VIDEO Nº: 189
TITLE:189. Donald Trump Holds Campaign Rally in Waterbury CT [42316]
DATE OF EVENT:23/04/2016
RELEASE DATE:23/04/2016
DURATION:01.02.26 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:12079
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------And here we are, on a Saturday morning. And look at what we're doing. We're building up…the playing golf or what are you…; isn’t that great? Isn’t that great? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It is great. All over the country it's this kind of response, and I wanna thank… ‘build the wall’. We’ll build the wall, don’t worry! I promise! …–MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES PEOPLE CHANTING. THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We’ll build the wall. I promise, we will build the wall!
If there's ever a second term you'll say, “man, he got that wall built fast!”. We're gonna build that wall. So, we'll see. We'll build the wall, don't worry. They love the wall. I love the wall too! We need it! It's not like love, it's like we need it!
I wanna thank the fire marshal, and…the his…folks, they've been incredible. There are…tremendous thousands of people outside, trying to get in, and…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY–…they’re uh…they're the keeping exits open, they've got them covered and everything else. And I did say, “what's to burn? We have a concrete floor, right?”. But…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY–…but…but the fire marshal was fantastic, so I wanna thank him very much, instead of people walking away, they got them in, and I appreciate it…–AT THIS POINT THE AUDIO BREAKS–…her truth, you’d better believe it.
So…so Waterbury…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…you know, the other candidates don't even come up to Connecticut and campaign! I come to Connecticut…I love Connecticut, I've lived in Connecticut! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I love Connecticut.
Actually, I lived here for a long time, it's a great place. I'll come back, maybe. Someday if I could ever slow down a little bit…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But I Connecticut. And I also know the problems…; oh, how did you lose General Electric!? You can't do that! Fellas, how did you do this!? …–THE CROWD BOOS. See now, there's one that's not moving to another country! The country I can take care of. But when they move to a different state…you gotta handle your staff. We can't…right? …–THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY. That's moving to a different…we gotta…we gotta do something about that. Maybe we can turn their decision around, I don't know, you know.
Well, I don't wanna get into a fight with Massachusetts. You know, I won that with almost 50 percent of the vote, so…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…so Massachusetts is great.
So you know what, when they start moving from state to state that's different. But when they move from here to Mexico, that I can solve! When China takes you jobs…–THE CROWD CHEERS ANDS–…that I can solve! When Japan takes advantage of us, that I can solve! Believe me. And fast…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And that's where most of the problems are.
So, you know, I've been doing this…–THE CROWD CHEERS. Thank you. Yeah…all right, get them out! Get them out! …–APPARENTLY, THERE IS A PROTESTER. THE CROWD BOOS. MR. TRUMP GIGGLES. That was quick! That was quick! That was quick! He was gone! “Get him out”, and he just left!
You know, if they had on television…I was leaving, and they showed a couple of protesters, and…they…they went…Water’s! He’s a good guy. Jesse. They interviewed a couple of people; so, “why…you…why are you here?”.
“Uh…I don't…I don't know”…­–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
And I saw it last week on television! I saw they had…some protesters. And, they went up and interview them. You know, they were hoping for some really bad stuff. “What do you think of Donald Trump?”.
“Actually, I like them very much” …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. “But you're holding a sign, what…?”.
“Yeah, they gave it to me”.
“Well, why are you protesting?”
“Honestly? I don't know”.
These… these are the protesters…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Believe me folks, it's a whole big con job that's being played, okay? It's a whole big con job.
So, look Waterbury, so I went…we love Waterbury, but…we’ve gotta talk about. We got a little talking to do…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We gotta talk about it!
So, you know, I did this…uh…for the last couple of weeks, because I've been going around to the…local places that I love: Connecticut, New York, we…did we win big in New York or what!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS
You know, I see these people like Karl Rove on television, he says, “well, Donald Trump did not get 50 percent”. I get 17 people! You know, I originally had…17 people, right? 17. And they’d say…I'd win with like 32 percent. Now that's…32 percent. I have 16 other people! And they’d say, “Donald Trump did not break 50 percent!”.
And you know, the amazing thing is…and they never…talked about it! And even in this…you know, the…the 12-37. I mean, it's really not fair, because if you think about it, the first…seven, eight, nine, ten states, I had many, many people. And even now we have three. Now, they're both mathematically eliminated. They should drop out, in all fairness…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They should drop out. You know, lyin Ted Cruz is mathematically…this guy is a liar! …–THE CROWD BOOS. It's graceful! Lyin Ted! Who, by the way, came in a deep, deep third last week…–THE CROWD BOOS.
How can somebody run for president when you're so bad in New York? What did he get, like, a little bit above ten percent? Now, how do you run for president if you…can't…get…; and in Connecticut, he's gonna do terribly. And…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND –…and Kasich’s not gonna do very well!
Yeah, we have nice polls. Huh? What? …–MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES THE CROWD–…get him out! So, so you say to yourself…­–MR. TRUMP AGAIN ADDRESSES THE CROWD–…that's very good, I like that. I'm gonna use that; mark it…–MR. TRUMP PRETENDS HE WRITES IT DOWN. THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
But…but, you know, when you think of it, we have to unite the Republican party, cause we're gonna win! You know, it's very interesting…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…it's very interested. I was watching the other day…this is a true number. I had no idea it was so bad, 55,000 negative ads against me. It’s 55,000! Now, I was in Florida…[I] won Florida in a landslide! You saw that, 20 percent…–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. 20 percent. I won it…in a landslide. And…a great state. And I thought I’d do well! And they tried to fix…you know, it’s all rigged folks, just so you know.
Now, they rigged Florida! Florida was rigged, cause you have a popular Senator, Marco Rubio, [a] good guy…–THE CROWD BOOS–…and you have a governor, a past governor, yeah, but he is, he's a good guy. I like people! You know, after the race I like everybody! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. During the race, I don't like him so much. That's…that’s the way it's supposed to be, right!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS
No, Marco is a good guy! And he's got a great future, I think. But…you have Jeb Bush! So, they have the…sitting senator, they had the former governor; and so they said, “oh, well…this…one of these two guys…so what we’ll do in Florida, 99…! It’s a…second-biggest to California, where we're doing…looking very good. We're almost up to 50 percent in California! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…and Indiana! And by the way, what I like to get…coach Bobby Knight, who is a great coach. Would I like to get his endorsement, okay!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Let's see if I get it! But would I like to get the endorsement of Bobby Knight? One of the great coaches…tough, strong, smart…; would I like to get that for Indiana, I'll tell you what, that would be…to me, a great endorsement. When they talk about endorsements, that would be great.
But…but, when you think about it…; so we have Florida, so…and I'm telling you, the system it's bad system, folks. Bad system, because it's…in theory, you could buy the nomination! All you have to do is take all these delegates out to dinner…; you could send them to Paris…; you can give them anything, but you're not allowed to give them cash. So, you give them a flight to Paris, France, although I wanna stay in this country, to be honest with you…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I wanna stay right here. We're gonna stay right here. Let's change it!
We can give them a flight to Doral in Miami, or we can give them a flight to…Mar-a-Lago, in Palm Beach, okay!? But, no, think of it, how ridiculous. So, you can do anything you want, and you wind them and dine them, and then they say, “okay, they're gonna vote for you”. You’d…do this like 50 times.
All of a sudden, you know, you take a hundred million bucks, and you do it! There's no limit! What kind of an election process is this!? And I learned…–THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY–…I learned…in Louisiana, you remember!
They said…you know, I wasn't supposed to win the south. I won the south, okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I love the south! In fact, if it doesn't come through for me, I'm moving to the south! The hell with Connecticut! I'm not coming back here! …–THE CROWD BOOS. No, but I won Alabama! I won Arkansas! I won…every…I…like…we won…Kentucky was unbelievable. We won…everything…! It…just everything. And…we won Florida big league.
So, what they did in Florida is they said, “all right, look. This Trump guy is trouble. Because, you know, when he came in…I did well right from the beginning. My wife said, “you know…”, and not that you wanted me to run, believe me. She would have prefered the life the way it used to be. It was a lot simpler, all right? But she said, “you know, if you run you know you're going to win, don't you?”.
And actually, it turned out she’s right! It’s looking pretty good, I have to tell you! So, what happens…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…and she would just see the reaction! You know, we’d go out to a…movie, and people would say, “hey, mister Trump, mister Trump, mister Trump!”. Okay. Because you know, people want…something…special…now! We need something special.
We don’t need these…we don’t need this all talk…you know, no action. They’re…all talk, they're all taken care of by their packs, and by their…campaign contributors. If it's bad for the country, they don't care! They wanna do what's good for their donors and…and all of these special interest.
So, in Florida they said, “we’re gonna do something, because this Trump guy’s like…looking…and we don't like this”.
So, what they did is they said, winner-take-all! Winner-take-all, so I wouldn't get my percentage. You know, they probably figured I was gonna get ten percent. And they said, “winner-take-all!”. They change all the bylaws, all the rules, everything changed, boom! And then they did a poll! Trump, 49-percent; the other two in the teens, right? And they said, “we got a problem! We’re gonna change it back, this is no good. Let's go proportional!” …–THE CROWD LAGUHS. And they looked at it seriously but they couldn't do it. And then we had Florida, we won in a landslide. It was a phenomenal win. And we had all 99 delegates! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS
And…you know, and you…they have a lot of…lot of tricky things. But Louisiana, that's where I got wise to it, because uh…Cruz was supposed to win Louisiana. And they said…he was gonna get the evangelicals. There's only one problem: the evangelicals like me a lot better than they like him…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That's why I won South Carolina!
[Do you] Remember they said, “well, South Carolina's Cruz. That’s he’s watershed”. Except [that] I won in a landslide and I got the evangelical vote! You know, the truth is…the evangelicals are amazing people! They don't like liars! They don't like lyin Ted! They don't like him! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They don't like lyin Ted!
You know, I always sort of have fun with it. [He] Walks in, bible held high, puts it down and then he lies! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. He is…; he actually said, yesterday, I don't have you saw this…but, he actually said my…campaign person is fantastic. I have a fantastic team. The original team now was supplemented. We have great people, Paul Manafort. And Paul said some really, really positive…; and Paul’s had…great success with Reagan, and with Bush, and with Ford…; and you know, it…great success. He doesn't have to do this, like I don't have to! He didn't need to do this, but he wanted to; cause he saw something, and he called me! [He] Said, “this is something special”.
One of the biggest people in the country called me. They said, “Paul saw something special”. So, he's working with Corey, and Hope, and everybody. And it's…like an amazing group of people! And Paul was down in Florida, and he said, “you know, Donald…might be changing a little bit over a period of time, and he maybe he'll tone it down; maybe he won’t, bap; who knows what happens?”.
I sort of…you know, I sort of don't like toning it down! You know, we keep tough…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I…I…I'm gonna talk about that in a second, cuz it's interesting. Isn't it nice that I'm not one of these teleprompter guys!? Where you come in…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Well, first of all, if I was…I'd have a…an audience of about three people here in the front instead of…; this is the biggest crowd in the history of the school, okay? By far! By…by thousands! By thousands! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.[MGF1] 
But…but…so what happens is, uh…Paul comes in, and he made the statement. And he said, “you know, he's gonna do this, and that…; and he's gonna talk a lot of policy”; cause I do love policy! And I've been right on policy, folks! You know, they don't give you…; I've been right! Even The New York Times, they wrote a piece which was, actually, for a change a good piece. And it talked about my views on us defending other nations. We gotta get paid for it! We gotta…you know, we can't defend everybody free of charge! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We defend Japan, and Germany, and South Korea, and Saudi Arabia! You know, like Saudi Arabia doesn't have enough money to pay for it. And frankly, uh…they wouldn't be there very long if we weren't standing there with our ships, our planes, our people…; and, you know, we gotta…we gotta…fair! I wanna be fair. We'll have a great relationship with…;
So, Paul was talking about different things, and he said, “yeah, uh…Donald could be different if he's in a room, of course…”. Who isn't!?
Actually, one of the folks today on FOX and another one on CNN, they said, “well, who isn’t different!?”. When I'm in a room, talking, you're one way. When I'm out here, talking to you, people I gotta be different, right!? I mean, I gotta…I can stay, basically, the same thing!
So, Paul said, “no, he's different when he's…in a room! And then he goes out and speaks, it's different. And then if he gives policy, that's different”. You know, we all have…like, we’re smart people! You’d…act differently, right?
So, Cruz…picks it up, Lyin Ted. He goes, “Donald Trump is kidding everybody! He's different on the trail!”. He said, “…and, he said that he's gonna do things differently!”. And…he's not gonna build the wall!”. What the hell is this have to do with the wall!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Believe me, I'm building the wall! But…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS but–…lyin Ted…believe me…–THE CR[MGF2] WOD CHANTS ‘BUILD THAT WALL!’.
It…I…It's unbelievable! So, Lyin Ted took a really nice meeting with the RNC, Republican National Committee. [He] Had…took a really, really…–A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘RAFAEL!’[RAFAEL IS THE FIRST NAME OF MR. TED CRUZ.]–…Rafael, yeah. …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Rafael, straight out of the hills of Canada! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS. Four years in Canada! [He] Was a Canadian citizen until…14, 15 months ago. And then he ran for the Senate! And then Reince [Priebus] said, “you know, you’re registered as a Canadian citizen”.
He said, “oh, I never knew that! Oh, I never…!”…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. He never knew he was a Canadian…! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Aw, I can't believe! You know, one of the first things…to…the…the Democrats…you do know this. If…if he wins, he's not gonna win! He's so far behind. He's…despite the fact that they're buying off delegates with…all…you know, nice dinners, and the finest steak you can have, and all that stuff; despite the fact, I'm 300 delegates above him, and millions, and millions of votes above! So, he's not gonna win! But, the first…if he ever did, the first thing that the Democrats are going to do…is sue him…on the basis that he's not a naturalized citizen, that he wasn't born in this country. That's gonna…!
Now, I happen to think they're gonna win! But who knows!? I mean, who knows what happens!? We'll see what’s happens. Like…it’s gonna happen, he's gonna be sued!
Now, he didn't know he was a Canadian citizen. He’s adjoin, US-Canadian citizen. So, he gave up his citizenship in Canada. This is 14, 15 months ago. Isn't that nice? It…isn’t that nice? Isn’t it nice, you know!?
So, he took the statement of a campaign guy who just wanted to…say, “we're gonna all be friends! We're gonna get along! Donald's not always like this! This isn't always Donald! Donald's…very…smart, and he's…very calm”, which is true, actually! I actually have low blood pressure, can you believe it!? Can you believe!? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS.[MGF3] 
I had 110 over something…! Can you imagine!? I had at deal…; the…the doctor said, “man, you have the blood pressure of a great, great athlete who's 20 years old!”. 110! I like that. You know, cuz I like being a great athlete. But…–THE CROWD LAUGHS–…but, I actually do!
I said, “doc., what would have happened if I had high blood pressure?”. He said, “you would have exploded about 30 years ago” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s true! It’s true! So, you know, in one way you have to be a little bit lucky for that stuff.
But look…I love you too! …–MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES A PERSON IN THE CROWD. Even though it's a guy…it's a guy, but I love you! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I do love him! I love our people!
You know, we have the most loyal…group…of people…they say in many, many years! Like, I think, from the beginning of polling, when they used to do polls! You know, I made polling important; because I used to come in…and I still do! Cause I can talk about Connecticut, we're way up. And…every state! Actually…–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY–…all five states that we're running this…for this Tuesday…; It…folks, you gotta get out and vote! Please, please, please! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But all five states…all five states were way up. I think my smallest lead is like 20 points, or something. And Maryland is great, and we just left Maryland. We had an unbelievable crowd. Pennsylvania's phenomenal! I went to school in Pennsylvania. I mean, these are all great places! Rhode Island…; these are…Delaware, I just left Delaware yesterday!
You know, it is a Delaware corporation. I went to my…people yesterday, just 10 minutes before I left, cause I spoke in Delaware. We had a record set…we always have record-setting crowds. Now, when these other guys come in to have like 200 people. And the people fall asleep and they leave early!
But what happens…so I’m in Delaware. I said to my guy, “do me a favor! Find out how many corporations, or how many registrations do I have in Delaware”.
“Yes, sir”.
So, he comes back like…you know, he didn’t have that much time, in all fairness. I gave him like…I said, “I'm leaving in nine minutes”, can you do that?
He comes back, he said, “sir, it's…378”.
I said, “378! That's pretty good, right?”. That's big stuff, right? Hey, look! I built…a great company! I took…a million-dollar loan that I paid back! I took…a million dollars…sometimes I like to negotiate with banks, whenever they wanna negotiate, I'm okay with it. You understand that.
But I…I took…a million-dollar loan, and I turned it into ten…billion…dollars in a fairly short period of time! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Fairly short period of…; with some of the greatest assets anywhere in the world, with a tremendous cash flow, with very little debt, and it's all filed! I mean, I have it filed, and largely…it's hard to…to turn by these papers, but it's the largest filing…in the history of federal elections. And that's what we need in our country for a period of time at least! We need that! Cause our country's going to hell, you're losing your jobs and everything else.
I just wanna finish with Louisiana, though, cause then we're gonna get into…bringing jobs back to your community, okay? Right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS
So, just to show you what a rigged system [is]. So, I'm supposed to lose Louisiana, but I said, “I don't know why! I think they're great people! Let’s…you know, why?”. And then I heard a poll came where I was like ten points behind, with a week to go. I said, “let's go for it! Right? Do…we gotta go for it! I like Louisiana! Louisiana's cool!”. …–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
So, I got on the plane. I did some speeches, and then I made a really good…I…I had…we had an airplane hangar, and I landed my plane on…it was actually Friday night, and that election took place, I think, on a Saturday, but it was the night before. And we had tens of thousands…! I mean, you never saw a thing…; it…it…a room that’s like…ten times bigger than this. It was packed, with people from Louisiana.
And I made a speech, I’ll…an hour speech, and…we really…we had a great time! You know, considering the subject matter is lousy, cause we're talking about how bad our country is, but…it's actually good, because we're talking about bringing it back, make America great again. That's a very positive…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So, I made this speech, and I said, “wow, that was an amazing event”.
And I left, and that was it. The next day they had the election. And I won! I said, “wow, that's great!”. I won Louisiana, right? With the people! I won! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And then, a week or two goes by, and I'm looking at the numbers, and somebody sent me a…“Mr. Trump you're really doing well all over the place”.
I said, “yeah, but they made a mistake in Louisiana”, because Cruz…I…I killed him! I said, “Cruz is…has more delegates than I do. And I won!”.
“Well, sir…uh…there had a ground team!”. You know what a ground team means, “let's go for lunch. Let's go for dinner. What hotel would you like to stay at…when you're in…uh…Cleveland? What hotel? Ah…how…let's make arrangement”…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
I said, “what do mean he's got a ground team? What are you talking about? No, no, I won the state! I get the delegates, right!?”.
They said, “No, sir, uh…you don't get the delegates”.
So I…won this state, and I saw he got more delegates than me. I said, “this is not good!” …–THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY.
Then you had…you look at what went on in Wyoming, and you look at Colorado, and I said, “this is a rigged system!”. In Colorado they're going crazy because they took the vote away! They didn't even get a chance to vote! And the bosses…picked…the…the people! And I said, “this is a rigged system!”.
So, we're working really hard, and now we have…Pennsylvania where…which I love, and it's my neighbor! It's my neighbor! And I told you. I went to school there. I know it so well. I know the people, they're great. And I watched on television today. And there were two young guys on CNN, on Smerconish, actually. And…they were…who doesn't necessarily treat me good, but I'll give him a little free publicity, cause he’s…; these two these guys…were…there were delegates, right?
So, this is different, cause now we're playing the game! Right? And these two guys were…like… “who are you gonna vote for? Who you…?”.
A delegate went, “Trump!”.
“Who…? How about you?”
“Trump!”.
“And let me ask you, is there anything he could do, like…I mean, on the fourth ballot? Or the fifth…?”. And by the way, I don't think we're gonna get there. I think we win on the first. We…we don’t wanna go…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna get there. We're gonna get there.
I mean, when you think of it...I'm millions of votes more than lyin Ted Cruz! Millions! I’m millions of votes more than Kasich! And I don't know how you pronounce his name, “KasICH!”. It's…I-C-H! Everytime I see him I say, “KasICH!”, but it’s pronounced Kasich! So, I’m doing a very good job staying on. But, you know, it's really…let’s…I…you know, can we ask him to change the spelling of his name? Are we allowed to do that? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. It’s so ridiculous! Okay.
I’m millions of votes more than Kasich, millions! I'm 300…delegates more…despite all his shenanigans, with taking people to dinners, and…all. I'm three…and his super PACs, going in and being involved, which they shouldn't be involved. They shouldn't be involved, by the way. They're not supposed to be involved! But he's got these super PACs, you know, wining and dining all the delegates. See? Cruz can't win with the voter! He can’t! You saw what happened in New York, he got wiped out! You saw what happened all over the place! I've won…so many…states more than him. He's got…very few by…he's got, I think, less than half! But he can't win with the voter. And don't forget, the half he got…it's a delegate thing! He can't win with the voter. There's no way he can win with the voter.
Hillary Clinton, who I call crooked Hillary, Hillary Clinton will kill him! And don't forget, he's never had a negative ad! And Kasich has never had a negative ad! It…nobody cares! I mean, nobody cares about him! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS.
I've had 55,000! I told you before! 55,000 negative ads! Almost a hundred million dollars has spent on negative ads, and I'm beating everybody! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know, it's crazy!
And the negative ads, I have to tell you, are totally false. Well, not totally. Every once in a while, there's…a couple of points where they…you kno3…–THE CROWD LAUGHS–…a couple of points, every once in a while.
But the negative answer are…are phony ads, okay? They're…they're totally…misrepresentative ads, but I've had…I've had 55…this was on the…on the cable shows. I've had 55,000…negative ads, and I'm still beating everybody. And I get a kick when I see…Kasich get up [and] say, “well, in the general election…”, he hasn’t had one negative ad! After the first ad, he goes down like this! …–MR. TRUMP POINTS DOWN ALMOST VERTICALLY.
Cruz, after the first ad, he goes down. He's not even winning with no negative ads, okay? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. And I think I'm immune to negative ads. Somebody said, “nobody even cares about them anymore”.
You know, how many times…? You know, it's funny! You have hundreds of successful jobs, and then you have…some that were successful that I actually made successful.
You know, we have some great business people here. I…know some of them who… call me, “I'm gonna be there”. They're very successful. But you know the side of a great person in terms of…business and negotiation…is…a lot of times markets collapse, and things happen, and you're in the midst of a big project, and…you know, look, you can always blame…you always blame yourself, but…still! There are things that are beyond your control, right? It's called beyond your control.
The sign of a great…business person is when you can take a job that was supposed to be good or you wouldn't have started it, then the world collapses, you go into a recession or something, or depression like we had in the early 90s and like we had eight years ago, and you can make…–MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD–…no…Waterbury is still in it, I have to tell you. We'll get you out of it fast! Don't worry about. Don't worry, we're gonna be positive.
But look, when you can take a deal…that's a really bad deal, that's right! You go and beat up the banks, you beat up everybody, you fight like hell, and you make it a good deal! You discount the hell out of the loan, you do a lot of things! But that's what we need in the country, folks! That's what we need! And I have taken deals…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…I'll tell you!
Some of my best deals are deals that should be bad! They’re deals that should have been bad! And I've turned them into winners. I took a dead, crummy, horrible deal…through…hard work, and really tough negotiation, but I'd always…; if it was a building, I’d bring it it under budget and ahead of schedule. That's important. You don't wanna be where you…you know, hundreds of millions of dollars more. When I see the government, with their roadways, and their bridges, and everything, where they cost three, four, or five times…what they were originally going to cost? Once that happens you're out!
But my business is always good. But…I’ve…I have taken so many deals, where they should be bad, and I made them good! And some of them, I made better than if the deal would have been good…straight from the start, like if there were no problems with the recessions and so.
And that’s what you need. You know, it's also called flexibility. It's called…like you gotta go with the punches. The boxers say, “you gotta go with the punches. But I've taken deals, and made them phenomenal, when they shouldn't have been! When they shouldn't have been. I have a list of them, and I'm gonna actually…release a list.
But do you ever notice? They never talk about…the great deals! Somebody said, “why don't they ever talk about that building over there? What are they…!? They only…they pick out two, [or] three deals, which actually, in a couple if cases turned out to be phenomenal deals! But nobody wants to hear it. So, we just have to understand: the most dishonest people…that you will ever deal with, even more dishonest than…lyin Ted Cruz, and crooked Hillary…–THE CROWD CHEERS–…no, I don't know! I don't know!
If I had a contest between crooked Hillary Clinton, and the media, I'm not sure, folks! I think the media, may be worse! I don't know! I hate to say it! I hate to say it…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They may be worse. I mean…let me tell you. They are bad! They are bad! They're very dishonest people. They know they're dishonest too.
You know, I used to say…I used to say, I’d get like…a…you know, every once in a while you'll have somebody…; I'd say, “she or he…is a very stupid person. They don't get it”. And then you get another one, another one, another one, another one…[the] same person. And I said, “wait a minute. They do get it! They're bad people. They're bad people. No, the media…;
Now, you have some good ones. You have some very good ones, but you have a lot of dishonest people in the media, folks. A lot of…really…a lot of really dishonest…in the Hillary Clinton class, I will tell you that! Crooked Hillary, in that class! All right. …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.[MGF4] 
So, let me just tell you. I feel so good being here. One thing, I told you about ‘presidential’. So, every once in a while my wife would say , “presidential”, but she…didn't like saying it. And my daughter Ivanka would say, and Ivanka is gonna be a big help too. Ivanka's going to…do you love Ivanka? I love Ivanka…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They're great! But yesterday, it was very interesting. Cause yesterday I was hearing about how I'm gonna become presidential, and I could do it so…; hey, you know what? I'm like a really smart person, like a lot of you people. And it…‘presidential’ is easy!
You know what presidential is? I walk on…–MR. TRUMP REPRESENTS BEING PRESIDENTIAL: HE TAKES A STEP BACKWARDS, CHANGES FACIAL EXPRESSION TO SERIOUS NOW, AND REACHES THE LECTERN AGAIN. HE NODS SOLEMNLY. THE CROWD LAUGHS AND CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY.
Now, a couple of things: number one, I'd have two big teleprompters here, which I don’t. And number two, I wouldn't have to do this, because it'd be very little applause. People would be…bored, right? So, you walk on…–MR. TRUMP NOW STARTS SPEAKING IMPERSONATING A ‘PRESIDENTIAL’ STYLE:
“Ladies and gentlemen…–THE CROWD LAUGHS–…it’s a great honor to be with you this morning”, although most presidents don't work in the morning, you know that, right? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. No, it's very easy to be presidential. Uh…you know. But, I'll tell you. Today on one of the networks, it was very interesting. [A] Guy gets up and said, “but I don't think they want him! I think they like him the way he is! He wants…”;
You know, I started off…it's very interesting…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [It’s] true. Believe me, [it’s] so easy. No, believe me. It’s so easy.[MGF5] 
But you know, it's funny. The guy said, “he started off…with 17 people, total!”. You had senators, you had governors…all very successful senators! I mean, they're not gonna run of their bad senators! They're not gonna run if they’re a bad governor. It wouldn’t last long.
So , “he started off with…tough governors, tough senators”. People like Dr. ben Carson, who's a great guy who endorsed me…but very smart, very smart” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Carly…! You know, it…all people of achievement! I mean, these are all people of great achievement! Okay.
So, “he starts off 17 people. One by one, week after week, boom, boom, boom…! This one's going home, that one's going home. They didn't know what the hell hit them! Right? They don't know…! Jeb Bush he had a 168 million dollars in the chest. And,a in fact Romney didn't run because he felt he couldn't beat Jeb Bush, right? That's why Romney didn't what Romney didn’t run!  Romney saw Jeb Bush, and…Jeb Bush said, “I've raised over a hundred million dollars, and if you run I'm gonna come…very strong at you”, and Romney chickened out, just like he did what he ran four years ago, okay?
He choked! He gagged! He gagged…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Cause that's an election that should have been won. Romney should have won that election, and Romney…was…was out-poker-played by Jeb Bush!
So, Jeb Bush…but he's a man of achievement! I mean, he was the governor of Florida for eight years. [He’s a] Good guy. I like Jeb Bush. I…now I like him. I didn't like it when I ran. [I’m] Telling you, it's true! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. I like all these guys now, every one of them! I consider them dear, dear friends.
[Do you] Remember when Romney and Rubio were going at each other, but they were saying that they didn’t…? They'd always start, “Marco is a dear, dear friend of mine”.
And I'd say, “he doesn't like Marco!”. But its political talk.[MGF6] 
So, on television, they were talking…and this is important! They said, “you know, we like Trump the way he is! He took 17 of these very smart people and one by one, they're gone!”. And now we're down to two. I call it…‘one and a half’…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. I now actually call it one! Because I call it a half and a half, cause they're both out! It's one! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS
And, if I acted presidential…I guarantee you that this morning…I wouldn't be here.[MGF7]  And…somebody else would be here, not in a big room like this. Somebody else would be here and you'd be in a conference room, and they'll be talking to you, okay? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. But if…if I…was presidential.
So, about a week ago I started saying…you know, I love playing that, where I say, “my wife tells me to be more presidential”. My…daughter tells me to be more presidential. And Paul Manafort, and Cory, and a lot of them say, “be more presidential”.
And now people are starting to say, “wait a minute, you know…look what got you here, right? Look what got”…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.[MGF8]  It's like…it's like a great hitter in baseball. They’re in the minor leagues, he's tearing up the minor leagues, tearing up…he's got a swing…! Tear it up…! Or PGA Tour player, gets out, he wins the US Amateur; he's phenomenal, he's gonna be the next Jack Nicklaus. He's gonna be the next Tiger Woods. [He] Gets on tour, and then some guy [says], “you know, I don't like your swing” ”…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Change your swing. You're gonna be great!”. And he said, “really?”.
“Change your swing, you're gonna be great!”.
“Okay!”. And you never hear from him again! That's the last time, right!? How many of those guys have we seen!? How many of those guys!? ”…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…so, they were telling me…they were telling me, and I was watching. I…I found it very interesting. I've always studied this, I found it interesting. Dewey…was running! And, he was going to easily win. He was way up in the polls. And he was…running against Truman. And Truman was called… ‘give'em hell Harry’, right? And a lot of people thought Harry was tough, and nasty…; but he was really gonna be…there was gonna be…a big, big defeat. And…and…Dewey, he was very…uh, you know, presidential! He was automatic…I mean, you look at him, he had the whole deal. I think I have a presidential look. Though. Don't I, don't I have a great…?” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I have a great presidential…; thank you ladies and gentlemen. Thank you. Thjank you very much. Thank you very much…–MR. TRUMP PRETENDS HE’S PRESIDENTIAL–…I greatly appreciate it. Thank you very much. So…no, I think I have a presidential look.
So, what happens…I mean, I look at the other guys that…do they have a presidential look!? ”…–THE CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. Huh?
I mean, on stage…hey, look. I was in 11 debates, according to Drudge…[a] great guy. According to Drudge, according to Time magazine, according to…; you know, they do these online polls…? I won every…single…debate…by every single online poll. And I was on center stage for every…single…debate! And I never debated that kind of debate! My whole life has been a debate, but…I never stood on stages and debated like these…you know, bloodsuckers; so many bloodsuckers in the world of politics”…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, that's all they do, they debate! You know what the whole life is? It's a debate! They get on stage, they debate.
I never did that before. And yet, every single debate I was on center stage. And the only thing I asked…of the debates were “I want an odd number of people”. [Do] You know why? When it was an even number, I was on center stage with somebody else. I said, “I want…”. In other words, if we had five, I was in the center. If we had six, I was sharing it and I did like that, okay?”…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. So, I fight. And I usually won that fight but not always.
But I was center stage. I was number one on every single debate, and practically since I've come out I've been number one! And now, I was thinking about it the other day! They're saying…well, he's going to change. And, even when…when Paul said yesterday, “yeah, he can be as presidential as anybody you've ever seen”.
And then other people pick it up and say, “oh, see? He's been misrepresenting…”.
This is so this is so…this is sick people. No, these are desperate people! These are desperate people. And then he said, “he said…!”. And you have to read the transcript, cause what he said was fine. But, they said, “he said, therefore…”, this is Cruz, lyin Ted. “He said…that…he will not build the wall!”. He didn't say that!
All he said is, “he's gonna be…presidential”. He’s gonna…change, and be presidential, and you're gonna love it…! But I…I'll tell you what! But no, but lyin Ted, actually, used a as a…;
But listen to this. I'm starting to think…I wanna be very…solid, very good. We've gotta beat China. We've gotta beat ISIS. We've gotta beat”…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…look, look, look. China is killing in trade. ISIS…can you imagine if…George…General George Patton, a bulldog…you talk about a guy that was tough…right!? He’d walk in, “you, Senator…!”. And…it’s people loved him! They loved him! ”…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. He'd get up there with the whip…! Today he couldn't…they would throw him out. He'd reached…he'd attained the…rank of Corporal, and then say, “he's too tough! I want him out of here!”, right? George Patton!
Can you imagine telling George Patton that…General George Patton, or General Douglas MacArthur, a different type! Do you know, in the history of West Point…I've heard, in the history of West Point, General Douglas MacArthur had the highest grades. That means a lot to me. Grades. You know, it means something to me. He…in other words, smart! Very smart!
But they were different types. But they were…the same and one thing, is they knew how to win we don't know how to win, cuz we don't win anymore! Okay? We don't win any more.
But can you imagine somebody saying, “let's…uh…tell a George Patton…he’s gotta tone it down! Uh…he can't be…””…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Can you imagine him, looking at the fact, that the United States of America can't beat ISIS, in like less than a week? Okay? Okay?
So, we're gonna beat ISIS very, very quickly, folks. Very, very quickly”…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [It’s] gonna be fast. [It’s] gonna be fast. We’re gonna be fast!
Somebody said to me yesterday, “exactly what are you gonna do to beat ISIS? And tell me, exactly, what is your plan!?”.
I said, “you know, I have a real chance of winning. I don't like telling you my plan!”. You remember I was saying…“take the oil, take the oil!”. And, remember [that it] took me four months before I finally get…–THE AUDIO BREAKS FOR TWO SECNDOS–… “that I have a great plan, it's gonna be great”.
“Well, what is it!?”.
“I'd rather not say. I wanna be unpredictable”.
They'd say, “oh, this is terrible! You have to say!”.
So, I went through four months of saying, “I don't wanna say”. And…I was getting killed. They were saying, “he doesn't have a plan!”.
I said, “no, I have a plan. I promise, I have a plan. I don't wanna tell it! We wanna be unpredictable. [MGF9] I don't wanna be like…Barack Obama, where he announced a few months ago…–THE CROWD BOOS–…where he announced a few months ago, “we are sending 50 soldiers, our finest…to Iraq and Syria”.
Why would you announce that? Why do you announce them? Why do you tell the enemy that you're sending people over there? And they now have a target on their back! ”…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. Why do you do that?
So, I was saying, “keep the oil”. I wasn't saying, “bomb the oil”. I was saying, “keep the oil”, cuz we were still in…Iraq. I was saying “keep…”. And by the way! You know [that] they say, “Trump, he's a tough guy”. He'll be too fast. Let me tell you something, folks: I'm the one that didn't wanna go into Iraq. I've been saying it for years, and years, and before! You know, they're trying to find statements where I said something else. I was talking to a couple…;
And, let me tell you. From the beginning, Iraq was a mistake, cause was gonna destabilize the Middle East. And boy was I right, okay? I'm a…I'm probably the slowest, but I'll tell you, nobody's gonna mess with me; cause we're gonna build our military so big, so strong, so powerful…[that] nobody's gonna mess with us, folks. Nobody. Nobody's gonna mess”…–THE CROWD CHANTS ‘U.S.A!’.
So…so, look at you, people. You're really liking this stuff, huh? ”…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, look, just to end. We have to be unpredictable, and…with the oil, I'll never forget it. This was like…when I…you know, toward the beginning. They said [that] I don't have a plan. And the reason I don't have a plan [is] cuz I wouldn't tell them. I said, “I don't wanna tell you!”. That doesn't work with these bloodsuckers back there…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS–…the reporters”…–THE CROWD LAUGHS AND BOOS TIMIDLY–…all right? It doesn't work!
So they go at, “Donald Trump does not have a plan! Donald Trump does not…;”.
You know, when I said that Japan…I love Japan. [I’ve] Many friends from Japan. I mean, they're ripping us off, but they know that! Everybody knows it! ”…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. They send millions of cars. We send them nothing…practically nothing. You talk about a trade imbalance, take a look! They're up here, we're down below the floor. See the stage? We're below the stage.
So, I…but I love Japan. So, I say to…the Washington Post, I’d say, “no, no, we need…to…get…reimbursed!”. And I made it somewhat economic! On…you know, we protect Japan. We protect Germany. We protect South Korea. We protect Saudi Arabia. We…protect all these nations! And we lose a fortune!
You know, when you hear that we have the biggest military budget by far bigger than any other country, that's true! But you know what we're doing!? We're protecting other countries, okay!? That's not…me, that's that our…!
Now, I…and I…I love doing it! But you have to be prepared to walk! They have to pay! NATO!
“What do you think of NATO, Mr. Trump?”, Wolf Blitzer, [a] good guy. Wolf Blitzer, [a] great guy. He says, “what do you think of NATO?”.
Now, you know, I'm an entrepreneur. I haven't…been talking about NATO too much for my life, but I have a lot of common sense! I said, “two things: it's obsolete…okay? It's obsolete”…and I was right! Guys it study it, permanently, the…they said…about…it took them about a week. You know, you have a…you're so into something [that] you don't realize? They didn't even realize! They said, “Trump's right!”. It doesn't really cover terror! And you have the wrong nations! 28 nations, but you have the wrong nations. So, and the other thing is, it costs too much. We're giving everybody a free ride. And it turns out to be true. Other than five countries, we're giving them like a free ride.
So, when they write it, they don't say those things! They…leave out…the economics. They say, “Trump wants Japan to arm[MGF10] ”.
I don't want Japan to arm! It may be either that's a result, but they have to pay us a fair amount, okay? We cannot continue to lose our shirt, so that we can protect Japan, from the maniac in North Korea with this nuclear weapons…okay!? ”…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But they don't put the full statement in! So, they have you look like…you don't know what the hell you're doing!
“Uh…Trump wants Japan to arm”, headline in something. “Trump wants to see Japan armed”. I don’t wanna see them armed! [MGF11] But they gotta pay us so that we don't lose! I don't don’t wanna even wanna make! I wanna be…we gotta…do something.
Saudi Arabia would not be there…and I’ve friends in Saudi Arabia! Saudi Arabia would not be there...for a week, if we weren't protecting them. And yet, they…they…chisel with us. They’re fighting us all the time over money! They have more money than anybody! They've made…when they always high…and don't feel bad for them now, they're making a fortune. But when the oil was high they were making a billion dollars a day! And we're protecting Saudi Arabia!
So, we need somebody that understands this, folks! Saudi Arabia will pay us a fortune! If we're not protecting Saudi Arabia, I'm telling you, they won't be there for one week!
Look at what's happening with Iran, the worst deal I've ever seen [is] the Iran deal, by the way, but I won’t…–THE CROWD BOOS. Look at what's happening with Iran! They want Yemen! Well, they don't want Yemen for Yemen! They want Yemen because it's a long border in Saudi Arabia. They want the oil! If we're not there…if we're not there, that oil…believe me, we'll be gone very quickly. So, Saudi Arabia's gonna pay!
Now, here's what's gonna happen! We're gonna break up the negotiations. It’s not gonna work. The following morning we get a phone call, “okay!”. That's all what’s gonna happen! And we're gonna build up our…our…our money; we're gonna build up our nation; we're gonna make great trade deals; we're gonna…have a strong border; yeah, we're gonna have the wall. And who's gonna pay for the wall? Huh? ”…–THE CROWD YELLS ‘MEXICO!’. A 100 percent, by the way. A 100 percent.
Now, look, I wanted…I…you know, I was supposed to do this at the beginning of the speech! I gotta go quick! [Are you] Ready!? …–MR. TRUMP STARTS READING THE SHEET OF PAPER HE’S GOT IN HIS HANDS. Waterbury I love Waterbury.
Waterbury has suffered tragically as a result of lost manufacturing jobs, right? ”…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Waterbury has lost nearly 60 percent of its manufacturing job since 1990”…–THE CROWD CHEERS. 60 percent!? That’s bad! But it’s the same…; folks, I go to upstate New York, [it’s the] same. I go to…I go to the different places. I mean, you look at what happened with Syracuse, and Albany, and…Poughkeepsie…and all these places I went to. They’re phenomenal places!
And you look at what happened…I…I’d go out to the island, out to…Long Island, where I love, and…everything. I'm there all the time. You look at what's happened over there with jobs? Waterbury lost nearly 50 percent of its manufacturing jobs since Congress voted to put China into the World Trade Organization in 2001”…–THE CROWD BOOS.
Ted Cruz…Ted Cruz, lyin Ted, fought hard for this! Because currency manipulation, devaluation, is the single best tool…that these countries have…to kill us, okay? That's on trade. Ted Cruz supports Chinese currency manipulation, because he doesn't fight it. And Kasich went out and voted…for NAFTA! NAFTA was the worst thing that ever happened in trade to this country, okay? ”…–THE CROWD BOOS.
I mean, a lot of your jobs are gone. Now, that was…in all fairness, that was Kasich. And essentially, they're both…right after this election, they're both gonna approve Trans-Pacific Partnership, and that's worse than NAFTA! Okay!
Waterbury labor force is 3,000 people smaller than it was a…a…just a few years ago! Five years ago! Fellows, what's going on here!? This is worse than I thought! What's going on!? ”…–THE CROWD BOOS HEAVILY.
Well, it's not really the wall so much! The wall…yes, for a lot of things, like illegal immigration and drugs and that…; but this is really China and other countries are doing it; and, it is Mexico, because a lot of your businesses are moving. Like Carrier [which] left Indianapolis, a great place. They left Indianapolis, [and] they went to Mexico. And…it…they wouldn't do that with me, because I'm gonna tax their products coming back in. Now they're gonna say, “we're not gonna move”, okay? It's very simple…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So here's your Hartford Courant writes…I assume…are they…a good paper? I don't know…–THE CROWD BOOS. They probably won’t endorse me, I’m not their type, and that’s okay. Today the factories are largely gone, and the once puzzling downtown [is] still proud, which you are, otherwise you wouldn't be here! Right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…has had a seismic shift. I mean, a seismic shift! Representative Tony D’Amelio! Where is Tony!? Tony! I love Tony.c [Do] You know why!? He's the first one to back me in this area, right Tony!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Come here, Tony! Get Tony up here! Get up here, Tony! Get your ass up here, Tony! Come on, Tony! He's the first one, it's true! Tony said some great things and he says great future, all that…–THE CROWD CHANTS ‘TONY!’ REPEATEDLY. [He’s a] Good man! Get up here! Come on, Tony! Get up here! Tony D’Amelio, folks! Get up here! Look at this guy! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Tony D’Amelio! Come here! …–D’AMELIO IS NOW ON STAGE AND MR. TRUMP SHAKES HIS HAND. Number one guy! You know!? I never knew that Tony was so tall! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Say something, please.
MR. TONY D’AMELIO INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.47.12:
 
Yeah, good man. He went  out. He was the first one, and I appreciate that. I never forget! You know, some of these guys are endorsing me, and it's great! I love it. But, you know, they endorsed Bush! Then they end or somebody else! And then somebody else! And then they call, “we'd like to endorse you”.
I say, “let's see, what's his record? Oh, gee!” Boom, boom, boom! No, Tony's been great, and I'll tell you what, uh…we have some incredible people that have endorsed us. They've been there from the beginning, and they get it! And I love those people, and I'll never forget those people, believe me.
So…so, the bottom line and just to finish this off, Connecticut's doing very poorly, and…we don't have to talk about it anymore, cause it's all depressing, okay? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS AS MR. TRUMP THROWS AWAY HIS PAPERS–…right? We don't wanna talk about it, because…what Tony said is right.
We're gonna bring our jobs back. We're not gonna let people that are leaving. You know, they wanna leave. The companies wanna leave. And we're gonna tell them them! There have to be consequences, okay? There are consequences when you leave. You can't leave Indiana like Carrier did. And expect to be selling air conditioners through the border, which will not be a very strong border, through the border and no tax.
And I will tell…the people at Carrier, and I will tell the people at Ford, who are building a two and a half billion dollar plant, and now they've just announced they're gonna make it even more…–THE CROWD BOOS–…I will tell them, you know, “good luck with your plants, and good luck, have a good…enjoy the very hot weather. I hope you enjoy it”…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. I honestly…I am speaking of heat! It's about 200 degrees in here! Who cares, right!? Who the hell cares!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Who the hell cares!?
I'm sitting here, and my suit is soaking wet! Don't touch me! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. But…this room wasn't designed for this many people, that's all it is, very simple. But you know what? When you look at what's going on, there have to be consequences for companies that leave our country, go to another country, and then think they're gonna sell product back to the United States, and not be taxed! There are consequences! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And you know, if I had five minutes in a room with the president of Carrier air-conditioning, and…and just even as a representative of the president…; and again, I wanna make the call! You've heard me say this. I wanna make that call so badly…! I wanna make that call so badly…! But, you know.
But if I had five minutes in a room with the head of Carrier, and if I said, “listen, here's the story: you're right now in Indiana. And you're gonna move to Mexico. And you just let go 14 great…1,400 great people. I saw them on television. You saw the way the were let go, it was vicious! “You just let go of all these people that have been there for 30 years, 25 years…”; they were at a speech, many of them were at a speech I just made it Indiana. I said, “here's the story: if you move, I wish you luck. But, you're not gonna sell your product in here”.
We're not gonna be the dumb people. You know, I love free trade. I think it's great. But, we don't have smart people representing us. We have…dumb people representing us; or, they’re people paid off by the special interest; they get campaign contributions. Because, honestly, nobody can be that dumb, do we agree? Nobody! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, I'd say, “if you leave Indiana…if you leave Indiana, and you're gonna make your air conditioning units, every unit that goes across that border, you're gonna have a very substantial tax to pay, like 35 percent, okay?” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And I guarantee you…and I guarantee you, at the end of that five minutes…I don't need more than five. I don't even need five. I guarantee you, at the end of that five minute meeting, they will say, “sir, we're staying in Indiana”; or, “we're gonna stay in the United States”, okay? “We're gonna stay in the United States”. There have to be consequences when a company that leaves our country goes to another country, builds the plant, employees other people…our people are laid off, and they have no tax because we have people that don't know what the hell they're doing, okay!? There's consequences! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And I'm a conservative person! And I get hit by all of these so-called think tanks. You know, think tanks, they don't have the brains they were born with! And they say, “he is not a conservative”.
I remember Jeb, “he is not too conservative! He is not a free trader”. I'm a free trader, but to have free trade you have to have smart people on our side!
When you look at China, we have a trade deficit with China, folks, of…three…think of it! Of 505…billion…dollars! So, then they say, “we’ll end up in their trade war with China!”. Who the hell cares!? I mean, if they losing 500…if you think about it! Maybe it's the best thing that could happen” We’ll do less business! Because the less business we do, the more money we're gonna make! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. You know, I don't wanna have a trade war when we're making money, but we don't make money with anybody! You can look at anything!
Mexico. We have a trade deficit with Mexico, not including the drugs that they send over here. We have a trade deficit with Mexico of 58 billion dollars a year. So, these light weights that I’m negotiating against on the dais with me, they come up, and after the debate, one of them says, “Donald, you'll never build a wall. You can't build a wall”.
“Of course you can. [Do] You know how easy that is!? Do you know how easy it is!?”. You know, 15 years ago they wanted to have a wall, and they couldn't get environmental impact statements, because there was a certain kind of snake, or rodent, or toad, or something…! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Believe me, I'm so good at this! That wall will get built…so good! But…but, we're gonna build. We're gonna build the wall…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And I always tell them! 2,000 years ago…2,000 years ago, China built a wall that was 13,000 miles long, and I mean that was…it’s called The Great Wall of China. They did that, they didn't have Caterpillar tractors and cranes, folks. They did it the old-fashioned way, right? They built a wall that was 13,000 miles long, The Great Wall of China, 2,000 years ago.
We need 1,000 miles. It's 2,000 miles, but you have tremendous natural barriers, which is…good! So, we need a thousand miles, and they say, “you can't do it”. Then they come up to me. Now, they’re saying…I heard Cruz the other day, “we must build a wall”.
From…I said, “where did this come from? Where does this come from?”. Where did it come from!? And by the way, he'll never built it, it's just…talk. But here's the story…–THE CROWD YELLS LYIN TED! Lyin Ted! Nobody lies like Ted! Nobody can lie like Ted! But you know, a good liar doesn't get caught. He gets caught all the time, so he's not really good. Maybe we’ll have to come up with another name, cause he…we dignify him…we dignify him by calling him lyin Ted![MGF12] 
But here’s the…here's the thing.
Then I'm on the debate and the debate goes, and…the debate’s over. And one other guys, [a] good guy, actually, comes up to me and says, “Donald, you're not gonna get Mexico to pay for the wall”.
I said, “listen, listen. Here's the story: the walls gonna cost let's say 10 billion dollars, all right? 10 billions. A lot of money! [We’re] Gonna make it so beautiful! Those things are gonna be so high…[that if] anybody gets up there, they’re coming down real fast, I wanna…they're gonna say, “whoa…!”. We're gonna build a real wall! A beautiful wall! What's it gonna be called someday, “Trump wall”. Okay. Forget that…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. I don't want…I don't want a wall! No, no, I don't want a wall. I'd rather have a monument in Washington, that would be much better. Much better. Okay.
But look, we're gonna build a real wall, a powerful wall, a wall that works, a wall that absolutely stops. And, by the way, the Border Patrol, 16,500 Border Patrol folks, who are…phenomenal…! They wanna do their job and they're told to “stand back! Let people come in!”. These are great people! …–THE CROWD BOOS. Let me tell you, these are great people.
So, what happens is they come in…and, you know, part of the reason they wanna do…–AT THIS POINT, THE AUDIO BREAKS FOR TWO SECONS–…people, when they…ultimately become citizens, they’re not one person gonna vote Republican, I can tell you. That's one of the things they have in their mind. Not one person will be wrong…in 10 years, in 20 years…! So, you can forget that.
Somebody was saying, “well, that's good. We must go and meet the people, and greet them, and talk about the republican values”.
I said, “are you crazy!? You don't have a shot!”
So, that's one of the reasons in my opinion, okay? What do I know?
But…but here's the thing: the wall is going to get built. The wall is going to be a great wall, and when I go back, and tell these companies that “[if] you leave the United States, you're gonna have major consequences to pay; you're gonna be paying tax when you send you product back here”, not one company is gonna leave the United States.
And I'll go further: if you noticed…corporate inversions, you see corporate inversions, we have…if you noticed, for five years…the politicians have been talking about this subject, cause we're getting drained, folks! All over the country. Forget about Waterbury. Forget about Connecticut. [It’s] All over the country. We're being drained of our jobs; drained of our factories. Millions and millions of jobs!
Somebody said, “as much as six million jobs”. I mean, think of it! You can't do this! You can't do it! We’re not gonna have a country left!
So, they call it corporate inversion; they call it leaving; call it whatever you want, but you know what? It's gonna end! It’s gonna in so fast! The politicians have been talking about…this is a problem for a long time! This problem…I mean, if I look at your number, this is a problem that's been going on for 20 years! But this is a problem that's gotten really bad lately, really bad! It's out of control!
Now, they're talking about it for…five years. I mean, heavy, heavy, heavy talking. They can't come up with a solution! They wanna give money to companies…you don't have to give them money! They wanna give all sorts of benefits to companies? You don’t have to give them benefits! All you have to do is say, “if they leave, they’ve gotta pay a lot of tax”. And you know what's gonna happen? They're not gonna leave! Okay, so that's that.
Now, listen, here's the story…here's the story: we're gonna take care of our military, we're gonna take care of our vets. Our vets are being treated very badly…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're gonna repeal and replace Obamacare, it's a disaster…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're going to end Common Core and we are gonna bring education locally! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We are going to protect our Second Amendment, folks! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They wanna take away your guns. There's a big, big move! They're chipping away. Now they’re looking at it bullets! “Maybe we can restrict bullets…!”. They’re doing everything they can.
You know, if in Paris…or…if, you know, Paris is the toughest gun laws in the world. If in Paris, the other side had like a couple of these dudes right here in front of me…tough; with a gun strapped to their waster to their ankle, and a bullets were going in the opposite direction? You wouldn't have had a hundred and thirty people killed, and hundreds of people…whose lives are ruined in the hospital right now…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And the same holds true for California, where you had the so-called radicalized people. I mean, we have a problem! We have a…radical…Islamic…terror…problem. And we have to…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…you know, you can't solve a problem unless you're willing to talk about it. We have a president that refuses to use the words! He refuses! …–THE CROWD BOOS. Even when there's a horrible attack, he won’t use the words! Why!? You'll have to figure it out. Why!? You'll have to ask him! But, you're not gonna solve a problem if you're unwilling to talk about the problem! And it is a problem! It's a serious problem! And we’ll solve the problem! But it is a serious, serious problem.
So, we're gonna protect our Second Amendment. We're gonna protect it. We are going to make trade deals that are…phenomenal for our country! You know, we have all of these deals…and if you look at China, what China has done to us is the theft…and I say it…a lot! [It] Is the single…greatest...theft…in the history of the world! They…we have rebuilt China with the money they've taken out. This is being on now for a long time! This is before Obama. There's a long time! I'm gonna blame Obama, but this is a long time, okay? No, no, in all fairness! This has been going on for years!
And you know the reason? Because you have companies, and…China itself. And they all have these powerful lobbyists in Washington. And the Senators and the congressman don't do anything! I'm self-funding my campaign, folks! I'm gonna solve the problem so fast…! So fast…! So fast…!
So, last weekend you probably saw where the head of finance in China, a very high official said, “we don't like the tone of Donald Trump. We don't like his…his…attitude! And he will destroy free trade!”.
And they called up and they said, “would you have a response?”.
I said that, “China has ripped us off perhaps more than any country ever in the history of the world”. And, I said, it's a single greatest theft in the world. I said, “it's not gonna happen any longer again”.
But, I am so honored when the head people in China are watching what's happening with our movement! I'm so honored by that, because you know what!? They know that they're ripping us! They are so much smarter than our negotiators! We have political hacks doing the negotiation. They have the smartest people in all of Asia! They have the smartest people in all of China, doing their negotiations.
And I know China! I've made a lot of money dealing against China. I have buildings in California. I have…I have phenomenal…I…’ll sell condos! The biggest bank in the world is a tenant of mine, from China…! I love China! I think China’s great!
I'm not angry at China! And I'm not angry at Mexico! And I'm not angry at Japan! I'm angry at our leaders, for being so stupid. that they would allow this to happen! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. THE CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. Thank you.
So, here's a story, we're gonna start winning again, folks. We're gonna win with our military. We're gonna knock the hell out of ISIS! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Believe me, we're not gonna have to use our military other than that, but we're gonna knock the hell out of ISIS.
We're gonna win for our vets. We're gonna win with education. We're gonna win…we are gonna win with education. You know, we're like last…! We spend more money per pupil…of the 30 nations that they…do, we spend more money per pupil…than any other nation. Think of this! We spend more money…! You have Sweden, Denmark, Norway, China…! Japan…! There are some others. They're the best! We…spend more money by far! It's like, second place doesn't even exist! And we’re number 30. We’re last on the list. So, we spend the most money, and we're last in the list.
It’s sort of like me here! I spent the least…money on running…probably cause it's my own! I spent the least money on running, and I'm number one by a lot! Don't we want that as our president!? You know, that's what we want! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, we're gonna win with education! We're gonna win on our Second Amendment. We're gonna win with healthcare. We're gonna win with…we're gonna win…with trade deals. We're gonna end up with great trade deals. We're gonna save your social security, because our nation's gonna…become rich again, without the cuts that everybody else has to make, okay!? And we're gonna save Medicare, without the cuts! We're gonna…we're gonna look heavy: fraud, waste, abuse…everybody agrees, okay? But we're gonna save your Social Security!
We're gonna make our country rich again, and we're gonna make our country great again, maybe greater…than ever…before!
So, get out and vote! Get out and vote…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And I wanna thank the people of Connecticut. To…to be out here on a Saturday morning was incredible. I love you, folks! Get out and vote! Make America great again! Thank you! I love you all, thank you! Thank you! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thank you!
