VIDEO Nº: 131
TITLE:131. Donald Trump Hold Rally In Fort Worth TX
DATE OF EVENT:27/02/2016
RELEASE DATE:27/02/2016
DURATION:00.43.38 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:6508
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Wow!
We love you folks! We love you! It's a movement! It's a movement! It's really a movement! …-THE CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY.
Well, I wanna thank everybody. First, I have to start by thanking…Governor…Chris…Christie, because…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
You know, I was telling the press a little while ago. Everybody was really surprised. It was sort of a shocker. We kept it secret. Chris and I met the other day. And he said this…whole thing…-MR. TRUMP POINTS TO THE AUDIENCE. And he called it the same thing, “Donald have never seen anything like. It’s a movement. I have never seen anything like it”. So, we shook hands, and I said, “let's keep it as a secret for the people…in Texas”. Let's do it…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And, when we walked into that press room they went, “whoa!”. And then we walk in and you people went, “whoa!”…-THE CROWD CHEERS. No, it's really good. And with all the people. We have a lot of endorsements happening. It's amazing when you're a number one place for a long period of time, the endorsements are coming in. But the one I really was happy with is this one right here.
So, Chris thank you. We love you, man…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, we had a debate last night…-THE CROWD CHEERS. No, I…I have to say, because I don't hear from pundits as much. Some of the pundits are honest, and they say, “Trump won the debate, and Trump did well”. But some of these people are so dishonest. I mean, it's incredible
But on the online polls, where they have hundreds of thousands of people voting, we won every…single…online…poll…-THE CROWD CHEERS. We won Drudge, who by the way is a fantastic guy; we won the online polls. That means so much to me…; somebody says, “how…what does that mean?”.
When you have hundreds of thousands of people calling in, believe me, I can't have my secretary sitting there calling in to get a couple of extras. So, so that was an honor. And it's been an honor. And we've been winning those polls, literally, from the first debate. And obviously, something is going very good in the debates, because…the big poll is really…the polls that are coming out.
In Texas, they just came out with a poll that we’re effectively tied. The Emerson poll. And…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…and I have so many friends in Texas…-THE CROWD CHEERS. We are…we are loaded up with friends in Texas. And I think…I think we're gonna surprise a lot of people…! I’ll tell you…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna surprise a lot of people. And…it's gonna be great.
So, I'll talk a little bit about the competition. Then we'll talk about our borders, which we will build the wall! And it will be built…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It will be a great wall. And can you only imagine…your ex-president…of Mexico. Vincente Fox…-THE CROWD BOOS. You see? That's the way other countries are used to talking to the United States. No more. No more…-THE CROWD CHEERS.
He couldn't believe that somebody would say [that] Mexico has to do something. And by the way, it's that way with Japan. It’s that way with India. It’s that way with China! It's that way with Vietnam! A new one coming along. They wanna be treated with tremendous respect, even though they don't treat us with respect. It's gonna change, folks. It's gonna change. [It’s] ot gonna be this way anymore…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, he dropped the f-bomb, and I said to myself, “can you imagine if I said that?”. And nobody mentioned it. [It’s] not a big deal! [It’s] not a big deal! For him it's okay. I wouldn't use that. I would not go there, by the way. But when he did it, it was absolutely fine, because that's the way it is. Uh…double standards.[MOU1] 
But here's the story: we're being ripped…on trade…by every…nation…that we do business with in the world. We are going to become…so good! We are gonna negotiate so strong, and so tough…! We're not gonna have a 58-billion-dollar trade deficit with Mexico. We're not gonna have a…500…billion…dollar trade deficit with China. 500…billion dollars…! [It’s] not gonna happen! We're not gonna be billions of dollars behind with Japan, and we're gonna talk about all that in a second, but, let's talk about our lightweight senator from Florida, who's losing big in the polls! …-THE CROWD CHEERS.
So, I heard he was on television saying negative things. I see him…it all started about three or four weeks ago in New Hampshire, which I won. I love the people of New Hampshire. We won it big! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. We won it big! And we won South Carolina. Big, big, big! In all fairness, that was gonna be your senators’ place. He was gonna win it. He said he's gonna win South Carolina. And I won…women! Men! Evangelicals! Military! Vets! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. I won everything! We won every category. And…we won with…Hispanics! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I love the Hispanic! Because people that are in our country legally, they don't want our jobs taken away. And they don't want their jobs taken awa! And I'm gonna bring a lot of jobs back to this country…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Remember that.
But I saw with Rubio, I saw…and he's a nervous wreck, because he's a guy…; he's…no, he’s a nervous…basket case…-THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Here's a guy…you had to see him! Oh, hey, you had to see him backstage. He was putting on makeup with a trowel, like…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. No, I…I don't wanna say that. I will not say that. He was trying to cover up his ears. I will not say that…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. No, he was just trying to cover up…; he was just trying to cover up the sweat that pours of…I never saw a…; did you ever see a guy sweat like this? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’.[MOU2] 
So, a number of weeks ago we were in New Hampshire, and I gotta tell you. Chris was so…wild! What he did…! That was one of the great prosecutions I've ever seen…-THE CROWD CHEERS. And…and I'm standing in the middle, which by the way, I've been for every…single…debate. The middle. And I said to CNN, I’m in the middle all the time, and I say to these networks, but CNN in this case; I said, “so I'm in the middle because I'm number one. You're gonna announce me as number one?”.
“Oh, no, sir you're just gonna walk on stage”.
“Oh, really? Good!”. So, who knows you're in the middle. Big deal, right? But, I watched Chris…take a man apart; and I looked at him, and honestly, I thought he was going to die! Rubio. He was so scared…like a little frightened puppy. And he kept saying the Obama phrase over, and over!
So, then I heard it once, and I said, “that's fine. Big deal”. I'm standing here! He's right here! Chris is over here! …-MR. TRUMP SHOWS FIRST HIS RIGHT AND THEN HIS LEFT. And Chris was sort of coo, cuz he's like this…-MR. TRUMP LEANS ON HIS LECTERN. THE CROWD LAUGHS. I couldn't do that! You know, I wanna stand end up sort of like straight. I don't know! But this looked like Perry Mason. That's what it was…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
And, Chris started going into him. So he said the Obama phrase once. That was fine. Twice! I said, “huh! He just said that!”. That was strange. But that's okay! Right? Twice? Then a third time…! And I said, it…it was like a robot! And then a fourth time, at a fifth time. And I said, “this guy's cracking up on us!”…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And he was sweating so badly…! I have never seen anything like it. It looked like he just jumped into a swimming pool with his clothing on…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I'd never…and I say to myself, “we have tough people to negotiate with”. We have Puti. We have the Chinese. We have wars that were in that…we are…by the way, we're gonna build up our military; we're gonna knock out ISIS…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. We're gonna knock out ISIS fas…!
Remember the great days? General George Patton…-THE CROWD CHEERS. General Douglas MacArthur. Do you think that they would even be thinking about ISIS? By the time they pick up the telephone, it's over. What is wrong!?
You know, we don't win anymore and we're getting to that. But I have to finish with this…a clown over here! …-MR. TRUMP POINTS AGAIN TO HIS RIGHT.
So, so, I watch this, and I thought…something…bad was gonna happen to him. And he got through it, but barely. I tell you what: barely. I was almost going to go over and hold him up.
Now, think of this. Think of this: so, we have Putin. And Putin's gonna meet our president, and…let's assume it's Marco. And…-THE CROWD BOOS-…let's assume it's Marco. No, I agree with you. We don't want him. Boo! Boo! And Putin’s sitting there waiting for a kill, and he knows all about Marco, because…when they put Marco on, to refute President Obama's speech, do you remember that catastrophe?
And he's like…this and we will… “huh! Huh!”…-MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES A THIRSTY MR. RUBIO-… “I need water! Help me! I need water! Help!”. And he's right this is on live television…! This total choke artist is refuting…and you know? I'll tell. You know about sports. Do I love sports! We love sports. We’re athletes! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, you notice in sports…almost always true, when you're a choke artist, you're always a choke artist. It doesn't really change! You know, sadly, the guy that misses the kick, and the coach says, “I'm gonna give him another chance”. Unfortunately, the following year, he misses the kick again.
So choke artists, they choke; they choke. So, what's going to happen is, we look at this, and he goes in to see Putin; and he walks in, and he's soaking wet. And Putin looks at him, and [he] goes, “what's wrong with this guy?”. This is gonna be easy pickins, and believe me, it will be.
But, I'll never forget the scene…and then we're gonna go…to something else that's actually more interesting, but just remember this. Just remember this. [He is] really, really weak…on…illegal…immigration, Marco. [He is] really weak. [He is] is totally in favor of amnesty. Totally…-THE CROWD BOOS. Totally in favor of amnesty. Totally in favor!
So, he's getting the thing, and he's doing his speech. And I noticed he’s…live television. You just don't see it! I mean, Nikki Haley did it last time, and she was good! At least she wasn't sweating like that. She was like fine! She did say we're angry people…; and when I was at the debate, they asked me about it:
“Are you and your people angry!?” And...-THE CROWD CHEERS-…no.
I was supposed to say, “no, we're not angry. We're thrilled with the Iran deal. We're thrilled with all of the problems! We're thrilled with our education, is terrible. With Obamacare, which is terrible. No, we're not angry at all. And that’s what…;
But they asked me the question, and I said, “yeah, we're really angry! We are!”…-THE CROWD CHERES AND APPLAUJDS. And we're not angry people! We're not angry people! But we're angry at in competence, right? So I'll just finish off with incompetent. So, he's making the thing and I said, “what's wrong with him?”. And then out of nowhere, he goes…on live television! He's our response! He choked! Just like he did with Christie! He's a joker! He choked with Chris! And I watched it both times!
But the one time, I'm right next to him; and I looked at the puddle on the ground and I said, “what is that? What is it!?”. I wanted to know what is that. But this time this…this wise guy,  this lightweight…is…going over; and all of a sudden, he's being drained…; and he goes like this, remember? …-MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES MR. RUBIO AS HE BENDS TO REACH SOMETHING. I said, “where is he!?”. And then he comes back with water! And, honestly…!? Water's fine! But it should be in a glass! He's got the label of the company here! And he's drinking! And I've never…I…honestly? I have never seen anything like it. I've never seen anything like it.
So, we are going to beat guys like that. See? It's guys like that. And he's a nasty guy! I called him a nasty little guy, but I wouldn't say that, because…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. He's a nasty guy! And we don't need nasty. We don't need nasty. Honestly, there's no place for it. You know, there's no place.
He said ‘specifics’ on Obamacare. Let me tell you something: we're gonna knock out Obamacare, and…-THE CROWD CHEERS VIVIDLY-…and…remember this. When we get the insurance companies, who are taking care of all these people…; I'm self-funding…my …ampaign! I'm putting up my own money…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, when the insurance companies come to me, because they wanna keep it the way it is because, by the way, they're making a fortune. Because it's like a monopoly in every state. I was watching in Texas. There's a practical monopoly. Because companies aren't allowed to come in very easily. They practically can't come in. So they said, “oh, be more specific!”. I don't have to be specific! What's going to happen is, you're gonna create open bidding by getting rid of the borders around each state, and the lines, restrictive lines, around each…; you are going to have so…much…competition! You're gonna have so much bidding, that you can't really say it's one plan! You can have hundreds of different options! You're gonna have hundreds of different plans! It's going to be so…beautiful. And you're gonna pay far…less…money! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Far…less…money.
So, I wanna just mention just a…couple of words about senator Cruz, who actually was…I thought…I thought…-THE CROWD BOOS-…I thought it was better. You know, last night I thought that…I thought the…deal of the night, was when I looked over to…Rubio; and I said…you remember, “you're a joker, and…we don't want chokers in our administration”. I can tell…; I said, “you're a joker and you're a liar!”. And…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…and I have had…you know, I've had a lot of difficulties with Ted. Because he does lies!
You know, I've dealt with much tougher. A guy like Rubio's a baby. But a guy like Ted is…tougher. I will tell you. Actually, he's tougher. And he's actually smarter, in all fairness. Ted is actually smart. I have to give that though. He's a smarter person than Rubio.
But, I deal with people. Last night, it was mentioned. By the way, it was mentioned [that] my father gave me 200 million dollars! Oh, I wish! I wish! …-THE CROWD MUTTERS. I'd be right now worth 500 trillion dollars if that were the case!
You know, the first thing I did [was] I get back, [and] I get a call from my sister, who's a fantastic person. And then I get a call from my brother, who's a fantastic person. They said “hey, Donald, that's not true! Why did they say!?”. And…he copied it out…you know, you have the failing New York Times. It's a failing newspaper, I hate to tell you; like…seriously failing. And they wrote an article, and they put something in about 200 million dollars. Believe me, I got very, very little, and I built it into many, many, many billions of dollars and I'm very proud of it, but…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…and I just…I just think…I just think we have to correct [it]. We just have to correct the record…-THE CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. Thank you! I love you, thank you!
 It's Rubio…! …-MR. TRUMP OPENS UP HIS WATER BOTTLE AND DRINKS. THE CROWD LAUGHS. That's what it…un…unbelievable! But we’d like to correct…we’d like to correct the record.
But, you know, I spent a lot of time in Laredo, Texas. Laredo, right on the border…-THE CROWD CHEERS. And I was invited by the border guards. And by the way, I…got…endorsed…talk about Chris, by sheriff…Joe…Arpaio! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And the one thing you know about sheriff Joe, he's making the toughest guy in the border. There's no games to be played with sheriff Joe, who puts pink…you know what on, his people that are there illegally. Sheriff Joe does not play games. And everybody wanted his endorsement! But the toughest one on the border was endorsed by Sheriff Joe. So…and I think it's…incredible.
I was called by our Border Patro. Unbelievable people. I got to know them well and they said, “Mr. Trump…”; I was running. I was doing well. You know, since I started this whole thing, I've been practically number one for the whole trip! Practically number one…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And now we have big leads. Please, Texas! Let's win Texas! I wanna win Texas! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But I was called by the Border Patrol. And…these people are incredible. And they wanna do…their job. They really wanna do the job. That's why they call me. And they said, “would it be possible for you to come to Texas, to Laredo?”. And I said, “well, I think so! Yeah! Fine, I'll do it!”. And I went to Laredo, and I met with a lot of the Border Patrol, folks, and some of the top people. And, man, are they…! They are just incredible…smart, tough, great…people! And by the way, you know who else are great people? Our police are great people! They're being abused! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Our police are being abused! Our police are incredible people! In fact I just took…pictures backstage, what a group of people you have. They’re incredible people. So I just wanna…; we have to…we have to put out the plug every once in a while, because…you know, one bad incident, whether it's a mistake or somebody was just a bad apple, and it's played for weeks and weeks on the news! And the thousands and tens of thousands of great jobs that they do, they don't…get…appreciated! So let's cheer for the police! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS AND MR. TRUMP TRUMP APPLAUDS ALONG.
So, I'm in Laredo, and they're telling me how sad it is. Because they can’t stop it: We need the wall. We wanna have the wall. We wanna stop the drugs from pouring across. And we're gonna stop the drugs. And there's gonna be a real wall. This isn’t gonna be a toy wall. It's gonna be a real wall. And…and I'm the only [who] knows how to build it. These guys, they have no clue. Politicians, all talk, no action. [It] never gets done.
And by the way, when I said self-funding before…the beauty of that, the beauty of self funding, is that the insurance companies…; the drug companies…; the lumber companies…; all the companies…they're not gonna take advantage of Trump, because…they never gave me anything, okay? Big difference. Big difference…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…I don't know that I get the credit for that. You know, I said to somebody the other day. Uh…Jeb Bush had a 150 million dollars. What a waste of money! …-THE CROWD MUTTERS. I would imagine, at some point, between him and Romney, they'll be supporting Rubio. Do you think? I would have imagine.
Romney! How about this…about this beauty? [He] runs one of the worst campaigns…in the history of politics…; he should have beaten Obama easily, and for two months, he disappeared! Nobody knows where he was! And say what you want, Obama…was on Jay Leno, David Letterman. He was on every show! And Romney was like a lost soul. I don't know what happened to this guy.
And then he comes out and tells me about my taxes. And actually, if you know the real story…Harry Reid shamed him, and made him look like a baby! And Harry Reid pushed him, and pushed him…and really, made him look so stupid, and weak! And when did Romney file his return, right? …what's today's date? Today is what? Come on, tell me! …-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT A MEMBER IN THE CROWD. What!? Okay!
So, [do] you know when Romney filed his return? September…September 21st! That's a long time from now! This guy, what a terrible…; I endorsed him, and about two weeks later I said, “he's never gonna win”.
Number one, when you walk into a stage, you cannot walk like a penguin. He walked like a penguin. I said, “this is a problem!”. Somebody tell him! “Take some steps!”. Anyway, Romney…Romney turned out to be a disaster. But I know he'll support Rubio.[MOU3]  He probably has no choice. Honestly, if he wanted to support me, I would not accept his support. I really mean it…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…because…because, we have to be honest, right? We have to be honest.
And I will say this, just to show you great loyalty. I supported John McCain, and we're lost. I supported Mitt Romney…and we lost. This time I said, “I'm gonna do it myself”, okay? Big difference…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, the Border Patrol is incredible. And they're told to “stand back! Stand back!”. Let the people walk in. Let them go wherever they're gonna go. We don't have a border. And if you don't have the border, we don't have a country, folks. We don't have a country.
So, we're gonna have borders. And they're gonna be serious borders. And they're gonna be very, very powerful borders. And in the case of our southern border, we're gonna have a wall. And…it's gonna stop. And by the way, we are going to have people come into our country, but they're coming into our country legally! Legally! We want people to come in. We want people to come in. We want people to come in, but they have to be the right people. We don't want people that…have been here. Look at Kate! Beautiful Kate, in San Francisco. Illegal immigrant. Five times came across the border. And shot Kate! Jameel, his father became a friend of mine. He's an incredible father. Incredible guy. His son was an unbelievable young boy. [He was a] Good student. [He] was going to go to…college on a football scholarship. Maybe Stanford. And he was shot in the face! Three times. By a guy that did it because he was just told to shoot somebody. That's the only reason they did it. [He] Just got out of jail.
And you have the…female veteran, 65 years old. Recently in Los Angeles. [She was] Raped sodomized, and killed by an illegal immigrant. We’re gonna be different, folks! We're gonna be strong. We're gonna be smart. We're gonna be tough. We're not gonna play games anymore…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're not gonna play games anymore. [It’s] not gonna happen! [It’s] Not gonna happen!
So, we're gonna be the strongest on borders, and we're gonna set the example for other parts of the world! And when I take it in Syrians that we have no idea who they are where, [and] they come from…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we've already taken in thousands. Thousands! And we don't even know where they are. But you have no idea…!
I spoke to the top law enforcement people…and they said, “Mr. Trump, they don't have papers. They have absolutely no identification”.
And you ever notice the migration? And I wanna help people! And I say, you build a safe zone, and I'll get other people to pay for it, because I don't wanna pay for it. We owe 19 trillion dollars. We're not paying for it. But we'll get the Gulf states to pay. They have more money than anybody…-THE CROWD CHEERS. And they're not spending their money. We've gotta loosen up their wallets, folks. And I'm very good at getting people to do that. Believe me. Cause I like the idea of a safe zone.
But did you ever notice the migration [that] comes across? And you look! And there's so…many…young…men! Right? I say, where are the women!? Where are the children!? Now, they're there…but not…like they should be!
So law enforcement is telling me…-THERE IS A SUDDEN NOISE IN THE ROOM-…is that a protester? Oh, good! Turn the cameras! Turn the cameras! Good! I love protesters! Look at this! Look at this! We have 10,000 people here today! Look at this! Is that a protester? Please, be a protester! The only way we can get the cameras turn…; the only reason they turn the cameras, is if there's a protester, because that's a bad thing, right? I'm gonna develop my own protesters.
But look at it. It can't…it can't be a protester, because those cameras won't turn. They won't turn. I'll tell you what, I think the media…is among the most dishonest…groups of people I've ever met…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They’re…terrible.
 The New York Times, which is losing a fortune, which is a failing newspaper, which probably won't be around that much longer, but probably somebody will buy it as a trophy [and] keep it going for a little longer. But I think The New York Times is one of the most dishonest…media outlets I've ever seen in my life. The worst…-THE COWD CHEERS. The worst. The absolute worst. They have an agenda that you wouldn't believe.
And they're run by incompetent people! They are totally incompetently run. [The] Washington Post…I have to tell you. I have respect for Jeff Bezos, but he bought The Washington Post to have political influence. And…I gotta tell you. We have a different country that we used to have! We have a different he owns Amazon. He wants political influence so that..Amazon will benefit from it. That's…not...right! And believe me, if I become president, oh, do they have problems! They're gonna have such problems! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And one of the things I'm gonna do, and this is only gonna make it tougher for me. And I've never said this before. But one of the things I'm gonna Do, if I win, and I Hope I do, and we're certainly leaving…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…is…I'm gonna open up our libel laws. So when they write…purposely negative, and horrible, and false articles, we can sue them and win lots of money…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna open up those libel laws!
So that when The New York Times writes a hit piece, which is a total disgrace; or when…The Washington Post, which is there for other reasons…writes a hit piece, we can sue them and win money instead of having no chance of winning. Because they're totally protected! You see? With me, they're not protected, because I'm not like other people. But I'm not taking money. I'm not taking their money.
So, we're gonna open up those libel laws, folks. And we're gonna have people sue you like you never got sued before…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We have many things to do. We have many, many things to do.
When I came down…on the escalator with my wife…Melania, it was June 16th. And I said…look, let me tell you: it's not easy running for president. You get…lowlifes like a guy like Rubio saying horrible things. Horrible things. And…who needs it? Really, who needs it? This is a lowlife.
And Cruz lies, but at least it's reasonable lies. This other guy says…terrible things. And… I will tell you. When you do this, and when I agree to do it…it…takes…guts…to do it! It takes guts…-THE CROWD CHEERS. Especially if you're not a politician! I'm not a politician! Thank goodness. I guess now I am, but I'm not! Okay? I don't wanna be a politician. And when I came down the escalator, there were cameras…look at all those cameras back there. Look at it! Look at that. Hello, folks! How you're doing? You…son of a guns…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But we had cameras like the Academy Awards. It looked like it was the Academy Awards. And I said to my wife…I looked at the Iran deal, which is one of the great insults…in the history of deal-making. We give them a 150 dollars [and] we get absolutely nothing! We get nothing!
And then they are…they attack. They take…they take as hostage our ten sailors, and the only reason we got them back…why did we get them back!? Cause the money wasn't paid! It went in two days later. So the Persians are great negotiators. They gave them back. They would have kept him otherwise. Unless Trump was president. Believe me, they wouldn't be keeping them. They wouldn't be keeping them…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPAUDS.
And if I was president, the hostages would have been released four years ago, because I wouldn't have negotiated until they release the hostages, and if they didn't release them, I would have increased the sanctions. And we would have had those hostages within 24 hours…years ago…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I will I'll tell you one other thing. Your Second Amendment is under siege. Guns. Guns, guns, guns it's under siege. And every time you have a mentally disturbed…person, like you had last night, and like you will have. They…immediately looked to the guns, like the guns pull the trigger. Well, the guns do not pull the trigger. And…we are gonna protect your Second Amendment 100 percent…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. 100…hundred…percent.
If you look at what happened…if you look at what happened…in California, with the 14 people…killed by two people that were radicalized…; she probably radicalized him. How about this country? We can't even get the cell number. We can't open the cell. I like safety. I want security. When it comes to terrorists, we gotta knock them out, folks. And we gotta knock them out, and knock them out big league. Big, big, big league…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But, when you look at what happened in California, with the 14 people, and many people in a hospital that are in very bad shape…; and these were people that gave the two radicalized, the couple, this couple. [This] so-called couple. I don't even like to call them a couple. You know what I'd like to call them. It gave this couple…anniversary parties! And baby parties! And showers! These were people that do them…they were friends! And they went in and just blew them away!
And then you look at Paris! Where you have a hundred and thirty people that were killed…! Many people in hospitals, gravely injured…; these animals just walked in, took their guns, and said bing, bing, bing! “You, get over here!”. Bing! If we would have had guns, where bullets float in the other direction, you wouldn't have had that big problem! It would have been much…smaller…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, we're gonna protect our Second Amendment. And…and it is so true! Take Paris. Take…take…California. If like… “you! You're a tough cookie!”. This guy, right here. [He] looks like an ex vet…-MR. TRUMP STARTS POINTING AT PEOPLE SPECIFICALLY IN THE CROWD. If a couple of, “you! You, right over there, with that big, beautiful beard…-THE CROWD LAUGHS.
If these guys that…I have to pick a woman, that's right! “You, raising your hand”. She's going crazy1 She wants to carry a gun…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. But if we had a few people…right? If we had a few people with a gun on their side; or a gun around their ankle, so when these animals start shooting…the bullets start going the other way.
You know, Paris is probably the toughest…place…in the world…to have a gun. Except…if you're a bad guy. Then there's no problem. You just have a gun!
So if we had people, or if we had people in…Los Angeles, it would have been a whole different story, folks would! [It] would have been a whole different story!
So, just remember. Your second Amendment with me is  protected. Your borders are protected…Common Core…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Common Core…Common Core is out. It’s out! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
In the top…30…nations, with 30 being by far the worst…in the world for education, we’re number 30. But we’re number one in cause for pupil by a factor of like…there is no second, okay? We're number one.
So we’re number one in cost. We’re number, we’re last. You have Norway, Sweden, Denmark, China…; you have lots of places. You have some countries you never even heard of! [They] are ahead of the USA. [It’s] Not gonna happen anymore, folks…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. We're gonna get up that list. We're gonna start climbing up that list
You know, the American Dream is dead, but we're gonna make it bigger, and stronger, and better than ever before. Remember that! But! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But, it's very har… for a person…to live…the American dream without good education. So we're gonna work very very hard on that. So, Common Core is out. It's dead. Common Core is dead. And I've seen the local, it's unbelievable. With the parents, and the teachers, and everybody. There's love in the room. And…it's a beautiful thing to watch. It's a beautiful thing to watch.
You know, another thing that we have to talk about…I've had tremendous support…from...the Evangelicals. And from Christians! I've had tremendous support…-THE CROWD CHERES AND APPLAUDS. And, in fact, pastor Jeffress is here right now? I don't know, pastor Jeffress, where are you? Where…oh! “Come here! Come here! Come here! Come here!” I saw him! Get him over here! He has been so supportive! I didn't meet him! I’ve seen him on television for years! I always liked him a lot. And one day I'm listening to him, and he said, “Donald Trump may not be perfect, but he's the best leader; he’s the strongest guy; he's gonna knock out ISIS; he's gonna do great for our economy…; he may not be perfect”…I didn't like that, but that's okay…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. But he's gonna be our best president! Will you come up? Can’t see if you can get him up here. I love this guy! He just…I'm just watching him…and highly, highly respected.
And also, Jerry…Falwel… Jr. was so incredible. And since I get…and many others! Uh…the Reverend Paula White. [And] So many others! We've had such support! We have…unbelievable support from Sarah Palin. She is incredible. She's a great…she's a great person. Come on up here, reverend! Pastor Jeffress…and is it true…? I didn't know him! And I love him! Say a few words!
MR. PASTOR JEFFRESS INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.38.59:
 
Wow! How about that!? How about that!?
I'm telling you, I saw the pastor on television like a year ago, and he was saying all these good things. And I never met him, but I've been watching him. And he was saying all these incredible things! And I said, “we have to meet this man”, and …like…I just have such great respect for him. And you can see that. Thank you very much. That's really amazing: Really amazing…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And I'm gonna give the pastor a little bit of a president, because what I say I mean. And…I think it's very important for the Christians in the room. Christianity…is under…siege. Every year…it gets weaker, and weaker, and weaker. And I had a meeting with various…ministers, and pastors. About two months ago. And I'm pretty good at figuring things out: And I sat with them. And some of them said, “we love you. We wanna endorse you so badly. But we're afraid we're going to lose if we do that are tax-exempt status”. And I said, “what's this all about?”. That takes you, and it makes you less powerful than a man or woman walking up and down the street! You actually have less power!
And yet, if you look at it, I was talking to some. We probably have 250 million maybe even more…in terms of people. So we have more…we have more Christians…think of this than we have men or women in our country! And we don't have a lobby! Because they're afraid to have a lobby,  because they don't wanna lose their tax status.
So, I am gonna work like hell to get rid of that prohibition. And we're gonna have the strongest Christian lobby…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. And it's gonna happen: And it's gonna happen.
This took place...during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson. And…it has had a terrible…chilling…effect. When I said…that there has to be a temporary ban…on certain people coming into this country, we have no choice! There's something wrong! There's something really wrong! And when I said ‘Muslim’, I was met with furor! If I would have said ‘Christian’, people would have said, “oh, we can't do anything about it”. That's gonna end, folks. We're gonna say ‘Merry Christmas’ now on Christmas…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're gonna start going to department stores and stores, and you're gonna see big, beautiful signs. It’s gonna say, “Merry Christmas and happy holiday”…-THE CROWD CHEERS. And we're gonna have a big, big, big lot of fun. And we're gonna get rid of that. We're gonna work very hard. That's one of the first things I wanna do. I wanna get rid of that. And, politically, if we use that power, we're gonna start going up, up, up, because we are being decimated. So just remember that. Just remember I said it.
Pastor, it starts here. Do you like that, what I just said? He's happy! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. That's the biggest smile I've ever seen on his face! I'll do it, you…and you can hold me to it, pastor, all right? You're responsible.
So again, we're going to have a great country again. We're gonna have a smart country again. We're gonna have tremendous borders and tremendous strength, and people are coming in, but we're gonna have real borders. We're gonna have unbelievable trade deals. I have Carl Icahn…some of the best business people in the world.
We have right now political hacks…negotiating these massive, massive trade deals. The biggest deals in the world. We have people that don't have the…the slightest clue. We're gonna get rid of Obamacare. We're gonna make something great. We're gonna get rid of Common Core. We're gonna have local education. We're gonna protect our Second Amendment. We're gonna protect Christianity. We're gonna be back.
And folks, I'll tell you. And it's very simple. My whole theme, and your whole theme, because we're all together. I'm just a messenger. Our whole thing, is make America great again. That's what's going to happen. We're gonna win a lot, folks. We're gonna win all the time…THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS[MOU4] .
Thank you very much. I love Texas!
