VIDEO Nº: 129
TITLE:129. Speech Donald Trump - Millington TN - February 27 2016
DATE OF EVENT:27/02/2016
RELEASE DATE:27/10/2017
DURATION:01.17.33 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:00:34:35 - 01.17.33
Nº OF WORDS:6886 
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Thank you, Chris. Wow! Thank you. This is one endorsement, really, that I wanted. He's the right guy. Thank you very much, Chris. Appreciated.
Oh, folks! I love you! I'll tell you what. We gotta win. You gotta get out to vote. I don't want your money. I just want your vote. Just get out.
You know, we've been going around a long time now. It started June 16th, and…it's been incredible. It's been an incredible…really incredible experience. And, you look at the cover of Time magazine, from a couple of weeks ago. You look at, just today, I was seeing, coming up, people are saying this is a movement like they've never seen before in this country! I mean, it's incredible. Ever, ever, ever!  …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Ever is a long time. And crowds like this, we have them. The people…of this country…are…truly…amazing. They're great. And we will, in fact, make America better…I think better than ever before. That's what we're going to do…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, I've been watching, and reading, and studying, and seeing things, and…it's a nasty business, this world of politics. I'll tell you what. The lies. The deception. It's…I used to think real estate in Manhattan was bad. That's peanuts compared to this town…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. You deal with liars…; you deal with major, major sleaze. Do we know it's sleaze is? …-THE CROWD CHEERS.
And…you know, little Marco Rubio, this guy that…that…uh…he's going around. He's going crazy. He's number…two or three in Florida. He's a senator, he's 22 points behind. If he ran in Florida today for an office, he couldn't run for dog catcher. He wouldn't be elected. He wouldn't be elected! He's unelectable! And we're gonna beat him badly in Florida. That's gonna be in a couple of weeks…-THE CROWD CHERES.
And…you know, he goes around, and…any misconstrues. His new thing is…she's gotta be tough now. You know, [a] tough guy, right’ This is not a tough person. Believe me. I can tell you this: speaking about not tough, that man right there, Chris Christie…I saw it happen right in front of my eyes!
I was standing in the middle, which I've been from the beginning, that's the one who's in number one position…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…and, little Marco was right over here…-MR. TRUMP SHOWS HIS RIGHT-…and Chris went after him. And I said, “oh, oh!”. Because I never saw a human being sweat like this guy…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And I said, “there's something wrong! What's going on?”. And he was pouring. It was like he just got out of a swimming pool with his suit on. And Chris went after him, and he made the Obama statement and he made it once, and then he made it twice. I said, “that's strange”. And then it went a third time, a fourth time, and a fifth time!
And I was ready to grab him, because I thought he was going down. I was ready! I was standing here like this…-MR TRUMP SHOWS HIS HAND READY TO HOLD SOMETHIHNG. I thought he was gonna pass out. And…it was a bad performance. And he's a choke artist. And let me just tell you about choke artist. You know it, cuz you have a lot of athletes here. You have a lot of sports fans. Once a choker, always a choker. Is that true? Once a choker, always a choker…-THE CROWD CHEERS. And we can't have chokers. We have too many problems in our country. We have problems like you wouldn't believe.
Marco goes out. He buys a house for a 179,000 thousand dollars. He sells it for 380,000 dollars to a lobbyist. Terrible! He takes money, and by the way, the lobbyist was I think doing business with Florida! Trying to get legislation passed! Which is part of the problem we have! We have people…that are in office, that have deals with everybody. I'm self-funding my campaign. I'm putting up my own money…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Nobody's gonna tell us what to do. I'm working for you! I’m working for you, folks. Believe me.
So, I then looked at another thing in Marco. Credit cards. They say he stole…from the Republican Party, in Florida! And they went…again and again. He said, “no, no, no”.
Then they caught him. He said, “oh, I made a mistake. I used the wrong credit card”. And he put the money back.
Now, I can tell you one thing. If Chris Christie was your used attorney then, he gets indicted. Would you say that's right, Chris? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. He would have been indicted, for a lot of different things.
But look, we're gonna be running against Hillary, probably. She's gonna get a pass on the emails. Can you believe this? …-THE CROWD BOOS. Can you believe it? She's gonna get a pass on the emails, and…I will tell you. I will tell you. It shouldn't happen.
We're getting some good training. You know, I started…I've been now a politician. I hate to say it, but I guess that's what I am. For about eight months. We've had…really great training. I love the debate stuff.
By the way, every…single…debate, the online polls, Drudge, a fantastic guy, Drudge does a poll; Time magazine does a poll; Slate…; many of these people do polls. We've won every…single…poll for every…single…debate. Can you believe this? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. Right!
And the last debate, I got double-teamed by these two characters. I'm sitting in the middle, and I saw them shaking hands before the debate! And I knew there was something going on! And then they have a picture of…I'm standing there and they're shaking hands behind me, getting ready to go.
So we got double-team by two crooked senators. You have one who's a liar, and then you have the other one who may be a worse liar. That's Rubio. I will say this: Cruz is smarter than Rubio. I will let you know in a few months who's the better liar, okay? I haven't determined. But they do lie! But they're politicians: all talk, no action. They're never going to get you there, folks. They're never gonna get you there. It's not gonna happen.
So when I came down the escalator, at Trump Tower, the press, it was…see all of that back there? We had so…many…cameras…[that] it was like the Academy Awards. And I came down, I said to my wife, “come on”. I took a deep breath. I said, “we have to do it. We're gonna do something that's gonna be great”. I never knew it was gonna happen like this. I never knew this was going to be happening, honestly…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I had…one of the great writers, one of the great, great writers called me up, and he said, “how does it feel?”.
I said, “what?”.
He said, “what you've done has never been done before”. He said, “you've totally rechanged…you’ve totally changed politics the way we know. And, it and it'll be written about. And it doesn't matter whether you win or lose, it'll be written about so favorably for many, many years…for…ever!”.
And I say, “let me tell you”…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. I say, “let me tell you: it does matter whether we win or lose! That I can tell you!”… -THE CROWD CHEERS. It does matter!
So…so I've really enjoyed the process. I love the people. And, you know I've…I’ve said, make America great again. All these hats, make America great again. But the truth is, over the last…two or three weeks, I've been saying very strongly, “better…than ever…before!”. We can be better…than ever…before…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
The people in this country are great. We're gonna have Apple start to make their iPhones and their computers and everything else they make in this country! Not in China! …-THE CROWD CHEERS- We're going to bring our jobs back from China. We're gonna bring our jobs back from Japan! And Vietnam! And India! And Mexico…! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. And we're gonna have a strong southern border. We're gonna have a real border. We're gonna have a real wall…-THE CROWD CHEERS. And who is going to pay for the wall!? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘MEXICO!’. Who!? ….-THE CROWD YELLS AGAIN ‘MEXICO!’. You’d better believe it. 100 percent. 100 percent. Is that amazing? …-MR. TRUMP LAUGHS AND LOOKS TO HIS LEFT SIDE, WHERE CHRIS CHRISTIE REPORTEDLY IS. I mean, it's amazing. It's amazing. They will pay.
Now, you saw Vicente Fox, right? He was the past president of Mexico…-THE CROWD BOOS. Now, can you imagine if Trump…used that word? …-MR. TRUMP REFERS TO THE WORD ‘FUCKING’ MR. FOX USED WHEN HE WAS INTERVIEWED ABOUT THE WALL. They don't even say anything about it!
Joe Biden got up today, and he apologized! …-THE CROWD BOOS. This guy…the anger…of Fox! The anger! Did you see the anger!?
Now, Joe Biden apologized on behalf of the nation: “I would like to apologize…”…-THE CROWD BOOS. Now, he uses the f-bomb, and Biden says nothing. Nobody says anything. It's really disgusting. And you know why he was angry? He was angry not at the wall! Just that the fact that we would even be talking to them, because…they get their way at everything! So does every…other…country! And he's saying, essentially, “how dare you tell Mexico what to do!? We always tell you what to do!”.  It's not gonna happen that way anymore, folks. [It’s] not gonna happen anymore…-THE CRWOD CHEERS AND APPLAIUDS. The anger…!
And the reporters, one of them standing right back there, they called up, and they said, “Mr. Fox said he's not gonna build the wall. And there's no way he's gonna build the wall. And he used a horrible word…when he said he's not gonna build the wall!”. So they said to me, “do you have a comment about that!?”.
And I said, “yes”
“What is it?”
“The wall…just got…ten…feet…taller!”…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s true! [It’s] True! And if he uses the f-bomb again, we're gonna go 20 feet taller. Believe me…-THE CROWD CHEERS. Believe me.
So, when I came down, and I came down that escalator, with Melania. And we just looked, and we said, “it's gonna be…it's gonna be great”. But I came down, and I mentioned illegal immigration. And it was…craziness. You remember, right? It was…crazy. The world went crazy. Everything went crazy. I said, “we either have a country or we don't”. We either have borders or we don't! And then it turned out that I was right. And everybody started pivoting back. And even a couple of these people that I'm running against…; the other day, I heard Ted Cruz say, “we are going to have a wall”. That's the first time I've heard this! …-THE CROWD MUTTERS. And Rubio! Little Rubio! He says, “we are going to have a wall!”. They don't have a clue, folks! And you know what? As soon as the lobbyists from Mexico get ahold of them, they're not gonna build a wall! It’s just words! All…talk, no action…politicians! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. Believe me! All…talk, no action
And in the case of Rubio, very, very weak…on illegal immigration. In the case of Cruz, in all fairness, pretty weak. Not as weak. But pretty weak. And he was in favor of amnesty. And there's nothing you can do about it. We're not gonna do amnesty. We're gonna have our country back. We're gonna take our country back. And people are gonna come into our country, but they're going to come into our country legally! Legally! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…so we're gonna have a strong border. And we're gonna stop drugs from coming in, because the drugs are pouring through that border. That's like…it's like water! They're pouring…through the border.
And you know, I won New Hampshire. And, by the way! We just had some big victories. Nevada, right? South Carolina, right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. And they were big! We won every…single…category in every one of the three states…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
And, I'll tell you what. We won with men. We won with women. We won with geniuses! We won with less than geniuses! We won with every…! We have won…; we won with the Evangelicals. I love the Evangelicals. I love…the Evangelicals…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We won with the vets. And we won with the military! …-THE CROWD CHEErS AND APPLAUDS. [It’s] true! But we did. We won with the highly educated, and the less than highly educated. We just won every…single…category. And we won by landslides.
You know, the Wall Street Journal did a poll. It was a phony poll, but it sort of shook us up, because it was two days before the election. And they came out with a poll. And in the poll, they interviewed people that are…you know, not really representative of who's gonna vote! So, it…was like…we were only up by a very little bit. Then when the election took place, we blew him away. It was a total…landslide. A total, absolute landslide…-THE CROWD CHEERS. And by the way, each one got bigger, and bigger, and bigger! And in Nevada we were at 46!
So somebody said…-THE CRWOD CHEERS. Now, you gotta remember. When you're at 45, and 46, you're running against…you five people, right? Five! So you have almost half the vote. And then you have these idiots get up and say, “well, you know, he's at 45…that means 55 percent of the people are against him!”. That's not really what it means.
That means…if somebody else would drop out, they would…accumulate, and instead of…Trump winning, they'd accumulate, and Trump would lose. 55 to 45. What they don't understand is, when they drop out, I get a lot of those votes! But they don't wanna say that! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They don't wanna say it!
For instance, when my very dear friend Jeb Bush dropped out…he dropped out…-THE CROWD CHEERS. No, he'll come by. He'll come by, and he'll…support somebody, one of these days…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. I get…you know, I used to say. What Marco Rubio did to him was very disloyal. Because he was under Jeb, and Jeb gave him some chances, etc. And they said, “Rubio would never run”. Nobody thought he was gonna run, because it would be very disloyal. He ran.
And Jeb would say, “he is my dear, dear friend. He is my very good friend”. And Marco would say, “Jeb is my very good friend”. They hate each other, folks! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. They hate each other! And yet, you'll probably see Jeb's support him at some point, because we know one thing: he's not supporting Trump. Do we agree, [that] he’s not suppoting…? …-THE CROWD MUTTERES.
Oh, boy! They did a cover story in the Wall Street Journal about that. They said…and it was very interesting. They said Jeb Bush had everything planned. He was automatic. It was going to happen. Everything was perfect. He had the money…; he had the pedigree…; he had every single thing. There were just three words that he never thought about: Donald…John…Trump! It's all right! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIDIDLY. That's okay! That’s all right. I think he's a very nice person. We wish him well, right? Let's go: good luck Jeb. We love you Jeb…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. We love you.
So, we're getting close. We have a very big lead. Super Tuesday is coming up. A lot of states. We're gonna win. Are we gonna win!? Are we gonna win!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [We] gotta win Tennessee. [We] gotta win Tennessee. I'll tell you, we gotta win Tennessee. If we don't win Tennessee, I'll still love you. I don't know…you know…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. We will.
Hey, let me tell you something! The second-place person doesn't come here with crowds like this, in all fairness. You don't have crowds like this. Chris…Chris was telling me…; the second place…when you look, we looked out the plane, [and] we said, “wow! Look at this!”. And we just had a similar thing in Arkansas. It’s incredible. [A] big, big hangar. We had a very similar thing. But you look out, and you see this crowd. This is a massive crowd! All standing up. No seats. Sorry about that, folks. [There are] too many people. But the second-place person doesn't have crowds like this.
So, hopefully we're gonna win Tennessee. We're gonna win everything. I think we're even…I think we're even really have a great chance to win Texas…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I mean, I know we're gonna win Florida. In a couple of weeks we go to Florida. Remember, Tuesday is your day! Tuesday. Tuesday. But I think in a couple of weeks…uh…you know, we go to Florida, in a couple of weeks. And we're gonna win Florida. Big league. [It] is where…I think 22 points out. And that'll be a…that'll be great. And hopefully, we can run the table! I mean, just run the table!
And a lot of people are saying…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY-…they're saying…you know, these pundits. These guys get paid…they don't know what the hell they're talking about. First of all, they said, in June, “he will never run!”. I ran. Then they said, “he will never sign form A”. That's where you sign your life away. I signed. They said, “Wow!”. Then they said, “he will never put in his financials!”. And by the way…by the way. The financials are…all about like what you [are] worth. Tax returns don't mean anything about worth. Just so you understand. And…you never give a tax return when you're being audited. Do you know, I get audited every…single…year! You tell me that's fair! I have friends of mine…-THE CROWD BOOS-…I have friends of mine that are rich people, [and] they've never been audited!
I say, “how often you get audited!?”.
“Never. Never”. They don't even know what the hell I'm talking about! I’m audited it every year! But I filed my financials, and they were phenomenal…and believe me, it it…if they weren't phenomenal, you would have heard about it from the press…-THE CROWD CHEERS. You would have heard about it. That would have been a big, big, beautiful fat story.
And…[I] built a great company. Some of the great assets of the world. Very little debt. Tremendous cash flow. And, I say that only because that's the kind of thinking we need for our country! We own 19 trillion dollars! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We've gotta make great deals!
We lose…we lose with China, in trade deficit, 500…billion…dollars a year! 500 billion. We lose a massive amount of money in deficit with Japan. With Mexico, by the way…we lose with everybody, just…in case you had any question. We lose all the time. We don't win! Honestly, we don't win anymore! We don't win at any level! With trade, with military, we can't beat ISIS!
Can you imagine telling General George Patton we can't build…we can't beat ISIS? Now, General Patton would be…he right now, and General…Douglas MacArthur, they are right now spinning in their graves. They don't get it. They don't get it. This is a thing they’d knock them out in a week! They don't…get it. We're gonna knock the hell out of ISIS, okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna knock the hell out of them.
So, when I started, it was about…very much about the border, because I knew what was going on. I have friends. And when I won New Hampshire, and by the way, I made a pledge to the people of New Hampshire. They are incredible people, and they're the one that started this thing, cause they gave me a tremendous victory. Far greater…than it was supposed to be! I mean, it was a landslide. But I talked to the people. And it was so strange…! Because it's a beautiful state. The most beautiful trees, and pastures, and roadways…going through these…incredible settings, and yet, their big problem was always heroin.
I said, “heroin!?”. It's just doesn't fit! You know, you…I can tell you places that it does fit! Fut I don’t wanna insult anybody, right? It didn’t fit…with New Hampshire. And I said to the people…I said, “we're gonna solve the problem”. The drugs are pouring through the southern border! The heroin is getting through! And they have a bigger problem for whatever reason than most. We're gonna stop that heroin. We're gonna get…we’re gonna work with getting the addicted to be unaddicted as quickly as possible…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But I made a pledge: we're gonna stop…we're gonna stop that heroin from pouring in…to this country! To this country, but to New Hampshire. We have an obligation to do it. And that's what we’re going to do.
So, when I first started, I talked about the border. I talked about trade. I'm really good at trade. And I'm really good at jobs, by the way…-THE CROWD CHEERS. I will be…the greatest jobs president…that God ever created. That I can tell you. The greatest! That what sort of easy. When they do the polls…they do polls. And in the polls, with the economy, I'm always double, and triple, and quadruple what others are…with jobs, with the economy, with ISIS…by the way; with military, with the border…I mean, I'm not talking about like where somebody's at 20 and I'm at 22! I'm talking where they're at 9 and I'm at 70. That's a big difference! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. With leadership way above everybody else. Way, way, way above.
So, every single category…! And I think a lot of it morphed in…to the fact that I'm the strongest on the border. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, from Arizona…no games, right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know what they call him, “no games Joe”. He doesn't play games. Do we agree? This is…right? Sheriff Joe. He endorsed me last week.
Now, when you know that Sheriff Joe is endorsing you, you are the toughest on the borders. There's no doubt about that…-THE CROWD CHEERS.
So, when it began it was about the borders, it was about trade and all of that. And, then, we had the attack…and it was a horrible attack all over the world. In Paris, where 130…people were killed. Many, many people dying right now in the hospital, horribly hurt. And by the way, speaking of that, I will protect your Second Amendment. 100 percent, okay? 100 percent…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And then we had the attack…in California. The too radicalized…people. They get married. They go in. And they…shoot their…co-workers. And supposedly their friends. Something going wrong here, folks! There's some anger out there. We gotta solve the problem. But I guarantee you one thing: these Syrians are not coming into our country until we find out what the hell is going on…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [They’re] not coming in.
And the ones that are here? I'm sorry, and I'd been saying it for three months. They gotta go. They gotta go. They gotta go…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
You know, you have that migration…and we all have a heart! And we're gonna build safe zones in Syria. We're not paying for it, by the way. Don't worry about it. We'll get the Gulf states. The Gulf states are making, and have made, so much money! They have…so much money! They're not taking any of the migration, any of the migrants, they are not taking any. They're not spending any money. And I have many friends in the Gulf states! But they're gonna have to shell out. They will spend…we will supervise…get it done, but we will get the money from the Gulf states.
You know that Saudi Arabia, before the oil came down, now they're making half…was making a billion…dollars…think of this! A billion dollars a day. And we protect them. We get practically nothing! Why? South Korea…makes a fortune! I ordered thousands…a year! Thousands of television sets. They are all made in South…; Samsung, LG, They’re all made in South Korea. I order thousands of sets. South Korea, we have 28,000 soldiers on the line. You have the maniac in North Korea. You have the maniac…-THE CROWD BOOS VIVIDLY. APPARENTLY, THERE IS A PROTESTER. All right, get him out of here! Get him out! Get him out! …-THE CROWDSTARTS CHANTING ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY. Get him out!
Unbelievable, right? Unbelievable. It's one wise guy, and tomorrow the press will say, “oh, there was a protest!”. Unbelievable.
You know, we've got 15,000 people here today…-THE CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. Unveliebale.
So, we have 15,000 people…we have one wise guy, and that'll be the headline, “protest…!”. But I love the protesters1 Because the only way…the dishonest media, the most dishonest people in the world! I think, maybe, more dishonest than the politicians. [It’s] hard to believe. The only way they turn their cameras [is] if there's trouble! If there's a protester. Do you notice all those cameras were turned? So, I'm very happy.
In fact, sometime, I'm gonna just bring in my own protesters. [It’s] The only way I get them to turn…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So anyway, it's…it’s…it’s really unbelievable. All right. Yeah, get him out! That's…fine. That's fine. Don't hurt him! Don't hurt him! Don't hurt him!
So…so, when it began, it began there. And then all of a sudden, everybody liked me, from the standpoint of the military, because I get it! I understand it. And believe me, we're gonna be strong, because, our military is being decimated! It's being decimated! Now, we are going to be…so strong at the military level…; we're gonna build it bigger, better, stronger than ever. And nobody is going to mess with us. Nobody. Nobody! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And by the way, just as a little adjunct, which is very important, because you know, we talk about the American dream, and without education, there is no real good chance at the American dream. We're getting rid of Common Core. It's gone…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [We’re] getting rid of Common Core.
We're getting rid of Obamacare, by the way. [We’re] getting rid of it…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAIUDS. We're getting rid of it! It's gone! It's gone! It's a disaster! It's a disgrace. It's a disaster. That's going. It'll be replaced with lots of options that are gonna be excellent and a lot less expensive. And better! It's called better, and less expensive. So we're getting rid of Obamacare.
But what happened is, people came up, and they all of a sudden started saying, “Trump is the right one for…basically, it's security”. And every poll showed it! Where I did the worst in the polls, I hate to say…do you know where I did the worst? My personality. Who cares, right? Who cares? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And I'll tell you what, I'm a nicer person. So…I really think I am. I'm a nicer person…than the person…the people that I'm on the dais with. I really believe that. I wanna take care of people!
You know, we're all in this together. I'm a messenger. That's all I am. We're all in this together…-THE CROW CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
There…is…a great anger out there. And, people say, “oh, Trump has captured the anger of the world, and the anger…”. It is actually a world anger. It's not even…it's this country…! Because this country has made so many bad decisions, [that] it overflows outside of this country. But there is a real anger!
And they always write about the anger! I don't think about it. I don't think like I captured anything! I just…say what I say! And I say what I say because it's common sense! It's common sense! …-THE CROWD CHERSE.
And…and at the debate, they asked me, because a certain politician made a speech and she talked about…Nikki Haley. She talked about…Trump, it…essentially she was saying Trump is angry. And I'm not an angry person. Believe me. I'm not. And you're not angry people. But during the debate, the one before last, they said, “Nikki Haley said [that] you're, essentially, an angry person”.
And I was supposed to say, “oh, no. I'm not. I love the way things are going”. The country's going to hell. “The Iran deal is just wonderful”, we give them a hundred and fifty billion dollars for nothing, right? “We're all thrilled. Sergeant Bergdorf wonderful deal”. We get a dirty, rotten traitor. They get five killers that they wanted forever. Right? Five people died going after sergeant Bergdahl! …-THE CROWD BOOS. And then we're supposed to say we're thrilled with the way our country is run, right?
Our country is in trouble! Our jobs are a disaster! Our real number is 25 percent, not 5 percent! When you look for a job, and [you] can't get it, you quit; you look; you go home; you stay home with your wife or your husband, you no longer look…and you know what? Statistically they think you're employed! We have a…real problem! Our jobs have been taken from us! They've been taken by China, and so many other countries! They've been taken by everybody!
Last week, you read about it. Carrier, they make air-conditioners. I buy air conditions from Carrier no longer. They're moving…to Mexico! Like…so many other people! …-THE CROWD BOOS.
So here's the story, folks. And I tell this story. I wanna be…smart. We have to be smart. I like free trade, but it has to be fair trade. It has to be smart trade. But the only thing you can do is one thing: I saw the pictures, probably a cell phone camera, where this executor is saying, “sorry, folks, your jobs are gone. A hundred and…”…I mean, a lot of jobs! What is it? 1,400 jobs I think. 1,400 jobs, and by the way! United Technologies, also, is closing up some stuff moving to Mexico.
So here's what we do: I'm a free trader. You know, I get a lot of heat. “He's not conservative!”. He is not…folks, I’m…I call myself common-sense conservative. You know, common sense conservative…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Because you know, a conservative would never do what I'm gonna say. And they'll say, “he cannot be a conservative…if he does what he says!”. Okay.
People…are taking our jobs. They're moving out of our country. Pfizer is leaving, going to Ireland! Many, many…we’ve corporate inversion. We have billions of dollars, and trillions of dollars outside. We can't get it back, because the politicians can't…can't move. The Democrats want it back. The Republicans want it back. They can't make a deal, because they have no leadership. Right?
So here's what we're gonna do with Carrier, and here's what we're gonna do it a lot of other countries. We have to do it! There's only…look, I went to the great Wharton School of Finance. I was very good. I was a good student and all that stuff, but you don't have to go to Wharton. You don't have to go to high school to understand this.
So, “we're leaving”, Carrier, “we're leaving, and we're going to Mexico”, right? How is that good for us? They're gonna make air conditioners and sell them to our country. How is it good? So here's what happens. Very simple. We have the greatest business people in the world in our country. I'll use them. But this is too simple, I wanna do it myself. Even though it's very unpresidential. I think it's very unpresidential…for me to be calling the head of Carrier about air-conditioners. Do you agree? But I'm gonna do it anyway, okay? I'll be unpresidential …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS..
And I'm gonna say, “look, here's the story. I hope you enjoy your new Factory in Mexico. I hope it looks beautiful, and you're very happy. But just so you understand, if you move to Mexico, [and] you leave the United States, [and] you let down those 1,400 great people”, who I saw in that video and they are devastated, “we are going to charge you…a 35 perent tax…for every air conditioner you sell…that comes across the border!” …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's the only solution. It's the….
You know, a lot of people say, “I'm giving a big tax cut”, and all of that, but that's not gonna stop these companies from moving. It’s more to it than that.
So, I'm gonna say that. And here's what's going to happen: I am not taking money from the lobbyists, and from the special interest, and the donors. Everybody else, if you put like little Rubio up there, and he's president, they'll say, “Mr. President…” …-THE CROWD LAUGHS AS MR. TRUMP MOCKS MR. RUBIO LOOKING DOWN, SHOWING HOW SHORT HE IS-…in between his sweating!
Hey, can you imagine Rubio negotiating with Putin? And he walks into the room, and he's pouring sweat. And Putin looks at him and says, “man! What's wrong with that guy!?”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
[MOU1] So I will say this, look: within 24 hours…Carrier will call me, and they'll say, “Mr. president, we're moving back to the United States”. That's what's gonna happen! Very simple! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Now, the so-called…brilliant…conservatives, as they say, don't like that, because they don't like to charge tax. And I don't either. Ideally I don't…either. But it's not fair anymore, folks! We can't continue to be the stupid people. We cannot continue to be the stupid people.
I have a friend, who's a great, great manufacturer. He deals with China. He said it's a virtual impossibility. Number one, they sell everything over here. No tax, they just pour it in, [they] make a fortune…; we have rebuilt China! The bridges, the tunnels, the airports…you've never seen anything like it. We have…rebuilt China, and yet our country's falling apart. Our infrastructure is falling apart. Our schools…we don't have money for schools. For roadways. For airports. Our airports are like third-world! You come in, you leave some of these airports in Europe…? You leave some of these airports like Qatar…? And Dubai…? And you see these airports, [and] they are the most incredible things you've ever seen. I'm there a lot!
And then, we come in and we land at LaGuardia, with our potholes all over the place…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. We're like a third-world country. We can't be the stupid people anymore! We can't be led by the stupid people anymore, folks! We can't! We can’t! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So Carrier is gonna move back. Ford it's the same thing. Two years ago they announced…two and a half billion dollars. I would tell them there's just no way. We don't want their cars. Just keep your cars. We don't want…; I want those plants to be built in Michigan, or here, or wherever the hell they wanna build them, as long as it's in the United States. We want people to build in this country. We…want…jobs in this country…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I don't know if you saw the last jobs report. But one thing that took place, that's a…an amazing…phenomena. And it has to do with Obamacare. [It] is tremendous numbers of part-time jobs. Because, they don't wanna be in the Obamacare rain. They don't wanna be…within the grasp of Obamacare. So with these companies…; I mean, people that have worked for the same company for years, all of a sudden are being made part-time. [It’s] not gonna happen, folks. It's not gonna happen.
The other thing is, the quality of the job…is the lowest we've ever had. The jobs are bad! Because the good jobs are all going to different countries! We have the…the bad jobs! And they say it! They say it! They're bad, bad jobs! They’re are low-level jobs. No good. Our country is in trouble! We're gonna fix our country. We're gonna fix it like you've never seen, and it's gonna go fast, so here's what we have to do. Look…look…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY-…here's what we have to do.
On Tuesday, you have a big day. You have to get up, and…it…you know, I joke. And I do joke, and I'll say. I don't care how you feeling. I don't care if your doctor says you're not going to make it till 7 o'clock…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I won't say your wife is leaving you but perhaps she might. She's fallen in love with another man. I don't give a damn! You get up, you go to the polls, and you vote! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
No, I…I really mean it. [It’s] so important. And you know, we have…a real opportunity. Because we really do have the potential to have…this country be greater than ever before. But if we have Hillary…I was just watching Hillary on television. It's a nightmare…-THE CROWD BOOS. It’s a nightmare.
And I'll tell you…I'll tell you what was very interesting. In South Carolina…we had…like 400 and some more thousand people vote, in the last cycle, four years ago, and fewer before that. And we were almost at 800,000 people…a few weeks ago, when I won. The number of voters…and they were talking about it. The number of voters has like…doubled! More than doubled! And I'm taking from the Democrats, I'm taking from the Independents, we’re taking…because…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY-…the Republicans do have a structural disadvantage. It's harder to win as a Republican, I hate to tell you that. We have states that, if I get the nomination, we're gonna win Michigan, we're gonna win Pennsylvania, we're gonna win Ohio, we're gonna win Florida…-THE CROWD CHEERS. We're gonna win Florida! We have a chance to win New York! I mean, if we win New York it's over and no Republican can even think about it!
So…so it's so important. But what they're doing, and what they were just talking about, they're saying, “the Republicans have gone way, way, way up!”. I mean, like from 400 and some more thousand to 800 and some more thousand! And that's just from the last cycle, and it’s gone…; and by the way, it was just…even, it was just going nowhere. But even the ratings! We got, for that last debate, like almost 16 million people and, the last time, they had about 3 million people! Now, you know that I did that! Nobody else did it! I did it, right!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. I just wonder, what would those ratings be on the debates if I wasn't there? I will tell you, but…it would not be a pretty picture.
So, the last cycle I think they had about three million or three and a half, and we had almost 16 million people. So it's uh…an amazing thing that's happening.
We have got…a different Republican…Party. We've got a Republican Party, but a lot of outsiders are coming in because they like what I say! And we're gonna get…we're gonna get a lot of people coming in! And we don't care where they're coming from! We have to win! Right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. We're gonna get independents; we're gonna get Democrats. Remember the term ‘Reagan Democrats’?. Remember all the Democrats that Reagan got? And you know what? If you don't get them, if you don't get them, you're really not going to win, folks.
One of the other things that happened in Nevada, they did the polls, and who won with Hispanics? Donald Trump won with Hispanics, okay? Big league! Big league! We're gonna do great with Hispanics! And we're gonna do great with African Americans! The polls are showing great! One of the polls…the Republicans get five percent African American, which is…terrible. One of the polls show 25 percent. 25 percent! And one of the announcer said, “well, I'll tell you what. If Donald Trump gets 25 percent of the African American vote, this election is over. The Republicans win immediately!”. It's true! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's true! It's true!
So, look, we are…involved together. Together…with something that's very special. Again! They say…[it has] never happened before! I mean, I watch this a while ago! They say [that] what's happening now, has never, ever happened before…in the history of our nation. I can't even believe that. I don't even understand why that is necessarily. But they're talking about [that/how] we've changed…the whole playing field of politics. And it'll never be the same! And I love that. And I love that[MOU2] .
So, here's the story: Tuesday. Go out and vote. Big, big, big, strong vote. I promise you…that you're gonna look back on this night, and you're going to say, “this was a very important night”. Everybody in this huge…hangar. This was a very important evening in your life, because things…started…to happen! We're gonna start winning again. We're gonna win so much. We are gonna win in the military. We're gonna win with healthcare. We're gonna win at the borders. We're gonna win with education. We're gonna win with everything! We're gonna win with everything! And we are going to make America great again! I love you! I love you! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I love you! Thank you very much! Thank you, everybody! Thank you! Thank you very much!
