VIDEO Nº: 115
TITLE:115. Speech Donald Trump in Walterboro SC - February 17 2016
DATE OF EVENT:17/02/2016
RELEASE DATE:27/10/2017
DURATION:00.27.15 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:4684
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Well, that’s…thank you.
Thank you, everybody. Wow! [It’s] So nice! This is called [a] real country. Look at this look! Look at these people over here! Wow!
So…you know, to have these two…very rich, very powerful, but really wonderful gentlemen. This is a…really wonderful gentlemen. Get back up here! Come here! Come here! What…what gentlemen. And they got some money. Don’t they…? Huh? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. They got some money. I'm looking at that equipment. They get some…that’s good.
So, it's so important that you’re getting out to vote, it's just so important. Because…our country has been taken away from us. It's going…so fast! And…you know, you talk about the Second Amendment, cause I was asking with Randy, and…a lot of people! I was talking to some of the people before:
“What would you like me to focus on?”.
And they said, “just [the] Second Amendment! Second Amendment!”.
Now, [the] Second Amendment means a lot of other things too. We gotta talk about trade a little bit. We're gonna talk about other things.
But, the Second Amendment is under siege. You know that, you know that very well. We lost a…great Supreme Court…justice…and…nobody thought this was gonna be part of the equation. And all of a sudden, if somebody gets in…and that's the wrong person, they'll take that that Second Amendment away so fast [that] your head will spin. You see, [Michael] Bloomberg is somebody that wants to…uh…knock out the Second Amendment. Hillary is a disaster on the Second Amendment…! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. It’s…no, they wanna…they wanna take it away.
So, it's just not gonna happen. It's not gonna happen. And…you have to get out and vote. It’s so important! But when we lost…our…wonderful…justice, who was a great man and a great Second Amendment person…-MR. TRUMP REFERS TO MR. ANTONIN SCALIA. I just heard, coming up, you know, uh…the senators, we've been very disappointed. I'm a Republican, many of you are Republicans. But we're not being protected. Whether it's a budget…you saw the budget that was approved by a month ago. It's approved by the Republicans. They gave it away! They gave Obama everything.
So, Obama…wants to…put in a Supreme Court judge. And…the…judge that he wants is going to be a very…negative person to guns. Believe me, that'll be the way it is. And basically, they don't have the right to do that. But I keep saying, “well, are the Republicans going to fail, or are they gonna crack? What's gonna happen?
And coming up today, I'm hearing, “well, there could be a way of Obama pushing it to…”. Here we go, right? Here we go. [It’s the] Same thing you heard with Obamacare. It's gonna be defeated…; It's gonna be repealed…; we’re gonna repeal and replace Obamacare, believe me…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But…I mean, look at what's going on with your premiums! 35, 45, 55 percent up. Your deductible is so high…you…you…I mean, you’ve gotta…see that truck over there!? You’ve gotta hit by that truck! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS-…in order to ever use it!
So, I come up and I'm hearing that Obama now…who said, by the way, yesterday, “Donald Trump will not be the president”. He will not be…-THE CROWD BOOS. No, it's a compliment. Look, he's been…he's perhaps the worst president of the history of the United States, so…it's a compliment…-THE CROWD CHEERS. But he was all over the place yesterday. He said, “Donald Trump will not be…”. I think…we have, maybe, a little surprise in store…-THE CROWD CHEERS. And we start right here, in South Carolina.
You know…-THE CROWD CHEERS-… New Hampshire was so amazing. We had a big, big victory in New Hampshire. Amazing people! And then we come down here and I said, you know, I think we have an even bigger lead over here. And…the people have been incredible. No matter where we go…you speak…even this! I know that four years ago you had about 200 people here, for the same kind of a thing. For your front runner. And he's a good frontrunner. And a good guy. And he did well. But you had 400 people, 200 people…you have thousands of people here! And…we just appreciate it. And I won't forget it, believe me. I'm not gonna forget it. I'm not gonna forget it.
So, I hear that…they're talking about…trying to get a…liberal judge in. A judge that…uh…does not like the Second Amendment. A judge that…uh…and it…this is one of many. This is one of many. But a judge that does wanna do a number on the guns. And I know how important it is. We're just not gonna let it happen. Okay? It’s not gonna happen. And if we get elected, we know that.
But we have 9 months, 10 months to go. We have to have the Republicans hold fast. Because I'm just hearing these little cracks, saying, “Well, maybe if he appoints somebody, maybe we can get along. Maybe…”. It's not the way it's supposed to be! Now, it's possible…that…they’ll have their wish. Because if they win, they're gonna be…having their choice! But if they don't win, we're gonna start really taking back. Cause we have three, or four, or five, maybe, Supreme Court judges. This was not supposed to be one in question. This was…a very sad circumstance that happened with…I mean, really it…to me it was a very sad circumstance.
But, now what…we're gonna see what happens. I will only tell you this: we are doing well. We have a really good chance to win. If we can win in South Carolina, we're going to go…I mean, we could, very well, run the table. And…I don't know if you saw…-THE CROWD CHEERS. I…I guess a lot of you have seen it, actually. Be…next week in…uh…Nevada, it's gonna be phenomenal. The…the relationship there, and to the people…-A MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT-… “Bush it’s got…”. That’s right. Bush has got one percent Nevada…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. This guy…why doesn’t he just give up? Just go home! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. Go home! Go home to mom! …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. Go home to mommy![paa1] 
Uhm…yeah, Bush is only at one percent in Nevada. A couple of them are…you know, at 10, 11, 12…and I'm at like…40-something. 48…-THE CROWD CHEERS. So…so I think we're gonna do well.
Then we have the SCC. We're gonna have the SCC, which is gonna be, I think, amazing. But…it really now is starting. New Hampshire could not have been better. They gave us a tremendous send-off. They really started us on our way. And we did well in Iowa! I mean, some votes were stolen from Ben Carson, which by the way, [it] was a disgrace! What…what Cruz…what this guy, Cruz, did with Ben Carson was an…absolute…disgrace. What he did, with his…he stole! It was theft! And then they come out with a voter violation form, which is a fraud, as far as I'm concerned. And what he with that whole thing was a disgrace.
So, we're not gonna let that stuff happen anymore. I mean, we're not gonna let it…we will not let it happen. We're all watching. You're all watching. Keep your eyes wide open.
These politicians…here's a guy…he raises the Bible, and yet he tells fibs, he tells lies…; and then he does this stuff to Carson…; and he does other things. Very bad. So, politicians are bad people! Boy! They are bad! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. Would you believe it!?
So, we’re not let it happen, and we're gonna get in there, and…uh…uh…we…I just wanted to…;
So, Saturday! Go out and vote, because this is going…to be…the place…that’s going to really make it. And…I'm…just…honestly, I've…been watching all the pundits. Now, the bad news is the are always wrong. They all said [that] I'm not running, and I ran. Well, “how was he gonna do?”. And, “he's just doing it for fun”. I'm not doing this for fun, believe me. I love this location, but I know I could be someplace else, okay? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. I could be someplace else right now. I could be very happy. But I'm doing it because, you know, the expression…and yes, you, all the hats in the audience, make…America…great…again. We are going to…we are going to…win again.
You know, we don't win…very much. You're very…tough, smart…people. You like to win, right? This guy over here, you like to win! And…we don't win anymore! We used to win. We don’t win anymore. Well, we’re gonna start winning…again. We're gonna start winning…again.
So, [The] Second Amendment [is going to be] protected. Common Core, we're gonna end Common Core…we’re bringing -THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…we’re bringing your education locally. It's going to be fabulous. I don’t know if you know, and you've heard me say, [but] we have…the absolute worst…we…we spend number one in the world on education, right? Number one…per pupil…in the world! There is no second-place, because we're so high…so much high. You have China, you have Norway, you have Denmark, you have Sweden! You have these countries; they are the best…in terms of education. And they're on the list! The best. Number 30th, in the top 30, we’re number 30th. Okay? We're number one…in cost!
That's a little bit like…what I'm doing. I'm…least…spent money. You know, I'm funding my own campaign, right? So…-THE CROWD APPLAUDS. So…I don't have…a lot of the people coming to me…; you know, the drug companies and all the…cause if you would see the kind of waste, fraud and corruption. It’s a fact that…people that are running against me, and people in the Senate, and people in Congress, they have tremendous power! Because they have people giving them unbelievable campaign contributions! And they’re special interest. And they do what those people want! And that's one of the reasons our budgets are out of whack. The militaries are out of whack.
The military orders equipment [that] they don't even want! And the stuff they do want, they don't get! Because the company that makes that equipment is…like…you know, it's not politically adept! And companies that really are, they make the equipment we don't want…! It's gonna all change! Because I'm not getting money from any of these people! I don't give a damn! I mean, we're gonna do the right thing! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know, we're gonna do the right thing! We're gonna do, absolutely, the right thing.
I tell you a little story. So, the drug companies. We…are the largest purchaser of drugs in the world. The United States. We put…more…I…which makes a lot of sense, I guess. But, we purchase more drugs…to make you better! Drugs to make you better. Not the kind of drugs that come over the…southern border, which we're gonna end, okay? We're gonna stop. We're gonna build a wall…yeah! …-THE CROWD CHEERS. Folks! By the way, we're gonna build a wall, and… who’s gonna pay for the wall!? …-THE CROWD YELLS ‘MEXICO!’. That’s right. You better believe it.
We have a trade deficit with Mexico…of 58…billion dollars! And these characters come up, these politicians that I'm running against, “you don't really think Mexico is gonna pay for the wall!”.
I said, “absolutely! A 100 percent”.
They said, “how are you gonna get Mexico to pay…!?”. And I don't wanna go into it, cause they won't understand it. I mean, it’s…they have…no concept of business, they have no…; they, you know, the hundred and fifty billion we gave to Iran…; the…these people have no concept.
We have a 58…billion dollars…trade deficit with Mexico, okay? The wall’s gonna cost 12 billion dollars. Maybe less. If I build it, it'll be taller, better and less, okay? …-THE CROWD CHEERS. So, you think of this. So, you think of this. So, they said, “how you gonna possibly do it?”.
They make so much money…! Plus, we give them subsidy. They make so much money from the United States that it’s gotta be one of the easy things. And I don't know if you heard…one of the presidents, or ex-president of Mexico, held a news conference. He said, “we will never…ever…pay for the wall!”.
And the press called me. They said, “they said they will never pay for the wall”.
I said, “who was it?”.
“Calderon”. He’s…very nice. Good guy.
I said, “tell him the following: the wall just got 10 feet higher” …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [I] mean it! [It] got 10 feet higher. Yeah, they’re gonna pay for it. And I get along great with Mexico! The problem is…I mean, they buy apartments…; I have hundreds and hundreds…and even thousands…of workers…and they’re Hispanics! I'm doing great with! We have…such an amazing relationship with Hispanics. And they're great people! The problem is, the leaders of Mexico are too smart for our leaders! They're too smart. They're too cunning…;
You look at what's going on? It's unbelievable. The border is a disaster. It's a sieve! It's like…people flow over. [It’s] not gonna happen anymore, folks! People can come into our anymore, but they're gonna come in legally. They're gonna come in through a process…-THE CROWD CHEERS. They're gonna come in…they're gonna come in…legally.
So, with trade, we're gonna solve the trade problem. I don't know if you saw it: Carrier air-conditioner announced two days ago [that] they're moving to Mexico. Nabisco! They’re moving their big plant from Chicago to Mexico. Ford! They’re moving this massive…complex…; they’re building a two and a half billion-dollar plant. And they’re…now they just announced they're building it bigger! I've been talking about this for…two years! Yesterday the Wall Street Journal, they announced they're building it bigger! In other words, they’re doubling down! You know why? Nobody does anything about it! I'm gonna do something about it! …-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
So, I watched…somebody said, “what would you do about Carrier?”. Cause that was a sad case. Somebody used this cell phone, and they were telling him, you know, “you're out of work. You're out of jobs. You…forget it. It’s over. We’re moving to Mexico!”. And the people are crying. Grown men! …that have been there for a long time. Really…incredible people! And they're crying, and they're devastated. And they lost their job. They…never had another job. And now this…plant is…this whole thing is moving to Mexico. And they said, “what would you do?”.
I said, “I tell you what I'm gonna do!”. Because…you know, they talk about free. I'm a free trader. But I say, “oh, if I put a…you know, a tax on…” …these characters, these…you know, idiots! These…uh…uh…I mean, they're like stupid!
They say, “Donald Trump is not a true conservative, because he taxes…”. We gotta make for…you know it's gotta be fair stuff, folks! It's gotta be fair! I'm a conservative person! Hey, I'm the most conservative on the border! I'm the most conservative with the military! Nobody's tougher than me. I'm the most conservative. We're gonna…we are gonna make our military…so big, so strong, so powerful…nobody's ever gonna mess with us, folks. We won't have to use it! …-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I'm the most conservative on taking care of the vets. Our vets are treated horribly. We're gonna take care of them…-THE CROWD CHEERS. I'm the most conservative on Common Core! We're ending Common Core. I told you that, and we're moving it locally. And…uh…nobody is more conservative, and we call toughness, but nobody is more conservative on the Second Amendment. So, all of these things.
But…with…with…Carrier. So, they’re having…and they are…coming across, and they’re gonna build a plant…and probably get some…subsidies from Mexico. Probably…we probably even give them subsidies! They probably have the United States giving subsidies to move out of the country. That's how stupid it is! And that's how stupid we’re run! So, what happens is they said, “what would you do?”.
I said, “very easy. We call them. We say, let’s have a meeting. Here's the story, folks: you're moving to Mexico. Congratulations. But if you don't stay the United States, you are gonna have a problem. But here's what you're doing. You wanna move to Mexico, build your factory? It’s gonna be wonderful. Hire your people. They’re not from the United States…”. All those people are now looking for jobs. And those are good jobs. You know, we're hiring a lot of…part timers now? We're hiring…and that…those numbers are totally phony. The five percent. Totally phony numbers!
So, I said, “here’s what we're gonna do. Very simple. You build your plant in Mexico? Enjoy yourselves. And you're gonna sell air-conditioners, and just have them cross the border and sell them to the United States? No, you're gonna pay a 35 percent tax on every air-conditioner…”…-THE CROWD CHEERS. It’s true! It's the only thing you can do. And you know what? It’s the only thing you can do. And it…uh…there’s nothing else. Cause otherwise, how are you gonna get them to stop?
And then you have the devaluations, with China. The all-time…they’re like grand chess masters, or grand…; I mean, these people are the greatest…the greatest in history! They're grandmasters…of…of that! Devaluation. They devaluate it. They devalue their currency. Japan's doing very well too! They’re…killing Caterpillar! You know, they’re ordering Komatsu tractors now. Because they're…they’ve…devalued…the…uh…hey, you take a look at what's happened to the Yen. And it's very hard.
A friend of mine is a big excavator. You all know excavators. I love excavators. This guy's a very big one. He buys Caterpillar tractors all the time. And excavators. He just put in an order for Komatsu…! Not that he wanted to! He said, “Donald, they made it impossible for me…not to buy. They’ve devalued the Yen to such an extent…Japan, that it made it…; I mean, I owe it to my family…; to my company…; to myself…; I have…no choice! And he was like depressed! He wanted to buy Caterpillar! I said, “what's the difference?”
He said, “they're both good. Caterpillar is better. But I couldn't help but do this”.
Well, China is doing that times a thousand. Times a thousand. And what they're doing is, they…the devaluation of their currency makes it impossible for people to compete! We can't allow that stuff to happen!
Look, when we send stuff over to China, it doesn't get in. If it does get in, you have to pay a big tax. When their stuff arrives…; you know, it's not supposed to be that way. You know, it's supposed to be free trade. It's supposed to be…they come; we go…; back and forth…; they devalue their currency, and on top of it, they make it impossible.
I have a friend. He's a great manufacturer. He said it's virtually impossible to get his goods. And he makes better stuff than they do. He can't his goods into China. When he does get them in, [he] has a tax to pay!
I have a friend who, actually, bought an airplane! And he can't get it into China, because the tax is so massive! He's gonna sell it now at a big loss. Okay? Well, and think about Boeing. By the way, think about Boeing.
Boeing is building [a] plant over here. Boeing just had a big order from China. But China's making them…build a massive airline facility. Right? Massive! Like…bigger than anything you've seen. Okay. You feel good about Boeing right now? Tell me in five years. Unless I'm president. You'll be fine. Don't worry about it…-THE CROWD LAUGHS. But tell me in five years [that] you're gonna feel good about Boeing.
Because…I'll tell you what's happening. They are going to build that plant. They're building it. They’re building it. It's gonna be finished soon. But they’re gonna build that plant…they're gonna devalue the hell out of their currency, and all of a sudden, you'll be reading a front-page story, all over the place, that Boeing's gonna leave, right…South Carolina. They're gonna make all their planes in China. Because that's what they do! And our leaders aren't smart enough to stop it. Okay?
I have Carl Icahn endorsed me. Great businessman. Very rich guy. Very…very successful. I…I…uh…if I told Carl, “Carl, do me a favor, I want you to watch over China trade”. We're gonna be in great shape! We have…right now…people…that have no concept of what they're doing! They have [a] concept of what they're doing. They're political hacks! I mean, that's what they are. They’re political hacks! And these are the people that are negotiating with these people from China…! And again, China likewise! I get along great with China! [There is the] Largest bank in the world…my tenant…! Uh…they buy…condos for tens of millions of dollars. I have a…the Bank of America building in California. I own a big chunk of that. I got that through China. Through a very complex set of…transactions. But through China. I mean, I'm…I think China's terrific! I'm not angry at China! I'm angry at our leaders for not being able to compete with China! I’m not angry! …-THE CROWD CHEERS.
So…we’re gonna get things changed around. We're gonna use our best people. We're gonna make…we're gonna be so smart. And we're gonna start winning again. We’re gonna have strong borders. We're gonna have [a] strong military. We're gonna take care of our vets. We're gonna have such great trade deals. We're gonna win again! We're gonna win again. We're gonna win so much…! And…you know…and by the way, we're gonna get rid of ISIS, and we're gonna get rid of them…fast…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I was against the war in Iraq. From the beginning. I was against the war in Iraq. We shouldn't have done it, we did it. Then Obama got out the wrong way. We shouldn't have done Iraq. We did it. It destabilized the Middle East, exactly! If you go back you could see. 2003, 2004…; I said, “it's gonna totally destabilize the Middle East”. Because you had…Iran and Iraq. And they were the same, militarily. They fight, fight, fight…boom! Then fight, fight, fight…for years, and years, and years…! They were the same. We decapitated Iraq. And now Iran is taking over. Not only do they get the hundred and fifty billion dollars. Maybe the worst…transaction I've ever seen negotiated. No, no, done by…the famous…Obama administration. The worst…the worst…the dumbest…one of the dumbest deals I've ever seen made. We get nothing! We get nothing! We should have gotten those hostages before we started even negotiating. Not now…! We should have gotten them years ago.
But, if you look at what's going on, and now, on top of that…we gave them Iraq! Because Iran is now…taking over Iraq. It’s just taking over! We…so…here's what we did: we spent two trillion dollars; thousands of lives lost; wounded warriors, who we all love all over the place…; they're the best people. The most incredible. They’re tougher than all of us, these…people. I mean, what they’ve gone through…; we have wounded warriors all over the place…you know what we have? Nothing! We have nothing! We have absolutely nothing!
So, here's what we're going to do: we're gonna change things around. We're gonna be smart. I mean, we have to! We’ll do what we have to do in terms of ISIS and all. But we have to start rebuilding our country. We have four…trillion…dollars…in…the various places. Four trillion dollars. [It’s] Not gonna happen anymore! We're gonna have a strong military. But we have to rebuild our roads, our bridges, our tunnels, our schools, our hospitals…-THE CROWD CHEERS. I mean, our country is like a third-world country! You go over to Qatar, and you go over to some of these places in the Middle East…;
You go to China…! You see the airports…! You see the bridges…! They have bridges that are so incredible…! You’ve never seen anything like it! They have railroad trains that go 350 miles an hour. And we have things that go chug chug, chug! Like from a hundred years ago! We've become like a third-world nation, because we're fighting everybody else's battles. And remember this: we're like the policemen of the world! But we don't get paid anything! We protect Germany. We protect Japan.
Do you know that in Japan…if we get attacked…we have a treaty with Japan. If we get attacked, they don't have to do anything. If they get attacked, we have World War three. We have to protect them, okay? I mean, who makes these deals!?
We protect, as an example, South Korea. You have a maniac right next to them, right? But we protect South Korea. So, every time we order televisions, they come from South Korea. Uh…they make a fortune! We protect South Korea! Let me tell you something: why aren't they paying!? They pay peanuts…for what we do! Every time this guy…you know…raises his head, we see our ship start to sail…; our soldiers get ready…; we have 28,000 soldiers at the border! So, we take care of the world, [and] we don't get it.
Saudi Arabia. Before the oil went down, they were making one billion dollars a day. One billion a day! And we rent space, so that we can help them. We rent! Military bases, we pay rent! And yet, without us, they wouldn't last for 2 weeks! They'd be gone!
So, we're gonna change all that stuff, folks. I mean, we wanna be good. We wanna be fair. We wanna have [a] heart. And we're not gonna let the Syrian folks in, that we don't know who they are, we don't know where they come from…they're not coming into this country…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They're not coming in.
You know, you have a lot of them! I don't know if you know it. You have a lot of them moving to South Carolina! I don’t know, have you heard this? …-THE CROWD MUTTERS. And you ought to tell your governor, “don’t let them move to South Carolina”. You don't want them in South Carolina. And I know, they'll say, “well, we have nothing to do. We’re…we're state government. We have…”. Let me tell you something: if a governor from a state didn't wanna have them, I don't what it says, you don’t have to have them.
But, we don't know where they come from. We wanna help them with safe zones. We wanna get the Gulf states to pay. I don’t wanna pay. We owe 19 trillion dollars! We owe enough! We can lead it, but let the Gulf states…they have so much money [that] they don't know what to do with it. Let them build safe zones! Look at what's happening in Germany! Look at Sweden! Look at Brussels! I mean, Brussels, you go there 20 years ago, 15 years ago, [it] was incredible!
So, when I call for this call for moratoriums, and I call for this…first I…I get hit with tremendous heat, right? Then, everybody starts saying, “you know, he’s right!”. Same thing on…June 16th. I announced…gotta stop illegal immigration. The heat I took was unbelievable! Three, [or] four weeks later, they're all saying, “you know, Trump is right!”.
Then you had Kate killed in San Francisco. Beautiful Kate. By a…an illegal immigrant. You had Jameel, in Los Angeles, killed. Incredible guy. I mean, young man. Wonderful. His father is a friend of mine. A great guy…; you had the…veteran. [A] 65-year-old woman…a veteran. Raped, sodomized and killed. In Los Angeles, by an illegal immigrant. We gotta stop it, folks. We're gonna stop it. We gotta be smart. We're gotta be a country again. We gotta be a country again.
So, I just wanna thank…this endorsement meant so much to me, from these two guys, and…uh…you know, from the whole community. I just wanna say, get out and vote. We're gonna…do something that you're gonna be so happy with…! We're gonna win so much…! And, we're gonna make America great again. That's what we wanna do. Make America great again…-THE CROWD CHEERS.
So, Saturday, get out and vote. Thank you! We love you all! Thank you very much! Thank you!
Thank you very much, folks! Thank you! Thank you very much!
