you know, affirmed; in the history of our country, nothing like this has ever happened; where…I mean, you go outside…seriously! You go outside, [and] you have thousands and thousands of people…wanting to come into this…auditorium! Thousands of people!
We go out to speak [and] we have crowds that are record-setting crowds. Like the day before the election! And here we are, many months away from the election. Because our people want to see something great happen. They feel it! They can feel it!
But…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…but the biggest story in all of politics, is…and of all…you know, of all things! Republican! I mean, Republican! That used to be like a word people were thinking ‘obsolete’! The biggest story, in all of politics, worldwide, is what's happening to the Republican Party in the United States.
The United States…has…we have numbers going and voting in the primaries that are millions, and millions, and millions of people more! Chris knows that better than anybody. You see it! We have people going out to vote by the millions more!
Now, the Democrats are down 35 percent from four years ago. The Republicans…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY-…the Republicans…because who's gonna vote for Hillary or...or Bernie? I mean, there's nothing exciting there…-THE CROWD BOOS. Honestly? You take a look…you take a look at those two. Who's gonna vote…? Who's gonna vote for them? …-THE CROWD THEN STARTS BOOING. REPORTEDLY, THERE IS A PROTESTER IN THE ROOM. THE CROWD THEN CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY.
Thank you!
And…and, [do you] see? That's…that's the reason these people are put here. They’re disruptors. Because the Democrats see what's happening. The Democrats…this is so important! The Democrats see what's happening. Maybe…and…and it's been reported! In the history of our country…it's a big statement too! And I'm just…repeating the press! Nothing…like this…has ever…happened! This is a phenomenon. The Democrats are seeing what's happening, and they try and disrupt what's happening. But it's…not a big deal. They stand up, they shout for a couple of seconds, and they get always out. Not a big deal. Not a big deal…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, it’s right.
But…but many millions of people. And, sometimes I'll be shaking hands, or I'll be signing at the front, and we do…uh…the rope lines, right? But sometimes I'll be signing. And so often, people will say…40 year-olds, 50 year-olds, 60, 70…they'll say, “Mr. Trump, I've never voted before ever, and I'm voting now”. I'm telling you, this happens…uh…like 20 every time I come to a place. It's unbelievable.
So, we're taking from the Democrats. Remember…the…Democrats for Reagan? We have it bigger! It's Democrats for Trump! It's a bigger number! So, it's Democrats we're taking, also though, from independence. Big league. And we're taking from people that have never ever voted before! And they're 50 years-old, in some cases! And the numbers are astronomical. And who would have thought this is happening to the Republican Party!? Because a lot of people would say the Republican Party is obsolete. And we do have obsolete people in the Republican Party! We have a lot of leaders that are obsolete! Because…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY-…they don't understand what's happening!
But I will tell you, off the record, off the record…there are only many cameras back there, but there are a lot of people…that are calling me, top people in the Republican Party, and they're calling me and they say, “we wanna get on to this train, because this train is unbelievable”. They’ve never seen anything like it…THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…and when we go into an election against probably Hillary, cuz she's probably gonna make it even though she shouldn't be allowed to with the email scandal…[she] shouldn't be allowed to…-THE CROWD MUTTERS.
Look, you know she's guilty. I mean, she’s guilty.
…-THERE IS A SUDDEN NOISE FROM THE CROWD. Was that a protester that I just saw?
So…-MR. TRUMP LAUGSH. You know, usually you're better off…usually, about…when the protester stands up? Usually an individual or two, you’d better off just talking right through the protester, because it's not a big one. The problem is the audience always turns, “there they are! There they are!”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. So, that’s it…and that, you cannot talk through. Isn’t it true?
But I just wanna say, there's never been anything like this. It's an incredible thing to see. People in South Carolina, that work at the polling booths, at the booths, are saying, “Mr. Trump, I've done this for 30 and 40 years”; they said, “we've never seen crowds like this”. Lines that were going a quarter of a mile down the road. They said, “we'd stand here and there'd be two people walk in an hour”. They have lines that are going down the road. You wouldn't believe it! And…and every…every place is like that. Every place is like that.
The same thing [happens] in Nevada. They said, “we've never…”; a woman came up to me: “Mr. Trump, I've done it for 32 years. I've never seen anything like that, the crowds”. And it's a great thing to see.
And you know, it's really great. People are involved in the process. But they see something…that…really gives them hope. And I'm so proud to be a part of it. I will…I will tell you. It says…it's like an amazing feeling, to be a part of it.
And, if the Republican leadership, or establishment…if there is such a thing as the establishment. I probably used to be a part of the establishment. This guy would come to my office, and he’d say, “could I have 350 thousand dollars for the Republican Governors Association”, right? That's right. He would come to my office. Like uh…a year and a half, [or] two years ago. So, I guess I, in a certain way, I was part of the establishment. But I don't even know…if there is an establishment.
What…they have to do is embrace this phenomena. And, go with it. And we will beat the Democrats. And we will beat Hillary, who's…so flawed…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We will beat them so…badly! We’ll when every state. We will beat them…so…badly!
You know, one of the other things, and I have to say this. I run against, you know, other…people. If I run, we're gonna win Michigan. We're gonna win New York. We're gonna win places like…uh…Pennsylvania. We're gonna win New Jersey, okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna win Florida. But we're gonna win…we're gonna win Florida. [In] Florida we're doing great. You know, we're against uh…little Marco.
But…but I'll tell you what. We're gonna win states that no other candidate could even think about winning! We're gonna win.
So, what the Republican leadership should do is try and unify things. Instead of fighting it, get used to it! This is the most incredible…phenomena that they've ever seen in politics in this country. Embrace it! Embrace it!! And, let's go win! Okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
MR. CHRIS CHRISTIE INTERVENES
MR. DONALD TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.44.24:
Well, thank you, Chris, cause it…it's an honor to talk about them. I have a wonderful wife, Melania, who many of you know. I have…wonderful children. I have five children.
And, you know, a lot of friends…uh…my children are doing very well. Ivanka…and Don, and Eric, and Barren, and Tiffany…and they're doing well. And a lot of times a friend will come up and say, “do you mind seeing my child? My child's got a problem”, or…whatever. And…I talk. You know, I'll see the child, and…they'll have a drug problem, or a drinking problem, or whatever problem they may have. And, you know, it's interesting. When I won New Hampshire, Chris, uh…the people would tell me in New Hampshire the biggest problem they have is a problem with heroin. And you don't see it in New Hampshire!
You know, the beautiful roads, and the beautiful trees…; and yet, every time, they'd say…you know, that you’d think they'd be talking about like some economic thing, which is a problem, but…the first thing was always heroin. And they're tremendously…they have a huge problem with heroin.
I said…and…and…it…they treated me so good. That was my first win, New Hampshire! And I said, “if I get in, I'm gonna…pay back!”. Because, I said, drugs. Drugs is just hurting them so badly. They have so…many…young kids, and some others too! But young…their young people are just being addicted. Terribly addicted to drugs.
We're gonna stop those drugs from coming in. Many of them come from the southern border…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And you have the same problem. And our whole country has the same problem!
And the easy way to solve the problem is don't give people access, because if they don't start, they're never gonna have a problem. It's like…I don't drink. I don't have any longing to drink or smoke, cause I never started! If I did start, I'd probably love drinking and I’d love smoking! You know, so the easiest way is not start.
Well, we're gonna cut it off. We're gonna absolutely cut that off.
But, I say to…friends. I say it…and I used to, when my kids were growing up: “no drugs. No alcohol. You just can't have it”. No drugs, no alcohol…; and I see…I see so often, and it's so important. I see so often these brilliant people, they have brilliant kids…they're smart, they go to the best schools…; but they start with the drinking, or the…and they become alcoholic. And, they start with the drinking, or they start with the drugs and they cannot get off. And they can't wean themselves off. And they work so hard to do it and they can't.
And I say to people, “just no drugs. No alcohol”. And just…you don't have it. And I add cigarettes when I can…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
But, so, so, so important. And…you know, cause the world is so competitive. It's so tough, that if you have a drug problem, or if you have an alcohol problem, it's tough enough now…that, if you don't have to have that problem, because it just puts you at a tremendous competitive…uh…disadvantage.
So, I do. I have wonderful kids. I hope they stay that way. I…so I knock on wood as I talk about…my kids. But I do have wonderful kids, and they've been a big help to me…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
MR. CHRIS CHRISTIE INTERVENES
MR. DONALD TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.47.31:
You gotta…you gotta…yeah. And it's…it’s not easy. And it's not easy, but you gotta start it. And you gotta start it…as fast as you can. That is something that's very tough. Uh…the easy thing is not to start. That's easy! But once you start, you get addicted. And it's…uh…it's something that could be handled, but you gotta…you gotta work on it very quickly.
MR. CHRIS CHRISTIE INTERVENES
MR. DONALD TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.48.30:
Well, we have to just…uh…we have to be so vigilant. We have to be so tough. And we cannot allow people into our country that we don't know anything about them. We don't know where they come from…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…who they are…; they have no paperwork. They have no nothing.
And I hate to be the one to say it, but I'm the one that says it. And…it's not politically correct even to say it, but it…you know, we're allowing people into our country [that] we have absolutely…no…idea who they are; where they come from; there's no paperwork! There's no nothing! And this could be the great Trojan horse. Who knows? And we have to be smart. And we have to be tough. And we have to be less politically correct, because that is killing our country.
And…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…I mean you see the damage that two young people can do in California. Two young people. She was radicalized. She probably radicalized him. They get married. They have a baby. They kill everybody that they worked with. They gave them baby showers. These people gave them baby showers that they worked with. Supposedly they had great relations. [But] They go when they kill everybody.
We have to be smart, folks! We can't be the stupid people anymore. We have to be smart. Okay? That's right…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
MR. CHRIS CHRISTIE INTERVENES
MR. DONALD TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00..:
Well, we're sort of turning socialist if you look at what we're doing. And people…just don't have the incentive to go out there and do the great job anymore! It's being taken away. That incentive is so important! And, you know, there's no…system like we had!
Now, I say ‘had’ because we don't really have that system anymore. Right now we have a different system. And, we have a series of poor things. We have such…as we discuss, we have…such…poor…healthcare. We have such…poor…everything! We have no incentives to go out and to do what you wanna do!
And, a guy like…like Bernie Sanders, [that] you know, he wants to give everything away! There's only one problem: you can't give everything away, cause somebody's gonna have to pay the bill! And your taxes…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY-…your taxes…; I mean, your taxes are gonna go up to 95 percent or something! They were saying that if you were gonna do all of this stuff, that somebody's gonna pay it…! It’s probably gonna be you, folks! Okay? Get used to it!
But…but your taxes go up to 95 percent. It goes…once you hit a 100 percent, then you go from socialism to communism. And then, the other things start to happen. Look. Look. We've got…potentially. We can be, in my opinion, we can be greater…than ever…before! We have that potential.
The reason I say that, Chris…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…is because I've traveled so much! I've never traveled like this in my life. I mean, I've traveled…every day! Yesterday I made three major speeches. Today I'm doing three or four major speeches…; I've gotten to know the people! The people of this country are incredible.
We have a chance to turn it around. We have a chance…; we're gonna get the proper leadership. You're gonna get the best people. On trade, we're bringing in the greatest people. The greatest negotiators in the world, from Wall Street. I know the good ones; the bad ones; the ones that are overrated; the ones that are underrated, that nobody ever heard of.
But, there's not gonna be any more deals where political hacks, [who] are dealing with these most brilliant people in China! And then the deals…TPP is a disaster! I mean, you look at the…Governor of…of…uh…Ohio! He's a disaster, what he's done! He voted for NAFTA! NAFTA has taken a lot of your businesses right out of North Carolina! He's voted for NAFTA. And now he wants to vote for TPP! And that's gonna be much worse”
So, look: we are going to do something so special. But most special of all, we're gonna start winning again. We're gonna win at every level. We're gonna win with our military…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. We're gonna win for our vets. We're gonna win with education, knockout Common Core; but we're gonna win for…it…with education. We're gonna win at every level. On health care…; we're gonna win at the border. We're gonna have the wall, but we're gonna win at the border. We're gonna win solidly at the border. We're gonna win at every…facet! We can do that! It's not even gonna be that difficult.
I will say this: if we have four more years of an Obama…person; if we have four more years of Hillary…; and you see the way she's embracing Obama? She never used to…embrace Obama! She didn't even like Obama! Everybody knows it. Everybody that knows her. She never liked Obama. She never…she couldn't stand Obama!
Now, everything he says, “oh, our president said this”. And, “oh, he's so great! He's so great…!”. Why!? Do you know why!? I know why! I know why! It's cause she wants to keep him nice and happy. “Please, be happy, Mr. president. And please, don’t anything bad to me, Mr. president”.
So, I mean, you…did you ever see anything like it? She can't stand Obama, and all she does his embrace him! Everything he says is “fine! Fine!”.
So, look. And by the way, here's the good news. That's gonna kill her…in the general election. Because the last thing…our public wants…is four…more…years…of Barack Obama! That I can tell you…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [It’s] The last thing.
Thank you, everybody! Thank you!
 
