VIDEO Nº: 62
TITLE:62. FULL Donald Trump Rally Lowell, Massachusetts - 1/4/16 (FNN)
DATE OF EVENT:04/01/2016
RELEASE DATE:04/01/2016
DURATION:00.53.46 Mins
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:8733
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Wow! Wow! This is so beautiful. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Wow! Oh boy, oh boy, oh boy!
 
I wish those cameras would show the crowd, they don't do that. You know, we had people…standing it is seriously cold outside, do we agree? Seriously. And they were standing outside for hours! You’re tough up here! You're tough up here! Not a lot of people could do that! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we waited, like a little while, we had to get everybody and it’s pack. This is a record crowd, and it's just packed, …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…but we had to get them in. We had to get them in.
 
Folks, we have a…revolution going on. People are tired, and they’re sick of the stupidity that we’re seen coming out of Washington. They’re sick and tired of it…–CROWD CHEERS. Sick and disgusted! And I'm disgusted, I've never seen anything like it in my life. And by the way, be careful because we made Iran a real power, we gave a hundred…and…fifty…billion…dollars…–CROWD BOOS. No, think of it. Think of it! And now they want more. So we gave them…think of this! If you’re really…look at it, what they've done. We gave them…–MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP LAUGHS AND STOPS TO GREET PEOPLE–…you see? I'm not allowed to say that. So…good, good job. Oh, that's beautiful! That's beautiful!
 
But we gave 150 billion dollars, we didn't get our prisoners back…at all. We didn't get anything! We got nothing! We'd go in and say, ‘we need this point’; they’d say ‘no’. And we’d say, ‘oh, let's go into the next one’. We didn't win anything. They self-inspect, how about that? And where they don't self-inspect, they have 24 days, to give you the area. And that 24 days could start in a long time…before the clock…starts…ticking. What's going on is crazy. And then I said to myself: ‘what a deal! What a deal!’. How we give them a hundred and fifty billion and everything else…everything else! And we don't even get our four great people back, that don't deserve to be there! One is there because he's a minister! He is a pastor…I mean, they don't deserve to be there folks. And now they wanna start a negotiation for the prisoners…can you believe it? So now we're gonna have to start, and they want a lot. They've informed us they want a lot. These are amateurs. This is rank amateur. It's something…! …I tell you what. Actually, it's hard to believe it.
 
So I used to say it was…incompetent. Then I said, …you know, I went to an Ivy League school, and it's interesting…cause the press says, ‘oh I'm plain-spoken…’, I’m plain spoken. I'm not…my uncle for many years was a professor at MIT. You know, we're all smart people, we are really smart. Nobody plain…we have…I believe…I have the smartest audience of anybody, nobody close…I really believe that….–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Nobody close. No, there's nobody close! And we understand what's going on.
 
But think of it. So…about two weeks ago I'd saying, ‘well, wait a minute, this is the greatest deal…I've ever seen’, the Iran deal. One of the great deals I've ever seen. One of the dumbest deals I've ever seen negotiated. Kerry has no idea what the hell he's doing. He comes from your parts…–CROWD BOOS. I blame you…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CROWD–…I blame you. He comes right from the area. I mean, I have to blame you. We’ll blame…hey, New Hampshire, let's blame Massachusetts for Kerry! –CROWD BOOS. So, no, I mean…the deal he made is…is…just incredible. But think of what they're getting. So they get the deal; they get all of the things that they're getting; they'll be a nuclear power quickly; they're rich as hell; now they're going to be fighting everybody; but what else did they get that we never talked about? They get Iraq! With the second largest…oil…reserves…in the world! And they've been after Iraq forever! Forever! That…they've been fighting.
 
You know, they were equal powers…and they go this way…–MR. TRUMP TAKES HIS HAND TO HIS LEFT–…that way…–MR. TRUMP TAKES HIS HAND TO HIS RIGHT–…this way, that way…they go home and rest for a couple years. Then they start fighting again. We decapitated Iraq, and I was always against…I'm the most militaristic person…in this room. Except for that guy! –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY SPECIFICALLY AND LAUGHS–…except for that guy. No, I see one guy…might…that guy might have it…–CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
I am the most…militaristic person in this room. And we're gonna make our military…just like I said, I never saw the piece…–APPARENTLY A MOVIE OR LONG CLIP–…that they just played. I wanna see if it's any good. Is it any good? I don't know. We've never done it. It’s first time…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…it’s the first time we've ever played. I said, ‘would it be…? You know I’d like to see it before you put it on!’. But I heard backstage, and it talks about…you know, the military. We're gonna make our military so big, so strong, so powerful that nobody is gonna mess with us…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Nobody! Nobody! And we're gonna take care of our Vets like they're supposed to be taken care of, by the way…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…because they're not being taken care of.
 
So…when you think about it, Iran…not only made a great deal! But…they also got…something that they've wanted forever. Forever. They've got…and…in the old days they didn't want it for the oil, they just wanted it. But now…they also want it for the oil. Remember…remember this…–THE CROWDS STARTS BOOING. APPARENTLY THERE’S A PROTESTER–…‘bye-bye! Bye-bye!’. CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY. MR. TRUMP CHANTS ALONG.
 
You know, it really is amazing, and we…you know, we…have to…to a certain extent, be a little bit ashamed of ourselves. Cause for the last eight years, we should have been doing the same thing. We should have been doing the exact same thing. Oh, there's a remnant. There's a remnant left over! Yeah, maybe get the remnant down…–CROWD BOOS. Yeah, get the remnant out. Thank you.
 
It is incredible, isn't it though folks? And…you know, it's actually…if you think about it, it's very rude. It really is very rude…–CROWD BOOS TO THE PROTESTER(S) –…but I remember when Bernie Sanders, when they took over his microphone, that's not happening with ‘Trump’ folks, that's not happening…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Remember that? Was that a pathetic scene? This is going to be our leader! I mean, I don't wanna have to help Hillary…–CROWD BOOS–…although, in a certain way, I'd rather run against Hillary, I don't know!
 
But…I have to say, that scene, when he lost control of his mic was pathetic. And this is what we have leading our country. No, not here. Not here. So…remember this. What they did, we should have been doing for many years. We should have been doing it. Why didn't we do it? It's ridiculous. But here's the story, if I spoke to those young people…now, they may…have a problem…–MR. TRUMP SCEFINIFIES DRINKING–… they may have that, they may have something else…–CROWD LAUGHS…cause why would they do it? What's…what's going on there? They don't even know what they're asking for. But I guarantee if we sit down with some of them, within a short period of time…what are we asking? We want our country to be great again. We want jobs to be brought back…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I mean…you know, that there's really nothing radical. We want good health care, Obamacare is a disaster, we're gonna repeal it and replace it. We want good health too…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Think of it. We want a strong military, we wanna be protected. Now, maybe they'll say, ‘Oh, well, we don't wanna be protected’, or maybe they'll say, ‘well, we don't want health care’. Maybe they'll say, ‘who cares about Social Security?’. We're gonna save Social Security folks. We're not gonna change the deal on you. We're not gonna change the deal. We're gonna save it. And…you know, when you think of it, all of the different things that we all want…you would think they'd want, and it's very simple! So…–SOME MEMBERS IN THE CROWDS INTERRUPT. THE CROWD BOOS–…is that a friend or foe? I don't know. I don't know. It doesn't matter. They're all friends. We’re all friends. You know, I tell people, sometimes I'll be rough. I'll say, ‘get him out of here!’…–CROWD CHEERS. It's true! And the press will go, ‘he was so mean!’. And then one time, two weeks later, I said…there was a rough person. I said, ‘you know what? It doesn't matter, treat him really, really nicely’, and I got criticized for being too nice! …–THE CROWD MUTTERS AGAIN–…‘what's going on back there?’…–MR. TRUMP TURNS AROUND TO LOOK. THE CROWD BOOS AND THE CAMERAS ZOOM OUT. THEN THE CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY.
 
Isn't this more fun than a regular, boring rally? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…isn’t this? Seriously. To me it's fun! And you know what? We have a lot more time than they have, because right now they're being sent out…into the cold…–CROWD LAUGHS. You know…and it is true, though, if you could talk to these people, we would…I mean, unless they have bad intentions, which is possible. Or unless they're doing…something they're not supposed to be doing. You would think that they'd wanna see a strong country, a great country, great health care…all of these things that we talked about…all of the time! Strong borders…and by the way, we will build a wall, we're gonna have a strong border…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…we’ll have a strong border…
 
And up in New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, you have a tremendous problem with drugs. You know where much of that's coming from. We're gonna stop it, and we're gonna work with the people that really have had the problem. And we're gonna try like hell to get them better…because they have to get better. But you know where that stuff is coming from…they're not gonna be sending it over so easy anymore folks. They're not gonna be sending it. Because you have a tremendous problem up here. Tremendous! –CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. You have the heroin problem up here. It's incredible. And it's funny! When I come to…different…locations…I go to different locations, they don't talk about it so much. I come up…to…New Hampshire, I come up to Mass…–MEANING MASSACHUSETTS–…no matter what the first question…, the second question is heroin. And what's going on, people don't even get it! I mean, they look at it, they don't get it. We're gonna put an end to it to a large extent! To a large extent! We're going to put an end to it, we're gonna work on it. It's a serious problem…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…we get these big crowds, we have the tremendous support, we have the poles that are going through the roof, I’ll have to read them to you in a little while, boy, I have to read them. You know, you'll know I'm number 2 if I ever stop reading polls, right? –CROWD CHEERS.
 
But look at what happened. People wonder why. And look at last week. You saw what they passed like…the budget. I didn't even know it went so fast! It went so quickly! And you look at it…they want to fund Obamacare, fund Planned Parenthood, fun global warming…–CROWD BOOS–…fund the Syrian refugee program, where they're going to pour into the country…–CROWD BOOS HEAVILY. They got everything! I'm saying where are the Republican? Where are the leadership!? There's no leadership! They got everything! And it was done…so quickly! It was done like…it seemed like it was done in 24 hours! It was done! Right? It was done…so…quickly! Those days are over. We're gonna do something in Washington, that maybe…has never been done before.
 
You know, they're saying what's happened, with us. And it's not me! I'm a messenger in a sense. It's all of us! It's a movement! I'm telling you. It's a movement. It's a movement. People…used to call it ‘the silent majority’. We're not silent anymore folks, we can't be ‘silent anymore’. We’re the ‘noisy majority’, we're not silent anymore. We're not going to take it anymore. We're not taking it. MORE PROTESTERS SEEM TO BURST IN. THE CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ TIMIDLY ONCE AGAIN. They remind me a little bit of Hillary…–CROWD LAUGHS. True! No energy, no stamina, no strength…–CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS. True.
 
So we have a…ways to go. We'll get to Hillary. You know, a poll came out today, where I beat Hillary, and I'll beat Hillary. Look: we haven't even focused on her yet. We haven't even talked about her much! I've been too busy focusing on these…we had 17…–CANDIDATES–…now we're down to 14, where a lot of people dropping out. This guy Jeb Bush, he does commercials! He's in favor of Common Core, think of it. He's in favor of Common Core…–CROWD BOOS–…he says they come over the…border…as an act of love. How about that one? ‘An act of love’. Tell that to the people that were killed, it was an act of love, all right’.
 
So…I look at what's happened, and I look at the people that I'm running against. Some I like, some I don't like so much. I'm not supposed to say that politically, it's not politically correct. But we gave up now folks…on political correctness, cause we don't have enough time. We don't have enough time…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We truly don't have enough time!
 
So…just to conclude, because we are very rudely interrupted, with Iran. Horrible deal. But what did they get…? What did they get? They got Iraq. And now what are they looking for? They're looking for Saudi Arabia, folks. You know, I've been very, very good at predicting things. I said, ‘take the oil’, for three years I've been saying…four years! ‘Take the oil, take the oil!’. They never took the oil. Now they wanna take the oil. But I said, ‘take it and keep it! And give some of it…in terms of the form of money and profit…to the veterans, and the families…that have lost people…’, which is peanuts! …compared to what we're talking about…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I said, ‘take the oil and keep it!’. Not just blow it up!
 
And honestly? These people don't understand. For instance, when I said, ‘build a wall’. And then I always say, ‘and who's gonna pay for the wall?’. Mexico! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, Mexico is gonna pay for the wall. And the people that are up in the stage will say, ‘they won't pay! Why would they pay for the wall!?’. You know why? Because they make a fortune with us every year! We give them a lot of money. Our trade imbalance, our trade deficit with Mexico is enormous…by comparison the wall is peanuts! We're gonna build…
 
Now, then they say, ‘you can't build a well’. I'm really good at building things. I'm the best at it. I'm the best…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. What I do is build. And I build under budget, and I build ahead of schedule, under schedule…I build good! And I'll tell you, we're gonna have a beautiful wall. It's gonna be real wall, it's gonna go nice and high. And it's gonna look good, because someday they'll name it the ‘Trump wall’ probably, you know…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But when I say to the politicians…that Mexico is gonna pay…and they even come back and see me, and…and you know, they’re friendly…they say, ‘Don, you're not gonna be able to get them to pay’. I say, ‘So easy! It's so easy!’. It's like I tell the story about Ford, right? Ford's building a two-and-a-half billion-dollar plant…in Mexico. What do we get out of it? We get nothing. They closed up factories in Michigan, and…other places. We get nothing out of it! They're building it…and I would tell them, ‘folks, you're gonna sell cars to us…you just let all those jobs go…’…–ANOTHER PROTESTER SEEMS TO INTERRUPT THE RALLY AS THE CROWD BOOS. Get them out, please! –THE CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY.
 
You know, the sad part…it's such a small group of people. We have thousands of people here! We set a record of the history of this building…and tomorrow the headlines will be, ‘protesters’…–CROWD LAUGHS. That's what it's gonna be. And they do it purposely. They wait for five minutes, and they do a protest. ‘Yeah, get them out!’.
 
See? In the old days you wouldn't have that, cause it would be pretty rough when they take them out. Nowadays, it is…we have to be politically correct, and take them nice and easy, ‘sir, would you please come with us? Sir, would you please…?’. In the old days this wouldn't happen! In the old days it wouldn't happen! And by the way, the police, they're over there, they do a great job…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. They are great. They’re great. They're getting pretty well beat up, these are great people. They're great people.
 
So…when Ford bills the plant in Mexico, THEY–…spends two and a half billion dollars, and one of these political people…assuming they were in that position, they will let them happen! Because…I'm self-funding my campaign, I'm putting up all my own money, nobody knows the game better than me…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Nobody knows the game better than me! And all these people, you see these funds, where they have…Jeb, a hundred and twenty-eight million! This guy spent fifty-nine million dollars…and he's at the bottom of the barrel! …–CROWD LAUGHS. No, it's amazing! And I'm guilty! You know? I feel so guilty! Cause I spent nothing, and I'm at the top. Wouldn't it be nice…?...–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And you know, one of the very good reporters asked me a question before, ‘why are you even spending money in this?’, cause I'm going to take like a couple of million dollars a week, and spend it…I said, ‘honestly, I feel guilty! I feel guilty!’…–CROWD LAUGHS. All these people are spending all this money…I feel a little guilty! I used to tell people, ‘I spent nothing! Jeb spent fifty-nine million! He's at the bottom of the barrel! I'm…long…and like I'm so far…!’. Wouldn't it be great if we could do that for our country!? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…where we spent less…really! Wouldn't it be great!? I mean…
 
Hillary…I wa…I looked at her office building, her office face of New York it's all beautifully built…out the money they spent! And the money these…enablers I call them, their enablers. The money they make, for raising…money…? …is incredible! One of the campaigns, according to the Los Angeles Times, had…six million dollars raised. And out of the six million…you know how much was left for the campaign? A hundred? No! A hundred and forty thousand dollars! –CROWD LAUGHS AND SHOWS SURPRISE. I wanna go into that business. I think I'm not gonna run, I'm gonna go into that business, ‘Bye!’…–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
I would have…if I wanted to take money…the money that…you know, when you hit number one, the money that's being offered…people…they call me! ‘Don, I’d love to give you money’, whatever the hell…whatever I wanted! I would have the greatest fund ever put together. I'm saying, ‘no!’. I feel guilty. You know, my whole life has been about…taking money! Making money! Let's make more money! More money…! It’s been my life! And now I'm going into culture shock, I don't want money! I don't want it! I'm turning down all this money! –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
And then…when I was in Iowa, I said to a group, ‘look: I'm being off a lot of money. Can I please let it come in? And I promise it won't influence me’. And they all stood up and they said, ‘No! No!’, they were screaming up, and I understand what they mean. Because you're gonna be influenced.
 
So…with Ford. If…let's say Hillary is president! Ay! Uhg! …– CROWD BOOS. Four more years of Obama, that's what you call it. So let's say Hillary. So they'll say…so they'll say…you know, it's really one of those things, but it's a very bad thing for the country, but she'll say, ‘yes, you're right. We're gonna not let it happen!’. So what happens is…the lobbyists...and the special interest will see…the President. And say, ‘they contributed five million dollars to you! You can't do this!’. Somebody! And they'll hire the different groups! I do that! I mean, I have so many people! These lobbyists…I know them…they're coming out of my ears, okay!? I know the lobbyists. I know the special interest. Believe me, they're very smart, they're very strong. So they'll say, ‘we can't let this happen!’. And she'll say, ‘you're right’.
 
When the lobbyists talk to her…when the special interest and the donors speak to her, they're gonna let it happen. And that's the end of it. With me!? Here’s the story… ‘President Trump’, okay? Let's hope. Let’s hope…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…‘President Trump’.
 
So…‘President Trump’ is there, and Ford has moved this big plant, and they wanna build in…Mexico. And I’m gonna say, ‘fellas…not gonna happen. You're losing jobs…we're not gonna do it’. And here's the story: what you do…is…immediately change it. I will be hit by more people…people I know, but NO…but he gave me anything, cuz I'm not taking their money. And I'll say, ‘no, no, no’. And then finally I'll say, ‘here's the story…’, and I'll tell the top people. ‘You are going to do the following. You're gonna build a plant in Mexico, and every car, and truck, and part…that you sell…it comes right through the border, and you know what? You're gonna pay thirty-five percent tax on those cars, and those parts, and those trucks’…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Cause it doesn't help us! It doesn't help!
 
And I'll tell you what's gonna happen! I guarantee this. This is too easy. I have the greatest businessmen in the world. Carl Icahn…ehm…just…endorsed me, all of the business men, they all love ‘Trump’. I'm gonna use these brilliant guys. I don't wanna pay them anything! I'm guessing they…I'm not gonna pay, they'll do it! But here's what's gonna happen: within 24 hours to maybe…maybe…! …if they wanna play hardball, 48 hours. Okay? They're gonna say, ‘no, no, no. We're not gonna do it’. That's all right. Don't worry about it. That’s…you know, ‘enjoy your plant in Mexico, have a good time’. They will call up and say, ‘Mr.…president, please…it's not right’. I’d say, ‘no! We want you to build in the United States!’. They will call back, and they will say, ‘Mr. President, we've decided to build in the United States’. That's what's gonna happen! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That's what's going to happen! That…is what…is going to happen! And they'll build in the United States!
 
Nabisco is moving one of their big plans from Chicago into Mexico. We're losing our jobs to China! To Vietnam! You look at what's going on with Japan! Japan is killing us! They're selling millions of cars to us! We sell them…like…practically nothing, by comparison. We…need…our best! You know, we have the greatest businessmen, and women, in the world! We don't use them! We use political hacks to negotiate deals…–CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. We have…a trade…deficit, with China, five…hundred…and…five…billion…! Not million! Billion…! …dollars a year! What kind of a partner is that!?
 
And then I see Obama…giving, in his tent…I offered to build a ballroom. Remember I said, ‘I'll build a ballroom at the White House: We’ll get five great architects. You'll pick the one you want. A hundred million bucks at least’…I offered to do it. They didn't even return my phone call! They used a tent! –CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Okay. So they have a tent, big tent, on the White House, on the lawn. And the president of China…is coming in, and they whine him and dine him! I said, ‘he's taking advantage of us!’. He really…he really…is taking advantage! You don't do that…when people take advantage.
 
So…here's what happened. I would talk about June sixteenth, I announced. Everybody said, ‘forget it’, you know, polls came out…nobody believed I was gonna run. And then I said, ‘I gotta do it! There's too many stupid things happening!’. It was driving me…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…right!? No, I didn't wanna do it! I didn't wanna do it! Honestly! I did…I have this great company, I have a great family, I have a great, I didn't wanna do it! I just…couldn't… take it anymore! I'm looking at these things that are happening…! I look at the Iran deal; I look at all of these things that are happening! And I say, ‘how can we continue to go on!?’. We owe 19 trillion. They just made this stupid budget deal that's gonna increase it by…by trillions! By trillions! And it went so fast…and everything that you don't want, is in that budget. And I say, ‘where was Paul Ryan!?’ ‘Where are all these people that is supposed to be representing our interests!?’ ‘Where were they?’. ‘Where are they where!?’. ‘Where are they!?’. Nobody's representing our interests!
 
So here's what happened. So I announced…and everyone said, you know, all the pundits, most of them are morons…–CROWD LAUGHS. But all of these pundits…this George Will! Other than…you take away the glasses off, those little spectacles, you will say he's a dumb person, okay? –CROWD LAUGHS. I'm telling it. He's a dumb guy! You know, ‘big, strong!’, he wants to go with the Iraq, and he wants to fight, and all…you…he's…great job George. You're really…great job.
 
But all these guys, Karl Rove, he spends hundreds of millions of dollars on campaigns. He doesn't want anything! In fact, the commercials that were done for the Republicans, were so bad…I thought they were done for the Democrats! I wanted to hire the guy that did it, then I found out it was reversed! We have people that aren't good. We are people representing us that are not good. They're not doing us…any…service.
 
So I said, ‘I'm gonna run’. And it takes guts, believe me. I…I really…–MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP RESPONDS–… ‘thank you man! Thank you!’…–CROWD APPLAUDS. No, it takes guts! And I tell the story. At…the famous escalator in Trump Tower. I said to my wife, ‘I never saw that many cameras’. See all those cameras back there now? –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS. All live. Every speech I make has to be live. I mean, nobody else has…you know, the other guys, they speak and they give the same speech, over, and over, and over…they read it, they have teleprompters for 200 people. They have a teleprompter. I don't use teleprompters…–CROWD CHEERS–..do you know what I use? I don't use teleprompters! I don’t use teleprompters! We have a president that uses teleprompters. Believe me, I don't use teleprompters. You know, you need…it's a different thing. When you get up before large…crowds, thousands and thousands. like this is a record for the building. When you get up into these large crowds…and you speak, and you speak from the heart, you speak from the heart…believe me, believe me, it's a lot different.
 
I tell the story a friend of mine, who's a very, very successful guy. Very, very successful. And I was speaking in Dallas. And I have 21,000 people in the Arena, the Mavericks Arena, packed. And it was great. And he couldn't believe it. He said, ‘could I see a copy of your speech?’.
I said, ‘what speech? I don't do copies’. I said, ‘I speak’. There is such love in the room…! …and I told him that. He didn't understand it, cause he's not a guy used to do this. I say there is such love in these rooms. Here; Dallas; no matter where I go; Here we're in Massachusetts; we go to New Hampshire; we go to Iowa; we go to South Carolina; we go to Nevada; no matter where I go, we go into Florida, where it's been…incredible! I go to Texas…! It's all the same! It's love! It's love! They want…they love our country! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They love our country! You know, the theme is ‘Make America Great Again’. They really want! They wanna make America great again. That's what's gonna happen! We're gonna make America great again! We're gonna use our best people! We're gonna use these people that I talk about. We're gonna make this country…maybe better than ever before. And that we can do it! We can do it! Because the people are so amazing! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So when I told my friend I said, ‘no, I go up without notes, without anything. I don't read the speech. I don't do the teleprompter’, thing which would be so easy. Wouldn't that be easy? I have to teleprompters. I watched Hillary the other day! She has the biggest teleprompters I've ever seen. In fact, if you're sitting on that side of the room, or that side of the room, you can't even see her, because when they're outside, they're painted black! So you can't even see her! But she's got the biggest teleprompters. We don't need four more years of Obama, and that's what you're getting with Hillary! That’s what you’re getting! –CROW BOOS. No, that’s what you’re getting! And I believe it might be even worse, if you wanna know the truth. It…might…be…worse, okay? And we don't need that.
 
But I speak…from the heart. And I said to my wife. ‘boy, I'd rather not do it!’. And I looked down, and in the atrium of Trump Tower…I haven't…it looked like the Academy Awards. It really did. I've never seen so many cameras in my life. We have a lot! Look at all the cameras here tonight! –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THEM. And all live television. You're all on live. Wave! ‘hi, folks!’. And…and…I wish…you know, I always do this. I always do it, but I wish they'd turn the cameras and show the audience. But they tend not to do that. They tend not to do it…–CROWD BOOS. They tend not to do it. They don’t like to do that. We won't do it too much, you know?
 
But…but…I said, …–THE CROWD STARTS CHEERING FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON–… ‘oh, wow! They're doing it! Whoa! Whoa! That is so amazing! They did it! They turned the cameras! Wow! That is so amazing!
 
So I said to my wife, ‘we really have to’. And I'm at the top of the escalator. And believe me! It takes guts! Oh, I love that man! …–MR. TRUMP FIXES HIS EYES ON SOMEONE IN THE CROWD OFF CAMERA–… ‘look at that, stand up. It says “Trump and Tom Brady”, look, together!’. I love Tom Brady! I love him! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Tom we gotta get Tom better! We gotta get Tom better! Remember this: Tom Brady injured is still better than anybody else, okay? So remember. Remember…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…that is the coolest shit! I gotta get one of those shirts!  Look at that guy! ‘Turn around! Show that to those cameras!’. They won't put it on, but show them. That is beautiful! I love that that! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. That is beautiful! Well Tom has been very nice to me, and Tom's my friend. And he's been saying great things about me, you know that, and…I'll tell you what: he's a champion, he's a winner, and that's what we need in this country. We need people like that. We need them.
 
So…I said to my wife, WE– gotta do it. Gotta do it’. And we went down the famous escalator, right? Boom! And she was waving, and I was waving, and I said, ‘man!’. And then I brought up a thing called… ‘illegal immigration’. And nobody…–CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY–…I'm telling you…and did I…did I take heat!? Did I take heat!? Rush Limbaugh, who's a great guy, said, ‘nobody has ever taken more incoming than Trump’. And I stuck with it, and I believed. And then you had the problem…I mean, so many problems.
 
But you had Kate, beautiful Kate, in San Francisco. Killed by an illegal immigrant. And you had so many others. We had so many others. And then they started seeing the crimes. Jameel, in Los Angeles, young guy; shot in the face for no reason whatsoever. HE–…was going to go to one of the great colleges…on a scholarship. And horrible. You had the woman, veteran. Wonderful woman. 66-year-old veteran, and retired, proud…raped, sodomized, and killed, in Los Angeles, in California. And so many others. And people started saying, ‘well, Trump is right’. And I'm not even talking about the economic impact, and the other impact.
 
And I want people coming into our country! But they have to come in legally! They have to come and legally! We can't have this! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So…so I said to my wife…I took a deep breath, that's what it is, cause it takes guts! I took a deep breath, I said, ‘let's go! Come on!’. And we went down into that area, with the cameras, and I spoke. And I spoke again from the heart. And it was an amazing…day. And what's happened since then has been incredible! People have said there's never been anything like it! And it is a movement! The reason this…arena…has never been used, cause nobody could fill it up. Nobody could even…I mean, these other candidates, they come up, they’ve 59 people! It's true! We get 10,000 people  If they get…if they have…literally, if they have 59 people…if they have a hundred and three people…we had a case where we had 4,500 people…in New Hampshire. And…fairly close, down the way, was Jeb Bush, where he had 104…–CROWD LAUGHS. No, it’s true! But they had the advantage, cause they all fell asleep…–CROWD LAUGHS–…they got a good night's sleep. My people don’t. My people don’t sleep.
 
So we went out. And I did it. And we started telling…the country what's going on! And a lot of people…you know, the George Wills, and…and…these characters said, ‘so, well, he won't run. He's just having a good time’. It's not having a good time! As much as I love you people, I could be doing other things right now! I must tell you…–CROWD LAUGHS. I could be doing other things.
 
But…I said, ‘we have to do something’. We have to do something. We have something that's so great, we can't lose it! We're gonna lose it! The way we're going right now…think of it! We have a military that doesn't perform. We have generals that go on television all the time and talk. We have a president that when he sends 50 people over, he has a news conference to announce…that 50 people are going over to Iraq…–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So now the enemy is looking for those 50 people. Why can't he keep his mouth shut!? –CROWD LAUGHS. Why can't he just let them go!? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Right!? Why can't he let them go!? You know, you get these generals…you see them, they're always on television, they're talking! Who’d ever…!? You know…! I…do you think General…the great General Patton would have been talking on television!? He does! He shoots! He does! General Douglas MacArthur…they don't talk! These were generals! These were…and we have talent! We have real talent in our military! I know the West Point guys. I know the Air Force guys. I know the Naval guys the Annapolis guys. These are tremendous guys! We have that…in those ranks! But you know, today we won’t allow that. We let one of our best generals go. Tough, and…rough, and his people love him But a used foul language! Okay!? You think General Patton might have used the little foul language? –CROWD LAUGHS. –…as he…as he was destroying the enemy?
 
And I see one of these generals, I won't mention names, cause he looks like he's a nice guy. Who cares, right!? But they're asking about ISIS and he said, ‘oh, it's very tough. It's very tough! It's probably 30,000, maybe 60,000 max, but probably 30, 40 thousand people. And they're really…I mean, they're bad! They're bad! They chop off heads!
 
When…Hillary said, ‘I don't like the tone of Mr. Trump’. The ‘tone!’. They're chopping off people's heads…in the Middle East! –CROWD LAUGHS. The ‘tone’! She's worried about ‘tone!’. I'm a much nicer person than she is! But we have to be tough! And we have to be vigilant! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So I said to my wife, ‘look, let's do it’. We go down, we did…a great thing. And that's when the whole thing…with the illegal immigration came up, and it…was…you know, originally everybody was going crazy, and then…now they all, they can’t…I mean, now they're trying to…I heard one of the candidates…and I won't say who, cause he happens to be a very nice guy. But…he was being interviewed, this week! First time I heard it! And he was talking. And they're talking about…and…those people over there nodding…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOME PEOPLE IN THE CROWD–…they know exactly what I'm gonna say. He was talking about what we're gonna do: ‘we're gonna build a wall’. He says, ‘we're gonna build a wall!’. –CROWD LAUGHS. Now, here's a good thing: he's a politician, so he wouldn't know where to start…–CROWD LAUGHS. You know, I know how to build a wall, okay? I know exactly how to build a wall. I know the footings; I know how deep they have to go; I know how high we can go with the precast; I know everything…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…they don't know that. They don’t know. They don’t know that. And they won't know how to ask for the money back either. They won’t…they won't know about that.
 
But…my wife is sitting there, she said, ‘darling, that's the first time I've heard it! He just said… “we're going to build a wall”’, it’s the first time. Nobody's gonna beat us on this issue. And I know…it's not a question of being beat. It's gotta be done right. It's gotta be done right. We either have a country or we don't. We the have a border or we don't. it's gotta be done right folks. It's gotta be done right…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…I made the announcement, and…a few people, including my wife, she said, ‘you know…if you run, you're going to win.
I said, ‘I don't know! I don't wanna be embarrassed!’.
She said, ‘but if you don't run. If you just say you're going to run, you're never gonna see anything in the polls, and you're gonna be…’.
I said, ‘well, I don't know!’. Cause…before I announced, nobody thought…they were going, ‘if Trump runs, we promise Trump is going to run!’. I was getting…loud…these lousy, because nobody believed it!
She said, ‘you’re gonna actually have to go out, and actually, you're gonna have to announce that’. But you're gonna have to run!’. Now, ‘if you run, you're gonna win’.
So I said, ‘well…’…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–… ‘I just wanna make…make…I just wanna make it special. Just make it special again’. And I said, ‘all right, look…’. So we did it, and I announced.
 
And you know, bing, bing, bing, …–MR. TRUMP RAISES HIS HAND GRADUALLY REPRESENTING GOING UP IN THE POLLS–…all of a sudden. And then they said, ‘wel1, he won't file at…the…’…you know, Form A, which is basically after then. So I announced!
And…the pundits said, ‘oh! He announced! Wow! That's surprising!’.
Then they say, ‘well, he'll never file Form A’. Form A basically is a one page. You sign your life away, right? I signed that.
They said, ‘Whoa! He signed it!’.
Then they said, ‘well, he'll never file his financials. Because maybe he's not as rich as everybody thinks’. So…we have a long time to file the financials. And we have lo…lots of…45-day extensions, and I filed it ahead. Almost a hundred pages…the longest financials…–CROWD BOOS. APPARENTLY BECAUSE OF ANOTHER PROTESTER–…‘oh! Not another one of these characters’. I'm in the midst of my best story! –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
I think they're on our side, right? Are they on our side or not? Yes!? I think so. It's all right, let them shout a little bit. Just…you know, take them out…–CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So…I filed the financials. The press goes down, they’re dying to see what is it, cause they know I'm a private company. So it turns out much bigger, much stronger, very little debt, tremendous income…the whole thing! Like…and some of the great assets of the world. You look at 40 Wall Street; you look at Trump Tower; you look at all of these buildings…you look in San Francisco, Bank of…a big chunk of the Bank of America building; 1290 Avenue at the…all the stuff. Great land…and they're saying, ‘Wow! Unbelievable!’. You haven't heard too much about it, right? They were going to go after me, you wouldn't believe it.
 
In fact, the people…said…they've never seen a crowd of reporters down there, wanting to look at a forum. So they looked! And they saw, and…it was great. The reason I mention that, is not braggadocious. It's a kind of thinking, mentally, that we need running the country! That's the kind of thinking…we need! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…it's what we need! We need it! I don't wanna give a sergeant Bergdahl…where we get Bergdahl…a dirty, rotten traitor…–CROWD BOOS–…no, think of it! And they get five killers, that are right now back in the battlefield, wanting to kill everybody in front of them, including us, okay? That's the kind of deal. And we knew…! …that Bergdahl was a traitor when we made the deal, because the general, and the colonel…were there! And we knew it! And we still made the deal! We gave them five people…! …five people…! …for one dirty, rotten traitor. No good! We're not making deals like that anymore! We’re not making deals like that anymore! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…the polls just kept going up, and going up. And then last week, a couple of weeks ago, we had a debate. And…every online poll, look at this: every online poll, said I wonder the debate! Okay!? You have Drudge, who's a great guy, forty-six percent ‘Trump’. Don't forget, that's what like 15 people! Forty-six percent of the vote I get.
 
Time Magazine, forty-nine percent. What do I have? They didn't even pick me The Person of the Year, they were supposed to…–CROWD LAUGHS. They picked a woman…who's allowed millions of people to come into…Germany. And now, by the way, hey! Did you see that!? They cancelled their New Year's Eve! They got problems folks! I could have told you that folks! Here's one…Slate, 51 percent. US News and World Report, sixty-nine percent. PBS, on the liberal side, sixty-nine percent ‘Trump’. So anyway, all these things…FOX, sixty-two percent. Ehm…all of them! CBS, fifty-nine percent.
 
So I get all these great things. Then I go back, I turn on the television, cause you know, these people are the most dishonest people…I'm telling you…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…no! They are the most…disgusting…and dishonest people. And you know, Putin called me, but he said, ‘Donald Trump is brilliant. And Donald Trump is the leader. And Donald…’. And he said nice things about me. I…you know, the…my people that are running it…said, ‘oh, you should…you should…maybe give him those statements back. That's not a nice. It's not good…’. Anybody calls me brilliant, they can call me brilliant, okay? –CROWD LAUGHS. Right!? Why would I tell them ‘no’?’. They would love to have that.
 
But wouldn't it be nice if we actually could get along with other countries? Wouldn't that be a positive thing!? …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know, Russia in all fairness, we spend so much money. We're fighting everybody! We get nothing! We never win the fights! We don't win economically! We don't win in trade…we don't win anything. If we could get along with people, but get along smart. It would be so good! There’d be peace! And we can use them to knock out ISIS, because we're gonna knock the hell out of ISIS, I can tell you. We're gonna have to do it. We have choice...we're gonna to do it. And they wanna do it too.
 
So the polls come out, and I have the debate. And then right after the debate, I went up 11 points! But I also did something else that became…controversial. I said, ‘we gotta find out who's coming into our country!’. We don't know who's coming into our country! And we've gotta find out. We've got to figure out! Cause something's going wrong! When you have…what happened in Paris! When you have…what happened in Los Angeles! When you have what happened in California! When you have all of these incidents! When you have people flying airplanes into the World Trade Center! Flying airplanes…! …that's right. Flying airplanes! …think of it! …into the Pentagon! When you have the Boston Marathon…where it was so…seriously…I mean, when I watched that, that was one of the saddest things I've ever seen. These incredible people with joy, and they're running, and they’re…they’re families are cheering them on. And…I've…gotten to meet so many of the people that were so severely hurt. And it's amazing! Their attitude is amazing! These are amazing people! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
But…but there's something going on folks! And we gotta get to the bottom of it, cause we can't allow it to keep going! We can't let it! So we gotta get to the bottom of it.
 
And…what happened, we had the debate, and I went up 11 points! I went up to 39, and 40, and 41, and 42, and windfall. And…CNN came out with a big poll: 36 for ‘Trump’. THE–…second was 16, 14, 4…Bush was 3! Bush…–CROWD LAUGHS. Bush! That's not good for a…! How would you like to spend…59 million dollars and your three…–PERCENT. ‘See this young guy over here?’…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY SPECIFICALLY IN THE CROWD–... ‘Stand up! Stand up!’. If I spent 59 million in him, he’d be at…at least five! Okay!? Really! –THE CROWD BOOS. THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE YELLING IN THE BACKGROUND. ‘Get them out!’…–CROWD CHEERS AND CHANTS ‘U.S.A! REPEATEDLY.
 
What's the purpose? What are they doing? I feel…I feel bad…I feel sorry for them actually. What do they get out of it? Who's…who's getting them to do that? ‘Bye sweetheart. Thank you darling’.
 
So one of the things that came out in the CNN poll…on the economy, 55 percent; on the budget, 51 percent. But what happens…is…after really France, after Paris…it took a big turn. And people all of a sudden…they want me to handle trade, and they know I'll do that. I'll put Carl Icahn, I’ll put with other guys. Believe me, we will do beautifully on trade. We’re not gonna be losing five hundred and five billion dollars. Believe me! We'll take it back….–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We'll take back our jobs! We're gonna take back our base! We're gonna take back that manufacturer. All right.
 
But it changed! And all of a sudden people want safety and security. And…it came up, illegal immigration, ‘Trump’ is almost at fifty percent! With 15, or 16 people! And then ISIS, ‘Who can handle ISIS best?’. ‘Trump’ is almost at fifty percent, with all of these people running! Foreign policy, I win in foreign policy.
 
So…people wanna see…somebody that knows what the hell…he or she is doing! And we are going to do something special! We are going to do something special. We are going to really do something special…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So I won't even go over the other polls. I love talking about them. Some of the other candidates say, ‘isn't it terrible the way he talks about polls!’’. IT’S–…because I'm number one! If I was number two, I wouldn't even be talking about them! I promise! But as long as I’m number one, we're talking about those polls.
 
So…we have a president…that won't use…the term ‘radical’. Right!? What's the word? Radical Islamic terrorism! –CROWD BOOS. How do you solve the problem…when you refuse to say what the problem is? You don't solve it. You don't solve it. So what we're going to do…and we're gonna do it together. And I'm telling you…people…and these people have been writing about it. And they hate like hell to do it! But they say they've never in this country's history…seen anything…like what's happening with…not with me, with us. They've never seen anything…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…they've never…they've never seen anything like it. We are going to be smart in our country. We are going to be unpredictable in our country. We are not going to tell the enemy that we're leaving…Iraq…on such-and-such a day…in 18 months. So the enemy goes…and…I…when I'm watching television, I'm saying…I see this, and I see… ‘What? That must be a mistake’. Maybe it's a camouflage, but…it didn't! That was the date they left! So the enemy goes back, we left, and boy, did they knock the hell out of everything! Right!? ISIS comes along. I said, ‘take the oil’, they didn't take the oil. You…all these things.
 
We're gonna be smart, but we're gonna be unpredictable. We're not gonna be telling…and I know a lot of people…one of the reporters said to me tonight, ‘well, you have to explain exactly what are you gonna do!’. ‘I really don't wanna tell you’. You know, when I kept saying, ‘the oil’. It took me one year…! …to actually announce it. Because so much pressure was meant…I said, ‘I don't wanna tell people! I wanna surprise them! I want to take the oil, but I don't wanna tell them I'm taking the oil!’. Does that make sense to anybody!? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
I wanna surprise them, one night, at about…ehm…11:30, when it's dark, and pe…and go in there and take it! But you know, the press is saying, ‘but you have to do it. You have to say it! You have…’. So I end up saying, three years ago, I ended up…saying, ‘Take the oil! Take the oil! Take the oil!’…now everybody is saying it. Now it's tougher to take!
 
But we have to be unpredictable! We have to be smart! We have to be tough! We really need though, more than anything else…the spirit this country has is unbelievable! …–CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. But we're losing our spirit! I thought that Barack Obama, one thing I would say, I thought he'd be, at a minimum…I thought he'd be a great cheerleader for the country. And he's been a great divider. It's a divided country! It's a country with so…much…hatred! …–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's got…so…much…hatred!
 
we are going to take our country, and we're gonna fix it. We're going to make it…great again…–CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We are going to fix our Healthcare; we are going to take care of our Vets; we are going to fix our military; we are going to strengthen our borders; we're going to build the wall, but we are going to strengthen our borders. We have great Border Patrol people. These are amazing people. And they're told to ‘stand back! Let people flow across, stand back!’. That's not happening anymore. We have a country…we are going to make it great again…we're going to make it greater…than…ever…before…I love you all!
 
I love you all! Thank you! I love you all! Thank you! Thank you! I love you!