VIDEO Nº: 26
TITLE:26. Speech: Donald Trump - Miami, FL - October 23, 2015
DATE OF EVENT:23/10/2015
RELEASE DATE:04/11/2017
DURATION:01.04.56 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:8933
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That's amazing. Great.
 
Wow! Wow!
 
Thank you.
 
Thank you.
 
Beautiful.

Thank you.
 
Thank you.
 
Man!
 
This is something special.
 
You know, I said it to all of my managers. I just wanted to do it here. I said, ‘you may not be able to get the cars’, you know, I don't care…the place is a hundred percent full…and I know a lot of you have to walk a long distance…to have you here is great! Thank you. Thank you! Unbelievable!
 
You know…-CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘TRUMP!’-… ‘thank you’. You know, I wanna start by thanking the fire department, they have a lot of people in here…! …I have to tell you! And…I wanna really thank the fire department, and the police…and they're here someplace! –MR. TRUMP SEES THEM AND ADDRESSES THEM-… ‘hey, fellas! Come up here! Come up! Come up here! Come here! Get up here! These guys have been so incredible today…with the traffic…and everything. And…I just wanna thank our Police Department…they have been absolutely incredible! Look at these guys! –CROWD CHEERS. Look at these guys!
 
Nobody’s gonna mess with them! Look at this! –CROWD CHEERS. Thank you very much fellows. They don't wanna leave the stage, you'll never leave. And the fire department likewise, they've been incredible. So thank you very much.
 
You know…-CROWD CALLS OUT INAUDIBLE PHRASES AND CHEERS-… what a crowd…is there nothing like Miami! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing! Nothing like Miami! Incredible!
 
So…when I was a little boy, my father always loved Doral. Always! And he said, ‘come on son’, and he didn't play golf, he was the worker. He didn't wanna play golf. He didn't have time to play golf. And he had a beautiful swing, actually, but he played very little. Almost never. But he used to love coming here. And…it was the hottest resort in the country. This is a long time ago. I won't say how many years, because I like to think I'm a very young person –CROWD CHEERS. But a long time ago. At the beginning.
 
And…he would say, ‘let's go’, and we would walk around. And…who would have ever thought that someday I would have own this place, right? Who would have thought!?  Who would have ever thought? But what happened…is Doral is very interesting…it had five courses, almost 800 acres, right smacked in the middle of Miami, incredible location. Right near the airport, you –ARE- 10 minutes away…and always did well. It was always one of the top places. And then sadly, Wall Street got ahold of it. The original developer…-MR. TRUMP BOOS HIMSELF AGAINST THIS UNMENTIONED PERSON-… boo, boo, boo…oh, they are they gonna pay tax, don't worry about him –CROWD LAUGHS. They’re friends of mine, but they'll pay. They’re gonna pay, don’t worry. But you know, you know…what happened is…it became a money thing. And it was like playing cards: bing, bing, bing –ONOMATOPEIC SOUND ACCOMPANIED BY DEALING CARDS. And they traded it. Every year, and every three years. Somebody would make a lot of money. It was like musical chairs, like this –MIMICS CIRCLES IN THE AIR-…and they’d sell it. Then somebody would own it for three, or four, or five years…Wall Street. And they'd sell it. Make a lot of money. Always made a lot of money! Everybody made a lot of money with Doral…except for the last group that I bought it for. You know, it was like musical chairs. And…I bought it. And when I bought it, I bought it from a smart group, but the market…had crashed. You know all about the crash. And I got it for the right price. I signed for X dollars, lot of money: a hundred and seventy million. But then I said, ‘you know, maybe I can make a better deal before I close’. So I went in, to closing, with Ivanka –CROWD CHEERS-…we know Ivanka. We love Ivanka, right? Right? I went in with Ivanka. And I said, ‘watch Ivanka, let's see if we can make 20 million dollars’. It’s true!
 
So I have a contract for hundreds…I've never told this story, actually. I have a contract 170…and…I had all these good-looking in front of me… brilliant, young man in front of me, and they all wore suspenders without the jacket, right? You know, the jackets, were behind the scene. They were all like…Tom Cruise…and you…you couldn't get better central casting. In fact, all of that media…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE MEDIA AND CAMERAS RIGHT IN FRONT-…look at that media back there…! Look at these people! Wow!  -CRWOD BOOS-…no, they’re alright! I…I…I'm gonna tell you some media stories in a while. So…no, but their central casting, the red suspenders, handsome, beautiful, smart, top schools…they were going to Harvard, they go to Wharton, go to Stanford…and…I said…I want to show off to my daughter. Does that make sense? You know, I have this great daughter…
 
So I go in, and she said, ‘dad, they're not gonna cut you half…a…contract for 170, I said, ‘well that’s right’. So does Iran have a contract, that doesn't mean we can't make it much better, you know? –CROWD BOOS. Right?
 
So…so what happens…I tell these guys, ‘there is no way…I'm paying a hundred and seventy million dollars. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it’. They said, ‘you have to pay it! You have to pay it! …’ …beautiful guys… ‘you have to pay it! You really have to!’, and I said, ‘there's no way’…-ALL OF A SUDDEN THE CROWD STARTS BOOING. THERE ARE SOME DISSENTERS IN THE ROOM. MR. TRUMP STOPS HIS SPEECH AND CALMS DOWN THE CROWD- ‘that's alright’. CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY. MR. TRUMP CHANTS ALONG-… ‘U.S.A! U.S.A!’. Don’t hurt him. Don't hurt him. Don't hurt him. You can get him out, but don't hurt him. We don't want anyone getting hurt. Don’t get hurt. But that’s why freedom of speech. It’s all freedom of speech, you know that. You know that. –CROWD KEEPS ON BOOKIGN AND CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY.
 
Great. Great life. It’s a great life. It’s a very great life! That's alright. That’s what the country’s all about…I mean,  we gotta be able to speak, and every once in a while it’ll be a little bit disrupted, but it doesn't take long. It doesn't take long.
 
So let me just finish the story. Thank you. Too bad we had to throw them out. But sometimes you have to throw people out! Right? You have to do it! –CROWD CHEERS AND SHOWS THEIR SIGNS AND BANNERS-… ‘look at that sign!’ Look at the size of that sign! Can you believe that? Wow! Thank you! Beautiful!’.
 
I think I'll tell my people, ‘let's bring that home!’, And, by the way, we have plenty of time tonight, it's gonna…I'm here all night…! You know…-CROWD CHEERS-…you know tomorrow night, we’re in Jacksonville, Florida. We have at least 15,000 people…probably 20,000 people tomorrow night! So it's gonna be great, there's things happening. So anyway…so let me tell you, because it has to do with the country!
 
So…I go into the room I say, ‘fellas…the contract is not right. This place is in much worse shape than you told me! I've gone all over…’ …you have to have it signed, first before you can do this… ‘…I've got all over. And it's not fair…! …what you selling me, you shouldn't be selling…I'm not closing this deal…! –MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES THE OTHER SIGNATORY- … ‘I’ll give you a hundred’. Remember I wanted to impress my daughter! –CROWD STARTS CALLING OUT ‘THE ART OF THE DEAL!’, I.E. TRUMP’S MOST SUCCESSFUL AND POPULAR BOOK. MR. TRUMP HEARS THEM-…’The Art of the Deal’,
 
And…and I meant it! Nothing wrong… ‘I said, it wasn't in the shape that you…supposed to be in’, you know. So I ranted and raved like a lunatic, for about five minutes, about conditions and, they said, ‘we're never going to cut ten cents’. Within about two minutes, they said, ‘would you take 20 million dollars off’? They said, ‘would you agree to 20 million Mr. Trump’? I said, ‘No way, you gotta do it less’. So within about four minutes…I saved 25 million dollars, they cuty the price. Can you believe it? Can you believe? –CROWD CHEERS. And they said…and I'm only telling the strikers…we should be doing the same thing for our country! Right? –CROWD CHEERS. Right? Right?
 
So my daughter was very impressed…! And, I mean, the whole thing took less than five minutes. And the actual number after tax, I actually save legit…I actually saved 20 million dollars. And I just said, ‘Ivanka we just bought the furniture’. That's very nice. Right? So then I had a decision to make. We have this great place. I had a decision, legendary place. And the decision was…do we fix it? Do we fix? –AGAIN CROWD BOOS. DISSENTERS SEEM TO BE AROUND ONCE AGAIN. THE CROWD GOES ON TO CHANT ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY. MR. TRUMP COMMENTS ON IT-… ‘you know…by the way, you know the saddest part? You have people like that. There's a total of probably three over there, and five over there…and they'll be the story tomorrow. Not the thousands of people that love our country! –CROWD CHEERS. Amazing! It’s amazing! No, no, the sad part…I had an incident like this two weeks ago. We had nine thousand people, in an arena…and we had five people protesting, they became the story. It's too bad. All right, they’re gone.
 
You know, we have…we’ll have little pockets. Little pockets. But it is a shame! I mean…at these shows…so we have thousands of people, and you'll have three or four people protest, and tomorrow morning, ‘Protesters a Trump’s’ –IN THE PRESS-.…it's one of those.
 
So then I had a decision to make. And the decision was…do we give it the ‘b’ job the ‘c’ job the ‘a’ job…? What do we do…? And we gave it the ‘a+’ job, and we built something that we love. We built something that we love. Really love. And…what happened… ‘Oh, let them get out. Go ahead, get them out’ –MR. TRUMP REFERS TO, REPORTEDLY, PROTESTERS STILL IN THE ROOM. CROWD BOOS-… ‘see…the first group I was nice… “oh, take your time”, the second group I was pretty nice. The third group I’ll be a little more violent. And the fourth group I will say, “get the hell out of here”.
 
So…so…I had to make a decision. What do we do with Doral? Do we give it the really best job…and basically rip it down and build a new magnificent place…? …because it was really old, really tired…the bones were tired, the whole place…you people know a lot of…you are from the area. And I said, ‘we gotta do it right. We gotta do it right’. And we, basically, as you know, new club houses, this room new…this room is one of the great ballrooms…we have…five ballrooms, we have 700 rooms…we have the golf courses…are world class…and we wanted to do it right. And a man just came up to me, outside. He hadn't been here in 25 years, and it was very interesting. I won't say he was an older fellow, but he was an older fellow. And he said, ‘you know Mr. Trump, this place is magnificent’. And by the way, David Feder, wherever the hell you are David, where are you David? David Feder is the…our president and general manager. He has done…some incredible job. And this is now…the hottest resort of its kind, anywhere in the United States…it's bringing tremendous business to…the Miami area, and the Doral area…and it's become the hottest place, so it's really good. In fact…! …the PGA Tour just gave us a 10-year extension on the tournament, which they never do. So that's how good it is –CROWD CHEERS. They never do that. So it's become a really, really successful place. But this gentleman came up to me, and he said…it was so simple, and yet it was so beautiful. He said, ‘Mr. Trump, I haven't been back here in 25 years. It was in very, very bad shape…’ I actually bought it out of bankruptcies, from some people that I know very well, that are killers, but they didn't really know what they were doing in this case. And I said, ‘well, that's very nice…’, he said, ‘you know Mr. Trump, if you could do…the same…for the United States…as you did here…it would be unbelievable’–CROWD CHEERS. Unbelievable. True. I thought it was great. I thought it great.  I thought it was great. And you know, in its own way, doing it for the United States might be easier than what we had to do here! As crazy as it sounds.
 
So…and that's what we have to do. We owe 19 trillion dollars. We’re desperate…our infrastructure is…is…it’s…such trouble…such trouble –ONCE AGAIN PROTESTERS INTERRUPT THE RALLY AS THE CROWD BOOS AND CHANTS ‘U.S.A!’. MR. TRUMP INTERVENES-… ‘hey, isn't this more fun than having like a normal deal? Right? Right? –CROW CHEERS-… I mean, supposing we had like a normal speech…we talked, and talked, and talked…the evening ends, we go home, go to sleep…this is more fun. Right?’ –CROWD CHEERS. You know, you know…they used to call it ‘the silent majority’, but they don't use that anymore. Because, frankly? It's no longer silent, because we're not going to take this crap anymore! We're not gonna take it anymore! We're not gonna take it anymore! –CROWD CHANTS ‘U.S.A!’.
 
So…it is true. You know, for years…you haven't heard that term: silent majority. I don't know, it was a long time ago, and people thought it was politically incorrect, and…I started using it. But then I started realizing, honestly! It's not silent! There's nothing silent! Everywhere I go…we have the biggest crowds…
I mean we left Oklahoma, fifteen twenty thousand! Dallas, Texas, Mark Cuban's arena, where the Mavericks play, we had 20,000! Mobile, Alabama 35,000. I go to Iowa, I go to New Hampshire, no matter where…South Carolina! Unbelievable crowds, all over! And there's love in the room, is just love in the room! It's incredible! It's incredible! –CROWD CHEERS. And you know, and there's nothing silent about it. We're sick and tired of incompetent people…running our government! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So I did something today that was…quite exciting. Although I think actually, owning Doral is more exciting, but that's okay. But I did something today that was…interesting. And it got a lot of press. I see it's got a lot of press. They have these things called ‘Super PACs’. Nobody knows what the hell they are, what they mean, it's the dumbest thing I've ever seen! And all of the candidates have Super PACs. And they’re controlled, to a large extent, by investors…they are controlled by lobbyists, special-interest, countries…countries…-CROWD BOOS-…you know, when you wonder why are politicians make such bad deals…with foreign countries...? …and with other deals…? It's because…they're totally controlled…by people…that benefit…even if our country doesn't benefit. It's true! It’s true! And the Super PACs are a disaster. You have Jeb Bush…did anybody ever hear of Jeb Bush? –CROWD BOOS. Yeah?
 
You have…Jeb Bush has a hundred and twenty-five million dollars…! I…I honestly, I don't think it's going to help him, I'll be honest. If it helps him, then…I can't figure the whole deal out. Hey, look, I used to be one of those guys that would like…give a lot of money…a lot of money! I know the lobbyists, and you know, when they come up to me and say, ‘we wanna give you money’, when you go to number one, everybody wants to give you money. It's incredible. But they don't care so much about anything other than the companies they represent. They don't care so much, and some do…but most don't. They want influence, they want power, they want to take these people like little puppets, and they want to say, ‘you do as I told you, because I gave you five million dollars, and you better do it’. Well, nobody's giving me anything!  Okay? Anything! Nothing! –CROWD CHEERS.
And…so what happened is…I noticed over the last couple of weeks! Everybody's forming a Trump super PAC. I'm not forming…they're all over the place! I thought we had four, then I heard we had five, then I heard we had eight, then I heard we had nine, or ten now…
I don't know, are they good…or is it a scam…? …cause, you know, some of them…some of them…seriously! …some of them, I assume are like…legitimate people…they love Trump, they wanna do things, they’ll go and do whatever they're supposed to do. And you don't talk to ‘em! You know, they're supposed to be like independent. And others…! …I would imagine they probably pay themselves salaries…! …and…who the hell knows what happens with all the money…? So we did something today, that was very…all I know is I haven't gotten any of this money…none of it! I feel guilty about that. I feel a little foolish, actually. And…we wrote notices, and notifications, sent them all to the government, to the people, to everybody…! That we don't want Super PACs…that we don't want anything to do with them…! …to close them up, ideally, hopefully to give the money back, whatever money is raised…
 
I mean, I saw the other day on one of the programs…two young, nice-looking guys, big fans of Trump, I think! And they opened an Art of the Deal…I think it's called The Art of the Deal, super PAC, after my book. Right? And, by the way, we're having a new book come out, on November third. I think it's gonna be great! I think it's gonna be great! But The Art of the Deal Super PAC! …and they look very good, they talk about ‘we love Trump, where they're gonna do this’, and you know, probably it's true. I don't gonna take any…chance…I don’t want it…I don't want any help…I don't want…
 
The one I do…the one thing we do: people send in small donations…? …like, small ones. There's a woman, seven dollars and fifty cents, with a…about a four-page letter. Another woman, fifty dollars, 30 dollars, 90 dollars 250 dollars…but that I love, because…number one: you can't send it back. How do you send a letter back to a woman…who loves the country, who is giving a lot of money…that's like giving a million dollars to a rich person. How do you send the seven dollars and fifty cents back? You can’t! You can’t! –CROWD CHEERS. There's no letter you can write…It’s true! There's no letter that you can write…to that woman to say, ‘we don't want your money’. Okay? So that's the only stuff. But we take it, and it comes in…and, that's the only stuff we want. But we don't want any of the…you know, the…big money. We don't want any big money.
 
And…so today…I did something, started getting big press, actually this evening, cause nobody's ever done it. I disclaimed, and disavowed all Super PACs, I don't want any of ‘em, I don’t want no money, I don't want to –CROWD CHEERS. And…I said very strongly…when we wrote the letter, and I told my attorneys, and everybody…that…I think…every candidate running right now for the presidency…should disavow their Super PACs –CROWD BOOS. They should disavow their super PAC! You know…and these super PACs are really running the campaign's! They're running the campaigns! For instance, I hear…in Iowa, that there's going to be a merger…of Ben Carson, and I like him, he's a nice guy. They are gonna merge…the Super PACs, he's got two of them, and they're gonna run…and they've been running his campaign…! And he doesn't hardly have to go there! And I'm saying…what am I? …why? …I'm not allowed to do anything? It's really unfair! But I think they shouldn't be allowed to do that! I don't know if…they're…they're allowed to do that! But how do you have super PACs running campaigns!?
 
Now…and then when you think of it: so you have these super PACs, with millions and millions of dollars, and they're running a campaign…do you think those people, that are running those Super PACs…and those people that are giving tremendous money to the Super PACs…do you think they control those candidates 100 percent? The answer’s ‘yes’! Yes! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
And…I don't want any confusion. And I’ve said it! I don't want any confusion! People were calling, ‘well, you have all these super PACs, therefore…’. I said, ‘I don't even know who these people are!’. So here's what's happening: all candidates…disavow…your Super PACs, run for office, and be proud…but disavow your Super PACs . Drop ‘em! Drop ‘em! And ideally, give the money back, to the people to put it up there. That's what you should do…! So…we'll see what happens…we'll see what happens. But to me it's very important. This super PAC thing is a terrible thing, that's happening in this country. It's a terrible…! …terrible thing! And it's controlling our politicians. They're puppets. It's controlling our politicians.
 
I mean Bush –JEB- had somebody the other day going to Berlin, Germany to pick up money. Berlin, Germany. What do you think Germany gets out of that one? Okay? Other people have tremendous amounts of money put up…and we can have it anymore. We have to bring honesty back to politics folks. Gotta do it. Gotta do it –CROWD CHEERS AND STARTS CHANTING ‘WE WANT TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. So… ‘oh, thank you, thank you, thank you’.
 
So…a very interesting thing happened, very sad, today. Very, very sad. Cause you know the press is very dishonest, right? We know –CROWD CHEERS. Not all of them! Not all of them! But we have more back there. Look at those cameras. Look at those suckers! Boy! They are all covering! –CROWD BOOS. They are all covering. They are covering Trump, and they're covering you. And they'll all be with us tomorrow night in Jacksonville. And by the way, if you can, it's gonna be wild, come back up. It's gonna be wild, so…gonna be wild.
 
So…a crazy thing happened. I love polls, everybody knows. And they say, ‘I wonder what would happen if Trump wasn't number one in the poll!’. And somebody said, ‘Oh, if he wasn't number one maybe he dropped out of the race!’. Believe me, I'm not dropping out of anything. That I can tell you. Never! Ever! I'm not dropping out of anything! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…poll came out! Big one…ABC/Washington Post that has me killing everybody. It's…it's a national poll that was on Friday. We're killing! 32! Think of it: 32. You know, I…you notice every week, I started at three, first, when that was slightly before I ran…but it…because nobody thought I was gonna run! Nobody thought I was gonna run! You know, they all said, ‘he's never gonna run…if he runs, it doesn't matter…what does he know about politics…!?’. Right? I've only dealt with politics all my life, that's all. But, so…it's not a 3. It went to 8, went to 12 , went to 16, to…now, as a Friday. nationally 32…and then another one came out –CROWD CHEERS-…another one came out, last week. Reuters. Listen to this one: 33 to 15. It’s…15. 15 is…is Ben Carson, he’s in second place. But they kept saying, ‘Oh, if Trump ever lose…’, cause…you know what? I mean, I'm getting spoilt…from the time I ran, and from the time I went up…when I was at 12, they said… ‘Alright! He’s peaked. He’s peaked! You know, ‘you’re  -MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES THE FIRST ROWS-…hearing the same crap, right?’. Then it goes to 16, 17 the next week… ‘well, that's his plateau! His plateau! The word ‘plateau’, they love that word. So he's plateaued. Then the next week it went to 21… ‘well, that's it! That's it!’ –CROWD LAUGHS. By the way, 21 is not bad, when you have 17 people. Right!? 21!
 
You know, if I'm a Card Player, I will rest on 21, with 17 people. I'm not losing. So I was number one at 21. Then I went to 25, ‘Oh! This is it!’, you know these talking heads. These are among the dumbest human beings I've ever seen. That’s true! –CROWD CHEERS. It’s true! Some of them…some of them are good! And some of them are coming along! I mean some of them were so terrible, and so nasty…and now they're coming along, that I mean they're becoming like…I don't know about fans, but they're saying, a poll just came out, we’re eighty-one percent to win! I mean, can you believe it? I didn't know that! Eighty-one percent! Who would have thought that!? Rasmussen! Rasmussen! And…the Rasmussen…I'm walking up here, one of my people stopped me, I said, ‘excuse me I gotta make a speech!’. MR. TRUMP PLAYS OUT HIS ‘PEOPLE’- ‘Oh, no, I'd like to talk to you’. I said, ‘what do you wanna talk about…? Their introducing me!’. And Rasmussen just said, nationally, I'm beating Hillary. Just came out. Just came out –CROWD CHEERS. Just came out! Hey, what's to be?So now I said, ‘I'm glad they stopped me’, right? I'm glad they stopped me.
 
So anyway, but a bad thing happened, bad. So look, I mean, I just wrote down a few of them, and then I'll tell you what was bad. So I'm winning New Hampshire by…like 22 points. New Hampshire, unbelievable, great. I'm winning New Jersey by a lot! –CROWD CHEERS. A lot! And Chris Christie's a friend of mine. But I’m a 29, he's at five. That's a lot of big difference! I'm winning Florida, I’m beating Bush in Rubio –CROWD CHEERS. Right? Right? I'm winning Nevada, by a fortune, but here's what I like the best: Nevada, tremendous Hispanic population. I'm winning…with the Hispanics. Big! Winning with the Hispanics! And I keep telling everybody, I'm gonna win with Hispanics. I say it to everybody! –CROWD CHEERS. I love the Hispanics! I have thousands of Hispanics…-APPARENTLY PEOPLE FROM THE CROWD CALL OUT THEY LOVE TRUMP-… ‘thank you. I love you too. I love you too’. True. I have thousands of Hispanics working for me all over.
 
In this place, I have you know 1,800, 1,900 employees, and…many are Hispanics…they're unbelievable people, unbelievable workers…I love ‘em. I love em! I love em! And they know…they're smart, they know I’m bringing jobs back, from China, from Japan…from all these countries! I'm bringing them back! And nobody else can do that! I know the people I’m running against, including Hillary. No…they can't do that! They can't do that! They can't do that! I mean, honestly…? Ben Carson cannot do that folks. I hate to tell you. Cannot do it. Can't do it. They're not gonna do it.
 
So here's the story: so winning in Florida, winning in Texas…okay? Winning in Texas…big! Winning in South Carolina, winning in North Carolina. winning in Ohio, against Kasich, which is interesting, and he's a good man, he's a good man. But I'm winning Ohio, against Kasich! I'm winning in Massachusetts. Listen to this one. This is one I love. Maybe…I don't even know why. Massachusetts: I’m at 48! 48! 48! And second place is…12! Boy, I'm gonna have to do a really, really bad crash to blow…that one! You know? –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So…what happens!? Let me give you the bad news, right? –CROWD GOES ‘OH!’. And this’s been going on now for a hundred days. Did you celebrate it…I… they were celebrating on television: 100 days…! …on the top of every poll…! Think of it! –CROWD CHEERS. One hundred days, on the top of…every single poll…national and state. Okay! That's the good news! Right? Let me give you the bad news. The press was so happy…oh! You had all the press…I love Iowa, and I honestly, I think those polls are wrong –CROWD CALLS OUT INAUDIBLE STUFF. I’m Presbyterian, I'm a great Christian…true! –CROWD CHEERS. True! They say in the poll I’m the best leader, they say in the poll I'm the best on the economy…by far! It's not like up by two points…it’s like by…triple! How…how important is the economy? Right? Remember the economy? Remember that? Is the economy stupid…? I mean, it's economy…? So I’m leading on the economy. I'm leaving with men…big-league! I'm not doing as well with women…! –CROWD CHEERS…will you help me!? What's going on…? What is…? Which I don't…look! Nobody respects women more than me…greatest person ever was my mother, believing me, the greatest. Nobody's gonna be better or do more for women that Donald Trump. That I can tell you –CROWD CHEERS. That I can tell you! And I think they know it.
 
I'd rather do well with women that with men. With men I'm doing great. I'm killing everybody! With women…meh…not terrible, but I could do better! So…so what happens…what happens is the poll comes out, right? And the press was so happy. Headline! Now, just so you understand, if I weren’t in first place it wouldn’t even be discussed. Nobody would mention it. But here it is all day long. Oh, my head! I turned on the television, headline…bigger than Hillary's talk yesterday on Benghazi –CROWD BOOS.
 
So headline…! Here’s the headline! Headline! The biggest story…you see it…am I right? Trump falls the second place in Iowa…I said, ‘no way!’. The press was going crazy! They loved it! They were so happy. I won't mention the names, but you know some of them. You know some of them. –MR. TRUMP IMITATES THE PRESS WITH ANOTHER TONE OF VOICE-… ‘We have a breaking story: Donald Trump has fallen to second place behind Ben Carson. We informed Ben, but he was sleeping…’-CROWD LAUGHS. No, ‘Donald Trump has fallen to second place’. You know, it's funny you got all these guys…two people dropped out, right? Perry…you know about that. And you know, the governor of Wisconsin, very nice guy, right? Walker. They both dropped out. They became so vicious…! …to me! They…Perry was such a nice guy, like two months ago, he couldn't have been…that he went to Washington…to make a speech about me! It was so vicious…that those that loved me started crying –MR. TRUMP MEANS IT SARCASTICALLY. Yeah, maybe –THE CROWD LAUGHS. No, it’s vicious! It…sent…then, and…and we had so many! Then you had Lindsay Graeme. I don't even know the guy! The only time I know is when he calls me constantly, asking for campaign contributions. It’s true! He became so vicious and violent…! I mean, every time they get more and more vicious and violent, they go down! …down! Down! In fact, Lindsay Graeme was at five and he hit me as hard as you can be hit. He said, ‘I don't know anything about the military, what do I know about foreign affairs?’. Except one thing!
 
I wrote a book in 2000, right? And…Joe Scarborough yesterday covered it. I wrote a book in 2000, before the World Trade Center came down. And I said that, ‘there's gonna be a big attack in this country’, and I said, ‘probably by…somebody named…Osama Bin Laden…this was before anybody had ever heard his name! And…I said… ‘it’s gonna be much worse…’, you remember the first attack which was a horrible attack, but it was a small attack, by comparison, obviously, to the second one, which was horrendous. The worst attack in the history of our country. Worse than Pearl Harbor. At least with Pearl Harbor they were attacking the military. They weren't attacking innocent civilians…of which many thousands died. And are still…are still living in pain, and suffering. Not to mention the fire department's, the police departments, and all the guys that had to breathe that…air! –CROWD APPLAUDS. For long periods of time –CROWD APPLAUDS. So… ‘thank you’.
 
So I have it in the book, ‘watch Osama Bin Laden’, and Scarborough goes, ‘Whoa! When was that book written!?’…. ‘before the World Trade Center…’. ‘Whoa!’. He's a good guy, he was like…he couldn't believe it. And I don't get any credit, they don't give me any credit for it. And then I have Jeb Bush, saying…then I have Jeb Bush saying, ‘what does Donald Trump know about…the military…? …or about?’. I'm like a smart guy, you know? I'm really smart! But it's amazing! People aren’t talking about it. They should talk about it more! Because if you read the book it says, ‘Osama bin Laden, the guy…’. And the reason was…he was a terrorist…that was getting a lot of notoriety, he made very vicious statements toward our country…and I said, ‘you better watch that guy!’…and what happened!? I think it was 19 months after that…he came back, and knocked down, and attacked, viciously, with the lives of the World Trade Center.
 
So in the debate which every poll said I won, by the way, but these are minor details. Forget it. The second debate, and the first debate!  Drudge, Time magazine, Slate, everybody! Every single poll, online polls, they also…and believe me, I'm not calling up hundreds of thousands of people. I can tell you. But Jeb said, ‘my brother left us safe’, and…and I'm okay with it. But then I said to him, ‘ehm…what about the World Trade Center?’, the biggest attack ever. They should have known about it, and they could have known about it…and I'm not blaming George Bush, I’m not blaming anybody. I could also blame…Clinton, right? –CROWD CHEERS. No! Cause…in all fairness to Bush, he was only president for about nine months. In all fairness!
 
And Bill Clinton gave a speech, and he knew Osama bin Laden just like I did…and he gave this speech talking about Osama bin Laden. So we can’t blame Bush. We can blame everybody! I will say this: you know the expression the buck stops here? Your president…the buck stops here. It’s the way it is. And it's one of the reasons that I say…and I mean there's so strongly, we owe a lot of money, 19 trillion, I told you. But we gotta build up our military…so big, so strong, so powerful…-CROWD CHEERS-…gotta do it, we gotta do it, you gotta do it! So powerful…! …that nobody is going to mess with us. Nobody. I don't wanna use it. I don't wanna use it. Nobody…nobody is going to mess.
 
You know, we're working on an airplane, right now I don’t know if you have been reading about it. Billions and billions of dollars…for one plane! And the test pilots…did you read the story? I love the test pilots…these are great guys. These are, seriously, good flyers! Do we agree? And they came out of the plane…billions of dollars...! …and they say, ‘this thing doesn't hold a candle…to the old one…! …that we used to fly!’. ‘It doesn't maneuver as well, doesn't work…’. We're talking billions and billions…! …what are we doing folks? What are we doing? What are we doing? What are we doing?
 
So…so…we need a special leader. We need a special leader –CROWD CHEERS AND CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. We need a special leader. So let me just…it's…
So…the headlines blared…I don't believe those polls, by the way. Because, both of those posters do not like me, I'm telling you. Now, I'm not saying anything that goes on illicitly with polling…okay? I would never ever…! …say that. But both of those polling groups do not like me at all. And…I disagree, I don't believe it. I was just interviewed…where is Jake Tapper…is he here…? Jake! Where’s Jake!? –CROWD STARTS BOOING. What happened to Jake? No, he’s a good man. He just interviewed me, watch me: nine o'clock, Sunday morning, Jake Tapper, on CNN. What the hell happened to Jake? He's here someplace. He's here someplace. He's a good man. Oh! …he's…maybe he’s shy. But he’s here somewhere. But it's good, it's into…it’s nine o'clock, on Sunday morning, CNN.
 
But…I think we're gonna do great in Iowa. I think we're gonna do…really great. But here's the story: I have never seen such press! I mean, my wife called. She said, ‘are you okay darling? How bad is it? How bad is it? They made it sound like it's the greatest defeat in history. Part is this, they wanted…it wouldn't have even been mentioned! It wouldn't be a story. But then I said to myself. ‘look, I have to talk…I'm gonna be nice…I'm gonna be nice…because I have to…I have to talk about him. Ben Carson… -MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘YOU’VE GOT THE POWER!’-… ‘thank you’. Ben Carson is the one that's leading Iowa's, supposedly. Okay? And I said, ‘I got to talk about him’. A friend of mine who happens to be a great, great athlete. He happens to be African-American. He calls himself ‘black’. He said, ‘I’m black!’ I said, I can't say that. It's not politically correct’-CROWD LAUGHS. It’s true! He said, ‘Donald you're the greatest trash-talker that ever lived…and I never…’, he says this to me. He said, ‘…and I never thought I’d say it about a white guy!’. Can you believe this!? –CROWD LAUGHS. And I said, ‘I don't know if that's true or not’, cause I refused to have a…
 
He said, ‘when you said low energy for Bush, you defined him so incredible. It’s over! He can have a hundred and twenty-five billion dollars in the bank, Donald, it's over. It was just…defined!’. But I said, but Ben Carson is super low energy!’. Right? He’s super…he’s super low! Super low energy! We need tremendous energy!  -CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…we…we need energy! –CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY. We…need…energy!
 
So…Hillary Clinton, the other day…-CROWD BOOS-…she said, ‘I don't like Donald Trump’s tone’. ‘I don't his tone!’ …tone! Can you imagine? My tone…! …my tone! Think of it! She doesn't like my tone! We have people…they're Christians, and their heads are being chopped off in the Middle East! We have people…that are dying, by the thousands, all over this country! We have people…that are being drowned in cages! It hasn't been like this since medieval times! It's true! Who would ever think? And she's talking about my tone! Think of it! Think of it! Think of it! We have to be politically correct.
 
So they can chop off the heads of an American Christian…and we can't water board! It's not fair! No, it's not fair. No, think of it! Think of how…think of how crazy…and how lopsided our country has become. Think of what's going on. Think of what's going on! Think of why we're not respected. Think about sergeant Bergdahl…a traitor! A traitor! Think of it! –CROWD BOOS.
He's a dirty rotten traitor…! …six people died going after him. They died! Six young incredible, brave…people died. The deal is…we get traitor Bergdahl…they get five…of the best people that they have…that they've been after for 10 years…they get five killers that are right now leading, and back on the battlefield, trying to kill everybody including you…and we get Bergdahl, a traitor. Okay? We get Bergdahl –CROWD BOOS.
And then…two days ago it came out that Bergdahl…they don't want to put him in jail. You know, the old days, boom –ONOMATOPOEIC SOUND ACCOMPANIED BY A SHOOTING GESTURE-, firing squad. No, it’s true! –CROWD CHEERS. I love the Second Amendment! I love the second amendment –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So two days ago, it comes out that sergeant Bergdahl won't even have to go to jail! Think of where have we gone, where have we got, what's going on with our country…okay? I'll tell you one thing: if I win…not gonna be my most important job –CROWD BOOS BECAUSE OF THE ‘IF’. Not ‘if’. We have to say it. Hey, look! Look! …-MR. TRUMP NOW REMAINS SILENT AND OBSERVES THE CROWD AND FIRST ROWS. HE COMMENTS ON THEIR REACTION-… ‘they’re all going not ‘if’, ‘when’. Alright! Alright! –CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY. Okay. You know what? The word should be ‘if’, but you know what, they're going crazy up here to say ‘when’, ‘when’, ‘when’…so ‘when’! Okay? ‘when’, ‘when’! And I hope so…! Because I'll tell you, we can make our country so great again! To make it so great again…
But I promise you, we will be reopening that Bergdahl disaster –CROWD CHEERS. We will be real reopening it. It's gonna be reopened…a lot of things are gonna be reopen! There are a lot of things gonna be reopened! You gonna have a lot of things reopened.
 
So…I went to my people, and just like Doral, I got it for 170, everyone thinks it's done…I said, ‘let's make it 150’. They say, ‘how can you do that!?... you signed the contract’. I did. But the place…just like that. We have…deals with China…that are done. Somebody said, ‘well, they're signed!’. I said, that's okay. They violated every deal we haven't made. No, they violated it. That means they're in default! That means they're in default! Okay? –CROWD BOOS.
So I said to my people, two weeks ago. I said, ‘go back, and tell me what is our trade…imbalance with a big three countries: China! Japan…! …and Mexico! I just wanna find out. I'm just curious. I'm just curious. So Mexico…and I love Mexico! And I love the Mexican people!  But their leaders are too smart for our leaders! Ay, ay, ay! –MR- TRUMP TAKES HIS HANDS TO HIS FACE AND COVERS IT PRETENDING EXASPERATION. Our leaders are so stupid! They're so stupid! So with Mexico we lose about 45 a billion dollars a year. Would you say that's a lot? But that's okay, because that's peanuts…! …compared to…wait to hear…
 
Japan…we have an imbalance of 70 billion dollars a year! 70 billion. 70 billion…! …it’s…it’s…most people don't even know what that is. What does that mean!? The number is so massive! It's not even recoverable! But I can recover it…
But here's the beauty…and I love China, they buy my apartments, they give me 25 million, I do them like hotcakes…INAUDIBLE. But China is the most unfair. Because…well…Japan's right there. You know, Japan sells those…they just be valued the hell out of their currency. You saw that, Japan.
But China…gave the biggest greatest devaluation in the last two decades! Meaning…20 years. The biggest devaluation! So I said, ‘what’s the trade imbalance…?’. They told me Mexico first, I said, ‘wow, that's a lot of money’. Then they said Japan, I said, ‘well, that's even more money!’. I said, ‘give it to me with China’ –CROWD LAUGHS. Almost…400 billion dollars a year…we lose –CROWD BOOS. How…stupid…are we!? How…? We should be ashamed of ourselves. How…stupid are we? And I don't blame China! I don't blame them at all! I have friends from China…they used to come up, and see me and say, ‘Oh, Donald, we can't believe…! …we can't believe that we get away with this. It's unbelievable. Your people…they are incompetent’. Then I said I’m running for president, they called me, ‘no, we were only kidding, you're actually…’, amazing. They had no idea I'd be revealing…their conversation. They can't even believe they got away!
 
First of all, when China sends us their goods…there's no tax…there's no nothing. When we send China…number one, they won't accept them. If they do accept them…they have massive taxes and tariffs! It’s a one-way street! It's a one-way street! A friend of mine…great manufacturer, can't get his goods…and he manufactures great stuff, can't get his goods in China! Calls me: ‘I can’t…I can't deal with these people!’. Then finally, he gets them in…they charged him a tax that was so high, I can't tell you cuz nobody's gonna believe how high it was!
 
This is smart people! But I have people that are smarter! I have people –CROWD CHEERS. It’s true! I have people. I mean, I have some of the great business people…they're all calling me! These guys, friends of mine, some enemies…! I even have enemies calling! I have guys…that are so smart…and some I don't like! Some I hate…I can't stand! Some are tough…horrible people! Actually, I know one that's so bad…as a human being. He's the worst human being I've ever met. But he's an unbelievable…! …negotiator. I said, ‘Irving, come on, you're going with us’. And these are wealthy people! These are really wealthy people! And they're all calling me! They all wanna get involved. I have a great guy, really great. Great businessman. Great…everything. Carl Icahn –CROWD CHEERS. He called, ‘I wanna get involved, I wanna help’. MR. TRUMP REPRODUCES WHAT ICAHN MAY HAVE SAID. He doesn't want money! He doesn't want a salary! You know, all these people representing us, they want salary! They give two thousand dollars to somebody, and now they're supposed to be paid for the next…eight years, by some…stupid politician! Okay? No, no! Carl Icahn…wants to represent the country…for nothing!
 
Now, if I say…-CROWD CHEERS-…and he's a great guy. And he's a great…I don't care if he's a great guy! He's a great guy, but I don't care! Because I have others that aren't great guys. But they're great…at what they do!
 
I know the great ones…I know the bad ones…I know the guys that are overrated. You got some overrated! You got some overrated. You got some that are highly overrated! I won't use them! I have some that nobody ever heard of, that are better than all of them…they’re great! We have the most talented people! There are! This isn't wanna be political…this isn't going to be political hacks.
 
Now, if I tell Carl, ‘go watch over China for me, Carl. Just watch over China’. Trust me! Good things are gonna happen for us! Believe me! Really good things are gonna happen! I mean, we have a thing, right now going on, called corporate inversion. Nobody knows what it is, but…companies have trillions of dollars in other countries! And we can't get it back into…this country. You know that, right? You've been hearing about it. Trillions. They know the number’s two and a half trillion…I say it's much higher than that. Nobody really knows. I think…it's a so…at least two and a half trillion is offshore…all these different countries…and what we're doing is…our…companies are going to...,and they've already started, leaving the United States, and moving to those other countries, to get their money…-CROWD BOOWS-… ‘well, but you can’t blame ‘em! …to get their money…and…! And…! …to get lower taxes!
 
So I came up with a tax plan that cut taxes way down…way down…! …for corporations, for…for the middle income people…-CROWD CHEERS-…for the middle income people…of which we don’t have many in this room, I can tell you. They’re all upper middle income people. And upper people. But…for the middle income people. Cause the middle people in this country has been totally forgotten about! It’s been totally forgotten about!
 
So we are cutting taxes, we are cutting taxes for the middle income. We’re cutting…a lot of things like…carried interest…these guys…you know, the hedge fund guys, they pick a stock, if it goes up, they are geniuses, they make a fortune. If it goes down, they find another job. Okay? A lot of it is luck.
 
So what happens is…the Democrats and the Republicans, both agree…! …that we should bring the money back. Who cannot agree…!? …for three-and-a-half years they've agreed! And they still can't make a deal. It's gridlock in Washington. Its lack of leadership in Washington. And we're going to stop it. We're going to stop it. We're going to stop it –CROWD CHEERS.
The other day…and it's gonna be amazing. We're gonna have a dynamic…! …a really dynamic…! …country. The other day, I watch a general being interviewed. And I said to a group before, ‘why the hell is a general being interviewed on television!?’. I don't want my generals being interviewed! I don't want them telling what we're doing, where we're going…
Can you imagine General George Patton, who used to walk in a room, with blood pouring out of his eyes…do you think this guy's gonna be interviewed on CNN? I don't think so. I mean, I'm watching this general, be interviewed. And the first thing is that…and I love great generals! I love General MacArthur! You know, to this day, he had the highest marks…I'm a big fan of academics, believe it or not. But he had the highest marks, in the history of West Point! Highest average…that's a…you know, smart guy. But his biggest problem is he hated to listen to Dwight Eisenhower, because…Dwight, who is a great guy, but he was at the lower part of his class, and MacArthur was the smartest guy, probably ever at west point, at least according to academics...and he couldn't believe that he had to take orders, from Mike! I mean…there's so many interesting stories…!
 
But could you imagine…? …could you imagine…? General Douglas MacArthur, being on television, saying the following: the question was…by a very good…man, asking the questions, said ‘What do you think of ISIS?’. ‘Can we win?’. And the general looked at him and said, ‘oh, it's going to be very tough –CROWD LAUGHS AFTER TRUMP MOCKS HIM WITH A SLOWER TONE OF VOICE. It's going to be very, very tough. I don't know. It's going to take a very, very long time’. And I looked at this guy, and I said: ‘number one, he's a weak person’. I cannot…I’m very good…you know, deals aren’t deals. Deals are people. When you do deals, it’s people, not that deals –CROWD CHEERS. Everybody always says, ‘deals…deals are people!’. Remember it. I tell kids: ‘deals are not deals, deals are people!’.
 
But I looked at this…general. I said, ‘I don't want him. I don't want him’. I will find the smartest…and smart is very important…toughest…you know, we got rid of a very smart, and I'm not gonna mention names. But we got rid of a guy…remember!? …because he was using foul language, to a magazine. He was tough! …and mean! …and nasty! And the troops really respected….and we got rid of him because he was…tough. I will find…the general MacArthur. I will find the general George Patton. We got ‘em. We got ‘em –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They may not be politically correct…who cares!? Who cares!? But we're going to find ‘em. And we're gonna clean things up. And we're gonna…we're gonna have a great country again. We're gonna have a great, great…and respected! We have a respected country –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So…we have a lot to do…-APPARENTLY A MEMBER IN THE CROWD CALLS OUT ‘THE WALL’. TRUMP PAYS THEM ATTENTION-…we will build the wall! –CROWD CHEERS. We will build the wall. We have no choice. And by the way, people will come into our country…but they're going to come in legally! Legally! –CROWD CHEERS AND STARTS CHANTING ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY.
 
You know, I appreciate whoever the hell yelled out we’ll… ‘you’ll build the wall’ because to be honest, in this group, I wasn't so sure I should be talking about walls…? –CROWD CHEERS. Does that make sense? –CROWD CHEERS. See…tomorrow…tomorrow in Jacksonville, I can talk about walls, believe me. But in this one, I was a little hesitant to talk about it. Thank you! –POINTING AT THE CROWD OR PERSON THAT YELLED IT. Thank you! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
By the way, and I say this all the time, and people buried out. A radio host, Hispanic show, in New York. Said, ‘you know…’ he was interviewed two weeks ago. He said, ‘you know, my audience is all Hispanic. They love Trump. They love Trump!’…-CROWD CHEERS. And let me tell you. Let me tell you: who wants to stop illegal immigration more than anybody? The Hispanics…that are in our country, legally! –CROWD CHEERS. It's true! It's true!
 
So just to finish up. Our country doesn't win any more. You know that, right? Am I right? We don't win. When was the last time we had victory? We lose with China…on trade. We lose with ISIS. We lose with Iraq…we don't know what we're doing. Iran just made…the single greatest contract I have ever seen…anybody make. We were represented by a man…that should be ashamed of himself…-CROWD BOOWS. A man, secretary Kerry, that you get the hell off a bicycle…-CROWD BOOWS. He’s a guy falls off his bicycle during the negotiation! …breaks his leg! We were represented by incompetent people! And…it's not gonna happen anymore folks. Not gonna happen anymore.
 
And let me tell you something. If and when I win…-CROWD CHEERS-…I'm not…-CROWD INTERRUPTS BY CHANTING ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY. So…if and when I win.  We…are going to have…so many victories. It's going to be so nice! It's going to be so nice! –CROWD CHEERS. So we're gonna win on trade. We're gonna win…at everything. We're gonna terminate Obamacare…we're gonna… terminate it. Gonna be terminated it. It's going to be replaced, with something much better, and much less expensive…for you, and for the country!
 
Let me tell you, Obamacare was a dream for the insurance companies. They've made a fortune with Obamacare. They've made a fortune. And your premiums…are up 40 percent…! …50 percent! …55 present! …your deductibles are through the roof…you'll never even be able to use it. It is so bad…! We're gonna repeal it, and replace it with something great –CROWD CHEERS. Great!
 
We…are going…to bring back…the American dream –CROWD CHEERS. And we…and this is a sure as you're standing here tonight, and look around folks. Cause this is a movement. This is something very special, and it's happening all over the country…! …not just here in Miami! It's happening all over the country. You'll see it tomorrow in Jacksonville. It happens all over the country!
 
We…are going to make…America great again –CROWD CHEERS. Thank you.
 
Thank you very much.
 
Thank you. 

