VIDEO Nº: 19
TITLE:19. Donald Trump (2015-10-03) Franklin, Tennessee. Full Speech
DATE OF EVENT:03/10/2015
RELEASE DATE:04/10/2015
DURATION:01.03.00 Hrs.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:11239
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So fantastic!
 
Unbelievable!
 
Unbelievable. Ah, beautiful!
 
Thank you, thank you. Thank you, thank you, everybody. That's so nice, thank you!
 
Wow. It's such a warm feeling, it's crazy what's going on, right!? It's crazy. This is incredible. We are going to make our country great again. Unbelievable -CROWD APPLAUDS. Beautiful.
 
Thank you, everybody. That's. So nice thank you. Wow, it's such a warm feeling! It's crazy, what's going on, right!? It's crazy! You know what? It's raining, it's miserable. There’re people outside! I hate to say this. Maybe thousands…!? Right? Thousands! Outside…and I was just doing a lot of selfies, so at a moment I hear –SOMEONE- say, ‘Mr. Trump I’ve been here Mr. Trump in the rain for four hours…could I have a selfie?’ And my people said, ‘no, no, no!’. And I said, ‘absolutely you can!’ – BURST OF APPLAUSE. CROWD CHEERS.
 
So I’m soaking wet now from standing in the rain, but that’s okay. Right!? What the hell! What difference does it make!?
 
I just wanna thank you. I mean this weather and all that's going on…it's amazing to have these kinds of crowds…and we'll have it –MEMBER IN THE AUDIENCE CALLS OUT SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ACKNOWLEDGES IT. ‘And my hair looks good’…oh, he's…my friend…-CROWD CHEERS-…He's my friend! Yeah, ‘my hair looks good’. Yeah, it's…so…and it is my hair actually I have to tell you –CROWD CHEERS. You always know if it's gonna be a wise guy reporter when they say it's not. You know, then you...you're off to a bad start. But I will tell you, it is such an honor…not only here, all over the country, what's going on!
 
We have…there's a movement going on here! They're tired, they're tired! I mean…I didn't need this. I wanted to…I would be very happy, honestly, I'd be very happy if Barack Obama were a great president and things were going great. I really would! I'd be very happy! I'd be very happy! You understand, when I say that! I love what I'm doing. I love my business. I built a great company. I have tremendous fans, have thousands and thousands of employees. I've hired tens of thousands of people over the years…I love doing it! Doral, The Old Post Office on Pennsylvania Avenue, so many buildings…and just loving it! But…I had to do this! I had to do this. I didn't wanna do this! I had to do it!
 
You know…-CROWD CHEERS-…four years ago Mitt Romney let us down, and…prior to that, John McCain tried hard, but there was a big implosion prior…in all fairness, nobody could have done... that I think Abraham Lincoln couldn't have done it at that point. But last time we should have won that election. We should have won that election easily. And…I backed him big…big league! I backed. And I backed John McCain big league. But the last time he's won and I said, ‘you know what? We're not gonna let that happen again’, we're not. Because, we're not gonna lose this time, we're not losing. We’re not gonna lose –CROWD CHEERS. And…so many things have taken place, that have just gotten worse and, you hear…you know, we have almost 100 million people that…basically, they're out of work! And then you hear about we're down to 5.2 percent, five point… It's a totally phony statistic. So if you look for a job, many people are looking for jobs…if you look for a job, -AND- you can't get it…you stop looking for a little while to recuperate, they consider you employed, okay?
This country has tremendous, tremendous problems. And…we're gonna solve them. And, you know, I actually have been saying it lately over the last few weeks because I see the spirit. I see the great people. These are great people! In this room…we went to Dallas, Texas. There Mark Cuban said, ‘you can use the arena’. That's where the Mavericks –AN AMERICAN BASKETBALL TEAM- play. The American Airlines Center. Then I had like three days, I think it was on a Friday or Thursday. We were speaking on a Monday, and it was a holiday, and I had a few days to fill it up…and we filled it up was 20,000 people…-CROWD CHEERS-…so quickly, in Dallas. We went to Mobile, Alabama, we at 35,000 people…you know, we started at a football arena, you know that. We started because we had no choice. We were in a hotel…500 seats.
 
A friend of mine said…from Mobile, he is a great guy. He said, ‘could you come down and speak in Mobile?’. I said ‘yeah, it's great. I'll do that’. So he had a set up in a hotel, nice hotel, good people…and it was 500 seats. He called me about a minute after we announced. He said ‘it sold out. So we're gonna move it to the convention center. Do you mind?’
 
That held 10,000. And he calls me about three hours later. He said, ‘the Convention Center can't hold it. It's too big’ –MEMBERS IN THE AUDIENCE CALL OUT ‘YEAH!’. So they took us to a football stadium, which was beautiful and we had 35,000 people…and I was a short, just this short little period of time.
 
And then last week, you saw that. We were in Oklahoma and we had, legit, 20,000 people! I say more! We had a band shell, and we had a big park in front, a big, big park. And it's funny because the Pope was there at the same time, and he was in…New York, and then he was in Philadelphia…and this is crazy. They – THE POLICE- had helicopters circling over the…over Oklahoma, when we were speaking. So it's a band shell…thousands of people behind the bandshell…! We couldn't even see! I mean, I said, ‘what are they doing!?’ They can't see, but there was no room in the park. So they had the helicopters circling over, and it was beautiful to see…and they had the helicopters circling over Philadelphia where the Pope was. Now, they said the Pope had a million people and I had 20,000 and…it looked like I had more! It's crazy! Crazy! But no matter where we go…and it's because…it’s…it's real…-AUDIENCE CALLS OUT SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP LAUGHS…’Aw, thank you. Thank you. Thank you –CROWD CHEERS.
 
Thank you, everybody. So incredible. And you know, the reason is…that people are just tired of being ripped off…we're just being ripped off. Every single thing! –CROWD APPLAUDS. Every single thing! We don't have victories anymore! We don't win anymore! We don't win!
 
You know, years ago prior to Vietnam, we never lost a war, right? We never lost a war! Vietnam…was…a loss, nothing else you can call it. And then after that we…now we don't even think about winning. We…we lose in Iraq, we lose with ISIS! We lose…we… I see a general the other day being interviewed. And they said to him…nice guy! I don't really want a nice general, you know…? –CROWD LAUGHS-…generals…? Bring back Patton! –CROWD CHEERS. We don’t want…this was such a nice guy. I like MacArthur. You know, McArthur; in the history of West Point, he had the highest marks. I'm very much into the world of academics, believe it or not…and he had the best marks in the history of it.
 
You know, I want these guys…-MR. TRUMP DESCRIBES HIS IDEAL GENERAL MODEL- he gets off his plane with a corncob pipe in the high hat and he’d say, ‘here I am. You mess with me…? Go ahead mess with me’. –CROWD LAUGHS. You know, it's different! So today they... they're interviewing recently…this general on television. First, we shouldn't be on television doing an interview. Right? Right!? You're supposed to be unpredictable! …I've been using that term.
 
They said…I did this great deal, recently. And it was a great business deal! And my other side…and…and they were tough…but I beat them, and badly, and they said…they were interviewing…this other side, and they were nice! They said, ‘you know, we don't like Donald Trump, but I have to tell you is really tough to beat. Because he's so damn unpredictable. We couldn't predict what his moves were’. And I said to myself, ‘I didn't even know that!’ –CROWD CHEERS. I don't think of myself. And I said to myself, our country has to be unpredictable.
 
You know, how about with like…? A number of years ago, when Obama said, ‘we are leaving on…’, whatever date. –MR. TRUMP CONTINUES WITH HIS OBAMA’S IMPERSONATION-… ‘October 1st, in one year, we are…!’. So the enemy says, ‘I can't believe it!’ –CROWD LAUGHS. You know, a big part of the enemy is ISIS and all. So they just went away, they said, ‘why should we fight now? We'll wait’. So the day we leave, they go in and they just knock the hell out of everybody. It's, unbelievable. how do you announce it!? And frankly, he should have said, ‘we're never leaving! We will destroy them! We are never ever going to leave…!’. I never wanted to get into Iraq! You know, I was the one. I'm the only one! I didn't want to get in. I said, ‘you’re gotta destabilize the Middle East’.
 
Now, with that being said, I'm the most military…I…I…there's nobody that will build a bigger, stronger, better military than me –BURST OF APPLAUSE. CROWDS CHEERS. Nobody. But you have to know when to use it! I hope never to use it! You know, I want it to be so strong nobody's gonna mess with us, they gonna say, ‘just leave them. Let's play around, let's do this…’ But... But…it's so… when I…when I see what we've done!
 
So I said in '03 –MEANING 2003- and '04 –MEANING 2004, …there was an article in fact in…uhm…in Reuters. And it was '04 –MEANING 2004, and it said, ‘don't go in…’ ,and it's not my normal thing. ‘…don't go in’. Usually I'm the first one in. I said, ‘don't go into Iraq, because you're going to destabilize the entire Middle East…’, because Iraq and Iran were the same thing in terms of power, and they fight…all the time they were fighting. That's what they do! That's why! They fight! And guess what!? They're gonna be fighting, whether we're there, whether were…they're gonna fight. That's what they do, they fight. Okay? All right?
 
So they're fighting…they're fighting –MEMBER IN THE AUDIENCE CALLS OUT ‘AND SYRIA!’. MR TRUMP PAYS MIND AND ANSWERS-… ‘and Syria is gonna be another beauty…the…they'll be there for 29 years, fighting. Everybody fight, in all fair…. Let's rebuild our country! You know? I mean it's time…it’s time! But I said to him…I said, ‘if you go into Ira…you're, gonna destabilize’. And the White House actually could, because I get a disproportionate amount of publicity, which is true.
 
In fact, tomorrow I might meet the press and this week, with George Stephanopoulos. So we have Chuck Todd, good guy…he likes me much better now. He's looking at my poll numbers, and now they all like…everybody likes me now because of what…! …we just had a poll come out, OAN –ONE AMERICA NEWS NETWORK-…where we're with 35 or 36…that's high! –CROWD APPLAUDS. That's high. Don't forget…don't forget…that's with 16 people, and I'm not a politician, thank goodness –CROWD CHEERS. No, no! Of course, now I guess I have to say I'm a politician, but I'm certainly not.
 
And…yesterday the new poll came out, which is a big one, and I was…25, way ahead of everybody. Way, way ahead! And the pundits will say, ‘what's going on?’ –IMPERSONATING THEM- … ‘We don't understand, what's going…?’. they're going crazy. You know, because I'm not in their wheelhouse, they always pick these senators who are…worthless. They pick all of these people…you remember what I was on the stage, and Rick Perry, who was a governor of Texas…with the glasses, you remember? –MR. TRUMP MIMICS HAVING CLASSES. CROWD LAUGHS-…And he was a nice guy, he was such a nice guy! Then he became vicious! They all become vicious toward me…! …and they start hitting me hard…I never hit first! And they start hitting me, and hitting me…
 
I said, ‘what happened?, he was such a nice guy two weeks ago’ –CROWD INTERRUPTS AND CALLS OUT SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ACKNOWLEDGES IT-… ‘Well, maybe’. She just said some… ‘you're probably right’. But he was such a nice guy! And then all of a sudden they hit and hit, because they need something…'cause they're going down, and they're at 5 per cent…and then they go down to nothing when they hit me. It's the craziest thing! I wish I could sell that power…that's what we have to do to our enemies, right? That's what we have to our enemies –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
But, but…it's been amazing. The polls have just gone up…and they've been constantly going up, and…the press hates to report it. I mean, they hate truth. I don't wanna sound like…you know, but they hate to report it! We had a case in…think of this: Florida. Florida. So you have a governor, Bush, who's in favor of Common Core, by the way, he wants Common Core –CROWD BOOS.
 
How do you win an election when you want your children…in Tennessee, in South Carolina, in Iowa, in New Hampshire, in…every place, educated by bureaucrats from Washington!? How do you win!? –CROWD BOOS. So you have Jeb Bush, and you have…Marco Rubio. So he's a sitting senator…and the other is a governor…from Florida! And the poll just came out. And I'm at 29 or 30, and they're much, much lower…! …one's at like 14…one is at 11…and I'm at 4…while they are actually…and the new one…4…I won't even mention that, because that's like an embarrassment…once at four! in the new one…! Right? So you know…So here's the headline! ‘Rubio surging past…’ –MEMBER IN THE AUDIENCE LAUGHS.
Think of this! ‘Rubio…’, who's at like 13, 14…in Florida! I'm at 30. Rubio, the headline in the paper! ‘Rubio surging past Bush’. I said, ‘damn it! I guess…’ No! It's true! I said, ‘I guess I can't be doing too well in Florida…! 'cause I thought I…you know, in Florida they love me! I love Florida! I'm there a lot…! …it's a great place, beautiful sunshine! –CROWD LAUGHS. But…but you know what? So…it says, ‘Rubio surging past Bush in the Florida poll’. So I say, ‘uh, damn… well, get me the poll, let me see...this is too bad…I wonder where I am, I wonder how low. So, I'm at 30! So in the second paragraph they said, ‘well, Donald Trump is winning…’ and I'm not even in the title, and I'm killing these both guys! It's crazy! –CROWD APPLAUDS. But that's the press…they're very dishonest, I have to say- CROWD CHEERS. They're very…they are very…there are some good ones, but they're generally very dishonest.
 
So now what's happening is this: this is called political speak, which I hate…I hate! I had to sign an application the other day, I had to say…it said, ‘profession’, and I said ‘I can't put down the word politician’ –CROWD LAUGHS. So I said ‘real estate’. I just said. Hey, you know –CROWD CHEERS.
 
But…so we have a situation now which is interesting, because…Rubio was mentored by Bush, right? We heard that. And everybody, you know, six months ago. They said, ‘Rubio will never ever run. He won't do it. And…he's loyal to Bush’. Cause Bush was older and he was…the Governor… Rubio was a younger guy and…you know, it's the whole thing is so…Who has better hair, Trump or Rubio? You tell me –CROWD CHEERS AND CALLS OUT ‘TRUMP!’. Tell me! ‘Trump!’ So…that's not a close one. So here's what happens –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So he was, you know, mentored and…everybody said, ‘well, he'll never run because…we don't know…we know politicians! Right? loyalty doesn't mean once…’
By the way! Where are the Gatlin's!? Where the hell are they!? Those guys…come here, Larry! Come here! Before…I'll tell you this crazy story in a second –MR. TRUMP TELLS THE CROWD AND THEN HE TALKS TO MR. LARRY GATLIN- get up here. This man, just so you understand, he's great and all that stuff…and he's great with the singing of the voice…and he's happily married, but before that, the women used to love him. But he used to live…can you believe it? Can you…? He used to live in Trump Tower…made a great deal, I sold him a unit…and he sold it for much more…! …which doesn't make me feel too smart –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
I feel like some of these guys that I talk about all the time. But I sold him a unit in Trump Tower. He lived there for years! …and we became friends, he's a really great guy! And I wanna thank you, because I heard you put on a fantastic show before I got here. Right? –CROWD CHEERS AND CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
MR. GATLIN INTERVENES. MINUTE 00.15.24– 00.15.33
 
That’s right! He’s right about that. And your brothers…? They are fantastic…Where are they, Larry!? They are great! That…will you thank them all for me, please? The whole group, what a group. Thank you very much. And he's a friend of mine. Here’s a guy he’s a New York slicker, would you believe that, huh? So anyway.
 
So with Bush and with Rubio…so what happens, and very interesting, I said, ‘well, you know, I would say he won't run, but I know how disloyal politicians are, and they're all-talk-no-action. So maybe he'll run, but I don't know, who knows?’ So it ends up that Rubio announces. And then I see Bush and I see Rubio. Now Bush is absolutely furious. Rubio is, you know, doesn't care about Bush, couldn't care less…even though without Bush, maybe he wouldn't be there. And what happens…and by the way, Rubio is the worst voting record in the United States Senate. He doesn’t go for well. Now, he says, ‘well, I'm running for it well’, but you have other senators running and they do just fine. Right? Including Ted Cruz and others. But they're doing, you know, they're going back in voting!
 
So he's there always going, right? But…forget that. I don't wanna even mentioned it. Pretend I didn't…hey! …pretend I didn't say it. Right? Pretend that I didn’t say…. So Rubio…so what happens now, I say, ‘but they don't like each other’. And everyone saying ‘no, no, their dear friends’. Then I see Bush and they're –THE PRESS- asking, ‘well, are you upset with Marco Rubio? You mentored him.’ …I –MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES MR. BUSH- ‘No. He's, a dear friend. He's a dear, dear friend’. That's the politician's bacon. Then they –THE PRESS- said to Rubio. ‘What do you think of Bush? –MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES RUBIO- ‘No, he's a dear, dear friend. I love him very much, he's a dear friend’. –CROWD LAUGHS. And I'm saying to myself…I won't use a bad word, 'cause every time that I’ve used a bad word, they –THE PRESS- say ‘Trump cursed’, right? –MEMBER IN THE AUDIENCE CALLS OUT SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. They all say ‘curse’, please. I can't. You know the story is not as good without a little extra emphasis, you know…but I won’t do it. Because CNN…every time I use a bad word, CNN, and ABC that did such a phony… -MR. TRUMP REPRODUCES THEM- ‘oh, Donald Trump used a bad word’…the bad word…you know what the bad word was…nothing! It was nothing. It's what they use every night at home, believe me –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So anyway. So they go…so they go, and I'm saying, look at this! Look what's happening…they're starting to get…and all of a sudden the last week…they're really going at it Folks. I love to watch it –CROWD LAUGHS. I love to watch it! So now they're going and they don't like…but see? …it's…it's really politicians. All talk, no action, they talk, talk, -MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES THEM- … ‘I love him very much. I love him very much…’ They hate each other. Be honest! Okay!?
 
You know, one of the reasons we're doing so well… -CROWD APPLAUDS-…when I heard…I heard…! Is that true Bush was down to four in the…ehm…poll? –AUDIENCE CALLS OUT ‘YES!’. Wow! That's…that's…that's a low number. That's a good poll too –CROWD LAUGHS. That's a good…that's a good one. That's a big poll. That's actually…you know, it's actually too bad, that's a... That's a big drop.
 
So what happens is they now…and they have to go after each other! They don't wanna go after me! Because everybody that's gone after me is down the tube! So they're not gonna do that. They wanna wait. They wanna be the last man stand…everyone now wants to be the last man standing to take on Trump. Okay? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YEAH!’. I look so forward to finding out who I'm ultimately going to face! –CROWD CHEERS AND CELEBRATES. I look so forward to it.
 
So, you know, we're gonna see…and it's going to be very interesting. But…ehm…the world of politics is a different place.
 
And you know, I've always…I was the fair-haired boy, nobody knows more about it than me. They say, ‘what do you know about politics?’ I've contributed to everybody. Democrats! Republicans! Everybody love me…Marsha's –MEANING MARSHA BLACKBURN, A REPUBLICAN POLITICIAN- here. She loves me…they all love me! Everybody! Because that was my job…to be loved! I'm actually one of the…one of the magazines said, ‘Donald Trump's a world-class businessman’, which is a very nice thing. It's true! I happen to be! But you know what? You have an obligation to your company, to your employees, to your family. You have to get along with everybody. You get along with everybody. But they sort of said, ‘what do you know about politics?’ I was the fair-haired boy prior to running. Once I ran, I was on like ‘what's he doing running? …he's supposed to be handing money to everybody, he's supposed to giving campaign contributions. Why is he running!? Why!?’
 
But it was interesting…and…now I'm becoming a little mainstream because I've been on the top of the polls…how many weeks!? The guy who said 4 percent…he really knows…many weeks, right? …months actually! –MEMBER IN THE AUDIENCE CALLS OUT ‘MONTHS!’.
 
So I've been up there months and actually, they thought two weeks ago…the numbers may be slipping. You know I went up…here's a great story. I love these stories. Do you like these stories? So as we can get –INAUDIBLE-…right? –CROWD CHEERS. Right? –MEMBERS IN THE AUDIENCE CALL OUT ‘YEAH!’.
 
The other week I was interviewed by very nice woman, Savannah Guthrie. And…I had a really good NBC poll. I was like a 25…or 26 and I went to 29. Now that was NBC, I'm being interviewed by NBC! CNN had a poll that I went down two points. Right? Do you remember that!? And every other poll has gone up, but the NBC was really nice. That went up like…a nice percentage. I was up almost to 30.
 
So she said, ‘in the CNN poll…’ I said ‘wait a minute’. You saw the interview. I said, ‘why do you use it…you're NBC, why you’re using CNN!?’ They use CNN because the poll wasn't quite as good! –CROWD LAUGHS. I was still leading by a lot! Right? But the poll wasn’t as good…
 
Now what happens…is…so we had the OAN poll, which is…listen to this one! Almost 35! …35!…35 –CROWD CHEERS. And that's a great poll! That's a very sophisticated poll. You know, when I hear 35…and that's 35 with…16 people.
 
So when I hear 35, you know what I wanna do? I wanna be one of these countries where they can call for the election the following week…you know? –CROWD CHEERS. Wouldn't that be great? You wait till you have a good week and you say, -IN A DIFFERENT TONE- ‘ladies and gentlemen, we are calling for an election tomorrow, let's see’. I wish we could do that –MEMBER IN THE AUDIENCE CALLS OUT ‘YEAH!’. But 35 when you have so many people running is an amazing thing. Do you ever notice the pundits!? So I start. And my wife said to me, and my daughter, Ivanka….did anyone ever hear of Ivanka? Yes, we love her… -CROWD CHEERS, CALLS OUT ‘YES!’ AND APPLAUDS- …her shoes, everything. She's great. But my wife and my daughter said, they said… -MEMBER IN THE AUDIENCE CALLS OUT SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ACKNOWLEDGES IT- ‘thank you’.
My wife and my daughter…they said, ‘you know, if you run…you're going to win’. I said, ‘why do you say that?’ –MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES MELANIA TRUMP NOW- ‘Because people really love you, they get tired of these incompetent people. They know you're good at what you do’…it's interesting –CROWD CHEERS-…and…and I didn't really…you know, I thought about it last time, and I didn't do it. I thought about it very seriously. I was leading in the polls last time, and I just said…you know what…? …and I renewed The Apprentice and they…and the…top people from, actually Comcast and NBC, they came up to my office…this year, just before I announced and…great people! Steve Burke and Paul Telegdy, the head of…reality television for NBC. They came up to my office…and they wanted me to do…more than one more season… seasons! …of The Apprentice…’cause you know…they…we’ve been having…we had a great run…right? But I'm not allowed, if I run for president because of what's called ‘equal time’, you're not allowed to do a show.
 
So I said, ‘I'm not doing it fellas. I want to make our country great again. I really think I could win –CROWD CHEERS AND CELEBRATES. And…I turned down tremendous…! you know, tens of millions of dollars! Why I do that!? You know, nobody…! Mark Burnett called me says, ‘I can't believe…you're turning down an extension. Nobody turns down…biggest actors, they don't turn down an extension’. I mean, look, who took my place… Arnold Schwarzenegger, he's good, right? I really do –CROWD CALLS OUT SOMETHING. That's not a good sign, I think he's doing…he's a good guy.
 
So let's say, I mean I…you never know, honestly, you never know…how will anybody do? When they signed me for The Apprentice, they signed me for one season, cause they figured I'd be on for a few nights and…they would fade…and you know, we've had the 15 copies, 15 copies…! …all of them failed. But…they signed me, they didn't have any extension rights. You know why? …they didn't wanna waste the ink. They figured up I’d be…and they all said, ‘well, women will never watch. And if you don't have women watching…a show, you can't have a success. It can't be successful. Women have to watch because if you don't have the women, they show…ratings…’ I've become like a ratings maven, okay? I've become the king of ratings.
 
So I said, I read this one horrible reviewer, nasty guy! …he said, ‘the show… -this is 12 years ago when I first went on, he said- ‘…The Apprentice will never be successful because why will women want to watch Donald Trump?’. Can you believe this? It's very embarrassing. Everybody…my kids look, my daughter, my wife, they all look on… ‘that's so bad…my husband’s so sad, it's so sad…’
 
So…so we go on, the shows number 10, and then number eight, and then number six, and then number two…! and then number one…! …and you remember the finale was 28 million people…! …it was like the biggest show…I actually wrote that critic back. I said, ‘I want you to take it back’, you know. But…so…but you never really know what's gonna happen. And then it was a success for many years, and it’s…it was great, and they wanted me to extend and I said, ‘I can't do it’, and they didn't believe me…! So at the upfronts, where they announced their programs, they went out and they announced that ‘we are going to renew The Apprentice with Donald Trump. They still didn't believe me! I said, ‘you don't understand, I'm running…!’…and they renewed it! And actually, it was confusing, cuz a lot of people that wanted me to run said, ‘what are you doing!? They renewed The Apprentice, you are doing it and what are you doing?’ I said, ‘I'm not doing it, I'm not doing it’.
 
And then finally, I had to make a decision. And I will tell you, a couple of people told me this, Mark Cuban told me this. A lot of people told me…and Mark's been really nice. And so many people have been nice…but it takes guts to run! It really does!
 
And I said to my wife, ‘you know, I'm gonna do it’. And I'll never forget standing on the famous escalator. You know the escalator, right? Remember the scene…with Melania in front of me waving…very elegantly? …and Trump coming down, waving less elegantly, but I just took a deep breath and I said, ‘let's go do it. Let's make this country great, cause it takes guts. It takes guts! And I'm so glad I did it. But the pundits were all saying…you know, I started off at six. Then I went to eight, then went to ten, and every week would go up and now I'm leaning by a lot! In one poll I'm leading by 20 points!
 
And the person that’s second, who happens to be a very good guy, Dr. Carson, who's a nice guy, really is a nice guy…but they said ‘Carson’s surging’, and I said, ‘but I'm leading by 20 points!’. They don't…they never mentioned me! It's like an incredible thing…I'm like the invisible man! …everybody's surging, you know? I'm leading, but everybody's surging!
 
So you know, it's one of those things. But I tell you one thing. I'll tell you one thing: I'm really glad I did it, cause I have been received so warmly. I came in with a group of friends from New York, actually and they said, ‘Donald, are you nervous making the speech?’ I said, ‘no, because there's such love in the rooms, all of them…! …it's not like it's…it's like it's sort of easy! you know? –CROWD APPLAUDS AND CHEERS-…it's sort of…easy! No, they said that, and…and…he…he…he was asking it’s…you know, he's a friend who is a very successful guy, and he said to me, ‘man…!’…he said he couldn't, he said he could never do it. He wouldn't sleep for months if he had to do that. And I said, ‘you know, it's funny, there's such energy…and I mean…in Texas, in Florida, in New Hampshire…the other night we had 4,000 people…it was incredible! In fact, Bush had 100 people, I had four…–CROWD LAUGHS-…no, it's true! …4,000 and CNN covered both. And you couldn't tell the difference because they had it…against the wall, -MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES THE PRESS NOW- … ‘we're here with…ehm…Bush…’, and then they go... ‘we're here at the Trump’s too…’
But they didn't say how many people…! …it's just so disgusting….but that's okay. But everybody in the room knows…is tremendous energy!
 
And I said to my friends, I said, ‘you know…when you get up in front of that many people there's like love. And it's love because they wanna see something happen –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YES!’ AND CHEERS-…they wanna see…
 
So…ehm…you know, I'll give you a couple of examples…quickies, but…you look at the horrible Iran deal…now we all know it's horrible…at 24 hours…! …but it's not really 24…it's about 24 days…it's not really 24 days. Because before you get there…! …you have to go through a whole process, okay? The one I think is the greatest is ‘self-inspection’, where Iran does self-inspection –CROWD LAUGHS. Then there's another one…where nobody really knows what it means…but if Israel attacks…Iran we're supposed to protect Iran. Do you believe this!? –CROWD BOOS-…no, no, think of it…in disadvantage… no, no, think of it.
 
But I look at it, and you know, doing The Art of the Deal, so many people are coming in…they're all wanting me to sign The Art of the Deal, and…what happens is I…I look and I see…and I see the incompetence, and I watch Kerry, he has no clue what he's doing! If they would have doubled up the sanctions…and sat back for about two weeks…they would have been called, and they would have been begging…! …to make a deal, but they don't ask for the hostages. They don't ask. They didn't…! …it wasn't that they didn't get ‘em, they never even asked. And they said, ‘we didn't want to complicate the deal’.
 
Now if it's me I say, ‘listen, before we start fellas, let's do this’. You’ve got –MEANING IRAN AND REPRESENTING HE’S TALKING TO THE IRAN GOVERNMENT-…four hostages…’, by the way, it used to be three! Now it's four. They took somebody…in the meantime, a journalist. We have one over there because he's a Christian! …he's a pastor! …he's a good guy, I've met his wife twice…! she's terrific, she's waiting for her husband to come home. He did nothing wrong, he's a Christian, that's why he's over there. The whole thing is crazy! So listen to this: so I would have said, ‘fellas, before we start, you’ve got four prisoners…’, meaning three, meaning now four, ‘…you’ve gotta do us a favor: get ‘em out, let ‘em out. Good for you, good for us. Nobody wants ‘em over there. You don't need ‘em, you don't want ‘em. They’re in the worst prisons. I hear the worst. The worst places. Like…people can't even imagine. They've been there for years now. I would have said, ‘you gotta get ‘em out. You get ‘em out now. You get ‘em out fast…’, and you know what? …they would have done it! Yeah, it's the messenger, somebody else, somebody…-CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…it's true, it's the messenger! I hate to say. Some…some…somebody else could say the same words and the answer's ‘no’. But I'm a good messenger, I'm a very, ugh…they're not gonna play games with me. Believe me –CROWD APPLAUDS. I guarantee you one thing! I guarantee…and they're already now negotiating, because I've said this a number of times. If I win, you know there's a little gap between…winning and going in and doing a good job.
 
If I win, they will be back…so fast after that election night…you…you watch! Iran will say. ‘ah, haha, we've decided to release the prisoners, we've decided…’ I guarantee. And I say that…-CROWD CHEERS-…and I say that, and they're watching, and everybody's watching…! …and you have…an all these live television, all these cameras back there…but I'm watching and they're watching, and let me tell you something: they will be home very quickly after that election! If I win that. I can tell you because Iran knows it's gonna be a whole different ball game…it's gonna be a whole different ball game! –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So…so the other day, which was so sad…they...so they should’ve been back…The deal was horrible! We're giving them 150 billion dollars…all the other things…that you've heard a hundred different times…! But we're giving ‘em 150 billion…now they're going over to Syria to help Russia they’re all doing this…they're a rich nation, they got plenty of ammunition, believe me. And they're smart, and they're great negotiators. So I heard the other day…not four, even though we have four…they wanna make a deal for three. They're gonna let three go. But they want 19 people, they want 19…and they want many other things –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘NO!’-…no, no, think of that! So they don't want…three for three, four for four, we have four over there, they're not gonna give us all four, they're gonna give us three of the four…and they want 19…! …and they want, as they said, ‘and many other things’. Ugh! Ugh fellas…! –CROWD YELLS OUT INAUDIBLE PHRASES.
 
How do we take it? No, no…that's why…that's why these rooms are all packed! That's why we have thousands of people standing outside! That's why! –CROWD APPLAUDS. You just –CROWD CHEERS…you just…you just…you just can't take it anymore. You just can't. Uh…it's so incompetent…and we negotiate in good faith! And they'll get 12 or 14 or 15 people…and we'll give them billions of dollars more! …and they should’ve been part of the deal! Should’ve been part of the deal…for nothing! Zero…! Should’ve been part of the deal!
 
You’ve got a…you’ve got great people over there. You got great people over there…they're waiting to be released and they don't come out, and nobody knows what's going on. But that's the new thing, I heard: 19 for three, and we're not gonna get the fourth. And they want many things beyond the 19. And we're negotiating. It's just sickening to see…what's happening. Just sickening! Alright –CROWD COMPLAINS AND CALLS OUT SOMETHING INAUDIBLE.
 
So we'll get off that subject, but it's just…you know what? It's emblematic of what's happening! Here's a quick weather one: Bergdahl. You know Bergdahl? Right? Traitor! He's a traitor! Sergeant Bergdahl. So he leaves. He deserts. He's a deserter. Remember the old days…? …in the old days being deserters…bong –ONOMATOPOEIC SOUND MIMICKING FIRING AT SOMEONE- in the old days, deserters…-CROWD CHEERS-…were shot! Right? …-CROWD APPLAUDS?
 
Well, I knew something was up when I saw his father being interviewed. I said, ‘whoa, whoa, whoa. What have we here? Whoa, whoa’ –CROWD LAUGHS-…that’s a whole deal. But anyway…that was before I saw Bergdahl. But you know what!? So Bergdahl…comes out, and Bergdahl…he leaves, he deserts, pure and simple.
 
The generals that went in to interview…his group, the people that were with him, all knew…before they made the deal that…! I figured maybe they didn't know!? They knew! They had a colonel, they had a general…they interviewed all of these great guys…these great young soldiers. They said he deserted! Six people were killed, looking for him. Right? They went out, they wanted to get him back! They didn't know he deserted at that time. So they went out! They wanted to get him back…they were killed. Six of them! They say five, but it was probably six. Young, incredible, courageous people. Killed! Killed! Probably killed viciously, as bad as it can be. You can imagine. They were killed looking for this guy.
 
So we get them back. Where do we get them back for? We give up five for one! So we get a traitor, they get the five guys that they've wanted for 10 years…that are right now out on the battlefield, trying to kill everybody, including us. Okay!? That's what we get. And that's the way we negotiate. We have incompetent people in Washington…we have a president that doesn't have a clue. –CROWD APPLAUDS. He doesn't have a clue!
 
And just to top that one off, the other day I'm watching television. And I see the newscast that Bergdahl…. well, ‘he may have some psychological problems and we don't expect that he'll be getting any prison time’ – MR. TRUMP PLAYS OUT HE SAW ON TELEVISION. Do you believe this!? No, do you believe this!? No, that…and that's why. That's what's happening! …that's…and I say this is a movement?
 
You know, they used to use the word ‘silent majority’, and it sort of disappeared. And they have different reasons. But we're not even a silent majority, we're like a noisy majority, it's noisy! …there's nothing silent and that's what's happening. All right.
 
A couple of things. And maybe I'm not gonna sound as exciting right now, because that was really…I mean, every time I talk about it…I just can't believe what we're doing. I can't believe. And it's so big, it's…so important: nuclear…so important. We should’ve made a great deal and we blew it. We had a chance to make...we had a chance…-CROWD CALLS OUT SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. MR. MR TRUMP ADDRESSES IT-… ‘yeah, we'll get ‘em, don't worry I'll get ‘em’ –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
You know, I made a lot of money purposely buying bad contracts for a very little. I've had friends that they went bad and…they had a lot of bad contracts, I'd buy that, and I would make a lot of money with bad contracts. Believe me. It's called to renegotiation, it's called beyond renegotiation, we'll get ‘em, don't worry, we'll be fine, we'll be fine. But…but!  So we gotta talk for a couple of seconds about a few other things, and maybe we'll take a couple of questions if we can. I don't know, it's not set up…but who the hell knows? I have all day. I don't care! I don’t care! –CROWD CELEBRATES IT AND APPLAUDS IT.
 
So…immigration! When I first announced, I took a lot of heat. Rush Limbaugh actually said, ‘I have never seen anyone takes so much incoming’, because I brought up the subject of illegal immigration. Illegal immigration.
 
And I said, and I mean it, 'cause I'm really good at building things…you gotta see what I have in New York, in Chicago and different places. That's what I do! I'm building right now The Old Post Office in Washington…believe it or not… in Pennsylvania Avenue, right near the White House.
 
Somebody said, ‘will he move into the White House?’ The answer is yes. Okay? Yes. Right between Congress, right between the Capitol, and…and the…The White House. And it's an incredible building. I'm building Doral…I’m building all these stuff…I know how to build! And I hear about the wall…a lot of people agree. You know, about 12 years ago everybody wanted the wall.
 
And then listen to this one: One of the reasons they couldn't build it? cause they couldn't get their environmental impact statements. Do you believe…? It's true! I've done a lot of research. They couldn't get environmental impact statements. You know, there was a…a snail or a daughter or something…or a snake that was in the way that was…nesting! There was a snake…! that was …nesting in the area! …you know, within 153 feet of the wall? Uhg! …our country, what we're doing to ourselves!? And Mexico…and Mexico, they're friends of mine, they can't believe how stupid we are. They can't believe it. They can't believe it!
 
And not only will we build a wall…and it will be a real wall! Did you see last week they had a truck going over the wall? They have a little wall, it's about this size –TRUMP MARKS IN THE AIR- and they built a ramp, right? And they had a truck, loaded up with drugs! …loaded up with drugs, a pickup. Didn't even need a strong engine, had the small engine, not the big…-CROWD LAUGHS-…and they had a little ramp…going up, and down. And they had the truck, going back and forth, like the craziest thing.
 
Now, my walls don't work that way. My walls a wall –CROWD APPLAUDS. My walls a wall. And you know, walls work. Go to Israel, you'll see that walls work. Nobody comes to it. No, no. Walls work.
 
So we're, gonna build a wall…and it's going to be impenetrable. It will be a real wall! And…we're gonna take care of our Border Patrol people, cause they are great, and they're not allowed to do their job. They're not allowed to do their job –CROWD APPLAUDS. I met with them! …that's why the white hat does so well, right? The white hat! That was when…and then when I met in New York in the red hat… no, I was in Iowa, with the red hat. And now the red hat’s doing so well. So it's a crazy thing. And it says ‘make America great’, right? That's what it's all about.
 
But so we're gonna have…oh, there it is…-MR. TRUMP SEES A HAT IN THE AIR-…right there…but we're gonna have…a real wall. And then they say, ‘oh, the wall can't be built. It's too expensive’. Well, first of all, in China, the Great Wall of China, built 2,000 years ago is 13,000 miles. This one you need really a thousand miles…it's almost 2,000, but there are a lot of…natural …problems. So you have…-MEMBER IN THE CROWD MENTIONS JERUSALEM APPARENTLY (INAUDIBLE). MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT THROUGH POINTING AT THE PERSON-… ‘Jerusalem's a point’, and that's why I say, in Israel you have a wall that absolutely works. You talk to them, believe me, it works. And the walls work…if they're properly built. Not walls this height…-MR. TRUMP MARKS A LINE UP IN THE AIR WITH HIS HANDS-…that are fences, and that you have…that you can sit…they actually break ‘em down and walk right over them, okay?
 
And our Border Patrol's not allowed to do anything! And then you have the anchor babies! You have…a woman, she gets pregnant, she's nine months, walks over to the United States has the baby… ‘congratulations United States, you take care of that baby for 85 years’. Okay?
 
And then…and then…the 14th amendment…and then, what happens is they all say, ‘oh, you can't do that because you'll have to have a constitutional amendment, it’ll take years…it doesn't! it doesn't! I turned out to be right…I was a little lucky on this subject, to be honest with you, because…–CROWD LAUGHS-…but then the great constitutional lawyers, they all said, ‘no, no they're having the baby, it's an illegal person having the baby. You don't have to do that’, and we will win in court.
 
But a simple act, listen to this …-CROWD APPLAUDS-…a simple act, and we have hundreds of thousands of people coming to the country that way! And I'm not only talking about from South America, from Mexico, or Latin America, I'm talking about from China…they come from all over the world! They sit down, they have a baby, right there. And we have them for the next 85 years or hopefully they live a long time! We have them. Our country is crazy.
Do you know…if you want to become a citizen of Mexico…? …it's virtually impossible, okay? Over here, they just walk in. Now Mexico, they're too smart. Their leaders are too smart for our leaders. That's all it is. They're too smart. They're smart, they're cunning, they're sharp. They send people right through. Trains, go right through them…and nobody gets off nooo…nobody. You go right into the United States. And then we send them all over the country, and we have all sorts of problems.
 
Now we have a problem with a migration! And I said…I mean…it's a terrible problem, the migration from Syria…and…other places! …in my opinion. So…I'm asked the other day, ‘what do you do…’, or a couple of weeks ago. I said, ‘Well, I guess you gotta help’. You know, on a humane basis, you feel badly, right? It's terrible! But then over the last couple of weeks I’ve been watching and I say, ‘wow, that's really something…’, because Obama now wants to take…and listen to this one…you know they were talking about 3,000 and 5,000 and 10,000…it's a lot of people! 200,000! The new number is…-CROWD BOOS-…no, no think of it! That's…you know, 200,000…that's like…that's like an army! You know, when you get to…
 
So now I'm looking the other day, and other people have noticed it too…and they're all men, it's like…where are the women!?  Now, not all…! …but there are mostly men, right? And they're also very strongly men! …these are not…people. And that first thing I said is… ‘these are men, strong, strong men…why aren’t they back fighting for their country? –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
And then I said, and it is true…! Take a look…! …when they show, of course now the press is gonna show different sections, where…you know. But…-CROWD LAUGHS-…but no, I mean if you look at a random, you know, as they call it in polling, if you look at a ‘random sampling’, you'll see tremendous numbers of young strong men.
 
So, I don't wanna say that's for sure…and probably it's not! But…that could be ISIS…that could be…the enemy. You’re talking about hundreds of thousands of people…coming into this country…We know nothing about them! There's no documentation, there's no papers…they don't know… -NOW MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES A CALL OUT MADE BY MEMBER IN THE CROWD-… ‘as he said, they're already in’. Some are already in, by the way, hate to tell you. But…there's no documentation, there's no paper…they say, ‘yes, I…I…am so-and-so, and I'm from Syria. ‘Oh, well come on into the United States’.
 
We have no idea what we're doing! Number one, it will cost billions of dollars to take care of ‘em to get ‘em over. You know, one of the greats? I said… ‘I will…’, and I mean this, and the reason I say it early cause I want people to know, and I even want them –THE SYRIANS- to know because it's all over the world, what I said it was pretty controversial…it's all over the world…they know, everybody knows! …you know that's the one thing about today, modern-day communication. I said… ‘if they come in, and if I win…’ and somebody's going ‘when, when?’…well, you know…look, I'm running against politicians, and they are good at one thing: trying to get into office. That's about it –CROWD LAUGHS. No, that's it! They're not good at anything else. They're not gonna create jobs –CROWD APPLAUDS. No, no! They're not gonna create jobs…they're, not gonna create anything else…to put it…they're good at talking, they're good at getting into office…that's about it. And after they get there, they fall asleep for four years or two years, or whatever it might be. And that's what's been happening. And I said…and I said, very strongly, I said, ‘look, if they come in, and if I win, they're going back! They're going back! They're going back! –CROWD APPLAUDS-…they're going back!
 
So ABC…television network…ABC, this reporter… I won’t mention his name…he doesn't say the whole thing. You know, I give a thing, ‘they could be ISIS’, ‘they're all...all men’. ‘So many men, strong, young, men…’ They go…they leave all that out! They have just one clip: ‘If they come here, they will go back’. I look like the worst human being on earth, right? They really…it's it's so unfair. It's so unfair. But let me just tell you. If they come in, and if I win…they are going back! They are going back –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. Okay?
The amazing thing is…and…and, you know…they have like so many people, so many different lines…they said, ‘well, you can't send it back. How would you ever get them back?’ I said, ‘how did they ever come here?’ It's unbelievable! They're talking about bringing them from Syria, so they can bring them, no problem! We cannot get ‘em back! It's terrible! And what I do like is a safe-zone. I do! You take a big area in Syria, there's plenty of land…that's one thing you have over…there is no real estate problem…not a lot of people investing in Syria right now –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
You get a big piece of land, safe…get a big piece of land, let Germany, let all these other countries including the Gulf States, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, unbelievable wealth…by the way, they're not taking anybody, anybody…! They're not taking anybody…the Gulf states! I have so many friends in the Gulf states…they buy my apartments like crazy. I love them. Okay? But they’re smart, they're not taking anybody. Now we're taking 200 thousand! But the Gulf states, next door, are taking nobody! And they're not putting up much money, if any, if any. But what I would say is this: you get the Gulf states…, Saudi Arabia makes a billion dollars a day, …you get the Gulf states, you get…Germany! cause Germany…I mean they…she... they're having riots over there now.
 
Merkel was strong. Now all of a sudden they want to get rid of her…that's gonna end up in…not in a good situation. But you get these countries…that are going through hell right now with a migration, and they all feel guilty! You get them all to chip-in and you built a safe zone! And then, ultimately…when that whole mess ends, whenever it ends, and who knows, it could go on for a long time. But ultimately, you let them go back to their homes. You let them go back…! …where they actually probably wanna go. You know, if they probably wanna go!
 
I mean, you know…I have…I have employees that work in different parts of Latin America, South America, Mexico, in parts of Europe that actually are not doing well…and I say, ‘what are you gonna do when you retire?’ –MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES THOSE FRIENDS OF HIS- ‘Oh, Mr. Trump, I'm going back home’. ‘Really? You are…’ They'll leave like, great areas. They wanna go back home…because it's home. It's very interesting, isn't it?
 
They want to go back home. It's ravaged in some cases. But when they leave, their big thing is to go back home. It's very interesting. And these people didn't wanna go back home. Sort of natural, right? …it's sort of a natural thing. So we have to help them in that sense, but we don't have to help them where we take them into our country. And…we are gonna give them documentation, that's in Arabic, we're gonna give them all sorts of documentation. The whole thing is just…just crazy. So we're gonna help, because we do have a heart, but we can't take them in the country.
 
And there is a…a problem. You could have a Trojan horse situation; you could…this could be the ultimate Trojan horse. I don't think it is, it probably isn't. But the word probably is unacceptable, right? It's probably…I mean, this one could be written about for a long time and you know, they know how stupid our leaders are. They know how dumb our leaders are…
 
So they probably figure, ‘boy, this is gonna be easy. We'll send a lot of people, and a big percentage of them is going to be great fighters and ISIS, or whatever enemy it may be, cause we got plenty between ISIS and Al-Qaeda and all of them’. So, what big percentage could be that…? and probably isn't, but it could be. It's not gonna happen, we get them out, okay? And I hope they don't come in. I hope they don't come in. They shouldn't be allowed to come in, it shouldn't happen…that part of the world has to take care …we can't take care of everybody! We can't do it! –CROWD APPLAUDS. We can't do it!
 
We just can't do it anymore. We owe $19 trillion. You know, last time I was here, I was in Nashville about a month ago, we had…an amazing crowd, amazing crowd here at…who was…who was at that event!? Yeah, we had a lot of people…! …but we had an amazing crowd and like today, I mean incredible…and…we were talking about 18 trillion and now it's 19 trillion…it just goes up! It's only gone up!
 
And when Obamacare kicks in, which is really in (20)16, Obama is going to be playing golf on some of my golf courses, I think, okay? He’ll be gone, he won't care.
When Obamacare kicks in, do you see what's happening to your premiums…? …they're going up 40, 50 percent. –DO- You see what's going on…? When Obamacare kicks in, it's going to be… unbelievable for…our country, unbelievably bad…so expensive. So we're gonna repeal Obamacare, replace it with…-CROWD APPLAUDS-…something…much, much better, so bad.
 
But the fact is what 19 trillion, we owe 19 trillion. We owe 1.5 trillion to China…can you believe it!? …They take our jobs, they take our base, they take our money…and we owe them one point five trillion. How does that work!? I always call it a ‘magic act’.
 
How about Japan? We are Japan the exact same amount. We own Japan 1.5 trillion dollars. 1.5 trillion. They sell us cars, we send them beef and they send it back. They don't want it. Their farmers don't want it. You know, okay, -I-don’t blame them. They want…to do their own stuff, what do they want the United States for? So we send cars, the numbers are massively…different. We send cars…they cut…they bring these cars over, we send a car over to Tokyo, right? Like one Chevrolet, they send it back.
 
I bet you don't have a Chevrolet in all of Japan. Okay? So…they send us…I see boats in Los Angeles, the biggest ships I've ever seen. Loaded up with cars. Loaded up, from Japan! And they're coming out…they just want…It looks like a highway. It looks like the Long Island Expressway. Just pouring out of the ships, pouring out. We owe them 1.5 trillion dollars. So think of it: we do this…tremendous imbalance, and we have a huge imbalance with Japan, like close to 70 billion dollars a year. We have almost 400 billion dollars a year imbalance with China. 400 billion! I mean, how stupid are our leaders!? how stupid are they!? We can't go on that way.
 
Now, with China, we open our country, -MR. TRUMP MOCKS NOW PEOPLE WHO TAKE THE DECISIONS REPORTEDLY- ‘oh, free trade, free trade, it's wonderful, it's wonderful’…and I'm a free trader. I like free trade. The problem with free trade is you need smart people. If you don't have smart represented free trade's a disaster. And I have Carl Icahn lined up, you probably heard, Carl's a great business genius –CROWD CHEERS-…and I have…I have other…the biggest, the smartest people…I know all of them. I know the good ones, the bad ones, the overrated ones, the ones that nobody heard that are better than everybody. I have guys lined up and…believe me, we'll put them in those rooms…gonna be a whole different ballgame, whole different ball game –CROWD CHEERS. You know 'cause, you know, ultimately it is really a sophisticated…it's a sophisticated chess match, but I have the best people lined up.
 
I mean, think of it…! …think if we can bring that down a lot and even break even! …just break even! …you saw it about 400…. Do you know what that does to us!? Do you know how that makes us!? Essentially you're losing 400 billion dollars a year!? Okay!? Think what I could do. You know, they all said, I came out with my tax plan and I was gonna read it to you, but you've all heard it, right? You've all heard it. But…but the truth is people said to me, ‘well, I don't know, it's a very steep tax cut’ and it is…! …for the middle class, especially, for the middle class. And they said, ‘it's a very steep cut. How…can you balance the budget?’ …I said, ‘balance the budget!?’ There's so much waste and fraud in Washington…when you start cutting...-CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…when you start cutting, you're gonna balance the budget. Believe me…! …you're gonna balance the budget. So we have that!
 
Then we have our military…we're gonna build it up, we're gonna make it great and we are gonna take care of our veterans, our veterans…-CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…our veterans…
 
Our veterans are being treated like third-class citizens, and they're our best people. Our wounded warriors are the greatest, I see them, so I love…these are incredible people. They went over there and…they've been let down. They've been let down by the politicians. The politicians don't have a…you know, right now, Iraq is negotiating…just as I said! …2003, 2004, read the articles! …they wanted me to shut up, I said, ‘you’re making a mistake!’ …but just as we're talking right now, Iraq is negotiating with Iran to take over! Iran is gonna merge in with…Iraq! I said that was gonna happen…and Iraq has, among the top three, oil reserves in the world! Iran is saying, ‘thank you, United States, we didn't have to fire a shot. You're so stupid and nice…’ Iran is gonna take over all of those reserves. They're gonna take over Iraq, and Iraq is already going like, ‘come on in, come on in, please, come on in. It's so sad, it's so sad…the level of incompetence. You have Syria going, and you have Russia in there.
 
Now, if you remember Russia, Russia was the Soviet Union, right? …and they went into a place called Afghanistan. And they went busted. They went bankrupt. They were fighting it for years, the Afghans are great soldiers, very smart, very smart…in fact I'm waiting for Obama to give an exact date when he's gonna leave, then they’ll just go away for a little while, then they'll come…-CROWD LAUGHS-…that's what happened in Iraq!
 
‘We are leaving in 14 months, October 13th, we will be leaving!’ –MR. TRUMP IMITATES TRUMP. The enemy says, ‘hey, this is great news’. Now think of this, by the way, think of this. Even if you didn't mean it, okay? Because…think of General Patton Burgher, think about what they're doing. They're spinning in their grave, they can't believe this. Think of Obama said the following: ‘We're never leaving, we're gonna be there forever, forever and we're gonna destroy them and we're gonna do this, and we're gonna do that…’ even if he didn't mean it! Then what he said, ‘oh, I've had enough, let's get the hell out of…these people are crazy, these people are crazy!’.
 
So now we have the Syrian situation, and that's gonna be a big bog down…that's gonna be bogged down, and I can see already what's gonna happen with Russia, and they think it's gonna be easy, it's not going to be easy…and Russia doesn't want ISIS. I know they're hitting the other targets right now too. And we're supposed to be fighting…! …fighting, for the rebels! …but nobody knows who the rebels are, right? Remember Libya and how bad Qaddafi was…? …and we're gonna fight for the rebels. Well, then the rebels killed our ambassador, in the worst way, what happened to him, and three other people and many other people, by the way, okay? Remember that? ‘Perhaps thanks to Hillary Clinton’ –MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES A PERSON IN THE CROWD-… ‘correct, correct, correct!’…but…but…do you remember that?
And then you have Iraq with Saddam Hussein. I mean he was vicious, he was a violent guy, but you know what? …there were no terrorists in Iraq! …that was that not…now it's the Harvard University of terrorism! That's where they study terrorism right now! Anyway, you had no terrorism, you know what he used to do to the terrorists? A one-day trial, and shoot ‘em, okay? that was…and the one-day trial usually lasted about five minutes. All right, right? You see it!
 
There's no terrorism there, there was no…And remember this! When the World Trade Center came down, they didn't go back to Iraq. You know that, right? …The families. The families got deposited on airplanes to go home, because the husbands are gonna do a great deed. They're gonna knock down the World Trade Center, they're going for the Pentagon, and they were going for other locations, okay? And you know where they went? …to another place, correct. They didn't go to Iraq. They didn't go to Iraq. So we shouldn't have been in, and then the way Obama got us out, we shouldn't have gotten out. That was the wrong way to get out. We shouldn't have been there…! …and we shouldn't have gotten out the way we got out.
 
So there are a lot of…lot of stupid people in Washington, it's one of those things. But I just wanna tell you that, and I was gonna read the plan…and I was also gonna read the Second Amendment to you because we have a Second Amendment plan that's great –CROWD APPLAUDS-…cause…I was gonna read it. I was gonna do a whole thing, and…I was gonna come up and read the Second Amendment and we have an incredible policy. You know they all wanted me to do policy! …and I kept saying… -MEMBERS IN THE AUDIENCE CALL OUT ‘READ IT!’. MR TRUMP ACKNOWLEDGES AND ADDRESSES THEM, LAUGHING-… ‘read it…, read it…’ I can do it…I'll start off! …should I start off, really!? –CROWD YELLS ‘YEAH!’. So I put in –MR. TRUMP STARTS READING- ‘Donald J. Trump, etcetera, etcetera, protecting our Second Amendment rights, will make America great again and strong again’….right?
 
‘The Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear’. Now, this is in light of what's gone on with Oregon. You know, every time something happens, they blame…they don't blame mental illness that our mental health care is out of whack, and all of the other problems. And by the way, it was a gun-free zone. I will tell you! ...if you had a couple of the teachers or somebody with guns in that room, you would have been a hell of a lot better off…-CROWD APPLAUDS-…you would have been a hell of a lot better off. It's really sad! and we can say that with respect to a number of places where that happens. But you have a gun…how about the military event that took place three or four months ago…? …where you had these highly decorated soldiers in a military area within not allowed…and this one soldier, was like one of the highest decorate…and they weren't allowed to have the guns, and this whack job walks in and starts shooting them. Why are we having…why are we having gun-free zones in a military camp? Okay?
 
So…-MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING- … ‘the Second Amendment to our Constitution is clear. The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed upon’. Period! –CROWD APPLAUDS. Period! Period! -MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING- ‘The Second Amendment guarantees a fundamental right, that belongs to all law-abiding Americans’. Right? I wrote this. -MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING- ‘The Constitution doesn't create that right, it ensures that the government can't take it away’…right!? Can't! …they're doing all sorts of moves to try and take it away. -MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING-… ‘our founding fathers knew and our Supreme Court has upheld that the Second Amendment purpose is to guarantee our right to defend ourselves and our families’. We need that! Like I have a license to carry in New York. Can you believe that? Nobody knows that –CROWD APPLAUDS-…please, somebody attacks…somebody attacks me, oh, they're gonna be shocked.
 
Can you imagine? Somebody says, ‘oh, it is Trump piece easy pickings…what do you say? –CROWD LAUGHS-…right? Oh, boy. What was the famous movie? Remember? No…! Remember? No, remember…where he went around and he sort of…after his wife was hurt so badly and kill –MR. TRUMP ENCOURAGES THE AUDIENCE TO PARTICIPATE BY POINTING AT THEM-… ‘What?’ ‘Actually…Honestly? Yeah, right, it's true, but you have many of them. You have many of them.’ Charles Bronson, right? The late great Charles Bronson, name of the movie come on! …–MR. TRUMP ENCOURAGES THE AUDIENCE. THEY PARTICIPATE THROUGH CALLING OUT INAUDIBLE WORDS. Death Wish, remember that? ‘Ah, we're gonna cut you up, sir, we're gonna cut you up, uh-huh… bing –MR. TRUMP REPRODUCES ONE OF THE LINES OF THE MOVIE AND PRODUCES ONOMATOPOEIC SOUNDS ASSOCIATED TO GUNSHOT. One of the great movies.
 
Today you can't make that movie because it's not politically correct, right? It's not politically correct! –CROWD BOOS. But could you imagine with Trump? Somebody says, ‘oh, all these big monsters aren't around…he's easy pickings and then…shing –MR. TRUMP MIMICS PULLING OUT A GUN AND SHOOTING. THE CROWD LAUGHS.
 
So this is about self-defense, plain and simple. MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING- ‘It's been said that the Second Amendment is America's first freedom. That's because the right to keep and bear arms protects all of our rights’, which is so true. MR. TRUMP CONTINUES READING- ‘we're the only country in the world that has a Second Amendment. Protecting that freedom is imperative, absolutely imperative’.
 
And I do a whole paper on it –CROWD APPLAUDS. And I do a whole paper…and it's gotten fantastic reviews…it’s enforced the laws in the books, it's fix our broken mental health system. All of these people…it's not the guns! It's the people…that these sick…people. Defend the rights of law-abiding, and this is important, cause they're trying to take your rights away. They say, ‘we only want a couple of bullets in the magazines. Maybe you shouldn't have magazines…have a gun that fires one bullet. Have nothing…’
Defend the rights of law-abiding of gun owners, and that doesn't happen. So we have to do that. They, you know, they have background checks, already in place, and that was done in 1998. And…people slipped through and our government is not doing a great job.
 
You have a national light to carry, and you have the military bases. I mean, when you think about the military bases…so we laid out this policy…I'm a very, very big Second Amendment person, it's very important to me, it's very, very important –CROWD CHEERS.
 
So…so…you know, one other thing I wanna say. I met with a lot of ministers and pastors the other day. And I brought up one point that has been bothering me for a long time, and it's the word ‘Christmas’. We can’t say Christmas…Do you ever go to a store now? Where it's just Happy Holiday, and I say to the owner where…where is the ‘Christmas’...-MR TRUMP PLAYS OUT THE OWNER’, … ‘no, no, we don't do that. We don't do that anymore’.
 
You can't use, you think of it. You can't use Christmas anymore. Okay? I will tell you one thing: if I win you're gonna be using Merry Christmas all the time. All the time –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
So…it's an incredible honor to be here…it's incredible to see the kind of numbers you have in this room and…way outside. We have speakers set up for them, but it's, you know, obviously not the same thing, but it's…it's an honor that they showed up and they're standing out there in the rain.
 
But I just wanna tell you that…we are going to do something special. There's something special that's happening. There's something special…and I see it everywhere! There is something special that's happening. And look around at the people that are next to you. And just remember, we are going to do something that's going to surprise the world. We're gonna win, and we're gonna turn this around. And we're not only gonna make America great again, we're gonna make it better than ever before, and we can do It better than ever before. –CROWD APPLAUDS. And I just wanna thank you, and I love you all!
 
Thank you. Thank you very much.
 
Thank you.
 
Thank you.
 
Thank you, everybody.

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