VIDEO Nº: 122
TITLE:122.Speech Donald Trump - Spartanburg SC - February 20 2016
DATE OF EVENT:27/10/2017
RELEASE DATE:20/02/2016
DURATION:00.16.58 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:2121
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Thank you!
THE CROWD CHANTS ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY.
Thank you very much, everybody.
Well, I wanna begin…by thanking…the people…of South Carolina. This is a…special…state…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. Thank you!
These are special people. And…you know, we got a little boost last week, from a place we all remember…New Hampshire. We can't forget it. Special, special…-THE CROWD CHEERS. We love it. And they sent us in here with a very good feeling, right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [A] Very good feeling. So I really wanna thank you and my volunteers. All of these people, volunteers. And they travel and they go…; and I say, “what are you doing?”. And now they're going to Texas…! And they're going all over! Some are going to Nevada…!
I'll be going to Nevada. We're making a big speech tomorrow in Atlanta. And then we're going right to Nevada. And…I think we’re gonna do terrific there, and…the SEC's gonna be very, very exciting. We expect to do very, very well. Very well…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I wanna…uh…just say thank you to my family. Uh…It's been uh…not easy for them. They don't see me anymore! I'm making speeches all the time! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And…uh…I have a great family. I really have a great family. So I just want to thank all of you…-MR. TRUMP REFERS TO HIS FAMILY WHO SURROUNDS HIM ON STAGE. THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And…Ivanka, you know, we have a hospital ready just in case, In South Carolina. We're gonna have a baby. There's nothing wrong with that, right? So…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…could be any…it could be any second. It could even be before I'm finished. I mean, but it's…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…but, you know, she insisted on being here. It was so important to Ivanka, to insist on being here. So, thank you, honey…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Really good. And Jared. Vanessa, Don…;
Uh…we have a…a wonderful…lieutenant governor, who backed us very early in the process…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know Henry, right? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. The lieutenant governor…of South Carolina, I will take him over the governor anytime, because we won. We won…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
He can handle that very nicely. He's tough…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. He's very tough.
Tiffany, Eric, Lara and…Melania! “Melania, say something. Go ahead, please”…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
MRS. MELANIA TRUMP INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.03.18:
And representing some very, very wonderful children: Ivanka. “Just say a few words”…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
MS. IVANKA TRUMP INTERVENES.
MR. TRUMP RE-TAKES THE FLOOR AT 00.04.03:
Thank you very much. Thank you very much.
So…you know, I was watching upstairs. And…it was…really amazing to be watching what I was watching. And…some of the pundits, and not…you know, overall fair, but not…too much. But a number of the pundits said, “well, if a couple of the other candidates dropped out…; if you add their score together, it’s going to equal Trump!”…-THE CROWD BOOS. Right? These geniuses…! They're geniuses.
They don't understand that as people drop out, I'm gonna get a lot of those votes also! You don't just…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…you don't just add them together!
So…I think we're gonna do very, very well. I think we're gonna do very well. I wanna also congratulate the other candidates. And, in particular I have to say, Ted and Marco did a really good job. And they got…uh…they did quite well as I understand. And…-THE CROWD BOOS. Nah…no! Come on, just a…just one minute. Come on. One second, right? Good.Okay…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
We go back to war tomorrow morning. Tomorrow morning we'll be back. But I just wanna congratulate the other candidates. There's nothing easy about running for president, I can tell you. It's tough, it's nasty, it's mean, it's vicious…; it's beautiful…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. When you win, it's beautiful. And we're gonna start…we are going to start winning for our country…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna start winning…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Because…our country doesn't win anymore. [It] Doesn't win.
We don't win with the military. We can't beat ISIS. We have [a] great military, but…we can't beat ISIS. We don't win on trade. You look at what China's doing to us…; what Japan does to us…; what Mexico…is just killing us at the border. At the border and with trade. Mexico is killing us…absolutely…-A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘BUILD THE WALL!’. We'll do the wall. Don't worry. We're gonna do the wall…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're gonna do the wall…and, by the way, who's gonna pay for the wall!? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘MEXICO!’. Mexico's gonna pay for the wall. And it's very easy. The other politicians come down, “you can't get Mexico to pay for the wall!”.
I said, “100 percent”. We have a 58…billion dollar trade deficit with Mexico. The wall is gonna cost ten to 12 billion dollars, okay? Believe me, they will pay.
One of the…officials, actually, one of the ex-officials from Mexico, had a news conference. And he announced that, “we will not be paying for the wall. Who does Mr. Trump think he is?”.
They came to me, the press! These people…-MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE BACK, WHERE THE CAMERAS ARE. Look at all those cameras back there…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND THEN BOOS. The press came to me, and they told me that he said that he would not pay for the wall. “Do you have a comment?”.
I said, “yes. The wall just got 10 feet taller”…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. It’s true!
[PA1] And I love Mexico! I love Mexico! I love China! I love many of these countries that rip us off because we have leaders that are incompetent and don't know what they're doing! I love these countries. They're great! I have thousands and thousands of Hispanics.
We're going to Nevada, I lead…! …I lead with the Hispanics. I'm leading in every poll with the Hispanics. They love me, I love them. The problem is…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…the problem is…the problem is…that the leaders of these countries, whether it's Mexico, or Japan, or Vietnam, which is just doing a big number now, all of a sudden. Or China, in particular! That's the big one. The greatest abuse of a country that I think I've ever seen, financially…China. What they've done to us, is the greatest single theft in the history of the world. They've taken our jobs…; they've taken our money…; they've taken everything. We're bringing our jobs back, folks. We're bringing our jobs back. We're gonna bring them back…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I know how to do it.
We've had so many…we've had so many incredible endorsements. And to me, getting the greatest business people to endorse me is very important. Carl Icahn endorsed me. So many others have endorsed me. And we're gonna put these great business people…in charge of trade. And when China wants to come and negotiate, they're gonna negotiate not with a political hack, which is what they have now. They're gonna negotiate with the best business minds in the world. And we have them in this country…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, we're gonna do a lot of beautiful work. We're gonna terminate Obamacare. It's going to be terminated. It's gonna be over…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's going to be repealed. And it's going to be replaced. And you're gonna have much better health care at a much smaller cost. Because…Obamacare…if you look…-A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE-…look at the increases in your Obamacare. 25, 35, 45, even 55 percent. It's dead. It's not working. We're gonna go to a plan that's going to be so much better and so much less expensive…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, Second Amendment, by the way…this is a room… [that] loves the Second Amendment…-THE CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. Thank you, fellas. This is a room…[that] loves and cherishes the Second Amendment. We are going to protect our Second Amendment…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Totally!
Common core is gone. We are getting rid of Common Core. We're brining education to a local level. The people in this…community…every time I see them, they want education locally! The parents, the teachers…they wanna do it. They don't want bureaucrats in Washington, telling them how to educate their children! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We spend, as a nation, more for education per pupil, than any other nation in the world. Not even close! More per pupil…; [the] second place doesn't even exist. It's so different. And yet, out of 30 countries, we're ranked number 30. You have China…; you have Norway, Swenden, Denmark…; and…then you have number 30, the United States. So we spend the most, and we're at the bottom of the heap. It's not gonna happen anymore, folks. It's not gonna happen anymore…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We are going to build our military, which I thank, because a number of the people came down and a number of the pundits are watching tonight. We love our military! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We love our military. And by the way, we love our police. Our police are terrific-…THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We love our police. They are not being treated properly.
We're going to build our military so big, so good, so strong, so powerful, that nobody is ever gonna mess with us, folks…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we're going to buy…we're going to buy the equipment that our generals, our soldiers, that everybody that's in the know want. We're not buying equipment that…sells because they have political…people. Because they take campaign, and they give campaign contributions. We are going to get the equipment that they want. Not the equipment that they're told to have by senators and congressmen in Washington. We're gonna have great…equipment…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And the reason I can say that is I'm self-funding my campaign. I'm not getting millions of dollars…from all of these…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'm not getting millions of dollars…from all of these special interests, and lobbyists, and donors…that once they get it, they literally do whatever the politicians want. That's not gonna happen! And we're going to take care of our vets! We love our vets, and they're being treated terribly. We're taking care of our vets….-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, we're now off to Nevada. And…it's a great state. We have great people. We have great people in our nation. No matter where we go. I went to Mobile, Alabama: 35,000 people. We went to Oklahoma recently, twice. 20,000 people. 20,000 people. No matter where we go, we fill up the arenas. Over here the other day we had a nine thousand, we had a ten thousand. We have people…; the only thing that stops the crowds are the walls, cause we can't get them in. We have to send thousands of people away.
Time Magazine…Time Magazine…last week, did an incredible cover…cover story. They said, “it's a movement”. And that's what it is! It's an incredible movement, with incredible people. Incredible people…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS AND STARTS CHANTING ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY.
It’s an incredible movement…with incredible people. I’ll tell you. And whether we go… honestly, whether we go to Dallas, or whether we go…anywhere you say. You go to L.A…; you go anywhere you say, our people are incredible. And you know, our theme…what's our theme? You know it, right? Right? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! Our theme…which I love…maybe the greatest theme of all time, right? And the word ‘again’, eventually, is going to come off. We're gonna get rid of the whole theme! Because what's going to happen, ‘make America great again’, right? And, the last two weeks, because I've gotten to see so many…I guess…millions, when you add them all up, with all of these rooms, and all of these speeches, and…I've met so many people. But, the people are so incredible, that…I've been saying “make America great again”, and it's going to be greater than ever before. That's the kind of potential we have! Greater…then ever before!
So…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…so…I wanna thank everybody. I love you all. Again, South Carolina, we will never forget you. We will never forget you…-THE CROWD CHEERS. We will never, ever, forget South Carolina. We will never forget our great volunteers. We love our volunteers. We'll never forget…-THE CROWD CHEERS-…all of the people that have helped us so much. My family, and…folks, let's go, [and] let's have a big win in Nevada. Let's have a big win at SEC. Let's put this thing away! And let's make America great again! Thank you very much. Thank you very much…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
Thank you everybody!
