VIDEO Nº: 44
TITLE:44. Speech: Donald Trump - Macon, GA - November 30, 2015
DATE OF EVENT:30/11/2015
RELEASE DATE:28/10/2017
DURATION:01.12.04 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:11966
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What a crowd!
 
What a crowd!
 
What a group! Beautiful!
 
Thank you very much. What an incredible group of people! Beautiful! And you know, no matter where we’re going now, everybody wants to see greatness for our country. We wanna bring it back, it’s the same. Everybody loves each other. I’ll tell you, we left…so many places. I mean we go…we go New Hampshire, we go Iowa, we go South Carolina we go to Virginia, we go…no matter where we go, Dallas…no matter where we go…it's the same thing. There's so much love in the room, it's easy to do this. It really is! It's easy to do! It's easy! Amazing! It's amazing!
 
I wanna thank Herman Cain, my friend, for…his…wonderful remarks. He's really a good guy. Nein, nein, nein! Right!? Nein, nein, nein! Whatever Harmon is, thank you Herman! And you know, we had a meeting today that was amazing. We had the African-American passes…so many came up to Trump Tower. It was…like one of the most…inspiring meetings. It was an unbelievable…the love they have for…the people that they represent. And people, generally, was incredible. And I just wanna tell you. They left Trump Tower. I then immediately got on the plane…and I felt very inspired. It was a really terrific day.
 
So…and Bruce is here! Where is Bruce!? –CROWD CHEERS. Bruce LeVell! Bruce! Get over here Bruce! You know Bruce!? Ehm…if you don’t know him! Bruce! Come over here Bruce! –MR. BRUCE LEVELL, AN ADVISOR TO MR. TRUMP’S CAMPAIGN, COMES ONSTAGE.
 
MR. TRUMP TAKES THE FLOOR AGAIN. Minute 00.03.46:
 
Thank you Bruce! Pastor! Thank you. That was very nice. But, we met with…many, many pastors, and it was just great. So…as you can see, the people are still pouring out. Now we could…we could get all of these people coming in right now, if you'd like to wait for 45 minutes before we start…DO- you wanna do that!? –CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. I had a feeling you were going to say that. I had a feeling!
 
It's been going amazingly well. You do have the mainstream media. You know, I've been hearing about mainstream media. All my life! –CROWD BOOS. MR. TRUMP JOINS THE BOOING. No, I've been hearing about it, and it's true! I mean, they don't give you accurate…really representation. It's an amazing thing. They don't do it! They don't do it! You know, I constantly talk about the cameras. They never show the crowds. They never show the crowds. My wife is always disappointed, ‘darling, you must not have had a good crowd tonight’. But now, after about three or four times she understands. They never wanna show the crowds. They never wanna fan the cameras. It's an incredible thing. Can you do it maybe once!? Fan the cameras! Fan…look! Fan the cameras! They don’t move them. They don’t move them! They don’t move them! You know, I should be happy. It’is focused on my face. They never move it. Nobody knows what's going on, because you really don’t…they don't wanna…I…I mean, it sounds crazy. They don't want to show…the kind of response we're getting.
 
So we had 12,000 people…we had 12,000 in Sarasota, Florida, on Saturday, in an afternoon during football games. 12,000, biggest crowd ever. They never had a crowd even close! The arena held six. We had six outside, six inside. I made two speeches. And…nobody knew that! They don't talk about it, so that's okay. Here's the story! Here's what's important! Here’s what's important! We're winning in every single category…every single category…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're winning every single poll…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. FOX just came out. We're beating Hillary Clinton, even head-to-head by a lot…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…and, I have to tell you. We're beating by a lot! But…she does…and this people are gonna say, ‘oh, that's not a nice thing to say’, who cares? We can't afford to be so nice, folks. We can’t afford it. We don't have the options. You know, for a while we had options, we could mess it up and…we don't have the options, we've gotta get it right. She doesn't have the strength or the stamina to be President…–CROWD CHEERS. She just doesn’t. She doesn’t. I know her. DO- you ever notice, she’ll go in one of these things…and she'll do something…and it's, by the way, the crowds are like…the crowds are like 200 people –CROWD LAUGHS. We were in New Hampshire…actually a part of Massachusetts, where I have forty-eight percent! You know why? Cause Tom Brady likes me. What can I tell you? I think so –CROWD LAUGHS. If Tom Brady likes you, you're in pretty good shape in Massachusetts. But we have forty-eight percent in the poll, in Massachusetts. And we're landing…and Hillary…is nearby, and she's going past. And we had all of the police in Massachusetts, give us a motorcade…you never saw anything like. It was like 50 motorcycles, of the most incredible…I actually said, ‘why do I have to be president?’. No president ever had a motorcade like we just got –CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And Hillary…we had 4,500 people and right next door, meaning 10 miles up the road…Hillary had about 200 people. It was…the way it is! That's the way it is! –CROWD BOOS. And…I'll tell you, this just came out…-MR. TRUMP SHOWS A PAPER-…I don't know if the other networks can keep their thing going, but I might as well. CNBC and CNN…-CROWD BOOS-…yeah, they’re pretty lousy. That guy, John Harwood…was a real stiff. Wasn’t he? Want a dope! What a dope he was! He was so nice to me for 3-4 weeks: ‘Oh, yes Mr. Trump. Oh, Mr. Trump, we look so forward…we look so forward to having you…!’. And then he writes…reads these questions, such a nasty questions…and I said, ‘what a nasty…question!’. Right? –CROWD BOOS. So they're just a…bunch of phony people. But when it comes to this…-MR. TRUMP SHOWS A PAPER-…I'll say it's good, because I only…it's good news!  So good news…they're not funny. All right?
 
So this was CNBC. So it says, ‘staying home...’, and it says, ‘…for the front-runner, 75 percent Republicans polled…’, basically, you see the charts. And that if Trump runs, far more people are going out to vote in the election. Far! Far more! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Then…it says… ‘no matter’…I have no glasses on, but these are minor details’. I didn't wanna put the glasses on. Does it make sense? Should I put them on? –MR. TRUMP CHECKS WHAT THE AUDIENCE SAYS-… ‘no’…-MR. TRUMP LAUGHS-… ‘they all say “no, don't do it. Don't do it”’. Okay. I'm gonna do it without. MR. TRUMP READS FROM THE PAPER-…‘No matter what party affiliation you consider, Trump brings them out’. This is CNBC. ‘Republicans, Democrats, and Independents are all most likely to show up if Trump is on the ballot. In our analysis, we assume constant variables, the Democrats nominating Hillary…’ …which is gonna happen, unfortunately, or fortunately. I'd actually rather run against her. She has done such a lousy job! You know…-CROWD CHEERS-…you know what her legacy is going to be? The greatest job…that she has ever done…will be getting out of the…email scandal, assuming that happens. I…it’s true! That will be her greatest achievement. You see all the classifieds today? They had thousand! How does a person have that many email!? They have 3000 here, five thousand…how do you have that many emails anyway!? But they have thousands of classified today, it's disgusting, cause frankly, she shouldn't be allowed to run. She shouldn't be!
 
But…the Democrats are protecting her. She's being fully protected, as the expression goes, and…and, by the way, we can't tell any more jokes. You know, every time I kid…and tell jokes…these guys put on like, you know, little segments; like the belt, right? The belt! You know what I'm talking…? I talked about Carson, how it doesn't work that way, if you hit…and I went to like a whole big thing… ‘can't be possible, the belt will twist to it…’, so I'm going through this thing, like 43 minutes, and I pull over to the side, and start showing…the belt! And I started showing it, very strong…very nice, you know. But it's a part of a whole story…they never showed anything…just that two, three second clip…I'm playing with my belt, and people don't know, ‘what the hell you doing!?’ –CROWD LAUGHS. It's unbelievable!
 
And then I…I…talked about the other day, I talked about a reporter who changed his story. He changed his story! And I go into this…very highly exaggerated…phase of changing the story. They don't say what it's all about. All they do is they show these little…snippets. They do whatever they can to make you look bad. So what I'm gonna do…I'm not gonna tell any more jokes. I'm not gonna kid…-CROWD GOES ‘NO!’-…oh, you want me…want me to? Okay! Okay, so I will! All right!? Just as long…no, it's true! And then my opponents do commercials…where they take a two-second snippet…these are really dishonest people. Like this guy, Kasich. He did a commercial…total stiff. Hey, bet…I'm beating him in…I'm beating him in Ohio by a lot! And he's the governor of Ohio! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, it's terrible!
 
They say… ‘something to the affected…kinder people’…I was talking about Carson. And I said…that he had a certain problem, right? We don't have to go into it –MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘YES!’. MR. TRUMP HEARS IT AND RESPONDS-… ‘okay, I will’…-CROWD LAUGHS. No, I said he had…a certain pathological problem. Now, he wrote it. I didn't write it! And he said he suffers from pathological disease. Okay? That's a serious problem! Don’t we have enough problems in this…world? –CROWD LAUGHS. And I said…essentially, the people of Iowa can't be that stupid! …and then I said… ‘the people of the United States…’ …something to the effect…can’t be…that's…in another words, I’m talking about everybody! How can you vote for somebody with a problem like that? I'm not even talking about going after the mother with a hammer. I'm not talking about hitting his friend in the face with a lock. And I’m not talking about that…total nonsense about boom! –MR. TRUMP PLAYS OUT A STABBING GESTURE-…into a stomach, and the belt…saved him –CROWD LAUGHS. Okay? Okay? I'm not talking about those stories. I said I’m not gonna mention them tonight so just…just disregard –CROWD LAUGHS. It’s like you tell…you’re before a jury, in the judges, ‘please, disregard’. Oh, okay, we’ll disregard. So…so what happens…what happens is…Kasich does a commercial. But he only puts up the first part. He doesn't put up the second, about all the people in the United States. They take little snippets! These are horrible people! Horrible people! Interestingly, in the same poll…not that I care about Kasich, I think he's got one percent. But it says, ‘Kasich does the worst’.
 
You know, it's funny! When people come after me…they've gone down the tubes! You look at Kasich. Now…before that, Jindal, he was vicious. Bobby Jindal! Alfred E Newman I call him…–CROWD LAUGHS. No, it's true! Think of it! He was vicious! He was so vicious! He was going after me, I said, ‘I don't even know this guy’. And then you have Perry, the nicest guy, from Texas. In a problem, you know…one of the worst debate performances in the history of debates…–CROWD LAUGHS. That was the debate performance you can never ever live down. But…all of a suddenly became vicious. He goes to Washington, makes a major speech on me. I said, ‘what did I do!?’. Because they wanted to pick up. He goes down!
 
Lindsay Graham! I mean…this poor guy –CROWD BOOS. No, no, the poor guy. Think of it: he's a US senator…and in South Carolina…I was a 32 or 38, and he was a two or three! And he's a sitting senator!
 
How about Florida? How about Florida? In Florida…I met…32 and 28…very high numbers! And…a governor, Bush! I mean, honestly? …–CROWD BOOS. It's over! So many commercials! I can't watch them! He spent millions, and millions of dollars…I’ve spent nothing! I haven't done a commercial! –CROWD APPLAUDS. I actually felt badly! No, I actually felt badly! I did a radio commercial, a small one, because the press was killing me, ‘why aren’t you doing more commercials? Why, why, why!?’. They said, ‘you gotta do a little commercial’. I don't need it! But we gotta do a commercial. So we did it. Actually, a pretty good radio commercial. We're gonna be doing a lot of commercials, actually. I think! I think! Actually, we're gonna be doing most of the commercials…that if somebody hits me, I'm gonna hit them back so hard…oh, oh!... –CROWD CHEERS. We're gonna hit them back ten times harder than they ever, which is what we should be doing with ISIS, and everybody else. Okay? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Incredible! …–CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY AND MR. TRUMP JOINS THE CHANT-…it's so cute! These people that are pulling in the back, they don't know what they're missing! Do they? They don't know!
 
So…so…so many things! But…Lindsey Graham…disaster. Perry…disaster. All…like disasters. Think of this, and I I…a friend of mine said…. ‘you know, so far…’, now let's see, Christie hasn't hit me yet…he will! He has to! He has no choices! He’s at two or three! He's got to! He's gonna hit me…at some point. Ehm…Rubio's gotta hit me…hey, there's only one way you get to the top, and it's all through ‘Trump’. Let's face it! They have to! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They have to! Even I think Cruz is gonna have to hit me, because…you know, he's a nice guy. He's been so supportive…everything I said, he supported. Every single thing I said. And he's been so supportive. But at some point he’s gonna have to hit me, right? It's gonna be a sad day, but we will hit back, I promise. I promise.
 
But you look at what's going on…and you look at the world…and you see what's happening. And…we…have to get this…right. We can't put a stiff. We can't put a low-energy person. We can put…people, some of whom…I've gotten to know. Some of whom I respect. Some of whom I really don't respect. Some of whom I don't respect. I look at some of the people that are on the dais. I never debated before. Now, in all fairness, every online poll Drudge…terrific, he's a terrific guy, by the way. Drudge. But Drudge has a big poll, hundreds of thousands of people vote, after the…debates. Time Magazine! Time…I just on the cover of Time Magazine. Believe me, other than that I have no power over Time Magazine. Time Magazine…slayed…they all do these polls, like five or six. So we have the debates. Every single debate…and believe me, hundreds of thousands, I’m not telling people to make phone calls, all right? It's an online poll, which I think are actually better in many respects, than when they interview 300 people and they say you're winning. I don't understand 300 people. I do understand 200,000 people. But I don't understand why the interview 297 point 3. Point 3 is a baby. Okay? –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So I never understood that. But you know what? Whatever! I took that…at the Wharton School of Finance, I took that whole thing. And it never made sense to me. But I guess it works, cause usually they're right…although…! …in the last number of elections they've been wrong. I hope they're right! Right!? I want them to be right! They gotta be right!
 
But you look at these polls. And in the debates…I won all the debates, and I'm saying to myself today: CNN, I’m coming over. And I told you, we had this great pastors’ meeting. This great, great meeting…look…–MR. TRUMP POINTS TO THE CAMERAS IN THE BACK–…the camera just went off, from CNN. They know me…–CROWD LAUGHS. I love…I love hitting them…while their camera is on. No, no I love it. I love it –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So CNN…gave me the worst story! It was like the meeting never even took place. And it was such a great…it was like a lovefest. And I said, ‘that's really unfair stuff’. So maybe…how would you like to do this? FOX, for the first debate, ended up with 24 to 25 million people. One of the largest…in the history of cable, maybe the largest show, I think, in the history of cable. CNN had 23 million people…it was the biggest show…in the history of CNN. This isn't me! This is from Showbiz, okay? The biggest ratings in the history of…CNN. Biggest! They cover wars, they cover…they cover…! How about…the next debate is with CNN? Now, you have to tell me, because I know what they're gonna say. They’re gonna say, ‘oh, “Trump” is chicken’. Okay? How about…I tell CNN…who doesn't treat me properly. They don't. They just don’t. Right!? –CROWD CHEERS. They don’t. They really don’t! And I have a lot of respect for some of the people over there, but they don't treat me…
 
How about I tell CNN that I’m not gonna do the next debate? Okay? –CROWD BOOS-…I'll tell you the problem. You know, we discuss…this is the nice thing. When you're really smart. Like really, really, really smart…like I am…–CROWD CHEERS. It’s true! It’s true! It’s always been true. No, it’s always been true!
But…I can do these things…extemporaneously. So I don't need teleprompters. Like Obama. He walks out, ‘ladies and gentlemen…of…Georgia…ah! ...okay!...ladies and gentlemen, thank you…very much!’ MR. TRUMP PLAYED OUT OBAMA READING FROM A SCREEN. THE CROWD LAUGHED. You know how easy that is!? You read for a half-hour, and you…I talk for an hour and a half! And I don't have any of that stuff! But the nice thing is…you can be very current. You know, current events. You're not reading a speech, and you have to get speechwriters to change…I mean, I…I hear things on the airplane coming over. We could talk about them. But how about we do this with CNN. I won't do the debate…unless they pay me…five million dollars…all of which money goes to the wounded warriors, or go to Vets. Seriously! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Seriously! I would want to…! I would love…I…I…say…okay.
 
Let me give you the bad news. So…what…will happen is…they'll say, ‘oh, “Trump” is chicken’. Well, I’ve done four of them, and according to every online poll, I won every one of them. Now when I turn on the television…and I listen to these…you know, ‘the talking heads’, who are not enough smart people at all. They…call them ‘elite’. My education is better than any of them. I'm smarter than they are. Many of the people…–CROWD CHEERS–...no! Many of the people in the room are smarter they are. But ‘the talking heads’…I could name them, but actually a couple of them would actually star to come around. So I gotta be careful. I can't set them all the way back again, right?
 
But you know, god…guys like Karl Rove, he spends hundreds of millions of dollars, on campaigns. He wins nothing! He wins nothing! There are some people…that are…losers. Okay? But how about if we do the…–CROWD CHEERS–…no, they’re losers! They’re losers! And…and that's the problem. We can't have that! We can't have that…with the Republican Party. We have to get the right people, and we have to win. That's why when I show you this…this poll…it’s a FOX poll, where I beat Hillary, that's what we have to have. And I'll be…I haven't even started on Hillary yet…other than I do say, ‘no strength, no stamina’!
 
But with CNN…so I say, ‘five million dollars goes to the wounded warrior…warriors and the Vets! Okay!? Do we like that!? –CROWD CHEERS. Here's the problem: we're winning by a lot! I say ‘we’ cause we're all in this thing. You know, a lot of people say, ‘oh, well, Trump’s crowd…’, they say it over here…, ‘Trump’s crowd it was packed’. We haven't had…I mean, you look at every…stadium...Mark Cuban called up, DO- ‘you want to use my Arena?’., the Dallas Mavericks. I said, ‘what day is it?’. ‘Thursday’. ‘When can I use it?’. ‘Monday’. I said, ‘four days! How many seats?’. ‘20,000 seats’. We filled it up like a day and a half! And he predicted that. He knew it, there's a feeling. By the way, there's a feeling! But here's the problem: so we're leading in everything, the biggest crowds, by far! …so much bigger than Bernie Sanders. You know, you always hear about Bernie Sanders...our crowds...–CROWD BOOS–…no! May he rest in peace…–CROWD LAUGHS. You know he had an operation today. I think it was a hernia operation. You know? You know why? Carrying around too much tax problems…cause he's gonna tax you…–CROWD LAUGHS. He's gonna tax you…but if…let's not even talk…tax problem. He wants to double or triple everyone’s salary. HE–…Wants to bring you up to ninety percent! Ninety percent! And he wants to bring you…because he wants to take…now what happens is Hillary now…has gone way left! And she wants to give everybody free everything, except for the people to pay taxes! –CROWD APPLAUDS. You know, somebody has to pay. Somebody has to pay!
 
So it's gonna be Hillary. But here's the problem: so with CNN I said, ‘no, I'm not doing it’. Their ratings will go down…where they would be. You know, let's say they would have had a million people…when they have…maybe two million people? And they have 24, 25 million people…the case of FOX…23, in case they…so they're expecting a lot…a big audience, December 15. They’re advertising it all over…what I do like! …they finally used a beautiful picture of me. Finally! Sometimes the pictures are so bad. They have my chin pulled back, so I look like quadruple chins. They picked the worst…but they picked a good picture! I’m so happy with them! I actually wrote him a letter saying ‘thank you’ for the first time in about two years…–CROWD LAUGHS.
But here's what happens: I want five million dollars. They were getting…four thousand dollars for a 30-second ad. For the last debate. They went from four thousand dollars, to approximately 250 thousand dollars for 30 seconds. That's a lot of money! And then if you remember…CNBC extended the debate by one hour…two days before. They announced…they said they're extending it, cause they will make a fortune. They were totally sold out. And who's the one that said, ‘no way, you're not gonna do it?’. I did! Not because…I could stand up there forever! –CROWD CHEERS. But I said, ‘you're not gonna do it’…and everybody told me, everybody, this is like the wall, believe me, we're gonna build a wall, Mexico's gonna pay for it. Believe me…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's like the wall. Like the wall. It’s like the wall! Everyone says, ‘oh, you'd never get Mexico to pay for the wall…’. So what I did this with CNBC they were gonna make it three hours.
 
I said, ‘number one, I can stand up here for 25 hours. I could stand up 2 days…I don't care, but who the hell wants to watch the same questions over and over and over again…’, right? For two-and-a-half, three hours. So I said, ‘no way!’. And I said, ‘we're not gonna do it’. And in all fairness, Carson joined in with me. He said, ‘absolutely, I'll go along…’. And…they fold it in about two seconds. That's supposed to be the business network. They fold it quick. Quickly! They fold it. So with CNN here's what they'll say: ‘Trump's chicken. He's afraid to debate. He's afraid to debate’. And what I don't do, I just talked to Corey…–COREY LEWANDOSKI–, and Hope…–HOPE HICKS–…it all of my people, I said, ‘I'd love…’, cause I watch their story on the pastors, it was so…it was so terrible. It was done by a reporter, sitting right back there…–CROWD BOOS. No, it’s true! Who…who by the way, who by the way…she wasn't even there! She wasn't in Trump Tower! That's where we had a beautiful news conference, with all these pastors! And it was like…we didn't do anything! I won't mention her name, I don't wanna make her any more famous, and she's not very famous, believe me…–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But…but such…such a…such a disgusting report! So the problem is they'll say that Trump is chicken. Now, if you're not leading…and you're going nowhere, you have nothing to lose. But wouldn't it be bad…? I'm leading the polls; I don't do it. I play cute. Cause you're playing cute, right? It gets out I'm chicken, which I'm not! One thing I'm not is ‘chicken’, okay? –CROWD CHEERS. Every…remember? Every single poll…I won every single poll…in the debates, all four debates, check it folks! You know, I only say what's true, cause if I said anything that's even…slightly off…! …the next I’d have headlines! Every single poll…but if I do this…it could be… ‘he's playing too cute’, and maybe…I don't do well, and maybe…my real poles, which are the polls we’re leading but so much…maybe they’ll go down.
 
So, should I tell CNN that I’m not doing the debate, because they treat me really unfairly? And say, ‘but I will do it if you give 5 million dollars to the Vets…?’ –CROWD CHEERS. Or…well…well, I know. Where the people in this room good, and if they covered my whole remarks good, but they don't want. They’re…just cover a tiny bit, they won't mention what I just said, so they give you like three seconds of this. If I do it, I have a feeling I could face repercussions in the polls. Should I do it or not? I don't…I don't know if I want to take the chance. I don't know –CROWD YELLS OUT INAUDIBLE PHRASES.
 
You know, it's a little…it's a little like you…okay! We all heard of The Apprentice, right? The Apprentice, one of the great. I love The Apprentice. So Mark Burnett came up, he wanted to do The Apprentice, THE– show became a tremendous, tremendous hit. And…and by the way, the head of Comcast, who is a great guy, Steve Burke came to my office, just before I announced, he wanted to renew for a lot of money, ‘I'll pay whatever’, HE– wanted to renew. And I said, ‘Steve, I think I’m gonna run’. I wasn't sure, cause I wasn't sure until I got down that escalator –MEANING THE FAMOUS SCENE OF TRUMP AND MELANIA GOING DOWN THE ESCALATORS AT TRUMP TOWER–…with my beautiful wife waving…she was more confident that I was, I’ll tell you. But she's waving, and I'm saying, ‘ay, ay, ay’. Am I gonna do this? The…the bottom of Trump Tower…this massive area was…you couldn't even see any of the marble, cause there were so many cameras on it. And I took a deep breath. And I went… ‘ah!, let's go’ –MR. TRUMP TAKES A DEEP BREATH. And I did it. And I…–CROWD CHEERS. And by the way, and in that speech…we announced ‘illegal immigration’, we announced a whole…pile of things that turned out to be a very, very big deal. A very, very big deal, right? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Very big deal, so… ‘build a wall!’ –MR. TRUMP REPRODUCES WHAT SOMEONE IN THE CROWD YELLS.
 
So…so…what happens…so what happens with The Apprentice is…we went on, and they didn't have an option. Because everybody said, ‘well, Trump isn’t gonna be…he is not a television star’. So they did a one-season deal, without an option. Very unusual. They didn’t wanna waste the ink. And critics said, ‘why would anybody…wanna watch The Apprentice with Donald Trump?’. And then they said the worst insult I've ever had. This one critic, a total…moron, said, ‘women will never watch’. You know, unless women watch the show, it can't be successful, because women make up a big part of the audience. And, unless you have big women, and…you just can't. The people in television know that. And this one guy said, ‘why would women…ever wanna watch Donald Trump on television?’. DO–…you believe this? This is when it first came out. So…very insulting. In fact, I said to my wife, ‘Am I that bad darling, am I that bad? And I said, ‘I’ve done fine’.
 
But, the show goes out, and it starts at number 10, it goes to number 8, it goes to number five…anyway! Many evenings the number-one show in Television, became this phenomenon! And so what happened is…I play ‘checking’, because they didn't have an option. So what happened is…NBC came to me, and I read all about F.R.I.E.N.D.S, where they made two million dollars an episode, and there where…what? How many of them? Five or something, right? Jennifer Aniston, all of them…–CROWD CHEERS. And they had like a union. But they made a lot of money per episode. I would have not formed that union, if I were Jennifer maybe I would have asked for more. But that's okay, she's a team player.
 
So what happens…what happens…I said, ‘I know nothing’. My agent told me don't do The Apprentice in the first place, it's not gonna work. So I fired him–CROWD LAUGHS. I said, ‘you know, the show just went to number one’. No, I fired my agent! –CROWD CHEERS. So I’m stuck without an aid, but I read all about these ridiculous salaries at these television stars! And I asked for tremendous salary. I said, ‘look, I have the hottest show on television’. You remember that…season one, in particular the…final episode. I think it was second after the Super Bowl, IT–…had tremendous numbers of people watching it. And I said, ‘I'll do this myself, I don't think…this is too simple’. And so I asked for…a…crazy number! And they said, ‘no’, they turned me down. And I said, ‘man, I just blew it!’. And two days later they called me back, ‘we'll give it to you, okay?’ –CROWD LAUGHS. And I said, ‘why!?’. They paid me a fortune. You saw the money I made at The Apprentice, I had to file it! How much was it? –MR. TRUMP ASKS THE CROWD GENUINELY AND SOMEONE GIVES THE RIGHT ANSWER-… ‘213 million dollars’, DO– you believe that? Nobody believes that! I don't believe it! I mean, to be honest! I had to file it!
 
You know, I had to file my statements. And everybody said, ‘well, maybe he's not as big…as people think. And you know what's gonna happen, and he won't file it…’. Well I filed. And I was much bigger…and by the way, I don't say that…bigger, better, stronger…low debt. Tremendous cash flow…numbers that I wouldn’t have ever believed even 15 years ago. I built a great company! The reason I say that…isn't for ego! It's because this is the mentality, this is the thinking that we need…for our country, to make us great again! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…just to finish and then we're gonna get back on to that. But…just to finish, I said to the head of NBC, ‘why did you fall? Because I love business, you know, I love to know why do people fold…like…little people, little…why did they fold. So I said, ‘why did you fold’’. He said, ‘you know, we weren't, and we started interviewing other people, but in the end we didn't wanna take a chance’. Okay? And it's the same thing with us! It's the same thing with us! We are going to do something so strong, and so bold, but, we can't take a chance and pick the wrong president.
We can't pick a woman, who was…totally…embroiled in scandal for her home life! Whitewater…–CROWD CHEERS–…no, think of it: Whitewater. Whitewater was no different! Everybody that study that, they did a book on it! She should have been indicted…–CROWD CHEERS. She should have been indicted…–CROWD CHEERS. How about…wasn't it the ‘cattle futures’? The ‘cattle futures’[1], right? Where…her numbers went up…like she made a massive amount of money in…like one week. And guys that do this professionally all their lives, they have never made that. The whole thing! …the whole thing is a scandal. The whole thing is corrupt. It’s corrupt! And it has been! You look at the foundation; you look at everything! …it's been…so bad…for so long! We can't do that! We can't get involved in that stuff anymore! And honestly…? It's true, she'll say hello to people, she disappears for five days! I don't disappear for five days! Tomorrow I'm going someplace else. I'm…a…at…all the time! I…you know, all the time! I'm going! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
We need tremendous stamina! We need tremendous strength! And this is…women, men, you know what I'm talking about…we need strength. We need stamina…and we need smarts! We don’t just need a tough person! Cause I know tough guys! I know tough guys! I know tough people! –CROWD CHEERS. And tough is no good. Tough is no good without the brain power, you need the brain! You need the brain! But we need the toughness too. We need General Patton! We need General Patton! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
I mean, our armed services today are so politically correct, that a guy like General Patton, who is a vicious, ruthless, horrendous human being…who cursed, and spat, and he’s spit in people's faces…who cares!? He was great! –CROWD CHEERS. And by the way, his troops…his troops would go to help for him. His troops…would go to hell…mad dog! –MR. TRUMP REPEATS AFTER SOMEONE IN THE CROWD HAS YELLED SUCH THING. His troops would go to hell for him!
 
Or we need general Douglas MacArthur! In the history of West Point, one of the greatest intellects. And he was a totally different type! But he was a guy that only understood winning. That's what he understood. We don't need…these guys that I see on television all the time! Talking about, ‘ISIS is very tough! ISIS is tough’. There's 60,000 people…we got him through horrible planning. Horrible planning. That whole thing with Iraq.
 
Again, you gotta be given points. I said, in 2003-2004, don't go in. And now, I am by far, and we have a lot of Vets…I love you Vets! I love you! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. A lot of Vets. We have a lot of Vets in this room. And we're gonna take care of our vets–CROWD CHEERS. We are going to really take care of our Vets. You know, we put in a plan recently. We're gonna take care of our Vets. But…we have to have people…that don't talk! We don't want talkers! We want doers! We want people…that know what's happening. I see on television all these generals…they're talking about, ‘yes, well, then we're gonna do this…’.
 
I see Obama, –A– couple weeks ago: ‘we are going to…send 50 men...’ …–CROWD LAUGHS–… ‘to Iraq. Or to Syria!’ …and then he said, ‘where are where we sending those men, by the way?’ –CROWD LAUGHS. Why…would a president…or…–MEMBER IN THE CROWD INTERRUTPS. MR. TRUMP CATCHES IT AND LAUGHS. INAUDIBLE ON TELEVISION-… ‘I didn't say it! I didn't say that! I didn't say that! Go ahead say it again, but louder!’…–THE PARTICIPANT SAYS IT AGAIN BUT IT IS STILL INAUDIBLE. Very rude! They’re very rude in Georgia, aren’t they!? You heard what he said.
 
Well there's something going on. Because some of these decisions are hard to believe. So he announces…that he's sending 50-men off. And…maybe some women, I don't know. But he's sending 50 people over. Our finest. Why would you do that? Why would you say anything? Because now they're being hunted. Now they've got targets on their back. Now the enemy knows they're going over there. Why would you say that? They're being hunted like…like wild dogs. They're being hunted. Why would you say that you're sending 50 people? And it's you know the interesting thing? It's not even good psychologically. Because 50 is not…the number…I mean, you know, 50 people! So it's not even good from that standpoint! It's not like we're sending a hundred thousand people! They’re gonna, you know…50 people! They'd probably say, ‘wow!’. Well, number one, ‘we're gonna get those 50’, if we're the enemy, right? Number one, ‘we're gonna get those 50, and we're gonna make them look real bad…’. And number two, 50 people! How stupid is this!? Okay? If you're gonna do it, either do it or don't do it. But you have to either do it, or you don't do it. Their strategy…their strategy…is totally wrong.
 
So I write the book…2000, The America We Deserve…I…ve…I…I…you saw that, right? Did you see the book? Does anybody have that book? The America We Deserve, in the year 2000. And I talked about Osama bin Laden. Because he was a terrorist with a big, fat mouth…and he was going around saying the destruction he's gonna do. And I say…I said in the book! Two years before the World Trade Center came down. You’d better do something about this guy, Osama bin Laden. I said something about he’s gonna crawl into rock and come back. And a couple of people said, ‘man! “Trump” actually called Osama…’, he did! He came back, he knocked down the World Trade Center. With thousands, and thousands of lives…and people still dying! And families still suffering, because they lost people. This was the worst attack. This was worse than Pearl Harbor, cause at least that was an attack on the military. This was an attack on innocent people, working in an office…and having lunch, up on top of the world! This was an attack on civilians. The worst stack…attack in the history of the country. And we could have done something about it. We could have done something, if we had the leaders! If we had smart people! We could have done something about that. Osama bin Laden was out there. I wrote about him in my book! He was out there!
 
You don't go out and say, ‘we're sending 50 men’. Here's another thing: Bush started a war. IT–…shouldn't have been started. You're gonna destabilize the whole Middle East. That's what happened. And I said it! 2003, 2004…Reuters has a big article…on Top: ‘Trumps is totally against the war’. Not because I would be against, but because you have to know! I’m gonna build a military so strong, so powerful, so great…that we’ll never have to use it! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're never gonna have to use it! We don't wanna use it! We don't want to use it! –CROWD CHANTS ‘U.S.A’ REPETEDLY.
 
Look, in many ways…in many ways, the military…is…and building it up, is the cheapest thing we can do. Because it's like the tough guy. You never really wanna go against the tough guy. You know, you get the tough. We grow up, and we all know what we're talking about. But…–MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘YOU’RE THE TOUGH GUY!’. MR TRUMP AKNOWLEDGES IT. I'm tough guy…–CROWD CHEERS. Well, hopefully I'm the smart guy. We have to have cunning. We have to have guile. We have to have a lot of different qualities! But we can't keep going with these ‘all talk, no action’ politicians, who are paid off by their PACs. They’re paid off by the PACs. They're controlled like little puppets by their PAC…–CROWD CHEERS. We can't keep going like this!
 
We owe 19 trillion that's now going to be 21 trillion dollars. It's a number that's absurd! It's a number that…who would have even thought this is possible!? China is ripping us on trade. Japan is killing us on trade. With China were losing 450 billion dollars…on an imbalance…a year! With Japan at 70 billion dollars a year. Mexico is 45. That's why I…I…you know, people say…I told you before! I say, ‘they're gonna build up a wall!’. You know why!? Because they're making a fortune! Mexico…I love the Mexican people! I respect Mexico! I respect their leaders…–CROWD APPLAUDS. But their leaders are so much smarter than our leaders! You stay in Mexico one extra day, they have five soldiers escort you out of the country!
 
And yet they send everybody over that they don't want. People there through Mexico… ‘keep going! The dummies in the United States are gonna take you!’. A woman is pregnant. She has a baby. She steps over the border; she has a baby. It's an American citizen, we take care of the baby for 85 years, I’ll tell you…–CROWD BOOS. No more!
 
And I attack that! Anchor Babies! I attacked it! And I attacked it strong! And it turned out I was right! I didn't even know that at the time! –CROWD CHEERS. Because…everybody said…all these…all of these…dumbass politicians said, ‘Oh no! Oh no!’ …–CROWD CHEERS–…is what they are! They're good at one thing! I'll tell you what. They're good at one thing: getting reelected. I mean, I have to deal with them. A guy like Kasich…–MR. TRUMP REFERS TO JOHN KASICH, THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF OHIO AT THE TIME. This guy is nothing! These people…these are people…that should not be on the stage! These are people…it's an embarrassment…to have some of them on the stage! And some are very good, I'll be honest. I'm not gonna tell you who, because I want you to vote for me…–CROWD LAUGHS. But there's something very good. But there are some that should not be on the stage!
 
When you have a guy like…Pataki! He doesn't even register in certain areas where you have to register…and he's gonna be back in the stage! If I'm running the Republican Party…and if somebody's not registered. Let's say in Virginia, or let's say in South Carolina. Because they don't wanna pay the fee…! …cause they can't get some signatures on a ballot! And he can't register because it's now the time limit! So you don't have South Carolina, or you don't have Virginia…you're not gonna be on the debate stage with us…but they don't do anything about it! They don't do anything about it.
 
So we have to get tougher. We have to get smarter. We have to really run this country with love, and with heart! And we have to take care of people that are sick! And we have to take care of people that need help! We have to get better healthcare! Obamacare is a disaster! It’s a disaster!  –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
Obamacare is going to be repealed and replaced with something so much better…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So much better. So much better. I…I don't know. I don't know if you saw…recently…where…premiums are going up 35, 45, 55…percent. People can't afford them. The coverage is horrible. The deductibles are so high that unless you're dead you can’t use it! Okay? You can’t use it! It's useless! It's useless! It's terrible! And it was really big lie, 28 times. ‘You can have your doctor, you can have your plan, you can have whatever the hell you want…’.
 
And frankly, the Democrats are gonna pay a big price. Because I don't know if you have been reading the papers lately, but Obamacare is in big, big trouble. Financial trouble…–CROWD CHEERS. They’ll have to be bailed out, big-league, by…Congress. They’re gonna have to be filled out big, big league, in ’17. Now, unfortunately, you’re gonna have a new president. I'm…I…I’m gonna inherit this stuff. I got all these problems to fix, but I’ll fix them, believe me, believe me…–CROWD CHEERS AND CHANTS ‘TRUMP’ TWICE.
 
But here…here’s the…problem. But…here’s the problem. The Democrats…at least we know where they're coming from, right? These Republicans, we send them to Washington…and…I support them, I give a lot of money, all that stuff. But…we send them to Washington, and they get down there…and they don't do the job that they get paid for! They said, ‘we're gonna end Obamacare, right? I don't know if you have any of this area…probably you do. We're gonna end Obamacare. We're gonna do this. We're gonna strengthen up our military. We're gonna take care of our Vets. We're gonna take care of our Vets! They talk, and they talk, and they talk.
 
Now they get down to these gorgeous halls, with a beautiful marble columns, and the angels on the ceiling, right? –CROWD LAUGHS. And he looks at his wife and he says, ‘we finally hit the big time, darling. Oh…we finally…’. And it comes to a vote on Obamacare, everybody raises their hand…
I mean, look at this last budget. This last budget…was approved so fast. And we have to raise two…trillion dollars…because of this budget! When you do the budget, you supposed to start the following morning…on negotiating, because if you're not having enough time, then they’d said ‘closed down government’…everybody's afraid of closing down the government. And you know the funny thing…? I wrote The Art Of The Deal. The funny thing is that…nobody's gonna blame…be blamed…for…closing down the government, but Obama. When people read the history books, they're not gonna say ‘Boehner closed…’, nobody's gonna know Boehner is! They’re gonna say, ‘during the Obama administration, the government closed down. He was a horrible president…’ …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's true! It’s true! They're gonna say he was a horrible president. He didn't know what the hell he was doing…–CROWD HISSES. He was a tremendous divider, because he's the most divisive human being I think I’ve ever seen…–CROWD CHERS.
 
And the one thing a lot of his thought, including me, I said… ‘you know what? He's not gonna be a good president. But you know what? He will unify, perhaps, the country. And he'll bring white, and African-American, and…everybody, he’ll bring them all together’. And you know what? That turned out to be totally wrong! It's never been…worse! And, when I met today, with the African-American pastors…–IT’S– never been worse than it is today! And frankly, if you're African-American youth, 51 to 55 percent unemployed. I mean, everything is bad! The man has been a horrible president! He's been horrible! To a point where people that would never vote republican…come up to my office…and they wanna really talk turkey! And it's hard for them! They always ‘go Democrat’, and it's hard for them! But they come up to my office, because…they really want…help. So he's been a great divider. He's been an incompetent president. Everything he touches turns to you know what! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, everything! Everything!
 
Think of it: we don't have…victories anymore. Right? We don't have victories. When was the last time we had a victory? We don't have victories anymore! Our healthcare is no good, it's a disaster. Our…trade with all of these countries is no good. Our borders are…like sieves…people are just pouring in. We have…sanctuary cities, which by the way, will end very quickly, okay? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
When I made the speech in Trump Tower, that I'm gonna run, and I gave up a lot. I gave up a lot. Because…what I gave up is…far more than any campaign is gonna cost. I'm talking now in dollars. I gave up a tremendous amount, including shows, and everything else. But I gave up a lot. You know, a politician…a politician gives up nothing. They run, they lose, they win, they run again. Totally controlled by their donors, by special interests, and by lobbyists. Totally. And there's a story, and I have to tell you…because this is like…and I've been saying it for a long time. I think we had either nine or eleven Super PACs formed…for me. ‘Trump’ Super PAC. One of them was The Art of the Deal PAC, The Art of the Deal.
 
So people give money. You know, these and…a lot of these people that form the Super PAC…have no money. Maybe I’ll give you a good idea, right? You go, form a Super PAC, keep all the money for yourself. So I'm saying to myself, ‘I wonder when people send to The Art of the Deal Super PAC, they probably think I’m running it, but we're not supposed to run it. I'm not running it. And I see these two young guys, THEY– are in television. And I see others! And they're talking about the Super…nothing to do with it.
 
We sent…legal letters to…all of these Super PACs, to close your doors, close up. I would have had…hundreds of millions of dollars, if I wanted to have a Super PAC, and if I wanted to have other people fund my campaign. I don't want other people to fund my campaign. No, I don't want them! –CROWD CHEERS. Because nobody knows the game better than me.
 
We take the small contributions because I have to! I mean, I have people send me 21 dollars, 17 dollars, 28 dollars, a hundred dollars…and you have to…let…those are people that are in love with this country. And you have to take that…the…the…it’s called…small, like…tiny contributions. But, these are people that really…wanna invest in this country, the greatness of the country. And frankly, to send the money back would cost more than some of the checks that come in. You wouldn't even know. And there's no letter I can write…to a woman who sent in…seventeen dollars and fifty cents, with a four-page letter. Four-page letter! So proud that she sent this money. There's no letter that I can write, where she's not insulted.
 
I have turned down…tens of millions of dollars. And you know, most of those guys have gone to other campaigns! Because they're one of…I mean, they're like horseplayers in a certain way. But they also want…access, and they want power. And I said, ‘I don't want to take your money. I'm not gonna take your money’.
 
So here's the story. It was just on the front page of the Los Angeles Time…Times. A Super PAC, called American Legacy, raised six million dollars. Now, this is…I guess it's a Carson, or Carson oriented…Super PAC, right? –MR. TRUMP READS FROM HIS SCRIPT NOW– …‘Of the six million dollars…only 140 thousand dollars was left for the campaign’. No, but this is the same with Bush…maybe not as bad. It's the same with Rubio. It's the same with all of them! Or most of them, my guess. Maybe a couple of them do it properly. But the consultants, and the fundraisers…and all of these people…they take the money. They're professionals. They make money…better than being a real estate broker, to be honest with you.
 
I mean, I probably give a lot of people in the audience and idea, but it's better than being a real estate broker. So think of it: Jeb Bush. Yeah, Jeb…he's…he's another beauty…–CROWD BOOS. He's in another…Jeb Bush the other day said, ‘Donald Trump…’, you know, was trying to talk tough now, because I said he's got no energy, right? –CROWD LAUGHS. I called him a low-energy person, so now he wants to be a tough guy. It doesn't work. You can't be tough if you're not tough, you know? We know that. He should be himself. If he's himself, he’ll do better. Can't do any worse! –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But Jeb Bush the other day said, ‘Donald Trump doesn't have the right tone…to be President’. The tone! And I said to my…–MEMBER IN THE AUDIENCE YELLS OUT SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP CATCHES IT AND REPEATS IT–… ‘he goes, “who cares!?”’…–MR. TRUMP LAUGHS. It's very good. ‘Who cares’ is right.
 
So here's a story. So they're chopping off our people’s heads, in the Middle East. Right? They’re drowning people in cages. We’re like…living in Medieval times. We can't water board, they asked me the other day. Did you see that? They chop off heads! And one of the announcers asked me the other day…one of ‘the talking heads’, actually. HE–…said, ‘Mr. Trump, what do you think of waterboarding?’. ‘What do you think of…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…right? I said, ‘What do I think of water boarding? W ell, you wanna go a step further than waterboarding, cause I'm okay with that too?’ –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I said…I said, ‘you know, they're chopping off everybody's heads. Every day you see James Foley, great parents, I made a contribution to the people and then to the parents, and I…cause they did the Foley Foundation. And I got to know them, and him, through them. And he's like…he was like this great person. That…he was the first! And I said, ‘you know, I think ISIS made a terrible mistake. When they did that, they created this tremendous hatred’. Well, now they're doing it all over the place. And we haven't done anything about it. And we have a president…that doesn't even want to mention…Islamic problems. Doesn't want to mention it, okay? Right? –CROWD BOOS. No, he doesn't want to mention it! He doesn't want to say…
You know, when you…when you think about it…he doesn't wanna use…the terms. He doesn't wanna say…what it is! And you can't cure a problem...if you're not gonna say what the problem is! You just can't cure it! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So…so we have a terrorism problem, like…probably there hasn't been. We're fighting a war like we've never fought…of course, he's not saying it's a war either, but…we're fighting a war, where they’re blowing up airplanes, where they're doing things like…what you just saw in Paris, and other places. And we have…a president that refuses to use proper terminology. And why that is…nobody can really tell me, okay? Why that one? –MR. TRUMP LAUGHS AS HE HEARS SOMEONE IN THE CROWD YELL SOMETHING INAUDIBLE–… ‘he’s…’, this audience is amazing, I’ll tell you. I wish…I wish everybody…–CROWD CHEERS–…I wish everybody could hear. You know, when you think of… ‘radical’? Right? Radical? Muslim? Radical…? Everything…anything you wanna say! But it's a problem. And it's a problem that has to be addressed! Whether it's Muslim, extremists or not! You have to say what it is! And that's what it is. That's what it is.
 
Even at a soccer game recently. You saw that the other day, where they had a soccer game, they had a minute…they had one minute of silence…for…the people that were just…absolutely…bludgeoned…absolutely…what they did in Paris. And people are yelling things…from the audience, things that weren't supposed to happen. And the players were…unbelievably embarrassed. And it was a great embarrassment, and you don't get a lot of reporting on it, but it was a…you’ve…most of you have heard about it, that was last week.
 
So we need strength, we need power, we need smarts. We're gonna redo this country. We're gonna make it better than it's ever been before. I really believe that. I really believe it. I really believe it. I really believe it –CROWD CHEERS AND STARTS CHANTING ‘WE NEED YOU’ REPEATEDLY. MR. TRUMP THANKS THEM–… ‘thank you’.
 
The other day, I read on the headline of one of the newspapers, ‘the number of migrants…crossing the Rio Grande…is through the roof’. You know, we've been hearing, ‘oh, well it’s not…’. Tremendous…increase! The number of migrants…crossing the Rio Grande. Our country has…no borders! If you don't have borders, you don't have a country. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry…–CROWD MUTTERS.
 
So…and I’ll tell you this: if I didn't at the base of Trump Tower in New York. If I didn't talk about illegal immigration, I don't even think you'd be talking about it right now. You had Kate in San Francisco, you had Jameel, this young, incredible guy that was going to go to the football player. A good student. His father I've gotten to know him, and an unbelievable man. And his son was shot and killed walking home with a sandwich for his father from the Deli. He was going to go on a scholarship to one of the great…colleges, maybe Stamford ¡, on a football scholarship. The apple of the father's eye. And he called up his father. And he said, ‘pop, I’, …he called them ‘pop’, ‘I'll be home in a couple of minutes. I'm right outside…I've got your sandwich’. And then…a minute later, Jameel Shaw, senior, heard three or four gunshots…ring out, and he knew, he knew…it was his son! And this was a guy that walked up to his son, held a gun to his head, and pulled the trigger, right through the head. And when the boy went down, he went like this…–MR. TRUMP COVER HIS FACE WITH HIS OWN HANDS–…and he shot him again, and blew his hands off. An the illegal immigrant…that came over.
 
Kate, the same thing. In…Los Angeles, a few weeks ago. A woman, 66-year old, veteran: raped, sodomized, and killed, by an illegal immigrant. We've got to get our country back, folks: We've got to get…and…and by the way…–CROWD CHEERS. By the way…these are three instances. These are three. There are thousands, and thousands, and thousands. It's horrible. It's horrible.
 
And…the Border Patrol, I was over there not long ago. In…Laredo, Texas. And the border patrol…these are great people. And they’re said, they’re told, ‘stand down!’, ‘stand down!’. These guys are fantastic people. They love to do the job! They can't do their job. They're not allowed to do their job. And people are pouring into the country. And now…we have Syrians, that look awfully strong…–CROWD BOOS–…no, we can't do it! Hey look, we all have a heart…! …and you know what I'm all for? I'm all for building safe zones in Syria…–CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YES!’ AND CHEERS–…which…which is much less expensive…and believe it or not, they'd rather be there.
 
You know, I have many, many thousands of employees. And I have employees, from parts of the world…all legally here, by the way. Oh, have I been tested! I have these guys going to…reporters, to every place…have I been tested! But I have…and I don't know, maybe somebody sneaks in, believe me, they'll find it if they do. But I have from all over. But you know, it's funny. They come from countries that you wouldn't think much of. You would never think that you'd wanna go…their big ambition…is to make money here and go back to their country! They wanna go back to the country! And I understand that. I understand that. They wanna go home. They wanna be back with their mothers, and fathers, and their…soil! …and their plants! Even if the plant is…not the kind of plant that you like. They wanna go home to their country! And I understand that.
 
And…the fact is…if you build safe zones…and boy, do you have plenty of land over there! But if you felt safe zones, and you gotta get the Gulf states…
As an example, Saudi Arabia makes…makes…a billion in a day! Now, that was a couple of months ago, when all was all…so let's say they make…a half to make a billion dollars a day. So much money they don't know what to do with it! I know them. They're wonderful people! They treat me nicely. They buy my apartment. I love them. Okay? But you know what? The money is enormous. We don't have money, we’re a debtor nation. We gotta get them to put up money! We defend them! We defend Germany! We defend Japan! We defend…South Korea! And he's…they’re right next to the maniac. This guy's a maniac…–MR. TRUMP REFERS TO MR. KIM JONG-UN. We have 28,000 soldiers! We defend them, they give us like nothing! If you wanna buy a television…LG, Samsung, Sharp…they all come…
I bought thousands and thousands of televisions in the last year for different projects! Right? Can you believe I’m…running part-time? I’m like…running part-time. I'm doing well for a part-timer, right? –CROWD CHEERS.
 
Oh, by the way…! …talking about…so wouldn’t it be nice…I've spent less money in my campaign than anybody else, and I'm in first place in every poll…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…wouldn't that be nice!? No. No. But wouldn't it be nice…if the country could do the same thing? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YES’ AND CHEERS–…wouldn’t it be nice!? As an example…! …at first I said, ‘you know, I have to spend more money. It doesn't look that good, I haven't spent that much…’. And then somebody said to me, ‘you know what? Really, it’s great!’. I don't if anybody ever heard of Charles O. Finley. He owned the Oakland A's, right’ He had the lowest payroll in baseball…and he won the World Series three times in a row. He had a young Reggie Jackson., a young Catfish Hunter, and George Steinbrenner, who was one of my best friends and a great guy. But he used to just buy these players all the time. And George told me, ‘this guy is a genius! He had the lowest payroll in baseball, and he won the World Series three times’. And he sells his players for fortune, and replaced them with guys that were just as good! Wouldn't it be great of our country could run like that? Wouldn't it be great!? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Would not be great!?
 
Do you remember…? …for the last…cause a lot of the people in this room know what I'm saying, and they've been following us. Do you remember when I've been saying ‘oil! Attack the oil!’. Right? I've been saying that now for what…four years? But I say more! I say, attack the oil and then keep! These guys attack it, but they don't wanna keep it, cause they’re stupid!
 
So for four years I've been saying, ‘attack the oil! Attack the wealth of ISIS! Attack the wealth!’. And they all said, ‘oh, that would be ridiculous!’. Obama actually had one of his general say, ‘well, that wouldn't be a good military…’. I said, ‘wait a minute! They're making much of their money from oil, they're making a lot from banking…’, and who knows better about attacking banks that I do? I'm one of the all-time pros of history. Okay? Gotta attack the banks! Money is pouring in from banks! Illegally! Money is pouring in. And the banks will stop it…because I know how…I know the games! These politicians don't know anything!
 
But I've been saying, ‘attack the oil! Attack the oil!’. They've been saying, ‘that doesn't make sense. That's not a good strategy…’. I actually heard the other day…that attacking the oil is a bad idea, because it's environmentally not sensitive. Can you believe it!? No…I…–CROWD BOOS. Attack the oil! Because what's gonna happen is you're gonna have fires, you're gonna have smoke going on…and they don't wanna do it for environmental reasons! Can you believe…? …the…the incredible incompetence! Okay.
 
So I’ve been saying that that is a serious consideration, as to why they didn’t attack the oil. Just to show you how stupid are leaders are! And these people want to kill all of us. So I've been saying, ‘attack the oil!’. Well, after Paris, and right at Paris, finally…! And was France that did it! Can you believe it? It was France that led the attack! …–CROWD CHEERS–…which…which I'm happy about! But they finally started attacking the oil. And only one person back there said, ‘you know, that was Trump's idea, a long time ago and he's been saying it every time like…’ …every chance I got!
 
But I said one other thing. I said, ‘attack the oil. Go in there. Recapture. Get ExxonMobile, get  a couple of these great companies, they'll rebuild the infrastructure. Don't worry about the infrastructure. These companies are amazing! Half of you probably work there. They're amazing companies! They will rebuild it so fast, and they’ll build it new and nice. Will encircle it. We’ll make a fortune. And will give a percentage of that money…! …to the families of the soldiers of Iraq and other places…–CROWD CHEERS–…that were killed and so badly wounded. We’ll give a percentage of that money…to the wounded warriors…and we'll take care of our people! But these guys don't wanna do it!
 
You know, in the old days… ‘to the victor…’, you know, you're a military man, I could see it! Stands up straight…great guy. But I can see it! ‘To the victor belongs the spoils’, right? We don't do that! We don't do that! We're so dumb! We go in, bomb the hell out of places, win, win, then we leave…
And how about Obama!? So I talked about the ‘50’. But how about this one!? When he gave the exact date when we're pulling out! Okay!? How about that!? And I said, ‘wait a minute. It must be some kind of a game’. I thought maybe…he's playing a game. But he didn't mean it! Because if he doesn't mean it, he’ll get them by surprise! See!? Our country needs…the word ‘unpredictable’. We're totally predictable.
 
He announces ‘the 50’. He announces… ‘next week, we’ll be bombing a certain city…!’. In the meantime, it turns out to be hell on wheels, because they're so prepared! Because whatever he says turns out to be right! You think could be leading them! So what happens is Obama comes out…and he said, ‘we're leaving…Iraq…on a certain day’. And he meant it! So that happens…and believe me, they don't wanna be killed. You know, you read all about they’re going up…they don't wanna be killed. They don't wanna be killed…if they can avoid it! So they pull back…they say, ‘wait a minute! This guy…how stupid is he!? He's told us when he's leaving! What do we have to fight for!? They’re leaving soon!’.
 
So they pull back…and we think we're doing great, because they pulled back. And then we leave. And then they go and do whatever they want. And by the way, ISIS came…because we had no control over the people that took over…Iraq! They wouldn't let ISIS have their fair…share. And what happened is ISIS became more vicious…by far, than them. And more vicious that Saddam Hussein, by the way, who didn't have weapons of mass destruction.
 
So what happens…so what happens…is we have a president that told them…the exact day! …that we're pulling out. All right!? Now, you tell me, how stupid is that!? And now they have…and now they have…a war going on…where…they don't know what they're doing. They're fighting…Syria, but Syria is fighting…ISIS. and they're fighting together. so we're fighting ISIS…and we're also finding Syria. So Syria is now saying, ‘wow! I can't believe it! The United States, who’s fighting us, is killing our worst enemy, ISIS. We love the United States!’.
 
And Assad…is now on the side of Russia, and because we gave…Iran a hundred and fifty billion dollars, we don't get our prisoners, we don't get…I don’t have to go into it! Maybe the worst deal ever made ever, that I've ever seen…of any kind!
 
So now we're fighting Iran. We’re potentially fighting Russia. We're fighting ISIS. ISIS is fighting Syria. Syria is fighting…we don't know what the hell we’re doing! We have stupid people! You can't find both, you gotta pick your guy! You gotta pick your guy! And I tell you why pick…
Assad is a bad guy. We're backing the rebels…just like we did in other places, okay? We're backing the rebels…to go in! Now, who the rebels!? Nobody knows who they are! Some people think the rebels are ISIS. And some people think the rebels are far worse than Assad.
 
So we're backing…the rebels. Look what happened in Libya. Look what happened in Iraq. We don't back people. And we give them our equipment. And one shot is fired up in the air, and all our equipment is in the hands of the enemy. This stuff isn’t gonna happen…if Trump gets there. Every single poll…–CROWD CHEERS–…not gonna happen! Not gonna happen.
 
Every single poll is saying, number one by far in leadership…I'm not saying leader…I'm the…I'm just telling you. I'll be a great leader. But…every single poll…you know why I am gonna be a great leader? Cause I'm gonna win!
 
You know, Vince Lombardi would win…that's why he was a leader! If Vince Lombardi, for packers, lost all the time, he wouldn’t have been a leader! Okay!? If coach Belichick, who is a great guy…last night that little upset, but that's okay. But coach Belichick is a winner! These guys…the only way you could be a winner…you can't be a loser, and be a leader. You can't. Doesn't work. Because you may get away with it for a little while, but eventually people say, ‘why…we…we keep losing! We want somebody who’s gonna win!’. I win…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I win! I know how to win! I know how to win!
 
Just like now…we're driving…the Republican…establishment…crazy! Crazy! Crazy! –CROWD CHEERS. They don't know what to do! And the reason they're going crazy is because they wanna have their puppets. And I'm not a puppet. And when Ford…you know, which moved to Mexico, when they call me, I’m gonna do what's right for you! I'm not gonna do what's right for me, cause I don't care. And I’m not gonna do what's right because they were fundraises, and they gave me a lot of money! And when….Nabisco…! …which just moved its big plan to Mexico…want something, they’re gonna suffer…oh, they’re gonna suffer! Okay!? –CROWD LAUGHS. And when the fundraisers, and the lobbyists, and special interests…see me about Nabisco…I'm gonna do what's right for you.
 
So…really…in a nutshell. It's been great being with you tonight. It's like this all over. It's like…the enthusiasm, the love…the…incredible everything. It's…it's…like this all over. We have an amazing country of people…that really wanna see us be great again. The expression ‘make America great again’, I mean, they really wanna see it! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
We have to get out and vote. Don't believe all this stuff. I think I’m gonna win the Hispanic vote. And I…frankly, don't think it matters. You know, the fact is…that…if the republicans got up, and voted last time, you would have had a different president. I don't know if you know it. Romney let us down. He let us down…and he didn't energize…the base! People were saying, ‘I don't care’. I mean, if you don't care between Obama and Romney…that's not doing a good job. We've gotta get out. We've got to be energy. If you have a broken leg, a broken back, a broken neck…you have to get up, and you have to vote. You've gotta go out and vote. And I'll tell you this, and I say this…even more strongly now than ever before! …cause I've gotten to know so many people on the trail: our country…is…made up…of…un…believable…people and spirit. Our country, with proper leadership, and I’ll give you really proper…we're gonna have…fun. We're gonna have victories! We're gonna win! We're gonna win so much! We're going to do things. We're gonna be…we're gonna take care of our people that need it! …which Republicans aren't gonna ever get credit for. And we're gonna do that. We have to do that. Otherwise I wouldn't even run for office. We're gonna have a big, beautiful heart. But we're going to…make…this country…not only great again. We're gonna make our country greater…than it's ever been before. And we can do it! Thank you all! Thank you! I love you! Thank you, very much.
 
I love you. Thank you very much! Thank you!
 
