VIDEO Nº: 144
TITLE:144. Full Speech Donald Trump Rally in Madison MS (3-7-16) LIVE Donald Trump Jackson Misisipi Rally HD
DATE OF EVENT:07/03/2018
RELEASE DATE:23/11/2016
DURATION:00.48.06 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:9085 
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…All right? The key to the city…-MR. TRUMP SHOWS A BIG, GOLDEN KEY. Where is Mary? The mayor. Where's the mayor? Where's Mary? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. Vote Mary, right? Vote Mary. I will put that very nicely, Mary. Mayor, I will put it very, very nicely. On a place of honor in my office, in Manhattan. We all have a lot in common.
I love this. So, that's a great…that's a great honor. Believe me. Thank you very much. I'll put it over here, so I don't forget it. I'll put it over here…-MR. TRUMP STOWS IT ON HIS JETTED POCKET.
Now, we have Charles Evers here. Where’s Charles? I won't say how old he is. Right, Charles? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. But, I'll tell you, he is in good shape. It gives us hope! It gives us hope.
Charles, thank you very much. What a great family. Great name .Great man. Everybody loves Charles…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
You know, I signed the Hat forum, and I didn't wanna take it off, cause usually if a person's wearing a hat, it means you sort of [are] missing a couple of those hair follicles, right? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. So, I never like to take it off. Sometimes I'll take it off to sign it for somebody, and they’ll “oh…!”.
But, I took his hat off, right Charles? And he’s got this beautiful head of hair! I said, “Charles, that's great!”. 92, 93, so…you know…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Tray Staples, Trooper! Where is he? Tray! Where is Tray!? Get him over here! Get him over here! Quick! Come on! I have all night! Do we have all night or what!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. What the heck!? Come here! Come on over here, Tray!
I'll tell you, how great are the police? How great are the police? In this country…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…and bring your wife over! And…and Tray,  get some of those offices! I wanna show you guys that are in good shape. I'm a little angry. Get some of the offices up here! We…love…our police! They take care of us! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They are…not appreciated like they should be appreciated. And we love our police.
Tray, thank you very much…-APPARENTLY, POLICE OFFICER TRAY IS ON STAGE, BUT OFF CAMERA. [He was] Hit with a bullet, but he's still the toughest guy on the force. They all told me that. That's pretty good, right? So, Tray, thank you very much. Thank you. Look at these guys! Thank you, fellas. …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Appreciate it.
What a great place, Mississippi. You know, I have a lot of friends that live in Mississippi. I hate to say, there's a lot of wealth in Mississippi! We know that. [You’ve] got a lot of wealthy people. You have some people however that…are not doing so well, because their jobs are being taken away. Their jobs are going to foreign lands. And we're not gonna let that happen anymore, folks. We're not gonna let it happen…-THE CROWD CHEERES AND APPLAUDS. We’re not gonna let it happen. It's gonna end! It's gonna end.
There are so many things going on right now, worldwide. And you know, we all like to talk about free trade. Free trade…wonderful free trade. And, you know, somebody was asking…; I just did Sean Hannity show, who's a really good guy, by the way. And he was talking about ‘conservative’. And, I'm a conservative, but I like to say ‘conservative with common sense’…-THE CROWD CHEERS. Free…free trade is wonderful. I love it. I think it's great. But to have free trade that really works, it's very important, and it's very simple! It has to work for two parties! It has two work for the two countries!
China…we have a trade imbalance. We…we are losing so much money! 500…billion…dollars…a year! Okay? Five…that's a trade deficit! That's a trade deficit! Why are we doing this?
Mexico…and by the way, we will build a wall, and Mexico is gonna pay for the wall…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. Believe me. Believe me…! Oh, they'll pay! They'll pay! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. They’ll pay!
And by the way, I have great respect for Mexico! I’ve many Mexico…friends from Mexico. I have…tremendous amounts of people. They work for me. They're phenomenal people! Uh…thousands! Hispanics! Thousands. In Nevada, where I won the state. We won a lot of states! I could go through…the list is so long now [that] I don't wanna bore you going through all of them!
The one I really wanna win though is Mississippi! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I wanna win Mississippi. Oh, you're gonna be happy! You're gonna go home…; in two years, you're gonna say, “that was one of the great votes I ever cast”. Believe me. We're gonna be the smart country. We're not gonna be the dummies anymore, folks. We're gonna be the smart…we're gonna be the smart country, because…isn’t it embarrassing? You know, like the Iran deal. We give them 150 billion dollars…we get nothing! We give them a hundred and fifty billion dollars…we should have had our hostages back four years ago. They should have never been taken! I mean, they didn't do anything wrong! But we should have had the hostages back years ago.
We should have never negotiated until we had our hostages back. And we should have just gone…and I've said this before! You go in, and you say, “we have to have our hostages back”. This is four years ago.
And they'll say, “no”. The Persians are great negotiators. They'll say, “no way!”.
You say, “bye-bye! Goodbye, everybody! Enjoy it!”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. And then you go out and you double and triple up in the sanctions. And you'll get a call in 24 hours. You've got your hostages. We should have never, ever given them the 150 billion dollars…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I always say, you know, it is The Art of the Deal. How many people read The Art of the Deal? Like everybody…-THE CROWD CHEERS.
So, then we go in…thank you, man. Oh, he's got it right there! He's all excited! That's good! I'll sign it! I'll sign it! I’ll sign it! I’ll sign it! I promise…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So, anyway!
Then we go in, the hostages now land. I'd say, “make sure they landed. Make sure…”. The hostages land. Now you go on a second time. We do it twice. And after that, we'll be more reasonable. But you say, “listen…”; and you know, I tell the story. Some people love the story, but I had a father who was a great guy, and…really a great negotiator.
And he used to say, “son, you're too direct. You're too tough! You gotta soften up a little bit”. And he used to have the expression, right? “Take the lumps out”. He used to go, “son, take the lumps out”.
So, I would have gone without his…knowledge, I would have gone in and said, “we're not giving you 150 billion dollars! No way you're ever getting it!”. All right. So, the problem with that is there’s great, great hostility on the other side. It'll last a long time .They won't recover it from it. I'll be screaming at them about…the money.
So, my father would say, “take the lumps out”.
So, I’d go in differently now. I'd say, “fellas…”. Don't forget, we already have our hostages. That’s done. We paid nothing. We got our hostages. I'd say, “fellas, do me a favor. Here's the story: we have a country, it's bust. We owe 19 trillion dollars”. We just approved a budget which is the craziest thing I've ever seen, six weeks ago. The Omnibus Budget. It takes care of Obamacare. It takes care of the Syrians coming into our country. It takes care of illegal immigrants coming into our country. It takes care of everything! What are we doing?
I’d say, “fellas, we got a country…we don't have the money. We can't pay you 150 billion. I'm so sorry. I'd love to do it! I'd love to do it! I would love to do it! But we can't. We don't have any money”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
Now, they'll be angry. But not as angry as [if we told them], “we're not giving you that money!”, right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. [Do you] See? I learned. That’s called taking the lumps out. [You/we get] Same result. But this way, you come back a little quicker.
So, they're gonna get angry, and all. You're gonna leave, and…eventually you'll come back. Now what we've gotten is, we've got in the hostages; we've gotten 150 billion; and now we start to negotiate. Does that make sense to everybody, right? Don’t you think? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And by the way, that's not…that's like…a…you know, 92 percent, 95 percent, 98 percent…no, no! That's 100 percent!
[MOU1] When I looked over the…last week, where Vincente Fox, the former President of Mexico. Now, I love Mexico. I…I…love Mexico! I think it's wonderful. Their leaders are too smart for our leaders. It's not even a contest. And he was sitting back, and he was being interviewed; and he threw out the f-bomb. Now, can you imagine if I throughout the f-bomb? I wouldn't even be here. They'd probably be thinking about the electric chair for me, okay? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. It’s true! They threw out the f-bomb. He did! And he said, and he's come a long way.
He said, “there is no way…we're gonna pay for the…blank…wall”.
Now, the problem with these people…MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS-…now, watch! They will go, blank, they'll go, “beep!”, and everybody will say that I said the word! That's how dishonest…! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Because the most…dishonest…people…other than…lyinh Ted Cruz, who really is a liar! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. Right? He is…really a liar! Man!
That guy…and I'm a good Christian, but I'll tell you what! He walks up, and he holds up that Bible, and he's…there with the Bible, and he puts it down. And then, he starts lying! I call him ‘lying Ted Cruz’. He is good …-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. But he's actually not a good liar, because you catch him lying all the time! The best liars are the ones that don't get caught.
And then we have little Marco Rubio…-THE CROWD LAUGHS AND BOOS. I thought, when we had…you know, Chris Christie endorsed me. Good guy. Good…really good guy. He endorsed me two weeks ago. And when Chris was on the stage. Chris was the former…he's the governor of New Jersey, but he was a former prosecutor. A tough cookie. And I thought…honestly? I thought Marco…was going to faint! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. He was choking like a dog! He was pouring down sweat.
And Chris hit him once. And it was fine. He said the Obama thing. [Do you] Remember? The phrase. And then he did it again, and he said it again. And again. And again. And again..:! And after the fifth time, I was getting ready to…see that size of that hand!? Look at that…! …-MR. TRUMP SHOWS HIS HAND. THE CROWD LAUGHS. I was gonna…I was gonna grab him! To show him how strong that hand is! Cause he made that sucker up. I was gonna say, “Marco…!? I won't let you fall! I don't want you to get hurt, Marco!”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
So, I mean, this is what we have, fellas, folks. Look, we have…a big task. We have a country that is in turmoil. We have politicians that are running that are all taken care of by special interests. They're never gonna fix the country for you. And I was one of those special interests! I mean, I hired lobbyist, I hired…; I was really good! I mean, I was really good!
I had…I built a tremendous business. I filed my papers with the federal election. They couldn't even believe it! There were so many…of those guys back there…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS. I built an…unbelievable…some of the greatest assets in the world. Very little debt. Tremendous cash flow…! Tremendous!
And by the way, you read about these little tiny business…? And they're…they’re doing well too! All of a sudden, I heard, “that business isn't working”. I said, “that business is working too!”. Almost all of my businesses work. I make businesses work. Even when I build in the middle of a depression, I make it work!
Now, sometimes the banks have to suffer! Some people have to suffer! But it works. And, I have to make it work for me, my family, my company…; I make it work! And I'll tell you what, when you look at what's going on in this country, you need the kind of mentality…! When…when you see what I did, and when you see the kind of a business…some of the greatest assets…! Doral, we saw the big tournament this weekend, where Adam Scott. How good was Adam Scott? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. The World Golf Championship. And…Adam Scott was fantastic. But I own that. I own that. No partners. No nothing. Very successful. [A] Great place. I own so many different places. And you know, I'm just saying it…not in a braggadocios way. And I don't give a damn about my company once this…! If I…if this works, the last thing I care about is how we doing renting on 40 Wall Street. I'd…I don’t care. My kids will handle it. They'll be fine. Ivanka! Do we love Ivanka, right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And Eric and Don, and they do a great job. And my executives. I have great executives. They'll take care.
But, we have a really…monumental…thing! A much more important [thing] than a company. We have to fix our country. We have to get rid of our debt…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDY. We have to get, at a minimum, get the debt way down. We have to balance our budgets. We have to build up our military. We have to make sure that the drug companies, who take care of all these senators, start bidding for their products…-THE CROWD CHEERS. You know, they…they have no bidding! These people…you pay practically the same thin! If you wanna go into a drug store [and] buy something…drugs, to make you better, the United States, the biggest drug purchaser or the world, pays about the same prices you do. It's ridiculous! It's no bidding!
The same thing with the military! For…all of my life, I've been hearing about…they order a plane that nobody wants. And the plane they do want is less expensive, a better plane, better maneuverability, but the company [that] does it have the political context. So, they end up getting equipment planes, whatever it might be, that they don't want! Because these guys are all taking care of, folks! Okay? They're all taken care of.
Do you know the lobbyists, in Washington…of which I know many, and I've hired many over the years; but they're really good! And they have a thing, it’s…it's stamped on their forehead! It'll say, “Rubio! I take care of Rubio”. Another one will take care of another senator. Another one will take…and these guys are good! And they raise millions of dollars for them. And, if it's bad for the country…as an example, I talk all the time about Ford moving in. Or, you saw the recent one, with Carrier. Carrier [are], leaving this country. 1,400 jobs, they're moving to Mexico.
Now, I will stop it. Because there's nobody that has any control of me, in the sense that I'm gonna do what's right for you! You're the only people that have the control…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. And…and I don't know that I get enough credit for it, to be honest. Because…I don't think I do. But, I'm already in for close to 30 million cash. And not that it has an impact, but it's still…[it’s] always a lot of money! To me…uh…two dollars is a lot of money!
You know, my whole life…and I say this. I've had people come up to me, recently! A couple of days ago! “Donald…”; you know, when you're number one…I've been number one almost from the beginning. From the beginning! From…June 16th, almost number one. When you're number one, it's like I was so successful with The Apprentice show. And they wanted to renew it. They would have done anything to renew, but I said, “no, I'm sorry, I'm running for president”.
The head of Comcast came up to see me. [A] Great guy. And, he said, “we really want you”.
I said, “no, no, I'm running for president”. I told them! Nobody believed it! You know, nobody believed it. And, the…pundits didn't believe it! They all said, “he's not gonna run! He's not running!”. You know, they were such surely. These people are so stupid! They’re so stupid! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And they said, “he didn't run”.
Then they said, “well, he…maybe won’t sign Form A”. Form A is basically the form you sing. [It’s] One page, where you sign your life away: You know, you give your…everything! And then you have the financials. And then they said, “well, he signed form A!”.
And then I announced. And then I…they said, “well, he'll never put in his financials!”. And the financials turned out to be almost 100 pages. They said, “well, he'll take his times…!”, cause you have delays, and you can delay it forever. They'll say, “he'll put them in after the elections, [and] then he won’t!”. Cause they said, “maybe he's not as rich as people think”. It turned out that a much richer than people think! And I'll be honest…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY-…if I didn't run, if I didn't run…and there was a chance that I might not! But if I didn't run, I would have put him in anyway, cause I wanna brag about what a good job I did! I've done a great job!
So, so…it’s true! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But, when Steve Burke came up, from Comcast, and he's the boss. He's an incredible guy. And he said, “uh…Donald, we wanna renew The Apprentice, and…all of that”.
I said, “Steve, I really wanna do something great. We're gonna do this. And we're gonna do it great”.
I've always heard that if you're a very successful person, you can't run for politics, and in particular, you can't run for president. And I see that! If you sneeze, they’ll make a big deal out of it. No matter what you do, they make a big deal!
Now, I have to tell you, with all of that being said, and I'm trying to figure out the system! Because, I don't understand one thing. I think I get the…worst…publicity. I mean, I had this guy, Mitt Romney, who was such a disaster! He was…-THE BOOS HEAVILY. He may have been the worst presidential candidate in the history of United States politics…-THE CROWD CHEERS. The…amazing!
And he came out, and he’s nasty. And, actually, I backed him. But, I don't really know him very well! I don't know. I…probably, you know what, honestly? If I got to know him, I'd probably get along with him. I'd probably get along with him. But he came out with something…; I feel that I get the worst publicity of any human being in the world, okay? I read such stuff…! They make up stories…! They write stuff…!
And it shows how smart the public is, because I'll tell you what: the poll just came out, CNN, I'm at 49. [The] Second is 15. Can you imagine…nationwide poll…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
More importantly, you have a…biggie! Right? When is your biggie? When is it!? When are you voting!? Come on! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. Tomorrow! Raise your right hand, everybody! Do you swear that you're gonna vote for Donald Trump tomorrow? Raise that hand! I love you! I love you! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. All right, you can't go back! No, I'm only kidding. If you wanna go back, you can. But I don't think you will, because nobody's gonna do the job that I'm doing! Nobody's gonna do the job that I'm doing.
But, tomorrow such a big day. And we haven't seen a poll of Mississippi, but the one that's a couple of weeks old has us like…way up there. But let's assume we're tied. I don't wanna say it. Assume we're tied, cause you gotta go out. You gotta go out. I always used to tell politicians, “pretend you're going to lose, because you'll fight harder”. Even if they had a big lead.
But, in Mississippi we've had some amazing polls. And, way up. And…I just wanna…I just want you to just…really do it tomorrow. [It’s] So important. Promise you're gonna go out? Promise…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUS.
And, we just had a fantastic fall come out the great state of Michigan. And they came out, and we just had four polls, I think, come out. Just, as I was going on the stage. In fact, I came onto the stage and I said, “oh, this is nice but…I…”; now, I woke up here. Look at the good time I'm having! [Do] You know why? I had four great polls from the great state of Michigan! That's a biggie tomorrow! You and Michigan! We have Hawaii, and we have the greatest potato group in the world…Idaho! I love Idaho! I love Idaho! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I told them! I just tweeted! I said, “I love your, potatoes! I hope you’re gonna vote for me. I'll protect you! Nobody's gonna take those potatoes away from Idaho”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
So, we have some big ones tomorrow. But, the one…the numbers I just got from Michigan are…tremendous…uh…tremendous numbers! I mean, they're tremendous. Because Michigan knows…I've been talking about this for years. How other countries…are ripping us off. I've had a couple of folks in the back, and one of them came up to me and said, “Mr. Trump, I followed you for ten years. And for ten years you've been right. How China…and how others…”.
China is just the worst example. They're the worst abuser of all. And they…I’ll…I’ll tell you what: It's the single…greatest…theft…what they've done to us, in the history of the world! And  Ilove China! I get along great! They…I sell them apartments; the biggest bank in the world is a tenant of mine, at one of my buildings in Manhattan…; I mean, I did…I own the Bank of America building in…in San Francisco, a big chunk of it. All because of the Chinese, which was a war! 1290 any of the Americas in Manhattan, one of the biggest buildings in Manhattan, because of the Chinese. The Chinese are wonderful!
And by the way, they're ripping us off horribly! I'm not angry at them. I'm not angry at them. I wish our people had the brains and had the sense! So, I'm not angry at China! I'm not angry at Mexico! I don't…you know, if you can get away with it, I say, “do it!”. I'm angry at our leaders, for being grossly incompetent. They shouldn't be in the position! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And when Vincente Fox…this week, what he threw out, that horrible word, and he said, “we will never pay for the you-know-what wall…”; and he gave that horrible, horrible word…; and the anger at his face! And he's not the president! He was the president! He was a former president. But, it was a big interview. And it was all over the place. And he said, “we will not pay for the wall!”. And I liked it in one way, because at least, now they accept the wall’s gonna happen! [Do you] See? It used to be, “we will not let it all be built!”, right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, no! If you look back a year ago…uh…he and others would say, “we will not let a wall be built!”.
Now it's, “we will not pay for the wall!”. Okay.  So, we've come 50 percent. Now, we'll do the other 50…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLADUS.
But, here's why. This lightweight comes off and he said to me, “you can't get Mexico to pay for the wall!”. It's a…they’re politicians! Number one, if you're a politician, you can't anyway. Because the special interest, and the donors, and the lobbyists are gonna hit them up, [and] say, “don't push Mexico! We have a big relationship! They give a lot of money to this country in the form of campaign contributions! They put a lot of monies into these…horrible super PACs”, that are totally corrupted, by the way. And then they can take phony ads on me! You gotta see these ads! These ads are so vicious…! And they're so phony…! They're so false…! And, I tell people! I think I have 50…million…dollars…worth of negative…negative ads in Florida. 50 million! Somebody said 50 million!
I was watching at Doral, yesterday, and it's like…I'm watching Adam…! I'm watching Rory…! I'm watching…and then it goes on, “Donald Trump is the worst human being ever created!”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. And I say, “whoa! Whoa!”. I mean, I'm watching these ads…! They are the worst, most dishonest ads…I have ever seen.
But, you know, how do you do that? So, Vincente Fox, he goes, “we're not gonna do that!”. Let me tell you what his problem was. His anger…you saw it. Who saw that? Did anybody see that? …-THE CROWD MUTTERS. His anger…was so enormous…! And it wasn't about the wall, and it wasn't about paying for the wall. It was about, how dare the Americans…the stupid, stupid Americans, with the stupid, stupid leaders…tell us anything about a wall, or anything else!? We're the boss here!”. That's what he was angry about! He couldn't believe that we had the nerve to tell him that he's gonna pay for the wall! And it wasn't about paying for the wall. [Do] You understand me? It wasn't about paying for the wall. It was about the fact, “how dare they!?”.
And do you remember when I came down the escalator, and I got up [and] I talked about Mexico, and I talked about illegal immigration? Right? And there was a storm! It was like a storm! 3, 4 weeks later…in fact, I said, “I don't know if I can go like this. This is brutal!”. And Rush Limbaugh, who was great, he said, “Trump was amazing! He's getting hit…harder than I've ever seen anybody hit by the press. And he holds a news conference two weeks later, and he doubles down!”.
And it’s true! Because when you're right on something…look: I don't need this, folks. I really don't. I…I had such an easy life! Why then I do this!? I had such an easy life! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Right!? Wonderful family…; wonderful company…; wonderful everything…;
Now, I…I just…and I was gonna say before. How can I be leading in Mississippi by so much…when all I read about is negative stuff…that's…it’s amazing! It tells you…and it's all put out by the…establishment, that did such a great job over the last eight years defeating Barack Hussein Obama. Right!? Such a great job! They did…the establishment…the Republican establishment did a really good job, in telling us how to become president!
But, we're gonna become president. And I'll tell you what's so important. And they don't know it yet, but they'll understand. Now they're saying, “Trump is doing really well” and, “Trump may make it” and, “this is horrible, because…”; and [do] you know why it's horrible!? Because I'm not taking their money! I don't want their money! They wanna give money! They wanna give money! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I had a friend of mine…you know, as much as he could be a friend, he's a…killer. But I had a very rich guy. I had a friend of mine come to my office, and [he] wanna give me 10 million dollars for the campaign. I told him, “no, I…I can't do it. I'm not taking money. I just can't do it”. Now, it's hard for me to say that, cause my whole life has been about taking,taking! Right? It's been about grab, take, greed! Whatever you wanna call it, take!
Now, it's about taking for the United States! We're gonna take, take, take! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS It’s true!
But he said to me…he said to me, “Donald, I wanna give you 10 million dollars”.
And I'm going like, “oh…”. How do I turned out…? “I don't want it”. No it's just so…I'm so unaccustomed! Usually I'd say , “no, no, make it 15”, okay? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Right? But I…I'm not taking. I spent a lot of money! I don't take!
So, what happens is…he says, “no, no, I wanna…”;
So, after about five minutes, I convince him I really don't want his money! And we shake hands. He gets up. I said, “by the way, what are you gonna do now?”. He said, “well, I'm gonna pick another candidate”.
Now…-THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY-…I'll tell you why. No, no, I'll tell you. And I wasn't insulted! In fact, [it’s] just the opposite! They’re gamblers! They love the action! They love the action! They’re gamblers! These guys…are gamblers! I guess I am too. I…picked people. You know…; he would rather…give 10 million dollars, and be in the game, than have the affection of Donald Trump. Be with Donald Trump, but Donald doesn't want your money. And Donald’s not gonna do what you tell him to do if I win, right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's true! It’s true! It’s sort of a good story!
But, it's true! They're gamblers! And when I looked at him, I mean, he was…he said, “you're gonna be the best. There's nobody like you. Bah, bah, bah…you have to take it”-.
I have another friend of mine. [A] Great guy. [A] Very, very wealthy guy. [He’s] very well known to the press. And, probably, most of you, actually. And every time I see him, he says, “Donald, when can I help? When can I help?”.
I say…his first name is Howard. I say, “Howard, I love you”…-A MEMBER IN THE CROWD LAUGHS. Now, he knows who it is. I said, “Howard, I love you. You're the greatest. [He’s] got a lovely wife. [A] Great wife! I said, “Howard, I love you. But I can't take your money. I'm not gonna take it. I don't need it. I don't want it. I wanna self-fund. I wanna do it. I wanna work for the people. That's it! And once I start taking their money, it’s different.”
He said…he does like this, “no, no. You don't understand. I…I really wanna give you the money”. He didn't know. And every time I see him…I see him like once a month, at the Mar-a-Lago club. [It’s a] Great club. [It’s the] Best club in the world, I think. But I see him. And he goes…every time I see him, [it’s] the same thing. “Donald, can I give you money?”. He doesn't understand! They don't even understand it!
And let me tell you, when guys give money to these politicians, they own those politicians. Just remember. They own them…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. And when they want help with military purchases…; with electrical…; with energy…; with anything!  Pharmaceuticals…; these guys are gonna do whatever they tell them! Because, they're gonna be running again for office. And they're gonna want them. And it becomes like the…evil chain.
So, I just tell you, folks. I'm self-funding. I don't think…that I get credit for it. I don't think…in other words, when you go to the ballot…; this group…I love you! I…but I love the guys on the football field even more! 7000! I love you even more than these group! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I love them even more! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS LOUDER AS MR. TRUMP TURNS AROUND AND GREETS THE PEOPLE BEHIND. I love them! Seven…can you imagine!? 7,000 people standing in a field! On a field! I love them. I hate to say this, folks, bu…those are my people, right!? Right!? No, you're my people. We're all…we're all together.
We have amazing people in this country! This country is amazing. We have amazing people. I get by far the biggest crowds. [It’s] Not even a contest. And, I have to say, Bernie is going down in flames, by the way. But…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…no, no, he’s going down. In all fairness, [it’s] hard to envision a communist being elected president, right? [He’s] Not socialist, [he’s a] communist. A little bit hard. A little bit hard.
So, whether is a socialist or a communist, I think he's sort of in between. We can't call him…pure communism, but whether he's…you know. But , he's going down in flames, right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. And I…but I will admit, I will admit, we beat him by a lot, in terms of the crowds.
We had one yesterday, or the other day, in…uh…Orlando, Florida…25,000 people. We had to send home 15,000…people! Can you believe it? 15,000! And I said, “I'm going back”, but I made everybody in the room promise that they won't come back again. Because I have to take care of the others. You know, it'll be the same people that pour into the room. But, it…we're gonna go back.
But, we've had…amazing crowds. And Bernie does have the second, I have to say [it]. But, it's been such an honor getting to know the people of this country, because we…have…a great country. We have great people. And these people wanna see America be great again. That's what they want! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s what they want!
And, you know, I…I say this. And I say it very strongly. Someday, and I want that to be happen soon, I wanna see Apple, and I wanna see other companies…making their iPhones and other products in the United States, not in China! I wanna see that! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And it's gonna happen! And they're gonna make them in Mississippi! What's better than Mississippi!? You have the force…! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You'll see! You'll see! I may have to…do..a little…taxation…penalty…I may have to do a little stuff, to which the Conservatives will say, “he is not a true conservative!”. [Do you] Remember Jeb [Bush]? “Donald Trump is not a conservative”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
In the meantime, he spent a 158…billion…million. [It] Could have been billion, the way he spent. But, he spent a lot of money. But, people would say, “Donald Trump is not a conservative”. No, call me whatever you want. I am a very conservative. I'm conservative on trade. I'm conservative in the military. I'm conservative with our vets. All that's gonna be taken care of. I'm conservative with education…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
I mean, I'm a real conservative. But I'm also a smart, and common sense conservative. And we're gonna be taking care of it. [Do] You know what? If it means that Apple is gonna have to do something, and we're gonna have to create a little incentive for them to stay here…? We're gonna do that! We're gonna do that! But we cannot continue to have…China, and these other countries, take our people away; take our jobs away; and take our money. We can't do it. [We] Can't do it. Okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, in a sense, I say, “call me whatever you want. I don't care”. But I can tell you this: you're gonna be happy! The end result is you are going to be happy! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
[MOU2] So, this all began on June 16th, coming down the escalator with Melania. And I was coming down. I said, “come on”, because it takes guts to run for president, I wanna tell you. It takes guts! It's not easy. And I wasn't sure how I do, because, you know…I was getting…numbers for years ago. I was actually leading, but  I didn't run. I wasn't running. But, they put my name and I was leading. I was beating Romney; I was beating everybody…; but I never ran! I was doing a lot of different jobs. And…I watched that, and I watched it very…; we're doing big jobs now, but they're almost finished. like the one on Pennsylvania Avenue. The big hotel. [I/We] Gotten by the Obama administration. [IT’s] Two years ahead of schedule and under budget. Think of it. Wouldn't that be great…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…wouldn't that be great if our military…deals, and if our…highways, and our trains, and all of these things…came in ahead of schedule, and under budget!? They don't even know what the language is! That's what's gonna happen! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But that's what's gonna happen! You know, that's what's gonna happen.
So, I came down the escalator. And, it was about trade, and it was about…really the borders. And…I would had other things. But really, trade, cause I could not stand…when you see trade imbalances the way we have; when you see what we're going through with trade…; just so you understand? Again, I get along great with China. Great respect. They cannot believe…! I have many friends from China. They cannot believe…what they get away with. They tell me that! “We can't believe it”. Now, they don't say it anymore. They used to say before they…knew I was running for president. They said, “you know, I was only kidding when I said that”…-THE CROWD LAUHGS. But they cannot believe…!
Mexico can't believe it! And just so you understand, to finish off on the wall…? The reason that Mexico is gonna pay for the wall, is…we have a trade deficit, with Mexico, of 58…billion…dollars…a year. The wall is gonna cost ten billion dollars! So, it's simple. Right, folks? Okay? Right? How simple is that!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
The business people…look at that guy…-MR, TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD SPÈCIFICALLY-…that big, handsome guy, with the Red Hat…make America great again. Oh! And he's got a…modest to the hair! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. He's got a modest at…! [It’s] not bad! You look good, man!
But…but, we're going to…we are going to…when you see that…! You know, people don't understand. So, they come up to me, “you can't get Mexico to pay for the wall!”.
Then, they hear that we have a trade deficit of 58 billion, and the wall’s 10. Do you think I might be able to make that deal!? Because…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…because we have tremendous negotiating power with trade! Tremendous! We have it with China! We have rebuilt China! China has trains that go 300 miles an hour! We have trains on the Long Island Expressway…I don't know if you've seen these trains. They go chug, chug, chug…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Then they fall off the tracks, cause the tracks are all broken. It's a mess.
You go to Dubai, you go to Qatar, you go to these places…[and] you see airports the likes of which you've never seen before. The most incredible…; pilots land and they say, “oh, look at this runway!”. You come back into LaGuardia, you got potholes all over the place. It's like…-THE CROWD LAUGHS-…third-world. No, we're like a third-world country. [It’s] Not gonna happen anymore, folks! It's not gonna happen anymore. It's not gonna happen anymore…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And you know, when I…when I came in, cause…I…I have a…an amazing relationship with Mississippi. I’ve so many friends…; and when I came in, one of them met me at the airport and said to me, “amazing what's happening with jobs!”. They’ve just taken the jobs away. And, you know, again! We're doing very badly with employment. That five percent was put in so that presidents look good! Because when you stop looking for a job, they consider you employed!
So, a guy’s looking for a job for 120 days, [he] just gives up…a woman, a man…[he/she] gives up! Now they're considering the person employed! And they say five percent!
I'll tell you what: you wouldn't have thousands of people on the football field, and you wouldn't have thousands of people in this room…if you had a real five percent…unemployment…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Despite trade…! Despite everything else…! If you had a real five percent unemployment. It's probably 25 percent, okay? It's probably 25 percent. And everybody says this: they're bad jobs. Even the people on Obama’s side or the other side, they're bad jobs.
So, it began with trade; it began with the border; and then, we had…the attack in Paris. And I wanna tell you, that really shook people up. Because, Paris has the toughest gun laws in the world. The…country of France has the toughest gun laws in the world. And [the] guys walked in…thugs! Thugs! And they called the…head ‘mastermind’. I said, “never do that. Never go…”; because what they're doing on the internet, is they're taking our youth. And our youth are leaving our country and fighting for ISIS! These people are saying, “the mastermind”. He's not the mastermind. He's a creep! With a dirty cap! The one with the white cap. He's a creep! He's a lowlife! He's a lowlife! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…so, then you had Paris. And you had these thugs go into a few different places, “boom, boom, boom; move over here, boom! Boom! Get over!”. 130 people dead. Many, many people gravely injured, right now in the hospital. [They’ll] Never be the same. Many will die, by the way. But [they’ll] never be the same.
Then you had in…California, you had the…two people, the radicalized, where I guess he became radicalized because of her…whatever happened! And they worked with these people, right? They worked with them! They were…given a baby shower! For their baby! By the people that they killed! So, there's something going on here folks! And we have to get down to it. We have to be…smart! We have to be…vigilant. We have to be…careful. Or we're not gonna have a country anymore. We can't take in the people…you know, the migration. It's a horrible thing. It's a sad thing. But, we can't take in people that we have no idea who they are! We have no idea who they are! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I mean, I have as big a heart as anybody, believe me. And I like the idea of building a safe zone in Syria. And I have to get the Gulf states to pay for it! The Gulf states aren't spending! The Gulf states have so much money…! They…they have so much money…! They don't know what to do with the money they have. Thank you! I love that. Look at guy…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD SPECIFICALLY. Not one sign, but he's a good-looking guy! Two sides. He's up there! Well, you agree with what I'm saying! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
The Gulf states have…so much money…! They're not spending anything! And by the way, they're not taking anybody. They’re not taking. They're not spending.
We protect Saudi Arabia! Now, a year ago, when the oil prices were high…now it's half. But, when the oil prices were high, Saudi Arabia was making one…billion…dollars….a day! A machine. We protect them! It's wonderful! [They] Gotta help us out now, folks. Different.
We protect…South Korea. You have the maniac over in North Korea. Every time he rears his head, we start sending our ships, our planes, our this…[it] costs us a fortune. They pay us peanuts! We have 28,000…soldiers…on the border, right? Between north and South Korea. We protect…Japan! We protect Germany. A lot of people don't know this!
You know, when people see our military budget, it’s many, many times bigger than any other military budget. But is it we, not ours! We're protecting all of these countries. And with the right messenger, just like I told you the story with Iran…with the right messenger, they'll pay! They got nothing but money! Germany…! Who has a Mercedes-Benz here!? Everybody's like…you know? Does anybody have a Mercedes? Oh, good! You buy American, right? Good!
No, but think of it! Germany is a behemoth! It's an economic behemoth! They're so rich! They’re so rich! And we protect Germany! We protect everybody! We protect everybody! And yet, we can't beat ISIS. We can't beat ISIS. [Do] You know how long it's gonna take to beat ISIS? Do you know? ISIS is gonna go down so fast, folks…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, we used to read medieval times, right? I loved…used to love history. And you’d read about medieval times! That's when they chopped off heads. Now we have people chopping off heads! And the other day, at one of the debates, one of the many debates. Are these debates getting boring!? …-THE CROWD ASSENTS. How many times can they ask you the same question over, and over again!? Oh! It is so boring…! And you know, then these guys shout at me. Oh, they're shouting…! I'm…I’m always in the center. I've been in the center…the center means you're number one, right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. I've been in the center for every single debate. And the line’s getting smaller, smaller, smaller…;
I watched this guy, Lindsey Graham. He started off at seven. Then he said something nasty about me, so I attacked him. He went from seven to zero, and now he's on, “we can't let Donald Trump be President!”. The guy went from seven…he had zero! And he wouldn't get out!
And…you will all agree to this. So far, in fact Marco Rubio, big, big hit! He attacked me last week. So far…and wouldn’t this be great for the country? So far, every…single…person that's attacked me has gone down. Is that true!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Who knows!? And now Marco’s gone down! He's gone down!
But…but you know? But that's what we need! Whatever it is! I don't know! Whatever it is! You could define it. Do whatever you want.
So, when I started, I started on trade. I started doing the basics. And then, we had the attack in Paris. And all of a sudden, CNN and others did a poll, and the poll came out that, “we like Trump in the military”. “We like Trump on the border”. Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who's a great guy. Tough as hell. Sheriff Joe! We love Sherrif Joe!
Last week I get a call, Sheriff Joe Arpaio: “Mr. Trump, I'd like to endorse you”.
I said, “is this really Sheriff Joe?”.
How tough is Sheriff Joe!? Right? And [if] Sheriff Joe endorses you, that's great. That's great.
Sarah Palin endorsed me. You know…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…who's great. We have a lot of great endorsement. Some of the greatest business leaders in the world, Carl Icahn, and many of them endorsed me. I'll tell you. Jerry Falwell Jr. was so helpful! He was so helpful…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
You know, I'm leading with Evangelicals. I'm a good Christian! And I'm leading with Evangelicals. And I wanna tell you something: Jerry was so great…; uh…pastor Jeffress…; I mean we have so many people…but I'll tell you this: Christianity…and I put it in the same…vein, and sometimes in the same sentences. Christianity is being chipped away at, in this country. In this country. It's being chipped away at! And, I'm not gonna let it happen!
You know, I was with…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…I was with a whole roomful, like 50…uh…pastors, ministers…great people. Some of whom I knew pretty well, and some I don't. And I said them, “let me ask you a question: how many Christians, evangelicals, but just…Christian, do we have in this country?”. And they were saying, “maybe 250 million, maybe 260 million”.
I said, “so that's more than we have women. It's more than we have men. It's by far the biggest group. Then why aren't you banding together, and getting the kinds of things you want?”
When…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…when people talk about “we need a temporary ban on Muslims, until we find out what is going on here”, okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…there is total outrage! When people talk about Christians, and Christianity…? No outrage! There's no outrage! I said, “let me ask you…”; and these are great believers. These are great people. These are strong people. [These are] Smart people. I said, “why is it…?”; and I think I really found something that's very important, for all of us!
“…why is it that you, people, don't have a stronger lobby!?”.
And during Linson…Lyndon Johnson's…regime, I will call it, because that's sort of what it was, if you think about it, but during his term as president, they passed something where…the tax deduction is under siege, if they do anything that's a little bit off. Okay’ So, they're gonna lose tax-exempt status, right? And I said, “wait a minute. That's right. That's the answer: I figured…”. I'm [a] pretty smart guy. I figure things out pretty quickly.
So, as soon as I mentioned it, I said… “that's it”. Because, I said then, “so, the man walking...”; I was in Trump Tower, I pointed down to the sidewalk. There were people walking on the sidewalk. I said, “then those people walking on the sidewalk are more powerful than you, people, in the clergy. The pastors. The ministers. The priests. The people in the clergy. They're more powerful”.
They said, “that's right”.
I said, “[it's] not gonna happen anymore”. We're gonna get rid of that…thing. I want Christianity to have a strong flavor. Why did we have to pass a thing like that? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…and it's so important! I mean, really, they've shut Christianity down! And these are great people! But they're afraid to do…!
For instance, some…people came up to me, “Mr. Trump, I love you. You're the best. You're gonna be the greatest leader. You're gonna be…; I wanna endorse you. I'm endorsing you. But I'm not allowed to do it publicly, because if I do it publicly I may lose for the church the tax-exempt status”:
So, they're really being silenced, and we can't let that happen. We can't let that…-THE CROWD MUTTERS. I don't care about the endorsement…! They're really being silenced. We can't let that happen. We're not gonna let it happen. And, we're gonna get that thing repealed.
And think of the power we have over the Democrats…! Over the Republican..:! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I mean, the power is…the power is incredible. So, we're gonna get that taken care of! And we're gonna be back.
And I'll tell you what: come Christmastime…we're gonna all be in these department stores that don't have ‘Merry Christmas’, and we're gonna see ‘Merry Christmas’ right of those stores…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…right!? They don’t put it up anymore! We're gonna see ‘Merry Christmas’ at the department stores again, folks! You goes into these shows, [and] you don't even see ‘Merry Christmas’ anymore! You say, “why!? Why!?”. The store owners, and the big companies, especially. Like, Macy's, which is extremely, a very disloyal company.
But, these big companies they don't wanna use it. Because it's not politically correct. It's gonna be not politically correct not to put it up! You watch! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You watch! You watch! So, we're gonna be saying ‘Merry Christmas’ again.
The other thing, and I have to tell you: [The] Second Amendment. I am gonna be so strong on the Second Amendment…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s true! I am gonna be so strong on it.
So, I told you. They're chipping away at Christianity, and they're chipping away at the Second Amendment. Every year, chip, chip, chip. And, you know…we talked about Paris. If they had people on the other side of that room…toughest gun laws in the world! Or you talk about…California. If they had people on the other side of that room, like this guy, with the green hat that says Trump on it…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT PEOPLE IN THE CROWD-…right? Raise your hand. I'll tell you, he knows what I'm talking about. Nobody's gonna…; or even the young man right there, with that other beautiful hunters cap that says make America great…hold that hat up! Who's over here!? …-MR. TRUMP FACES THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE CROWD. THE CROWD CHEERS-…that guy, right there. Look at that guy, with a blue shirt. [A] Tough cookie.
If they had a gun…strapped to their waist. If they had a gun…strapped around their ankle…; and these thugs walked in…whether it's Paris, or anywhere…you know what? You’re gonna have bullets flowing in the other direction. [It’s] not gonna be the same story, folks! And, in fact, it won't even happen in the first place! Okay!? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…so, I just wanna tell you. It's a special place. We're gonna work…really well with your leaders. We're gonna bring jobs back to Mississippi, like you've never seen before. You are gonna be so happy…! And I say this often! Our country…doesn't…win anymore. We're gonna start winning in so many ways! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna win with the military…; we're gonna knock out ISIS fast. We're gonna win with our military. We're gonna take care of our vets. We're gonna win with our vets. We're gonna win with education. We're gonna win on trade. We're gonna win where we get rid of this horrible Obamacare and we're gonna get you something great…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We are gonna win, win, win! We're gonna win so much…! And you're gonna be so proud…! And you're gonna go back, and you're gonna remember your vote tomorrow. And you're gonna say in a couple of years from now, and long after that, that that was one of the great…votes…you've ever cast for anything.
And, I just…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…wanna thank you, Mississippi. I love you. [You are] Special people. Incredible. I love you! Thank you, Mississippi! Thank you! Thank you!
Thank you, everybody! Thank you! I love you! Thank you!
