VIDEO Nº: 118 
TITLE:118. Speech Donald Trump - Kiawah SC - February 18 2016
DATE OF EVENT:18/02/2016
RELEASE DATE:27/10/2017
DURATION:00.53.00 Mins
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:10442
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Well, I just wanna thank you. Great place. I have Doonbeg, you know, in Ireland. And it’s a sister to…Kiawah. [It was] build by the same people. They did a beautiful, beautiful job. And…uh…I bought it a number of years ago. And…during the downturn in Ireland. I made a good investment. And it's an incredible place. So, Doonbeg begged, do you know about Doonbeg? I guess, most of you do, right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. And…we spent a lot of money on making it just…perfecto, and now it's doing great.
But I don't care about that stuff anymore! That’s like small potatoes, right? I'll let my kids run it, and have fun with it, and…let my executives have a good time. But, I…I don't care about it. I care about making America great again. That's what I care about…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That’s what I care about. And…and and we can do it.
You know, I…I go all over the world, and I…I see…different things in different countries, and…I meet different people, and honestly, there's nothing like what we have. You come back and there's nothing like what we have. And…we go to Dallas, and we had 21,000 people. In Oklahoma we had 20,000 people twice. And we have the biggest crowds. No matter where we go! We…uh…were in Tampa, a couple of weeks ago, and…[on] just a couple of days’ notice. We filled up a stadium. It was packed. And…uh…no matter where it…is it's been…amazing. And I have to tell you: South Carolina is some…great…place. I love it. I've been here so many times…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I love it. I love it.
And…you know, we have a big, big deal coming up on Saturday. So we have to go out there. New Hampshire treated me so incredibly well…and…uh…so did Iowa, actually. I mean we did really well there. But we did just incredible in New Hampshire. We won in every category. A rich…; poor…; fat…; thin…; …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Everyone! Tall…; short…; we won every category! We won…the highly educated, and…not so well educated. And we were…we were just rocking. And…uh…I guess we got 36 percent. And that was with a lot of people. So, it was a big…; we win by 20 points. So it was a great…a great…week that I spent there. And I've spent a lot of time here now, and I'll be staying here until Sunday morning, and…hopefully we'll be celebrating together on the Saturday evening…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…uh…that’s…that’s what we want.
I mean, the big thing is…so, so, so important, get out and vote. You know, I'm self-funding my campaign. You people are all rich. You probably say, “why is he doing that? Why!?” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. But…but I'm self-funding my campaign. Putting up my own money, and…uh…and it's expensive! I mean, it's expensive! I'm proud of the fact that I have…I'm spending less money than these other characters. You know, they’re politicians. All they know how to do is spend…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I mean, you know…Jeb Bush! In…uh…in New Hampshire, Jeb Bush spent 48 million…dollars! I spent three! He was like at the bottom of the pack, and I was number one by a landslide! Isn't that what you want for your country? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Right? Is that what you want? I mean, these guys are spending money…; the money they have for the commercials…! I see commercial, after commercial!
And…you know, I…I…put some…I… look. I put some commercials on you know why? Cause I felt guilty! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I really felt guilty! Because the press…look at all these guys back there. The press is saying, “well, maybe he's not spending…for commercials. Why isn't he spending…?”. And…you know, you're leading and you're leading…; a great poll just came out about an hour ago. CBS New York Times came out. [A] National poll, [it] was great. Uh…we had a total…ridiculous poll come out. Yesterday. Did you see that? The Wall Street Journal. Let me tell you…-THE CROWD BOOS. Look…I…I'll tell you something. That poll was so…different than every…other…poll…! And some of the people, the broadcaster's, looked at it. And [they] said, “this doesn't make sense. This is no good”.
Uh…About a month ago, I had a pretty good poll…; I never get treated well on The Wall Street Journal in any capacity, okay? But I had a pretty poll…-A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT-… “thank you. Yeah, that's right”. They want…they’re weak on immigration. I agree with you. They’re weak on a lot of things. They’re weak on financial.
But, The Wall Street Journal did a poll last…uh…month. And I was leading…by quite a bit. Not…as good as other polls, because it's never good, but…but, I was leading. I couldn't find it in the paper! Right? I couldn't find it. And, I…literally, I looked all over. I couldn't find…; they had all sorts of other things: “do you love the country?”. “Do you this…?”. “Do you that…?”. The only thing they didn't do is the…my result. But I was in there someplace. I just couldn't find it. It was buried someplace in the back of the paper.
Today they have like an outlier poll. Everybody said…a certain broadcaster from NBC, who did the poll with him said, “I can't go with this poll! This is ridiculous!”. And they interviewed very few people. And very conservative…; and lots of different criteria, all of which was like…and today's on the front page of The Wall Street Journal. What a lot of crap! Okay? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Isn’t it? It's disgusting. And I'll tell you. I…in all fairness to CBS and The New York Times, they knew it was a phony…in my opinion, I have to say that. In my opinion, it's a phony poll. Because…USA Today came out. It was phenomenal: 35, 36, 37…I mean, really doing great. Uh…and all of them. But in my opinion, that Wall Street Journal poll was a phony poll. I'll tell you that much right now. So, we'll see.
Uhm…The New York Times came out, just…about an hour ago, and it was a phenomenal poll, along with…CBS, and…so we're really happy. That’s nationwide. In South Carolina we're doing great. I mean, every…every poll shows that we're doing good. So it's good. But I don't want you to think too much about that, because…you know…assume we're tied! Okay? Even…why don't we even assume we're losing by just a little bit? Because you have to get out. And you know, I say to people I'm self-funding, I'm putting up my own money, but…uh…the only thing I want is your vote. I don't want any your money. You don't have to give me ten cents. I just want your vote. So, if you can remember that, it would be really cool…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
Uhm…you know, when this all started…when this all started, this journey…! Can you imagine any of you people doing this? It's not easy, running for president. That's not necessarily fun! You get a hit. You get hammered, from every corner! You know, you learn things about yourself that you never even thought about. But, I will tell you: it's been an amazing experience for me. It's been a really…amazing…experience. It's been a very interesting experience. It started on June 16th, and I said to my wife, “we gotta do it”. I was watching the Iran deal, where we're giving Iran 150 billion dollars, where we get nothing, which is gonna lead to nuclear proliferation, and everyone's worried about them building the bomb. Well, they don’t have to build it, they can buy it with the money that we gave them…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Did you see the money…? Did you see the money where it's being spent? They didn't buy a Boeing. They didn't go to Boeing over here. They bid…they bought…Airbus. 118 Airbus planes. They're spending their money all over Europe. They're buying missiles from Russia. The money that we gave them, they're spending it all over the place. They're spending it everybody with…but…but with us.
We have the hostages…; uh…we…essentially, paid 150 billion for the four hostages. And all we had to do is, four years ago, three years ago, go and say, “listen, folks. Before we start, very simple. You give us a hostages back”.
And they'll say, “no”.
And you leave the room! And now you ratchet up the sanctions. You double them up. Within…I'm telling you, within…two seconds, you'll get a phone call saying, “you've got your hostages”. And it would have happened! But, we had a…negotiator, John Kerry, who's an…incompetent negotiator! He's a nice guy. He's an incompetent negotiator! [He] never left the table once. [He] never left the table…when we were being ridiculed, all over the world. When we were being ridiculed in Iran! When they're dancing in the streets saying that we have stupid people representing us; saying that we're all stupid, because of the deal. They can't believe it! The people of Iran. And I don't know it was a setup or not, but everyone there dancing all over the place. This is before the deal is done! Who would make a deal after you see that? Right?
They’re burning the American flag…; Obama is calling the head ‘the supreme leader’…; “we have spoken today to the supreme leader”. I'm not calling him ‘supreme leader’, folks. I can guarantee you that…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Not ‘the supreme leader’. He's not my supreme leader.
And…so…I mean, you know, what…what…just…it was so discouraging. When you look at what's happening with trade. The trade is so disastrous. I mean, what's going on…with every country. No matter which country you talk about. Every…single…country! What's going on…; Mexico, is…the new China!
And I mean, I just had word…as an example, the Pope! The Pope was in Mexico. Did you know that? Did…does anybody even know…? Right? He said negative things about me. Because the Mexican government convinced him that Trump is not a good guy. Because I wanna have a strong border. I wanna stop illegal immigration. I wanna stop people from being killed. Like Kate, in San Francisco. Like…Jameel, in Los Angeles. Like the incredible woman veteran. 65 years old, who was raped, sodomized, and killed…by an illegal immigrant. Okay?
So the Mexican government fed the Pope a tremendous amount of stuff about “Trump is not a good person”. And the Pope just made a statement about me. Can you imagine? I just got a call. I…as I'm walking up here, they said, “Mr. Trump, the Pope made a statement about you”.
I said, “the Pope!?” …-MR. TURMP LAUGHS. What did the Pope say? I like the Pope…; I mean…; Was it good or bad? Because if it's good, I like the Pope. If it's bad, I don't like the Pope…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. No, it's true! …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
Well, you know, look. Look. Mexico…I'm wise to Mexico. And…I like Mexico! I have no problem…! I have thousands, and thousands of people over the years [that] have worked for me. From Mexico! Hispanics worked for me. In Nevada, I'm leading with Hispanics. I'm leading the polls. I'm gonna bring jobs back to the country. They like me! I have thousands of people that have worked for me, Hispanics! Over the years! And I have great relationships with Hispanics. And I've been telling people I'm gonna win. And people are saying, “you must be kidding”.
Like, for instance…right here! [It] came out two minutes ago. Uh…uh…veterans! Right here. In your…incredible state. Right? The veterans…have just…; I've gone up eight points, because of what I said. You know what they said…two days ago. What I said! About…Iraq. About…the World Trade Center. I only tell the truth! Somebody said, “did you poll it…?”. One of the politicians. “Did you poll it?”.
I said, “I don’t poll what I say!”. I say what's right. I say what's on my mind…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…if it doesn't work, it's fine! I mean, you know, that's okay! But I…it's…it's…it's not a question of working. I have to be honest!
But in South Carolina, they just did a poll. I went up eight percent with the vets. Now, I was supposed to be…boom! The vets get it! In fact, we have one of the great vets here. Ever! Right here1 Al.! “Al, they’re liking me! What happened!? What happened!? I went up…! …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. I was supposed to go down! I love the vets. I do more for the vets than any…; these politicians don't do anything for the vets! They talk! So what happened? I went up in the poll!
MR. AL. BALDASARO INTERVENES BRIEFLY.
Right. Oh, that's very nice. Wow! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. See? Who knew that was gonna happen? You know, they say “Trump will say things…so we think he's gonna go down”, and he goes up, and they say…; you know why? Cause people like honesty, and when you think about it…but that was great…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So I guess this is a little bit for the press. So I just wrote this out very quickly about the Pope. Do you wanna hear it? Should I read it to you? Okay? …-THE CROWD YELLS YES!’.
He actually said…that…maybe I'm not a good Christian or something. It's unbelievable. Which is really…not a nice thing to say. So it's a response from Donald Trump. It says, “if and when the Vatican is attacked, by ISIS…”. You know, ISIS…their primary trophy…; very few people know this. I read this about two months ago. Nobody even believed it. Their primary thing…you've seen what they've done all over the Middle East. Their primary goal…is to get to the Vatican. That would be their ultimate trophy. They wanna do what they did to all of these magnificent artifacts…; and all of the…beautiful museums that they've totally destroyed all over the Middle East. Right?
They’re...and I didn't know this! I read this like…four or five months ago. I made mention of it two months ago, and everyone said, “what are you talking about?”. They thought like…I'm kidding. It's true! And now there are stories about it. Not big stories. But there's stories about it. And…I was checked by one of the reporters. They said, “they don't wanna talk about the…!”. And he called up an apologized. The big thing, they wanna get to the Vatican.
So, if and when…the Vatican is attacked by ISIS, which as everyone knows, is ISIS’s ultimate trophy, I can promise you…that the Pope…would have only wished, and prayed, that Donald Trump would have been president! Because…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s true! It’s true!
Because this would not have happened. ISIS would have been eradicated, unlike what is happening now, with our all talk, no action politicians. That's what's happening now…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We…we…[if] we had a General MacArthur…; if we had a General George Patton…; I mean…they'd be gone before they even got time to go over and check it out! Okay? It's a ridiculous situation.
The Mexican government, and its leadership, has made many disparaging remarks about me. See? The Pope was in Mexico. The leadership… “oh, Donald Trump is a bad guy! He wants to build a wall! He wants to keep illegal immigration! It's terrible!”. They don't say it that way. They say, “he wants people to stop having this and that…!”.
Look. I'm wise to them. I respect Mexico. I respect their leadership. Their leadership is much smarter. Much sharper than our leadership. And that's the problem! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. That's the problem!
You know, we have a trade deficit, with Mexico…listen to this one…58…billion…dollars. So when I say, “we're gonna build a wall and Mexico is gonna pay for it”, these politicians all come up and they say, “you can't get Mexico to pay!”.
I say, “yes, I can”. They have no idea what I'm even talking about. You, people, do, cause you have some business people here. [You have] some good business people. Some of them I know. But Mexico's gonna pay! Because the wall is 12 billion dollars. Ten to 12 billion dollars. That's a super job, okay? That's if you do a Trump wall, okay? [A] really nice job. [A] Nice, high wall…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. This is a high, nice…; this is not a wall that they're gonna drive their trucks over…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
Now, when we have a deficit of 58 billion…ten to 12 billion is peanuts! Okay!? It’s peanuts! That’s not…that's nothing! So the politicians say, “how could you possibly say that? You know that…”. Now they've all started saying, “you know, he's really right. We're losing lot of money with Mexico”. And that's not including the drug money that's pouring across, which is…much more! Okay? Believe me, we get the drugs, they get the cash.
So they met with the Pope. And they obviously got to the Pope. And they tell him what a bad guy Donald Trump is. He doesn't know me. And…you know, etc. So, look…I mean…the Mexican government, and its leadership, has made many disparaging remarks about me…to the Pope…because they want to continue to rip off the United States, both on trade and at the border! That's what they're doing. They're ripping us off! And they understand that I am totally wise to them. And if I'm president, we'll stop it…immediately! Okay? Immediately! …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
The Pope only heard one side of the story, and he didn't see the crime, the drug trafficking, and the negative economic impact; their current policy…I mean, you see what's going on, right? …their current policies have…on the United States! So he didn't see the crime…; the drug trafficking…; the im…the…uh…economic impact is…is horrendous, all right? People can come into our country, folks! But they have to come in legally! They have to come in through a process! We're like an open gate! People just walk across, they walk into our country…we don't know who they are…! We don't know where they’ve come from…! And by the way, speaking of that, the migration, the people from Syria: we don't know. Are the ISIS? Are they not? They're not coming into this country. Okay? They can’t…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
He doesn't see how…Mexican leadership, and…he doesn't understand it…; he doesn't see how Mexican leadership is outsmarting our president. And Obama and our leadership, has…no clue…as to the negotiation or anything else! In other words, we are being so badly out negotiated by Mexico…; Mexico knows that if I win, those days are gone! We're not gonna have a 58…billion-dollar trade deficit. [It’s] not gonna happen! We're not gonna lose Carrier, air-conditioner, just move to Mexico. You saw that. We're not gonna…leave…have Nabisco move their big plants…to Mexico. [It’s] not gonna happen. [It's] not gonna happen!
We're not gonna have Ford building so big….two and a half billion dollar…plant….! and now, I've been talking about that for a year and a half…; now they're doubling down…; I read the other day in the paper [that] they're doubling down! Ford is going in much bigger into Mexico! They took a plant from Tennessee that was going to go to Tennessee, and they went…the plant went to Mexico instead. When are we gonna get smart, folks? When are we gonna get smart? [It] gotta happen. We can't let this stuff go on, because we're losing our jobs. We're losing everything.
The Pope isn't being told that. The Pope is being told that Donald Trump is not a nice person. Okay? Donald Trump is a very nice person. And I'm a very…I…I am a very nice person…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I'm a very good Christian. Because the Pope said…something to the effect that…maybe Donald Trump isn't Christian. Okay? And he's questioning my faith. I was very surprised to see it, but I am a Christian. I'm proud of it. Okay!
For a religious leader, to question a person's faith is disgraceful. I'm proud to be a Christian. And as president, I will not allow Christianity…to be consistently attacked, and weakened…unlike what is happening now…with our current president! Okay!? Believe me! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No leader…very important. And this has just…been given out to the press two seconds ago. No leader, and especially a religious leader, should have the right to question another man's religion or faith! Especially when they feed all sorts of false information into him!
They're using the Pope as a pawn. And they should be ashamed of themselves. That's the Mexican government. They should be ashamed of themselves for doing so. Especially when so many lives are involved, and when illegal immigration is so rampant, and so dangerous, and so bad for the United States! Okay? Period. That’s it. Period…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…I mean, I come to this beautiful place, and I'm looking…I'm looking…; everything [is] so beautiful…the people are beautiful, everything's nice…and I get hit: “the Pope just made a statement”.
“Oh, good! Did you say good things?”.
“No, I don't think you're gonna like it so much” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
So this is the beginning as I'm walking in, okay? So you are the first to hear it, okay? This is a breaking story, right? Breaking news.
So we have to do something about illegal immigration, because our country is being decimated. And…speaking of Mexico…and again, I have nothing against Mexico. I like Mexico. I have nothing against the leaders of Mexico. I think they're very sharp, very smart, very cunning. They're far too smart for Obama. They’re…far too smart for our leadership.
When you look at Carrier going there…what do we get out of it? Okay. Carrier. So, I saw the other day…I guess somebody was using the cellphone camera. I was…saw the other day the whole speech made by the executive: “we are moving to Mexico. Your jobs are gone, bah-bah-bah”. Right?
And it was very sad! People [were] very…devastated. You could see [that] they were devastated. They've been working at Carrier for many years! They do a good job! I used to buy Carrier air conditioners. I won't buy them anymore. Hopefully I won't buy them cause I'll be president. I won't care about them, practically…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. But I buy a lot of air-conditioners. I buy a lot of…a lot of product.
Unfortunately, almost everything you buy now is made…; you buy televisions, you go to South Korea. You buy…I mean, do we make anything anymore here!? We don't make anything! Yeah, we make good golf resorts, for you to live in…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
So, what happens…is…uhm…Carrier is leaving. Now, what I would do is different. You know, I'm a free trader. I believe in free trade. All these…you know, conservatives, they say, “he's not a conservative, because he doesn't believe…”. I believe in smart trade, folks! They’ve taken everything we have!
China…has created the greatest theft. It's the single…greatest…theft…in the history of the world, what they've done to the United States. They've taken millions of jobs! They've taken our money. they've taken our base. They've taken our manufacturing. They've done so much! Even Boeing! Remember this, and I'm saying this to South Carolina. You won't have to worry about it at all if I’m president. Believe me, it’s not gonna happen. They're building massive…plants. In order to get an airline order, they're building massive plant…plants in China.
When China devalues their currency in three years from now, or four years from now, and when they announce they're not gonna make planes…in South Carolina anymore…because it's much cheaper to make them in China, remember what Donald Trump said! You don't have to remember if I win. You just remember if I don't win for some reason, okay? Remember…-A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘WE’D BETTER WIN!’-… “we better win”. Well…I hope! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I hope so! I hope so. Because…it’s so easy.
So, Carrier. So Carrier moves, that’s it! They’re gonna move! Probably…probably [they] get incentives from our government…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. You know, there was a time when we were giving incentives. You know? I mean, can you believe it? Probably [they] got tax credits for moving out of the country. Because we are so far behind.
So Carrier leaves and they go to Mexico. So here's what I do. And I…probably, you know, I wanna be presidential. So, I'm not supposed to make the call myself, right? But I might make it myself anyway…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
You know, Carl Icahn. You know Carl Icahn. Carl Icahn endorsed me. And a lot of the big business people endorsed me. And…it…you know, Carl said, “look, he's the one guy that knows!”. I mean, I know…I understand corporate inversions. And…or I know…understand what's going on!
Trillions of dollars is offshore. It’s…uh…all over the place; outside of the country, where we can't get it back. The companies can't get it back. Some companies are leaving for taxes, because we have the highest taxes in the world. But other companies are leaving to get their money! They can't get it back in! They’ve got money offshore. They've got money in Europe, all over the place…! They can't get their money! So, I have all of these investments.
So here's what I do with Carrier, okay? Whether it's me or…somebody, because I will use our greatest business. Some of whom may be in this room, by the way. I will leave…use our greatest…; we have the best business people in the world! But we don't use them to negotiate our trade deals! I will be using our best…best…sharpest…killer…business people. To negotiate with the killers from these other countries. And again! I don’t….I think it's great that Mexico's doing this. If you can get away with, you gotta get away with it! How smart are they? They see the Pope, and they tell the Pope bad things about me, because I'm against…you know, I'm very, very strong for…illegal immigration. Very…we gotta stop it. Right?
So they tell the Pope, “Trump is bad”, and the Pope says something negative about me now. It's probably gonna be all over the world. Who the hell cares, okay? I don't care! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. I don't care! I don't care, because we have to stop illegal…immigration! We have to stop the massive crime. By the way, we have right now…100…this was as of last week, [it was] reported. One…hundred…and seventy-nine thousand…illegal immigrants, in our country, who are criminals! Okay? These are criminal…illegal immigrants.
We take care of them. We watch them. They commit crimes. [Do] you know the cost of this, and our…devastation to the families!?
Kate, in San Francisco. Jameel…; I mean, one of the…greatest, young men. Shot in the face. Kate shot in the back, in San Francisco, by somebody that should have never been here. We are…we are…so…incompetently run.
Then you have sanctuary cities, where people can be there, and it doesn't matter. I mean, practically they can be whatever they wanna be, and they get away with it. We have sanctuary cities. Nobody even heard the term! I don't think anybody here did hear it. Did anyone know about sanctuary cities? We’ve sanctuary cities! We had five, or seven…in Florida, while Bush was governor. A sanctuary cities! He never told us that! We have…we have…a tremendous problem! We have to clean up! We have to be proud of our country again, folks. We have to go back to the basics. We have to be proud of our country again! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…so we're losing our businesses. So I would, essentially, whether it's me or…one of my people. Uhm…and I have some tough people. We have to use the right people. But [I’d] call up…Carrier, [and] say, “folks, we don't want you to leave”.
“Oh, but we're leaving. We’re leaving!”.
“Why are you leaving?”
"Because we're getting…some good deal”…or they're getting good financing from somebody in the Mexican government, or something. Okay? Smart! Mexico should try and get them. But we should try and keep them!
So I’d say, “here’s the deal”. And I'm a free trader. Remember that. I don't want…you know, to have …lots of you know restrictions at the border in terms of trade etc. etc. We’ve gotta have fair trade! You have to have smart trade! So I'd say very simply…[I’d] say, "you know what? Congratulations on leaving. Congratulations on devastating those 1400 families that have been left behind”…that have done a great job, by the way. Good product. [You/they’ve] done a great job, for years! “Congratulations. But here's the story: [if] you go to Mexico, every air-conditioner that you sell that goes into the United States, we’re gonna charge you a 35 percent tax. Okay? Let’s see if your numbers still work”…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And, I’d say, “let's see if your numbers still work”. Because I'll bet you they don’t.
And they'll call me, and they'll say, “Oh, Mr. president…!”. But here's the difference: I'm self-funding my own campaign. I’m not getting paid by their lobbyists, by their special interest, by their donors, by their stockholders…; I’m what…; I’m doing right for…the people. I mean, I speak before thousands, and thousands…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I’m the…I'm doing what's right for the people. I don't care. I don't need the money! I don't need any money.
So…I…I'm doing what's right for this country, okay? And the politicians can't do that. They can't do that. We have people heading up campaigns…that are the heads of the drug industry, as an example. Woody Johnson, of Johnson & Johnson. He's heading up…uhm…Bush's fundraising campaign. [He] did a good job. [He] raised 150 million dollars for a guy that's going nowhere. I mean, you know, when you think of it…right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, he raised 150 million dollars for a guy [that] got…that…you might as well take it and throw it into the ocean, and let the kids collect it! [That/he’d] got more value![PA1]  But…but, Woody Johnson [of] Johnson & Johnson.
Now, here's the thing that I didn't even know. And a friend of mine found out. The Mar-a-Lago Club. You've heard of the Mar-a-Lago Club. He's a member! He comes up to me. [He’s] a big doctor. He says, “Donald, it's so brutal. Obamacare is such a disaster. I have now…more…accountants working for me than I have nurses. It's so complicated. It's…I mean…”. He hates it. Okay.
But he said, “Do you know, Donald, that the…”, and he's a smart cookie. He said, “Do you know that…the federal government doesn't negotiate drug purchases?”. I mean, drugs to make you better. Drugs. They don't negotiate. They're prohibited from negotiating. That…the United States government pays sort of like if you walk in, if Mrs. Schwartz…-MR. TRUMP POINTS TO THAT PERSON IN THE CROWD-…walks into a drug store to buy drugs, to get better…that we pay…the same price, practically, as her.
I said, “that's no possible. [It’s] not possible.
He said, “it is”.
Then…immediately, you know, being…the person that I am, I said, “oh, it is! Of course! Because the politicians are all taken care of by the drug companies, and therefore they don't have…negotiation”. Right? That's what it is!
There are…billions…tens of billions…! hundreds of billions of dollars left out there…due to…uh…policies…; you know, a lot of times, when you see…you think the politicians are stupid. And you think the deals have been…; they're not bad! They're good for them! They're taking care of the lobbyists and the special interests, okay? Cause they can't be that bad! You look at some of these deals…even the Iran deal! I'll bet you there's something involved! I mean, it's hard to believe, but…look at these companies in Europe that are making a fortune! Airbus! I'll guarantee you.! They have probably lobbyists. They probably knew that some of this money was gonna buy a 118 Airbus planes. 118 planes! Not one Boeing! And Boeing is better! I like it better too. I have one…-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. But…Boeing's better!
But think of it: 118! They probably had lobbyists for…uh…for Airbus. And they probably had lobbyists for…uh…Russia…it…you know, my…Russia is selling them missiles. They probably had lobbyists. Everybody has lobbyists!
So when you see some of these deals that are so absolutely bad…they are bad, but the reason they're bad is in stupidity! It's, in a way, dishonesty. Okay? It’s sort of called legal dishonesty. But in a way, it's dishonesty.[PA2] 
And when they go up and they say to…one of the people running, like Ted Cruz…; he’s…he's got people…! You gotta see some of the people that are giving him money! Forget it, folks! Forget it! You got problems! He's taking money from people you won't believe. Check out his list of people!
But when they go up to Cruz…and they go up to these different people that are running…every single one of them, on both sides, by the way. But on my side, I'm the only one…I'm…I’m…on both sides, I'm the only one self-funding! Period! And I feel sort of foolish!
You know, my whole life has been about money! Money! I want money! I want money! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. It's greed! I want money! And now these guys are coming up, they wanna give me millions! I have a guy come up to me the other day, “Donald, I'll give you whatever you want”. Millions. Where…; how do I say…?
I said, “I can’t take it”. You know, it's hard for me to say that! Because my whole life is…-THE CROWD LAUGHS…it’s hard! I feel a little bit like…am I okay!? Am I going crazy here!? And I say, “I don't want it. No”.
And every time the guy sees me…he's a very rich guy. He said, “Donald…”. He doesn't even understand.
I said, “no, that's okay. Don't worry about it. You know, you don't have to do anything. Don't worry. It's okay”. And every time he sees me…like once a month I see him. At a club…the Mar-a-Lago club. He’s [a] very, very rich guy. And he says, “Donald, I…I don't understand. You never got back to me”.
I said, “I…yeah, I don't really want your money. I…don't worry about it. Don't worry about it”. And he can't understand it! He can't understand it.
But, I would have the greatest fund in history…if I ever said, “I'm gonna do it”. But I will tell you this. I will tell you this. I think it resonates with the voters. I…I’ll…you know, for a while I was saying, “I don't think I get any credit”. I mean, I'm gonna spend a tremendous amount of money. I've already spent a lot! Even though I spent less than these people…I've spent a lot! You know, because I'm somebody like you…we watch it. We spend it wisely. We're careful…etcetera etcetera, but we spent it wisely. And I've spent as much as I need! But we don't wanna spend it if we don't need it. I mean, I'm looking at some of the money spent, [and] it's incredible.
But when they…put up their money, to…the…head…of the…drug…companies, and to all of these different…and the drug companies come in, and they've got…; and I'll tell you something: I know these people.
At the last debate, I walked into the room. I looked. I said, “oh, man! They're all the lobbyists! All the…!”. I know a lot of them! Those are all the special interests! I did a really good job at that debate. Everybody…Drudge said I was number one. Time magazine said I was number one. Every time I said something, that was like…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS-…yeah, but every time I said something, there was like dead silence in the room! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. And I had one friend…who's a friend of mine, but he's…supporting another candidate, because he wants…he knows he can get something. He can't…get anything from me. He said, “you're the last person I’ll ever support”. He actually told me that.
But…he’s lobbyist. And he…he’s supporting a guy…; and he starts booing me…! And he's laughing, and booing and waving to me! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Okay? And I'm sort of like waving to him, cause I understand! I mean, I get it.
I had another guy coming, “Donald, I wanna give you…uh…a lot of money for your campaign”. You know, it's funny. I've been number one from…just about the beginning. From June 16th. Every…since they…really thought I was doing. And other than the Wall Street Journal today, which…uh…we'll have to call them up and find out what was going on there. You know, that phony deal. But I've been number one like…right from the beginning. I don't like…I don't like dishonesty. I’ll tell you. I don't like dishonesty. And I think it's dishonesty, but who knows.
But…I’ve been number one, just about from the beginning. And when you're number one in this…business, in this crazy business of politics, the money is just…it's unbelievable! It's just…pours in! It's just…like…crazy! I never saw anything like it! It's better than being on The Apprentice! It's the most…-THE CROWD LAUGHS-…no, it's the most…! When you have…; when you are number one in the polls, people come that you never even heard of: “Donald, I'd like you to…speak to the head of these massive companies, that…you know, he’ll…they'd like to come in. They’d…like have lunch…”. Okay! So I don't even have lunch, cause I don't wanna turn them down. I don't even wanna…be tempted! You understand that! Right!? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
But, when you have this kind of stuff come in…; and they said to this one man. He comes into my office, “I wanna give you ten million dollars for your campaign”.
I said, “that's a lot of money, but I can't take it, because I'm self-funding my campaign”:
He goes like, “what!?”. He…he didn't even understand. He thought I maybe didn't hear much. So then he goes again.
And I said, “no, I don't want it”.
[And] he said, “why!?”. I said, “because I'm self-funding my campaign. It's a really big part of my campaign. I think it means something”. Although I must tell you, I'm not sure it means as much as it…is actually costing. I don't know…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. I don't think people are going into the voter’s booth saying, “I'm voting for Trump. Let's see: it's Trump and this guy. I'm gonna go with Trump, because he’s self-funding”…-THE CROWD CHEERS. I don't know that it has that big of impact, but…I hope it does…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Because believe me. Believe me, this isn't about me. This is…this is an important thing. This is an important thing.
So…anyway! The guy goes, and I say, “I don't want it”. And he’s sort of a friend of mine. And he's leaving the office, [and] I say, “just out of curiosity, so what are you gonna do?”.
He said, “I'm gonna support somebody else”.
I said, “why!? Why!? You could support me, but I just don't want your money. I can't take any money. I don't want your money”.
He goes, “no, no, I have to support somebody else”. He said, “I…I love the game!”. They’re gamblers! They’re gamblers! They wanna put up money! He'd rather give somebody ten million dollars, or five million dollars or 2 million dollas than give somebody nothing. Okay? It's crazy! They're like horseplayers. These are the people! I know them! I…I mean, I know them! Don't forget! Before June 16th, I was a very big contributo. I was…I was like a member of the establishment. The day I ran, boy, did I become anti-establishment fast! Okay!? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
And the politicians are going crazy. And the head of the RNC and all these people are going crazy. Because, you know, they're not gonna have what…; I'm gonna do what's right for the country! I'm not gonna do what's right for the politicians…; I'm not gonna do what's right for these special interests…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…and honestly, I've never talked about this subject so long. But I mean, this is a group that really gets it. I mean, you understand it. And probably some of the people in this room won't be very happy with what I'm saying, because they wanna have their…certain thing. You probably have a couple of lobbyists in this room. I know most of them. Let me see…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. 7
But one of the things…one of the things, and I started by telling you about pharmaceuticals, and the drug companies. Now, when you think about it…okay? When you think about it, you can take that one…group, and bit it out…; and even if you don't per se bit it…? If you went with a favorite nation's clause…cause in a way bidding is a little bit…you know, I…almost don't trust anybody to bid, you know? All of a sudden they move into a beautiful house and…the Hamptons, or in Palm Beach. And you say, “Gee, I thought they were civil servants”. And now they're moving to Palm Beach. What happened? But, you do a favorite nation's clause.
So, with the drug companies. We get…the lowest…price that you've negotiated over the last 12 month period. Immediately endures to the United States of America. Less ten percent. Because we're a big, big, big buyer. So we would get the lowest price…I like that better than having a negotiation. In other words, now everybody else negotiates. Whatever the lowest price that they've made for a certain product…we get the lowest price and then I take it discount beyond that. And you know what? We'd save hundreds…of billions…of dollars.
Defense industry. Same thing. Uhm…much more so though, I would say. For…25 years ever since, I'm sort of…like…where I'm…really interested in this stuff. I've been watching as they're ordering equipment, and they're ordering things that they don't want. You know, you've been seeing the story that they order the airplane that…they didn't like as much as the other one…; that they're getting…equipment that they don't need…; that they don't want…; well, the reason is, because those companies that make the equipment are politically astute. They have…taken care of these people that I'm with. They have taken care of…lots of other people that I'm not with. And…they order equipment that they don't want! I'm gonna make our military so strong, so powerful…; you have no idea what we're gonna do, cause we have the technology.
But…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…but, we're gonna do it for a lot less than anybody feel it possible! And we're gonna get the equipment that the generals want, and the soldiers want…; and…all of the people want that…are…running the equipment. We're not gonna get equipment that…you know, and I've seen it! The airplane: “oh, well we didn't really want this airplane. We wanted the other one, but…we got it…”. You know, the politicians are making the decisions! Okay?
We're gonna get the best stuff. We're gonna be so strong…; nobody's gonna play games with us, folks. Nobody. We're gonna get the best stuff. There'll be nothing like it, what we can do. And we're gonna save a fortune! We're gonna save a fortune.
So with the military that happens. I tell you about the pharmaceutical stuff. We're going out to bid, okay? [We’re going to] save hundreds of billions of dollars. With the military, you're talking about much bigger numbers than that. But we'll have it much better. Somebody would say, “will it be better or not?”.
I remember…the United Nations, right? So, I testified in front of a great group of senators, actually who…uh…were…terrific. In fact, your senator from Oklahoma, who just said horrible things…; he said, “Ted Cruz is the most dishonorable, dishonest person I've ever met.” What he said is unbelievable. He cannot stand him. But they asked me to testify in Congress about…the…World Trade Center. About the World Trade Center. But also, mostly about the United Nations. Because they were doing a renovation of the United Nations. And they said, “we would like to…understand us. You built a building across the street that's 92 stories tall. We are renovating…the United States…and we're gonna spend one billion dollars”.
I said, “no, you're not. You're gonna spend four billion. Because by the time they killed you with the overruns, you will spend four billion”.
“No, no, no. It's one…”.
Okay. How much did you spend?
So, there was a story in The New York Times that said I built the building for 322 million dollars. 92 stories. Condo. Trump World Tower. [A] beautiful building. Right opposite the United Nations. That was 322…about 320 million dollars, right? Now, they're gonna renovate the United Nations, which is a much…you know, which is…not a big deal. And they're gonna spend a billion.
So an ambassador from I think it was Sweden called up: “Mr. Trump, could I meet you?”.
“Why? I'm on a committee”.
“We don't understand. How can you spend 320 million and build this incredible building, brand-new beautiful…; and yet we're spending a billion dollars to just fix up the United Nations?”.
I said, “because of two reasons: corruption and incompetence”. It's very simple…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, it’s true!
So, this man…I think it was the ambassador to Sweden. It was a while ago. Five years, six years…this…this man is…a terrific guy. He said, “I'd like to…go public. And I'd like to this… could you meet the head of the United Nations?”. I met the head of the United Nations. Kofi Annan at that time. I met him. And…he had no interest in…my…my…all he wanted was a pres. In fact, I'm sitting there in a chair, and there's a big curtain, sort of like…this…-MR. TRUMP POINTS BEHIND HIM, WHERE THERE IS A BLUE CURTAIN-…and I didn't know what was going on. And all of a sudden, the curtain opens and there was so much press, and they are taking pictures. That's all he wanted. He didn't care about the cost of this thing.
So what happened is, they brought in…the man that's in charge of it. So, I said, “are you using a boiler system? Are you using New York steam? What are you using for heat?”.
He said, “I have no idea!”. He had no idea! He didn't know boilers…; he didn't know anything. This guy knew nothing! He was in charge of construction.
So, they were two billion dollars. I said, “this is not gonna cost a billion. This is gonna cost four or five billion”, which turned out to be exactly true! It cost a fortune! Okay?
So I offered to do the job for five hundred million dollars. I said, “I will do the job, sight unseen”.
They say, “well, what's the difference!?”.
I said, “here's the difference: the difference is…you'll have a much better job for five hundred million than you have for…in my…”; I...actually predicted it will cost four billion dollars if they do it themselves, because…well, you have people out there that you don't even know about; you won't ever read about, that they're really, really rich! Just…so you understand. Really…they could move to Kiawah very easily. Believe me! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. You've got some rich people out there.
But I said, “here's what's going to happen. You're going to have…a tremendous cost over”. And that happened. “You have people that don't know what they're doing, but they probably do know what they're doing very well”.
And…but they said to me, “what's the difference?”.
“The difference is, I'll have marble floor. They'll have terrazzo. I'll have better elevators. They won't. With me, you don't have to move out. They're gonna have to move out. Under their scenario everybody had to leave the United Nations; rent office space; big trouble; hard to get in Manhattan; and then come back”. I was gonna do it everybody in place, right? Everything was better! And…I never heard from them! I never heard from them! And then, the last…next time I heard of them was a few years later, when the thing was totally out of control, and it's cost a fortune, and all that.
Well, the same thing is true…with…our country. Our country, we will spend less money, but we'll have better roads…! ...better airports...! You know, our infrastructure is…a disaster. We spent, in Iraq, which was a horrible decision to go into Iraq! Okay? Remember…you know that. I mean, I hope you know that…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. And I should get points for vision,! Because I said right at the beginning, “don't go into Iraq, you’re gonna destabilize the Middle East”. We spent two trillion dollars in Iraq, and now it's much more than that. But two trillion dollars. That was as of…as of two years ago. Thousands of lives. Wounded warriors, who I love, all over the place. Okay!? We have nothing! We have nothing! We have to start rebuilding our country! We've got to knock the hell out of ISIS! And knock them out, and knock them out like you've never seen anybody get knocked out.
But we have to get back to rebuilding our country. Our country is a mess. Our roads, our bridges…; you know, 40 percent of our bridges are in danger! I mean, you know what danger means! Danger means like you go over. And you've seen collapses…of bridges! We have tremendous infrastructure problems.
And by the way, wouldn't it be great to have a great builder in charge of like a country that has to spend billions, and billions, and trillions on infrastructure? …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS. Cause I am! I mean, what I do…; you know, I'm…I'm building The Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue. And we're…way ahead of schedule, and under budget. We're two years ahead of schedule! I actually said to my daughter, “let's not say two years, cause it doesn't even sound believable”. We’re actually two years…under schedule, ahead of schedule, and under budget. And it's right on Pennsylvania Avenue. And I like it, because this way if I don't make the White House, I'll still be living on Pennsylvania Avenue…-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. 100 percent.
But we're under budget. Ahead of schedule. It's gonna open up September of this year. We're supposed to open September in two years from now. And it's gonna be one of the great hotels of the world. Maximum job, unbelievable…; it's gonna be one of the great hotels of the world. That's what we need. That's the thinking we need in this country. That's the thinking we need in this country.
So, I tell the people, and they say, “well, what would be the difference like with the military?”.
I say, “here's the story: we'll spend less money. We’ll have better equipment. We'll have much happier people. Everybody's gonna love it. We're gonna be stronger, better…just like the story with United Nations. What's the difference? Four billion versus 500 million. Well, the 500 million the United Nations, would have marble floors…instead of…frankly, parquet…-THE CROWD LAUGHS-…but…but they'll have…marble floors…; they'll have…everything will be the best. Same thing with us. We can do that! I mean, we can do that! We have the wrong systems in place,. We have tremendous corruption. We have tremendous, tremendous corruption.
You look at what's going on in the veteran's administrations. One of the most corrupt enterprises that I've ever seen, okay? We can straighten it out. We're gonna make…that's why Al. is one of the most respected vets in the country. And he was up in New Hampshire, and we got…tremendous support up in New Hampshire for the vets. I mean, beyond…what anybody even came close. But , they have confidence in me!
We've gotta take care of the vets! Our vets are being decimated. Our vets are being treated worse than illegal immigrants, in many cases. It's true! It's true! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They get things…they get things that…our vets…our vets can't even think about getting. I mean, the whole thing is…crazy. I mean, think of yourselves. They go to doctor’s offices , [and] they have four-day, and five-day waits before they can even see a doctor in some cases. Four…! Can you imagine [that]… “you! …you!” …-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT PEOPLE IN THE CROWD-…go into a doctor's office, and they'll say, “you have a five day wait”. That doctor is in trouble. Is that a correct statement? I mean, you know, as an example!
So, we've gotta take care of our vets. We've gotta take care of our military. We're gonna make trade…; we're gonna bring back our jobs. We’re…bringing them back! And we're gonna have our greatest people! But we're bringing them back. We have the greatest negotiators. We're bringing their jobs back from China, many of them! I wanna see Apple computers made in the United States! What good does it do when they're made in China!? What good does it do!? …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
And we have to get them to stop devaluing their currency! And remember this, we have the cards . Because we have this pot of gold, uh…that's not such gold anymore, by the way. You know, we owe China one point seven trillion dollars. We owe Japan, 1.5 trillion dollars.
How about Japan? They make cars…[the] biggest boats I've ever seen. They come pouring off these massive boats from Japan. Just pouring. We give them practically nothing! You talk about trade! They do these cars…; you've never seen…ships like this. [They’re] so big! I was in Los Angeles, recently. And the cars are pouring off the ships, from Japan. So they sell us millions of cars, we sell them like nothing! We give them nothing by comparison! Where's the fairness there, folks!? We need to bring…smartness back to our country. We need to bring…negotiation back to our country. We need to bring honesty back to our country! We need…to…get…deals that are great. We have to bring our manufacturing back.
Uh…recently a friend of mine ordered the Komatsu tractors from Japan. He's always ordered…a big excavator, [a] big…company. He always orders…Caterpillar. But he said, “I couldn't do it!”. He felt badly! I could see! Why…I said, “so what's your problem?”.
He said, “I feel guilty because I ordered Komatsu tractors”. They're from Japan. He said, “Donald they've so devalued the Yen…that I owed it to myself, and my family, my wife…; I owed it to my employees…to buy! I bought it for much cheaper!”.
“What's the difference in the equipment?”.
He said, “Caterpillar is better, but not that much! I mean, I…I can't…I had no choice!”. He said…so he bought Komatsu equipment.
Well, that's what's happening to us. We're being outsmarted by very smart people, and we don't have the people! It's like…uh…the New England Patriots playing some high school football team! We don't have…we don't have the people…in place! We don't have the right people…that are doing this! This is like a great surgeon! This is like…you need somebody that's incredible! This is not easy stuff! These people have it naturally.
When I take Carl Icahn, I’d say, “Carl, take a look at the Chinese trade deal”. I got the greatest guy! You understand that! I mean…and he doesn't want money! He doesn’t want anything…! He’d…love to do it! I mean, he'd love to do it! So, we're going to make a lot of changes, if…we get him. We're gonna make our country rich again.
A woman came up to me. She said, “Mr. Trump, that doesn't always sound nice”.
I said, “look, 19 trillion…”. We just made that horrible omnibus budget. You saw that deal. [It] Took like…two hours! They…I never saw a deal go so fast! Obama got everything he wanted. You know, Obama's a lousy negotiator except when it comes to negotiating with the Republicans. Is that right? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. He's a terrible negotiator! But with the Republicans, he gets whatever he wants! You look at it! He got…in that deal, he got so much…! He got money to bring in the migrants from Syria…who we can't take! Cause we don't know…who they are, where they are, where they come from! We'll do a safe zone! And we'll have the Gulf states pay for it. Not us! We don't wanna pay! But we'll have the Gulf states! They're not putting up any money! They have so much money…; Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, when the oil price was high. Now they make half, okay? Not so bad.
But…and think of Saudi Arabia! We protect Saudi Arabia! They were making a billion dollars a day. They have more money than anybody…and…we lose money. I mean, we rent military areas, [and] we paying rent! And without us, they would have been gone years ago! I mean, who's thinking about this!?
Japan. We protect…Japan. Okay. But here's the problem. So we protect Japan…[we] lose a fortune by the way. We protect Japan. If we're attacked Japan, doesn't have to do anything. If Japan is attacked, we have to be in World War three…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Okay? I mean, who's doing this stuff!?
So we protect Germany! Germany is a behemoth. An economic behemoth. It's being destroyed by…what Merkel has done there…! And what she has done to Germany…!? I have friends from Germany. They're leaving Germany! They're leaving Germany! These are people who were so proud a year ago…of being in Germany…being German people! They were so proud [that] they used to brag!
I said, “[are] you still proud?”.
“Not so proud”:
They're leaving Germany! They're moving to other countries! What she's done…! I don't know what happened to her! I thought she was a terrific…leader! And…I don't know, maybe she got carried away with herself. I don't know! Tremendous…trem…like…tremendous crime!
You look at Sweden the other night! Did you see what happened and Sweden the other night!? Sweden! Sweden does have crime! They're going around…it's…a disaster!
You look at Brussels! I was in Brussels 20 years ago…; Brussels! Beautiful Brussels! It's like an armed camp! They had to cancel New Year's Eve…because of…horrible, horrible threats of massive crime! We have to get smart, folks! And we can't be so politically correct! “Oh, that's not a nice thing to say. That's not nice…!”…-MR. TRUMP MOCKS THE POLITICALLY CORRECT PEOPLE AND THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. And actually, a lot of people, and maybe it happened to a certain extent in New Hampshire. They thought I'd get 27 [or] 28 percent…[and] I ended up getting 36 [or] 37 percent. And I think what happened [is that] a lot of people said…; you know, the poller goes up to Trump… “well, would you vote for Trump?
“No, no, no!”.
But then they get in the booth, “I want Trump! I want Trump!”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. It's true! We might poll higher!
So…so I love this place. I think…I have so many friends that live here. And I have…uh…such great relationships here. And I've been here a couple of times, where I…I was…you know, at the place I actually played. And it was…it's fantastic. But…we have a country…that has such potential. We have a country that is…so great. We can make it truly…and right now it's got a tremendous headache. And I’ll…I'll tell you. If Hillary Clinton gets in, or this guy, Bernie, [who] wants to tax you 95 percent…; if he gets in, everything's for free, except for the people that have to pay tax. And you know what happens to those people? They leave! It's like the companies. The companies are leaving now because the taxes are too high.
My tax plan brings the corporate taxes way down. It has to! Cause the companies are leaving! When you lose Pfizer! How good a company is Pfizer!? They're moving! It's gone! It's…they’re in Ireland! They're moving to Ireland! They're moving cause the taxes are too high. And they couldn't get their money back in! They moved to get their money.
But, I'm just saying this. We have tremendous potential…as a country. Tremendous. I love this country. I love South Carolina. I love it. I love the people. The people are incredible people.
Saturday is so important, to get out and vote. We’re gonna turn it around. And…and believe me, it's ‘we’. It's not ‘me’. I'm like a messenger! This is why! They write…; last week, the cover of Time magazine, wrote the most incredible story…; I don't normally say ‘incredible story’. If there’s one word…I hate it. Right? But…but this is the most incredible…; they talked about [the fact that] this is a movement that's going on! With all with us. With us! Not the Bernie thing. We get…far bigger crowds than Bernie. We get everything bigger than Bernie. And Bernie I think is gonna fizzle. Because eventually, although…it’s gonna be interesting, what happens to Hillary, with the emails. Because she should be…; what she did is a disgrace, okay? What she did is a disgrace…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
One thing I liked in the poll that came out, USA Today today, it said I'm leading by a lot. It was a great poll. [A] national poll. And it said I beat Hillary. And I beat Bernie very easily. And head-to-head, so that's…it. That's…always nice…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But I do it in a lot of polls.
But the theme is make America great again. And I'll tell you, we can make it greater than ever before. Let me just tell you: if I get elected, we're gonna start winning again. We're gonna win on trade…; we're gonna win at the border…; we're not gonna have the Mexican officials going over and seeing the Pope and saying, “you know, Donald Trump is a bad person! He's a bad person! He wants to stop people from walking freely across the border!”.
And…and the Pope doesn't know this. I mean, the Pope…is told this! I mean, I don't even blame the Mexican officials for trying to get away with it! But, I don't think they're gonna get away with it, okay? Because well wise to them. We can't lose 58…billion…dollars a year in deficits.
So I just say this: we're gonna start winning again. And we're gonna make America great again. And I appreciate it very much that you are here. I love you people. [You are] special people.
Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you very much…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Thank you.
