VIDEO Nº: 34
TITLE:34. FNN: FULL Donald Trump Rally Fort Dodge, Iowa 12. Nov
DATE OF EVENT:12/11/2015
RELEASE DATE:12/11/2015
DURATION:01.35.36 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:15999
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Wow! This is great!
 
This is great. Sit down, we’ll have a little fun today.
 
You know what I thought? I went out to see some of the folks on the ethanol. And …good stuff and great people. Put a lot of people to work out here too, I wanna tell you. I just wanna tell you that. They put a lot of people to work, and they're doing an amazing job. You know, the gloves are a little bit off. You know, we're down to like 81, 82 days. Till that big day on February 1st, right? February 1st. We know what that is.
 
And…people now are getting a little bit rambunctious. And that's a good thing. It's okay. And the…you know, various candidates, are starting to say things. Some of which are true, and many…things…are not true. And I guess I can be accused of that. But we will talk about the different candidates. Some of the different candidates. I thought today -I- would take some questions and answers. Okay? So come up with some really good questions, to make it interesting for everybody. And I love being here. I just love it. I love the place. I love the state. It's an amazing group of people. Really amazing State. So…I…-CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…I just…I've been here a lot. We're going to be here a lot. The last poll just came out, as you saw, we're leading, and…hopefully we're gonna lead by even more as we go by. But we're leading pretty good –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So…I…I had came across a couple of things. I tweeted this week, a while ago. And you know we're talking about borders nowadays, right? Does anybody care about borders? You know what? –CROWD CHEERS. Right? You know, without borders we don't have a country. What is it!? We don't have borders! They say, ‘oh, you can't do that! You can't move people around! You can't do…that…that's not nice!’ But…we gotta straighten out in our country! You know…? It's…like…unbelievable.
 
But here is just something I…I tweeted this a while ago, and it still holds true. If you cross…the North Korean border…and if you do it illegally, you get 12 years’ hard labor. 12 years! I think you get more than that. Actually I think they kill you –CROWD LAUGHS. But…but we'll get to that, cause you have somewhere they actually do kill you. If you cross the Afghanistan border…illegally…you get shot! Okay. So when you get 12 years, one you get shot, right?
 
Two Americans were imprisoned for eight years, after crossing the Iranian border. Now you see that with our four hostages, who we can't get out, even though we gave these guys a hundred and fifty billion dollars. We have great negotiators. By the way, I guarantee you I would have had them out. And I don't mean lately –CROWD APPLAUDS. We never even asked for them out, because they didn't wanna complicate the negotiations. Did you know that? They never asked. They said, ‘we didn't wanna complicate’, so they didn't ask. We have four hostages over there.
 
So in Iran…if you cross you get eight years. Well, these guys are in there. Certainly, the minister…the pastor…Christian…he's in there for three or four years, already. So I guess eight years is right. So in Iran you get eight years. There's a fifty thousand dollar fine, on another border. But there's a five thousand dollar fine…for Americans…crossing the Canadian border! What's nicer than the Canadian border!? I mean if you've gotta cross a border, if you have your choice between…North Korea, Afghanistan, or Iran…I’ll take Canada every single time –CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. Do we agree? Right? Do we agree? So there's a $5,000 fine. The Canadians are smart. Five thousand dollars. That sounds like good. That's like a trip. So we shouldn't even mention that one, cuz that's not…you know. Of course, if you don't have it…that's a lot of money, right?
 
If you cross the United States border…so remember, the other ones you get shot, you get this, you get imprisoned for many. many years…you destroy your life. If you cross the United States border illegally, you get a job…you get a driver's license…you know that's true. You get food stamps, you get a place to live, you get health care, housing, child benefits, and in many cases, education. You wonder why we're a debtor nation. You wonder why our country's going to hell. You look at that. And those are real statistics! I mean that's what happens! In Los Angeles 50 percent of the people wanting to get license right now are illegals. In California, they have a town council…where everybody's suing everybody, because they have a group of illegals that wanna take over the town council. They wanna run the town! They're illegals! They’re illegal immigrants. And they wanna run the town.
 
So we have a…-MR. TRUMP LAUGHS-…we have some serious problem. And I haven't read that yet. I haven't done that. But I just saw that today and I said, ‘you know, I put it out a long time ago’, and…it holds…very true. We have a situation that's sort of interesting, because…we've been talking about…illegal immigration. And…I was happy to see, you know, well when I was with Macy's, for a long time. They…were very nice. And…I…did very well with ties, and shirts and fragrances, and all that. And when I announced that I was running for president I said, ‘we have a problem with illegal immigration’. And…the world went crazy. And if I didn't announce that, and I think you know, if I didn't announce that, you wouldn't…I don't think it would even be talking about immigration. It's a huge problem. And…-MEMBER IN THE CROWD APPARENTLY CALLS OUT SOMETHING, INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT-… ‘thank you. Stand up! Stand up! We love you too! Even though you're a male, I still love you. Never been my thing, but I still love you –CROWD LAUGHS. Stand up. Who said that so nicely? …very nice man!’.
 
Oh, I love them too! –CROWD LAUGHS. I love everybody! We gotta love everybody, we’re  in this thing together folks. We gotta get out of it. We owe 19 trillion. We gotta get out of it.
 
But…I announced the illegal immigration, and…it was, you know, I haven't given the full story, but I'll tell you, it's sort of interesting. So …'m in New Hampshire, and I'm making a speech, big speech, in front of a lot of people. Hello up there! Wow! Look at all those people up there! –MR. TRUMP NOW TAKES THE TIME TO LOOK AND TO ADDRESS PEOPLE ON HIGHER STANS. Wow! You know, we have another auditorium that's full too. They didn't get the good real estate. So wherever you are, I'm gonna come see you after I'm finished. But we…we think the world of you. You just didn't get the good real estate. These people have the good real estate –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But…so Macy's, I…I sell shirts and ties, did nicely, you know, not a big…business or anything, but cute, and I liked it. And fragrance, and cufflinks…see these cufflinks…? –MR. TRUMP SHOWS HIS CUFFLINKS. From Macy’s. Some people think it's Harry Winston, or Tiffany’s. It's actually Macy's. And…they're good, ‘Trump cufflinks’. And…when we…when I announced…we have a problem, illegal immigration. Tremendous problem. People pouring across the border. Many, many great people. But some are really…you know, we get problems! And…tremendous crime. Thousands! Tens of thousands of people in our prisons, that we're taking care of, and spending a lot of money. People in our hospitals, just flooding across. We have fantastic people at the border, the Border Patrol.
 
I met…I was in Laredo, Texas, a couple of months ago. And it was amazing. Meeting these people…and they wanna do their job! But they're told to stand down. They use that expression, ‘stand down!’. So people walk in front, they're standing with…you know, with $50,000 worth of…equipment, and they…they just told us ‘stand down’. And…the people lose respect for them. They walk by them, and they wave at them, and come into the country.
 
We have the Anchor Baby situation, which I turned out to be right on. Because I said, ‘nobody could tell…’. How could that be possible…? …where people…a woman, pregnant, nine months, walked across, has the baby on our land. Now we take care of the baby for 95 years, 85 years, 75 years…whatever it may be. Baby's a citizen. I said, ‘-IT- can't be!’. Nobody can do that.
 
Now, in Mexico in these other countries, if that happened…you said you were citizen, they laugh at you, they'd laugh. They’d say, ‘this can't be possible. What are you, crazy?’. But with us, you’re citizens. So I said, ‘that can't be possible’. And everybody said I was wrong, because they said, ‘if you're born on this soil…you're immediately a citizen’. And I said, ‘I don't believe it’. And we had a CNN reporter who, in New Hampshire actually, where…I was…asked….and he said to me, ‘well, that's not a nice term. That's a derogatory term’. I said, ‘what is?’. ‘Anchor baby’. I said, ‘what would you think I should call them?’. ‘The child…of an undocumented immigrant…who came to the country…four years ago…or whatever the number of years’. I said, ‘you mean every time I mean…I have to say, “the child of an undocumented immigrant who came to the country four years ago, seven years ago, or whatever that happened…whatever the term”’. I said, ‘no, thanks. I'll call it an Anchor Baby’ –CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. Descriptive! No, it’s descriptive! No, it has to do with political correctness.
 
I mean, just to get off track for a second, the word ‘Christmas’, you don't see it anymore! Do they see it in Iowa!? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YEAH!’. Not…no, not that much though. A lot of the stores…like I'm gonna tell you about Macy's…but you go to Macy's, you…you know, a lot of the stores…they don't use…they say ‘Happy Holidays’, happy this…I'll tell you one thing. So, I'm Protestant, but if I win…you're gonna see ‘Merry Christmas’. And you know what? We can have other things too! But you're gonna see ‘Merry Christmas’ again! Cuz I don't see it anymore! I don't see it! –CROWD APPLAUDS. Remember it used to be…automatic! Not politically correct or incorrect. It was just automatic. It was ‘Christmas’, it was called ‘Merry Christmas’. Then all of a sudden they started taking it off, and off, and off. And now they'll show like a red wall…that's Christmas –CROWD LAUGHS. But they'll have nothing on it. So we're gonna go back to ‘Merry Christmas’ pretty soon. We're gonna go back to ‘Merry Christmas’.
 
So…I was right on the Anchor Babies. And…I was right because…if person comes in…illegally! …they’re not coming in legally! …it has a baby, and everybody said, ‘oh, you'll need a new constitutional amendment’, which takes many, many years, and the chances of getting it are almost impossible. And now it finds out, that some of the great legal scholars are actually writing…major pieces saying, ‘Trump was right!’. Because of the fact…and there's language, in the 14th amendment, that…because of the fact…that…they came in… illegally! …the baby was here illegally…! …you don't have to do it! We’re talking about hundreds of thousands…of events…a year! Tremendous amounts of money! But because of the fact this was illegal, you don’t have to take it. All it needs is a simple act of Congress, which can be done quickly. We should be doing it! And I'll be…pushing that very hard. Believe me! I'll be playing…we don't want to be a sucker! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
You know, we wanna take care…hey! We all have a big heart. We all have a big heart. But…we can't…do the things…that people wanted to do. We've…you know, we're destroying our country. And we can't do it anymore! And that'll end. That'll end. Like it is for every other country. I mean, almost nobody does it. We're the only ones that does…and…they come from all over! They come from Mexico, they come from Asia, they come…why not!? Have the baby born over here! Come! Let's take a vacation! –THE- baby is born, take care of the baby. Great! I mean, how stupid are we!? –CROWD LAUGHS. I got a little lucky in that one. I really had no idea. I just said it didn't make sense. And then all of a sudden these great geniuses from Harvard Law School, they were all saying, ‘oh, well actually…well Mr. Trump is actually right…’. Now they're analyzing it. The bottom line is…I was right! Because it's common sense! Can't happen! Can you imagine going to Mexico…? …having a baby, and you say, ‘congratulations, you're citizen of Mexico’. They wouldn't…they wouldn't even know what you're talking about! They'd laugh you out of the country!
 
A group of people was there last week, very successful people. And they overstayed their two-week period. They get a knock on the door, from the police, in Mexico. ‘Why are you here?’. And this is a very spoiled guy. He was a little embarrassed in front of this group, some police officers said, ‘why are you here?’. You know, it's not exactly cool. ‘Why are you here?’ ‘Oh, well, we just wanna stand next…’. ‘Well, have you signed your papers?’ ‘Have you made a request of the government…?’ ‘Have you the…?’. By the way, they're right! I'm not saying ‘wrong’! I think it's right! It's a way something's supposed to be run! It's right! The hardest place…in the world…! …just about…to become a citizen of…is Mexico!
 
And yet people pour through... And I love Mexico! I love the Mexican people! I have thousands of Mexicans! I have thousands, and thousands…of Hispanics that work for me…or have worked for me! I've created tens of thousands of jobs! Tens of thousands! You know, when I found my papers, they were big! The biggest ever filed by a factor of many! I jokingly said to your newspaper…that I have a store, that's worth more money than Mitt Romney. You know? Remember that? The famous article? They said, ‘what are you talking about?’. I said, ‘yeah, I have a store that's worth more than Mitt Romney’. And…the paper…your paper…went out and said, ‘that's insulting. That's hard…’. And they checked it, it was actually true. It was pretty cool –CROWD LAUGHS. A lot more! 5th Avenue…real estate. It's amazing, right?
 
But so we have a situation where…we're going to take care of our country. Where we're going to use common sense. And…where…we're going to…be proud of ourselves again. Because we're not proud of ourselves anymore! We're embarrassed! We don't win anymore! We can't beat ISIS! We can't…beat Iran at a trade deal. Or at a nuclear deal. We can't beat China. China's killing us. We're losing 400 to 500 billion dollars a year. Billion! When I saw the number I said, ‘you mean ‘million!?’. They said, ‘no, no’. By the way, 500 million is a lot…right!? –IF- We were losing 500 million, I could see that. It's 505…billion! I mean…it's impossible to even believe! How do you recover from things like that!? You recover…by getting smart people…to make deals! That's what you do! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
The great…the great Carl Icahn. He is a great businessman. You probably, most of you might have heard of him. But he's a very tremendous businessman. His whole life as business! That's what he does. He’s business! Like 24 hours a day. Business! And…he endorsed me. And…he endorsed me because he understands me. He knows me. He knows I do good. He knows I'm smart, I….you know, I'm not gonna let…not gonna let us be ripped off anymore!
 
You know, when I go out to different places. And I go to a lot of different places. We have…a level of passion that's unbelievable. It's unbelievable! We have…we go to Dallas, we have 20,000 people. We go to Oklahoma, we had 20,000 people. In Mobile, Alabama, we had 35,000 people. –IT WAS- Supposed to be 500 people! It turned out to be 35,000! We started with a hotel. Then  the Convention Center, but that only hold 10. That only held 10,000. We ended up in a football stadium! And it was an unbelievable…evening! We go to different places, like this place is packed…right to the…right to the top. Every corner is packed! Yeah, no it’s packed. And you have the other room. And you have the other room! And you have people standing outside trying to get in! But…no matter where we go it's the same thing. And you know, I'd like to think it was because of me…it's…it's…I think it's because of…our message. And the message in a certain way is…a…you know…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS-…the message in a certain way is, ‘we're just not gonna take it anymore!’ ‘We're just not gonna to take it!’. We can't take this stuff anymore –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
I…I have a great company. I built a great company, which frankly, if I didn't…I guess I wouldn't be doing this. Cuz if it was this…why…? …I…you know, why would we be following… ‘that’!? Right? But I built a great, great company. with some of the great assets of the world. Some of the great real estate assets of the world. Very little debt, tremendous cash flow. Iconic assets. Some of the…you know, Doral in Miami, many buildings…all over the place. And all over the world! And I deal with people all over the world! And…it's…just…sort of…an amazing thing! I watch…and I love doing that! With Turnberry in Scotland, and Doonbeg in Ireland…and…all of these incredible places. And…I love doing it! But every time I turn on the news, I'd see such stupidity. I'd see Sergeant Bergdahl, a traitor. A no-good, dirty-rotten traitor…-CROWD APPLAUDS.
And…we…knew he was a traitor before we made the deal. They had a general, they had a colonel…talking to all of the young people that were with him, as soldiers. And…what happened? Six people went out looking for him, six people were killed. So six people were lost looking for him. And…what happens now? In the old days, he would have been shot, for being a traitor. He's gonna get nothing! I heard, the other day, I was watching, they've recommended no jail time, no nothing! I mean, seriously, in the old days, when you were a young guy, right? …when I was a…they would have…they would have…it's gone! When we were strong, and when we were smart. You're a traitor, you’re shot! So he went out, he left! He deserted…he left. And they recommended nothing. But here's the thing: so we knew he was a traitor, and we made the deal anyway. I wouldn't have made the deal. I would have said, ‘oh, he's a traitor? That's ok, they can have him for the rest of his life’ –CROWD APPLAUDS. No, I would have done it! I wouldn't even want him! You know, frankly, they're so brutal…that's not a good life. See? They turned out to be a little tougher than he thought. He thought he'd go over the…-MR. TRUMP PLAYS OUT SERGEANT BERGDAHL IN A MOCKING TONE-… ‘hey babe, how are you doing? How you guys doing?’. Boom, boom, boom –MEANING THEY SHOT AT HIM-…they beat the crap out of him. Which is fine! That's fine! I'm happy about that! –CROWD LAUGHS. I don't think he's going there for a vacation, you know. He thought he was gonna go…and…say hello to the enemy, and talk to the enemy.
 
But…what happens is he came out…and now…what we did…knowing he was a traitor…we gave them…I call Obama the five for one president. We gave them five…of the best killers…that they most desperately wanted. And they wanted them for nine years…! We gave him five…people…that are right now back on the battlefield, doing all sorts of damage. Wanting to kill everybody, including you. And that's our deal! I call him five four one! And the one's no good. Frankly, I'd take the one drop him right back where the hell he came from, you know, if you wanna know the truth. I really would –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
I look at the Iran deal, and…I see secretary Kerry, who's not a negotiator. He did not read The Art of the Deal? By the way, has anybody got in my new book!? Huh? Did you like it!? Bring me that sucker, get…bring me that sucker! It's doing great, by the way! –CROWD LAUGHS. If it wasn't doing great, I wouldn't mention it –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
‘Crippled America’. Isn’t’ that sad? And I saw the term, I'm reading something, and I see somebody was talking about how badly we're doing. And they said in some…article, ‘Crippled America’. Said, ‘wow! That's a rough…term’. ‘Crippled America’, right? By the way, have you read it yet? Huh? Did you love it? –MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES THE PERSON WHO HANDED HIM THE BOOK. It's doing…it's amazing! But…! But! I don't believe in being a critic! I hate critics. You know, these guys, they criticize but they've never been able to do anything themselves? Like a theater critic, a movie critic, any kind of a critic. A political critic. How about these political critics…? Are they the worst of all? They're up here! They're all over the place! Look at them! –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
A guy like a Karl Rove, what a dope. This is this guy spends…-CROWD LAUGHS-…no, think of it. This dope spends…four hundred and thirty-five million last cycle. Didn't win one race! –CROWD LAUGHS. And I saw a couple of the ads. They were so bad…! …that I thought they were made by the Democrats! I said, ‘it's a great add! Who did that add!? I might use that person!’. They were made by him. Four hundred and thirty-five million…
Now, I wonder how much of that he gets You know, you hear about the money, but I wonder how much of that he gets. Because…a lot of these fundraisers…you know, it's a scam! This whole thing with the PACs…Super PACs…is a scam! And they control…every person except me! No, it's true! And I don't know…-CROWD APPLAUDS. I don't know, frankly…let me sign this book for this guy, he’s been standing for twenty minutes…-CROWD LAUGHS.
 
Terrible picture, you know what happened!? Simon and Schuster, who's like…the Harvard of…book companies, they wanted to do this book so badly. And they sent this fantastic photographer. He took the best pictures of me I've ever had in my life. I said, ‘am I really that handsome!?’ –CROWD LAUGHS. I was smiling, I looked happy, I look great. But the book, the subject matter isn't so great, because…you know, we don't have exactly like, ‘we're beating…Japan! We're beating…India! We're beating…anybody!’. We're not beating anybody! We don't win! Every…we never win! We never win! We make equipment, we give it to our…so-called allies! …who we don't even know who the hell they are! …one shots fired, they all run and the…and ISIS takes our beautiful brand-new Humvees, armor-plated –CROWD APPLAUDS. And our kids…it's true! And our kids…are riding around in crap…and they have brand-new armor plated stuff. 2,300 Humvees sent over! A couple of shots are fired in the air. These guys run like a bunch of thieves, which they are our allies…our allies! And ISIS picks up the weapons, the Humvees…this…it's just incredible!
 
What ever happened to General…George Patton!? What ever happened to MacArthur!? No,  what ever happened to these guys!? –CROWD APPLAUDS. We have those guys! You know, we have guys…! …in our…we have incredible guys! West Point!? I went to school near West Point! Thse are guys…tremendous guys! We have them. We got rid of one of our best generals because he used foul language! You…I want a guy that uses foul language! –CROWD LAUGHS, CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So I had a picture taken. And the picture is horrible. And I said, ‘that's the one we have to use’. Because this picture…I didn't know they were taking it, and I have no smile, I'm just sitting there. And it's mean! But we have to be mean now! We can't be…right? MR. TRUMP TURNS AROUND AFTER A MEMBER IN THE CROWD HAS CALLED OUT SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. He said, ‘no more Mr. nice guy’ –CROWD LAUGHS. This is not…friends called up said, ‘this is the worst picture I've ever seen’. I had all these beautiful smiling pictures, you know, how can you say, ‘Crippled America’, with a picture –MR. TRUMP FAKES AN EAR TO EAR GRIN. THE CROWD LAUGHS…right!? There you go baby, I love you –CROWD APPLAUDS. Thank you.
 
So…so…we have to find ourselves, and I will find it, cause that's what I do. I find great people. You know, deals…I've been a great deal guy. And deals…are…only, when you think, they’re only people! It's about people! All deals are about people. And…that's what I like. That's what I love doing. The…I mean…I get treated…I've always been treated nicely by the financial press, because it's a little bit simpler. And…but the…the political press is brutal. You know, no matter what. I had a thing the other night, they did polls. You know, the seven polls. Drudge was fantastic. Drudge is great, you guys all know that –CROWD APPLAUDS. Time magazine, I was on the cover recently, but I have no power over time. And they had all these polls. Slate! Like…six or seven of them. And I won every poll!
 
And then you turn on that… ‘Trump was okay…’, debate. ‘Trump was okay…’. I said, ‘what do you mean okay? I won every poll!’ –CROWD LAUGHS. Forty, fifty, sixty thousand votes cast for each one. I won them all! And then I turn on the television: ‘how did Trump do?’. ‘Oh, he’s okay!’ –MR. TRUMP PLAYS THEM OUT AS IN AN EXHAUSTED OR UPSET MOOD. CROWD LAUGHS. ‘He was very low-key. He was very low-key’. I don't know. I say, ‘low-key? …I'm screaming a Kasich…’. Right? –CROWD LAUGHS. I'm telling Carly, whatever the hell her name is, Fiorina…-CROWD LAUGHS. I'm saying, ‘will you stop cutting in!?’ –CROWD CHEERS. No, everybody that talks, she cuts in! Cuts in! You know, I'm raising my hand, I'm trying to be a gentleman. And they're giving me questions…and…I thought the moderators did an excellent job, by the way. I…They…they really did. I think they did –CROWD APPLAUDS. I think they did, all three. I think they did a fantastic job. It was an elegant debate. I said, it…it was an elegant debate. But…these guys…are cutting in! Kasich! Oh! I have a headache from this guy! –CROWD LAUGHS. In fact, …! ...I actually said, ‘let Jeb Bush talk!’ –CROWD LAUGHS. It’s true! And Jeb didn't know whether to thank me or not. He goes, ‘thank you!’. I think…he wasn't sure. But I was being serious! ‘Let him talk!’. Kasich… guys bugging…oh! He's terrible! And he had a bad debate! Because he looked angry! And angry is okay, in the right place. But you had people…that…I didn't think did very well. But…it's…it's amazing! Because, you know, you see the people that are legit, and the people that are honest. And then you hear them talking,. And…and political commenters are very, very dishonest. And you have some bad ones. George will is a bad one, bad guy. Bad guy!
 
The Krauthammer is getting a little bit better toward me. Ugh! You know, little bit better. But…ehm…O'Reilly’s tough but he's good. Right? He's good. I think he's good –CROWD APPLAUDS. Ehm…Some of these guys, I mean, they have some guys…Stephen Hayes…no, but if I were Abraham Lincoln, who's a great orator, actually, they say. Who the hell knows!? I mean, I didn't get to watch him –CROWD LAUGHS. But Abraham Lincoln. If I were Abraham Lincoln, and I gave the greatest…remarks you've ever heard. How about the Gettysburg Address? You know, I'll do something like that, no good. They wouldn't be good. MR. TRUMP PLAYS OUT THAT HYPOTHETICAL SITUATION WHERE EXPERTS ASSESSED HIS PERFORMANCE- ‘No! Not good! Didn't do a good job!’. ‘Oh, good!’. If my name was Trump. If my name was Honest Abe, it's the greatest thing he's ever heard.
 
So you know, you have that. I actually saw it with a friend of mine. A guy was leave…won't mention names. But he's a bad guy. But he's…somebody that I like. Okay? And he was…going to critique…one of the candidates on television! And he had to be there in two hours. So he's leaving my office. I said, ‘where you going now’? ‘I'm gonna critique a candidate’. ‘Oh, good! Good! Well, good luck!’. ‘Oh, no. I know…what I'm gonna say’. I said, ‘well, wait, but the candidate hasn't spoken yet’. It was a big speech…for this…particular candidate. Who's a said…said figure. He said…he said, ‘no, I know what I'm gonna say’. ‘How...’ I said… ‘doesn't matter! I hate the person’. I'm gonna say, “stiff, horrible, bad speech”’. I said, ‘supposing it's a good speech…’… ‘doesn't matter! I'm gonna say bad’.
And I said to myself, that's what actually happens. The media…is very dishonest. Unbelievably dishonest! Unbelievably! –CROWD APPLAUDS. They're bad! They’re bad people!
 
Now, you have some good….and you have…you know, obviously, you have some good ones. And I've met some really good people. Media people, in the politician business, and the political business. But…but you have some unbelievable scum. You really do. God! And they are just…absolute…bad people! And they're so…totally dishonest! And…I…this is…this case of this guy leaving my office, tell me…that he's already written his remarks about this event that hasn't even taken place. And they were horrible! And then I see him later, two hours later on television, ‘the speech was horrible, it was stiff…’…the guy actually did a good job! And I'm hearing what a disaster he was! It's no different. It's no different. And it's very unfair. And it really forces a lot of good people out.
 
You know, people have told me…and I've always heard this. When you're a very successful person, successful even, but if you're really successful. I've always heard from the time I'm a little boy, ‘you cannot run for president. You can't’. I never understood! I said, I wonder why that is. But I…I do understand that. You know? I've done hundreds and hundreds of deals! They never talked about any of the good ones! When you do hundreds of deals! …hundreds of transactions! And…you know, obviously most of them are good, cuz I'm worth like many, many billions of dollars! They’re good deals! And the only reason I say that…! …is because if they're not that, I shouldn't be the one negotiating with China, and believe me. I will be good! I'm gonna be good!
 
But…-CROWD APPLAUDS-…but I get a call from this sleazebag reporter, a couple of…weeks ago. ‘Ah, we're doing the story…on this, this, this, this’. Four deals. Now, they happened it before, not good to us, but I made money on all of them. You know why I made money? Because you see a really good guy when you can make money on bad things –CROWD LAUGHS. Markets change, lots of things happen!
 
So they said, ‘Mr. Trump, we're doing the story on bing, bing, bong…and that!’. I said ‘well, what about the good deals?’. ‘No, we've decided we don't wanna do’… ‘oh, you only wanna do….so, you’re gonna take a tiny little percentage, you’re gonna…the story…’. And I said, ‘you know I made money on all those deals’. And it was…bad…bad a lot of bad things. Markets were terrible. Markets crashed. Not my fault. Markets crashed. But I always blame…you know, it's my fault. It's always our fault if we're…involved. But I said, ‘you know, I took those deals…and I made them really good, and in one case great’. Better than…if the market stayed good. Actually better, does that make sense? I made it better! Called the bank, I did a number in the bank…I'm very proud of myself. I did a lot of…you know, these bankers are not the nicest people in the world. Just don't feel bad. Somebody said, ‘well, you hurt the bank!’. I said, ‘the bank is vicious. It's headed by one of those vicious people in Wall Street! Who cares!?’. And that's the way I feel.
 
So…they'll do a story…or they did a story…I don't know, I don't even read this stuff anymore. I get so much publicity…I don't even read it. It just morphs. It's like a big morph. But so dishonest! I say, ‘will you do a story about the good deals!?’…which are by the hundreds! ‘No, we're not interested in that’. ‘Oh that's fair. That's nice. You're not interested’.
 
So we have a lot of…you know, a lot of issues. And I tell people, because it’s important for the people to know. The…I talk about the press all the time. I do two things: I talk about ratings, because I find ratings interesting. They said the other day, ‘why are you always talking about ratings!? You're always talking about ratings!’. Isn't it terrible!? ‘Nobody else does!’. I said, ‘that's because I'm in first place!’ –CROWD LAUGHS. It's true! It's true! –CROWD APPLAUDS. I mean…it's incredible.
 
You know, the other day, you saw it probably. Most you saw the debate, where they put Trump up number one, and Carson number two. I'm number one, he's number two. It's okay! And you have number three, number four, number five, number six…and you have the guys at the end who hopefully…you know, hopefully they’ll get out pretty soon. By the way…that's the other thing. Why are they staying!? –CROWD LAUGHS. Why do these people stay!? George Pataki! He's got nothing! –CROWD LAUGHS. He was a terrible governor, of New York! He couldn't have been elected dogcatcher! He decided not…he couldn't have been…if he ran for dogcatcher, he wouldn't know…and he runs for…he's running for president again and again!
 
Then he didn't even make the child stage…two days ago. And I hear he's still not quitting! He's got zero chance! And I know him, he was terrible! And you have others, I don't wanna insult them. Is it okay if I don't insult them? Lindsey Graham! –CROWD LAUGHS. No, forget it.
No, Lindsey Graham, he's a senator from South Carolina…-MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS OUT SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT-… ‘he is’ –CROWD LAUGHS. Yeah, he talks…he talks like a tough guy. You know, the tough guys don't talk like tough guys. You need smarts. The tough guys…a lot of the times, the tough guys, they're the weak ones. But he talks about…-MR. TRUMP PLAYS OUT MR. PATAKI-… ‘We’ll go into Syria! I will this! And will that! And we don't want Russia…dropping bombs on ISIS! We wanna do it ourselves!’. Oh, great. Right. Genius. He's a genius! Then they say, ‘ha, Lindsey Graham…! …he knows so much about the military’. Look where we are folks! This is the Lindsey Graham! We lost with Iraq! We lost with Libya! We lost with everything! Where do we have a victory!? He's tough!
 
This is the one, he gave me his phone number, cuz he wanted me to make a campaign contribution. Years ago. And I made the speech. I said, ‘I wonder if this numbers still works, right?’. Because he started knocking me. He was perfectly nice, and all of a sudden he realized he was going nowhere, he was in the doghouse in the polls. And all of a sudden I was a bad guy! So I said, ‘let's call him folks’. And they started calling, it was actually quite funny –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But…but he was up in the stage the other day talking about being a tough guy. He's tough! So tough! We'll end up in World War 3 over Syria. I'm tougher than all of them, believe me. And if we're gonna fight, we're gonna fight, but it's gonna be something important. We're gonna end up…-CROWD APPLAUDS. We've been in the Middle East…for so many years…the longest Wars…Afghanistan now is our longest war. By the way, Afghanistan, of all of them…is probably the place we should have been, maybe in the first place. Because you're right next to Pakistan. Pakistan has nuclear weapons, not a good thing. You know that I all said we should never go to Iraq. And I said that in 2003-2004. I wrote a book, ‘The America we deserve’, where I said, in 2000, before the World Trade Center came down. Where I said, there's a guy named Osama bin Laden…in my book! In my book! …and we better watch him! And I saw him a couple of times on television, and a friend of mine, who's in the military told me: ‘bad guy’. And they said, ‘bad guy’. And I'm writing this book and I said, ‘there is a guy…Obama…Osama bin Laden…and we better do something about him! …because he's gonna go under a rock…’. And this is what I said in the book. And three years later the World Trade Center came down with him! And I'll never forget. Two weeks ago I'm watching…Joe Scarborough, Morning Joe, good show. I don't know if anybody…knows…but it's good, right? And somebody is saying, ‘you know, Trump actually…’, and they had the book. They said, ‘Trump actually predicted Osama bin Laden would come in, and do something very bad, World Trade Center’. And he said, ‘yeah! But when did he write it?’. And they look, they said, ‘two thousand!’. ‘Whoa!’ You know, he goes, ‘that was before…that's unbelievable!’. ‘He said that before, he's the only one that predicted it!’. And I wasn't even in government! I wasn't even in government! And I predicted!
 
Now, who knew this was going to happen!? But I would have taken that guy out, just based on his threats. Just based on his threats! We gotta know where to fight! And when to fight! You know, we have stupid people. We are very, very stupid people run country! Very, very stupid people! –CROWD APPLAUDS. And they say, ‘Lindsey Graham…’, is same old stuff! Of McCain, and this one, and that one…’. These guys have been fighting for twenty years! We got nothing! We've got nothing!
 
In Iraq…we spent two trillion dollars! –WE- Could have rebuilt our country. We spent two trillion dollars! We lost thousands…of incredible soldiers! We have wounded warrior soldiers all over the place! No arms, no legs…these are the greatest. I love them! They're the greatest! They're much more brave than I am. They’re much more brave than I am. They’re much…these are the greatest! The way they live…their life? –CROWD APPLAUDS. No, they're incredible! I see them working out. They're working out. They're really badly injured. But they're working out! I wouldn't be working out! I probably be watching television. Who the hell knows!? These people are amazing!
 
So…two trillion dollars, right? Thousands of deaths! Wounded warriors. All over! All over! We have nothing! We have nothing! Iran is taking over Iraq…second-largest oil reserves, in the world. Iran is taking over Iraq.
 
So…when it happened with…Iraq, I said, ‘you shouldn't go in’. And a delegation came to see me from the White House…cause I get…for whatever reason! Without PR people, without anything…I don't do it on purpose! For whatever reason, I get a disproportionate amount of publicity. Do you agree!? -MR. TRUMP TURNS AROUND TO ASK THE CROWD BEHIND HIM. Look at these guys…they're still standing! Will you sit down!? You people are great! Sit down! Look at them! You must like being…to be standing. Look at that handsome!? He’s better looking than his father –CROWD LAUGHS-…much. Right? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YES!’.
 
But…so what happens is…you look at Iraq, and I said, ‘don't do it!’. And…a…delegation comes to see me from the White House. That they'd like to…you know, have me cool. I say,  ‘but you’re making a mistake. You're gonna destabilize the whole Middle East’. Cause you had Iran and Iraq, they always fight, right? Ehm…years I read about wars! Iran goes ten feet this way, -MR. TRUMP MIMICS IT IN THE AIR WITH HIS FISTS-…then ten feet…they were the same! They were like twins! Same strength! Then Saddam Hussein would use gas. So they'd use gas…and we'd read about it. I said, ‘yeah but if you do that…you’re gonna destabilize, cause you're gonna knock the hell out of one, and the other one's gonna come in and take it over’. It's pretty simple! I mean, you don't have to be a total genius…to figure this out! Even though I am a genius, okay? –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So you're gonna…right? So they go in and knock it out. I was very vocal about it, I said, ‘you're making a mistake’. And by the way I'm more militaristic…than anybody in this room. Just so you understand. I am…I'm gonna make our military so strong, so powerful…I'm gonna take care of our Vets…like nobody's ever taken care of our Vets. Our vets are being treated horribly –CROWD APPLAUDS. And by that I mean the wounded warriors also. They're being treated so badly…our wounded warriors are being treated badly. Our vets…that whole group of people is being treated…I mean, the illegal immigrants are being treated better than our Vets in many cases. And that's pretty sad! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That's pretty sad. So I said, ‘you're making a mistake. Don't do it’. They did it. Okay.
 
So now they're in, I'm building buildings. Okay? I'm building buildings. What do I have to do with this? I hated it. I hated…then I saw what happened. Then it turned out there were…no…weapons…of…mass…destruction. And you know why we thought there were? Cause first of all, we had faulty intelligence, cause we didn't do that right either. But we thought they were cause Saddam Hussein used to say that, in order to scare Iran. Make sense, right? My theory. This is the ‘Trump theory’ on war. But I'm good at war. I've had a lot of wars of my own. I'm really good at war. I love war in a certain way. But only when we win. We never win!
 
By the way, when what was the last time we won a war!? We don't win them anymore! Our wars are always politically correct. ‘We don't wanna win…we don't wanna this…’ –MR. TRUMP IMITATES OBAMA OR A SIMILAR POLITICALLY CORRECT MR. BARACK OBAMA. So anyway, so we go in, and we have this horrible situation with Iraq. And now it's a total mess, alright.
 
So now we have our president come in. Our great unifier, President Obama. He's gonna unify our country. Right? Except…! …he turned out to be the great divider! Did you ever see anybody so divisive as this!? –CROWD APPLAUDS. Did you ever see anybody so divisive!? I think it the one thing about him…you know, oh…in all fairness to McCain, McCain…it would have been impossible. The…the place was…not doing so well. And he shouldn’t have won. Romney should have won! Something happened to Romney –CROWD APPLAUDS. He choked. I always say: he choked! For a month and a half before the election, you didn't even see him! Say what you want about Obama. He was on Jay Leno, he was on David Letterman…! He was all over the place! And I said to these people…! I was backing Romney! I said, ‘when are you gonna go on television…!?’. He wouldn't do Hannity! And Hannity is a great…he's a friendly guy! Do Hannity! Show on! He's on your side! I think, I know! Do O'Reilly! Do Greta! Do…people! Please…go in time! –MR. TRUMP IMITATES MR. ROMNEY MOCKINGLY-… ‘well, I don't think we need. I think we have them in the bag’. I said, ‘I don't think so! I'm really good at this stuff! I don't think you have it in the bag! But you know what, even if you do! Pretend you don't! Because you work harder!’.
 
Then he announces he's building a 12 car garage in Malibu, California. Say…remember that fiasco!? This is not what people…and the horses!? His wife has horses!? Anyway, he loses. We should have won. That was when we should have won! We had a failing president, we had a bad economy…everything was good for us…and he lost! And that's a shame.
 
So you have Obama go in. And Obama makes the announcement… ‘we're leaving…Iraq, on a certain time’. Now, I said, just from a common stance, and…and…I will tell you. You know, the polls have come out…on …and I love this stuff. They come out…on leadership I was number one…by like everything! Many times! I mean, many times. I don't mean I was up two points! I mean…many times! On military I was up! On terrorism I was up! Can you believe it!? Way up! By many times! By times! Not like three to nine…like…I don't know, CNN said, ‘you're over there…’, it's like 38…it's a few points! And then…for the economy…it was like beyond belief! The only thing I don't do so well is…not everybody loves me. I don't know. And I'm actually a nice person! –CROWD APPLAUDS. You know!? No, it's true! I mean, my weakness is that people don't know if I'm a nice person. Who the hell cares!? We gotta straighten out our country! I mean, you can put Jeb in there. You can put this lightweight, Marco Rubio in there. Put him in there! He's a lightweight! It's not gonna happen if you do that! It's not gonna happen folks! You're not gonna…you're just kidding yourselves. You're just kidding yourselves. We gotta bring our country back. We need somebody that can do it strong –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
A woman came up to me…a woman came up to me…and said, ‘Mr. Trump, I'm voting for you. You're strong, you're the one I want. But do you think you're nice enough to be President?’ She said that! I said, ‘you know what? Honestly, ma'am. I don't think this time it's gonna matter about niceness. I think it's gonna be right…like I really am competent’. I think it's all about competence. It's about leadership. I mean, when I lead by leadership, by many times…economy by many times, in the military I lead! And people see that in my book! I said Osama bin Laden! They see that! The president…didn't know about Osama bin Laden but I do, and I'm building buildings in Manhattan. Why do I know about him, and…and military doesn't?
And I wrote him in the book. You have to see it! People have gone out to buy that book cuz nobody believes it. Osama bin Laden…mentioned in the book. I think it's like two years before the World Trade Center came down. And…I said, this time it's about something special: it's about competence. We gotta bring our country back. With all of that debt. With all of the problems. With people wanting to decimate Social Security…the people have been paying into, for years. And now they're gonna…they wanna raise the age, they wanna cut the benefits…they wanna do everything! …with Obamacare, which I will repeal, and replace quickly –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Believe me. Believe me. Believe me!
 
And what people don't know is that Obamacare is phenomenal for the insurance companies. They're making a fortune with it. And you know, the states…like Iowa. If I wanna have…an insurance company in Iowa, negotiate on my stuff in Manhattan, in New York…they have artificial lines around every state where people here can't negotiate. They can't come in. Those guys can't come into Iowa and negotiate. So I get these guys, they walk in, ‘how are we doing folks?’. ‘Well, very few bidders…’. They’ve got a monopoly! And they're smart! They'd rather have a monopoly…here; a monopoly in New York! A monopoly in California…than have to compete all over the country, where they have a chance at 50 states plus, right? Because it's what they're making a fortune. They were big contributors to Obama's campaign. Now, think of this: we had a website that cost five billion dollars, and still doesn't work. But here's what's happening. In 17 -2017- they're gonna have to renegotiate the whole Obamacare. You know it's a disaster.
I don't know…if you don't hear it about it so much, cause we have so many other problems. No, no as a country. The Iran deal is such a disaster. It's all a disaster. We have nothing good, happening. Nothing! That's why I call the book ‘Crippled America’. There's nothing good! There's nothing good happening!
 
The only thing they point to is, ‘well, we killed Osama bin Laden!’. Well, let…let me…tell you. Let me tell you. You're the president. You're sitting there. These great guys that we have working, between the Navy SEALs and the great people. They call up the president. They say, ‘Mr. president, we have Osama bin Laden’. He goes, ‘Oh…what should we do?’. ‘Do you want us to get him Mr. president, or not!?’. Okay. Pretend anybody in the audience…anybody! …including these folks –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE PEOPLE RIGHT BEHIND HIM. They’re very nice actually.  They don’t sit down! They're still standing! They’re all excited. I love that –CROWD LAUGHS. Okay.
 
Pretend anybody in the audience is president, right? And these great guys come in. General: ‘Mr. president, we have Osama bin Laden’. So we have a choice. ‘We can leave them alone Mr. president, or we can go and either take him a bomb the hell out of him’. Who's gonna say ‘leave him alone’…? Is there anybody that would say it!? And that's the only thing they can point to! They say…and that was years ago! It's a long time ago! So he says… ‘ehm…take him!’. And our SEALs did a great job! They did a great job! Brave guys! –CROWD APPLAUDS. I met…two of them. They're great guys! But…who would say ‘don't get him’. Would anybody say that!? I mean, you say, ‘go get him!’. And then they sit around waiting, and the answer is a good answer. And…and give them credit. I wanna give him credit. But who would…? Who would say, ‘oh, you have Osama bin Laden…? Let's not…let's not get him’. Oh great! I mean, there might be two people in the audience, but those are very weak characters, I'd like them to leave immediately, okay? –CROWD LAUGHS. Those would not be…those are not my kind of people.
 
So…we don't have victories anymore. We just don't have them. So we're gonna turn this thing…and we're gonna make it…so…so good. But we now need people…that are…great…in office. I'm gonna find a general who's so good. Who's so mean, and so smart. I don't want just mean. I want mean and smart. You know I know a lot of tough guys, but their stupid –CROWD LAUGHS. We don't need tough, stupid people. Those are the worst actually. The worst guys are the tough-stupid people, and people. No, I need tough, and mean, and really, really smart. Like General Douglas MacArthur –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
General MacArthur was the number-one student in the history of West Point. HE- Had the highest grades in the history of West Point. And he was a great general, and he had the image. He'd get off the thing, you know, the plane…with the corncob pipe, and the head that…he loved it! But now we have television people. They always go on television, our generals. I talk about this all the time, cause I can't believe it! Why is the general on television!? Because he's giving signals to the enemy! We have a certain general on television about two months ago. And he's talking about…how ill-prepared we are –CROWD LAUGHS. That…we've never been so ill-prepared. And the announcer asks…you know, it's a…show. And I'm said to myself…I don't want him! I don't want him talking! Don't say it! Don't talk! –CROWD LAUGHS. Can you imagine…? The great General Patton, sitting on a television talk show…? … ‘General….’. These guys are spinning in his grave!
 
So I watch this guy talking… ‘how do you think we could do about ISIS. Can we win…?’. MR. TRUMP NOW MOCKS HIM LOWERING HIS TONE OF VOICE AND SLOWING DOWN HIS SPEECH. ‘I don't know, they're very tough. They're very tough. They’re elusive. I don't know what we do’. I say, ‘Oh, god!’. No wonder they're so emboldened. No wonder they feel so…You know, it's like I've heard different accounts from 40 to 60 thousand people. ‘Good fighters, ISIS. Good fighters. Smart, good’. And I said…they asked me. So I'm running for president, I'm leading in…almost all the polls. And they asked me a question about ISIS. And I said to the announcer, ‘I don't really wanna answer it’. And the next day, these idiots over here –MR. TRUMP MEANS THE CAMERAS AND SO THE MEDIA-…say, ‘Trump doesn't know the answer’ –CROWD LAUGHS. The reason I don't wanna answer, cause I don't wanna tell the enemy if I win! I don't want to have to…does that make sense!? I don't want to tell them! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So two weeks go by, and I get the question again: ‘how would you fight ISIS, Mr. Trump, if you're president’. I said, ‘do I have to answer it!? Do I have to’? They said, ‘Mr. Trump, we really think it's appropriate’. And I did too, cause I was getting killed at the press, saying I'm not…I know more about ISIS than the generals do. Believe me. I said, ‘all right, so here's what I’d do’. I hated to do it! Oh! I hated to do it! Because…I think I'm gonna win…and I don't want these guys…-CROWD APPLAUDS. No, I really…I don't want these guys…because my life has been about victories, in all fairness, okay? I…it's been about victories. I've had a lot of victories. I'm not like a person that enjoys…you know, you have a lot of people that like to lose. You know, they like to lose! They feel comfortable losing. That's not me. I don't feel too good when I lose –CROWD LAUGHS. But I said, ‘I don't really wanna tell you it…but then I realized I had to, cause I was getting killed by these people. They said ‘Mr. Trump doesn't have a plan, for ISIS!’. I said, ‘no, I have a plan…! …but I don't wanna tell ISIS what it is’. Because I'm gonna win! I had to. I said…to my wife, I said… ‘you know, I gotta tell them about this plan. I'm gonna have no choice…because otherwise I'm not gonna win! People are gonna thinking like I don't have a plan!’ I hate doing it!
 
So I’m on one of the shows…and I said, ‘look, ISIS are making a tremendous amount of money because they have certain oil camps. Right? They have certain areas of oil, that they took away. They have some in Syria, some in Iraq…I would bomb the shit out of them! –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YEAH’ AND CHEERS. I would just bomb those suckers. And…that’s right, I’d blow up the pipes, I’d blow up the refineries…I’d blow up every single inch. There would be nothing left. And you know what? You get exon to come there and…two months! HAVE- you ever seen these guys how good they are? The great oil companies? They’d rebuild that sucker brand new, it’d be beautiful. And I’d ring it, and I’d take the oil. And I said, ‘I’d take the oil’ –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
ISIS is making…millions of dollars a week. Millions of dollars…with oil! Now, they’re also getting money from Saudi Arabia! Can you believe it? They’re getting money from other people! They’re getting money through the various banking systems in the Middle East, which are very complex systems…very, very complex…I study banking systems! I mean, who’s taking advantage of banks more than I have? I’m a professional! –CROWD LAUGHS. Nobody. I love banks. They’re the greatest.
 
But you know what? ISIS is…is…making a fortune…on the oil! So I said…oh, and I hated to do it! I actually did it low-key, because I just hated to do it. Does that…does that make sense to anybody here? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YEAH’ AND APPLAUDS. I hated to do it! And I said, ‘that’s what I’d do. I’d bomb the hell out of them’. I then get exon…or I'd get…you know, I bit it out. I’d bit it out! You get this one! …you get this one! …you get this one! They’ll rebuild it so fast! They were incredible, what they can do. I mean, it really is amazing! And it'll be brand-new, beautiful, and I'd ring it. The soldiers wouldn't be in danger. I'd ring it. I wanna protect it. And we'll take the oil for the rest…forever!
 
When I left when…we left Iraq…I said, ‘take the oil’. Everyone said, ‘oh, that's terrible! That's a sovereign country!’. They're a bunch of thieves, these guys –CROWD LAUGHS. They were taking millions and millions in cash…! …and putting it in their pockets! We were delivering satchels of cash there…in Afghanistan…it's out of control! They deceived us! Because they didn't take care of the Kurds…they didn't take care of…! The whole thing! ISIS formed because these people…were not allowed to partake…! And got…that to where ISIS came from! It came out of Iraq! And ISIS turned out to be a hell of a lot tougher than the guys…running Iraq! But this is where it all started. What we have created…is unbelievable.
 
So now you have Obama…and he's in. And I don't blame him for that. But I blame him for the way he got out. Because he said, ‘we are leaving on a certain date’. Do you remember when he announced a date!? And everyone said, ‘oh, the enemy's not as strong as there were!’…you know, in the meantime. ‘The enemy's not as strong as they once were’. They're strong! They said, ‘why the hell should we fight?’. You know, you may think that they wanna…go to wherever they go. They really don't! If they could avoid it! So they pulled back! They said, ‘this schmuck is gonna leave on a certain date. What do we have to kill ourselves for!?’.
 
So what happens…is we leave, and they go in, and do…all the damage that they’re doing…
You saw what happened today, massive bombs all over the place. In Iraq. You saw that, right? I see everybody shaking their head. Terrible. It's a carnage. But Obama said, ‘we are leaving on X date’. Gave the date!
 
Now, I'm sitting there, and I say… ‘what…? That…that's stupid to do, because…the enemy's gonna pull back, wait for the date, we'll leave, and they'll go do whatever…’. And this is what happened! And that's why Iraq is negotiating with Iran! And…what's why…Iraq is negotiating with Russia now! Because we…pulled out. Now, I didn't wanna go in, but we should have left our 20,000 sol…soldiers there. Because we could have stopped…a lot of the stuff that's happening now –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
And then you have Libya under the great Hillary Clinton. I mean, she's the worst secretary of state, probably Kerry might go down as worse, because…honestly? Kerry made the Iran deal. He may be the best thing that ever happened to Hillary. He made the most incompetent deal I've ever seen.
 
But Hillary…think of Hillary: every single thing…! …that she touched, turned to garbage –CROWD LAUGHS. The entire Middle East in her reign, and the reign of Barack Obama…went to hell! Libya…! Look at Benghazi, an offshoot. But Libya…and now what we're doing is…people are saying…and again, remember, very militaristic guy. Very militaristic. But you have…people…and you have Assad, and then you have…the rebels. How many times have we been backing rebels, to find out that they're always worse than the guy that's in there! –CROWD CALLS ‘YES!’. Right? All the time! So now we have the rebels. We’re giving them hundreds of millions of dollars’ worth of stuff. Russia, because he has no respect for…Putin has no respect for Obama. I don't know if you saw him, the other night on 60 Minutes with me. We were stablemates, right? I…he was on…I was on…same time. We got very good ratings that night. I'm taking credit for the ratings. I…will…but on 60 minutes, it was great –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
But he has no respect for Obama, so he starts bombing…to which I say, ‘huh that's not so bad!’ No, they just blew up his airplane. I assume that was probably a bomb. ISIS actually took credit for it. I think they probably did, cause they found a timer in it today. Did you know that they find a timer…for the bomb today? That's usually an indication that there was a bomb, right? –CROWD LAUGHS. They have a timer! And they announced…long time ago, a while ago, that they blew it up.
 
So…so he can't be a friend of ISIS…this was a Russian plane. They can't be a friend of ISIS. So if Putin wants to bomb…I’d say, ‘go ahead! Go ahead! Bomb!’ And we can bomb too. We gotta  stop ISIS for a different reason. We can't allow people…to cut off people's heads. We can't do it –CROWD APPLAUDS. No, no, we gotta beat…we gotta beat them so badly…cuz we can. If Russia wants to bomb them I say, ‘that's great’. And…we don't wanna get stuck in a quagmire, Syria. You know, we're in a quagmire. We were in a quagmire in…Afghanistan, and our…we're in a quagmire, like you never saw, in Iraq. But…now we're out, but essentially, what we did is all those lives, all that money, all that everything…just so horrible. But it was a quagmire. Would everyone agree? You know, just a total quagmire.
 
And now we have another potential quagmire. And Putin likes Assad, and Assad is a bad guy! But…the rebels might be worse! In fact, a lot of people think that the rebels that we're backing is ISIS! And people are saying they're ISIS!
 
So I come out, I say, ‘listen. why are we giving all of this equipment to these people that we don't know who they are?’. I spoke to a general, two weeks, who is a great guy. Very familiar with the situation. I said, ‘what do you think of the rebels?’. He said, ‘Mr. Trump, we really don't know who they are, sir’. I said, ‘oh, that's great. Now I feel better. Now I feel better’ –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
What the hell are we doing!? We have to rebuild our country! We have to put money into our country! Our bridges are falling down. 60 percent of our bridges are in danger! I mean, they're in danger! They're in bad shape! Our roadways, our highways, our schools! In Afghanistan we build a school, they blow it up. We build it again, they blow it up. We build it again…so far they haven't blown up. But it's gonna blow up! But we can't build a school in Iowa! We can't build a school in Brooklyn, New York! We can't build a school in New Hampshire! –CROWD APPLAUDS. We can't take care of our Vets! We can't have hospitals for our Vets! We don't have any money to do anything for ourselves! At what point do we get smart!? And I say by us building up the military. Somebody said, ‘oh, you're gonna spend a lot of money on military’. I said, ‘yeah, I'm gonna spend money. That's the greatest investment we can make’. Because the world wants to kill us. And if we go strong…really strong…nobody's gonna mess with us, folks. It's gonna be cheap! It's so cheap! It's going to be so…inexpensive, to build up our military, compared to where they think. We're weak! We've gotta be so strong…and I mean it. I say it all the time! We've got to be so strong, so powerful, so advanced…! Because we have the right equipment! We have the great stuff! We have the great stuff! We're selling it to people, and sometimes the wrong people. Sometimes we're giving it away. And we're giving it away too…but we have the brainpower! We have the great people, and we have the great stuff.
 
But we've gotta be so strong…and so advanced…! …that nobody plays with it. It’s so important…and so cheap! You know, somebody said, ‘oh, you're gonna spend…’… No, no. I'm gonna spend here, but we're not gonna have to have wars. Because nobody's gonna touch…especially with me! …because I'm so unpredictable! I'm so unpredictable! –CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS.
 
Like I didn't like the way…you know, I don't like the way Obama treats Putin. You know, Obama's trying to act like a tough guy. And he's shown how tough he is, okay? Ehm…tough guy, draw a line in the sand. When you draw a line in the sand you can't…you know, you’ve gotta do something, right? Didn't do it. First time I've seen that. ‘Here's the line in the sand’. That's like the bully, draws the line in the sand, then walks away from the fight. But that's okay. That's okay. But we have to have somebody…and the word predictable is a very important word. I'll give you an example: a week ago…President Obama announced…very proudly…! …that we're sending 50 of our finest…military to Syria. And I said, ‘why is he announcing that!?’. ‘Why is he saying that?’. These 50 young men…and, as I understand it, a few women…rough stuff! Rough stuff! Why is he saying that they're going there!? Why does he have to make that announcement? To sound like a tough guy?
 
First of all, fifty sounds ridiculous, okay? Sort of like…if you’re gonna do it, do it. Or if you're not gonna do it, don't do it. But he's sending fifty! These fifty people…are now targeted. Like you never would believe. You know, this enemy is not a stupid enemy. Remember Obama said they're ‘The JV’? They're not the JV. They turned out not to be the JV. I wanna make him the JV. I wanna make them less than 2 JV. But they’re now…they're getting stronger and stronger. And every time they have a…mental and moral victory, they become…
You know they're better at the internet and our people are. And it's our baby! They're recruiting people…from our country, to go over, and fight. And then we take them back! We take them back! Because the Democrats and the Republicans…I'm more disappointed in the Republicans and the Democrats. I'm a Republican! I'm a conservative guy! We take them back! We let them come back into the country! Automatically! You cut them off, you can't come back, ever! It's crazy! It's crazy! –CROWD APPLAUDS. It's crazy!
 
So…so I've watched stupidity at a level that I've never seen before. It's only gonna get worse. I know Hillary. I'm from New York. I've always been…friendly. I get along with everybody! You know, I was criticized: ‘you're friendly with Hillary!’. ‘You're friendly with this…when you're a…’. I’m friendly with everybody! I'm a big…one of the magazine's recently, very nice said I'm a world-class businessman. It's true! I built a great company! I gotta get along with everybody! If I need permits here, if I need permits there, if I need a recommendation from a Democrat to another country. I can get anything! I can get anything! I know the system better than anybody! They said, ‘you're not that political, are you?’. I'm more political than all these politicians! My whole life has been politics! Now, I've been on the other side, where I've been a giver. I was the fair-haired boy! I gave a lot of money. I gave three hundred and fifty thousand dollars to the Republican Governors Association. A…total waste of money. Total –CROWD LAUGHS. I gave a lot of money! And I didn't get a letter of thank you! I didn't get a letter of…I'll tell you the story sometime, but I'll say…but I didn't get a letter of thank you! But I'm a very political person!
We have to be smart! We have to be sharp! When you have a president…he's gotta be unpredictable! You can't have a president…that they. No, you can't have a president that makes an announcement…that we're sending 50 wonderful young people over to fight! And these people are waiting for him over there now! They didn't know they were coming! They didn't know they were coming! And now they're watching, and looking…and they wanna take them out! And they might be successful in taking them out! We can't have that! We need really, really, really tough, smart…people, or we're not gonna have a country left –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So…just a couple of more things. Border is very important. MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING ABOUT ISRAEL. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT-…Israel is very important. Israel has been…treated so badly…by Obama. I…it’s…it's beyond belief. I have so many Jewish friends who…and they're really good friends, and great people…and they supported Obama, and it's almost like automatic, it's like, ‘oh, we're having a fundraiser’. He's been a horror…he's one of the worst thing that's ever happened to Israel. President Obama, he's one of the worst things. I mean that Iran deal. Bibi Netanyahu is a good guy. I…I actually did commercials for his reelection, if you can believe it. I'm one of the only celebrities. He wanted me to do a commercial, I did a commercial. He won, so I'm happy. Okay? But he's a good guy. And he's devastated over it. Because that deal is going to lead to nuclear proliferation. And he made a terrorist nation rich! –HE-…gives a hundred and fifty billion dollars…! …and they can self-inspect! Forget about the 24 days! How about the self-inspections!? Where they are gonna do their own inspections, and report back! –CROWD LAUGHS. And these are…evil people. And these are people…that truly hate us! You see it with the flags. The American flags, they’re being burned all over the place, they are enjoying singing…
You know, if I make it a deal, and if I go out to lunch. And I see the people on the other side saying, how stupid I am, ‘he's so stupid, this guy! What a stupid deal he’s make!’. I've been reading for nine months, ‘what a stupid…’! And these guys keep chugging along… ‘okay, we'll give you that’. ‘No, we want this point’. ‘No, we don't we'd rather not give you that’. ‘We want it!’. ‘Okay, okay’. This is Kerry. Kerry said, ‘it's very important for us to get this point’. ‘No!’ ‘No, but it's very…very important’. ‘No!’ ‘Okay, we'll take it’. This is our negotiator.
 
We could have doubled up the sanctions. Tripled up the sanctions. They would have called up and begged for a deal. We could have said the following, three years ago…can you believe how long this deal is taken? Somebody said to me the other day, one of the big magazines: ‘how long should the Iran deal have taken?’. ‘A day!’, I said. But maybe a week! If things are bad. Cause you know right away. But…think of it. You should have gone in, said, ‘before we start, we want our prisoners back. There's four of them. We want our prisoners’. Before we start! Not now! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
I met the wife of the pastor's, she's so lovely! She's devastated! She doesn’t know, the husband's in the… been there now what? Four years? A Christian! He's there because it's a Christian. So I would have said, ‘look…’. And by the way, this is not 25 percent, or 75. This is a hundred percent they get them back. I'll do this for myself. It's so easy, I would've gone and I’d say, ‘we gotta get our prisoners back. You don't want them, you don't need them, your people don't even know you have them. Very important for us. And you'll make a better deal if you give them back, because they'll be good will. It's good will, right? You got to give them back. They would probably say, ‘no, we cannot do that, we can’t…’. I’d say, ‘bye bye-bye!’. I leave. It's over. Double up the sanctions. They'll call within two days: ‘please come back. We would like to start the negotiation’. I said, ‘where are our prisoners?’. ‘Here they are’. I'll guarantee you one thing. If I win, those prisoners will be back before I take office. That I can guarantee you! –CROWD APPLAUDS. I can guarantee you! They will have hell to pay! I guarantee you, those four prisoners…will be back before I take office! Guaranteed! It is so disgusting!
 
Now they said the other day…that now…the deal is done! They're getting all of this money! Now they want to negotiate for the prisoners! Okay? You heard this. They don't want to give us four back. They're only gonna give us three. But they want 19 in return. And the guy goes, ‘and too many other things’. And I just want to turn off…the television…or throw something at the television. Because I get so angry when I see it.  ‘We want many other things’, and you would have had them for the…for the deal. First of all, I would have never given him back 150 anyway. I mean, the only thing that I would say…could have made it…a little more complicated, and might have taken an extra week or two. I would have never…! …given them back the money. I would have said, ‘the money is off the table, let's start negotiating’. And you know what, I would have won that negotiation. With the 150 it's a no-brainer. We never even asked for the prisoners…! …because they said it was going to make it too complicated. Never even asked for them. But the money? I would have never given back, which makes it tougher. Would have taken me an extra week or two probably. Okay? But we've got to be smart, and we've got to be tough.
 
So…we have candidates running. You have Hillary, who's a disaster, but let's not worry about her. We gotta get there first. Okay? First you gotta beat these other guys –CROWD APPLAUDS. Okay? So forget about Hillary. Hillary's got so many problems, and she's being protected by government. Totally protected. I think she'll probably be allowed to run, because…what she did…is so much worse than what General Petraeus did. It's so much worse than what other people did –CROWD APPLAUDS. And general Petraeus's life was destroyed! Destroyed! You know, he got a sentence that he didn't have to serve. I mean, they gave him a sense. They destroyed his life! Nice guy…but they destroyed his life! Other people…for doing a tiny fraction of what she did…! So they're protecting her.
 
So I believe she'll be the candidate. She'll run. Don't forget there's a statute of limitations on that whole thing. But she's gonna run. She's gonna be the candidate. And…she's gonna lose. She's gonna lose! I'm telling you –CROWD APPLAUDS. Cause…because people are sick and tired…of watching what's going on. They're sick and tired. With her, with her, ‘Oh…’ –MR. TRUMP PLAYS HER AS A NAÏVE WOMAN.  With her whole big attitude. And she's playing the woman card up. That's all she has. Honestly? Outside of the woman's card she's got nothing going. Believe me! She's playing the woman's card big league! And I know so many women…they said, ‘I wouldn't vote for her if you gave me a million dollars, I wouldn't vote for her’ –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So…so I'm running against these other people. Nice people: I…ehm…I'll discuss a couple of them. Should I or should I not? You won't get angry at me if I talk about somebody that you like? If you do that's okay too, I don't care –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
Well, let's start we'll start with Rubio, I mentioned before. Nice person. Weak on illegal immigration, you know that. Weak, Rubio. Ready? Weak on illegal immigration. Like…weak…like a baby. Like a baby. Not a good poker player. Because every time he's under pressure he starts to just profusely sweat. If he was playing poker with me I'd say, ‘ah, I know what…’. The water would start pouring off his body, I'd say, ‘ah…!’. Oh, boy, he'd have a hard time. We need a poker player. Great one, okay? We need a great one. So very weak on immigration. A member of The Gang of Five. You know –WHAT- The Gang of Five was? The Gang of Five was the weak gang. The Gang of Five became much stronger on illegals coming in. So he's a member of The Gang of Five, and The Gang of Five wants people to just pour into the country. So he was very proud of that…he thought it was great. And then his poll numbers went down…in the toilet. And…all of a sudden he wasn't a member of The Gang of Five. Because you know…say what you want about some people. they come up with something they know it's not politically popular. I do that! And if you don't want it, that's okay. I'll go off to the sunset. I'll build my buildings. I'll kick the bucket, that'll be the end of it. And I'm fine. Really! –CROWD LAUGHS. That's the way it is! But I gotta do what's right. That's why I'm tougher on illegal immigration than anybody! That's what I'm saying. We have to take people that are here illegally, and we have to move them out. And you know what? It's gonna be done. It's gonna be done, it's gonna work, and now even the other candidates are saying, ‘you know, I think he's right’. They don't know. We have to do it!
Illegal immigration is costing us 250 to 300 million dollars a year. And…they're here illegally. The word is ‘illegal’. One of the reporters said today, ‘but…you're talking about removing the illegal immigrants…’. ‘Well they here illegally’. They're taking our jobs…-CROWD APPLAUDS. You know, we actually have…we have a hundred million people that are…in a…in…you don't think…they wanna work! They can't work!
 
If you're looking for a job, and you give up after a number of months, and you go…you know, you just can't get one, they consider you employed! That number, five point two percent, is such a phony number. The real number is probably 25 percent. Probably 30 or 35 percent –CROWD APPLAUDS. Because, you know, I…I said it today. If that number were correct, I wouldn't have 20,000 people in Dallas. I wouldn't have 35,000 people in Mobile, Alabama. I wouldn't have 20,000 people in…in…wherever I go. In Oklahoma, I had 20,000. I wouldn't have these crowds! I have, by far, the biggest crowds of anybody. If that…honestly? If that number were correct…? This room wouldn't be packed with an auditorium outside that's also packed. Wouldn't be packed! We're in trouble! We probably have a 25 percent unemployment rate.
 
So…we need somebody that's gonna produce jobs. Illegal immigration is terrible. We're gonna build a wall. It's gonna be so big, so strong, so powerful. No truck is gonna ride over it in a ramp –CROWD APPLAUDS- And I…it's gonna be done for the right price. And by the way, I say it all the time…! …and I mean it! That's what I do! Mexico is gonna pay for the wall! I'm not gonna pay for it! We’re not paying for the wall folks! Mark my words, we're not paying for the wall!
 
Now these…politicians…honestly? Look, I don't wanna say it about everybody. Most of my lightweights. They don't know how to negotiate. They don't know the first thing. I talked about corporate inversion, they didn't know what the hell I was talking about. That's where…companies leave this country because they can't get their money…and also because taxes! And they take all the jobs! They’re taking the jobs! They drop the jobs…many, many companies are leaving the United States. They used to leave New York for Florida. They used to leave here! Well, actually here…they left for Mexico! Okay? I mean, you lost a lot of companies that went to Mexico from Iowa! Okay!? You know the story on 60 Minutes. That great place, right? You know the name of the place. I'm talking about in Iowa. Great place, where…their companies went down to Mexico. And we're gonna have actually a news conference in a couple of weeks, with those folks. But…but so much trouble…it's not gonna happen anymore. It's not gonna happen anymore. China's not going to take our jobs anymore. And I'm a free trader. Somebody said to me today…The Wall Street Journal…is…these people don't know what they're doing. They don't know what. Hey, think of the Wall Street Journal. They bought it for five billion dollars, a number of years ago. Now it's worth five hundred million dollars. And then they tell us what to do! –CROWD LAUGHS. It's worth four and a half billion dollars less than what they paid, and now they're telling us what to do! They wrote an editorial about me today that was totally false.
 
When TPP…they said, ‘Trump said, during the debate, that China…was part of the trade pact’. Well, I didn't say that! I said China's gonna come in through the back door, after everything it’s done, China is coming into…and I've been saying this thing for a year…in many speeches…! …and they say, ‘Trump didn't know…!’. I knew better than them. I'm the one that told him was six thousand…almost six thousand pages. And nobody reads them. Except for the other sides and the other countries. They've read it. But it's a terrible deal!
 
So we need…smart people. Now, Rubio…bad on immigration, bad on a lot of things. I'm not gonna say too young, because who knows. I think I could have done a good job when I was his age. So I'm not gonna say too young. A lot of people say, ‘oh, I think he's too young…’. I don't know if he’s that too young. He will not be an inspiring president. And…he's not tough enough to be a president. He's not tough enough. We’re saying I am…amazing. So I’ll save that for when he gets nasty. Cause…I mean, at some point he’s gonna have to get nasty, right? But he’s been very nice to me. No, he’s been nice. And I’ve been nice to him. And I like him. But he’s been nice. But, you know, at some point he won’t be, probably. Cause, you know, if it’s down to the two of us, he’s not gonna be nice…! I understand that, so then we can do what I like to do best, okay?–CROWD LAUGHS. But right now, we’ll leave him.
 
Now Carson's an enigma to me –MEMBER IN THE CROWD CALLS OUT ‘BORING!’. I didn't say it! –CROWD LAUGHS. Carson's an enigma. He wrote a book. And he's doing great in Iowa. He's second in the polls! With all these professional politicians…I'm first, Carson's second. And I don't understand it! I really don't understand it. Because he wrote a book…and in the book he said terrible things about himself. He said that he's…pathological, and that he's got basically…pathological disease. Now he wrote this I guess before he was running for office, or throughout that he was running for office. And I don't want a person that's got pathological disease. I don't want him. Now, I'm not saying he's got it. He said it! This isn't something that I'm saying, ‘oh, he's a pathological liar, he's got bad…’. I'm not saying it! He said he's got pathological disease! He actually said ‘pathological temper’, and then he defined it as disease. So he said he has ‘pathological disease!’.
 
Now, if you're pathological, there's no cure for that folks. Okay? There's no cure for that. And…I did one of the shows today. And I don't wanna say what I said…but I'll tell you anyway –CROWD LAUGHS. I said that…if you're a child molester…a sick puppy…you're a child molester, there's no cure for that. There's only one cure. We don't want to talk about that cure. That's the ultimate cure. Well…there’s two, there's death, and the other thing. But if you're a child molester…there's no cure. They can't stop you. Pathological, there's no cure.
 
Now he said he was pathologic, okay. He said…he went after his mother with a hammer…he wanted to hit her on the head. Or he hit her on the head, or he wanted to hit her in the head. And I said, ‘wow! That's tough! Man!’. Did anybody in this audience ever go after your mother, to hit her on the head with a hammer? Okay?
 
So…he went after his mother…this is in his book! This isn't me! I'm just trying to save you the cost of a book! –CROWD LAUGHS. So he's a pathological…damaged…temper…a problem. Then they talk about my tone is a little bit tough. Give me a break. Bush –MEANING JEB BUSH-… ‘I don't like his tone’. We have people the heads are being cut off in Syria, if they're Christian…and for a lot of other reasons. And he doesn't like my tone. That's a problem with this country. We need somebody with tone! We need somebody with tone! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
You can go back to the other guys later, but let's straighten it out. Okay? We'll go back to the guys with the nice easy toned like Bush, and like Rubio, and like these characters. But you need somebody with tone!
 
Hillary said the same thing: ‘I didn't like the way Mr. Trump spoke last night. His tone wasn't nice’. Let's not worry about it folks. Let me straighten it out, then I'll promise I'll leave you alone, and you can go back and blow it all for the next 20 years, and you'll get somebody else like me up there, and they'll straighten out that again.
 
But…going back to Carson. So he went after his mother…went after his mother…think of this: he went after his mother…with a hammer, at a fairly young age: 14, 15 years old. I didn't! I didn't! Okay. He hits a friend of his…in the face with a padlock. Like a master's…padlock. Whap! –ONOMATOPOEIC SOUND REPRESENTING A PADLOCK BLO. In the face! With a padlock! A lot of damage. Okay. I never did that! I mean, I behaved…I spoke during class. They said, ‘don't you dare talk Donald’… ‘Yes, sir. That’s it’ –MR. TRUMP FAKES AN ANGELIC FACE. THE CROWD LAUGHS. But no padlocks in the face, to friends. Then here's the beauty of all. He took a knife, and he went after friend, and he lunged! He lunged that knife…! …into the stomach of his friends! But low and behold! It hit the belt! It hit the belt! And the knife broke! Give me a break! Give me a break! Give me a break! The knife broke. Let me tell you, I'm pretty good at this stuff. So…I have a belt –MR. TRUMP WALKS TO THE RIGHT SIDE TO PLAY OUT THE SCENE ON THE STAGE. Somebody hits me with the belt, it’s going in, because the belt moves this way…–UPWARDS-…it moves this way…-DOWNWARDS-…-CROWD LAUGHS. It moves that way –UPWARDS AGAIN-…-CROWD LAUGHS. He hit the belt bucket! –CROWD LAUGHS. Anybody…anybody have a knife…anybody have a knife they wanna try it on me? –CROWD LAUGHS. Believe me. It ain’t gonna work! You’re gonna be successful! But he took the knife and he went like this –PERFORMS A STABBING MOVEMENT-…and he plunged it into the belt! And amazingly the belt stayed totally flat! And the knife broke. How stupid…are the people of Iowa!? –CROWD LAUGHS. How stupid are the people of the country…to believe this…crap? So here's the good news. He's now saying all of that stuff happened…because otherwise he's a liar. And I said, ‘no, wait a minute. It should be the other way. It didn't happen, the press made it up!’. Those guys –MR. TRUMP POINTS TO THE FRONT, WHERE THE MEDIA IS-…they made it up! ‘No, no, no, no! It happened! How dare the press not believe me!’ That I went after my mother with a hammer! That I hit somebody in the face with a padlock! Then I tried to stab a friend of mine, whose name was Bob, but now it's changed! –CROWD LAUGHS. Whose name was Bob, he was a friend, but now he's a member of my family! Who I have a brother…don't speak to him. I don't want you to talk to my brother!’.

So he's trying to convince everybody, that these things happened. Again! I'm a religious person. I'm gonna protect people. I'm gonna bring back people…cause say what you want about Christianity, as a group we haven't done a good job in protecting our religion. We really haven't! We've let government take it away! –CROWD APPLAUDS. We've let government take it away!
 
Pastor Jeffress is a real nice guy. You know pastor Jeffress. He's on television the other night, and they're asking him about Trump. He says, ‘yes, he's a Christian, and he's a good guy. He's a good…he's not like a typical Christian. But you know, sometimes we sort of…do a little sacrifice. Because he's an unbelievable leader. And he's really smart, and he's gonna protect us’. And maybe that's better than having a perfect Christian, that doesn't have leadership ability, which is…you know, it happens…that doesn't have certain other qualities. Cuz we need somebody that's gonna be a leader and protect us Now, I'm gonna protect everybody. Because I know how to do it! And…I'm a worker. I know how to do it. I really know how to do it.
 
So here's the thing. So Carson, ‘uh!’ -MR. TRUMP AGAIN REPRODUCES THE SCENE WITH THE KNIFE. ‘Oh, the knife broke. There it is, laying in the…oh…it’s good’.
So what he's saying is that…these series of events…and he goes into the bathroom for a couple of hours, and he comes out and now he's religious. And the people of Iowa believe him. Give me a break. Give me a break. It doesn't happen that way. It doesn't happen that way. And…some people might not like it, ‘oh, that's…not…really nice what you say’. Don't be fools. Don't be fools. Okay?
 
Now, they're saying it wasn't him. Now, I don't know, maybe this was a false report. But…it wasn't him that hit with a hammer. It was his mother came at him all of a sudden. Don't forget, the name changes…everything changed. And I don't care…you may…I may leave here, and you may say, ‘oh, that was not nice, what he said’. Who cares? Like…then, you know, I go back to my life. I don't have to do interviews, which I don't like doing, to be honest with you.
 
I can leave this scumbag here, the press alone, I don't need them anymore. They're garbage. No, they're scum. I don't have to deal with them anymore –CROWD APPLAUDS. But here's the guy who's saying…think of it. You gotta think of it! Well, how crazy it is! He's demanding that it's right that he went after the mother and want to hit her over the head with a hammer! And these other events. And the knife. Because if he didn't…he won't have credibility! And I said, ‘well wait a minute’. I put out a tweet the other day at real Donald Trump, very hot. Millions of people! But I put out a tweet. I said, ‘if I were him, I'd rather have it the other way, where he didn't go after!’ Right? …where he didn't!
 
So…I say, ‘what the hell have we come to!? What have we come to!? …when we have to believe this kind of stuff. And…we're gonna put somebody at office…who considers himself to have pathological disease…read the definition in the dictionary of ‘pathological disease’! And I'm not saying it! He said it about himself, before he knew he was gonna run for office! And then he's controlled by a Super PAC in Iowa! And the head guy at the Super PAC, I here left…and nobody writes about it. I mean the truth is…he's complaining about the press not treating him well. Okay?
 
Let me tell you something. If I did the stuff that he said he did, I wouldn't be here right now. It would have been over. It would have been over! Okay? It would have been totally over! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So…that's who is in second place. And…I don't get it. I don't get it. On top of which…he's never had an employee. I put ten…I put thousands of jobs! Many, many…thousands! Tens of thousands of jobs…over my career! Tens of thousands! Thousands of people working for me! I know jobs! I say, ‘I will be the greatest jobs president…that God ever created!’ –CROWD APPLAUDS. I will! And…I'll tell you another thing. I believe…I believe…two other things are people gonna be surprising. I believe I'll be the best at the military that we've had in many, many, many years in this country. I really think I'll be better at the military than at the jobs –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
And…I will be a great unifier. People say, ‘oh, well you're very polarized’. I'm not polarizing. When we start winning, this country is gonna come together. This country is totally polarized right now. You look at what's going on with colleges. You look at what's going on in Baltimore, and saying…look, this country is a mess! We're totally polarized right now. This country needs a cheerleader we need somebody that can promote our country, as being…great again! We need it, and we need it badly! We need it fast, because we're going in the wrong direction!
 
So…I only tell you this. I love Iowa. I've been here so many times now. I think I'm gonna buy a farm, and maybe just move here. No, I like it. But I love it! I love it!
But I can only promise you this…that…if I win, and if I become your president…-PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE SUGGEST HE SAYS ‘WHEN’ INSTEAD OF ‘IF’. ‘All right, well…you know, that always happens! They always say, “when, when, when”, and…but I gotta say “if”’. Look, I'm running against a lot of people. But…and I'll say when just to make you happy: ‘when’. But the truth is…it has to be…it has to be…you know, look, there's always…who knows what happens?
 
But ‘if’ and ‘when’ I win, I will make our country so great, so strong, so wonderful. People…from the Democrat side. People from the Republican side…from the conservative side, from the liberal side. They'll be happy. They're gonna to be brought together. Because we'll have money to save…Social Security. We'll have money to save Medicare. Carson once they get rid of Medicare! He wanted to abolish Medicare! I said, that’s the end of his campaign! Medicare actually works…! …other than…than the fraud…fraud and the abuse…I mean, we have to stop the stop the fraud, abuse, etcetera. But Medicare actually works! Right? I mean, do we agree!? He wants to end Medicare! –CROWD APPLAUDS. And you can’t end Medicare!
 
So…when…and if…when…I win, you’ll be so…proud…of your country. And you’re gonna remember this night. This is a special night. This is funny! This is a night I really…enjoyed being with you. It’s sad in many ways, because we’re talking about so many negative topics. But in certain ways…it’s beautiful. It’s beautiful! Because we’re gonna turn this country around…and we’re gonna make it…not great, we’re gonna make it greater than it’s ever been before!  We can do that, okay? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We can do that. we’re gonna make it greater than it’s ever been before!
 
And I love you all!
 
And I thank you very much. And…we will be back! Thank you all. Thank you very much.
 
Thank you. Great people!

Thank you everybody!
 

