VIDEO Nº: 93
TITLE:93. Speech  Donald Trump in Dubuque, IA - January 30, 2016
DATE OF EVENT:30/01/2016
RELEASE DATE:27/10/2017
DURATION:00.33.47 Mins
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:6630
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Wow!
Well, they said this is gonna be just our smallest little crowd. This turned out to be about ten times bigger than we thought. This is really nice. I'll tell you what, this is the beginning. This is now crunch time. This is it. This is what it's all about. So we have to get out there and caucus, and…do all of the things that we have to do, or we've all wasted our time folks. We've all wasted our time.
So here's the story: the United has just ordered…a three billion dollar plane. Three billion. Do you think I could have made a better deal than? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘YES!’. Huh? They're getting a new Air Force One. I didn't wanna do it, because if I did, they'd say, “why are you doing that?”. And I actually held my power here. I held my fire. Because I don't mind getting that plane! But you know, I…[it] does seem like an awful lot of money, doesn't it? Three billion dollars, they're spending on an Air Force One. But let's let them have it, right!? Huh? Let's let them have it.
But that's what's going on. I guarantee we could do better. We could negotiate cheaper…; it's time to get one, because it's an old plane. When President Obama flew from Washington to Hawaii, talking about…remember the carbon footprint, right? To play golf…for…two or three weeks. A long time. Who wants to leave the White House for two or three weeks!? When you're in the White House…he says “Obama”…MR. TRUMP REPEATS SOMETHING A MEMBER IN THE CROWD HAS YELLED. THE CROWD LAUGHS. Yeah, it's true. It’s true! And longer than that! And longer than that!
So…look. So we talk about a footprint, right? So the carbon footprint…an old…747, with big, beautiful engines that are spewing, if you believe in that to start off with, right? Now, the question is do we believe in that? But that's the story. Look, we have a chance…to do something…so great. Make America great Again. All these hats: Make America great again…-THE CROWD CHEERS. Make America great again. Not to make…bad deals, but to only make…great deals. We're losing on trade…; we're losing with Obamacare…; …which will be repealed and replaced, by the way…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
If…if you look at Obamacare, right? You look at Obamacare and you see what's going on. 25, 35, 45 % increases! in your premiums. 35, 45, 25…is somebody that got lucky! And then you look at…I mean, deductibles?  You have to die…in order to use it! You have to die. You have to be in the hospital for the rest of your life in order to maybe use a little chunk. The deductibles are so high…that people don't get to use it! So we're gonna, we're gonna come out…winners now, folks. We're gonna start to win again. When was the last time we won? Do we ever win? Do we ever win? Think of it, as a country.
We’re like the big bully that gets beat up all the time. Do we ever win? We don't win on trade, right? We don't with the military. We certainly don't win with the military; we can't beat ISIS. Which is basically 30 thousand people…and we can't win.
Can you imagine General George Patton…saying we can't beat ISIS? Can you imagine? And I've seen…you know, they go on talk shows. Our generals, they go on talk shows. Can you believe a general going on a talk show? I don't want generals on talk shows! We wanna show something special. We don't want people talking about, “we're do this…; then we're gonna do that; then we’re gonna do this, and that; and we're gonna attack from behind…”.  What the hell do we have to talk so much!? Just do it! Right!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So bad! It's so…bad!
So look, we're gonna win with our military. We're gonna win a lot! And hopefully we're not gonna use it much. We're gonna make our military so strong…; so powerful…; that nobody's gonna mess with us anymore.
You know, it's being……-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Our military's going down from the standpoint that we have older equipment. We're not replenishing. General left recently and he said, on a talk show, that he's never seen…he talked…he used the word ‘preparedness’. ‘Preparedness’. We have never…been…so poorly prepared…to fight. And maybe, just about it, in our country's history. This is when we have to be at least prepared! We don't wanna have to do it. We don't wanna do it! But we have to at least be prepared.
Remember one thing. And now I'm getting credit. They give me credit for vision. You know, vision is very important. You're running for president…you need vision, right? A smaller! I said, “hit the oil! Hit the oil!”. How many times have you seen it…over four years. Hit the oil! Take out the oil! They kept saying, “oh, that's not a good strategy”. Really? Why? That's where they got all their wealth. That's where ISIS got its their wealth.
They're also getting…and I'll tell you right now, from banking circuits, okay? And I understand banking. Oh, do I understand banking circuits? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. These politicians don't don't understand. They don't…have a clue. But they're getting a lot of money coming in from… certain countries…through the back corridors of the banking world. And I wanna tell you, they're getting a lot of money from that, so I'll shut that so fast. They don't know how to shut down, I know how to shut it down.
But I've said for four years and most of you have been fans for a long time, and I'm fans of yours equally. Believe me! Cause we're all in this together. You know, this is a movement. This isn't like…we were supposed to have 50 or 70 people. I was gonna get off the plane and go, and we have about five or six stops. And I see this this kind of a crowd. So we have to…we can't just leave you flag, right? We gotta talk for a little while…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
By the way, do any…do we have any like young kids here? Like ten years old!? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘YES’. Okay, let's do this. I have a little bit of an idea. We'll have a look at…look at that handsome guy. I have a…why don't we put him over here…? …and we'll let them, but without their parents…! …we'll let them run through the plane. Does that sound good? …-THE CROWD YELLS. Right? Look, the parents are all upset…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
So let's…we'll get a little group together. We'll get some groups; we'll run them through. That's like the helicopter rides, remember? We had a lot of fun with the helicopter rides. We'll let the kids go run through the plane. I don't want the parents running through cause the parents will damage it, right? The kids won't damage it, but the parents will. So you'll work that out
THERE IS A SUDDEN NOISE THAT COMES FROM THE CROWD. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT-… “Thank you very much. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Do you wanna let them wear out their voices? How about that? All right, get them out of here, please. Please, boom! Get them out! Get them out. Get them out. Unbelievable. Get them out…-THE CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘U.S.A!’ AND TRUMP CHANTS ALONG. “U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S.A!”. So ridiculous. It's so crazy.
You know, if we spoke to those people, assuming they have good intentions…; if we spoke to them for a few minutes, we could convince them, I think, unless they're on something, which is a real possibility, cause you really say, “what are they doing?”.
All right get them out! Get them out! Get them out of there!  Come on! Let's go, Scott! Come on, Scott! Let's go! Get them out! Thank you.
Don't hurt them. Don’t hurt them. Don’t hurt them, please.
You know, I've done it both ways. I've done it rough, and I get criticized. I did it really rough. We had this one guy, really bad guy! He was swinging, and punching people…doing a… and I’, screwing “get him outta here! Get him out…!”. The place is gone wild. [The] next day I got killed in the press. They said we were mean and horrible…; you know, four were mean and horrible, you know four were mean and horrible. You know, four people ended up…; one guy had a broken nose, a black eye…! …and…I was rough, right? The next day we had a similar kind of a thing, and I said, do me a favor, “don't hurt him. Don’t hurt him”, because of the press, right? “don’t hurt him, easy!”. And the next day they accused me of being strong enough. Do you believe it!? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. So, can't win! You can't win. But we can win.
The country is gonna win. The country is gonna win. We're gonna win, honestly? We’re gonna win so much. We're gonna win on trade…; we're gonna win with our military….;
Now, I get credit because I was against…the Iraq war. Now, two years people say, “oh, that's terrible!”. Although, actually, it's about five years ago if you think about it. Cause if you remember, Jeb Bush, he didn't know what to say. He didn't know… “Am I against it? Am I…?”…-MR. TRUMP MOCKS MR. BUSH. He didn't know. Remember? He didn't know. He didn't know what to say: “should I be against it or not?”. It took him…six days before he figured out the right answer. That's not what we need.
And besides that, he's in favor of Common Core. I didn't even…why am I even talking? He's got two percent in the poll!
But…but you know, he advertises…; he spends tens of millions of dollars on ads against me! So whenever I can, you gotta take a shot. That's sort of…you know, I do this in about…ten seconds, and that's the equivalent of him spending ten million dollars. Isn’t it great? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
But if you look at what's going on with…our competition. Should we speak about the competition for a second? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘YES!’. Okay.
First of all, a couple for of them said, including Hillary…! …she said…-THE CROWD BOOS. MR. TRUMP LAUGHS-…right. That's actually much more exciting than Jeb Bush talking about Hillary. Because, hard to believe, it looks like she's gonna get the nomination. And it looks like…they're not gonna do anything to her. It's hard to believe, okay? It's hard to believe.
But if you look at it, she said, “I don't like…the tone. The tone…of Mr. Trump”. The tone. What's the tone? They're chopping off people's heads in the Middle East, especially if you happen to be Christian…; they're chopping off heads…and she's worried…and actually Jeb Bush…the same day, he said, “I don't like the tone”:
Well, the tone is…that Hillary wanted to go to war with Iraq, and we totally destabilized the Middle East, and, boy, what a mess! And Trump said very strongly, “don't go to war, you're gonna destabilize the Middle East”. So you know, I'm…I’m the guy with a tone, but I'm the guy that didn't wanna go to war. You have to know what to do! You have to know when use your military! We used it incorrectl.
Now, Obama…then came in, and really blew it! Because instead of keeping some troops, and doing what he has to do; and not giving an exact date…! Remember when he said…; [he] came in, gave the the exact…date! As when…; and the enemy pulls back…; They couldn't believe it. Actually they thought it was a camouflage, right? They said, “[it] can't be possible. Nobody…nobody can do that. Nobody would give us…; Nobody, in a million years, would give us the exact date”. He gave them the exact date. The enemy pulled back. Waited. We pulled out entirely, and they just knocked the hell out of us, right? It's just…and just…it’s a mess.
So now you look at the Syria. You look at what's going on with Syria. Look at migration. We wanna  take tens of thousands…of people that we have no idea where they come from. This country has enough problems, folks! We've got problems like nobody has. Problems…; I mean, when we have big…; we owe 19 trillion dollars. You're great representatives that you just sent to Congress approved a budget…it's your fault, by the way. They approved the budget! Did you ever see a budget so fast, two weeks ago, right? Another two…two trillion, right!?
So we another tube two trillion dollars…in debt. We're gonna add, at least, another two trillion with the budget; and I think that budget took like 24 hours to do! And they funded the migration coming in. They funded…all sorts of things that we don't want funded, including Planned Parenthood, they funded…and you saw that. They funded…so…many…things! They funded Obamacare, an extension of Obamacare! And which is…by the way, which is dying. Which is going to be dead by 17 anyway, unless the Republicans extend it. And it's disappointing to me. I'll tell you what's disappointing.
We have…Republicans. We send them. They sound smart. And tough. And sharp. And they go and you…you get elected: “we're gonna beat Obamacare! We're gonna do this! …and…all the things we wanna hear. This…like…seven of them that are absolutely… “we're gonna win on trade; we're gonna…”.
They get to Washington, they don't do anything! They don't even vote against it! You know, and I always say: they walk in with their wife, or their husband. They look at these beautiful marble columns. They look at the angels on the ceiling and they say, “darling, we've arrived. We’ve arrived”. And they leave Iowa, where they’re tough as hell, they get over there, and they're like a basket case, right? Not gonna happen with me. Not gonna happen…-THE CROWD CHEERS. It’s not gonna happen
Did you ever hear where they're talking about balancing the budget over a period of 25 years? 25 years! To balance the budget! We'll do it much faster, folks. Believe me. So much faster. We're gonna make our country so great…; we're gonna make our country so strong again!
We're not respected. You look at the way…people treat us. They don't respect us. They take our money. They take all of our money. China…! And by the way, I'm extremely friendly with China. Many good friends I've made. Many good deals. I’ve sold condos to these people. They're great people…. The biggest bank in the world is my tenant…[it] pays me a lot of rent…; I mean, what do I have against China? I’ll tell you what though. I have things against our people for allowing the leadership in China…to take such advantage of us!
When we have a trade deficit…think of it…; five hundred billion dollars a year? And then they say, “we want free trade”. I want free trade! But it's gotta be on an equal footing. It's gotta be fair! It's gotta be equitable! It's not equitable!
And then you look at Japan, they're sending millions of cars. Boom! Pouring through. They take practically nothing. And you, people, know it better than anything! And when you send your product, half the time, a lot of the time…it gets sent back! Right!? It gets sent back! And then they charge you taxes.
You know, in China…they send their product and no tax ,”come on in, folks, dump it in…”. When we send it over there…it's impossible! A friend of mine is a great manufacturer. He does business with China. He said, “Donald, it's impossible. You can't get your product in, and when you, they charge you tax”. Well, with us…you come right in, and there's no tax. We've gotta make it fair.
People like Carl Icahn have endorsed us. He’s [a] great business leader. We're gonna use those people to negotiate for us now. We're not gonna use…the donors that we have. You know, where they give campaign contributions. These are people…that are, in many cases, just hacks! They're like political hacks. And the Chinese send these geniuses, tough as hell. No games, no smiles. They don't say hello when they walk in. They wanna get to work. Right? You understand what I'm telling you. They don’t say, “oh, gee! Isn't it a beautiful day!? So wonderful”. They don't care if it's wonderful or not.
These people mean business. We don't mean business. We send diplomats and we send hacks. Political hacks. Not gonna happen anymore.
We have the greatest…business people in the world. We're gonna use them…to renegotiate our trade deals. We're gonna use them! We’re gonna do something with Iran. That is the worst deal that I've ever seen negotiated ever! The recent deal with Iran! The worst deal…; we give, them a hundred and fifty billion dollars…; they've got 24 days…but that doesn't start for a long time, because you have to go through a whole process…; so they could have months…before we can go into inspections. And they even have the right of self-Inspecting!
Then what happens is we get…when it's all done and the money's passed, we get…our prisoners back. You know what that's gonna mean in terms of kidnappings…? and in terms of all of the extortions…? …which is, basically, what they did to us, they extorted us, okay?
So, the one thing that I hate…is no matter what I do…the money's already gone! The money's already gone! No matter what I do…we’re not gonna get that money back! But we'll get it back in many other ways! Okay?
And by the back, you see what they're doing with the money? They're all over Europe spending our money! They're all over Europe! They ordered Airbus! They didn't order…beautiful Boeing's like that one…-MR. TRUMP TURNS AROUND AND LOOKS DIRECTLY AT HIS PLANE. THE CROWD LAUGHS. They could have that for the right price too, I’ll tell you. They would have it for the right price. Boeing. I love Boeing.
But Boeing is here, Airbus is in…you know, it's Europe. So they ordered a hundred and eighteen…airplanes, and they ordered them…from Airbus. Why Airbus!? They're buying all over Europe! They're buying in Russia! They're buying missiles…from Russia! You know what they're buying from us? Nothing! They're not buying anything from us. And that one thing, where they hate us, and…we're not so exactly…thrilled with them either, right? But the one thing, if you look at it, it…it's respect.
And Kerry goes up, the other day, maybe the worst statement of all. He was talking about terror. And…probably most of you heard it, cause nobody could believe it. He said, “yes, we expect, essentially, we expect some money will be used on terror”. Really!? I didn’t that!
“They haven't used it yet. We haven't seen any…; but we expect…yes, that could happen”.
So, you know, in other words, billions of dollars could be used on terror. So, what the hell did he make the deal for? How do you make a deal like that anyway!? And the way you really should have negotiated that deal is four years ago, when they had the prisoners, four years ago, you go and say, “you have to let our prisoners go”. And I tell this to people! It's like 101! Business 101!
“You have to let our prisoners go”.
And they're gonna say, “no”. Okay? You leave the room! There's nothing wrong with leaving! I did it the other night for the debate. I left! You know? I left! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. And I love Fox, and…and…I love Roger Ailes and all those guys. But I'll tell you what., they weren't treating me right. They put out some nasty memos! And by way, if I was there, you know, the Washington Post and other papers…they didn't do very well! I'll tell you! They did about half the number they should’ve had. They did 12 million…; when I was there for the first one, we did 24 million. And they wanna put a spin on it, and that's okay.
And it had nothing to do with…what was her name? Megyn Kelly…? I don't care about her. What the hell difference does it make? I didn't get treated fairly by her, but I don't care about her. I didn't like it when they sent out a memo, and I had to get an apology, and I wanted five million dollars to go to our veterans, right? So, they said, “well, no….”. Actually I thought they said “yes” for a while, but in the end they said “no”.
So, I didn't do the debate. I held a thing, and some of you were there probably. Did you ever see lines like that? We had 800 people…we had 800 seats…; we had lines that would have filled up a stadium. And I felt badly, because so many people got turned away. People in this people got turned away. And we had lines…that would have filled up a stadium. And we raised…in one hour…six million dollars for the vets. How about that? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. Six million.
And…the point is, people have to treat you with respect. Everyone said, “no way he's not gonna do it”. I think the debate turned out to be good that I didn't do it. It was a debate anyway. Boring! Boring! That was a hard thing to watch, wasn’t it? But it wouldn't have been hard; if I was there, you would have liked it. Right!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. So anyway…. But look…; but it worked right. And Fox has been terrific. And they were even terrific before. They wanted me to go. They wanted me to go…; but then it…all of a sudden, the new event took on a live…; and it wasn’t broadcast until…; they said, “it was broadcast on television”. It wasn't on television! We allowed cameras…like these guys, to come in and do whatever you wanna do!
But we had an amazing evening. We had one vet who lost his legd. He gave a talk. It was the most incredible talk you've ever heard. About coming home…and he came home a different person. He came home…with…one…less…leg. His family didn't know how to react. The VA is…not good. It's a disaster. By the way, we're gonna fix the VA. We're gonna make it so good. Because our vets are not being taken care of…-THE CROWD CHEERS.
And at that night we raised…six million dollars! And we did it in one hour! And…I had guys like Carl Icahn put up five hundred thousand. Phil Ruffin and up a million. Ike Perlmutter put up a million. A guy named Donald Trump who you probably never heard of put up a million dollars…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
But we…I'm so happy! And…I guess we have like 18 or 20 groups that are really…really terrific groups, that have done an amazing job. But we're gonna give them money and…let them go and do their job, because they've been doing a great job. But we have them very well vetted. But they are gonna go out and do a great job.
So, I'm very proud of that. But… have to know. So, I had to walk, because I couldn't go in there with…sort of like…I would have felt foolish…walking on stage and they're sort of taunting. Like in football. Taunting. You get a penalty, right? So they had to have a penalty. But…in the end, it works out!
Now, Kerry should have walked! Kerry should have walked! He should have left. He should have said, “no, no, we need our prisoners back. And if you don't give them back, we're leaving”. And they would have said no. And now you go back, and you just leave. And you double up the sanctions, maybe triple them up. But the double up the sanctions. Within 48 hours…they are calling you saying, “we're giving you your prisoners. Congratulations. Please, please, don't do this with the sanctions anymore! And let’s talk”.
Then you go in…and you do it separately. You do it separately. You say…oh, by the way, you make sure the prisoners are landed; they're on US soil. Right? Unlike…a certain person I know…; who’s that person? Ted Cruz! Who was not born on US soil! It's a problem!  It’s a problem! He's gonna have to solve…he…; by the way, he has to solve that problem. That is an incredible…; the Democrats are going to sue. I mean, he was born in Canada! He was a Canadian citizen until 15 months ago. How the hell can he run for president!? A lot of constitutional lawyers have just…and I'm not just talking about Lawrence Tribe, from Harvard, because he said it's unsettled law.
But now they're coming out saying you just can't run! You just can't run! And…he really can't run. I mean, I don't think, but you're gonna have to find out. The problem is, whether he can or whether he can't, it has to be tested through the court system. So he has to go in, get a declaratory judgment…; do something quickly! Because how can you nominate somebody who, frankly, might not have the right to…serve as president…of the United States!
So you're gonna be putting your guts and your heart into it. You can't do that! I'm not even talking about the loans from Goldman Sachs that he made that he didn't report. Or the loans from Citibank that he didn't report, because he wants to show that he’s Robin Hood, and he's such a good guy with the banks…; he should have them! Personal…financial…disclosure…form, right? [He] should have reported them! But… you gotta…you gotta prove…that…you're able to…run for the president of the United States! So, he's got a problem.
Other people have different problems. Ted's got a big problem. Other people have different problems. Me!? I have no problems, you know? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
Let me tell you. I'm self-funding. I don't need anybody's money. When I fly on that big plane, I'm paying for it. I’m not having a… Goldman Sachs pay for it. I'm not having lobbyists. And I'm not having Citibank. And I'm not having…; I’m…I fund it myself. I do it. If…I…it’s expensive! But I do it! I pay for everything. I'm paying…; I'm self-funding my campaign. I'm the only one, on either side, that's self-funding my campaign. And…and you know, I'm proud of it! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I did well…; I built this incredible company…; I mean, I built an incredible company. And now they go and they check and they say, “wow, it really is!”. I mean, the reviews I've got are really…; nobody cause I was private! It's much bigger, and much better, much stronger; very low debt…; tremendous income…; and…honestly? If I win, I don't care about that company! I don't care! This is so big and so important…; I wanna put that talent, or whatever the hell it is I have…we wanna put it to work here…for the United States.
You know, I say…I joke, but I say it's true! Uhm…I've been offered so much money to run. You know, all these lobbyists come up to me, and they say about, “Don, we've gotta…help you! For…you know, we wanna give you millions and millions and millions. I would have the biggest fund ever created. Cuz I know all the guys that put up the money! Because seven months ago I put up the money, right!? I put up the money! I was putting up money…; I gave three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the…RGA…Republican Governors Association, right? I gave…; I give tremendous amounts of money to these guys!
And I was very much…I hate to say this…I was establishment. Once I ran, I was the worst thing that ever happened to the establishment. I mean, they were…; I go from establishment to non-establishment in about…two minutes.
But once I did this…and I had to make a decision. The reason I decided to do it is because our country is going to hell. We're being led by people…that are…incompetent. They don't know what they're doing. These are people that are grossly incompetent. Somebody else would say they're stupid people, but I don't wanna say that, because I think it's too crude, okay? So I refuse to say it.
But…but let me just tell you: we're being led by incompetent people. Just like Kerry making this deal for Iran, where he gives them the 100 and 50…; but he didn't have to do that! He would have had the prisoners back. He then would have gone in, and said, “we can't give you the money”…;
Look, I believe taking the lumps out. My father always said, “take the lumps out, son”. From Brooklyn, he'd say, “take the lumps out” if I was dealing with a contractor. He said, “sometimes you get too rough”.
I said, “I don't wanna get too rough”.
And he said, “take the lumps…”.
So, here's how you take the lumps out. To them: “we can't give you…”. We have our prisoners back! Right!? They’re back. Now we’d say, “we can't give you…the 150 billion. We've got no money! We owe…19 trillion dollars…; I wanna give it to so badly…[but] we can't!”. And our people…approved by our Republicans…! Republicans approved that! I blame them more than the Democrats! You know, I know where the Democrats are coming from! But our so-called ‘Conservative Republicans’ gave them another two…two trillion! On top of 19…trillion!
So…and this happened two weeks ago, folks. This happened two week weeks ago. You all know about it. So you say to them, “we can't give you 150 billion dollars, cause we're a bust nation. We don’t have the money”.
They're gonna go nuts! But they'll be fine! They're gonna be angry for about an hour. They're gonna stop…; you know, they’re great negotiators. The Persians…are great negotiators. So they're gonna stamp…[we’ll] probably have to leave for a couple of days [and then], again back. And then you start the negotiation!
So now we have our prisoners back. We don't give them the money…and now we're talking turkey, right? I mean, now we’re not…and I would have never, obviously, gave them self-inspection rights. [Did] you ever hear that? They'd self-inspect. A place that's the worst of all, they didn't want us going there. So there they have the right to self-inspect.
In other words, you call them up: “Listen, we hear you're building nuclear weapons in…that location. Could you please check and call us back?”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
Next day we get a phone call, “Mr. president day, we've checked the area, and there's no activity going on”…-MR. TRUMP PLAYS OUT THE HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION. THE CROWD LAUGHS. Give me a break! Why!? How can this happen to us?
And then on top of it, we have 10…young, beautiful…sailors. Their…engine should have been fixed and…go back, and wave…right? Both sides should have waved. They get brought to land…; they get put in a begging position… “raise your hands”; and I heard the tone of that guy talking. And you did too. That was a nasty guy! That was a nasty guy!  “Hold your hands up!”.
And…this is…; and by the way, two days later they got the hundred and fifty billion…and if they weren't getting it two days later, those still wouldn't be back. They might never be back. Oh, they'll be back if I get to be President. But they may never be back…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
So here's the story. We have a chance…to do something and start. Look at the cover of Time magazine. This week. It's the most incredible story because it talks about…they actually show the back of my head. It's almost like this picture. And I checked. No bald spot, I was very happy…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. It’s true.
But…but…it's like this beautiful story. It's written by…an amazing writer! Cause the press is largely dishonest. I mean, they’re the most dishonest human beings. They're the worst. 75% of them are the worst. Honestly, you have 25 that are fine, you have 10 that are fantastic people. But…a lot of these guys, look at all the cameras back there, a lot of these people are totally…dishonest…people…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
Cover of Time magazine. The story was…so…fair! They said we've created a movement! We have a movement. We had 35,000 people in Mobile, Alabama. We had 20,000 people at the Dallas Mavericks Arena. Dallas. We had 20,000 people in Oklahoma, twice. No matter where we go, we have the biggest crowds! By the way, we have the biggest crowds by far over Bernie. He is second. I will say. He beats the other Republicans, and he beats the Democrats by a lot.
But we have…a movement like there’s never…; there’s never been! I mean, they're writing things that are…amazing. And they call me, and they say, “it doesn't matter!”. One of the great writers called me. He said, “how does it feel?”.
I said, “how does what feel?”.
You have done something that's never…been done before. It’s the summer of Trump. This was three months ago. And now it's the autumn of Trump”. And he said, “you've never been…”.
I said, “yeah, but it doesn't mean anything unless I win!”. And I don't mean win…the nomination. I mean, win…win so we can change this place, and put it back…like it's supposed to be…! Like our founders had in mind!
They said, “how does it feel?”… -THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Oh, we have to do it!
And I said to him “it…doesn't feel like anything”.
He said, “no, no. It doesn't matter if you win or lose. What you've done is something that's never…been done…before…in this country. Politically, it’s never been done. It’s amazing. And it doesn't matter, whether or not you win”.
And I said to him, “listen, I really appreciate it”. And he's a highly respected guy, and a great guy! He…I said, “I really appreciate it, but unless I win…I would consider it a big, fat, beautiful…and by the way, very expensive waste…of…time”. I really believe that. It's just a waste of time.
So you have to get out and caucus. You have to get out there…; I don't care what happens! You know, I joke, and I kid and we have fun. And they always take it seriously, “did you hear what he said? Wasn't that terrible!? Did you hear?” …-MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES THE JOURNALISTS. THE CROWD LAUGHS. I joke. I say, “if your wife leaves you…for another man. If you leave your wife, cause you don't like her. I don't care what it is. If you're sick. If you don’t…you gotta get out. If you don't get out, we're wasting out just like I told the reporter, you’re wasting time.
We have a chance to do something…so historic. And the people, wherever I go, Florida…I have 48% in the poll. The sitting governor, this…I…I mean, you have no idea! We have a Senator…who's a nice guy, Marco Rubio, but he's…he’s at 11! And you have Jeb Bush…who was…there for…eight years, and he's like at four or five. And I'm at 48! We have a chance…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…no, think of it! That's 48 percent! And that was taken…I guess we had about 15, or 16. That was taken a month ago, or so. We had like 15 or 16 candidates! Now a couple have left and a couple of more are gonna leave after Monday…; and then you're gonna have a couple of more leave after New Hampshire, where we have a tremendous lead also…;
But if we can win…here; if we win in Iowa…everyone's talking about it. We can run the table for the first time…ever! We can run the table…-THE CROWD CHEERS. It's so important! And I have to tell you, cause I've gotten love Iowa. I have so many friends here. I'm here a lot…I love it! In fact, I'm thinking about buying a farm. Is your farm for sale? …-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD. THE CROWD LAUGHS. Good.
No, but…but… I love it! I love the people! I love the people. But you know what? I have to say this. Don't be insulted. You haven't had a winner in 16 years! You pick people…I mean, what are you doing!? You haven't had a winner in 16 years. If you pick me, I'm leading…every…single…state…including this one, but this is the closest of all of them! This is the closest. A…a…a poll came out yesterday or something. I'm leading by five points! I'm not used to five points! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I like South Carolina, where I'm leading by 22 points! …-THE CROWD CHEERS.
I like…I like South Carolina, where…I was at 39, and Lindsey Graham, the sitting Senator was at one! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. It was at one! And he’s the sitting Senator! It was at one! And he's the sitting senator!
I like New Hampshire, where I have a 21-point lead. I don't like these five points, so if you gotta get out!
I promise you this: we're all gonna do it together. It's a ‘we’, not an I. We will make…this country…so strong…; and…you know, it's…some people don't like when I say it, but you have to say it. A woman came up to me. She said, “Mr. Trump, it doesn't doesn't sound nice”.
I said, “we're gonna make the country strong…rich”. [She] didn't like the word country ‘rich’.
I said, “we are going to make our rich again…! And then great again”.
And she said, “[it] doesn't sound good”.
I said, “let me tell you something. We can't be great unless we're gonna be rich again”. We're a poor nation. We're a debtor nation.
So we're gonna make our country rich again. We're gonna make our country powerful and strong again. And we're gonna make our country…respected again. And the bottom line is, we are going to make our country great again, okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 So…so get out on Monday. Caucus. The storm won't be on until Tuesday, I hope, because they say… all of these people on television I’m watching…; they're saying, “if a lot of people come…”; and they think it could be a record forever! They think, “if a lot of people come, Trump wins by a lot. If they don't come”…I won't win! I won’t win! And if don't win, maybe bad things happen. Who knows what happens!? You know they about the cascading effect. Don't we all like winning? We gotta win. Okay?
So, look: get out on Monday, caucus. I think storm’s gonna be on Tuesday, I hope. And you know what!? Supposing it's on Monday, so you go through some snow, okay!? You…you’re from Iowa! Are you afraid of snow!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. Are you afraid of snow!? But I don't think it's gonna be. It's gonna be like Tuesday morning, and that's what they tell me. Let…the geniuses in the weather bureau's, you know, which always get it wrong. It’s a problem.
So, look: I love you, folks. I love this country so much. I'm doing…I’m doing this…; people say, “why do you do this? It's so hard. It’s so much work. It’s a…!; I could be someplace else right now. You know that, right?
I'm doing it because…we have such potential in this country. We have such…unbelievable…people in this country. I love you all. Go out and caucus.
Let's have a big, beautiful victory on Monday night. Thank you.
Thank you.
Thank you.
