VIDEO Nº: 163
TITLE:163. FULL SPEECH Trump in Eau Claire WI - Sat. 4216
DATE OF EVENT:03/04/2016
RELEASE DATE:02/04/2016
DURATION:01.11.41 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:13560
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Wow!
We're gonna have a lot of fun! We're gonna have a lot of fun!
Thank you everybody. You know, we have thousands of people outside! I feel guilt…­–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Oh, that's so nice! [It’s] So nice! Yeah, yeah. They're outside, you're inside. So beautiful…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. They're outside freezing! But we have thousands, and…uh…I just wanna say it, it's an…amazing.
I'll tell you, something's going on in Wisconsin. I think we're gonna have a very good day on Tuesday…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna have a very, very good day. We're gonna have…we had big crowds. We've done…this is the third one. We've been packed at every place. On…Monday, actually, we're gonna have…I guess 20,000 at one, and six or seven thousand at another.
And we would have had seven, [or] eight thousand here, or 10,000 if we…could have found the bigger place. I don't know, is there a bigger place around? Let's go find one, right!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Anyway!
Well, I wanna thank you all for being here. You know, it's all about making…America…great…again, right? Make America…great…again…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Our country is suffering. We're suffering. We see what's going on. And you know, I…I look at numbers, and…I must tell you. Scott Walker's been…a nice guy. And I've been nice to him. I gave him like about 50 or 100,000 dollars at his campaign…–THE CROWD MUTTERS. He gave me a plaque, a little more than a year ago…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. No, he gave me a plaque. I should I wish I had the money back, right? Uh…give me the money back, Scott! …–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
But he didn't like the way I treated him. He ran for president. I ran for president. I won. So, therefore, you wanna have a Trump, right? I mean, we wanna have Trump! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And, you know, the reason I won to be honest…I was very nice to me, he was very nice to me, then he had a fundraiser; and it’s…his fundraising person made a mistake. He said very nasty things about me.
“Come on, we're gonna have a fundraiser for Scott”. And he said some really nasty things, like…; so I called Scott, because I always like to sort of…watch to see what happens and then I call, and say, “I'm sorry, Scott, that wasn't nice, what you guy did”.
And I started talking about the problems that they have in Wisconsin! Now, you know, I have a lot of friends at Wisconsin. It's an amazing place and a great place. But they have difficulties. I…I just wrote down 20 percent of the manufacturing jobs…have left since the year 2000. People don't know this stuff. And you know, when Scott came out, he was in first place. And after I went after him, he left. That was here under Scott. That's the way it should be. Don't you want that for your president? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I mean, you know…;
Now, the Journal Sentinel, I don't know if you like it or don't like, but the Wisconsin…is chronic…it chronically lags the rest of the United States in job creation. So, in job creation, Wisconsin lags!
Also Journal…Sentinel…uh, let's say “he's keeps wages depressed because of other jobs”, you know, “the president wages”. Also a lot of the…uh…work, and a lot of the…uh…jobs they pay a very small amount, and a lot are in the healthcare…industry, which…really is not…a lot of high-end jobs, because we're losing our jobs…to…Japan! …to China! …to Mexico! You know all about it. We're losing our jobs, our good jobs! We're losing to…other places. Uh…[it’s] sort of interesting. I'm a big buyer of things, and I buy Wausau windows, not so far from here. But Wausau windows, they do a great job. [They] Charge me a lot of money for their windows but that's okay…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. In the meantime, they don't leak! I put…I bought, I guess, close to four thousand! Maybe even more than that. Four thousand windows…for 40 Wall Street, which is a…72-story building on…it's actually one of the tallest buildings in downtown Manhattan, right on Wall Street. Great location. Great building. 100 percent occupied. And I bought Wausau windows, okay!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And boy, do I buy Kohl…I buy Kohler products, okay? Kohler! Herb Kohler’s a friend of mine, so…we buy…uh…a lot of Kohler products. So, you know, so it's good stuff. So, we keep a lot of money in the state. I don't feel guilty at all. And I've been here now…for…well, we've done…uh…three today; we are gonna do three tomorrow; we're gonna be here Monday. I'm staying on Tuesday. If I feel…I feel I'm gonna lose, I'll be out of here. I'll go like this…–MR. TRUMP SHAKES HIS HAND AS IN ESCAPING. THE CROWD LAUGHS.
And if I feel I'm gonna win, we'll all get together. We'll celebrate together on Tuesday night, all right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
In Wisconsin household, income has declined since the year 2000. Not good! It's not good! Look, the bottom line it's like the country. And you're in the middle of the pack for the…states around the area, you're in the middle.
So, when Scott, you know, goes out and endorses…Cruz, I understand that! Cruz will never bring you to greatness, let me tell you. He's a politician. He has money coming in through all sorts of different people that he thinks…you know, like…on his…uh…financial disclosure form. He didn't disclose it, that he had a million dollars in loans from…Citibank and from Goldman Sachs. He hasn't disclosed it! He’s forgotten to put it on. He said, “I forgot”…­–SOMEBODY FROM THE CROWD YELLS ‘LYIN TED!’. THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Lyin Ted! Lyin Ted! Lyin Ted! What does he hold up high before he lies!? The Bible! He holds the Bible high, he puts the Bible down and then he lies! Lyin Ted! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, he's a liar! I'll tell you, I've met a lot tougher than Ted but I never met one that would lie as much. [He’s] Not a good liar, though! He always gets caught! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS.
You know a good liar doesn't get caught. What he did like, as an example, to Ben Carson…I think that was terrible, in…Iowa…–THE CROWD BOOS. Ben endorsed me. [A] Great guy. And Ben…is, you know, in Iowa and Ted said, “he has left the race! He has…!”. This is on election day, folks. You know, I mean…they're voting! And he let everybody know, and it's a caucus! So it's not where we just walk…; they walk in, they sat down, they explained that he left the race, and thousands of votes were taken away from Ben Carson…by…lying!
And then Cruz called up later and apologized: “Excuse me”, about ten minutes after the election ended. That somehow doesn't help, right!? [It] Doesn't help!
So, uh…look this is what we have. These politicians are…never gonna take us to the promised land, and…uh…certainly, Cruz isn't…he…doesn't get along with anybody! Nobody likes him. I mean, think of it! The…the senator that he most respects in the world…is Jeff Sessions. A great, great guy from Alabama, right? Senator Jeff Sessions…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And in the first part of the race he kept talking about Jeff Sessions, “senator sessions…!”. And then senator sessions endorsed me! And he said…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…and…and you know, look, he knows. Because he understands…we have, right now, 19 trillion dollars in debt. [It’s] Going up to 21 because of the crazy omnibus plan that was just passed. The budget that was just passed, which is one of the worst…budgets I've ever seen. And it went so fast! Three months ago. They passed the omnibus. Does everyone know what I'm talking about? One of the worst.
It funds illegal immigration. It funds ISIS coming in, or whoever comes in, cause we don't even know who's coming in! We have people coming in, from Syria, on the migration. Thousands and thousands of people. We have no idea who they are; where they come from; there's no documentation. We have to be crazy! Uh…no, no I will tell you: they're going home. If I…become…president. We have to! We have to! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We have no choice!
Where are these people coming from!? I mean, you know, where are leaders coming from? What are we doing!? We have no documentation…! And you see what's going on in Germany; you see what's going on in Sweden; a small part of Sweden, where they took a lot of people in. It's like…a disaster! You see what's going on in Brussels! Brussels, 25 years ago was incredible!
I made a statement about Brussels, recently. And…it was very harsh. I said, “it's like living in a hellhole”. Cause I have a lot of friends that go to Brussels! It's a financial capital. And they tell me what's going on. I'd been there years ago, and it was beautiful! One of the most beautiful cities in the world, actually!
And a friend of mine came back, and he said…another friend said, “oh, it's like an armed camp”. And this is because people came in…and, frankly, those people…weren't vetted, and it was…it's a disaster!
So, I made this statement, [and] The New York Times did a major story: “how dare…Donald Trump…criticize a place like he did Brussels”. And it was like…you know, I was excoriated. Then two months later, which was…a week ago, they had the…the horrible problem, in Brussels. And now, Brussels…they realized they have no control over the place whatsoever.
And we can't be the stupid people. We can't be! We just can't be! We can't be…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we're not going to be.
You know, speaking of that, I have…I mean, we'll get off…and…and really, I wanna talk about trade; I wanna talk about keeping our jobs here; and I wanna talk about bringing jobs…here! Okay? So that we can fill up lots of different places like this. I'm telling you, I wanna talk about that, cause that's really…;
But speaking of illegal immigration, and Syria…or wherever these people are coming from…; and you know what? I have a big heart. I have as big a heart as anybody. A big, big heart. And we should build……–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…we should build, in Syria, safe zones. We should do it! And we'll get the Gulf states to put up the money. I don't wanna put up money anymore! We're putting up enough money! We don't have any money! This country has no money! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we'll talk about that in a minute.
But I thought I'd tell you this…–MR. TRUMP SHOWS A PAPER. This was written by…a…a fantastic guy, and…a rock and roller, actually, who…who did something. And it talks about illegal…immigration. And, just think about this: we don't know who's coming in. We don't know anything about. We know something bad is gonna happen, okay ? Something bad is gonna happen!
This is like, you know, the story of the Trojan horse, right? This could be the ultimate Trojan horse! And don't forget. We have thousands and thousands of people. And did you ever know the migration lines? Did you ever see it!? They have a lot of young people! Young, strong men! I say, “where are the women!? Where are the children!?” There are some, but there aren't very many! And I mean, seriously, and maybe it's not! But this could be the Trojan horse! So I…I thought I'd say this to you. I don't do it often. But it's a…sort of…[a] thing that was written…years ago. And it's very…it's called ‘The Snake!’. Do you like it!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So, who's heard the snake before!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Does anybody wanna hear it one more time!? Huh!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Listen, people love it! You know, great art! It’s a…it…it…it’s interesting.
A friend of mine is a great, great art collector. And…if you look at the Mona Lisa, right? The Mona Lisa, one of the great paintings. You don't like it that much at the beginning. You really don't! And then, you look at it again, “well, I liked it a little bit more”; again, again…and…by the time they…reaches a certain age, it's like…captivating; it’s…people are just crazed. They can't…look at anything else, right? That's called great art.
With…other paintings, you'll say, “oh, I love it! I love it! I love it!”, and then two weeks later you don't like it anymore. There is something very special about great stuff.
So, this is very descriptive, and…people like it. And it's a little bit tough, but it's very true. And think of this with…allowing people in. We know it's going to be a problem. We know it's gonna be a problem! [It’s] gonna be a big problem. You're gonna have things happening.
Look what happened to the two radicalized people in…California, recently, where the 14 people that they killed. They’re co-workers! They killed their co-workers, out of nowhere! They’re co-workers gave them a baby shower! And they had a party for them! And they went in and they killed 14 of them! And others badly wounded.
You look at Paris, where…130 were people killed and…tremendous numbers of people in the hospital! They'll be in hospitals for the rest of their lives, and many will die. What are we doing, folks!? What are we doing!?
So, this is called ‘The Snake’:
“On her way to work one morning,
down the path along the lake,
a tender-hearted woman saw a poor…half-frozen snake!
His pretty colored skin had been…all frosted with the dew,
‘Oh, well!’, she cried. I'll take you in, and I'll take care of you!
 
‘Take me in, oh, tender woman! Take me in, for heaven's sake!
Take me in, oh tender woman!’, sighed the broken snake.
 
She wrapped him up all cozy, in a curvature of silk,
and then, laid him by the fireside, with honey and some milk’.
‘Now she hurried home from work that night.
As soon as she arrived, she found that pretty snake she’d taken had been revived!’
 
‘Take me in, oh, tender woman; take me in, for heaven's sake;
Take me in, oh, tender woman’, sighed the broken snake.
She then clutched him to her bosom, ‘you're so beautiful!’, she cried,
but if I hadn't brought you in by now, oh heaven’s, oh heaven’s,
you’d definitely…you’d just definitely would have died!
She stroked his pretty skin, and then she kissed him, and held him tight!
But instead of saying…‘thank you!’, that snake gave her a vicious bite!’…–THE CROWD CHEERS.
 
‘Take me in, oh, tender woman; take me in, for heaven's sake;
take me in, oh, tender woman’, sighed the vicious snake.
‘I saved you!’, cried the woman; ‘and you've bitten me, heavens why!? You know your bite is poisonous and now I'm going to die!’,
‘Oh, shut up, silly woman!’, said the reptile with a grin.
‘You knew damn well I was a snake before you took me in!’ …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Right!? Right!?
 
No, I don't think so. You think Kasich does that? I don't think so…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. I don't think so. You think Ted Cruz does that? I don't think so…–THE CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. No, I don't think so.
So, I just…look. Look. We have…so many…it’s such an honor! You have seats and yet, you’re standing. That's excitement, right!? Look at this guy! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I won't tell you. I won't tell you.
You know, it’s interesting. Last time…uh…a couple of days ago, I gave…–SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘I LOVE YOU!’–… I love you to, darling. Who said that? Some…oh, so beautiful! Thank you, honey. I love you too! That's why I'm doing this, to protect people like you! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Ivanka just had a beautiful grandson…you know, a grandson for me! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And that's why I'm doing it.
People say [it]! Actually, I was on a great radio show this morning and he said to me…we had a great talk, and then he said, “Mr. Trump, can I ask you one more question? Why are you doing this? You’ve built up a 10-billion-dollar net worth. You have a great company. You have a great family. And here you are, on Saturday morning at 6:30 in the morning talking to a radio show. Why are you doing this?”.
I actually said, “good question, right…!” …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. But I said, “you know what? My whole theme is make America great again too”. Make America great again. We're gonna make our country so great again. We're gonna make it so strong again. I've gotten to see so many people! I mean, like today! Thousands…! At least 5,000 people are outside. I feel terribly about it! And we’ll come back! But at least 5,000 people outside. The last time, it was worse! We had seven or eight thousand people that were in this hall…uh…that was like a secondary hall. And we had…you know, loud speakers and stuff. But there's something going on. There's like a movement. It's been on Time magazine…four times now over the period of…a short period of time. And it's a movement! What's going on as a movement. I'll tell you, Wisconsin is very important because…I think we're gonna win before we get to the…convention. But if we get to the convention…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…if we get to the convention, the establishment politicians who wanna protect their jobs , who wanna protect their paychecks, who wanna protect…all of the different things like the lobbyists, and…and the special interests…; they don't like me!
Now, I used to be a part of the establishment! I was at the highest level! I gave lots of money. 350,000 dollars….to the Republican Governors Association. I gave a tremendous amount of money. I was establishment. I was like…the king of the establishment in a certain way. And then I ran, and I wasn't the establishment. They say…somebody said, “you know…Trump? I don't think he wants some money?”. And then I announced some self-funding. You know, I'm totally self-funding. So, I'm not…I’m not asking them…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And you know, coming over here I said…to…actually, this morning, when we were…in the car, I said, “you know, I don't think that I'm getting any credit for self-funding”, okay? I'm not getting credit for turning down tens of millions of dollars.
Uh…Bush had a 148 million dollars that he raised, which is very impressive! Unfortunately, [he] couldn't get anybody to vote for him. You know, that’s a problem…­–MR. TRUMP GIGGLES. THE CROWD. That's…that’s…that’s a big problem…–SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘LOW-ENERGY! MR. TRUMP LAUGHS. Who said that? See? I won't repeat that. You know, I’ll just get myself…I’ll just get myself in trouble.
But…but, you know, it's very funny actually…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. It's called branding, right? Branding! Forever branded.
But, Bush…uh…Bush had…a 148 million dollars. And, you know, like in New Hampshire. He spent…like…tens of millions of dollars. I spent very little, [and] I came in first.
Then in South Carolina, other guys spent tens of millions…just so much more money. We came in first. And…but you know, I'm self-funding and I don't know that I get the credit for it. I don't know…when you go and you say, “well, Cruz is okay”; he's not, by the way, but…let me tell you…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Lyin Ted! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. No, he…he's not. He's not okay. He would do such a terrible job.
You know, here's a guy who filibusters in the Senate. Now, you know, say what you want about these senators. These guys have been there a long time. They're professionals. They're not…you know,, stupid people. And he stands up and he filibusters, and he reads poems and he reads everything else, and he's filibustering and then…; what…what could do…? Two a day and a half. He's never done anything! He never gets anything approved!
Then he says, “Donald Trump will negotiate! He will geotiate”. Of course you’ve gotta…that’s the way we sort of…our founders sort of had in mind! You gotta…negotiate! But I'll negotiate well! I'm not gonna be…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
You know, Cruz thinks he's gonna take this hardline position, and everybody's gonna eventually come. [It] Doesn't work that way, folks! It doesn't work! So he stood up for what? A day and a half? And he filibustered, and he left! And these senators are sitting back and they're saying, “when's he gonna leave? Let's see!” …–THE CROWD LAUGHS–… “oh, he's still talking”, right? “He's still talking”. And then they…you know, it…that's…that's the way it works. Look, you’re not dealing with babies.
So what happens is, he never did anything! He never accomplished anything! [He] Hasn't done anything…! And folks, he's in favor of Trans-Pacific…Partnership, which is a disaster…–THE CROWD BOOS. And worse than being in favor…and he really pushed it, but worse than being in favor, the single…greatest…weapon used against you and everybody. I mean, used against our country is…currency devaluation and currency manipulation. That's…the big…weapon.
And when I started talking about it, a year and a half ago, one day it was considered...I said, “you gotta talk about currency manipulation, cause if you look at China…what they do is they devalue their currency and they kill us!”. You look at other countries like Japan, and others, they devalue their currency and they absolutely kill us.
So, you have to go out and you have to look at currency manipulation! And if you're not gonna put that in…; well, Cruz would not…hear…of currency manipulation. Now, somebody told him, “you can't do it”. One of his people that give him a lot of…money! They said, “you can't do it!”. Why would he not allow…currency…manipulation? In other words, having…clauses that you can't do that? In other words, it's a violation. Right? Or it's a default. It's no good!
So, Cruz not only is he pushing it, which is terrible, but he won't allow the single…biggest…thing, a block, on the single biggest problem that we have, which is currency devaluations, and currency manipulation.
Now, you tell me that's gonna be good for you? He's gonna be a disaster! Okay? I don't care! Somebody said, “oh, you shouldn't say such bad things about [him], he's a Republican”. Give me a break! Okay? I'm here ! Hey…–THE CROWD MUTTERS–…if it works, great. If it doesn't work, great. I'm gonna either do a great job, or I’ll be…waving hello…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. I'll be coming to Wisconsin to see my friends. I don't care .
But look, they asked me. They said, “why…why are you doing it?”. So many people, even my family! They say, “dad, why do you wanna do this?”. I wanna do it because this country has given me so much! And…I hate watching what I'm watching on television. I hate seeing President Obama…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [It’s] True! [[It’s] True! I hate seeing President Obama, today, seeing…saying that, “Iran has violated our agreement”. I mean, what did he think! He's now complaining about…Iran…violating the agreement! Who…what the hell did he think!? He's like a baby! He's like a baby! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
No, can you imagine!? I mean, what the…the agreement’s…uh…two seconds old. This guy…! The ink isn't even dry! But they did it weeks ago! They were buying missiles from Russia! They were testing missiles! They don't care about him! And now they take the 150 billion dollars! They don't spend it in Boeing! They buy a 118 Airbuses. They don't wanna buy Boeing!
Then somebody on top of that says, “well, they have a restriction! They're not allowed to buy in this country!”. Who to help put that restriction on after we give them a 150 billion dollars!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We give them a 150 billion!? I wanna take the restriction off, right!? Fast! Cause I want the money! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I mean, these are people…these people are…are…just terrible! They…it's like amateur hour.
So then, today I hear [that] Obama is very unhappy with Iran! Because he feels that they haven't lived up to the spirit of the agreement. What the hell did he think was gonna happen!? …–THE CROWD MUTTERS. They defaulted on day one! I mean, they were doing things on day one, and everyone was selling them! He said, “that can't be possible”. That's the way life works! He's a vicious people! These are great negotiators!
You know, the Persians are great negotiators. When John Kerry went in, I'll tell you. I saw in Charlie Rose. I was watching the…Charlie Rose was negotiating…was talking to this…guy, the head negotiator for…Iran. And after watching for five minutes I said, “no. Kerry can't handle this guy. [The] Guy’s too smart. Too shrewd. Too slick. Too cunning. Too smart”. But I have guys that are much smarter than him! Including me, by the way, but that's okay…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, no. I have guys that are much better than him! But the saddest part of that deal is so much of this money is already gone. Just gone! [A] 150 billion dollars right down the tubes. And what do we get? We got nothing! We got nothing! They got the money, and the prisoner should have been released years ago before we started negotiating! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Years ago! We got nothing! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And you know, I used to say that was a great deal, but it's not a great deal. The great deal is they got…Iraq for nothing. Because they've been fighting forever to get Iraq. And now they have…you know, Iraq has among the greatest oil reserves in the world, which a lot of people don't even know . Great quality oil too. But among the greatest oil reserves in the world. Iran has that! We gave it to them!
For years…decades and decades they fight! And they had the same army. The same strength. Basically, they're almost identical. And they go ten feet left; ten feet right; ten feet left. Thousands killed. Horrible! Saddam Hussein, gas! Right? [Do you] Remember the gas? People would be killed. And they'd complained. Then they'd throw gas at him, bump! Then they’d rest. Then they’d start fighting a couple of years later, but they were the same! Nobody would move. It would be like this. It was called checks. Check and bound. Takes years, take centuries to create that! Right? We go in and destroy…one side.
And I said…I was against it! You know when it says, “Donald Trump would be too quick with the trigger”. I'm the one that didn't wanna do it! I wanna build our military so strong, so powerful…that we never have to use it, I hope! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Nobody's gonna mess with us! It's…it's so…it's so…sad! It is so sad to see. I'm telling you: it's amateur hour.
So then, today I find out…and Hillary Clinton's a disaster, by the way. She is so incompetent…! She is so incompetent…! You look at what's happening…! Take a look at Libya! [Do] You know who has Libya oil now!? Tell me who has Libya oil! ISIS! ISIS has Libya oil! That was Hillary Clinton! Let's knock the hell out of this guy, so you’ve…you have Qaddafi…let's not Qaddafi out…!
Now, Qaddafi and Saddam Hussein had one thing in common: they loved to kill terrorists. They were so good at it…! They were as good as you could get at killing terrorists. Now the terrorists go to Iraq, where they wanna…that's like Harvard. If you wanna be a terrorist, you go to Iraq…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. That's Harvard. Harvard University. You go to Iraq, and you become a terrorist.
You go to…Libya! You go to these countries that we've…destroyed. So, look. Look. Hillary…did this whole thing…[so you] remember the sign? [Do you] Remember the ambassador, and the…and the Humvee, riding into tow, with the flag, and really…waving the flag? And then the people killed them, a…little while later, right? They killed him, and other people; four…people. And they killed the Ambassador viciously! Nobody wants to say how the ambassador was killed. Viciously! Viciously! And he's on their side! And that was Benghazi, okay?
And [do you] remember Hillary with the phony phone call?  “When you get a call at 3:00 in the morning, don't you want her?”.
No, I don't think so! I don't think so! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. She was sleeping! She only…she only answers her friends at 3:00 in the morning, you know. So…uh…it’s…it's seriously…I mean, the whole thing is so crazy. But I will do a great job.
Now, so what happens is I'm…on this big show, about a week and a half ago, and I get asked about NATO. I get asked about NATO! And the announcer’s a very good man, I mean, Wolf Blitzer, [a] very good man. And he said, “Mr. Trump, what do you think about NATO?”.
Now, just so you understand, I'm not a big NATO expert! I've been building buildings and doing deals all my life. You know, that's what…I'’ve…made over ten billion dollars doing this stuff! And I got…I built a great company! And I filed the company! …–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. I put the company in with the federal elections.
And the press, these guys…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS IN THE BACK–…they went just…absolutely…crazy! Because they will hoping it…you know, I'm a private guy so they didn't know. And it turned out to be much bigger, much stronger…; I mean, it's a company with some of the greatest assets in the world. Some of the greatest ! I mean, Doral; Turnberry, in Scotland; I own so…things that are phenomenal; buildings in Manhattan. Great stuff. I mean, the largest bank in the world is a tenant of mine in one of my buildings, in Manhattan, and that Bank happens to come from China! The largest…400…million…customers, okay?
I said to the Chairman, I said, “so…”, when we signed the lease. I said, “so, how do you compare, let's say in size, to Citibank?”.
He said, “Citibank is like a small subsidiary”. That's…it's just a little bank! It's like…forget it! This is a monster bank. And, you know…and by the way, China? They're great! Mexico? Great! All of these countries are great. I'm not angry at them! I'm angry that our leaders are so stupid…that these countries can take advantage of us! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'm not angry at those countries!
When I made a tremendous amount of money dealing…dealing with China! And…and, you know, and…as far as Hispanics are concerned, I won the state of Nevada. I won, I think, 21 or 22 states. Can you imagine that? 22 states. Can you imagine? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And how about Cruz? Did you see him? He got up during one of the debates, “I'm the only one that's beaten Donald Trump! I won…!”…I think it was five at that time? Five or six. “I’ve won five states! I beat Donald Trump! I'm the only one!”.
And then I said, “yeah, but I won 22”. And he goes…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…he didn’t…he didn’t even answer! His expression! [Do you] Remember that, his expression!? I was in the Senate, cause actually, I've been in the center from the very beginning, right? From the…–THE CROWD CHEERS–…there’s never been a debate where I haven't been in the center. Ce…center is number one. I keep telling the press. “Will you announce that I'm number one? Cuz a lot of people don't know that”. You know, when you're in the center, that means you're number one.
When some of these guys like Rand and Jeb, they were falling off the edges, I'd say…–THE CROWD LAUGHS–…“by next week you, guys, are gonna be gone!”.
But…but, I…was always in the center. So, Jeb…he was over here…–MR. TRUMP POINTS TO HIS LEFT–…and…and he was talking about “I'm the only one! The only one!”. I said, “yeah, but I’ve been…”, and that turned out to be a very famous internet picture. His…he didn't even argue with me! Just looked at me like this…–MR. TRUMP STANDS JAW-DROPPED. THE CROWD LAUGHS–…[do you] remember!? It was a weirdest thing! He…he's a weird guy, I'm telling you…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. He is a weird guy. And he would get…he would get absolutely defeated.
You know, I haven't even started on Hillary yet. I don't care about Hillary right now. I only care about the two. I only care about the two leftovers! I…I…look! I started…–THE CROWD LAUGHS–… I started at 17. We had 17 people. All senators, and this…; Ben Carson, [a] great guy, [a] very…accomplished guy, who…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…who by the way, endorsed me, and he's phenomenal. He's in North Dakota right now making a speech folks.
And Chris Christie, who endorsed me, [a] great guy…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And Sarah Palin, who just left, she was here. Sarah Palin. She just made two speeches. She was at the other two places. I said, “look, this group is so great. You don't have to bother with them, Sarah. Go home. Go home!”…–THE CROWD BOOS. [Do you] See? [Do you] See what I do? That's called taking advantage of people that I know love me, but that's okay! I said, “go home, Sarah!”…–THE CROWD LAUGHS.
But…but, you know, we have some great…Sheriff Joe, of Arizona…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I gotta tell you a story about…about life, about toughness. You know, like The Green Bay Packers, [the] great Vince Lombardi. I've always been a big fan. I’ve always been…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. He was…[AT THIS POINT, 00.30.43 THE AUDIO AND VIDEO BREAK UNTIL 00.32.27] …being interviewed this morning on CNN. He was so bad…he was talking about the abortion issue! He was so bad…! And I said, “if I ever said that, I'd be…it would be headlines all over the world!”. It was incredible! And I said, “okay, has any…?”…I just asked. It's like…seven hours later. I said, “did they write anything?”.
“No”. Nobody writes anything. Nobody writes…[do] you think it's a double…? ­…–A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘THEY’RE LEFTOVERS!’. MR TRUMP LAUGHS–…he likes the word ‘leftover’. That's an interesting name, isn't it? The two leftovers. But you know what? If I said it, it would be a whole different story. So, it's not a fair thing. But, at the same time, I guess…you can't complain, cuz we're getting…a lot of coverage. They said I got almost two billion-dollars-worth of free coverage, right? And the other guys got…a lot less…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
You know, uhm…so I've spent 35 to 40 million dollars of my own money. Now, if I…advertise like these other guys do, I would have spent a lot more. So, I can't complain that much. Do we agree? We shouldn't complain…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. But…but I'll tell you: we're gonna make…this country…so incredible. There are so many things we could do.
So, let me just tell you what happened: trade, you all trust me. Believe me, China is gonna…have a trade…we're gonna have a trade deficit, with China, this year….500…billion…dollars! Then, somebody…these…stupid people..:! You know, the…I'm a conservative. But I'm a common-sense conservative.
You know, Walker copied my term! He said he's a common-sense conservative! I've been using this term for the last…! He also copied ‘make America great again’. When he was running, I made a speech and got this…fantastic standing ovation from a big crowd. He saw it! And I said, “make America great again!”. But see? I copyrighted the name. So, it's very important. And it…Ronald…it isn’t Ronald…Ronald Reagan, actually, had a similar thing. He said ‘let's make America great’. That was his term. Because people said, “oh, Ronald Reagan…”. I…uh…you know, I don't really copy. But, it's like…make America great again.
So, Walker saw it! And he goes, “make America great again!”. He didn't get much of an applause, and then, shortly…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY–…shortly after that he was out. He was gone. You know…;
But…but, and I'm gonna bring tomorrow…to one of the…one of the meetings or maybe the next day, I'm gonna bring…the plaque that he gave me. I actually brought it! I'm gonna hold it up. I would have brought a for you, but…I don't know. Should I have…? I Should have brought for this crowd! Oh, what the hell!? Why didn't I bring it tonight!? But I'm gonna bring the plaque, where it's got this beautiful inscription down there. It's incredible.
But, what's going to happen is this: I'm being interviewed by…Wolf Blitzer. And, he asked me about NATO. Now, I know about NATO. I'm not an expert on NATO, but I have a lot of common sense. And I have great business instincts. That's what you need, when you have 19 trillion…! You need somebody that…we have to stop this! Right!?
So, and…you know, I said, “where did this come from?”. Nobody ever asked me about NATO. And nobody has…ever has asked a lot of these questions, cuz now I'm all of a sudden a politician. He asked me about NATO, [and] I said two things:
I said, “number one, it's obsolete. It was…uh…you know, really developed for the Soviet Union, which doesn't even exist now”. But Russia's plenty of problems! I mean, Russia's…big stuff, and…you know, it's good. But today we have a different problem! We have a problem with terrorism, right? We have a big problem with terrorism! Well, we have 28 countries. They're the wrong countries in terms of terrorism, many of them are the wrong countries.
And I said, “we have to reach a grenadier. We've gotta make it modernized. It's…all…bureaucratic, and we spend most of the money!”. You know, we spend…money…on all these countries, and they're not reimbursing us anywhere fairly! And their way in default, and we keep spending, and spending…! And one of the things I do is I'd say to people, and I said to him! And I got terrible press. And then two or three days later, some of the experts said, “you know, we've been studying NATO for 25 years. We never thought of the things that Trump has said!”. Like…it's obsolete!
You know, it's funny. When you study something so closely? A lot of times you don't see the forest for the trees. You've heard that, right? But you studied something…what does that mean? …–MR. TRUMP FIES HIS EYES ON SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD. Oh, that's positive, right? Come and take it! Wow! Oh, that's good! “Come and take…”. I love it! I love it! Oh, that's very nice! That's very nice!
I figured it was a protester. He's actually a…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND LAUGHS. Oh, that's beautiful! Thank you very much! Oh, I…I love that! The Marines…wow! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I love that! Thank you darling, that's beautiful!
You know, when I see somebody stand up with the flag, usually that's a protester. And they have a lot of foul language. You know, it's all professionally done just so you understand . But that's really fantastic. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, folks. I love it! I'll come over and shake your hand in a little while…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
No, no, those flags come up and I go, “whoa, whoa! Protester! Get them out of here!”. And then I say, wait a minute! That's…that's friends! We can't do that! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
So, with NATO…so what happened is, I said ‘obsolete’ and we spend too much money on NATO, because we're really defending other things, like, as an example the Ukraine. I love the Ukraine. I have many people…that are friends of mine that live in the Ukraine. Just like I have many people that are great, great friends of mine that live in Wisconsin! They tell me all about Wisconsin, and I'm here…and, I mean, I saw one just a little while ago and he said I'm doing great, by the way. I think we're doing great! I think we're gonna win Wisconsin! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I think! Yeah!
A poll just came out. Public Policy Polling just came out. And it’s has me just about even one point down. I can't believe I'm losing to Cruz! You can't let this happen, folks! …–THE CROWD MUTTERS. One point down. But I think we're gonna do great.
And I tell you what, when I looked at the thousands of people outside…? And the same thing…today, when we had 7,000 people next door, in a…sep…sep, you know, like a separate room, I said, “this is really…; this isn’t second place. This isn't like a second place feeling”.
And these other guys go and they have 200 people, and 150 people, and 300 people. And we come and we have 8,000 people, and 5,000 people outside, and…you had to see that. [The] Second place was unbelievable today. And we're gonna have 15 or 20,000 people on Monday at one of the venues, where we have this massive venue, which is good. And we're gonna have, I think, six or seven thousand at the other one.
I said, “that doesn't sound like second place!”. And the other guys go, literally, they have 300, 400 people, 200 people. And I said, “you know, I know pretty much!”. I…when I went to South Carolina, I was supposed to come in [the] second place. And I said, “that's the second place!”, because I'd have a crowd. It'll be thousands and thousands of people! More, much…far more than…anybody else had.
And the same thing in New Hampshire. I went to New Hampshire, and I was supposed to come to second place! And…I go out and there'd be people, thousands of people outside of the building trying to get in. And I said, “you know, I guess…you know, what do I know? But it doesn't seem like second place”. And then, I ended up winning…one in a landslide; then we go to the other one . We win that in a landslide…; I…I I think we're gonna have a big, big victory in Wisconsin! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I really do!
So, so with NATO, I said…I said, look. Look. It's obsolete. It's old. We have to focus on terrorism, and we're spending money. And people aren't paying! You know, we have 28 countries that a lot of those countries aren't paying. It is supposed to pay…two percent of…certain…figures, and the numbers are…you know, the numbers are just absolutely…they're not being met! They're not even paying! Okay!? Uh…so we're giving many of these countries…many! I don't wanna say who…which I know, and I don't wanna say how many, but it's a…vast…a vast majority of these countries! We're giving them practically a free ride! Why are we always the dummies!? Why are we policing the entire world…and when the Ukraine problem came up, we were complaining! Obama, “we've gotta get out of…!”, you know, we're gonna start World War III over the Ukraine, right? Okay.
But we're the ones complaining! We're the ones complaining! I say, “why aren't the nations surrounding Ukraine…!?” They're not complaining, with Russia. They're not complaining! Why aren't they complaining!? Why aren't they saying…“we don't want you to do this?”. Why isn’t Germany complaining!? Why aren't the other countries complaining? Why are we always the one that's upfront?
And we're paying…like 73 percent. We're paying! We’re one country. Out of 28. Why are we paying 73 percent? Why!? Because it just got that way, got that way, got that…;
So, one of these experts was…good. He said. “you know,I've been doing this for a long time, and I've been studying it…and never thought of it! It's obsolete! Trump is right!”. And you know what else? It's unfair! Because the United States is paying disproportionately by a lot! Disproportionately too much!
We owe 19 trillion, going to 21 trillion? I'm gonna get that down so fast! There's so many different things…!? There's so many different things…!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That's just one!
But then, I was asked a question by Anderson Cooper, who’s a great guy. We did a town hall. It was really good. I really enjoyed it. And he's terrific! And got tremendous ratings. By the way, it got…it won the evening. You heard about that, right? [It] Won the evening. And who did it just beat by millions? Do you know what beat by millions? Same timeslot! Tay…same timeslot. Beat by millions, and millions of people! Oh, gee, I'm so surprised to hear that! …–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
But…but it was a great thing. And we talked about Japan. And he said, “well, what do you think about Japan?”.
I said, “look, here's the story. We defend Japan”. Does anyone know that!? We defend Japan. They do now, because I've been talking about everybody, cuz I find it amazing. And it's fine! And I know we don't want Japan to arm, ideally. But in the meantime, we have this maniac in North Korea that's armed. So you say, “well, where does it all stop?”. So we defend Japan.
We defend Germany, right? You know that? We defend Germany! Now, here's the thing. They pay us, but it's a fraction of…what we should be paid. And…it's…not a winner, okay? But we defend all these countries.
We defend…South Korea. We have 28,000 soldiers. I wouldn't wanna be one of those soldiers, to be honest, with this maniac with nuclear weapons? You know, we're sitting there like…uh…like not good! But we have 28,000 soldiers on the border. We get peanuts! Now, what's going on!?
Saudi Arabia wouldn't exist except…that we defend them! Saudi Arabia, till the oil price went down, and now they're still making a fortune, but they were making a billion dollars a day a year ago. A billion dollars a day! We defend Saudi Arabia! We have…bases, we…we have to pay the rent! Why do are we paying rent? I mean, the rent this isn’t the big thing, but the concept of…why are we paying rent? We're defending them! Why are we paying rent!? Okay? If we left…Saudi Arabia, if we left, they would fall, okay’ They would fall. Whether internally or externally. Probably externally. Probably Iran, because Iran took over Yemen. And Yemen has one thing that looks very, very enticing: it's a massive long border. I mean, one of the longest borders you'll ever see, with Saudi Arabia.
And Iran wants to get the oil! Look now they're taking over…Iraq. They're taking over…Yemen. They don't really want Yemen, but they like the border, because they wanna take over the oil in Saudi Arabia. It’s all…I'm really good at this stuff! You know, it’s sort of amazing! These guys…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS­–…don't give you credit because…they'll give you like a quarter of a sentence. So, here's what they did.
So they…the question was asked about Japan. I said, “look, you always have to be prepared to walk”: If you can't say you're gonna walk, you can't make a good deal, okay? It's called The Art of the Deal, right? John Kerry should have walked at least two to three times with Iran…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. When they say…when John Kerry went to…Iran, when John Kerry went to Iran he should have said, “you have to release our prisoners before we start talking”.
And they would have said, “no”. And then he should have walked, doubled up the sanctions, and within 24 hours, he would have gotten a phone call “come on back, we're releasing your prisoners”, and that would have been four years ago, okay? That's what…what would’ve happen! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But this guy never walked! He never walked! They abused him mentally. They abused him like he was a child. They took of…advantage of him like he was a baby. They made an unbelievable deal for themselves. We got nothing!
And on top of it, we now have a president that says, “it's not good what they're doing “. And then, [it] just happened today! I…it's…it's so…embarrassing, how we have this man as a president…is so embarrassing! He is now…after just a short while…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…in the meantime, they've taken much of the money, the 150 billion dollars! They've taken the money. They've spent a lot of the money…in Italy, in…all over Europe! In Russia…! You know what they're doing with Russia? They're buying missiles! And we have Obama…today, for the first time, he said…he's not happy. He's not happy with Iran. He didn't say it as strongly as he should, but the real truth is…they're in default! They are in total default.
[The] Problem is the money is gone! In other words, I wish…oh, the 150! Now, you know, I've…said a number of times what I would have done with that, right? The 150?
First, I would have gotten our prisoners back. I would have said, “listen, [you] gotta…before we start negotiating fellas, you gotta…do this. The prisoners, they have to come back”.
They'll say, “no”.
I'll say, “bye-bye!”. You get up, [and] you leave. Then you double up the sanctions.
They'll call you, [and] they'll say, “you have your prisoners tomorrow”. Thank you very much. Okay.
Now you go back in. Now just do one other thing. You only walk a couple of times. You know, you don't wanna keep walking…too much work, right? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Now you say one more thing: “listen, listen. 150 billion…? We have no money. We owe 19 trillion dollar, soon to be 21 trillion. We have no money. We can't pay it”.
They'll go crazy. After a week or so, they'll be okay with it. We saved a 150, okay? No, that's what we have to do! What's all we have to do! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
On top of it, the deal is no good! How would you like to make a deal…when during the deal they're over in…Iran, celebrating in the streets, burning the American flag, and screaming about how stupid we are that this deal is so good? And we just keep going!
But, the greatest was today, because…and…and I hate to say it! I mean, I wish…Obama…didn't even say it. It must have been hard for him to say it. The man is incompetent! Okay? He's incompetent! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And it's sad to see! I mean, here's the deal that's a few weeks old literally, and he's out there now saying,…uh…[that] he's upset with them. And anybody in their right mind would have known what he was getting into. He has no idea! He has no idea what's happening.
And then today, they talked to him that Trump. About…nuclear weapons. He said, “well, obviously he doesn't know about nuclear weapons”. And know more about nuclear weapons and he'll ever know! I know what's going…; I know what's right and wrong.
So, here's what happens. So, I said, “Japan”. They said…now, you have a maniac with nuclear weapons. He doesn't have a carrier system, but he's got…nuclear weapons, right? And…that's North Korea. And you have South Korea that's really…you know, we’re…we're defending them. We’re not getting what we should get, and we're losing a fortune, but we're defending them. We're defending Japan; we’re defending Germany…; all these countries.
So, with Japan, I'd say, “look, fellas, you gotta pay up. We love you. You are our friends. We wanna take care of you”. That would be my first! And we might even walk once or twice but that would be my first! And we're also be prepared, maybe, we’d let them defend themselves, because we cannot afford to…defend all these people. The world! The whole world! The whole world! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
[AT THIS POINT,00.47.26, THE AUDIO AND VIDEO BREAK UNTIL 00.47.33]…and we'll defend them, and all that stuff, cause it's good. Because you know, nuclear is a big problem. I don't wanna see nuclear all over the place but, already if you think about it, ISIS is probably got, so we gotta knock the hell out of them fast, by the way. We have no choice. We have no choice…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
You know, ISIS…I didn't wanna go into Iraq but…now with ISIS, you have no choice. Cutting off the heads, and…uh…drowning people. This is a group of people that…uh…we have to beat them fast. Can you imagine we have a military…? Can you imagine…? I would say. Cause I was a big fan of General Douglas MacArthur. I was a big fan of General George Patton. These were tough cookies. These was smart, tough guys…–THE CROWD CHEERS. These were Vince Lombardi's of…that world, okay? And these were tough! Could you imagine telling General Patton about ISIS, that we can't beat ISIS? He'd have them knocked out in a week. I mean, literally, it would be over in a week.
This is crazy, what's going on! It’s crazy! And let me tell you, they get a nuke, or they get a weapon of…destruction, I don't wanna say what I'm saying here. [But if ] They get a weapon of mass destruction? They wouldn't even think about it! They wouldn't even think about it! We gotta knock…them…off…fast! We can't play games! We can't play games! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Cause the single biggest problem we have is nuclear. The single biggest problem. This world has, frankly, is nuclear.
This is no more…little…you know, we're gonna shoot…; we have an army. Two different uniforms. They have…their m1 rifles and they’re shooting each other t. This isn't…we're not in that anymore. We're into…weaponry [THE AUDIO AND VIDEO BREAK] with each other. Because, frankly, what's going on over there is disgraceful but we can't allow…this to happen.
And, you know, I don't know if you know this story, but they cut the Christians heads off. And they cut others. But if you're Christian, boom, your head comes off. And, if you are a Christian from Syria, it was…this is during the old days, five years ago; if you were a Christian from Syria you couldn't get into this country. It was almost impossible.
If you were a Muslim from Syria, no problem. It was one of the easiest places to come into the United States. If you were Muslim from Syria. But if you were Christian from Syria…; and they’re the ones that needed the protection, much more so! You couldn't get into this country.
So, you think maybe something's going on that's not so good!? All right!? It's not so good! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, I talked about Japan. And I talked about many aspects of it! I talked about the business we can get! If we left Saudi Arabia…it would be…it would be a terrible thing what’d happened to them. It’d be very fast! Nobody's gonna attack them now because we're protecting them!
Now, here's what will happen. And they're great negotiators too! If we left, we’ll say, “you gotta pay”, which is a fortune by the way. You gotta pay it…a fortune…it doesn't matter! They have so much money! They have funds…that are so big [that] they don't know what to do with all their money! I know! Their funds are the biggest funds…among the biggest funds in the world. There's so much money! Money is the thing they don't worry about! Money and oil! What they were about is how long will they keep it, okay?
So, what you do is…you negotiate. You're gonna leave! You're gonna leave! You have to be prepared to leave. Otherwise you can't make a good deal. See? We're not prepared to leave!
We weren't prepared to leave…the negotiations with…Iran. If Kerry Wood had gotten up and said, “we're leaving”, and been tough, we would have made a much better deal. [A] Much better deal! I mean, we made one of the worst deals ever. Basically, they got a 150 billion dollars and that's it. And they'll have nuclear weapons and everything else. And, you know, it’s so…so bad.
So, we have to be prepared to leave! We have to be prepared to leave Japan. We have to say, “I'm sorry we can't do that deal”. And it's possible we won't get back. And it's possible they will arm, and they will then…you know, have to take…this guy, and they'll have to deal with him! We don’t have to deal with him! Okay? Is that so bad!?
Now, ideally, that doesn't happen. Ideally, they're gonna pay. And they're gonna pay a lot! And we'll be good. Because I don't love them armed. But you know, there's a point at which we just can't do it! When our infrastructure is dying; when our country is dying; when our airports are…like hell…;
I go to Qatar. I go to Dubai. You go to China, different places. You go to places…; they have airports the likes of which you've never ever, ever, ever seen!
Then I land at LaGuardia, they’re potholes all over the place. The place is like a third-world Airport. Or Kenney. Or LAX. Or Newark. You look at these airports, they're like…from a different time. It's like a time warp. They're third world.
But you go…to some of these…come…my pilot lands at…at Dubai. He said all, “Oh, Mr. Trump, that was the most incredible thing I've ever seen”. The runway’s…twice as long as anything he’s ever…it's like a piece of glass!
And we land at LaGuardia. Huh! …–MR. TRUMP REPRESENTS LANDING AS UNSTABLY AND KNOCKING. What's wrong!? Are we okay!? We're stupid! We have stupid people leading our country! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…so, what I said…I talked about the economics of it. I talked about this. I also said I'd rather not see Japan armed, but if they have to, that's okay. You always have to be prepared for that. And, it is a possibility they would be able to arm because we may leave, because we just can't afford to be the policemen of the world, and lose tremendous…all of this tremendous amount of money. And it's possible that we're gonna have to let NATO go, because…uh…you know, nobody's paying up! I mean, when we're paying and nobody else is really paying, [a] couple of countries are, but nobody else is really paying! Uh…you feel like…you feel like the jerk!
One of the things I do, early on! I'd call up all of those countries. I need to get myself Carl Icahn or somebody else that's very good at this stuff, okay? I’d call them up and say, ‘fellas, you haven't paid for years! Give us the money! We’ll get the hell out! Get out!” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. “You haven’t paid for years!”. They have agreements. They have agreements. It's all agreements! And they haven't paid for years! Let's say, “you gotta pay us or get out. You're out. Out, out! And I'll be nice to them either. I'll be a little softer than that. I'll say, “I'm sorry but you're no longer NATO”. And maybe NATO will dissolve. And that's okay. [It’s] Not the worst thing in the world.
But I'm telling you, NATO experts are saying, “this guy, Trump, has got something…”. They study it! They're so close to the situation that they never thought that it's obsolete! There's so close that they never realized that all these people don't pay! And that we're like the big, stupid sucker…that's paying for NATO!
And we're paying for the United Nations! We're paying for the United Nations! …–THE CROWD APPLAUDS AND BOOS SIMULTANEOUSLY. You know, many countries don't pay for the United Nations. They come in, [and] they don't pay their bills. [It’s] The same thing! Because they think we're stupid! And that's the end.
How often do you see the Unition…United Nations settle anything? You don't see them ever! I mean, things just are settled! You know, it used to be where the United Nations would being involved. They don't really involve anymore! Do they ever settle anything!? …–THE CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. It’s like…you know what it's like? It's a political club. I could tell you so many stories…; I would have built…their building for billions of dollars, less money. I told them! When they renovated the United Nations. That was before the United States Senate. And I told them…that…I would build that building for billions less! And they said, “no, we wanna build it ourselves”.
Not only did it cost more, but it cost much more than even they said. And they said, “well, but what would be the difference?”.
I said, “for billions of less, and…it will be much better. I'll use marble. You're gonna use linoleum”. I really mean it, too…–THE CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS TIOMIDLY. They didn't have any idea what they were doing. And they're thieves, and crooks, and…you know, [the] thing cost billions of dollars. To renovate! To renovate a building cost billions! How many guys are in the real estate business or construction, right? You are! You are!? …–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT PEOPLE IN THE CROWD. Wow! Oh, I've never seen a real estate person to look…like that…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Very good! Beautiful! So…so, I would have done…I would have saved them billions! They don’t wanted it.
Senator Sessions remembered the meeting we had years ago at the United Nations. Six, seven years ago. I built the building across the street for 360…everyone's now looking over there, trying to…–MR. TRUMP REFERS TO THE PERSON HE REFERED AS BEFORE, THE BEAUTIFUL ONE. THE CROWD LAUGHS–…see that!? You've begun…you'll be famous.
But you know, I built a building for 360 million dollars, right across the street from the United Nations. And…the Ambassador from Sweden called and he said, “how could…yours…building [is] 92 stories. How could your building cost 360, and we're spending…billions to renovate a building that's…35 stories tall?”.
I say, “well, number one, lack of knowledge. Number two, everyone's a crook over there”…­–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. They made a fortune!
He said, “but we're gonna spend a billion and a half!”. He said to me, “we're gonna spend a billion and a half”.
I said, “no, no, no. You're not gonna spend…; you're gonna spend three or four billion…by the time they finish with you”.
And I was right! I'm really good at this stuff, okay? [It] Cost billions. Three and a half or four billion. It's cost so much money…! And it was such a bad job! Such a bad job. They used floors…they used terrazzo…it…really…just a terrible, terrible, terrible job. Somebody made so much money…; somebody made so much…; it's so sad! And we pay…largely the bills. So, the United Nations is another one! And there are so many others!
So, here's what I'm doing: I'm gonna bring our jobs back. I'm gonna bring them back to Wisconsin…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'm gonna bring our jobs back. I'm not gonna let our companies leave. And I tell the story: you know, Carrier I tell all the time. I love the Carrier story cause it's so obvious.
Uh…two months ago, they announced they're leaving the United States. They're moving to Mexico! I said, “oh, that's all right”. Moving to Mexico. Just like that. 1,400 people gone. Great jobs. They did a great job for 30 years. They did a great job making air conditioners, these people. Now they're…wiped out.
So, the conservative…uh…dopes, you know, the guys at…from the National Review and these dopey people, they think , “oh, we’re conservative”. Well, I’m…more conservative than then on…virtually every subject. But on trade, I'm a free trader. But you can only be a free trader if your leaders are smart. If your leaders are stupid, you can't be a free trader, because they're gonna…you know, do numbers on us.
So, Carrier’s leaving. So, Carrier…said they're…moving to Mexico. That's great. So, I…I the story all the time! I call up Carrier. I’d say, “listen, here's the story”. Meaning I or one of my people that I have…all the best people, right?
I’d call up say, “Mr. president…” and my wife wouldn't let me call Carrier because she'd say it's not president. I'm not supposed to be calling as president an air-conditioning company! But I'll do it anyway! [It’s] So easy! It's just five minutes! Darling, I love doing it! I love it! …–THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
And I’d say to them, “listen, good luck with your plant. I hope you do really well. I hope you sell lots of air conditioners, but now we have a real border. You know, we have a real, real border. And every air conditioner that comes into the United States you're gonna pay a 35 percent tax on that air conditioner, okay?…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…and because I'm not Ted Cruz, who's controlled by his lobbyists and a special interests…and they'll find the lobbyist that says ‘Cruz’. You know, it's blazoned into his forehead, the lobbyists’. It'll say ‘Cruz!’. In other words, he takes care of Cruz. Another one takes care of Hillary. Another one takes care of Kasich. Another one takes…; you know, that's what it is, folks! These are people…they're really smart, really good…! They raise millions of dollars for these guys! Look at their packs! They have all this money…! Their packs…! I put up my own money, it's so stupid! I don't think I get any credit for it! Really! I feel so stupid …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
My whole life I've taken! You know, I take! I keep taking, taking! And now I'm telling people that wanna give you ten million dollars…; one guy [said], “Donald, I wanna give you ten million dollars”.
I say…and this is so foreign to me, it's like…; I say, “I can't take it” …–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. He goes, “what!?”. He doesn't…; he said, “of course you can take it”.
I said, “I can't”. Another guy wants to give me five…; I'm turning down all this money. All of this money…! And my whole life has been the opposite. I take, take, take! And I say it: I take. I keep taking. But now I'm gonna take for you! I'm gonna take for the United State. I'm gonna take! I'm gonna take! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But these lobbyists…these lobbyists…these lobbyists have total control over these people! And they'll go to Cruz, and they'll say, “no, you have to do this. You have to do that”.
So, if Cruz is president…number one, he wouldn't make the call, because he’d stop from even making the call, cause it would never happen.
With me, I'll have people call us say, “hey, you know what?”. I…you…he didn't give me anything! I'm not doing anything! I just wanna do what's right. The only people I'm working for [are] you! Believe me. Believe me! Believe me! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I don't need money…! I don't want your money…; I want you to vote on Tuesday, that's all I want you to do…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. The only thing.
And I've told the story! And this is true for Ford, and it's true for Nabisco…; I'm just using Carrier as the example, but it's true for all these country…companies.
So look, here's what happens: so I call. I'll say, “call me back”. He'll call me back. I will have been approached by lobbyists, by special interest groups…; I will have been approached by everybody. I'll say, “call me back”.
He'll call me back within 24 hours and he'll say, “Mr. president, we're staying in the United States”. That's what's gonna happen! 100 percent. 100 percent. 100 percent! …–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
Now, I guarantee you…that nobody from the United States ever called Carrier Corporation. Nobody from the United States ever put pressure on Ford, that we can't do this. You can't build a two-and-a-half billion dollar plant in Mexico. We gotta keep you in the United States. Nobody ever told Nabisco that you can't move your factory from Chicago into Mexico. Nobody ever said that.
Nobody told Pfizer you can't move to Ireland. You know, Pfizer, [a] great pharmaceutical company. 6,000 jobs. The best jobs. They're leaving the United States! They're gonna move to Ireland! Which is great! I have a lot of property over in Ireland, but you know, what are you gonna do? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. But they're moving to Ireland! Nobody ever…did anybody talk to them!? Negotiate with them…!? Nobody talks! They leave! Thousands of jobs gone.
Me…!? I'm gonna talk to them! Me!? When they send their product in, believe me…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY–­…their product doesn't get freebies anymore! There's no more freebies! And all these politicians…because they're all taken care of. They're all taken care of…through campaign contributions. All of them! And probably other ways, but I don't wanna talk about that. But they're all taken care of, right? And…they don't do anything to keep these people! Because they told you can't! Pfizer has some of the greatest lobbyists in the world! So, they get left alone. But let me tell you, when they send their products in…if they had to pay a fee, a tax. You know China, would call it…a tax, China would call it a tariff, because it sounds like a little better.
Do you know, I have a friend he's a great manufacturer. [A] Great, great manufacturer. He calls me all the time. He says, “I can't do business in China”. You can't get your product in there. They don't want it! They don't want anything made in this country.
You know, we talk about free trade. That's why I talk about these stupid people. They say they’re conservatives. [Do you] Remember Jeb? “He is not…a conservative”. “He is not a conservative”. It's so sad! Bye-bye, Jeb. Bye-bye…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But these are the people we have! I mean, Scott Walker! He was number one, he came out… “the future of the Republican Party”. Number one, comes out. He goes to…number one! And then I started attacking him. He goes…he just…leaves the race. Who do you want as your president? I mean, in all fairness, okay? And…–THE CROWD CHEERS–…you know what? I wouldn't be hitting him. I wouldn't be hitting him but number one, he hasn't done a great job. Number two, there's nothing but turmoil.
If you…are outside…of Wisconsin, you take a look at the turmoil. It’s always turmoil! And you know what? I'd get a better result without the turmoil. You know, there's nothing wrong with no turmoil but I'll tell you what: the numbers aren't good.
But Scott Walker comes out. He was gonna be number one. He started off as number one. Jeb started off at number one. I had…like all these guys are gonna be number one. Finally they said Trump is number one, okay? [It] took a long time…it took them a long time to realize that, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We had Rand Paul…! We had Walker…! We had Jeb…! We had all of these people that were gonna be…I mean, Marco was…look, Marco is the future of the Republican Party. He's a nice guy…–THE CROWD CHEERS. Lil. No. Marco…was gonna be the future the Republican…and I beat him almost by 20 points, by like 20 points in Florida! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But soon they'll say Trump is the future of the Republican Party. You watch. You watch. But here's…here's all we have to do…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 We're gonna make…great trade deals. We're gonna make so much money. We're gonna bring our jobs back from China. We're gonna bring our jobs back from Mexico. We're not gonna lose our…our manufacturing anymore.
These numbers in…these numbers that you have right here…look at this chart. I mean this chart is incredible! Look you, as manufacturing jobs, since 2000. [Dp] you see what that says? …–MR. TRUMP SHOWS A CHART. [Do] You see the line? You don’t have to see what it says. [Do you] See the line? …–A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘IT’S GONE DOWN!’. Slightly! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. If we keep going, we're gonna have nothing. I'm telling you, there'll be nothing left! Look at that! Can you see that!? I didn't exactly do this…[AT THIS POINT THE VIDEO AND AUDIO BREAK].
…you’re gonna be so proud of this country. We're gonna build up our military. We're gonna knock out ISIS. We're gonna take care of our vets…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're going to have a strong…border! We're gonna have a great wall that Mexico is gonna pay for it…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna get rid of Common Core and we're gonna have local education…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna repeal and replace that horrible, horrible Obamacare…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 And…and I'll tell you. Look, I'll tell you. Here's the story: it’s sort of like, you know, why do you do it? I didn't need this. I didn't need this. Although I enjoy it, cause we have a movement going. You look at Time magazine. There's a movement. This isn't like a normal thing. This is…this has probably never happened before. Millions and millions of votes!
Now, the Republican Party, they view me as…you know, a guy. They don't want me because I don't want money! I don't want their money. I don't want the lobbyist money. I don't want…all these people they're gonna be saying…like, “you know, we can't get to Trump!”. Cause it's a crooked system. “We can't get to Trump!”.
So, I got all these people against me. That's why it's important that I win…on…I don't wanna go in there looking at the second ballot, cause…probably, you know, with the way this…the…the thing is…it's crooked as hell.
Hey, look. What happens…what happens? I win…the state of Louisiana, okay? Now, I'm a little bit younger then, because it was a couple of months ago. I learned. I learned…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I go in, I made speeches…; I had a speech the final night at his massive hangar. I pull up with my plane. I get out of my plane. Thousands and thousands of people, in Louisiana! [A] Great place, great people. I go into Louisiana. I make his speech. I make another speech. I'm all over. The election gets held. I win! “Donald Trump wins the state of Louisiana!”, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
That's the good news! The bad news is, because it's a…I don't wanna use…should I use the word ‘crooked system’? Huh? …–THE CROWD CHEERS­–…crooked? The bad news is, because it's a certain type of system, I win the state! I get thousands of more votes than Cruz! Thousands! I got fewer delegates than him! So, I said…–THE CROWD BOOS–…no, think of it!
So I said, “wait a minute”, cuz I'm looking at the delegates. I said, “wait, wait. Why does he have more delegates than me? I won the state! I won the state!”. By the way, I just won Missouri, by the way, so I’m really happy…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But I win Louisiana! I…I'm speaking in front of thousands of people for…a week! I win, and I get fewer delegates that he's got! Okay? It's not fair, folks! It's not fair! Because I'm the outsider. And what they do is they wanna knock out the outsider, because they wanna keep their little party going. And…the reason our country owes…21…it…soon, 21…trillion! Not billion. Trillion dollars, okay? The reason we owe all of this money is because of the system.
So, here's what we gonna do: we're gonna win so much. What you have to do is go out and vote. Get every person you know. You can cross lines. If you're democrat, if you're independent, if you…you know, uh…the people that are voting for me, a lot, [are] people that never voted before. We have a huge…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…I…I never realized!
When I do…you know, the scrum, I do the signing, I do whatever, you know, I shake hands with people. So many people say, “Mr. Trump…”; I mean, they’re 30, 40, 50, 60…; one woman is 93 years old, from Tennessee. Like this great woman! [A] Beautiful woman! She is incredible! She's gonna vote for the first time! And she voted for the first time, cuz I won the state of Tennessee! I mean, I'm winning all the states! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But…but…won Alabama, won Arkansas…; I mean, we win these incredible states! In fact, I did so well in the south. Don't forget! Lyin Ted Cruz was supposed to win the South, right? Lyin Ted! He's gonna win the South! “I will win the South!”. I win Alabama. I won Florida…! I won everything! I want everything! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And the evangelicals, they know he's a liar! And evangelicals like me! And evangelicals don't like liars! They don't like lyin Ted…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I won all these evangelical…places, which I fully understand! I have a great relationship there.
So, here's the story: you are going to remember this evening and you're gonna say that this was one of the great evenings of your life. And more importantly, on Tuesday, you're gonna say was the greatest vote you've ever cast, because you're gonna be really proud of your president…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And you're gonna be so proud of your country again.
We're not gonna have a president [that] said, “oh, gee! I shouldn't have done the deal with Iran, because it's not working out” two weeks after. I mean, the ink isn't even dry! I told him it wasn't gonna work out! That's what I do! I'm so good at this stuff…! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. I'm so good…! Remember I said “keep the oil!”, right? “Keep the oil!”. We're there. “Don't leave! Keep the oil! Surround it! Keep it!”.
We didn't keep it. ISIS now has Libya's oil. Why aren't we doing a blockade!? Why are we doing a blockade!? ISIS has the Libyan oil! Hillary Clinton, “let's free Libya!”. Benghazi, the ambassador killed. Her friend. Okay? “Keep the oil! Why aren't we doing blockage!?”. [It’s] So many things.
So, here's the story. You're gonna be so proud of your president. You're gonna be so proud of your country. You're gonna be so proud of your country. You're gonna love your country so much. You love it anyway but you're so disappointed in it right now, and you're so disappointed in the leaders.
You're gonna view tonight is very important. You're gonna view Tuesday as very, very important. And here's what's gonna happen. We're gonna start winning again. We're gonna win on trade. We're gonna win with our military. We're gonna knock the hell out of ISIS…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.. We're gonna win for our vets. We gotta take care of our vets…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're gonna win at the border. People come in, but they gotta come in legally! Right? Legally! They come in through a legal system.
And we're gonna win in every aspect! And you're gonna say, “that was a great day, when I voted for…Donald Trump”.
So, folks, I wanna thank you. [It’s] So…important! Winning…Wisconsin. If we win Wisconsin, I think it's over. If I don't win it…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…if I don't win it, I don't think it's all…I think, you know, we have a good chance cause we're way up in New York; way up in New Jersey; way up in Pennsylvania; but I want…Wisconsin to win it for me, okay!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, go out and vote on Tuesday! And I promise you [that] you will be so proud of this country again! Thank you everybody. Thank you. I love you. Thank you…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Thank you.
