VIDEO Nº: 75
TITLE:75. Donald Trump addresses Liberty University students
DATE OF EVENT:18/01/2016
RELEASE DATE:18/01/2016
DURATION:02.03.15 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Mirar
Nº OF WORDS:9025
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Wow.
 
This is so beautiful…get those teleprompters out of here! We're gonna have some fun, right!? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Get those teleprompters…!
 
Uh…we have a president…you know, our president, and I'm not talking about this president, I'm talking about that president…–MR. TRUMP TALKS ABOUT THE PRESIDENT OF LIBERTY UNIVERSITY WHO INTRODUCED HIM–…we don't like those teleprompters. I will say this: it's an honor to be here, and…especially on Martin Luther King Day. We…uh…broke the record. You know, we had the record, for …about three or four years, the last time. And the first thing I said to Jerry and Becky when I got here… “did we break the record?”.
 
They said, “yes, you did, by quite a bit”. So we'll dedicate that to Martin Luther King, a great man. And…that's a little bit of an achievement, I will tell you…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
It's an honor to be here. It's an amazing story, what's gone on with…Liberty University. I mean, uh…when you think of…uh…all of the years, and…the early years were…not easy. I have read a lot about it, and I have watched it…; and…uh…Liberty University…like a rocket ship. A really great rocket ship. And…what Jerry has done, and…I knew his father a little bit…; and I have to tell you, I knew his father a lot from the standpoint of what he did. And…to be compared…to his father, just a little bit, to be compared to his father is really…an honor…for me. So, I wanna thank Jerry for saying that. …–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
You know, it was very interesting because…when other candidates, and everybody wants to come here. They don't have this kind of a crowd, but that's okay…–CROWD LAUGHS. But…but…I will say this: when Jerry was telling, you know, nice things about other people, and he was saying, “this one is very smart, and this one's good, this one's good; and…Trump reminds me of my father”.
 
I said, “that's the best compliment of all!”. That's much better than any of the other people got. So I was extremely happy about that, I will tell you. And you should be very proud to be here, you're gonna have amazing futures! You're going to have just absolutely amazing futures. We had a debate recently, and…the debate…and…who watched the debate? Everybody? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Very political place, okay? But it was an amazing evening for me, and…we…uh…we did fine, we did well. And…the polls came out right after that, and we keep going up; and we're so happy; and I'm not gonna go over the polls. Somebody said, “why do you always discuss the polls!?” …one of the people I'm running against: “why do you always...!?”. Now, he's in seventh place, I'm in first place. I said, “when you're in first place, you discuss polls!” …–CROWD LAUGHS. It's true! When you're in the first place, you discuss polls. But…but…so many things have happened, and now, they just keep coming out and we go up, and up, and up. And…we hit 42 last week. Forty-two percent! That's with…14 or 15 people. You know, they're dropping out rapidly,. They're dropping out. When you have 42 percent…at least you know you're not totally wasting your time today, right? Forty-two percent is good! …–CROWD APPLAUDS. I think I'd take 42 percent if we had three people! Not 14.
 
But…it…it has been an experience, and…NBC/Wall Street Journal just came out: 33 percent; And CBS and…Owen…; let's see, 41 percent; CBS, 35 percent; Gravis, 44 percent. We're really doing good…uh…it’s so…so I'm gonna bother you. I will tell you, in South Carolina, we're at 35 percent…way, way, way above anybody else. And in Iowa, with CNN was…uh…we're at 33 to 20! So we're way up, and, uh…actually, some other polls…the closest is Iowa! And I love Iowa. And I'm going there right after this. Going up to New Hampshire; I'm going to Iowa. Cause I wanna win Iowa!
 
Everyone says, “don't say that, don't say you're gonna win, just say you're gonna do well!”. That's the closest. But I can't do that! You know, the safe way is to say, “well, I think I'm gonna do well”. I wanna win Iowa! Let's see! We've done great…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We've done great with the evangelicals; the evangelicals have been amazing! The Tea Party has been amazing, and we’re…we're doing…really well there. So we'll see what happens! But…we're gonna give it our best, and I think we could really surprise a lot of people by winning Iowa, and then we're just gonna clean the table! We're gonna go through New Hampshire; through South Carolina, where we were this weekend, and it was amazing. We're gonna go right through the whole group; and…uh…I think we can do really something special.
 
And…we're going to protect Christianity! And I can say that. I don't have to be politically correct or…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…we're going to protect it. You know…and I…I asked Jerry and I asked some of the folks, because I hear this is a major theme right here. But…2 Corinthians, right? 2 Corinthians…3:17. That's the whole ball game! “Where the spirit of the Lord…”…right? …–MR. TRUMP READS FROM A PAPER NOW–… “where the spirit of the Lord is…there is liberty!”. And here, there’s Liberty College. But…Liberty University! But…it is so true! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
You know, when you think…and that's really…is that the one? Is that the one you like? I think that's the one you like, because I loved it! …and it's so representative…of what's taken place. But we are going to protect Christianity. And if you look what's going on…throughout the world! …you look at Syria where they're…if you're Christian, they're chopping off heads! You look at the different places….and Christianity, it's under siege! I'm a Protestant; I'm very proud of it; Presbyterian to be exact. But I'm proud of it. Very, very proud of it. And we've gotta protect because bad things are happening! Very bad things are happening. And we don't…I don't know what it is; we don't band together. Maybe other religions, frankly, they're banning together…? …and they're using it.
 
Here we have…if you look at this country, it's got to be 70 percent, 75 percent…some people say even more…the power we have, somehow we have to unify. We have to band together. We have to do really, in a really large version, what they've done at Liberty. Because…Liberty University has done that. You band together, you've created one of the great…universities, colleges…anywhere in the country, anywhere in the world…; and that's what our country has to do that…around...Christianity. So…get together folks; and…let's do it cause we can do it…–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
No matter where I go, we're having tremendous crowds. And…we're setting records everywhere. We went to…Dallas, and…the…Mavericks Arena, packed; 20,000 people. Oklahoma, 20,000 people. Mobile, Alabama, 35,000 people. No matter where we go. It's only dictated…even here I understand you have rooms, all over, with the…with the various equipment to show on the screens. You have a much better location than they do, but I won't tell them that. We're just cut that off…–CROWD LAUGHS. But you have…you have rooms all over with the media equipment. And…no matter where we go, because…I will tell you: this…is…a movement. It is a movement going on. We wanna take our country back! Our country is disappearing! You look at the kind of…deals we make! You look at what's happening! Our country is going in the wrong direction, and so wrong! And it's gotta be stopped, and it's gotta be stopped fast! We can't go another four years! I know that maybe Hillary will be here; and if she is, you can play this back. We can't have another four years of Barack Obama…; we can't have another four years of Hillary Clinton…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We just can't do it!
 
I watched that debate last night, with the three of them. I mean, one of them is…what's he doing? He keeps mentioning my name! He was the mayor of Baltimore. That was his big claim to fame. Then he game governor, cause they thought he did a good job. It turned out he did a horrible job…–CROWD LAUGHS. But he's in there constantly mentioning my name, everytime…every…“Donald Trump…; Donald Trump…”.
 
I said, “why does he have to talk about me?”. You know, look at the job this guy has done. And then the other two…; you know, you have a socialist, who is here actually! But you have a socialist and you have…and I was gonna say…you have a socialist…it could be worse than that, okay? It could be much worse than that. And you have Hillary, and just…if anybody watched that debate…last night, what it means is tremendously high taxes; things are not gonna happen with the military. We need to build our military...so big, so strong, so powerful…–CROWD CHEER AND APPLAUDS–…that nobody, nobody is gonna mess with us! We have to do it.
 
You know, General Odierno left, recently. And he said, our military is the least prepared…that's it's been in generations. The least prepared! We need it more now than we ever needed it! And I'm in the real estate business, I'm always getting listings. I get listings of different things…; bases, an Army base; a Naval base; they're all…everything is for sale! And if it's military…it's for sale! And we can't have that. We're gonna build it big; we're gonna build it strong; And…hopefully, we're never gonna have to use it! You know, we're gonna make it so strong nobody is gonna want to mess…that's really what we have to do. And…in the end, that's cheaper than the nonsense we're doing right now, where nobody respects us! They're laughing at us…! We don't know what we're doing…! We can't beat ISIS…; and I see, I see it on television! These generals! They get up and they talk on television! They're being interviewed! I don't want generals to be interviewed!
 
One of the generals, just recently, “well, what do you think of the ISIS threat and all…?
 
“Oh, they’re very tough…they are very…”…–MR. TRUMP PLAYS HIM OUT IN A HEAVY AND WEARYING TONE.
 
“Well, can we beat them!?”.
 
“Well, it’s gonna take a long time…;”. I don’t want that kind of a general! I want a general where we knock the hell out of them! Fast! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. 
 
And my generals, by the way, they're not going on television, okay? So the enemy can learn all about it. “Oh, well, then we attack…”.
 
How about President Obama recently? “we're sending 50 people over there, our finest”. What does he have to say that for!? Why does he say it!? They have a target on their back! They are looking for those 50 people! They are looking for those 50 people right now, more than any other people! Why does he have to say it!? Why can't he just do it and not talk about it, right? Why can't he do it and not talk about it? …–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
When…the war in Iraq started, I was very opposed to it; I have to tell you. And I came out, and I was very strong that I was opposed to it. Now I get…you know, I used to take a little…a little heat on that, but now I get a lot of credit for it. But in 2003, 2004, I said, “if you do that, you're going to destabilize the Middle East. It's gonna be a disaster”. One or the other, whoever we're gonna knock out…because we can knock them out pretty easily, uh…is going to take over. The one that's not knocked out is going to take over. So we knock out Iraq. Iran…is taking over…the Middle East. We have totally destabilized…the Middle East. And I said this in 2004! We have totally destabilized the Middle East. It's a disaster! And you look at this…new…Iran deal, which took forever to get done! You look at how bad it is and how one-sided it is! You look at how one-sided this deal is! And yesterday I heard, “we're getting our hostages back”. Some people call them prisoners. Some people call them hostages. I don't care. So we're getting them back, and then I heard, “well, wait a minute; we're paying a big price”. They're getting seven back; we're getting actually four. You know, they say five, but the other one they can't find…; he's in Iran. I tell you what, that's a strange…that's another thing we're gonna be looking into.
 
And we're getting…we're getting…four back, they're getting seven. They're getting 14…off…of the Interpol watch list. These are real bad customers. They're getting all sorts of advantages, including free free market oil…; they're getting…unbelievable advantages. They're going to be an immensely wealthy…country, and a wealthy…terror country; and they're getting a hundred and fifty…billion dollars. So when our sailors were captured, last week, I said that's one of the saddest things that I have seen. When those…young people were on their hands and knees…in a begging position…with their hands up, and thugs behind them with guns…and then we talk like it's okay. It's not okay! It's lack of respect. We can't let that happen to this country. It's lack…of respect. And we're not gonna let it happen to this country. We're gonna be strong; we're gonna be vigilant; we're gonna have powerful borders, and strong borders.
 
And look what just happened this morning. I don't know, for any of you that have been seeing the news, or reading the news…three people have just been kidnapped, in Iraq! Because they say, “what the heck!?”. We pay a hundred and fifty billion dollars…for four people…! …three people…, just this morning, and this is gonna take place all over. They should have come back as part of the deal, three years ago, when they started talking about the deal. Not now! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Not now!
 
And what…what should have happened…what should have happened…is our representatives…first of all, we needed people that negotiate properly, not a guy like Kerry, who doesn't have a clue. But…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we will have those people! I know those people! We will have those people! But…when you look at what went on…our people, all you had to do was go in and say…to the Persians, very good negotiators. Great negotiators. Legendary negotiators! They're known for it…! They're sitting across the table! Fellas…and in this case, it is all fellas, I hate to tell this to the woman. They're behind the fact. They're a little behind the fact. They haven't figured out that women may be, in certain ways are much better than men, but I don't wanna say that, cause I’ll get myself in trouble with men! But they haven't figured this out yet, but that's okay.
 
You say,, “fellas, we…want…our prisoners back! Gotta have them back. Doesn’t help you, helps us. We’ll make a better deal. The United States, the people, they want them back. They’re talking about it…; we want our prisoners back. Gotta give them back”.
 
They’ll say, “no!”.

And we’ll say, “that’s okay. Don’t worry about it. Bye, bye!”. Get up, leave the room.
 
oNw you double up the sanctions. Within 48 hours…they will call and they'll say, “we want our prisoners back. And here’s your prisoners”.
 
And now, you’re go on a second time. You don’t mention this. You say, “listen, the other thing I had to tell you, but I didn’t wanna tell you before; you had our prisoners back. We’re not gonna give you any money. No money. We’re a debtor nation, we owe 19 trillion dollars! We’re not gonna…give you…any…money!”.
 
And…you wanna be nice. You don't wanna put it in their face. Just say, “look, we’re a poor nation. We’ve been mismanaged; we’ve been misrun. We don’t know what they hell we’re doing…”…–CROWD LAUGHS. Right? Is that true or what? …–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
This isn't Jerry running our nation, that I can tell you. But…we've been mismanaged, we don't know what we're doing; we have 19 trillion in debt, gonna to be 21 trillion, because that ridiculous budget that was approved last week…which got approved so fast! That's gonna add another 2 trillion, so we're going to be 21 trillion dollars.
 
So, we say, “we can't…we can’t give it to you. Don’t have it. Sorry”. And they’ll probably be upset, but don’t worry about it! We’ll go back, then we’ll say, “let’s start negotiating”. So you’re gonna say, you couldn't have gotten the prisoners out years ago…for nothing! For nothing! Without giving them…these people! Who by the way, deserve…to have been in prison. This was serious.  And the Interpol people? Forget it. These are bad dudes. These are bad people.
 
So, they made like this incredible deal. But everybody makes good deals…with the United States. Because the world is smart! And they use their smart people. And they use their most cunning street-wise people. And they know what they're doing! We have people that don't know what they're doing! We wanna be…politically correct; like Jerry Senior would say, ‘politically correct’. We wanna be politically correct, and it's just not working! And I think one of the reasons that…people are showing up for me, and the poll numbers are all showing up for me…it's not that…I can't be…I went to a great school, Ivy League school; all of that stuff…; did well, smart guy…; I even had an uncle, you know, if you believe in genes, some do, some don't…; but I had an uncle who was a professor at MIT for decades, brilliant guy; Dr. John Trump. We can all be politically correct. It takes too much time! It takes too much time! …–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
And a lot of it is just wrong. I'll give you an example. You go into a department store, right? When was the last time you saw Merry Christmas? You don't see it anymore! They wanna be politically correct. If I'm president, you're gonna see Merry Christmas in department stores, believe me, believe me…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You're gonna see it. You're gonna see a lot of things. You're gonna see beyond…you're gonna see a lot of things. But that's one example! You go shopping today, you don't see it anymore! You hardly see anything! You see…a…have a…have a wall that's painted red. Oh, great, oh, that's wonderful…–CROWD LAUGHS. We're gonna be saying Merry Christmas again. And we're gonna be saying Happy Holiday for the…; and I have friends that aren't Christian…! …they like to say, Merry Christmas! They…they love! Everybody loves it! But we have taken it out of the vocabulary. It's not gonna happen, okay? …–MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. Thank you. I love you, too. Thank you! That was very nice…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That was very nice. That was very warm, actually. Sometimes, you never know who is shouting. You never know…if somebody…! …–CROWD LAUGHS.

You know, it's sort of interesting, when I go to the rallies. We had one the other day about 16 thousand, 17 thousand. The arena was packed! And I'd go home, and I'd say to my wife, “darling, how did you like the speech?”.
 
“Oh, it was good. How many people were there?”.
 
“What do you mean, you didn’t…didn’t you…didn’t see..?”.
 
“No”.
 
And I say it all the time! They focus on my face. They never, ever, ever show the crowds. So she'll say, “how many…?”. Now, it sounds like a roar, because you know, when you have a lot of people like this, it sounds like a roar. But she'd say, “how many people were there, darling?”.

I’d said, “the place was…packed! I had a…15, 16 thousand people…”. In one case, we’d 15 and we sent away 7…! …because they couldn’t get into the arena…; I said, “you didn't see that?”.
“No. They focus on your face, they never show”.
 
But the thing I love about the protesters, and I thought the cameras were in like in a fixed position. They don't move, right? You know, what do I know about this stuff? So I figured they fixed, they can't move. Except…every time there was a protester, screaming about something, those cameras could be like a pretzel. They turn around and I never saw anything like it…–CROWD LAUGHS. And I love the protesters! We don't have many, honestly; but…I love the protesters, because if there's a protester up in that corner…–MR. TRUMP POINTS TO HIS LEFT–…the cameras would go up there, and people would say…; they wouldn't talk about the protester, they’d… “boy, that place was packed!”.
 
I said, “that's right, because it's a movement. It's packed!”.
 
But you wouldn't see. Because the press, and I have to say this… is very, very dishonest. Now, not all of it, but most of it…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…very…; very, very dishonest. And…uh… I've never seen…actually, I've never seen anything…; I have seen financial press, and they play games but, you know, the numbers are numbers. But with this press, this political press is brutal.
 
Now, 25 percent…are…good. Two percent are great, okay? That's not acceptable. Do we agree? Two percent is not acceptable. But the press is very dishonest. Like the camera trick! I call it the camera trick, where they don't show. So what's happening…and what's happening in the country is you're not getting a real picture of the… ‘silent majority’, which Jerry Senior had something to do…! And that's a phrase you should be…really cognizant of. Because it is a silent majority, but I think I'm gonna up it a little bit, because it's no longer so silent. It's really a noisy majority. It's become a noisy majority! People wanna see greatness for our country. They wanna see things happen! They wanna see things happen! And they're not seeing it! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
These politicians are all talk…! They're no action…! They don't get it done…! When I say we're gonna build a wall, they all say wall, “what are you talking? You can't build a wall!”. Of course you can build it, It's simple! China! China! …–CROWD LAUGHS, CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Think of it! China! Two-thousand years ago…China built the Great Wall of China. This is a serious wall! And they didn't have Caterpillar tractors! Or, as we say…Komatsus, because so many are coming out of Japan…we have to stop that now, by the way…–CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. But they didn't have the equipment! And they built a wall…think of this, 13,000 miles long. And this is a serious wall, okay? This wall is wide…! This is like this…–CROWD SHOWS WITH HIS HANDS–…and this is a…serious wall.
 
So then we hear, “you can't build a wall!”.
 
I say, “not only can I build it…”.

And the guys I'm talking to on the stage are saying, “you can't build a wall, can you!?”. Because they don't know anything. They don't know how to fix the infrastructure of…; our bridges are crumbling; our roads are crumbling. We spent five…trillion…dollars…in the Middle East. And our country is going to hell. We gotta bring it back! We gotta knock the hell out of ISIS. By the way…by the way…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
By the way, so I didn't wanna go into Iraq, but I didn't wanna get out the way we got out. Because what happened…and I was always saying…I have said this for years, I might have said this the last time I was here, years ago. “Take the oil! Take the oil! Keep the oil!”. You know, in the old days, to the victor belongs the spoils. Us…we go in and fight, we lose trillions of dollars; we lose thousands and thousands of unbelievable people…! …we have wounded warriors who I love, all over the place…we get nothing! Look at Iraq. What do we get? Nothing! And Iran, now takes over Iraq! I always say, Iran made the greatest deal with the hundred and fifty billion. What a great deal! What a great deal! Two weeks ago, it came to me. That deal is nothing! They made the really greatest deal. They took over Iraq! They've been fighting for Iraq…for…ever! Under different names, under…but they've been fighting! And they were the same militarily. They'd fight, and fight, and fight. They'd go 10 feet left; 10 feet right; left, right, then they'd rest. Then Saddam Hussein would drop gas and people would say it's unfair…they'd stop. The whole thing. This went on forever. And it would have gone on forever. But we decapitated one.
 
Now, so what did we give Iran? We gave them the 150 billion, the great deal and all that. And they're gonna have…by the way, they're gonna have nuclear weapons…they don't have to develop them anymore. They can buy them, they’ve so much money! They'll do…and they'll wanna develop for them.
 
How about this? We see something wrong, or we think there's something wrong…so we have to wait 24 days before we go in. But before the 24 days start, there's a whole procedure. So who knows how long it could be. Could be six months. So something is going on. But the other one is even better, because in certain locations, it's called self-inspection. They have the right to self-inspect. So we call up and we say, “listen, we hear you're building nuclear weapons over here. We wanna go in”.
 
“Oh, no, no, you don't have the right. But we'll self-inspect. We'll go in and…”. Call up the next day… “no, no, nothing is happening over there!”.
 
“Oh, thank you very much, I appreciate it, now we feel much better” …–CROWD LAUGHS. These are the deals we make!
 
Sergeant Bergdahl…! …anybody ever hear of Sergeant Bergdahl!? We get Sergeant Bergdahl, a dirty, rotten traitor….; six people died going after him. Six people died going after Sergeant Bergdahl. We get Bergdahl! They get five…of the great killers…that they've wanted for the last nine years! So we get Bergdahl…a traitor, and we knew he was a traitor before the deal…! …because they had a general and a colonel talking to the…the people that he was with. So we knew he was a traitor! Who would make deals like this!? Who does it!? …–MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘OBAMA!’. MR. TRUMP RECASTS IT–… “Obama” …–CROWD LAUGHS. Stand up! I like that! Boy, you are…that was very good. That was good timing! …–CROWD LAUGHS. Thank you. I love it! He's right. And I didn't wanna say it, because it's a little bit rough. But if he says it, that's okay…–CROWD LAUGHS. No…! Obama is a disaster.
 
And you look…take a look…at our trade deals. These are deals that are the worst. We're gonna lose …five…hundred….billion…dollars. Trade deficits. With China. With Japan…a hundred…billion…dollars…we're talking about a year! How do you have a country…? And then they say, “well Trump doesn't believe in free trade”.

No, I want free trade, but I want it to be like…at least we break even, right? We do something! But how do you lose the kind of numbers…? …and remember! They don't play by the…rules. And I love China, by the way! I deal tremendously with China. I own a big chunk of the Bank of America building in San Francisco, through China. I have apartments, all over; condos, through China. I’ve so much through China. I buy…I do great business with China! They're fantastic! They're unbelievable! In fact, my daughter she…she is here. Where is Ivanka!? Where is Ivanka!? Stand up, Ivanka. Anybody ever hear of Ivanka? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. IVANKA IS NOT SHOWN BY THE CAMERAS.
 
Ivanka deals with China all the time…! …and we deal with Mexico…; and Mexico is great. I have great relationships with Mexico, with the Mexican people…; I have thousands of people…from Mexico and Hispanic people…; these are great people! They're unbelievable! But their leaders…! …are too smart, for our leaders. They're too cunning, for our leaders. And you look at what they're doing, not only on the border, but with trade.
 
Nabisco, from Chicago…no more Oreos, folks. Nabisco is moving to…they're moving their big plant from Chicago…they're moving it to Mexico. Ford is building a 2-and-a-half billion dollar plant…in Mexico! That's not gonna happen! I'm not going to…I'm gonna say, “folks, we've got to stop this.!”. We're losing our jobs, we're losing our manufacturing jobs! I go to schools…and less so here, because it's so good…; I go to very good colleges, and I see students. And they're…they're borrowed up to the neck…everything…; the biggest problem is…they graduate, they…they study, they work, they do well, they get good marks…they're really wonderful, they're proud of themselves…; then they can't get…they come out, they can't get a job! We've got to create jobs! We've gotta bring back the jobs from China…; we've gotta bring back the jobs from Japan…; and all these countries that are ripping us off! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And we're gonna do that. And we're gonna do that. And just like I say…okay. So I say, “who's gonna build the wall, folks?”, you tell me. “Who’s gonna to build the wall!?” …–CROWD YELLS ‘MEXICO!’. Mexico. Everybody knows! I say that. Again!
 
They say, “oh, you can't build a wall”. So easy, you have no idea. And the reason it's easy…and…–CROWD LAUGHS–…oh, it…it is! For me, it's…I just built a 92-story building. I mean, when you build buildings, building a wall, it's called like… “give me some pre-fab plank”: bing! And I've gotta make it. But I really…–CROWD LAUGHS–…but I really…I have to make it look beautiful. Why!? Cause some day, they'll name the wall ‘Trump Wall’! And I gotta have it…; …–CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And by the way, we want people to come in. But we want people to come to our country legally! They'll go through a process…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…they'll go through a process! But one of the people I'm running against…I won't use names, cause we don't wanna insult anybody…; and this is…really…such nice, religious people…I love it! …such great Christians, I can't say bad. Am I allowed to say bad in this room!? No! Okay…–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So here's the thing: I wouldn't say that. But the other day, for the first time I heard it, one of the folks said, “we're gonna build a wall!”.

I said, “what!? What's going on!?”. I just heard him say he's gonna…nobody said that before! So they're all coming my way, you know? They're all coming my way. The only problem is they don't know where to begin; they wouldn't know where to begin. And it'll be one of these walls…–MR. TRUMP POINTS TO THE FLOOR AND THEN TO THE CEILING–…not one of those walls. See the height of that ceiling? If you got up there…if you got up there, you're on the other side…you're gonna be really scared coming down. This is a serious wall…–CROWD LAUGHS. And we can do it for the right price. And it doesn't matter because, again…; I don't know if you saw Saturday Night Live, where they said ‘the wall’; but…the wall…did everybody see? A lot of people saw that.
 
But…but, just so you understand, the reason they're gonna pay…and the reason it's easy for a businessman to understand this…; very easy: Mexico is making a fortune on the United States. Now, China…? I love them, they're great. I'm not holding it against China. They're…the largest bank in the world, a Chinese bank…it’s a Chinese bank; it's a tenant of mine. I don't hold that against them.
 
Mexico, I don't hold it against Mexico. You see what's going on, with the crime and all the…I don't hold that against Mexico. If they can get away with it, if their politicians can do it…; I hold it against our very stupid leadership in this country. That's what I hold it against! I don't hold it against these other countries! …–CROWD APPLAUDS. I mean, if they can get away with it, let them do it! What…? I wanna get away with things. I could go into story, after story, after story…! …and I used to use the word ‘incompetence’, but it's not strong enough, you know?
 
And then I used the other word…you know the word I'm talking about, right? I use that word, and then they say he's plain-spoken. My education is too good to be called plain-spoken. I'm not that plain-spoken! You know, I wrote The Art of the Deal…; I wrote many bestsellers…; Like…The Art of the Deal, everybody read The Art of the Deal! Who…who has read The Art of the Deal in this room? Everybody! I always say…–CROWD LAUGHS–…always say, a deep, deep second…to…the Bible! The Bible is the best! The Bible…the Bible blows it away. There's nothing like the Bible. But The Art of the Deal was…uh…about…in fact there are a few of them right over there. But The Art of the Deal was the best-selling business book. And…Obama didn’t read it, and Kerry didn’t read it. But…I’m doing things with our country…that will be so good! But I always use that word… ‘incompetent’! They’re incompetent. Now I…I don’t care anymore. I don’t care…; again, I’m not being funded by these guys on Wall Street, that have…you know, they own…; as Jerry, she’s called the puppets…it’s true! I'm doing…I'm self-financing my own campaign. I'm not taking funds. Isn't that nice? …–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So, we can do…what's good…for the country! In other words, we are going to do…what's good…for the country! And I tell people all the time, and…use Ford as an example! You could use Nabisco or…; I could use a hundred companies! And by the way, you have a lot of corporate inversion going on, which is gonna be beyond Mexico…; you have companies leaving the United States right now, because taxes are too high and lots of other things. And you’ve companies…they're leaving…! …it's called corporate inversion. It's a disaster. They're leaving for lower taxes, or because they can't bring their 2.5 trillion dollars back into the country. They just can't do it.
 
But take Ford, and I use this as an example…; it could be anybody, it could be any company that goes into other countries. But take Ford going in…2.5 billion dollars; so, they're taking a lot of stuff out of Michigan…; they're taking a lot of…they're closing other things! And they're gonna build this massive thing…! Who ever heard of 2.5 billion dollars for a one-story building? Do you know how big that is!? So, they're gonna make cars, trucks, and parts. So I don't care about Ford. In fact, he president of Ford wrote me a very nice letter, trying to explain…you know, that it was a good thing. It's not a good thing! But that's okay. When I'm president, I can say it even much stronger, right now I don't care, okay? But he wrote me a nice letter; good company, run very well; good product. I love Ford, I love…Chevrolet! I love all our products! We wanna buy…USA, right?
 
But they wrote me, and I said…here's the story: If, let's say a…stiff…like Jeb Bush is president, okay? …–CROWD LAUGHS. Let's say he is president, okay? No, he's actually…let's say Jeb Bush is president, okay? Low energy person, but that's okay. Let's say Jeb becomes president…; look, Jeb is president. Now, they will go to him. He has  128 million dollars that he got from donors, special interest, everybody, lobbyists! So Ford will hire one of the lobbyists. You know, they'll…look, I know this game better than anybody. I have been playing this game for a long time, folks! …on the other side. I changed sides! You know, I was total establishment! Now I'm…like…the worst thing that ever happened to the establishment. Because I understand the game! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So now…they go to…let's say Jeb. They say, “Mr. President…”.

“Well, I agree it's bad. I agree it's bad. We have to do this; we can't allow this to happen”.

And then, he's gonna get a call from his lobbyist. Or his special interest. “Mr. President, they gave you five…million…dollars! You can’t not make this deal!”.

“Well, did they..?”.
 
Another one is gonna call, “Mr. President, they gave you two million dollars…you gotta take care of Ford!”.

“All right, I'll do it”. Okay? That's the end. We lose the jobs; we lose all the different things.
 
With me…? They're gonna call. And by the way, Hillary? Just as bad, even worse. Hillary, they'll call…–CROWD APPLAUDS. They're gonna call Hillary, and they're gonna say, “Madam President…”. By the way, I wanna see a woman president soon. But not her! She's a disaster…–CROWD LAUGHS, CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. She’s a disaster. She’s a disaster. And you just think of the corruption, and the scandal…! We don't wanna go through it. You just don't wanna go through it. We wanna see winning. We wanna to see win, win, win!
 
I always joke, I say, “we want to see win, win, win…; constant winning!”.

And you'll say, if I'm president, and you'll say, “please, Mr. President! We're winning too much! We can't stand it anymore! Can we have a loss!?” …–CROWD LAUGHS.

And I'll say, “no, we're gonna keep winning, winning, winning! Cause we're gonna make America great again!”.

And you'll say, “okay, Mr. President. Okay!” …–CROWD LAUGHS, CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
But they'll call Hillary with Ford, right? They'll call Hillary, and they'll say, “madam…”, and she'll do the same thing, because her donors…gave her a lot of money! And they need the money for the next election! By the way, the only time the politicians really sort of work right…is when they're sort of like retiring…? Like the gentleman over there? The Congressman. Now, he's a young guy. He retired of his own volition, cause he knows what's going on in Washington, which I have great respect for. But some of them retire…then they get a little bit tougher. But with Ford, you take a look.
 
Now, they call them…Ford moves in…they call ‘Trump’. Okay? Now it's ‘President Trump’, okay? ‘President Trump’ So…–CROWD APPLAUDS. So they call President Trump, and they say, “Mr. President, I mean you have to do this. Ford has been…great and wonderful”.

I’ll say, “what are they building in Mexico for!? Why do we want them building in Mexico!? ...they're going to build…; remember this: cars, trucks and parts, they're gonna sell them across the border…no tax! So you say…we're all smart people. How does that help us!? We close…plants…! and we open new plants…in Mexico; and they sell…and there's no tax! So they're gonna say, “no, no, no, we're going for it”.

I'll say here's the story: “If you go forward, that's fine. But…for every car, truck…and…whatever else you're building…you are going to pay…a 35 percent tax…every time it crosses the border!”. We have to! Or we're not gonna have a country left! Everyone is ripping us! Everyone is ripping us! …–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
Now, I don't wanna do that…cause I'm a free trader. I want free trade! But we've gotta be sort of like smart here, folks! Because…we've lost…seven million, eight million…and some people say ten…million…jobs…! We've lost 50,000 manufacturing plants…! We're getting killed! And the quality of our jobs is terrible! You saw that in the last report! They have this phony number, 5.2 percent…; everybody that quits looking for a job is considered, statistically, a person…that…has a job! It's a phony number! Your probably…real number is like 22, 23 percent! In fact, if you look at crowds like this, and crowds wherever I go…! …if we were really at five percent, 5.2 percent…? Nobody would be there! Although they might be there, cause the military's so badly run with this president. I mean, you know, probably there for other reasons. But basically, you wouldn't have…the kind of crowds…; and the kind of poll numbers…! …that we have.
 
So I'll tell Ford the following. I’ll say, “look, you've gotta move your plant back”.
They'll call me…I’ll…have a few people call me. Doesn't matter, cause they didn't give me any money! They don't own me! Jerry was right! They don't own me! Self- funding! They don't own me! I'll say, “look, Mr. President of Ford…I'm sorry; you've gotta…you know, gotta build over here, otherwise we're charging you tax”.
He's gonna say, “no, Mr. President. That's terrible”.
I'll say, “do me a favor, think about it overnight, call me back”.
He'll call me back the next day. I guarantee you 100 percent…! …he will say, “Mr. President, we have decided to build…our plant…in the United States”; okay That's what…it has…has to happen …–CROWD APPLAUDS. Has to happen! It has to happen! And again, free trade is good, but we have to be smart about it. Or we're not gonna have a country left.
 
So when this started…and I call it a journey; on June 16th, the escalator…; has everyone seen the famous escalator…? Coming down. I was coming down to reporters, it looked like the Academy Awards. I'd never seen so many cameras in my life. And I sort of…you know, Jerry said something that's true. He said, “it's very…hard for somebody to run for president”. Very hard for somebody that's very successful. I've heard this all my life…to go into politics, especially if you're gonna run for president. Because you're really…exposing so much. I mean, you're doing deals, and deals and deals. And…and plus, you don't do this! Who would have known that I was gonna do…I like the debates! I love doing debating! But I never debated before! The politicians do all the time! They're all talk, no action. That's all they do, is debate. But they don't get anything done! And then on top of it, most of them are…they're not even good debaters! …which is sort of amazing. You'd think at least they could debate properly, right? It's amazing. Some of the things that they say is really just incredible.
 
But…we're coming down the escalator and I say to my wife, “okay. We have to do it. I'm just seeing so many stupid things. I said, we have to do it. We've gotta go, and we've got to do it”.
And she said, “if you wanna do it, I'm with you 100 percent”. She's been so supportive…–MEMBER IN THE CROWD SAYS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. Thank you. And I got…on the escalator, and we're going down…I'm waving…and I'm saying, “wow!”. And…I went up, and I started talking about illegal immigration. And…boy, did I take it! For two weeks…Rush Limbaugh said, the most income he's ever seen a human being take. But I didn't give up, cause you can never give up.
 
One of the things I do when I speak about success, and a lot of people ask me to speak about success. Where…it's just…great. I love speaking about it, because I can help people. One of the things I said is, “you've gotta love what you do, but you can never…” …and this applies to so many young, incredible people in this room. You can never, ever give up. You can never give up. If you give up, you're not gonna make it. I've seen people over the years. I went to Wharton, and…I know people that have been…were phenomenal students! Brilliant! But they didn't have that drive, they didn't have that stick-to-it-ness. And they didn't make it! Like other guys that were not good, and not as smart…! But they had tremendous drive. And those are the people that are running the country now. So you've really gotta never, ever, quite or give up…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So I said…so important. For the…for the room. I figure I’d get out of politics for at least two sentences right? But it's so true. Just don't…quit. And…and…for you, always, always…go into a field that you love. You've gotta love it. You've gotta love it. If you don't love it, you're not gonna be successful! Even if people say, “oh, you shouldn't…”. You've gotta love it. If you don't love what you do, you're never gonna be successful…–MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. YET MR. TRUMP REPEATS IT–…oh, that’s beautiful! Wow! “I make you proud to be an American”!. Stand up! And do I have…did I ever meet you before!? No! …–CROWD APPLAUDS AND CHEERS. That's very nice. Thank you man. Thank you. We mean that! We mean it! That's very nice.
 
So…I took a lot of incoming as Rush said, who is a great guy. Tremendous incoming. And…I stuck. And I even doubled down. And then all of the sudden, you had tremendous stats coming out, which were…terrible! …but tremendous numbers. And you saw the kind of crime, and you saw the…Kate in San Francisco, and you saw others…; Jamiel in Los Angeles. A woman, 65-year-old veteran, who was raped, sodomized and killed by an illegal immigrant. And you saw the kind of horror that was going on. Not only in terms of the border; not only in terms of coming in; not only in terms of drugs that are pouring across…drugs! …which are gonna ruin the fabric of our country…are pouring across the border. But also, just in terms of…the volume! The sheer volume.
 
And then people started saying, “you know, Trump is right”. And I will say this: If I didn't talk about illegal immigration in my opening remarks, I don't even think you'd be talking about it today; and it's one of the most important things that anybody is talking about…–CROWD APPLAUDS. One of the most important things.
 
So, when it sorted out…I started talking about the different things. Common Core, very bad. You've gotta educate your children locally, okay? Very bad …–CROWD APPLAUDS. Second Amendment, very good! We have gotta have the right to protect ourselves. Very good…–CROWD APPLAUDS. Now, we have people…you know, the…the…whole…gun situation…is under siege. Now they're talking about, we wanna give less bullets, we wanna take bullets away; we wanna…; I mean, they are talking about…you can't let it happen.
 
By the way, in Paris, which has probably the toughest gun laws in the world…and France…had bullets been going the other way, you wouldn't have had 130 people killed…and plenty more to follow who were so badly injured…–CROWD APPLAUDS. In…In California, recently, two weeks ago, where you had the 14 people killed…and others to follow…? cause of the…tremendous injuries. But where you had the 14 by these radicalized people? Where…the people that were killed, gave them wedding parties! They held wedding parties! They knew them, they were friends! They went in, they killed 14 people.
 
If we had somebody, a couple of guys like him, or him…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT PEOPLE SPECIFICALLY–…or definitely him, with the white hat on…with a gun strapped in here…–MR. TRUMP SHOWS HIS BACK WAIST–…and the bullets could go the other way, you wouldn't have had the same…you would have had problems! You wouldn't have had it to the same extent at all! We need the Second Amendment. Don't let anybody take it away…–CROWD APPLAUDS AND CHEERS. If I get elected, it's totally protected. Totally protected!
 
We have to do something…and these were the things I talked about. We have to do something about super PACs. Because super PACs are now running the country! Because they are running our politicians…and our politicians aren't doing what is right for all of us. We have gotta get rid of these super PACs. We wanna have a clear vision of who's doing, and what's being put up. And who's putting it up. Gotta get rid of super PACs. Really, really, really bad! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
 
So, then with Paris…pretty much the start of Paris, all of a sudden, Paris happened, and my poll numbers went way up! And I didn't know what happened. I said, “why?”. And then, CNN actually did a big…poll…and a big study. And they said, ‘Trump is number one by far on the military’. ‘By far on protection’; ‘By far…on the border’; ‘By far…on ISIS!’. Because they see me, because of my very strong stance on illegal immigration…; it's an off-shoot. I…won't…let…the Syrians, that we have no idea who they are, they wanna come into our country; they may be ISIS…; it might be the great Trojan Horse of all time…; who knows!? We cannot take a chance. I wanna build a safe-zone some place in Syria; what's happening in Germany is a disaster! What's happening in Brussels…you look…; what's happening all over Europe! Europe is being absolutely swamped and destroyed! What's going on…with the crime…! …and the problems! And it could be some sinister plot! You look at these migration, you look at the lines! And you look at the…tremendous amounts of young, strong men! …in those lines. And you say, “what's going on!?”.
 
Now, Obama wants to take in thousands and thousands of people. We can't do it folks; we can't do it. We don't know anything about the people! We're gonna do a free-zone and a safe-zone. We're gonna do something where…we have to get the Gulf states; they have nothing but money…; we gotta get them to fund…fund it. We’ve gotta get them to put up the money! …–CROWD APPLAUDS. We're gonna get them…don't forget! Without us, they wouldn't be there very long. We protect them!
 
And with the military…by the way, we're protecting countries…that are behemoths. We're protecting countries…that are so rich! …So powerful! …so incredible! South Korea! We protect South Korea! I have many friends…! I have deals…I have buildings in South Korea! But we're protecting South Korea. We have 28,000 soldiers on the line. Between the maniac, and South Korea. We're protecting them. They pay us peanuts! We protect Germany! We protect…Japan! We protect countries that nobody even knows about. We protect Saudi Arabia! Before the oil price…down, Saudi Arabia was making…a…billion…dollars a day! We protect them! They pay us…like…practically nothing! …compared to the cost. They've gotta pay up! They've gotta pay up. Everybody's gotta pay up. We can't do this anymore! We've gotta run it like a business, but with heart.
 
We’re gonna have great heart. We're gonna create health care, we're going to get rid of Obamacare, we're gonna terminate it…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna repeal it, and we're gonna replace it.
 
And now you see the signs! The stock market is starting to go down, big league…and a lot of bad things! I've been saying this. We're in a bubble. We're riding a big, fat, juicy bubble. We're giving out loans for nothing…; we're giving out…you know, you look at what's happening with…with our money! You look at what's happening with the Federal Reserve. So we're riding a bubble…; it could be really ugly, but right now, you're starting to see at least the beginning signs of it, because the stock market, which was the only indicator…that things were good…is starting to go down.
 
So what happened is…with Paris, I really look a different turn! And now I'm back, and really back, to security! And security for our country. And great, great military. We're gonna build that military…great, great military. And people are loving it! And people need it! And they don't have confidence in the politicians…and they don't have confidence, essentially, in the other candidates. Because…when you're leading by the kind of numbers that I'm leading by…they don't have confidence in the other candidates! Because they understand politicians! We've been dealing with politicians for the last…so many years…! We're so tired of dealing with these people! They're no good for…what…we have…to do!
 
So…so we're going to do things…that…can be done. We're gonna fix our military. We're gonna take of our Vets, who are…the greatest people, most incredible people…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They're treated horribly. I mean, our vets…! …our vets are treated worse…than illegal immigrants in many cases. You see what's going on! Our Vets…are not…being…treated properly. We're spending tremendous amounts of money…; The corruption in the V.A…administration…I mean, the…Veterans Administration is beyond…belief...! We're going to fix the situation, so our Vets are taken care of the way they should be taken care of! …–CROWD APPLAUDS. We're gonna do all of these things! And we're gonna create security. We're gonna have great security.
 
So in a nutshell, number one, it's an honor to be here again. It's an honor…in terms of Martin Luther King to have broken the record. We're dedicating the record…to the…late great Martin Luther King, okay? But it's an honor…–CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
 
And very simply…and I didn't use to say this. Two, three weeks ago, I wouldn't say it. But I think I can say it now…because I've seen so many people…; we have such…amazing people in this country. Smart, sharp, energetic. They're amazing. I was saying, “make America great again”. I actually think we can say now…and I really believe this. We're gonna get things coming. We're gonna get Apple to start building their damn computers, and things in this country…! …instead of in other countries…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And…I honestly think I can say…and I've said it for the last two weeks, and I mean it a hundred percent or I wouldn't say it…: “we're gonna make America great again…; greater…than ever…before!”. And we can do that. And we're gonna win…and we're gonna win a lot.
 
I wanna thank you. I wanna thank Jerry and Becky, and everybody!
We love you all! You're a special school! A special university! And amazing people!
 
Thank you, everybody!

Thank you!

Thank you, everybody!

Thank you…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.