VIDEO Nº: 171
TITLE:171. Speech Donald Trump in Rochester NY - April 10 2016
DATE OF EVENT:10/04/2016
RELEASE DATE:26/10/2017
DURATION:00.54.35 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:9515
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Wow! This is amazing. Thank you very much! And you know, Rochester's a special place. I've known it for a long time. And we're gonna make it better, okay? We're gonna make it better! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I wanna thank, before I begin, I have to thank some friends: Carl…–SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD STARTS YELLING, A PROTESTER–…Carl Paladino. All right, get him out of here. Boy, oh boy! Where do they come from? Where do these people come from? Where do they come from? …–THE CROWD BOOS. Where do they come from!? There's nothing like a Trump rally, folks! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I wanna thank Carl Paladino, James Howe, Bill No. J., and Bill Riley. Thank you, kids! Great job! Really great job.
So, let's talk a little bit about Rochester for a second, cause we're here. We come upstate. I know what's been going on for a long time. This same group, including Carl and many others, they asked me to run for governor…between you and I, I sort of said, “I'm sorry but I'm doing something else”. I didn't wanna say. This is what the something else was…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I think I can have a lot…bigger effect on upstate New York, and on Rochester by doing what I'm doing, that I could have even as governor…–THE CROWD CHEERS. Although you would have been fracking by now a long time ago, you would have been tracking, I'll tell you that.
It is sad, though, when you go at the line and you see in Pennsylvania machines, boom, boom, boom! All the way up and down the line, and yet on the right of the line we can't have those machines because…they're bad for the environment, okay? So…explain it! …–THE CROWD BOOS. We could have wiped out our dead in New York. We could have wiped out our debt. But…hey, we will get it straightened out, folks! One way or the other we're gonna get it straightened out…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Here's some statistics. I just did this on the way up, and I wanted to do it. And I have a lot of friends that are here, from this area. And they're hanging in there! They're…hanging in there. They’re not leaving! But, in New York State, lost three out of four manufacturing jams…jobs, that existed in 1960. You know, when you think of that, three out of four.
Rochester…which is an amazing place with amazing people, which we see today…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…has lost more than half of its manufacturing jobs since 1997, due to NAFTA, asian currency manipulation, and China! I mean, you know, give me…a…break! I've been talking about this for…five years, for seven years, forever!
Sentry safe just left. They moved to Mexico, right? No good! No good! …–THE CROWD BOOS. I'm the only one knows how to stop that, but…I would stop them so fast [that] your heads would spin. Your heads would spin…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I guarantee you one thing, I'm not buying Sentry safe, that's for sure, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'm not buying the product.
The entire country…lost one-third of its manufacturing jobs since 1997. Think of that. How sick is that? How sad, and how stupid…how stupid is it, that we put up with it!? One-third of its jobs, manufacturing, since 1997.
Since 1999, Rochester has lost 32 percent of its transportation jobs; 30 percent of its building and ground maintenance jobs, and 40 percent…holy mackerel…43 percent, of its science jobs! 43 percent, gone! All right. You do! You need somebody fast, I know that…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. THE CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. MR. TRUMP GIGGLES. We're gonna get it straight down, folks. It's not even gonna be that hard, believe me. It's gonna go quickly. A lot quicker than people think. They say, “oh, he can't do that!”. I can do it. You watch. I'll just show you…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's gonna go fast! I mean, how much longer do we have, right!? How much longer!? It's gonna go fast.
TPP…listen to this, that’s the trade…pact, which is a disaster! It will be worse…for you, for Rochester, for upstate New York, for New England, for the entire country. It will be worse than NAFTA. It will be worse. Ted Cruz is totally in favor of it…–THE CROWD BOOS–…okay? Think of it…–THE CROWD CHANTS ‘LYIN TED!’ REPETEDLY. MR. TRUMP SMILES AND CHANTS ALONG. Lyin Ted! He's a beauty!
I've met a lot tougher people than him over the years, but I've never met anybody that could lie like him…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Of course, a really good liar doesn't get caught lying, right? He gets caught. [Do you] Remember with Ben Carson? “Ben Carson has left the race”, he said. “Vote for me. He's left!”. This was during election day! And..Ben Carson endorsed me, by the way, he's a great guy…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But TP…uh…which is a disaster…both of my competitors now are totally endorsing TPP…will give 3,000 foreign companies…think of this one, nobody even talks about this…the opportunity to sue New York for the differential in payments, because of the United States and New York regulations. We have regulations. These companies are now gonna come in, and they're gonna sue us because we're allowing them to come in! The whole thing is crazy! And we have politicians…they're not so stupid all of them. Some are stupid, and some are…being taken care of by…as you know, their lobbyists, their special interest…; me? I'm self-funding my campaign, folks. Nobody's taking care of me. Nobody…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
No, I mean, think of that. So, they're gonna come in, [and] we're gonna end up with thousands of lawsuits over…what!? Over the fact that we allow them to come in. Rules and regulations, and we have to abide. But we don't have to abide because of them. It's gonna end, folks! The stupidity is going to end! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Now, Bausch and Lomb, you know all about Bausch and Lomb. They move their headquarters, out of Rochester. Xerox is outsourcing to IBM, in different locations. The whole thing is a catastrophe. Could I ask you a question? I love loyalty. [MGF1] I love the fact that you stay. Why did you stay? Why? Why”? [Do] You know why you stay!? Because you know [that] if I get elected, Rochester is going to boom again, okay? It's gonna boom again! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Our whole country is going to boom again…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
You know, I'll give you a little example! So, I hear about Sentry Safe. So, I just heard about it today. They left! They're going to Mexico: They're gonna make safes. They're gonna let go of…500 people. And here's what's going to happen. And here's what's going to happen, very simply. They're gonna make this safe. And I'm gonna say, “that's wonderful, it's a wonderful product. Good luck with it. But you're gonna pay a nice, big tariff, or tax, when you try…and sell that safe to the United States!”.  100 percent! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And if they know that, before they make their decision to move, and before they build their plant, if they know that, [that] they're gonna be paying the 35 percent tax, they're not moving, folks! They're gonna stay where they are! They'll be fine!
And you know, I watch these politicians, corporate inversion. You see about corporate inversions. It's a huge problem, where companies are moving out of the United States. They get lower taxes. And by the way, my tax policy…? Low taxes…I cut it. Some people…by far the biggest, of any of the candidates that ran, and that are currently running. But we cut the taxes way, way down for middle income people, because the middle income has been forgotten in this country. It's been forgotten! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Totally forgotten. And we cut them down for business! We’re the highest…taxed…nation…anywhere in the world. We pay more tax than anybody. We have more rules and regulations than anybody.
That's how these TPP countries are gonna come in! They probably have clauses where…“oh, you don't have to go by the rules and regulations!”.
Then they come they say, “oh, you misrepresented! Because look at all the rules and regulations. Let's sue the United States. Let's sue New York State. Let's sue Rochester”, okay? …–THE CROWD BOOS. Get your lawyers ready, folks. End TPP, it’s a disaster! End it! All right.
So, I know how to do this. Now, I watch…I watch these politicians. It's so sad. And they don't know how to stop the companies…from moving. Well, I know how! You just tell those companies, “if you move, you're gonna be taxed when you sell your product into the United States!”. And they're not gonna move! And they don't wanna talk about it, cause love free trade! The problem is, when you have free trade, you need smart dealers! You need smart negotiators! You need smart people running your country! We don't have that! We have just the exact opposite, okay!?
So, I like free trade, but free trade is not free trade it's dumb trade! Because we lose with China! We lose with Mexico! We lose with Japan, and Vietnam, and every…single…country that we deal with! We lose with Canada, big league! Tremendous, tremendous trade deficits with Canada! We lose with…everybody! We lose…–SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD YELLS ‘NO MORE!’–…no more is right ! No…more! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's ended. It's ended! It is ended!
And that's why nobody has crowds like this. You know, they stopped the buses from coming in an hour ago. There are thousands of people that wanna come in! And they said they had a fire problem. Look at the size of this hangar! This is a big hangar, it's packed! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Now, the press…the press, which is so dishonest, they won't show that. They won't show that…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, they don't show it. They don't show it.
You know, I just went through, when…I…I came up, they asked me…uh…a couple of weeks ago, what do I think of…–THERE IS A SUDDEN CRY COMING FROM THE CROWD–…thank you very much. We love you too! We love these people. We love each other! We wanna make our country great again, right!? Make…America…great…again! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
You know, and I've been saying it! The American Dream is dead, but I'm gonna make it bigger, and better, and stronger than ever before! You watch! You watch! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
And somebody said the other day, “well, what is your policy…?”. Like, on the military. And I said, “America first! America first!” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know, the New York Times wrote a terrible…misrepresentative story, which they always do. They've totally…; you know, it's a failing newspaper. It's probably not gonna live for another year. But they…they write such negative things! Just so…and they know it's wrong. They know it's wrong. They don't call for comment, they don't go for anything. [MGF2] Because I said, “when we defend somebody, when we defend the country, we have to be reimbursed!”.
You know, we defend Japan. We defend M…we defend everybody! We're like the world's policemen's. By the way, speaking of policemen, how great are the police today!? How great? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. How great? And our firefighters are great! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We love them!
But they wrote a story. And they leave things out! For instance, we defend…Saudi Arabia! Who has more money than Saudi Arabia? They were making, before the oil went down, they were making one…billion…dollars a day. Okay? A billion a day! And we defend them. And we pay rent on…places that we lease for our military. We pay rent! We take care of everybody! We take care of…Germany! We take care of South Korea! We take care of…Japan! We take care of everybody! And we're not reimbursed on a fair basis.
So, I said…I said, oop, do I hear some people over there? Oh, boy! …–THE CROWD BOOS. Oh. I hope so! Hey camera, they’re over there! …–MR. TRUMP POINTS TO HIS RIGHT SIDE. Get the…they’re over there, camera! The only way the cameras move is if there’s a disrupter. Then they move. Then they move. There’s…there is no rally like a Trump rally, and nobody gets to people, that I can tell you…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, we talked about it. And…–THE CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. MR. TRUMP GIGGLES–…thank you. Thank you. Whoo, I love these people! Hey, we're all in this together, folks. You know, we're all in this together…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Don’t forget. Don't forget. The politicians do…what their special interests and their lobbyists tell them to do, okay? Just remember. That's why a Ted Cruz, who's totally taken care of by the banks…by all sorts of special interests, all of these guys running, including Hillary! You talk about Hillary…–THE CROWD BOOS–…I mean, the worst! The worst!
You saw what Bernie said? They’re starting to get angry at each other now! Bernie’s saying [that] she shouldn't be able to be in that position, because she's made so many bad decisions. She shouldn't even be running for the position. You saw that. And she has made bad, bad decisions! Boy, has she made…! I look so forward to going after Hillary finally, after these guys…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's gonna be easy!
So, the problem is…that they're all gonna be taken care of, and they're all taken care of by different people. You have lobbyists in Washington that specialize in Cruz. And they specialize in…Hillary! It says Hillary on their forehead: ‘Hillary’. “I take care of Hillary”. And they give them millions of dollars through different people, probably through themselves also. They give millions of dollars. And when there's a problem, you go and you hire those people. And you say, “you know, Cruz has caught on to the fact…that Sentry safe, for whoever it is, is moving, and…they wanna be able to move. They don't want any problems”. And you know what? 100 percent, folks, the…no problem!
With me? They'll come see me, and I’m gonna say, “no, no, no! I don't care. [It] Doesn't matter. They're paying their 35 percent tariff to get their product in. I don't care!” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And I'm not gonna be convinced otherwise!
But remember what I just said! A little while ago I said…cause it's so important for you! It's more important than…for most people! Because you've been decimated!
You know, a lot of areas that I go to they've been hurt. Every place has been hurt. But Rochester in upstate New York has been decimated, okay? Decimated! And let me just tell you: that's why it's so important! And I guess that's why I'm killing everybody in New York in the polls! Why wouldn't I!? Why wouldn't I!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
Cause these politicians are all talk and they're no action. And they'll tell you. And they follow what I say! You know, they see what I say! And then he'll get here, and they'll all get here, and they'll say, “we've gotta tax them”.
The other day I heard Ted Cruz say, “we want a wall, and we'll build a wall!”.
I said, “where did that come from, all of a sudden!?”. Out of the blue! Out of the blue!
And by the way, speaking of that, we will have…strong…borders and we will have the wall! And Mexico…will pay…for the wall! Mexico will pay for the wall, believe me. Believe me! …–THE CROWD CHANTS ‘BUILD THE WALL!’ REPEATEDLY.
[Do you] See? We're in a…we’re in a really unfair system, folks. I told you. You've been seeing what's going on. And we're winning, and I think we should win before we get to the convention. I think we should…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But…but let me tell you how crooked the system is:
I go to Louisiana, [I] worked hard, [I] made speeches. I made a speech and a hanger, just like this. It was packed. We had like 15, [or] 16 thousand people, the night before the election. I left. I wasn't expected to win Louisiana. And I left! I wasn't expected to win. I won 22 or 23 places now! Think of it, 22! 22! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [Did] You ever see Cruz? He gets up, “the only one that can beat Donald Trump…!”, you know, lyin Ted…–THE CROWD LAUGHS–… “the only one that can beat Donald Trump!”, and then he holds the Bible up high! But I've been winning with the evangelicals, which is incredible! I mean, they should, cause they don't like liars
But do you remember in the debate!? Where he said, “the only one that beats Donald Trump is Ted Cruz!”. Okay. Except for one problem. One problem. What's the problem? He said, “I’ve beaten him six times!”.
I said, “yeah, but I beaten you 18 times”. And he went like, “oh…”…–THE CROWD laughs. It was a weird moment, frankly. It was a weird moment. No, I’ve won 21 or 22 states? He's won…half that number, maybe less than half that number! I've won…here's what's important, which…they don't even…even count, because it's a crooked system, folks. It's a crooked system. And in all fairness, take a look at what's happening to Bernie. He wins, he wins, he wins…he wins! And, I hear…he doesn't have a chance! This is a crooked system, folks. This is a crooked…; I'm not a fan of Bernie. I couldn't care less. You know, as far as I'm concerned, I couldn't care less…about Bernie! But he wins, and he wins!
Like me! I've won twice as much as Cruz. I've won millions, and millions of votes more! People that have never voted are coming out to vote for Trump. People that are Democrats…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. The Republican…primers it's up 70 more than 70 percent. The Democrats are down 35 percent! Surprise me! But the Republicans, because of me are up 70…percent! Almost 70 percent!
From four years ago…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…when we had a choke artist, named Mitt Romney, that should have won that election…­–THE CROWD BOOS. Now, he's a choke artist! But, we're up 70 percent…from four years ago!
Now, every one of those people, if they try and do with their little shenanigans, which is politics as usual, every one of those people, that are all enthused…and…and look at all the people here today…; and to think we had to stop the buses, and thousand…? Please apologize to them. I'll come back. I'll come back. I'll come back! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I'll be back a lot!
But, think of this. So, I watched Bernie. He wins, he wins. He keeps winning; winning, winning…; and then I see he's got no chance! They always say he has no chance. Why does he have a chance? Because the system is corrupt!
And it's worse than the Republican side! Because I'm up millions of votes…on Cruz. Millions! I don't mean like I'm up by…two votes. I'm up millions, and millions...of votes. I'm up by hundreds, and hundreds of Delegates. I go to Louisiana, I win Louisiana, and I say, “isn't that beautiful? I love the people. I sent them a note. Thank you very much. I love you, Louisiana”. Then I find out that I get less delegates than Cruz, because there’s some nonsense going on…–THE CROWD BOOS. No, I'm telling you!
And I say this to the RNC, and I say it to the Republican Party! You're gonna have a big problem, folks! Because they're people that don't like what's going on! You know, they don't like what's going on! I mean, I win the state of Arizona, and…Cruz wins Utah, which is far less in terms of…in terms of the number of Delegates, right? And then I see Cruz, “I won Utah! I won…!”. He doesn't talk about the fact that he got killed in Arizona by a…landslide!
We've got a corrupt system! It's not right. We're supposed to be a democracy. We’re supposed to be…­­–THE CROWD CHEERS–…we're supposed to be you vote, and the vote means something. All right? You vote and the vote means something. And we've gotta do something about it!
Now, here's what's gonna happen: we're…doing fine. We should have won it a long time ago. But you know, we keep…losing where we're winning. Today winning votes doesn't mean anything. This is the only time…;
Have you ever heard anybody say, other than me today, that Donald Trump has millions of votes more than Cruz, okay? …–THE CROWD YELLS ‘NO!’. I have millions of votes…more than Cruz, and nobody talks about that. Delegates, I have…I think about 200, maybe more than that more. But it's not right, folks. Because what they're doing…and whether it's me, or whether it's Bernie Sanders, when I look at it, and I see all these victories that I have, all these victories that he's got…and then you look at the establishment, and I wanna tell you: it's a corrupt deal going on in this country, and it's not good! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's not good! And it's not fair, and it's not fair to you, people!
A reporter, [a] very fair reporter just asked me: “what do you think would happen if you didn't get it, Mr. Trump? You have all these people…”. They've never seen…by the way, there's a record crowd. They've never had a crowd like that in the history of this…place! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And that's with many thousands of people being turned away! The buses couldn't take them here, because…obviously you don't have any room.
But, with all of that, they said this is a record crowd. Over 10,000 people. They've never had anything like this. And [do] you know what, folks? [Do] You know what? They're taking your vote away. They're disenfranchising people that wanna see America be great again. And politicians will never do it! They don't wanna do it. They can't do it, because their…their…lobbyists and special interest are saying, “we're not gonna let you do it”. It's no…good! And we've gotta change the system! And it's gotta change fast!
So, I think we're gonna be fine. We're doing really well. But we've gotta have a system where voting means something! Doesn't it have to mean something!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Okay?
So, Rochester…listen to this beauty: Rochester lost 90,000 jobs since 1970. 4,000 jobs in the last…six months. 4,000 jobs! In six months! Don't leave. Don't leave Rochester! I'm telling you, I will bring it back so fast…! Oh…! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And then, they have the Rochester…unemployment rate is higher than the state, and all of that stuff. I mean, it's…it's really…it's really a sad situation.
So, we're gonna make the greatest trade deals ever made by any country. I'm good at that stuff. That's what I do. I built a great company: tremendous asset, some of the great assets of the world. Doral, Turnberry…; great buildings all over the place…; and you know, it's funny. When I put my papers in everyone said, “well, he won't file!”. You know, nobody knows because I'm private. So, nobody knows.
So, I put the papers in. The press goes there. They were so devastated to see how great…; and I'm not bragging about! I'm just saying that's the kind of thinking the country needs now. They need thinking like thinking…! They need smart thinking! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. [I] Built a company with some of the greatest assets in the world, but tremendous cash flow; very, very low debt; and…people haven't seen anything like it. And it's…you know, it's phenomenal. And all filed.
They all said, “well, maybe it'll take a long time to file”. I didn't take a long time. I actually filed ahead of schedule. In fact, if I wasn't gonna run, I probably would have filed anyway, cause it's a form of bragging. That's how good the company is, okay? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. I think I would have filed anyway.
But I made the decision to run. And the reason I did was I had just had it. I watched the Iran deal being made, which now turns out to be a disaster! …–THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY. And I could have said it was a disaster…when they started negotiating with…infinity years! Did you ever see a deal take so long? Okay?
Now, Kerry…did not read The Art of the Deal by the way…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. Kerry…is an incompetent negotiator…; Barack Obama is an incompetent…–THE CROWD BOOS–…Obama is an incompetent negotiator, except when he negotiates against Republicans. He gets everything he wants.
You know, it's interesting[MGF3] . A friend of mine brought up something. They talked about…right…three four years ago. They said, “if we could only have the house!”. We got the house. Then they said, “if we could only have the Senate!”. We got the Senate. And you know what!? It's gotten worse! It's worse! The Omnibus budget is a disaster. It lets…people come in from Syria, it funds it. It funds illegal immigration coming across the border. It funds Obamacare, which we're gonna repeal and replace…okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
But [did] you ever notice that? I said it the other day. [The] First time I said, “you know, Obama is a lousy negotiator for us”, but he's a great negotiator against the Republicans. It's pretty sad. It's pretty sad. Is it true though!? Is it true!? He gets everything! He gets everything he wants! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I watched Boehner say, “we will not shut down the country!”. Well, I don't wanna shut down the country either. You know, in negotiation for the budget. This is just before it got out. Boehner was there. And he said, “we will not…we will not shut down the country!”.
Now, he may believe…that. And I believe it. Certainly I don't wanna do it either! But why do you say that? Why do you talk about it? Now, once he said that I said, “now the Republicans can't make a good deal”, because he gave away all the cards! Once he said that! I don't wanna shut down the country. For the press I'm saying this…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS. Because, you know, they'll say, “Trump wants to shut down the country!”. You know…–THE CROWD LAUGH–…it was amazing!
So, I gotta…finish the story about The Times. So, The Times, which is totally dishonest. They’re totally…a total piece of garbage[MGF4] …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…that, the Washington Post…; these are…how about that stupid Boston Globe? It's worthless, [it was] sold for a dollar…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Did you see that story!? The whole front page, they said…they made up a story that…Trump…they pretended Trump is the president, and they made up…the whole front pages that make-believe story! Which is really no different from the whole paper for the whole thing! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. I mean, the whole thing is made up! And I think they're having a big backlash on that one, you know. Here's a paper that the New York Times spent 1.3 billion dollars to buy; they spent hunt of millions of dollars on losses and operations; they recomputerized it, they spent a fortune. Let's assume they're in for 1.5 billion. They sold it for 1 dollars…1 dollar, and then they do editorials, telling me what I should be doing; about…Japan! And about Saudi Arabia! And about other countries that we defend, okay
So, they wrote a totally dishonest story, totally dishonest. And, they basically do, but they don't put everything in! So, we talk about, as an example Japan, or Saudi Arabia! Or any of them! And I said, “no, no, no. We have to go to them. They have to pay their fair share”.
Now, I don't want them to defend themselves, and…nobody is stronger on nuclear than I am. It's the biggest…single…problem that this world has. Not global warming. You know, Obama said [that] the biggest problem we have is global warming…–THE CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS.
And by the way, it's supposed to be 70 degrees today, it's freezing here! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS. Speaking of global warming…; where is…we need some global warming  It's freezing, man! In fact, this is a record cold spell on the whole big section of the United States. It’s not just Rochester. The whole big section…is like record, record cold! And I keep hearing about global warming.
Now, they'll…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS–…say, “he doesn't understand! This is a worldwide problem!”.
Oh no, I don't understand. Let's do IQ tests…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND CHEERS.
So…–THE CROWD LAUGHS AND CHEERS–…these people…! These people…! …–THE CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY AND CHEERS.
So, I said basically, now I wanna defend Japan, and other countries. You know, in South Korea we have 28,000 soldiers on the line between the maniac and South Korea…North Korea, and…right. We have 28,000 young, brilliant, beautiful, wonderful soldiers…that are in harm's way, that are in harm's way, that we love; that parents love, love, love! And they're…very nervous. And we have this guy over there talking nuclear, talking everything else. And…talking about, you know, you have to see his army, he’s a very big…; and we have our people over there. And we're not properly…reimbursed, okay? And Japan is not properly reimbursing. And Saudi Arabia…again, a billion dollars a day. What are we doing, folks? They gotta take care…we got…; if we weren't in Saudi Arabia, if we were protecting them, they wouldn't be there for one week, believe me! Not one week. And yet they make the money with the oil…;
And by the way, this is nothing to do with Saudi Arabia. I have so many friends from Saudi Arabia. So many friends in Japan…! So many friends…I have buildings in South Korea! But you know what? What's fair is fair! I'm more interested in our country. These are people…these are countries…that are behemoths! Economic…Germany! Germany! It's an economic behemoth!
By the way, even though she…is…in the process of destroying Germany with the migration….destroying it! Do you know that she was Person of the Year? And I would have gotten it if she didn't get it? And now they're saying, “I think we made a mistake in picking Merkel. We should have picked Trump!” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Time magazine. The…who cares!?
I've been on the cover of Time magazine a lot lately. You know what they're doing! The reason…I've been on so much is because it's a movement. What we have going is a movement. Now, they're trying to subvert the movement! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They can't do it with bodies, they can't do it with people, because they don't have near the people that we have. So, what they're trying to do is subvert the movement with crooked shenanigans, all right? And we’re just not gonna let it happen! We're not gonna let it happen. We can't let it happen. Because we can bring this country back so fast…so fast…! There are so many forces against us. They've been against…wage earners for…forever, it seems!
But 17 years…17 years…people have not had an effective wage increase in this area. 17 years, they haven't had…an…and then you wonder why are they angry. In fact, a writer came to me and said, “Mr. Trump, are you angry?”.
I said, “no, I'm not angry. I know what's fair!”.
“Well, your people are angry”.
I said, “no, they're not angry! They're not angry people!”. You're not angry people! But you're tired, and you're sick of watching the stupidity…and the thefts…and you're watching the world take our country away from us, and that's exactly what's happening! Exactly! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND CHEERS.
So, I told the New York Times, as plainly as you're standing there, and I'm sorry we couldn't get your chairs, it’s just too many people…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. But I told the New York Times. I said, “no, no, they have to pay for these services that…something commensurate! Even if we lose something! But we can't…we're losing our shirts on every…single…deal!”. We lose on trade! We lose on the military…!
You know, people say, “we have a military budget…”, which is true, “…that's many, many times any budget anywhere in the world!”. That's true. [Do] You know why? Because we're defending everybody else! We're not…taking care of ourselves! We don't take care of ourselves!
Now, remember this: in a deal…and I wrote this in The Art of the Deal, you always have to be prepared to walk! Kerry…there it is, right there. One of the great books of all times…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT SOMEBODY IN THE CROWD. THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. The Bible is the best! One of the great books.
But I wrote, “you always have to be prepared to walk!”. Now, if Kerry would have gotten up a couple of times from the Iran deal…like for instance, he should have said, “before we start negotiating, we have to have our prisoners back”. This is like three, [or] four years ago! …–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
They would have said, “no”. [They’re] great negotiators, the Iranians. And the Persians are great negotiators, all right? So, they would have said “no, we won't do that”.
And I would have said, if it was me, I would have said, “bye-bye, we're going!”. And then you double up the sanctions, you'll have your prisoners back within 24 hours, a 100 percent. 100 percent…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I then would have gone very, very easily. I would have gone and I would have said, “listen, the 150 billion? Sorry, we don't have it”.
Did I ever tell you the story? My father, he thought I was a little bit rough around the edges. He said, “son, you've gotta take the lumps out! The lumps. You gotta be a little softer”.
So in the old days I would have said, “we're not giving you the 150 billion dollars!”. Meh…you know, there'll be a lot of anger, and it takes longer to heal. But he would have said differently. He would have said, “no, no, no. We have a problem. Our country owes 19 trillion, soon…” …because of the crazy Omnibus…budget that was just passed, by the Republicans! “…it's going to be 21…trillion dollars. And, honestly, we don't have the money. We can't give you the 150. I'm sorry”.[MGF5] 
And you know what they would have done? [They] Would have gotten very angry. Within two weeks…they would have come back; we would have come back; we would have saved 150 billion. Believe me, 100 percent, okay? Uh…we gave them a 150 billion dollars! And they go out and buy Airbus…; they go out…out and buy missiles from Russia…! They buy from everybody by us. And…by the way, we have a prohibition that they can't buy!
Now, I think that prohibition is great. But when we hand them 150 billion dollars, we should take the prohibition off for a little while, don't you think!? Let them buy from Rochester, New York! We don't care if they're from Iran, right!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We'll sell them missiles that don't work correctly, right? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Let them sue us! Tell them to sue us! Oh, I'm sorry, they don't work! Gee, that's too bad! We'll take in about…uh…12 billion for missiles, and they'll say, “these missiles are terrible!”.
I said, “yep, that was the purpose of it” …–THE CROWD LAUGHS.
But they're buying missiles that do work, folks! And…and really because of us.
So, so many…different things!
I talked about sergeant Bergdahl! We get Bergdahl, a traitor…–THE CROWD BOOS–…no, we get a traitor…; who, by the way, six people, at least! But six people, five known, but six people were killed looking for him. So, we get Bergdahl, and they get five…of the people…that they most coveted in Gitmo, which we're keeping open, by the way. 100 percent. That we'll fill it up…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, they get five killers that they most coveted, that they most wanted of anything, all right? So, look. When I started this on June 16th…and it takes guts to run for president! What do I know about this, okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It takes guts! [It’s] Not easy! The last thing I ever thought I'd be is a politician! Can you believe? I'm a politician, ay! Don’t tell me. Don't tell me. But it does! It takes guts to run for president. And I said, “I've just had it!”. I…I've had this stupidity. I've had these trade deals, whether it's Sentry Safe or whether it's Carrier, or whether it's Ford, moving their big operations to Mexico; or whether it's Nabisco, closing their plant in Chicago…a place that needs some help. And they close their plant in Chicago and they're moving it to Mexico.
How stupid are we, folks!? How stupid!? How stupid are the leaders of this country? We're not gonna let them…we’re not letting them get away with it anymore. We're not gonna let it happen…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're not gonna let it happen!
So…so, we're gonna do things! And I came down the escalator with Melania, and I took a deep breath! …–THE CROWD CHEERS–…and I said…she'll make a great first lady, I will say. Great…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
I took a deep breath! And I said, “let's go!”. And there were cameras downstairs…I say it all the time, I'm telling you, it looked like the Academy Awards. They…look at all the back there! Look! Look what we brought to Rochester today! …–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS. Look at those people! Look at those cameras! Oh, if only were they…if they were only honest! If they'd only really follow the camera….
You know what some of them do? They wait till everybody leaves! Now it's empty, and then they'll say, “we're here at the arena, where Donald Trump…”. And everybody looks, and they see this big, empty space…! They don't show it like this. They are really, really, bad dishonest people! But that's okay…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
You know, after a while you learn to live with it, okay?
To finish up one thing, and then I'm gonna tell you where it started and where it's going, and then we're gonna have a quick thing, and then I'm gonna just tell you one thing: we're gonna start winning again. We're gonna start winning again, folks…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So, when I talked about to the New York Times,and when I talked about defense and this and that…I talked about they have to pay. And if they don't pay…well, we have to be prepared to walk. So, they said, “well, would you walk?”
Well, we may have to be prepared, because we cannot continue to go on with this where we're defending Japan…we love Japan! I have many friends in Japan. [I] Love Mexico! [I’ve] Many friends in Mexico. [I] Have thousands of people…working for me, Hispanics. And in Nevada, when I…had the poll, I won Nevada, the state of Nevada in a landslide. They did a poll of Hispanics! I won the Hispanics by…a lot! A lot! Okay? They’re great! They’re great! But their leaders are too smart for us. Their leaders are too cunning for us.
What happens though is, when I talk about any one of the countries…let's say Japan; I say, “no, they have to take care of us!”. We can't continue to lose the kind of money that we're losing defending all these…countries…that by the way, are making a fortune! Look at the cars that come pouring into this country! From Los Angeles! You go…uh…the largest ships I've ever seen, they loaded up with cars from Japan! They come pouring in!
And, in fact, Obama said, “the Japanese are very worried about the rhetoric of Trump”. They should be worried! Honestly? They gotta pay! They gotta pay! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They gotta pay![MGF6] 
And we don't mean…I…I'll tell you what: I would bet that I will get along better with Japan…than Obama does. And they rip us off.
We will treat…be treated…we'll treat them very fairly! I wanna treat them fairly! I'm gonna treat everybody fairly!
Look at China: 505…billion dollar yearly trade deficit, and they go and build a massive military complex in the middle of the South China Sea, which they're not allowed to do! And we don't do anything about it! We have so much power over these countries, because of our…our…the power of trade! And we don't know it! We have leaders that don't realize that we have power!
So, with…with Japan…with any of them! But with Japan, I'd say very nicely, “listen, we need help! You gotta take care. We don't want you to arm! But you know what? You have to be prepared! You have the maniac…”. Japan is concerned about him! You know, there is a school of thought that Japan would be better off…taking care of him, and let us at home and watch it on television for a change. Does that make any sense!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I mean you could make the case!
You know, we have now nine countries that are nuclear, right? Nine! So they said, “oh, Donald Trump!”. And here's the thing. So I said, “no, no, I’d negotiate with them. I'd be prepared to walk but. But I’d negotiate with them, and they have to pay a lot more money, and they have to…”, you know, we gotta get our…house back in order, right?
So, I said, “I would prepare…”, now, I’d much rather…take care of them. They have to pay us! But, I'd much rather take care of them. But I would be prepared. The question was, “well, would you walk?”. You know, I'd be prepared.
So, I have these phony stories come out in The Washington Post which is, by the way, a total rag. What a rag! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. And…and the reason it's there is to protect a company which I'll talk to you about very soon, cause I'm writing a whole big thing about it. Uh…the owner of the Washington Post, do you know what he owns? Amazon! Do you know how little tax Amazon pays!?
So, he uses the Washington Post to protect Amazon from taxes! Okay? That's all it is, folks! And they go crazy! They write on average like eight stories a day on me! I have so many stories I can't even read them! I can't even read the good ones when they happen, which you seldom…–THE CROWD LAUGHS-…which is seldom.
And the New York Times, I'm telling you! The Washington Post was purchased by a guy…it’s…it was a loser; losing money…hand over fist. The Washington Post was purchased by…the gentleman that runs and has a big stake in Amazon, right? You know his name. Correct! Bezos. You know his name.
So, now he uses that as a political weapon! Because he doesn't wanna pay tax at Amazon! That's all it is, folks! It's so simple! It's so simple! And every time they hear me say it. Now, watch, tomorrow I'll have 15 bad stories in the Washington Post. And all I'm doing is wanting to protect you, folks! I get it! I understand it! I get it! [MGF7] …–THERE IS A SUDDEN NOISE COMING FROM THE CROWD, PROTESTERS–…so don't worry about them. You know what? Their voices aren’t strong enough. Just let’s…let’s be. Their voices are so low. so low…–THE CROWD BOOS. They're trying to protect Bezos!
So, the story comes out in the New York Times that, basically, Donald Trump wants to see an armed Japan. “Donald Trump…!”. They don't talk about costs. They don't talk about the fact that they have to pay their way. It's “Donald Trump doesn't mind seeing an armed Japan”. Well, I do! But what I say…is they have to pay. Does that make sense to you, folks!? Okay? Does that make sense? These are unbelievably…unbelievably dishonest people.
I'll give you an example: we had one guy upfront. He raised his hand, he said two words. We had that person in the back, who said a couple of words. Tomorrow the headline will be, “major protests at Trump rallies”. There’s no protest! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We got 10,000 people…we turned away five or six thousand, unfortunately. And with all these people, we had two people…raise their hand. Tomorrow the headline won't even be about defending Japan! It will be about “”Trump had of protest”. Let me tell you: our rallies are the safest rallies of anywhere! The safest! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We have the safest rallies of anywhere.[MGF8] 
And you know, what's nice about our rallies? Because a lot of these people are agitators. They…you look at them, [and] they have professionally done signs…; they don't have signs done in their basement. These are professionally done signs. You know what's nice about our…rallies? Our people…protect themselves! They protect each other! There's something beautiful! That's the way…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…it’s called teamwork! That's the way our country is supposed to be! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're supposed to love each other! And we will…love each other! We'll love them…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS–…someday too! But we're supposed to be protective of each other! And there's tremendous love in the rooms, when we have these rallies, [there is] tremendous love in the room.[MGF9] 
So, on June 16th, [I] come down the escalator, [I] started talking about illegal immigration, and…man, did that hit a button! And now Sheriff Joe, from Arizona…we love Sheriff Joe! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Joe…Arpaio.
The Border Patrol, 16,500 Border Patrol people…endorsed Donald Trump last week. They'd never done it before…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They've never done it before!
So I said, you know, let's see what we could do, because…I talk really about trade…! Because we have to make our country rich again. A woman came up to me and said…[a] wonderful woman, [an] incredible woman. 60 years old. I said, “how old?”.
She said, “60”.
I said, “you look great”.
She said, “Mr. Trump, don't say we're gonna be rich again”.
I said, “I have to say that. Because if we're not rich again, we can't be great again”. We have to bring back our money. We have to bring back our jobs. We have to bring back our industry! It's been stripped by these politicians that don't care, or are stupid! I said, “so we have to make our country wealthy again! And we have to make our country great again”.
I'm the only one [who’s] gonna save Social Security, folks. Ted Cruz wants to cut it! Everybody wants to cut it. I'm the one person, because I'm gonna bring our jobs back. I'm gonna bring our wealth back. And believe me, a lot of those jobs are coming back to Rochester. Believe me! There's gonna be incentives, and they're coming back to Rochester! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. A lot of the jobs. Just remember I said it. Remember I said it.
So, here's the story. So I said on June 16th…I talked about trade, and I talked about the border. The borders and illegal immigration were met with…at first it was quiet. And about a week later, do you remember, the delayed reaction? A week later everyone said, “whoa! What did he say!?”. They were all saying, “what a good speech that was!”. A week later, all of a sudden, they just went after me. And I said, “wow!”.
Now, everybody's saying I was right! They're all saying I was right! I also said, “we have to be extremely careful, with radical…Islamic…terrorism!” …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And we have to look at the Muslims! And we have to do something! We cannot stand by and be the stupid people, while our country is destroyed!
You see what's happening in Germany, with the crime. You see what's happening in Sweden, where they have a small little section! You see what's happening in Brussels! Now in Brussels, a number of weeks ago I said, “Brussels is a hellhole”, before…before the accident, before the…horrible tragedy.
I said, “Brussels is a…total hellhole!”. Now, I knew Brussels for many years ago. [It’s] One of the most beautiful cities in the world! But, a couple of months ago, I made the statement! Brussels is a hellhole. The New York Times wrote a story, “how dare Donald Trump say that!?”. How dare? Then the blow-up happened. Now they're all saying “Trump was right again”. It's amazing, right? It’s…I mean, it's amazing! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. No, we're right! I'm right![MGF10] 
I wrote in my book, in the year 2000, The America We Deserve…I wrote in the book, the year 2000, right? I talked about Osama bin Laden! So, one of the…television hosts didn't believe it. They brought the book in to him. He said, “wow, Trump was talking about this two years before the World Trade Center came down!”. I promise you, I would have taken that guy out, and you would have had the World Trade Center stand. [MGF11] …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I would have taken him out. I do know!
I'm the one that talked about take the oil, right? I said, “don't go into Iraq. It's a mistake”. And I said it! “Don't go into Iraq!”. I was against going into Iraq. But, once we were there, you couldn't get out the way Obama did it! And he gave us an exact date!
“We are leaving…”, on an exact date! And the enemy sat back and they said, “wow!”. They didn't believe him. They thought it was a camouflage of some type. They didn't believe him! They said, “wait a minute! He can't be…that stupid! He's giving us a date!” …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. “He's giving us a date!”. He adhered to the date!
Now, I said, “don't go into Iraq!”. But you can't get out without leaving some people behind! Not that it's worth it, because it's such a…you know, you talk about hellhole…there's another hellhole.
No,  Iraq…is being taken over, 100 percent, by Iran. They've been wanting to do that for decades, and decades, and decades, right? But they're taking over…Iran…Iran s taking over Iraq. The second…largest…oil reserves…and great stuff, in the world! And they're taking it over. We made it possible! By decimating Iraq and their army, and then military. We made it possible!
So, Iran's wanted it for years. So, not only did a ran go and make one of the great deals ever…with us, but then they made a much better deal! Cause we decimated Iraq and Iran is now taking it over, okay?
And let me tell you! They're taking over Yemen. When you look at the border, between Yemen and Saudi Arabia? They don't want Yemen. They want Saudi Arabia. And…never…was Saudi Arabia in the trouble they're in now. And they don't want Saudi Arabia! They want the oil! Okay?
And what I'm saying, folks, is they gotta pay! They gotta pay! They gotta take care of us! Why are we the dummies all the time? They gotta take care of us so.
When this started I was talking trade…very strong. I was talking trade and I was talking borders. By the time it finished, we had a thing called ‘Paris’. And speaking of Paris, if some of those people in that room had guns…and the same thing with California…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…[the] same thing with California. If some of those people…in those rooms in Paris or that room…in California, where these two radicalized people that worked with them…who were given baby showers for their child…; if some of those people, on the other side, had guns, [it] wouldn't have been the same story, folks!
In Paris, 130…[it’s the] toughest gun laws in the world. 130 people killed: boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! If some of these people…­–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CROWD–…were there and they had guns strapped to their waist, or strap to their ankle? [It] Would have been a whole different story. And probably [it] wouldn't have even happened! Because they would have said, “wait a minute, those people have guns! Let's leave them alone!”, okay? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
So…so…–THE CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. Thank you.
So folks, we’re gonna start…winning again, okay? We're gonna start winning again. [It’s] So important. This is a movement! They wanna stop the movement, but I don't think they're gonna be able to. This is a movement. This is millions of people! No matter where you go. I go to Dallas, we had 21,000 people. I go to Mobile, Alabama, we had 35,000 people. I go…no matter where we go, we have the biggest crowds by far! Nobody comes close. The biggest problem we have is we can't get them into these massive hangars. We can never get enough people in.
But we have a movement going! It's an incredible movement. It's, actually, not a movement of hate, it's a movement of love. Remember that! It is! It's a movement of love! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's a movement of people that wanna see our country be smart, and strong, and…and…great again! It's a movement of people…that want to be taken care of, and they wanna take care of! They're going to take care! It's a movement of people really…that wanna start winning again, because we don't win! We never win anymore! We don't win on trade. We don't win on the military. We don't win on education. By the way, we're ending Common Core. Education’s gonna be brought…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…right? [It’s] Gonna be local. We end Common Core.
So, [it’s] so important. We gotta keep it going. And everyone says, “oh, you have these great poll numbers”. We need a great…show…of strength…in New York State. It's so important! We need a great…show…of strength…you gotta go…not this Tuesday, but the next Tuesday…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Nine days! Nine days! You've gotta go out and you've gotta vote in massive…you've gotta bring your friends, you gotta tell them about it. You are going to say this was one of the great days of your lives. You're gonna say…when you cast that vote, in nine days on Tuesday, you're gonna say it was the greatest…single…vote…you've ever cast, and here's what's gonna happen…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS
We're gonna start winning again, folks! We're gonna win with our military, we're gonna knock the hell out of ISIS…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna win at the border. We're gonna build the wall, and people are gonna respect us, we’re gonna have our country back. We're gonna win with education. We're gonna end Common Core, and we are gonna bring it local. We are gonna win with education…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
We're gonna repeal and replace Obamacare…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna protect our Second Amendment…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS
And we're gonna bring jobs back into this country like you've never, ever, ever seen before! We're gonna have a great, great economy again! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We're gonna have a great, great country again!
And you're gonna be so proud of your president, but I don't care about that. You're gonna be so…proud…of this country.
The American dream…remember this, and I've been saying it. The American Dream is dead, but I'm gonna make it bigger, and better, and stronger…than ever before! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS We are…going to…make…America…great…again!
Thank you, Rochester! Thank you! We love you! Thank you! Thank you, everybody!
 
