VIDEO Nº: 20
TITLE:20.Speech: Donald Trump - Waterloo, IA - October 7, 2015
DATE OF EVENT:07/10/2015
RELEASE DATE:28/10/2017
DURATION:00.57.19 Mins.
MR. TRUMP’s FRACTION:Full
Nº OF WORDS:10098
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CROWD CALLS OUT ‘U.S.A!’ ‘U.S.A!’ ‘U.S.A!’
 
I want to thank you. This is amazing. I know the fire marshal had to send a lot of people outside unfortunately. Don't worry, you’re safe. But a lot of people are…eh…not so happy right now! They're standing…hundreds of people are outside. That means you have prime real estate, right!? –CROWD CHEERS. Right? You know, I just saw backstage…there's a man that I have great respect for…Dan Gable. We all love Dan Gable –CROWD CHEERS. And I mean, I watched his whole career, and I used to wrestle a little, but I wasn't too good at it. Ehm…and I tell you what, I watched his whole career, and he was just amazing. Years and years without being defeated, and…Olympic gold medal. And…one of the truly great guys, and I just said, ‘Dan come down…’, at least we have to introduce him. Where is Dan Gable!? –MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES MR. GABLE-… ‘come on up –CROWD CHEERS.
 
MR. GABLE INTERVENES. Minute 00.00.58 – 00.02.00.
MR. TRUMP CONTINUES AT 02.00.02
 
Thank you Dan. That was great. And Shawn Johnson, who I love. You know, Shawn Johnson's another great champion, and we love Shawn, and…ehm…just have a great feeling for Shawn. So…we're gonna see her one of these days very soon…she wants to come around so ladies and gentlemen, I…really…you know, here we are, in the middle of the day, and people are working and…a lot of people aren't working in this country however, but people are working here. And…you know, we had some tremendous news, and somebody said, ‘oh, you mention the polls a lot…’, and when you're number one you mention ‘em a lot. And the reason other people don't mention, because nobody's number one. We're number one –CROWD CHEERS. And…and we had some great ones come out…this morning, and one last night. At Morning Consult, we're at 33 –CROWD CHEERS. I think…it might even be 35. And I think we're about 18 points ahead of anybody else, which is…that's a lot! That's one of those deals, you know, if you had a certain country where they say…you can call for the election…? …we say, ‘I want the election tomorrow’, right?
 
And the Reuters –POLL- said 32 we’re way ahead of everybody…and then…EHM…a couple of…three of them came out early this morning…and they talked about ‘em on all of the networks. They were really surprised. Florida…! …we love Florida. Florida, I was at 21…I went up to 28. We're killing everybody! –CROWD CHEERS. We're winning by many, many points, and…don't forget, you have a sitting senator –MEANING MARCO RUBIO- and an ex-governor in Florida –MEANING JEB BUSH-…and we're beating them by many. You know, when you're 28, 29 that's a lot! …especially, you know, when you think you have 16 people already…you had 17 one did sayonara, and now you have 16. See you’ve 16 people in the race…and when you get almost 29 percent, that's pretty good…and so…that's Florida.
 
Pennsylvania…beating everybody. Pennsylvania just came out. And…and these are the big ones. These are the big, the big polls…and the respective polls. And…Ohio…! …beating everybody: 23. We’re beating the governor of Ohio, who’s a nice guy, by the way. I don't know, maybe there's a mistake, cause, actually, the governor of Ohio is a quality guy, and he's doing a good job, but we're beating everybody by a lot in Ohio.
 
So…I mean…I just…I love what I see. We're having such a great time…! …we went on Meet the Press, it was very interesting…-DID- anybody see it, on Sunday? …and Chuck Todd who’s a very good guy…but he asked me a question… ‘are there any reasons for which you'd get out…is there any possible…? I said, ‘honestly Chuck…? I…I…you know I'm not a masochist, and I went through and I read something, and I said, ‘I'm not…if I were doing badly, I guess I’d get out…I mean, if I…my polls went down to nothing, and, if you guys weren't all calling wanting interviews, cuz you know, you can always tell how you're doing because…like the level of calling for these shows. And then they wanna do ‘gotcha!’ ‘gotcha!’, you know, you constantly, you do 400 interviews yet, so one question, a little bit…so he said, ‘well, is there any way…!?’. I said, ‘honestly? I really…if I did terribly…and if it…’ and, all of a sudden, next day headlines –NEWSPAPERS’ HEADLINES. TRUMP MOCKS THEM IN A DIFFERENT TONE OF VOICE-… ‘Trump may get out!’ –CROWD LAUGHS-…you know, in other words… ‘he may…!’, I said, ‘I didn't say that! …I said…’. In fact, my wife said, …-MEMBER IN THE AUDIENCE CALLS OUT SOMETHING INAUDIBLE. YET, MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES HIM- … ‘I'm not going anywhere; you better believe me…’. He knows, he knows Trump. You know, you've got the same mentality. Right? We're not going anywhere.
 
But you know, I watch the politicians. They’re at one. I watched one of the politicians, the other day… he's at one. No chance! In fact, I think he's going down to zero. –MR. TRUMP PRETENDS/RECALLS THE SAME QUESTION MADE TO THAT OTHER POLITICIAN-… ‘Would you get out?’. –POLITICIAN REPORTEDLY ANSWERED, PLAYED OU BY MR. TRUMP- … ‘Absolutely not. We're in it to the end’. Now, you know he's gonna cancel out next week –CROWD LAUGHS. But honestly…? …when…that's called ‘political speak’. When you do that…and when you talk that way, it's really…easier! Cause…this is…this is…no story.  So if he would have said, ‘well, I'm thinking about it. I'm not doing well…’, you know, of course nobody would have written that story, anyway, cause nobody cares.
 
So…politics is interesting, and…I was never a politician before. For three months I’ve been a politician. And you know, for three months, we've been number one. You know, they used to say, ‘well, Michele Bachmann, nice woman. Herman Cain, good guy…’ …but they were there for a week! We…and you know all about Michele Bachmann, right? She won your Straw Poll, which you don't have anymore, right? – IT- tells you. But –MR. TRUMP AGAIN RECALLS THE PRESS WORDS’- … ‘she's a very nice woman, and Herman is a great guy’, but they were…so they always say, ‘well, they were there…’, but they were there for a week! We've been there for now three months, more than three months! So it's good! It's good! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
But, we talk about political speak. And I went through this process, because it was…to me it's very interesting. Politicians are all talk, no action. They don't get it done. And I'm…by the way, I am funding, as Sam told you, I'm funding my own campaign. I'm putting a fortune. I'm…spending a lot of money! Not as much as I thought, because frankly, I'm getting so much publicity…I don't have to advertise so far…you know, right? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
In fact, they did a…a…a piece in one of the Washington Post and they said, ‘Trump has spent like two million dollars…’, or whatever the number is that they used. But they said it's brilliant, because he's leading, and he spent less than anybody. That's like Charles O. Finley –AN AMERICAN BUSINESSMAN- …do you remember Charles Finley…? …the Oakland A's. He won the World Series like three times in a row, and hit the lowest payroll in baseball. Isn't that brilliant? To me that's good! …but to me it's also maybe being a businessman! …you know? It's being a businessman.

And if you're covered a lot, you're…the last thing you wanna do is…now you see cover…Trump is covered bump bump bump –ONOMATOPOEIC SOUNDS- all over the programs, and then we put an ad in. Right? …who the hell wants to see an end? You O.D. –ACRONYM FOR OVERDOSE- on Trump, that's no good. I can't have that –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
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But you call it political speak, and honestly I know it better than anybody, because I've always been, you know…I've always been the fair-haired boy when it comes to politics, because I was always a contributor. So I know the system I know it well, and…I was watching Jeb Bush…and Jeb Bush announced. He's a nice person, and he announced…and he is the mentor, as you know, of Marco Rubio…who's another nice person. And everybody said, ‘Marco will never run, because he couldn't do that, it would be total disloyalty, and he would never run, because Jeb Bush announced already that he was running…’ And they end up where…Jeb runs, and then a few weeks later Marco announces he's running! Everyone said, ‘no, that can't be, because…loyalty’. Well, first of all, politicians aren't loyal, you gotta remember that. Okay? That was the only problem I had thinking that maybe he’d…
But loyalty. So loyalties bad…and then…you could see Jeb was very disturbed, but they went up to him –MR. TRUMP MEANS THE PRESS-, ‘what do you think of Marco Rubio’? Now, I would have said horrible things. I would have said, ‘he's a disloyal… that son of a…yeah bad…’ right? I would have done that. And…most of you would have done that! …other than the politicians in the room. And you're all great politicians, by the way. Got a lot of them, got a…this place is packed!
 
But…I would have said, ‘I wasn't so happy…okay?’. But I saw Jeb, and he said: ‘Oh, I love Marco. He's a great guy, he's my friend, he's my dear, dear friend…I'm so happy he's in there…’ …and you can see he's seething underneath! Right?
And then they said to Marco, ‘well, what do you think of Jeb?’, and he said, ‘Jeb is my dear, dear friend…he's well…’. And I said to myself, this is political speak! …that's why…we're not getting anywhere folks. We're not getting anywhere! It's not working! We need something that's much tougher, much stronger…you know, they…ehm…did something today that was very…
My daughter sent me a beautiful article. She was reading a book about Winston Churchill. Tough cookie. And it was very interesting. And…they said that…he couldn't get a position, in government…because they said his tone was tough. His tone…! Well, he did just fine after that, right? But they thought…
 
And I remember where…actually Hillary, Hillary –IN A DIFFERENT AND MOCKING TONE OF VOICE. CROWD LAUGHS-, Hillary, and Jeb! –CROWD BOOS- …and Jeb! …were saying, very strongly, and you know, that…they thought that…my tone was very strong. It was very strong. I'm saying to myself, ‘I have a strong tone’.
 
We have people's heads…are being chopped off…because they're Christian! …and plenty of others, by the way. But people's heads are being chopped off, we're getting beaten at every front, we're losing to China on trade, we're losing to Mexico on trade, and at the border…we're losing everywhere. I say I'm gonna build the wall and it's going to be a real wall, a big wall, a strong wall…nobody's coming through…-CROWD CHEERS-…unless it's legal…nobody! Nobody! Nobody is coming through. Unless it's legal, nobody's coming through. But…if legal, they're coming through! We're gonna have a big beautiful door, and they're gonna come through, but they have to come through legally! …or we don't have a country folks. Or we don't have a country! If we're gonna put up with it, we're just not gonna have a country.
 
And…you know…-MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES NOW A PARTICIPANT IN THE AUDIENCE WHO APPARENTLY CALLED OUT ‘DON’T CHANGE’-… ‘and don't worry, I won't’. ‘Don't change’, you –THE MEMBER IN THE AUDIENCE- said. I'm not gonna change! It's gonna be built. And you know…it’s interesting…
 
So then the politician said…and…and if you look back twelve years ago, everybody wanted the wall. You know why they couldn't get it done? Environmental impact statements. They couldn't get the environmental impact statements…among other things. But they couldn’t…but everybody! …you look at all of the people running….and on the Democratic side too! Take a look! Everybody thought it was a great idea! But they couldn't do it because they don't how to build…the cost was too much, the wall was just a little thing…you know, where they drive trucks over. DID- you see the picture in the paper? …where they put a ramp on each side, and they drive drugs, right over. Back and forth, this truck…it's having a field day! It's just terrible!
 
So they all said, ‘it won't happen’. And they said…and then I made another statement. And I love Mexico, and I love the Mexican people! They…I have thousands, and thousands, over my life! Thousands of Mexicans, and Hispanics. I'm doing great with Hispanics! Nobody knows it! A radio talk show host, a Hispanic, radio talk show, who said, ‘you know, they love Trump’. That's right. Because the ones that are in the country…legally…love me! Because they don't want what's happening. They don't wanna see what's happening! –CROWD CHEERS. It’s true! They don't wanna see what's happening.
 
So…and they wanna see a wall! …and they wanna see what I'm saying. In Nevada…! …the state of Nevada, you probably saw the poll came down…I'm leaving with Hispanics, I'm doing fine with Hispanics…I'm doing great. And once they know, and really hear my platform, where we're gonna bring jobs back from China, from Japan, from all these countries…believe me…! …we're gonna do something…numbers are gonna be phenomenal.
 
We had a poll with the African Americans where I was at 25 percent. That's a huge number for a Republican primary. It’s…I think they said the biggest number they've ever seen. And somebody said, ‘if you actually got 25 percent of the African-American vote, the election is over. It's over, you win! It's over, immediately. So we're doing well…! …and we're gonna continue to do well.
 
I look at what's going on…with the country. I look at how we're being…taken advantage of in so many different ways. You know, we came up, the other day, you saw, with a tax plan that really has been well received! And we're lowering it big league…for middle-income, we're lowering it big league! cause the middle income it's like forgotten…! they're like our Vets! Our Vets have been forgotten! –CROWD CHEERS. They have been forgotten! And we're gonna take care of our Vets. We're gonna build our military bigger, better, stronger than ever before –CROWD APPLAUDS. Ever before! Ever! –CROWD CHEERS.
 
And that doesn't mean we're gonna use it. In fact, the stronger we get, the more likely it is that we won’t to have to use it. Right now…it's true! We don't wanna use it…we don't wanna have to…go to wars…
 
You know, I’ve…I've taken a very different position on Syria. So we've got two trillion dollars in Iraq. We lost thousands of soldiers. Thousands! Over 5,000! We have wounded warriors all over the place, who I love, who we all love. I mean, the wounded warriors, they're, they're…braver than all of us. These are incredible people. We have nothing! We have nothing! Right now, Iran is talking to Iraq. They're gonna take it over! In fact, Russia is now talking to Iraq, they're gonna do some bombing, and…of Isis…which frankly, I think it's a great thing! Let Russia bomb Isis! What are we talking about!? –CROWD CHEERS. What are we talking about!? They wanna bomb ‘em? Let them bomb ‘em! Bomb ‘em!  Bomb the hell out of ‘em! No, bomb ‘em! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
But…and I said that. And somebody said, ‘oh that's controversial, a couple of the candidates –THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. MR. TRUMP IMPERSONATES THEM-… ‘No! We will not speak to Russia! We will not talk to Russia! And we will go and confront Russia!’
What? Over Syria? We're gonna have to…we're gonna start World War three, right? Give me a break! We'll know when to play games folks! We’ll know when to play games. This isn't the time.

And, by the way, now Russia is…!
 
You know, when I first made the statement, they were hitting our so-called allies, that we have no idea who they are. You know, you have Assad. He’s a bad guy…and we're fighting for people we have no idea who they are! You know, generals…I spoke to him three, or four days ago, good guy, knows that area very well. I said, ‘what do you think of the Allies!?’. You know, the…we call him the Allies, they really…they're called ‘the rebels’. Free Syrian…rebels. ‘What do you know?’  He said, ‘we know nothing about ‘em’. He said they could be ISIS. We have no idea…! So we're gonna spend billions of dollars…! All of this money…get into another quagmire…watch! Russia will be in a quagmire…if you remember, Russia…when it was the Soviet Union…big! They went bankrupt…they went bankrupt…over…Afghanistan! Right? They went bank…they were there…they thought it was gonna be like a two-day deal, and it turned out to be a quagmire. Serious a quagmire! And then you hear, ‘we're gonna take in…’ …so, originally I heard 3,000 people from Syria. Right? We're gonna take in 3,000 people. And,  I said, ‘you know what…? …making 3,000 people. And said, ‘you know what?’ …they asked me on one of the shows. –MR. TRUMP BRINGS BACK THE QUESTION- … ‘what do you think Mr. Trump?’. I said, ‘well, you know, couldn't somebody else do it?’ –CROWD LAUGHS-…like, we're always doing it…couldn't somebody else maybe do it for a change? But, you know what? …3,000, I guess it's okay. You know, from a humanitarian standpoint. You look, it's terrible. And then, the next time I was on television it was 10,000! And I said, ay! –ONOMATOPOEIC SOUND OF DISAPPOINTMENT- …they…I guess! …I guess! …do it! Huh…–ONOMATOPOEIC SOUND OF DISAPPOINTMENT- …then… -MEMBER IN THE AUDIENCE INTERRUPTS AND MR. TRUMP ACKNOWLEDGES IT- … ‘that's…your right, mobilize now is right’. Then…! …the next time, I'm sitting down…listen to this! …the next time…- MEMBERS IN THE AUDIENCE INTERRUPT- ‘thank you’. THE INTERRUPTION CONTINUES AND STEPS UP TO DISTURBANCE. APPARENTLY, IT COMES FROM A DISSENTING GROUP OF PEOPLE. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES THE ISSUE- … ‘oh, I thought they were on our side. That's all right, don't worry. Don't hurt them. Don't hurt them. Non-violence. Non-violence. We wanna be nonviolent with those people. We wanna be nonviolent with those people. That's okay. That's all right.
 
So what happens is the next time I hear…we're taking in 200,000. They wanna take in 200,000. Okay? 200,000! And, you look at the reports, it's going to cost billions of dollars. You know, we owe one point nine trillion dollars. We owe one point five trillion to China. One point five trillion to Japan. Think of it! We owe one point…I mean…think of it! We owe 19…it's impossible for us to survive as a country if we keep being stupid! We're not gonna have a country last! We're not gonna have a country! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So…and thank you for not hurting those people. I thought it was…are you really…behaved well! Look at the size of this guy…he was…you were so nice there… so lucky you were so nice…thank you very much…that's…nonviolent! Every once in a while we talk about non-violence, right? You're surprised to hear that from Trump, aren't you? –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But we have now…! …so we have 19 trillion in debt…we have to get rid of it. We have to start at least knocking the heck out of it. And…to bring these 200,000 people in…two hundred thousand! …two hundred…! …that's like an army! Ah…maybe that's it…! Because, I look and I see…the migration…which is sad. But then I look, and I keep looking…I said to my wife the other day…said, ‘you know, I don't see too many women there! I don't see that many children…! I see really strong looking men…!’ It means they look like Dan Gable! Okay? –CROWD LAUGHS. But it… and even younger –CROWD LAUGHS. But I see all these…young, strong men! …and I'm saying, ‘that's a strange migration, because they're all men’. So then I said, ‘I wonder why they're not fighting for their country’, number one. And then, you see what's going on in Germany, where they're having tremendous problems…! …with what's happening with their women with these people…and…the…what's happened here, you're seeing, you're reading the stories…I hate to even repeat what's going on.
 
So now they wanna talk about 200,000…I'm looking at all these men…we're gonna bring them into our country, we wouldn't know nothing about ‘em! …they're not documented, they can't give you papers…they don't know any …we know nothing! This could be one of the great Trojan horses. This could make the Trojan horse look like peanuts! Okay?
 
Now, is…is that the case? Probably not. But the word probably is not acceptable. It's not acceptable. Probably not. It's probably not the case. But you know what? Why are we taking chances? We're gonna spend billions of dollars over a 10-year period. They say –IT WOULD- cause billions. And you know…I…I actually said to one, and I’ve said it very strongly, because…if I'm president, and if I win, and I become president…they are going back. They're going back –CROWD APPLAUDS. They’re going back. They’re going back.
 
And one of the talking heads, on one of the programs…you know these talking heads. They get paid a lot of money they don't know what they're doing. Don't forget, they're the ones that said, ‘he'll never run…!’. Then they'll say, ‘he never files his financial! …he won't do it, because maybe he's not as rich as people think…’. And it turned out I’m much richer. I did file ‘em, and I filed them on time…turned out they said, ‘oh’. Then they're saying all sorts of things, ‘well, he won't last long…’. So when I started I went to eight. And they said, ‘he plateaued’ –CROWD LAUGHS. Then the next week I went to sixteen…right? And they said, ‘oh, well…but that's a plateau!’. Then I went to twenty, to twenty-four…I mean, we had to poll today, I think it's thirty five or thirty four… -CROWD CHEERS-…it’s crazy! I want a plateau now! I’m satisfied. Hey, you know what? …we want a plateau.
 
But, you know, you look at it, and you look at the thinking that we have, and the thinking that we have going on in the country…and…what's happening…and we have to run this country with heart. With tremendous heart. With tremendous heart. We're going to repeal Obamacare and replace it with something much better… -CROWD CHEERS-… much better…. much better.
 
I don't know, I guess you people know very well.  You see your premiums are going up: 25, 35 right? Right? They're going up 35 percent. One person was on the other day 51 percent increase in premiums. Your deductibles…forget it! You might as well…you're gonna be dead by the time you can pick up! The deductibles are so high…they're unacceptable.
 
So you really don't even have insurance…if you think about it. We're gonna repeal it. We're gonna replace it with something…great. We're gonna get rid of the boundaries. You know, if I had…I have thousands of employees in different states. If I go to one state…I can't really go outside of the boundaries! You know, they have an artificial line. We're gonna take care. See? You know, it’s sort of interesting. We're building a wall at the border…but for insurance purposes we're taking those walls down. Cause what it means…I never actually thought of that before for some…we're gonna do the opposite. But what it means, you don't get bids! I get like one bid! And they say, ‘take it or leave it’ …uh… ‘we'll take it’. you ain't get no bids! You get no bids! You feel like a jerk!  And what happens is, when those artificial lines…wrapped around New York State, and you know who’s making a fortune with Obamacare…? The insurance companies. They're making a fortune!
 
Now, they would rather have that…than have where they can bid on all 50 states, they can bid on 50 states, and beyond 50 states, they can go anywhere…
 
They would much rather have a monopoly…in Iowa, that much rather have a monopoly in New York or South Carolina…I was in New Hampshire the other day…they want a monopoly there! …they have the right to bid…where you have 20 people 20, 40…the only thing the government should be involved with there is the strength…of the company. Cause we wanna know if there's a catastrophe, if there's a catastrophic event, if there's some bad times…that they are strong. Other than that…? We don't want any involvement! –CROWD APPLAUDS. We don't want any involvement!
 
And…you'll be able to have your doctor. Don't forget… the 28 lies, 28 times President Obama said, ‘you can have your doctor…you can keep your plan, you could…you can do everything…’ …it's a disaster! It's very unfair! And I actually said, ‘why aren't you suing the country…?’, because Obamacare was a total fraud. The…one bad thing. You know, as bad as it is, everybody knows what I'm talking about. You probably…whose premiums have gone up? Everybody? Yeah, everybody. So everyone knows what I'm talking about. And I said, why isn't somebody suing?’ It's a fraud! …because it was sold…based on a fraud. And even the Democrats…they don't want any part of it. They were sold…they were even convinced…some of these senators and all that had a vote. They weren't convinced that…you know, all of these things would happen. It was a total fraud…it turned out to be. Remember the guy who did the plan? It turned out to be a liar, and he went to the class and he was bragging about how stupid the American people are? …everybody forgets! What was his name…? …remember? –MEMBER IN THE AUDIENCE INTERVENES, INAUDIBLE. MR. TRUMP ADDRESSES IT-… ‘correct!’.
 
And…everybody was talking about it. Well, that was about a month. That wouldn’t last there much, cause there was great anger. But now nobody remembers him! But he was telling everybody…you know, ‘what a bunch of dopes, the Americans are…’ He was actually saying it…that he pulled the sheets over their eyes…and he bragged. Unfortunately, somebody was taping his conversation. You know, that's a killer. That's a killer –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
But you know for some reason, we have so many other problems. If you look…that, we've forgotten about that we've forgotten a little bit about Obamacare…how bad it is. But…you're not gonna forget soon, because you see what's happening with your premiums. And when you get to -20-16, the next president has to be great –MEMBER IN THE AUDIENCE CALLS OUT SOMETHING INAUDIBLE- ‘Thank you very much’. No, no -CROWD APPLAUDS. No…-AUDIENCE CHANTS ‘WE WANT TRUMP’!- Thank you.
 
The next president has to be great, because in -20-16 Obamacare…just kicks in. You know, it's funny. They gave me a review on my speaking ability, the other day. And they gave me great marks. Really great! In fact, I said, ‘maybe I should do this and charge, and do it professionally’. No, they gave me great ones! But you know, they said, ‘his one mistake is he speaks through the applause’. In other words, people are applauding and…and I speak to… you know why’ …cuz I'm so excited about talking about this stuff. Because…you know, I don't wanna wait for the applause. Does that make sense? The other thing, you know, I was a good student, I went to a great school, and all that stuff…but the other thing they said, ‘sometimes he won't complete the sentences’, meaning you know, I'll stop. Because I know my audience…they’re smart! I don't have to…I…I like…finish 80 percent, and then I…I just wanna get on to the next sentence, because, you know what the other 20 percent it’s gonna be! I don't want to waste time! It's true! It's true!
 
But they gave me these great marks and they said, ‘he speaks through the applause’. So now, what I did the other time…I was…we had an amazing day, in Tennessee, last week. We had a tremendous…we always have tremendous good day! Hey, in Dallas we had 20,000 people. In the Mavericks Arena, where they play. And we had 20,000 people. Mark Cuban, he was terrific. He would…he said, ‘you wanna use it’? …and we had a few days to fill it up. In Mobile, Alabama, we’d 35,000 people! In Oklahoma, we had 20,000 people at a band shell, it was incredible! I mean… it was incredible! And it's fun to speak, because…a friend of mine, last night, he said, ‘are you not nervous?’. You see…? You know what's funny…? …you don't get nervous, even though I have all these live television cameras. You know, they have trucks outside. Everything is live! My speeches are always live, and say, ‘why don't you let me do some non-live, so I can repeat it a little bit?’ –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
You know, it's hard when you're in television, you can't even repeat the same speech. But he said to me, ‘do you ever get nervous?’. I say, ‘you know, it’s funny’. There's such love in the room…every room. There's such love…it's like…it's sort of…like…a happening experience. It's a crazy thing! You don't really get nervous. There's nothing to be nervous about. We're all on the same side…and there's a great feeling, in these rooms…not only here, but if I go to any other place. I mean, in Dallas, 20,000 people, I'm sitting there, with a little thing like this! And and I'm saying…it's like…there's nothing to be nervous. Everybody...is going crazy they're applauding…because you're saying, you know, they called it ‘the silent majority’, and people…hit me for that. ‘Oh that's not nice…’, because that represented something years ago, having to do with Nixon frankly, and they will say, ‘no that's not nice, using the word silent majority’…and I said, but you know it's such a descriptive term, ‘cause we do have a silent majority. But then I said to myself, it's not really silent! It's really not! I mean, you see yourselves. It's not a silent majority. It's really…a very, very aggressive, noisy…society now. It's not even a good term to you, silent majority. Because it really is a society that wants results. We want to make great deals. We want smart thinking –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. We want smart thinking! We have people in office that are…being nice incompetent…being less nice, they're stupid people, or they have another agenda. Now, I don't even think it's the other agenda. I mean, a lot of people in this room say this is another agenda, because it can't be that. You know, you know why! You say, ‘nobody could be that stupid, so it has to be another agenda’. And a lot of you people would disagree. You'd say, ‘oh, well it is another agenda’. I think they're stupid people, honestly-CROWD LAUGHS. No, I…honestly –CROWD LAUGHS. I really do. I think they don't…I just don't think they know what they're doing. I think our leader doesn't have a clue as to what's going on. I mean, when you look…when you look…look. Look.
 
When you look at the nuclear deal with Iran…I mean, give me a break! Look at the nuclear deal with Iran. You take a look at that deal, and you say, ‘wait a minute’. They have 24 days. But remember, the 24 days doesn't start until a whole process, so it's much more than 24 days, gotta…get…get a process, gotta make all sorts of statements…So you got 24 days…
Then you have another to…just to inspect. Okay? See, there was a case where I left the sentence off. Because I know everyone knows what to expect, so what do I have to say it for…? Right? Right!?
 
So I like my oldboy better. Because…I don't have to finish that because everyone knows! Right!? Sso you have the 24 days. Now…they have a new thing that just came out, and that's self-inspection they’re ought to do self-inspection –MR. TRUMP FAKES A DUMB FACE. THE CROWD CALLS OUT ‘NAH!’-… okay? Iran. So you have a guy saying, ‘death to America’, ‘death to America’…we have people signing, we have a…a guy who’s on a bicycle, in a bicycle race, and he's our chief negotiator…breaks his leg, walks in with crutches. They say, ‘what a jerk this guy is’…
 
But we give them back one point…you know, think of it! …we give them back 150 billion dollars. So now they're in Syria with soldiers, because that's so much money! You know, 150 for them is a lot! For us, we waste that in two deals –CROWD LAUGHS. No, it's true! But 150 billion…that's a lot of money! So they're gonna be a world terror…they're gonna be a real world terror. They’re gonna have nuclear weapons, because after the ten years…they're not gonna wait that long, but…after ten years everyone agrees, it's really gonna be open season.
 
And they're gonna have a lot of things. Our prisoners…so…the prisoners…the one of the things…it’s…it’s…look! Nuclear’s so important. My uncle was a…really great…a brilliant guy he taught up at MIT: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He told me years ago the power of what will be nuclear is going to be so, so devastating. And he's right! He was so right. It was a long time ago he told me that. So right.
 
But you look and you say, ‘okay, this maybe isn't the most important…but it's important psychologically’. We have four prisoners, right? Now, we have four prisoners…it was three, since then it's four. But when this whole thing said…you know they've been negotiating this thing for years! Any deal takes that long to negotiate…and we gave up on every single point. You know it's no good, but it takes years. This…this could have taken a week. Somebody said, ‘how long?’.  one day. But give it a week. We’ve negotiating this thing four years, and ultimately, we kept walking away…we…we…never walked away…we walk away from the points! We said, ‘okay, you can have it’. Here is us –MR. TRUMP NOW CHANGES HIS TONE OF VOICE. HE ALMOST WHISPERS NOW TO MOCK THE U.S.A. GOVERNORS- ‘okay… -CROWD LAUGHS. MR. TRUMP KEEPS ON IMPERSONATING THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT IN A VERY EXHAUSTED, LOW ENERGY WAY- …could we have this...?’  -MR. TRUMP NOW IMPERSONATES THE IRANIAN GOVERNMENT- … ‘No! Absolutely not!- ALMOST ANGRILY- … ‘okay…’ ...this is us! –CROWD LAUGHS. We didn't win anything! We didn't win anything! Like a bunch of…really dumb people…we didn't win anything!
 
But you have the four prisoners…was three, now is four. And…at the beginning…not at the end…! …they should have said listen before we start the negotiation, ‘we want our prisoners back. Not gonna help you. You don't need ‘em we need ‘em. We have a minister, we have a pastor, we have a…ehm… I mean, we have wonderful people there! …they shouldn't be there. In the worst prisons…! …they say the worst prisons. We have wonderful people, and we should have said, ‘we want our people back’.
 
Now, Kerry said he didn't want to complicate the negotiation. Think of it. Think of it –CROWD BOOS. All you have to do is say, ‘folks, before we start…’. Here's me. Who would be better at this, me or them? Huh? –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
And you go…the beginning, right? I'd say, first thing: good afternoon. Maybe I wouldn't say that. Because it's just a waste…honestly? …it's a waste of time. DID- you ever see these guys that walk in… ‘oh, it's beautiful weather, isn't it Donald? …beautiful out…raining, oh, it's raining on… how the Yankees doing tonight…?’ what… who cares, right? Who cares!? We want to get the business! So the first thing you say is, very simple: ‘fellas, we want…’. All fellas, by the way. I hate to say to the women. They haven't figured out that women are smarter than men. They haven't figured… -I- think it's gonna take them another hundred and fifty years –CROWD LAUGHS. In a hundred and fifty years from now, they'll be doing it really right.
 
But they are, the Persians. Great negotiators! Great negotiators! The Iranians are great negotiators. Great. –THEY HAVE- always been known for it. I don't know, you know, why? …somebody would say, ‘oh, that's not politically correct, to say that’. Just sort of happens, you know. It's…okay. But they’re great negotiators. You say at the beginning, ‘fellas, we want our prisoners back, you gotta do it before we start. We want our prisoners back’.
 
Now, if you had…the right messenger. If you had the right messenger…! …immediately they'll say, ‘okay’. If they didn't say okay, what you do is you get up and walk, you double up the sanctions, and they'll call you, I guarantee…! …probably within 24 hours. But, certainly within a week or two, and you get your prisoners back. That's the end of that, okay? But they didn't even ask for the prisoners.

So now, two days ago I'm reading the paper, and I see what. They want they're now willing to open negotiations. We just gave them everything, and 150 billion dollars. Now they're willing to open negotiations for our prisoners. But they want 19 prisoners that we have. And…! …they want other things. And the statement was, ‘we want 19 prisoners and…we want many other things!’. Oh, how stupid are our people? …how…it’s so embarrassing…! They want…no! I'm looking at one man, he's ready to faint up here, because of this, he can't take it! –MR. TRUMP POINTS AT A MEMBER IN THE AUDIENCE. THE CROWD LAUGHS. Is that right? Look at him! Oh, he's got a Donald Trump shirt on, I love this guy! It says ‘you're fired!’. I love this guy. No, he's taking…it…you gotta see this. I'm talking, he’s going ‘oh, oh’. And he's not at all faded, he’s a strong cookie. I look at him; I don't want to fight him –CROWD LAUGHS. But, it's just driving him crazy, because he can't understand it! Neither can I.
 
The incompetence of it all. So they want now…supposedly, 19 prisoners…! I’m not surprised! They want 19 prisoners, and other things. I'm watching 60 minutes –AN AMERICAN TV SHOW- and I'm watching some of the shows. And I watched their chief negotiator about a month ago. And I watched him. I said, ‘man, he's too smart for our people! He's too smart for Kerry! He's too smart! He's too sharp! He was sharp! And they –THE PRESS- said, ‘what do you think. Will you get along with America?’. He goes, ‘well, America has got to come a long way…! …before we agree to get along. America will come a long way…! …and if they behave, and if…they…do what's right…’
In other words, catching, catching, catching –MR. TRUMP TAKES TWO FINGERS TO THE SIDE OF HIS HEAD AND PRETENDS HE SHOOTS. I just see this guy! …and I'm saying, ‘we don't have the people!’. But I have the people! Oh do I have…! Oh! Oh! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. I have…! I have Carl Icahn. You know Carl. I have the biggest, smartest guys. I have guys, I'll put them in charge of China… ‘Carl, do me a favor. Watch over the China trade deal’. We’ll…I…I will tell you right now. Just…go back to your homes, relax. We were gonna do very well. Okay? Very well…-CROWD CHEERS.
 
I have guys…that are so…great! I the greatest negotiators in the world…I know all of them! I mean that…most of them. I know from New York, from Wall Street. You know, we put political hacks in those positions. We put Carolyn Kennedy in that position. Japan. Caroline Kennedy. I see them wining and dining on 60 Minutes –AN AMERICAN TV SHOW. I was on 60 Minutes the other day! DID- Anybody see me? –CROWD CHEERS. That was the highest-rated show. I was on with Putin! We look very nicely together, right? Very nice! –CROWD LAUGHS. I was on with Putin. It was Trump and Putin. I don't know who got the ratings, one of us did, because it was the highest-rated show they've had in a long time. But I watched Carolyn Kennedy, and I see that Abe –MEANING SHENZO ABE, PRIME MINISTER OF JAPAN-…who's the…boss of Japan. You know, Abe…I don't know if you know, Japan is back! They’re doing this monetary… manipulation. Their currency manipulation. Big league. They started there, with the kings. Now China makes them look like small-time. Okay? But Japan is really back. And I see them wining and dining, Carolyn. That's not for her! It's not for her! …because you're…you know, her position over there, the Ambassador…that's a very position, that’s a very important position…especially with Japan, and a couple of countries, you know, in certain countries more important…she doesn't know anything about negotiation! And I see them wining and dining, at state dinners…! She's not gonna…she's just gonna give up everything! –CROWD LAUGHS.
 
I go to Los Angeles, a few weeks –AGO. I see the biggest ships I've ever seen, with cars, coming in from Japan. Massive amounts of cars! And they're coming in like it's a Long Island Expressway off the…Phew! Phew! Phew!–ONOMATOPOEIC SOUND MADE TO REPRESENT SPEED. I'm going… ‘wow, look at all those cars!’.
And we sell beef! …some comes from Iowa. But you know…what happens! They send it back! Right? …they send it back, a lot of times. And sending beef back and forth doesn't work too well. Right. I don't know too much about beef, but I know that. Not so good, it's called perishable. But they sent it back, you know why? Because their farmers, their farmers don't…want…our beef! So their farmers, and they're very nationalistic, they don't want our beef. So it goes back and forth. But we in the meantime…so we have…I said this the other day, to my people! I wanna get US trade balance. I wanna see…what do we…? …what do we make…with China? –CROWD APPLAUDS. …or why do we lose…with China? And Japan! And Mexico! I did the three countries. So I did Mexico first, cuz I want to see, because everyone says, ‘you can't have…’, politicians, right? … ‘how ridiculous!? …that wall will cost seven billion dollars, ten billion dollars…by the way, anything of cost, I could do it for 50 percent, it'll be twice as big, and much more beautiful. Love that? –CROWD APPLAUDS. Anything! Anything! But I watch these politicians…a couple of them said to me, today…cuz Rubio is very weak on immigration, very weak on illegal immigration. Bush is very weak, you…he said, remember? ‘they come as an act of love…’ …right?
They come, they're coming over…in the meantime they're killing people. You know, it's your act of love. Act of love! Ugh! …this thinking…we gotta get rid of these politicians folks! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS.
 
So I said, ‘what's the…what's the trade balance…? …what…how –ARE- we doing with Mexico?’. And the number was 45 billion a year, we lose. 45 billion! We have a trend…and that doesn't include all the illegal drugs that come in, which is a much bigger number. That's probably bigger than the forty five. And those drugs go into…they go all over the place: Chicago, New York, all over…Los Angeles! You know, the Liberals in Los Angeles love me. They all say, ‘we wanna vote for you, because we're getting overrun by…the illegals!’. You know 50 percent of the new driver's licenses, in Los Angeles, are given to…illegals! They're getting better treatment…better treatment…than our Vets! Think of it –CROWD BOOS.

So I have guys that are heads of movie companies. And these are very liberal people. You know, these are the people that we read about. They're always endorsing like…Obama, you know. Then they don't get invited to the White House to sleep there, and they're angry at them…you know, that's a 90 percent of it. But these are people that aren't big for the Republican world. Right? And they're all tell me, ‘Don, they love you in LA. They're all voting for you. Now, don't tell anyone I said that…’ –CROWD LAUGHS-…but they're all voting for me! They did a vote for me! Because they know what's happening. And they have a hard time with it, psychologically. But they know what's happening.
 
So Mexico…! Forty-five billion dollars a year…! Do you mean to tell me I can't take seven billion dollars and build a wall!? No, …I…I know I can. In addition, we give Mexico billions of dollars. Billions of dollars! But the politicians say, like I'm some kind of a baby –IN A MOCKING AND CHILDISH VOICE: ‘You can't ask for that! How ridiculous! Why would Mexico ever think of paying 7 billion to build a wall!?’.
And I say, ‘because they're making forty-five billion dollars a year, you, idiot! –VERY EMPHATIC. It’s Unbelievable! No, it’s unbelievable! –CROWD APPLAUDS AND CHEERS.
 
So I said, ‘Mexico, 45 billion a year’. Okay? Trade imbalance. 45 billion year…by the way, Nabisco. Moving to Mexico, you heard about that. Nabisco leaving…I love Chicago. I love Chicago. By the way, toughest…gun…laws in the world! Chicago. And people are shooting themselves all over the place. Okay? So, when these people wanna take away your second Amendment rights, believe me. Just refer ‘em to Chicago, refer ‘em to some of these places. I'm a big Second Amendment person, believe me, the biggest. But…no, no! …but when they wanna do that…just refer ‘em…so… okay.
 
So Mexico…45 billion…then I say, ‘Japan! The cars. How much…?’ …trade imbalance. Almost sixty billion a year. Then I say, ‘okay…’ …this is the one I didn't wanna hear. ‘Give me China!’ ‘…give me China’. They come back, and these…are great numbers. These are accurate numbers. Almost 400 billion dollars a year…imbalance. Imbalance! How do we have…?
Now, they're taking our jobs, they're taking our money, they're taking our base…and we owe them one point five trillion…how does that work!? …that's like…I…I would say it's like a magic act! It's like a great magic act! We owe them 1.5 trillion dollars! And they're taking our jobs, our money…everything. They're taking hundreds of thousands of jobs out of…Iowa and other places. They're taking it.
 
Now, I have China, they’re tenants of mine in my buildings in New York. I have the biggest bank in the world. They’re great people. From China. One of the biggest…the biggest bank! By the way, a bank that makes Citibank look like a speck of dust. It's so big. I think they have four hundred million customers. Think of that. It's the biggest in the world…they're my tenant! And I say, ‘the lease is coming too’. And they come, ‘we want to renew the lease…’. I say…really!? …you know…who speaks…? I…look! …because they respect what I'm saying. Because they know I'm right. In a magazine, they had a thing… ‘what do the Chinese most want?’. And one of the top 10 things that they most want…one of the 10 things was… ‘anything Trump’ …-DO- you believe it!? –CROWD LAUGHS-…and I…because they respect me. It's respect! –CROWD APPLAUDS. So we have an imbalance…with China of 400, almost, 400 billion dollars a year.
 
Now, if I can straighten out that one deal…our country's in great shape. I mean, I don't even have to worry about Japan, Mexico…I can just do China! It's so big! It's so big! It's so great!
 
They have…created, and I said this to another group, and they actually agreed with me, and these are very…Pro-China…and so am I…I get along great with the Chinese. Hey, look! They give me twenty-five and fifty million dollars to buy apartments from me! Am I gonna dislike them!? No! No, I'm not! –CROWD LAUGHS. I mean, I have a great relationship. The funny thing is the United States does not have a good relationship with China, right?

So we fight in Afghanistan, and Afghanistan has great mineral wealth. –THE- People didn't know that. Great mineral wealth. And you have tremendous mountains in Afghanistan. Ridges, mountains…and we're over here fighting…and on the other side of the big mountain, China is over there, with excavators, taken out the minerals. We're fighting…they're taking out the minerals! Who is the biggest purchaser…of Iraqi oil? The biggest purchaser is China! Now we spend our two trillion, our lives, our wounded warriors…the biggest purchase –IS- China! Look, I give them…I take my hat off. I'm not angry at them. I'm angry at our leaders. I'm angry at our leaders! …for…-CROWD APPLAUDS-…for not knowing what's happened.
 
And I'll tell you something: I will bring that down to a point where you'll be very happy. And maybe we’ll even make something. And…even if we broke even. Do you know the difference, in our country…if we could just be like…even!? And it's so easy to do…! They manipulate their currency, they make it impossible for you folks, and businesses to compete. They, by the way, charge taxes all over the place, if you're gonna send your product in there, and we don't. We don't!
You know, people talk about free trade. That's not free trade. That's dumb trade. It's dumb trade, for us! I'm a free trader. But you need to have people that can represent us properly!
 
I believe in free trade. And all we have to do is say, ‘listen, if you don't bring your currencies up, if you stop the…’, cause they just did a currency manipulation, the biggest in the last two decades, you read about it, two weeks ago. Headline. Nobody does anything about it. They devalued their currency, the most that they've done…and they've been doing it for…a lot but! But the last one was a big…because they figure…that what we have…is we have people, and…and politicians, meaning our leaders…politicians…that are so inundated with other problems…between Syria, and the Iran deal, which we can't do…and so many other deals…that they've seen this, and they are so inundated with so many points…that…we'll be able to devalue the most we've done in two decades. Two decades! Twenty years! That's they’ve to…killing us…for the last…long period of time. That…will do it, and will get away with…and they got away with it!
 
In fact, it wasn't even that big a story. But it means you can't compete. And all we have to do is say, ‘fellas, look, here’s the story. We're gonna charge you tax coming in to the United States’. I don't think they'll ever pay it, by the way, because I think they'll behave…but we're gonna charge you about a 32 percent tax coming in. And…that's peanuts…! We’re…we're being very nice, a thirty-two percent. Cause what they've done is far greater than thirty two percent.
 
But all of a sudden…! …all of a sudden…! I have a friend from China who bought an airplane. Bought an airplane, in the United States. He can't get it back to China. I said, ‘why?’. –MR. TRUMP PLAYS OUT HIS FRIEND- … ‘because the tax is so big that I refused to pay’. Now, you don't know that. You don't hear these stories. But with China, we don't charge them anything! Cause we've people that don't have a clue. So with my people…! …I…believe we, I have the best. I have the best! The best…but…you know, I always say, not all of them are nice. Do we care if they're nice? Do we really care? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘NO!’. I say it all the time. Some of them a horrible, miserable, beautiful people –CROWD LAUGHS. You know why they're beautiful? They're beautiful because they're gonna do a beautiful job for us! Because that's what they do! They're great! They're the best in the world! We have the best negotiators in the world! –CROWD APPLAUDS. We have better negotiators…than the Persians! …we have better negotiators…we’ve the best in the world! But we don't use them…we use political hacks! We use people that gave campaign contributions. And they get a job in government, cause they wanna work in government. We have people that become ambassadors that shouldn't be ambassadors. And other countries say, ‘wow, this guy really doesn't have a clue. Never been to these countries , doesn't know anything’. And these are the people we have! And the nice part is…and…I…I…don't know if it's worth it, cause it's something that…you know, it's not…I'm not used to this. I'm being offered millions, and millions of dollars to run! You know, I'm number one position. When you're a number one position, man I…you wouldn't believe the money could flow in…! I don't take it! I sort of feel like…maybe I'm as stupidest… to people representing us –CROWD LAUGHS. It’s…is…so foreign to me! ‘No, I don't want it’, ‘I don't want it’. I mean, I have people…and when we take the little tiny…with…women send in seven eight dollars, 100 dollars, 200 dollars…we take little contributions cuz how do you send it back!? …they wanna invest in the campaign. And it's…great thing! And, if you sent it back –TRUMP PLAYS OUT THAT SITUATION-… ‘Well, I'm sorry. We're not taking your 7 dollars, we're not taking your three hundred and twenty-two dollars. You know, you can't do it. But it’s so little stuff.
 
And…and I want them. I love those. Because that's an investment. That's like…somebody proud of the country! But we're not taking…the contributions! We're not taking contributions of millions…five million dollars…! …from a lobbyist. Two and a half million dollars...! …from these special donors, and special interests. And everybody that puts up that money wants something for it! And it's not good for the United States! It's not good for the country! –CROWD APPLAUDS AND CHEERS.
 
So…so, I'm still funding. I'm the only one that’s self-funding. You know, when you look at Hillary, and Jeb, and Marco…and all of the people, they're all taking tremendous amounts of money! I mean, I had a case…it's a very bad thing! Club for Growth. You know who the growth is…? Their wallet! That's the growth –CROWD LAUGHS. Club for Growth, this group they say, ‘oh, we're a conservative group…’ They come up to see me in my office. The guy asked me for 1 million dollars. I said…me…I've never even heard of him! He wants a million. I don't mind…! I could give him a million…I don't…but I never heard of the guy. So he comes up…they want a million dollars…! …for Club for Growth. A conservative organization. So I'm concerned…I said, ‘well, that's fine…’ …but you know…and I get it in writing, to show you how stupid they are. He puts in a writing, writes me a letter, ‘we'd like a million dollars…’ …we turned him down…they did negative ads on me in Iowa! Do you believe…!? Did anybody see the ads!? –CROWD CALLS OUT ‘YES!’. They were actually good ads for…me…I look good! You know, I…I was younger…I really look…-CROWD LAUGHS. I actually said, ‘I wish I could look like that again…’. Wow! I didn't realize I was that good-looking. No, they gave you these great ads! –CROWD CHEERS. They said I raised taxes! You know, my tax plan is cutting the hell out of taxes! In fact, if there was any criticism, it was that I cut taxes too much! But they said I raise taxes! I raise taxes. You know, they came up with all…nonsense, and I hear…I don't know, I spoke with Chuck, I spoke to my people…they said, ‘nobody even talks about it’. But think of it! They come to your office, you say, very nicely, ‘no’, all of a sudden where…you know, they come out with a vicious letter…they're…they're against Trump. I guarantee you one thing!: If I gave ‘em a million bucks…there no ads, there's no nothing.

So a lot of cases, you know, when you watch television, and they have 300, 400 million dollars out there…all of them. Not Club for Growth, I think I've really crippled them. I've really hurt them badly. They have been hurt very badly. Because… no, they have been hurt very badly. In fact, I'm doing a book…because… Simon and Schuster …it's just a great company, came to me, they want me to do a book. Do you believe this!? So, I said, ‘I'll do it!’. And…they made a big payment. I'm gonna give it to charity, all of it. Big payment! A lot of money! I mean, I feel stupid not doing it, if you wanna know the truth…
The last thing I wanted to do is a book! But I called the book…you know what it's called? I was gonna say the ‘Make America great again’ book. Uh, it's too nice, because our country is in trouble. Then I was gonna say ‘Greatness in America’. And I said, ‘it's too nice’. Then I had a photographer come up. And I said, ‘do you think I should be smiling…?’ …and took this beautiful smile…and there was one picture that was just mean! I think he got me in like…a…it was a horrible, horrible, mean picture. Like a nasty looking guy. No smile. I'm like this –FAKES A VERY SERIOUS LOOK.
And then I said, ‘you know…’ …I read something and…it was so bad…I said, ‘we're gonna call it “crippled America”, because that's what it is! It's crippled America!  And we're going to call the book…and I thought I'd have some…you know, Simon and Schuster, big, big deal, right? …the best the Rolls-Royce, of the books. And I said, ‘you know, I think they probably won't allow that title to be used, cuz it's a tough title. Nasty title…’. And we're gonna call it crippled America! It's gonna come out…in three or four weeks. I'm so proud of it…it's where…I worked so hard on… with everything else I'm writing books! This is the last thing!
 
But it was a lot of money that's gonna go to charity, and frankly, I think the title is amazing! And I used that horrible picture of me –CROWD LAUGHS. It's a horrible picture. And I talk about…our country, I talk about the problems, I talk about the solutions…
But you know, the biggest solution…is really smart people. That's really…if you get right now…cause there's so many things. Whether it's trade, or military, or this or that, there's so many different things! The borders…
 
You know, Dwight Eisenhower was a good man, right? Everybody liked him. Do you know…they did…a big operation…years ago, years ago! …big operation, where they moved people out that were here illegally. And it didn't work! Because they were moving ‘em right over the border. And they kept coming back, coming back. And then you know what happened? They moved them all the way down south! Hundreds and hundreds of miles…! …when nobody ever came back. And nobody said –THAT- Dwight Eisenhower was a bad person. He was a great humanitarian, he was a great general…but he was our president, and they did it! …but we don't do things like that. Today we have sergeant Bergdahl. A traitor, right? Bergdahl.
 
So Bergdahl, today, Bergdahl was a traitor. Six people died, going after him. He left. He was a traitor…six people died going after him. Died! Killed! Young…incredible…kids! Unbelievable…people! Young…people! Six of them died! Now they get Bergdahl…and…what do they do? They trade…one trader for the five guys that they most wanted for the last ten years! Right? They’ve got the five guys, and this is the way we negotiate. And then the other day I'm hearing…you know, normally…hey, 25 years ago, 50 years ago, a hundred years ago…you do what he did…it's Bing! –MR. TRUMP PRETENDS HE SHOOTS WITH A GUN- …and it goes quickly. Right!? It's called…it's called…you're dead. Treason! It's treason! You don't even hear that word! It's treason!
 
So what do we do with Bergdahl...!? The other day I'm hearing, ‘well, it's unlikely he'll serve any jail time. You know, he wasn't feeling so good, he would…’ Can you believe this!? Can you believe this!? –CROWD BOOS. Here's a guy, who was a traitor, where six people were killed looking for him. And don't kid yourself, a general and a colonel went to interview the people, the young men and women in his…group. And they all knew, before they made the deal, that he was a traitor. You know that wasn't like, ‘oh, they made a mistake’. I could almost understand that. ‘We made a mistake. I wish we didn't do it’. They knew that he left! So why would they make a deal like that!? Why would they do it!?
 
So they're getting five people that they most wanted. We get this guy…and the other day I'm hearing that he probably won't even have to serve jail time. Our country is in serious, serious trouble. And I can only say this: if…I get elected president, you are going to be… No…I know –CROWD STARTS COMPLAINING. APPARENTLY THEY DO NOT LIKE THE ‘IF’ THAT TRUMP HAS UTTERED-…I hear that a lot. I'll say ‘if’ …because, honestly, look, I'm running against a lot of different people, and who knows what happens. But…so I have to say ‘if’ and I'd like to say ‘when’ but I don't wanna be…I don't wanna be to braggadocious. Does that make sense!? No, but look. You do…yeah, I mean, you have…a…we have a long way to go. We have actually only four months now. Think of it! Four months...! …until we hit that big day, that special day, that you know, where that starts. Right here. Right here –CROWD APPLAUDS AND CHEERS. Starts right here!
 
But, if I get elected president, I will tell you that, you folks, you're gonna remember this day…but you folks are gonna be so proud of our country. We are gonna have so many victories…we're not gonna have defeats anymore. We're gonna have so many victories…we're gonna be run…really smartly. We are gonna have a country that you're gonna be so proud of! We're gonna take this country back –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS-…and we have something…we have something that's…amazing. We have the people! I see the people! I see it everywhere I go! The people are so…incredible.
 
So we're gonna take this country back. We're gonna make America great again. And I say it now, and I've been saying it for the last week, and I see it! I know we can do it! We're gonna take it, we're going to make it…better…than ever…before! We can do that! Better than ever before! –CROWD CHEERS AND APPLAUDS. THEN CALLS OUT ‘TRUMP!’.
 
So I just wanna thank all of the people in Iowa. We’re…we're doing great here. We're –MEMBER IN THE AUDIENCE CALLS OUT ‘WE LOVE YOU!’- ‘thank you, I love you too’. But…but-…what we're doing, we're doing so great in Iowa. And I just wanna thank all of the people. And I'll be here a lot, over the next four months. And beyond, by the way, and beyond. And…we're gonna do something really…it's going to be a beautiful thing to watch. And it's been a beautiful thing to watch…! …because, there is a movement going on. This is not just like…people getting together. This is a big movement that's going on all over the country. And you know what it represents. We're getting the biggest crowds, the greatest people…I just want to thank everybody. And I will see you soon. I'll be back very soon. Thank you very much –CROWD APPLAUDS.
 
Thank you.
 
Thank you.
 
Thank you.
 
AUDIENCE CHANTS ‘WE WANT TRUMP’!- ‘Thank you.’

