VIDEO Nº: 167
TITLE:167. Speech Donald Trump - Superior WI - April 4, 2016
DATE OF EVENT:04/04/2016
RELEASE DATE:27/10/2016
DURATION:00.50.16 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:9569
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Thank you, thank you!
I feel so guilty. You know, we have four, 5,000 people trying to get in. I don't know how they're gonna get in anyway…–THE CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS. But we have speakers right in the back, thousands of people trying to get in. Something's going on, folks! Something good is gonna happen tomorrow. Remember that. Remember I said it…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're tired of being the dummies. We're tired of being the ones that are just ripped off all over the world. Everybody rips off our taxpayers. They rip off our people. We're not gonna take it anymore. The big change is coming. So, we'll see what happens. Let's see what happens tomorrow…–THE CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS.
You know, it's sort of interesting. I've been watching, and…uh...discussing a lot of different subjects, and a lot of different waste, fraud, abuse. You see what's going on with our country. And, one thing I noticed, I went home last night. I'm watching in a very nice hotel room…I don't ask for much. You know what I want? Clean! I want clean! And when I'm in Wisconsin, it's clean! Do we like that? It's all I want, [that it] is clean…–THE CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS.
But I went home and I see commercials. Oh, millions of dollars’ worth of…; we…I…it’s just like about Trump! Millions of dollars’ worth of commercials. And I say, “if these people could save their money…; give it to charity. The commercials are so false…for the most part! A little…truth every once in a while…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. But, so…false!
And it happened to me in Florida. You know Florida, we won in a landslide. They spent 38 million dollars on commercials. They had thousands of commercials. I turned on the television, I couldn't stand it! I said, “turn it off! Turn it off!”. During one of the major golf tournaments. That's my golf tournament. During the commercial, before they gave out the trophy to Adam Scott at Doral…they come up with a commercial. Four in a row, anti-Trump! And you know, I said something. I just wrote it down! It's called, “never Trump”. Did you hear this? “Never Trump”.
You know what these are? These are establishment people that don't wanna see it happen, because they're all on the trough. They're all making a lot of money. I don't even think in many cases they care who wins. They wanna keep it going. And you know, I just said, “never Trump”. If they worked this hard to stop Obama, Obama would have had a chance. You know that? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS. Obama wouldn't have had a chance!
So, I was riding over, and it's like my favorite topic, because…I'm self-funding my campaign. I'm putting up my own money, right? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS. And…nobody does this. I guess the last might have been Ross Perot, I don't know! I don't know of anybody that does it. I have turned down tens of millions of dollars…from special interests. And from people! And frankly, from friends of mine! They wanna give me millions!
One…guy in Palm Beach, recently said, “Donald, we'd like to give you ten million dollars”.
Now, for me, to turn it down is…you know, it's like…against…my grain…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Cause my whole life I've been taking money. I take, take, take! That's what a businessman does, right? Or a businesswoman! We take! We take.
And…you know, they come up, “I'd like to…”.
And one guy in particular. He’s a very rich guy, member of the Mar-a-Lago club, and I see him like a few months ago: “Donald, I'd like to make a major contribution to you, or your PAC”.
I said, “I don't have a PAC! I don't have”.
You know, all these guys have these phony PACs. In fact, I saw where Cruz the other day had an event…run by his PAC. That's not allowed! You're not allowed to do that! They said, “it was paid for and run by his pack”. You're not allowed to do that. Which is…that's a whole other story.
But this guy comes up. He said, “I'd like to give you…whatever money you want for your…campaign”.
I said, “I can't take it”.
He looked at me and said, “you're kidding, right?”. You know, he's a business guy. He said, “you're kidding”.
I said, “no, I can't take it”.
I have turned down so much money! If I would have accepted…; you know, I think Bush, Jeb, had the biggest…of all the PACs. He’d like a 148 million dollars or something, they raised. And I think it even got a lot bigger than that. I could have had that times four or five if I would have taken the money.
And coming over I said; “you know, I don't think it's appreciated!”. I really mean it. And I'm not knocking you. But when people look at me, and then they look at this guy, Cruz, who's totally controlled by the people that give them the money. 100 percent. Totally controlled…–THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY. But when they give him that money, or when they give…;
How about Kasich? Kasich is one for 32! Okay? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. [Do] you know what he is? He's a guy…just doesn't stop, which I respect in one way. Cause I always say, “never quit, never give up”. But you know, if you go by that theory…and by the way, the people from back there are pouring in as we speak. You don't mind…unless you wanna wait for about two hours. [Do] You wanna wait!? No! …­–THE CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. I didn't think so.
But how about Kasich? He's won…how many states are there that we've gone through? Like 30, or 32? Whatever it is! He won one. And I would have won that one if I had two more days. I stayed in Florida, to campaign, because I thought it was closer. We won Florida, by the way in a landslide; won by…almost 20 points. And I should have left Florida a little bit early! But I didn't wanna take a chance on losing Florida! So, if I went to…Ohio one extra day, maybe two days, I would have won. We came in very close, against him and…the machine that's in Ohio, which is fine! I understand it.
But here's a guy, he's won…and 32. And the one is his home state! I mean, give me a break! And he almost lost it! So, he's one for 32, and he just says, “I'm gonna keep running! I'm gonna keep running! I don't care”. And he's taking my votes! Because he's not taken from Cruz. He's thinking from me. And I said to myself, “it's unfair”, because Marco could have stayed. He would…Marco was doing much better than he was. Marco could have stayed. They all could have stayed.
Jeb Bush could have stayed, right’ You know, he would have liked to have stayed. Low-energy. He’s…would’ve stayed. Just stay…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. But they all could have stayed…if you go by that theory. So, I think it's unfair.[MGF1] 
And…and I will tell you, one thing…about Kasich. He…voted…in favor…of NAFTA! He's in favor, which is a disaster. That sucked…–THE CROWD BOOS–…that sucked…the businesses from Wisconsin, and everyplace else. You have to see New England. Just took them away. He voted in favor, and what he wants now is TPP: Trans-Pacific Partnership, a total disaster for our country; led by the special interests; led by the lobbies; led by countries that wanna rip us off, and take our jobs; led by people…; this is gonna make NAFTA look like a baby folks, and you shouldn't allow it. Ted Cruz wants it! Ted Cruz wants it badly, because…his people that give him money are telling them, “we want it!”, and it's a bad thing for our country! Believe me folks, a really bad thing…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I love Wisconsin. I love Wisconsin. You know, it's funny. Uh…we had a situation where…Cruz was gonna win the south. Remember? Until I came along. But he was gonna win the south. And…he was…actually, they were thinking New Hampshire, but somebody else was supposed to win New Hampshire. It looked like Jeb was gonna win New Hampshire, and I came up. We won New Hampshire in a landslide, right? Landslide. And I…by the way, I spent the tiny fraction of the money. Isn’t that nice, when you can spend less and come out number one? Isn’t that good? Right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Don't you what that as your president, as opposed to let's spend, spend…? So, anyway. So, I won New Hampshire.
We went to South Carolina. And by the way, [I] won Massachusetts, almost 50 percent in Massachusetts. Now, Tom Brady likes me a lot so that helps, right? And he did say you have a great quarterback, okay? So that's good. Do you have a great quarterback? I think so! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And you're gonna have a good year too. You're gonna have a good year.
But I will say, so we won Massachusetts. But, we went down to South Carolina. And that was Ted Cruz's territory. Lyin Ted Cruz. The Bible held high. Bible held…! …–THE CROWD MUTTERES. Did you ever see a guy like this guy!? What he did to…how about Dr. Ben Carson? One of the great guys, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS. So, he endorsed me.
But how about what he did in Iowa…to Ben Carson? He said, “Ben Carson has left the race”. That was during the election! Not before, or after! And thousands of people…voted for him as opposed to Ben. And he lied! They just lied! He just said they left the race. And then he just lied. Lyin Ted! Lyin Ted! Lyin Ted!….–THE CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘LYING TED!’. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT AND GIGGLES. [MGF2] 
I…I will say with Cruz, and I don't want his endorsement, by the way. I really don't, you know. You know these politicians? They say, “never really do this, cause you want their…what? Look at…this poor Lindsey Graham, this poor, poor guy…­–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. He said the other day, “I know more about the war! I've been fighting it for many years!”. That's the problem! Guys like this, they fight it for many years, they don't know how to win!
In South Carolina, I was at 42 he was at 2, and he's the sitting senator of South Carolina! So, he hates Ted Cruz, right? So, he goes out…he goes out, and…he endorses Ted Cruz, because he can't stand me. Look, I really…I hit him hard. Hey, look, we have to hit hard! We gotta win!
My wife is always saying…and Ivanka, everybody…you heard of Ivanka, right? Right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [She] Just had a baby. She was great! But they said, “darling be more presidential. Daddy be more presidential…during the debate!”.
I said, “I will, but I gotta knock off the final two first if you don't mind”, right? You know what they mean…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I could be presidential. But if I was presidential would only have about…uh…20 percent of you would be here, because it would be boring as hell, I will say that…­–THE CROWD LAUGHS. No, let me be unpresidential just for a little while longer, and maybe I'll be a little bit unpresidential as I…beat Hillary, because…ugh! She’s…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We’ll beat Hillary so badly. Don't forget, I haven't started on Hillary yet. I haven't focused on Hillary.[MGF3] 
So, we started off…with 17 people. I've now got two left. I call them ‘the leftovers’, right[MGF4] ? I now have two left! And we're way up on both of them. I mean, the one guy…I told you, he's got…I mean, it's ridiculous. And…at least Cruz, he's got some! I saw him the other day, and…it was from the debate. He goes: “I'm the only one…!”; you know, he can't talk normal. He's got always pretend [that] he's debating! Never…does that bother people!? …–THE CROWD YELLS ‘YEAH!’. Do you ever have a conversation…? “Oh Donald, I say…”…–MR. TRUMP USES A DEEPER TONE IMPERSONATING MR. CRUZ. THE CROWD LAUGHS.
I say, “Whoa, what's going on?”.
But he goes, “I'm the only one…that has the proven record of beating Donald Trump! I'm the only one! I've beaten Donald Trump!”. That's true. He said “I beat him six times!”.
Then I looked at him, I said, “yeah, but I beat you 22 times”. 22…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY­–…­right!? And it's a famous…it's true! And it's the famous picture, where he just stands there like…he does even say anything, because he's lyin Ted. Most guys wouldn't really…you know, he could say…and he said it again today! He said he's the only one with a proven record to beat me. And I’m…I’m killing the guy! So, it's…really disgraceful.
I’ll tell you what, politicians are…a disgrace, in many cases. I've met some that are very good. But  the lying, the deception, the viciousness…; but I've…met…people that are much tougher than Ted Cruz, but I've never, ever met anybody that lied like him. This guy lies…so…much! Right? Do you remember the voter? [Do you] Remember Iowa? [Do you] Remember what he said? [It] Looked like he came right out of the IRS? ‘Voter…fraud’, ‘Voter…’ or whatever the hell, and he puts it up. And people [were] saying, “what's going on?”.
And he said, “the way you get out of it is, you have to go, and you have to vote for Ted Cruz”. I mean, give me a break!
So…so, here's what…here's what the…here's what the facts are, folks. We have a very, very big deal coming up, and…I don't know the polls…! Now a poll just came out where essentially we're even! And I'm feeling it!
You know, when I went to new Hampshire, I wasn't supposed to win, right? And I went around for about four days. I've been here for…uh…four days, and then went home for like two seconds, because had that meeting with the…the Republican National Committee, right? Reince [Priebus]! Reince! We'll find out. We'll find out, don't worry! I have my eyes wide open. My eyes are wide open, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You all trust me. My eyes are wide open! He's a nice man. Somebody said, “is he a nice man?”.
I said, “yes”.
They said, “are they gonna treat you fairly?”.
I said, “I have no idea, but I'll let you know in six months”. But, my eyes are wide open, all right? And I'm representing a tremendous number of people, and…we…are not…gonna be taken advantage of by people…­–THE CROWD CHEERS–…you know, I'll give you an example.
I go to Louisiana. I worked hard, made speeches all over, made a final speech and a hangar that was massive! The place was packed! I end up winning. And then, I didn't get as many delegates as the guy that lost! I say, “what kind of a system is this!?”.
So, we're dealing with a corrupt…system. We're dealing with a system that's not fair! And I say to people…I don't care what it says! If I won, I should get more delegates! Do we…agree? I don't care! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, we've…but we're doing well. We have…uh…almost 300 delegates more. We have millions of votes more! You know, people don't ever talk about that. They never mentioned a little thing, but we have millions, millions of votes…more! Now, here's who you have to be…careful of.T hose people back there…­–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS–…because…–THE CROWD BOOS–…no, they're…I don't even know if they're evil. Some of them are. They're unbelievably dishonest. Congratulations! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Unbelievably dishonest! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Unbelievable.
Because every time I say something…for instance, it was asked to me about NATO. And…you know, look, I've made a lot of money; I built a great company; I did my filings, everyone said, “oh, filings!”. And they were down…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS. They were looking…hoping the company would be a…nothing. We would have had the biggest story you've ever seen. Frankly, if it would have been a nothing, I would have never run, because you have to file your papers, right? So, I filed this like…massive…almost 100-page document. And it showed not only some of the greatest assets in the world, but tremendous cash flow; very little debt…; a tremendous company! Turnberry in Scotland; Doral…; many buildings all over the place. Bank of America building in San Francisco, with a great partner…; lots…lots of great deals, right? Great buildings. Uh…1290 Avenue of the Americas , one of the biggest office buildings in Manhattan; Trump Tower…; so many buildings, right!?
So, I have this great company…again, very little debt; tremendous cash flow; tremendous…company! And they didn't complain! They couldn't. They were devastated! They went up, the…federal election said they'd never seen so many people wanting to see a report before.
And a friend of mine said, “I know how successful you are, but I had no idea it was that successful”.
I said, “how did you know it? Did you read the paper?”.
He said “no. Because I know you wouldn't have run, unless your papers were damn good!”. And that's true! You couldn't have run, because you have to file everything. I'm a private company. You have to file.
So, I filed! And the reason I tell you that story is because…that's the kind of thinking…we need…in the United States! We have to get our house in order, folks! We have to get our house in order…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And we can't let…China, who I like! Mexico, who I like! Japan…! Vietnam…! India…! Name a country! Name any country! Name a country. I guarantee you, that country is taking advantage of the United States…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUD. It's amazing that we have a country that continues to chug along. You know, we have no…GDP. We're like at zero. Zero. If China goes to seven or eight percent, it's like a national catastrophe. We have nothing! Last quarter, like…zero! It’s…it's slightly slightly…more than zero, but essentially it was zero. And believe me, they worked hard to make sure [it was] kept it out of that negative turn…and you don't see it! You don't see numbers like that. So, that means…we're…losing our jobs.
And you look at Carrier, you look at Ford, you look at Nabisco, you look at all of these…companies that are leaving our country, leaving jobs; you look at Pfizer, the great pharmaceutical company, they announced they're leaving. They're moving to Ireland. I hope it's next to some of the land I own. I own a lot of land in Ireland, what the hell!? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. I bought it four, or five years ago, when things were cheap, right? You know. We wanna buy at the right price, right? So, I'm sorry folks. Sorry. International businessman. What can I say?
But you know, we wanna keep our companies here. We wanna keep our jobs here. And I tell the story. And it could apply to any one of them. It could apply to Nabisco. It could apply certainly to Ford. Floor…Ford spend two and a half billion dollars…building a plant. A massive plant in Mexico, to make cars, trucks, and parts. What do we get out of it!?
Now they make the cars; they make the trucks; they make the parts; they send them across the border, probably those cars are driven by illegals. Why not? They can get up for the right price…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Nobody checks them! So, why can't they!? The illegals take the Ford car, and they drive it right across the border. And everybody's happy! Especially the Democrats, right? They're happy! …–­THE CROWD CHEERS. So, we're gonna stop it. We're gonna have such a strong border. And we're gonna have a wall. It's gonna be a real wall, believe me, we’re gonna have a wall…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And the drugs aren't gonna be pouring into this country anymore, poisoning our youth and poisoning everybody else. We are gonna have a strong border. We're gonna have a wall. And…Mexico is going to pay for the wall as sure as you’re standing there…–THE CROWD CHEERS CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Certainly.
But you know, the part of it that…that's so tough, and I could go through the different things. I can go quickly, cuz you've all heard me speak, you know what I represent. I represent, very simply, America first, okay? America first! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No more![MGF5] 
So, the question was asked to me the other day by one of the commentators about NATO. So, I said, “well, here's the story. You’re ready? NATO's obsolete!”.
They all go, “what!? Oh! Trump doesn't know anything about NATO!”.
Three days later, they're all saying, “it was genius. Nobody…!”. You know, they study it; and they watch it; and they look at it. And they're so close to it that they don't even see it! It's obsolete.
But then I said something…more profound, frankly, as far as I'm concerned. I said, “it's obsolete, and we pay…proportionately way too much!”. We have 28 countries, and some of the countries are along for a free ride, or almost a free ride. So, what the hell are we doing!?
So they get attacked and we protect them. Oh, isn't that a great deal? I love that deal. That's great. That's great. So I said, “we have to get those countries…to pay, number one. Number two”…and there many of them! There are many of them. They…we're paying 72 percent the cost. 72! We’re one country! We’re stupid! We're led by stupid people, folks! We can't do it anymore! We can't do it anymore! We have incompetent leadership, and we're not gonna stand for it anymore. And we're…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And not only incompetent. Remember this: you know, a lot of people come up to me and they say…they talk about a certain deal, and they say, “Mr. Trump, our politicians are so stupid!”.
I say, “no, they’re not stupid. They're taken care of through campaign contributions. They’re not stupid!”. Some are stupid, frankly! And some deals, many of the deals are stupid. But many of the deals are made because these companies…and various other people that wanna make the deal are totally controlling…of your…Ted Cruz's of the world. Totally controlling.
For instance, Cruz has a personal…financial statement, the disclosure form, which is a big deal. He forgot to put on…he said, “I forgot!”. Lyin Ted! Lying Ted! …–THE CROWD YELLS ‘LYIN TED!’. He said, “I forgot to put that I borrowed a million dollars”, at almost no interest. An interest rate anybody in this room would be proud of, okay? Because he's a United States Senator! They give him all the money he wants. And…he could have gotten it for nothing, probably. He probably said, “well, at least put something there! You know, [we] gotta make it look a little good”, right?
So, he borrowed a million dollars from Goldman Sachs and Citibank. [He] Didn't put it on his personal financial disclosure form .Then he goes around and he acts like Robin Hood, like he's gonna protect you from the banks. Give me a break, folks. Okay? It doesn't work that way. Nobody knows politicians better…than me! That's why I'm doing so well! Don't forget, with all these people, one after another, they're gone! They're gone! They're gone!
I've been on center stage. You know, center stage of debates. We had like 11 or 12 debates. I skipped one, because I wasn't treated fairly, but that's okay. That might have been a mistake or maybe not, who knows? [I] Raised a lot of money for the vets. [I] Raised a lot of money for the vets because I skipped it…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Remember that. And I would have done it again!
But here's the thing. So we had like 11 or 12 debates, and I've been center stage on every single debate. That meant I've been in the lead! And, you know, it's funny. During the debate where…before they announced, I said, “are you gonna say that I'm center stage here for number one?”.
“No, we won't say that”.
I say, “why wouldn't you’”.
“Well, we just don't do that”.
Now, some of them did, but some of them wouldn't do it, because they refused to acknowledge that I was number one, but that’s why. Every…single…debate I've been exactly center. And some of these guys are falling off the platform. left or right. [Do you] Remember Jeb? He will hit me.
I said, “Jeb, next week you're gonna be off the platform! You're gonna be falling off the platform!”…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. And don’t forget, Jeb…and I can only say this because he endorsed…; you know, now all of a sudden Cruz is becoming establishment, even though they all hate him. But he's becoming all…establishment because he's taking a lot of money, and these people want…!
You know, I had one guy come in. It was interesting. He’s a friend of mine! He wanted to give me tremendous amounts of money. I said, “I don't need…”. I'm richer than he is, much more.
He said, “I know you're ro…richer than me, Donald, but…I wanna give you millions”.
I said, “here's the problem: I can't take it. Because I'm self-funding my campaign”. You know, I take the little contributions where people send in 250; they send in 17 dollars; they send in even 500, a thousand…; but…the small contributions, right? The minimal contributions, because I can't send them money back. Number one, it's expensive to send it back. Number two, half the time you don't know where the hell to send it! And number three, if I sent a woman…back…who sent…literally, I have a woman [that] wrote a four-page letter with a check for 17 dollars and 50 cents. If you send that back to a woman it's almost like insulting no matter how you put it, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So…no, it…it really is.
But, here's a guy…they spend so…much…money! They're spending money like its water. And it's so against the system. And it's so against what we all stand for. And what it is, is it’s inverse. It's actually inverse. The more…money…they spend…and some of them, they raise money! They're really good at it! Remember this about politicians. They're good at two things: raising money for themselves, and getting elected.
He said, and lying! …–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD SPECIFICALLY. Well, that's true! That's true! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, what we gonna do is we're gonna change the system. And we have a movement going. We have a movement. All over the world they're talking about it. It's been on the cover of Time magazine like four…times, in a short period of time. I've been on the cover of Time magazine a lot over the last six months! But, four times over the last short period of time. The cover of Time, the cover of the New York Times, The Washington Post, everything…! I mean, the biggest story is what's happening with Trump.
Today there's a story, and they were just reading it to me. I don't even know where the story is, but the Trump has made the networks and television a fortune! They're having the best year they've ever had! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS–…because everybody wants to watch Trump! Look at this crowd! And by the way, they…–­MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS–…I wish the press would go to the back and see what I'm talking about! I just wave there, and part of the problem is, you know, you have to go through the machines, unfortunately, which is too bad. But so many people back there…![MGF6] 
What's going on…and we have one today later on, in the…uh…evening. In fact, my wife is flying in for it. We're gonna have one that's so unbelievable. It's gonna be packed! And Bernie was right next door, and he canceled his, because they can't compete with what we have…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. They cannot! It’s true! It’s true! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They cannot compete with what we have. They can't compete with our crowds…; It's a movement! And you know what it is? It's a movement to common sense. It's a movement…to say…we're not…gonna allow…it to happen anymore…!? We're not gonna allow our country to be stripped of its jobs, of its factories…! We're not gonna allow it!
You know that people…in this area, and Steve read you some statistics, they're terrible! You know, when Scott Walker…I should have brought it. Maybe I did! Do I have it!? Do I have it!? …–MR. TRUMP ASKS SOMEBODY TO THE RIGHT. Oh, tonight? Oh, you wouldn't…!?  I like this crowd so much tough! No!? You'll see it tonight. I'm bringing it in tonight.
So…no, Scott Walker came up to my office a year ago. He gave me this beautiful plaque. Because I gave him a lot of money! I figured, “what the heck? He's fighting! Give him money. What do I know what he's doing?”. But then, when I looked at the numbers when he announced he was running for president…; and did you notice? We got along very well. And they all said…well, first they said Jeb was going to win…–THE CROWD BOOS. I took him out, right!? I took him out. So he was gone.
Then they said Marco was gonna win, the face of the Republican Party. And we had a great time in…in Florida. Some Marco…he goes ‘bye-bye!’…–MR. TRUMP GIGGLES AS HE POINTS AT SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD. Bye-bye…! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
But then they said...a lot of other guys. Everyone's gonna win, right? And…they’re all gonna win! Then they said…remember the last one. It was gonna be Walker. He was…when he went in. I said, “well, this is…really…this is a great…young Republican!”, which is true! I hope it's true! But you know, he's against me. So, as far as I'm concerned…there's no truth to that…–THE CROWD LAUGHS.
But, the fact is you're doing very mediocre. But, when…when he went out…Walker, everyone thought that, “well, he was gonna win”. And I was very nice to him. He was very nice to me. We went along a couple of months. He was doing well. I was doing well. And he was toward the beginning of the pack, because…you know, he had this little reputation going.
And then, they had a fundraiser. And his fundraiser, his chief fundraiser…again, fundraisers! Always funds…funds! Money is the root of all evil, right? But they had a fundraiser. And, his…guy said some nasty things about me! Like really, really nasty…! And I said, “thank you so much!”.
And I was reading a magazine, and I was reading what was going on Wisconsin…in Wiscuonsin. And…Wisconsin is a much different…place! You know, you're losing a lot of jobs…! You're not going up, you're going sideways. You're very average compared to your…neighboring states. You're right in the middle, which is fine…! But, I thought it was like this…great thing! So, he had this false still going.
And I said, “look, he just said bad things, thank goodness”. So I got all the information, I started reading it. He went from number one to out of the race. And [do] you know how quickly he got out? [Do you] You know why? Cuz he couldn't fight the statistics! He couldn't fight it! And he got out. And, if he wouldn't have done this…;
Now, I never called him and asked for support, in all fairness. Because I felt I couldn't. [I] hit him too hard. You know, when you hit people, it's like me calling Jeb: “Jeb, I'd love to have your support…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. How can he do it? How can he do it?
And yet, Chris Christie gave me his support. Dr. Ben Carson gave me his support. We have tremendous support! We have tremendous support. We have…uh…tremendous support. Sheriff Joe, in Arizona! I mean, who's tougher? Who’s tougher? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Do we love…? Do we love Sheriff Joe? Sheriff Joe gave his support.
How important…? Let me ask you a raise of hands, cause you're pretty far away from a certain border. How important is border security for this crowd? Like…? …–­THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. We're gonna have such a strong border, folks… !We are getting ripped off left and right. And, the…the numbers that are coming in are just disgraceful. And you see what's going on with the crime.
So, on June 16th, when I announced that I was running for president, I talked about two things primarily: the border, and the…lack of safety, and…and…the death! …the death that's been happening. But, I talked about illegal immigration. And I talked about trade. They were very close to my heart. And I shot up to number one in the polls.
And then we had Paris, which was a disaster. And I talked about…radical Islamic terrorism. And I said…lots of things, and I said very, very strong things, that we have to be strong, we have to be smart. We have to be strong! We have to be very, very vigilant. We cannot be politically correct, I'm sorry. It's not working. Political correctness…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s not working[MGF7] .
And everybody said, “that's the end of Trump! It's over for Trump!”. [Do you] Remember I said we have to do a temporary ban on the Muslims until we find out what's going on? Right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I don't wanna do that! They said, “that's the end!”. You know how many times I've been given the end? Like…uh…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. I've been given the last rites…how many times? …like…uh…ten? Every week! “It's the end of Trump!”.
Then they walk in, “sir, uh…I don't know what happened, but your poll numbers just went through the roof. Sir, could you explain…?”…­–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. I mean many, many times.
And you know what? I don't even care! I have to tell the truth. I speak…the truth. And I think people get it. And these guys are liars! …–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS. But look…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…look, the press lies.
And I’ll give you an example! So I talked about NATO. And I said, “it's obsolete”; and I said, “we're paying too much”; and I said, “they don't really focus on terrorism. They focus on the Soviet Union, which no longer exists”, right? That was…it was set up…very…you know, very much for that reason. And we have Russia, which is a real threat too. It's not as big as the Soviet Union, but a real threat. Run by a very smart cookie, much…just smarter, much more cunning than our president, I will tell you that right now…–THE CROWD CHEERS–…whether we like it or not. And I like him, because he called me a genius. He said, “Trump is the new real leader. Trump should be the leader. And he's a total genius”, and it got out on the paper. So, he called me a genius, but it’s not gonna get…happen,  no…don’t worry about it, folks. I am not seduced easily, believe me. I don't care what they call…you can call me that, or he could call me the word…; I still feel the same. It's gonna be…it's gonna be on a fair basis.
But, we’ll…you know, it wouldn't be bad to get along with Russia, right!? It wouldn't be bad! [It] Wouldn't be bad to get along with some of these countries that…we’re not…; on our terms! Only on our terms! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But it wouldn't be bad.
But, you know, I watched what's going on. I look at that Iran deal, which to me, is one of the most disgraceful things I've ever seen signed. One of the worst deals I've ever seen signed. And what…happened…yesterday!? Obama now is finally, finally…! He saw…! Because…did you see what they did? They captured a ship, from Iran, bringing guns into Yemen. And I mean, this was a lot of stuff! This was serious weaponry.
But Obama is now saying that, not because of that…alone. He's saying…he's angry at…Iran. He thinks they've essentially violated. I don't think he wants to say it the way…; I'll tell you what it is: they've defaulted! That's what the real word is. They've defaulted on a stupid agreement that should have never been signed. We should have had our prisoners out there long before we started negotiating. We should have had our prisoners out.
You leave the room, “we want our prisoners”, and you double up the sanctions. They give you back the prisoners in 24 hours, folks. We…are…should be…we’re ashamed of ourselves for what's been going on with that deal.
So, Obama yesterday, for the first time…essentially said that he's very unhappy with Iran and the way they're behaving…–THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY. I could have told them that three years ago! I could have told them that! Did you all see that!? I could have told them that…years ago! It's...un…believable! We're run by babies! We’re run by…either babies or maybe worse. I mean, there's something going on. There's something going on. So, a lot of bad things are happening.
So, when I talked about NATO and I talked about the cost, I get a…you know, a big call…from…somebody. “Oh Donald, they're really hitting you in NATO”.
“Why?”
“Well, they said ‘you want NATO broken up!’; you want NATO to be terminated’; you don't like NATO, you want all these countries to protect themselves!’”. That's not what I said! You know what I said! I said NATO's okay. It's obsolete! But we have rejigger it, change it. And we gotta ask them to pay! We owe 19 trillion dollars! We're gonna 21 trillion. Your jobs are all being lost.
Do you know that…in…17 years, a lot of the people in this audience…have not had a pay increase!? Effectively. You haven't had a pay increase. And then people wonder why do I get 21,000 people to come and see me in Orlando. Why do I get 35,000 in Mobile, Alabama? Why do I have thousands of people standing in the back of this building trying to get in, listening to this speech…by loudspeaker! Why? Why!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we have a packed airplane hangar. Why!?
The reason is we're sick and tired of what's going on. And let me tell you: one of the people…actually, it was sort of interesting, it was…the governor of South Carolina, right? You know who I'm talking about. She came out and she supported Marco Rubio. And I said, “oops, that's the end of that” …–AT THIS POINT, 00.33.52, THE AUDIO AND VIDEO BREAK UNTIL 00.34.15–…and she came out and she supported Marco Rubio. And I said, “oops, that's the end of that”…–SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘LITTLE MARCO!’. MR. TRUMP GIGGLES–…Governor Haley!
Oh…these names…! I wonder if those brands will stick forever. I hope not, right? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. I hope not! Do you think? …–THE CROWD YELLS ‘YEAH!’. Lying Ted is gonna stick, cause he’s never gonna change it…–THE CROWD CHEERS. Lyin Ted!
Isn't it amazing!? [MGF8] I have the evangelicals because they know I'm a straight shooter! And they also know…that I'm gonna do it right. They know I'm gonna do it right. And by the way, Haley, governor Haley, when she supported Marco, everybody said, “oh, that's good. That's good”. And I even figured, “he, that's gotta be a pretty good endorsement”. And then I win South Carolina in a landslide. And it reminded me of this! Because you have Walker, who can't support me, cause I hit him…hard! But I hit him hard to win, and I hit him hard to tell the truth. I just told the truth!
I basically read a story…I took one page out of an otherwise wonderful story, but the one page was about like the economics of what's going on! And the job losses, and everything else, at what's going on…; and people are saying, “oh, he shouldn't be fighting the governor. The governor's popular”. He's a nice guy! First of all, he's not popular statewide he's very unpopular. I think I made him unpopular in the state. You know, the truth is, he should have supported me! I think he'd be popular if you wanna know the truth…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, she's supported, in that case, Marco, and he…you know, I…I won big. And…I think a lot of big things are gonna happen tomorrow! I think a lot of…I'm seeing people that are professionals. And you know, the polls are pretty even. Right now the polls are pretty even. But…but, I have a feeling we're gonna have a very big day tomorrow, folks. I think so…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna be doing a lot of celebrating, because we're bringing our country back. But I have a feeling it's gonna be an unbelievable day.
So, when I talk about things, I wish the press would go through the whole scenario. So, you heard about Japan. I saw it yesterday about Japan: “Donald Trump knows nothing about our defense!”; or, “he knows nothing about…!”; and I'm saying to myself, “what I said is…great! We defend Japan, right? We defend! Why are we defending Japan ? We defend Japan.
Now, we don't want them to have nuclear! I don't want them to have nuclear, but…you know what? It comes a price. It comes a time at which you say, “you know, good luck. Defend yourself. We're not gonna continue to pay for your defense and lose a tremendous amount of…money”, all right?
So, what happens is…here's what my theory is: they've gotta pay us a lot of money, all right? Cause we cannot continue to do this. And if they don't, you have to be prepared to walk. And if they walk, and if we walk, they’re gonna…arm. Because their primary problem is North Korea. Now, he's a whack job and he's got a problem, all right? …­–THE CROWD LAUGHS. No, no, he's got a problem! And frankly, maybe…they're better off defending! What the hell do we have to be over there for, right!? I mean, you know, you could make that case…–THE CROWD CHEERS. I can…I can make that case!
Now, they'll say..–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS–…“Donald Trump knows nothing about the nuclear strategy!”. Let me tell you about the nuclear strategy. Pakistan has nukes! China has nukes! So many people have nukes now. It's the biggest…problem…facing the world today, all right? But there's so many countries that have them. But, who has them also? North Korea has them!
So, we have 28,000 on the border between North and South Korea. We have Japan that's making…I mean, we're just…doing their military for peanuts. We have South Korea! I love South Korea! I love Japan! I have great friends in Japan, great friends in South Korea. South Korea, like Japan, is an economic behemoth. Every television set you order, Samsung, LG…they all come from South Korea. I order thousands a year for different projects, right? They come from South Korea! I wish they came from…Wisconsin! I swear I'd order…? …­–THE CROWD CHEERS. Even if it was a no-name! You know? I like Samsung. I like LG. I lik…names. Even if it was in no-name! If you ordered…I'd love to right out of Wisconsin. But, we don't make televisions anymore. We don't make anything anymore, folks! We don't make things anymore!
We're gonna have a time and the not-too-distant future if I win, where Apple, and other companies are gonna make…their products…here! And we're not gonna have a made in China, and Vietnam, and all these other places! I'm telling you! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…and that's gonna happen. And that's gonna happen.
So, the story is that…they have to, the press, the media, they have to tell the full story. So they come out yesterday, “Donald Trump wants to see Japan nuked”, meaning nuked, meaning they have the nukes, right? “Donald Trump thinks it's fine for Ja…Japan to have no nuclear”.
Well, I don't like that. But look, we cannot…continue…to be the policemen of the world. We cannot…continue…to protect every…single…country! I know what's probably going to happen. Not definitely, I'm prepared to walk. But probably, when I say, “listen, you have to help us out. You have to pay substantially more money, because we cannot continue to pay”, they will probably say “no”, and I'll probably walk; and that meaning…I meaning…our country. And they will probably call back and say, “let's go”, or they'll have to defend themselves, folks. They'll have to defend themselves. And that's the way it goes, okay? That's okay! You have to be prepared to walk…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Same thing…same thing with South Korea. I mean, you know? Look, we are taking…we have 20,000 people there! On the border! Soldiers! Young, beautiful soldiers…! I mean, that's a dangerous border! And they're not paying much! And every time…North Korea acts up, [did] you ever see? The ships start going; you’ve the planes start going; and they mobilize it; and we're always doing…attacks. You know, fake attacks, whatever the hell they call it. We're doing them all over the place! We're working with them…!
I said, “wait a minute, at what point…do we stop this? At what point do people…either pay us or something…or do…do…whatever!? We can't let this…we cannot continue to go on like this.
Saudi Arabia…remember this: Saudi Arabia, they’re fine, I have…many friends from Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia, before they all went down, was making a billion…dollars…a day! They have the largest funds in the world! They're loaded with money to the gills. The United States…protects them. We get like practically nothing! Why? [Do] You know why? Because our leaders don't have business instinct. They don't have political instinct. They have no instincts whatsoever! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY.
Now, here's what's gonna happen, we'll say to Saudi Arabia, “fellas, you gotta help us out”.
They'll say, “no”.
We'll say, “bye-bye!”.
About two days later, they'll call and say, “get back here fast, we hear somebody's gonna make a raid!”. We'll go back! They'll pay us so much money…! And you know? That’s fine, okay? That's fine!
We've gotta change our ways. We've gotta do something with…as an example, with NATO! Because …all of these countries that are getting a free ride, they gotta pay up! Why should we be protecting all these…people, and all these countries! And protecting them from what!? We don't even…really know! But, why should we?
Now, one thing. I want them to pay up, but I want them to, also, pay us back for years of delinquency. For years we've been protecting them! I want the money back. We've gotta make our country…strong financially again.
Now, if we don't do that, we're sitting at the top of a very ugly bubble, folks. We're not gonna have the country that you know it pretty soon. We are gonna have an explosion of a bubble like you've never seen before, believe me. If I'm president, that won't happen. It won't happen. Because we’ll equalize things. We’ll normalize things. We have these trade imbalances that are massive. If you look at our trade imbalance with Japan, they send us millions of cars! Cars…! You look at those boats…!? [They are] The biggest ships I've ever seen, in Los Angeles. They come in, cars pour off. It's like a highway, boom! We send them practically nothing! We send…and they don't want anything! And what we do, when we send them farm products and things…they send them back! And they're perishable! They send them back, they don’t want them! Because their farmers don't want them, and we take them!
So, we send. They send back. You take a look at the balance. The automobiles…? Hundreds of thousands of cars! Up here…­–MR. TRUMP SHOWS WITH HIS HANDS–…and what we send over…that's…imbalance!
China, [is] the same thing! China is a disaster! 500…billion…dollar…trade deficit! They've taken our jobs. They've closed our factories. Millions of people are now working in jobs that they don't want, because you know, we have a lot of bad jobs! Even the other side…meaning, the Democrats, they say the jobs are bad jobs. They're not good jobs. They're not like great jobs anymore. We have…bad jobs! It's called bad jobs! We're gonna change that around. We're gonna bring our companies back. And we're not gonna let our companies go so easy.
When Carrier air conditioner wants to go to Mexico, we're gonna talk to them. We're gonna say, “listen, you wanna go, I think it's great. You’re gonna let all these people go that have helped you build the company for many years…”; they're great people! I watched…I looked at that tape. And I looked where that…[it/he] looked like a mid-level management guy, who is telling them: “we're closing Carrier. We're moving…to Mexico, and you're all unemployed”. And those people were crying and those people were there for years. And they do a great job, and nobody disputed that! I ordered Carrier air-conditioners, many of them…I'm not gonna order them anymore, by the way.
But here's the story: somebody from our country has to tell them, “we are going to be charging you a big tax, like 35 percent, every time you send an air-conditioning unit…from Mexico into the United States”. And you know what? They're not leaving! And they0’re not leaving…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And folks, they won’t be leaving. And the same goes for Ford, and the same goes for Nabisco, and the same goes for all of these companies that think they're being cute, and they think they're being smart. Do you ever notice…do you ever notice that the politicians…–A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHIN INAUDIBLE–…thank you, man; [do] you ever noticed that the politicians they talk about this, and they're trying to stop…the countries from moving out? They go, “well, we might do this! And we might do that…! And let's do that…;” it’s all…you're wasting time, folks. You're wasting time.
I'm the only one that understands. They leave, that's fine. They wanna come back, they have to pay a tax, okay? That's all! Now, you can say I'm not a free trader, and I am a free trader, but our country…has…run amok. Our country has been led by people…that don't know what they're doing, and it's out of control. Millions of jobs have been lost. Thousands of factories have been closed, in Wisconsin and everywhere else. Everywhere else. You have to see New England! It's like…I mean, it's incredible what's happened up there. But thousands of factories have been closed. And we're…not…going to…let…it happen…any…more.
So, here's the story…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Here's the story: we're gonna be strong on the border, very strong. We're gonna be very, very strong on the border. We're gonna build the wall…believe me [that] Mexico is gonna pay for the wall.
Remember this: you know, one of the politicians on stage said, “Donald, come here! There's no way you're gonna get Mexico to pay for the wall!”.
I said, “it's easy”. I didn't wanna really explain, cuz you know, these politicians, they copy. The other day I heard Ted Cruz says, “we're going to build the wall!”. What…where did that come from!? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Where has he been!? And you know he's never gonna build the wall, because the special interests aren't gonna let him build a wall, okay!? He's never building a wall! It’s all talk with these guys! They're all talk, no action. And he's not building a wall.
But it sounded good! He sees the response I’m getting, he said, “well, let's start using it”. That's all they do! I mean, that's all they do.
So, here's what we're gonna do: we're gonna start winning again as a country. We don't win anymore. When was the last time we won? We don't win in trade. We can't beat ISIS with the military! So, we're gonna start winning. We're gonna knock the hell out of ISIS. Our military is depleted. Totally…depleted…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Our military is totally…depleted. We're gonna knock the hell out of ISIS. And…we're gonna build a military bigger, and stronger and better than ever before, and it's a cheapest thing we can do, believe me. And hopefully we'll never have to use it, but nobody's gonna mess around with us, folks, okay? Nobody. Nobody…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're gonna take care of our vets. Because our vets have been absolutely…handled so badly! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. People that come into our country illegally, illegal immigrants, are treated better than our vets in many, many cases. And believe me, you could look statistically, that's a fact. We're gonna take care of our great vets, okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're gonna get rid of Common Core, and we're gonna bring education local. We're gonna repeal and replace Obamacare, which does…not…work! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [It] Doesn't work! I don't know if you see, and I'm sure most of you do. Your premiums are going up 35, 45, 55 percent. Your deductibles are so high, [that] you'll never get a chance to use it. Hopefully you don't wanna use it. But you'll never get a chance to use it. It's no good! It doesn't work. We will have alternatives that are so good, that is so much less expensive…and that work much better! …that worked much better! It's like me versus some of these guys. I spend less money, and I'm number one. They spend much more money than I do, and they’re way…forget it! And they're never gonna win.
We are going to protect our Second Amendment, which is under seize…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We are gonna win on trade. We are getting killed with every…single…country on trade. We are gonna renegotiate our trade deals, and we're gonna have…the…greatest traders…! We're gonna make…we're gonna be back again! We're gonna be back again! We're gonna bring our jobs back! We're gonna make great trade deals! I have the greatest people in the world! I have the greatest business people in the world, many of whom I know…! The ones that I don't know, I'm finding out about. I'll tell you, we have the greatest…negotiators…and the greatest business people in the world, and we don't use them! We use political hacks to negotiate the biggest deals with these massive countries. Those days are over! We're going to make great…trade…deals, and they're not taking our jobs any longer! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And we're gonna have a very powerful and very, very strong border. We're gonna have the wall. We're gonna have a strong border.
And by the way, people can come into our country, but they come in legally! They come in through a process! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And they come in…legally! No more…walking across, in honor of…Wisconsin! You know, we talk about cheese? Now we'll just talk about a certain kind of cheese. What kind of cheese? Swiss cheese! Like…big holes in it! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Right now they walk across…; by the way, I'm very honored, because not only Sheriff Joe…Arpaio, but…yesterday you saw, the…U.S. Border Patrol; these are great people! They never endorsed a presidential candidate before. I didn't even ask for their endorsement! We got a call. 16500 Border Patrol, they endorsed Donald Trump for president…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That tells you, right? I mean, that tells you.
So folks, I think…it’s such an honor being here. It's cold outside, and it's cold for you, and you waited…some of you were waiting 3, [or] 4 hours, and some of the folks are still trying to get in, but I'll tell you: I love you all! We're gonna do an amazing job for you!
You're gonna look at this afternoon as being…you're gonna look back in four years, or two years, or 20 years, and you're gonna say this was one of the…most important…afternoons…you've ever had. More importantly, tomorrow's vote. You will look back and you will say, it was the single…greatest…vote you've ever…cast…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That's when…our country…became…great…again! We will make…America…great…again!
Thank You, Wisconsin! I love you! Go out and vote! I love you!
