VIDEO Nº: 116
TITLE:116. Donald Trump Holds Rally in Sumter SC
DATE OF EVENT:17/02/2016
RELEASE DATE:18/02/2016
DURATION:00.41.10 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:7619
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Thank you! Wow! Wow!
Well, we're getting down to that final…you know, that little final day. Saturday. We have…to get out…and vote! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We have to! I actually think I know your state now better than you do. I have been all over the place for the last four days…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I know every blade of grass. I've flown over from here to there. But we've had a great time. Amazing people. Amazing people. Great place. Amazing people…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…I just wanna thank you all, because the spirit has been so incredible. The polls have come out and they're so…strong. But you have to assume we're tied, okay? Please, assume you're tied…because on Saturday you have to get out and vote! Right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, the…-A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT. I love you too. I love you darling. Believe me, I love everyone here. You know, it all starts make America great again. That's what it is. Somebody was asking me…-THE CROWD CHEERS. I did a big show today, and it's…uh…going to be on, actually in a little while, and…on network. And…I just said, they…you know, they said, “what's it all about?”.
I said, “honestly? It's about our theme. It's make America great again. We wanna be…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…we wanna be the smart people.
And it started, you know, on June 16th. I took a deep breath! I was with my wife. I was in Trump Tower, I took a deep breath. Cause it takes guts to run. You run for president, [and it’s] not easy. And all my life I've heard [that] if you’re a successful person, you can't run for office. And maybe they're right, and maybe the wrong, but so far they've been wrong, let me tell you…-THE CROWD CHEERS. And…and…you know, I saw what was happening with our country. I looked at that Iran deal, and how disgusting it was, and how horrible it was, where they get a 150 billion dollars…they get 150 billion…dollars. We…don't get our hostages. We give them the money; we get our hostages…; those hostages should have been back four…years…ago. Those hostages…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…should have never been taken hostage!
And, we get nothing out of it. And, when you get right down to it, what's going to happen? Iran is now taking over Iraq. We decimated Iraq. I didn't wanna go in there. I said it…years ago. I didn't wanna go in. You're gonna…I said, “you're gonna destabilize the Middle East”. It's gonna be unequals.
Right now, you have a situation where Iran has all the power. They're taking over Iraq. We decimated their army. [It] used to be the same, right? [Do you] remember? It was the same. They fight, fight, fight! [Then they] continued to fight. They’d rest. They’d fight. They’d rest. This went on forever! And now all of a sudden, Iraq is gone. Iran takes over it, [and] we spent two trillion dollars. Thousands and thousands of lives of great, great young people. Wounded warriors all over the place. These are great people…-THE CROWD CHEERS. Wounded warriors all over the place. And what happens? Iran is gonna walk into Iraq [and] take over the second largest oil reserves in the world, whereas they used to have to fight and they were never gonna get there. Now? They take it over.
And what…what I'm saying is this: we have to start…being…smart. We have to start being vigilant. We can't let people into our country that we have no idea who they are…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS AND THEN STARTS CHANTING ‘BUILD THAT WALL!’ REPEATEDLY. Oh, ‘build that wall’. We’re gonna build that wall! We're gonna build that wall. Amazing. Amazing…how…;
You know, the other day, one of the guys that are running against me…these guys…forget it. You know, forget it. But one of the people running…they all of a sudden…; my wife came up to me, [and] she said, “darling, I don't believe it! He said ‘we have to build a wall’”.
And they never said ‘building a wall’. And by the way, the politicians…it’s never gonna happen. You know that. We're gonna start that wall so fast…; before we even start the wall, we've got a lot of bad dudes. We have 179,000…illegal eminent…immigrants…criminals! Criminals! So, we have 179,000. We found this out the other day. Criminal…illegal…immigrants. These are people that have committed crimes, in many cases very serious crimes. They’re in the country! They go…they're all over the place. They're all over the place. We can't have it! We can't have it! We're not gonna have it…-THE CROWD CHEERS.
You know, so on June 16th I said, “come on, we have to do this!”. Because I watched Iran. I watched all of the problems that we're having. I watched the 19 trillion dollars that we have in debt, which is now going to 21 trillion dollars. It's gonna go 21 trillion dollars very soon. I look all the problems…I said, you know, this country has such…incredible…potential. [If] We have another four years of a Hillary, which is like an Obama clone…-THE CROWD BOOS-…it’s never gonna come back! You're never coming back! It's just not gonna work!
And, you know, speaking of Hillary, were the emails and all of the things…I think she's being protected. I think she's probably going to be the one to run! Because I think she's being totally protected. Do you ever noticed the way she's acting with Obama now?
“The president is right about this!”. “The president is right about that!”. “Oh, the president doesn't wanna do this”. “The president…”. I mean, did you ever hear her so solicitous!? I mean, you know why! Tell me why! That's right! She doesn't want to get indicted. That's right. That's right. No, I've never seen anything like it! I've seen her for years! I've never seen her like this. Everything he does is right! The fact is…look. She's got a problem. [A] Big problem. She…is in…his hands right now. If she went…; she's essentially another Obama clone. We can't have it. We can't have it. We're gonna make our country great again! We're gonna be so sharp, so smart…; we're gonna make the right deals, not the wrong deals. And it's gonna happen!
But it looks to me, right? It looks to me like Hillary's gonna get it. Wouldn't they have already done something if they were gonna do it? Are they gonna let her run, and then at the last moment…say you can't run?
So, she's being protected by the Democrats. It's a disgrace to General Petraeus and other people that have gone through hell…for doing much less than she did. I mean, what…what she did is far worse! Right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And a poll just came out, USA Today shows I beat Hillary Clinton. I'm gonna beat her so easily, but it just came out. Two minutes ago…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [I/we] Gotta beat her! [I/we] Gotta beat her! We gotta beat her.
And one of the things…I was just telling one of the really good anchors around town, from Fox, and…just in the back. I said, “we have to be unpredictable!”.
He says, “what are you gonna do with ISIS!?”. “What are you gonna do!?”. “What's gonna happen when…!?”.
And I said, “you know, I have a really…good…chance! We have a really good chance of…doing something here. And…winning! I really don't wanna tell you!”. [Do] you remember what I said ‘you have to hit the goil…the oil, and the gas…; and you have to hit the hell out of it. But you have to take the oil! You have to hit it hard!’. Well, nobody did that. I've been saying that for…what? Four years now?
Now, then you had Paris, and all of a sudden, France…hit the old! France did it! We didn't do it first! Now we're sort of doing it. But we're saying, “listen, we're going to hit. Anybody that's around, please move”. This is the craziest war I've ever seen! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. You know, if you're driving a truck, they give you a notice: “please, get out of the truck, we're gonna bomb you”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. No, the whole thing is crazy! And if they don't get out of the truck, they don't bomb! Do you think this sounds like the great general George Patton? I don't know, somehow…-THE CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. No, I don't think so. I don't think [so]. We need general…he says we need General Patton back…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY SPECIFICALLY IN THE CROWD. We need General Patton back quickly, let me tell you!
So, we have to be unpredictable a little bit. We have to be. We can't keep talking, “we're gonna do this; we're gonna do that…”. We have ideas. We're gonna do them. We're gonna have great people. We're gonna have great ideas. We're gonna have…;
I'll give you an example: trade. China…is taking so…much…of our…money. It's one of the great thefts of…in the history of the world! 505…billion…dollars this year, [that] we’re gonna have a trade deficit. Okay? …-THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY. Now, they send stuff to us. We send stuff to them. They don't pay tax. We can't get ourselves in there. They devalue their currency…they’re…they’re masters! I mean, they’re literally masters at devaluation. They make it impossible…for our companies…to do business over there. Impossible.
So, I have friends that are manufacturers. They can't get their goods into China. When they do get their goods into China…remember this, big tariff to pay. Big tax to pay. It's not fair. It's not an equal footing. And I get along great with China! I have the biggest bank in the world as a tenant. I sell condos…tens and tens of millions of thousands of condos…to people…; condos! To people…in China! I mean, how can I dislike them? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. I have the Bank of America building in San Francisco, which is great. I got it…through China! Through fighting…with China! I was…let me tell you, it was rough. Fighting with China…!
I have the greatest businessman of the world endorsing me. Carl Icahn endorsed me. He's [a] great businessman. We're gonna put our great business people. We’ve the best business people in the world! We're gonna put our great business people in charge of trade negotiations! We have…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…we have political hacks…doing work that they shouldn't be doing! They're not qualified. We have…remember this: we have the greatest in the world. We have political hacks. People the cave campaign contributions are doing it. Not gonna happen anymore. We're gonna have the greatest trade deals. We're gonna get rid of these trade deals.
Look at what's happened! You take a look at…we just won New Hampshire, you probably heard, right? Right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Big! In fact, if we could win by…that number, I would be extremely, extremely happy. I'll tell you that…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. I would be very…; but a lot of people think we're gonna win by more. But again, assume it's gonna be tight. Just go, go, go! Saturday, big day, go. In fact, some people already voted. Who already voted? Who already voted? South Carolina…? Cause it…over here you can vote early if you want. I mean, it's a…; but a lot of people have already voted. [Have you] You voted? …-MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES A MEMBER OF THE CROWD. You voted for Trump, I assume, right? Otherwise I’d say, “get the hell out of here!”…-THE CROWD CHEERS.
So, we're gonna have our greatest business people negotiating trade deals. It's so important. And…I talk about it all the time! Remember this: Mexico…Mexico…is the new China. Look at what's happening with Mexico. They have…a…right now, we have a trade deficit, with Mexico, this year of 58…billion…dollars. Nobody knows that!
So, when I'm on the stage with these politicians, these guys…hey, look, some of them I like. But some are just terrible. They lie! Oh, they lie! This guy, Cruz! He lies! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. I never saw a man lie like! No, look at what he did to Ben Carson! He puts out a rumor that…or hears something…he said, “Carson is out of the race!”. This is during the voting! “Don't vote for Carson, vote for me!”. And they’re grabbing people, and taking them…I mean, thousands of votes, in my opinion. And then after the election’s over, after the caucus is over, it's all gone…he said, “oh, uh…”. He calls up Carson, doctor…who’s a really good guy! Ben Carson. [He] calls him up and says, “I’d like to apologize”. Oh, great! That does a lot of good, right? …-THE CROWD MUTTERS. I don't think his apology was accepted, by the way.
Then he does a voter…violation certificate that looks like it just came out of the IRS! It's like this…incredible thing. And he scares people! It says, “you gotta…”; essentially, what it says, when you break it all down. ‘you gotta vote for Cruz in order to get rid of…your violation’. I mean, it's a fraudulent document! I never saw anything like it. These politicians are worse than real estate people any day of the week! They are the worst! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. They are the worst! No, they lie! And they lie! And they say things that are so untrue! Like, I'm pro-life, okay?
So, they go out and they say, “Donald Trump's not pro-life”.
Now, I heard about it! So, we…went in, and we checked he said that. And then they stop saying it. You gotta be strong, but they stop saying it. But what do you do!? They say that. I am…by the way, just a couple of things. Common Core? You know what's gonna happen. We're gonna end Common Core, we're bringing it back. You know that…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
[The] Second Amendment, nobody is stronger in the Second Amendment than Donald Trump. We're gonna protect our Second Amendment…-THE CROWD CHEERS. [We’re] gonna protect it. And…and most of you know me. And a lot of you have heard the speeches. [And] you heard what I said, [the] Second Amendment is a staple of what I say. And I'm…constantly talking about ‘Second Amendment, we’re gonna protect it. We’re gonna protect it…’. And this guy, Cruz, goes out, “Donald Trump doesn't like the Second Amendment”. What do you do!? What do you do!?
Now, the advantage I have over other people is…we have a speaker. We have a nice, big speaker…-SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT-… “what? I agree with you” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. “Thank you! Stand up and say it once again!” ...-THE MEMBER OF THE CROWD YELLS IT AGAIN BUT IT IS STILL INAUDIBLE. Yeah, I love this guy. Look at this guy! No, I'll…I’ll tell you. Even Rubio…! You know, Rubio…said the other day…[he] called him a ‘liar’. During the debate, “you're a liar!”. And you know, normally you don't hear that, from a politician to another politician. They like to protect each other, right? But, Rubio said, “you're a liar!”.
And I said, “that's good, because now I can call him a liar too” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. But he really…he really…; I'll tell you what, he really lies!
So anyway, we're doing great, but…our country is in trouble. And we need smart, tough people. We need people that are gonna make us rich again. We need people that are good, because we…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…we need people that…and you know? A woman, and I tell this story all the time. This woman came up, this incredible woman. She said, “I really like you Mr. Trump. I think you're gonna be a great president. But there's one thing. You always say ‘we're gonna make a country rich again’. That doesn't sound good”.
I said, “I know it. It sounds a little bit harsh. But can I be honest with you, ma’am? To make…our country…great…again, we have to make it rich again”. We're like a debtor nation. We owe all of this money. We owe a billion…; right now…to China, 1.7 trillion dollars. We owe 1.5 trillion dollars to Japan. [It’s] Sort of like…an incredible act. They come in, they sell their cars…they take our money, they take our jobs…and we owe them a trillion five. How do you figure…? It's like a magic acted reverse, right? Not good for us…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
With China, they do a number on us like…and I mean it! The single…greatest…theft…in the history of the world, what they've done to this country. And…and I like them! I like them! I'm angry at our politicians! The single…greatest…theft. But think of it! They come in…the jobs they take. The manufacturing they take. And by the way, be careful! They're forcing Boeing to build a big plant in China. And you people think you haven't made with Boeing? It happens very fast! All of a sudden, they devalue their currency, and then they do it again, and again, and again! And we have people that don't know anything about devaluation. The trade deal is gonna be a disaster. The trans-pacific pact. You know, it's gonna be a disaster. The partnership…; ‘partnership’…they make it sound like a partnership. You know what? [It] is a partnership for them, not for us!
And China is not in that deal. But China will come in the…through the back door. Over the years…China will go into that deal, coming through the back deal…door. And absolutely take advantage. But, the thing they don't cover in that deal…is so important! They don't…cover…devaluations! They don't cover monetary devaluations. And currency devaluations! And that's the primary…weapon…that China, and other countries, are using against us!
So how can you make a deal where a primary weapon is virtually not discussed? You can't do it! So, we have people that don't get it. That would be a disastrous deal, by the way. That deal is a deal that shouldn't happen. Be careful with Boeing! You have your Boeing. But watch what happens. When they start…you know, they're building a plant. A massive plant, in China. They were forced to build it, because…China's ordering planes. They say, “all right, but you have to build a massive plant”. All of a sudden, that plant will be big enough to do a lot more work. They'll devalue their currency. And you could say ‘bye-bye’ to your jobs with Boeing. [It’s] not gonna happen if I'm president. Because I know what to do. Believe me. [It’s] Not gonna happen…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [It’s] not gonna happen.[paa1] 
I mean, just be careful. Remember…-SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE-…“I love you too, darling”. Who is that? Ah! Beautiful! “Thank you, honey”. We had, last quarter, zero growth. Essentially, zero growth. You know, if China has six percent or seven percent, it's like they're gonna go into a depression. With us, we have zero. Everyone sort of just takes it for granted. We have zero…we're not growing. We're not growing!
The jobs reports are phony. Five percent unemployment. Give me a break. If we had five percent unemployment, you wouldn't have every arena that I speak are packed. Okay? In all fairness, you wouldn't…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. In all fairness to security. In all fairness to ISIS. Because…I do win. I win on the border. You know, every poll says, ‘he wins on the border’; ‘he wins with the military’; he wins with…all of these things! And it started with the border. Because I have the real border. I have the border, where…people will come into our country, but they're coming in…legally! They're gonna come in legally to our country…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. The right way.[paa2] 
But we have...we have zero…think of it! We have zero growth for the last quarter. We're doing terribly! Look at the stock market! And…you know what? We're in a big, fat bubble. You watch what's gonna happen, and I'm very good at predicting these things. I've made lots of good predictions, like, ‘don't go into Iraq’; like, ‘take the oil’. They follow me later, right? Like, ‘take the oil’. So many good predictions! And…stock market predictions. Housing predictions. I make good predictions! [paa3] Just…be careful! Because…some bad things could be happening if we don't do something quickly. We have to be very careful. We're so tied…into China and Asia…that as they go bad, we get taken down with them! We have to be careful, folks!
Now, we want free trade, but it has to be fair. Carrier, right? So, we talked about Carrier. Carrier goes in…right now, last week, and it’s sad! Somebody probably had a cell phone. These cell phones are murder if you're trying to be…you know, careful. If like you're the head of Carrier and you talk…; they are murder!  And some…person took…the clip of…the man, the head of Carrier, saying, “we're moving 1400 jobs. We're closing. We're gonna move 1,400 jobs to Mexico, right? And you see the people! They're devastated! They're crying…they're devastated. They’ve…been there for years! They make air conditioners, right? Carrier! And what happens is, they're moving to Mexico! Now, how does that help us? It doesn't help us! How does it help us? It hurts us! And we have…hundreds of cases like this. So, they're moving to Mexico.
So, let me tell you: the…lobbyists and the special-interest have taken care of all of the guys that are running against me. Every single one of them, okay? They're taken care of. Uh…you look at Jeb Bush, he had 148…by the way, most of it’s gone. It's just gone. “Thank you, man”. He's…he’s just said ‘low-energy’…-MR. TRUMP SPEAKS ABOUT A MEMBER IN THE CROWD. He's low energy, that's for sure…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. He's more than…he's more than low energy. That’s…it's a lot worse than that. But…he's got 148 million dollars!
The head of Johnson & Johnson, Woody Johnson, who's a major owner of Johnson & Johnson, is the head of his…campaign finance! Okay? Now, tell me: when it comes to pharmaceutical companies, and drug companies…you know, they're not gonna be able to do anything! I'm self-funding my campaign. Nobody takes care of me. You take care of me. You take care of me…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I mean, you take care of me. [paa4] 
And…and…just remember, so many of the deals that you see, where you think ‘it's impossible to make it’. It's not…they're not really that bad a deal! They're great for the politician! They're great for the company! It's a bad deal for the country. But it's not like they're stupid! They're all being taken care of! They're all taken over, and I know it…look! I was…before I ran; before…before June 16th, I was on the other side! I was a big contributor to everybody. I gave 350,000 dollars to the Republican Governors Association…! I gave a lot…! I gave a lot of money away! And I understand it! We have to get rid of…this…horrible stench that we have! Because our politicians…our country is not doing like that! Our politicians are not allowing us…to be strong, and to be smart![paa5] 
I'll talk about the drug companies, as an example! We purchase more…drugs…than any…entity in the world! As you can imagine, the United States. We have a prohibition on negotiation. We can't negotiate! If we negotiated, we’d save, probably, 300 billion dollars a year. Can you believe [it]? 300 billion! Now, somebody's going…somebody's getting that money! It's called…the drug companies. We have a prohibition.
Now, Jeb Bush has Woody Johnson…as the head of his…thing. Uh…Ted Cruz has people…in other businesses too! In the military industries…; in the defense industries…; in the lumber…; and of this…uh…everything! They're all covered! I'm not covered! In fact, you saw on the debate the other night! I had my few…people in my family there! The room was packed with special interest going crazy!
Jeb…Jeb would come in, he'd make a fool out of himself, and he’ll get a big ovation! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. I'd come in and tell you what to do; how to do…! No, I come in with the two top judges, “we wanna do it…”. And…and…you know, they get a little splattering of applause…; I said, “oh, good!”. Then I look out in the audience, [and] I know all these people! Not…I know many of them. Special interest, lobbyists…they will tell these people what to do!
So, here's what happens: when it comes down to…like the drugs. I'm gonna say, “hey, guess what folks. We're bidding our drugs”. I don't give a damn! We're bidding our drugs! We're bidding it out! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna save…we are going to save…hundreds of billions…of dollars…by bidding things out! Even in defense! We have companies, and you've been reading about it since your little children. We…are buying…equipment that we don't even want, because the company that’s selling the equipment is politically more adept than another company that has the equipment that we do want! And even our generals, and our colonels, and our…soldiers, and everybody…that wants the equipment! We're not getting the right stuff…because the companies that have the political power are selling stuff…! And how often [do] you read that!? Where we're buying…ordering planes that we don't want. Where we're adding all sorts of stuff that we don't want! The stuff that we do want, we're not getting! It's gonna end! It's gonna end! It's gonna end a hundred percent! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So now… “you're fired!” …-MR. TRUMP UTTERS HIS ICONIC CATCHPHRASE FROM THE APPRENTICE-…so now…-THE CROWD AND MR. TRUMP LAUGHS. So now…so now…so now…Carrier announces, right? So they're gonna move to Mexico. So, let's say I'm president, okay? No…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…let's do it. Look! Look…in fact, let's have a little fun first. Let's say Hillary's president…uh! …-THE CROWD BOOS. Now, she knows it's no good! But Carrier is represented by lobbyists…; and they have special interests…; and they have donors…; and they have all sorts of stockholders…; and…they're all friendly, and they probably…almost definitely contributed to Hillary, and…they contributed to Ted Cruz, who's a…uh…just terrible. They contributed to all these people! Look, they contributed to all these people!
So, they go to Hillary and they say, this is a terrible deal for the United States. I mean they're moving over there. They're gonna make air conditioners, and they’re gonna sell him back into the United States. What do we get out of it? We lost the jobs. We lost the factory. We lost the real estate taxes. We lost everything![paa6] 
So, she's gonna say, “oh that's very bad. That's not a good deal! We have to do something about it”.
Two minutes later she gets called by a lobbyist. And the lobbyist says, “you can't do that. They were a big donor!”.
And she says, “you’re right! I could never do that!”. And that's the end of that. Right?
Here's what Trump does. Here's what Trump does! President Trump! Here's what President Trump does! …-MR. TRUMP SAYS IT VERY EFFUSIVELY, THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [paa7] Y
You know, we have a movement going on folks[paa8] ! This isn’t like…I mean, you look at this crowd…compared this crowd to everybody else. Here's what President Trump does: I’d probably have my people call, though I'd much rather do it myself. It's just not ‘presidential’. You know, they say sometimes, “you're not as presidential as you should be. And sometimes you're not as politically correct as you should be”. But it's so much…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…it's so much more fun!
So, I'd like to be unpresidential and make the call myself, but I'll have somebody else do it. You know, it's so much…you can't…you can't call as president of the United States Carrier and say, “what are you doing with your air conditioners?”. You know, it doesn’t work.[paa9] 
So, here's what we do: I'll have somebody call, but I'll be watching. And they're gonna say to Carrier the following…; they're gonna say to Carrier the following: number one, Trump doesn't have…you don't…waste in time sending your lobbyist to see it, because he's…got…he won't even take their calls, okay?
Here's the story folks: you wanna move out of the United States. You wanna lose all those wonderful jobs, and wonderful people. You’re gonna hurt those people. Here's what's gonna happen: “good luck in Mexico. You're gonna make your air conditioners in Mexico. And every single time you sell an air conditioner to the United States, you're gonna pay a thirty-five percent tax on that air-conditioner” …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Believe me. It’s the only way you’re gonna do it! It’s the only way you’re gonna do it!
Folks, I know…I’m…I'm a free trader. I believe in free trade. It's the only way. You know, all these guys in politics…; I' mean, the politicians are sitting back, “how do we stop this?”, cause [paa10] we're losing a lot of companies. We're losing Pfizer. They're leaving. They're going to Ireland. We’re losing many, many…companies. It's called corporate inversions. They also…they have tremendous amounts of money…sitting outside of the United States. They can't get it back in.
By the way, the politicians, Democrat and Republican all wanna get the money back in. But we have a president that's not a leader. So he can't sit them in a room…; if I were president, I'd sit in a room [and] within 10 minutes, I'd have it…; everybody says it's good if they bring…; two and a half trillion dollars, it's good if they bring it back in! Right? Who would not say it? Everybody agrees. They can't agree. This has been going on for years.
So, companies are actually leaving the United States to get their money! Think of it! They're leaving the United States…for their money…and they're leaving because the taxes are too high. I'm cutting taxes way down. We're gonna have an incredible economy again. We are getting rid of all these rules and regulations that are meaningless, and…impossible! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But we're gonna have to get smart. Now, people will say, “Oh, Donald Trump was terrible the other night! He said that he was gonna charge a tax to Carrier to sell air conditioners!”. Folks…folks, I love free trade. I think it's great. But it's gotta be fair trade. We gotta get something out of this stuff! We're dying! We're dying! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. Remember what I said: zero growth [in] the last quarter. You know, tight…a tiny bit more. Zero…growth! …the last quarter. And it's only getting worse! It's only getting worse!
So, when I say this, I'm a good businessman! I built an incredible company. You know, when I filed…first of all, they all said [that] I'll never run. Then I ran. Then they said [that] I won't form…form A is like this brutal form where you sign it [and] you're signing your life away. “He'll never sign form A”. I signed it. Okay? They said, “what's going on here?”.
Then they said, “well, he’ll never put it his financials, because maybe he's not as successful as everyone thinks”. I put in my financials [and they] are much more successful than anybody ever believed. Without extensions…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…without it…; and I say this…we’re…I have an unbelievable…some of the greatest assets in the world. Very, very low debt. Tremendous cash flow. I say this, not in a bragging way. It's the kind of thinking we need for the United States! We need this kind of thinking! …-A PERSON IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘I LOVE YOU DONALD!’-… “thank you. I love this woman. Look at you. Just…you are so nice! Thank you darling! I appreciate! No, I appreciate it! Did you vote yet!? Did you vote!? But…-THE PERSON IN THE CROWD RESPONDS ALTHOUGH IT IS INAUDIBLE-…you’d better there Saturday morning! And I’ll be checking. I'm gonna be here Saturday morning, so I'm gonna be checking…-THE CROWD CHEERS. I'm gonna be checking. I'm gonna be here…Saturday morning, Saturday night, and Sunday morning. And if I…I’ll either leave extremely happy, or I won't be happy at all. It's one of those things…-THE CROWD CHEERS. But I think we're gonna be happy.
So, at some point you have to say, “look, it's gotta be fair trade”. You know, free trade…and we all believe, and let it…; you know, China! As an example, as I told you! It’s…it's not free! A friend of mine…buys an airplane. And he can't get the airplane back into China! They want this massive tax! He ends up some of the airplane at a big loss. Do we feel sorry for him? No, I don't. I don't care. I said, “how can you be so stupid? You don't know that they charge you a tax!?”. He didn't know they charged a tax! He thought…he believed what everyone thinks…that China, that it's no tax here, no tax there! They are brutal! Not only with the evaluation, but they're brutal. As brutal as you can be with taxing!
So, here's the story: we're gonna have the smartest people. We have the smartest business people in the world! We're gonna use them! We're gonna use them! And you know what? Some of these people you won’t like. Some of them are horrible human beings, right? Some of them are vicious, disgusting, crude…no personality…; who cares!? Who cares!? And I know the best. And some are nice…about two percent. But…-THE CROWD LAUGHS-…but…I know the best. And these are guys…they don't want money! They wanna do it! It's like sport1 They wanna do it! They’re the best at it! We have the best in the world! And we don't use them! So, we're gonna start using them.
I’ll give you another example, though. The Ford plant. You know, I talk about it all the time. And then two days ago, in The Wall Street Journal, I've been talking about the two and a half billion-dollar Ford plan for a year and a half, right? I'm always talking about the two and a half billion…; so I figured that. I mean, they have to be shamed at some point! Well, two days ago, in The Wall Street Journal I read again, now they're gonna double down! They're gonna make everything bigger in Mexico! We can't do it! So, they come in…; they're totally…look, the politicians again. The auto industry…they're totally controlled! They're totally controlled by these people!
With me…? It's gonna be different. Ford's gonna move there. I wish him so much luck. But again, the only way we can do it…; and I know every way! You know, they say, “well, we'll do this. And we'll create incentives, and we’ll create taxes”. It's not gonna work. The only thing it’s gonna work is…we're gonna have to charge these people to cut…to bring their stuff back into the country! They're leaving our country…! They're building these massive plants…! They're employing Mexican labor…which is fine…for Mexico! But it's not fine for us! And I love Mexico! I employ, over the years, Hispanics! Tens of thousands! But again, they're leaders, like China! Their leaders are too smart for our leaders. Our leaders aren't smart!
And in addition to that, our leaders are controlled. By the people that own the companies…[and] by the special interests. They’re controlled! Okay?
So, here's the story. Look: so, Mexico is gonna say…and then you'll hear, “Donald Trump is not a free trader! He's not a conservative!”. You know, like Jeb Bush, “he is not a conservative!” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. [Have] you ever seen this guy!? He's like a clown! “Donald Trump is not a conservative!”. And I am a conservative! But I'm like a common-sense conservative! We have to be smart! We have to be smart! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, with Ford, we're gonna call them, we're gonna say, “listen, folks. Don't call your…lobbyists and tell them to call me, cause it's not gonna work. I couldn't care less about your lobbyist”. I know half of these guys, anyway! “Don't call”.
Here's the story: “I don't want you building in Mexico. I want you building in Michigan”, in the case of…okay? You don't mind, right? Michigan. Let Michigan have their car industry, right? You guys will get you something else! Okay? We'll get you more airplanes to build. Although you’re doing pretty well with the cars, I have to say!
Look, we're gonna say very strongly: “we want you to build. We want you to build…in the United States. Anywhere! We don't care! We want you to build in the United States”.
They're gonna say, “we can't do it! We made commitments”.
I’d said, “that's okay. Once we charge you the tax…”, they're gonna come back! So we’re gonna charge you a 35 percent tax. On cars, trucks and parts.
I mean, on top of everything else…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…you know our border so porous, [that] they'll have illegal immigrants driving the cars right over the border…they'll save a fortune! Right!? Right!? They're gonna have the illegal immigrants…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Boy, oh boy! They've gotta figure it out, I'll tell you! You know? But…when that wall is built, I'll tell you what: there's no illegal immigrants coming across. They have to come across…legally! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS AND THEN CHANTS ‘BUILD THAT WALL!’ REPEATEDLY.
You know, that group, they love that wall. Hey, let me just…okay. Are you ready? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘YES!’. Who's gonna pay for the wall? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘MEXICO!’. You’d better believe it.
So, and they're gonna pay for it. And…and again, you know, and I told you! We’ve at 58 billion dollars…trade deficit, right? In other words, we're losing our shirts with Mexico! And that's not including the drugs that are coming over illegally, which is probably more money. We’ve a 58-billion-dollar trade deficit. We have a 12-billion-dollar wall. It’s peanuts! So…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…I wasn't sure if they were protesters. They’re actually on our side, right? They are on our…I love it!
But…you know what? So, the politicians come up to me, or…that I’m…that I'm dealing against! You know, we had 17 [in] total. Now we're down to what? Six…? Seven…? And didn't we do great in the last debate? Somebody said…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…somebody said, “Trump was too mean. He was too nasty”. You have to be mean against these people. What they say is so wrong! You gotta be mean, you have to be. Every once in a while. Not all the time…-THE CROWD CHEERS. But I’ll tell you what: we had a great debate. And the numbers went way up since the debate. And a lot of good things are happening, and people are getting the message!
You know, Nikki Haley gave a speech a couple of weeks ago. And she said that we! We! …-THE CROWD BOOS-…yeah, it's not good. First of all, she's very weak on illegal immigration. Very weak. She's very, very weak on illegal immigration. You can't have that! We need strong…strong…immigration policies. We need to be strong…! We can't…we can't go…like we've gone before. Very weak.
But she gave a speech. And she talked, in her speech, about ‘the anger’. She said there’s anger. And I said…you know, I was asked in the debate! I was asked at the debate! They said, “well, you've been…said that you're angry”.
And I was supposed to say, “well, I'm not angry. No, no. I'm very happy. I'm extremely happy with the Iran deal…; I'm extremely happy with the fact that everybody's moving to Mexico, China, Japan, Vietnam, and everybody else! No, I’m not. I'm thrilled”. I'm supposed to say this.
So, I'm saying that. You know, this was a debate question. Not this last debate, the one just before. And she made a nice speech, and…but she talked about the anger! And she was referring to me. And my people! The people that…you know, we have the most loyal people of anybody. Do you know when…by the way, in New Hampshire, we won…with…the highest educated…; the lowest educated…; we won with women…; we won with men…; we won with old…; we…we…won…brand-new, beautiful, little…babies, practically! We won…every…single…group! So anyway!
So, she said, “no, no, they're angry”. Well, they're talking about ‘angry’. We’re winning with every group, so everybody's angry. But, the question was, “are you angry?”.
And I'm supposed to say, “no, I'm not. I'm thrilled. I'm thrilled”. And I just said the right answer! I said, “I am angry! I'll be honest! And so are the people that follow! Cause we have the most loyal people…; the people that follow Trump are angry! They're angry!” …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And remember this! We're not angry people! We're not angry people! I mean, I'm not an angry person! But you get upset, and you get angry when you see such stupidity! Such gross incompetence! And it was a great answer! It turned out to be a great answer!
Then they asked Ted Cruz. He was standing right on my left. And they said, “waterboarding! Senator Cruz. What do you think of waterboarding, and should we continue that practice?”.
Now, remember this. He says waterboard him…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD. I know what you said. I heard you. I won't repeat it, cause I'll just get in trouble with these people…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS. I’ve decided not to go that way. I'm gonna…absolutely…; I’m not using those words anymore. But he did say something. Well…I hope many…most of you heard. I refuse. Even if I repeat it, that's no good. Nothing's good.
You know, even when I go, “I'm gonna do…”, and I stop. They showed on television! And they blanket! “Right Al.!?”. “Oh, Al.!”. One of the great veterans of all time. “Stand up!”. Al Baldasaro! “Stand up!”. This guy…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. He's the only guy in this room he's more militaristic than Trump, I'll tell you. He is…; he loves the veterans more than any…person. He follows the candidates around. He wants to see what they're saying. And…I think he likes Trump the best. Do you like Trump the best, from the standpoint…? …-MR. AL INTERVENES BUT IT IS INAUDIBLE. It’s true. Thank You, man. Thank you Al. Thank you, man…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thank you Al. It's really nice. I'll tell you, he's a great guy. He's a great guy. He wants to take care of his vets. So, anyway!
So, we are…going to do things right, folks. And here's what I want you to do: we are going to be rich again. We're going to be strong again. We're going to be respected again. We're not gonna be…-THE CROWD CHEERS. We're not gonna be a laughingstock. We're not gonna make Iran deals, where we give all this money and we get nothing. We're not gonna do that anymore, folks. The biggest problem I have…; somebody said, “what's your biggest regret?”. That the Iran deal went so fast! Cause I thought they could delay it maybe even longer.
You know, [it] took years and years to make. What should have never…it should have been done in a week, right? But…after I realized how incompetent our negotiators…I figured, “maybe we could delay longer”. Because…I would have killed that thing so fast…; but they've already got their money. They've got their money! They've got a 150 billion dollars. They've got their money! I hate that.
But here's a story: we're going to start…winning again. You're gonna remember this night. You're gonna remember this night. And maybe, almost as importantly, and almost…! You're gonna remember Saturday. Cause you're gonna go. We're gonna pull those triggers. We’re gonna…we’re gonna do something special. We're gonna create…we're gonna create a mandate. And we're gonna win…on healthcare. And we're gonna win…with our military. We're gonna have…a military that crushes ISIS quickly, and surgically. Okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're not gonna stand for the threats where they're cutting off our people’s heads, and Christians heads! Christian’s heads. And frankly, anybody else…that happens to be there. And drowning people in steel cages. We have no choice. We're gonna have to knock the hell out of them. And we're gonna do it, and we're gonna do it strong…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…we're gonna win with our vets. And we're gonna win with education…-THE CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY. I have to tell you, this group is very smart…-MR. TRUMP POINTS TO THE GROUP RIGHT BEHIND HIM. THE GROUP CHEERS. “You think you have the better location, right? But you don't, because they're gonna become famous”…-MR. TRUMP SPEAKS TO THE PEOPLE BEFORE HIM, IN THE FIRST ROW. Look at all the cameras there! They're gonna be the ones on television! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. No…no, we have…an…amazing country.
Though, the thing that I see more than anything…I've gone around the country, and…I've seen thousands! Thousands! Tens of thousands! Hundreds of thousands of people! In…35,000 people…in Mobile, Alabama. No matter where I go, [I get] the biggest crowds. Nobody has much…bigger than Bernie. Although he is second, I will tell you. But much bigger than Bernie. The people…-MR. TRUMP LAUGHS AS SOMEBODY FROM THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE-…the people…of our country…are…incredible. The potential we have is incredible.
I'm saying…to this. Listen: we're gonna win again. We're gonna win in every…single…respect. We're gonna make…America…great…again. I love you all! I wanna thank you all! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. On Saturday go out and vote! Go out and vote! You're gonna see [that] there’s a big change! Thank you very much! Go…out…and…vote! Make America great again!
Thank you! We love you all! Thank you!
