VIDEO Nº: 119
TITLE:119.Speech Donald Trump in Charleston SC - February 19, 2016
DATE OF EVENT:19/02/2016
RELEASE DATE:27/10/2017
DURATION:00.39.43 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:6605
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Unbelievable!
So it's crunch time folks! It's crunch time. You know what that means, right? We gotta get out tomorrow. We have to vote! All these thousands, and thousands of people…! You have to get out and vote. Because we have a movement going on. We have something very special. No matter where you look. No matter…these people behind you. You see them? The press. Look at all of them. It's like the Academy Awards. Like the Academy Awards…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Hello press! Hello press! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. No, we love the press. We're hard on the press. I've called them so many different names. Tonight I'm gonna say we love you, okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So this is my last speech. I've made four of them today. We had thousands…we had… I guess 8,000 at the first one. We have been packed every single one. And…we have a movement going on that is so special…; they're talking about it all over the world. Cover of Time magazine…you have to get it. Last week…cover of Time magazine, the greatest story you've ever seen. Just…it's…been incredible.
35,000 people…in Alabama. 20,000 people twice in Oklahoma. We just left New Hampshire. We were packed [at] every single venue. We had numbers that nobody else has! Ever had numbers that nobody else’s has ever had! Ever had! Ever had! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…we're gonna keep it going. But very important is tomorrow. You know, it all doesn't mean anything if we say, “oh, let's stay home”. Who knows what the numbers are? The polls are very nice, but, who knows? We can't take a chance, right? …-THE CROWD MUTTERS. Because we're we're gonna make America great again…but we can't do that…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…we can't do that if you don't get out there tomorrow, alright?
And the more we can do it, and the more we can win by, the bigger the mandate, the better it is. And the easier job we're gonna have, all right? So I wanna thank you. I wanna thank you! …-MR. TRUMP TURNS AROUND AND GREETS THE PEOPLE BEHIND HIM. THE CROWD CHEERS.
So, uh…this all began on June 16th. And…who knew this was gonna happen? I figured maybe I'd be in the pack. And…you know, [it was] sort of, “hey, I've won a lot over my life”. I even won a lot of club championships. That's good, right? But I'm not gonna be playing much golf, believe me. If I win this, I'm not gonna be playing much golf…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Not gonna be playing. Believe me.
You know, winning club championships is hard. It takes something special. He understands that! …-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY SPECIFICALLY IN THE CROWD. [It] takes something a little like…a little bit different, a little bit special. By the way, a lot of people are pouring in! And…you don't want me to start in a half an hour from now, or an hour from now, so we’re gonna start! Folks, yeah, just come on back here. That's good. This is a nice room! See this room? You know what that ceiling reminds me of? The wall we’re gonna build! The wall! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That's what it reminds me of.
So, we started on June 16th, I came down the escalator. I said to my wife, Melania, “come on. Let’s go. Let’s do it”. And…it takes guts! Running for president…I never did this stuff before. It takes guts. I didn't know this was gonna happen! I thought we're gonna do well. I thought was gonna be like a horse race. I'd be in the middle of the pack…and maybe by the very end, I’d inch it out! I didn’t we we’re gonna be in this position. I didn't know we're gonna be in position…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And the people of New Hampshire were unbelievable. I have to tell you. Last week, we won every…single…category…; tell you. We won rich, poor, fat, thin, tall, short…! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS TIMIDLY. We won women…! We won men…! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. We won highly educated…we won smart, smart, smart people that don't have the big education, because that's what it is. We won every…single…category, and it was such an honor…; they…were…incredible…people. And you know what the biggest was? Every time I went around to New Hampshire, I talked to…people. What's your biggest problem?
Now, the vets, we're gonna take care of our vets. We know that…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We’re gonna take care of the vets. Common core, we're gonna end Common Core, [a] 100 percent…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. [We’re] gonna end it. And we're bringing…our education locally. You're gonna educate your children, like it's supposed to be, the old-fashioned. It's supposed to be the old-fashioned. It's supposed to be the old-fashioned way, no bureaucracy way. No bureaucracy. You’re gonna educate them with love; the love of the parents. You're gonna educate them locally, right?
Second Amendment? They…talk about the Second Amendment. We are gonna protect our Second Amendment, believe me. We’re gonna protect it…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. If we had guns in…Los Angeles…! Or, frankly, where they have the toughest gun laws on the world, in Paris. If they had guns on the other side, with bullets going in the opposite direction, you wouldn't have had a 130 people killed. And many people right now destroyed. Their lives are right now destroyed. They're lying in the hospital. Some will die.
If we had that…I'll tell you what. When you look at the 14 people killed. The 14 people killed, in California, is that right? If guns were…pointing in the opposite direction…? You wouldn't have 14. These are two people. They were radicalized. She probably radicalized him. Nobody knows. Who cares? They were radicalized. Radical…Islamic…terrorism…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
So they were radicalized. They walked into people that gave them a wedding reception. People that gave them a baby shower. People that they knew. They killed 14. Many [are] in the hospital. If there were guns on the other side, pointing in the other direction, so the bullets are flying both ways, you wouldn't have had that kind of carnage.
So we're gonna protect…we're gonna protect our Second Amendment…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. But…but…we're protecting our Amendment.
But I… but I will say this. And…and by the way, big story. You know, I said it at the last…at my last speech. I said, Apple…I said Apple Computer. Apple…boycott Apple. Let…we want the secrets. They don't wanna open up the phones. Give me a break! Why wouldn't they wanna do it? Why wouldn't they wanna do it? They don't wanna…they don’t wanna open up the phone…; it's owned by the government. The phone is owned by the government. What are they doing!? Open up the phones. We gotta get…; we have to be smart! We have to look and see what's going on. Let Apple…open…up…the phones, so that we find out where these threats are coming from. And I said, boycott Apple until they do it! Boycott the. Who cares!?
We have to be smart! We have to be vigilant…! You know, there's so many enemies out there. We - have to be so smart…! So vigilant…!
Now, I will say this: so, the New Hampshire experience to me was an amazing experience. But what was their big problem? So I go in, their big problem [was] heroin! Drugs! You look at New Hampshire, [and it was] the most beautiful area, [and] the most beautiful place. The greatest people! These people are great! [In] Every place they're great…! You're great! They're great! No matter where we go, the people of this country are…unbelievable…people! The potential of the people…the potential of the people in our country…[is] unbelievable.
Now, with New Hampshire…remember this. They said to me, “Mr. Trump, it's heroin. The drugs are pouring in”. You would never think it. You can't even associate it! We're gonna close up that border. We're gonna build a wall…; We're gonna build a wall, and I owe them! I owe them! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
No matter when I went, they talked about Common Core, they talked about everything, but what they really talked about is…the tremendous drug explosion. And it just seems so…strange, because you look at it, [and] it's so beautiful! With the trees, and the beautiful roadways, and everything…; and every meeting I went to, they talked about heroin…! …heroin…! …heroin! And it's pouring in from the southern border! And I said to them, “you know what? I'm gonna close up that…border”: I’m gonna close up…! I'm gonna that border…and we're gonna have a wall. It's gonna be a real wall; it's gonna be a great wall. It's gonna be a beautiful wall, cause someday they’re gonna name it after Trump, [so] I have to make sure it's beautiful, right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I owe it them! I owe it to them.
And then we’re gonna…; there’s so many people addicted. They're addicted to heroin. They’re addicted to drugs. We're gonna work on that, so that they can get…ideally unaddicted. We gotta get them off it. But we've gotta seal it up. We've gotta stop it. And I made the promise to them. And that's a promise to the country! That's a promise to the country! Some places don't have it as bad as that. But is a promise…to the country.
So, we're gonna close up that wall. We're gonna close up that broder. We're gonna let our Border Patrol people, that are phenomenal people…; I was in Laredo, Texas…these are phenomenal people! We're gonna work with them…; “let them do their job”. Who said that? What a great…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. We're gonna let them do their job! They called me, I didn't call them!
They said, “Mr. Trump, please come. Please, come! We wanna do our job!”. These are incredible people! They're told to stand back! Let people walk right in front of them. “Stand back”. Beautiful people. They've got the guns…; they've got the weapons…; they've got the whole thing…; they can do whatever they have to do. They wanna do it! And they're told to stand back. People walk in. People drive through the border! [They] load it up with drugs; we get the drugs, they get the cash, they drive back. We're gonna run our country properly. We're gonna run…our country…properly…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Obamacare is a disaster. Obamacare…is a disaster…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. Obamacare is gonna be repealed and replaced…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. A big part of the problem we have, the people I'm running against, and others…politicians, in other words, they get funds…! So…much…money! Jeb Bush gets a 150 million dollars…!? …-THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY. [It’s] gone! It's wasted! You could take, and [if] there's a window in here, someplace, throw it out that window, right there, and it's gonna do the same amount of good…as what that money did.
Other than these guys that work for them [that] took commissions and made a fortune. This campaign stuff is…unbelievable.
They took money and spent it so fast, because the guys that are spending that money are getting 10 percent, 15 percent, and maybe even 20 percent! So they're spending! I'm saying, “why are they doing so many commercials on me!?”. [Do] you know why? Because they get paid commissions to do commercials of me! Not even Jeb…! Poor Jeb, [he] doesn't even be…he probably doesn’t even know [that] this happens, okay? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND MUTTERS. [The] guy doesn’t have a clue! This guy doesn't have a clue!
But they spend the money so fast, because the guys that are in charge, the people that buy the ad, the managers, all these guys are making a fortune!
They had one case, it was in the Los Angeles Times, where a certain candidate raised six…million…dollars! Very impressive, right? After the commissions, and after all of the money went by, out of the six million dollars, how much was left? 140,000 dollars. 140,000 dollars, okay? Six million dollars they raised, 140,000 was left. This is a crooked business, folks! It's a crooked business!
So here's the story: I'm self-funding my campaign. Good? All right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Self-funding. I'm putting my own in. And I guess, by the end of this month, I'm gonna have like 25 million dollarsin this thing. I'll tell you what: I spent, in New Hampshire, three million dollars. Jeb Bush spent 47 million dollars! I ended up in first place, with a landslide, [and] Jeb Bush was towards the bottom of the pack…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. Isn't this the way we're supposed to be running our country? Right? Right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Right?
You know…you know, in the school stuff…so, out of the top 30 in the world, meaning 30 countries, we’re number one in costs per pupil by far, right? Number one. So high…that number two doesn't even exist. You have Norway…; Denmark…; Sweden…; China…! These are the best countries in terms of education, right? These are the ranked the education, right, these are the ranked the education right. These are the ranked the top four or five…; great countries. Great education. They spend a fraction of what we do. We’re number 30 out of 30! So we’re number 30, and yet we're number one in money spent by far. I'm telling you, the difference in between one and two, is number two is so far away [that] you can't even see it! We gotta change. All right? We gotta change. We gotta do…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.  We gotta do like my campaign! I spent the least, and I have the best result. We gotta do that…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, no. We just gotta do it. We’re gonna do it. We gotta do it.
So…you look at it, and it’s so much…! I mean, it’s so much…! There's so many things we can do. Here's another thing. Recently a doctor comes up to me. [He’s a] good guy. Smart guy. Although he's gonna leave the profession. He said he has more…under Obamacare. He has more nurses…think of it. In terms of nurses, more nurses that he ever had, because he got bigger. But now, he's got more accountants that he has nurses! He said, “this never happened to me before!”. It's so... complicated. It’s so bad. You know, it's gonna die of its own volition. It's gonna die in no…in [20]17’. Unless the Republicans bail him out! They’re constantly…bailing…Obama out. All right? It's gonna die…-THE CROWD BOOS.
But this guy comes up, [a] good guy; good doctor; highly respected. He said, “you know, Donald, the drug industry. Pharmaceuticals. We are the largest…purchaser…of drugs in the world, the United States. By far. We don't bid!”.
I said, “what are you talking about ‘we don’t bit’?”.
“We don't bid…the cost of drugs. We don't bid it out”.
If we bid of drugs, we would save, approximately, 300 billion…dollars, okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. 300 billion!
So, my friend said, “why is that!?”.
At first, it took me about 20 seconds to…say… “really!? We don’t!?”. But then, as soon as I did it, I realized why. Because the politicians I'm running against, and others, are getting tremendous campaign contributions from…the pharmaceutical industry. The drug industry. And…they don't wanna have bidding! If we did a favorite nation’s clause…just…forged about bidding! Whatever that company pays for certain medicine, the United States pays the lowest price of any company buying…during that year period, or two year period…you pay the lowest price. Remember, favorite nation’s [clause]. And I'm saying, “lowest price, less 10 percent”, right? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. We're huge buyer. Okay. I’m being nice when I say 10 percent. We would save 300 billion dollars.
We don't do it because these guys are all getting money! Woody Johnson is the head of Johnson & Johnson…is the head of…Bush's…fundraisers. He’s campaign chairman…-THE CROWD BOOS-…no, no, think of it!
Ted Cruz, who lies more than any human being I have ever seen…! …-THE CROWD BOOS. I…I’ll tell you. Any…; I have never seen…I have never seen any human being lie…; look what he did to Ben Carson…! Look what he did with this crazy violation form…! Ted Cruz, he lies more than any human being!
Now, Ted Cruz…take a look at who’s giving him the money! The oil industry…; Wall Street…; he puts down on his form…no loans. He doesn't put down the loans. He doesn't put down the banks, because he's telling all the people that he's Robin Hood! He's gonna protect them…from Wall Street. Big, bad Wall Street. He’s gonna protect them! He doesn't say that he has a million dollar loan…with Goldman Sachs. He doesn't talk about it. He doesn't say…that the interest rate on that loan is practically nothing! You would like to have it. Believe me, you would like to have it.
These people…I mean, it's all of them! It's not just Ted Cruz, it's all of them!
And the reason…our country is the messed up, one of the big reasons, is the fact…that they're all taken care of by every industry. Whether it's the automobile industry…; you wanna bring Ford back from Mexico…!? They'll tell you why you can't bring Ford back! Because they get campaign contributions! They can't bring Ford back! You're right! He's right! …-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY SPECIFICALLY IN THE CROWD. Okay!
Now, look. So, I'm self-funding. When I wanna bring somebody back, I bring them back! Nobody's gonna call me and say…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-… “you can't do it”.
Let…let me give you an example. So the other I'm watching television, and I see…somebody with their cellphone. The crazy cellphones…where you watch. I’m watching television, and I see Carrier. I buy air-conditioners from Carrier, and many others. I won't buy anymore from Carrier, by the way. And they're firing everybody from Carrier! 1,400 people. Great jobs. They’ve been there for many years. They're firing these people. Why!? Because they're moving to Mexico. Oh, great, great. How does that help us? How does it help us?
They're moving to Mexico. They're gonna make air conditioners in Mexico. They're gonna sell them on the border. They're gonna sell them…boom! They're gonna sell them to the United States…; we get nothing! We lose our jobs. We close our factories…! Mexico gets all work…; we get nothing! …-THE CROWD BOOS.
Now, you probably heard…some of these…really…not smart people say, “Donald Trump is not a…true conservative…” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. “He is not a conservative perhaps…”. I'm very conservative. I'm the most conservative person in the world on the border. I'm the most conservative in the world with respect to getting rid of Common Core. I'm the most conservative person in the world with getting rid of Obamacare…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'm the most conservative person in the world having to do with our military, and rebuilding our military, and taking care of our vets! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But they say…but they say, and they take commercials! “Donald Trump…”. And I…I get a kick. I watch these guys…what’s…what stiffs! Oh…! Many of these guys, in private industry, they they wouldn't be able to get a job. And they're running the country! But…-A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING. MR. TRUMP RECASTS IT-… “she says they're idiots”. But…but think of it: So they're saying, “he's not…a conservative person!”.
Let me just tell you something. I believe in free trade, but it's gotta be smart trade. It’s gotta be trade…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
With China…! …with China this year, we’re going to lose, trade deficit, 500…billion…dollars! …-THE CROWD BOOS.
With Japan…we’re gonna lose…a tremendous amount of money. That's…they send…they send their cars here like it's candy! Okay!? Millions of cars we get. We send them wheat! We send them nothing! We send them, sometimes, cattle! And they don't accept it, because their farmers don't want it. They don't want anything from us…-A MEMBER IN THE CROWD MOOS AS IF THEY WERE CATTLE. MR. TRUMP AND THE CROWD LAUGH-…it’s very… “that’s…that’s right”…-THE CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY.
So we take in, from Japan…that was very good. I liked that. It's very…okay, and…it's enough. But it's enough. Okay. Never overstay. Do you understand? He was getting ready to do it again! I don't wanna hear it again.
Look, so…we send wheat. We send them cattle! They don’t want our cattle, so they send it back! It goes back and forth…! …back and forth…! Finally, they accept it. They call it Kobe beef, because it's aged! I mean, the stuff is rotted…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. No, no, it's like rotted!
So because it's aged, it’s the king, it’s disgusting…they call it Kobe beef, and they charge you ten times more for it! You tell me, they're not smart!? That's Japan! Japan is killing us.
Komatsu. Look at what they're doing to Caterpillar. A friend of mine is an excavator. He buys excavating equipment, right? He goes out, and he buys excavating equipment. I said, “what are you doing? You're not buying Caterpillar?”.
“I can’t. They have cut the Yen. They have devalued their currency to such an extent…”. [It’s the] first time in his life [that] he's buying excavation equipment from Komatsu?
I said, “what's the difference?”.
He said, “they're both good. Caterpillar is better, but this is good enough. I owe it to my family. I owe it to my wife. I owe to my employees, my company…”. I understand what he's saying! They've devalued their currency! Take a look at Caterpillar’s stock. Take a look at what’s happening to Caterpillar. It's happening to all of us.
Right here you have Boeing. Boeing is being forced to build a massive plant in China. A number of massive plants…-THE CROWD BOOS. Folks…folks, let me just tell you something. Unless I'm president, you watch what happens. [It] won't happen with me, cause…I know know the game better than any human being that's ever lived…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Nobody knows it better. Nobody. Unless I'm president, within a few years, they're gonna make all their planes in China. They're gonna devalue their currency even more. They’re the kings of devaluation. Nobody knows currency manipulation better than China. Nobody. Okay?
And all of a sudden, you're gonna, say, “you know, our nice Boeing plant…we’re not any planes anymore…”. Then they're gonna doing the layoffs, and here we go again. We've gotta get smart, on trade.
Now, when I came down the escalator at Trump Tower…and I became…I’d…I get…when all in front of these people… I came down that escalator…; let me just  tell you something. It started with trade, and it started with the border. And then, they had…that horrible incident in…France. In Paris. And all of a sudden, the border became more important. And CNN did polls…! And it said [that] they love us, Trump, for the military. Because “he's the toughest on the border”.
Sheriff Joe…you know, Joe Arpaio…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Sheriff, Joe endorsed me. When Sheriff Joe endorses you, you're the toughest on the border. Do we agree? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So Jeriff…Sherfif Joe Arpaio adores…endorsed, and it was…sort of an amazing event, if you wanna know the truth.
By the way, [a] great endorsement. Jerry…Falwell…Junior. Unbelievable. Liberty University.  Jerry sees every…single…candidate come through, Liberty University. Every candidate goes to Liberty University, [and] he endorsed Donald Trump. I wanna tell you. That was a great honor.
Sarah Palin, she...everybody wants Sarah's endorsement. A great woman, and a great…I'll tell you what, that is a great person [that] endorsed…Donald Trump.
So, we're gonna have the borders, and we're gonna have our trade. When we started, I talked about borders. I talked about trade. I'm really good at the trade. I'm really good at the borders. When Paris happened, everybody started saying, “we want Trump”. The polls came in, 60 percent, 70 percent, 72 percent…! This is 72 percent with 17 people running! Now we're down to six! We got rid of all of all these people. It's so great! It's so great! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
But…but we had 60 percent, 70 percent…so in terms of the military! In terms of the border…! In terms of…all of these things…! The economy, I expect! But, everything was Trump, Trump Trump. Except for personality. I didn't do as well on personality…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. It's true. It's true. And you know what? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. It’s true. Personality was a little lower than the economy…! But if you had your choice, of having somebody with a wonderful personality, but was bad on jobs…; bad on the economy…; bad on security…; bad on the border…; bad on the wall…; I'll take the guy with the wall. I'll take the guy with the economy! Okay? Believe me…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And I’m also a nicer guy than many of these people running, that I can tell you…-THE CROWD CHEERS. That I can tell you. I…I’ve gotten to know them.
They actually came up. You know, because…you know, we're gonna build the wall. Who's gonna pay for the wall? Quickly! Who’s gonna pay!? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘MEXICO!’. So one of these guys running against me [said], “Donald, first of all, you can't build a wall”.
I said, “really? Why can't we?”.
He said, “well, I don't know. Can you do that?”. You know, 15 years ago they wanted to build a wall, and they couldn't do it because…the environmental impact statement, for the wall, they couldn't get it approved. Because they rodents, snakes, rats…all sorts of stuff in the way. They couldn't get it. They had frogs…; they had snails…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. It’s true! Go look! They couldn't get an environmental impact statement approved…! Oh, I…I'm so good at environmental impact statements…? I…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Now you have South…China…Sea…; you have China building a massive fortress, with massive, massive runways, for the biggest military world, and they've got those excavators…they're not Caterpillars, by the way, I have to tell you. And they're digging and they're taking and they're ripping the hell out of that ocean. They're ripping it! And ripping, and wrap…! And they're building an island in the South…China…Sea. And that's gonna be a military fortress. And they're not supposed to be doing that, but they have absolutely no respect for a president…! They have no respect for our country…so they’re doing it. So they're doing it.
And I say…I said to a friend of mine from China, cause actually I do a lot of business with China. They're fine to do business with. I make a lot of money with China. It's very good. If you know what you're doing, you can make a fortune with China. They buy my apartments. I have the biggest bank in the world on one of my buildings in Manhattan, in China. [The] biggest bank in the world. 400 million customers. Think of that. That's more than the people [that] we have in this country! 400 million…customers. [The] biggest bank of the world. But…I do business with China…;
So I said to my friend jokingly, jokingly…! I said, “when you started excavation…you're building that tremendous island in the middle the South…China Sea. Did you get an environmental impact statement!?”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
“Actually, Donald, no. They came up with the idea…on Friday, at 4 o'clock, and they started excavation on…Saturday morning. Okay!? [It’s] True! He said that! He said they came up with it, [and] they started with the excavation about three…; I mean, we're dealing in a different world, folks!
You know, during the debate. The second debate. I love the last of debate. I…some people said, “he was too rough”. Me. I mean, that's better than some of the others that are too weak! But they said, “Donald was…”. And…and others! But I have to say, Drudge…who's an amazing guy…Drudge, there’s a poll. Time magazine…; I won every single poll for the debate, right? But…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…but…no, some people said [that]…it wasn’t my best, [that] I was too tough. But I got like seven people coming at me from every side. Am I supposed to be nice? That's the problem with our country. We’re too nice. They say “tone”.
Hillary Clinton said, “I don't like Donald Trump's tone! I don't like his tone…!”. They're chopping off heads in the middle east, of our people! They're chopping off heads of Christians! They're chopping off heads of everybody! They're drowning, people thirty at a time in cages…! And she goes, “I don't like his tone”.
So they asked Ted Cruz, who's standing right here…-MR. TRUMP POINTS TO HIS LEFT. I was always in the center, by the way, he's here. Another one's here…; I've been in the center every single debate. Nice, right? It’s called…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…no. Not easy! Somebody said, “that's amazing!”. Every…single…debate!
You know, I heard [that] Ted [Cruz] is a good debater. I said, “he is a good debater, but he can't talk”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Okay? Bad talker. It’s [a] good debater, bad talker.
So he's over here…-MR. TRUMP POINTS TO HIS LEFT. They asked him about waterboarding. They said, “senator Cruz, what do you think of waterboarding?”.
“Uh… I don't want to talk about it”. You know, he didn’t…he didn’t wanna talk about waterboarding. Cause…[it is/was] too controversial! And I'm sending, they’re chopping off heads,  [and] he doesn't wanna talk about waterboarding.
Then they looked at me, and they said, “what do you think about waterboarding!?”.
Now, I didn't poll it. You know, I have more money than all of them put together 25 times. But I don't need a pollster…-THE CROWD CHEERS. You know what? These guys…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS-…do my polling for me. The networks. Every…every day, they come out with a new poll! “What do you think of Donald Trump's hair!?”. “What do you think of his…this?”. “What do you think of his that?”. I mean, I learned more about myself…; why do I have to spend money!? They spend millions of dollars, the network's, on polling. Two minutes after it comes out, I get things…this thick…-MR. TRUMP SHOWS HOW THICK. Things I never even know about myself!
Then they say, “how much [do] you pay your pollster? You get them for free! They do it for free! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. They say, “ how much [do] you pay your pollster, Mr. Trump?”.
I say… “uhm…nothing! I don’t have a poster, sir. The networks are my pollsters”. Every day I get a new poll. I have so much…I'm so busy I can't read them anyway. But I've learned a lot…; these guys pay…they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a month!
So, Ted Cruz couldn't poll it. So he didn't know how to answer the question. He was mumbling, and bumbling. And he goes, “Well, I don’t know…; well, waterboarding, well…”. You know, he's thinking it's gonna be terrible to say “I'm in favor of waterboarding”, meaning he's in favor of waterboarding.
So, he goes, “well, I’d like to…”. You had to see it! You gotta see it!
Then they say, “Mr. Trump…”. Now, I'm thinking to myself…they chop off heads. Not since to medieval time…! …James Foley. Not since medieval times…do they chop off heads! Chop off heads! Who the hell ever heard of this!? We're in now…the worst period of…maybe ever! Medieval times! Boom! I read…I loved history when I was in…high school. And I'd read about medieval times. Boom! Boom! Chop off heads! You…you know, when was the last time you heard. about chopping off heads? Now they chop off heads. Okay.
Now they look at me, “Mr. Trump, how do you feel about waterboarding!?”.
They want…they think I'm gonna say, “oh, it’s a terrible thing! It’s so horrible! It’s so mean! It’s so terrible!”. In fact, it's supposed to be…; you know, the big question is, is it torture or not? In order words, it's so borderline, [that] it's like you're minimal, minimal, minimal torture.
So they said, “Mr. Trump, I'd like you to answer the question. How do you feel about waterboarding?”.
I said, “I feel great about it”…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I really…I feel great. I said I feel great.
And then I said…something that got me in a minor bit of trouble, because it wasn't politically correct. I said, “but I think we should go much, much, much further than waterboarding!”…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I said, “we have an enemy, in the Middle East, ISIS, and others…that are chopping off people's heads and drowning people in steel cages”. They leave them under there for 40 minutes and they pull it up. Right?
Can you imagine these people, when they sit around at night…eating, whatever they’re eating, and talking…; and they’re talking about the United States, that they're actually worried about waterboarding as being…a little bit cruel. And these people chop off heads. They must think we are the dumbest, and the weakest, and the stupidest people on earth. On earth. On…earth! …-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
You know, I read a story, it's a terrible story, but I'll tell you. Should I tell you or should I not!? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘YES!’. Early in the century…last century, General Pershing…did you ever hear? [A] rough guy? [A] rough guy. And they had a terrorism problem! And there's a whole thing with swine, and animals, and pigs…and you know the story, okay? They don’t like that. And…they were having a tremendous problem with terrorism. And by the way, this is something you can read in the history books…not a lot of history books, cause they don’t like teaching this. And General Pershing was a rough guy! And he sits on his horse, and a very astute, like a ramrod, right? And…the year was early 1900s. And this was a terrible problem, they were having terrorism from…just like we do.
And…he caught 50 terrorists who did tremendous damage and killed many people. And he took the 50 terrorists, and he took 50 men, and dipped 50 bullets in pig's blood. You heard that…right? He fit…he took…50 bullets…and he dipped them…in pig's blood! And he had his men, load his rifles, and he lined up the 50 people…and they shot 49 of those people, and the 50th person, he said, “you go back to your people, and you tell them what happened”.
And for 25 years, there wasn't a problem, okay!? 25 years…there wasn't a problem! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. All right?
So we better start getting tough. And we better start getting vigilant. And we better start using our heads. Or we’re not gonna have a country, folks. We’re not gonna have a country…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…-A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ASKS THE PERSON TO REPEAT. HE YELLS THAT AMERICA “IS THE BRAVEST COUNRTY OF THE WORLD-… “it is. I love this country”. That’s why I'm doing this! I love this country. We wanna keep this country! We wanna keep this country…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We wanna make…look, I'll tell you something. I've been saying something cause I've been meeting…so many people. Millions and millions of people. One of the reporters today, [a] great reporter. [A] Television reporter. [He] said to me, “I've been doing this, Mr. Trump for 20…”. And he didn't say this on the record, I wouldn't tell his name. But…he said, “I've been doing this for 25. In 25 years, sir, I’ve never, ever, ever seen anything like what's happening with you and with you people”. It’s amazing! It’s amazing! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s amazing.
And a great…and a great compliment. And I’m the messenger. We're all together. And we're all together. And honestly, when you go to Dallas, or when you go to Oklahoma, when you go to New Hampshire, when you go to Iowa, when you go…to New York…! To any place…the people are unbelievable! And I've been saying this for the last 2 or 3 weeks. When I say ‘make America great again’…I'm adding now, ‘and we can make America great again, but I think we can America greater than ever before’. Greater than ever before! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We have…we have such…incredible…potential. No, we have such…incredible…potential. And I wanna see the day when Apple makes its product on our land. Not over in China…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS. Because I'm bringing our jobs back from China, folks. We're gonna bring them back! We're gonna bring our jobs back from Mexico, folks! We're gonna have Ford build here. We're not gonna have Ford build in Mexico.
We’re gonna bring our jobs back! Vietnam is a new one. We're gonna bring our jobs back to this country. We're gonna be so proud…; I'll tell you what: we're gonna be so proud…; and we’re gonna have a military that's gonna be so advanced, and so wonderful…; and we're gonna buy the right product. We're gonna buy the product that the generals want. Not that the politicians want…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
And you're going to remember this evening. And you're gonna say, in two years, or three years, or three years…or one year. But you're going to say that ‘I was there, for an evening, where…Donald Trump, representing all of us, made a speech, and I voted for Donald Trump the next day’. And our country…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. ‘And our country…started winning again. We started winning with…our military’. We haven’t…we can’t beat ISIS, folks. We can’t beat ISIS.
‘We won with our military’. We’ll knock the hell out of them…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
‘We won with our veterans’. We're gonna take care of our veterans…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
‘We won with education. We won with the Second Amendment. We won with the border’. And yeah, we're gonna have a really strong border. And we're gonna have people come into our border. We're gonna have people that big beautiful door, right through the middle of that wall, but…they're gonna come in legally! They're gonna come in legally…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And you're gonna remember this evening…; and you're gonna tomorrow, because you have to go out and vote. No matter how you feel…I don't care! It doesn't matter, if you think you're not gonna make it through the day! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. You've gotta…go out…and vote…tomorrow! I don't want your money! I don't want your money! We want your vote…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That’ll do it…-THE CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY.
And…you're gonna say to yourselves, ‘that was one of the great…evenings…and one of the great days of your lives’, because, we’re gonna make you so proud of your country,…; you're gonna be very proud of your president. But you're gonna be so…proud…of your president. You’re gonna be so proud of your president, but you're gonna be so proud of your country. Because, we're gonna start winning, winning, [and] winning again. We're gonna become…the smart country. Not the country that makes an Iran deal, where we give them a hundred and fifty billion dollars…! We’re gonna become….the smart country! And we're going to become a truly, truly…great country again. I love you, folks! We’re gonna start winning…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna win, win, win. And we're gonna make America great again!
Thank you everybody! I love you! Thank you! I love you!
