VIDEO Nº: 9
TITLE:9. Donald Trump Rally Dubuque Iowa ( August 25, 2015)
DATE OF EVENT:25/08/2015
RELEASE DATE:26/08/2015
DURATION:01.04.16 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:00.04.40 - 00.58.30
Nº OF WORDS:8823
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God! It’s so beautiful…!
 
-CROWD CHANTS ‘TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP…’!’
 
Unbelievable! Unbelievable!
 
And thank you very much. They said a record, now I understand why they have a record in this room.
 
What a room. What a place! What a place. Iowa! Do we love it!? Great.
 
You know, we had a big day today, because a lot of polls came out, and the polls were really nothing short of tremendous. We had…and it just came, in New Hampshire, which is an amazing… place, with…, like you, incredible people. They love the country! And they want to see our country be great again. That's what they want. They work hard, they love it. And we had 35% and the second place was so far back, we won't even talk about it. Because I want to be nice tonight, I want to be nice!
 
In South Carolina, we had 30 percent! And that was a tremendous poll, tremendous energy tremendous money spent… 30 per cent, second place…again, we're gonna be so nice. Should we be nice or not? Should we be? Yeah, a little bit, a little bit.
 
So we had 30 percent, that's the Monmouth –UNIVERSITY- poll, big one. The gravest national poll just came out: 40.1 percent, that's national, 40.1 per cent! I want the election tomorrow –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
And Coulter's here and… can we call for an immediate election, please? Okay? Like in so many other countries. I want an immediate election and…all right?  Go out buy her book, by the way, it's actually a very good book and always it’s true.
 
Now very importantly for… for Iowa…anybody ever heard of the corn kernel? Everybody heard it. The corn kernel poll. We were a 36 percent, won very easily. And so we had four of them and that came from the State Fair. And I'll tell you what. Last week I came to the State Fair. I came well equipped in a helicopter. And we took the kids for rides, and those kids loved me. Those kids…and I love those kids! But we had an amazing time. In fact, my pilot said, ‘is that enough Mr. Trump?’ after going up and down like a yo-yo. I said ‘nope, you got to keep doing it.
 
So we had…we had an amazing time but, you know, having gotten that vote cause I know it means a lot to the people here and having gotten that vote is incredible. So here's what's happening! It's a little bit of a different situation, I think. Maybe then has happened before.
 
A great journalist called me. Somebody that I don't know but, somebody that have great respect for, one of the major newspapers. And he said, ‘could I ask you one question Mr. Trump’. –TRUMP REPORTEDLY ANSWERED- ‘What’? – NOW REPORTER GOES AGAIN- ‘how does it feel?’. I said, ‘how does what feel?’. He said, ‘this was the summer of Trump’. Do you believe this? How good is that from my ego? Is that good? But they said…he said…I mean and he's really one of the that on press… cuz – TRUMP NOW IMPERSONATES PEOPLE THAT APPARENTLY HAVE ASKED HIM MUCH ABOUT THE IDENTITY OF THIS REPORTER- ‘who is it?’ ‘Who is it?’ ‘Who is it?’. But one of the really top people. Not even necessarily a fan of mine, but I think he's becoming a fan rapidly. He said, ‘how does it feel’? So I said, ‘why do you ask that question?’, because it doesn't feel…I mean I get a win you know it's one thing to have the summer of Trump…doesn't mean anything unless we win both, the nomination and we gotta beat Hillary or whoever's running! Whoever’s running –PEOPLE APPLAUD. No, because otherwise it doesn't it doesn't mean anything!  I don't know, does it!? If you lose…like, what does it all matter? And he said, ‘it doesn't matter if you win or not. What you've done has never been done…you know, nobody's seen what's happened here, nobody's really seen this…with the polls, and the enthusiasm and the press, and…and the ratings. And you know why those cameras are all red lighted? because of ratings! If I didn't get ratings, they wouldn't be here! They wouldn't be here. They're not nice people! They don't care about me! They don't care about you! They don't care about anything! The only thing they care about is ratings!
 
You know when I did The Apprentice, which was a tremendous success…I was hosting Saturday Night Live…and…Lorne Michaels came up to me, and it was bedlam! It was bedlam! The show was number one, it was doing like crazy…and here I am, hosting Saturday Night Live. My mother and father would have never believed this. And Lorne Michaels comes up to me, and said, ‘this is great’.
 
I said, ‘you know, Lorne, it won't always be like this. Someday the ratings won't be good and NBC will call me and they'll say, ‘I'm sorry Mr. Trump, but the ratings are no good, we're gonna cancel the show’. And he looked at me and he said, I'll never forget it, he said, ‘no there's one thing wrong. They won't even bother to call. It's true. ‘They won't even bother to call’. And you know, The Apprentice was a tremendous hit. NBC renewed it! I may be like the only one, or one of certainly…like, you can count them on your hand, that turned down a major renewal…in fact, Mark Burnett said, ‘you got to be kidding!’, ‘you got to be kidding!’.  ‘You're turning down a major renewal’. He called it a ‘renewal’. He said, ‘you're turning down a renewal, nobody turns it down!’. And I turned down a renewal for many many shows…and you see the kind of money they paid me. Remember you had that certain anchor that said he doesn't believe it? Bah, bah, bah and then he had to apologize…a lot of money! I turn down a lot of money! Because…I told the heads of NBC, the head of Comcast, who’s an amazing guy, great guy. Well just call him Steve. But I want to tell you, he's a great guy.
 
The head of NBC, the head of reality television…they came to my office…like five months ago.  They sat in my chairs, they said, ‘Donald we want…we've already renewed The Apprentice, you…we love you! They don't love you so much anymore, I have to be hon…and I said to them, ‘fellas, I really wanna run for president, I want to make America great again. It's very simple. I wanna do it’. And…and they didn't believe me! They didn't believe me. And I said, ‘honestly, I'm gonna do it!’. And they had the upfront...see? upfront is when they announce all the shows. And they said, ‘we're announcing we're renewing The Apprentice with Donald Trump…’. I said, ‘I can't believe it, I told them!’  Nobody believed me! And my wife actually said to me…she said, ‘you know, nobody believes you're running…’, cause I looked at it serious, mostly last time. But you know, I looked at it, but very unseriously over this…but last time I looked at it pretty seriously. And I said, ‘what do you mean?’. She goes, ‘if you ever actually announce, you're gonna go through…’. She knows people like me…actually I'm a nice person! Nobody knows that! It's true! People don't…I tell people I'm a nice person. In…in some ways it's not good cuz now we're gonna talk about China, and negotiation…I don't want to be a nice person for that. But I am! I love people. I love helping people…And my wife said to me, Melania, she said, ‘if you run, you're gonna win. But you have to announce. Because if they take polls, nobody's gonna say you're running.’ Right? And…Ann knows that. And I said, ‘well, I don't know.
 
And I'll tell you what, it takes courage…to run. It really does. You're really exposing yourself like crazy! The press is…honestly? A lot of the presses, especially the political press…you know, the financial press has been pretty good to me over the years. In…Businessweek Magazine, they named me, a while ago, the best…of the people’s poll, ‘the best negotiator’…wouldn't it be nice to have a good negotiator? I don't want to brag about it! It's just what they…wouldn't it be nice!?
 
I mean…look at what's happening with China. I've been predicting China. I've been saying China's taking our jobs, our money, our base, our manufacturing…I just told the press! And we owe them…think of it! They've taken our money and our jobs, our manufacturing up, but they've taken everything. It's one of the greatest thefts in the history of the world, what they've taken out of our country. They've rebuilt China and we owe them!... Think of it, we owe them…they take everything. 1.4 trillion dollars…how do you do that? That's like a magic act! How good are they as negotiators? They take everything and we owe them money!
 
We owe Japan one point four trillion, same number. We own them both 1.4 trillion, for whatever reason. Same number. The balance, the deficits, the numbers…are crazy! If you look at the deficit we have with Japan, the deficit we have with China, the deficit we have with almost everybody…honestly? They’re abusers, they’re big abusers…and, by the way, I love them! They buy my apartments…it's true!
 
I own a big chunk, the biggest chunk I own as you maybe know, the Bank of America…but a lot of people didn't know. Actually…most people didn't I own the Bank of America building in San Francisco. Big, big, big chunk. And it's a great building, the guy from the Chinese, I did great! Really –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
They still don't know what happened -CROWD LAUGHS. But that's what we need! Right? I own 1290, big, big chunk,1290 Avenue of the Americas, many building in New York. But…I do great with the Chinese! And they're great people! The problem is their leaders are too smart for our leaders. It’s something very simple.
 
I'm a free trader, I believe in free trade, right? I like free trade. I like free trade…but free trade is only good if you have smart representatives. It's not good if we have dummies. It's not good if our leaders are incompetent. It's not good when they've never read The Art Of The Deal, one of the great books of all time, second to the Bible, but that's okay. Way, way, way deep second. You know how far below it is? Somebody held up the book the other day, I said, ‘that's my favorite book of all time’. I said, ‘no, no, no, let me change it, it's my second favorite book’. They –THE CROWD- said, ‘what's your favorite?’. I said, ‘the Bible!’. It's not even close. People were shocked! They were they were shocked that I actually said that! But, it is the greatest book of all time, the Bible…nothing even close.
 
So we have a situation…where…people that run for political office, and I've heard this for years, they do really take chances. And… it is something that's not very pleasant. And you read things about yourself that don't exist…very little good…that a lot of bad things that…that aren't true…? And…I have to tell you. With that, I've met some unbelievable, really talented, political reporters. But I've also met some very bad ones, and very dishonest ones. And…we have to do something about our country. We have to take it back. You know, I've been using a term that hasn't been used in a long time: it's called ‘the silent majority’. You're the silent majority. I'm the silent majority –PEOPLE APPLAUD.
 
And they're tired…of politicians, other than…are there any politicians in the room? Because we're excluding you…you're fabulous, okay? But politicians are all talk and no action. That's true. They're tired! You know, I've been watching Bush on the border he's in a seersucker suit, he's talking about… - MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES MR. JEB BUSH-… ‘yes, oh yes…the anchor baby…oh, I shouldn't say anchor baby…’. You know, he puts out a report saying ‘do not use the term “anchor baby”’. Then I used it…my poles go through the roof, and now he's using anchor baby! And he's taking criticism! And you know, the funniest thing…is that…he's taking tremendous criticism for using the term ‘anchor baby’ and I use it all the time…and nobody cares what I say because they sort of expected from me, I think. You know? Right? Right? Crazy! Crazy! – BURST OF APPLAUSE.
 
But politicians are all talk no actions. And you know, I saw that…a little bit at the debate…and I loved doing the debate…I was treated very unfairly at that debate, to be honest with you, but… -CROWD APPLAUDS- … but…but it was fine, because I won every poll…Time magazine, or we won the polls I was so, so happy. But…but I was treated…and then I watched the politicians, and the politicians talk…
 
Now I have heard that Jeb Bush was the mentor…to Marco Rubio. Nice, two nice people. I think Jeb is a nice person. He's very low-energy. I'm not used to that kind of a person –CROWD LAUGHS. I'm just not used to it! I'm used to…you know, dealing with killers, people that gaahhh –ONOMATOPOEIC SOUND- … I mean, you know, negotiating with…with Japan, negotiating with China. When these people walk in the room, they don't say ‘oh, hello. How's the weather? ...so beautiful outside, isn't it lovely? how the Yankees doing? Oh, they're doing wonderful, great.’ They say, ‘We want deal –IMPERSONATING A CHINESE/ORIENTAL ACCENT. He jumps out of the seat. But…I watched, by the way, before I say this. Who would you rather have negotiating against China! Against Iran! What a deal, that is! Okay? You talk about incompetent people…against anybody! Jeb Bush!... Hillary Clinton!... or Trump? – CROWD APPLAUDS- I think so, I think so, believe me –PEOPLE CHANT ‘TRUMP! TRUMP! TRUMP!’. So…thank you. You know, it's funny…I was graded on a speech that I made recently. And they gave me always…they gave me these great grades. They said, ‘the one mistake he makes is that he speaks through the applause’. That's true! You know why? cuz I don't have time! It’s true! They gave me this great mark, they said his speaking…they love the way I moved my hands. I never heard thought of it. They said they love this, that, but…but they said, ‘he speaks so well, but he speaks through his applause! and it's bad for him, because he kills a lot of applause’. And I thought about it, and I said, ‘you know, that's right’. And I tried not doing that…but I don't…I don't like, I want to get going, you know? I want to get things done. Does everybody here know that? Right? – BURST OF APPLAUSE.
 
So…Jeb Bush was Marco Rubio’s…and Marco Rubio's a nice guy and so is Jeb Bush! I think he's a nice person! But I don't care! I don't care if he's nice. Because I want somebody that's gonna make great deals, and make us rich again. And he can't do it!
 
So…Marco Rubio was not supposed to run, right? Because…he wouldn't run, because his mentor in Florida…the state of Florida, which by the way, I beat both of them in the polls…can you believe it? Its sitting senator and governor, and Trump is way the hell up here –MR. TRUMP RISES HIS HAND- … it's crazy –PEOPLE APPLAUD! But…but Marco Rubio wasn't supposed to run. All of a sudden he announced he's running and people thought it was very disrespectful to a person that brought him along. Slowly. Brought him along. –ALL OF A SUDDEN A BABY STARTS CRYING AND MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT- ‘Hi! So beautiful!’ –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So what happened, and it was interesting. I think ‘oh’…now if it’s me, if…if I were Bush and I brought somebody along, and I…I am older than Marco, and…all of a sudden the guy, the young guy, that I brought along says, ‘I'm running, against you!’, and it's not my turn, but I don't care cuz I'm really anxious…I'm really driven…for myself I'm driven… and he said ‘I'm running against him’ …and I don't care…I would really go after that guy. I'd say he's the most disloyal guy…he's a terrible person, he's horrible and I hate him. Okay? –CROWD LAUGHS-… I'd say that. Or at least I’d say it to myself! Okay? Probably not to the right to the world…but I, believe me, I wouldn't be…
 
So I saw them on a stage recently and Jeb said, ‘Oh Marco’s a dear friend of mine. He's a dear, dear friend. He's such a wonderful person. And Marco's saying, ‘Oh, I love Jeb’. You know this Jeb never uses his last name? Why? – CROWD LAUGHS. Because he's ashamed of it! Why? But…if I were Marco, but in particular if I was Jeb… I wouldn't say Marco is a good friend of mine…? Marco did something that he wasn't supposed to do! He ran! I've never said this before, and I watched these two guys…and they're hugging, and they're kissing, and they're holding each other…very much like actually Chris Christie did with the president. No, nah, I’m only kidding – PEOPLE GO ‘OHHH’ AND THEN LAUGH AND APPLAUD.
 
No, but…they're hugging and there kissing…they're hugging and they're kissing and they're proclaiming the great deep love for each other. And I'm saying… ‘politicians, all talk no action, it's all bull…we got to stop. We need people…that are gonna take us to the promised land.  We need people that are gonna be great.
 
So…again we look at Mex… -SOMEONE OFF CAMERA YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE- … ‘thank you’. You look at Mexico, which is the new China…by the way, they're doing great…and what's come out, you know, a lot of incoming, as Rush Limbaugh said…he said, ‘Trump has taken more incoming…’, when I first announced. All I did was tell the truth! But you look at Mexico, the new China. You look at Ford building a massive plant there. You look at…other companies from Europe, from all over. A plant was going to be built in Tennessee…big, big billion-dollar automobile plant. It's not being built in Tennessee anymore! It's gonna go to Mexico.
 
Nabisco…I have holdings in Chicago. I have a great building in Chicago. Nabisco…they have a factory, big factory. They make Oreos. I'm never eating Oreos again ever, ever! Yeah…maybe, maybe if I can find some made in the United States I will…but, they're closing…their big plant in Chicago, and they're moving it to Mexico! what's going on!?... means how stupid are we!?
 
SOMEONE FROM THE CROWD INTERRUPTS, MR. TRUMP ANSWERS ‘you're right’. So where…and why are we doing this? Why are we allowing it to happen? So what I would do…if I were president…I talk to these people. Somebody has to talk to them. And if you don't talk to them… it's never gonna change, it's never gonna happen. And you can get them to stay in Chicago. You can get them to build someplace else in the country. You can get Ford…believe me!... to stay in this country.
 
Now, sometimes it's so unfair, the trade agreements. If you look at the amount of business that's been moved out of our… whether it's Mexico or many other countries…been moved out…it's absolutely uncontrollable…by the people that we have currently. And we can do something to change.
 
Now let me just tell you…and I tell this all the time! I go to Nabisco or I go to Ford. I'd say, ‘fellas I don't want you, I don't want you’. You know, I have Carl Icahn ready. Killer. Killer. I have other people ready. I have people that are so nasty, so mean, so horrible…nobody in Iowa will want to have dinner with them –CROWD LAUGHS. It's true! They’re horrible human beings. I admit it. They’re Wall Street killers, most of them…a couple of them are nice…like about 2 percent. But they’re the greater negotiators in the world. I know the best! I know the best, I know guys that are overrated, I know guys that are really good…I don’t know, people that you’ve never heard of that are better than all of them…  we’re gonna use our best! But I would say to, let’s say the head of Ford…and you’ve heard me say this, cause I…to me that’s a big abuse. Two and a half billion for a plant…? You know how big that plant…hoy many plants do we close to build a new plant in Mexico? Two and a half million dollars…!
 
SOMEONE FROM THE CROWD INTERRUPTS, MR. TRUMP ANSWERS ‘you're right’.
 
So…how many…how many do we do? So…I would say very simply, ‘fellas, sorry, you gotta move back’. Now, when they build those cars, trucks and parts…they send them over, no tax, no nothing, and they’ve come up with a new scheme…. Illegals –CITIZENS- are gonna drive over because – CROWD LAUGHS-…no! It’s true! It’s true! -CROWD APPLAUDS. It’s true! Because…because…it just works so nicely…nobody’s gonna check them…! So why just drive beautiful cars? They’ll probably keep them and just live happily for the rest of their lives in the United States.
But, we have to do something about. Now, let’s say Jeb Bush…is president. He knows it’s wrong, he’s not a stupid person. I don’t think, I don’t know…what do I know? –CROWD LAUGHS. But let’s say he’s president. And he knows it’s wrong. He’s gonna say… ‘no, no, no, we don’t want that…Ford, we don’t want you to go, we’re gonna charge you tax…because, you know, the way you do it, you just say ‘charge a tax’, right?
 
And then, he’s gonna be hit by his lobbyists…they gave him billions…you know, he’s got a hundred and thirty, forty-five million dollars! I don't have anything! I don't want anything! I don't want money! I'm just taking a…little small contributions for people…they said, I mean the woman sent seven dollars and…like thirty-two cents, and I was so…look, with a beautiful letter. No, it's amazing! I like that cause that's like an investment. That adds up to the fuel for the plane for a trip to Iowa, okay? It all does. But who cares?
 
I don't want that. Because I don't want to be controlled. Last week, you've heard me say this, I turned down five million dollars by a big lobbyist. It's not a bad person. You know, tough guy. Not a bad person. But when he gives me five, he's not doing that because he thinks I have beautiful hair. It's not that bad, and it is my hair. Ann, ‘is it my hair…?’ It is! It is, actually. People don't know that. I prove that, you know, in Alabama. It was really hot, it was rainy and I took off my hat…and everyone said ‘it really is his hair!’. It's weird –CROWD LAUGHS. I don't have to do that tonight, so they're nice.
 
But…but you know, so we…we…we would go over and the lobbyists would say, ‘No, no. We gave you millions of dollars Mr. President, and…you owe it to Ford’. – MR. TRUMP NOW IMPERSONATES THE POTENTIAL PRESIDENT BUSH’ ADVISORS – ‘Let them have that, whatever they want’. So you got the lobbyist, you got this…but they're gonna say, and after about ten minutes, he's gonna say, ‘huh, I can't really do that, they really helped me in my campaign’.
 
With me…They're gonna call me, because I know all these guys, but they never did anything cuz I don't want their money. I turned the money down! I turned down so much money! I feel like such a stupid person! No, it's true! First time in my life I feel stupid. Guys have given me, offering me millions: - MR. TRUMP PRETENDS HE IS THOSE LOBBYISTS- ‘Don, I'd like to give you a million…’ One guy, I'm telling you…five million dollars! I could have it right now, when I turn him down! I go back, I said, ‘you think I'm doing the right thing?’. In fact, how about…I'll just take a vote…how about if I take all this money, and promise, I swear to you, that I won't do anything for these people…what about that? No? –CROWD BOOS. That's what I thought. I feel so stupid but, you know what? That's the way it has to be. Because I think one of the things they like about me is that…nobody's gonna buy me! Nobody's gonna buy me. And…- PEOPLE APPLAUD-…all right.
 
So after about 10 minutes, Bush goes out and he says, ‘all right, you can build your plant, build it, I'm sorry, please how dare me…I mean, it was so terrible that I even thought about doing that, you know, because you contributed money…’. Okay. Me? Different.
 
I'll call him up and say ‘gotta go. I don't want you in Mexico.’ I love Mexico! I love the Mexican people! I have thousands of Mexican people that have worked for me over the years! And even to this day… thous…! I mean, I love the Hispanics…the spirit, I love them! They’re incredible people! But we have leaders that can't compete with their leaders. Their leaders are too smart. So I would say to the head of Ford, ‘Sorry, I'm not going to approve. You're gonna pay a tax. What every car and every truck, and every part that comes across that southern border, you're gonna pay a 35 per cent tax, okay?’. –PEOPLE CHEER AND APPLAUD. That's just gonna happen and this is too easy. I don't need any of the killers that I told you. I'm gonna get, use them anyway. But this is too easy. This is like…like forget it. This is…this is taking candy from like…that beautiful little baby. Okay? So easy.
 
So what happens is, they're gonna say, ‘No, no, no’, and then gonna have people call me. But these are people that they… I didn't take any money, I didn't take anything, I don't want their money…so they could have people call me, and I'm gonna say, ‘get out of here’. And if I know them, they'll be friends of mine maybe, I'll say, ‘I'm not interested’. And I would say…let's say this whole process starts at 12 noon…I would say by 4:00 o'clock in the afternoon the head of Ford will call me, and say, ‘Mr. president, we've decided to build in the United States’. That will happen, okay? That will happen! If they're really tough…they'll wait till the next day. But I guarantee you, by five o'clock the next day… that deal…they're back! And that's great!
 
That's what we need! We need jobs! We can't keep giving out our jobs! You know, college debt…I go all over now. And I see the Vets are mistreated in this country so badly – PEOPLE APPLAUD- so bad…oh, believe me. You know, they did a poll. I'm like the most popular person with the vets! You know I built the Vietnam Memorial in downtown, Manhattan. Okay? And…the Vets liked me a lot. And they did a poll, and people were shocked. I said, ‘why would you be shocked?’. Cause I'm gonna take care of the Vets.
 
The other one…college. College debt. It's out of control! And I go around and I see students…and, by the way, you see what's happening with the colleges? I mean you talk about like…what they're doing the prices of these colleges…the way they're rapidly raising…and students are borrowing money from different ba…but also from the governments. It's the only thing that the government makes money on, college students. No, it's true! They’re making a lot of money on college debt. And the big thing we need is jobs. And that students come up to me and they say, ‘Mr. Trump, I borrowed, I can't…I can't even…I don't know how I'll ever pay it off’. This is somebody that's a junior or a senior in college. And…they…they…it's almost like they have no hope. It…to me it's one of the saddest things I've seen in making the rounds: It’s college students, college debt. And they say, ‘and then I applied for jobs…’, one was telling me from a very good college, actually a college in Iowa where I was. Great college, actually.  And they were saying, ‘you know, I worked hard, I became a great student, I forced my…I just became one of the top students of my class… I can't get a job Mr. Trump…’, and a lot of them can't get jobs!
 
So now they have the debt and they can't get jobs. Because China has our jobs. And Japan has our jobs, and so many other places have our jobs. We don't have jobs! So they get out and there's no place to go. And they don't know what to do. And we're gonna solve the problem. Because we're gonna bring back the jobs from China…? And we're gonna bring back the jobs from Japan…? –CROWD APPLAUDS- …and we're gonna be fair! But if you look at the deficit, the trade deficit, that we have with China…it's that's astronomical! People have said how to get a balance a budget. How about like making some good deals with China and Japan? Look at the trade deficits.  was in Los Angeles, two weeks ago. I saw ships that were so big…I've never seen anything like it! With cars, from Japan. They're pouring off. We sell them, and actually, you sell them some beef. Right? Okay? This is one of the benefices, beef. But honestly, if you have a look at the difference…numbers here –MR. TRUMP RAISES HIS HANDS AND MARKS IN THE AIR-…compare, it's so it's so crazy! We send wheat. They send cars. We send wheat. It's all gonna change! And we're gonna have…great relationships with these people. You know the amazing thing? Every country in the world thinks that the United States is represented by stupid people. And they're right! Of course, fair… no they're wrong, very stupid people –CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLADUS.
 
And every country in the world…I mean, every country in the world…that everybody makes money. And the funny thing is…we don't get along with anybody! Think of it. Here we have…here we have…deals that are all bad, and everybody hates us! I just came in and I'm watching on television…that…we're really in a very bad place with Russia! Now we're working on the Ukraine, and I think that's fine, but why isn’t it Europe sort of like leading that whole charge? Why are we always leaving? We're working in the Ukraine…I think it's terrible, all that stuff. But…we got a lot of problems! We're sending an F-22, brand-new, gorgeous…and we…we have fighters…our best military people are going over there. And we're worried about the Ukrainian. I think Ukraine is great. I think it's we should worry about the Ukraine…but you know, Germany is over there Germany's far richer than we are. Germany's made a fortune. We protect Germany for no money. Okay? We protect South Korea for no money. So Germany is over there, right? And they …they’re not worried about it. But Obama's talking about the Ukraine, the Ukraine…Germany is sitting around…-MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES GERMAN LEADERS-… ‘let that let these dopey people take care of us’. And…and all the European countries. So we're sending our fighters.
 
Now, in North Korea…you have a situation where, you know, it's rearing his head again. I just ordered 4,000 television sets for a big job that I did and 4,000…that’s a lot of sets, they're all made in South Korea! They don't make them in Iowa. I wish…do anybody make television sets? Do you make televisions here…? –POINTING AT SOMEONE RIGHT BEHIND HIM IN THE AUDIENCE- Huh? They don't make them in Iowa! They don't make them anywhere in this country! So I ordered 4000. Samsung, it's LG, it's all of them…right? All of them! They're all from South Korea…Sony's from Japan…their sets aren't as good anymore. But…that's okay.
 
But…but this…they’re good…they're good sets, they're great. I paid a fortune! And I'm saying…they make a fortune! Look at the deficit that we have with South Korea. I love South Korea. I love all these countries. But why is it that we protect them? So this guy…raises his head…nuclear…this, I'm going to wipe them… -MR. TRUMP REFERS TO KIM JONG-UN AT TIMES WHEN HE THREATHENS SOUTH KOREA-…, we immediately sent… we have 28,000 troops over there right now. Which is nothing compared to the million that they have! In North Korea, big army. Okay. They don't pay us anything! What are we doing!?
 
And you know what? Somebody said, ‘that's not nice, you're asking them to pay’. How can we police...? We're watching the Ukraine! We're watching South Korea! We're watching Germany! We're watching Japan! We protect Japan! We have a treaty with Japan. If Japan gets attacked, we have to immediately go to their aid. Okay? If we get attacked, Japan doesn't have to help us. So that's a fair deal! That's the kind of deals we’re making! No, no, that's the kind of deals we make. They have nothing to do! They got the tech, don't worry about it. But if they get attacked we have to go over to Japan… ‘ay,ay,ay’ –ONOMATOPOEIC SOUND-  oh yeah, you have a fly off a long flight.
 
So… - CROWD LAUGHS- so we need smart people! And we can straighten this country out. We can make this country so strong, we can make it better than ever in my opinion. We can make it better than ever.
 
Saudi Arabia! I love Saudi Arabia, the people are very nice to me! They buy my apartments you wouldn't believe it –CROWD LAUGHS. It's true! They'll pay me anything. They have nothing but money! They have nothing but money. I have a beautiful plane. All of a sudden that doesn't look so good when I look at some of their planes. I'm jealous. It's terrible –CROWD LAUGHS- jealous. No, but Saudi Arabia…they make a billion dollars a day. Now, in all fairness that was before the, you know, when went down…but now let's say it's a half a billion. Okay? That's pretty good! You make a half a billion a day. It's pretty good. We protect them! We protect Saudi Arabia, we get nothing! And every time…if you think in Yemen, those folks are after Yemen…then you ought to leave the room right now cuz you're not very smart. Yemen! Did you ever see the border? It never ends! It's a straight line, it never ends. And you know it's on the other side? Saudi Arabia! The oil! If you think they're stopping at Yemen…they've looking for the oil! Don't forget! I'm the one, I'm the most militaristic person. I would build a military so strong, so powerful, so incredible…! Nobody would ever use it… -BURST OF APPLAUSE. Nobody would ever have…we would never have to use it. I would have the best everything! You know, we have a military...where….we give to the allies. Our allies. We give it to the wrong allies, by the way, you know that. We’re giving it to the wrong allies. We don't give to the Kurds. We give to people…one bullet shot in the air: 2,300 Humvees, armor-plated, the best in the world. So I heard they left…in one day! They abandoned 2,300! I said, ‘No, no, no, you mean 23, you mean 3, you mean 2… -CROWD LAUGHS- …can't leave 2,300! They abandoned 2,300, armor-plated, the best in the world, Humvees…2,300! Because one shot was fired in the air. These are the people we’re helping! These are the people we’re helping! And now the enemy has the Humvees armor-plated, and we have the ones where they're not armor-plated…and our wounded warriors, who are the greatest people we have in this country…they're the greatest! The greatest! And our soldiers are protected…and the enemy is because they have these great vehicles, that they took. And that's just the Humvees…you could go into everything. They have the best equipment we have.
 
So we have to get smart! And we have to know what we're doing. And I would build…I'm telling you, I am so into it…but in 2000, and Ann Coulter knows this…in 2004, as much as I am into the military, which I love…and respect. I'm a huge fan of General Patton. I'm a huge fan of General Douglas MacArthur. To this day, he has the highest marks…! I'm a…I'm a person I believe in like…marks and…students, and like education…I think it's great. General Douglas MacArthur to this day has the highest grades in the history of West Point. That means something! You it mean something, right? It's nice. It’s nice thing. And…we have to…do something and we have to do it fast! We have to get the generals that are great!
 
There was a general…I won't use his name but he's…leaving and they said to him the other day about ISIS, on television…. ‘well, what do you think about ISIS…can we beat them?’, -TRUMP NOW PRETENDS HE’S THAT GENERAL ON TELEVISION- ‘Oh, I don't know. I don't know I don't know. It's gonna be very hard…very hard to beat ISIS’. And I said to myself, ‘can you imagine George Patton… -CROWD LAUGHS- saying, ‘Oh, it'd be hard to beat…’. He’d have them knocked out in about three days…and he’d say, ‘where's the next cunt…where do I go from here…?’ ‘Where!?’ ‘Where!?’ -CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
General Douglas MacArthur…getting out with his corncob pipe right out of the airplane, looking…over the land…that he just took. Can you imagine him…? First of all, they wouldn't go on television. They're too busy fighting! They wanna win. They're too busy winning. We don't have winners anymore! We don't have winners in this country. But we're gonna turn that around… we're gonna have winners.
 
Now, speaking of winners, this is so important. We all know about trade. We've covered it. It's horrendous…I'm gonna get the greatest negotiators, and we're gonna make great trades…we're gonna make a lot of money…we're gonna be great. Everyone's gonna love us. Okay? –CROWD LAUGHS. We have…they’re gonna love us! True. You know funny before…in Business Week magazine again, they had a story a while ago: The ten things the Chinese most want. Now who's tougher in the Chinese than me? And…I love him, I have respect for them. I just hate what they do to our lives. But…who's tougher than me? The ten things…one of the ten things…there's anything ‘Trump’. Apartments, anything! Anything ‘Trump’! We want anything ‘Trump’. I say, ‘how could that be possible?’. Because maybe they respect me. Or maybe they respect us…I don't know! But anything ‘Trump’. Okay.
 
So we're gonna be respected. We're gonna be really respected! We shouldn't have gone to Iraq…and we did. We made a mistake. When we went out…we should have kept the oil…and you wouldn't have ISIS. Believe me. You wouldn't have it. Now people say, ‘oh, that's such a harsh statement, he said “take the oil”’. Who the hell has the oil…!? The Iraqi government is totally corrupt…ISIS…puff – ONOMATOPEIC SOUND-…is just formed out of Iraq…! So we shouldn't have gone in…and then the way Obama got out was a total catastrophe. And then I said, ‘total catastrophe!’. And I said…, Reuters, 2004, July. I said, ‘don't go in, because if you do that to Iraq...’, and I'm one that wants to be like…I'd love, I love the strength of military. You get to use it in the right location. –TRUMP CONTINUES WITH HIS 2004 STATEMENT NOW- ‘If you do that, you're going to allow Iran to take over the… cuz you're gonna decapitate…’… there were two powers that were equal. That fight that go ten feet, ten feet, ten feet, - TRUMP MOVES HIS FISTS BACK AND FORTH AS TO REPRESENT TWO ARMIES FIGHTING AND GOING OVER THOSE TEN FEET- then they rest. This goes on for decades! They go ‘ten, ten…’ – HE DOES THE SAME GESTURE AGAIN-…right? Am I right? So we decapitate one of them…now Iran is….as we speak, meeting with Iraq to take over the country! And you know who's getting the oil, most of the oil, the stuff that ISIS doesn't have? China! You know that China…is getting…so much oil and ever…we're getting…you know what we get!? Nothing! Thousands of lives…wounded warriors, who I love all over, two trillion dollars! We have nothing!
 
In Afghanistan, which a lot of people don't know is very rich in minerals…not oil… in minerals! We're fighting in Afghanistan…and they have…very amazing mountains, and ridges. We're fighting in Afghanistan over here – MR. TRUMP ATTEMPTS TO, WITH HIS HANDS, LOCATE WHERE THEY WOULD FIGHT SUPPOSEDLY- … and on the other side of the mountain, they have massive excavation equipment…from China! They're taking out all the minerals as we fight. We need people that are smart! We have people that don't get it.
 
Look at the deal we have with Iran. Look at this deal. It is going to…in my opinion lead to an arms race, the likes of which there has never been. Countries are going to…line up for nukes, you're gonna have, perhaps, nuclear proliferation…you're gonna see things that you have never seen take place in a short period of time! This is a deal, that just the other day, it was determined… that after months…never see a deal takes so long to…by the way!? That deal’s been going on forever. They had our prisoners, we never asked for our prisoners. How about that? Little…you know? Look! Having a deal is good. But we should have doubled and tripled up the sanctions and negotiated from strength. We could’ve done it so easy. Instead we have Kerry –SECRETARY JOHN KERRY- that goes on bicycle races…he’s in a bicycle…he’s 73 years old –CROWD LAUGHS. Seventy-three years old! And I said it the last time I spoke. I swear to you I will never enter a bicycle race if I’m president! I swear –CROWD APPLAUDS. I swear!
 
He… -SECRETARY KERRY- he's in a bicycle race, he falls, he breaks his leg. This is our chief negotiator. He's walking and they’re looking at him like what a schmuck, listen –CROWD LAUGHS. I watched, actually, on Charlie Rose, I watched the chief negotiator…being interviewed by Charlie. And after five minutes I tweeted at @RealDonaldTrump –MR. TRUMP’S OFFICIAL TWITTER ACCOUNT. I tweeted! I said, ‘this guy is too smart for Kerry’. I was right! So we have…we didn't get the prisoners…and you know what the excuse was? –THAT- we didn't ask for him. We didn't want to make the deal too complicated! Think of it: they're fighting us in Yemen, we didn't ask anything about Yemen, like… ‘don't fight us!’. We have a 24-day wait period…so if we think they're doing nuclear we have to wait 24 days. But –YOU- see? That's not the worst part. The worst part is!... the clock doesn't start ticking. Could be months! We’ve to notify them, there's a whole process…I mean, they could build shoot and build a couple of more shoot and by that time we still wouldn't be in their check-in. In fact, I can just see them sweeping up the floor painting at battleship gray. You know, when I was with my father in Brooklyn I used to paint garages, battleship gray. I'd always like that…would you… do you know what I mean by battleship gray? Shiny battleship gray. I can just see them doing it.
 
So…what we're doing…is crazy! So you have that…and then the beauty of all. And you heard it two days ago. After years…! … we just found out that they're going to do, in the most important section…! … they're gonna do their own inspections. Did you hear this? Iran. It's gonna do their own inspections. Did you hear about this one? Well, look, some of these guys didn't hear…where the hell have you been for the last three days!? Look at these guys! They're smart guys…three days ago I heard it! Nobody knew! They are going to self-inspect! It is so unbelievable…that it you just can't even talk about it! And here's another part: we're gonna give them a hundred and fifty billion dollars, plus! and even if the deal isn't approved they get that. In other ways they get that regardless. You know when I do a deal, when I buy something…I pay them when I buy the product! Right? Whatever the hell it is! I buy a building! I buy this! I pay them! I put up a deposit and…right? And I pay them! When the deal closes. We're paying them, even if the deal doesn't happen! I've never heard of this one before. I don't know who came up with the idea, must have been Kerry. No! It must’ve been! Because I don't think the Iranians…you know the Iranians, Persians, are great negotiators. They’re natural great negotiators. I don't believe they would have even thought of this. Cause it's so crazy –CROWD LAUGHS. No, it's true! They wouldn't have… actually said ‘let's do this’, because it's so far out…who would ever think of it? They get a hundred and fifty billion, plus, plus…even if the deal’s voted down and if the deal doesn't happen, which the deal will probably happen, because we have a lot of weak people…that are gonna approve that deal. Just like they approved Obamacare.
 
You know, you elected people that when to knock out Obamacare they got to Washington… something happened…! I promise it's not gonna happen to me. Something happens in Washington! They get elected…they're really gonna do a job…they're all enthused! –MR. TRUMP NOW PRETENDS HE’S THOSE ELECTED- ‘we're gonna end Obamacare! We're gonna fight! we're gonna end this horrible thing…!’… with the five billion dollar website, that doesn't work to this day, by the way. Five billion! I have about forty websites…like they cost me three dollars! – CROWD LAUGHS. And they work!
 
So…–CROWD APPLAUDS-… so we're gonna end Obamacare! Probably…you probably elected some of them! And they go to Washington! I don't know…there's something about Washington. They look at these beautiful buildings, these beautiful halls…and all of a sudden…they become impotent. Is that an appropriate word? I think so. They become…just…it doesn't work. Put those two together –CROWD LAUGHS AND APPLAUDS.
 
Something happens to them. And all of a sudden they're not fighters! I think there's so impressed…they show their wives; they show they… ‘look where I'm working, I'm working in Congress…of course I've got a vote for Obamacare… isn't there wonderful…look what I'm doing…’ but they got elected to knock it out! What happened to these people!? What happened? So something happens when people get elected and go to Washington. The beauty of Washington.
 
I'm building, as you know, the old post office. I bought…I got…can you imagine!? President Obama is in charge of government services…who are tremendous people, by the way. They really are, they're very talented people. That's cause they chose me. If they didn't choose me I probably wouldn't be saying that. But…they are talented people! They're great people. And we're doing a great hotel, one of the greatest hotels…I think it'll be one of the greatest hotels anywhere in the world. But think of it! Everybody wanted it…one of the most sought-after…pieces of property, right smack on Pennsylvania between Congress and the White House. Best location! You know, for the Real Estate people, they know this law…any time you get a post office, it's good. You know, the post office was always there first. They always have the best. I have the old post office in Washington DC. So it's being converted to Trump International Hotel. It's gonna be great. And just think of that…I got it from the Obama administration! I can't even pretend…to this day I say,  ‘are you sure we got that!?’- CROWD LAUGHS. Oh yeah! But…we're doing a great job and here's the thing. We're ahead of…Think of this! compared this to government: We're way ahead of schedule…and we're under budget. Did you ever hear that before? You don't hear that stuff –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So…so we have…a great country. We have a country with tremendous potential…the potentials are here; the people are the potential! We have great people; we have problems all over the place. But they’re problems that can be solved. We have to incentivize people. We have to give people spirit. When President Obama was elected…one thing I thought would happen. I really thought he would be a unifier. You look at Baltimore, you look at Ferguson, you look at St. Louis the other night…you look at Chicago, you look at so many different places…and you look at what's happening with the African American youth…it's never been in worse shape. Never! You look at what's happening with so many other…aspects of our country. And there's a racial divide, there's a divide period. There's hatred all over the country. I've never seen it like this. We have to unify the country, we have to spiritize the country…we have to create jobs…we have to do a tremendous amount of work. But it can be done quickly. I will say this: if the right person…is not elected…come next year…I don't know if it can be brought back again no matter how competent or capable the person is. It's gonna be too far down the line. No, it's gonna be too far down the line –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So just in closing, and you know normally I'd do questions but this has been such a good time…and everyone's happy, and everyone’s had, he did – MR. REFERS TO HIMSELF- such a brilliant speech, you know…–CROWD LAUGHS-… you know, I was with Elton John. Elton John is a tra… anybody like Elton John? I like him. And a lot of times, like they'll do this last song…and it's so great…it's so unbelievable!... the place is standing, and roaring, and going incredible…! And then they'll be…like…they'll come back for like three more…right? And the three aren't as good that's the last one…and people go – MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES PEOPLE ATTENDING CONCERTS BY ELTON JOHN- ‘good, let's get out of here Alice’…so, you know, you like to leave on a high note. And I just like this audience. It's a great audience…but I have us to… -CROWD YELLS SOMETHING INAUDIBLE, MR. TRUMP REPLIES- ‘thank you, I love you too, thank you’. But…but you know, I have…a statement I say it all the time…and I told the story once before…and it's that the American Dream is dead! But I'm gonna make it bigger, and better, and stronger than ever before. Right? Right? –CROWD APPLAUDS. Good. But…but I got home one night, and my wife said, ‘oh, that was such a terrible thing you said. It was all over television…’. And the problem I have with television…look they're all live! What do I do? Every night I'm there, I'm on live television! I'm supposed to make speeches…how do you make the same speech? So I try and change it up…but every night CNN, Fox, MS, NBC…everybody! Look at them! They’re all live! It’s not fair! –CROWD APPLAUDS. No, no!
 
These other guys that go around, they can make a speech in front of 21 people, nobody cares, they came make the same, they read the same speech, ‘din, din, din’ –ONOMATOPOEIC SOUND. They’ve teleprompters. I say we should outlaw teleprompters for anybody… -CROWD APPLAUDS-…Right? For anybody! For anybody…running for president. You shouldn’t be allowed…you know how easy that would be… instead of this…? I’m working my ass off, okay?
Instead of this… I could just stand up… ‘ladies and gentlemen, thank you very much…it’s wonderful to be in Iowa…’… you know, everybody’s gonna fall asleep, and –IN- half an hour leaves…no mistakes, no problems… but I’m walking…but they’re always live these guys! Uhg!
 
I think we’re gonna can…let’s start cancelling them a little bit…let’s get them…and they…by the way, they’re getting phenomenal ratings…that’s why they’re live! –CROWD APPLAUDS. They’re getting phenomenal ratings! And you know, in the old days, when I was with The Apprentice…they paid me a lot of money…they –MR. TRUMP REFERS TO THE PRESS- don’t pay me anything! –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
You know, for the debate –MR. TRUMP MEANS THE FIRST REPUBLICAN PRIMARY DEBATE THAT TOOK PLACE ON AUGUST 6- …we had twenty-four million people. Now, normally they have like two million people…right? When you’re saying…two million if they’re lucky! They had twenty-four! I won’t take credit for it...but, believe me, a hundred percent it’s me! A hundred percent. It’s true! It’s true! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So…the ratings came out…they were so big…and so mag…it was the biggest rating in the history of cable television or something like that…? And…you know, I was a little abused…but that’s okay, I’m used to it… so what happens…I’m saying to myself… ‘well if it’s not me they have to…so…I should go to CNN, they’re doing the next debate…and I should say to Jeff Zucker –CNN’S CEO-, a great guy… ‘Jeff, I’m gonna do the debate…but I want ten million dollars’…for charity! American Cancer Society…Aids Research…we’ll pick ten great…a million to… ‘otherwise I’m not going to the debate’ …and honestly!? I think they’d pay me! I do! I’m offered…a hundred percent for charity...
 
But it might not look right, I don’t know…and…I…I’m gonna have to think about it. I…I sort of like it…does anybody like that idea? I think they’re gonna do it…– CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
Then we go to Roger Ailes, he’s a great guy…at FOX’s…so we’d say, ‘Roger, you know, they did so great at CNN, you did so great at FOX…let’s make it like twelve, fifteen, eighteen…all for charity!  But…I’m thinking about it. I am thinking about it, believe me!
 
So I got home though…my wife says to me, ‘you know, what are you doing?’, ‘what are you doing?’…’it was a horrible thing you said’. And I said… ‘Why, what did I say?’. – MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES MRS. TRUMP- ‘You said the American Dream is dead…’. I said, ‘I didn’t say that…!’. And I turned on the Television, TiVo is wonderful…and I turned it on…and they have it cut! It’s…- MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES HIMSELF AS ON TELEVISION DURING A FORMER MEETING- ‘The American Dream is dead…’…cut! I say, what a terrible statement!
 
But what I do say…and I say it all the time… The American Dream is, to a large extent, is in trouble. But we’re going to make it bigger, and better, and stronger, and…- CROWD APPLAUDS-…and… we’re going to win the nomination….and we’re gonna get the greatest people that ever represented…we’re going to get the smartest, toughest, best people, to represent us against the world… and we’re going to make our country…so great again…? You’re gonna be so proud of it…and it’s an honor to be with you tonight…and I really look forward to be with you for many, many years…to come! Thank you! Thank you very much.
 
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