VIDEO Nº: 164
TITLE:164. Full Speech Donald Trump Town Hall in Racine WI (4-2-16) Donald Trump Sarah Palin Wisconsin Rally
DATE OF EVENT:02/04/2016
RELEASE DATE:12/12/2016
DURATION:01.38.59 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:11473
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Thank you .Thank you very much everybody.
She’s an amazing…she’s an amazing woman. An incredible woman, who…is willing to take the time and come here, and…we’re gonna make…uh…two other stops, and…she wants to go, and…and she's just an amazing…she gets that…; she has that energy, and…the big brain power, and…we just love Sarah. So, I wanna thank you, Sarah. Okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And Stephanie, I wanna thank you so much. What a job! Stand up, Stephanie. Come on! What a job she's done…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Of course, if we don't win on Tuesday that's the end of Stephanie, right? …–THE CROWD AND MR. TRUMP LAUGH. But she has done…she has done an amazing job. And, I think we're doing really well based on everything I'm hearing. Uh…we have tremendous enthusiasm. We have…tremendous support. Different areas…I mean, we have different folks for different strokes, frankly. Because there are some areas where it looks like it's just…uniform Trump.
And we have others, which were actually campaigning in a little bit, to see if we can get them over. Uh…you know, I was coming in today, and I thought it was important to…mention. I'm self-funding my campaign. I'm putting up my own money, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…and Cruz and Kasich are…and all the…everybody! I mean, you know, every politician. Nobody's self-funds. I don't think anybody's self-funded probably since Ross Perot, I guess! I don't know.
But…but I'm self-funding my campaign, and…I said to my people today, “I don't think it…is worth it”. Now, I'm doing it and I'm not gonna change. You know, we're doing it…all through this the whole thing will find out what happens at the end of this beautiful process. And I love this process. It's an amazing process. I like a primary more than a caucus. I think a caucus is a little crazy. When…somebody goes in, and if you don't have the right people standing there, they get taken over. And, I don't really like that process. It's almost…it just doesn't seem to be right.
Now, maybe cuz I seem to do so well. You know, we've won I think 22 states already, which is fantastic. 22 states…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we’ve won some caucus States too, in all fairness! But, there's something about walking in, voting and leaving. Do we agree? It’s something  …it’s going home.
But, I…I will say, I was coming in today, and I…we just landed, and we're driving over, and I said, “you know, I've spent…a lot of money”. I mean, it's…uh…money that I fully intended to spend. Actually, I thought I would have been a lot more by this time because I haven't had to advertise, cause the media has given me so much…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…you know, they called it ‘earned media’. Earned! And, it's been so much! And…uh…frankly, the more you do…it's like a free ad: “would you like to do a show?”.
“Yeah, I’ll do a show”. It's like a free ad, okay? It’s like a long free add. But they've given me a lot of that, and…and we've done very well. And, uh…I'm very happy about it. But I don't think that it's been worth it from the truth standpoint. And that's not to change. But I just said, “I'm gonna start telling people I'm self-funding!”, because what self-funding means…is that I’m not controlled by…the…pharmaceutical companies. I'm not controlled by lumber…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. I'm not controlled by electric..:! …–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. I'm not controlled by anybody. I'm controlled by you! I'm controlled by you! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I’m controlled by Sarah Palin too, of course, but that's okay.
But, we're not controlled, and…it's such a big thing. And I, you know, fortunately I built a great company. And it's been…it’s been an amazing company. I filed the documents and…it's some of the great assets of the world. Some…are just…tremendous cash flow. Tremendous cash flow. And, very little debt. And that's…you know, I say that not …in a bragging way, I say that because that's the kind of thinking we need in the United States! We don't have that thinking! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We don't have that thinking! And frankly…so, I…I really…I’ve…I felt it was very interesting to say, and I'm gonna mention from now on: self-funding. Self-funding, because…all of these people are controlled! Like Ted Cruz, he put his personal financial disclosure form in. And he forgot…he forgot…–SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘LYIN TED!’–…well they want me to act presidential! They don't want me to call him lyin Ted, okay? Lyin Ted! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, no, they want me to…;
My wife actually said, “now, you're with Sarah today. You have to act very presidential”. And Sarah would never say lyin Ted, right? But people do like it.
No, I'm being…it's very…it's very…uhm…I'm being honest, okay? You know…; don't forget! What Ted Cruz did…to Ben Carson, who endorsed me, by the way. He's a great guy…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Ben Carson was running a great campaign in Iowa, doing fantastically well, and…Ted Cruz announced, during the election…I don't mean like three days before! Or a day before, when you can recover! He said, during the election, that… “he's gone. He's out. He's…quit! He’s not doing…!”. Now, he didn’t quit! He'd never quit. It’s…if you know him, it's not a quitter, that I can tell you. He was giving me a lot of trouble. He was right there. We're going one…and he's right there. I said, “boy, we're having a hard time with Ben!”. But…tougher, really tougher than anybody else.
But, Ben was in a campaign, and the election comes, and it's a caucus. And the people walk into the caucus, sit down: “let us tell you something: Ben Carson has left the race!”.
And they said, “really? Oh, but I wanted to vote for him!”.
“But he's left the race!”. And you know, potentially, who knows how many…? But thousands of people voted…for Cruz instead of Carson, which was very…–THE CROWD BOOS–…which…no, but that’s…that’s…you know, it…really bad! And then Cruz said he knew nothing about it.
And of course, he called Ben and apologized about 12 seconds after the voting ended. [He] Said, “oh, good. What can we do about that now?” Nothing! Because it's so…I mean, they should have done something! I'm…frankly, they should have disqualified. Or the voter form. If you saw the voter form, that was to me…worse! A voter form that was put out in Iowa. I mean, there were things…! There are so many things! So we say that.
But I will say this, look: Ted didn't disclose that he's…borrowed money at a very, very low interest rate because, I guess, maybe cause he's a senator! Do you think that has anything to do with it? For whatever reason. He borrowed money from Goldman Sachs. He borrowed money…a lot of money! …from Citibank. And he didn't disclose it in his personal financial disclosure form! And then he goes around, he’ll have an audience like this, and he'll say that… “you know, folks, we are going to…take care of those banks. Those bad, bad banks”. You know, he’s gonna be Robin Hood, okay? He's gonna help everybody's. He’s gonna be Robbin Hood, but he didn't…disclose that he's borrowing with the banks.
And believe me, anybody in this room would love to get the interest rate that his bank…; it was like…–MR. TRUMP REPRESNTS MONEY UNDER THE TABLE–…very…oh, close to zero. And…you gotta disclose that stuff.
So, there's such deception, and such lying…! In fact, when Sarah came in today I saw her this morning and I…we were talking for a little while. [I] Said, “this politics is really a dishonest business”. They…they say…–THE CROWD LAUGHS–…things! And I'll…I’ll go into it, because…I'm all about making America great again. Very simple…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Very simple.
I did a show this morning with a…very good radio show, with a …–SOMEBODY FROM THE CROWD YELLS ‘I LOVE YOU!’. Thank you. I love you too. Who is it? Stand up! Let me see…! Thank you, darling. I love you too.
And…and the radio host, [a] great radio host. And the radio host said to me, “Mr. Trump, let me…”, at the end. You know, we went for 25 minutes…I'm talking about all sorts of things…! And you know, it's early on Saturday morning, “and…where are you going?”.
“I'm going through Wisconsin; I'm getting on the plane…”.
He said, “let me ask you a question. You have a great family. You're worth more than 10 billion dollars. You can do anything you wanna do. Why are you doing this, right? Why are you doing this? …–THE CROWD MUTTERS. He actually said it. And believe it or not…I get that question a lot. I also get it from my family, to be honest with you! You know, when I say…uh…I'm up at four in the morning because I have to leave early, because I'm making a speech in some…faraway place. And…uh…you know, they do say, “why…why do you do this!?”. And, the people that know me know why I'm doing it.
And our whole theme is making…America…great…again. And…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…and it's…it's a tough…it's a tough, this politics is a tough business, because you can say things one way, and the press will criticize you horribly. You say it another way and the press will criticize you…horribly.
You talk about NAFTA…which I'm gonna talk about, and you talk about NATO, and you talk about different things…that I actually know about…I know so much…! When I look at NAFTA…what NAFTA has done to this country is so incredible.
Now you're gonna have Trans-Pacific Partnership which Ted Cruz…totally…supports. Which…Kasich totally supports. And Kasich to go step worse…because he's older said he voted and he didn't…say it. It's a fact. He voted for NAFTA! NAFTA took the guts out of our country. Not only in Wisconsin, but you go to New England, and you see those empty factories, and they moved to Mexico, and various places…; and you take a look at NAFTA.
Now Trans-Pacific is going to be far worse than NAFTA. And what it's gonna do to Wisconsin is gonna be unbelievable! It's gonna be unbelievably bad! And you just can't let it happen! And what Cruz did, which is interesting…uh…he's going to vote for it, all right? And he…was always gonna vote for it. Then he started to waver a little bit, when he sees that people don't want it.
But he did something worse! The worst thing about…trade agreements, and specifically that one is they don't talk about currency manipulation, and currency devaluation, something I know more about than anybody. It is killing…our…country. We have countries like China; we have countries like Japan, and many others! I mean, almost everybody! And, they use it brilliantly, I mean, China's a grandmaster, like a grand master chess player. They’re a grandmaster at currency manipulation. And what they do, is they make it impossible…for our people to compete. And we don't even talk about that…in…the…new agreement, in TPP. We don't even talk about it! We didn't talk about it, obviously, in NAFTA because that was…just terrible. But that wasn't really the biggest problem with NAFTA. There were a lot of other problems. All that wasn’t a big one.
But with Trans-Pacific, they're gonna clean out our jobs. Look, these countries are taking our jobs. I…I got statistics on…Wisconsin that are unbelievable…how…how jobs…;
You know, we think we're doing nicely, and everybody thinks they're doing well? But I had some statistics. I said, “you could write out…you could write out some of the numbers!”. You look at your manufacturing jobs! You know better than anybody, how they've gone to other countries! They're gone! I mean, they're literally gone! …–A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. Thank you. I am gonna fight for you! I am gonna fight for you…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [I am] gonna fight hard too. And we don't…we don't ever quit.
Sarah paid me the greatest compliment today. She said, “where do you get your energy?”. Now, who has more energy than Sarah Palin!? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS–…she said to me, “where do you…?”. Right!? I mean, when Sarah says it, that's like…uh…that's like…uh…Babe Ruth saying, “how do you hit the ball”, right? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. So, anyway.
But I just…I just had this written out! And, this is about…Wisconsin! Trade facts. 20 percent of manufacturing jobs have left…since 2000. Nobody knows that! …–A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. We’ll get you a job. We’ll get you a lot of jobs. We're bringing our jobs back from China. We're bringing our jobs back from Mexico. We're gonna stop people from moving to Mexico. Mexico is the new China! Remember that! …–A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. Mexico is…killing us at the border. And I have a great relationship with Mexico! I have a great relationship with Hispanics. In Nevada, the state of Nevada, which I won, by a landslide. I won almost all of these states by a landslide. But the…state of Nevada…won by a landslide. They did an exit poll, and the exit poll has me winning…by a lot with the Hispanics!
But listen to this, 20 percent of manufacturing jobs in Wisconsin have left since 2000. The Journal Sentinel, we all know what the Journal Sentinel is, right? Okay? So, I didn't write it! This…they wrote it! I didn't write it! I was like saying…I didn't write it! And maybe they're wrong, but I'm…you know, it's surprising when you live…;
Wisconsin chronically lags the rest of the United States in job creation, which is true. I've heard that. But you don't hear it! Nobody knows that! You know, people think…the governor…; I have in my plane, I have a big plaque from the governor. [A] Very nice plaque. And the people said, “oh, do you wanna bring this!?”. He gave me a plaque a year ago. This is before…I beat him in the presidential, you know, let's face it!…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. He'd probably be number one right now if I wasn't there! But, you know what I did? I found out…what's going on…in Wisconsin! And I started reading statistics!
And he said, “oh democratic talking points”. But it was true! If…they’re talking points. There have to be talking points! And I’m not saying [he’s] a bad guy.
So he gave me a plaque. Cause I gave him like a lot of money! Like 50 or 100,000 dollar to run. And I didn't know him! But I thought…you know, I like the idea that he was in there fighting, and all. You know, he's fighting! It’d be nice if you could do without so much fighting. Get the same result or better. If you could get a better result without fighting, that would be great.
Like I won in New Hampshire. And I spent two million dollars and Jeb spent 48 million dollars…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. And I was in first place and he was in, almost, last place.
And I said, “isn't that the way to do it?”, right? Don't you want that? Who do you want as your president? No, who do you want!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I…actually…you know, I'm sort of proud of this because…uh…I actually did some…ads in states…you know, I won the state of Florida…I was…–THE CROWD CHEERS–…oh, I…do we have some Florida people here!? Who’s…? Are you from Florida? Great! Well, you know!
We won big. We won big! And I wasn't supposed to win Florida! In fact, they changed the rules in Florida, about a year ago, cuz…it…let me tell you, this party stuff is very…very tough. I'm not sure which is worse, dealing with the party people or dealing with the press. Cause the press…the press is…tough. Uh…the press is really tough.
So, in Florida what happened was very interesting. Uh…Florida they had a rule, that…you get certain percentages…and they did it not for me! But you get certain percentages, and…you win. Now, they did this for Jeb Bush, cause he was going to win Florida. So, if you got a certain number, you get the whole state. In other words, you get all…99 delegates. And they did that to knock other people out, and they didn't have me in mind I think, cause they did it a little before I came. But they did this to take care of Jeb at the time, and…or Rubio because, you know, they were the…you have a  senator, you have a governor…;
Then it turned out the polls were showing that I was way ahead in Florida, and I ended up winning. So I got 99 delegates or whatever! I got the whole thing! It's crazy! They didn't do that for me! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They did that so the establishment guys…it was sort of an amazing…; the establishment guys would get all of the votes! And. it worked out…good. So, you know, things…things tend to work out. You gotta just…sort of play.
Uh…the press is tough though, because…two weeks ago I made a really good speech. The people were going crazy: ranting, raving, they're going crazy up, in the air…! No protesters whatsoever which is always nice. But…but, ranting…! And by the way that's, so overblown…!…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
We have 20,000 people in some of the stadiums and we purposely wanna keep some of this into smaller environments, cuz you can…you know, you can check it, it's a little easie. But, that it’s…just so you know: that protest stuff is so overblown. If we have a…a person in 21,000 people in Orlando…we were in Orlando, Florida. We had such an unbelievable crowd in a…big…like stadium complex.
We had another one in…uh…a different state where was thousands and thousands of people on a lawn! The…convention center wasn't big enough, like 25,000 people…more than that! And they said…it…it…we had…I mean what we did…! Arizona, Sheriff Joe. Do we love Sheriff Joe? Sheriff Joe also endorsed me! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Right? If Sheriff Joe endorses you…so, anyway.
So, I made the speech, and the press said, “oh, it was really…too tough, and too strong, and…too…excited; and the people were all going nuts!”, and they were sort of knocking me, right?
I said, “no, I got like 15 standing ovations”.
So the next time, purposely, I went…very…look, I… “ladies and gentlemen, I'd like to thank you all for being here, like…”, and it was…great! It was exactly what they wanted. Next time they said, “Donald Trump had very little energy today! It was not…” …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. The truth is, you can't…no matter what you do! No matter what you say, because they can take something you say and turn it around…; like I’ll be on CBS Face the Nation. What I said was…perfect! And what I said was…in fact, otherwise I wouldn't…if…honestly, I’m gonna be on that show…tomorrow. And I taped it…yesterday. What I said was so good! It was so perfect! And then they looked. They said, “oh, maybe you should have added a word, and…!”.
Well, actually, the way it came out [is] they took words out that I said! And…the…the only reason I tell you this is cause I want you to watch it. Now, if I did something wrong, I wouldn't want you to watch it.
So, I’m on Face the Nation, and I'm also…with John Dickerson, who's actually a very good guy. Tomorrow. And we do a long interview, and a really good interview. And we're also on Chris Wallace, at FOX. So, I think they're two good interviews, so you watch. So, [if] you don't like…;
But…but they take things…and they say…it's…it's very, very unfair. Now, they don't…the problem is they don't do it with everybody! They do it with me! But I don't see them doing it with other people!
For instance, I watched Kasich today on…CNN on an abortion…question. And I said, “what a terrible…answer that was!”. That was a terrible answer! He didn't wanna talk about it! “I don't wanna talk about it!”. Because it's a tough question! You know, 50 percent of the people hate you. 50 percent of the people love you! [It’s] very simple! It's 50-50. 50 hate, 50 love. He gave a horrible answer! I called up my people. I said, “just out of curiosity, is that gonna get any press?”. I said, “his answer was horrible!”.
And they said, “well, let me check. So far no press. Well, then I’l…just checked…”, you know this is hours, and hours ago. Nothing! Nobody cares!
So, it's a double standard, like…and….and again, I'm not complaining because we all play the game and we all do what we have to do. But I’ll tell you what is interesting…–A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. Thank you. I'll tell you what is interesting: the people get the people! The people…! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. The people…the people…really…understand. You know, the people really understand.
So, look you're doing badly and job creation, which is really…incredible. Uhm…Wisconsin has to keep wages very depressive. If You don't keep…wages depressed, you're not gonna hold your jobs, which tells you you have the wrong kind of jobs, folks. I hate to tell you. We’ll bring the jobs back that you're gonna wanna make a little money with…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
A lot of your job growth…you're only…uh…primary job growth coming from health care jobs, which pay less. I mean, they pay…525 dollars a week. Again, journal. Uhm…wages in manufacturing have stalled, and…low-wage…nations are doing a big number. We're gonna stop that! Household income has declined since the year 2000. Okay.
So folks, you're in Wisconsin. We like the governor. Again, he came up…he gave me a beautiful plaque! My only thing is do I take it and show it to you!? I…you know, it's a wonderful thing! I don't know if I do it!
Some people say, “oh…!”, but he's sort of popular with the Republicans! Not popular in the state. But popular with the Republicans. Well, right now I'm catering to the Republicans, although I think we're gonna have good crossover. I do believe we're gonna have Democrats. I do believe we're going to have…independents…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I think a lot of people…;
And I’ll tell you the people that are most fond of, in a sense, because…it's amazing what's happening. When I do…shake hands with people, and sign, and…you know, do my things…afterwards sometimes I'll do…so many people say, “Mr. Trump, I've never voted before. This is the first time I've ever voted”.
Now, immediately you say, “that's not nice”. But then you say. “well, wait a minute!”. And they're wearing like a Trump shirt, and you…there's some people…you know, they’re pretty…rich people. They're wearing rich with a Trump shirt.
But there's a woman in Tennessee, 93 years old. She's never voted before. Beautiful…woman. Beautiful! And dressed beautifully! And…she came in, and they wanted…it was a big deal! It’s actually been a big story in Tennessee. First-time voter. Never voted before. She's voting for Trump, and she's so excited about it. And…it’s…it's just a great thing…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…I love that.
So, we get a lot of people that have never voted before. Now, you don't read this in the papers, and I can't say it if it's not true because I’ll end up in a front-page story: “Trump exaggerates…and he this, and he that…”, but, I only what’s true. I’ve gotten millions of votes more than Ted Cruz. I've gotten millions and millions of votes more than Kasich! Millions of votes more!
What's happened to the Republican Party, which in all fairness, had a falling asleep reputation, whether we like it or not. It was falling asleep! And frankly, the whole…structure of the Republican party is much tougher to win the presidency. It is so much tougher. If you don't win every state perfectly…; but I'm gonna bring some states into play that nobody else is gonna be…able to…put into play! I mean, nobody…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…uh…we're getting great polls with African-Americans because they know we're gonna bring back jobs! We're getting…I…in…in my opinion, I'll tell you what. Nobody has greater respect for women than Donald Trump. Nobody. Nobody…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…you know, I watch the press doing a number on me with women and, a lot of the women that we see, and a lot of that all the women here today, half are women! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thank you! But…and they…one of them asked, “why!? Why…why…do you think you're gonna do well?”.
I said, “because we are going to do great…for women, but we're also gonna do great…and nobody's gonna do better in protecting our country; protecting our borders; and making this a safe…place…to be!”. That's for men and women! Men and women…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, and actually…on…uh…Monday my wife is coming up. She's gonna campaign! She's never done this before. She's coming. So, we're starting in Wisconsin…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So, it…that'll be exciting. Melania is coming up.
And Ivanka just had a baby. She just had a beautiful baby…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…uhm…and Ivanka is gonna start in another week or so. She's gonna start campaigning. She's just all set. In fact, uh…last time she had a baby, she was in the office the following day. This time, I think she'll be in the office pretty…like in…within a couple of days. But…but…uh…she's very strong, and very good. And she had a beautiful baby, so we're very happy. She's gonna start campaigning too, so we're really happy about that…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, one of the things I wanted to talk, cause it's really being…unfairly discussed, I spoke with CNN. I had a big…uh…town hall with Anderson Cooper, which was very fair, I must tell you. He…he’s tough but smart, and good. Uh…I thought his questions were good. [He got] Tremendous rating! He got a tremendous rating! That was a town hall last week. You saw the ratings, [they] were…fantastic. When I went…like this. I had…you had Cruz, you had Kasich and you had Trump. With…all three of us. One hour each. The ratings were…–MR. TRUMP DRAWS A HUMP IN THE AIR–…you understand what that means, right? So, I was in the middle.
And in fact, I beat every other show on cable by a lot, by millions of votes. Uh…we beat everybody. We…it was…very good. In fact, CNN called me immediately following, although they don't treat me good! CNN does not treat me good, by the way, but…they treat me so badly! ..…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
But they immediately called. “we'd like to do another one!”.
I said, “I just did one”.
“No, no. We don’t…”.
And then they sent out a release. You all saw the release. That it's one of the highest-rated shows they've had in a long time, and beat everybody in cable. And I think beat everybody, period. Regardless on cable.
So it was a great success. And it was a fair…a fair interview. I like Anderson Cooper. I think he's very…tough but very fair. And…uh…he…he talked about NATO. Now, in all fairness, I’ve…been a businessman! So, things like NATO, it's not like…you know, when I’m building a building in Manhattan, or when I'm signing a lease for the largest bank in the world, which happens to be from China…! Or what I'm doing whatever I do! Or when I'm making deals…; we're doing a 114 all over the world right now.
Now, my children are doing it. My executives are doing it. Nobody…talks about it, but we have deals all over the world going up. And…and fantastic. And getting ready to sign deals that are gonna be fantastic.
But I will tell you, nobody asked me about NATO! Nobody asked me about NAFTA! Nobody asked me about…uh…anything! They talk about deals! That's what they do. Well, my whole life has been doing this. And I've been running for office. I've been a politician since June six16th, if you think about it. But I have good common sense, and I have good…business sense. I guess I have great business sense.
Look, I built a company…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…I built a company, in a relatively short period of time that's worth more than 10 billion dollars. And it's not…the computer stuff, and the internet stuff…you know, you open it and you open a love site, and it's worth 700 million dollars. It's day one, and these kids never saw anything like it. And they come to your office to say hello to you, and they're wearing an undershirt.
You know, they come up to meet me, a lot of the guys from Sillicon [Valley]. And they're…they’re wearing undershirts!
I could tell you a story. Some of the…the biggest…of…in the world! They'll…they’ll come in and roller skates, and they'll be wearing like a t-shirt. And the guard, actually…okay! One…who's one of the richest in the world, flood…comes in to Trump Tower on roller skates, right?
[He] Says, “hey, I wanna see Donald Trump”. They throw him out of the building…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. And it was one of the founders of one of the…I don’t wanna embarrass him. And he wouldn't be embarrassed, actually. I don't think he'd care. He thinks it's funny, but he's a friend. He's a good guy.
But they threw him out of the building! He's calling from outside, “they won't let me in the building”, because the way he's dressed. He's got jeans and an undershirt on. So, it's one of those things. And he's worth…billions! Many, many billions of dollars.
But I built a company…with real estate and with other things, [that] it's worth…more than 10 billion dollars.[A] Great, great company. And you know, when you can do that, that's a…that's a tribute. That's what we need!
So, here’s…here's the story. They asked me…I was, actually, on Wolf Blitzer. [A] Good guy. And he asked me about… “tell me about NATO!”.
I'm saying, “well, that's the questions never been asked to me before, but I’ll tell you about NATO. It's obsolete, and we're paying too much money!”, okay? That's my instincts, all right? That's just my instant! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…I got hammered! “How could you ever talk…!?”. In fact, Obama…you probably saw that. Obama yesterday hammered me on…my stance on Japan! I wanna talk to you a little bit about, because…what I'm here to do, what I'm…really gonna be great at is trade; what I'm really gonna be great at is the borders, and security, and military. And when they do the polls, which…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…which has a big segmen.
And by the way, we're gonna get great healthcare, because we're gonna get rid of Obamacare. We're gonna bring…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…no, we’re getting rid of [it]. It’s a disaster! No, I mean, we're gonna do these things so…so…those also are like the easy things, all right?
We’re gonna get rid of Obamacare. We're gonna repeal it, [and] replace it with something so…good! So much less expensive. Your premiums are going up 45, 55 percent…it's ridiculous. And by the way, whether you say you're gonna get rid of it or not, it’s gonna get rid of any way, cause in 17’, the year 17, it explodes; unless the Republicans do again, where they give more budget money to keep it going! Which should not have happened…with this omnibus budget!
But we're gonna…get rid of Common Core, [and] we're gonna bring education locally…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna protect our Second Amendment…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…which is…under siege. We're gonna fight very hard for Christianity.
You know Christianity, is being chipped at, chipped at, chipped at…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We’re being chipped away. And you know, I've…you've seen! I've won most of the evangelical vote.
When I went to South Carolina, everybody said, Sarah, that…that was Cruz’s. He’s gonna win it! He's gonna win…evangelical. I think they said 68 percent evangelical. I won in a landslide. And I won the evangelical vote! Because they get it! I've had great support. I've had great support. You know, uh…so…so many. Uh…Jerry Falwell Jr., which has been incredible. And, uh…pastor Jeffress;. I watched him on…television, this morning…–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. He actually thought my answer abortion was a very good answer, which is a very interesting thing. But, you know, a lot of…again, that's a lot of…a lot of different views, and a lot of different…; you could debate that subject for years to come. You could debate it for years to come. But, I…I will tell you this: you had…you had all of these people, and…I'm winning one after one.
So, Wolf Blitzer asks me about…about NATO. And I said, “look…”; and…now, think of this…not only from a security standpoint, folks. Our country is a…third-world nation. Our infrastructure is dead! It's gone! Our bridges are 55 percent ready to fall down. I mean, they're really unsafe! Our roadways are bad. Everything's bad!
And you may see it a little bit less in this part of the country, but you see it too. Because I look at your numbers and they're not good at all! And you're right in the middle of the pack. You're not doing anything outstanding, believe me…–THE CROWD MUTTERS AND LAUGHS TIMIDLY. But, I look at this…no, it's true! I mean, the…the…Wisconsin's not too well! It's…it's…–THE CROWD MUTTERS–…is it doing okay? It's doing okay.
But by the way, take a look at your borrowings. I think it's 48 billion dollars. So, they're borrowing too much money, and too many bad things are happening. The bottom line is your jobs are leaving. You can't…you can't be successful. And that's for the country too! You can't be successful unless the jobs come back.
So, they're talking about…NATO. And I said, “well, here's the way I look at it”. And I almost would know this instinctively but I actually had some numbers. But I would almost know this instinctively. Because…every country beats us. We don't want anymore. Every…single…country beats us. Whether it's…China in trade; they beat us at…we can't even beat ISIS! We can't beat ISIS! We have military [that]…we can't beat ISIS! And by the way, our military has been totally depleted, and we're gonna build it up again. We're gonna make it the strongest military in the world, and nobody's gonna mess with us anymore…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Nobody.
And…we're gonna take care of our vets, who have been totally mistreated. We're gonna take care of our vets, okay? Believe me…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'm gonna do it. And you know, vets come up to me. I have…almost uniform support with the vets, and they come up to me, [and] they say, “you know Mr. Trump, every…” …–A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘I LOVE YOU TRUMP!”–…oh, that's my vet! That's my favorite vet!
But you know what? The vets come up to me…the vets…they come up to me and they say, all the time, they say, “you know, Mr. Trump, you're the only one”. I have such tremendous support from the vets. That's one of the reasons I did so well in South Carolina at different places; and New Hampshire, where I won. We have a huge vet population.
But they come up to me all the time! And they say…you know, of all these people…we started off with 17. Now we're down to two leftovers, okay? Two leftovers. That's all I have left! Two! We have two people left! Nobody got that joke, but that's okay[MGF1] …–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. But…but you know what? They started…they started off at 17 and nobody talked about it. And they'd come to me when they were 10 left; when they're eight left; when they were two left; they came to me two days ago. And they said, “you're the only one that mentions the vets in your speech”. And every time I mention the military, I talk about the vets, because the vets are very important part…of the military.
Our military has to know that when they're finished defending our country, that they're gonna be taking proper care of! They are taken…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. The military is taking care of worse than if you're an illegal immigrant. I mean, you see what's going on where they’re…they’re being…the…immigrants, it…! The illegal immigrants! They come in here illegally. Uh…you have…uh…such crime! It's such a crime wave, but nobody understands…;
When I announced for president on June 16th and I mentioned this…–A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘BUILD THE WALL!’–…we will build the wall, don't worry. And Mexico is gonna pay for the wall…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Mexico will pay for the wall.
But when I mentioned…on June 16th, I talked about illegal immigration, the…world went crazy! It was like the worst thing. Then two weeks later, everyone was saying, “you're right”.
Then the other day I heard Cruz say. “…and we will build a wall!”.
That's…I said, “where did that come from!?”…–THE CROWD MUTTERS AND LAUGHS.
No, it’s…he said, “we will build a wall!”.
I said…I didn't believe that! I said, “play it back!”. That's the nice thing about TiVo. “Play it back”, I don't believe it! We're gonna really take care of it, okay? And we're gonna build a real wall. And…remember this, you're all here . Just remember this: Mexico's paying for the wall.
We have…Mexico could stop a lot of the problems we have, just by…one phone call…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. One phone call. The leaders could call…stop it almost immediately. But they…love it!
Everything comes here…; you try and become a citizen of Mexico. You go to Mexico, you're there…;  remember sergeant Tahmooressi, what happened there. They wouldn't release him…; and I gave him a lot of money! I helped him, because when he came out, he was…he was a troubled, young guy. And…perhaps troubled when he went there. He should have never been there! But…and he certainly shouldn't have been there from the long periods…uh…that he was there. Greta worked very hard on him and others. But, you know, on…on making sure that he got out.
But we had a president…; I don't think he ever made…I don't think he ever made a phone call! You know, it's…to this day, I don't think he ever made a phone call! It just shows you!
We have tremendous trade deficits with Mexico, 58 billion dollars or so. Think of it: 58 billion. When you have a 58 billion dollar trade deficit, and you're gonna…yearly! And you’re gonna build a 10 billion dollar wall…? It's real easy, right? You don't have to…you don't have to be the greatest…business student in the world…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
So, just…so you just remember this, and you can hold me to it the next time around, okay? Uh…it…Mexico…? We're gonna build a wall. It's gonna be a great wall. It's gonna be a real wall. It's gonna stop drugs from pouring into our country. [It’s] Gonna stop people from coming into our country, other than legally, cause we want them to come in legally! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But you watch.
And…and…just so I say: Mexico will pay for it, because when you have a trade deficit like that, that means they're making a fortune on the United States. You have companies like Ford, like Nabisco, like Carrier air-conditioner moving into Mexico…–THE CROWD BOOS. Well, that's the way you have to think of it!
You know, in Japan, they sell very few American products. And remember… ‘made in the USA’? The old sticker we used to proudly have. We would have it on everything we had: ‘made in the USA’,  or ‘made in America’, but ‘made in the USA’.
In Japan, they were very proud of their products. They don't want products made in the USA. So we take their cars by the millions…but we send them very little. You call it an imbalance. They're up here, we're down here…–MR. TRUMP SHOWS WITH HIS HANDS. We send them very…very little, and they take our breath.
We have to change it! We have to balance it out, folks! We have to balance it out but! …–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
But…but with NATO, I have to tell you. So with NATO, I said ‘obsolete’, [and] I said ‘expensive’. Then we started getting into countries with…uh…actually Wolf Blitzer, and also…with Anderson Cooper. And…we started getting into it! And we talked about…nuclear, because nuclear to me is the single biggest problem in the world today, okay?
Uh…President Obama thinks its global warming if you can believe this! He actually said, “global warming is our single biggest problem”. And I agree with him! I say global warming but of the nuclear variety. That is…that is our…because you want global warming. That's global warming, okay? That's instantaneous global warming.
Nuclear's our single biggest problem, the power of those weapons. And, you already have countries that have them! I mean, you have Pakistan…has…tremendous nuclear capability. You have…India. You have…Russia. You have China! You have the USA! You have others that have it. You probably have some that have it, which is the scariest of all, that nobody even knows! You have…you have North Korea that has it! So, here you have a situation.
Now, most people don't know this. Now I'm talking…number one, I'm talking [about] defense, because you know, defense…uh…it…the…really the security it's the most important thing…that we can have.
Somebody said, “what's the most important thing as president?”. Security, okay? Security! The top three things: security, security, security. Okay. And the rest of it is all important but…we need a secure nation. So, we put that first.
But, from a business standpoint, where we owe so much money. Where we're a debtor nation. So, we take care of Germany, militarily. A lot of people don't know that! What…they say, “what do you mean Germany?”. I'm…I say this…for the last couple of weeks. I've been saying at big league. And I say Germany. And people will say, “we don’t…take care of…”. We take care of Germany militarily. And there's reasons for it! And I understand the reasons. We all understand the reasons.
We take care of Japan. We take care of South Korea. We take care of …many countries! We take care of Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia was making a billion dollars a day during the higher prices. Now they're still making a lot. But they were making a billion dollars…a day! It's a behemoth. So is Germany. So is…South Korea. So is Japan. These countries are…behemoths! We take care of them! They…don't take care of us.
Now, Saudi Arabia…you have to be able to walk folks, just so you understand. You have to be able to get up and walk.
If John Kerry…would have gone…into that negotiation, and a couple of times stood up and said ‘goodbye’ to Iran…on that horrible deal, that one of the worst deals I've ever seen; they would have called him back and he would have won some points. He didn't win anything, okay? It's one of the worst deals I've ever seen. One of the worst deals of any kind. Not between countries![It’s] Just one of the worst deals I've ever seen.
So, when I talk about NATO…we're talking about…tremendous amounts of money that we put in. Now we’re…and we're defending…countries, and we're not getting reimbursed anywhere near the cost of doing it!
Now, you know, that might have been okay 30 years ago, when we were different; and it might have been okay 25 years ago, and 40 years ago, and it might have been…; but you know what? It's not okay anymore, folks. We can't do it. We can't do it. Now…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, I was on CNN, and I…they asked me the big question. And they said, “what do you think of NATO?”.
I said, “it's obsolete, and it's costing too much”. And, some of the military, people…of course you are gonna hear this! “Oh, that's a terrible thing. That's a terrible thing”. Obama said ‘terrible’. A lot of…it…my opponents, here! Uh…Kasich and… Cruz! They were saying, “oh, he doesn't know the nuclear! He doesn't know anything about…!”. I know more about it than…they do! And I also have common sense and I have business judgment, which they don't have. They've never employed a person in their life. They've never employed anybody in their entire life. They’re politicians. They get their money from companies. They probably get money from companies that…are involved with Japan; they're involved with many of these countries that…make a fortune off these countries.
And they're not gonna do the right thing for you! They're gonna do the right thing for the country, and the right thing for their lobbyists, and the right thing for their special interest. But they're not gonna do the right thing…for you. Believe me! Believe me! I know it! Hey, excuse me, who knows better than me? I was on the other side of that equation for my whole life!
Some of these lobbyists, I see them, “hey, Jim how [are] you doing?”. He gives me five, right? I mean, I know these people! And they're very good! You have lobbyists that specialize in certain senators. If you want senator ‘X’, you go to so and so, on Pennsylvania Avenue. He'll guarantee…! I mean, he walks in [and] he says, “well, this is what I want”. And…and 100 percent! I mean, it's like it's emblazoned on their forehead: ‘senator…’; I don't wanna embarrass anybody…but let's say senator Cruz…–THE CROWD LAUGHS.
It's simple…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Cruz. Cruz… ! Kasich…! Hillary Clinton…! They got…oh, Hillary…! She takes money from every…Hillary! …–THE CROWD BOOS. Hillary, oh! But they will do…they will do what their lobbyists tells them to do! I mean, not all the time! But most of the time! Because the lobbyists will say, “they gave you millions! You can't do this!”.
“Yeah, but it's such a bad deal for the country!”.
“[It] Doesn't matter! They gave you millions! Millions! You have to do it!”.
Me? Nobody gave me anything, okay? Nothing! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…so, what happened is…I mentioned…this…deal, and I mentioned…you know, the fact that it's obsolete. The fact that…America can't afford to do it. The United States can't afford to do it. And that they'll have to pay more! Now, I didn't say anything about…uh…letting Japan nuke. But I did say, “perhaps, if we can't do the right deal, we’ll have to let them take care of themselves”. And if that means [that] they'll have to someday get nuclear weapons, in all fairness, folks: I know the way life works. Eventually they're gonna probably wanna do it anyway, okay? Anyway! It…you know…; I don't say that's a good thing or a bad thing. I think it's fine the way we have it now, but we can't lose…the kind of money we're losing!
We can't have NATO. Now, remember this…NATO, 28 nations. We have NATO. I think it’s 68 years old. It was really designed for the Soviet Union which doesn't exist anymore. But Russia's plenty tough, so you can do that. But it wasn't designed for terrorism! They have the wrong countries. They have the wrong everything.
And our real threat today is terrorism…! That's our big threat. We have other threats! But, we have a big threat of terrorism. So, they have to either rejigger it, or come up with something new. But terrorism is a threat! We have to knock the hell out of these crazy people all over the place, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And when I said, “we have to ban Muslims from coming in until we find out what's going on…”, I'm telling you…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. And I didn't say that from a pollster. I didn't go and get that information from a pollster. I got that information from…common sense. We have to know! We are allowing…do you remember when I said they wanna take in hundreds of thousands from Syria? And everyone said, “oh, that's ridiculous! It's only 10”.
Well, that number now is really high! And it's interesting because I listened…to maybe the first debate for a second debate, which was very boring…you know, the Democrat debate. And they said 55 or 65 thousand, but the White House said 10,000. And when they originally said it was 3,000. So, they started at three, they went to 10; then the debates at 55, then they went back to 10.
But I said 100. And I said 200.  And everyone said, “oh, that’s so ridiculous! It's not that many!”.
Well, now, if you take a look at what's happening, we are taking them in…like…wildfire. Thousands, and thousands, and thousands of people. We have no idea, in many cases, who they are; where they come from; where's their documentation…; look at what happened to Germany. Germany is a disaster. Look at what happened to parts of Sweden.
So, do you remember a few months ago, when I said Brussels is a hellhole? And The New York Times, who actually did a very good story…David Sanger, [a] very talented guy. He wrote a story about…what I…my…my whole views on…uh…nuclear, and NATO, and it was…a defense story. [It] Was, actually, a good story.
But on this one I said, “Brussels is a hellhole”. The New York Times did a whole article saying, “what right do I have to say that about Brussels!?”. It was a horrible piece…that, like, I had no right to say it. And then you had the attack. And then you had this…horrible…you know, situation that's going [on]. Brussels is hellhole. Brussels used to be an unbelievable place, by the way. Many, many…I mean, not that many years ago! You go back 20, 25 years, [and] Brussels was one of the most beautiful cities in the world! It's a hellhole, folks.
And, now, people are all saying, “you know, Trump was right!”. [MGF2] I was also right about ‘take the oil’. Some of you are fans for a long time. How long have I been saying “take the oil”? I didn't mean blow up the oil! I said, “take the oil”. When we were over there…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. I also didn't wanna go into Iraq, because I said “you’re gonna destabilize the Middle East”. But we were there! We had two soldiers here! I said, “don't go out without taking the oil”. And what happened…is we left, and who has the oil now? ISIS has the oil. Iran has the oil…; and Iran is taking over Iraq. As soon as…sure as you're sitting there Iran is taking over Iraq.
So they made a great deal with Kerry, and we should have gotten the prisoners back long before we started negotiating, frankly. We shouldn't have started negotiating unless we had the prisoners back…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. But…but when you look at what we've done; what we're doing to this country…; what we're doing to the world, we don't know what we're doing!
So, I came up with this whole thing on NATO. And all of a sudden, about a week later…and I was criticized! “Donald Trump wants to arm Japan”. They don't tell you the whole story! They don't say, no I don't wanna do that. But they gotta pay more. And they gotta this…; cause I wanna straighten out our finances! I mean, if I can get all these people to pay a fair share, we're gonna knock the hell out of our problem! …–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. Cuz we're sitting on a big, beautiful…maybe not so beautiful; we're sitting on a big, beautiful…bubble! Okay? We can't have this!
You people wanna do something. You wanna have a school, we can't do it. You wanna have a roadway, you can't do it. You want…you need money for…look, they wanna cut your social security! I'm not cutting your Social Security. I'm the only one…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. They wanna cut the hell out of your social security. They wanna cut entitlements. They wanna cut Medicare. They wanna cut…; so, you've been paying your social security for years, and now they wanna…change the deal on you, right? It's no good!
We gotta take the jobs about. We gotta bring our money back. But now, I'm getting great praise from people! Saying, “he…really understands it! He really does understand the whole thing with NATO!”.
So, here's what happens: I will make a long statement about NATO talking about…the fact that many countries are not paying…their fair share, okay? Many, many of the 28. Many, many countries are not paying, most of them, but many countries are not paying their fair share. That means we are protecting them and they are getting all sorts of…military protection, and other things. And they…they're ripping off the United States, and they're ripping you off! I don't care…I…I don't wanna do that! Either they pay up, including for past deficiencies, or they have to get out!
And if it breaks up NATO, it breaks up NATO…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. I mean…you know, they bring up…as an example, they bring up the Ukraine. The Ukraine! I have many friends live in the Ukraine. I have…great people live in the Ukraine. Ukraine's great. The problem is this: I never hear any of the 27 talking about the Ukraine! The only one talks about the Ukraine…the only one…is the United States, right? And they're always telling Russia, “don't go in. Don't go in. Don't go in . Let's have World War II. Don't go in!”.
But why is it Germany talking about it? And why aren't countries that surround the Ukraine talking…? They don't even talk about it! At some point, folks, we have to get smart! And believe me, we will have the strongest military this country ever had! And we probably will be a NATO, because I'll probably restructure, which is number one. But you have to be prepared! You have to be strongly prepared to walk! And you always have to be prepared to walk!
And if we say to Japan, “we need help. You have to help us because we can't continue to lose a fortune defending you”, you have to be prepared to walk! You have to be prepared! …–THE CROWD CHEEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And that doesn't mean I want them to arm, but it's possible! You know, there's a group of people that are…very smart people that say, “maybe it's a lot better for us if Japan pays their own way, they arm, and they take care of North Korea!”. Not…instead of us taking care of it, right? …–THE CROWD MUTTERS. You know, you can make that case! You can make that case!
But the first case will be this: a phone call. “We have to talk”. This is Germany, Japan…South Korea. South Korea! Every time I buy…I buy thousands of television sets a year. Every time I buy a television, [it] comes out of…LG, Samsung…[it] comes out of South Korea, right? They make a fortune! They make the ships of the world…; they’re…great! It's fantastic!
“Hi. We have to talk”…­–MR. TRUMP REPRESENTS HE HAS A CONVERSTAION ON THE TELEPHONE.
“What?”.
“Listen, we have 28,000 soldiers on your border, between you and this maniac in North Korea. And…we're losing a fortune on this deal. We can't continue to lose like this! We can't!”. And I'll have to say probably, “nope, we can't make that deal”. And, we'll have to walk.
I'll get a phone call the next morning. Saudi Arabia, as an example. I don't believe they'd be there without us, okay? You know, it would have been…there would have been all sorts of problems. And…whether it was during the Kuwait war, you know, when…all of a sudden people started running over there, and they left; and we had…our great Marines boum, boum, boum…–MR. TRUMP PRETENDS HE SHOOTS A GUN. And that was the end of that, right? When Iraq was…was doing a whole big thing.
So, Saudi Arabia wouldn't be there. Saudi Arabia will pay! I mean, more than any of them! They'll pay. But you may actually have to leave the negotiation for a little while. You may actually have to say, “I'm sorry, but we can no longer defend you. You're making a billion dollars, meaning you were; you're still making a lot. You’re making all this money…; you've got…trillions of dollars in your funds! Trillions! But we can no longer…take care of you. But you have to help us out” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. “Now, if you help us out, we will continue to…; but I mean, you have to help us out”.
Now, folks, let me just tell you…I'm representing you. I get nothing out of this. Believe me, I get nothing…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. Whether we represent…one…whether we represent anybody on anything, there are a lot of people that represent Saudi Arabia. There are a lot of people that have companies in Saudi Arabia. A lot of this…there’s a lot of things going on here, that's the problem! But it's not good for the United States!
Somebody said, “these politicians are really stupid”.
I said, “no, they're not”.
They said, “what do you mean? They're so stupid! Why would they make a deal like this?”.
I said, “because…they have no choice. Because they have interests that own that company”. [There] Was a…very bad deal made recently. And it was with a company. And everybody was…saying… “oh, these politicians are so dumb!”.
I said, “no, they're not. They’re smart! They got a lot of campaign contributions from that company. It came through that lobbyists!”. I mean, give me a break, folks! That's what it is! That’s what it is!
With me? It's just gonna be straight. I don't care! I get…I don't want any money. I don't want anything. I don't want any more money…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Somebody said the other day, “you're gonna take your salary as president”.
I said, “no. I said I don't want it”, okay? That's not a big deal! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I don't know what it makes! I don't know what do you makes, but I'm not taking it. One dollar! I’ll take one dollar. I think there is a reason. You have to take…by law, you have to take one dollar. But that's what I'm taking, one dollar.
Look, I will get this thing straight now for you. Ted Cruz cannot straighten out anything, okay? Kasich can straighten it out.
By the way, Ohio…you take those city, it…do you…those states around Ohio. Ohio's…in the middle of the pack! Ohio's not doing well! Look at what happened to their area, certain areas of Ohio. They’re dying! Their coal industry is dying! Their steel industry is dying! Kasich is not gonna be able to help you, folks. Believe me, he's not gonna be able to help you. He's middle of the pack! I was a little surprised at that too! I think there's somewhat good salesman. I think Walker’s a good salesman. I think Kasich is a good salesman, [if] you wanna know the truth. Because I thought Wisconsin was doing well. And it's not! It’s doing okay! It's in the middle of the pack! Nothing spectacular.
Maybe we should take the governor that's at the top of the pack. Maybe they should start running okay? [If] you wanna know the truth. Those are probably because you never heard of, or the people.
But look, we have a country…that has enormous potential. But we are being drained…of our money! We're being drained of our manufacturing and our jobs! We're being drained like we're children, like we're children! It's like taking…I say it all the time, like taking candy from a baby. We are being drained. And when not being drained only on stupidity. We're being drained because…the system…is innately corrupt…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's innately corrupt.
And when everybody says to me, “why do you do this? Why are you doing this?”; Time Magazine had some great stories, but one in particular about a month and a half ago, talking about [the fact that] we have a movement going. Now, the press is doing everything possible to stop that movement. They give me so much false publicity. I'll give them a quote and I…I…won't see it. Or it'll be totally different from what I said. I mean, they are doing everything. They hate it! Because I'm not establishment. I'm the least…! I mean, I was establishment! I will tell you. On June 15th I was like…you know, I gave 350,000 dollars to the Republican Governors Association. I was a big contributor, and contributed to everybody.
You know, as a world class businessman…I contributed to everybody! I can…I had…everybody liked me, right?  That's…part of the thing! Everybody has to like you. But, I was part of the establishment not so long ago! I never thought in a million years I'd be talking as a politician. I never thought. I still can't think of myself as a politician. I don't wanna think of myself as a politician. But I'm a messenger!
But we've had…a messenger for you. Because you're tired, and you're angry, and you're upset. And the story in Time magazine said it! “They're angry”. But you're not angry people! And I'm not an angry person! I'm not an angry person at all! You are not angry people, but you're angry! When you see what's happening…to your jobs? You're angry…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…you're angry when you see what's happening to your country; you…you see what's happening to our economy. You're angry when Mexico is taking all of our businesses; and China is taking our businesses; and…Vietnam is hot as a pistol right now; take a look at that one, that's the new hot one.
And I have the greatest negotiators in the world! It’s what I do! I know the best in the world. I know some that are…totally overrated. I know some that you never heard of that are better than all of them. Carl Icahn endorsed me. [The] Great Carl Icahn. [A] Great guy. [A] Tough guy. [A] Smart guy. Let him negotiate with China. Believe me, you won't have the deal that we have, where we we lose 500 billion dollars a year on trade…! …–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. 500…!
I mean, it's a great tribute to our country. You know, cause we've been losing this kind of money for years, and years, and years! It's an unbelievable tribute…to our country. Unbelievable, that our country can go on so long.
I have a friend. He's very, very sick. He was supposed to die two years ago. Nobody can believe that he lives. And every day he lives I call him. I say, “it's an unbelievable…tribute to you, that you can do this. How strong you were”. He was very strong person. And just lives! …and lives! And I call, “how's he doing?”.
“He's had a good day!”.
Good day!? He was supposed to be dead two years ago! It's unbelievable how our country…uh…I…it reminds me, in a way, of my friend! We're being drained! Everything's being taken out! We don't make good deals anymore. We lose…we can't beat ISIS! We lose with our military. We lose with our vets. We lose on healthcare. We lose at the border. We can't put up a wall. We can't…by the way, the Border Patrol…uh…two days ago, you saw that. The border patrol came out and endorsed me.  They've never done that before! I didn't even know about it! z…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And they tell me in…in Wisconsin, that I'm very, very strong in certain areas. But in certain areas, uh…the…city areas, I'm…not doing well! And I’m not doing well because nobody knows my…my message! They were giving misinformation. I just took out a radio ad. I’ve…I took out a radio ad because I want people…it’s mis…called misinformation.
These crazy talk show hosts, who I dealt with…I call them, “hello you know I'm for anybody but Trump?”.
I said, “I didn't know that. Go ahead. What's your question? I don't care…”. I don't care! Actually, anybody that listened to it, I don't think he's a very smart guy, and anybody that listened to it…; I had a couple people call me that [said], “you were great on that show!”.
Instead they said, “oh, he was rough! He was rough! He’s…you know, just another person, frankly, you know. Bu…but I will tell you. I called…four or five shows, and they were in that same…group. And I didn't say, “I'm not gonna call the next one”. I think anybody I called…many of those people are gonna be for Trump.
But a lot of the people here aren't…you getting misinformation! Because my tax plan lowers tax is far lower than anybody else! They said, “if Trump gets it he's gonna raise taxes” …–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. I'm not gonna raise taxes! I'm gonna lower! Cause if I don't lower taxes, this country is gonna shrivel up. We’re the highest tax nation in the world.
But they were giving misinformation into…the city areas. Right…I mean, you know, I really like Milwaukee. I mean, they were they were giving big, big misinformation.They were saying just the opposite! They must have gotten their information from lyin Ted Cruz. But…–THE CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY–…but they were giving…misinformation!
I'm gonna save Social Security! Ted Cruz is gonna cut the hell out of Social Security. Kasich it's gonna cut the hell out of Social Security! [He’s] Gonna cut the hell out of Medicare! I'm gonna save your Medicare! I'm gonna save you Social Security, because I'm gonna bring in so much money with what I save militarily, by us defending all of these countries…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY–…and by…renegotiating trade deals! But they don't say it!
So, what I did is I took a radio commercial. I did it myself. I did a cheapo. [A] Guy comes into my office, I said, “I’m gonna cut taxes more than anybody else. I’m gonna this, I’m gonna that…;”. You know, it took me a few minutes. I did a quick radio commercial, [that] we’ve put it on now because…there's such lying in this world of politics. It's a terrible thing. And it's wonderful to be able to afford, where you can actually do something about it. You know, a lot of people can't do it! A lot of people can't do it! They don't…have the money to go out and do a commercial to sort of…refeed properly…the misinformation that's being given.
So I…I can just tell you this…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. I can just tell you this: this is going to be, I hope, a really important day for you. I have no doubt about it. You're gonna remember this day. More importantly, you're gonna remember Tuesday. If you can get to the polls and vote for Trump…again, why am I doing it? I'm doing it to make America great again. I'm doing it for that reason! I'm doing it for that reason. …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS
And…we need your help! Because we need the people…that's why I'm here. Because they’ve some areas where it's gonna be like 90 percent…! You know, they love Trump, [and] I said, “folks, [do] you mind if I come here and say…”, cause I need to help, because you've been given so much false information.
But look, we are gonna do a job…that's gonna make you so proud of…this…morning and, frankly, [it’s] gonna make you so proud, more so on Tuesday. You're gonna say it's a single greatest vote you've ever made.
And I will tell you, we're gonna start winning again. We're gonna win on trade. We're gonna win with the military. We're gonna knock the hell out of ISIS. You’re gonna have a great country. We're gonna bring jobs back to Wisconsin. And you're gonna bring a lot of jobs. But good jobs, not bad jobs! Good jobs. Real jobs! …–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. We will have Apple…and we will have other companies, like Apple, making their products in the United States, instead of China, Vietnam and all over the world! Believe me! Believe me! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, it's a great honor to be with you. I hope that on Tuesday you get out and you vote for Trump. And if you're not gonna vote for Trump, don't vote. You know, all these politicians…–THE CROWD LAUGHS–…no, no these phony politicians…; these phony…; they…they get out and they say, “no, no! You have to get to vote! And if you're not gonna vote for me, please, it's so important as the American experience, go out and vote for whoever you wanna vote for!”. Sarah might have said that over the years, I don't know. I doubt it.
But let me tell you something: if you're not gonna vote for me, don't vote! Okay? [It’s] Very simple…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. If you are…you have to get out and vote[MGF3] .
And…and here's the bottom line: I will make you so proud, and you will be so…proud…of your country that you will consider it one of the great days of your lives.
Thank you very much, everybody. Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much.
