VIDEO Nº: 59
TITLE:59. FNN: FULL Donald Trump in Council Bluffs, IA
DATE OF EVENT:29/12/2015
RELEASE DATE:29/12/2015
DURATION:01.16.59 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:14860
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Wow!
 
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! You know, we have thousands of people outside…–CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY–… ‘Yeah, go ahead. Thank you. Thank you very much’.
 
We have thousands of people outside. They’re trying to get in. They’re slowly coming in. What about starting in about an hour from now, no? –CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. No way, right? Let's go! They'll get in! They'll hear the end of the speech, I guess. I just wanna thank everybody. It's been amazing, and…for the folks across the river…– MEANING ACROSS THE MISSOURI RIVER, WHICH STANDS AS THE DIVIDING LINE BETWEEN OMAHA, NEBRASKA AND WHERE THE RALLY TAKES PLACE, COUNCIL BLUFFS IN IOWA–…I'll tell you what: Omaha! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY–…right!? Whoa! Whoa! Whoa! …–MR. TRUMP SHOWS SURPRISE GIVEN THE EXCITEMENT OF THE CROWD–…you know, I wasn't sure if I should mention. I mean…you know, I'm here for the Iowa stuff, and I said… ‘well…’, I tell you what, I was greeted backstage from a lot of people from Omaha, I think I should mention. Good1 –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Yeah!
 
Well, I just wanna thank everybody, it's been really exciting. It's been an amazing thing. I even brought my Bible. The evangelicals, okay? –CROWD CHEERS. We love the evangelicals. And we're polling so well…
 
This Bible was given to me…I won't tell you the year, because it'll start saying, ‘wow, that's a long time ago, right?’…–CROWD LAUGHS. But this was given to me by my mother, when I was very young, going…going to Sunday school. And that's my mother's writing. It says, ‘to Donald Trump. This is Donald Trump's Bible’. That's pretty cool, right? So…we love the Bible. That's above…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…it's the best. We love The Art of the Deal, but the Bible is far far, far superior, right? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Yes.
 
So…thank you everybody. I really appreciate you being here, and…it's been an amazing run. It's been an amazing run. We've…ehm…started on June 16th. And everyone said, ‘he'll never run. He'll never run’, you know, ‘he won't run…’. These…genius pundits, right? You know that. And…ehm…the pundits…ay! ...but…we started on June 16th, the famous escalator ride, coming down with Melania. And…there was so much press. And it takes courage to run! You know, when you run for president, it takes courage! Especially like, I'm not a politician, thank goodness…all talk, no action…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…all talk…all talk, no action! Somebody had to do it!
 
Our country is a mess! We have to straighten it out. And we'll straighten it out! We're gonna straighten it out. And we can't go another four years, and we certainly can't go another eight years. We gotta straighten it out. We gotta do it right now, We owe nineteen trillion dollars…19 trillion! You know, the word trillion…I mean, 10 years ago, did you ever hear the word ‘trillion’? We owe 19…trillion dollars. And now, these politicians…and I'm talking both sides. They approve that budget, the other day, it was a disgrace! That would…–CROWD BOOS–…no! That was…that…was a total…disgrace! And we're gonna change things folks. And we're gonna do it. And we're gonna do it right. And we're gonna be proud of our country again. Right now we're embarrassed…by the people that we send to Washington. And a lot of them, you know…we know we're the Democrats are coming from. But we said, a lot of the Republicans…and we…you know, ‘I give money, and you give them support…’, and…everybody, they go to Washington. They wanna do a good job, then they get in there. And they vote, ‘let's fund Obamacare. Let's fund Syrians…coming in’…who the hell knows where they are!? Who knows where they come from!? ‘Let's fund them!’. You saw that the other day, everything Obama wanted, he got. And he got it like in one day! It was done so fast! If you didn't read the paper that day you wouldn't even read about it! It was just done like…lightning fast! And I say, ‘how does this happen?’. And somehow these people…they go to Washington, and they're not the same! They campaign, and everything's fine…and you're excited, and you're excited about them…and then they go there, and they just become…a regular cog, and they raise their hand, ‘yes, yes, yes’. I think they probably feel it's good they don't have to leave…but they're going to get voted out! People are tired of it! I tell you what…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…they're tired of it!
 
You know, everywhere I go it's packed like this. Like…again! Outside, thousands of people trying to get in. Every place I go it's like this. We have the biggest audience…by far! Nobody close on either side…by far! And we have…I mean, it's not even a contest! And…we had 20,000 in Dallas; we had 35,000 in Mobile, Alabama; 20,000 in Oklahoma; and the only thing that stops us is the size of these arenas! If they were bigger, we would have more! There's a movement…going on…which is…totally…beautiful! It's totally beautiful! People…wanna see borders…they wanna see proper health care; not health care that goes up…did you see what's going on with your Obamacare stuff? …twenty-five, thirty-five, forty-five percent! …increases. And the deductibles are so high –THAT– you're never gonna be able to use it anyway! Hopefully you don't need it! But the deductibles are so high…you're never gonna be…it's like worthless! You're never gonna be able to use it, unless you get run over by a tractor…–CROWD LAUGHS–…made in Japan…–CROWD LAUGHS–…a Komatsu. Okay?
 
No! Because they…you know, caterpillars got a lot of problems! Japan, as you know, they cut their…they devalue their currency to such a point. I tell the story: my friend’s an excavator, he went out, he bought all Komatsu equipment, he's always bought Caterpillar. And you look at what's happened to Caterpillar stock at all…I mean, I could have predicted it. And this story goes back a year! But he said, ‘I bought… Komatsu’. And he felt very, very badly, because he's always bought Caterpillar. He said… ‘they devalued their currency to such an extent! I owed it to my wife, to my family, to my company, to my employees…like, you know, I just made this great deal’.
I said, ‘how's the equipment?’.
He said, ‘it's good. It's not as good as Caterpillar. It's good!’. And he said, ‘I felt very badly doing it’. But that's what's happening! China's doing it big league.
 
But…we'll talk about a few of these things tonight. And…you know, I have to do this. And everyone says, ‘why do you talk so much about the polls!?’. I say, ‘because I'm winning!’ …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…you know? No, I mean, you know! Right!? One of the candidates, who’s like at two…! …said, ‘he's always talking about polls!’. Well, if I was at two, I wouldn't be talking about polls…–CROWD LAUGHS–…right?
 
So, you know, it's sort of funny. So we had the debate…a couple of weeks ago. And…so far…so far, they have online polls: Drudge, who's a fantastic guy by the way. Drudge! We love Drudge! Love him! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. He’s great! He loves the country, I wanna tell you, but he's done an amazing job. So you have Drudge, and you have Time Magazine, and you have Slate, and you have all these big…PBS…! And…I guess there were ten or eleven of them. I won everyone, online. The online polls, ‘who won the debate?’, right? And I brought that. They just had it done…and I brought it! Drudge, 46 percent. Now, you gotta remember. It's 46 percent with what? 15 people. Another one dropped out today, by the way, you know? You heard that, right? Somebody else dropped out. But there's not much to split up, cause he was at zero…–CROWD LAUGHS–…you know? No, no, I always say: ‘oh! Let's see, he dropped out, he's got three, how many of the three can we get…? The 3 percent…’. When they drop out at zero you just say, ‘let's go on to the next’, right? –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But…you have Drudge…at 46. You have Time Magazine, 49. This is with all these people on the stage! I mean, one of them is at 58, one of them is at 69! I mean, I take 69 with two people, let alone 14 and 15 people! But you have Time Magazine at 49. They have Slate at 51. You have US News & World Report, big one: 69 percent, THEY–…said I won the debate! We're not even into the regular polls yet folks. PBS…! Right? PBS! I know nothing about PBS. I do know they're on the liberal side, right? ‘Trump’, 69 percent…–CROWD CHEERS. No, no, think of it! I never debated before, okay? I never did that before. You know, I’ve…created jobs, and I build things, and I do lots of good work…I never debated before. And then they have…the Washington Times, very good newspaper, 62 percent. CBS Philadelphia, 59 percent. FOX 5 Las Vegas, 62 percent.
 
I mean, right after one…and then you go and you turn on the television, and you watch these guys like George Will, who's a total…ahem…ahem…–ONOMATOPOEIA REPRESENTING CLEARING YOUR THROAT. CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS–…and guys like Karl Rove that don't have a clue. He still thinks Romney won, you know? –CROWD LAUGHS. No, he does! He goes around saying, ‘I think Romney won’…–CROWD LAUGHS. And you have…I mean, Krauthammer…–MR. CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER–…treats me terribly, slightly better than he used to be. Slightly. Like about…2 percent, you know, he's sort of like…well…–IN A ‘CONFORMIST’ TONE–…but, they treat me, I tell you…
 
And…you see all these polls, and these are online polls! These are a hundreds, and hundreds of thousands of people calling and right after the debate. And you see it…and it's almost like they don't wanna use these polls on television…because they say, ‘well, we don't consider them…’. I consider them much more accurate than when you…–ADDRESSING THEM DIRECTLY, THE PRESS OR MEDIA–…do like 300 people! Okay!? I think they’re good. They think that I'm sitting…at…the thing, typing out hundreds of thousands…of…so I win a poll. It's not worth it, believe me. When you see the costs come in at the end of the month on your phone bill it's not worth it…–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But…ehm… it's been amazing! And then you go back and you turn on television, cuz the press is so dishonest! It's…it's tough…–CROWD CHEERS. Look…look at all of them…–MR. TRUMP POINTS RIGHT AT WHERE THEY ARE. THE CROWD BOOS. No, it’s true! It’s true! You know, they never scan the room.
 
I was in Dallas, we had a stadium. And…ehm…we had…where the Mavericks play. THE– place was packed. Texas. Good place. We're leading in Texas. We’re leading in Texas, we’re leading in Florida, we're leading all over! But…I was in Dallas, and Mark Cuban called and he said, ‘you know, we could…make it available’.
And it was Thursday when he called. I said…Thursday! … ‘when is it available?’.
MR. CUBAN SAID–… ‘Monday!’.
I said, ‘how do you fill up!? How many seats do you have?’.
MR. CUBAN SAID–… ‘like 20,000’.
 
Within like a day…! …we had 20,000 people. And we showed…and my wife I went home. I did…I thought I did a good job. Everybody was very happy. They all left. And I go home, my wife said, ‘were there many people?’.
I–…said, ‘what do you…? Many people? It was a stadium!’.
She said, ‘no, they kept the camera…on your face. They never, ever show the crowds!’. Okay? They never, ever show the crowds! –CROWD BOOS. No, it's incredible! It's really incredible! They won't…look, they don't turn the cameras. So…even when you've the…–INAUDIBLE–…the only time they turn the cameras…is when we have a protestor. If somebody stands up and says a couple of things…the cameras immediately go and turn. It's the only time! They don't do it! It's really…terrible. It's really terrible.
 
And last night I was watching one of the…you know, newscasts, one of the socialist newscasts…–CROWD LAUGHS–…and…they stood up…and they said…I mean, 3,000 people is like a small crowd for me. And they said, ‘Bernie Sanders…!’…it was incredible. They go, ‘Bernie Sanders had 3,000 people!’. When I have…when I have 20,000 people they don't say anything! In Oklahoma I had 20,000 people standing in a park. And nobody knows how many people. Nobody! They'd never showed the park. I'd never…but this guy has 3,000 people…and by the way, he's sinking fast, Sanders. He's…he's really going down…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, he's…he's a communist! I mean, he's a communist…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…forget about socialists! I think he's a communist! He wants to bring your taxes up to 90 percent! –CROWD MUTTERS AND BOOS. I mean, no, think of it! The guy wants to bring your taxes up to…like…whatever. And…give…some people free…but you know who’s paying for it folks! You're paying for it! Lots of luck, enjoy yourselves, okay? But he's literally…people are talking about a 90 percent tax rate. Who would be happy paying 90 percent to taxes!? Not too many people! –CROWD BOOS. No, it's terrible!
 
But it was really interesting. They said, ‘and Bernie Sanders tonight had three thousand people…!’. That's like the smallest crowd that I could possibly have! And it's…really…disgusting. So the press, I just wanna say folks, they are so…dishonest!
 
Now, with that…–CROWD CHEERS–…Reuters…Reuters…good outfit, Reuters. They just came out…a little while ago: ‘Trump!’…now, this is a poll, this is no longer the debate stuff. Now, we get into the big stuff, right? ‘Trump’, 39.1 percent. Think of it. Second place was Cruz, 13…–CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS. And Rubio was 11. No, no think of it! They don't report that on television! They never put it on! They never put it on. Now, I have to tell you, cuz the Iowa polls are like…amazing, because it's so…ridiculous.
 
So CNN…–A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP RESPONDS–… ‘I know, and I love you too…’–CROWD LAUGHS. Nice guy! He's a guy and I love him, okay? Am I allowed to love him!? –CROWD CHEERS AND LAUGHS. I love him!
So…CNN came out, last week, with a poll: 36 –FOR MR. TRUMP–…Cruz, 16; Carson, 14; Rubio, 12; Christie, 4; Bush, 3; I…can you imagine ‘Bush’!? He spent…think of this! 59 million dollars…! 59! …and he's at 3…–PERCENT. CROWD MUTTERS. You know? …DO YOU–…see this woman in the front row? Very attractive woman! You would be at 7…and you wouldn't have spent anything, okay? It’s true! –CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. For nothing! For nothing! It's crazy!
 
So they came out. And…and…no, it’s amazing! Did you see the ads he's doing!? Every…time…I turn…it’s an ad about me! Now, I killed him in the debate. I got 67, he got 1. He came in last in the debate! But here's what he said INAUDIBLE: he's like lecturing me! Which he did! They're showing him in the debate, and I'm standing there waiting to answer. And you remember my answer? I said, ‘Jeb, I've got 42, you've got 2…–CROWD LAUGHS. You…you started out…right here, next to me, and now you're gonna be falling off the dais, and you won't even be there next time’…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Okay? No, it’s true! That was like one of my answers! That wasn't even my best answer!
 
So…everybody thought…but they said, he was great: ‘Wasn't he brave!? He actually spoke to Mr. Trump. And he said that! …wasn't he brave!?’…–CROWD LAUGHS. Oh, he's gonna do great with Putin. He's gonna do great! –CROWD LAUGHS. I like that Putin called me ‘brilliant’. I'll be…I'll be totally honest! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I like…hey! Hey! Maybe he's kidding, I don't know…but I think it's great that he called me that! And…I think it's great if Russia and the United States can actually get together! I think it's fine! I think it's fine! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
You know, you have some of these clowns…that over Syria, they wanna start World War Three. And…you know, then they say, ‘Trump's tone is very harsh’. My tone’s harsh! They’re cutting off heads of Christians, think of it. And Bush said, and Hillary said, almost the same day! …Hillary said, ‘his tone is extremely nasty’…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. My tone! We need a nasty tone! I…by…we need a nasty tone! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS No, no, think of it! I'm…I'm suffering where my tone is nasty. And even with the…the people. You know, we throw them out. The first time some guy came…it was a really rough guy, HE– was throwing fists, he's shouting…for…bad guy. So…the security, which was fantastic, it wasn't even my security! It was the convention centers’…–MR. TRUMP NOW INTERRUPTS HIS SPEECH BY LOOKING TO HIS RIGHT SIDE AND ADDRESSING A PHOTOGRAPHER–…oh, oh, here they come! Look at these photographer…oh! I can't stand him! I can’t…and then they go out, and they sell the picture so they make a lot of money. That's all right. Shoot! Shoot all you want, who cares, right!? You know…let him shoot. Why aren't you back there with everybody else? –MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES THEM SPECIFICALLY.
 
So…we have…a situation where…we're gonna do things…and they're saying…they've never been done before! I have a call from…one of the…truly most respected journalists. And…he's not on our side of the table from the standpoint he's on the liberal side, to put it mildly, okay? But he's a respected guy. We could respect them too a little bit, right!? Not too much! –CROWD LAUGHS.
But he called up, and he said, ‘how does it feel?’.
I said, ‘how does what feel?’.
And I don't really know him. I– met him once. ‘How does it feel?’ ‘What you've done has never been done before in the history of politics’.
And I said, ‘what have I done!?’.
He said, ‘what you've done…you've changed a whole dialogue…’. He had a whole nice thing you know? Whole beautiful… ‘you’ve changed the dialogue; you made this; you did that…’. HE– said, ‘it's never been done before’.
I said, ‘let me just say something. It doesn't feel anything! Because unless we win, I couldn't care less’…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…he said…it so true! It's really true! It’s really true. All matter. He said, ‘no, no, even if you don't win, you've really achieved something very, very special. It's incredible, and the whole world is talking about it’.
 
CNN said…‘the event of the year’. Ehm…NBC! Can you imagine!? NBC said, ‘the number-one political event: Trump’. They had ISIS number two! ISIS two! And I'm one! I think ISIS should be number one! Because we gotta blow them away! I want them to be number one, so we can blow them away! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, we gotta blow them away! ISIS was two…think of it! ISIS is two, ‘Trump’ is one. I'd actually rather have it the other way, cause it's gonna make us look better when we take care of them…–CROWD CHEERS. B
 
But…but…he said, ‘how does it feel?’.
So then I said to him, ‘look…you know, I appreciate what you’re saying that, makes me feel good.
He said, ‘even if you don't win…what you've done is incredible’.
I said, ‘no, you're wrong! If I don't win I would never have done it again. I would wish I didn't waste my time, because to me…it would have been a big, fat, beautiful waste of time’. And I really mean that! I really, really mean that! And…they may be talking about it. And…if we go and other people win, and somebody else gets in…they'll never be able to do what we can do. It's really ‘we’! I don't even talk about ‘me’, because…this group of people! …whether it's Dallas, and whether it's Mobile, Alabama; whether it's…Oklahoma; whether it's…New Hampshire, where the crowds are incredible…same thing, I just left. I mean, I was in New Hampshire last night, it was an incredible evening; whether it's South Carolina, where we're doing great; North Carolina, we’re doing great; it all…Nevada! A poll just came in Nevada, it's incredible! I mean, I'm leading…leading with Hispanics, which I…who I love! I have…I employed thousands, and thousands…of Hispanics! …––CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thousands! I'm leading with African-Americans like you wouldn't believe!? And I always say that! I mean, I have so many great friends! I'm leading with African-Americans…
 
And actually, another poll came out, I'll let you guys, read it for yourselves. I don't know if they'll ever report it, but a big one…talk…talked about how well I'm doing…with African-Americans, with Hispanics…I mean, it was like…incredible numbers. One of the commentators said, ‘if these numbers are true…they might as well not even hold the election. Trump wins’. I'm telling you! We're gonna do…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we're gonna to do great with crossover from Democrats, because you have a lot of Democrats. You…look, you have some very good, fine people! They wanna see our country succeed! They wanna see us be successful! We're gonna have tremendous crossover from Democrats. And get a crossover. They don't want Hillary with the scandals, and…all of the things. Who wants…? …–CROWD BOOS–…who wants another four years like that? And you know what? This is…it's…one of the magazine's said recently, ‘Donald Trump is a world-class businessman. HE– …built a great business…’, and I did! I…I…did my INAUDIBLE.
 
That was the other thing! They’d say, ‘well, maybe he's not as big…as people think. So maybe he'll never filed’. After I announced. First they said I won’t to know. Then they said, ‘he'll never file form A’, where basically you sign your life away. Then they said…and I did that. They said, ‘whew, this is bad. This is not good…’ …–CROWD LAUGHS. You know, these are the pundits that get paid X dollars for…sitting there. These great geniuses that don't have a clue. Believe me, everybody in this room knows more about politics than they do. Everybody…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So then they said, ‘well, he announced, he form…he signed his life away, did form A. Now, well…maybe he'll never file his financials’, because my company's massive, right? So…and they said, ‘well, and if he does, he'll ask for delays…’, and you know, you're allowed like…huge extensions in…to eternity.
 
So…you’ve 30 days. My financials are almost a hundred pages long. Most of them are one-page…you know, these guy’s one-page, they're asking for extensions…politicians; one-page. They got nothing! They got nothing! They got nothing on them! They can't report the money they stole, so they don't put that on…–CROWD LAUGHS. It’s true! No, no, it’s true! –CROWD CHEERS–…it’s true! Only the really stupid ones put that down. Some of them probably do it. No, they can't report cash. They can't report green. So do it. So anyway!
 
So they have nothing on them…and they said…and they asked for extensions! We had a couple that asks for extensions. And everyone said I was gonna ask for exceptions. I didn't! I did it…not only did I not…you're given 30 days, and you could have 45-day extensions. I did it before at the 30 days! And I had accountants working overtime. Almost a hundred pages! And it turned out the numbers are much, much bigger, and better than anyone else, cuz I'm a private company! So…I own Bank of America building, a big chunk of that, I own…–CROWD CHEERS–…so many great things! All the stuff in New York…and I built a great company. And they all said, ‘wow…!’. You had to see! They see the office…down in Washington, Federal Elections, IT–…was like…the reporters were going crazy. All of these people back there were there, I guess, right? They were going crazy! They were all lined up…because they wanted…cause they wanted to see…if Trump was really good! And they found that Trump's really, really good! Those numbers were amazing…you didn't hear a thing about it, right!? Can you imagine if those numbers weren't good? It would have been front-page story all over. Those numbers were so…good! And so much better…than anybody anticipated! In fact, so good, that if I didn't run…I would have filed anyway. Cause I wanna brag about how good a company I have…–CROWD LAUGHS, CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…it’s true! I would have filed anyway! No, I was going to file anyway!
 
Cause I'd say what! Until I made that final decision to run, I didn't know…you know, it was…it's really…as I said! It's really…a big decision. Especially if you're a non-politician. You know, the politicians…they run, they win, they lose, they lose, they run…it’s all they do, is they run! They debate, nobody cares…–CROWD LAUGHS. But with me…it was like a big thing! I mean, it was big plus! I gave up a lot. Plus, I'm self-funding! I'm putting up my money! I'm putting up my money! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
I've had so many people come up to me…and say…and it was very interesting, cause something happened in Iowa that was interesting. But they've come up to me and said, ‘we wanna give you five million dollars…’, and…you…especially, when you're number one of the falls by a lot! They want…I mean, these people…are coming up…and it's…against my grain to turn down money. My whole life has been: I take it, I take it…I've been very greedy, you know? But now I'm gonna be greedy for the United States! I mean, I don't care about my company…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
No, I wanna be greedy for the United States! But it's hard for me! In fact…okay, so about four months ago, I was in Iowa…with a group…similar to this! Great group of people. And I said to them, ‘look, I feel really a little bit…foolish, even stupid, like our…leaders’. And they, it was, ‘why, why!?’. And I said, ‘because so much money…is being offered to me, and I keep turning it down’. And they applauded it. They said, ‘great’. I said, ‘let me make a deal with you: let me take millions, and millions of dollars! …’, right!? … ‘let me take the money, and I promise you…I will not be influenced. I promise you!’. This is to an Iowa group, like four months ago. And they stood up. They were booing, ‘boo! No, no, don’t take…!’. Because they know when you take that money, those people own you. And if it's not…and I'm not even talking in a legal sense. But what they do is they actually own you. You feel morally…you know?
 
And I tell the story all the time about Ford. How they know it's not a good deal for the country! Ford's building a two and a half billion-dollar plant in Mexico. Nabisco now is moving its plant to Mexico. That's why I say. Mexico's making so much money! You have to see the trade deficit we have with Mexico. You have to see what we have with China! Five…hundred…billion…dollars…a year! With China! Who the hell wants a partner like that!? You know? We rebuild China. We…rebuilt…China! Japan, with the cars, billions, and billions, and billions of dollars! And nobody even knows. They don't even know! They could put out these numbers, ‘eighty-seven billion dollars a year!’. They have no idea! I mean, they have no idea! It's worse than that! Believe me, if they put it out…it's worse. So when you look at like a Ford…so they're building a plant…two and a half billion…you know what a two and a half billion-dollar plant’s…!? That's like a building like this. That's massive!
 
But when you spend two have billion on a plant, that's a big plant! Right!? So you know, all the places that are closing down, and in all fairness, mostly in Michigan, where they closed places down. In Tennessee, they were gonna build a big, foreign car company: ‘we are gonna build a plant…’, they're all set to sign! And…and…then…you know, they announced, ‘we're not gonna go there, we're gonna go to Mexico’. Mexico is becoming the car capital of the world; you’d better be careful. Mexico is really doing a number on us, both at the border…and I love Mexico! And I love the Mexican people! So many…I told you! …work for me…
 
But their leaders are so much smarter! They’re so much more cunning than ours! They’re so much more cunning! They're just smarter! And they're not…controlled…by the kind of…people that we have…that are…around the Sims.
 
So what happens is…let's say a Hillary gets in. She’s raised…millions and millions of dollars! She's doing fundraisers…she's begging people for money! Right!? And…the people that put up…millions of dollars…a guy gives her five million dollars, and he's a lobbyist, or he's a special interest. And he wants Ford to be there. So she says…she's a smart person! So she says, ‘No, no, no, it's bad for a country. We're closing up other plants, but…’, by the way, they make the cars and then they bring them over, no tax, no nothing. We get nothing!
 
I went to Wharton…–SCHOOL OF FINANCE, right? We get nothing! You don't have to go to Wharton! You can go…to high school! You don't have to go to high school! We get nothing! We get nothing! We're led by stupid people folks! We’re led by stupid people. Stupid people! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Believe me! 
 
So we get nothing…so…she could say, or a guy like Jeb…by the way, who would you rather have negotiating… ‘Trump’ or Jeb –BUSH? Let's go: ‘Jeb!’, ‘Trump!’…–CROWD BOOS TO THE NAME OF BUSH AND THE CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. Trust me trust me, it…it will…not…be close. It will not…–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So you have a case, and…and…they come in, and…they know it’s bad! Because we lose our jobs, we’re close the factories…so…Hillary, or Jeb, or any of these people…any one of them! Every single one of them! Every one, single one of them, is taking in a lot of money. They're all going around for fundraising! Every time you call them, ‘Where are they?’, ‘Oh, they are they're raising money’. I'm not doing that! I'm working! I'm running a company while I'm doing this stuff! Can you believe it!? I'm running a company! Although I must say, I'm giving it over to Ivanka, and Don, and Eric, and my executives…because I'm actually having more fun…I couldn't care less about my company. Somebody said, ‘well, do you have a conflict?’. I said, ‘I couldn't care less about it!’. This is so much bigger in terms of…importance! In terms of a life! Who the hell cares about it!? Honestly!? Really! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
 
Does that make sense to people!? Who…the hell? Who the hell cares about a company!? The company's fine, it's making a freaking fortune! Right!? –CROWD LAUGHS. No, it's making a lot of money! And…it's fine! And Ivanka…is great. Does everyone know Ivanka? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So Don, and Eric, Ivanka…they'll all run it. And…with…I have great executives. I don't care…I won't even care about I, because…I wanna take care of China! I wanna bring them back. I wanna take care of all…of these…countries…that are ripping us so badly! It would be so much fun for me!? –CROWD LAUGHS. And it's not even the fun! Oh, it's so much fun! It's like sport, right? It's like sport!
 
And you know what? They liked us better! China doesn't like us! Look what they're doing in the South China Sea! They're building a massive island…in the middle of the waters! Hey, by the way, you know, we couldn't do that, do you know why? We could never get…an environmental impact statement approved…–CROWD MUTTERS. I jokingly said to a friend of mine from China, …and I have great relationships with China! They gave me millions, and millions, and millions…tens of millions of dollars…! …much more than that! For apartments! I have the largest bank in the world, from China…is a tenant of mine…in one of my buildings! I mean, the largest in the world! They're great, they're fine!
 
But you talk about leaders being smart! What they do to their currency…they just gave the largest devaluation…in two decades. DO– you know that is!? Two decades! 20 years! And nobody thought they were gonna be able to do it again! They're taking our business! And I say to people, it's the single…greatest…theft…in the history of the world…what China has done to the United States. They're taking our jobs; they're taking our money; they're taking our base; they're destroying what we have! You look!
 
Now, Mexico is a smaller example of it, but it's…you know, happening there. And so many other places! Now you have people…leaving! You have companies like Pfizer; you have companies leaving the United States! Thousands! Tens of thousands of jobs! Ultimately millions of jobs! They're leaving…because they can't get their money back in. There's trillions of dollars offshore…that they wanna bring in. Everybody agrees they should do it. The Democrats and the Republicans. They all agree! They can't make it. It's been like that for three years.
 
So what's happening is companies are leaving…because they get better treatment, they get better tax treatment, and they can get their money! They can't get the money in! Who would say… ‘no, you can’t…?’. They make money…outside of the country; they wanna bring it in…and we tax them so much…that nobody brings it in, so it's not a question itself. We get nothing! And…what we do is, lower the tax, get the money, and let them spend the money in our country. Everybody agrees! They can't make a deal! Because…we have a president…that doesn't work hard, and he's not persuasive, other than to get some votes, he's just not persuasive! You've gotta get these guys in a room, you gotta make a deal! Because this is trillions of dollars we're talking about! And now…it's called corporate inversion. I don't know…how many people know. It's an interesting word, but it's corporate inversion, they just leave! These are the candidates don't even know what the terms mean! They're never gonna do anything about it. They're never, ever gonna do anything about it.
 
So we have so…much…to do! We have…not a lot of time! You know, we're sitting on a bubble. It's a really…dangerous bubble. And we've had bubbles before. You know, the early 90s, that was a big fat, ugly bubble–THIS WAS WHEN MR. TRUMP WENT BANKRUPT. DO–…you remember the tech…–TECHNOLOGY–…problems…and…all of the other problems? I mean, I think we're gonna put it to shame!
And I must tell you: if it's gonna pop, I want it to pop before I take office rather than after, cause I wanna fix it as opposed to…they'll blame me! I'll be in office for two days! The bubble pops, and all of us are, ‘Oh! “Trump” did a bad job!’…–CROWD LAUGHS. Obama won't be blamed! I don't want that to happen! Let it happen in his turn!
 
But I'll tell you what: we have tremendous…we have…like…tremendous problems! And we're gonna solve those problems. And we can solve those problems. But we have to bring…sanity back. To government. I know the greatest business people in the world. I know them! They’re friends, they’re enemies…but I know them! I don't care if they're an enemy, if they're good. But I know them! Some are horrible, horrible human beings. They are! They're terrible. You wouldn't want to have dinner with them. You would throw up all over the place if you had to have dinner with them. I’m telling you…–CROWD LAUGHS–…that's…some are horrible people. Who cares!? Who cares!? I don't care! Some are wonderful people, not too many, to be honest with you…–CROWD LAUGHS. They're very rich. They don't want money! They don't want a salary! They call me all the time! The biggest guys in the world: ‘Donald I'd liked to straighten it out. I know a lot about Japan. I'd like to equalize with Japan’, meaning…Japan sends us millions of cars! We give them nothing! We give them nothing! You're a little bit involve. Some beef, right? And half the time they send the beef back! Right!? Look, ‘he’s shaking…’, –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY SPECIFICALLY. They send it back: ‘It’s not good enough!’.
 
Well you know what happens? It goes back and forth…and after about six months, they take it, right? They call it ‘Kobe beef’, and they charge you ten times more for it. Cause it's aged…–CROWD MUTTERS. It's aged. That's what happens. That's what happened.
 
But…but…seriously, I mean, I think…these people wanna…they call me! The biggest people! The best people! And I know the best. I know some that are overrated; I know some that nobody ever heard of, they're better than all of them. Carl Icahn is a great guy, big, big, powerful business guy. He called me, he…endorsed me. A tremendous guy. He wants to get involved. Like if I take Carl like, I’d say, ‘Carl, we have such a trade imbalance, we have such a deficit…with China. Do me a favor, work it out’. Trust yourselves, folks, it's gonna be just fine. It'll be just fine! It'll be just! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And he's great! And…and I have others! They’re great! And you just give each one a country, let them have fun! –CROWD LAUGHS. I mean, they'll make a great deal! They're making deals!
 
We're…we’re dying. We're dying folks! We can't lose the kind of money that we're losing. But we're losing our factories! We're losing everything! We're gonna have nothing left. And you know it better than I! I…I know Newton, Iowa, where I help the people, in newton, Iowa. I saw…I saw it…probably four, or five years ago. Anybody from Newton? –MR. TRUMP SEES SOMEONE FROM THERE AND ACKNOWLEDGES IT–… ‘Good! Am I true? Did I help you guys out?’ And look! I mean, she doesn't even know who the hell I am, but she said, ‘you did help’…–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
No, but Newton, and…and another places. So many businesses are…are going to other locations…where they given incentives, to leave the country! I mean, essentially…they're given incentives…to leave. We have to stop it! And we have to get our great people. You know, if you look at places like China, and Vietnam…which is…our new threat. I mean, that's gonna be another tough one. But if you look at these places, they put these really…tough…smart…people in charge. These are people that sort of came up through bump-bump-bump –MEANING FIGHTING, SINCE TRUMP ACCOMPANIES THE SOUNDS WITH PUNCHING–…they didn't come up because they gave a political contribution! You know, we put donors in charge. I tell the story Carolyn Kennedy. I mean, has anyone heard the story? Anybody? Right? It's incredible! Cause…a few people…can I tell it again? Do you mind? –CROWD YELLS ‘YEAH!’. And she's a very nice person. I'd say that because my daughter Ivanka says she's a very nice person. Okay. So she’s nice, cause I love Ivanka. Ivanka's great, right!? –CROWD YELLS ‘YEAH!’. By the way, Ivanka would be pretty good in this position, I’ll tell you.
 
So…Caroline Kennedy, she's on 60 minutes, because she's the Ambassador to Japan! It's a very important position, especially with regard to trade! So…they said, ‘how did it happen?’. ‘Well, I went to the White House, and I said, “I have nothing to do, I'd love a job”’…–CROWD LAUGHS. They said, ‘well, would you like to be the Ambassador to Japan?’. She goes, ‘What!? Really!? Really!?’…–CROWD LAUGHS. She couldn't believe it! She has no experience at this! And then they have Abe, who's the head of Japan. He's a very smart guy, best they've had in 50 years, probably. And they show 60 Minutes…I was on 60 Minutes too, did anyone see the 60 Minutes…? –CROWD CHEERS. You know I was on? With Putin, right!? We…that's why! I mean, boom, boom, boom. We had the same night. We got very high rating. 60 Minutes really likes Putin and they like ‘Trump’, right?
 
But…but you know, it was very interesting. So they show Carolyn, and she's being wined, and dined…! …they're having steak dinners where they’re treating are so good, and she's all happy! We don't need state dinners…my killers don't wanna have state dinners! They wanna get the hell back home! They wanna make great deals! And they're wining and dining her…and I just see it cuz I'm so good at this stuff! It's so easy! And she's just ready to…ugh! …whatever you want. I just love…she was so happy. But here's somebody…she's not supposed to be in that position, in all fairness. She's not trained…, she might be a nice person, she probably is! But she's not gonna make a deal. Especially when I watch…I watch the whole thing! So ceremonial…and if you go out, you'll find…actually somebody went out and checked! …these people. And they wanna see if I was fairly accurate in my description! Cuz…they said, you weren't…like almost perfect! She couldn't believe she was getting the position! And these are the people! We put donors in; we put special interests in; we put lobbyists in; …and if we don't put them in, we do…whatever…they want us to do!
 
So…when they go to Hillary Clinton on Ford, right? She'll say, ‘no, no, it's a bad deal’. Listen…listen… ‘Madam President’…can you imagine? Ugh! Ugh! Believe me, women, if it's gotta be a woman…which I'm all in favor of someday, it shouldn't be Hillary! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It shouldn't be Hillary. It shouldn't be Hillary. It…it…really…it really shouldn’t be.
 
But, you know, they’d say, ‘Madam President, we…really…have to remember that these people helped you out’. ‘Well, but it's not a good deal for America’. ‘He gave you five million dollars! And he represents Ford!’. Or ‘he represents Nabisco!’. Or ‘he represents whoever it is!’. ‘Oh, boy…well, that's okay. I'll do it. Boom…–THE–…deal’s done.
 
With me!? Okay!? They come see me. They’d say, ‘President Trump…’…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…this is not right’. No! They’d say, ‘this is not…’. First of all, I have business instinct, okay? You know? And a lot of these people don't even know if it's a good deal or…they have no clue! They probably think it's wonderful to lose five hundred and five…billion dollars a year with China, isn't it when they call them our partner? ‘A great partner’, okay? Yeah, I'll make…I'm a partner, but we're gonna be equal partners. We're not gonna be…stupid partners…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…so what happens…is…they'll come to me…and they'll call me. And I know a lot of them! They…they haven't given me…I think, cuz I won't accept anything. And they'll call. They’ll say…you know, lobbyist for Ford, or…special interests, or stock owner, or something. They'll say, ‘you know, President, you have to do this, I mean…’. I’d say, ‘what's good about it? They move a plant, they closed factories…you don't have any Americans work in there, then you bring the stuff back’. I’d said, ‘no, I'm not gonna do it’, because I don't know them! I mean is…it's like over! I couldn’t…I won't even let him come in! I don't wanna waste my time with them! I'm not gonna be playing golf! I like golf!
 
You know what? Obama goes out for close to three weeks to play golf. He's played more golf…than members of the PGA Tour! –CROWD LAUGHS. It’s true! Think of it: I'm gonna be in the White House! You're in the White House! It's a limited period of time! It's this gorgeous place! Yes, –IT’S–…smaller than some of my houses…–CROWD LAUGHS VIVIDLY–…but these are minor details. No, no! It’s a gorgeous…it’s like…it's the White House! It's so important! Who wants to leave the White House!? You're gonna be there for a limited…! And you have to work! We have to work! There's no work going on! How to help you leave for three weeks to play golf!? And you know the carbon footprint, right? Carbon footprint. Obama says, ‘that our single biggest threat…is global warming’…–CROWD MUTTERS AND BOOS. Not ISIS; not China; not Russia; not North Korea, where we have a maniac…with nuclear weapons, you notice? He's got nuclear weapons, nobody talks to him.
 
Iran…we're still…I haven’t ever seen negotiated, by the way…–CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. But Iran…at least they don't have them yet! They’ll have them shortly, cause they'll take…some of the hundred and fifty billion. We don't even get our prisoners back, right? And then they have the right to self-inspect. So…I mean, the deals!
 
So here we go. So they're gonna come to me, and they're gonna say, ‘Mr. President, ehm…really! You should do…’. I’d said, ‘out! You know, I like you very much. Get out of my office! Forget it! It's over! It's over!’. And I…I'll tell you what's gonna happen! The head of Ford's gonna call, he's gonna make a plea, and I'm gonna be extremely respectful, because I respect the head of Ford, he's had done a great job! For him, he's done a great job! For the company! And I respect that. But we can't let it happen, because they're killing us. And he's gonna say, ‘Mr. president, you know, we wanna move to Mexico; we're gonna move the plants; it's going to be wonderful for the United States’. I'll say, ‘oh, really? Give me one reason why’. He won't be able to answer that question, believe me. And…I'm gonna say, ‘look, I'm not gonna put up with it. And here's what's gonna happen: if you…move your plant to Mexico…you're gonna close plants in Michigan, and other places. I am gonna charge you…a 35 percent tax…every time you make something, and bring it into this country’. …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. ‘Every…single…time! Whether it's a car, whether it's a truck, or whether its parts. Every…single…time!’. Because we get nothing out of these deals! You look at NAFTA…–NORTH AMERICAN FREE TRADE AGREEMENT–…you look at those companies…I just…again, I left…New Hampshire; you go up to New England, you look at those buildings that have just emptied out, where people move to other places. In particular in this case, Mexico. It's like…unbelievable! What happens! It's unbelievable!
 
So I would say…that…they…will call me…within 24 hours! If they're really, really tough…they'll wait a little longer; they'll put in a second call; I'll say, ‘no, thank you’. They will call within 48 hours…and they'll say, ‘Mr. president…we've decided…to build…our plants in…the United States’. Okay? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It’s gonna happen!
 
So let me give you odds. I’d say 100 percent…–CROWD CHEERS–…okay? No, I say wanna…I mean, unless they're on a suicide mission. It's 100 percent. It's not like, ‘oh, gee! Ehm…let's think about it’. They'll probably make a couple of little calls. I'll be called by a couple of other guys. They'll hire some very expensive people in Washington, who I couldn't care less about! Many of these people I've hired, I know them! Okay? –CROWD LAUGHS. I…Look, ‘who was better at this game than me!?’. I got the old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue in the Obama administration! Who the hell is better at this stuff than me!? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Okay!? Nobody! Nobody!
 
I'm building a hotel, where they have the Old Post Office, the best side in Washington DC. And it's gonna be great. But I got it in the Obama, from the General Services Administration, who are very…talented people and good people. And they want to see something great. And they did the right thing, because we're gonna do something great there. But we got it! I got it! I mean, I really know the game! And I know the good parts, and the bad parts. I know the really ugly parts…? And we're gonna have people building factories, and plants, and things back here! We're gonna stop the stupidity; we're gonna stop with the incompetent leadership; we're gonna stop with the donors getting jobs…that in many cases, they own companies, and they're negotiating…for those companies…and they're the ones that are representing us! It's…insane! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So…I'm self-funding. And I have to tell you, when I was with that other group in Iowa, I said, ‘you gotta do me a favor. Let me take the money’. They all stood up, and they went crazy, negatively crazy. Like…even some booing. I don't hear too much booing…–CROWD LAUGHS. They hated the concept. I said, ‘but I promise! I'll be loyal to the country!’. But they went crazy, and they said ‘no’. And I realized then it's a big deal. And now I mention it in the speeches. I'll tell you why: because…a lot of people don't know that I'm self-funding; and it seem to be a much more important thing…than it is.
 
My people are very professional, and…I do a lot of things that they don't agree with, but that's okay! They don't even mind, because it ends up being right. Like…illegal immigration, I came out. They were a little bit…boy, that was tough! –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
Ehm…recently…I came out…on…the radical…Islamic terrorists! We gotta come out! We gotta come out! And…I took a week of hell, right!? And then all of a sudden…you gotta see television now! The…the most liberal people…they say, ‘well, you know what Mr. Trump does have…’. I was going through crazy! Rush Limbaugh, who's an incredible guy, said: ‘Donald Trump…has received more incoming…than any human being I've ever witnessed. And then he goes and sets a press conference, and doubles down! Instead of…apologizes!’. People want me to apologize! And now I'm watching…and I'm seeing where they're saying…amazingly, they're saying, ‘well, you know…ehm…Donald Trump has a point. And yeah…’, I have a point! I have a big point!
 
So…that's the story we have to be smart! We don't necessarily have to be politically correct! I mean, if we can, that's fine! But we don't have time for it! I went to an Ivy League school! I can be more politically correct than any guy in Washington. Believe me! I'm smarter than they are. I can be more…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…no, no think of it! And you know? The other thing? You know? They always try and belittle. My crowds are the smartest people. My crowds are the smartest…–CROWD CHEERS–…I know it! I know it! Look at the people! –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CROWD. They like to say, ‘well, you know!? They're lower this; lower that; they…’, Uhg! They're so disgusting! And we have the best people! We have the smartest people! Can…could…how…you know, it's like one of those things. I know! And you know what? If my crowd wasn't, I’d tell you! I’d tell you! It's okay. Nothing wrong.
 
But we have the smartest people! We have the smartest crowds! And then they'll say, ‘they're older’. They're not old! Look at all these kids! That…yeah…I…I…got kids…and…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…no, it's crazy! Look at them!
 
What they're doing…is trying…to marginalize you! What they’re doing…–MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ACKNOWLEDGES IT–… ‘thank you, man’. What they're doing…is trying…to marginalize. They trying…they have very, very disturbed words, because this is a movement. I'm telling you. This is not like a normal situation.
 
When they called me, and they say, ‘there's never been anything like this in the history of United States politics’, they're not kidding around, they mean it! This is a movement! Okay!? This is people…that…we used to call the ‘silent majority’, but it's not really that good a term, because…you folks are noisy as hell. You're tired of it! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's like the noisy majority. You’re tired of it! You’re tired of it!
 
So…so things are happening…and it’s exciting…and it all starts with Iowa. Sorry about that. Sorry about that. You know who I'm talking to…Omaha! Sorry about that! I love Omaha! I love Nebraska! I love Nebraska! I love Nebraska! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know what!? Nebraska can do us a big favor! Okay. Nebraska, are you listening!? Do us a big favor. Okay, good!
 
Who's from Nebraska? Real fast! –JUDGING BY THE NOISE A CONSIDERABLE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…Wow! Wow! That's a lot of people! Okay! Nebraska! You do us a big favor. The fact is…Iowa comes first, right? You have a lot of friends. Even though they're from Iowa…you have a lot of friends in Iowa! Right!? You call every one of them, on February first, and you make sure they get out and vote…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…okay?
 
And I'll tell you, from the…for the folks from Iowa, I have to tell you: there's a big move on to push Iowa to the back of the pack, I don't know if you know that. You know, you have a great tradition here. And I've fallen in love with so many people! …–MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ACKNOWLEDGES IT–…you're right. Whatever he said, he sounds so…–CROWD LAUGHS. But…there's a…move on…–MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE AND MR. TRUMP ACKNOWLEDGES IT AGAIN–… ‘thank you’. There's a move on….to…move Iowa…and, by the way, New Hampshire, to the middle of the back of the pack. And I give you my word…I love the whole process. It's an incredible pride, whether it's the caucus, or the vote.
 
There's a great history to this. There's an amazing feeling…that you have when you come to Iowa. It's important! And it makes you important, to be honest. I mean think of it, if you were the 25th state, or the…the fif…50th state, or the 40 state…they wanna move you to the back of the pack! I give you my word that…I win, you're not moving any way! You’re staying right where you are. You're staying right at where you are…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…I'm telling you.
 
Nobody even what really…nobody even knows why they wanna do it, but there's a big move. You can ask you political people, but there's a big move on. And…and…ehm…you’re staying where you are, so…you could just count on it.
 
I just wanna…ehm…eh…before I get…and finish off, I had to give you the rest, cuz I'm so happy about this. I love it. I love it. I love it! Monmouth poll, very respected: ‘Trump’, 41; second place, 14…national poll…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Not bad, right? FOX! 39, ‘Trump’; second place, 16. Listen to this one: respected poll, Morning Consult: ‘Trump’, 40, second place, 9…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You don't hear this! They don’t tell you this on television! And believe me, if I'm wrong…it's a…headline tomorrow. So I have to be telling the truth…–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
ABC/WashingtonPost…right? I mean, no control over either. Trust me! They don't like me at all. They don't like me at all! ‘Trump…’…it's too bad. ‘Trump’, 38; second place, 15. They’re at…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. PPP, that's Public Policy Polling, I'm winning there. Monmouth Paul, 41-14. I mean, the whole thing…it goes on and on! But…but I have to do this because…we love Iowa. Come on, ready? Iowa, ARE–…you're ready for these polls? Listen to this. Iowa. Yeah! CNN! Okay? Is that good? Yes, CNN, good, right? I like them! When they give me a good poll, I like it them; when they give me a bad poll I don't, okay? –CROWD LAUGHS. But listen to this poll…and this is in Iowa: I'm at thirty…three…second is Cruz at 20. You don't hear that, right!? No, you don't hear it! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You don't hear it! It's a crazy deal! You don't…hear it! Nobody talks about it! They don't talk about it, cuz the polls so good…they don't wanna talk about it. I think it would be very easy for me…to tell these guys… ‘yeah, I came in second I'd be very happy’. Because I feel confident. I mean, second…I think…great. But I should even say, ‘if I come in the top four, I’d be very happy, very…’.
That way, if I come…number two, they'll say, ‘oh, well…he over performed, didn’t he?’. I don't wanna say that. I wanna win Iowa. I really wanna win Iowa. And…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…again! The evangelicals, the tea party…we're doing unbelievable. I mean, we're doing unbelievably! And…I think we're going to win Iowa.
 
So…I'm really trying to…you know, I'm gonna be here for that last…couple of weeks…I'm gonna be here. I'm gonna be here so much, you're gonna get so sick of me…you're gonna say, ‘this guy, please, get him out of here! Get him…out…of Iowa! We can't stand him anymore! But I'm gonna be here anyway, cause we have to win! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Okay?
 
So…the other polls…likewise, have a…have us doing either very close to our winning…in Iowa. And…I think you're really gonna see something…that's gonna be…it's gonna surprise people! I may be wrong! And again, I'm saving myself up, because…they'll…–THE PRESS–…show these words! If I come in second…by two points, they’ll say, ‘Ooh! This was a terrible defeat! Terrible!’. It’s not terrible. I just wanna win. I know so many people here. I love the people of Iowa. They have the same values I have. And I wanna win it. So…we're gonna give it our best, okay? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And just remember this just…remember this! You gotta remember, in all fairness, to the best of my knowledge…not too many evangelicals…come out of Cuba! Okay!? Just remember that! Okay!? Just remember! In all fairness, here we are! Just remember that folks. When you're casting your ballot, remember…I have a lot of support. A lot of support, from amazing people. Franklin Graham said incredible things about me the other day. We have so many pastors and so many ministers in favor! And…ehm…it's just very important to me. Okay! So that's enough with the polls!
 
Now, when I first started this journey, and this is very important. I first started…I was talking about trade, I was talking about Mexico, and borders; and I was talking about border security, which is so important. It turned out to be…very important. I tell you what: if I didn't mention that during my opening, where…you talk about getting hit. I was hit for two, three weeks, I couldn't believe it! I said, ‘am I gonna have to go like this for six months!?’. Even I said! ‘I don't know if I can take it!’. To…it good…oh, really? He says, – MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY SPECIFICALLY–…‘Oh, oh, I didn't know you could do that’…–CROWD LAUGHS–… ‘don't worry, I'll take it’.
 
But what happened…is….after…two or three weeks, people started saying I’m right! Just like…with…the radical…Islam. Just like what was going on there! I mean, we gotta get to the bottom of it. Well, here…, all of a sudden they said, ‘you know, you're right’. There’s tremendous’…then you had Kate, in San Francisco, killed. Then you had Jameel, an unbelievable young man, whose father I think is one of the greatest guys: Jameel Shaw. HE WAS–…gonna be a quarterback; HE–…was applying to Stanford and great schools. Great athlete; Student ; Wonderful guy…was coming home, and I illegal immigrant came, AND– shot him, right through the head. Just right through the head…for no reason! And his father's waiting for him to bring a sandwich, from the deli. And they just shot him. Just for no reason! They were told… ‘shoot him…’. They want to kill people. They want to kill people! That's what happened. They want to kill…HE–…wasn't supposed to be here.
 
You had the woman in California, A– few…two months ago. She was a veteran! 66-year-old veteran! She was raped sodomized, and killed by an illegal immigrant, okay? Now, I'm not even talking about the economy, because…the economy is being hurt by it. We're losing a lot of jobs by it. And we can bring people in in terms of the grapes, and oil, cause I know all the answers; I know all the…questions, I know the answers. And you're gonna have some people that, in all fairness, they can't get workers, and…we're gonna make it! You come in, you gotta come in legally. We know all about that.
 
But…we have to do something! And my whole thing…was about border security, and trade…and you all heard it! Then Obamacare…we're gonna repeal it, we're gonna replace it…and we…we are…we are! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I'd speak…! And by the way, I don't use teleprompters! Right!? DO– …you see a teleprompter? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Unless it's a very good one that's invisible, there's no teleprompter! And I'm not reading the speech! Look, here my notes…that's my notes for my speech, okay? –CROWD CHEERS. This is from the heart! I'll tell you! Honestly? It's from the heart.
 
A friend of mine said to me, he’s –A– very successful guy, unbelievably. I was speaking in front of 21,000 people, he said, ‘where are you speaking tonight?’.
I said, ‘so and so…’.
He said, ‘how many people like?’.
I said, ‘I don't know, over 20,000’.
He said, ‘what are you gonna say? Have you prepared your mark, your marks?’.
 
And then he went and he watched, and he couldn't believe it! He said, ‘man!’,  he could never do that. I said, ‘you know what? There's so much love…!’. I really mean this! There's so much love in these rooms! It's the same here! You're interchangeable with all of the others…there's love! There's love! These are incredible people in our country! That's what I've learned! They're incredible, and they're really, really smart. Because when phony reporters write phony stuff, it's like…it almost helps me! –CROWD CHEERS. How many times did they write…these false stories…? …and everybody said, ‘Oh! That's the end of “Trump”’. And my polls go up! They call me, ‘Sir, I'd like to…ehm…tell you: you just went up six points’.
I said, ‘I did!?’…–CROWD LAUGHS–…right!? Because I'm telling the truth. And sometimes when you tell the truth, you're hurting yourself politically. But I tell the truth! And we have to tell the truth! We can't play games anymore! We can't play games anymore!
 
But I said to my friend…I said, ‘there's…such…love…in the room!’. There really is! That…it's like…easy to do! It's not hard for me! Now, I have a good memory, and all that stuff, like a great memory. You…you have…you know what you’re gonna say…it's not that! It's easy! Because there's love in all of these places! Whether it's here, whether it's like last night in New Hampshire! IT– was love in that ground!
 
I go to New Hampshire; I go to South Carolina; I go to Virginia; I go to…Nevada; There's love! It's all like…it's like a big love fest! We're in love with our country! You know what? We're in love…it's really true! I don't know if you…and…and I'm…I’m saying this very seriously! We're in love with our country! We see…we're smart! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're in love with our country! And we all have the same thing in mind! And every once in a while have like a heckler, and they'll take him out of the room, and…I'll sometimes be rough and they'll say, ‘he was too rough’ the next day. Or sometimes I'll be really nice, ‘please, don't hurt him’, and they’ll say, ‘he was very weak’…–CROWD LAUGHS–…ehm… ‘what's wrong with him?’. I–…can't win’…right!? You saw that!
 
I had one guy…he was brutal! And they said, ‘Oh! He was so terrible, “Trump”. He was so…nasty and rough!’. And the next day I was so nice…to some guy, who was…not nearly as bad, but he was…just a heckler. And I was so nice, and they said, ‘well, Trump was very weak in his comments about that’…–CROWD LAUGHS–…you can't win! I mean, you can't win! But it is true!
 
And I say, I could take…some of those hecklers. Now, some of them on drugs, and they’re…or…or alcohol…–CROWD LAUGHS–…it’s true! No, no! By the way, it really is true. When you see guys stand up and willing to jump off the top of a balcony…? …into people!? I mean…you think they haven't had a couple of little shots of something up the arm? –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But…assuming they weren't…I really believe if I sat and talked with them for 15 minutes, I would say: ‘look, we're all in this…whether you're a Democrat, liberal…whether you're a conservative, Republican…we just wanna make our country great! We wanna take it back! We wanna create jobs! We wanna have a good living! We wanna live well! We want wages to go up, but we want the wages to go up where you really earn them! You go out you do a good job. You work like the people in Iowa! And…I really believe I could talk people…and you wanna be able to have great education. You wanna be able to end Common Core, and create…you wanna be able to protect our Second Amendment! We’ve gotta protect it! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We've gotta protect our Second Amendment! We're getting killed with the Second…
 
Now, they're talking about getting rid of bullets, you know? They're…having a hard time with the gun thing, so they say, ‘well, what we'll do is…we'll look at the ammunition. We'll look at the bullets, and we'll get rid of the bullets’. We gotta protect our Second Amendment. You know, I was with a group from New York that's totally into like the gun control thing. And I'm…the exact opposite. And…Paris it happened. And…130 people were killed, and many more are going to die. You know, …have many people in the hospital that are very…I mean, really in bad, bad, bad shape. And these thugs went in, and that's what they are. And the press calls them ‘the mastermind’. ‘The mastermind…of the group’. ‘Mastermind!?’. I call him the guy with the dirty hat. And I have been lecturing the press for two months: ‘don't ever use the term ‘mastermind’. He's not a ‘mastermind’! I guarantee, he's got a very low IQ. He's just a thug! I call him…! You know the guy, with the dirty hat. Fortunately, he's dead now, so that's good.
 
But…but…the guy with the dirty hat. And you know, I haven't heard…in all fairness to the press, I haven't heard the term ‘mastermind’ used again. It's really good! Because these kids are being…taken, and they're being radicalized over the Internet. And they see these guys on television, and they have the anchor say, ‘the mastermind of the group is now free, and he's looking here…and we're looking for him over in France and Germany…’. I say, ‘why do they keep calling him the mastermind!?’. They know nothing about him! Guaranteed: low IQ!
 
So he gets a few people in there…they all have guns, right? In Paris…you have the toughest gun laws in the world, they say, or among. And…France too! Nobody has guns! You don’t have guns!
 
So what happens is…these guys walk in with guns! Easy, if you want a gun, you get a gun! So they walk in with the…top-of-the-line stuff. Big, powerful weapons. And they say, ‘boom, boom, boom boom’…–REPRESENTING GUNSHOTS–…A– hundred and thirty…many more…are gonna die. Okay. And I said to my…so…friends…they’re good people! They're not bad people! But they believed in…gun control. I say, ‘let me ask you a question: when they're shooting all these people…’, and they're helpless, cause they have no weapons whatsoever. The guy is actually saying, ‘Next! Get over here! Boom! Get over here! Boom!  So…horrible! Say, wouldn't it be great like a guy…like that guy, right there! –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY SPECIFICALLY–…if he had a gun…raise your hand…if he had a gun. A guy like that guy right there! –MR. TRUMP POINTS AGAIN–…Okay? My man. If he had a gun…
A woman like this, or this, or you…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SEVERAL PEOPLE AGAIN. THE CROWD CHEERS–…even though she's got a big…Nebraska…sweatshirt on…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…right but?
 
But…wouldn't it be…think of it! Think of it! Wouldn't it be great…if there were…four, five, six, ten people…carrying weapons in that room!? You wouldn't have 130 people dead! You might have some, but you wouldn't have very many. And the dead ones would be the guys doing the shooting.
 
So…I do this argument, and I find it fascinating! Because I argue in front of groups of people…with these people! These are real militant people about guns! They can't win the argument. They’re…they’re totally…they…they give up! They can't even…the argument is over like in a few minutes. So I said, ‘did I convince you?’.
‘No!’
I said, ‘all right’.
 
So you're never going to convince them. We have to protect the Second Amendment, just remember that: We have to protect it. We have to. We have to protect it…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…and I will protect…the Second Amendment.
 
My sons are members of the NRA…–NATIONAL RIFLE ASSOCIATION–…for many years, they’re great shots. I'm…I’m a member of the NRA…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. I'm not a great shot, actually at all. But my sons are really into it, and they're members for years, and they hunt, and they do everything. But…ehm…ehm…they love the NRA. And they…they understand the importance of guns. They understand the power of guns. And they also understand mental health! This is a mental health problem! And that's what we have to start talking about! This is a mental…health…problem.
 
So when I went around, I would talk about all of these issues, and then Paris came about. And…I started talking about what we have to do! And I came out very much against the Syrians coming in, because they…this…is…migration. Did you ever see anything like it!? These are all young, strong people! These are men! And…many of them! I said…first I'm looking, and I'm saying, ‘yeah! That's a lot of people!’. Then you look, and you don't see very many women. And that you don't see very many children. And then you see these guys are all young and they're strong as hell…and you say, ‘why aren't they back fighting for their country?’.
 
And then you see a story like appeared…I don't know if you saw…two stories that appeared last week. One was that they stole a passport! ISIS! This is a not stupid people! They stole passports! Passports! US passports! And they stole the passport machine! They took the passport machine! That's one.

The other is that…many of these people on the line, and they were going into Norway…I believe, and they had cell phones! Now, this is a migration! Why do they have cell phones? Who's paying the bill? What's going on!? –CROWD LAUGHS–…it's sort of strange, right? You know, think of it. In the migration, they have cell phone. ‘Hey, how you doing? No, do you wanna go out tonight?’…–MR. TRUMP PRETENDS HE TALKS ON THE PHONE. CROWD LAUGHS. What's going on!? No, where do they get…!? …
 
Now, there's a problem: on the cell phones they had you saw this the ISIS flag; they had horrible…events, on the…cell phones, like beheadings, and things; these are people that are in the migration! And we have this guy, Obama, that wants to let them in! This could be the great Trojan horse, you know what I'm talking about with…–CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY–…this…this could be the great Trojan horse of all time! Of all time! And all you have to do is look at Germany!
 
I mean, can you imagine…!? I was supposed to get…Man of the Year, Person of the Year, right? From Time Magazine. I was on the cover…a month ago. And it's an honor! It's Time Magazine! Even though it's getting smaller and smaller, smaller all the time…. There it is! –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD THAT APPARENTLY HAS THE MAGAZINE–…hey! Hold that picture up! Look at that guy! What a great guy! Give me that picture! Can I have that picture!? Just get…can you guys? Do me a favor, give me that picture. Let me see it. Look at this picture!
 
I was very proud of being on Time…I've been on there a number of times, but these are minor details. Oh! …–THE MAGAZINE IS GIVEN TO MR. TRUMP–...this one, who cares? Yeah, have it…–MR. TRUMP HAS BEEN GIVEN THE ROLLING STONE MAGAZINE AND SEEMS TO NOT GIVE IT MUCH ATTENTION AND THROWS IT BACK TO THE CROWD. THE CROWD LAUGHS–…yeah, yeah. It’s all right. Actually! I liked that picture! I just didn't like the story.
Look: Time Magazine! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Here, Kate! Give that back! I…I don't wanna steal your picture. Give it back.
 
But…so I was supposed to get…give it back…you can't steal a kid…–MR. TRUMP TALKS TO A PERSON IN THE CROWD WHO MAY HAVE HELD IT FOR A WHILE–…he came here…I'll have to sign it for him later…–CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. But…I was supposed to get…and everybody, all the pundits were saying, ‘right, yeah, Trump gets it. Trump’s…’, not that they were thrilled, but, ‘Trump gets it’. And I said, ‘I won't get it’, because I know how life works. They're not gonna give it to me! And they gave it to Merkel. Take a look at what's happening in Germany! Angela Merkel…she's…you know, the head of Germany. They're pouring in; the crime; the problems; I think it's…horrible, what they've done!
 
And by the way, I have a bigger heart than everybody. I wanna take…a chunk of…a big, fat, beautiful chunk…of Syria…and I wanna build a safe zone. And let these people…cause we gotta help them! And we’ve gotta have…–CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY–…and we've gotta have…the Gulf states, who have contributed nothing, in all fairness, nothing! These are…immensely wealthy countries. They're not taking any; they've given very little money…they have to put up money! Folks, you gotta put up the money! And we protect them! You know? We protect them. You gotta put up the money. And we have to…do that! Because on a human basis, we have to do something!
 
But the one thing I don't want…I don't want them coming over here. We have enough problems over here! We have people…–CROWD APPLAUDS–…and you know, they started off with ten…and then they go to 25…and by the way, in the Democrat debate, I think they mentioned 56, or 66 thousand people! They were…they weren't talking about ten thousand. This is…you think it's gonna stop at ten!? It'll never stop, okay? It'll never stop! And then one day we may have a small army in here, or a big army in here! We’ll have a big army! It's genius! I mean, it's like genius! It's one of the greatest military strategies I've ever heard of! It truly is! It's gonna make the old Trojan horse like that's peanuts compared to what they did to our country!
 
We have to be vigilant! We have to be smart! We have to be sharp! We have enough problems. We have to rebuild our infrastructure; we have to rebuild our schools, our highways, our airports…we're like a third-world country. We can't be doing these games! You've got people…they don't wanna move to Minnesota, and be ten degrees below zero. They…they wanna stay in their country! We're shipping these people all over the United States, and local governments, in all fairness, they're powerless to do anything. It's gonna end! And…everybody that we ship over…if I win, is going back, I'm sorry….–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, they’re going back! They're going back. No, they're going back. And it sounds terrible to say, and I hate to say it, but they're going back! We don't know where they came from!
 
There is nobody…going to tell me…they don't have papers; they don't have documents; they don't have anything! And I watch the experts, and I talked to the experts, and they come up to my office, and I ask them! Top police people. They say there's…absolutely…no way…to tell…where…these…people…came from. They don't have any documents, they have no documentation whatsoever.

And then Obama…if you're from Syria…he takes Christians! You know how many he takes? None! We don't take Christians, right? We take…only the Muslims, and you know what? Hey, that's the way it is…okay? But we don't take Christians…Now the Christians, they're all in trouble over there. It's a…it's a hellhole. But…the Christians are having their heads cut off. They’re having heads. We don't take the Christians. And if you're Christian, it's almost impossible to get into this country. But if you're Muslim you can come in! And I have a great relationship with Muslims. I mean, I have many friends! I have friends that call me…at a very high level, and they said, ‘thank you Donald for what you've done. Because you're right, there is a problem, and we have to solve that problem’. These are Muslims calling me! Some aren't so thrilled about it, I'll be honest with you! But these are Muslims that call me! At a very high level! And they said, ‘thank you. Because you're bringing…a problem…to the fore. You're talking about something that has to be talked about. We do indeed…have to do something’.
 
People knew…that these two horrible people…she came in on a fiancé permit. Who ever even heard of that!? Fiancé permit! A…some kind of an engagement permit. What the hell is that all about!? –CROWD MUTTERS. And she was already radicalized, and whether she radicalized him, or whether they were already radicalized…but they knew…! …what was going on! The neighbors knew! They had stuff all over their apartment! They had bombs all over the floor! Nobody knew!? So why didn't they call the police!? Why didn't they call our great police!? …which I love, we're gonna take care of our police, by the way…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…but why…? These people knew there was something wrong!
 
So I started off talking about trade, and Obamacare, and all that stuff…believe me, I could do that stuff so easy. Just trust me, I can do it so easy…you're gonna be so happy. At the end of a couple of years you're gonna say, ‘Wow! What a difference!’. It's gonna be so good. Just…rely.
 
But…it really ended up…and then…I just see this…that…the new CNN poll…ISIS… ‘who's number one…with handling ISIS?’. ‘Trump’, 46 percent…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, think of it! Because they know I don't mess around, they know these politicians are all talk no action. It's just…all…bullshit, okay? All bullshit! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
 
So…ISIS, ‘Trump’ gets 46 percent! The rest of these people are down, in like the low numbers! It's like, when you have 46 percent…and you have like 15 more left! …how much is left for anybody else!? So ISIS, I win. Illegal immigration, ‘Trump’, almost…50 percent…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…think of it!

Now, in the budget I get 51 percent, but we sort of expect that. I'm good at that stuff. And the economy…I get fifty-five percent, I blow everyone away. Okay. But we know that. But what's happened…is…people…want…security. They want…safety. And they know I don't play games…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna have safety! ‘Make our country great again, and safe again’. People don't feel safe! I'll tell you what: you walk into your big cities now, especially…they don't feel safe anymore. They don't feel safe. And they know we have people…that shouldn't be in those positions. And they know we have…leaders that…they don't have it. They don't have it.
 
So when I win this…I…I'm…I’m so honored…when I see numbers like that! I'm just honored! And I will tell you: I will do a great job with safety! I'll do a much better job than anybody can do! I'll do a much better job! We're gonna look for General Patton. We're gonna look for General Douglas MacArthur! We have great people! We have great people!
 
You know, we've gotten rid…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…we've gotten rid…of a lot of our great generals! Because they were too tough, too crude. They…spoke…badly! They were really…I mean, one in particular. He's supposed to be phenomenal; he's supposed to be at…but he uses foul language, okay? You know what…what happened to General George Patton? If we had him today? He wouldn't make the rank of Corporal! –CROWD LAUGHS. Okay!?
 
So we're gonna find the General George Patton! We got them! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. You look at West Point; you look at the Air Force Academy; you look at the Naval Academy; we have…unbelievable people! We've got to find the right…and I've always been good at finding people. I've always been good.
 
When I see these guys go on television, our generals, they go on television. What the hell are they doing on television!? I don't want my General…George Patton isn't going on television to say, ‘well, you know, we're gonna attack them from the front! And then we're gonna attack them from the back! And then we're gonna do this and that…!’. And then it turns out to be true!
 
And Obama announces… ‘we’re leaving Iraq…on at a certain date!’…–CROWD LAUGHS. I said, ‘I didn't hear that…did I!?’…‘we're leaving Iraq’. How about that beauty? Now, look: I said we should never be in Iraq. And I always said it. And I'm the most militaristic person. I wanna make our military so strong; so powerful; so big; so incredible…but we'll never have to use it! I don't wanna use it! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But if we do…people are gonna know…it's gonna go over quickly. It's gonna be a very, very…tough time that they're gonna have.
 
We had General Odierno…the other day…he was on…he retired, he's on another show…and he shouldn't say this, honestly, he's retired…but he said, ‘our army…’, I believe he said ‘army’… ‘is…the least prepared…that it's been…in our history!’. Now, he may have said since the Second World War, but I think he said…I only…wanna refine it for these guys…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS, MEANING THE PRESS. THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY–…because I don't want them to say, ‘well! He…misspoke!’.
 
It was the most unbelievable…he said, ‘the least prevent…’…I think from…inception, but…you know, let's take it to the Second World War. Is that okay? The bottom line…we're not prepared! And we should be more prepared now than ever before. Because…people like Hillary Clinton have done such a bad job! I mean, the entire world…blew up…during her term. Obama…? The entire world…has blown up. You look at this mess!
 
But here's a guy…–THAT–…says, ‘we're leaving…in 18 months’, and he gives a date! So here's the enemy…you know, believe me, they don't wanna die so much. You know, you hear so much they wanna die, with the virgins, and the…this, and the that…believe me! If they can live, they'll live. Okay? And they are very protective of their families, remember I said that, okay? Very protective. It's very important, because the families know what they're doing! Do you think their family doesn't know what they're doing!? Their families know!
 
But here's the thing: we have a situation…where…when something happens…we have to react! We have to be unpredictable. When…Obama said, ‘we're leaving on a certain date…’, I immediately said, ‘Watch! The enemy is gonna go away…’. And they’ll come back, 18 months later’. And that's what happens!
 
And also…because of the way we did things; and because of the fact that these…so-called leaders, who were corrupt as hell, in Iraq…shut out a certain segment of the people that was supposed to be a part of the peace…if you call it a ‘peace’, a ‘some peace’…that's where ISIS came from, folks. That's where ISIS came from.
 
It’s all…stupidity. It's all leadership. Don't forget, I wrote a book in 2000, before the World Trade Center came down…–CROWD CHEERS–…I mentioned…right? Surviving…well, I did a number of long before that. But…but just…I mentioned…I mentioned, very specifically, who? Osama bin Laden! I talked about Osama bin Laden. Because I saw this guy…on television. I saw him in the papers! And he was a very threatening guy! And I talked about Osama bin Laden! And one of the anchors, Joe Scarborough, a good guy…he said, ‘wait a minute! “Trump” wrote about this guy before the World Trade Center came down! He was talking about Osama bin Laden!’. We need that thinking! We have to have the right thinking!
 
And I said, ‘don't go into Iraq’…I didn't really believe the weapons of mass destruction, but I said, ‘you know what? For years…you had Iran and Iraq going like this: 10 feet, 10 feet, 10 feet…–MR. TRUMP REPRESENTS A TO AND FRO MOVEMENT WITH HIS FISTS–…then they rest. Then another decade 10 feet. This is forever! They fought, they fight, that's what they do! I said, ‘if you obliterate one of the two…in this case Iraq, what you're going to do…is you're going to let…Iran…take over the entire Middle East!’.
 
Now, who would have thought that we were gonna help them by giving them a hundred and fifty billion dollars and all of that and the worst deal ever made!? Okay? Who would have thought…that anybody could be so stupid to make that deal? Who would have thought…that Kerry…–MR. JOHN KERRY, SECRETARY OF STATE–…and Obama, did not read The Art of the Deal? No, no! Seriously! Who would have thought it!? We don't get anything! We don't get our prisoners back!
 
Now, think of this: they just said last week, ‘we are now gonna start negotiations for the prisoners’. What about last…!? Why didn't they do this!? You don't do this later! But they want a lot! They said, ‘we want a lot!’. Can you believe this!? All we had to do is, go in first thing, ‘we want our prisoners back’. They will say, ‘no’. No, no, they'll say ‘no’. And then we'll say, ‘that's okay. Bye-bye…!’. And you leave the room…you go back home, you double up the sanctions, within 48 hours, they call you and they say, ‘we'll give you your prisoners’. That's the end of it! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So simple! It's so simple!
 
But can you believe…? Can you believe…that we go out, and we make a deal…and we give them everything! We got nothing! They’re gonna have nuclear. They don't even need to…develop nuclear anymore. They can buy it! With a hundred and fifty billion dollars you don't need it! You can buy the nuclear! Better than they'll ever make! Believe me! They'll buy it! A hundred…and fifty…billion dollars to a terrorist state! And a state that hates us! And they're saying, during the negotiations…that our people are stupid, that our negotiators are stupid, that we're making a great deal…
If I'm making a deal…and I see a guy go out…and they’re having lunch…and he's saying, ‘Trump is stupid! What a stupid deal he…!’. I don't care what the hell the deal is…I'm not making it! They were so insulting!
 
They're marching…in the streets…of…the…the…all over! All over! And they're marching in the streets of Iran! They're marching all over! And you know what they're saying? They're saying, ‘we love this deal!’. And they're celebrating before the deal is even over!
 
Their negotiator…who happens to be very good, I watched him on television, being interviewed by Charlie Rose. And I said, ‘there's no way John Kerry can handle this guy’. Slippery guy, very good negotiator. You know, he does a good job for his side.
 
We…have…to change…course…with our…country. And we're going to change course! And I'll tell you…the most important thing…we're going to change…–CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY–…the most…important thing I can tell you is this: it starts on February 1st…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
There are so many people back here…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS–…that say that, ‘you know, “Trump” …gets the biggest rallies by far. But…we don't know if those people are gonna go caucus. We don't know where they're going to be! We think they're gonna sit home! And we this, and we that…’. And they all say…well…I…I…agree, that if they actually went out, ‘Trump’ would win easily Iowa. I hope that doesn't happen. I really hope that doesn't happen. Because I will tell you…you will be so proud of me! …you will be so proud of yourselves! …and you will be so…proud…of our country! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We…will…make…our…country…great…again! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…February 1st, get out and…vote! February 1st. Get out and vote. Thank you. Thank you everybody!
 
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