VIDEO Nº: 194
TITLE:194. Pennsylvania Primary - Trump Rally in Wilkes-Barre - Full Speech - Mon. 42516
DATE OF EVENT:25/04/2016
RELEASE DATE:26/04/2016
DURATION:00.53.51
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:8403
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Aw, do we love our country!? Do we love our country!?
This is amazing!
And we love Wilkes-Barre, is that right!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We love Wilkes-Barre! We love this area! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we love the state of Pennsylvania, and we’re bringing it back! We’re brining it back! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thank you, everybody! Wow, what a turn out!
And they have 6,000 people outside that can’t get in! This place is unbelievable! Hello up there! …–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE HIGHER STANDS. THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Unblelivebale!
So, we have a lot to talk about! This is my last stop. Tomorrow’s so important…! You’re gonna go out and vote. Who’s gonna vote for Trump? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
We’re gonna make that…the best…vote…you’ve ever cast! I promise you. I promise you. Believe me…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. America first, folks. Make America great again, but America first, okay? Remember that.
So…just a couple of things, and my son, Eric, is here. You know Eric, he’s great! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Good boy. And, in this area, he said, “dad, make sure you mention natural gas that we’re 100 percent behind it”, and we are! 100…natural gas! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And coal…and coal! We’re 100 percent. We’re gonna bring things back, and we’re gonna bring them back like they’ve never been before. We're gonna take our jobs back. We're bringing our manufacturing back! We're gonna take it from all of these countries that for years have been ripping us off, because we have politicians that don't…know what…they're doing! So, we're gonna take it back…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, you know…the whole deal, you know, this whole thing is crazy. We're leading by millions of votes. We're leading by hundreds of Delegates. And it's a rigged system. But I said, “you know, let it be rigged”. I talked about the boxers. I have a boxer, he's a…fantastic guy, sort of a friend of mine. He's a world champion. And he goes into a very unfriendly territory. I said, “what are you doing, if you have a…good match, you're gonna end up losing on a decision with bad judges!”.
He said, “Mr. Trump, the only way I have to do it, I have to knock this guy out. I have to knock him on his ass” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And he did! And he picked up a big paycheck!
So, what we're doing is we're gonna win on the first ballot. We only care about the first ballot. And you know, it's sort of interesting because…if you look at these two guys, one is one for 41. You know, I won many, many states…–THE CROWD BOOS. Millions of votes ahead, many states, many delegates.
The other one, he's a…like a total disaster. [He] Goes to New York last week, he doesn't even register. He’s so low [that] he got no delegates. Folks, they ought to both drop out of the race, so we ought to unify the Republican Party…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And a great poll just came out. You saw it on the top of Drudge, a great poll that has me even with Hillary Clinton. That's nothing…I haven't even started with crooked Hillary yet! We haven't even started! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Amazing! Amazing!
Aw, that crooked Hillary, the same old stuff! Years and years of watching it. It's always the same, but she's not bringing back jobs. She doesn't know the first thing about it. She's gonna open up the borders, and I don't know if you saw reports today. More people are pouring across our southern border than practically ever before! It's out of control…–THE CROWD BOOS–…it's out of control! We don't know who these people are, we don't know where the hell they come from, and they're pouring across! And the Border Patrol, who are amazing people…just so you know, last week, the Border Patrol…endorsed Donald Trump! 16,500 people, they've never done it before! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [They’ve] Never done it before! Amazing…they're amazing people. They're amazing people.
And Sheriff Joe endorsed! You know, Sheriff Joe from Arizona…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So…no, we're gonna do a great job, but setting…they're setting records. People are coming across, we don't know where they are! And then you have coming from the migration thousands and thousands of people, and they're coming here. Nobody even knows where they're going! They put them all over the country. Nobody knows…are they ISIS? It could be the great Trojan horse. Nobody knows. We'll build a wall, don't worry about it man…–MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD. THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We’ll build a wall. That wall’s gonna get built…–THE CROWD CHANTS ‘BUILD THAT WALL!’.
This place is unbelievable! This place is unbelievable! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.All right!
So, look. So, I go to the…statisticians, and I ask them a few…I have to. You know, I have all these people work for me, they've gotta do something, right? The sad part…all over the country, last week it was New York State, which I want in a record setting number! Nobody could even believe it! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And, you know what's nice. These are people that know me the best! I mean, New York! I went to school in Pennsylvania. My daughter, currently, is going to school in Pennsylvania, Tiffany…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
My son went to school in Pennsylvania. Eric went to school in Pennsylvania! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. They also…they also went to the Hill School, which is a great school, of those people. They love the Hill School! Ivanka went to school in Pennsylvania. I went to school in Pennsylvania! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I guess I'm a product of Pennsylvania! I love Pennsylvania. But, you know, I'll tell you what. But I had to do this.
So, I went…to the statisticians and they talked about your area. I said, “give me some stuff in the area”. So, it's been hit hardest…among the communities in America. It’s been really hit hard. Then they talk about the Scranton region, [which] lost half of its manufacturing jobs since 1990. Our region here…lost six thousand manufacturing jobs since the recession in 2007. That’s a lot of jobs!
And you know where they're going! They're going to China! They're going to Mexico! They're going to Japan! They're going to Vietnam! …–THE CROWD BOOS HEAVILY.
The state of Pennsylvania has lost more than 35 percent of its manufacturing jobs since 2001. Now 2001, that was the year that Congress voted, brilliant Congress, really brilliant people we have, right? Except for my two favorite congressman who are here tonight, you know that…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. The two greatest guys. Where are they!? Lou [Barletta] and Tom [Marino]! Lou and Tom, where are they!? Get them up here if they can…! I don't think they can…they’re so high up! [Do you] See? They want everybody else to have a better seat than them. If Lou and Tom…can ever make it down, we better get up here. But what…what great guys! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And right from the beginning…right from the beginning. All right.
So look, 35 percent manufacturing jobs. Congress voted brilliantly to let…China into the World Trade Organization, and that's when things started really going bad. Wonderful…move! Lyin Ted Cruz supports Chinese currency cheating! …–THE CROWD BOOS. And ‘one in 42’…can you believe!? The guy’s one for 42, and he continues to run, Kasich. He was the big vote or NAFTA, which destroyed…Pennsylvania, and destroyed…–THE CROWD BOOS–…virtually every state!
You look at what happened up in New England, all over the place. I was in New York State last week. I was all over, Syracuse…places I know very well. And I went to Albany; and I went to…Poughkeepsie; and I went to Bethpage; and I went to Suffolk County; and all over New York State, we have empty manufacturing plants. Empty factories, all been siphoned off, going to other countries. The jobs are…horrible what's happened. We're not gonna let that happen anymore, folks, believe me. We know how to stop it! And I really know how to stop it…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, there are your statistics, not a pretty picture…the hell with it! The hell it! And we gotta know! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS AS MR. TRUMP THROWS AWAY THE SHEET OF PAPER HE WAS HOLDING. Look at this, though: more than 10,000 people laid off.
Now, here's something I don't like. Foreign-born population in Pennsylvania has surged to 1 million reducing wages and reducing jobs. [It’s] Not good, folks. [It’s] Not good, right? All right, we're gonna change it. We're gonna change it.
So, we had some big news today. You had…lyin Ted announced that he can't win by himself. He cannot do it! …–THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY. You know, he's a choker! He cannot do it! So he said, “let me form a partnership”, which I call…what do we call it? UH…go ahead! Go ahead! What do we call it!? Let me form…it's called collusion, folks! It's called collisions!
So, I wrote up something. But here's a guy [that/who] couldn't fight by himself! He was saying how well he did. And look, he's lyin Ted. He holds the Bible high, and then he lies! He puts it down! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Lyin Ted! Not worth it! …–THE CROWD CHANTS ‘LYIN TED!’ REPEATEDLY.
We got lyin Ted, we got crooked Hillary! There's no way we don't win this whole thing, and turn our country around, okay!? Lyin Ted! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
So, I get a call last night about 11:30…and like you, we work. You know, it’s…okay. Call me at 11, call me at 12, call me at 1…I'm a worker. You’re workers too. And I said…I dictated something over the phone! And I said, “isn't it sad that two grown politicians have to collude against one person, who's only been a politician for ten months”, which is right. But you know, I'm like a smart person, I know what to do. These politicians are all bought off with campaign contributions and super PACs. And all of this…and some of them are very dumb, to be honest with you, okay? Some of them don't have a clue.
I mean, how can you allow what's happened to our country to go on? You've either gotta be…grossly incompetent, which many are, or you've gotta be under the control…of the lobbyists and the special interest, which most of them are.
Now, I'm self-funding, so it's a big difference, folks! I don't care! I'm gonna do what's right…for you! I do what's right for you! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, I've been in this deal for 10 months in order to try and stop a person from getting…the Republican nomination, when we should be bringing everybody together. It's time. And I will tell you, I've been watching these dishonest people…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERSAS. Uh…some of the world's most dishonest people, the media! …–THE CROWD BOOS. And you know what!? They're not gonna show this stadium, right Tom!? They're not gonna show the stadium! Show it, Tom! Go ahead, Tom, show it! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They're not gonna show it!
I'll go home and my wife will say, “darling, were there many people there tonight?”.
I said, “you didn't see it?”, cause it's all on television! Look at all the lights.
They'll say, “were there many people?”, and she'll say, “where there many…?”.
I’d say, “you didn't see it?”. They never, ever show the crowds. We have the biggest crowds by far! And you know what? We have the greatest people by far! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, I went on! …­–MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING FROM ANOTHER SHEET OF PAPER. “Senator Cruz has done very poorly”…especially with getting votes! He can't get votes! “And after his New York performance, which was a total disaster, he was in a freefall!”. And you know, he reacts very badly under pressure. He chokes under pressure. Boy, does he choke like a dog!?
“Also, approximately 80 percent”, which is true! I’d be high! “Approximately 80 percent of the Republican Party, right now…”, cause I actually think the 20 percent is high, “…is against…him! And, against Kasich it’s even worse! Now, Kasich…he's only got, yeah, one state out of 41”.
So, he's one for 41, and I'll tell you something. I had a dirty poll give it to me: Florida and Ohio were being done at the same time, right? And, I was winning Florida by a lot, even though I was running against…actually a good guy, Marco Rubio. By this time Bush had dropped out. And you know, it was set up…! Because when they heard that Trump was running, they changed it! Because let me tell you: we have a rigged system! We have a corrupt system! This whole thing with the delegates is ridiculous! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And you have to go out, and you have to get you a beautiful delegate card, and you have to vote for your delegates! The delegate…! …–MR. TRUMP SHOWS A CARD HE’S TAKEN OUT OF HIS POCKET. THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's crazy!
You know, it’d be nice if you can just go out and vote! We can win this state! I mean, we're way up in the polls. Don't let that fool you. Go out tomorrow and vote. Don't let it fool you!
But, here's the story. And they just said, “Mr. Trump, when you go up there, can you please tell them to take their card, vote for the Trump delegates?”.
I said, “that's not like a cool thing to say during a speech”. Vote for the Trump delegates, okay!? Now I've done my job…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know, it'd be nice if you could just vote, and just be done with it! But the system is so…complicated!
Now, we have a great head of the Republican Party, so we're very lucky. And we have some great people, and we have some amazing delegates. And they're gonna do a great job.
But here's the story. Here's the story. Thank you, I love you too…–MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD. Look at this guy! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. All right!
And you know, the Kasich thing is interesting. Cuz here's a guy…that just says, “I'm gonna stay”. Like a stubborn, like if you have a child who's a spoiled brat; where they go, “I don't care daddy! Get out of the room, daddy! I don't care!”. This is like a spoiled guy!
If you look at it, Ben Carson, who's endorsed me, did much better…I mean, he was tough! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And Ben Carson, Dr. Ben Carson…great! He did better. Chris Christie who endorsed me did better! Marco Rubio did much better! I mean, you look at…Marco Rubio, he has more delegates right now, than…Kasich has…and…he's been in the race for short a period of time! It's just a guy that said, “I don't care, I'm staying”.
And then you see him eating in the morning! Did you ever see!? I have never seen..:! He's stuffing pancakes in his mouth like this! …–MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES HIM GORGING ON–…and I'm always telling my…boy, “take small bites, Barron. Little, tiny bites” …–THE CROWD LAUGHS.
And yesterday he said, “daddy, who is that guy on television? That's disgusting!” …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. You…did you ever see? Then they talk about ‘presidential’. Oh, I see, he's presidential. He puts pancakes this big in his mouth…–MR. TRUMP SHOWS HOW BIG WITH BOTH HIS HANDS–…and he's shoving them in…; this is not a presidential person. Look…look. But, Marco Rubio has more delegates.
But you have many! I mean, Jeb Bush could have stayed. A lot of people could have just said, “I don't care!”. They have no path to victory, folks. And I'm gonna win on the first ballot. I don't care about what's going on with the second. You know, they…the press! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I don't care! I don't care! It's a crooked system!
So, how would you like to have this!? Trump wins by four or five million votes. You see California? I'm at 49 percent.
We're going out to Indiana, and the people of Indiana are smart! And the people of Indiana know that I've been speaking about for four months…the horrible treatment that Carrier air-conditioning…gave…to the people that work for them, and to the people of Indianapolis, Indiana, when they said, “you're all fired. Every one of you are fired. We're moving to Mexico”. …–THE CROWD BOOS.
I've been talking about this long before I realized…how important Indiana would be to this process! And, the people in Indiana are smart. And I’ll tell you what, I have one of the great endorsements of all time coming up in Indiana. I refused to say it's Bobby Knight, but it's Bobby Knight! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [A] Great winner. No, he's a great champ. He's a great champion. That's a great…that's what I call a great endorsement! Tough, smart, knows how to win…that's what our country needs! That's why he's endorsing me! But that's what our country needs! All right.
So, others have done much better. Now, collusion! So what they did, they're both losing…campaigns. They've failing campaigns. They're no good. They're done. You know, if you add up Cruz’s…and Kasich’s votes, all of the votes, I'm beating them by a lot.
If you add up the…the…if you add up…this is…you know, people [are] gonna be surprised to hear this. If you add up their delegates, again, it's a rigged system; but if you add up the delegates of Cruz and Kasich, I'm beating them by a lot! Any…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…by a lot!
But to show you how corrupt the system is, and how dishonest the system is, let's say I go up…you know the 12 and…37. [I/You] Gotta get 12-37. So…I think we're gonna beat it. I think we're gonna do it fairly easily. I think we're gonna get it. Who knows!? But, if you don't…;
How about if we don't? [We’re] Gonna do it! But how about if we don't? And these guys have been going out and buying dinners, and hotels, and rooms…you know, all the stuff. And they're buying up all these delegates. So, how do you like to have somebody win on the second ballot, that has three or four million votes less than Trump? That has four or five hundred delegates less than Trump…okay? …–THE CROWD BOOS. No, but think of that!
So, we're gonna pick a guy…that ended up getting like what was it, ten or 12 percent in New York…? That got no delegates…! The other guy, Kasich, got practically nothing in New York! They ran them both out of town, to…tremendously failed candidates last week. They're gonna pick somebody like that? And…you know, give me a break. [It’s] Not gonna happen! So…so, here…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
How about picking Kasich! He'll be…that time he'll be one for 50: “ladies and gentlemen, our new nominee, a man that's been running…for over one year…; yes, he won one state out of 50, and he happened to be in that state, but he's gonna take it”.
Now, let me tell you. The new poll came out that has me tied with Hillary Clinton, but that's nothing! Because I haven't hit her yet! You know, somebody said, from the media…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…they said, from the media…cause we're always saying…and I always say, “maybe I…”; you know, I'm a smart person. I could change to ‘presidential’ so easy. That would be so…that would be much easier than doing what I’m doing right now! Cause I could talk nice, and calm…and everybody would fall asleep after ten minutes…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDL. Then you'd see them start leaving the upper decks. Look at that, the corner of the upper decks. Why don't you show that, media? Hey, media, why don't you show it? You, dishonest media…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. The corners of the upper decks…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.[MGF1] 
No, they're not…look! They don't move the cameras! They don't move the cameras. They don’t move. They never move the cameras! They never move the cameras unless there’s a phony protester around! Wait, do we have any protesters!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'd like to put a couple of protesters right up there, where they can see. And think of it! 6,000 people not able to get in, standing outside.
So, here's the story we're gonna win…big tomorrow. You're gonna go vote, you're gonna vote for the delegates. You're gonna do all the things you have to do, it's crazy…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But we just got poll numbers from Rhode Island. I just got back from Rhode Island. Plus, I made two speeches today. We had two rallies in different parts of Pennsylvania. Yesterday we had an unbelievable rally in Maryland, an airport hangar that was so big, and so packed…that people were flowing out into the runway areas! I mean, what's going on is a movement, folks. We've been on the cover…and it's ‘we’! I'm the messenger! I'm a good messenger, but I'm just the messenger. It's about you! We've been on the cover of Time magazine many, many times…in the last short period of time! [MGF2] 
In fact, I'm gonna be at a dinner tomorrow night for Time magazine. The…world…the…I guess the world’s most…100 most important, something like that. You know what? Who cares! What [do] I care about? I care about…winning…this…nomination! Beating crookery…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…beating…crooked…Hillary…Clinton! And doing a great job for our nation! And we're gonna do it! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. THE CROWD CHANTS ‘U.S.A!’ TIMIDLY. We are going to do it!
You ought to see, though, Rhode Island today. You know what happened? They didn't put me down for Rhode Island! I said, “what are you talking about?”.
“Well, your poll numbers are so high there, Mr. Trump; you're over 60 percent”.
I said, “oh, I get it. Because I'm doing so well, I'm not gonna take care of the people of Rhode Island. [It] Doesn’t work that way”. So, I had a little slot…! We flew up to Rhode Island. We gave him like a 10 hour notice, the place was packed! And these are great people!
We flew down to Delaware two days ago. Unbelievable people! We went to Maryland, a couple of times, packed, packed, packed! I've been all over Pennsylvania, right? All over! I've been all over…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's been unbelievable. I'll tell you, it's been unbelievable. It's been so great.
So, I hear we're doing great all over the place. But you know, a little bit about Rhode Island. So, Rhode Island…you wanna take care of people that are with you! I don't wanna hear, “you're doing great, therefore you don't have to go there”. No, no. If I'm doing great, and if those people like me, that's where we wanna go! Right, don't you think? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So, we're gonna do great.
So, tomorrow's a big, big day. So, here's the story, the end…–MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING WHAT HE WROTE THE PREVIOUS NIGHT ON THAT SHEET OF PAPER–…“because of me, everyone now sees…that the Republican…primary…system is totally rigged and broken. When two candidates who have no path to victory”…they have no path! They’re mathematically out! They ought to quit, so we can all get together! We can all unify! And we can all go against crooked Hillary Clinton, and beat her…really, really beat her big league! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
She'll be a terrible president, I will tell you. If she wins, I mean…even Kasich, what he's been saying about her…! She's got bad judgment, he said. And they said, “don't say that anymore. Don't say that, that's terrible!”.
He said, “she's not qualified”. Now, that's a little…I mean, who’s…not qualified? Everybody’s well. We’re all qualified, right?
But then he said, “okay, I'll take that back”. We didn't forget that! “Not qualified”. But what she said…what he said was amazing. That….she has got bad…judgment! And she has got bad…judgment! Even on the emails! That's called…it's criminal! But it's really bad…judgment, folks! Really bad judgment! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And you look at Syria; and you look at Libya; and you look at all of the problems in the Middle East; and you look at what the hell has happened to the world! And then you look at President Obama, with one of the worst deals ever made…–THE CROWD BOOS–…with one of the worst deals ever made, the Iran deal! We give them…a 150…billion…dollars! We…get…nothing! We get nothing! Those days are gone! …–THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY. And by the way, we should have had our prisoners back before we started negotiating, folks. You don't negotiate like that…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, we have two candidates running. They have no path to victory. One approved NAFTA, and was really a very final vote, which has destroyed us.
The other one loves TPP Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is a catastrophe for this country; which will make NAFTA look like baby stuff. We can't let it get approved. And Cruz…doesn't wanna do anything about China's…manipulation of their currency! He had the opportunity, he blew it! Here is the senator who has done nothing in the United States Senate. No legislation. Nothing important. He's been a bad senator. [He] Doesn't get along with anybody. [He] Has practically no endorsements. The man he respects most is Senator Jeff Sessions, from Alabama; [a] great man and a great senator. There's only one problem! Jeff Sessions, two weeks ago, endorsed...Donald Trump! [It’s a] Problem…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So, we're gonna unify the party. So, let's go!
When I came down the escalator, not so long ago, June 16th with my wife. I looked down at Trump Tower and I saw the largest group of cameras, and…paparazzi, and…reporters. It looked like, literally, the Academy Awards. I say it! And I said, I didn't love doing this! I mean, I'm doing it because, honestly? We really can…not only make America great again, I really believe we can make America greater than ever before. I really believe…or I wouldn't be doing it…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I wouldn’t be doing it.
And I stood up and I made a speech. And, as you know, I brought up illegal immigration. I brought up…trade. I brought up some other things! But the primary thing was trade, illegal immigration…; we're gonna rebuild our military, make it stronger, bigger, better. [It’s] The cheapest thing we can do! Nobody, ever, will mess with us, because they just toy with us right now…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They toy with us.
And a lot of people…I heard it today. They said, “well, Trump is definitely the toughest one running, but he may have a quick hand, a quick trigger”. I got the slowest trigger of anybody! But nobody's gonna play games with me! But I've got the slowest trigger. I'm the one that said, as a civilian…I wasn't a politician. But I said, at the beginning, “don't go into Iraq, you're going to destabilize the entire …Middle…East!”. And that's exactly what happened. If our…if our presidents, and if our politicians went on vacation 15 years ago, we'd be a lot better off in the Middle East that we are right now. What we have right now is a big, fat, ugly mess! All right? A big mess! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And they were the ones that pulled the trigger. And then I heard a certain Senator, Lindsey Graham. He said, “I don't know why Donald Trump doesn't listen to me. I've been fighting this war for many years!”. That's right! I wanna fight it for about two weeks, folks, not many years. Because…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…we have to get back to our country! We have to rebuild America! We have to rebuild the United States! Our infrastructure is going to hell! We'll build three schools in different places in the Middle East, they get blown up, we rebuild it. They get blown up again, and again, and again…! We're…;
But if we wanna build…a school in Pennsylvania the government said, “we have no money”, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [It’s] No good.
We've spent over four trillion dollars…in the Middle East. We are in worse shape now than we were 15 years ago. And then when Obama got out, instead of doing it in a certain way, and leaving some troops behind, and protecting a little bit of whatever…if…if you call it one, let's not even call it one. He took everybody out, and he announced the date that he was leaving. And now you have a mess. And, in comes ISIS. They take the oil, and I've been saying, for years, “keep the oil! Keep the oil! Don't…let them have the oil!”.
I didn't wanna go in the first place. But I said, “if you're gonna go out, take the oil”. Because if you don't take the oil, Iran is gonna get the oil! And ISIS is gonna get the oil! So, who has the oil!? Iran and ISIS. And...Iraq! Which by the way, for years and years would fight with Iran. But they were the same military strength, right? So, they'd fight for 3-4 years, boom, boom!; they go home and rest.
Then they fight for 3-4 years, boom, boom! Then Saddam Hussein would hit somebody with gas, people would be complaining. Then the others would hit gas, people…; they go. They move 10 feet, 10 feet…; what did we do? We went in, and destroyed…destroyed the military capability of one of the two nations. And now Iran…is taking over Iraq, as sure as you're standing here. And is…actually you people are all standing too, even though you have seats which is a great honor. Thank you. It’s always nice…when people have seats, and they still wanna stand to hear Trump! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Don't you agree? It’s always nice. It’s always nice. I appreciate it.
So, we're gonna change our focus. We're gonna be so great on the military, and on foreign policy. And we're gonna do things right. You know, we protect many, many nations. And we’re not reimbursed properly for the protection. Many of these nations are very wealthy nations. We protect Germany. We protect Japan. [I] Love Germany, [I] love Japan. [I’ve] Many friends. We protect South Korea. [It’s] Great, great…from the madman next door. We have 28,000 soldiers on the line. Very dangerous…position to be at.
They're making a fortune. You order…televisions…; I ordered 4,000 television sets. I order thousands a year for different projects. Thousands! Where do they come from? They come from South Korea. That's fine. They are money-making behemoths. They don't take care of us.
We protect Saudi Arabia. Saudi Arabia…I have many friends in Saudi Arabia, they buy my apartments, you wouldn't believe how they buy my apartments, okay? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. [I’ve] Many, many friends. But we protect Saudi Arabia. Before the oil went down, they were making one billion dollars a day. If we didn't protect them, they wouldn't be there for two weeks! But we protect them. We don't know what we're doing!
And then we have a president that flies to Saudi Arabia, last week. And he gets off the plane and there's nobody to greet him! …–THE CROWD CHEERS. And the same thing happened in Cuba! He goes to Cuba, and instead of having one of the Castros, or both of them…greeting him at the plane, there's no high official…waiting to greet…the President of the United States, coming out of Air Force One! Which, by the way, they will tell you, the dishonest media, but they will tell you, that has to be a record.
In the history, the great, great history of Air Force One, how many times do you think it landed at an airport…of hundreds, and hundreds of countries, where the top people in that country weren't there to greet…the president of the United States? It happened to our president! It happened to our president…twice in four weeks! Nobody…! …–THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY. I'll tell you what! If I were the President, and I flew into Saudi Arabia, and the king or whoever, the top, isn't there to greet me? I’d say, “hey pilot, come here for a second. How much fuel do we have?”.
“We got plenty, sir. It’s Air Force One”.
I’d say, “get back at those controls, pilot, and let's get out of here” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…right!? It’s what I’d do! “Let's get out of here!”. I would be out of there so fast…! If they show the President of the United States…–THE CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. Thank you. Thank you.
If they show the President of the United States…so…little…respect, it's called, “sorry folks, see you some other time”. I mean, I remember a case, not so long ago, everybody forgot it. The Olympics! [Do you] Remember when the plant…the president flew to Europe, to make a pitch. Now, this the president the United States. He made a pitch for the Olympics to come…to the United States. And I think that's great, I like it.
But if you're the president, you don't go over there make a pitch, and then not win, right? [It’s] Too big a position. If you're the president, you gotta know the answer before you go over. So, you call and say, “listen, I'm the president, and I'm gonna go there. But, between us, are we gonna win!?”. And they'll tell you. They'll say, “no sir, you're gonna come in fourth”.
I’d say, “thank you very much, I appreciate it, but I’ll…you know, I'm not gonna go”, right? They don't do that. We…we're dealing with babies here, folks. We're dealing with babies.
So, we have the President of the United States go over to make a pitch for the Olympics, and he gets rejected! We didn't come in first or second or third, I think we came in like fourth! Who does that!? Who does that!? Are we dealing with babies!?
When you're the President of the United States, and you wanna get the Olympics to come to this country, and you go over there, and you don't know the answer beforehand, you're incompetent. You're incompetent…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Totally incompentent.
So, here's the story. Tomorrow's a big day. And we're gonna do great things. And as I said, I'm self-funding my campaign. And [do] you know the nice part? Of the major candidates, I put in far less than any other candidate, and we're winning in a landslide by every…single…category…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And on television, one of the very smart pundits said, “why would Trump change?”.
You know, I'm like a smart guy. I Went to the best school, one of the hardest schools in the world to get into, like…I'm smart! We're…a lot of us are smart. By the way, we have the smartest and most loyal people…are in these rooms. The Trump people are the smartest, and they're, by far, the most loyal! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. By far! They are by far…by far, the most loyal.
So, here's the story. Here's the story, I have to tell you this. I have to. Here's the story. So, they're talking about ‘presidential’, and this one punted says, “let me ask you a question: 17 people started, and Trump was there. And we all said, ‘Trump's never gonna run; Trump's never go to this; Trump said we're gonna sign form-A’”, which basically is signing your life away; “‘Trump's a private companies, he’s never get a real…he's never gonna reveal his finances’”. So, I announced I’m running. I, then, signed my life away. I signed form-A.
I, then, put in my financials early! I had the biggest law firms in Washington, and the biggest accounting firms in Washington, working round the clock, because I didn't wanna be even an hour late. And I could have had 45-day extensions all over the place. But I wanted to show my financials! Because I built a great company.
I built the company, [with] some of the greatest assets in the world. I built a company with a tremendous cash flow, with very little debt. And I put it in! [In] Federal elections, I put it in. Almost a 100 pages, the biggest report ever put into federal elections.
I started off with a million dollars, you know, you hear all these crazy numbers, believe me…! I started off with a million dollars…my company is now worth more than 10…billion…dollars! And…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…and, importantly, I tell you this…not in a braggadocios manner, I tell you that because…this is the kind of thinking, at least for a little while, that our…country…needs! We gotta put our country back on track! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
If we're protecting the 28 countries of NATO, and if they're delinquent and they're not paying us, because they have no respect for us…; and if NATO is obsolete, and has to be rejiggered; and if we have to do something about terror, which NATO doesn't really cover…; it was many years ago, you're talking about 68 or so years ago…; we gotta change things! And when somebody at one of the…networks asked me, “what do you think in NATO?”.
Now, in all fairness, I'm a very good business person, but…you know what? NATO’s never been high on my list, but I understand it! I said, “number one, it's obsolete”.
And guys that looked at it, that study it every day of their lives…! …at first they said, “no, it’s not”. Then about three days later they're saying, “Trump's got a point!”. Because they're so close to it, [that] they don't even see it.
Then I said, “we have…put up so much money to protect other countries. They've gotta start paying for this protection!”. And they don't pay…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…because probably nobody asks them for the money! And they don't pay because…honestly, they think we're stupid. So, we're protecting these countries…that aren't paying their fair share. They're not carrying their own baggage. And one of the early things I do…is I say, “folks…”, and many of these countries are very wealthy! I say, “folks, you gotta pay us”.
They'll say, “okay”.
I say, “no, no, no. You gotta also pays for all those back years when you didn't pay us. It’s called delinquency”, right? [You] Gotta pay us! You gotta pay us! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And we don't mind, and we'll help you out, and we'll protect, but you gotta pay! We are no longer the stupid country! We’re now the genius, brilliant country, okay? So, you gotta pay us.
And you know the funny thing? I'll get a look better with these countries…that we do right now, and they'll be paying up, because they're gonna respect the United States again. They don’t respect us, okay?
Now, a couple of things. A couple of things. Then we're gonna go home, then we get a good night's rest, and then tomorrow you're gonna vote, and get with your friends! Okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
A couple of things. So, the commentator said, “you know I hear Trump maybe is thinking about pivoting to more presidential. The only thing is that I don't understand. He had 16…opponents: senators, governors! All these people, top of the line”…meh, some of them not so good. 16. “He had guys like Dr. ben Carson who's a phenomenal guy. A lot of people”, right? He's a phenomenal guy. “You know, wait a minute. So, he goes to one, he wins. He goes to another beats a governor, beats a senator, beats a governor, beats a senator. Now he beats a senator. Now he beats three senator and all”.
And I’m about to beat a senator who doesn't even have a clue, Ted Cruz. And I'm about to be the governor who's one for 42! Okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So this person, who's a very smart pundit said, “you know, if I'm Trump, I don't think I wanna change!”, and there's a lot of truth to that.
But, wait til you see what we do with this country. We're gonna unify…not only are we gonna…unify the Republican Party, but we have a tremendously divided country. White and black…everything we have…young and old; everybody…is at odds.
You look at the African American population of this country, youth! African-American youth has a 59 percent rate of unemployment! 59 percent. You look at African American people, it's substantially higher! There is tremendous division, because Obama…is a tremendous divider. He divides. And he's done nothing for African American people, I will tell you that! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And I'm gonna win the African American vote! And I'm gonna win the Hispanic vote! And every poll…you look at the poll in Nevada! The poll…big Hispanic population. I won the state of Nevada, very easily, in a landslide. Cruz was supposed to win, I win all these states! He can't win when people have to vote! He can't win!
So, here's the story: I win it, and they do an exit poll…of the Hispanics. And who wins the exit poll by a lot? Donald Trump, okay? [Do] You know why? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, I'm gonna win the Hispanics, I’m gonna win the African Americans. [Do] You know why? Because I'm bringing jobs back to our country, and I'm not letting the jobs that are here go without consequence! If somebody wants to take their factory, like Carrier did in Indiana, and they wanna move to Mexico…we're gonna tell them very nicely, “enjoy Mexico, enjoy the heat. Just enjoy it. I hope you build a wonderful plant! But every single time…you make an air-conditioning unit…”, and I buy from Carrier, but I’m not buying anymore.
“…every time you make an air-conditioning unit, and you wanna send it across our now very, very strong border, with a wall, with our incredible…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…with our incredible Border Patrol…watching, and allowed to watch…every time you make a unit and you send it across, we're gonna charge you a 35 percent tax! I hope you enjoy your stay in Mexico!”, okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I'll tell you what's gonna happen. They're not moving, folks. They're not moving. They're not moving! I believe in free trade, but you can only have free trade when you have smart, cunning, street-wise leadership! We don't have that. We have incompetent leadership and therefore, we have to play tough, and we have to play smart!
With China, we have a 500 billion dollar trade deficit. It's crazy! And [do] you know what? If any of you do business with China, you're gonna find it's almost impossible to get your product in. And if you do get your product in, they charge you a tariff or a tax. With them, they send this stuff over…? [It’s] No good! [It’s] Not gonna happen! I want Apple products to be made in the United States! And you watch, it's gonna happen. You watch! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
No, I have a tax plan, that cuts taxes more than anybody else's plan. [It] Simplifies and cuts. [It] Simplifies the cuts. But, remember this, but forgetting even about that. We can do…such…you know, for five years and even for seven years, these all talk, no action politicians in Washington have been working so hard…to try and devise a plan to keep the countries in our…in our country! Where they take the companies, and they keep them. Corporate inversion. They don't even know what the word is. It’s corporate inversion. Trillions of dollars outside! [The] Companies wanna bring it back in, we can't even get an agreement and everybody agrees, Republicans and Democrats. Here's what we're gonna do, folks: we're gonna make it very hard…on people that wanna leave our country and they wanna fire all our people. There are gonna be consequences!
And, if you look at some of the plans the government has, they make, “well, maybe we can give them low interest loans”. [It’s] Not gonna do it. “Maybe we could…”. Let me tell you what does it: good, old-fashioned tax! A good, old-fashioned tax. The consequences? You're gonna fire your people from Indiana. You're gonna fire these 1,400 people that did a phenomenal job for 30 years, and 20 years, and 14, and 15…I met many of them! That's not gonna happen! If you wanna do it, go! But when you come over…and I'm telling you, nobody's leaving! Try…looking at their projections! Their projections who won't work!
Now, remember the one thing, that nobody will say, in terms of the pundits…when they say, “well, the product will cost more…?”. In some cases, it'll cost more! But I say, “please, say the second part”. They never write it! We’ll also have a lot more jobs, okay? We're gonna have a lot more jobs! And that's the key! That's the key! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna have jobs! We're gonn a have jobs…making products for ourselves! We're gonna have jobs making products…that we export to other countries!
And you know what? We're gonna get along great with China. We're gonna get along great. But we're not gonna have a 505 billion dollar deficit anymore. And when China…wants to build and massive…military…fortress...in the South…China…Sea, which they're not supposed to be doing, they're gonna respect us, if it's me. Because we have tremendous power. And it's called economic power. But we have people that don't know how to use it! We will…be…beloved by some of these countries!
You look at Japan, millions of cars come in! And we send them practically nothing. And they want practically nothing. They don't want our product. So, it's all gonna change, folsk.
So, here's the story: you're gonna remember this evening! We had a good time. I had no idea your arena was so beautiful, but that's okay…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…in a packed arena, with thousands of people trying to get in…we had a great time. But more importantly, tomorrow, you're gonna have a phenomenal time. And you're gonna represent…the great state of Pennsylvania, which I love, and I know very well…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I know very well.
And you're gonna say, when you look back in five years, and 15 years, and 25 years, and hopefully in 50 years from now, you're gonna say, “that was the single…greatest…vote…I ever cast…for President…Donald Trump” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. THE CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY YET TIMIDLY.
Because we're gonna go on, and we're gonna beat crooked Hillary, and we're gonna win the White House, and we're gonna have such victories! But what you're gonna say is, “you know, it's amazing. When Donald Trump…when President Trump…”, and by the way, you're gonna have such love and respect for your president but I don't care. I don't care. What I really care…you're gonna have great, new respect for your country again. Great, great respect…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…and…great respect.
And you're gonna say, “when president Trump took over, our country…started winning again!” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. “We won with our military, we knocked the hell out of ISIS, and then we go back and we went and we take care of our country. But we won with our military, we’ve rebuilt it. We've made it so strong. We've made it so good”. By the way, maybe the cheapest investment we can make, folks. Maybe the cheapest investment we can make.
We're gonna take care of our great veterans who have been absolutely forgotten about! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
We're going to win with education, we're getting rid of Common Core, and we're bringing education back locally! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We are gonna terminate Obamacare and replace it with something far, far better! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We are going to protect our Second Amendment, which is under siege! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We are going to have strong, powerful, magnificent borders…! We are going to build a great wall, and Mexico is going to pay for the wall! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. THEN THE CROWD CHANTS ‘BUILD THAT WALL!’ REPEATEDLY.
And we're going to make…great trade deals, not with political hacks…that get the job because they give campaign contributions. We've got the most brilliant business people in the world in our country. We're gonna be using our best people, our best negotiators. They've been calling me by the dozen! They don't want money! They wanna make America great again, they're proud of our country! We're gonna use our best people! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we're going to bring back our jobs! And we're gonna…we are going to do great with trade! We are going to do great with trade.
So…folks, go out tomorrow. Get a great night sleep. Go out nice and early, vote. And I promise you, 100 percent, we will make…America…great…again! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We will make it better…than…ever…before!
