VIDEO Nº: 154
TITLE:154. Full Event Donald Trump Town Hall in Tampa FL with Sarah PalinChris Christie  (3-14-16)
DATE OF EVENT:14/03/2016
RELEASE DATE:03/12/2016
DURATION:01.11.20 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:10106
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Oh, it's so incredible! [It’s] So incredible!
 
Well, I wanna thank Sarah, because I'll tell you. She's gotta go back to Alaska. Her husband is a tough cookie. But when you're too tough, you break ribs every once in a while, right? …-THE CROWD LAUGHS. And he's a great guy, Todd. So just say ‘hello’. And, Sarah, thank you so much…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
 
And, Pam [Bondi]…I'll tell you. I think [she’s] the most popular person in Florida by far, right? Pam…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. So…and a really capable woman, and somebody that loves the people of Florida so much. And I just wanna thank Pam for…introducing me, and…endorsing me. It's a great honor. [It’s a] Tremendous honor. And your mother! Most importantly to your mother! Good? Thank you very much…-THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
 
So, we've been all over. And the biggest…the biggest story in all of politics, worldwide, today is what's happening…with the Republican Party. And…what's going on is…has been…they call it a phenomena.
 
I've been on the cover of Time Magazine more times in the last…; what's happening is…millions and millions of people are going out, and they're voting! But they're not voting for Democrats. They're down 35 percent from four years ago. They're voting for Republicans! Amazing! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. And it is actually, believe it or not, it's the biggest story in politics today, worldwide, because nobody has ever seen it before. It's a phenomena.
 
And…I'm so…proud to be a part of it. We went to South Carolina, we went to every place; virtually every place. Not virtually! I mean, every…single…place, record attendance; record crowds of…record votes.
 
And, it started with New Hampshire. And it actually…started with Iowa! and then New Hampshire: And then, right after that, it just kept going. And, a person came up to me from New Hampshire, [and] said, “you know Mr. Trump, I've been at the voting booth now…for a period of 30 years. I've never…seen…crowds like this”. Like…10 blocks long……–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY AND THEN CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATELDLY. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.
 
And she was telling me. She said, “you know, I used to have two people, three people…; they’d walk in a little bit, they’d walk out…; now we have people like…it's…they've…never seen anything like it.
And then, then we go to South Carolina, where…frankly, the Pope! You know about the Pope…–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY. Right before I was getting…we were scheduled to have the big vote, the Pope said some things about me. And my people said, “the Pope made a statement about you, Mr. Trump!.
 
I said, “no! Tell me it was a good one!”.
 
“No. It was a bad one”.
 
It had to do with illegal immigration. He thought we should open the border. Well, that's cause the Mexican spoke to him, and Mexican leadership spoke to him. But, I'll tell you what. Once he found out that the crime, and all of the problems that are being caused, he was great the next day.
 
But I said, “will this affect my vote?”. But he was really great. He was fine. It worked out to be great. But we have to have a border. We have to have strong borders. We have to have the wall. We have to stop the drugs from pouring in and poisoning our society……–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY–…we have to do it: And we will do it!
 
And we will do it! And it's going to be done. And that was really the thing. I must tell you: New Hampshire was my first big, big…vote. And they…it was a tremendous lopsided victory…-THERE IS A SUDDEWN NOISE FROM THE CROWD. APPARENTLY, A PROTESTER HAS BROKEN INTO. THE CROWD THEN CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. Oh, that's okay. Don't hurt her! Don't hurt her! Don't hurt her!
 
You know, it’s interesting. Every once in a while we'll have a disrupter. I don't call them protesters. Look at those cameras, the way they turn! It's so incredible! They never turn unless there's the protester, right? They never turn unless there’s a protester…–THE CROWD BOOS.
 
You know, I go, and…and Sarah, and Pam, I go…I go to the different places, and sometimes we fill up stadiums, like in Dallas, and…I'll go back, I'll call my wife. I'll say, “how was it?”.
 
She’d say, “was it a big crowd?”.
 
I’ll say, “look, let me just tell you. It was massive! But unless there's a protester, they never turn…”. And I thought they physically couldn't turn, until……–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY–…it’s true! Until we had a protester in the back upper corner, and they look like pretzels, those cameras! They could turn…I've never seen anything like it!
 
So, anyway! Hey, look. The crowds we're getting are enormous. Enormous. And, we just got back from North Carolina, which is an amazing place! And…I have property there, I employ a lot of people there…; boy, do I employ a lot of people in Florida though!? Wow! Wow! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
 
With Doral, and Mar-a-Lago, and all the clubs…; and the buildings that we build with uh…Related…great company, Related; and with the Dezer family, Michael and Gil…; all along the shore of Miami Beach…; it's been…it's been a great place.
 
But, uh…and we’ve…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…thank you. I love you too. I love you too…–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.
 
But I employ…you know, thousands and thousands of people, just at Doral it's way over a thousand people. Many, many Hispanics. And…you see [it] when…when I'm…when I take a poll. They take a poll in Nevada. Big Hispanic population. Who comes out number one with the Hispanics? Trump! Okay? Trump! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. So we love it. We love it.
So, what we're going to do is we're gonna turn things around. The country has got a tremendous problem. We owe 19 trillion dollars, [it’s] going to 21 trillion very, very soon. It's gotta be changed, folks! We make bad trade deals. Our military is being decimated. We don't have the funds for it. We don't have the funds for anything! We're way off! The country is way off just.
 
So you understand, we are gonna build our military bigger, better, [and] stronger than it ever was, and nobody's gonna mess with us! Nobody…nobody…is gonna mess with us! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Nobody! We're gonna take…care…of our vets! Our vets……–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Our vets…right? Our vets are being treated terribly. So we're gonna take care of our vets.
 
Education, Common Core a disaster. A disaster. That's education run by Washington D.C. They can't run anything. Soon they will be able to, believe me. But right now they can't. We terminate Common Core, [and] we bring education locally. You're gonna be very happy. We’ll have education through love, believe me…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
Obamacare is a disaster. It will be repealed and replaced as sure as you sitting there. Repealed…and replaced! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Thank you. And we will have alternatives that will be so good…; so much less expensive…; so much better…; you will actually be able to keep your doctor and to have your plan. This will…that was the big lie, of all of them! Sarah, would you say? That was the big lie. 28 times! “You can keep your doctor. You can keep your…”. It was all a big lie. And Obamacare is a disaster. Premiums are going up 45, 50 percent. And we're just gonna do something…it's gonna be great. We're gonna end up having great, great health care. Trust me. And I know a lot about health care! We're gonna have great health care. For…by the way, for a fraction of the price! Much less expensive.
 
Do you see the deductibles, what's going on with deductibles? If you don't get hit by a tractor, you're…near death, and you might even have to go all the way to collect; but you're near death, [and] for a long period of time, you'll never make your deductible. S,  forget it. We're gonna have great, great health care. Okay?
 
On…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…on the border, we're gonna have, strong powerful borders. You know, if you don't have borders, you don't have a country. And we're gonna have strong borders. And we're gonna build a wall. It's gonna be built! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. And…and…who's gonna pay for the wall!? …–THE CROWD YELLS ‘MEXICO!’. A 100 percent. And by the way, I'm not kidding. You understand that.
 
So, these guys…Rubio, you know…–THE CROWD BOOS–…look…look. Here’s what you have to do. When you get elected senator…from any place! Whether it's Florida, or any place else, you gotta go vote! You gotta represent the people! He defrauded the people! You have to go and you have to vote, in the Senate! It’s called beautiful hall, beautiful building…; you go to the building, you raise your hand; right vote, wrong vote…you gotta vote! He's never there! He's never there. No, I don't know where he is, but he's never there.
 
He's weak on illegal immigration. He's very strong on amnesty. I mean, it's sort of like…I don't know how he got elected! I don't know how he got elected! How did he get elected!? That…can anyone tell me, please!? All right? So, anyway. I think…I think it's gonna end.
 
And I have to tell you! I don't know where Chris is, but he's around here someplace. It all began up in this stage, the debates. I've had such fun with those debates! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. It's amazing! No, I've had such fun. I've like the debates. But I think it's now enough with the debates. We've had enough. How many times can you be asked the same question by the same people!? Right’ But the debates have been great. But Chris Christie went after…Marco. I'm gonna say…see? I'm gonna say, with great respect, I'm not gonna say little Marco. I'm not saying…I refuse to say it! Right? I refused to say little Marco! …–THE CROWD CHEERS.
 
So, Chris Christie went after Marco, and I was standing like right, on my podium, right here, and Marco’s over here…–MR. TRUMP SHOWS HIS RIGHT HAND. And I noticed…it was unbelievable. Sweat…is pouring…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. And I know Chris is tough, but I didn't know he was that tough! Where the hell is Chris!? I'll tell you…it was a very impressive…situation.
 
So, I'm standing here, Chris is over there…–MR. TRUMP NOW POINTS TO HIS LEFT SIDE–…and he looked like Perry Mason. He's got his elbow on the thing. The whole thing was going…; and he's grilling Marco! And Marco gave the same answer once, twice, three…; and I said, “this is weird! He keeps giving the same exact…like it was a robot!”, right? They call him a robot! So, he kept giving the same…;
 
And then, after the fifth time, I say, “what's going on over here!?”. And I wish…I had this big…see this big, powerful hand? …–MR. TRUMP SHOWS HIS HANDS–…big, powerful! I was gonna grab him! Because I didn't want him to go down. He was choking! He was joking. So, anyway!
 
So, Marco…look. We have a big election coming up. We can really change things, and, you know, Marco's not gonna do it. [He’s] not gonna do it. And lying Ted…–SOMEBODY FROM THE CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDILE. Thank you, I will!
 
And lyin Ted…!? Lyin Ted…! Lyin Ted…! L-Y-I-N, with an apostrophe. You know, we call him lyin Ted because look…even Marco said “you're a liar!”. See? I can only call him a liar after another Senator called him a liar. Remember in the debate? He looked at Ted and he said, “you're lying!”. And I said, “yeah!”…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Well, how about…how about Ben Carson, who by the way, two days ago endorsed me. [He’s] also a great guy…­­–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Dr. Ben, right?
 
We have such great…Jerry Falwell Jr. endorsed me…; we have such great endorsements! Jerry Falwell, from Liberty College endorsed me…; and I…it had so much to do, between Sarah…and Jerry, and all of these people…I’ll tell you what: it had so much to do with the fact that I lead with evangelicals! Don't forget! Don't forget! When I went to South Carolina, that was supposed to be for Ted Cruz. That was Ted Cruz country. 67 percent…evangelicals. And I won…in a landslide! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Everyone said, “what's going on!?”. They all said, “what's going on!?”.
So, it was…it was great. It's been great. But, Jerry Falwell has been so great…! …–THE CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. APPARENTLY, THERE IS A PROTESTER. THEN THE CROWD BOOS.
 
Did that guy know where he was? He was just spinning around. Slowly spitting around. All right, look, it’s great.
 
You know, I was telling Sarah before…–THE CROWD STARTS CHANTING ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY. It's the same guy, folks. They took him around a long way. See? I would have taken him from there out that door! They took him from there…out that door…–MR. TRUMP POINTS IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS. I don't get that. I don't get that…–THE CROWD CHANTS ‘U.S.A!’ REPEATEDLY. It was amazing! They took that same guy from here…! Next time bring them out that door! Don't bring them around the whole building! …–THE CORWD LAUGHS. [The] Poor guy doesn't know where the hell he is! H's spinning around…!
 
But you know, it's interesting, cause this morning I was watching, and…how many people have really been hurt during this whole thing? …–A SUDDEN CRY IS HEARD COMING FROM THE CROWD. THE CROWD BOOS. Get him out of here. Get him out of here! She'll never be a movie star.
 
Get her out, please! Look at those cameras! Look at the cameras! They're all looking over there! Look at that! …­–THE CROWD BOOS. Look at that! Look at that, they can't turn them any more than that! Unbelievable! Unbelievable! All right. Yeah, get her…get her out. Thank you. Get her out. Nearest exit. Always the nearest exit.
 
By the way, are our police great? All over the country, right!? All over the country! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. They don't get treated properly. They don't get treated properly. They're great, but we'll have that. You know, somebody wants to get on television, they stand up, they think they're gonna be movie stars. They're not gonna be movie stars. Don't worry about it.
 
[Do you] Remember when they took the microphone away from Bernie Sanders? The two of them got up….; and they grabbed it, and they talked…! And I remember that the audience…­–SOMEBODY FROM THE CROWD YELLS ‘YOU’RE A FASCIST!”. Oh, get out of here!
 
These people are crazy! They're crazy! …–THE CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ AGAIN. I didn't know this happened in Tampa! I love Tampa! I didn't know this happened! All right. They'll go home…they'll go home to their moms soon, and…they'll get…;
 
Let me ask you, you know, I don't wanna ruin somebody's life but do we prosecute somebody like that or not? Do we? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know, it's on their card forever. I don't know! It’s a…it seem…it seems harsh. It seems harsh. But we're trying to be nice. You know, we're trying to be nice.
 
You know, we had cases where…in a couple of cases, big, big stadiums, loaded up with people. And these guys were loud! One guy sounded like Luciano Pavarotti. [He] Had the greatest voice. I said, “I could make that guy in opera singer, but he's got the wrong attitude in life”. So, he starts screaming, and he starts swinging, and hitting people!
 
When the people hit back, which was very appropriate, [because he] was a big, strong guy, they sat…they hit back, [and] the next day it was, “Trump's people are rough”. It's terrible…it's terrible! It's terrible!
 
So, we're gonna look…we're gonna get things changed, folks. We’re gonna…we’re gonna take back our country. We're gonna take our country…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We’re gonna bring it back.
 
We’re gonna bring it back. We're going to make America great again, folks! We’re gonna make…America…great…again!
 
So…but you know, with all of this, with thousands of people…and this is this intimate room, but they sent away over 5,000 people, so, congratulations. You did a good job…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
 
I mean, they'll tell you. The press will tell you. In North Carolina, we did a little circle, and we probably had 1,500 people in the room, but they sent away 10,000 people, which is terrible in one sense! In fact I said, “I'm going to go back”, and I'm gonna take care of those people, because we have to…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS–no, it…seriously! We'll get a big large auditorium. And we'll take care of the people in Tampa that got sent away too. Although some of them, many of them, are outside listening on the speakers, right!? They're out there listening! Thank you! I love you too, man! I love you too!
 
So…so, what we're going to do…and we're gonna take some questions right after this. So, what we're gonna do…is we have the greatest traders, and better…the greatest businessman in the world. You know, we're losing 505…billion…dollars with China, a year. Right? …-THE CROWD BOOS. Trade imbalances. It’s…It's like a one-way street.
 
We rebuilt China. Watch it…and I love China. They've treated me great. I've made a lot of money with China…! I have the largest bank in the world as a tenant of mine in Manhattan, [it] is from China. I do a lot of business, [I] sell condos.  I have the Bank of America building in San Francisco, [a] big chunk of it. That's from China…; I mean, [there’s] so much with China. You could do great with China! And I'm not blaming China. China's outsmarting us a 100 to one. A 1,000 to one! But I'm not blaming China. I think it's great what they're doing, but I'm blaming our people, for not knowing what…the hell…is going on! Because we can't continue to go on like this…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And remember this! Remember this! …–THERE IS MEMBER IN THE CROWD YELLING. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT. Oh, ‘vote Trump’. Oh, okay…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Thank you. See? I thought he was a disrupter. He's a friend! See? …–THE CORWD LAUGHS. Even Sarah thought that, but he's a friend. Good. Thank you.
 
And by the way, speaking of ‘vote Trump’, please go out tomorrow and vote! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Go out tomorrow and vote! You know, in Florida they have the early voting, and I think like 40 percent of the people  have…; who's already voted!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS. Yeah. That's great! That's great!
No, Florida has a great system. They have early voting, and it's a great system. It's a good way of doing it, actually if you could do it. And…uh…and you know, I hear you're pretty tough. You know, in some places you could vote 19 times, [and] nobody knows the difference…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. You know, in some places you're not allowed to have a card with your picture on it, because they say it's discriminatory. I mean, little things like that. So, anyway.
 
So, here's the story: we're gonna make great deals. We're gonna make great deals.
 
When someone…one…one of the people walked off the stage, recently, and they said, “you're never gonna build a wall!”. I said, “of course we're gonna build a wall”. Why wouldn't we build a wall?
 
The Great Wall of China is 13,000 miles long. We need 1,000 miles. It's actually 2,000, but we have natural borders. We have natural protection. We need a thousand. So, you had 13,000, [and] we need 1,000. To the best of my knowledge, they didn't have Caterpillar tractors 2,000 years ago. Do you agree? And this is a serious wall! The Great Wall of China is a serious wall. So, we're gonna build the wall.
 
Then they say to me, “but you'll never, ever, be able to get Mexico to pay for it!”.
 
Well, when you hear that there's an imbalance…of 58 million dollars…and 58 billion dollars a year, it's easy to get them to pay! The wall’s gonna cost 10 billion dollars. You have the imbalance of 58…billions. That sort of means, if not a 100 percent, but it sort of means that's what we're losing, in terms of trade. In other words, we have that imbalance!
 
Let me tell you something, when you can't get them to give you 10 and they're doing 58, you're a very, very bad negotiator, folks. Okay? Very bad! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
Now…now…now, Vincente Fox, the…past president…–THE CROWD BOOS–…he was angry! He was on television about a week ago, and he was with that particular crew right there…–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT THE CAMERAS. Boy, look at all those red lights! Look at those red lights that are on! So many red lights! He was with that crew, right there, and…he was angry! The ex-president of Mexico.
 
So, here's what happens: he was angry cause he said, “we're not gonna pay for that you know what wall”, and he used…a horrible word! The the worst word, right? He threw out…they said it on television, so I think I can say it: the f-bomb, okay? Throughout the f-bomb! Nobody cared!
 
If I would have said the f-bomb on television, I would have been given the electric chair. Do you agree!? …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. [It] Would have been over! And his anger was incredible. He said, “there's no way we're gonna pay”.
 
Well, first of all, we made a lot of progress, because two years ago he said, “there's no way we're gonna build the wall”. So, now he agrees that the wall is gonna be built…–THE CROWD LAUGHS. [It’s a] Big difference. So, we made…but…but the anger! And it wasn't the anger about the wall. It was really…it was really the anger that we would be telling them what's going to happen…! We don't tell anybody what's gonna happen! We don't negotiate it. They get everything they want! Whether it's Mexico, or Vietnam, or India, or any country! China…; Japan…;
 
Japan sends the cars in by the millions. You wanna see imbalance!? We send them practically nothing, [and] they send us millions of cars! We send them like nothing. So, one-way street…let me just tell you. Let me give you the good news. We have all the cards. We have all the cards, because we're the money pot. We rebuilt China. What China did to us is the single…greatest…theft in the history of the world. I mean it. And I say it with respect for China. I'm not angry at China! I'm angry at our leaders for not knowing what the hell they’re doing! That's what I'm angry at! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So, we're gonna make great trade deals, and we're gonna bring our jobs back into this country. We're gonna bring jobs back. And I'm gonna have Apple, as sure as you're sitting there, and I know they can't open up the iPhone, and all that stuff…and you know…; I personally think that, as far as I'm concerned, we have a terrorist, we had these two people…radicalized…; they killed 14 people that they knew very well; they gave them a baby shower, and then they went in they killed them. Give me a break! There's something very bad. We have to be very smart. We have to be very vigilant. But we can't find out anything from their phone.
 
So, even when it comes to horrible terror…we'd probably learn something from that phone, because we'll find out who else knew about this, right? …if nothing else. Who else knew about it! But for some nice, amorphous reason, they don't wanna do that. So, we'll see what happens.
 
But let me just tell you: Apple, and other companies, are gonna start building their products in…the United States…-THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. It's going to happen. It's going to happen. And that's going to happen, by the way. And you know, you would think…now, they…they really do it because they have the money…; you know, they manipulate their…their currency. And nobody in history has done it like China. They're like…grand chess masters. The devaluation of their currency is incredible! The way they do it…; and they always wait for bad news in the United States, like there's a tragedy! Big news! They devaluate it. They never do it with everything smooth, because the government, our government, should never let them do that. Because that's like cheating.
 
And what they're doing is they're taking away business from our country…all of our companies. And they take it away, business and jobs. They're sucking them out! Every time they devalue, they’re sucking out our jobs and they're sucking out our money. And we are not gonna let it happen anymore, folks. We're not gonna let it happen.
 
You know…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS–…you know, uh…a little while ago, it was…uh…it was just announced, recently, but a little while ago, people thought China would never devalue for a long long period. And then we had a problem with ISIS, or one of the many, many problems that we had, and it was big news, it took over…and China gave the biggest…the biggest downward devaluation ever…that they've ever done…actually, in many decades, okay!? They gave this massive…; and I said, “there's no way they can do it!”. But I looked at the news, and it was so covered with that one tragedy, and that one event…that they get away with this stuff!
 
We don't have people watching. They're not vigilant. They don't want their…uh…we are just gonna change things, okay? We're gonna change things. Let me just give you…let me just give you one example…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So, the other day, two weeks ago, I'm watching…television, and through the iPhone, I see that…a certain company named Carrier air-conditioners…I buy Carrier. [They make] good units. Carrier air-conditioning is gonna move to Mexico. You saw that! [It’s] Not gonna happen…–THE CORWD BOOS. It's not gonna happen! They can move. They might move, but here's what we're gonna do.
 
Now, I'm a very conservative person. But when it comes to trade, and when it comes to being like intelligent, I like to say common-sense conservative. Here's what we're gonna do: we're all free traders, right’ But to be a free trader you have to be smart. And…we don't have the people that know what they're doing, so, we can't be free traders in the true sense of the word.
 
Here's what we're gonna…here’s what we're gonna do with Carrier: we're gonna tell Carrier, very nicely…and you know, my wife always goes…she said, “darling…”, like in the last debate! She said…and Ivanka said…both Melania and Ivanka. You don't know about this story. They said, “darling, don't always fight. Be presidential”…–THE CROWD LAUGHS.
 
I said, “what!?”…–THE CROWD CHEERS. No, it's true! It’s true!
 
They said, “be presidential”.
 
I said, “wait a minute! If they come at me, I have to come back at them!”. I mean, when I hear little Marco say bad stuff, I gotta hit him back! Right!? Right!?
 
So…so, they said, “no, no, no. Just be presidential. It will sail right over your head”.
 
I said, “like hell it will. It’s not sailing…”…­­–THE CROWD LAUGHS. So, anyway.
 
So, but the last presidential….last debate, I really, purposely, I said, “look, I'm just gonna sort of low-key a little bit”. And actually, you know what? They say I've won every…all of the polls! Drudge, who’s an amazing guy…; all of the polls! Time…; from the beginning they say that… “Donald Trump won the debates”. I won them both ways!
 
The last time though I was nice, right? Was I nice? I didn't criticize. I answered questions. I wasn't a wise guy with these two characters…; and the third! Don't forget, the third! We have to talk about the third!
 
So, he always says he's the grown-up in the room. Let me tell you! If you remember the first two debates, he was nasty, and vicious, and terrible…and he came at me! And I said, “what do you mean!? You were a managing partner at Lehman Brothers, right!? What are you talking about! ?You were a managing partner at Lehman…! And the only reason Ohio is doing okay…; and now it's not doing okay! Now it's doing badly, because prices went down!
 
The only reason Ohio's doing okay is because…you were sitting on top of oil. Without that Ohio is doing terribly! They've had the biggest budget increase of anybody! This is a guy that have proved NAFTA, and now he's trying to approve TPP, which I assume you're against. It’s a disaster! …–THE CROWD BOOS TIMIDLY. It's a disaster! And that will suck the rest of the business out of Ohio.
 
So, we'll see what happens with Kasich. I mean, I'm…doing…well with Kasich! I'm doing well with…with your gentleman, Mr. Rubio, senator Rubio. But we're gonna see what happens!
 
But…but…if you remember, now he goes along…; so, he…I really hit him hard, that first debate!? And you know, like he's as nice guy…! I hit him so hard that he never came back at me again. It was like…it was like 30 seconds of horrible, horrible fury. And he went, “ohh, holy…!” …–MR. TRUMP PRETENDS HE FEELS DIZZY. THE CROWD LAUGHS–…and…and since then, Sarah, he's been a nice person.
 
And then there was this horrible add. One of the worst adds about me. I…I don't think any human being has ever had more advertising, negative ads. Every time I turn…the other day, last week, we had the World Championship of Golf at my…resort, right? At Doral, right? Everybody watched? …–THE CROWD APPLAUDS. And a great guy, Adam Scott won. Good old that, and Adam’s…Adam’s the greatest. But, Adam Scott won. But, it was so terrible…; I…I am in the booth with all of these people, and they're all the head of Cadillac, all these big people…and I'm watching; the tournament's great…because you see, you know, they have televisions all over the place. We're watching, and Adam’s playing great, and Rory, and everybody's playing great. And every time there's a commercial it's about me! What a horrible human being! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. And I kept saying, “turn that down! Turn that down!”, you know, for the commercial…­–THE CROWD LAUGHS.
 
And…by the way, there's such false commercials. They make up whatever they wanna do…; you know what you do, you go and you fight it! You go and you fight it, and by the time the election’s over, they say, “okay, we think you're right”. Great! But let me tell you, I've never seen anything like it. The barrage…! I think they've spent 38 million on negative ads.
 
How am I getting these polls numbers, Sarah! ? How…!? What's going on!?
 
[Do] You know [what] the truth is? The people of this country are smart! They get it! Okay? They get it!
 
So, just to finish, then we'll take a few questions but, you know, it's very…very cute. Because, so Carrier announced, “we're leaving”; some…management guy. [He] Looked like a mid-level management guy. He’s up there, talking to 1400 people. Really great people. The workers! He says, “we're moving. I just wanna let you know…that Carrier is moving to…Mexico!”. And they have an iPhone. Somebody had an iPhone…it wasn't supposed to be on. And it was all over television. That was very sad to watch it.
 
So, here's a story: they talk about me acting presidential, but I can't do that for this. This is too easy. Carl Icahn endorsed me, [a] great businessman. Many of the great business people endorsed me. They all wanna help. They're gonna negotiate for us. They're gonna do great. They don't want any money. They just wanna…kill! These are great, great…natural chess players, right? We have…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS AND CHEERS TIMIDLY–…we have political hacks! We have political hacks negotiating.
 
We have a very nice person cause Ivanka likes her: Caroline Kennedy, Ambassador to Japan. [She] Is in charge of Japanese and…cars. I mean, come on, give me a break! Okay? So, [are you] ready?
 
So, here's what we're doing: so, I'm gonna say to my wife, I'm gonna say to her, “I'm sorry, let me act unpresidential, just…I kind of do this for myself”. I don't want Carl Icahn to do this. It's too easy, okay? It’s too easy!
 
You’ll help! …–MR. TRUMP POINTS AT A MEMBER IN THE CROWD WHO HAS JUST YELLED SOMETHING INAUDDIBLE. Anybody in this room could do better than what we do!
 
So, here's what we do. I call up the head of Carrier: “this is the president the United States, Mr. Donald Trump. Thank you”…–THE CROWD CHEERS TIMIDLY.  And I’d say, “let me tell you, Mr. president of Carrier, let me just tell you something. Here's the story: I hope you enjoy your stay in Mexico. I hope you build a beautiful factory, a beautiful plant. You're gonna love it. I hope your employees are gonna be wonderful. But just so you understand, you left the United States, you discarded 1,400 great, great employees who have made you a lot of money for a lot of time, and you think you're going to build air conditioners, in Mexico, and send them across the border, tax-free. Well, you're almost right. You can build and you can send, but you're gonna pay a 35 percent tax on every unit that you send across the border. Every…single…unit”…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
 
And…and let me just tell you what’s…now. Now…and Sarah will tell you this. It's not that conservative to say that, but we have no choice! We have no choice! These conservative people, the National Review, they’ll say, “he's not a free trader!”. I am a free trader! But we have to be smart! We're losing all of our businesses. Pfizer just announced they're moving to Ireland! We're losing all of our businesses, okay? Thousands and thousands of jobs. Millions of jobs! We're not gonna have any businesses left! The only way, believe me, I was a really good student. I went to the best school. It’s the only way to do it.
 
Here's what you do: you're gonna charge a tax. And the tax, when they leave, and they wanna build, and they're gonna send, you're gonna pay a 35 percent tax.
 
But two things are gonna happen. One of two things: number one, they're not gonna leave. And number two, if they do leave, they're gonna pay us a hell of a lot of money, okay? It's very simple! It's very simple! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
But here's…so here's what's gonna happen. I'm self-funding my campaign. I'm putting up my own money, okay? So, I'm not…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. So, just in a nutshell, so I'm putting…and it’s expensive! It's a lot of money! I know how to do it better than these guys! You know, in New Hampshire I spent two…million dollars. I won't say who…but somebody that you know spent 49 million! …–THE CROWD BOOS. I came in first, [and] the person that spent 49 million in New Hampshire came in fifth! Almost last. Who do you want as your president, okay? Who!? Who!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND THEN CHANTS ‘TRUMP!’ REPEATEDLY.
 
So…so, here's what happens…here's what happens. So, in Washington you have lobbyists. And they have…you know, emblazoned on their forehead, like Mike Tyson, who also endorsed me! Iron Mike. I love Iron Mike! I love…what's the greatest expression ever? Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the face. That was Mike Tyson!
 
“How are you gonna fight Mike?”.
 
Well, I've got a weave, and I'm gonna bop”. And he said, “that's true, they're gonna weave and they’ll bow until they get punched, and then all of a sudden they're not weaving and they're not bopping…”. It's one of the…actually, it's one of the great expressions. Actually Mike Tyson did endorse me, and I like that endorsement! I think that's great. I like that endorsement…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
But here's…here's the story. So, emblazoned in the forehead, it says ‘Rubio!’, or it says ‘lyin Ted!’, or it says something, right? It's right there, ingrained like it was from a steer, boom! Forehead, Rubio…; these are lobbyists. These are guys that raise money for them, lots of money.
 
So, when you wanna get Rubio, you hire a certain guy. There are guys! I mean, they're probably five of them, ten of them, 15 of them, one of them…; but you go, you pay them a lot of money, they'll get you…;
 
So, here's what happens. They will call…the Rubio guy. They'll call this one, they'll call Kasich’s guy...; and a 100 percent, nothing will happen. With me…? I'm not taking any of their money…; I couldn't care less…; I know half of them anyway…but I don't want to…; [do] you know who I'm working for? I'm working for you! For you! I'm working for you! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. It’s true, I'm working for you.
 
I’m not doing it…believe me, I didn't need this-. I like Mar-a-Lago. I…I don't see Mar-a-Lago anymore! I don't see anything anymore! I'm going around all over the place! This is not the easiest thing to do! And I could have had a nice, soft life, and instead I'm doing this. But I'm doing it because I wanna put back. Because I wanna put back. No, I wanna put back…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And I built a wonderful business. My kids will run it. I have great executives. I wouldn't care…I wouldn't even talk about it. I would, I…it's so…insignificant compared to what we're talking about. And the numbers I filed are phenomenal, which is telling you! You take a look at federal elections…very little debt, tremendous…uh…some of the great assets of the world; unbelievable company; tremendous cash flow; I don't care! And the reason I mentioned that is that's the kind of thinking we now need in this country. Because we have people that don't know what they're doing! We have people [that] don't know what…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
 
So, [the] largest financial statement ever filed with the federal elections. And, boy, those reporters…! They were down…; when I filed that? They were down there. You know why you never heard about it? Because it's so good! If that was a little bit off!
 
A friend of mine, a very rich friend said, “now I know you're rich! Because you would have never run unless you were loaded. Because they would have shot you down…!”. All right.
 
So, here's the story. So here's the story. The…Mexico…all of them. What's gonna happen is Carrier is gonna call. And he's gonna try, and it's not gonna work with me. [It’s] gonna work with the others, [but it’s] not gonna work with me. I'll get a call: 24 hours, head of Carrier, “Mr. president, we've decided we are not leaving the United States. Thank you, sir”…–THE CROWD CHERES AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY. That's what's gonna happen! A 100 percent! A 100 percent!
 
Now, I'll be criticized by conservatives. [Do you] Remember Jeb Bush? He used to go: “he is not a conservative. He is not a conservative”…–THE CROWD LAUGHS TIMIDLY. I'm a conservative, but like I'm…a smart person! We're getting ripped! Our country's being…we're losing all our jobs! We're losing all our businesses! We're not letting it happen anymore, folks! Okay!? We're not gonna let it happen!
 
So, here's the story. So, just like that…same thing with Ford! Ford is spending…two and a half billion dollars on an auto plant. They're closing up in Ohio, a big plant. They're closing up in…uh…ther places.
 
But I was just in Ohio. I was in Cleveland. And they said, “oh, this is terrible. Uh…so many…companies are leaving…the area”. They're leaving Ohio!
 
“Where are they going? Let me guess! They're going to Mexico”. No, they go [to] other places, but a lot of its Mexico. Mexico is the new China, smaller version, okay? Mexico is taking our businesses, folks! And we don't even know what's happening.

So, they're killing us on the border, and they're taking our businesses. Not…going…to happen…anymore! Okay!? …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS VIVIDLY.
 
Okay, let's have some questions! [A] Few questions!
 
Give me a nice one. A nice, good…good! Give me a nice question. Go ahead. This guy! Good-looking kid! Go ahead!
 
A MEMBER IN THE CROWD MAKES A QUESTION:
MR. TRUMP RESPONDS AT 00.52.15:
 
No, we have Americans…I’ll tell you. Honestly, I'll tell you what. No, it's not that Americans don't wanna work: They’re not giving the incentive. They wanna work, and they wanna make money, and they wanna be successful! We're gonna let them do that! We're gonna let them do that! …–THE CROWD CHERES AND APPLADUS.
 
You know, one of the reasons everyone says, “Oh, Trump with the Mexican!”. The Mexicans love me! Yesterday at my…I made a speech, and there were…a lot of Hispanics in the audience. I say, “do the Hispanics love me’”. They went crazy! In fact, I brought one of upstage [and she] said, “legal! Legals love Trump”. The legals! Because the illegals come in, [and] they take away the houses, they take away their jobs…; no, no. You're right about part of your question, but here's the story: people do wanna work! But they wanna work and they wanna make a lot of money! They wanna be rich. They wanna buy a nicer house. They wanna take care of their family with healthcare. They wanna take care of education for the kids. You watch.
 
And that wall will go up like magic. You know what…in...in Washington…–THE CROWD CHEERS–…in Washington, from the Obama administration, what the most, I think the most, the hottest piece of property GSA…you know, the Government Services, right? The…the GSA had put up for sale the old post office, on Pennsylvania Avenue. One of the great, great buildings of this country. And everybody bid! I hear they had over a hundred bids, but they broke it down to 10. And they only wanted the 10 most financially strong , cause they wanna make sure it gets done, not that it's half done and it stays here for the next 20 years. And I was brought into the final four, and then, ultimately, I got it. And we're building a magnificent hotel.
 
We're one and a half years…ahead of schedule, and way under budget, even though…I've upped the hotel a lot! Old marble…I mean, this is…it’s the best…; people are so excited. People wanna work. We have unbelievable workers.
 
And by the way, then The Washington Post went over. And they said, “oh, do we have illegals work in the hotel?”.
 
Believe me I go E-Verify…I do it, and they see people coming out, and they look like workers!
 
Uh… “do you have…?”.
 
“I don't have a comment”.
 
“Oh, you must be illegal!”.
 
You have no idea! I think did a story about me…and I am so careful…with all my stuff! But I am so careful with that building, sitting on Pennsylvania Avenue…;
 
Now, we're gonna be opening in September of this year. It was supposed to open, actually, in September of two years from now. So, really, two years ahead. I don't even like to say that I'm two years ahead of schedule. I am actually two years ahead. I don't like to say it. [Do] You know why!? [Do] You know why!? Because people don’t…it doesn't sound believable. It's two years ahead of schedule. It's gonna open up September of this year, it was supposed to open up two years from then. But…but, let me tell you. I like to say now a year, because a year is sort of more believable, even though the fact is that it's two.
 
Here’s the story: under budget, higher quality than I was going to build…under budget, [and] ahead of schedule. Wouldn't it be great if we could…rebuild our infrastructure under budget and ahead of schedule? We can do it! We can do it! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. But I know how to build. The best thing I do…and the thing I know better than anybody. And you can ask the construction guys in New York. What I know better than anybody is building.
 
But, the incentive. They will love it. They're gonna love it. But they gotta go out and they gotta…really knock it. And they're gonna have incentive, and you're an ambitious guy, right? You're gonna go out there, [and] you're gonna become rich! You're gonna be so much richer than Trump! You're gonna look at me [and] you’re gonna say, “that guy was nothing 25 years ago!”.
 
Good luck! Okay!?
 
Okay, go ahead…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
A MEMBER IN THE CROWD MAKES A QUESTION:
MR. TRUMP RESPONDS AT 00.56.05:
 
Well, I’ll tell you what: in terms of Second Amendment, you’re gonna be so protected, like you’ve never been protected before…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. You know, that’s a form of suppression, right?
 
You know, I tell the…I tell the story. So, in Paris, and a lot of things changed. When I won, I was talking about trade. When I announced on June 16th, I was talking about trade, and I was talking pretty much about the border. And, those two things…I was very, very strong, and I shot to the top. And I've been really at the top right from the beginning! You know, from the top! I've been…right…it…CNN came out with a poll last week, Trump: 49. [The] Second is 15! That's a good poll! I mean, it could be wrong. That could be a lot wrong and I'm still happy. But, I've been right from the beginning.
 
I'll tell you something. We have…when we all get together, and when we start using our heads…? Everyone's gonna be like this! We’re gonna….we're gonna do something, but that is a form of…absolute suppression.
 
What's happening is, when Paris happened, I came down on the escalator with Melania,  made the speech, and it was about two subjects. Then you had Paris. And you had 130 people brutally killed. And Paris, as you probably have heard, has the toughest gun laws in the word. You can't have a gun! Only the bad guys can walk around with guns, cause nobody…checks them.
 
So, Paris and France has the toughest gun laws in the world. [It’s] Impossible. You can't get them. So, what happens is…here's the gun law: they walk in, [and] they kill 130 people. They go, “bang! Bang! Bang! You get over here! Bang!”. [There] Wasn’t it one gun of the room except for the ones they had.
 
And then the press called him ‘a mastermind’. I said, “never call them ‘a mastermind’ again”. And they've stopped, actually! It was…I was going brutal on the press! Because they called them…; and then they wonder why our kids wanna join ISIS, because they hear the word ‘mastermind’! He's a dirty, rotten, filthy thug, with a disgusting cap…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…so, what I say about Second Amendment is this…okay? And you could say the same thing for…California, with the 14 great people that were killed. There were no bullets going in the opposite direction. If Todd Palin were in that room…frankly, if Sarah Palin were in the room…it would have been…! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Forget about Todd! Especially now! If…if Sarah Palin were in that room…!
 
But, if…if somebody were in that room that had…a…gun of some kind, attached to the hip, [or] attached to the ankle…where bullets could fly in the opposite direction, you wouldn't have had this! You would have had something maybe! It's also possible [that] you wouldn't have even had the attack! Because they would’ve said, “we’re not gonna attack if we're gonna get shot at!”. They thought they could get away with it. And, believe me, they do wanna get away with it! You know, they say they don't mind dying…; they…mind…dying! Okay!?
 
So, if people would have been on the other sides, with the bullets going in the opposite direction, you wouldn't have had this! So, just remember what I said: we are going to protect our Second Amendment. You understand that.
 
Okay! Go ahead! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
A MEMBER IN THE CROWD MAKES A QUESTION:
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 00.59.16:
 
…which right now is flat! Zero! Hard to believe! It’s practically zero, which…which is hard…, you know, if China's goes down to seven or eight percent it's like a catastrophe. Ours is 0! 0!
 
Go ahead.
 
THE MEMBER IN THE CROWD CONTINUES WITH THE QUESTION:
MR. TRUMP RESPONDS AT 00.59.30:
 
Okay. I'll do that. I'll do.
 
Well, you mean if we get it up, it reduces our debt! When we get it…well, it just means we have a vibrant economy. Right now, we have a dead economy. It's totally dead. It's bigger than it was, and yet we have GDP which is even for the last two quarters, essentially even! And we can't have that.
 
And speaking of Vietnam…uh…you know I was very much responsible for building the Vietnam Memorial in downtown Manhattan. So, I'm very proud. You know, it’s interesting…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS…–it's interesting!
 
I've done a lot of things. I've done a lot of things over my life. But almost more than any of the things I've done, in terms of that kind of…stuff, most people have forgotten I did it, or not…that's fine.
 
But the one thing is, when I'm walking along, or when I'm in a group of people, I get more thanks for the Vietnam Memorial than any other thing! Those guys in Vietnam…thank me all the time. And mostly, if I do things for other groups or whatever it might be, it's like…you know, what have you done for me lately?
 
The guys like Bob. The guys…that were in Vietnam, there's something special about them. They thank…me…so much for the Vietnam Memorial! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So, I just wanna tell you that.
 
Okay! Go ahead! Right here! Good.
 
A MEMBER IN THE CROWD MAKES A QUESTION:
MR. TRUMP RESPONDS AT 01.01.11:
 
I hope I win Ohio. You know, the beauty would be if we win Florida, and we win Ohio, we can go in attack Hillary. No more attacking each other…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Because, you know, and I really appreciate…I really appreciate your question slash statement. I even like the statement! But…but, if we win Ohio and if we win Florida, then everybody agrees, every one of these guys that…it's pretty much over. And then I can focus on Hillary, because that's what I really wanna focus on. The Republican Party has to come together.
 
You know, if we don't win, or…I mean, I…you have some of these people their angry people because they're not used to this. One of the reasons they don't like me running is because I don't want their money. And unless they give me money or unless they give somebody money, they don't have control. They lose control. It's a problem! No, it's true! It's very simple!
 
So, one of these people…you know, they just…and I know the people! And they tell me! I had one guy, Lee, come in. Once he gave me 10 million dollars, right? So, I said, “I don't want the money”. And this is hard for me! Cause I say, like, you know…I've always, my whole life, Sarah, I take money, money, money..:! …–THE CROWD LAUGHS. Whether it's 10, 20, or two dollars! I take it!
 
And I joke, I say it, but it's really very serious. I said, “ I don't want the money”. He didn't believe it. He's a…you know, sophisticated guy.
 
“What do you mean you don't want it? Come on! Take it! Take it!”.

And then, as he's leaving the office, I say, “so, what are you gonna do now?”. This is a little while ago.
 
He said, “well, I'm gonna give it to one of the other candidates” …­–THE CROWD BOOS. No, I'll tell you why. Because they're gamblers! They’re gamblers! It's a…it's a thing! These people are gamblers! They’re big time players. They're gamblers! They wanna give it to somebody! I said, “but I can save you 10! I don't want your money. And your my friend!”.

He said, “Don, I gotta give the money!”. These…I'm telling you! You probably never heard that before! Have you ever heard that before, Sarah? They're gamblers! Okay? They're…they're addicted gamblers!
 
So, here's the story: we have to…bring our party together. If we bring our party together, we're gonna win in a landslide. We're gonna win states…; I'm gonna win states…you know, I had a big victory in Michigan!
 
Kasich said he's gonna win Michigan! Kasich moved…listen to this! Your governor of Ohio. He moved…he literally…moved to New Hampshire. He was there for almost a year. Every day another town meeting…another everything…! He's gonna win New Hampshire. I won in landslide.
 
Then he moved to South Carolina. He's gonna win in a landslide! It's gonna be unbelievable his victory! He lost.
 
Then he moved to Michigan, his adjoining state. Right next to Ohio. He said, “I'm gonna win”. And I thought he said that if “I don't win…in Michigan, I'm dropping out”. That's it. Well, I killed him in Michigan! I won in…a landslide, right? I win all landslides. I like landslides…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And now I gotta fight him again in Ohio and he hasn't done a good job in Ohio! And you're gonna lose all your industry in Ohio, and TPP is gonna take it away. You’d better be careful, cause Ohio is in big trouble, cause the oil, which saved you, is not gonna save you any more. So, you gotta vote for Trump. Okay!
 
But…uh…let's go! Give me a question. Go ahead. Give a…shout it out. You shout it out.
 
A MEMBER IN THE CROWD MAKES A QUESTION:
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 01.04.19:
 
Woah! I love this guy! …THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I knew hi was a good one!
 
THE MEMBER IN THE CROWD CONTINUES WITH THE QUESTION:
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 01.04.32:
 
That's right! Oh, he listens well! He listens well! …–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
Okay. Well, you know, as I said, Common Core is gone. We're gonna bring it locally we're gonna have all of your great teachers locally. Your parents working, your aunts, your uncles…you're gonna have such great education in this country. And honestly…we…we have the money there, but we're not gonna have to use it all. It's gotta be much less expensive, and we're gonna free up that whole DC things so we can think about a lot of other good things, okay? Like…maybe office buildings that are gonna pay rent and lots of other things, okay? Okay, thanks.
 
Go ahead, sir.
 
 
A MEMBER IN THE CROWD MAKES A QUESTION:
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 01.05.36:
 
I like charter schools…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY. And I could tell you, and I know they're very controversial and a lot of things, but when you get them right, they're great. And I like charter schools. And I like competition between schools, where you're competing. And, when you get those charter schools right…we have some of the wealthy people of New York of sponsors chartered schools, and everybody wants to get in. And I know the unions have a problem with it. And, I love so many of the teachers, and so many of the people even at the heads of some of the union's, where they're really good people. But I…love…charter…schools.
 
Charter schools are happening. We've gotta keep it happening. That's a little bit what I say about Common Core. You know, you'll take schools that are existing, but you'll have different management, you'll have the parents involved…; and I've seen a couple of cases where the parents are involved, they're doing with incredible love…just incredible, and they're really doing a good job. Their child graduates, right? And they sta there! They wanna stay. They wanna do it. And they just love it, because their child went there, and the aunts and uncles…; it…it is such…a great…system! And it’s really…it's really a system!

You look at China, you look at some of these places throughout the world…it's gotta be localized! It's gotta be localized! Remember, take a look at Sweden, take a look at Denmark, take a look at Norway…they have very tight systems in those places. In fact, New York City says, “we're sending people over to Norway. We wanna copy the Norwegian system”. So, who knows? But I do like charter schools.
 
Okay. How about one more question? Go ahead!
 
A MEMBER IN THE CROWD MAKES A QUESTION:
MR. TRUMP INTERRUPTS AT 01.08.26:
 
So…so, let me just tell you. We’re the highest…taxed…nation…in the world. There's nobody close. Our businesses are…horribly taxed, and that's why Pfizer, [a] great, great pharmaceutical companies leaving for Ireland. And that's why other companies…in all fairness to Mexico, and China, and all these places I talked about…we’re the highest taxed in the world.
 
So, I put in a tax plan where businesses are gonna be taxed at a much lower rate, where individuals are gonna be taxed at a much lower rate, and it's gonna have the effect…of starting up the economy again…–THE CROWD APPLAUDS TIMIDLY.
 
Larry Kudlow came out very, very strongly in favor. He thinks I had the best plan by far. And it's gonna come out that we're going to have…you're not gonna have a GDP where it's…nothing! I mean, we appoint…we…we…think of it! It was zero last quarter, essentially! Zero! There's no growth! There's no growth. And I actually think it's worse than that. I think they play with the numbers even to keep it at that.
 
So, what I've done, and you can see it on…the website, DonaldJTrump.com. But, I put in a great tax plan; I put in a great plan for social security, because we're leaving your social security as it is, folks. We're bringing our jobs back. We're bringing our money back.
 
You know, a lot of these guys, they wanna cut your social security. They wanna lower it…it…they wanna do things to your social security, and your Medicare, and your Medicaid! We can't do it! It's not fair. You've been paying into it. We're not gonna do it. What we're gonna do is make our country rich again we're gonna bring back all our jobs. We're gonna create a great economy.
 
So, we have, right now, a wonderful tax plan. Our middle class in this…country has been destroyed. It's like we don't have a middle class. Our middle class was always the backbone of the United States. The taxes are too high. You're…being…treated horribly. The middle-class taxes are coming down. We have a very simplified code. We have four taxes, and taxes are way, way down. You watch what happens. And we're gonna save Social Security, okay?
 
Thank you. Great question…–THE CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…so, I just wanna thank everybody. I wanna thank Sarah, because…and you should get home to that incredible husband. But I wanna thank Sarah. I wanna thank Pam. I wanna thank Pam's mother most importantly, I will tell you. But, uh…everybody. And Chris Christie, what a great friend.
 
And by the way, in New Jersey, they just announced today one of the lowest unemployment rates that they've had in years, in the state of new Jersey…–THE CROWD CHEERS. So, I'm very proud of Chris.
 
So, folks, thank you very much. And, Sarah, thank you very much, darling. You take care of yourself.
 
Thank you.

