VIDEO Nº: 45
TITLE:45. FULL Speech/Q&A: Donald Trump Speaks in Waterville Valley, NH (12-1-15)
DATE OF EVENT:01/12/2015
RELEASE DATE:01/12/2015
DURATION:01.14.17 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:13164
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Thank you very much everybody!
 
This is great.
 
This is great.
 
Amazing people!
 
No matter where we go, it's…the response has been so incredible. And this was a tough one, tonight! Those roads were wet and icy… ‘hi Steve!’ –MR. TRUMP GREETS SOMEONE. They were icy and miserable, and…but boy is this beautiful country! Huh!? This is beautiful! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. This is beautiful.
 
We did kill the big slides coming up here…–CROWD CHEERS–…is was a beautiful trip! Beautiful trip! I think we'll go a little bit slower going back. But it's…ehm…it's fantastic. Thank you all very much. And you know, we're gonna do a little different today. We're gonna take some questions, because a lot of people have questions.
 
 
And it's been…ehm…it's been an amazing period of time. We're leading it every single poll. Both, national and state…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Some big ones are coming up, and I have great confidence that we're gonna do very well the ones that are coming up. But we just…ehm…we’re doing great. And in New Hampshire really doing. We’re really, really doing well. And Iowa we're leading…and in South Carolina, we're leading big. Really big! And all over! So it's been…amazing.
 
And a spirit…that I see…when I go around. We go to Dallas, and we go to Oklahoma…we had twenty thousand, and twenty thousand people both. And we…ehm…no matter where we go, Mobile, Alabama, with 35,000 people. It's been incredible. And…I love coming here, this is such an important place, and…I promise you one thing…that…if win, and I hope I’m gonna win, one of the small things we're doing is…–CROWD CHEERS–… we're keeping New Hampshire and Iowa in that very important…two positions. We're not changing them. Cause I was hearing a lot of…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…I was hearing a lot of talk…that they're gonna move you, and Iowa, back. They're not doing it if I win, I tell you right now. That I promise you. You’re gonna stay right here. Cause there’s something…you know, there is something great about tradition. Something beautiful about it. There's also something beautiful about the people. I've gotten so many…I've gotten to know so many friends in New Hampshire. And…there's something really amazing about the people. It's like…we wanna work hard, we wanna really do something good for our families. And we wanna do something absolutely great for our country. And that's what the spirit is up here. And I see it all the time. And every time I come up…I see that a new spirit.
 
You know, we have…so many things…–HAVE-…happened over the last week and a have…since…Paris. And…one of the things I bring up, and I bring it up all the time is the second of Amendment. Because…when you look at that slaughter that took place. You know, Paris is one of the toughest gun zones anywhere in the world. You can't have a gun! And…France also. YOU–can't have a gun! It's…virtually impossible…to get one. And…you look at those places, where…it was carnage. It was horrible. Horrible thing to watch. And a horrible thing to see. And the aftermath…was just…ehm…disgraceful. And I can tell you. If people in that room…some of them. Not many! You don’t need all…too many! If a few of these characters…I am looking to pretty…a couple of these…stand up! Let me see! Stand up! –MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES A MEMBER IN THE CROWD. THE CROWD APPLAUDS. If that guy…happened to be in the crowd, and if he had a gun…they would have had a couple of killings, but they wouldn't have been the good guys. It would have been the bad guys, right? – CROWD APPLAUDS. It would have been the bad guys…–CROWD APPLAUDS. It’s true!
 
So…you know, you have people that want to hurt the Second Amendment. They wanna do all sorts of things to it and they want to weaken it. And…when you look at what happened there. When you look at some of these gun-free zones, where…the bad guys walk in…it’s like target practice. And how about…believe it or not, not long ago…we had the…six soldiers so…killed! And two of them were world champion shooters, they were great, great soldiers. All of them were great soldiers! Two of they were…champion…they couldn’t have a gun! That's gonna end immediately! Because on our military bases, let me tell you…–CROWD APPLAUDS. And then recently, as you know…at the school…right here, where it was a gun-free school, gun free area, gun free zone, and I think the police did an amazing job. They got there so quickly, or would it in a much worse. But it was still a horrible thing. And when we look though…at what took place…in Paris. And they said, ‘move over: boom. Move over: boom’ –THE BOOM REPRESENTS THE GUNSHOTS AND KILLINGS. Nobody…nobody…could protect themselves. And, so we have to really cherish and protect our Second Amendment. And I will be…the best at it, believe me.
 
Another thing I wanna just talk about quickly: Common Core. We're gonna bring education, we’re gonna bring the parents and get the parents involved. And all the people locally involved…Common Core is ridiculous! You have people…–CROWD APPLAUDS–…I mean, when you think of it…Jeb Bush…loves Common Core! How do you love Common Core!? You can't love Common Core! It's the bureaucrats in Washington sitting down, getting a big fat paycheck. And then you look at our education where it is rated! We’re rated number 28 in the world! …and yet we’re rated number one in terms of…paying for…per student. Per pupil. We’re rated number one. And a lot…I mean, there’s a big difference between number one and number two! It's a tremendous difference!
 
So we spend more per student…than any other country in the world…and yet we're number 28. And we have third world countries…that are ahead of us, in education. Common Core is no good! You have to do it locally. And it's gonna be much better! We’ll do much better. You'll see a zoom up in the list. I was sort of…ehm…you know, I…I…I'm a big believer, I’m such a believer in education. I understand education. And I am somebody that really looks school, believe it or not, I like school. But I saw parents when they were involved with their…classes, and when you had the…whole thing where the parents would come and they…form…really little clicks around education. And you have people…they wanted to focus on Math, they want to focus on English, they want to make their kids great, so…I saw that! And I watched it! I went to different places! I went to somewhere they didn’t have that. But where they had it…everybody…did…better! And you can't do that…through Washington! And you can't do that…through bureaucracy! So whether it's…–CROWD APPLAUDS–thank you. Thank you. So whether it's Bush or whether it’s anybody, anybody wanting Common Core, it’s just the wrong thing. It’s the wrong thing for…the children! Much more importantly than us! It’s for the children…it's the absolutely wrong thing.
 
So, since Paris…I've changed a lot in terms of what I am telling people! Because I  would talk about trade with China. Very important, but I can do that out of my back pocket. Believe me, I’ll do a great job…–CROWD LAUGHS. I promise you…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That's gonna be easy. But I won't go into any long stories about it. But I will tell you, what they do with the devaluation of the currency, and how they take advantage of us is hard to believe; that we allow it to go through. And it's only because our politicians…and our leader…are incompetent. That's the only reason it happens. It's unbelievable…what they do. 450-billion-dollar trade deficit. Numbers that you can't even believe. We don’t even know what the trade deficit is…it’s so large...
 
Japan…the same thing…70…probably 70 billion…around that number…trade deficit. They pour the cars in, we sell them practically nothing. It's a one-way street! Mexico…and you know better than anybody would. Mexico…what’s going on…cause a lot of your jobs have gone to Mexico. And we're going to sort of…ehm…do things that are gonna be very good. I have great respect for Mexico. Great respect for the Mexican people. I had thousands…over the years, thousands of Hispanics! Mexicans. But…Hispanics have worked for me, they’re fantastic people. But in the case of Mexico, the country…they're fantastic people…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I've thousands working for me right now! But over the years, tens of thousands of people have worked for me. And…I will tell you: The Hispanics a great people. And I think I'm gonna win the Hispanic vote! Tell…I’ll tell you what: They just did a poll in Nevada…where I’m leading with Hispanics. Okay? People are sort of…sort of like…a little surprised! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Maybe one of the better polls…I…
 
So…again! I'm not…I’m not gonna go through the poll thing, cause we're gonna do some questions. But one of the better polls that just came out is FOX, where I'm leading in every state. I'm leaning in…in…nationally. But very importantly, I'm killing …just…we are just destroying Hillary! We're beating Hillary! Badly! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We’re beating her badly!
 
So…but…so I talked about trade. I talked about the fact that we are gonna repeal and replace Obamacare. Obamacare is a disaster, so we’re gonna do that…–CROWD APPLAUDS. We’re going to…take care of our Vets! Our Vets are not taken care of properly…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Where's my guy!? –MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES SOMEONE IN THE AUDIENCE–…stand up! My man! …he's…become more famous than me in New Hampshire, right’ He’s more famous than me! Am I doing the right thing!? You know, we're gonna take care of our Vets! And…it…it is true! You know, we have…illegal immigrants coming across…coming across…the border unimpeded. Our…border patrols are told to ‘stand down!’. ‘Stand down!’. You can’t do anything, ‘stand down!’. People walk in, right through. Just walking across the border, where you have Obama signing the…the executive order. Just… ‘come on in!’, ‘come on in!’. You either have a border, or you don't have border. Very simple! Very simple! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
And…if you don't have a border…you don't have a country. You don't have a country! So…we're gonna build a wall. It's gonna be a great wall. It's gonna be a real wall! –PEOPLE CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's not gonna be a penetrable wall. And people are gonna come into our country, but they're going to come in legally! They're gonna go through the process. They're gonna come in legally. And that's the way it's gonna be. And I want people to come in, and you want people to come in! And I don't wanna lose a lot of our great talent. You know, we have students that come from Asia…! …and come from all over! And…they go to Harvard, they go to Yale…and they go to…Penn! And…they go to…all of the great schools! They go to Stanford! And as soon as they’re finished, boom! –MR. TRUMP MAKES THE SOUND TO REPRESENT EXPULSION OR DEPORTATION–…they have to get out! It’s unbelievable! Those people have to get out! But people that walk in illegally, they can stay as long as they want. Because there's nobody to tell them to go home. It's ridiculous!
 
So we wanna have for Silicon Valley. We don’t wanna have…a case…in India where…a person went to a great school. It was a great student, had to leave the country, didn't wanna leave the country…fought…lost. Went to India, opened up…a company that he was gonna open up here…–HE/IT–…has now five thousand employees. I mean, we don't wanna lose that! So we want people coming in. We want people coming in…and especially, we want talented people! We want job producers coming in! …as…we have to put our people…back to work. We have to bring back the jobs from China! We have to bring back the jobs from Mexico! …–CROWD APPLAUDS. We wanna put our people to work.
 
And…it's sort of like…there's no common sense! We don’t have any common sense in the contrary!  There's no common sense! You know, sometimes you’d say, ‘are the intelligent people?’. The people that make some of these decisions. President Obama is right now saying that…global warming is the single most important thing facing our country. No, no, he’s saying it! And I thought…I…I…when I heard it I thought somebody was joking with me…–CROWD LAUGHS. He said it! He said it yesterday, said it the day before…here we have ISIS, we have Russia…we have…things that we never had! I mean, Russian wasn't a big problem. IT–…turned out to be a big problem. The relationship that Obama has with Putin is…horrible. It’s horrible. And I'm blaming him. You know, sometimes you don’t get along with people, you don't get along. But…I don't think ever been in such peril. And the reason we're in such peril is the power of weaponry today.
 
My uncle was a professor at MIT, Dr. John Trump. And…he was really brilliant guy. And he told me many years ago…he was an engineer. He told me many years ago that…the power of weapons. This is years and years! He said, ‘it…it’s so…frightening…what will be’. And he was so…right. He worked on the Van de Graaff accelerator and a lot of…very powerful things for…he was very big into cancer research. Ehm…very smart guy. Very bright guy. And…he was telling years ago the power. And the big problem we have is the power of weaponry. You know, in the old days you'd say, ‘let them fight, we’ll never see them’. But now…? They want…us out of commission. And…we can't let this happen.
 
So we have to be really vigilant. We have to be very smart. I look a lot of heat…! …from…the press. A lot of heat…when I said we have to be vigilant with the mosques. I mean, you know, they said, ‘oh well, you shouldn't do that. That's not nice!’. I mean, some…something's wrong! Something bad is happening! Something bad is happening! And we can't be…the stupid ones…that sit back and say, ‘oh…’. We have to be very strong! We have to be very vigilant! Something…really dangerous is going on! And…we have to be sure!
 
I wrote in the book America… ‘The America we Deserve’, I talked about Osama bin Laden. That was in two thousand. Two years before the World Trade Center came down, right? So you should know it! But…it was a book that I wrote, and I say…I heard his guy…he was a terrorist. He was…a guy with a…big mouth. And he was saying what he's gonna do to the country…and I wrote…I don’t know, I just…wrote that in the book! That Osama bin Laden…bad guy…! …we’d better do something, he’s gonna crawl under a rock, I think I said…and…it’d be better to do something with him. And…then a year and a half later the World Trade Center came down. I would have done something with him, I’ll tell you! Because he was talking bad stuff. Bad stuff. And we didn't do anything. And…one of the…MCs…one of the morning show people, who is a fantastic guy, Joe Scarborough…said, ‘you know? …Trump actually called Osama bin Laden…before the World Trade Center came down!’. He…–MR. TRUMP REFERS TO MR. SCARBOROUGH–…said, ‘let me see the book!’. He went to see it! Because he didn't even believe it! But…we have to…know…what's going to happen…before it happens! And some people have an instinct for that, and most people don't! So we need the right leadership.
 
But one of the things that has changed…and it is so…it is said that has changed. I love…talking about…the whole thing with trade, because it's so important. And I love talking about…even Obamacare. It’s gonna…it’s gonna fold itself in ’17. You know, I don’t know if you’ve seen what’s happening. Your premiums are doubling, tripling, up to thirty, five, forty percent. They’re going up by…numbers that nobody can believe. It's lousy coverage. You get…and…by the way, you’re covered with things you'll ever use. That's one of the reasons it’s so expensive. You’ve…people that are covered…for…things…that can never happen to them! And…things that couldn't even pertain to them! But…it’s through the roof. And…you know, the deductibles are so high…that…unless you get hit by a truck, you're not gonna…ever be able to use it…anyway. Not that you wanna use it. But…you need it! For…safety! And…it's going to in ’17…literally imploded. It’s…it's a disaster. And I…I guess you've been reading the articles all over the last…and I’ve been saying it’s gonna implode!  A…very few sign ups…it’s a disaster. And…whoever the next president…–THEY’D–…better be good! Because that's gonna be a…big thing. But the good news is we repeal and if we replace it. We don't try and fix it. Because it's not fixable. We repeal it, and we replace it with something that will be…so good! We get rid of the lines…between states…we let…the privates come in and they bid…!
You know, the insurance companies made a fortune with Obamacare. And…they were big contributors to Obama. And right now you have contributors, I mean, I'm proud to say I'm the only person that’s self-funding his campaign. I self-fund my campaign! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
I mean, you look at all of these people…whether it's Bush, with over 100 million dollars, he’s got-  got 125 million dollars, I don’t think it’s gonna help him! I see more ads! I say, ‘turn off the television, I can't watch another one of those adds! –CROWD LAUGHS. And he doesn't go on!
 
But I see…the other one…this guy, Kasich, I mean, his writes his…phony add about me, he’s terrible. So…by the way, I'm beating him at the…think of it! He's the governor of Ohio, and I’m killing him in Ohio, or in the poll. Killing him! Killing him! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
But, when I look at the money that…these guys, they raise money, and…they spend a lot money, but they're all controlled…by the people that put up the money. And who knows the game better than me!? I mean, I was on the other side, you know…I’ve only been a politician for about five months! –CROWD LAUGHS. I hate to say it! I'm embarrassed to tell you that. No…you know, think of it. All talk…right? What's my expression? All talk, no action! But I've been a politician for…you know, very short period of time. But I understand the game from the other side. I was like…ehm…Mr. establishment, actually. You know, because I contributed, lots of the money, and…ehm…you know, look, I'm not knocking the system. I guess there's probably no system of that…can be perfect. But I’ll tell you this: when somebody gives…a million dollars, or five million dollars, or two million dollars to Kasich, or Bush, or any of these guys, they've totally control! One hundred percent controlled…by that donor. And when that door has a company, or when that donor’s representing a country…because they’re lobbyists, and they get a lot of money from being lobbyist, they will do whatever…these…these…guys they wanna run for office again. They don't wanna lose their…fat cats, they don’t wanna lose all that source of money.  They’re not gonna lose it! They’re gonna do whatever they want! And me!? I'm working for you. I’m doing this…I…I wanna make this country so great again! It's got such problems! With the regulations…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…with the regulations…that everything is just wrong! Everything is just wrong!
 
So what's happened now is…since Paris, I…I've changed…my…talk, and changed whatever I say in his speech, and I've changed it very strongly. Oh, look at all these people, they're still pouring in! –MR. TRUMP REFERS TO PEOPLE COMING IN OFF CAMERA. It's hard to get in! It's hard to get in! It’s hard! Hi! I hope you didn’t miss…I start all over again…–CROWD LAUGHS. Thank you for coming.
 
But…I've changed…my speech! And I’ve…I’ve…really been focusing now on terrorism, and borders. Because…you know, they do…intercede very strongly. And when I came out in…ehm…you know, in June, and I announced from Trump Tower in New York City, about illegal immigration, I’m gonna run…for president…it takes courage to run for president! I’m saying, ‘oh, my god, look at that down there!’. You have had to see the lobby of Trump Tower…I have never seen so many cameras in my life. It looked like the Academy Awards. And I said, to my wife, ‘well, let's go!’. The famous escalator, right? And…she went out and looked very elegantly waving, and I’m waving…but I just took a deep breath. I said, ‘we gotta do it. We gotta do it!’. And I…made a speech. And it was interesting, cause it was very well received. Then a week and a half later they…–MR. TRUMP TALKS ABOUT THE MEDIA–…said, ‘wait a minute, maybe that was a very hard statement!’. I talked about illegal immigration. And…it turned out to be right.
 
And illegal immigration is a big problem. And…then you have the killing of Kate, and the killing of Jameel, and the killing of so many people…and so many things are going on so bad. You’re also…excuse me, but you’re losing tremendous numbers of jobs. People at this country can't get jobs. And…illegals are coming that are taking jobs that people here would like to have. A lot of bad things happening!

And…I brought it up to the forefront. And then I went up…way up in the polls. And a lot of that, I guess it had to do with illegal immigration. I mean, I talk about a lot of other things. But a lot of people…think that if I didn't bring up illegal immigration, which is a huge problem, we wouldn't even be talking about it! We wouldn’t be talking about it now! The other candidates wouldn’t be talking! I mean, they wouldn’t even be talking about it…–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
And…you know, you look at Rubio, who is…who’s very, very weak on illegal immigration…and…I mean, extremely weak. You look at…his stance on amnesty, he wants amnesty for everybody. He was a member of The Gang of Eight. He's…gonna be very bad on …illegal immigration. You have to have it! When Jeb comes out and said…you know, remember he talked about love, right? ‘They come in for love’. I said, ‘they’re coming for…what!?’…–CROWD LAUGHS. Right!? Remember the famous expression? He actually said…a couple of things, between Common Core and ‘they’re coming for love’, I said, ‘that’s the end of his campaign’. I think I turned out to be right…–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But all these…all of them are so…weak. And…they're just weak. I think they’re weak generally if you wanna know the truth, but I won’t say that, because I don’t wanna get myself…I don't wanna have any controversies, is that okay!? No controversy. So I refuse to say to the weak generally, okay? –CROWD LAUGHS. They’re fine people. And some of them are fine people! But…they are weak on…certainly illegal immigration. And we have to be very strong, and we have to be very vigilant. But what's happening is that the borders…and, you know, everybody gives me the A+ on the borders. But, the borders are turning out to be…very important, having to do with…terrorism! Because…we don't want people coming in…that are looking to…hurt us! That are looking to do numbers on us. That are looking at blow up cities, and a blow up buildings, and blow up even mountain tops. Okay? We don't want that. We want…people that…we want.
 
And…when I looked at the Syrian…migration…it's a terrible thing to look. I mean, it’s a horrible thing! And frankly, I think Merkel did a horrible job when she accepted so many. I think in Germany, they’re gonna have problems like you’ve never seen. They already have! They’re having huge problems and they’re having…huge…crime waves and these problems. But…what they should do, what they should have done…because we all have a heart! We wanna see it work out. I mean, it’s sad! And…I mean, it is sad, but I will say this…! And I was the first one to bring it up, now people bring it up, when they see…
But they see this migration…you see so many young strong guys! Right!? Younger than you! –MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES A YOUNG MAN IN THE FIRST LINE. Stand up! Let me see! Stand up! Look at this guy! Young guy! –CROWD APPLAUDS. They might not…he's been a friend of our…They might not be tougher than you. I think you're tougher than them. But…you know what? They're young, strong…men! So many men! And you see…few women and children, but you see so many men!
 
And…at first I heard… ‘maybe 3,000’, I said, ‘uhg, maybe…’, you know, it was…brand-new. And then all of a sudden you start to say, ‘what's going on here!?’. And then you hear they wanna bring in 10 –THOUSAND. But you know that numbers not 10,000. You know the number it's gonna be much higher. And even if it was…you can't take it!  There's no documents…there's no documentation whatsoever! There's no paperwork! Nobody knows where they come from. Nobody knows if they're ISIS…and I say it, could be the great Trojan horse of all time. And you know, you don't need to have 10,000 people like that! You need to have 20, and 30, and five!
 And two!
 
We…can…have…trouble like we've never had before. But you look at these young, strong people…and the first thing I said, ‘why aren't they back fighting for their country?’. But the second thing, when we look at the migration… ‘you build a safe zone, in Syria’, where…I think they wanna be. Anyway, you know, it’s interesting.  I’ve…thousands of people that work for me. And when they retire…a lot of them are from…outside…of this country. They come from countries that you wouldn't think…would be…like a place you wanna go back to. They all wanna go back to their country! That's where they…grew up. That's where they have…relatives. That's where they have…whatever! History! And it's surprising! You know, they grow up…they…they work in the United States, and they wanna make money. And they're here legally, in my case! I do the e-verify stuff. And there's a lot of ways of…making it…so it works. But…they wanna go back…to their country! And it actually surprises me.
 
You know, they’d say, you’d say, ‘well, don’t you like it here…?’. ‘Well, we do, but you know Mr. Trump, it's my country. It's my country. I love my country. It's really amazing! Well, I think it's probably…in its own way too in Syria too. And it would be great if you could do…and…you have to get the Gulf states…I mean, the Gulf states make so much money! And they're not taking anybody. I mean, they're smart in that way! They’re smart! But they're not taking anyone. They're putting up very little money. And they have more money than anybody. And they're…just not doing the thing. You gotta get them, and others! And…we'll do a little bit ourselves. But we gotta do…you know, we gotta devote our money to us, for a change. We have to devote…we have to rebuild our country! –CROWD APPLAUDS. We have to rebuild our country!
 
You know, like…as an example I said, ehm… ‘we're gonna build a wall’. We are! We’re gonna build a great wall, and Mexico's gonna pay for the wall. Mexico is gonna pay for the wall! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…some of these…these clowns…like Kasich, you… ‘Mexico will never pay for the wall!’…they…cause they don't have a clue! They’re not business people…you are! If we’re losing 40, to 45, to even 50 billion dollars a year with…Mexico, we have a trade balance of those kind of numbers. Plus, we give them billions of dollars!  We give Mexico billions of dollars! And…all of that! So…you say yourself… ‘well, the wall is peanuts…compared to the numbers were talking about!’. So of course they're gonna pay for it! But you have to have the right messenger!
 
It's like…Kerry was the wrong messenger in with the Iran deal! The Iran deal…is catastrophic. The level of stupidity! The first thing we should have said, ‘you gotta give us back our prisoners. You give them back. Give them back. Just give them back. We don’t wanna talk…give them back…–CROWD APPLAUDS. You give them back. According to what they said, this…–IS–…hard to believe, they never, once, have asked for our prisoners back. So we gave them 150 billion dollars. We give them, in some cases self-inspection. In other cases, 24 days, but the 24 day doesn't start for a long period…it’s got a whole process, like a legal process…right!? From MIT…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD OFF CAMERA. ‘Stand up!’ But he never heard of my uncle! He’s a professor of MIT…–CROWD APPLAUDS–…a great…and he tends to agree with me on gol…global warming, I think. So that's good, cause MIT is good place.
 
But… we…we…we make these deals, they’re so bad and…if we have to like messenger, we would have said, ‘listen, you have to give us back our prisoners’, first day! Not…at the end! Where we just keep saying, ‘okay, we'll take it. Okay we'll take it’. Stupid! You have to give us back. First day. Three years ago! Did you ever see a negotiation take so long by the way!? I mean, somebody said to me, one of the big magazines said, ‘how long should have taken?’. I said, ‘two days. Maybe a week’. Okay? This is like…we’re not sending a rocket up to the moon!
 
Anyway, so…it goes back and forth, and you would have said, ‘gotta give us our…prisoners. You got four people’. And you got…it used to be three, now it’s four. And…they would have said ‘no’. And I would have said, ‘it's okay! Guess what!? Bye-bye!’. You leave the room, you double up the sanctions, maybe triple up the sanctions. I guarantee within 24 hours, they’re calling and you got your prisoners…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You got your prisoners! You got your prisoners!
The same way…well, I did write The Art of the Deal in all fairness. And I have built a great, great company, and all that stuff. But you know what? It’s simple! They never even asked for the prisoners! And same thing with Mexico. You say, ‘gotta pay for the wall! Gotta pay for the wall!’. They’re gonna pay for the wall. But the politicians that are up on stage, ‘can you imagine…? He's asking Mexico to pay for the wall. Can…?’. I'm saying like, ‘what's wrong with that?’. Hey I've been saying ‘bomb of the oil’ for how many years? You've been listening to me, right? But I've been saying different. I’m saying, ‘bomb the oil but keep it!’. I'm saying ‘take the oil!’ –CROWD APPLAUDS–…no, no…and…and give…and give some of the enormous profits from that oil…when we left Iraq…we should have been in there, first place. I all said, ‘don't go in. You're gonna destabilize the Middle East. Nineteen…I mean, you take a look…anytime! 2004, 2003 Trump, ‘don't go in, don't go in’.
 
A group came to see me from the White House, because I do get a lot of publicity for whatever reason. I don’t even know what it is myself, if you wanna know the truth. But…but I said, ‘don't…go in, because you're gonna destabilize the Middle East’. So they all said, there’s weapons of mass destruction, it turned out they were no…weapons of mass destruction. So that was a disaster. But once we were there…and you know, you had these two powers. Iran and Iraq, and they were the same! And they’d fight!  They’d go ten feet, ten feet, back, forth. They rest. Ten feet, ten feet…–MR. TRUMP ADDITIONALLY GESTURES THE FIGHT WITH HIS HANDS. Forever! Right!? They fight! That's all they do, they fight! It’s funny, they keep fighting! But we decapitated one of the two. And so the other that was taking over. They’re gonna take over the largest…among the largest reserves in the world. Among the largest…you know, people don’t realize. Iraq has among the largest oil reserves. Second, according to many. But among the largest oil reserves of the world.
 
And…we’ve got nothing! We left! And we have a president…we shouldn’t have been there, but then we have a president…that didn't know how to leave! He left nobody behind…and…! …he announced when he’s leaving! How would you like to announce when you’re leaving to the enemy? So the enemy says, ‘we're gonna pull back…’. They…I know exactly what they said. They said, ‘nobody could be that stupid!’ …–CROWD LAUGHS LOUDLY. This is what their soldiers said. This is what their general said. This is what their leader said. They said to themselves, ‘this can't be. This has to be a bluff. Nobody could be that stupid. But let's assume he's stupid, cuz he's made so many other dumb mistakes. So let's assume…’.  Remember he picked the day…that he's leaving!? Is that right? My man! –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY OFF CAMERA AND ADDRESSES HIM– Is that right!? Stand up! This guy…is the most loyal guy…! …–CROWD APPLAUDS. Does he love the veterans!? Huh!? There’s…right!? Everybody knows him! I know him! He's practically at every speech I make in New Hampshire. And he's a real loyal guy. God he's a great guy!
 
But…we gotta…–MR. TRUMP PAYS MIND TO SOMEBODY WHO INTERRUPTS–… ‘what?’. He said I'm…focused on the Veterans, –AND THAT–…I'm the only one that has a plan. It’s right! I'm the only one that has a plan. I have a real plan too…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thank you. Thanks. I have a plan that works. I have a plan.
 
You know, the Veterans wait, and…and…some of its really bad here. But…cause New Hampshire's a huge Veteran state. Disproportionately large. But…we put in a plan, very complex and…and all, but…Trump…it really works, and works well. The Veterans sometimes wait 4, 5, 6 days in a waiting room before they can see a doctor. What kind of stuff is that!? They saved us…they’re braver than all of us, they’re braver than I am! I'm financially brave, but…you know? I don't know if I'm the other. I don't even know! I you have to be tested! These guys…these are fantastic people! And…the wounded warriors…I think they're the bravest people! I've never seen anything like it! Their spirit, their…their life!? They’re incredible! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
But they go to a hospital, and they wait. I remember it was on a Wednesday. It was like…three months ago on Wednesday. Where…it was announced that the longest waits in the history of the very corrupt…it's a totally corrupt Veterans Administration. We will put in such great people in there. But…the corrupt Veterans Administration…three months ago! They said the waits are the longest they've been in the history of the Veterans Administration. Where a guy…I mean, a soldier…who's a terrific brave person. Who was injured. Or who's hurt. Or who has a simple problem, where a minor operation…or a pill…! …can take care of that person, he or she. And they're waiting five days. And people are dying…waiting in line! And I heard the numbers, and the numbers are in the thousands, where they're dying…! It's almost hard to say the numbers, cause you wouldn't believe it's possible! They wait five and six days. Can you imagine yourselves waiting five…? Me! How about me!? If I waited two minutes I'm like… ‘what's wrong with this doctor!?’…–CROWD LAUGHS. No, can you imagine having to wait five days, and six days?
 
And then in one case they waited five days, and then the doctor said, ‘I'm sorry, I'm off now. I'm going on vacation’. Okay? And…and by the way, I think they have actually some very good doctors. I've actually heard some…really good things about the doctors in the VA. But…the administration is horrendous. And we have a thing that if you're waiting…and if it's going to be a long wait, you're going down to a private doctor, or a private hospital, or public hospital that might be two blocks away. You're gonna get yourself taken care of, and the government's gonna pay for it. And that's gonna cost less money…than what we go through…with this horrible system that we have. And everybody is loving it! It's simple! It's simple! But we'll take care of our Vets. So…and we're gonna take care of them good, properly…–CROWD APPLAUDS. So simple. So simple.
 
So…I've been focused so much then on…the terrorism, and what's happened…is…everybody saying, ‘well, Trump does best in that’, and a lot of that morphed into the fact that the borders are…the way they are. And that…I am definitely the best on the borders…people are not strong on border at all. Because they don't know how to do it. They don't…by the way, they don't know how to build. I build! I build buildings all over the place! I'm doing one now the Old Post Office. Can you imagine!? I bought it from the Obama administration. Can you imagine this!? –CROWD LAUGHS. No, think of it! One of the best pieces of property in the United States. One of the most heavily…wanted properties anywhere. I’m building a hotel there, great hotel: Trump International Hotel. And…it's gonna be a phenomenal project. It's under budget, very much ahead of schedule. It's doing fantastically. It's gonna be one of the best hotels anywhere in the world. It's gonna be great. But that's what I do! I mean, I do that stuff!
 
So…somebody said, ‘but you can't build a wall!’. A wall!? –CROWD LAUGHS. I build buildings that had ninety-four stories tall. And that's tough stuff, you know!? This is…ehm…this is so easy! I mean, think of it! You know, some of you are in the construction business. Think of garages. You know, the concrete plank that goes 60, 70, 80, 90 feet…right!? Concrete plank! For garage floors! It's precast! You put a foundation. You put a rut. You put it up. You make it beautiful. You put a little design in the concrete. You can do that easily! –CROWD LAUGHS. Cause someday…you know what it's gonna be called, right? The Trump Wall, we have to make it beautiful. We have to make it beautiful…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We have to make it beautiful.
 
And that wall…that wall will be higher…than this building! Nobody's going to drive their trucks. DID–…you ever see the picture…in one of the magazines…!? Where they drive the truck…the wall is over here…–MR. TRUMP MARKS A HEIGHT IN THE AIR. They build a ramp! …–CROWD LAUGHS. From Mexico to the United States! They build a ramp. Up the ramp, down the ramp. Sell the drugs. Come back with money. We get the drugs, they get…the money. How stupid are we!? How stupid!? This one, if you ever get to the top of that sucker, you're gonna be looking down, you’re gonna say ‘help!’…–CROWD LAUGHS. Okay? No, we're gonna build a real world. You know one of the reasons they never got the wall built? You know, a lot of people wanted to build the wall. A lot of people were against illegal immigration, that are now very much…for it, essentially. But a lot of people wanted to build the wall. You know one of the reasons they couldn't build the wall? They couldn't get their environmental impact statements done. Can you believe this!? They had…it’s… you know, it’s sad! So maybe it was turtles, maybe it was…I don't know. They…–CROWD LAUGHS–…they couldn't get…
You can imagine what these environmentalists got paid for this environmental impact statement. They went years. They couldn't get…this is a true story! They couldn't get their environmental impact statement. And now…another one I heard, this can't be true. That's why I say it, for the press, cause they'll say, ‘Trump said it’, but I mean, it can't be true, it's too crazy!
 
But, I said, ‘bomb the oil, take the oil. You gotta take the wealth away from ISIS’, right!? So I've been saying that for a long time, they've been saying, ‘that's ridiculous, that's ridiculous’. Wwell, after…Paris…they…boom…they started bombing. Can you imagine…? France is the one that started. We…France…is leading us! It's amazing! It's amazing! He's looking…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY IN THE AUDIENCE–…he's saying, it's amazing. But you know what? Hey, I give the police in France…I give them a lot of credit. They did a good job! They went into there. That was not easy! They did a good job! I think…–CROWD APPLAUDS–…I think they did a great job.
 
But I've been saying ‘bomb the oil’. One of the reasons Obama…didn't wanna bomb the oil…is because of the environment. Can you believe this!? He didn't wanna bomb the oil because of the environment. It could…it…you know, there's environmental…tremendous environmental pollution going into the air!
 
Now, I don't know if that's true or not. But it sounds like it's true. As stupid as it is, it sounds like it's true. He didn't wanna pollute the air, so therefore let ISIS grow, and let ISIS become rich and make a million-dollars. They’re making it a million dollars a day…with their oil. So friends went in and they started it…and you know, one of those things. But I would bomb it. I would then…keep it. I would then make deals with the big oil companies, who can go in there so fast. If you ever saw these people put up a rig, you wouldn't believe what they can do. And will rebuild it. Knock the hell out of it, and then…don't worry, we'll rebuild it. Don't try to save anything…–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
And then…and…and…I'm telling you, and I just alluded to it, but I would take tremendous amounts. I would keep it! I'll keep it. To the victor belong the spoils, you know? We're the only one…–CROWD APPLAUDS–…we’re the only country…we're the only country…where you won a war and we leave. We leave…–CROWD LAUGHS.  What did we get!? In Iraq…we spent two trillion dollars, thousands of lives killed. Lives…! All over, thousands! We don't even know how many thousands of lives. Wounded warriors, who I love all over the place, right? And then we leave! We leave! And now Iran is taking over; Russia's taking over; They're all taking it. We did…all of this. We were there for years! We get nothing! We get nothing! Those days are over. Those days are over.
 
But one of the things I wanted to do, and I've said this for years! And…and the people that know and like… ‘Trump’. You know one of the things comes out in the poll? That I have the most loyal people…–CROWD APPLAUDS. That people say ‘he could do anything! He can do anything!’. So I don't know if that's right. But they say that I have the most loyal people! You know, others if you sneeze…they drop you. Me!? I can sneeze…I can…I can say things that I think are right. Like you notice what's happening in New Jersey!? They’re now finding…a lot of people are saying, ‘yeah, that did take place in New Jersey!’, right? I wasn't going to apologize! I wasn't going to apologize! …–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
A lot of things happen today! …where they were dancing, and they were happy! There were a lot of happy people over in New Jersey! And I saw it! And a lot of people saw it! And I'm getting hundreds of phone calls, and a lot of other people are too. And things are…all of a sudden materializing. So people said, ‘you should apologize’. I said… ‘I don't apologize…’. Hey look, if I'm wrong about something, I will apologize, there's nothing wrong…’…–MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS LOUD AND DESPERATELY BUT INAUDIBLE. MR. REACTS TO IT–... ‘what!? Who was that!? What did they say!? …–MR. TRUMP TALKS TO THE AUDIENCE. THE AUDIENCE SEEMS TO REPORT IT TO HIM–… ‘Oh, Bernie! Bernie is finished man…that Bernie…’ …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Oh, Bernie. Bernie…honestly!? Bernie has had it. Bernie's had it. He's got his hernia operation, which is good that he got it out of the way…–CROWD LAUGHS. Bernie's had it. You know, Bernie gave it up. I'll tell you what. So we get by far the biggest crowds. Bernie gave it up when during the debate…he gave up the emails. He said, ‘I think you should have stopped it’. I mean, she's being investigated by the FBI, and very serious investigations, where…General Petraeus and others suffered…greatly…for…what happened with five percent of what she's done. Did you see all the…classified she got in the last batch!? They're all over the place! These other guys…for peanuts…they got two years’ probation…they go to jail…I mean, it's incredible! So whoever that young person was, it sounded like that was the last of the Bernie…people…–CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. Boy…
 
I…I said, you know, when Bernie…when Bernie did that whole thing of the email, like ‘oh, that's fine, that's fine, you know…’…I said, ‘that's a great sound bite for 10 seconds. And that's the end of his campaign’. I was right. He's…by the way, not getting the crowds anymore…it’s over for Bernie! It’s over for Bernie! So…anyway.
 
So…we are going to do things that are…going to be…you're gonna be so proud, you’re gonna be so happy. You're gonna be so happy. We're gonna run it…smart! We're gonna be the smart people instead of the dumb people…–CROWD LAUGHS. We're gonna be tough, but we're gonna be…hard. We're gonna have great heart. And we're gonna do things for people that can't help themselves. As Republicans we wanna help…
 
You know, sometimes they say, ‘well, you can't do that!’. The people that can't get Medical Care. They can't. What are we gonna do? Let them die in the streets!? We're not gonna let that happen! So we're gonna be the smart people, we're gonna be the compassionate people, but we're gonna bring all our jobs, like we're gonna make this place so great! And I honestly believe we're gonna make it greater than ever before. We can do it, cause the people are so amazing! The people are so amazing! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…so I've been very focused on security. And I've been really focused on it. And I've really been thinking a lot about it. And we're gonna have great security. And we're going to…do things that people never thought were possible. And…you're gonna be proud of me, and I'm gonna be proud of you, and we're gonna all get up and vote. You know, the last time…people let us down. It shouldn’t have happened. Something should have happened. A lot of people didn't vote! I mean, in all fairness. Now, there was not a lot of spirit…formed…in all fairness! A lot of people…if the people got up and voted, that election would have been a whole different scene. People that should have voted…for the Republicans! So instead we got four more terrible years with Obama. We can't let that happen! You know, I backed McCain, he lost. I backed Mitt Romney, he lost. This time I said, ‘now I'm gonna do it myself’, right? …–CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS. I'm doing it myself. No, I'm doing it myself!
 
So what I wanna do tonight, and…you know, well, I don't look forward to that drive down that hill, with the ice stuff…–CROWD LAUGHS. Let's just stay here all night! Let's wait till the…–CROWD CHEERS. What I wanna do is…let's take a few questions and…ehm…we'll do a little question and answer period, which is a little different. Okay? Come on! Ehm…do you have a mic out there, folks? Okay? Here he is. Go ahead, right over here is perfect.
 
Sure, go ahead. Good looking guy…–MR. TRUMP REFERS TO THE INTERVENER.
 
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Hi Daniel. Hold that mic a little higher, so it is…the…bending down, it’s like he's bending down to pick up a piece of paper.
 
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Thank you. Thank you…–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
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Well, thank you very…boy I picked a good guy for that first question, hey!? …–CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. I love…I knew I liked him! Thank you! I love the country. I have seen…what it can…do. I've seen…I didn't serve. I haven't served, and frankly had deferments because of college, like a lot of people did. Numerous deferments because of…ehm…because of…college. And I had a foot thing, and I…get…a deferment for that. At some point I probably would have…I was also in the draft, that I got a very high number. I think it was 356, can you believe it!? During the middle of the Vietnam War. I had a very, very high draft number, almost at the end. In fact, I got in about four numbers late, and they kept going numbers, numbers, numbers. I said, ‘oh, I guarantee my number must have been one of those early numbers’. But…it turned out…that was one of the…you know, look, that was a rough war, and there's another war…you know, what did we…!? …what do we get out of it…!? We gotta…we gotta get things out of it!
 
You know, when we use our military, a lot of people say…like Jeb and Hillary. They said, ‘Trump’s tone. His tone! We need that tone! We have to have tough tone! They're cutting off our heads. They're chopping our people's heads off. If they're Christian, their heads are coming off in the Middle East. We need a tough town! So what happened is I always felt…a little guilty. And I was always…like other people, frankly, that didn't serve. Cause I have people that did serve, and I have friends that served. And…they're very proud of it. Some are no longer with us, because of the fact that they served. They were brave, in…many ways. But I've done a lot of things. I built, as a lot of the folks know, the Vietnam Memorial in New York. I…with a group of folks that were fantastic. I contributed…a lot of money. It's…it's…in a way it's a way of making up. It was very expensive, very good, is Downtown, Manhattan. It’s…people love it. And you know, the funny thing…I built a lot of things, and people forget.
 
But…the…Vietnam Memorial to this day, if I'm walking down the street, which is getting to be a bit…less, it's getting it a little tough. But I will tell you. The people…the…the military, so often they come up to me, ‘Mr. Trump, thank you for building the Vietnam Memorial’. That was many years ago. That was in the…1990s. Ehm… ‘thank you so much for building the Vietnam Memorial’. They still thank me…for it. They remember. You know, the people remember. The military…they have unbelievable heart.
 
Another thing that happened…I think was 1996. I got a call from…Rudy Giuliani, and I got a call from a few other people. The veterans parade. The…memorial day parade, which was our big parade. They moved it to…riverside drive. Riverside drive has no people! They took it off fifth avenue, and they took it off Broadway. And they moved it to an area. And they had like…300 people show up…for the memorial day parade, which was a big…you know, military parade. And people said to me… ‘that's disgusting!’ And it was covered…so…big…! …that there were nobody, no people! That have…the soldiers would walk down, in many cases they were…became very elderly. And that'd be walking down, there were nobody to cheer, nobody to…anything. And a group of people came to see me and they said, ‘we have to make it up. We can't let that happen’. And the following year we had one of the biggest parades in the history of New York, down Fifth Avenue, down Broadway. We had one of the biggest parades. You could look this up. One of the biggest parades…over a million people! One of the biggest parades in the history of New York…–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So…which…it was one of my proudest days, to be honest. That was one of my proudest days, cause you had to see, the first year was so horrible to see it. And boy, did the news play that up! ‘nobody cares, nobody cared…’, and we all cared! But we had to do something about it. So, cost a lot of money, but we pulled off something…and I pulled off something, in that case, that was something I'm very proud of. Really proud of.
 
So I love the country I wanna see great things for the country. And…we will see great thanks for the country! Okay?
 
Okay…ehm…question? Who's got another mic? Do you have a mic over here? Go ahead!
 
Hello!
 
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Hi Tom!
 
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No
 
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Yeah, well. Yeah. Okay…–MR. TRUMP LAUGHS AND SO DOES THE CROWD. Let's talk about that…ehm…
 
The young guys! The young, good-looking guy back here, but…and it's fine. It's good. There's nothing like idealism.
 
China not gonna abide by it, okay? Chinese buying coal. We're not allowed to burn coal anymore, essentially. All our furnaces are being dried up. And China's taken our coal, they're burning it. And you know, when you're talking about the planet, and you're talking about the universe…the difference between China and the US is like…like…walking over to this chair…–MR. TRUMPO POINTS TO THE FRONT.
 
So they're spewing fumes into the atmosphere, and we're not. They’re doing their factories that…much lower pricing. I mean, much lower. You know, we have so many restrictions, rules, regulations…that you can't even…breathe. And we’re making it…impossible. China will not obey by what they sign. They're not gonna sign anything meaningful. And…frankly, you know, a lot of people question global warming, and we have a lot of discussion about that. But China will not abide by those rules.
 
Now, one of the things that they're signing, and one of the things that…they're insisting on is the…United States has to act immediately, and they don't have to act…for many years. Immediately! That's like one of the deals we make. That's like one of the deals we make! …–CROWD LAUGHS. They don't have to do it now. They can do it in many years, we have to do it immediately.
 
That's like Japan. You know, if Japan gets attacked, we have to immediately come to its defense. We have no other choice. We have to come to its defense. But if we get attacked, Japan does not have to do anything for us. These are the deals we have folks! I mean, it's crazy! …–MR. TRUMP HEARS SOMEBODY INTERRUPT NOW–…what…? …what was that? These people…stand up! Stand up! Stand up! What did he say…? Go ahead! Speak up!
 
 
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No, I understand. Well…you know, they weren't exactly nice to us. They did bomb Pearl Harbor.
 
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Excuse me, who did it first!? Who did it first!? Didn't we have a thing called Pearl Harbor…huh? …–CROWD APPLAUDS. You're right. You know what!? You know what!? We bombed the hell out of them because they came at us first! And they did a number on us on that Sunday morning…that was the greatest sneak attack of all time. The only thing wrong…worse, frankly, was what they did…what was done, as you know, and by you know who, to the World Trade Center. Because that was an attack on civilians! At least Japan it was a total rotten, sneak attack, but at least they were going against the military. We had…people…knocking out buildings…where innocent civilians were having dinner. And where they were…in an office. That was the worst attack of all time, the World Trade Center.
 
But…I mean, I appreciate you being a you know a…idealistic young man, but Japan attacked us. Japan would have never stopped, except we were tougher, and stronger, and meaner, and smarter than them. And we knocked the hell out of them…–CROWD APPLAUDS. Isn't it…? …isn't it amazing how…? I mean, young guy, good guy. But isn't amazing how quickly people forget though? Isn’t it really it…? There's a case of it. ‘Look what we did to Japan’. We didn’t wanna do that! So it's…it's one of those things. Okay.
 
How about another question over here? Go ahead! Any…anyplace! Just give somebody a mic, yeah. He's not a very aggressive guy with a mic, but he's a good guy! …–CROWD LAUGHS. He's the least aggressive mic person I've ever seen, but he's great. Okay?
 
Go ahead! Look at this man!
 
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How are you? Thank you. Thank you…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thank you.
 
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Right. I love that question.
 
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Really!? Wow!
 
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Well, that’s largely because our country is insolvent, you know that. If we can make our country rich…
 
You know, it's a great question though, it's important. People have signed up for Social Security. They've paid into Social Security. They've been…spending…a lot of money like you have all your life. And then you get these politicians, they say, ‘we wanna cut it down, we wanna raise the age, we're gonna give you much less than you bargained for…’. No, no, no, no. I'm not doing that! Now, we're gonna get rid of the waste, fraud and abuse. You know, there are thousands and thousands of cards…that are…going to people that are 112 years old…–CROWD APPLAUDS. Did you see that!? Thousands! It's like hundreds…of millions of…dollars! Where the cards are…going to people that are 112 years old. Thousands of cards! Okay. Well, that stuff goes…that's just bad management, and nobody is…surprised to hear this now.
 
But we're gonna make our country rich again. And we're gonna take care of our Medicare. And we're gonna take care of our social security. And we're gonna be able to do it! We're gonna be able to do it easily. We gotta bring…our…country…back! We gotta get our jobs back! And all of this…and then…Medicare and Social Security will take care of itself. I mean, I was watching…Ben Carson the other day, HE–…say he wants to get rid of Medicare. Medicare actually works! Okay? There's abuse, and there's fraud, and there's things that are going on that shouldn't be going on. But we'll take care of that! But Medicare…is a program…I think you know, that works. And I just think it's unfair that people…who have spent their life paying in, and they paid in a lot, and all of a sudden…they're gonna raise the age…by four years: And they're gonna do all sorts of things that…no, that's not gonna happen with me. Not gonna happen with me.
 
We're gonna make our country rich again, and we're gonna save…as it is, but in a better form! But we're gonna save or Social Security and our Medicare. Okay? Thank you…–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
And I think I'm the only one that says that…of the Republicans! I think I'm the only one that says that. And frankly, I'm the only one that can do it, because in order to do it, you have to bring in a lot of…a lot of good things.
 
Go ahead! Yes. Go ahead! Sure!
 
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What? …is what?
 
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MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS. Minute 00.55.11:
 
 Today is…?  Yes. Good. ‘World aids day’.
 
THE PARTICIPANT CONTINUES WITH THEIR QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS. Minute 00.55.28-31:
 
Right. Right.
 
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MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS. Minute 00.55.28-31:

Honestly? It sounds good to me. I have to look! But it sounds really good to me. Okay? It really does. I mean, that's the kind of thing we should be doing. I love it. Okay? Sounds good for me. Totally…–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
Go ahead. Let you…right there, with that…look at how excited she is! Oh boy! Look at! That look at the excitement in her eyes! That's called youth! Okay!
 
A PARTICIPANT MAKES A QUESTION. THEY GIGGLE BEFORE MAKING IT.
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS. Minute 00.56.06:
 
Hi! Oh, oh! This could be a killer question too…–CROWD LAUGHS. You know, it's always the one that you least suspect. Okay, go ahead!
 
THE PARTICIPANT CONTINUES WITH THEIR QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS. Minute 00.56.17:
 
Okay. Good. By the way, it is a question going around to all over New Hampshire, and Iowa. In particular, these two places. South Carolina…
 
It is a question that I get, probably more than any other question. I…I get a second question, too. Because…kids are borrowing up to the hilt. They're working hard. They're going to nice colleges. They're going to nice colleges! They're doing well. They're good students. They get out. They can't get a job! So the best thing I can do is I'm gonna make sure when you get out you're gonna get jobs. That's the most important thing! But the other thing…look at her! She's so happy! Stand up again…! …–CROWD LAUGHS. I love…I love…her! That…the enthusiasm! It…isn’t that beautiful? Look at her! I think I could give her a really horrible answer, and she'd…love it! You know? –CROWD LAUGHS. But we're gonna make it…because…
 
You know, one of the only programs that the United States makes a lot of money on is college…loans. Right? They make a lot of money. And one of the things…I wanna look into, because…in all due respect, these colleges…they’re going through the roof! How come they going up so much!? Why are they going up!? Right!? Look! Stand up Sir! This guy's smart. And… ‘your wife looks even smarter than you…’, –MR. TRUMP SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSES THEM. CROWD LAUGHS. ‘Stand up!’. She's…, ‘who’s smarter? She's smarter than you are’, I bet, right? …–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But it's true, right!? We have businesses, and…you know, it’s two percent…that…these colleges are going through the roof. And I think one of the reasons…–MR. TRUMP HEARS SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD PARTICIPATE– ‘thank you’. I think one of the reasons they're going through the roof, very simply is…because the college loan is…given out by the United States. They give out these vast percentages of the…Student Aid. And of the…loans that students are borrowing. And…these colleges are…they’re just going up too fast. There’s something going on! And you look at the kind of salaries paid to the heads of the college's…it's like they're running a…business. A real business. A big business…–CROWD APPLAUDS. And…we have to stop…we have to stop that from happening.
 
And…with that being said, we have to do something with the interest rates, because the kids can't afford it! They can't afford it! You have kids going to colleges…they can't afford it! They're being actually…
 
Now, if you listen to Bernie Sanders, everything's free! –CROWD LAUGHS. The problem with that is your taxes are gonna go through the roof. There's nothing that's free! You know, cause I’d like to say, politically? ‘…darling, congratulations…’ …she's so cute! Come on over here! –CROWD APPLAUDS. Get her…can you get over here? The…the enthusiasm…look at that! The enthusiasm. I actually was giving her bad news, and she said, ‘thank you so much’, it was great! –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But no, Bernie Sanders…you know, someone's gonna pay for it. And then Hillary's being dragged over the left. She doesn't wanna be but she's being dragged over the left. And what means…what is gonna mean is your taxes are gonna to go through the roof.
 
In my tax plan, I'm cutting taxes so low…for…the middle class. But…–CROWD APPLAUDS–and…and I have to say this! People, young people, like the two young ladies over there, they wanna be able…when they get out, they wanna be able to feel like boom! I did it! I got that loan done! I get…
There's something to that! But we can't have a plan where…I mean, basically…look he's a socialist! I guess! That's what you'd say! I say he's a communist, if you look at some of his stuff…
Nobody knows what the hell he is. I don't think he knows what he is if you wanna know the truth…–CROWD LAUGHS.
But…but he has a planned, where everybody gets three, everything! That will destroy the colleges. It'll destroy our…incentives. It'll destroy our youth. But we have to do something with the cost of colleges. It's too high. It's gone up too fast. There’s something going on there. And one of the reasons is the money is coming in, it's going to the students. The problem is…the students are on the hook for it. And…we're gonna get those college costs down. And we're gonna get those interest rates down. Okay? And we're gonna get you jobs! …–CROWD APPLAUDS. When you finish, you’re gonna have jobs! And it’s…cause the biggest problem…
They graduate, and they don't have any jobs. Okay.
 
We'll do one or two more. Go ahead! Any…ehm…yeah, go ahead. Go ahead.
 
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MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS. Minute 01.00.10:
 
Love the hair! He’s…he’s…the best. How…!? Love the hair! I love this guy! Beautiful! Okay, thank you. It is mine. You know, it’s all…do I take abuse with this hair!? Thank you very much! I like your hair. I'll trade you right now, believe me…–CROWD LAUGHS. Thank you.
 
A PARTICIPANT CONTINUES WITH THEIR QUESTION.
MR. TRUMP RESPONDS. Minute 01.00.40:
 
Okay. I love that question. So I'm successful what…cause I…I make speeches…about success. I love…the…concept…of doing that. And I do that. I give a lot of money to charity, cause I get…they pay me a lot of money, and I give that money to charity. And I will tell you. You have to do something you love! You have to! …–CROWD APPLAUDS. And…–MR. TRUMP LAUGHS AND POINTS AT SOMEBODY–…it's gonna run on the Trump campaign. I love that. But I appreciate it.
 
But…you have to do what you love. And I've seen it. I've had so many different stories. But I've seen it…a lot of friends will call me. And they'll say, ‘Donald, could…’, and they are successful guys in many cases, they'll say, ‘could you see my son, or my daughter and…could you talk about success?’. And I'll see that…they like it…and I'll…do it! It's hard sometimes, you know, you're busy…a little bit busy. Excuse me, I can't do it now. I'm running for president, right? And running a business! I'm running a business at the same time! I wanna stop with the business, and…let the country be like…you know, the thing I…totally focus on. Oh, well that be easy? In many respects it's gonna be easier than…running a business.
 
But…what you have to do…is you have to get in…two things: never quit, never give up, and you have to do what you like. Now, if you can also find something that's good. For instance, there are some jobs…that you may like, but they're not very profitable. It's gonna be very hard for you to become rich with those jobs. But if you love it…that's okay.
 
But if you can find something you love that's also good! Like I tell people, Real Estate's good. Oil is good. Oil has always been…you know; energy has always been a great sector. And I tell people, go into that. But some people wanna be professors, they wanna be teachers, which is more important than all of it! But you won't make as much money. But you'll love it! You gotta do what you love! I have so many friends where they force their children into doing things that the kids didn't wanna do…because they say, ‘oh, I don't want my son doing this or that’. And I say, ‘you're making a terrible mistake’. And I'm almost always right about it. If you do…what you love, and if you never, ever quit. Because I've seen guys…I've seen people…that are really…so I went to the Wharton School of Finance. I've seen some of the people that graduated with me…were really like beyond smart. But they were missing…that stick-to-itiveness, you know, that thing where you don't quit.
 
And other guys…went with me, and they were not…as smart. But they were really driven. Totally driven! They'd never leave. They'd never quit. They would never ever quit. And…they became tremendously successful. And the smarter people…and they were smarter! The smarter people weren't as successful…and in some cases weren't successful at all, because they gave up. And…they quit. So do what you like, and…love your parents and all that stuff, and say, ‘mom, dad, I love you…! …but this is what I love, this is what I wanna do’.
 
But listen to them! Because they also know what they're doing, believe me. But never, ever quit. Go after it, okay? Such a beautiful question. A beautiful guy. Beautiful guy…–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So…well, should we end this or do a couple more questions? …–CROWD YELLS OUT ‘MORE’ REPEATEDLY. MR. TRUMP REPRODUCES IT–...‘more, more, more, more’. Well, we'll do a couple more then. Give that guy in the red hat…I see he's been up there so long, and he looks like…he looks like my kind of Vet, right?
 
Okay, go ahead.
 
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MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS. Minute 01.03.58:
 
Go ahead. All right. Right. Right, right, right. It’s been a very big subject. Right. Defund.
 
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MR. TRUMP RESPONDS. Minute 01.03.58:
 
Well, yeah. The answer is ‘yes’ defund. The other you need a lot of Supreme Court justices. But we're gonna be looking at that also very, very carefully. But…but you need a lot of Supreme Court judges. But defund, ‘yes’, we're gonna be doing that. Okay? Okay…–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
Ehm…how about one of these…ehm…young guys? Right…right over there. Go ahead! Go ahead! –MR. TRUMP POINTS BACK TO THE PREVIOUS PARTICIPANT–… ‘Good question, by the way. Very good question’.
 
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MR. TRUMP RESPONDS. Minute 01.05.33:
 
Okay. Right. Well…great. Very good question…–CROWD APPLAUDS. So…I have children. And…Ivanka, and everybody knows Ivanka. And she's very hardworking, very smart, very good person. She's…you know, doing a great job. She just finished up Trump National Doral in Miami. Hundreds of acres of land right in the middle of Miami. Now, she's very much involved in the Old Post Office. And she has her own business. She sells shoes, and dresses, and…I mean, she's very entrepreneurial. People ask me, ‘what do you do…?’, you know, I'm getting credit, and I hope…you know, I knock on wood, because you know, all of a sudden…somebody that was good…who knows what happens? You know…? It's very fragile out there. It's very fragile. I've seen people doing really well, young children, and all of a sudden…you find out they have a huge drinking problem, or a huge drug problem.
 
But one of the things that people ask me…and they asked me a lot! …is, ‘what do you do about your children? How do you keep your children…?’. You know, cuz my children all work hard. And they love it. And they…they do well at it. And…they're asking me a lot…and more, and more…about my children. And I say…you know, since they were little. Since they could barely speak. I'd say, ‘no drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes!’. No drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes’. And their list big…–MR. TRUMP SHOWS IN THE AIR HOW TALL THEY WERE. They're this big…–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
And…I remember Ivanka, she said, ‘dad, you’re driving me crazy every time you say that!’. But I'd say it, once a week, twice a week, three times… ‘No drugs…’. They didn't…she didn’t even know what drugs were. She'd know what alcohol was. Didn't barely know what's it. But before they even knew what these things were! And I would just drum it into them. And…I see it is so important. Because I have friends that are very smart. They have brilliant kids. THEY–…go to Harvard. Go to…one of them I know went to MIT, where…and he had a tremendous problem, cause he had a drinking problem. And…the world is so tough…and it's so competitive…that you can't put yourself…as a child, or even as a parent if you want that child to be successful…at a disadvantage…of letting them…drink. Or…letting them take drugs. Because…it's not gonna work! They're gonna be…at a tremendous disadvantage, and ultimately they may never recover. It's so hard to recover from drugs. They say it's even harder…to recover from alcohol, which surprises me, actually. But maybe it's a social thing, you know, you're sitting down, and everybody's drinking, and they're all having a drink for dinner maybe. That's tougher.
 
But they say alcohol is actually in many ways tougher than stopping with the drugs. But…I tell people… what's really easy? Like…I never had a drink. I never had a glass of alcohol. And…I…I…in all fairness, I’ve watched people, and I study people, and I’ve…I had a great in particular great tutor on this. But…I look, and I see what it does to people…when they lose control. And…a lot of times they lose control.
 
I had a friend who went to the Wharton School of Finance with me, a very smart guy. And I'll never forget when I was young…18, 19 years old. He hated the taste of scotch. Hated it. He couldn't stand it. ‘Oh, this stuff is terrible!’, –MR. TRUMP PLAYS HIM OUT. But he tried to develop…he said, ‘I wanna develop because…you know, they…’. He became a massive alcoholic. He developed the taste all right. He became a massive alcoholic. I mean…and failed, with everything else. Lost his family, lost his home. There's a brilliant guy who lost everything because of alcohol.
 
Well, I tell people, with your children…no drugs…and I tell the children. No drugs, no alcohol…and I say, no cigarettes, cigarettes are just unhealthy. One thing I can tell you, cause I don't smoke…I mean, I have…I feel…I have some bad habits! But…I don't smoke…you don't want to know what I do…–CROWD LAUGHS. Don't ask me. It’s only gonna get…a ‘please!’. That would be…too many people back there with those cameras…–CROWD LAUGHS. But…but…I say to people, ‘if you don't drink…it's so easy not want…one alcohol. If you don't smoke…I watch people smoke, it looks terrible to me. You know, its dry…it’s….terrible! But I have friends they gave up smoking, and they can't do it! And they look at somebody smoking to them, it's like, ‘huh, boy! I wish I could have that cigarette! You know, just that one more cigarette’. Then it turns out to be a disaster. But…if you don't drink, and if you don't…take drugs…your children, meaning your children, are gonna have a tremendous…re-enhanced chance…of really being successful, and having a good life, and having a happy life.
 
And one other thing I'll say…and this is a little…interesting for some people, I hope. I…I have found…I deal with the richest people in the world. Carl Icahn is supporting me. Carl Icahn’s one of the great businessmen of the world. And…–CROWD APPLAUDS–…I'll put him in charge of China. I'll say, ‘Carl, do me a favor…do me a favor, take a look at the trade pact with China’, he’ll come, ‘no way, no way’, meaning no way will they get away with it! Okay’ Believe me, we have the greatest business people in the world. But we don't use it. We use political hacks! We use…no, it's true! We use…we use guys that…give donations. We use donors. They give donations, and we get them into government.
 
I will say this: we have…people…that…if we use our people…correctly…and if we get away from this world of horrible disgusting politics…we will be able to do things that we've never, ever been able to do as a country. I mean, we will be able to do some things that will be…absolutely amazing!
 
But anyway, just to finish. No drugs…do you smoke cigarettes? Do you take drugs? Don't…! …tell me! …no!? Kid! Good looking kid! Kid…you wanna be a movie actor. You should be able to…stand up! Look how handsome this kid is! And by the way, you're very handsome too! I have to tell you…here's a handsome…they got a lot of handsome people up here! But…you don't take…you don’t drink? …–THE QUESTIONED PARTICIPANT SAYS ‘NO’. Good! Wow! Okay, he's gonna be successful! Gonna be successful. Good question. No drugs, no alcohol, no cigarettes.
 
All right, we’ll do one more. How about one more? You want…? Okay, come on. This young man, right here. Who I met backstage, he’s gonna take care of his father, right? I'll bet he's…I'll bet he's gonna give me a good question. Go ahead!
 
That’s a great…that might be the best question. I hate to tell you! I hate to tell you! …–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE FORMER INTERVENERS. Okay. So here's what my…hope would be. That if I become president…your life will be much better, than it would have been if I didn't become president. It’s as simple as that. You know? It's as simple as that…–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
And I'll go one step further. If somebody else becomes president, and they're not good…they don't do the job, they don't do what they have to do…? …your life will not be as good. It…just won't be as good.
 
So if I become president, I will promise you…I'm gonna work so hard! I won't care about my company. Somebody says, ‘oh, well, you have a company…’, …that's…forget it. I don't care about that! I don't care! I don't…you know, it's wonderful. It's great. The kids will run it, the executives…I have good executives, they'll run it…
 
My…hundred percent focus…is going to be…making the United States…of America…much better for you than it could be…under…any…other…person. Okay? We love you man! Take care…take care of your father!
 
Thank you everybody! This was great and I appreciate it! And get out and vote! Get out and vote! We gotta get out and vote! Last time they didn't vote…we gotta get out and vote. We're gonna do a real job. Thank you. Thank you everybody. Thank you.

 
