VIDEO Nº: 22
TITLE:22. FNN: FULL Donald Trump Rally in Richmond, Virginia
DATE OF EVENT:14/10/2015
RELEASE DATE:14/10/2015
DURATION:01.03.43 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:9181
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Wow! Thank you! Wow!
 
Well I want to thank everybody!
 
I do love Virginia. I love Virginia –CROWD CHEERS. Man! What a place! What a place! 
 
You know, I have a lot of people that work really hard…I pay ‘em a lot of money, probably too much money…but that's ok, right? And I have the vineyards in Charlottesville, you know about that –CROWD CHEERS.
 
And in Loudoun County I have Trump National, which is a tremendous success, right along the Potomac River. Probably no piece of land like it, it's phenomenal. And we've had tremendous success in Virginia…we have a lot of people that work for me…! We have a lot of people…frankly, I work for them the way I look at it. Because the truth is, they're so good, that I actually need them more than they need me. Does that make sense? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YES!’.
 
So it's one of those things…and you know what I did…where is Carrie…? …where is Carrie!? She'll…-MR. TRUMP SEES HER AND ADDRESSES HER-… ‘get up here Carrie, come on! She's so incredible…
She runs the vineyards, it's coo…Trump Vineyards, you know what it is. A lot of people going. In fact, one of the drivers tell me he goes there back and forth, all the time bringing people. But Carrie Willard runs it. And she has done such an incredible job…
 
We took it over…about four years ago. It was…to put it mildly, in serious trouble. It's close to 2,000 acres, and it's one of the most beautiful…it’s the largest…actually the largest vineyards on the east coast…of this country. The largest. And it's become an incredible…incredible tourist attraction. And Carrie has literally from day one, I mean she's taken it, and it's with love, and with pride, and I'm proud, because, you know, one of the things…and I have to say this. That…Ivanka said, ‘you have to say it’. My wife said, ‘you have to say it’. And I think you'll confirm it, Carrie. But…I have more women in high executive positions…in fact…-CROWD CHEERS-…It’s true! It’s true! In fact, the men in my company, they’re all complaining. Is that ok? The hell with them, right? But I have so many women…Carrie, would you just say a word? Tell ‘em, -DO- you like Trump?
 
MS. CARRIE WILLARD INTERVENES. Minute 00.02.40 – 00.02.44.
CROWD CHEERS.
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES HIS INTERVENTION.
 
She has done such an incredible job. Thank you Carrie!
 
You know, when I have a place…and it's…usually I have a lot of them. But when I go to certain areas, and if I have something that I'm very proud of, I like to bring the employees. We have some of our employees here today, from the vineyards. But I like to bring the employees up, because it's so important…especially when you're looking at what's going on with our country, where our jobs are being taken away…they're going to other places, as you know, like…many other countries. I mean, you can name the country! We don't make good deals anymore. We just don't. And so, when I'm around one of my places, I love to bring my people up. I love it.
 
You know, we had some big news today, because…I…I just have to talk about it. We get such…! …such a…you know, in the old days we’d called it misinformation-CROWD LAUGHS. Do we agree? And we're gonna talk about the debate. –DID- anybody watch it last night!? Yeah!? –CROWD BOOS. MR. TRUMP LAUGHS. And I tweeted! I tweeted! Can you believe…? And I made a commitment. I said, ‘I tweet’. So I couldn't turn it off, SO I had to tweet this thing. And somebody said on one of the network's the winner was Trump because we picked up a hundred and sixty thousand followers. Do you believe it? CROWD CHEERS. Hundred and sixty…and second place was a lot less. I’ll will tell you that! One of the folks on this stage.
 
But you know, so today, CNN came out with a poll…and the pole was in the state of Nevada. They came out with another poll, in South Carolina, which is incredible place…both incredible places. I said, ‘I have to read some of these, cause…this is wild!’. So we're in first place, everywhere! –APPARENTLY IT HAS BEEN A MEMBER IN THE AUDIENCE THAT HAS CALLED OUT ‘EVERYWHERE!’…I mean…-CROWD CHEERS. MR. TRUMP LAUGHS AND TURNS AROUND TO WAVE AT PEOPLE BEHIND HIM. CROWD CHEERS. I…I…that’s true. Actually true. That was good. At your…you can… you really help…he said, ‘everywhere’. I said, ‘yeah, you're right’. It is never…I mean, it's Texas, we’re in New Hampshire, we’re Iowa, we’re in first place everywhere!
 
But…the polls just came out, and…as you know, couple of weeks ago, we had Florida. And we're just killing in Florida. So you have a…governor, and you have a sitting senator…and it's not even close. We're at 28, 29…they’re in the teens, low teens…and we wanna keep it that way. We're…actually we're going up. I'm not even happy with…! When I hear 29 now, I'm saying, ‘we should do better’, because here’s what just happened: so in Nevada…we’re at 38…think of it: 38. Second place is 22. I won't even bother telling you, it doesn't make any difference. Cause when you have 38, you're almost doubling it up.
 
But here's the thing that I loved about the pool! Again, done by CNN: South Carolina…we’re 36 to 18. –DO- you believe that? –CROWD CHEERS. Connecticut just came out: 34 to 14! -CROWD CHEERS. But is what I really like: ‘which candidate can best handle the economy?’. Okay? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. Well, that was big. Sixty-seven percent said Trump. Can you believe it? –CROWD CHEERS. Now, you gotta remember. You know, if we had two people running…and you had 67 percent…that would be a landslide, right? …that's a landslide. If you won with 67 percent…the press…with all those cameras going back there…so many! So many! And look at all the red lights. Show the crowd everybody! Show the crowd! Show the crowd!
 
And you get a lot of people outside, that the fire marshal would not let in. So it's one of those things…but I will tell you that…when you have sixty-seven percent in a two-person race…that's called landslide…that's called massive victory. I don't think there's ever been a victory…and here we have…on thing called ‘The Economy’. Would you say that's important? I think so, right? -CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YES!’. 
 
So sixty-seven percent are in favor for Trump. Okay. We won the state by…a lot, meaning in the polls by a lot. Now, a couple of these categories I have to read them: illegal immigration, important. We're going to build the wall. Okay? Believe me! –CROWD CHEERS. We're going to build the wall! –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘TRUMP’! REPEATEDLY-… hundred percent.
 
And, you know… -THERE ARE SOME DISSENTERS THAT INTERVENE APPARENTLY AS THE CROWD BOOS-…so we're going to build it. It will be paid for…who's gonna pay for the wall!? Who is gonna pay for the wall? That’s right.
 
So…the next category…the next category, which is so important…-MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES THE UPROAR AS IT CANNOT LET HIM CONTINUE-… ‘that's ok…that's ok. Don’t worry. That’s alright… -CROWD CHEERS AS, PRESUMABLY, THE DISSENTERS ARE SHOWN THE EXIT-…that's alright’.
 
That’s why we have freedom of speech folks, you know? –CROWD CHEERS-…and…and I'll tell you. I'll tell you how dishonest the press is. We have thousands of people in this room. Six, seven thousand I think…7200 people…we have about 10 people over there, they'll get the headline, you won't. That's pretty disgusting. Pretty disgusting. But that's the way it goes.
So illegal immigration: 55-percent want Trump. 13-percent the second place. That tells you something right there. Thirteen percent. Thirteen percent. On…social issues, Trump is first. On foreign policy –DISSIDENTS APPEAR TO BE STILL ACTIVE AS THE ROAR CONTINUES. AT MOMENTS THE CROWD BOOS. THE CROWD, ENCOURAGED BY MR. TRUMP STARTS CHANTING ‘WE WANT TRUMP!’-… ‘thank you very much. That's great. Thank you very much’.
 
But it is true. I see a couple of cameras for about four people, and they're going wild, the cameras, you know. It's so disgusting, but that's all right. On foreign policy, Trump number one, thirty-four percent. On Isis, ‘who's going to handle Isis?’, Trump 46! We're not gonna play games –CROWD CHEERS. We’re not playing games. We’re not playing games. On the change…on how we do in Washington, on the change. How are we going to change Washington? … ‘who's going to do the most effective job?’. Trump, 60-percent. Sixty! Sixty percent.
 
Here's an important one: ‘best chance of winning, in November’. Trump, number one, forty-seven percent –CROWD CHEERS. Amazing! So we're number one at forty-second, and then you get into 16 and 10…that's a big difference. So we've all come a long…! …way together. We've all come. And you know, we have a lot of bad people out there…they wanna stop progress. And you see it all the time. And…I use the statement, ‘the silent majority’. The silent majority is back folks. The silent majority is back –CROWD CHEERS. The silent majority is back.
 
So…over the last period of time…we have had…a very interesting thing happen. We've seen our country, where we don't win anymore…and we're gonna start winning so much! We're gonna win left, we're gonna right…we’re gonna win everything. We have…unbelievable people…! …in this country. And nothing is going to stop us from starting to win again –CROWD CHEERS.
 
You look at what's happening with…foreign countries. You look at how they're taking our jobs, how they're taking our base, how they're taking everything we have…including our money, you look at what's going on with the foreign…no matter what country you're talking about…! …they beat the United States. It's not going to happen any…more! It's not! –CROWD CHEERS. Our trade deficit with China…is almost 400 billion dollars! Four hundred billion dollars a year! A year! And then I see…our president entertaining the heads of China…and talking about our great trading partners! Yeah! They're a great trading partner for China…! …not for us!
 
Our…deficit with Japan…is 70 billion dollars a year! The cars pour in…we don't know what we're doing…we sell them practically nothing relatively speaking…what we sell them is beef… beef! They sell us cars…you go out to Los Angeles, you see these ships…the biggest ships you've ever seen! And the cars are pouring off! And they have no respect for us! And our trade deficit with Japan is almost 70 million…think of this! Think of this: Japan 70 billion dollars! Which is…absolutely crazy.
 
Now…! We go to Mexico, I love the people of Mexico…I love Mexico, they're great people! I have…thousands and thousands of Hispanics working for me! Thousands! Thousands of Hispanics! And, in fact, in Nevada, with the same poll, I win with the Hispanics…which everyone surprised! I win…with the Hispanics! –CROWD CHEERS. So our trading deficit with Mexico…is 45 billion dollars a year! 45 billion! Now, I'm gonna build a wall, that's gonna be really a wall…it's gonna be something special. Nobody's coming in, other than if you come in legally…but here’s the thing…everybody said, ‘you can't build the wall’. And I say, ‘Mexico's gonna pay for it. They say, ‘you can't do that. You can't do that. How can they do that?’
 
So if the wall costs six billion dollars to build…and you know, we're talking about a thousand miles. It's 2,000, but you need it on a thousand. The Great Wall of China, think of it…is 13,000 miles…it was built 2,000 years ago! We have a wall…that has to be built. We have problems coming in, like nobody has ever seen before! It has to be built. Has to be built! –CROWD CHEERS. Whatever anybody said…just remember this: almost everybody wanted this wall built ten years ago, 12 years ago, 15 years ago…the liberals, the conservatives…everybody wanted it! One of the reasons it wasn't built is because they couldn't get an environmental impact statement approved. –DO/WOULD- you believe this!? Alright?
 
We're gonna build the wall…Mexico's gonna pay for it. Now…! …the people, the stupid people say, ‘Mexico will pay for it’…we give Mexico billions of dollars. We have that training deficit of almost 50 billion dollars. We're talking about a 5, to 6, to 7…if you go Rolls-Royce…you go…we're talking about from five to seven billion dollars! Who couldn't get that money!? They're gonna pay it so gladly. They're gonna pay it so gladly! And I will say this: I speak with our politicians and I speak to ‘em all the time. But I speak to ‘em loud and clear. And I know who I'm dealing with. And a lot of them a nice people. But they say, ‘Donald, you'll never be able to get them to pay’, and I realized then that the right people to do the job. Because, with the right messenger, they will pay so happily, so gladly…

They're taking advantage of us at the border, they're taking advantage of us with trade, they're very good people…but their leaders are smarter than our leaders. Our leaders don't have a clue. They don't have a clue –CROWD CHEERS.
 
We have…we have a situation, where…a mother is pregnant. She goes to the border. She walks across the border, right in front of our Border Patrol…who are great people, but they're not allowed to do their job. She lies down…she has a baby that they call anchor babies, she has a baby…now we're responsible for that baby, for 85 years. Okay? I don't think so! –CROWD BOOS. I don't think so. I don't think so! We can't do it.
 
We all 19 trillion dollars. We owe a number that's almost inconceivable, when you think about it. So we are 19…! …trillion dollars. We can't be in a position where we're doing what we're doing anymore. We just can't. We have to rebuild our country, we have to rebuild our infrastructure…-CROWD CHEERS-…we have to repeal and replace Obamacare! Have to do it! –CROWD CHEERS-…have to do it! Have to do it!
 
Obamacare is going to cost us more money than anybody would have ever dreamt, and it's…no good! It doesn't work! Your premiums are going up 55 percent, 45 percent, 60 percent…your deductibles are through-the-roof, you can be dead and never get any of the money…your deductibles are so high..! So we're going to repeal Obamacare, we're going to replace it with something that's going to be terrific…and…-CROWD CHEERS-…it's going to be terrific. It's gonna cost our country very little, and people are going to be able to have their doctor, have their plan…pay less money…
 
If they're sick they’re not gonna have to worry about a deductible being so high that…nothing works, unless you get hit by a tractor…So we're gonna do that. We're gonna do so many different things. We're gonna make our country great again! We're gonna make it so great… -CROWD CHEERS.
 
Our taxes, we just put in a plan the other day. We’re gonna reduce taxes tremendously. Because we have the highest tax rates anywhere in the world!  And our middle class is being absolutely…destroyed! It’s being destroyed! –CROWD CHEERS. You know, we use to have the middle class, and everybody was proud…we don’t have that anymore…they are so badly treated…
 
Our Vets…are being treated worse than anybody! Our Vets! –CROWD CHEERS. I watch, last night, with Bernie Sanders, and Hillary, and the other three guys, that nobody…-CROWD BOOS- ‘yeah, yeah’. The other three guys that nobody even knows who they are…who are they? –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But I watched, last night, as Hillary and Bernie Sanders, they just couldn’t give things away fast enough. And they are giving them to illegal immigrants! They want health care for illegal immigrants. They want driving licenses for illegal immigrants! They're suggesting…listen to this! …they're suggesting social security for illegal immigrants! –CROWD BOOS.
 
So…we're gonna straighten things out…we're gonna do it the right way…we're gonna bring immigration under control…we're not gonna have a situation like Kate.  Beautiful Kate, in San Francisco. This guy comes in, five different times! It could have been much more than that. After the fifth time…she gets shot in the back! We're not gonna have it anymore! We're going to have a situation…that's going to be rational, reasonable…
 
We're gonna keep in the country…! …when somebody goes through up a long process…with college. They go to Harvard, they go to Yale, they go to a great College…
University of Virginia, great college. Right? Great, that is! Right next to our property. We love them, that's a great college. But they go to University of Virginia, they do fantastic…! They do…and they do just great…! …and they're so proud. And they're from another country, but they wanna stay here, and we tell ‘em, ‘get out!’. You stayed here…you have to go home. And then…the case in India! …where a man opened a company, wanted to say here…he ends up opening the country in India. He now has five thousand employees, is one of the hottest companies in the world. And he would have been here! It would have been here! And that's what we want! We wanna keep people here! We want people to come in legally! And I say…-CROWD CHEERS-…I say, and so importantly, and I'm saying it all the time. We wanna have a big door! We wanna have a big, beautiful door! Right in the middle of that wall, and we want those people to come in. They've gotta do it through a legal process! If we don't have a border…if we don't have a border…and we have people all over this country…we have no idea where they're coming from…we don't have a country. We no longer have a country! –CROWD CHEERS. It's very simple!
 
And we're gonna do it with heart, and we're gonna get along with people…and everything's gonna be great. But we're gonna have a country again. We're gonna take back our country, and we're going to start doing things properly –CROWD CHEERS.
 
When…when we have…countries, like the ones I named…and many others! …and we have people that take advantage of our leaders, because they're not smart, they're incompetent, they're stupid, or they don't care…! …that's gonna end! I have the greatest minds in Wall Street! I have ‘em already lined up! They’re calling me! These are the greatest negotiators in the world! They're calling me! Carl Icahn, great. I have all of them! I have the best. In the world! They don’t want money…they don’t want salaries…! They're rich! They made it because they're great negotiators! They want to come, and they gonna see our country be great again. They're proud of our country. Some are nice people, some aren’t. I don't care! I want the greatest! And I know the best. I know the smartest, sharpest…I know people that are overrated…I know people that are better than all of them! –CROWD CHEERS.And…we're gonna bring them in. And we're gonna bring ‘em in, and they're gonna be in charge of…one: China –IN A DIFFERENT TONE.
 
Let...let me tell you about China: first of all, I love China. Their people are great! They buy my apartments for 50 million dollars all the time…how could I just like ‘em, right? I tell it to everybody! I have the largest bank in the world, in one of my buildings, it's from China. I mean, there's a bank that makes Citibank look like this big –MR. TRUMP GESTURES A SMALL SPACE IN THE AIR. I love China! But they've taken advantage. And…I…I wish you were…turned around. I wish our…representatives took advantage of them! I think that'll be great! I think that would be great! But it's a one-way street! It's a one-way street to poverty…! …for us! Poverty! We can't do it!
 
We're in a bubble right now. Believe me! We are in a bubble! We have a phony statistic on jobs…we have a hundred million people in the workforce…they wanna work…we have a hundred million people! We have tremendous levels of poverty…! …we have welfare, all over the place…! …and these are people...in many cases, they wanna go out, and get a great job, and be proud, and take home a lot of money! But we can't, because we're losing all our jobs! We're losing them to other nations! We're losing them to stupid policies! This trade pact: Trans-Pacific Partnership. It's…it's…-CROWD BOOS-…believe me! Believe me! I…if it was good I’d say…I don't care if Obama proposed it. If it were good…
 
I wish Obama was a great president! I don't care! Then I wouldn't have to run. I love what I was doing! It's true1 –CROWD CHEERS. I love it! I love it! So true! I'd love that he were a great president, where I’d say, ‘wow, he's a great president’. I’d vote, I'd be his…greatest fan. I don't care. Because, what I want is what's good for the country. I don't wanna be doing this! I'm actually having fun, because I'm so energized!
 
I go to these crowds. You know, we went to Dallas…we had 20,000 people, where the –DALLAS- Mavericks play. 20,000 people! We go to Oklahoma, two weeks ago. We had 20,000 people…in a park! We got, no matter where we go…we went to Mobile, Alabama. We had 35,000 people! No matter where we go! We go up to New Hampshire, we have the biggest crowds! Iowa…! …the biggest crowd!  South Carolina! We had something two weeks, -IT- was unbelievable! It was unbelievable! A friend of mine actually said, ‘how do you do that? …how do you make speeches in front of so many people? …and you don't have teleprompters, Donald, I notice…you don’t...’.
 
I don't want a teleprompter. I don't want, right? –CROWD CHEERS. I don't! I don't! …it would be so much easier; it would be…think of it! You have your teleprompter, right? –MR. TRUMP STARTS WALKING DRAGGING HIS FEET AS TO MOCK OTHER POLITICIANS AND THEN UTTERS IN A DIFFERENT TONE- … ‘hello ladies and gentlemen. It's wonderful to be in Virginia, where you have all sorts of great people…’. And you do, by the way! When you talk, you really have the Hall of Fame…! You know…it's true! No, you have the hall of Fame!
 
You know, I told my guys…I said, ‘look, I'm here. I employ a lot of people. I Have a lot of property, it's great. But…just a couple of things…I mean, you have…this is a real Hall-of-Fame. Patrick Henry, ‘Give me liberty or give me death!’-FAMOUS QUOTATION ATTRIBUTED TO PATRICK HENRY FROM A SPEECH MADRE IN THE SECOND VIRGINIA CONVENTION AROUND 1775. CROWD CHEERS-… gonna how good…? Right? How good is that!?
 
Oh, I wanna come up with a slogan as good as that. How about ‘Make America Great Again’? I don't know, you know, it's great…it’s great! –CROWD CHEERS-…but I still like ‘Give me liberty or give me death!’, that…alright. See, I wanna get the word ‘again’ off that eventually, you know? I want to get the word…he –MEANING A MEMBER IN THE CROWD-…just said ‘you will’. I will! It's not even gonna be that hard! It’s not all it takes!... it takes common sense! It takes business ability. And we’re gonna treat people well!
 
You know, I’m semi-conservative with heart, because we're gonna have that great healthcare program, but we're gonna take care of everyone…we're gonna take care of people! And people are gonna pay much less, and get it so good! We're gonna take care of so many things. But I like to say, ‘conservative with heart’. Because a lot of people think –THAT- if your Republican you don't have heart. You're mean, you're horrible people! Doesn't work that way! I've gone over my plans, and somebody said, ‘Oh, well that's not conservative!’. You know, it's sort of interesting.
 
You have a cup…group called Club for Growth. I talk about it. Club for Growth, never even heard of it. This guy comes up to my office, right? And he sits down. Nice guy…! …I think he was a next Congressman, so he knows how to talk. That's all they do, is talk. They're all talk, no action, except for the politicians currently in this room, of which we have plenty. They’re great. In fact, Dave Brat, where is Dave Brat!? He’s great! –CROWD CHEERS. And…I was just with his family, and his children, and his wife…and I tell you, he…he’s done a great job. There's a guy he shows you can do things. I mean, who would've thought that…? …that's never happened before, what he did! So I give him…I just give him a lot of…just a lot of credit. But I have to go! Okay!
 
So Patrick Henry, we talk, great! Right? Then you have…ehm…Thomas Jefferson…that's pretty good. Right!? –CROWD CHEERS. Man! Then you have James Madison…! …principal author of the Constitution! That's pretty good! –CROWD CHEERS. And then you have George Washington…that’s pretty good…right? George Washington! You know…? It’s pretty amazing! You know, when you think of Virginia…just pretty amazing.
 
So…I tell the stories, and I love these stories, because it shows how important it is…I'm self-funding my campaign. Okay? -CROWD CHEERS. I'm the only one. And I see all of the guys that are competing with me, and some of them a nice, although some of them have hit me really hard! I mean, you know, they're asking me for contributions…and then, as soon as I run, it's like… a couple of them, like Perry! He went wild! He was a nice guy! Governor Perry –FROM TEXAS-… didn't work out too well for him. But he really hit me! And then Lindsey Graham!  thought he was a nice guy, but he hit me! …he went, made speeches about Trump…and INAUDIBLE…because they wanna get their numbers up. Not working! And every case has gone down! They've all gone down! Man, can you imagine if I'm president…? …everybody that plays tough with us, they’re all gone down! Right? It's nice! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
But…I look at what's going on, and I see…so much…! …and I see the way the politicians are control. Don't forget! I was the one…I was the perfect person. I was…like…central casting! …because before I ran, I was on the A-list! I contributed a tremendous amount…I got along well with Democrats, with Liberals, with Conservatives, with…that was my job! Somebody said, ‘but you gave money to a Democrat!’…of course I did! I get along with everybody! One of the magazine said, ‘he's a world-class businessman’. You can't have fights…! …you gotta get along!
 
I was told, by Hillary! …in his speech, recently. I was told same day by Jeb…that… ‘we don't like his tone’ …his tone! His tone! I built this incredible company,  and I built it! …and you'll see, because the book comes out on November third, which is your election day, by the way, so go out and vote, make sure the right people get it. So important. It actually comes out. It comes out on election day, it's gonna be great. Actually a tough name: ‘Crippled America’. It's a tough name, but it tells you how we're gonna fix it, and how we're gonna go about it. But I'm self-funding…it's so important…
 
I was in Iowa, a few weeks ago, and I said to the people, ‘I feel so foolish’…these people wanna give me millions and millions of dollars…! And, you know, it's sort of like anti-me, it's like, why wouldn't I take it? I always take money when…that's what I do! I take money! That's how you become rich! Right? And these guys know…millions of dollars! –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So I said to the group in Iowa, we had 5,000 people in an auditorium like this. I said, ‘look here's the story: I feel a little bit stupid, when I don't take all this money’. I said, ‘supposing I take it. Just supposing. And I promise I won't do anything for them…’ …and they all stood up and said ‘No, no, no!’. I couldn't believe it! I thought I talked ‘em into it! But the truth is…ehm…I love what I'm doing, I love that I'm self-funding, because I'm not controlled by anybody. I'm not control! –CROWD APPLAUDS. Controlled by you. I am really! I mean. I'm controlled by you, I'm gonna do the right thing. And you've heard me talking about the Ford plant. Have you heard that story? The Ford plant. Because I love it! But Ford…you want it again!? Should I do it again!? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YES!’ AND CHEERS. I just think it's good!
 
So Ford…closes a lot of plants…that building a two-and-a-half billion dollar plant…in Mexico! It’s all right…except, what do we get out of it? …and they're gonna make cars, and trucks and parts. And they're gonna send them…! …into the United States, and other places! How does that help us!? We all go to good…I went to Wharton, you all went to good schools…and if you didn't go to good schools, if you never graduated from high school, you know it's not good for us. And a two-and-a-half billion dollar plant in Mexico…that's a big plant!
 
So they're going to suck our jobs away. They're gonna make cars, trucks and parts in Mexico. And I said to myself, ‘what would happen if a Rubio, or a Bush or…or a Hillary…! …were president? So here's what happens: they would all know it's no good. And they would say, ‘no, no, no, no. We can't let that happen’. And the following hour, they’d be called by a lobbyist who gave them five million. They’d be called by the special-interest, who gave them 10 million. They’d be called by one of their donors who owns stock in Ford or whatever, who gave them a million…and let's say, ‘Mr. President, you can't do that. They were very helpful in your campaign, to become president. You can't do that!’. And you know what's going to happen? He'll say, or she'll say, ‘I have to do it’. And they'll say, ‘no, no, you can't do it’. And you'll say, ‘okay, I won’t’…and the plant is gonna be built.
 
Now, let's do the other alternative. Trump is president. They haven't given me anything...-CROWD CHEERS-…okay, let's just do it. Let’s just do it!
 
So I call the head of Ford…I’d say, I wouldn't even use my guys for this. This is too easy! This is too…honestly? It's too easy! So I’d call the head of Ford. I’d say, ‘you're building a plant, you can employ thousands of people, but you're not deploying people in the United States. You're employing other people. And I think that's fine. But tell me how we benefit’. He'll be unable to explain it. Believe me! He cannot explain it! …not to me! He can’t! Believe me! I’ll said, ‘listen, I want you to build a plant in Michigan, or I want you to build a plan here…! –MEANING VIRGINIA-…or I want you to…I don't care! I wanted it in the United States! I don't wanna lose…I'm tired of the jobs with NAFTA and all of these crazy deals we make. I'm tired of these jobs, the new one that was just trying to approve. I'm tired of these jobs, like a vacuum cleaner: they suck the jobs out of the country, they suck our money out of the country…we have nothing! …we have nothing! We're like a third-world country. Our airports! …our roads! …our bridges are falling down! 61 percent of our bridges are in trouble –WOULD- you believe this!? We drive over a bridge –THAT- it's in trouble! So I would say to him the following…I won't use his name, cause he happens to be a very good guy. But I would say, ‘let me just tell you something. I want you to build it in the United States. I don't want you leaving. And if you do leave, and if you insist on leaving, you're not bringing those cars over free. You’re not. You’re not doing it –CROWD CHEERS.
 
Remember the trade deficit. Remember here we're talking 45, to 50…billion dollars here! You're not bringing those cars over free. We're gonna charge you a 35 percent tax…on every car, truck and part, that you bring over –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
Now, I believe in free trade. I'm a free trader. But…I also want smart trade. And I want fair trade. It's gotta be fair trade free. Free is good, all over…! I want…but it's gotta be fair, so we can compete. So what happens is the following: he will call up, and say, ‘no, no we won't do that Mr. President’. I'll then be hit by every person I know in Washington. All of whom have given me nothing…! In fact, I given most of them! You know, the lobbyists, that they ware…I know all these people! But now they'll call, and I'll say, ‘no, no. We gotta do the right thing’. Then I'll be called by everybody else…but I haven't taken their money! I owe ‘em nothing! I only owe you people. You –MR. TRUMP POINTS BEHIND HIM- in particular with that wonderful location –CROWD CHEERS. Right? And I say…and I'll say the following. I'm saying, ‘no, we want you to build that plant in the United States. It's gonna be built in the United States’. They'll say, ‘no’. I guarantee you, within 24 hours, probably by five o'clock that afternoon…assuming it's made at 12…you know, they like to call around lunch time, so they can have a drink, and convince the politicians what to do…
 
Assuming the call is made at that time…probably by five o'clock, they will say, ‘yes Mr. president, we've agreed, we're gonna build in the United States’ –CROWD CHEERS. The only thing that could change is they're pretty tough negotiators. So it may take an extra day. They may wait till five o'clock the following day…that's the only thing! They can't do anything! We have the cards!
 
See? What people don't realize. Obama thinks that they have the cards. We have the cards! China has created…one of the greatest thefts…in the history of the world! It’s true! They have sucked our economy dry. And if you wanna do business in China…and I have many friends that are manufacturers, and I love these guys…and they're great manufacturers, and they call me all the time, they cannot get their product into China. They can't do it! And when they do there's a big tax! And we're –THE US- like the dummies, ‘Oh, bring it. Just flooded it in, come on in’. And then they do their currency manipulation, which is one of the reasons…that the trade pact…doesn't work. Hillary Clinton was listening to my speech…! …she was in favor of it 44 times, and then yesterday, two days ago, she came out against the trade pact. You know why? Cause if she has to debate me…she knows she's gonna get killed on that pact. Killed! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
And I have to hand it to Hillary Clinton! I have to hand… you’re gonna all be angry. I have to hand it to her. It took great courage…for her to go against President Obama on the trade pact.  You know why? cause maybe she gets indicted! –CROWD CHEERS. Because…because…she is being totally protected by the Democrats, because what she did is illegal…! …and…you look at General Petraeus. He did five percent of…a friend of mine, very familiar with the whole subject, with the emails. General Petraeus did 5 percent of what she did…and they've destroyed his life. Other people have done far less…! …and the life is destroyed. So the Democrats are just protecting her. There's no reason for this!
 
Now, I'd wanted to go…a fair investigation let everything be fair. But…what's happened is…absolutely crazy. So…let's see, if she’s…she might have done okay last night. She did! She did okay, because nobody attacked her! Nobody attacked her! There was no attack! You know, in my debate, I hate to say cause we're live on CNN, they're gonna want it. But…in my debate …they said, ‘Mr. Trump, what do you think of this…that the man next to you said!?’. And then they go to him and they said, ‘Donald Trump called you a horrible human being, how do you respond…?’ It was like…it was like a reality television show! Whereas last night, they'd ask a question, they get an answer. They ask a question…
 
With me, everything was an attack! It's crazy! And yet every poll said that I won that debate. So I'm very happy with that –CROWD CHEERS. But…every poll! Every poll! Drudge, Time Magazine, Slate…every poll –CROWD CHEERS. But it was a whole…it was a whole different story!
 
So we have to do something…about that” Let me give you a one other quick story. Nabisco. Oreo. Right? Nabisco…right? Oreos! They're closing their big plant in Chicago…then moving it to Mexico. I'll never eat another Oreo again. Ever! Ever! So…I'm gonna talk to them. I mean, I don't want their cookies made and sold in…I…I just don't want it. It's unfair to us! Chicago is losing this large plant…it's going to another country.
 
We have a thing called corporate inversion. That's where…companies…have trillions and trillions of dollars, outside of the United States. Okay? Trillions! They –MEANING EXPERTS OR ECONOMISTS- think minimum two and a half trillion…I think it's much more than that. It's covered in my tax plan, corporate inversion. We have people, and we have companies, you know in the old days that moved from New York to Florida, from New Jersey to Texas…whatever. Now they move…from the United States to foreign countries. They take all those jobs, and one of the reasons they’re moving…is because they can’t take the money they made outside the United States back into this country. And you know that…every single politician…! …practically in Washington, agrees! Democrats…Republicans…they all agree that we should allow it to come back…it’s good! Let them have ‘em…they can’t agree. And you know why they can’t agree? Because we don’t have a leader in the White House –CROWD CHEERS. We don’t have a leader!
This…is a situation…where every single politician…practically! …wants it to come...and they can’t agree. So we are doing…something…wrong. But really…what it is…? Its leadership. It’s leadership! You get ‘em into a room and you get something done! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So…things are happening…in this country…that…people haven’t seen happen in…50 years! I got a call the other day from a tremendous reporter, one of the few honest ones. And he said, ‘how does that feel?’. I said, ‘how does what feel?’. ‘What you’ve done’. Because, think of this: you know what? And…they’ll tell you. Everyone’s surprised. I spent so little money and I’m leading every poll, every state, everything. Why? In fact, …-CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…you know, I was supposed…on my own, I had a budget…cause I like budgets, you know I’m a business person, we all have budgets, right? I thought I had spent 20, 25 million dollars up until this point. You know what I spent? Like…nothing! Because I was gonna spend a tremendous amount on advertising. But…we’ve gone so far…and the polls and everything are so good, and the crowds are so great…I don’t like to waste money! What’s the purpose of spending!? And I get so much on Television…-CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…It’s true! Tonight I’m doing O’Riley if you’re home. O’Riley, he’s great. Good guy.
 
But…but, I spent so much…like I’ll…do interviews. Now an interview is better than a commercial, do we agree? Right? It’s better. Commercial you turn it off, you go home. I mean, I look at some these guys…they spend tens of millions of dollars and they got 1 percent! So…I said to myself, you know, ‘is it good to talk about how little we spent…? Or is it bad?’. In one way, they say, ‘oh, he should’ve spent more!’. But in one way, I’m very proud of it! I’m very proud of it! Very proud! –CROWD CHEERS. Now, I’ll spend if we need to…but it’s great. I mean, think of it: I’ve spent the least of anybody, or just about, and I’m first place. Is that good? Right? Right? –CROWD CHEERS. And, I don’t mean first place by a little bit!
 
You know, there was a guy, any baseball fans in the audience? We got good gangs…okay. Did anybody ever hear of Charles O Finley? The great Charles O Finley. Right? The Oakland A's.
He had…the lowest payroll…in baseball…the lowest payroll! And he won the World Series three times. He had Reggie Jackson, sold him to the Yankees. He had Catfish Hunter, sold him to the Yankees. George Steinbrenner, who was one of my best friends, and a great guy, he said, ‘this guy's brutal. Donald, he doesn't spend any money, and he's like…killing us!’ And George would always buy players, but he bought them at the top, you know. But George is just fine. George did great. George was great. But…there's a guy…the lowest payroll…! …now think of it: by far! …by far…! …in baseball. And yet he had the best team. And he won three World Series, I think in a row, right? Charles O Finley. There's something beautiful about that, to me! To me there's something beautiful about that!
 
So we'll spend whatever we have to spend. I mean, one of the things that happened, and that's so incredible…I did Meet the Press. Nice, Chuck Todd. He had his highest ratings, in four and a half years. He called up our office. He said, ‘thank you’. Can you believe it? I saved his job. I said, listen…-CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS-…It’s true! It’s true. And I did the same…Jeb…I Did This Week with George Stephanopoulos, they got tremendous ratings. The other shows were dying, they were dying! This is two weeks ago. But they asked me a question, just to show you, it's so terrible…they said, ‘Mr. Trump…’, now you gotta us in…leading all the polls, getting the biggest crowds, everybody's going crazy…they said, ‘Mr. Trump, is there any way…that you'd get out of the race?’. And I said to myself…no, think of it. Who would be asked that question…? One of the commentators said, ‘who would be asked…’, if you’re in first place…would anybody else but me be asked that question? …is that terrible? So they said, ‘is there any way that you get out of the race?’. I said, this is –A- strange question, but I thought I'd give a very honest answer. And I said…very, very honestly. ‘Look, we're number one. But if we weren't, and if everything went down…the polls, the crowds…if you don't call anymore…because you don't want interviews, because it's over…! …like some of the guys we’re running against. I mean, honestly! I mean, honestly! If I was some of those guys…what's the purpose? I don't know…do they gain something by having zero!? –CROWD LAUGHS. Do they gain something…and going in a debate!? They call it ‘the children's debate’. Guys like Pataki –GEORGE PATAKI- he's got zero! Guys like Rand –PAUL- I hate to say it –MR. TRUMP MOCKS HIM THROUGH A GESTURE. He…he attacked me! He was much higher…when he attacked! Right? …but he went down! I mean, so many…I don't want to use those…I don't want to. I refuse to embarrass anybody. But okay.
 
But…so I said to him. So if for some reason everything just tanked, and I went down…! …I'd certainly consider it. Next day headlines -IN THE PRESS- ‘Trump considering leaving…!’. It’s so dishonest! And actually, it took a couple of unbelievable polls, to stop it. It took a couple of unbelievable polls! Which I get all the time! I said, ‘wait a minute…I didn't say that!’ But they put out stuff…and it's so false! And so disgusting! And remember this…much of the press that I've met have been terrific people, and honorable people. I've met some…amazing people! Are like…thirty percent. Okay? –CROWD LAUGHS. Then you have thirty percent, who are okay… and, you know, they do their job. But you have, I'd say ten to fifteen to twenty percent, who are truly bad people! They're dishonest…they’re horrible human beings! They know…it's not a question of being lazy Ernie…! They actually go out of their way to write false stories!
 
And somebody asked me today. I did an interview today, and they said, ‘what's been your biggest surprise?’, I said, ‘I don't know my biggest surprise, but my most pleasant surprise…is how brilliant the public is. They get it! The public gets it! They really get it!’.
 
But…it's been tremendous fun. I was gonna tell you before. So…a friend of mine said, ‘how do you do that? …how do you speak…? no teleprompters…no this, no that…and you just speak’. I say it's amazing. And by the way, no disrespect…but every place I go, you would love these people! Whether it's Alabama, whether it's Dallas, whether it's all of the Oklahoma, it's like all the same! They’re incredible people! You’re incredible people! They wanna see…-CROWD APPLAUDS-…it's true! It's true! They wanna see our country be great again. They know it can be! They wanna see it happen. They wanna see victories. We don't…win with anything! We don't win with ISIS! We don't want with Iraq! We don't win with Libya! We don't win with Yemen! …where do you see that!? …and they are going into Saudi Arabia, folks, in case you hadn’t…and by the way, we will defend Saudi Arabia, and we will defend them for nothing. Even though they make a billion dollars a day.
 
Those days are going to stop! I ordered 4,000 television sets recently. They come from South Korea. South Korea makes a fortune, as a country. A fortune. We defend them. We have set 28,000 soldiers, on the line. And we have this maniac…! …on the other side. We have our soldiers, right between. They pay us like…nothing! We defend Germany! …a lot of people don't even know. We defend Germany. They’re a behemoth, economically. A behemoth! We defend them. We defend Japan! Free…! …we…they’ll…give us nothing! …relatively, they give us like virtually nothing! We defend them. And you say to yourself, ‘why!?’. And here's the thing, interesting, with Japan….I love Japan…it’s great…work…well that’s…let's work, but works up now! Help us out, give us something…we can get rid of all these deficits! We can make. We can make! –CROWD CHEERS. True!
 
And then you have the stupid people say, ‘oh, you can ask for that…there are sovereign nation’. Sure they are. They’ve gotta help us out! But here's the deal we have with Japan: we will defend them with our lives, with our money…we will defend them to the death. If they get attacked, we will fight! We have to fight! If we get attacked, they don't have to do anything! That’s right! That's like sergeant Bergdahl! We gotta a guy…–CROWD BOOS-…It’s true! No, it’s true! We have a guy…six young people…great people! …were killed looking for him. We get Bergdahl, they get five or the great killers that they’ve wanted for 10 years. Right!? These are the deals that we make! Because we have leadership…that doesn't know what the hell it's doing! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
Now, in the old days…with Bergdahl, who is a traitor, who was treason, you shoot him! …he got shot! You've been reading the new days over the last couple of days…they think he won't even get jail time anymore! – TRUMP IMPERSONATES HIS SUPPORTERS- …’well…you know, he has some psychological difficulty…they don't really know what happened…wasn't feeling so good…’.
We are just heading in the wrong direction. So, you look around, at all the people that are here tonight. And you remember. Because it's happening! Things are happening. It's a movement. It's a movement –CROWD APPLAUDS. It's absolutely a movement!
 
I get calls and I got…and I was gonna tell you…! …from a highly respected guy. He said, ‘Mr. Trump, can I ask you one question?’. –A- Reporter, one of the biggest… ‘how does it feel?’. I says, ‘How does what feel?’. ‘What you've done…has never been done before in politics! You're an outsider, you came in, they call it, ‘the summer of Trump’, right? …I hear that! I mean…it's alright…they said it's never been…and this is a top…the top guy. He said, ‘never been done. How does it feel?’. I said, ‘I'll be honest. To me, it doesn't feel anything, because…unless we win…I've wasted my time!’. And he said, ‘no, you haven't. What you've done is incredible…’. By the way, that was a while ago, still hasn't written the story. I think he's afraid to write the story, if you wanna know the truth…
But…but he said, ‘what you've done is incredible’. And I said, ‘I understand what you're saying but I'm telling you. Unless I win…’ …meaning…! …unless we win, in the primers…’ And we can't have these politicians any longer. We just can't do it! We can't do it! –CROWD CHEERS. We can't do it! All talk, no action…no ability! They've got one ability. They've got an ability to get reelected. That's their only ability. That's what they have to do. They have to get reelected.
 
So…I said…if we…and I told him! If I don't win…I consider it to be a massive failure. That means primaries, that means win the election! Because otherwise, hey, we've all had a lot of fun…! …but nothing's gonna happen…
 
I watched Hillary last night, with…we're gonna give this, we're gonna give that, we're gonna give actually…the poor woman! She's got to give everything away, because this maniac…that was standing on our right, is giving everything away…so she's following! That's what's happening! -CROWD CHEERS. This socialist-slash-communist…okay? Nobody wants to say it! –CROWD CHEERS. No! No, you know, in all fairness to her…she's standing there listening to this guy…he's gonna tax, you people at ninety percent…he’s gonna take everything! And nobody's heard the term ‘communist’, but you know what? I call him the socialist-slash-communist, okay? Because that's what he is! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So then you see her stand up. Now it's her turn, and she goes, ‘oh, I'm gonna do that too. I'm gonna do that too…I'm gonna do the… cause she’s gotta win! …cause she's not doing so well! And in a head-to-head poll, they just did that…I beat her by five, or six points –CROWD CHEERS. I love it! I love it! But…we have to be careful!
 
So…here's the story. You look around, you can remember this night, because as a very important person told me, this is not just crowds got…this is a movement. There is a movement going on, is about…
When you're leading by 20, and 25 points…in all these states. When you're leading in…South Carolina by 20 when, you're leading in all of these places…Nevada! …and leading with the Hispanics! Leading with the Hispanics…! –CROWD CHEERS. Because they know I create jobs…! …and they're here legally…! …and they don’t want people taking their houses, and running all over the place. They want…they want what they have! And they wanted to get better! And they want jobs!
 
So when we're leading by 20 points, 25…one of the polls have us 40 percent above everybody else. That's a massive number! Those are massive numbers! And as this person said, ‘this is a movement’. This is no longer we’re playing games…this is a movement. You know, they all said. ‘Oh, he's never gonna run. He's got a wonderful life…’ …yeah, I do, I do. But they said, ‘he's never gonna run’, Then, ‘he'll never file Form A’ … Form A is where you sign your life away. I signed Form A. Then they say, ‘oh, he'll never put in his financials! …because he's probably not as wealthy as people thought’. Right? So I have almost a hundred pages of financials! Then they said, ‘Oh, he’ll put them in, but he'll put them in way late’. So I put them in ahead of schedule…I could have had many months after that…by the way, some of these guys that I’m running against…they put them in late, it's a one page! –CROWD LAUGHS. And they’re late! They needed extension! –CROWD LAUGHS. It’s true story!
 
But they said, ‘he'll never put in his financials’, and I was so happy to put them in…in fact, if I didn't run I might have put ‘em in, because I like to tell people…I really…I did a good job! …you know? –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So…I put in my financials, and all of these guys, ‘the pundits’, I call them ‘the talking heads’, you know, they get paid, they don't know what the hell they're doing, many of them. So they're all devastated, cause they said, ‘he wasn't running, he’ll never…for…file, he'll never do this, he’ll never do that…’. So I put in my financials, and it turns out that my company is much bigger, better, stronger, better…! …like much bigger than anyone ever thought! It's fantastic! Like we even come down here, we have the biggest winery of these coast, we have the great land on the Potomac River…they don't know that! You people know it, because you're from Virginia. But no matter where I go, I have property coming out of my ears…! It’s true! I have very little debt, great cash flow…and I'm not saying that to brag…I'm saying that because that's the kind of thinking we need in the country! –CROWD CHEERS. It’s true!
 
That's the kind of thinking –CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY AND CHEERS. ‘Thank you’. If you think, of some of the countries we talked about. If you think…of let's say instead of losing in terms of China, let's say instead of losing 350 to 400 billion a year, and trade deficits. Let's say we broke even, okay!? Do you know what that means!? Does anyone have any idea what that means!? Let's say instead of losing…with Japan…75 billion dollars a year. Let's say we broke even…let's say they agreed to take more of our products…so we can equalize. Not that it's a one-way street. And it’s easy! And we have the cards…because…we can say, ‘we don't want your cars anymore. I'm sorry’. We have all the cards! They wouldn’t…they wouldn’t know what to do!
 
So…we're gonna do a job…I give you my word. I don't care about my company. It’s peanuts compared to what we… it’s so…this is so much more. I have wonderful children: Ivanka, Don Erik, my kids are wonderful. My wife is wonderful. But my three older kids, that I just mentioned, they'll run it. With my executives it's…it doesn't mean anything to me anymore. It doesn't mean. It’s peanuts. I want to save this…I wanna do such a great job…I wanna make you, people, so proud…of this country again…-CROWD CHEERS-…so proud.
 
So…look around at all the people here. Look around, at the people next you, because this is a special night. We are going to make America great again –CROWD CHEERS. Thank you.
 
Thank you.
