VIDEO Nº: 135
TITLE:135. FNN FULL Donald Trump LIVE Rally Columbus Ohio 3/1/16
DATE OF EVENT:01/03/2016
RELEASE DATE:01/03/2016
DURATION:00.42.47 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full 
Nº OF WORDS:8032
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Wow! Thank you! [It’s] so fantastic. Well, you know, I love Ohio. I have a long history with Ohio, because…you probably read. I worked in Ohio when I was young, on a job…and it was really my first successful job! It was a job…you’re very young…and, it was Swifton Village, Cincinnati, Ohio. The Queen City. Great place…-THE CROWD CHEERS.
And my father and I bought it. And I moved out here, and I stayed out here for the summers, and…it was a really amazing experience. We bought it. It was a failed job. It had 1194…apartments. And we bought it…it was…we bought it for almost nothing. And we sold it for a lot of money. [It] was a great experience. I mean, it was a great experience. That's like sinking the first putt. You know, you feel good about yourself.
And my father said, “boy, you did a great job!”.
I said, “dad, I'm gonna do a good job always. Don't worry about it”. But…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…I always loved it. I always loved Ohio. And I loved that experience. It was such a positive experience. And…and, so great.
I wanna congratulate…; first of all, you have a great coach. How about…Urban Meyer. How about Urban!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And a great football team. And you're going to have a great season. So, you're gonna have a good time. And…he's somebody that said such nice things about me. And…I don't know if he endorsed me or not, but he said awfully nice things about me. And I'm gonna have to meet him, I think. Right? I have…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…I have to meet him. But he's an amazing guy. I mean, when you think, you come from one school, and you have such success. And then you come to Ohio State, and you have some success; you just don't see that. That's called talent. That's what we need in our country! We need talent! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, this all began…on…June 16th. Standing in New York City, at Trump Tower, and…standing with my wife. We did a beautiful job last night on Anderson Cooper, I have to tell you…-THE CROWD CHEERS. She did a great job.
And, standing there…-A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING ABOUT THE WALL-…oh, we’re gonna build the wall, don't worry about it. Oh, we’ll build the wall…-THE CROWD CHEERS. That wall is getting taller with every interview…these ex-Mexican presidents do. [It’s] getting taller, [and] taller! It's getting up there, I'll tell you what.
Did you ever see such anger!? The ex-Mexican president…oh, I like my plane better than that, right? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. Did you ever see such anger!? You know, it's very interesting. I have to…uh…I have to…let's get to this for one second, because…the anger…of…Vincente Fox! The ex-president of Mexico, [it] was unbelievable. And to think that…and he used a horrible word! Can you imagine if I would have used that word? Oh! Front-page, headlines…! Nobody even talks about the word he used! I keep saying, “what about his foul language!? What about…!? They don't write it. Boy, would they write it if I said that word! I won't…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY-…I won't repeat the word, cause they'll make a big deal out of it.
But he used horrible language. But more importantly, he was so angry! And the reason he was angry wasn't the wall, that you bring up. The reason he was angry is that…nobody ever speaks to these countries with authority! We're like the whipping post, where everyone takes, takes, takes…-THE CROWD CHEERS.
And, essentially, he said, “how dare you speak to Mexico like this!?”. Now, just so you understand, I love the Hispanic people. I just won in Nevada, as you know. We won all of them! But, I just won…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…in Nevada. And they did a poll of the Hispanics. And I won by…a lot over second place! By a lot! We're gonna win the Hispanic vote. We're gonna do great, because I'm gonna bring jobs back from China! I'm gonna bring jobs back from Japan! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. I'm gonna be…we're bringing our jobs back, folks. We're bringing our jobs back.
But, the anger…the anger of…ex-president Fox, it's almost like… “how dare you?”. They've gotta get used to it. They've gotta get used to it, folks, because…we're gonna reverse the tables.
And you know what!? The interesting thing? We will have a better relationship with Mexico than we have now! We don't have a good relationship. Remember sergeant Tahmooressi, who was in…? And he was in jail we couldn't get him out. I helped him a lot after he got out. I helped him a lot, actually! But we couldn't get him out! …-MR. TRUMP TURNS AROUND BECAUSE OF AN UNIDENTIFIABLE NOISE. All right, that looks nice! Don't we love it!? It's always nice…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
We couldn't get him out of jail, and we had a president that I don't think he made one phone call. I don't think he made a phone call, and he was in there for…a long…long…period of time!
So, we're gonna have…we're gonna get the respect of other nations. We lose, as an example, with Mexico, 58…billion…dollars a year on trade. So, we have a trade deficit…we have a trade deficit of 58…billion. And when they say the wall, when they say the wall, these politicians come up to me, and they say, “Donald, you don't really mean Mexico's gonna pay for the wall!”.
I said…I said, “you don't understand. 100 percent!”.
They go, “no way you're gonna get them to pay…!”. They used to say ‘no way you're gonna build the wall’. Now the other day I hear this Rubio…you know, I call him…-THE CROWD YELLS ‘LIGHTWEIGHT RUBIO!’. You’re right. I call him…I call him ‘little Marco’. Little Marco. He said I had small hands! Actually I'm 6.3, not 6.2. But he said I had small hands! They're not small! Are they!? I never heard…I never heard that one before!
I've always had people say, “Donald, you have the most beautiful hands!” …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Right? No, I’ve never heard that one. But that's politicians. You know, they do this stuff. And he wanted to be Don Rickles, and it hasn't worked, cause he's gone down! You know, he's gone down.
But…but I see this guy, and he's doing a thing: “we will build a wall!”.
I said, “where did this come from, all of a sudden!?”. And the same thing with Ted Cruz! I call him ‘lying Ted’. “We…will build a wall!”, he says. Lying Ted. “We will build a wall”. Anything you do…; you take a position, and then you see him on television, when he's not around you, and he says exactly the opposite of what your position is!
The only advantage I have…is that we have a big, big speaker out there. We have a lot of people. So, we can call people when they lie! But these politicians are bad! I mean, they lie, and lie, and…we're gonna get it straightened out, folks. We don't have to lie. We don't have to lie. We don't have to lie…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…so, it all began on June…it all began on June 16th, the famous escalator ride. And I said to my wife, “we gotta do it...”…-MR. TRUMP STOPS DUE TO A SUDDEN NOISE-…oh good, they're friends. Thank you. Thank you. I was hoping it was a protester, so the cameras would show what a big crowd we have…-THE CROWD CHEERS. Oh, so man…terrible! So many false stories! So many!
The only way they show our crowds is when there's a protester. And sometimes, I'm gonna have to start doing this…; would anybody like to play protester today? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. I'd like to put him right in the corner of that room; right in the corner…; you know, for a long time I said, “oh, the cameras are very modern. They don't move!”. Because my wife would always say, “you never show the crowd!”. And then one day, we had a protester, and those cameras, they bend like a pretzel. Believe me! They…move! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Because it's negative. Because I'll tell you what. The media is the most…dishonest…! These are worse than politicians! They are the most…-THE CROWD BOOS-…it’s true. It’s true. They’re the most…dishonest…people that you'll deal with. They know what's going on.
A story was written last night, from a failed paper…in Iowa! Can you believe it? And a…a…failed…paper…in Iowa: And it was a story of having…me, having people evicted from one of my rallies. And I was in the airplane! I was…I had nothing to do with it! I show up; I didn't even know anything happened! And they wrote this vicious story; and it gets picked up by everybody. And this is a paper that's an enemy of ours, with a writer who is horrible. And they pick it up all over the place! And they said, “Donald Trump ordered them out”. I was in my plane! I was traveling…that…I didn't even know these people!
They are such liars…! They are disgusting…! Well, I'm telling you. Most of them…-THE CROWD CHEERS. No, you have…you have about 20 percent of them that are good. Ten percent. By the way, I have to say, actually, ten percent are actually great. 20 percent are good, but for the most part…the worst.
So, here's something, some good news. This just came out. I have to tell you before we get to the escalator. CNN, Trump, 49…-THE CROWD CHEERS. Lightweight Senator Marco Rubio, 16…-THE CROWD BOOS. Lying Ted Cruz, 15! …-THE CROPD BOOS. Good guy…he is a good guy, Ben Carson, ten percent…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. Over here, Kasich…-THE CROWD BOOS. I won't…we'll save that for after tonight, right? We'll be back, and we'll be saving it for after tonight. Cause I'll tell you what. We really…wanna win Ohio! We're gonna win Ohio. And…-THE CROWD CHEERS VIVIDLY-…and we’re up!
You know, the beauty is we're up quite a bit against him. He’s you're sitting governor. And I always say, and I say it respectfully, and I like him. But it helps when…your state happens to hit oil. Do you agree? Does that help? It does help. You hit oil. Fracking is a great thing. What's happened with fracking…; what's happened with energy…; and what's going on with energy is a great thing.
Now, in Florida, I think I'm like 21 points up…on a senator that never shows up! He hasn't shown up to vote! He's got the worst…voting…record in the United States Senate. And, I'll tell you, honestly? He's defrauded…the state of Florida, because he got elected and he doesn't vote, he doesn't do anything! He's passed nothing! Ted has passed nothing! Ted will filibuster, but you gotta do more than filibuster! You gotta get people to do something! You gotta get bills passed! You gotta get other people…to go in, and pass good legislation! That's gonna be positive! Not just stand up there, talk…; 99 guys are watching him, and they're saying, “when is this guy gonna get the hell, so we can get back?”. You gotta get people…somehow…to work together.
Our country is so…unbelievably…divided. It's divided politically; it's divided among white, and black…; it's divided in so…many…ways.
We're gonna bring our country together, folks. We're gonna bring it together. We have to bring it together…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And people don't know that about me! I bring people together. You know, when I say that, sometimes I'll get a snicker from the wise guys in the press. It can't get worse than it is right now.
You have freaking American youth, 59 percent unemployment! You have African Americans in their prime…hot…just so…badly treated in terms of unemployment! We're gonna bring this…this country of ours, we're gonna bring it together. You know our theme is make…America…great…again, right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Well, honestly, we wanna make it great for everybody! We wanna make it great…for everybody. And we're gonna do it. We're gonna bring it together.
So, when I came down, I said to my wife, and let me tell you. It takes guts to run for president. This is…I’m not a politician! I never did…; I've employed…tens of thousands of people over the years. I've employed thousands and thousands of Hispanics! That's why I'm doing well with Hispanics! They understand! They understand what's going on!
But…and I'll give you an example. The United States government…has a job…that they're putting out to bid. They put it out two years ago. Oh, I hear noise. Hello! Hello! Is that a friendly noise, or an unfriendly noise? All right. Goodbye, darling! …-THE CROWD BOOS. Oh, [it] never ends. [It] never ends. [It] never ends. That's all right. That's all right. That's all right. Goodbye! By the way, do we love our police!? They do such a great job! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They do such a good job! They are so underappreciated…!
And do we love our vets!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. We're gonna take care of our vets, folks! And we're gonna rebuild our military…; it’s totally depleted. We're gonna rebuild our military…bigger, better, stronger. And nobody's gonna mess with us again, folks. Nobody! Nobody! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. Nobody.
Thank you. Thank you. Do we love each other in this room!? It's love! It's love! …-THE CROWD CHEERS.
Hey! A friend of mine…a friend of mine comes to see me, and he's a very, very successful guy. And I was speaking in front of a crowd of 21,000 people! The other night at Alabama, we had 35,000 people in a football field. And he was there, it was a smaller crowd, 21,000, right? And…he's a really successful guy. Somebody that you all sort of would have heard of from a business success. And he said, “how do you do that!?”. He said, “if I have to speak in front of ten people, I can't sleep at night”.
I said, “let me tell you something. There is such…love…in those rooms, and those stadiums, and those areas that I speak, [that] it's actually easy! There's love! It's like…it's like a family! It's love!”. It really is. It really is. It's love.
So, when I came down that escalator I said, “you know what? Let's just do it”. And I took a deep breath, I went, “whoa!”. And I came down with Melania. And…I looked at what was going on with that horrible, horrible, horrible Iran deal. You look at that horrible deal…; we give 150…billion…dollars, [and] we get nothing! We get nothing! …-THE CROWD BOOS.
And you look at our trade deals…they're the worst ever, ever, ever! And we can't go on like this! We cannot continue to lose hundreds…of billions…of dollars, with various countries. China being the worst abuser. And I like China! I have the biggest bank in the world from China, [as] my tenant. I sell tens of millions of dollars worth of condos to Chinese people. I get along great with China! I mean, this…they…they just…they're killing us! Their leaders are too smart for our leaders!
In Mexico, their leaders are too smart for our leaders! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND CHANTS ‘TRUMP’ REPEATEDLY! APPARENTLY, THERE IS A PROTESTER. Which is this group here? Hello…; get them out of here! Get them out! Out! Out! Out! Out!
 Is the Trump rally the most fun!? Seriously! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. Right?
You know, I had two yesterday. I had two yesterday. We went to Virginia. We went to Georgia. We had…we had two great rallies. Big, big rallies! Lots of people. Thousands and thousands of people! The first one had quite a few protesters. We had to stop about three or four times.
The second one had none! The second speech I made was better. But you know what? It was more boring! I like the first one more! I love my protesters! We love our protesters, right!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. So, anyway.
But, so what's happening is…China, this year, will…we’re gonna have a trade imbalance…we're gonna have disruptive. I call it ‘disruptive’, because that's what it is. But we're gonna have a trade deficit of 500…billion...dollars, folks! It's not happening anymore! It's not gonna happen anymore! They've taken our jobs; they've taken our money; they've taken our manufacturing; they've taken our base; [It’s] not gonna happen anymore!
And then I have these guys…I'm a free trader. But free trade has to be smart trade. It has to be equal trade. We can't let these people, these so-called eggheads…and by the way, I guarantee you, my IQ is much higher than theirs, all right? You know…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…somebody said…somebody said the other day, “yes, well the intellectuals…”.
 I said, what's intellectual? I'm smarter than they are! Many of the people in this audience are smarter than they are! ‘The intellectuals’, you know? Like they're smart people. These are the same people…the pundits. The pundits. I could tell you the…every one of them. I mean, I know them so well…; I hate to mention their names, cause you give them credit. But, no matter what you do, it's never…like…up to them. The pundits.
So they're saying, “Trump will never run”. Then…I run.
Then they say, “oh! This is…terrible”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Then they say, 2Trump will never sign form A”. That's where you sign your entire life away. I signed form A.
Then they say, “well Trump will never put in his financials, because maybe he's not as successful as people think”. And then I put in almost a hundred pages on time. I didn't even ask…; They said, “he'll ask for delays, delays, delays…!”. I put them in, I had the accountants working almost 100…working around the clock. And the numbers turned out to be far, far, far bigger…! Better assets…; I have the best assets in the world! Very…little…debt! Tremendous cash flow. And I don't say that in a bragging way! I say it because that's…the kind…of thinking…that our country needs! We need that kind of thinking! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 So, I built a great company. An incredible company. And then I built…so much! Then we had The Apprentice! I mean, one of the most successful shows in…decades on television! [A] Tremendous show! Tremendous success. By the way, NBC renewed me. They wanted to renew me for many, many…episodes. Because we did great last year. After 14 seasons it was doing great. And I said, “I can't do it”.
Steve Burke of Comcast came up. A…a great guy. The boss. He said, “Donald we wanna renew you”.
I said, “no, Steve. I'm running for president. I can't do it”. You know, you're not allowed to do it, because of equal time laws. I said, “Steve…”, I still love it! I said, “Steve, I'm running for president”.
“No, you're not. No, you're not”. And they renewed it!
I said, “Steve, I'm not doing it!”.
He said, “I don't think you're gonna run”. Everybody said I don't think you're gonna run. And then I ran. And we picked Arnold Schwarzenegger to be the guy. Hey, how will Arnold will do compared to Trump? …-THE CROWD BOOS. I don't know. You gotta be very quick! You gotta be…; look at the people in the back of the room! Look at that! We can't…the people are still pouring in. Do you think they'll write that!? They'll never write that! …-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS.
They'll say, “Donald Trump came to Ohio today, and he spoke in front of a gathering”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS .This is no gathering! This is one hell of a big hangar! This place is packed! This place is packed! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…so I give up a lot! I mean, I give up a two-hour primetime show; I give up deals; I give up a lot of things!
I've written many books, bestsellers. Many bestsellers. The Art of the Deal is the number one selling business book of all time. And by the way, Barack Obama, did not read it. John Kerry did not read it. Believe me. They did not read it.
So, I came down the escalator and I said…a little thing…about trade. And I said, “this is gonna be about trade”. And then during the…speech I said, “illegal immigration”. I started talking about it. Believe me, folks, illegal immigration has turned out to be one of the really big factors in this entire campaign. You wouldn't even be talking about it, you wouldn't be hearing about it, if I didn't take all that heat, and mention that in my first speech…THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUD.S You wouldn't even be talking about it.
And then, it turned out…then it turned out, that illegal immigration is a much bigger deal than people understood! The crime is incredible. And then you see Kate! Beautiful Kate in San Francisco, gets shot in the back! By a guy that's been here five different times, he came over, [and] probably…a lot more than that.
And then you see other things. Jameel, whose father is an incredible guy, who I got to know. He became a friend of mine. Jameel! [He was] Going to have a football scholarship; [a] great quarterback; [a] great student; [he was] gonna get a scholarship to the best colleges! And he's a young boy. And he gets shot in the face. Three or four times in the face! Going home to see his father. Walking on a sidewalk. Not…touching anybody! Not talking to anybody! This great, young man…;
And you see the…veteran, a female, 65 years old. [She was] raped, sodomized and killed, in Los Angeles. And you know what? And you say…and that's three. There are hundreds! It's out of control!
And then you see what happens with the economy! And you see what's going on with drugs, pouring through our system. And drugs, in New Hampshire…you know, I won New Hampshire. And I made…I made a commitment to the people of New Hampshire. I said, “I'm gonna stop heroin from coming in”. It's coming in right through…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're gonna stop it! We're gonna stop it all over the country. But I made a commitment. I’ll tell you what: New Hampshire, [they are] incredible people. Because they sort of got me started. We go to New Hampshire…I wasn't favored to win. We won in a landslide. Then we go to…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…right?
Then we go to South Carolina, where the Evangelicals are…unbelievable…people. Unbelievable…people. We go to…we go to…right? We go to South Carolina, and what happens? I win in a landslide! What happened!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I won…with every…single…group. Every single state, I won! I won with every…single…group.
So we go to Nevada…same thing. We won with…the rich! We won with the less than rich! We won with the highly educated; we won with…the less than educated. And I always say, I love those people. I love them. I do love them! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And we won with everything. We won with men; we won with women; we won with evangelicals; we won with the military; we won with the vets! We won with everybody.
And there's a movement going on! There really is! There's a movement going on.
Three weeks ago, Time magazine did the cover story on this movement. They say in the history of American politics…the history of the United States, there has never been anything like this that's happened. There's never! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…and I've been watching this Nikki Hailey, and…-THE CROWD BOOS.
So, from South Carolina, she's up and she's saying…if you remember her little speech, where she goes and said, “well, you know…”. She was referring to me, so I can practically use the name. But she said, “there's great anger!”, essentially on behalf of Donald Trump. And, “the people that are with Donald Trump”. And by the way, we have the most loyal people in the world. These people are incredible!
Every poll shows…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…every poll shows…I can do practically anything, maybe even anything, and nobody's gonna leave. Leave me if I do something bad though! That's okay. Don't worry. But I won't.
But they say they're the most loyal! Where we have this incredible percentage of people…! In fact, they said the other night on television [that] those people will never leave. Whereas other people, they'll leave like if you sneezed incorrectly. They'll leave. They’re gone! They’re gone!
But Nikki Haley said, “there's great anger! Great anger!”. And I said to myself, that's interesting! I think she's referring to me! And she's referring to the people, of which I think we have a majority, big, by far…in the country!
And so, what I did is during the debate, two debates ago, they said, “Mr. Trump, are you angry!?”.
Now, I was supposed to say, “oh, no, I'm not angry. I'm thrilled with the way the country is being run”. Isn’t it brilliant? Isn’t it brilliant?
We get…nothing. Right? We have…bad trade deals. We have…bad everything! Bad prisoner swaps. How about our famous prisoners’ swap? Five for one! Right? Five for one! …-THE CROWD BOOS.
We get a dirty, rotten traitor, [and] hey get five people that they want desperately. And remember this! Five people, at least, were killed…going after this guy…-THE CROWD BOOS.
We have a real unemployment rate well into the 20s. You know, it's a phony number! That number was developed…this number of five percent. That number, to get there, was developed by politicians to make them look good! Do you think I’d have a crowd like this if we didn't have tremendous unemployment?
Our economy stinks! China, and everyone else, is stealing our jobs!
Mexico…just took Carrier. You know all about Carrier, right?
I see it on television…two weeks ago. Wonderful people! They could be us! Wonderful people. 1,400, being told by some…executive, “we're moving to Mexico. Sorry, folks. You’re laid off”.
The devastation of those people…! Good product! The devastation of those people…was horrible…to watch it. And I said to people…you know, I'm a free trader, and to be conservative, you're supposed to be a free trader. But you gotta be a smart trader! I don't wanna say I'm…highly anything anymore. I say, “I common sense conservative”. Is that okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Because…because these so-called conservatives, these…you know, hardliners, “Donald Trump is calling for a tax on goods coming into our country!”.
Well, if China taxes us, which they do big league, and nobody even…talks about it, then I'm gonna tax them in the same amount. Okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. All right?
Now, what I'm gonna do, and I'll tell you. We're losing a lot of our businesses. Pfizer is leaving. You…massive Pfizer. The big pharmaceutical company. They're moving, you heard about it. They're leaving our country! Thousands and thousands of jobs! They're moving to Ireland. We're gonna stop all of it.
But here's the story. Here's a story. Take Carrier, nice and simple. And by the way, United  Technologies [is] part of Carrier. The whole thing is a disaster. They're moving people…; so…many…people moving to Mexico! We gotta stop it! We're not gonna have any jobs left! Mexico is the new China. Remember this: I love the Mexican people! I love the Hispanic people! But their leaders are too smart for our leaders. Our leaders don't have a clue. Frankly, our leaders are stupid folks! They're stupid! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, here's what we're gonna do. And somebody will say, “he is not conservative!”. Because…there's only one way to stop it. We're going to…and I know it doesn't sound presidential. And I can pick one of my killer negotiators, cause I know the greatest in the world. Carl Icahn,  the great businessman just endorsed me. I have many other businesspeople endorsing me. They say I'm the only one that knows what I'm talking about, which is true. Because I deal with Rubio. I deal with Cruz. These guys don't know anything! They have no…clue [about] what's going on, I'm telling you!
So, I have a…the big business leaders. The great business leaders! The people that made billions. They don't want money. We have political hacks doing our negotiation! Here's what we're gonna do. I'd like to do it myself. I know it's not presidential. They're gonna say, “that is not presidential!”. I know I'm the president of the United States, and I call up the head of Carrier, and I start talking to him about…1,400 jobs.
The president's not supposed to be doing that, but I'll do it anyway, okay!? All right? Do you mind? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know what? It's too easy. I don't wanna give it…we're gonna have the greatest negotiators in the world. I know them all! I know the good ones…; I know the bad ones…; I know the underrated ones that are better than everybody and nobody knows who they are…! I know the ones that are highly overrated, that you think are good and [are] not good, or not great. Everybody's better than what we have.
You know, these are the biggest deals in the world. These are bigger than any company’s deals. These are…deals in the trillions, and trillions! Trans-pacific partnership [is] a disaster! It's a disaster! We're giving our country away. That's gonna be a disaster!
So, here's what I'm gonna do:
“The president, sir, is calling you”.
“The president of what?”.
“The President of the United States”.
“Oh, it's calling me”.
Now, here's the head of Carrier: “yes, Mr. president?”
“Whatever your name is, here's the story” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. “You just left 1,400 great people [that] have worked for you for many years; they’ve done a great job; they built up your brand; they've done a great job. And you can negotiate with them for wages and all that stuff. You can even move to another part of our country if you have to. But, let me tell you something: if you…don't move back, we're gonna have to talk!”.
And they're gonna say, “we…cannot do that, sir”. Okay. Good.
Here's the story: “we are gonna charge you a 35 percent tax…on every air-conditioning unit…that you send across the border…to the United States”…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLADUS. Every…single…one.
And I'll tell you what's gonna happen. If you have one of these lightweight guys, they’re brokers, essentially. I call them ‘brokers’. But they’re lobbyists, or they’re special interest guys, a lot of power. You see that in the debates, where the whole room was filled up with special interest! And I'm self-funding! I'm not getting anything from these people! So, I'm the only guy…; I had my wife and a few of my kids in the room! And I heard them clapping like crazy! But we have a room, loaded up with special interests and lobbyists.
So, here's what's gonna happen. With them…? They'll say…and they know it's a bad deal! But with them, they're gonna get a call, and that's the end of it. Carrier moves; Carrier bills; Carrier, that’s fine…; that's the end. And we…take the brunt of it.
But here's what's gonna happen with me: they're gonna call me. People are gonna call me, friends. I didn't take any of their money. I owe…I owe nobody. I owe nobody nuttin, folks. Nuttin! You know, n.u.t.t…i.n. …-MR. TRUMP SPELLS IT AND THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Nothing, nothing, nothing.
So here's the story. They're gonna call me and I'm gonna say, “I'm sorry”. They're gonna have people called me, I'm gonna say, “hey, I'm sorry. [It’s] not gonna happen, folks. [It’s] not gonna happen”.
And, within 24 hours, I will get a callback. Probably from the head of Carrier, and he's gonna say, “Mr. president, I'd like to inform you…that we are not gonna move out of the United States. We're gonna stay…where we are, or move to Ohio…! Or move to someplace else…!” …-THE CROWD CHEERSE AND APPLAUDS. “We'll move to Michigan…! We'll move to New York…! We'll move to someplace!”. As long as it's in the United States, folks. And that's what's gonna happen! As sure as you're sitting there.
Ford Motor Company is building a two and a half billion-dollar plant. I've been speaking about this for over a year! Two and a half billion. [Do] you know what that is on a one-story building? You have any idea how big…two and a half billion is…in Mexico? They're building a massive plant…to build cars, trucks, and parts. They're gonna sell them all over, but they're selling a lot of them into the United States.
Now, how does it help us for Ford to build a plant, close up factories in Michigan and other places, and have this massive plant? It doesn't. Okay? The only way, and I'm very good at this stuff. I went to the great Wharton School of Finance, which really is the best school in the world for this, but that's okay. Most people agree. [It’s the] hardest school to get into. I can tell you. But it's one of the great, great places. An…but you don't have to! If you didn't go to college, if you didn't go to high school, you're all smart! It's a horrible deal for us.
So, with Ford, I'd do the same thing! I'd say, “if you wanna move, that's okay. But you gotta pay a 35 percent tax”. And you know, honestly, folks? They're not gonna even think about it!
Now, I’ll be criticized. They'll say, “isn't that disgusting? He's not a free trader!”. Folks, we're losing…our…ass! We're getting killed! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're getting killed! We're getting killed! Our companies are just…we’re like the…we like the bully that just gets beat up by everybody.
We are losing millions of jobs. Millions! Not thousands! Millions and millions of jobs! We're gonna stop! We're gonna bring our jobs back from China! We're gonna bring our jobs back from Japan, where they sell us cars by the millions! …-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.  And we give them practically nothing! [Do] you wanna see a trade imbalance? Take a look at what we take from Japan, and what we give them back. It's a joke! Okay?
So, what a lot of people don't understand, and what I understand better than anybody…[is that] we have the cards! We have the cards! Because without us…they would have a depression the likes of which you've never seen. We have to…to a certain extent, untie ourselves with some of these horrible deals we've made. We've gotta make better deals, stronger deal, smarter deals…;
And you know what? China…and I do a lot of business with China. I've made a lot of money dealing against China! Not with them! Against them! Against them! But China…doesn't respect us. They make a fortune. We have rebuilt China. It's the greatest theft in the history of the world, what they've done to us. They've taken everything. Our money, our jobs, our manufacturing…;
Boeing is now building massive plants in China. Then they're gonna devalue their currency, and all of a sudden, in South Carolina…and in Seattle, and in the different places, all of a sudden they're gonna say, “well, we're not making too many planes”. They're gonna make them in China! I know exactly what's gonna happen! And they wouldn't have done the plant except when they made a big order from China! China said, “we're gonna order these 300 planes. But we want you to build a massive plant”. And I know what's gonna happen! Once the plant is built, they're gonna devalue their currency more. It's gonna be impossible…for the American people…to compete with that! And we're gonna lose all those jobs! [It’s] Not gonna happen, folks! We're not gonna let it happen! Okay? We're not gonna let it happen…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…so, nobody knows this stuff better than me. And believe me, we're gonna stop the outflow of our companies. We're really losing a lot. We have corporate inversions, where companies are going out to get cash.
You know, we have…two and a half trillion dollars, at least! I think it's double that number. That's a government number, and the government has no idea about numbers. We have two and a half trillion, at least, outside of this country. The Democrats agree we should bring it immediately back. The Republicans agree that we should bring…; everybody agrees! It's not like a healthcare, where they don't agree, or something of…; everybody agrees. Corporate inversion. Everybody agrees we should bring the money back. For years…they can't get an agreement! [Do] you know why? We don't have a leader. We don't have a president…; I could make that deal…in ten minutes! I get the Republicans, I get the Democrats! Without having to sign an executive order, by the way. Okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERES AND APPLAUIDS-…which is not the way it's supposed to work. So, what we need is leadership.
So, coming down…I said, “I'm gonna be so great on trade”. I will…be…the greatest…jobs…president…that God ever created. I will be. I will be. But then…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'm very focused on our security. And I really started much more so with the borders. But then, after the Paris attack, which was horrendous; and after the attack in Los Angeles; and the attack…all of these attacks! But after the attack in California, where the 14 people were killed…by two radicalized people…; they became radicalized. She radicalized him. Whatever the hell happened! They ended up killing their co-workers, and plenty of people…right now, [are] in the hospital, that are gonna be in bad shape for the rest of their lives, because these two horrendous…animals did that, okay? Animals!
Now, what happened with Paris…the toughest gun laws in the world. Paris. The toughest. You don't have a gun in Paris, unless you're a bad guy. Then you have a gun! You put a gun in your pocket, [and] nobody's gonna do…; you can't have a gun in Paris! You can't have a gun in France! The toughest…laws…they say in the world.
So what happens is, these thugs walk in, that they press called ‘the mastermind’. And I said , “stop calling him the mastermind. He's a dirty, rotten…”; I called him ‘the guy with the dirty hat’, right? The white hat! I said, “stop calling…!”. And you know, they really have! Because the big complaint is they're taking our youth…over the Internet.
When you start calling people masterminds, our kids come up…and they say, “dad, the mastermind! Oh, the mastermind! He's a brilliant guy! Mastermind!”. He's a moron, this guy…-THE CROWD CHEERS. I guarantee you this. I guarantee…and I said, “don't do it!”. And you know, the press has stopped using the term ‘mastermind’ now.
But they said, “the mastermind!”. And he's the leader. And they build them up like Robin Hood, right? “Oh, that's great…”.
What's…with it? They send in people to the various places in Paris. There are no guns on the other side. And they go, “boom! Boom! You, get over here! Boom! You get over here! Boom!”. 130…people…killed! Many, many people right now at the hospital, gravely, gravely wounded. So badly wounded that their lives…can never be the same.
Other people will be dying, from the wounds. It was a horrific scene. And since then…it's not that I've pivoted. You've pivoted me! And every poll that comes out, they like Trump best…on the military! They like Trump best with ISIS! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They like Trump best on border security!
And I think the reason is…I think the reason is because right from the beginning, nobody questioned the fact that I was the best on the borders. Nobody questioned [it]. And basically, what is this it's an extension of the borders.
Now, as you know, Sheriff Joe Arpaio, from Arizona…endorsed me last week! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. We don't get tougher on the border than Sheriff Joe, right? And he endorsed me. And Sarah Palin endorsed me last week! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. And Jeff Sessions, the great senator! Uh…uh…who’s…an incredible guy. He endorsed me! And there's nobody better on the borders than Jeff. I mean, everybody's endorsing. And it's been incredible!

I will say, Jerry Falwell Jr. has had so much to do…with my success with the Evangelicals…! And we're gonna work hard, because I will tell you. The Second Amendment is being chipped away. And I tell you this! If there were guns in Paris, or guns in California on the other side, where bullets went in the other direction, you wouldn't have had those people killed! It would have been very minor by comparison! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. And we're going to save our Second Amendment! It's being chipped away had at it. Chip, chip, chip! We're gonna save it!
And I'll tell you the other thing: Christianity is being chipped away, at very rapidly chipped away at. And we're gonna save it. And I've gotten such…incredible support from the pastors, and the ministers…! And I had a meeting! And the meeting was amazing. I said, “how many Christians do you think we have in this country?”. And it was sort of determined like 260…million! That's more than we have women, and it's more than we have men.
So, it's the biggest group! And yet, they're afraid to act. And I had it with them, because their tax-exempt status will be taken away because during…Lyndon’s…Johnsons…regime, or whatever you wanna call it, during his tenure, they…passed legislation, where the churches can't…let…political! And I think it's unfair! Why shouldn't they be allowed to?
And, I said to some of the really great pastors, that have been so incredible, and so supportive; uh…pastor Jeffress has been incredible. All of them! Pastor Paula White, she's been incredible. So many of them! I said to them, I said, “you know, in a way you have less power than a person walking down the street! Because you're afraid to do anything! And you can't really fight for Christianity, and all it stands for…because of some law that they take away your tax-exempt status!”.
We're gonna change that! We're gonna get rid of that legislation that was passed…by President Johnson…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna take care of it! And believe me, I will be doing it.
And just a little thing, but it's to me a very important. At Christmastime, we're gonna walk into stores, and we’re gonna be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again. Remember that. Just remember that…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, just to finish up. It's so…important. [It’s] so important that on the 15th you get out. Today's such a big day. And I shouldn't be here, because I shouldn't be thinking about this! I should be thinking about tonight! But Ohio is so important to me. Especially…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…especially the great…especially the great relationship that I've had. You know, being here, and…staying here, and…being here for summers. And…I loved it! [It’s] special! But I'm here because it is so important.
I'm gonna be back! I'll be back. We have a two-week period…-THE CROW CHEERS. But…winning Ohio is so important! It's gonna send…a signal like…nothing else. Winning Ohio is so, so important! So, we have to get it, but, let me just tell you.
Hillary Clinton…-THE CROWD BOOS-…Hilary Clinton does not have…the strength, or the stamina to become presiden. I'm telling you…-THE CROWD CHEERS. It's sure.
Do you ever notice? She goes to a meeting, and then you don't see her for five days? And then she goes to another, and everything set up: the interview, the people before they ask the questions…; we aren't doing that! But she doesn't have the strength, or the stamina to be…president. She doesn't have the strength or the stamina…to negotiate with the Chinese great trade deals. It won't happen.
She doesn't have the strength or the stamina to deal with Mexico. How about when Joe Biden apologizes to Mexico!? Hey, we love Mexico! …-THE CRWD BOOS. We love Mexico, but they're killing us on trade! And they're killing us at the border! And you know what? They should do something about it, because, frankly, they could stop illegal immigration without even building a wall! But we're building the wall anyway just in case. But I'm gonna get them to stop it, without even building a wall! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And then, we have a president a vice president go out and apologize to a guy…that used the worst word you can use…and he's apologizing! He's apologizing! And he's apologizing because he was angry at the United States when he's been ripping off the United States for years. It's not gonna happen anymore, folks! It's not gonna happen…THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
So…so, Hillary Clinton cannot do the job, number one. Number two, she shouldn't be allowed to do the job, because what she did…was a criminal act. She shouldn't be allowed to run! Okay!? She shouldn't be allowed to run! …-THE CROWD CHEERS VIVIDLY.
Now, polls are showing that I'm beating Hillary Clinton. Numerous polls have come out. And, in all fairness, I haven't even started on that. Yet, I only did…I only did four weeks ago, [do] you remember? She made a statement about me. She said, “Donald Trump is sexist”. And did I hit her! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. And believe me, I guarantee you her husband said, “don't ever do that again!” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. That was a rough…they had a rough weekend. That was a rough weekend.
But look, let me just tell you. We're doing great. [The] USA Today poll; the Q poll; a lot of polls, that…one of the FOX pollsters came out…and I'm beating Hillary…; but I haven't even started at Hillary yet. Hillary cannot make America great.
She was talking about something yesterday, “making America whole”. Whole! No, no, I don't want ‘whole’. I want ‘great’ again. I want ‘great’ again…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I don't want that.
I think I'll use that as a commercial. We'll make a split screen. She'll be saying, “we're gonna make America whole”, whatever that means. I don't think she knows what it means. “We’re going to make America whole”.ç
And I'll be saying, “we're gonna make America great again!”. I think we will…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, again. I love you, people. I love you, people. [You are] Special people. I love the people of this country. That's why I'm doing this! I didn't need this! I didn't need to do this! Okay? I didn't need…forget the money! I don't care about the money! This is a lot of work! Believe me!
Somebody said, “you have the greatest energy of any human being I've ever seen!”. But, this is a lot of work! But, I do it because…this country has been so good to me!ç
We're gonna bring back our country. We're gonna start winning again. We're gonna win, win, win! We're gonna win so much!
I jokingly say, “we're gonna win here! We're gonna win with trade…! We're gonna win with the military…! We're gonna win with Obamacare…! We're getting rid of it, we're repealing and replacing it! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
We're gonna win with Common Core! We're replacing it! We're getting rid of it! And we're bringing our education back! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna win it our borders! They're not longer gonna be Swiss cheese! We're gonna win, win, win!
You're gonna win so much [that] you're gonna call and say to me, “please, Mr. president, we're so tired of winning! We're so poor…! Please! Can't we lose a little bit…!?”…-THE CROWD CHEERS.
And I'm gonna say, “no way! No way! We're gonna make…America…great…again! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I love you! I love you, folks! Thank you! Thank you, and thank you to Chris Christie! Thank you, everybody! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! I love you!
